Hello hello and good day to you fellow hivers~
I just realized I never got to post this one because of life happenings, and because I haven't really been doing digital art as of late XD
IDK I just struggle to stare at a screen for so long now so I can't manage to finish anything digital lately. I definitely have no problem drawing traditionally though so I think I might end up staying as a traditional artist for a while. It annoys me when I fall back into comfort like this, but this kind of reset is needed sometimes so I don't lose touch of my traditional skills too.
Anyways, I can't even call this a completely finished piece because I reakky got lost on where to continue with this one. I just wanted to show the last thing I worked on last 2022 and also, I want to see a bit of art on my feed profile again because my good pieces got buried already.
So here's my last work:
Now before you say anything, I know there's still a lot to improve here like the mood, the lighting, also in the hands cuz I got lazy trying to fix and draw hands again. But I definitely spent a lot of time on this. Maybe I ended up staring at it for like a few days straight and I keep forgetting how bad red hurts my eyes, but I still did it anyways because I started this when I was really angry and my bloodlust mood was off the charts.
With that said, I wasn't really after blood, but I was really furious and I think that kind of carried over to this piece and I couldn't finish it because... well... my fury is now gone and I'm pretty soft again XD
This is my progression for the piece, though I couldn't capture everything this time because of how uncontinuous my work flow was
As you can see from my work flow... I really couldn't understand what I wanted to do with the lighting there and whether it should have that glow or not, but after just observing an actual candle in a dark room, I realized candles don't really have that much of a soft glow if you go at it close enough or like, if there's not enough surfaces for light to at least bounce off of. it ended up becoming like an experiment but lol, I now have this need to do cadle studies one day XD
Software used: Medibang paint
Duration: Collectively, 4 hours but in actuality, this took me weeks to at least get to this point. I'm excluding all the times I just blanklu stared at it, okay