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A resubmission of the prior version of this image but greatly cleaned up now that I have a little better understanding of how to effectively add color to a scanned sketch. The last version was a little... off, in many ways.
I feel like I should really be doing more with transparency since the goo is supposed to be slightly see through. However, another part of me is concerned that it's a bit of putting the cart before the horse. Getting the posing and other features to look more natural should probably come first, then dealing with the complications of transparency (for instance, making it so you can partly see the tail through the foot or the armored thigh through the arm). Teaching myself this as I go so if anyone has any suggestions for how they do slime/goo, I would be interested in hearing it. Definitely feels sometimes like doing this all digitally would probably make things easier.
Returning to the fantasy world, that sword is actually made of the same hardened slime as my claws and armor. It's more for show than use though.
I feel like I should really be doing more with transparency since the goo is supposed to be slightly see through. However, another part of me is concerned that it's a bit of putting the cart before the horse. Getting the posing and other features to look more natural should probably come first, then dealing with the complications of transparency (for instance, making it so you can partly see the tail through the foot or the armored thigh through the arm). Teaching myself this as I go so if anyone has any suggestions for how they do slime/goo, I would be interested in hearing it. Definitely feels sometimes like doing this all digitally would probably make things easier.
Returning to the fantasy world, that sword is actually made of the same hardened slime as my claws and armor. It's more for show than use though.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Goo / Slime
Size 1920 x 1484px
File Size 1.36 MB
Listed in Folders
looks huggable
What art program do you use? Many have an "Extracting lines" feature takes a paper sketch and makes it transparent, it can be pretty useful.
I'd say work on improving what you want or what you have fun with first, the other stuff will become more appealing once you get comfortable.
I prefer to start with highlights when shading shiny things, starting dim with a large airbrush getting brighter and smaller, finishing with hard line full white shines. Shadows start light to dark, or sometimes are only one shade (happens IRL pretty often).
I assume your program has layers, fiddle with those sometimes to see what each setting does, my highlighs tend to be add and my shadows tend to be multiply but are sometimes one of the burns.
If you use or feel like picking up FireAlpaca I can definetly offer advice, been using that for 10+ years.
What art program do you use? Many have an "Extracting lines" feature takes a paper sketch and makes it transparent, it can be pretty useful.
I'd say work on improving what you want or what you have fun with first, the other stuff will become more appealing once you get comfortable.
I prefer to start with highlights when shading shiny things, starting dim with a large airbrush getting brighter and smaller, finishing with hard line full white shines. Shadows start light to dark, or sometimes are only one shade (happens IRL pretty often).
I assume your program has layers, fiddle with those sometimes to see what each setting does, my highlighs tend to be add and my shadows tend to be multiply but are sometimes one of the burns.
If you use or feel like picking up FireAlpaca I can definetly offer advice, been using that for 10+ years.
Thank you, though you might get sticky.
I've been using Krita which does indeed have many of the features you've mentioned (frankly the number of features can be a little overwhelming so I'm leaning towards adding just one new feature per piece). The multiply feature definitely helped this and the profile icon piece out since otherwise my graphite sketch lost too much intensity. Ideally I'd use pen but I find myself fiddling with pieces a lot. I'll have to see how I could utilize the add and burn.
I'll look into the extract lines as well. I did find a decent way to do it (albeit it will require me to be cleaner in my sketching lest I smudge too much). I'll also have to take a look at FireAlpaca at some point.
I've been using Krita which does indeed have many of the features you've mentioned (frankly the number of features can be a little overwhelming so I'm leaning towards adding just one new feature per piece). The multiply feature definitely helped this and the profile icon piece out since otherwise my graphite sketch lost too much intensity. Ideally I'd use pen but I find myself fiddling with pieces a lot. I'll have to see how I could utilize the add and burn.
I'll look into the extract lines as well. I did find a decent way to do it (albeit it will require me to be cleaner in my sketching lest I smudge too much). I'll also have to take a look at FireAlpaca at some point.
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