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serious art!me: you need to body & fabric studies to get better painting those
me: SO I GUESS I WILL DO ANOTHER PORTRAIT STUDY -

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"Within a King's Gaze"
Study from photo reference. Clip Studio Paint, 10ish hours.
Challenge: use one brush, and a textured rough brush I was nervous about!

WIP, that I decided to record some of!!!! and... then forgot to hit record lmao. I did get like maybe 20 mins worth, so maybe I will keep going because I'm not done yet...

"A Ponderous Peony."
Clip Studio Paint, 20+ish hours.
Commission.

Just the joy of animal care work when you're perpetually understaffed and no one understands dog caring is actually a complicated skill set. Everything is healed, no complications or infected, it's just been draining.

work has been fucking me up so bad, I got really injured and when I sat down to work on commissions it felt like I had to relearn everything all over again and ACK.

my last weeks have been my birthday, getting seriously bitten by a dog that was dropped on us at work when they were in the middle of moving house and were SO stressed, and getting sick. SAVE ME. I am finally getting some time to paint again!! 🫠

its so funny because Ive literally never opened any of them, I never downloaded them, the way people talk about them is so baffling like you can just...... not?

you can just.......... not. like you can just not use it? nothing is making ANYONE use it.

I think its so funny that everyone is talking about using AI like everyone has to use it but I legitimately have never opened chatgpt in my life lmao.

Someone pat me on the head plz-

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!

My colours ended up muddy, and I think its because I picked the yellow wash mid way and that was kinda EHHHH bad choice on my initial blue base.

I have had an art block because work has been A LOT lately, and I have commissions waiting for me I was stuck on, so I just gave me a study to get UNSTUCK.

In true ADHD fashion I learned to crotchet 2 weeks ago and this where we at.

Commission! Ganymede, as a companion to my previous piece. The same character in a modern setting. I went with a moodier late 1800s style that felt more expressive and warm!

No sweat man!! You got this!! Potentially see what the chin on left hand dude is doing too, the skin naturally softens as the head is pushed back which it looks like you've done!! But he might need another line to show where jaw / jowls / throat sit to help give that plane transition some clarity?

It looks really great so far! I think it might be a mix where their faces need to be a little bit more foreshortened? As they're both tilting into and away from the viewer, so the noses might need to be shortened, or the eyes placed higher/lower respectively (I also struggle with working this out!!)

Hello I would love to be added! I am a digital painter who likes to do old master style paintings with fantasy or modern twists!

My last artfight piece for 2025, I just wasn't quick enough to get it in!
Original is here: artfight.net/character/70...

SERIOUSLY.

Man, if you need to, just send it through to my work email at lilyr3x@gmail.com !

But I also get too cranky if one piece takes me more than a week and I have spent a lot of time honing my style to make my process faster, and figure out what feels good for me to hit the sweet spot between good flow and detail.

It can vary from piece to piece, mood to mood for me! Some weeks I complete a lot really fast, other times, I spend days on one piece.
My rule of thumb for my studies is never more than two sessions worth of painting, commissions I give myself a minimum of three.

Aww thank you!

A study based on François Bourdin's work! Not sure I nailed it but it was a great test to make me commit to hard edges!

Art Fight, 2025: Gilia & Rua, from a long form psl my friend and I been writing.
Rua Concept here: artfight.net/character/71...
Gilia is mine!

Art Fight, 2025: Annie Morgan, 2025
Original Concept: artfight.net/character/58...

For art fight, obv!