Cascanor

Coyly placed...just tugging up her hemline

Long blonde haired man, Ares, wearing a golden crested corinthian helmet; his shoulder carved from bloody-red crystal, damaged and chipped from eons of warfare and bloodshed; his form scarred from blades of heroes past and his face, though handsome, bears a cold smirk and a slitted scar mars his perfect lips

Ares Miaephonus, the blood-stained
#ocart #ares

#CoerthanTraitor chapter 121 - 124 is now available, thank you for reading~
archiveofourown.org/works/478178...

Zenos and Crow standing together in a pitch dark backdrop, his arm snaking down the curve of her hip and listing the hem of her dress to reveal a hypnotic curtain of crimson lace. His other hand cradles her own as she peers up at his shadowed visage with a wary, askance look, her remaining hand slips free a dagger between them. Their poses seem languid and close, but also filled with silver-sharp tension.

The Husband — what's better than the devil you know?

Painted in the style of midcentury pinup art masters like gil elvgren —Crow and Zenos as a vampiric newlyweds, reveling after the nuptial ceremony. A drooping strand of blood hangs between a freshly parted kiss, fangs bared and savoring tongues curling. Her right arm clambering against his broad shoulder, clawed hand digging into the white-clad back of his neck; her other sliding up up his sculpted torso. His pants are low, dragged below the firm curve of his rear, her dress is similarly disheveled, his fingers gently loosening the white ribbon from her hair as she vies up with crimson-smeared lips to ravish her new husband.

Wedding libations, made possible by generous wedding guests — Happy Halloween~

Nora's grandmothers during their youth as a quick morning warm up

Main figure of arrogant god ares holding up three severed head, gesturing grandly as though he'd brought a gift, the other figures are detailed turn-around figures of him. His right arm, left shoulder and left leg is made of red rubellite stone. He wears a wolf-headed shoulder pauldron and leg armor wrought from sacred gold alloy. He wears a mantle of woven black laurel, petrified into tapered bull-horns

Head turn-around of Ares, front, back and side profile

Character concept sheet practice
#conceptart #ocart

MOVE, Lois. There's a new girl in town

Just watched a pink-clad skeleton and shrek's daughter eye fuck each other while pretending to fight over a man. Anyways, don't watch wicked 2, save your money.

first image very rough pencil sketch "I start sketching very lightly with a .5mm mechanical pencil. Loosely block in the creature and composition. I begin detailing first with the head since I know I will be keeping that in the same place. I back off on detailing the mane though since I'm not entirely sure I want to keep it." Next image is slighting more refined especially around the head area. "Before I draw the stripes I lightly go over what will become the orange part of the body. To get a smooth effect I take a cotton swab and lightly smudge the graphite. After that I come back in first outlining the stripes and then filling them in. I erase Lines I don't intend to keep and slowly darken those I am sure I will be keeping. Be careful about drawing too dark too fast because it's a lot harder to erase and too much erasing and redrawing can mess up the paper's texture. For erasing I like to use a small hard eraser and a kneading eraser.

Much more refined image of the creature lots of light and dark contrast and stripes on it's front now. "Still doing the same things as in step 2, just slowly building up the rendering. After being scanned into Photoshop I use the brightness/contrast and Shadows/Highlights menus to get the background white and make all the pencil details pop. I use a combination of the doge tool and the eraser to get rid of any smudges or dirt that make the picture look messy." Next image is the same but now has very rough photoshop digital sketch lines over the tail end of the beast in grey and black. "Here I test out a different pose for the hind quarters in photoshop before making the adjustment on paper. This way I can keep from reworking the paper too many times which can make blending more uneven."

an image of all the pencil work finalized it has a thick brown texture wash overlay now. "After the final adjustments I scan in and clean up the pencil work agian and take an old paper texture set to "Multiply" adjust the texture opacity till it is to your liking." Next image has color wash and a small image to show how the colors are lighter than they appear without being an adjustment layer. "The grass and rocks are on Multiply Layers varying between 60-50 percent opacity. For the creature's colors I am using a color layer on the "linear Burn" setting. At first I just paint colors on in the normal setting once you switch to a layer setting it probably will be too light or dark, from here open the hue and saturation menu and adjust till it looks right or try a different layer setting."

Same image darker and richer but close to a final look. "More multiply layers for shadows and green growth. I've added a very low opacity green multiply gradient starting from the ground and tapering off. After that I've merged all the layers and used the dodge tool set to highlights on the white areas." Final image more depth to dark areas. "More multiply layers for the back and blood. More linear burn layers for the prey's body. A layer set to lighten to make the last bits of white on the face pop and several normal setting layers that I brushed on very lightly to color the claws and gums." "A small note, the black multiply layers are actually a very dark red/brown, I try not to use pure black but something very close to black as pure black often looks artificial."

In the spirit of sharing art knowledge, here is a look at the process for my Tigerpede illustration. It's pretty old so not the best quality but I hope it can still be helpful. It's a style that I ultimately evolved to help inform the look of the TOW Naturalist posters. #Art

Main figure of arrogant god ares holding up three severed head, gesturing grandly as though he'd brought a gift, the other figures are detailed turn-around figures of him. His right arm, left shoulder and left leg is made of red rubellite stone. He wears a wolf-headed shoulder pauldron and leg armor wrought from sacred gold alloy. He wears a mantle of woven black laurel, petrified into tapered bull-horns

Head turn-around of Ares, front, back and side profile

Character concept sheet practice
#conceptart #ocart

Thank you so much! 📝

What appeals to you when you're looking for artists to hire?

lowkey kinda love this pope?

more oc-posting 𓆏

If you like my characters, you can read some profiles here: endexodion.carrd.co
It's a project called "End Exodion"

It's set in a world in which celestial objects have sentience, Exodus, a black hole is emitting Rot, an energy that spreads throughout the galaxy and decays planets

Trying out a new brush, idk if I'll use it as a staple in my usual repetoire but it was interesting!

Long blonde haired man, Ares, wearing a golden crested corinthian helmet; his shoulder carved from bloody-red crystal, damaged and chipped from eons of warfare and bloodshed; his form scarred from blades of heroes past and his face, though handsome, bears a cold smirk and a slitted scar mars his perfect lips

Ares Miaephonus, the blood-stained
#ocart #ares

#CoerthanTraitor chapter 121 - 124 is now available, thank you for reading~
archiveofourown.org/works/478178...

winged woman navigates tangles of hair and water vessels

Fog for a new banner (its been a year of many green pieces)

Silksong fanart
Acrylic gouache and ink on paper

digitally painted pet portrait of a fluffy long-haired tabby cat holding a toy mouse in its mouth, sitting in front of a yellow rose bush.

Thriving

Nowa :3

a screenshot of a youtube video, the thumbnail has a red shrimp and reads: red is invisible (no AI documentary). the title of the video is: underwater camouflage isn’t what you think. the channel name is: Auralis

i appreaciate the “no AI” in the thumbnail SO MUCH 😩😩😩🙏 please more of this im tired of squinting my eyes at thumbs

It was likely mild heartburn...but the back pain is very debilitating. Both husband and I are prone and suffering in bed

hehe I got indigestion and my upper back hurts, I don't get it

cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"

artists and designers using ai like

This is a Shakespearean tragedy in one image

Salamence Charge Blade