art-discussion-and-wip

[livid yacht]

So im in need of a vgen code and i made a post on instagram and i was wondering about how many of you were willing to help me with that-

[mint arrow]

I don’t even know what vgen code is, sorry

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of MILKY's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, not to me)

[sage canopy]

https://streamable.com/k1t1ou the end death part feels weak any ideas?

[mint arrow]

maybe it’s too fast?

the Goliath (don’t know who is who) also seems to not to react to pain in any way

maybe some reaction could help

[soft kestrel]

Almost done

[sage canopy]

hmmm yeah also goliath... lol yeah i think ill just redo it

[willow cosmos]

Oh WOW, is it entirely pencil color ?

[soft kestrel]

Yes yes, all color pencils

[willow cosmos]

Daaaaaaamn

[willow cosmos]

@lethal forum I changed of direction. ||A little bit...||

[lethal forum]

That's awesomme !

[willow cosmos]

Really ?

[lethal forum]

Yes !

[willow cosmos]

OwO Noice, thanks

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what have I done with the mouth

anyways, on to hair

[hollow grail]

Done

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Kallen

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/605901234087657472/1291692527342190624/735061146096369764-1.gif

oh shit, you don’t actually do hair in sculpt mode apparently, but instead many individual strains out of a path object and then change it

[willow cosmos]

Idk this software BUT I find it weird for the hair to be sculpture...

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Blender

I mean… Greek statues and the like had sculpted hair, so I was like… we ball

didn’t work out, and it seem you do it differently

https://youtu.be/wu_TkcQZqJg basically like this

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I think I should have been adding hair from the bottom slowly moving up

and vice-versa for fron part

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sorry, so is better

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Emika Hokama's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, unit outfit design created by me)

[granite trout]

Evernighttttt

[hollow grail]

Nice

[soft kestrel]

This one happened rather quickly

[lethal forum]

Maybe, it's too much of my own chara lol.

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Lantern

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Lantern 2nd attempt

[lethal forum]

I'm done.

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why is that every time I try to construct a female face it ends up looking male

[lethal forum]

😅 I think it's because it's look too squarish.

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I think the eyes, nose, and mouth need to be overall closer together

for a more female face that is

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painting over the reference image, I get something like that

oh shit, wrong chat, sorry

[hollow grail]

Jawline and relative position of facial features

It's also worth noting that for guidelines the one that goes horizontal across the face is usually the browline

not for eyes

[onyx breach]

when your guideline is a mistake already, everything after that is too

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Natsuki Fujimori's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner)

[onyx breach]

did you have permission sharing that tho?

[lethal forum]

[inland jolt]

Typically women have softer jawline and more circular than men
Another feature that is more notable when drawing female characters are lashes, yes men also have lashes but females have more curved and outward lashes
Also pardon me but the ears are positioned awkwardly

[mint arrow]

thx

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thx

yeah, about the ears I became aware myself too, just was more curious about how to make it look feminine

started reading the original book by Andrew Loomis

all the YouTube tutorials aren’t really doing it for me

only 141 pages

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one by David Flynch and one by “Draw like a Sir” sort of helped, but they basically also just redirect to Loomis directly

[inland jolt]

Yea referring to original source is for the best

I also recommend bridgman's guide to drawing, their method works nicely for heads in specific positions better than loomis

[mint arrow]

thx, will take a look at that too

also sorry, it’s not David Flynch, it’s David Finch mixed him up in my head with David Lynch, the director, probably best known for Twinpeaks

it’s great btw, can recommend

https://tenor.com/view/twin-peaks-thumbs-up-gif-11413559

[elder sparrow]

Hi

Can I get some help with my art?

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don’t ask to ask, just ask

(yes)

[elder sparrow]

Oki

Does anybody know how to draw tears like these?

I did this one but I'm not pretty sure about it

[hollow grail]

You're on the right track. It's mostly just varying the shape of the tear and line widths for the white outline

[elder sparrow]

Tenkius

[inland jolt]

https://youtube.com/shorts/zyGztWhV0Js?si=MDIPFsv-Y3v4zXG4

Tear shapes gotta be loose and not perfect

[inland jolt]

Amazing

Love the eyes

[swift harness]

Thank you : D

[lethal forum]

So I decide to continue it.

[mint arrow]

are you trying to make it like those coloured glass windows in Gothic churches or what are those lines in the background?

[lethal forum]

😅 It supposed to be lightning like her attack.

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Riku Okawa's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, unit outfit design created by me)

[mint arrow]

oh, I see, sorry

[willow cosmos]

||#honkai-fan-art message|| @limpid marten ||Heyo since when Thelema had those ABS||

[limpid marten]

Idk

[willow cosmos]

It's beautiful tnh

*tbh

[limpid marten]

Ah, i deleted it cuz I kinda feel it may break the rule

Got warned twice before, can't take another one lol

[willow cosmos]

For the same things ?

[limpid marten]

Maybe...

[willow cosmos]

Ai-chan dms you every time you get a warm with the reason normally

[limpid marten]

The first was with vita x sparkle cuz it was too sugestive
The second one was because my oversight, which I'm deserved to be warned

Can't risked another just because I missed something in the backgrounds, even if it's just text

[willow cosmos]

Ohw

[willow cosmos]

You can always ask to a mod or a trial mod I guess

Modmail maybe ?

[limpid marten]

Yeah... But kinda lazy

[willow cosmos]

Mind me dming you for that fanart ?

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tried loomis excercise

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Lantern 3rd attempt

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tried recolouring so, that it would appear that the light source shines from the other direction

oh damn, it couldn’t have worked, cause I made line weight heavier in respect to the first light placement

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Tenebrism attempt

[noble wasp]

I dont think the line weight has anything to do with it

Its more of your light contrast not enough. The shape of light is also unclear

[hushed dawn]

smth i did on my 50 min free time in school

[mint arrow]

yeah, I think you might be right I probably should have exaggerated the shadow more too

[smoky osprey]

does anyone happen to have references for the new elysia

[mint arrow]

so if I try to draw a face from a real photo reference, it sort-of turns out fine -ish… why is it that I struggle with anime heads?!

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some images were posted in #🔮cn-gameplay-discussion

[west moss]

i think semi-realism is what suits u best and honestly if you like it or feel too comfy in it then instead of trying to go for a full anime character look you can mix some things to fit ur style!
another thing is that anime got a different general principles than semi-realism, if you still want to add some anime elements or still wanna use it as reference then maybe look at the animes that have more details expressed in their style? or at least are more anatomy correct if that helps in some way
another thing that i have personally observed from anime styles is that they rely a lot on the lighting and rendering esp when distinguishing different parts of the body or objects
that's just my opinion tho

[mint arrow]

Thank you!
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It’s just that I would really love to be able to draw anime characters, because I would love to draw chars from games and anime I like, and many of those are stylized in that particular manner. To draw ’em in the more realistic style, I’d have to somehow reimagine what the features ­-­-which in this style is simplified­-­- would realistically look like: like for instance what Kallen’s lips would be like for it to still look like Kallen, or what Tsavorae’s (Lantern’s) nose should look like for it to still look like Lantern. In-fact the only manga artist I know who at least sometimes draws lips and noses is Masamune Shirou (pic below — Ghost in the Shell); comic artists typically do that too (2nd pic below — Batman). I know that it’s possible cause forking AI can do that (https://youtu.be/aFZynMorXv8). But I can’t (yet) . I wouldn’t even know how to acquire that skill even. Maybe simplifying realism first and then somehow trying to do that in reverse? I don’t forking know.

-# sorry for fingers on first image, that character wears no pants and has lingerie… am afraid that might have been not safe enough for here or something

[west moss]

yeah defo try to simplify the realism part first (like a reference or so) too see how you can adjust the characters in simple styles to fit ur style

you can rely more on colors to show details as well as i mentioned but im not exactly sure how u would do it for stuff like lips and ears

or maybe reduce the lines you use to show some features like a nose

i would have shown some examples of how i would do it but my style is too simple to fit

[mint arrow]

Thx! I think I’ll try simplifying from photos first, maybe this can help develop the right intuition…
though tbh there for that I still have to practice too… drew one more image from reference and then checked how “right” I’ve been by loading the reference into the program and trying to overlap it with my attempt… and… it’s not quite on point yet, but every millimeter matters if it comes to face, so gotta get good first

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~~or I’ll just use cosplays as my references ~~

[west moss]

my network is bad so i can't see the pic, its okay! u gotta go one step at a time! i wouldn't fuzz too much on it being 100% like the reference so u can stylize ur art style, and yeah u can use references online or urself
the former gives you flexibility but the latter gives you inspo

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Touma Imamura's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, unit outfit design created by me)

[smoky osprey]

? floating earrings?

