Reading Itachi’s Story: Midnight

pls listen

Speedpaints, 7-15 min each. They usually end up in a trash bin (these are for practice only and for testing color palettes) but as per request I’m making an exception today.

the witcher 3 more like

*starts a new game* i hope i will meet iorveth

*meets a scoia'tael group* is iorveth with you

*meets roche* have you seen iorveth

*meets random elves* is iorveth alright

*hears an npc voiced by iorveth* is that you my love

*finishes the game* ok but where is iorveth

This has got to be one of the best songs for essay writing in the history of anything ever.

When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun Where the sun would set, trees were dead and the rivers were none And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place But there was no sound, there was only me and my disgrace

Oysters, for Seattle Met

Art Direction by Chuck Kerr

Quick Friday update for my art blog readers!

Firstly, literally none of this would have been possible without @mindaroth, @mouwrost, @kalewolfson, and @peytlavellan​ who all sent me art supplies off my wishlist. Again, so very mind-boggled that you all think I’m worth the investment. So, so very boggled, and so touched, and so thankful. I now have a truly monumental amount of clay to work with and I am an extremely happy sculptor with absolutely no excuse not to sculpt now. THANK YOU. I really can’t say that enough. Secondly:

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’What is hair and how i can render it?’

I got this question and I really wanted to show on very simple examples how to render hair. Because it really is… simple! Following this guide you will be able to paint hair in few minutes.

This is called the ribbon technique.

It is used by many artists out there. I just wanted to show you a couple of examples. As you can see I picked Adam Hughes and J. C. Leyendecker. Look at it and see how they paint the hair. It doesn’t look like a mop. It looks more like big, overlapping shapes organized in some fashion.

Try to imagine a string of hair like a ribbon. Ribbon symbolize a large portion of hair. Don’t focus on every single hair string, instead of this imagine it as bigger shape. It will catch light in highest point and it will have core shadows.

Establish where light is hitting the hair and where it turns dark. Start with big shapes. big brushes to get the lights and volumes right. Then You can go into details and paint small brush strokes to add details like single hair strings.

I attached two examples. First is very simple where you can clearly see and understand the similarity between hair and ribbon. Second example is theory put into practice. But it’s basically doing the same things as shown in simple example.

Let me know what you think about this?

I based my knowledge on James Gurney blog (author of Dinotopia and Light and Color book)

And for the example I used Faestock (from deviantart) photo.