EDIT 4/9/23: TY FOR THE NOTES! I just posted more tbh!
more tbh ft. amongus bean
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Ayo 1st art of the year?
Also when will I learn to stop using large meadow landscapes as a setting? You will have to render all those flowers, stems and leaves and you will hate doing so.
Answer: I will never learn.
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The Dragon Mage's Study, 2023
72.5 hours // Photoshop
My latest painting!!
Commissions Open 🐊Follow me on Instagram!
If you are interested in a print, email me cbsorge @ gmail and I'll let you know when I get that figured out. I am planning on selling prints.
Thoughts, info, and WIP process shots below:
I started this last summer and only just now finished it!.
I kept careful track of time and logged 72.5 active work hours (not counting breaks etc) over 43 days. So I could have gotten this done much faster if I hadn't taken months long breaks from working on this. Unfortunately I love details and complexity.
File time stamp beginning and end:
While I have been working professionally for a long time, for various reasons I do not have a lot of up-to-date work to show for it. I am working on changing that with a new batch of art where I show off the skills I've built up over the years, going as hard as I can. I am hopefully going to be able to finish these faster from here on out.
I have lots of plans - merch to sell, projects and series of work to make - so stay tuned!!
I enjoy exploring a busy scene when the details all have thought put into them. With this piece I wanted to reward the viewer for looking closely, with details making sense in context. I also wanted to present a lot of "imagination fodder" for the audience to chew on.
Unlike my Willy Wonka and the Candyman piece, which was sketched out roughly and only on one or two layers, this one was done meticulously and with dozens of separate layers for a cleaner finish, necessitating several clean drawing passes. I think it worked out well, I did much less re-painting.
Process steps: 1) original sketch, 2) first pass drawing, 3)final pass drawing, 4) flats, 5) shading, 6) flats+shading combined for rough painting, 7) final painting. 75% of the work was just the final step, from rough to finished painting.
Also for this piece I experimented with a color gamut mask. I wanted to exclude all warm colors (yellows, orange, red). They only show up on the mage's skin, a focal point. I think I ended up pushing some of the yellow-er greens into there too.
Now on to the next one because I miss having painting to do every day. Yay art!!
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Pedro Pascal with Chicken Little 🐔
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After I saw that interview with him being compared to chicken little I cant help but draw them 😆
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A collection of LPS color studies/still lifes I've done these past few days
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TBH creature royal portrait (2022, colorized)
I'm not even joking when I say this is one of the best things that I've ever drawn. It was just going to be a joke, but now it's been birthed and it will not be destroyed. It's going on my portfolio. It will be hanged alongside the Mona Lisa. The power is going to my head please hel
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Uncle Atul from Spiritfarer, @dragonindigo245 this one's for you
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Last drawing of the year, appropriate that its Celestia. Looking forward to drawing more in the future. Print available on my Etsy.
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