[inland jolt]

Because you're trying to apply same techniques as realism into your art but also trying not to do it which results in this
For example in the lantern drawing you were trying too hard to draw realistic lips but also trying too hard to make it "anime"
That you kinda failed on both worlds

As mare already mentioned you seem to be having a good grasp of realism/semi realism that you can work on it more to make interesting illustrations

Or you could try to learn "anime" techniques by famous artists, learn how they draw hair how they use their brush and what technique they use to form eyes and lips for better understanding
Generally anime leans into simplicity with more detailed eyes and hair to keep note of

Semi realism is also interesting option for you go grasp since we have a lot of artists that apply it to anime characters and the results are amazing

They're few artists I follow that use semi realism and lean more towards painting styles, if you want I can share their links with you so you can explore what style you want to learn from

Also, I suggest not getting too deep into rabbit hole of style, while it's great to establish what you want, it's best to start with things like anatomy, gesture drawing, more detailed info on human body such as faces and hands rather than burning yourself out with lining, coloring, shading, lighting etc it puts a lot of load on your brain and also doesn't help to improve fast

Sorry for long wall of text

Really loving how the sketch looks, though I suggest putting spoiler on it as it's cn content, but looks very cute and edible

[smoky osprey]

cant edit images ill just delete it

[inland jolt]

No need it's fine

Just for future reference

Ah nvm-

[smoky osprey]

👺

[inland jolt]

[smoky osprey]

my ass hasn't drawn anything in almost 2 years so im glad u like it

[inland jolt]

Really? Was so good I thought you draw regularly

[smoky osprey]

I’m flattered

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Lantern 4th attempt

[mint arrow]

no problem and thx
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I don’t really try to “follow any particular style” so-to-speak, as much I just try to get better in general, everything else just arises naturally from me trying to draw what I see and to apply what I’ve learned to the best of my ability
and sure I’d like to take a look at the artists you mean, if you don’t mind sharing whom you follow

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no gravity — no problems
-#

[lethal forum]

Sometimes I'm asking myself how I managed to transform this into a proper drawing.

[lethal forum]

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Songque

[lethal forum]

[lethal forum]

So currently designing one of my characters.

[mint arrow]

wow that’s a lot of layers

[smoky osprey]

Makes it easier for erasing and fixing

I’m actually not sure how many layers my iPad can handle but I guess we’re gonna find out

[lethal forum]

Does people have ref pic of || new Elysia || ?

[smoky osprey]

ely 🤝 divine inspiration for artists

[lethal forum]

Thanks

[dreamy cypress]

tw blood

alice liddel

[lethal forum]

So currently getting familiar with Elysia new design.

[lethal forum]

Some teasing for the finished Elysia.

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Kouki Toyama's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, unit outfit design created by me)

[cobalt ocean]

I never know how to pose her 😭

[chilly plover]

some ref ig

[cobalt ocean]

Yeah, I don’t just want to copy a Pre-existing image though 😔

[west moss]

maybe use a posing app? or stock images or you can browse ur socials if u get inspired by a cool pose
clean drawing btw!!

[hollow grail]

wow rare sin mal art

[hushed dawn]

i think the problem is the nose being too pushed in, and also it looks masculine, it should look more like a girls also the nose should atleast block the eye a lil but ye good drawing

[mint arrow]

Thx
don’t wanna sound unthankful, but I’m aware of the issue with the facial features, just can’t do it any better yet

[smoky osprey]

I scrolled up a bit and ur improving bro ur good

[cobalt ocean]

I love her design so much

[lethal forum]

Oh ! I found an old sketch of furina lol.

[lethal forum]

It still would be Furina but I'm correcting the anatomy.

[wintry bison]

https://x.com/NVscribbles/status/1957088932954361969

NVscribbles (@NVscribbles)

AWAKE Piper

#ZenlessZoneZero #ゼンゼロ #zzzero

X · Aug 17, 2025, 2:35 PM

[mint arrow]

that… looks overwhelming

[mint arrow]

I should probably focus for now on getting the shape right rather than spending too much time rendering

putting colour is so much more fun though

[lethal forum]

I didn't have the proper colors for Furina's clothes so I did my best.

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Songque attempt

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Baiji

[willow cosmos]

#honkai-fan-art message Somehow it seems like a cute ship to make

[mint arrow]

how does one do hair nicely without drawing every individual strain?

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after consulting elsewhere, I’ve been advised to make the ends sharper, and I think this sort of helps
took me an hour for this all and I’m still not really satisfied, but eh

[noble wasp]

Group it and use shading/block in light and shadow

[smoky osprey]

All I can see is pink lmfao

[lethal forum]

Ah ah.

[smoky osprey]

a

[mint arrow]

thx
I tried to do that on the Roxy pic there, but still can’t do it quite the way I would love to be able to

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Leylah in a chair WIP

[noble wasp]

Yeah, i think just need to define the shadow shapes better

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still WIP

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what I can do for her eyes? I’m out of pixels… is red outline with green iris good enough as simplification or what she actually has?

or maybe just red?

magenta -ish

[inland jolt]

You can try to rescale your painting and make her slightly bigger if you wanna do a bit detailed eye

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Thx
I thought about it, but up-scaling is information-loss too, cause the “in-between” fixels would be procedurally generated according to any of the upscaling algorithms and at this stage it would move on the [machine-in-control — me-in-control — spectrum] more towards the machine side and I don’t want
I also kinda wanna work with that limitation
limitation breads creativity

*breeds

I think I’ll just work more on the skin for now, eyes are only a small part of the composition even though they are the mirror to the soul, either way it wouldn’t be too hard to change ’em up later

[smoky osprey]

What you have for the eyes is fine

[inland jolt]

Yea sure thing you do you, process is really great so far though!

[mint arrow]

Thx! still not too happy yet though, so was thinking about how to do better

[mossy flume]

quite a bit rusty, but i havent properly made any art in a long while and im just now getting back into the swing of things lol

[smoky osprey]

Unsolicited advice (sorry): your work is less focused on the face and more of the body and composition so I think trying to draw in a way that the composition itself makes sense and identifiable rather than focusing on the eyes of any specific feature is the way to go

So maybe altering the body language, expression and hair/dress in a way that fits the character

[hushed dawn]

trying to learn anatomy day 1 out of ???, until i master it.

also still wip ofc, but only rlly focusing on the body before i finish my drawings

[hollow grail]

the box guideline works but you didn't follow it

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Takahiro Shibata's full body sprite for the Sekai Craze server! (OC belongs to server owner, unit outfit design created by me)

[noble wasp]

it's fine i think, box is just for perspective, following it too strictly going to make your torso boxy

[hushed dawn]

well uhh i tried to but the neck was too long when i followed it lol

im also still confused on how to draw the melons thats why most of my characters stay flat 😔

it looks easy but when i try to connect it, it always looks out of place

[mint arrow]

thx, and no worries, I don’t mind; you’re also not the only one doing that anyways
yeah, focusing more on the whole body is my intent but I still wanted to make the eyes as close to Leylah’s eyes as I can as it is already hard to recognize that it is Leylah

[mint arrow]

ngl, sometimes I feel like all the construction lines just make me worse often time I know that I would have been more accurate, by just drawing what I believe to see from the refernce

[hollow grail]

construction lines only help if you keep in mind what they're for

[mint arrow]

only issue is that you’d be bound to a reference this way and if you wanna draw a character in a pose where you have no reference you’d have to construct it in some way

[hollow grail]

if you draw them and don't use them then it doesn't really help much

[mint arrow]

I had this thing with the head a few times where I’d follow the construction to the point as per teach-book and at the end I had to correct everything just using my eyes, cause they were better than the construction

maybe it’s just me though

[mint arrow]

you mean the chest?
I’ve heard the advice to think of ’em as water balloons hanging from roughly the center between those two visible bones on your chest below your neck

hope you know which bones I mean

at least on myself I can actually “hold” those bones in my fingers, but I’m underweight, don’t actually know how visible they are on any body

actually I’m not too underweight, I think they are always visible

moment I’ll draw over a photo or so

[lethal forum]

I may have gone too far lol.

[mint arrow]

(Arwen from the Lord of the Rings)
roughly so
obviously that’s a frontal view, from perspective it’d be harder

[hollow grail]

using your judgement to tweak stuff as you go helps

if you're using digital then make good use of transform/rotate/skew while you're still in the sketch phase

[mint arrow]

Does anyone know any trick to practice line art?
I just learned that Krita has a feature called “line stabilizer”, which makes line smoother and makes ’em look super crisp and it’s better than what I could do without that option turned digitally, but am not sure if I wanna use it, cause it kinda feels like “cheating” if you know what I mean

are there some excercises for that or so?

[lethal forum]

Sorry I don't use much of line art so I can't help you unfortunately.

[mint arrow]

no problem

[smoky osprey]

I set my pen stabilization to like 3

Which is not high

IMO you don’t need perfect lines for line art

And it’s definitely not cheating to use tool features in your drawing app lmao

One trick to get a “line art” effect without line art is to use a thicker pen or brush to draw then thin out some places with an eraser to get some dynamic lines

[hollow grail]

It's not cheating at all in the same way using shape or transform tools isn't cheating

Some even turn off/lower stabilization because it makes their lines too predictable

You're still putting in the work of making the lines and it's akin to a ruler more than anything

For exercises tho I highly recommend going over the early drawabox lessons https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/2

[hushed dawn]

2nd day out of ???, of drawing anatomy. Im trying to draw poses just to spice things up , i was completely immersed on hatching the eye that it took more time to draw the eyes than the body

also yes i did have a reference, aka myself i took a picture and used that

i still dk how draw clothes so they'll all be naked for now

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I was actually trying that, but it kinda looked “unclean” at the end

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I just don’t really use those tools either
I’d probably make an exception for like… the “perspective” tool, cause I have some idea in mind where there’d be a book or a pamphlet lying on the floor or table or a poster hanging on a wall, where I’d want it be visible what’s on there clearly, but I don’t think I’d manage to draw it in perspective, so I would be fine with using the perspective tool for that, but with other stuff I feel like it’d take away too much from my natural development if that makes sense

[mint arrow]

and thx !

tried doing some stuff with traditional medium again and did a little bit of a study with watercolour and haven’t used it in ages, so it’s a bit rough looking

layering doesn’t work quite as well as digitally and I also made the skin way too red, cause I forgot to control the water level

probably also overdid it with the blueness of the chin

[smoky osprey]

It’s not really noticeable/doesn’t really matter because it gives character to the final product sometimes

You could try playing with it a bit more till it looks nice

[mint arrow]

maybe I’m just skill-issued there with the erasing, that can be

for line-art I’m trying to master the G-Pen tool in Krita, and it’s so unforgiving

[smoky osprey]

Gpen is great

Idk about the one in krita but it’s one of my favorite sketching and lining pens

[mint arrow]

sketching I usually just do with the pencil, but more so cause it’s just my “comfort zone”

not to say that I do it great, but it comes naturally

I love manga, so G-Pen is kinda the obvious choice, but damn is it demanding

I’m not sure if I gaslighted myself through reading Bakuman as a kid, where the MC was also saying something about the G-Pen being hard and I have a mental barrier now or something

I’m kinda scared to use it even

moment

like… I find also super hard to control pen-pressure even for instance

I tend to either not varying between thin and thick enough or switch between these two states too rapidly

[smoky osprey]

Are you using a tablet?

[mint arrow]

yep, one by Wacom

the normal one with no screen

[smoky osprey]

You could try adjusting the pen pressure settings so it’s more comfortable to control

[mint arrow]

I… did not think about this

thx!

[smoky osprey]

lol it’s ok I usually forget it too

I’m not good with changing thickness via pressure either so I make my pen pressure settings pretty stabilized

[mint arrow]

sorry, do you happen to know what I’m looking at?

like… what are the axis?

x is how much I press, y is the output?

[smoky osprey]

Yeah

I think you might want to make it less curved

[mint arrow]

oh! I think I get it, thx!
damn, now I need to actually think, damn it
cause it probably still has to have that graph-shape approximately or the G-Pen would lost its character, I guess

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oh

[smoky osprey]

Oh wait

I wouldn’t change it on the pen itself

Like not on your art app

Change the settings on the tablet

[mint arrow]

ohhhh… yeah, that makes sense

wait hold on

I’m perfectly fine with how it’s on other brushes though

[smoky osprey]

Oh

Then you could try changing it a bit

Some g pens are more pressure sensitive or more tapered so it wouldn’t change that much if you adjust some settings…I think

I don’t usually mess with pens tho don’t take my word for gospel

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like the other pressure sensitive brushes I use are air-brush (probably everyone uses that one, I feel like), and some “brush” brushes which “simulate” traditional painting, like Wet Textured Soft and Bristles

also pencil and charcoal

[mint arrow]

I now wonder if maybe should just genuinely practice it in real-life first

[smoky osprey]

Pen sensitivity on tablet is pretty different from pressure from pen on paper

[mint arrow]

I got myself a pen for manga when I was back in school and had the otaku dream

[mint arrow]

yeah, that’s true

I have also this thing with the tablet where… uhmm I’m not sure how to best explain…
so I remember hearing the advice that the movement ­-­-if it is not for small details­-­- should come from the shoulder and not from the wrist, and I try to follow it when doodling on paper with a pencil, but on a tablet, I can’t really bring myself to do that somehow and do most of the stuff “from the wrist” so-to-speak

[smoky osprey]

…I’m ngl I don’t heed that advice whatsoever

Everyone draws differently and personally I can get what I want with my wrist

How do you even draw with your shoulder I’m having trouble even imagining that

[mint arrow]

not sure if it’s just a skill-issue for me (perhaps also still with the eye-hand-coordination, cause like I have to look at the screen, but my hand moves at the tablet; and on paper I actually see where my hand is) or if it’s the area of the pen-tablet, which is actually use-able realistically speaking, cause one doesn’t really go too close to the “edges” of the tablet and stuff like that; or maybe I’m just getting too lazily comfortable when I’m in-front of the PC

[smoky osprey]

I can’t help with that…I either use my iPad or a screen tablet

I tried one of those tablets with no screen before I just couldn’t

[mint arrow]

yeah, that’s very fair, at least currently I’m also fine with drawing “from the wrist” when digitally

[mint arrow]

I eventually got comfortable with doing it from the shoulder (at least I think I do, I don’t actually have anyone to “check” my arm-posture or something, but it does look like what I’ve seen in YouTube videos, I think) and it looks like your hand-to-the-elbow is a straight line, and that whole “piece” is moving

[mint arrow]

oh! yeah, it took me quite a bit to get used to too it eventually worked out when I started thinking about the tablet the same way I think about a mouse and with that mindset it eventually clicked and now it just works

[smoky osprey]

Why isn’t that called drawing with your elbow wtf

Moving your entire forearm does get better lines tho

[mint arrow]

https://youtu.be/YCqKY_2GcwI I think it’s that the “force” is coming from the shoulder but good question

-# didn’t hear that advice from that particular video, but rather from many-many other ones; this one was just the first one I found now

[smoky osprey]

The children yearn for elbows

[mint arrow]

but now I understand why it was hard for me to make a smooth transition from “weak” to “strong”

cause it raises slowly in weak-pressure-range, slowly in strong-pressure-range, but in the midlands it is ­-­-albeit not a quantum jump, but­-­- a high slope it has nonetheless

high learning curve literally built-in

[hollow grail]

Practice I used to do for screenless tablet was writing words normally on a canvas

If I can mentally callibrate it so I can make the strokes required for writing letters then it feels more natural to use it for regular markmaking

[hollow grail]

I started using display tablet in December and while the hand eye coordination is better, seeing my own hand is actually distracting. Had to adjust my grip to minimize how much I'm obstructing the canvas

[smoky osprey]

I sold my screenless tab lol

I’m living that iPad life

iPads are actually so nice I love drawing on it because it’s just so responsive

[west moss]

oh what ipad do u use?

[hollow grail]

Don't think I can sell mine lmao

It's like 11 years old now

[west moss]

lmao

[smoky osprey]

Air 13in m2 chip

[mint arrow]

Now that’s surprising

[mossy flume]

doodle i did on my phone with my fingies last night cause of insomnia lol

[smoky osprey]

Any suggestions for the shadows on the face

light arrows are a little misleading it's more top down slightly right from the front

[smoky osprey]

Nvm ended up doing this will fix in the morning if I have time before work

[pulsar ferry]

Did anyone have chibi Vill-V turnaround ref? I'm tryna to study the hair, it's kinda cute.

But I didn't have Vill-V, so I just stuck with preview mode

[mint arrow]

the area between the eyebrow and the eyes is typically in shadows as the eyes are “deep”, though it’s often omitted in anime, so depends on whether you want to add it or not; also if your light is coming from the right, then I think the hair should put some of her left side of her face (right from our perspective) in to the shadows as well

oh… more from the front… nvm, was reading too fast

[mint arrow]

don’t have Vill-V either, but the hair of the chibi-variants of the characters seems to be the same as normally, so should be the same for Vill-V

[pulsar ferry]

No. The chibi have simplicity style and easy if the detailed normal tall model confused you. It give you better insight.

It's like, 5 finger in human anatomy. But you need better insight of the shape. In cartoon or low poly model, they have shape 3 fingers or 2 finger, it make you draw better and people will think you draw 5 finger, but you just draw two shape and put some lines to 'tricks' eyes thinking it 5.
That's approached what I'm doing, with the chibis hairs.

Also, it drawing, you need to aim on shape first. If you go after details, you arts gonna look out of place because the shape aren't good.

Ooff i haven't chat in long time, im lonely, need some socialize, thank you 😭

[lethal forum]

Make it up with my new material !

[mint arrow]

tried drawing Moonshell in 90s anime style
feel like something’s missing

[mint arrow]

oh true! the hair on chibis is somewhat simplified as well

maybe it also should have been a 4:3 ratio

or simply a stronger noise(?)

[lethal forum]

I doesn't know the character but maybe making the face less sharp will make her looks less odd ?

[mint arrow]

Moonshell… not too much is known about her, but she’s been seen on posters in Part 2 #📚honkai-lore message

yeah, sometimes I notice shape oddities when it’s already too late to correct

tried animating Lantern head turn and… I think I might not be ready for animation quite yet

[mint arrow]

[mint arrow]

Can someone criticize me please? Does it look fluid enough or needs more in-between frames?

[noble wasp]

Might need more

[mint arrow]

ok, thx

[smoky osprey]

Don’t know anything about animation can’t help ya 😞

[mint arrow]

me neither

well… I know a bit, but don’t really know exactly what I’m doing

well… I guess I can add one more frame between every frame I have

the first movement shouldn’t need too much I think, cause movement-acceleration shouldn’t have kicked in at this point yet, I think

might even move 10th frame to maybe 11th or 12th

and the subsequent one more to the right as well

[hollow grail]

less is more, particularly on fast motions like blinking

bit crude but I just took out the 3rd, 5th, and 7th frames you used then set the timing on 3s at roughly 24 fps (so same as 1s on 8 fps)
frame rate for anime is usually 24 fps on 3s

I animated this one on 4s but the idea is the same -- you don't need a lot of frames for fast motions like blinks

[hollow grail]

It helps if you plan out what each keyframe is supposed to have as well. Some of the thoughts I had for this:

• Frame 1 is in motion so I have the hair trail behind the direction they're going
• Frame 2 they stop but the hair still has its momentum so it goes the opposite direction
• Frame 3 they open their eyes wide
• Frame 4 the eyes and bangs settle into position

[mint arrow]

first of all — thank you!
my plan was to animate a simple head turn and I followed this https://youtu.be/lTwMjbD2adQ guide, but with Lantern’s face
I drew the 3 keyframes (initial frame, last frame, and the frame with fully closed eyes) and “positioned” them to my liking so that the movement has a slight acceleration and then I was gradually drawing in-between-frames using onion skin and trying to find “the arithmetic mean” of the shape to make it look more fluid but letting the keyframes be to make ’em “ground” the whole thing
I actually didn’t consider that drawing less could make it better in that sense thx

I’ll probably redo it though before I go into proper outlining and colour: I don’t really like the last frame (which sucks cause it’s one of my keyframes), cause that face just doesn’t look like Lantern’s face, she’d never make such a face really, doesn’t fit her character; and also I think I f*cked up the hair movement — it looks wrong

also what do you mean by “threes” and “fours” exactly? I also heard that kind of expression in the aforementioned video and some others I took a look at to get an idea what to do and it doesn’t really click… is that supposed to mean that you only draw a frame every 3rd/4th frame etc.? you don’t actually animate every frame of the 24? what about when some movement is done with uneven speed? does one just skip some of the frames which would fall on one of the 3s or 4s? or?

­-­-­-

also nice animation!

[hollow grail]

Yea animating in xs is basically just how many frames in between each. A single animated scene with uneven speed is ok though having a standardized framerate helps when make multiple scenes look more consistent (like an episode or movie). It would be jarring if the perceived framerate kept jumping

Instead of skipping or moving frames around ideally the in-betweens themselves are drawn in a way where it achieves the same effect even when running at consistent framerate

For example, instead of drawing eyes 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% open, just having them be at 0%, 10%, 60%, 80%, 100% open can work

Both would take 5 frames total but you would have consistent framerate on the latter

[mint arrow]

ah makes sense! thx!
I sort-of tried to do that by positioning the first in-between frame I drew between the initial frame and the eyes-closed-frame closer to the right, but… now when I think about it, it should have been the other way around

[mint arrow]

is consistent frame-rate actually noticeable?

I mean… the other way around… is it noticeable if it’s not consistent?

[hollow grail]

It can be jarring if you go from like 3s to 1s then back to 3s or even 2s

[mint arrow]

oh! I see thx

[hollow grail]

To be fair this stuff takes a long time to get good at

I gratuated doing animation but stopped years ago because I burnt out lol

[mint arrow]

oh wow

but can imagine

the burnout I mean

[hollow grail]

I was never good with the sense of stuff like how to pace the in-betweens

And also struggled with drawing characters on-model

So kinda just stuck with illustration instead

[mint arrow]

characters are difficult for me in general

especially faces

tiniest difference can make a huge impact

[hollow grail]

I neglected faces for a long time

Focused too much on getting clothes to look good until around 2021 when I realized I never worked on improving the faces lol

[mint arrow]

clothes I tend to just slap on the character super simplified, cause I don’t really care much about that personally

unless it’s stuff like like rendering stockings, simply cause I really love the look of it

[hollow grail]

Clothes pain to draw, especially for mihoyo designs where there's a lot of details

And usually uneven

[mint arrow]

also assymetrical

https://tenor.com/view/dreamseeker-dream-seeker-entropy-honkai-honkai-impact-gif-2522222413042097094

[hollow grail]

Tho I can't deny I like that aspect so I burn out trying to draw it anyway

[mint arrow]

those are the enjoyable burnouts

speaking of clothes

I only just now realized that Lantern’s outfit is clearly a reference to Kill-la-Kill

forgot the main heroine’s name

[hollow grail]

The eye looking thing right

[mint arrow]

yep

[hollow grail]

The resemblance is there yea

Tho never made the connection cuz I know a lot of designs have eye motif

[hollow grail]

Like hov

[mint arrow]

yeah true

I think with those two it’s also the personality

the “brain off, I start shooting” part

[hollow grail]

Mhm

[mint arrow]

or punching

[hollow grail]

They cooked with lantern design

[mint arrow]

by far one of my favourites out of P2 so far

probably my favourite

but I just like that personality type

[hollow grail]

In terms of top ones for me it'd probably be tie up between vita and paws helia

Kinda nice having proper battlesuit after having a lot of non-combatant looking outfits lol

[mint arrow]

non-combatant looking ones?

oh!… like Teri’s or Thelema’s?

[hollow grail]

Yea

Even sena and regular coralie

[mint arrow]

oh true… with Coralie and Sena I kinda didn’t even think about it, cause I just started associating those clothes with them battling xD

[lethal forum]

Honestly, the worst non-combative clothes are the one of Susannah, doesn't looks very practical.

