[this is one without a glow effect on the heart. I like both equally.]
Holy cow, am I glad to finish this! I’m really proud with how it turned out :))) I had a strong feeling for what I wanted out of this with the realistic human heart, blood, and perspective.
I tried going realistic for 30 minutes but 🤡umm I’m not very good at realistic. Kris almost looked like a middle aged punk rocker which is NOT what I wanted.
I always feel like my sketches come out better than my final, but so is life. Can’t be perfect. Also this image is so cursed it almost got corrupted and I almost lost all of my progress 😳🫀🥺🤡
(and then Tumblr basically blocked this image from most of my followers because one of the images and video weren't compatible? Very annoying..)
Anyways I haven’t seen a full render of Kris holding an actual human heart. There’s a ton of versions of them just holding a bloody cartoonish heart, but I WANT MORE. Thought I may change the status quo ❤️ This was also my first time trying to do blood, so it was a fun learning curve. I was planning for a Halloween release, but I got busy. Hope you enjoy!
My sister made a video of me colouring the christmas card I drew for her, so here's me adding some slight shadows :) It's her as a mouse dnd character: "the maniac magician"
I got last minute commissioned for a mural for a charity so I haven't had much time to work on my side drawings. In the meantime enjoy a progression story of one of my older pieces. This one was a lot of fun, and I'm still pretty proud of it
First real rough idea sketch > more clean sketch > clean the characters > add lots of perspective lines to map out the space > draw the surfaces > details > block out charas in one color > color canvas in mood color > coloring > add light > adjustment layers
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I like how this one turned out. Of course, it‘s not perfect and there are quite a few things I would change about it now- but it‘s okay. And I think that‘s nice!
List of thoughts while listening to the RWRB audiobook while drawing Alex during my drawing class (27 9 2023)
Preface: I have an hour of sketch class every week that I've been taking for 11 years now, I love it and my teacher is basically my Godfather at this point.
I'm learning to draw portraits and my teacher lets me pick the photo. I picked Alex, and I listen to the RWRB audiobook while I draw. Today's my second lesson on him, and I went through Ch6 to the first ten minutes of Ch7 (so that's state dinner, Alex's room, polo, the first few emails, Paris, Alex's birthday, to Alex's learning more about both Henry and himself)
I had to press my hand against my mouth to stop me from laughing out loud or grinning too crazily
The narrator is good at the delivery of Alex's line (I mean he's not Taylor but as a performance on its own it's pretty good) but Henry's lines DO NOT WORK. I didn't realize it on my first listen, but the British accent is just... It doesn't work, and neither does the line delivery itself. Alex's lines sound like a young man but Henry's lines sound like someone in his forties.
The corresponding movie scenes flash before my eyes whenever I listen to a scene that's in the movie
Also, certain things appear in a different order in the movie but there are a lot of smaller lines and details from the book that the film included
This morning found another AI-generated reading of the emails (this one is "you are a dark sorcerer with both Henry/Nick and Alex/Taylor, but I'm guessing the database used for the generation of this one isn't as complete cuz honestly it sounds kinda off) but that and listening to the actual audiobook made me realize as much as OH MY FUCKING GOD I NEED A FULL CAST AUDIOBOOK suddenly I can't imagine the boys reading it as an audiobook anymore? Like I'm used to hearing them in character full on acting out the scene but I just realized an audiobook is an entirely different form of performance: a dialogue, a quip like the one in the movie After the ass grope in the state dinner, the boys have a quick, continuous rhythm, but with narration, an audiobook doesn't have that. Plus I can't imagine the spicy scenes having the same intensity of delivery as a performance without being a continuously spoken through scene with kissing and wet noises, as it has be interrupted by the narration (that being said I NEED THE FULL CAST AUDIOBOOK)
It's just the second lesson/hour so all I have is a very, very rough outline sketch (I cannot emphasize how true "trust the process" is in art, it will look awful for a while until you slowly add in more details) but my teacher said I improved a lot and you can tell it's Alex (won't post any progress photos because it's... It's a long as fuck process, it's gonna take a couple of months, but when I'm done I'm definitely posting it)