Vixi's sketch blog

viivus:

I made a walkthrough of my process for drawing faceted stones! Judging by the timestamps from the screenshots I took, drawing this one stone took an hour and three minutes, although I know I went and checked tumblr a couple times while I was working, so let’s just call it an hour.

Now MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

• This walkthrough assumes you already know how to use layer masks, clone stamp, and lasso tool. There’s also one part where I didn’t label it, but I inverted the selection so I could keep my lines consistent. It’s in the third image.
• Unfortunately I can’t really help with colour choice and the actual colouring of the pinwheel shape that makes of the back facets, but you can kind of see that I tended to colour with lines that cut across the facets and and kept the outer parts of the facets darker. It would probably be best to find a reference to work from!
• This particular cut of stone is called the ‘brilliant’ cut.
• There’s actually a lot of internal reflection business that goes on in a stone, but I elected to ingore all of it since at a distance you can’t really tell anyway.

now GO FORTH AND DAZZLE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR SPARKLE

nihilnovisubsole:

Skintones

A quick little thing that ended up being neither quick nor little, for an anon who asked how I do skin colors.

As usual, I’m not a professional, this is just how I do things. Hope I answered your question!

I was paying real close attention during training.

1. Toby and Kerry’s nicknames fro their moms, Teddy Bear and Lily Pad

2. Sketches of the fish mission and joke picture of Kerry dressed ghetto (#1)

3. During ooc Chat, Marketa and Des put glitter in Kerrington’s hair. He does not approve.

4. No scrubs

“Hey I’ve heard that song! What are you listening to?”

“The good word, these ladies preach to me on a level no other can”

(Also a bit of a joke on the fact that in Kerrington’s OU he was a cleric and the fact that everyone at my summer job when they first met me thought I listened to gospel music. I don’t.)

5. Fight and more gangster wear. Also listening to the thong song.

There is nothing more fun then sketching an irate Kerri.

Also videogames with Toby and braiding… But mostlyirateKerri.

Roxy leaving Camp Half Blood, sketch on a train.

Mayla: So you’re leaving for good…

Roxy: Princess, you aren’t going soft on me?

Mayla: Nah, man. You know that won’t happen.

Roxy: Good.

Mayla: It’s just… a mess of people are leaving now that camp’s in the shitter.

Roxy: Gotta get out while the going’s good.

Mayla: I know. Can’t help but worry, ya know.

Mayla: You better not die. I’m giving my first and only royal decree as Princess of Dreams.

Mayla: And you have to write to me after, just so I can be sure.

Don’t you dare forget.

Don’t you dare forget about me.

foervraengd:

The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.