[mint arrow]

humanity’s strongest soldier

[rare marsh]

Im trying to make a wallpaper/poster but dunno what to fill the black space with so its not too eye catching. Anyone got ideas? I was thinking maybe Elsyia's arena but dunno how to find a high res version.

[mint arrow]

maybe a sky or the universe or something like that?

something like this or so

this one probably doesn’t fit

[hollow grail]

Maybe the elysian realm lobby? or even any of the er related cgs/backgrounds

like this one (could probably find some higher res pic of it somewhere) then just fade out the colours and blur it so it doesn't take focus away from the signets

[granite trout]

Sunday

[lethal forum]

Alright some quick sketch of lantern's maid.

[minor needle]

if it's black prob too amoled, i rec something like this probably

[torn girder]

Where did you get these icons?

[rare marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTPLfkn5rI

[lethal forum]

[torn girder]

Thanks
Here are some suggestions for your background dilemma

[soft kestrel]

Working on Kiana Birthday drawing

[lethal forum]

Quick sketch of Sparkle. Training time.

[mint arrow]

man, I wanted to write a little piece of music with Sea of Data as the main idea and why the hell are all DAWs so complicated just let me put piano notes and let the program play ’em, that’s all I need

[mint arrow]

maybe the instruments don’t fit together

[mint arrow]

I think I’m happy with it, now I just need to figure out how to make some of those “stops” (one in the middle and the end) to not make sound so abrupt

[mint arrow]

ah whatever, may it stay as it is

[lethal forum]

It's sketching time today.

[mint arrow]

I think I’m done with the Leylah

oh! not enough contrast between the left leg and the right foot at the bottom!

that should do and done

[glacial saddle]

Kiana WIP actually this is quite long I left this art

[lethal forum]

Currently working on a new character/drawing.

[smoky osprey]

Oc?

I started bringing my iPad to work cuz business was so slow (my progress is slower)

I don’t need to spoiler this anymore right I saw the official twitter post the wallpaper with this ely

[lethal forum]

I think you Can show it now.

[west moss]

yeah you don't need to spoiler this
but you'll need to spoiler if you'll include anything about 8.5 kit or talk about 8.5

[lethal forum]

I have finisht it. Just forget to post lol.

[inland jolt]

Yea it's fine
Looks lovely

[sage canopy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Rsz3rBYoIfjL0SVw7J

[mint arrow]

now with environment

out of curiousity, how long did it take to UV-Unwrap everything for texturing?

[lethal forum]

Alright I'm starting to colouring that one.

[sage canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNEoBJwrNYQ&lc=UgyKUdMeqSFLaAwSUR54AaABAg&ab_channel=BladerInc

[charred fern]

some sort of mobius before she shrank obvs a wip hehe

[mossy flume]

"filthy" [09.13.25]

[bitter shale]

A Saki Tenma reference sheet I made for a server that has sadly been purged due to the server owner's family member being rude.

[hushed dawn]

first time in weeks of drawing again (i had severe art block)

[hushed dawn]

tried to do a pose, i dont got no reference so i just eyeballed it, i need anyone to tell me whats wrong plz.. idk how to fix it 😔 it feels wrong but idk whats wrong in it

[lethal forum]

I think her left shoulder is too far from her neck.

[hushed dawn]

Oh yeaaa.. but the thing is if i draw it closer the left arm would be thinner

[lethal forum]

Maybe, making the head and neck more centered.

[hushed dawn]

omg thats it the left arm is actually thin as fork.

[hushed dawn]

wait lemme try fixing it the left hand is rlly Thin compared to the right 😔

[hushed dawn]

it this better?

[lethal forum]

For sure. I still think, the left arm is too far from the neck but it looks better !

[hushed dawn]

is this one better

[lethal forum]

Yeah ! It's good !

[hushed dawn]

i also fixed the leg !

[lethal forum]

[lethal forum]

[hushed dawn]

oops wait resend ;__;

[hushed dawn]

is done i guess.

[west moss]

its so nicely made! but if i can add i would recommend not shying away from looking for a reference! if you can't find one or don't understand it then you can always use yourself as a reference granted you can take the pic or use a doll or look for a model app! as this can help you figure things out and mess with things some more! ofc u can always ask afterwards if you wanna get more opinion or if you're still unsure!

[lethal forum]

I did a quick sketch of Elysia

[lethal forum]

I didn't colouring it but I think it looks good enough.

[craggy smelt]

sketch (?)

[lethal forum]

I never drawn Senadina. Honestly she looks quite cute in my style.

[lethal forum]

<@&421210366132092929>

[inland jolt]

Thanks

[lethal forum]

[lethal forum]

So I finished it, I got lazy so I just invented colors for her clothes and weapons.

[lethal forum]

It's been a while that I didn't sketch on a tablet.

[lethal forum]

Quite cool !

[lethal forum]

[lethal forum]

<@&421210366132092929>

[dry jay]

not hi3 but started a new wip :> just need to draw in 7 more people before i continue rendering

[lethal forum]

It looks so good .

[lethal forum]

My bizarre mind creates another drawing. All the characters belong to me.

[lethal forum]

So currently colouring it. His hair looks like plastic.

[lethal forum]

<@&421210366132092929>

[lethal forum]

[past cape]

Bought a bunch of supplies :3

[scenic comet]

Here's a before and after

[past cape]

Almost :)

[lament valley]

Sorry for it not being great

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Kasane Teto's "Knowing the Consequences" card for the Project Everafter server!

[rough phoenix]

i drew kiana(void drifter) to the vocaloid song villian and wanted to share it

[woeful shore]

Drew Bronya in a dress :p
Backgrounds looks weird Innit?

[craggy smelt]

Is that a vision :0

[woeful shore]

Sorta, A plush made in the Vision of it. Heh...

Looks weird?

[lethal forum]

<@&421210366132092929>

[lethal forum]

Alt Helia is upset.

I don't know what's to do in the back lol.

[lethal forum]

[woeful shore]

I really wished Ely got a skin like this :(

Like... I want highschool Elysia so bad TT

[mint arrow]

does anyone know a good program for making designs?
one, which is free, preferably open source

basically something, where I can put a pic and then add geometric figures to it

and like… tell the program to ­-­-for example­-­- to draw a rectangle, which is directly in the middle width-wise, and has a width equal to 1/3rd of the total width and have a height which has such-and-such proportions to the width of it etc. etc.

basically something like HTML’s CSS, but more for graphics

I know how in theory achieve that kind of thing in GIMP, but it’s clearly not meant for that

neither is Krita unfortunately

[hexed locust]

idk people i havent drawn ely in ages

[woeful shore]

I wanna see the finished piece so bad....

[hexed locust]

send help

[lethal forum]

[hexed locust]

great news the editing program is alive

bad news it will crash as the prophecy told me

[woeful shore]

Oh scheiße.... It's an Animation :>

Poor Eden...

[hexed locust]

i have to take a break from drawing i have exams coming up

will finish it someday

[lethal forum]

[woeful shore]

Peak 🗿

Absolute bloody Peak.

[lethal forum]

May I come back with my own character.

[next drum]

My Senadina

[lethal forum]

So cute 🥰.

[south forum]

Elysia & Mobius

[slate rose]

huh

I thought i sent my art here

have this

[opaque plinth]

That looks really good

[slate rose]

mood

[slate rose]

mood

[obsidian onyx]

To those who use or used a core i3 pc for illustrations what's your rating out of 10 in terms of performance???

[zenith prism]

id have to check what mine is but there are softwares that r really good performance even for high dpi

medibang goes up to like 500 dpi and it runs well and its free but the brushes are a bit limited

but its enough to work w

csp veryy high dpi but very demanding

krita sucks.

id always recommend medibang for beginners and advanced artists alike

[uneven goblet]

I wanted draw. So I drew.

[lament crystal]

she drid

[woeful shore]

Finally got the new Elysia Battlesuit at 24 pity left TT

Me happy, Have this as celebratory piece :,)

[swift harness]

2 random fish

[lethal forum]

Jack'O the pumpkin of Halloween

[lethal forum]

<@&421210366132092929>

[pseudo patio]

[uneven goblet]

I drew this a year ago

So peak

[floral saffron]

WIP: Kiana is about to explain the whole Python Theorem to Himeko and Theresa

[main wren]

earth looks great in the background

[obsidian onyx]

Anx. Decided to wait & get a corei7.

