scarlet nova

Figured my drawings were in dire need of some proper figure studies, so here’s a first attempt at kate winslet. She looks a bit more gaunt these days unfortunately.

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Exam are over! First drawing of the weekend - trying to nail down Paige’s appearance and hopefully create a bit of consistency eventually.

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After a discussion with a fellow story-writing friend of mine, came to the conclusion that Aryon (number 6) did not suit his character, and so I have done a new version that perhaps suits better. Made with Corel Painter X.

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Ahhh! Feels good to have some free time without having to worry about assignments!
This is a progress shot of Aryon 6, different hairstyle as usual, this time I used Adobe Photoshop since it’s less sluggish at enormous screen resolutions (3.5k x 5k pixels) than Corel Painter.

Just to let you know, this is only a crop of his head which is complete, the full body will follow at some point, but the linework is painstakingly slow… Wacom tablet is too slick and giving me squiggly strokes that I have to CONSTANTLY undo, retry, undo, retry, erase… Perhaps next time I will use a pencil.

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Long time, no time. Here’s a rare sketch of Aryon in a full-black outfit. Not happy about his face but I do like the quick-sketch look, even though this one took me over an hour and half to make.

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Using the same technique as for face #8, and then later trying to add colour into the mix. The colour did not turn out well.

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New sketch using Corel Painter X, and I’m quite surprised at how well it turned out but it still doesn’t beat good old fashioned pencil and paper. No real significance, just something I started drawing and ‘Free’ seemed the only appropriate thing to name it.

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This is a drawing of one of my characters, Paige, and this is a depiction of her during the early years of her service as a maidservant to the mountain king.

Though I never drawn this, her face is actually scarred and burned, which is why she hides her face with hair bangs and cloth.

Made this during the crux of mid-semester assessments, I’m quite pleased with how how the cloak turned out but not too happy about the skirt. She has no hands because that’s the point where I realised I was wasting precious time and stopped.

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