Taking over the world one drawing at a time.
Cátia/Cats/Kitty. I'm a 19 year old 2D animation student at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Feel free to talk to me about anything. :)
today I am in the ZONE, NOBODY INTERRUPT ME
I want to try more new things with coloring I’m not sure how it’s going
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I showed Jin my fakemon concept drawings and she became very fond of the lil’ monkey! :)
Drew her this. haha Maybe I’ll finish it someday.
I was gonna post this on the last day of May Month but UGLY LAUGHTER, I DON’T KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS ANYWAY, THERE’S NO WAY I’D REMEMBER SO I’LL DO IT NOW EVEN THOUGH I DREW THIS LIKE TWO-THREE WEEKS AGO
Swellow for May because she likes them, obv this is shiny ver Swellow. I have normal color on my dA
THIS MAKES LINEWORK SO MUCH EASIER!
In this mini-guide, I’m going to more or less explain how the heck you apply basic light theory on your art. But with a bit more exaggerated effects.
I am going to start off by using a reference photo I took myself in a museum I visited the other day.
This is a piece of Pyrite (aka “Fool’s Gold”) which is very reflective, and is pretty cool.
I used this as a reference and eye-ball copied it. Since most of the colors are pretty saturated, it wasn’t that hard to guess the colors. (I did not color pick from the photo - unless you are colorblind, you should learn to pick color only by observation. It’s good for your artistic eye.)
Here’s my painting of the pyrite. It’s not as textured or detailed as the reference, but turned out good enough. The orange light comes from a piece of table/wood beneath the pyrite that is not visible from the photo.
The shape of the object is a nice variation from the regular “sphere” that you always see in light-theory.
Now let’s apply there light sources on a portrait - makin it shiny shiny!
But first we should look up another reference!
This picture was done by the AMAZING Virtual Lighting Tool where you can add several light sources, change the placement of the “lamps”, even add colors and all kind of nice gadgets. This screenshot contains more or less the same lightsources that we got from the Pyrite painting.
Now this time I did use the color picker - but not from the photograph, but from the painting I did earlier. This was a really fun experiment and a great way to practice shiny objects.
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I should adapt Amelia, Robin and co. to my main OC verse. :0
LET’S DO THIS.
Had a quick look at artist-confessions here on tumblr again to see if they had improved at all.
NOPE.
Seriously. It’s like a hotspot for butthurt idiots who want to whine about “popular” artists and how they never give them the time of day.
Why does it exist??
WHYYYYY.
identify as bisexual. Sometimes I’ll use pansexual if I’m around people that I know are lgtbq savvy and would understand the word, because I feel that that fits as well. However, I honestly think that the term bisexual, given its history, accurately fits and explains that I am attracted to people across the entire gender spectrum/with a variety of gender presentations. And it’s far more accessible and well-known than pansexual is at the moment.
So when people say, “I’m pansexual, it’s a more inclusive term than bisexual,” and grin at me like they’ve shat out a rainbow, I’m unimpressed.
When someone says, “I would NEVER identify as bisexual, I’m queer, that’s a political stance,” I’m a bit miffed.
Is my identity not a political stance? Because I’m pretty sure it is. Identifying as bisexual and being a woman flies in the face of slut-shamers and assholes who would try to dictate my identity one way or the other. It’s non-monosexual and confuses the shit out of everyone.
My identity is just as valid as yours. I more than appreciate that identifying as queer or pansexual is a healing and awesome act. However, please don’t take a giant dump on my identity while you do so!
Marry me now? ^_^
these lizards enjoy using this boy as a climbing frame.
`His face! hahaha :D “Why did I agree to this??”
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