How Do You Male Your Art Look Soo Soft And Painterly And Nice And Yk :D

How do you male your art look soo soft and painterly and nice and yk :D

hi!! omg tysm for the kind words!! im not the greatest at putting my work into words, but i usually love putting a focus on playing with colors!!

i wouldnt say i have any specific techniques--i'm still largely learning and mostly self taught--but the best i can do is link some of my progress shots, walk through my progress a little, and maybe link a past speedpaint!

Here's the initial sketch I had for the Kanade piece!

I start with a background color and base colors (largely unaffected by any background colors). Then i use a couple of gradient maps + slight filters to get an alteration that i want and layer them over the base until I get something I like.

I really just play around with any program related features to get something going--personally I find it easier having something to start with rather than having everything figured out at the beginning! For this reason I find the way I work a little messy

For the rendering process, I typically merge my sketch and color layers together and paint on the merged layer--this is usually how I forget to get proof of my progress LMAO so I take screenshots while I work instead. Once I have a good amount of rendering thought out, I add some glow effects on other layers + filters if I need to add to the mood

I literally resort to fixing anything and everything in the rendering process, so my colors tend to change a lot when I work digitally (the above is like ~1.5hr difference in just painting over everything--i also never finished it lmaooo)

For brushes, I use a ton of brushes on the csp store! So far I've been playing around with a lot of them, so I don't think I have any that I specifically default to? But these two have been useful for color blocking and sketching--otherwise I think I also tend to use the csp defaults

I use the laptop I draw on for school as well, so to keep it functional I typically do not save/record speedpaints with csp... but I do have some past processes when I used procreate that I can link here! They will link to twitter posts, but I may have some on this blog iirc

Honakana Speedpaint - Portrait - Emu Card Paintover