#Eggtober 14 2023

[goron-king-darunia]

Eggtober 14th 2023

"Sticky": Tiger Skin Egg with Sauce.

(Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Gouache Blender, Airbrush tool. 10 colors, 45 minutes.)

Cripes, I almost forgot to post this one. Been a busy bee the last few days.

The first time I made this dish it was all going perfectly until it came time to caramelize the sauce. It goes from runny and thin to thick in what feels like 30 minutes and then from thick to CHARRED AND AWFUL in 0.5 seconds. I'm not a stranger to syrups and sugary sauces! Maybe it's the soy sauce that's dangerous because the color can't indicate early signs of caramelization that I can see? But I make brown sugar glazes for fruit all the time. And my standard stir fry sauce has soy, brown sugar, and gochujang in it, which are all dark, and I've never burnt those things. Anyway, first time I made these was a disaster. The eggs were overcooked because the sauce took too long to thicken and then I burnt it so it tasted terribly perfumey. But I remade the sauce by itself much more carefully later and it really is tasty! I just had an awful first attempt. Speaking of which, I need to do a proper study of craggly, crackly fried things. I can get away with a lot here because the rendering is a bit stylized and it's a shiny sauced egg, but trying to replicate that almost-breaded looking fried exterior from my reference was hard. I think we've established I'm fairly effective at drawing smooth things with all my shiny eggies of late but I need to learn how to draw coarser, rougher textures. Maybe more pencil tool next time.

Anyway, here's the speedpaint and the shoutouts. @lady-quen, Another gravity defying eggy for you to draw your precious brebbugs on. Take your time of course. The breadbugs need time to eat all the eggs they stole already!

Thanks as always to @quezify for all the inspiring fried eggy art.

Despite the unfamiliar textures being a challenge, it was fun. And of course I got to make it deliciously shiny. The speedpaint makes it all look so competent and deliberate and my ass is sitting here like "Past me has the competence of a god, or at least seems like it, but I know that bitch personally and I know for a fact there was internal screaming for part of it. "It's bumpy in the reference! There's texture there! But how do I do that? AUGH!" And then it turned out fine anyway, despite faffing around. Gotta get better at trusting my process and actually treating these as LEARNING experiences like last year. Self mantra of "It doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be an egg. If it's hard, that mean's you're learning." Actively squash that little voice in my brain that doubts. Making art is about the making. The art is just a coincidence. It can be a product later if I decide so, but that's not the objective. The objective is to turn 1s and 0s and funny little lights on a funny little screen into things that look like eggs and manifest something that didn't exist anywhere before except my brain. No doubts, no stress. Only eggy. Plus at the end I can stare at past me making egg very fast like magic. I do like that part. Bless CSP for having a native timelapse capture feature. I just get to click a button and share with you all my magical process.

#Tiger Skin Egg #Eggtober 14 2023 #Eggtober 2023 #my art #art by GKD #speedpaint

[goron-king-darunia]

Eggtober 28th 2023

"I Like it But Does it Come in Pink?": Monster Eggs

(Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Gouache Blender, a few Overlay Adjustment layers. 14 Colors. 45 minutes?) I cranked out 3 in a row today to make up for the fact that I kind of went on a Minecraft binge with my partner so I'm not sure of the times. You get 2 eggs today and one tomorrow while I figure out what I want to do for the final egg. Since I did them all back to back the time spent on each piece is a little wonky for me. I just kind of worked until I finished 3 eggs.

So, yeah, Monster Eggs are apparently just Halloween themed Tea Eggs. Still not sure if the pattern from the cracks looks properly realistic since a lot of my references were really lacey looking but I do like how the gradient looks better (to me) than the tea egg. Hence the title. Tea eggs are great but I very much like the red/pink monster egg in terms of aesthetic. Also I actually put some cast shadows in this one. Wild for me.

Hopefully @lady-quen's breadbugs like the look of these spooooooky eggs.

Hyping the Master @quezify with 2 pings today. We're almost there, man! I haven't been able to keep up reblogging all the eggs but I've seen them all and loved them all. That also goes for all the other artists participating in Eggtober. Super talented bunch and I've loved seeing everyone's work!

Speedpaint!

Can you tell that I really liked that red one and the way the food die leaked under the membrane and just went ham on that egg?

#Eggtober 28 2023 #Eggtober 2023 #my art #art by GKD #Monster Eggs #Hard Boiled Eggs #speedpaint