monochromegee

[monochromegee]

"Hello Raj"

#rajan savarimuthu #elsie roberts #rajan/elsie #art #illustration #candela obscura #lavabean art #circle of tide and bone #circle of Tide and Bone spoilers #critical role fanart #candela obscura fanart #candela spoilers

[monochromegee]

Yarrow and Feverfew

Art trade with the incredible @liscepu, I'm so grateful for the chance! Thank you for fueling my love for the game again <3

#arthur morgan #red dead redemption #rdr2 #rdr fanart #flowers #portrait #illustration #it's unreal how much I love this #peak art style

[monochromegee]

I hope it's okay for me to tag @0lavender-garden0, I just want to say that tags or messages like these mean so much to me :') I mean???? this is so very kind and encouraging???????? I might not be the most active or consistent artist, and I feel pretty self-conscious about my art fairly frequently, but it makes me really happy to know that even though it might not be creative or groundbreaking, it's still inspiring to some. So, I just want to say, thank you so much for that <3

#thank you! #this is so kind #honestly made my day #art #digitalart

[monochromegee]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[monochromegee]

Quick update, I am not dead, just neck deep in my master thesis, I hope to continue on art soon though :]

#update #art #monochromegee #please bare with me #i am so tired #writing papers is the bane of my existence currently #but soon i can get to the fun part #fingers crossed

[monochromegee]

may we see your tav? 💖💖

HAPPILY

This is my tav Valin, they're a draconic bloodline sorcerer! :]

#bg3 #bg3 tav #thanks for the ask! #ask answered

[monochromegee]

thoughts on bg3? i would love to see fanart in your art style!!

I'm absolutely OBSESSED with bg3 at the moment. So much so that I'm more busy playing than making art 😓 it truly got me in a chokehold. But I'd love to make fanart of it eventually!! (Once Astarion releases me from his clutches)

#art #fanart #digitalart #ask answered #thanks for the ask!

[monochromegee]

Any lighting tips? <3

Oh boy, I could swear there are rules to lighting, but I rarely stick to them myself, because I have a terrible memory and rendering is the bane of my existence. There are many different ways to use lighting, and I don't know how helpful the tips I can offer are, but a first good step is to determine the source of your light. What I like to do often is use a color gradient where one side of the figure is already a bit darker and the other a little lighter, like there for example:

I like to use that little trick to get the direction roughly down, save a bit of time and add more volume to things.

Another tip I could give is to not be scared to create contrast in places where light doesn't really reach. It's a bit scary to me as well, still, but pushing contrast can add a lot to the illusion.

If you use that though, you have to make sure to understand mid tones as well. These are basically the values somewhere in between your darkest and lightest spots. Light likes to scatter, especially on softer surfaces that don't have many hard edges, so mid tones are really important to suggest the shape of the thing that's being lit. This could be an example:

Rim light is also an effective way to make something stand out more, and what I learned recently is that it works way more effectively if you try and vary its weight, to kinda make it hug around the shapes it sits on, like here:

There are most likely exceptions, but those are rules that always apply to lighting and maybe they can help you understand it a little bit better! I constantly break those rules myself though, so I wouldn't bet that my art makes a good guideline for learning about lighting. I can only recommend using lots and lots of references. Photographs are the most reliable source there is, you can learn a LOT from those, or study some masters paintings to see how they use lighting.

So yeah, these are probably the best tips I can come up with, I'm not very good at explaining things, so I hope this helps a little bit :')

#thanks for the ask! #ask answered #art tips #lighting #art tips with mono #art #digital art

[monochromegee]

Esteemed undertaker Saint Veronika and her spoon-obsessed best friend Nikolai

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #illustration #oc #oc art #ttrpg #dnd #dungeons and dragons #pathfinder #pathfinder 2e #characterart #characterdesign #original character #fantasy #horror #ghosts #spirits

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[monochromegee]

No demon can escape him <3

Commission piece for @generalarmitagehux

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #illustration #dnd #oc #dungeons and dragons #cowboys #angel #aasimar #high noon #ttrpg #oc art #commission art

[monochromegee]

A candle in the dark.

@noshirdalal blew me away as Rajan, I haven't had this much inspiration and motivation to work on an art piece in a long while. Wow!

#art #digitalart #fanart #digitalpainting #illustration #candela obscura #critical role #portrait #noshir dalal #rajan savarimuthu #circle of tide and bone

[monochromegee]

commission piece

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #rdr2 #illustration #oc #oc art #red dead redemption 2 #red dead online #master study #commission art

[monochromegee]

There should probably be more new pieces in there than there actually are, but still, here it is. Art vs. Artist 2023.

#art #digitalart #fanart #digitalpainting #rdr2 #illustration #arthur morgan #charles smith #arcane #red dead redemption 2 #jayvik #charthur #dnd #oc art #jc leyendecker

[monochromegee]

Ohhh,,,, I have a 17-year-old character I wanted to commission you with,,, :( Sad, but I understand.

I'm always happy to discuss requests individually :) If you give me details maybe something could be arranged. It really depends on what you envision. Just shoot me a DM!

#ask #ask answered #thanks for the ask!

[monochromegee]

Contributor Preview: Mono

@monochromegee

Link to pre-orders: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hgzine-kings/kings-of-nowhere-a-harringrove-zine

#harringrove zine #harringrovezine #harringrove #kings of nowhere zine #kings of nowhere #kingsofnowherezine #kingsofnowhere #contributor previews

[monochromegee]

Hi! What do you mean with “Won’t do minors” in your Commission Info? Do you not want to draw characters that are under 18? Why?

Hey! :) Yeah, that is basically what that implies. It's simply a matter of my own comfort with this one I think. Teenagers near 18 could be an exception in some cases (and even in this case I would strictly stick to fictional characters and never accept a request for, say, a family portrait). Though I did have a problems with requests for children who were supposed to be depicted in a sexualized manner and since that is not okay in any capacity, I decided to add artworks including minors entirely to the 'won't do' list. Exceptions may be discussed, but I will definitely make use of my rule to step down from requests if they enter questionable territory for me. I hope that's understandable.

#thanks for the ask! #ask answered