Thread: Artistic Endeavours

I am really liking the style I see here, and even more so the colouring. That colouring is simply gorgeous. <3

Humanised versions of the Different Eyes cast, the result of a discussion with my friend about my headcanons for their ethnicities.

I'd really like some feedback on this! My usual modus operandi for drawing individual faces is to veer wildly into a cartoonesque style, so drawing them in a vaguely realisticesque style was a challenge. Keep in mind that I drew these without any face references, and also that I am Captain Assburger with the superpower of not knowing how to parse faces and I am intensely confused about ethnicity and different ethnic groups have different faces apparently?? aaargh faces are hard enough to deal with without ethnicities making them even more complicated!!

Salem is mixed-race (Afro-European), and I think she is adorable. She has dreadlocks as part of my evil plan to avoid having to draw curly hair.
Dusk is middle-easten/Arabic. She seems to be channelling Audrey Hepburn, I honestly have no idea how that happened.
Nathan was supposed to be Latino/Hispanic/whatever but I have. no idea what I ended up doing with him. CAPTAIN ASSBURGER DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO FACES.
Verity is white because I wanted her to have those elegantangular vaguely-avian features, and ginger because it is my favourite hair colour.
Pyre is black I guess?? I'm really not capable of giving more information than that. He's a fighter, so scars.
Haze is Asian albino because shiny=albino or something?? iunno, whatever, I just think that non-white albinos are really really pretty.

haha Jack hasn't seen these yet *sits and waits for him to joss all my faceheadcanons*

Oh gosh. I have way too many feels about those faces. The expressions are so perfect and the races work so well and aaaaaaaaaaah I just lost my ubiquitous eloquence and articulation look at it go.

Continuing with my humanised pokemon faces, here are the main characters (I hesitate to say heroes) from the fic I'm currently working on:

Haha I have no idea what the hell kind of ethnicities I was going for here.

I've been writing so many pokeymans that the idea of drawing them as well makes me want to shoot myself, so have an original character:

Kestrel. Her surname is either Chazwick or Chadwick, I can't decide (leaning towards the latter).
I want to draw her comic, because it involves cross-dressers and zombies and lobster people and a crocodile mafia and at one point she punches a sapient tree in the face.

She went to university to study as a magician, but dropped out halfway through her first year to make her living with card tricks and con tricks and magic tricks.
Her tattoos are dexterity wards, and they are fucking annoying to draw.

I love the tattoos, they were totally worth drawing.
I also love her bruised cheeriness.

More Kestrel:

My favourite thing about drawing Kestrel: her face is 90% chin and what isn't chin is nose.
My least favourite thing about drawing Kestrel: her fucking tattoos.

I downloaded Sculptris and then tried to model Kestrel because a) I have a good mental image of what her face is supposed to look like; b) she has a simple symmetrical design; c) she's supposed to be goofy and fairly cartoonlike so I don't need to worry about realism too much; and d) I can make her exactly as goofy as I want because she's not supposed to be pretty.

It's not as good as it could be, but it's pretty decent for my first time ever using Sculptris (apart from fifteen minutes fucking around with the tools to see what they do). And I'm going to be adding more to it! - this was just the first approximately-an-hour of work.
Anyway, it's recognisably a face, and that's the important thing.

I haven't been posting my non-Pokemon fanart here because I'm pretty sure all you nice pokeymans people aren't going to be interested in any of the other fandoms I lurk on the fringes of. But then I drew this picture, and it turned out really nice! and although she's a Star Trek OC she's in an outfit which is entirely unrelated to Star Trek, so it's basically original art. tl;dr I DREW A PRETTY THING AND YOU SHOULD LOOK AT IT:

That's a really nice drawing! The coloring is really great! o: You got that metal-y effect down on her outfit.

Wow, I completely forgot that this was a thing!

Here are some doodles I did when trying to figure out how I wanted my Loki to look:

And here's a fourteen-year-old version of the cyborg lady Star Trek OC I posted a while ago: