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wavemother's robe 🌊

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #bg3 fanart #astarion #m draws

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the pale elf

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wip, working on an aziracrow ballroom dance scene and need to come up with some baroque-esque paintings to hang in the ballroom✨

#m draws #wip #one of my favorite things is when there are paintings within a painting. a painting of paintings. so much fun to look at! #but so time consuming to paint! #anyway my college obsession with baroque and rococo angel art is back full force✌️

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hello! sorry if this gets asked a lot, but what layering technique do you use to be able to mimic the traditional paint feel in your digital paintings so perfectly? the final result in your works is amazing, and so entrancing too!

Hi! I've found that there are three things that really help get that gritty traditional paint feel for me. The first is including mixer brushes in my painting process; you can get multiple colors on each brushstroke with a photoshop mixer brush, and I found that sparingly using a mixer brush provides my work with more satisfying textures and dimensionality. I use Grzegorz Rutkowski's mixer brushes (he has a gumroad where you can buy them and imo they are worth it - his mixer brushes are included in his general photoshop brushes set, I believe, but I don't think you can go wrong with any of his sets/tutorials - he even has a "'Traditional look' in Photoshop" tutorial).

The second is having a noise layer: fill an empty layer over the artwork layers with 50% value gray, go to filter > add noise, set the layer to either overlay or soft light, and reduce opacity to your liking. Traditional work will never look as smooth and clean as digital work and that little bit of extra texture can do a lot.

The third and final thing is just finding different stock textures, such as paint strokes, grit, canvas textures, staining, and crackle, and adding them to layers set on usually either overlay or soft light at very low opacity. I paint traditionally as well, so sometimes I'll photograph particularly dimensional paint strokes on my oil paintings and use those as textures on my digital work.

#anonymous #asks #hope this helps! #i'm sure there are equivalents to the mixer brush in other painting programs but rn it's the only thing keeping me tethered to ps :'c

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🪽🐍 lost rembrandt portraits

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #aziraphale #crowley #m draws

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i have next to no time to draw because of work but i finished season 2 and im foaming at the mouth help

#wip #aziraphale #good omens #good omens fanart #trying not to be tired on the weekdays after work so i can draw more but it's so hard #i have so many ideas rn and so little time :'(

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#steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #mermay #mermaid au #mcu fanart #i mean technically they could be anyone but they’re steve and bucky in my heart lmao #m draws #also steve’s pose is referenced from a henry scott tuke painting! #i love his paintings a lot

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sorry

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Hello! I was wondering if it would be possible to get prints of the pre-serum sick Steve pictures? I know you said low-res ones often aren't in your shop but I thought I would check just in case that wasn't the reason. Thanks!

Hi! Apologies for the late response - and yes, unfortunately that's one of the pieces that no longer has a high res file due to some old photoshop issues :(

#replies #brambleberrycottage

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#steve rogers #bucky barnes #m draws #mcu fanart

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WIP

#i used to share wips on here a lot before i hopped over to twitter for a bit and now it feels weird to do it #but i feel like i should start again #wip #m draws

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So anyway, your art style/talent is what Id like to imagine Steve's could become if he had the chance to focus on art instead of battle

#posting this so i can stare at it 4ever thank u #aaaaaaa #replies

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inseparable on both schoolyard and battlefield

#steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #m draws #blood cw #injury cw

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your fanart lets me appreciate canon more fully. it’s clear that you have a deep personal understanding of canon. you highlight and extrapolate from the intimate bits of the story that canon oftentimes does not have time to flesh out.

the rendering style puts the audience in a kind of pensive mood and it makes the artwork especially impactful, almost allegorical. in some ways your art reminds me of religious paintings, the way in which they enrich the source material and create emotion.

aaaa you guys send the KINDEST messages i wish i could give a more articulate response but tbh i am over here like

#thank you!!! ;A; #i really can't properly express how grateful i am to be able to make fanart in my little corner and share it with you guys #i probably sound like a broken record at this point #but thank you all for being so supportive and kind! #anonymous #asks

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#steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #m draws #here's an old experimental piece from like 2020 that i never got around to finishing #my current piece is definitely following the same theme lmao there's only one thing i draw when i'm stressed out and it's h/c

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a WIP

#haven't posted one here in a long time #wip #m draws #eternally chasing after the perfect paint texture

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I just went through your entire blog to look at all your art lol 😂 everything you make feels alive, every place you draw feels lived in, I think I saw a character breath once. Everything you draw is incredible, I love, appreciate, and envy your ability to switch between styles, the way you communicate emotions, and how you arrange and execute your work. Great job, have a cookie 🍪 :)

#thank you both so much #i've been having a difficult time with work and haven't been drawing as much as i want to #this really cheered me up ;a; #i do have some pieces that i wanted to work on/finish this week and now i'm extra motivated #anonymous #asks