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Things are stressful and it’s been really hard for me to find the bandwidth to do anything
creative…
Thankfully, there are so many amazon artists out there who have already done the work for me! XD
Not gonna lie, I love doing DTIYS challenges, there a great way to get me out of my own head and and outside my comfort zone~
This one is for petiteplantedrawsstuff
could have spent another 30 minutes COVERING this cutie in kandi and nicknacks and stickers and clips and bobbles and doodads and UGH! SO MANY THINGS!
Also! I managed to talk (DIFFENLY NOT BULLY) my partner into doing this with me! I’m looking at you @gooeygraphite-blog!
I needed a repeating pattern for another project I was working on and figured I spent the time on it… I might as well post it! I did a few different color variants because I know PINK is a lot for some people, lol.
If you're interested, feel free to use this for personal projects but don’t forget to throw me some credit if you do!
This is a seamless repeating pattern (or at least it should be) and is available for download below at a 500x500px and 250x250px over on my patreon for free!
I recently got to indulge a bit and wrote myself my own Orc dreamboat. I had so much fun with this and getting to do my own stuff for a little bit. I’m so excited to share this with all of you!
Your work with your father’s fur trade had you going back and forth at all times of the year. Winter, of course, was your busiest season. You were traveling almost at a near constant every day. Taking furs over the mountain and returning home to fetch another load.
There was a rest stop at the halfway point, a perfect place really. It was carved into the rock of the mountain where it was safe from the harsh winds and weathers that affect the north this time of year. Well, it would be perfect. But you never stop there.
In fact, ever since you were sixteen and had been taking loads along the mountain path, you have never once stopped there. You can’t stand the owner of it. No matter what weather or ailments afflict you, you keep going. No matter how warm or cozy or inviting the place looked, you kept going.
I SPENT 3 HOURS LOOKING FOR THIS!!
This is hands down one of my fav pieces of writing. Period.
Still committed to this 30 min practice thing! Can’t say I’m loving it but, any practice is better than none!
Trying to follow some of the feedback I got on my last attempt - picked a ref without a white background, tried to focus more on the shape of the shadow then the blending, used a bigger, square brush.
No, I am not 'hoarding craft supplies.' I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.
Your drawings are amazing! <3
I have a half orc OC, do you have any advice to not make her look shrek ish? I know orc’s and ogre’s are different but I want my OC to stand out a lot! Your half orc drawing I saw is so beautiful!
Uuuuh, I guess it all depends in which direction you wanna interpret orc! I think a lot of orcs end up looking a bit... Shrek-ish because of the exaggerated proportions. In truth, most orcs are depicted with extremely square jaws and really pronounced underbites.
Here's a WoW orc, a BG3 orc, and Shrek- Who doesn't actually have any sort of tusks or underbite, but does still have a pretty exaggerated mouth size compared to the rest of the face. The sort of really short and wide nose (which makes a contrast with how much of the face is taken proportionally by the mouth) does also contribute to the look. Wide noses can be used, but some orcs tend to push the shape of them making the bridge length incredibly short, specially based on the other proportions in the face.
It's also kinda important to acknowledge that the way orcs have been drawn and depicted in many shows, games and such come from a uh, kinda... Racist caricature perspective, almost. They're one of those fantasy staples that kinda has a finnicky history
And like, you really don't need to base your orcs on the usual ways they've been depicted! No Shrek needed! You don't need to give orcs an underbite! That the magic of designing your character. Tusks can work perfectly fine with more human-proportioned jaw.
This is super messy, but if you have somewhat curved tusks, they can poke out of the lips without needing the underbite at all. There's a few artists who have done much better tutorials on this than I could- You may wanna check this one from @douradart !
It would be a CRIME not to re-blog this~
