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Pretty colors with Clip Studio Paint

Over the past few weeks, I’d been searching for an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. I tried out the demo of Clip Studio Paint, liked it, and bought it on sale. Since then, I’ve done tutorials and realized that this program can do everything. I’ll show off some of my experiments.

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[image error]Sonic characters as Destiny classes, just because it was funny.



[image error]Shadow is the coolest, naturally.



[image error]Rex Magtoris, a character from a story

This was a speedpaint to try out the clothing brushes in Clip Studio Paint. The gold braid and the ruffle brushes have potential, but I need to really experiment with them.

[image error]The cat ghost’s cuteness is overwhelming.

This comic was me trying out the comic tools in Clip Studio Paint. It does panels, speech bubbles, and layout tools like you wouldn’t believe. It also has 3D posable models to use as reference, which made me insanely excited. I spend hours searching for just the right pose or angle, and now I can just slap down a model and pose it the way I want.

I’ve had to do hours of tutorials to get this far, and I have hours more ahead of me. And let me tell you, I am SUPER excited.

Sketches and things

Checking my files, I actually do have some artwork to show, even if it’s just sketches. So here we go!

[image error]A super ugly dragon

I’m currently in that stage with the baby where he’s allllllllmost crawling. He scoots around on his belly and finds toys on his own, so I have entire minutes to myself again. Our usual routine is that our morning is spent doing school or chores, and the afternoons are nap or screen time. That’s when I get to draw or whatever. But the baby doesn’t have that routine yet, so I feel like I have zero time to do anything extra.

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My life is intensely boring.

Art Showcase: Destiny 2 concept art

My brain is totally, creatively fried right now, so I’m filling my tank by looking at pretty art. Here’s some sweet, sweet eye candy:

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Art by Sung Choi, Jeremy Fenske, Dorje Bellbrook, and other Bungie artists. They all have Artstation accounts!

Book review and fanart: Quench the Day by Shari Branning

Wouldn’t it be fun if I did fanart for every book I review?

Monday art dump: characters and landscapes

Here’s a few artworks I’ve done in the past week or so:

[image error]Bethany Jennings’s characters



[image error]More of Bethany Jennings’s characters



[image error]Characters from a Destiny fanfic



[image error]Dude with a guitar practice sketch



[image error]Working from a landscape tutorial

This is the scattered bits of things I did over the last two weeks. The kids and I have all been sick, and it’s kind of knocked my art drive out the window. Trying to get my groove back, though. I’ve been trying out a new art program, Clip Studio. I think I like it, and it’s only 50 bucks, as opposed to whatever the heck they’re charging for Photoshop these days.

Art post: group pic

Dragging back to the blog after being dead sick for a week. I only managed one pic the week before last. But it was a group pic, which is like doing four pics all at once.

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This was an experiment in cell shading, too. I tend to overwork everything, and cell shading forces me to keep my shadows simple.

Anyway, these are my Destiny fanfic characters, all mine, and I luffs them.

Art post in color

I didn’t do quite as much art this past week, but I did do more color. Here we go:

[image error]Guy and girl in the Easter event holiday gear. I thought it was so pretty and just had to draw it.



[image error]Artwork of a guy’s Titan character who has a robot leg.



[image error]A silly scribble for a friend who bought three of the bunny ghost shells.

So that’s what I’ve been up to in the past week. I’m really enjoying playing with color again, so we’ll see what else I do. I kind of want to do backgrounds again.

Spring in the American Southwest

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Desert flowers around Tucson, Arizona.

Monday art megapost

I drew a lot of stuff last week! Some of it was finished last weekend, but my blog post had already gone up, so I saved it for this week. Here we go:

[image error]Gift art for people of their characters. I was practicing poses, so I might as well do something constructive with them.



[image error]Selfie! This was probably the most fun one.



[image error]Destiny had an Easter event, and it was too much fun to tell the Easter story in Destiny terms.



[image error] This was an excuse to draw angst and fight scenes at the same time.

I’m definitely improving! But I feel a gratuitous color pic coming on. Probably some kind of crazy sunset, where I can push color around. Black and white is nice, but … color …

Character art and graphic novel page

I did a ton of art last week. Let’s show it off!

[image error]Flowers are fun to paint.



[image error]A graphic novel treatment of one of the stories in the Destiny 2 lore.



[image error]Drawing people’s characters for fun.



[image error]More characters for fun.

Trying to improve my line work. My tablet draws sucky jittery lines, so I’m constantly fighting it as I go. I suppose I should do everything with the pen tool. It looks nice, but takes ages and ages, and I’m impatient. :-p