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Portfolio d'Vanecu, an art dump
Hello, IRE friends!
I'm Gav, and I draw pictures. To celebrate yet another return to Lusternia, I've thrown together some recent art for the sake of fun. I've always meant to create an art thread of my own, but I'm also very lazy and difficult to motivate. I do almost all of my work digitally using a medium-sized Wacom tablet and Paint Tool SAI. I rarely finish pictures, so I've kind of embraced the sketchiness of my work.
Though I do character art for quite a few different games I play, for now I'm going to keep this Lusternia-focused. Please feel free to post your questions, comments, and inquiries here or to me privately. It always means a lot to me to hear a kind word. My personal art blog can be found here. Hopefully it's kosher to provide outside links.
Enjoy!
I'm Gav, and I draw pictures. To celebrate yet another return to Lusternia, I've thrown together some recent art for the sake of fun. I've always meant to create an art thread of my own, but I'm also very lazy and difficult to motivate. I do almost all of my work digitally using a medium-sized Wacom tablet and Paint Tool SAI. I rarely finish pictures, so I've kind of embraced the sketchiness of my work.
Though I do character art for quite a few different games I play, for now I'm going to keep this Lusternia-focused. Please feel free to post your questions, comments, and inquiries here or to me privately. It always means a lot to me to hear a kind word. My personal art blog can be found here. Hopefully it's kosher to provide outside links.
Enjoy!
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Comments
I've heard quite a bit about paint tool SAI, but my personal weapon of choice has always been OpenCanvas. Is there a particularly large learning curve, and do you think it would be worth my while to make the effort? If you have any familiarity with OC, do you think SAI has any particular advantages over it?
How long does it take you to put together a drawing like one of these, roughly? Your linework looks so effortless and really organic, is there much trial and error involved, or do you just try to keep and work with whatever happens?
Thank you so much for sharing your talent, these are hugely inspiring.
As for SAI vs OC? I've worked with Opencanvas a little, but not recently. I remember liking the flow of the pen with it and the way it reacted to pen sensitivity. I think I also preferred the variety of tools it came with by default, but I remember finding the custom pen tool to be a bit clunky. I don't know how much of it can be owed to simply becoming a better artist and consistently working with one program, but I definitely prefer SAI. I find it more intuitive, but your mileage may vary.
The length of a drawing obviously depends on the subject and size, how inspired I am and how familiar I am with a subject. The first picture I posted of Gavriel probably took me 1-2 hours. In comparison, the picture of Vatul probably took me 3-4, and I personally feel that Vatul came out a bit sloppier.
When I work, there's a lot of trial and error involved. I do a ton of flipping and rotating the canvas, selective masking of lines I don't like, and liberal use of additional layers and ctrl+z until everything feels right. 'Right' is kind of a nebulous idea in this case. I just need the lines to not interfere with each other terribly.
I really appreciate the kind word, Cen. It means a lot to me to think I've inspired you.
I haven't posted in a while! Vacation had me all worn down, but here's something new I'm working on. It isn't really Lusternia related, but maybe you'd like to pretend it's a dracnari!
Your pieces are very lovely, and you manage to portray faces and details quite excellently without tons of lines, and it really is a pleasing effect. Bravo!
He is an Au Ra, yes! One of my Balmung toons, though I don't play much these days. I'm experimenting with colour for this one. If it turns out well, I'll post the finished product with the same not-Lusternia disclaimer.
Ah, lovely! I'm on Balmung as well, though I too don't play all that much. Lack of a free company will do that. I'm looking forward to the coloured piece! I am going to guess that he's a...Raen?
I run with a group of tribal malqir refugees, so xaela. I'd make a free company recommendation, but I just don't play enough to be familiar enough with any of them.
Hopefully I can finish up tonight and get back to Lusternia stuff. The glow was fun to play with.
Are you using SAI to colour as well?
I am! I'm especially fond of the acrylic brush packaged with the software. You can probably tell. The painted effect is really satisfying to me.
A PC from our Exalted game:
@Cen -practice with pencil and paper to the point where your lines are effortless and organic. Then it's just a matter of adapting to the medium. Digital or otherwise.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."
(ETA: It's @Drocilla.)
September's artisanal. I'm really proud of how this turned out. I can't help but post it here for those that may not want to wade through Lusternia's main website. I'm really looking forward to October's release.
I'll put them here, because I like to share.
Character art of a new tabletop character I've been working on.
Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight