#only used that brush for benoit's portrait

[yoru-kage]

maybe this info is floating around on your blog somewhere and i'm sorry if i missed it, but what drawing program(s) do you use? also i was going thru your art tag and i'm so very fascinated by your style. do you always do lineart first, or do you approach digital painting totally different? that benoit blanc painting is Insanely Good

Thank you! I use Clip Studio Paint. For digital paintings I either start off with a very rough sketch for the initial feel/pose etc. or just skip it and slap paint on :D Usually the latter with portraits. The shapes get further refined afterwards. I work on one layer out of habit and prefer oil paint brushes with blending properties. Here are some progress pics to show my work process. This painting remains unfinished because I ended up disliking the pose :")

Here's one that did get finished (used Rebelle 5 instead of CSP). I wasn't using references during the first pic so it's a bit wonky.

And a progress pic of Benoit. I like to combine elements from a few reference pictures (such as lighting of one pic and expression of another, but the facial angles don't match) so it takes some poking before I can get the forms right.

#my main brush in CSP is the DAUB square oil brush #tweaked some more to my liking #only used that brush for benoit's portrait #forgot how I got it but it should be in one of their brush packs??? #another nice one is the GM oil brush and that one's in the clip studio assets store #I rarely use the blending tool nowadays because the brushes already do that #the paint blending in rebelle definitely feels a step closer to traditional paint #I have different approaches to traditional mediums but I work with acrylics similar to how I do digital paintings #I'd plan ahead for traditional pieces and be more careful with the initial draft tho #harder to cover up things than digital yknow #anyways hope this is interesting :V #stuff