I Just Discovered How To Make My Own Custom Brushes In Krita.

My DND Char, when you piss him off 😀

And done! So glad I choose pencils for the hair. Also picked one or two times the wrong color but I guess it's rarely noticable.

Here the links for the lineart and the sketch.

And yes, this piece ... I still love it even if it was one of my earliest ones ... and I think there's barely something I could improve on this (except the background ... and challanging myself with perspective)

I was looking through my devianart and found this picture I did about a year ago. Didn't post this here yet.

I still remember how proud I was as I finished that ...

Dream and Nightmare by @jokublog

Swimming pool ...

I'm practicing backgrounds

And now as I was scrolling through my older posts, I realised what my mistake here was ... I think the pacing of the animation is completley off. He's falling way too fast ... it feels weird. Maybe if I find the file I could try to continue ...

I am trying to animate again :D

but nothing too big this time.

I was thinking about, how one of my OC's powers would work, and I had a little idea for a loop (after watching a sick fighting animation on Youtube, just that I couldn't figure out how to make something like that, so I'll just make a loop)

Anyway, I wanted to animate my OC Kael (Guardian of Time) and even with the keyframes, I am already impressed with how that looks.

Sneak peek below :D but don't expect too much

Note: Roughing it out, setting basic proportions, and so on ... I don't know if my timings are fine or if I need to tweak something about it ...

More sneak peek

I'm currently really pushing through. Also realised, I don't use any in-betweens by now XD (at least for now, but the animation feels fluid enough) AND I also needed to figure out the rest of the character design. I guess for now, I have something I might stick with, but this could change in the end or become more detailed.

AND NOW I FINALLY REALIZED WHY A CERTAIN PART LOOKED WEIRD!!! I copied the pose right as he turns around and forgot to change the legs so suddenly they were swapped.

And now I am realising that this might take some more brain power to fix, than just change that one frame ................

I think, I fixed it ... I guess it was not that visible from the beginning anyway ... just the feeling that was bugging me.

Well, it's still wrong and feels wrong. But this clearly takes more brain capacity than I currently have left. Guess I'll roughly animate the rest and continue hopefully tomorrow.

So, current state for today: (and yes, I still need to fix that stupid frame, or isn't it even noticeable?)

I finally got over my art block 😀

The key was, to draw something different than what I was struggling with. I was so frustrated and at the same time fixed on drawing the face right, that I didn't realize that I had no fun doing that. After my mother asked me why I don't draw something different than faces, I drew her a couple of trees to prove that I could draw something different. after that I continued with the trees and realized that I was missing fun while drawing. Thanks for that, mom😘

I was listening to one of my usual playlists and then I had this scene once again in my head. I thought, why not try to draw it and it turned out amazing 🤩 I really need to draw more backgrounds, it's fun. I was also able to put my perfectionsim aside for that one. It's so imperfect that it makes it perfect again.

In this picture, you see my oc Ike. Since I don't want this post to get too long, I will introduce you to his backstory another time.

I have the problem, that I think my expressions are too plain ... I think I figured out a way to get myself to exaggerate them.

I'm simply drawing different expressions, simplified to a smiley in a circle, just that I draw it 3 times. Each time, I try to make the expression more intense. and then I draw it on a face.

(I'm making the 25-essential-expressions challange)

Like here some examples:

Happy:

Sad (Idk, not too satisfied with that one but whatever):

Pleased (I like this very much. Like that smug character winning another argument and then smiling at you like that and saying, Told you~ ... or just a cute cinnamon roll ...):

Angry:

And confused:

Looks kinda good. If I did that challenge without the three smiley faces, it would show less expression.

Thought I might share that, maybe that helps someone.

I like the card idea, so I just drew a couple hands holding a card from reference.

Still not sure if I should go nuts with his outfit or just keep it simple.

Lately, I have been annoyed with how I draw faces, so I figured, I try something new and actually LEARN anatomy instead of drawing what I think it looks like. (I mean, that method worked until now, and if I could travel back in time, I wouldn't change my approach to learning to draw. The most important is having fun, am I right?)

By now, I only figured out two directions (and some in between) but it's interesting to finally understand how the face is supposed to work. Additionally, it helps with shading. I still didn't quite get the area for the eyes but I also have some other perspectives to learn to draw, so I might figure it out as I continue.

Thought I might share this over here and next up will be facing down, left and right. I also still need to find a way to adapt it to my style. But for now, I am pretty proud of these 😃

About me

Hi, thanks for visiting my blog page. I'm lostvi and I like drawing stuff 😋

Currently, you can expect infrequent updates on me drawing from doodles to finished pieces (although those are mostly rare) My next long-term goal is drawing short comics to get a feel for composition and backgrounds. Furthermore, my big dream is to create my own animations. But I guess, step by step, am I right?

I am currently working on my own story that I call "In-Between". You might see me post some stuff about my OCs.

Things I like: Undertale, MC Life Series and Hermitcraft and My Hero Academia.

If you want to ask me anything, feel free to do so.