Latest Posts by robinnygrenart - Page 3
Do you have any advice on making art in Photoshop?
If you're drawing characters, this site here is your best friend: https://app.justsketch.me/
Lock layers whenever you're done on it, harder to draw on the wrong one without having to unlock them first
(Also save back-up-layers if you're planning to change something in case it doesn't end up as you want, heck, save back-up-files if you have a real crazy idea that can either make or break your day)
Use the Navigator found in the Windows-tap, allows you to still see the whole canvas while zoomed in
Explore, mess with the settings. Press every button you can find under Filter, there's a lot of fun stuff to use there.
Be patient, let the project take the time it needs, can be hours, can be days.
If you're new to drawing digitally, I'm okay with you tracing. Just to help you land in your new artstyle and tools. As long as you pay attention to what you're tracing and can learn from it.
Had an open window so asked a friend for a request
Btw, I love to photograph but rarely does it anymore. Found these in an old USB.
The God of Thunder
The Moon Dance - Remake 24-08-22 v 22-08-22
Felt like to digitise a page from my sketch book. Want to do more like this
I didn’t feel very good in high school. Or life. Childhood. At all. There was a lot of negativity. I didn’t feel I belonged in my family and friends who I thought were ride or die had all just abandoned me as our class swished schools to fit in with the new popular kids and that meant, not to get seen talking to me. Any time someone in my class spoke to me were either to speak down to me or just hit my head into a wall. And well, I lived at a child care I guess is the closest translation so it's easy to feel abandoned by your relatives and you tell yourself your place there isn’t more than an income for your carers.
I felt useless. Absolutely 150% worthless. Waste of space and oxygen. If you think you can imagine that, you can’t. You have to experience it and not everyone makes it out of that journey alive. I kinda just dragged my lifeless body throughout childhood, telling myself “just one more day”, trying to find something to live for. Marvel-releases were kind of small milestones to strive for but lacked any real meaning, so now you know why I draw so much Marvel.
I didn’t talk much to my new class in high school as well, my friends I have known since kindergarten didn’t value me more than popularity, why would this new class?
So strangely enough, I find myself in a group chat with some other selected classmates one night and have to leave the conversation because of a sudden anxiety attack where, to my surprise, I get a notification.
One of the other classmates had noticed I stopped talking and reached out privately, asking how I was doing. And in my entire “emo-phase”, nobody had ever asked me that before. Not really, not in a meaningful serious way other than the usual polite “it’s been so long, how are you, enough about that…”
That was the first real step into this random girl who I expected would leave my life after graduation becoming one of the most important people in my life and holding my hand in this new journey into the light at the end of the tunnel.
Tiny moment after moment, inviting me for milkshakes, sleepovers, watching Good Omens, bonding over horror films, this girl made me feel like I was more than a waste of space, that maybe I… could matter?
And from feeling absolutely nothing, that I mattered nothing, less than so, to just… be invited to stuff. That was huge. It’s indescribably huge.
I am now 22 and can seriously say that I’m much older than I ever expected to be and I am grateful for that every good and bad day.
All because of that single message that one night. That first step on a ladder she probably didn’t know I needed to climb.
Thank you.
Reach out to someone, you never know who might be needing it.
So at Comic Con Stockholm, I went to an activity where you would learn to design your own hero or villain, expecting it to be held by some kind of indie-company I never heard of to learn… It was held by a high school teacher and his top students… yay.
So, not exactly the most in-depth or professional insights, he mostly just showed pictures from “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way” and kept on calling Stan Lee an artist instead of a writer…
But I had an hour to kill so I stayed and the assignment was to create an element-based character and I felt “wow, fire’s often compared with destruction and water’s healing” stuff like that and to turn the tables so I wanted to make a fire-hero. And I had no clue what to do. So I started with the villain instead.
So yeah, basic stuff, he was big, towering, inspired by the sharp form of the triangle. I was creative and used fur to exacerbate the shape a little. I also taught one of the students about the bts of Star Wars and talked about how Stomtroopers and Vader’s helmet are supposed to look like skulls and wanting a little bit of that to hide my character’s humanity and make him look a little bit scarier.
Never got to the colours but imagined him in cold colours, white, blue. But also a little bit of brown for a fun contrast. I did sketch a few logos but decided to go without.
They were also supposed to have some artefact so I gave him a water-gauntlet, imagining the source of his powers and since I had also bought a bag with the “Great Wave of Kanagawa” printed on it, I decided to use that as the decorating of the gauntlet.
But with a kind of basic idea of the character, I think I have ideas on how to make his hero-counterpart.
Finally finished the third member of DC's Trinity
Wow! Couldn't be further away!
This game doesn't come out til Oct and I already have ideas!
Started brainstorming on similar for Ten and Twelve.
ALso, QOTD: Thougths so far on Fifteen's first series?
My absolute favorite thing with the X-Men TAS is that they never explained Banshee's powers.
You just suddently see him in a bright costume and he starts screaming and also he's flying. It's not even like a sonic sound effect I'm used to, like Canary's cry for example, it's just a basic scream... and kids where just supposted to connect that one action supported the other.
Like! I knew this character from before. I knew his power-set. And I still needed a sec to realize what was going on
HE JUST STARTED SCREAMING AND NOBODY POINTED IT OUT AND I'M CRYING
There's so much in X-Men TAS that just goes unexplained and I love it for it. This was a show for comic-readers and if you didn't read any, well good freaking luck keeping up.
Oof, that purse, those shoes.
Should become a fashion designer
Re-upload, didn’t do superwell first time, don’t expect it to blow up now. But it just represents my own little personal growth and I want to find pride in that.
Take care of yourself and be proud of your journey, how small it may look to others.
Vigilante OC 2019 v. 2024
Late upload, lost the internet-connection yesterday
Another school-project revisited! Got to create my own superhero, probably got ready with another task early so did this to spend the rest of the class.
The original was traced over a Batman-promo and I did a full body suit cause I find that kind of suit and mask fun, like Spider-Man and Deadpool. Simpler the mask, the better the body language.
Wanted him to be some vigilante so dark colours to smelt in and with his own toned down utility belt. I ignored a logo for the same reasons, if you don’t want to stick out, you have no need for a brand.
I liked the name of Nightcrawler but didn’t have much of a personality figured out yet. Reworking on this, I kind of felt a joking relaxed personality could work, it would be fun that the one in any scene with the worst experiences and jobs would have the coolest attitude.
A talk at Comic Con Nordics reminded me of the importance of the silhouette. A body tight suit doesn’t have many unique elements so instead of drastically changing the costume, I made the ropes loose and fly in the wind, drawing more attention to a potential martial arts or boxing-background.
Years ago, my brother asked if DC had their own “Stan Lee”. I remember I said “no, not as far as I know, but there was this one guy…”
Gardner Fox created many big characters for DC, like Barbara Gordon, Amazo, Dr. Light, Dr. Fate, Ray Palmer, Hawman, Hawkgirl, Zatanna, OG Flash and many more, as well as creating the first superhero team, The Justice Society of America as well as their more famous successors, The Justice League.
So a big happy birthday, mr. Fox, thank you and may you rest in peace.
This might need explaining.
This was a school project from (year on screen) that I wanted to remake. The premise was to design a restaurant focused on bug-based meals and I had this clear image from the start how I wanted it to look. But not the skills. Now I might have better skills but also free space to just explore my bad humour.
