AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Good looking stuff guys. Glad to see your art again Caiman.

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He's the god of war and strategy, represented by the hawk.

Thank you!

I like to think I've improved a lot since the last time I've posted here!

Good to see y'all again

I have like a yearly to biyearly cycle of REALLY like my art, then REALLY hating it. I'm at the hating it stage right now, but instead of making me want to never draw like normal, I want to always draw. Specifically not I'm dissatisfied with my ability to draw older men. I'm not good at it. Lately the gang has started playing Payday 2 again (one of my favourite shooters, so y'know I'm into it,) and I've wanted to draw some fanart/comics of our silly shenanigans but I can't draw dudes that look older than like 25 which is unacceptable when every character in the game is at LEAST 30. SO I've been sketching a lot.

I don't have anything to show as I do all my sketching on paper so I'm not really sure why I'm even posting this

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Tatzel and I did a thing. The kindly and virtuous Tatzel provided the line art and I coloured this time.

cool foreshortenings tatz

thankies

i spent my weekend on this:



the whole thing started out as "i should make a charm for hoxton's collar with hoxton's mask on it" then spiraled into i wanted one, kyle wanted one, i made one hoxton too big so i'll give it to my brother in law, then i should make tom one as a gift etc etc and i ended up making one of each :T

on the backs of hoxton and chains:


all of wolf's silly names for hoxton that inspired me to name my dog after him, and kyle's favourite chains quote. wish i'd have thought to put stuff on the back of the others but oh well. we don't have a good hoxton quote for our team anyway, and my parents would flip out if they saw "keep drilling you piece of shit" on anything i own haha.

@Shaz: Those looks awesome, what are they made of?

polyshrink! it's plastic sheeting that you draw on then put in the oven and it shrinks/thickens in a few seconds. pretty neat shit. the colours are all sharpies except the gray for shading which are brush tip pens. really fun to make actually - they turn into eldridge horrors before flattening back down when you cook 'em.

unfortunately it seems that the colour isn't as durable as i'd really like - kyle had his on his keyring and some of the ink is already rubbed off. i have mine on my keyring but it doesn't really have any damage but i might put it somewhere else just in case, but i don't know where. hoxton's tag is on his fancy collar so it won't get used very often at all. kind of a bummer but what can you do. on one hand i want to not care that it'll rub off because i can just make another, but on the other hand they take like 30 minutes to draw so i kinda don't want to make another if i don't have to y'know

You could put a protective foil on them, I don't know things too well though. But lamination might be an idea? Since it can endure great heat anyways as you have to bake them.



In other news, I am pretty lost. I wanted to finish an old collab I have with Zang, and since this thing originally happened sometime last year after me and princess brothel had a talk with each other about color, I decided to use a limited color palette. Pulling this out again, I decided to try out a monochromatic palette instead, which would look something like this




However, there was a layer from my first idea drafting, and I still liked that one. I decided to shade it just to see how it looks, and to be quite honest I like it a lot more




I know there is a lot going on, but it just feels so much better to me. Its not like I can't see that people might percieve it as clashing or too saturated, but dammit I just love using colors.
My problem isn't related only to this drawing now, I'm feeling torn and worried lately in general. I don't know if I should just keep doing what I love and is the most fun to me, or if I'm as delusional as a 16 year old with their Sonic OCs on deviantArt and actually quite shite and should re-take my artist driver's permit before I end up on Rainbow Road in Mario Kart.

The first example you posted isn't monochromatic, it's a triadic earth tone palette. Monochromatic means that the palette is all in one hue, including black and white (so, something with all blue tones, or all yellow).

It's possible to make something colorful and saturated like the second image without going overboard--picking one or two main colors and then using other colors as small details would help. Looking at your second image, I see three large areas of very different colors--bright blue, teal, and neon orange--and two colors being used as accents (the PANK and the tiny area of yellow). Replacing even one of those colors with a neutral or an earth tone would help to make it look less busy while still keeping it bright and colorful.

In fact, I like the color map you used for the first image. You had three main colors and one accent color, not including your shading effects. Why not try replacing the three main colors in the first image with three colors from the second image? See how that looks.