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Vamptober 2021 Reflection Week 1

Heres your TLDR folks: I do spooky vampire drawings its fun I have a kofi see you next calendar week

Hiya! For those of you that follow me, you may remember that terminal inktober I did a weekly reflection on each piece I do. I highly encourage whatever artist participating in any monthly art challenge to do this for 3 big reasons.

 The task of 31 drawings can feel overwhelming- and breaking it down weekly feels much more manageable.

It encourages you to praise and reward yourself for getting this far. I and many of my artist friends are exceptionally critical of ourselves, and these reflections strength you lot to be positive about your own work. Through these challenges I always meet tremendous growth in my skills.

If you want to be critical about your work- you can detect patterns easier by looking at a drove rather than each private piece.

The secret fourth reason is that I get to spam your dash with vampire art Once more. >:)

I presented myself with a challenge for all of these pieces- to do them all in under i hr and thirty minutes. This doesn't count the amount of time I spend conceptualizing and researching, but I don't let myself spend also much fourth dimension on that either. Not that I can. I piece of work near 30-36 hours a calendar week and am attempting to describe a comic at the aforementioned time. There aren't a lot of hours in the day. This time limit claiming was simultaneously to force myself to get looser and trust my instincts AND make sure I clock in on time. Secondly, I aim to do all of these digitally. By paw has dry out times. In 2020, if I wanted to spend iv hours waiting for a piece to dry- I could. Can't this year. Additionally, I know Prune Studio fairly well, only by no means practise I consider myself an good. Past doing this digitally, I am going to improve my literacy with this program.

So, without delay, lets take a look at what I've done so far!

Vamptober Day one: Fangs Out!

1 Hour 20 MIN

I am really happy with this slice for a multitude of reasons. The composition is well balanced, drawing your optics downwards center to the text, and then upwardly to the pearly whites. The hands are so uncomplicated, I just went to town with the digital dry out ink brush. The nails are then shiny, I love them. There'due south this sense of someone else controlling and going to grab them--thats not the smiler's claws.

I am critical about my shading in some places- namely the tongue. I call up it looks phallic. I should have erased it and drawn the other fang. Also, the vein piece of work is a fleck too controlled for my liking. I should have taken more time to vary the widths of the veins- so it looks more than like the effects of diablerie than cracked porcelain.

Vamptober Twenty-four hours 2: Sweet Embrace

1 Hr 10 MIN

To quote a successful local manga artist I met in a comic store, "Just vibe. Just depict the fun vibes. If you aren't having fun, what is even the indicate?" So I did only that.

I definitely was inspired by some of those romance mangas I was eyeing on the shelves of that comic shop. I am really happy with her hair, it looks like information technology curls so effortlessly. Additionally, information technology look like it has weight. Hair is heavy. How her hair drapes over her shoulder or across her face up feels very accurate. I like how I used the dry ink brush to end the piece, hiding the shadows of their shirt with a "hey this is the end of the cartoon." My favorite quick item is her paw, gently playing with their hair. I call up I could take made it a little bigger, but It was enlightening that I just drew it- and didnt spend xv minutes looking for a reference or oddly angling my own mitt to see how it would expect.

I think I needed to be a chip more conscientious with my layers. The grey from her prune layer is showing between curls, blocking the textured background. That is a minor plenty fix I should have taken the couple minutes to do it.

Vamptober Day 3: Where The Undead Gather

one HR 45 MIN

THINBLOOD SAFEHOUSE THINBLOOD SAFEHOUSE THINBLOOD SAFEHOUSE!

Most of you know I've been tossing this idea effectually- perhaps in my vampire posts or on my rp blog as Hazel. Only actually visualizing it has proven quite a challenge. Concluding year I wasn't even up to the task- I couldn't capture it the style I wanted to and ended up posting Hazel'south jacket instead.

But this... this feels correct. Its cramped. It'south admittedly drenched in saturated crimson light, hiding any stains and drips. Bright ruddy, like a fucking target. Hiding plain sight has so many advantages... but once you are spotted its game over.

I really feel similar I managed to go loose as you look into the groundwork. It feels similar the right level of lack of detail. I am very proud of the neon light upward height, its the alchemical symbol for thinbloods. The text is also very expert, it has the right textures for the atmosphere I've created. The side shave with the marking is subtle plenty that it is noticed later your eye has glanced effectually the unabridged slice. I recollect there is only one notation I'd give myself. I which I had done the bricks a little better. With the neon light illuminating the arch then vibrantly, I should have spent a little more fourth dimension highlighting textures and perspective.

