Well I’m someone who don’t like to change how I work and not always have the patience to learn new ways/techniques of doing something (but I know I should try). But once in a while I try and somehow slowly things improve or go a different direction.
For instance it took probably years to go more into colored work as I did work an insane long time with pencils. And even at the beginning of that I only used one pencil. I think it was HB to draw all my pencil art. Later I used a couple more but not the whole range. I used colors before pencil when I was a 3D artist and animator but going traditional I went to black and white. Later I started with color and switched back and forth as pencil was more relaxing to work with for me.
Nowadays I work a lot with digital painting and kind of did shade more like vector as I like it really much. But I always want to learn to create gradients that are so smooth like my pencil works. Sometimes I try to get there and practice. Somehow it slipped away working that way and now I’m trying to pick it back up. So lately I’m experimenting with digital airbrushes to get that effect. Looked at a lot of tutorials to see how others work to get those effects.
The screenshot I posted was made while working on it. I started this today as an practice and I kind of like the smoothness of the shades. So I guess I should go on and advance it that technique I guess. Learn practice learn XD
Made with procreate.
I hope to show you the time lapse when it’s done.