More Creature Sketches, But This Time A “Bird-like Axolotl” Monster Hybrid

Had a lot of fun by taking free art requests and drawing other people's Gemsonas on the Steven Universe Amino app 😊

Pink Diamond Saturday sketch

Layout Background Exercise

For Gobelins’ entering contest, one of the request is background skills, and the ability, with a pen, to visualize yourself in a 3D space.

So I gaved myself an exercice than can be similar to what you can have during the contest, and which are the steps I’m going through :

Here is a background concept done by Armand Serrano, for the movie Lilo and Stitch.

Let’s put the following consign : try to draw the “against field” of this place (it mean, as in cinema, shooting in the opposite direction to another shot)

For this, we must be aware to : - Place our virtual camera correctly - respect perspective rules -placing correctly our objects in the space (what does make the “link” between the two shots) - Keep a cool composition -respect the design -use our imagination to field the empty space

So, let’s do this !

1. Making a Map and a good thumbnail

-It’s a good exercise to try put everything in a map, including the camera (CAM1) and visualize what we know and what we have to imagine ; not very easy, but it’s making win a lot of time for after !

- Then I just had to place the other camera (CAM2) on the other side, and begin to think about what would be in the room on the other side.

- When I did the map, I was working in the same time with a thumbnail of my scene (note : thumbnail is a very small drawing. Good to remember : small drawings for big ideas ! ) ; like this I could think about having a cool composition and match with the background in the same time. That’s why (as you might see) I decided to tilt a bit my CAM2, because I felt it more interesting for the composition.

2. Ruff drawing

- So here begin the interesting part :) it’s importent to begin by placing the horizon line, the vanishing points (in this case, two) and a perspective grid, all of this being sure it’s mathching with your thumbnail.

-Then, I built every objects, being sure it’s on the perspective, and puting all my ideas.

note : I was always thinking : this is a place where people are living, we have to FEEL It. It’s passing by using the props and the randomness of their position to suggest this idea.

3. Line Up

- On this part I was always trying to be careful about keeping the style of the artist, about props design, and the way of working the line.

4. (Bonus) Shadows

- Personnaly, I wanted to try making she shadows on a traditionnal way, as they where doing before at Disney. For this I first scanned my drawing (to have a backup in case), then I used carbon powder, I was putting stronger at some places, using an eraser to have my lights, and my pencil to go into the detail in the lighting.

-It’s important, when doing lighting, to know where the light come from, and what you want to show. Contrast is the master word ; with the light and shadow, you can choose to show more one thing than an other (for example, I chosen to show less the left part, and put on the light the right part)

My drawing could be better, about the choice of props and the angle, but I hope this tutorial helped you to see better the process to draw an “against field” from an existing layout, hope you enjoyed :)

Be free to comment, cheers !

background practice! 

❤ Concrete ❤

Here’s an old Lunala drawing that I made. Drawn on paper and colored with color pens

Here are some coincidences that I found funny. They are just coincidences, so they might not actually be connected.

Emerald’s design resembles Pink Diamond from Garnet’s flashback. Hair with exactly 5 main hair spikes shaped like a fire and a triangular upper body.

In Stevonnie’s dream, Pink Diamond resembles Padparadscha. They both have roundish shoulder pads, short whitish hair, lush lips, gloves, and when you look at that fabric on Pink’s hips, there’s a white part on the edge, just like Padparadscha's ribbon on her back, her dress, and her chest. Pink’s shoulder pads also has a white square.

When Pink punched the glass, she used her right hand, and that’s where Padparadscha’s gem is located.

They are just coincidences tho…

I am so fucking into homeworld’s trippy rainbow, dare I say, vaporwave aesthetic 

Am I cute enough for your dashboard?

Haven't drawn anything in a while, so here's something. Meet Rosy Ametrine, She's basically an Ametrine with a little bit of Rose Quartz. I had an idea of her being born in the center between 3 different Areas of a Kindergarten (area of Rose Quartz, Amethyst, and Citrine Gems). Rosy Ametrine's appearance and color makes her look like a fusion which is both right and wrong at the same time, since she's only one gem, but she has the components of 3 different types of gem. She's purely a quartz type of gem since her 3 components are types of quartzes, the only difference is that she has more colors in her palette than a normal quartz would. Think of forced fusion but it's actually stable. Sounds confusing, but I hope you understand what I was trying to say 😅 Btw sorry for the messy art, haven't drawn any digital art for a while ever since I accidentally deleted my drawing application on my phone.