C’est fini✨sorry for the shoddy photo quality, but I’m trying to save up for a printer/scanner! My dream is to sell art prints in the future but until then all I have is my Ko-fi if you want to help support my artistic endeavors until then
Below is the close up of the original painting by Alexandre Cabanel I used as reference.
I discovered what’s probably one of my first ever drawings on photoshop from 2015, and couldn’t help having a go at redrawing it! I still have a long way to go, but the past four years have been such a great learning experience :)
I decided I’ll do Andrea Del Sarto’s Portraing Of A Young Man, except the subject is Maxence Danet-Fauvel. I swear that boy look like straight out of a painting, I want to paint his beauty anytime I can. Because I decided to do so, I already come up with some sketch.
So far, I got his side profile right. Tonight, I’ll start painting. By the way, I made my own oil painting brush and now it’s downloadable on Clip Studio Paint asset! If you are using CSP, and if you are like me, love doing digital painting and aiming a traditional look, please give it a try. I’ll try to put more information about my own brush in another post, later.
Day 9 of Drawcember was Angela Abar from HBO’s Watchmen series! I saw it early on in 2020, and like… I don’t think I’ve seen anything else this year which is quite as good. If you’ve seen it and disagree, let me know why because I really can’t fault it for anything o.o Post link
SO ARE YOU BORED? ART BLOCKED? SOME OTHER THING I CANT THINK OF BUT FEEL LIKE I SHOULD CAUSE RULE OF THREES? Well do I have a thing for you!!! Yeah made a dtiys thing in case y’all wanted to try something! So if you want to participate, try redrawing this and posting it with the hashtag #vsdtiys2020 !
mostly posting this here for my own edification, but also to show how much can change over time. Abilities, interests, et cetera. Anyway, this is just to see how much a person can improve in five years with consistent practice and stuff. idk.
I tried to fix some of the more obvious mistakes while respecting my old style as much as I could. Honestly, there are things about the 2021 version I would still change, but I got bored with this exercise half-way through ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ bone-app the teeth.
I blurred the text because it was distracting out-of-context.
Yes I used to have a webcomic please don’t ask me about it
notes below the cut in case you want a more-detailed summary of what I changed.
the biggest change is the lineart. Went from hard digital pen to a softer pencil.
made shading softer/more natural
fixed some anatomy problems (noses too long; eyes uneven; hands missing bones/muscles/shape; mouths too big; chin not well-defined or balanced)
zoomed perspective out on all 3 characters
aged-up appearance appropriately(looked too young for their ages whoops)
added more details like freckles + scars
TO MY CREDIT, I only drew noses like that for about a week in my life, and wouldn’t you know it? That week was in February of 2016. I was trying something and it didn’t work. It’s not a bad method but I didn’t execute it well
other notes:
>>>I do not necessarily think the first version is bad; it has some good parts to it. But there are also some basic errors from lack of experience. I had only been regularly drawing for about a year when I made this, so with that in mind it’s not bad. The expressions convey the intended emotions decently I think, the anatomy just needed a little bit of tweaking. If you’re an artist, I recommend going back to an old piece and trying again. Or, if that’s too much trouble, try looking at old pieces and identifying what you might change/do differently.
