**The context for today's post. **A Kettle high on weed drawing and reviewing his own work. Made yours truly
-- Me
Right so this is the waifu you wanted right?
*Points gun at you
Right?
Anyway you basically have no choice to agree, because while you were reading this sentence i have already obtained your IP Address
192.168.1.1
Yours or mine, it doesn't really matter.
Moving on with the drawing, i guess i should explain why i drew it.
It all began a few days ago. While i was minding my own business playing the most Toxic game known as Dota 2. After the game i feel like shit, so i decided to crash a random Voice-chat within a art-server. Luckily for me the peeps didn't mind me and fortunately enough they were pro's (Better than me *For now)
I'll be turning on/off the layers to show progress since i didn't really thought of doing a FULL DOCUMENTARY of how a drew this Legal Loli.
Aight time to begin. We started off with a generic sketch of the thing we wanted to draw. For me it was just a head of a female human, cause im bad at drawing girls. THERE YOU HAPPY!
When we were doing our own stuff, one of my senpai's noticed that the eyes were not aligned properly. Heck no symmetry existed, but you see it was hilarious. Imagine having a clean outline of the face,lips and nose. Then here comes googly eyes. Hhahahah so i decided to just continue because i have this tendency. If i correct stuff back and forth, the time it takes to draw usually 2X. So ehh just leave it in, its for laughs anyways.
The next part was the hair. OHH THE HAIR, i initially wanted to draw a kettle as a hat. But my Masta insisted i draw hair this time because he rarely sees me drawing hair and i should practice it. I agreed on the condition that he draws a kettle on his. (*Worth it).
Initially the hair was all swirly, messy and overlapping each other by ALOT! I cleaned it up, deleted some here and there and properly lined up what i want front,back and center. Hhahaha i messed up the bangs, hairline and back hair. Back hair? Ohh wait since i din't bother drawing the neck i forgot about the back hair.
HAHAHAHAH
THAT IS VERY SUS!!
AMOGUS!
LOL, Grrrrr Dead memes are the funniest for me. All those who disagree are EXCOMMUNICATED!
Anyway moving on . . . . . .
I took the slightly dark portion of the eye and used it as the color for the pupil *Used the Color Selector Tool. . . .
After drawing some generic Eye strokes using 50% opacity. I duplicated the layers, selected the lower layer and added some Gaussian Blur to mimic the glow effect. Unlike Adobe Photoshop where you can just edit the properties of a single layer to add a BILLION effects. . . .
SInce there were so many layers, and i just learned about Grouping layers recently. I sorta might have fused the entire hair section.
There were just so many layers for the hair, give me a break. Cmon!
Hmm i guess same tactics for the hair, i just used red as the base color, added gradients of pink(top) and green(bottom). Aside from that for the pink gradient i did the glow trick just for that layer to give it more Pop. Especially after adding some lighter colored strokes and shading.
Compared to the ones in youtube tutorials, i guess this is a start. Also ignore the bottom portion i should have just gone for classic large puffy hair instead of the smol stuff. . . .
Aghh yess the most mellow part the skin color.
Honestly i should have gone for BLACK!
Hahhaha sup mah dudes!
Anyways, unless i wanted to do a Hentai the skin color would just contrast the bight scheme that i had already drawn. So were sticking with lighter tones.
When doing the face i would usually turn off unnecessary layers so i would get a better look and to prevent color bleeding between the face and eyes.
The problem with krita is, when you use the bucket tool to pain over stuff that are not grouped properly, your fill might skip over the eyes. As such when i do my final blemishes and stretching on the eyes to give it a little more style. The color usually bleeds out, that's why i do this.
huhuhuhu . . .
Eye brows?
Who cares about those.
Also this is just y preference but i prefer showing the brows forward instead of them being covered by the hair. . . .
The drawing took me 4hrs from start to finish. This might be slow to alot of you especially compared to the fiverr ones. But its a huge improvement for me by 1-hour.
Aside from that I've been trying to learn some stuff on YouTube tutorials
I highly recommend these peeps, they are very helpful in making me grow.
(Glow effect in krita)
(Quick anime hair color)
Don't worry the vids are less than 10min in total.
Welp that finishes my post for today. I dunno if i can post tomorrow.
Will try and goodluck, thanks for reading until the end.
Ohh yeah i almost forgot
Within the next few weeks. I'll be doing the Vietnam series about some cool peeps i met back in steemit a few years back. Some of them are still kicking around and others have moved on. Im just doing this for myself, the $$$ they gave me helped me buy some gear that greatly improved my working space. So Thankyou peeps.
There are more that i wanted to include but ehh, we never really interacted that much but they were still kind. Might include them as reference on other works.
Since i didn't get explicit permission from all of them to do this, If anyone mentioned above is reading this and your uncomfortable that im using you like this. Just comment below or DM me in discord then i'll handle it from there.
Aside from that imma return back to my NEET den and will return after i draw one of the characters.
With love
-- Takuris