@dusky trail did you end up graduating from this group? It seems as if everyone I knew disappeared

[dusky trail]

well still chill around but not like anyone need help that much nowday

[obsidian onyx]

A lot has changed, that's for sure.

[dreamy cypress]

wip

[lethal forum]

Nice Twilight sparkle !

[zenith prism]

wait it’s peak

[golden beacon]

Å

[uneven goblet]

Who else likes limbus

[stone dune]

I have a question. I’m gonna make a kiana-themed jacket (has the hofi stigmata on the back) and which of these two images should i put on the left side of the front/over the heart?

[inland jolt]

Hi hi
Personally I like the stig to be at the back xd
Not sure if it helps!
Really cool idea love it

[west moss]

i would pick based on the jacket color

[stone dune]

The three stigmatas are on the back. I traced the three and lined them up. This is going to be on the front, like over my heart

This is going on the back

[lethal forum]

Depend of the colour of the jacket but I think, the kaslana's symbol will looks more cool on the front.

[opaque plinth]

I agree

[torn girder]

Did I cook with hoyo's shading style or did hoyo's shading style cook me?

[lethal forum]

You cooked !

[west moss]

u cooked a great meal chef

[patent mural]

that rodent I hate (ballnya is also here cause I am self conscious about things getting stolen as of recent)

[stone dune]

Oh hi elysia… ha ha ha

[frosty harness]

kill me, hoyo character so hard to draw

[west moss]

me when im in the most complicated character designs and hoyo is my opponent

[woeful shore]

I understand your pain.... Respect for actually making March in her base clothes instead of drawing her in other clothes as substitute.

[frosty harness]

But it's fun! ngl it's fun!

[woeful shore]

Oh I never said that it wasn't XD

Just... Pein.

Pure Unadulterated Pein...

[slate rose]

This is pain

[frosty harness]

OH! COOL!

I'm already tired fr-

[lethal forum]

I really like it ! It looks so cute !

[hollow grail]

Cute

[floral saffron]

This is gonna be fire once it's done!!!!

[bronze topaz]

I'm gonna watch that once it's finished

100%

[floral saffron]

I'm planning on uploading a first look on November 22nd. This first look will be my submission to the Elysia 6.5 contest!!!

[solemn inlet]

Omg

[fair wedge]

I’ve been trying to find a comic I saw a while back, of Elysia confronting, and comforting, a transformed Mobius that had locked herself in her own lab.

Mobius was basically a snake woman now.

Anyone seen it/know where it is?

[lethal forum]

I think I never drew Dreamseaker! Well, I like her new clothes so I must do it !

[lethal forum]

I never liked to draw characters from the side view.

[lean cypress]

Short amv edit I'm making right now !
-# (is this counted as wip?)

[bitter shale]

A card I was planning to finish for Looking For Your Light before it went on indefinite hiatus.

[floral saffron]

MIZUKIIIIIIIIIIII

[past cape]

Right ! I finished Helia a long time ago but never posted it ! Here we go !

[main wren]

good tone on the back muscles

[past cape]

Tysm !! I really like drawing muscles hehe

Her recent battlesuit screams "muscle woman" to me LMAO
Those punches get through !!

[lethal forum]

I totally agree !

[lethal forum]

I think it's one of my most detailed sketches for a fan art.

[dreamy cypress]

bronseele wip

[main wren]

looking good

[inland jolt]

Oh my god your art is very edible

[past cape]

HHAA TYSM !!

[lean cypress]

GOODBYEEE THIS IS FRYING ME
-# (Set in low quality as of now. This is still a work in progress!)

[lean cypress]

Bronsesle mentioned!!

[opaque plinth]

Hell yeah

[floral saffron]

If Hoyoverse won't release the model, I'll make my own!!

[lethal forum]

It goes wrong.

[austere coral]

I'm new member here...also this is my fan work....i hope everyone enjoy 🙏

[inland jolt]

Welcome! Your art is very pretty

[torn girder]

Surprised to see you here. I follow you on hoyolab

[austere coral]

Eeh seriously...spill your name acount if can....hehe

[austere coral]

Hehe thank you 🥰

[torn girder]

My hoyolab account name is also xerneas ex

[austere coral]

Aah i see....thank you for enjoy my art content 🥰🙏

[open lichen]

I am the one who honkais

[olive girder]

I love her face expression!

[open lichen]

TYSM 🥹🥹🥹 this was supposed to be for her bday but im on a trip so i dont have much time to work on it 😭

[steady jay]

pookie Kiana 🥹 our beloved fr

[austere coral]

Kiana 🥹

[inland jolt]

That's is a cute as hell expression

[open lichen]

Current progress :3

[olive girder]

i love the purple shading!

[open lichen]

TY EVERYONE 🥹🥹🥹

[austere coral]

Waiting the final result 😁

[crimson wagon]

BlazBlueXHonkaiImpact. I call it "I can fix him VS I can break her"

[open lichen]

Ts is so aura

Here's the art without text ts got me so emotional omg i love honkai 😭

[next drum]

Wtfff it's incredible😻

[open lichen]

TYSM 🫶

[austere coral]

so pretty 😍

[austere coral]

Wip sonque

[open lichen]

Looks amazing already 🥹

[austere coral]

Hehe thank you 🥰

[next drum]

Amazing artwork

[obsidian onyx]

I've been drawing for almost 2 full days & my hand hurts. Any advice?

[austere coral]

Hehe thank you...almost done

[next drum]

Stop drawing for a while

[austere coral]

Take break for while....rest is better...don't push your self to hard

Find something comfort like sport or anything what you make interest

[next drum]

Btw @austere coral this is out of context but are you à sushang fan (judging by your pfp) ? Because I am !!

[austere coral]

yes....but for now...actually i l'm seele/fu hua fans 🥹🙏

But li sushang so cute 😭

[next drum]

Okayy I see
Personally I'm Li Sushang n°1 fan still now and for ever ✊

[next drum]

Yess 😍

[dreamy cypress]

wip

[austere coral]

Sonque by me

[lethal forum]

I try other styles and ways of colouring.

[lethal forum]

A full horse and the beginning of another sketch.

[swift harness]

School hw ( I hate perspective > : (

[lethal forum]

So I'm working on an animation.

[slate rose]

Now come join architecture with me

[tardy vale]

tryna draw these guys in my art style is a challenge that I must overcome

also the ones on the top ! went way more simple with them because I’m not confident drawing these characters yet

[lethal forum]

I have forgotten to share it but yeah, full animation. It's bare bone but that's good enough I suppose.

[lethal forum]

Gotta catch them all.

[willow cosmos]

Minmaxing and fixing details

[bleak dew]

songlema wip :D

[mild ledge]

SONGLEMA

[glacial saddle]

Redraw back Senadina from the main story one

[willow cosmos]

And now I'm hesitating for inking between a 0.1mm or a 0.5mm liner

[lethal forum]

Me who doesn't use inking and does not have to ask myself such questions.

[willow cosmos]

Surely when you use PC

XD

You don't have to

[lethal forum]

Even, on paper I don't ink.

Like there's no ink just colors and my faithful pencil.

[willow cosmos]

Really ?

I guess no color with markers ?

Or at least not with alcohol markers

[willow cosmos]

Pencil, fair enough

I color with alcohol markers so I kinda have to

[lethal forum]

🤔 Well, I don't use it anymore but I did in the past it Nevers gone bad.

[willow cosmos]

In a way, it's also how I can put a limit

[lethal forum]

The second one it's the shirt who was made with alcohol marker.

[willow cosmos]

Alcohol markers always looks great

Thing is I have to not mess up

On the line I mean

[lethal forum]

Yeah, there's funny to mix alcohol with colours pencils, it makes the color brighter.

[willow cosmos]

Tbh I'm admirative of those who can do that, like the pencil color on top of the alcohol marker can be a deadly combo 💀👍

[lethal forum]

😭 Well, I always was a fool because I do the opposite.

[willow cosmos]

@lethal forum

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmOncSE18D/?igsh=MXkyY2lqMWw1cDBlcg==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNiq8KPskQ2/?igsh=MTFkdzY1eTFwcmV0Ng==

suj_drawing

Honkai star rail || evernigt . Tools ⬇️⬇️⬇️

• gouache
• acrylik marker
• alcohol marker
• watercolor

#coloring #fanartanime #honkaistarrail #evernight2 #gouacheart #anime #watercolours

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Firefly Commission ✨

Back to traditional drawing ☺️✨
I got to try the new @ohuhuart acrylic markers, and they’re just perfect for adding finishing touches on alcohol marker pieces🤝. They’re super opaque, so you can even cover up little mistakes if needed 🤫

If you’re interested, don’t forget you can use the code SISIART10 ...

