Art In Progress

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This community is for our creations, and how they became a final artwork.

Post a first sketch, then add steps til you have your final oeuvre!

Please specify the technique (Watercolor, Oil, pen, coal …)

and the underlying media (which kind of paper, wood, …)

Feel free to add size, history, style, inspirations, and any other thing about your work!

Note: No Pressure! If you only post starters, then that is fine!

Note: Of course you can discuss and ask or give tips in the comments!

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Shadow Girl (lemmy.mindoki.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Oil on cardboard-paper

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Oil on paper

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I tried using more dull colors because I used colors for the outline instead of black. The result is, curious I'd say. I don't like it that much but of the up side, in my opinion, it somehow got the looks of an old The Far Side comics. What do you think?

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The hidden entrance [Inking] (lemmy.mindoki.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Found a really old dip pen with a fully functional nib (!) so I figured I'd try it out when inking my next aquarelle. A bit complicated but I like it! Works super well with both regular ink and aquarelle inks 💖.

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Step 2, make the sketch on quality paper.

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The starting point, a basic sketch.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Trying "loose" style, don't look too close!

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Charcoal sketch on gesso primed simple student paper pad.

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My first portrait, I'm super happy it got as well as it got, but I know there are lots of things to better :-)

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Got "wolf priestess" from ArtPrompts.org

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This is oil, but water-oil. So no white spirit or terebenthine, just water!

I have never tried oil or even gouache or acrylic, or making a "realistic" portrait before, I must say it's crazy fun!

You can go back, redo, move whole lines just by pushing the paint (I do tend to put down a ton of paint though) even days later!

Lots of work still to be done though.

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Doing this has taught me how much time you save when you skip linework and go straight into painting.

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I've been at this pretty much all day... Does drawing mechs take this long for everybody??????????

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Ice Age Sci-Fi (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

A sketch exploring a story idea for a prehistoric sci-fi that I don't think I'll be developing any further, at least anytime soon. Did a value pass to practice value structure though.

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grackle (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Mostly inked; fineliner

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Trying to learn how to do these large flat color spaces in watercolours (well, watercolour-ink actually).

I got shown a "magic gum" that's supposed to remove watercolours, but i just left a big unremovable spot on the lower right side ... the more you learn!

It's all done using the "boring" orthogonal perspective (same size everywhere, lines are parallel, no vanishing point) because waiting is kind of boring I guess!

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Martian Flower (watercolor) (lemmy.mindoki.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Fabriano 300gr hot pressed extra white A5, a nice little "block".

I use a Pentel P207 to sketch it out, then I inked with a fountain pen Lamy safari EF filled with Carbon Black ink (one of the true water resistant black inks that I know about that works in a fountain pen).

Coloring with Watercolor Pebeo Colorex inks, mostly mixing up Yellow, Cyan and Magenta with a Winsor & Newton Series 7 N°2 pencil.

Inspiration: Moebius "La faune de Mars"