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Illustration #131 + rewards, sketches with videos and extra doodles
🕑 Added 2025-08-05 11:24:48 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here's a new painting for you, along with some extra stuff as usual. :)
I feel like it's been a little while since I've painted a close-up scene like this one, so it was about time! I hope you guys like it!
Check out the rewards in the attachments! You can also always find them in the rewards collection post, alongside all other past rewards you might have missed!
The changes I recently made to my workflow continue to feel pretty good. Before, when I would paint everything as if it's merged together on one layer, I ended up spending a lot of time cleaning up edges and trying not to ruin edges again later in the process. It involves a lot of careful painting around the silhouettes of things. Having everything separated to different layers and making use of transparency lock seems to eliminate a lot of that work. So, even if there is more time spent managing layers, it seems to be a net positive.
I've attached the time lapse videos for the two sketches I did before starting this painting, I know some of you have been interested in those. I should have shared them earlier, sorry about that. :)
The doodles this time around ended up being a range of different art style experiments. They're all pretty unfinished, but I've sort of learned what I wanted to from them, so I'll leave them like that for now unless I find inspiration to pick them back up. The third one in particular helped me a lot with internalizing in a more concrete way how to layer things and use fog between layers to create depth, which was something I was struggling to get right in the main painting I was doing. In that third doodle I also tried using the Vivid Light blending mode for painting the lighting, which seemed to work at first, but ultimately has problems applying in a nice way on top of darker values. So I sort of hit a dead end with that picture where it would've taken too much work to fix it. But all in all a very useful experiment!
This post came in a little bit later than I intended, but don't worry, I haven't just been lazy! π I had to take advantage of inspiration when it struck, and the experiments that have come out of that recently are ones I think will have a relatively big impact on my work going forward. I had sort of felt like I was in a rut with my painting process earlier this year, but things have started to feel better again. So I feel optimistic about the next pieces I'll be doing! I've got some other interesting experiments in progress to share later too that are quite a bit different, so I'll be curious to see how you guys feel about those.
Looking forward to doing more paintings! Thank you again for supporting that!
Comments
Calm
Thank you! I'm glad you think so!
Robert E. Wilson
Amazing artwork, colors, composition are so crazy in this piece.
Calm
Happy to hear you enjoy all of them, Tredok. π And yeah, there are probably more time savings to be had once I've honed that process a bit more. Hopefully!
Tredok
I'm glad your new method of separating layers is working out to about the same amount of work, it seems like when you find a way you feel comfortable you'll be saving time! This illustration is great! to be quite frank i feel like her boobs look amazing, the squish on one and the other just naturally down, and to be honest, the creases on the skin are amazing, the inner part of her elbows, the armpits and the boobs and surprisingly the skin on the guy on the left side looks so real! Also her mouth and lips are so big, i like them :P I also REALLY like the second sketch, its a bit more wide pov on that scene, but she looks great! On the doodles, i really like the explorer so cute and hot! the demon is also so sexy really enjoying herself :P and the ΒΏVampire? girl is also super hot, her boobs are so big π€€, anyway i like them all! haha :D