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Those kinds of combos are really crazy

@lethal forum Look at this too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3sc09_Jb13U

[lethal forum]

😭 I found some trials that I made, they definitely have odd looking.

[willow cosmos]

Actually the pencil on top of alcohol markers serves for corrections and/or to highlight details

[lethal forum]

It looks odd.

[lethal forum]

Less odd than I thought finally.

[willow cosmos]

First part of inking : Outline

[lethal forum]

I bought a better quality pencil, but unfortunately there's no black so I try to mix some dark colors together to make it look dark. I'm quite happy with my trial for now.

[willow cosmos]

Inking done

[lethal forum]

So I got fun.

[willow cosmos]

What the fudge...

Sakura's eyes changes of color depending on the support and the years...

In game, it's purple
In anniversary video, it's blue
Drawing in game, it's a mix of both
In manga, it's blue

@mint arrow

🫠🫠

[mint arrow]

and it’s not just lighting?

tbf there are some “different” Sakuras but

[main wren]

could also be a signature for whoever designed a specific look

or as a simple as there is no eye colour in the design doc, it has been known to happen

I think there was a comic character where the eye colour would change and the crazies had a war over what was the canon colour

Green Arrow maybe?

[uneven goblet]

It’s music I’m pretty sure it’s described as art

And it’s WIP.

Angel of Sin from GGZ!

[opaque plinth]

Man, I miss GGZ

[willow cosmos]

🫠Eyes color planning and trials

[willow cosmos]

Another one

[willow cosmos]

"RED LIGHT"

(It's everything but light)

[uneven goblet]

I got to the one minute mark yippe

[lethal forum]

Songque is about to get in trouble.

[slate rose]

mood

[lethal forum]

Incredible !

[unkempt coral]

WIP

[lethal forum]

[slate rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/735700983971315763/1456248987500679282/Room.png?ex=6957ad0e&is=69565b8e&hm=3655664ec8c7d6984cd557ac51cff037e11d49eb2ffdc712344b996cfd1381f8

this is done

[main wren]

the sunlight is great

shadow over the figure is too

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of the outfit designs for the new Romeo and Cinderella cover by the Now Playing: Untitled ft. Eleanor Forte server!

[lethal forum]

Leylah is upset. In the mood of you took me everything, I will take everything from you.

[lethal forum]

[swift harness]

Ig doodle thing

[west moss]

woah this is so good!! especially for something done on insta drawing feature

[lethal forum]

So I have finished colored Sena. Sorry for the eyes colour, I have preferred to use blue instead of her goddess's form eyes.

[willow cosmos]

So I screwed up and I fixed it ?

[sage canopy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NNvbUnEmHWIu65UCNy

[split ether]

Animated, but make it a vibe 💜
Soft blink, bouncy motion, pure cute energy, no skips, all feels❤️

[split ether]

Soft aesthetic check
Animated, calm, and comfy just how I like it.

[tough crow]

Guys... Can you recommend some free software for drawing?
One small requirement... It must be able to read my graphics tablet.

[olive girder]

I personally like krita but i also dont draw hardly ever, it does work with most graphics tablets though and is free

[tough crow]

Thank you for your feedback, and apologies for asking in this channel

[slate rose]

Medibang

Also every Drawing software (Minus MSpaint) have tablet support

If it doesn't work right then check if you've installed the driver for it

[willow cosmos]

Krita, Autodesk Sketchbook, GIMP, Medibanf

Wait... Sketchbook is not on service anymore

[swift harness]

Guess who spent 7 hours on lineart

[stone hemlock]

I need help (my art is trash🔥 🔥 )

Not even my usual art style, I just tried to draw in the HH style for the oc

[main wren]

honestly? Not that trash

I have seen worse presented as better, part of your issue might literally just be an eye to hand discrepancy when you are drawing vertically, it might sound dumb but if you turn the image to the side and draw height on the horizontal you might get a better result

[west moss]

it looks fine
the only improvement i see that can be made is to make the body less stiff by making different areas wider
consider studying references, using dummies online or irl (like dolls) or using yourself as a reference if you don't know how something looks in a certain angle

this is easier said than done but you'll see changes overtime if you keep doing it consistently

i would delay shading and shadows when you start feeling confident about your poses
then you can figure out the direction of light and how to display it
which will make the pose more realistic

[floral saffron]

I had a lot of fun animating this meme for Li Sushang xD

It looks amazing :D

Love the aesthetic

[split ether]

Thx you so much! Glad you liked the aesthetic.

[uneven goblet]

I am hi3 chibi.

[willow cosmos]

We be going on again

Skin is begun this time and the skirt is almost done

[willow cosmos]

A looot of shading done today

[glacial saddle]

Griseo but i make her as maid Bella (Benares)

[floral saffron]

Thoughts on the shading?

[mint arrow]

I think it’s good overall, only misses hair being darker directly behind her head, looks a bit weird otherwise

the neck is also kinda odd

where do you want the light source to shine from?

[floral saffron]

From the top, but I've already been told to play with the light to get the best result possible. I can work on the neck tho!!! I'll adjust the normals to get a smooth shadow. Also, I'm probably gonna switch up to goo engine eventually to bind different light sources to different materials.

Thank you so much for the feedback!!!!!

My objective is to one day be able to recreate the style on HI3rd animated shorts

[mint arrow]

what I like to do is using more than one light source

one is a “main” one and the other is weaker and illuminating the shadows and is slighter coloured

[floral saffron]

I need to try that. Rn I'm using one light for the face, and one light for the whole body, leving the shadows to the HDRI

[mint arrow]

kinda like this
(left: one lights source, right: two light sources, with one being weaker)

[floral saffron]

Ooooh I see

I guess I'll need to add another color to the color ramp right?

[mint arrow]

-# (I also turned the world illumination here off, to make it more visible)

[mint arrow]

I don’t know what you setup is, but I did it in blender and you can give a colour to the light itself there

oh, you’re using cell-shading right?

uhmm maybe a tiny hue-shift towards blue or so can help

[floral saffron]

YEP!!

[floral saffron]

It's gonna have to be addded in the compositor

Because rn my nodes aren't compatible with colored lighting

This is the jacket

[mint arrow]

OR, OR

one can do something like this

and it still has cell-shading, but light remains coloured

[floral saffron]

OH

I NEED TO TRY THAT

[floral saffron]

It could work but I'll need to test it in a new project and get the shadows to look flat

[mint arrow]

OH, AND ALSO ALSO

one can add a curve to the saturation and make super bright stuff and super dark stuff more saturated and let it be more gray when neutral

[floral saffron]

I'm saving all those screenshots LMAO

This is gonna be so useful haha

[mint arrow]

not my model, but… here’s something like that with all that setup on the left and without on the right

[floral saffron]

I'll make sure to test it in another model when I have time. I gotta check a lot of stuff and choose the best options :D

[mint arrow]

@floral saffron, https://youtu.be/oKfFi1MpO9c btw, I was trying to fix something with my setup and I found this, maybe you’ll find it useful too

[mossy flume]

This took so long to finish but I’m really working on using each piece I make now to really push a skill and improve at it

[lethal forum]

So currently oil painting human for the first time.

[lethal forum]

Totally forgot to share it but I have finished it, yesterday.

[floral saffron]

This is my first fight animation but I realized that I'll have to start over because this Sakura rig doesn't allow backflips. It will be able to do it up to that point but then, instead of continuing the backflip, it reverses the action to get to the first position. Basically, I have to get the point of origin of the rig, and change it to her center of mass. Anyway, I guess that's how you learn

[sinful tendon]

WOW THAT'S SICK

WOAH

[floral saffron]

REALLY?

[sinful tendon]

I know that roll was unintentional but sakura jumps just like a bunny

Idk how that even works, that's literally what mihoyo does, it's impressive

[floral saffron]

It's 3D animation in blender!! :D

[olive birch]

It's pretty cool (as a non expert lol) How much time did It take?

[floral saffron]

A couple of hours for the animation alone. I would have even more work done if I wasn't that scared of messing things up LMFAO. I'm still learning haha

[olive birch]

Ikr

I can barely do 2D

But everything starts somewhere

[floral saffron]

Yeah X3. It's important to keep a constant pace and learn more stuff

[hollow grail]

redid the face

[floral helm]

I drew kiamei for my friend

[woeful shore]

Gosh darn that's cute... Well done..

[bitter shale]

Both sides of a card I did for the Sekai Craze server, which has sadly been permanently closed.

[torn girder]

2/13

[willow cosmos]

@static pine I guess Vita isn't really appreciated, poor one #honkai-fan-art message

[static pine]

Yea 🥲🍬

[exotic marlin]

Drew a bunch of kianas

[bitter shale]

Me and the Reverie Stage server owner collaborated on Emi Kishimoto's 2026 birthday card for the server! 🎂

[hollow grail]

very cute

[slate rose]

Lol, looks like phases in life

Kid being all silly and stupid
Reality check 20s depression
Grown back to being silly and stupid

[swift harness]

school stuff

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Okuyari Ushio's "Tolerating the Whimsy" trained card for the Beyond The Stars server!
(OC belongs to server owners, not to me)

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Aiko Itto's "Who I Never Thought To See" untrained card for the Beyond the Stars server!

[dawn trail]

finally getting confident in Blender and it's been in my head for a while

[zenith socket]

I am unable to find a gyakushinn miko model to work with, does anyone have one? (also why is it so hard to find online?)

[floral saffron]

I've been working on doing the shading of the astral express to make it look as close as possible to the one shown in REBURN II, but I've realized that they use different textures from the one used in HSR. So... It's gonna take more time to have it done

[floral saffron]

I really like how the second version is turning out

[last hull]

my old projects I made Veliona’s weapon with 3D printing

[hollow grail]

Looks good

[lethal forum]

[crimson wagon]

Still Wip

[slate rose]

Nice red demon you have there

[lethal forum]

So Felix and Elise encounter.

[uneven goblet]

I thought that this would not require a lot of stretching lore wise.

Shedeltski

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of Koko Amou's "The Serene Nature of You" trained card for the Beyond the Stars server!

[olive birch]

Level

[lethal forum]

Some Coralie.

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of The Final String's post-IdolFes 4Koma for the Beyond the Stars server!

[lethal forum]

I could like never understand what's the colour of Coralie's jacket. 😅She looks so odd damn.

[lethal forum]

Helia !

[hollow grail]

hoyo designs so painful

[ashen briar]

still working on this one but i couldn’t resist doing elysias new outfit!!

still needs some adjustments tho in the sketch/lineart

[slate rose]

stubid kid

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of both sides of Chieko Aoi's "Cheering for the Best!" card for the Beyond the Stars server!

[floral saffron]

Close enough, welcome back Void Archives

[slate rose]

now make it morph

[olive birch]

Apetitive

[lament crystal]

what could the tuna be trying to hold wip

[lethal forum]

a giant cake !!!!

[west moss]

a giant rice cake while we're at it

joking obv

[rigid cosmos]

helia's legs are HELLLL

[main wren]

HELLLLia

[rigid cosmos]

true

[main wren]

that being said right leg looks good

got a way to remove it, do the left leg and then put it back?

[slate rose]

The drawer

[rigid cosmos]

naw

got the legs done tho

just gotta add shit like HoV wings and helia blades to fill up all that unused space

anything except drawing eyes dude

[hollow grail]

Details

[rigid cosmos]

just the eyes left

[rigid cosmos]

okay the lineart is done...

[lethal forum]

[hybrid iron]

When I saw new Elysia face in ZZZ. The HOC is pop in my head.

[bitter shale]

I was in charge of both sides of vFlower's "Protected by my Guardian" card for the Beyond the Stars server!

[pure tusk]

Hello !
Do anyone here know anything about cosplay on Honkai Impact ?
I have a cosplay project (Fu Hua) and I'm looking for a French-speaking group preferably, if anyone here knows that, it would be super nice, thank you !
If there are already cosplay groups but they are English-speaking, this is not an obstacle either.

[marble locust]

Drew King and yello...I didn't have anything to color with

[rigid cosmos]

some more adjustments, when can I finally colour

[slate rose]

Are ye also gonna BG?

[rigid cosmos]

nothing crazy detailed, probably some blurred portals or something

if I add a detailed background it will look messy

[slate rose]

I can recommend you a free 3d modeling site for making some simple random cube formations

[rigid cosmos]

cuz of all the other shit going on

[slate rose]

[slate rose]

cubez

[rigid cosmos]

ahh okay

[slate rose]

you can extract these as images and then use them for your BG

no more manual labor

[rigid cosmos]

I'll consider it thanks might be good to have some extra pink cubes in the background and just blur them a bit so they're not too distracting

[slate rose]

just make sure to group your cubes so they dont stick to everything

otherwise this will happen

[rigid cosmos]

kek

[lament crystal]

it was actually fire
https://x.com/_solaris08/status/2033892583441895638?s=46

Noa (@_solaris08)

Herrscher of Flamescion

#HonkaiImapct3rd
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X · Mar 17, 2026, 1:05 PM

[slate rose]

kitchen

[floral saffron]

Still working on Welt but this is all I have for now

[mint arrow]

Since I’ve never really tried that before, I decided to try giving Voice Acting a run for fun and voice-acted the “Four Mirages” Anecdote from Chapter 1-3 (can be found in Chapter 1-3 menu → Collectibles → Anecdotes → Langqiu → Baiji → Four Mirages)
feel free to critique if you want

[mint arrow]

2nd attempt I have difficulties keeping the voices between Narrator, Baiji and Ajita consistent

[rigid cosmos]

HoV coloured, now hell-ia

[olive birch]

What is she saying?

[slate rose]

"look I can fly"

[sage canopy]

https://media.giphy.com/media/TG2TeAz3XwBmXSgr9b/giphy.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/23CgL2Eav6F0ReeGAq/giphy.gif

[olive birch]

https://tenor.com/view/swat-swap-negativity-toxic-friends-gif-15243748

[stone hemlock]

Lasso art full Haruhi

[floral saffron]

Now that two scenes are done, I can continue with the next one. I'll probably need to prepare the shading of some APHO enemies and learn how to make the walk like in the game. I've only done a quadruped walk cycle once so... I'm not very experienced

[olive birch]

Damn how much time did It take to you

[floral saffron]

The first scene took longer because my PC isn't that powerful so I had to add more steps to the whole process to be able to animate correctly. The second scene was finished in three days since I had to fix the model's rig.

[slate rose]

jet

[main wren]

I agree, that is a jet

[mint arrow]

Bronya reading, cause I couldn’t fall asleep

[woeful shore]

Was kinda bored... So made this lmao XD

-# It looks stupid ik, but heh...Homu-Bomba.

[woeful shore]

Drats... Can't do fx or background at all TT

[stone hemlock]

WIP

[floral saffron]

Working on doing a Vita render so I'm finishing the shading first

[stone hemlock]

Why does his older brother look better in this

[slate rose]

welp it aint done yet but heres the jet part so far

[silk heart]

i love the timelapses they look so cool

[main wren]

nose is especially good

[torn girder]

3/13

[woeful shore]

It's Easter here, Soooo hope y'all find some eggs :D

[stone hemlock]

Disgusting

[stone hemlock]

I finished it sorta but actually I’m js lazy

[floral saffron]

The things one has to do to make a Phosphorus render

WIP

[woeful shore]

....Holee sheet....that looks good- No.... Perfection. U pro any chance?

[slate rose]

no

but I have been drawing for over 10 years now

[woeful shore]

....I call cap. Been drawing my whole life... ain't as good as u :0
Jesus that looks cool.... Ye don't mind if I use it as my laptop's background, yeah?

[slate rose]

I dont really mind

[floral saffron]

Hell this map model is broken

[slate rose]

im gonna send this png file here cuz other server cant handle 12mbs

[mint arrow]

I like how you rendered the skin

[willow cosmos]

Hello guys, gals and people,

For the fellow artists here using some markers, is it more worth to buy only a white acrylic marker (OneForAll from Molotow) for 9 bucks or is it better to buy a whole set of rechargeable acrylic markers from Ohuhu (Hanauma set) ?