Vamptober Day four: Elysium Fashion

2 HOURS

Ever but know you have a masterpiece concept and y'all know exactly how you want to do it? Thats how I felt about this slice. When I read through the prompts, I considered doing some haute couture fashion... and then it striking me. That line my storyteller used on me to understand the nature of Elysium. Its a identify to encounter and exist seen... its a adventure to make a statement. And a thinblood walking in with the marker they branded her with on full display- as they commanded her. How dare she walk without shame. How dare she not lower herself to us. CHEFS Buss

My simply note for myself is that I demand to be careful with compositions. I borrowed a lot of elements from a full page piece from a Catwoman comic for this. And although I have made it my ain and am not aiming to monetize this piece, there is a function of me that knows to exist cautious with what I claim is mine. I am capable of replicating work without tracing, nevertheless I look at this and see that the lines are yet too similar. I practise believe that if I permit myself proceed working on this overnight (I stopped at like i am oops) that this would exist less of an upshot- as I would have continued to add together details and textures to my background characters.

Vamptober Day 5: The Very First Seize with teeth

i 60 minutes 9 MIN

I streamed this drawing with a friend and it was wonderfully fun. I am really happy with the sense of motion from the ink in the background with the splashes of blood drops. I think I did a adept job with the proportions and subtle highlights on black ink. The soft eraser on a separate layer is a godsend.

The parts I am disquisitional about are in 2 places. The head of the vampire feels a bit likewise large. Namely the side shave. I think if I had worked the airbrush there and shortened how far the shave goes, the caput wouldn't feel as cartooned and a bit more proportioned. The other spot is where the victim's hand is going. I definitely knew this when i was cartoon- but I couldn't discover a way to properly incorporate it. I commend myself to making my shading consistent to hide this- merely i really wish I could've gotten that part to experience less "wait...where'd her hand go?"

Vamptober Day vi: Undead Love

1 60 minutes 3 MINUTES

HAZEL AND LISA MY BELOVEDS

I based this slice off of what I drew in 2019 from my showtime ever relate. One of the nearly striking scenes I have ever played with Hazel was with her girlfriend, Lisa. That night Lisa agreed to drink some of Hazel's vitae for her to tell her...everything. There'due south poison under the layers of comfort.

When I had showtime drawn this piece, I noticed a lot of odd proportions. Hazel'south head was oddly shaped, Lisa's artillery were weirdly long for her body shape. In this piece, I accept mostly remedied those errors. However, in that location is something almost the piece having these sketchy mistakes left in that feels right. Theres a softness to the original sketch that I managed to go along with the updated version- although it feels unlike. The original definitely looks like they are cuddling after having sex- not just had the about intense word nigh continuing their relationship despite all the trouble they know is going to caput their way. Not that they didn't have sex afterward this word but details. I think I managed to retain their relaxed expressions, though I wish I could have incorporated a fleck more detail nigh the influence of the blood into the piece.

Vamptober Day 7: The Hideout

1 HR 45 MIN

For some reason, I wanted to paint this. I started messing effectually with the water color brushes and earlier I knew it, there was colour on the folio. I call back i did a good chore capturing the atmosphere of this moment. My friend commented, [paraphrasing here] "Its exactly what I like most VTM, its a layer over our world. It doesn't take much to peel back the layer and see the story within it." The last matter you run into is the person calling at the lesser right- and y'all don't know if thats skillful or bad for the person watching the sky. I let my viewer grade their own story of what is happening hither.

I think I had a hard time with the lighting. I spent a lot of fourth dimension trying to figure out how intense of a xanthous-green i needed to identify on objects and scenery. Ultimately, I returned to the but vibe rules.

Week ane Reflection:

And then that'south 7 pieces. WOO! I did it! While bumping myself upwards to a total fourth dimension position AND writing a comic. AND doing commissions. And am somewhat being social...

In that location'due south a part of me that is similar when do I mess up and fall behind?

And I'm wrestling on why that feels similar such a failure to me. I've put so much on my plate, it would not be surprising to fall behind. And is it so bad? Its okay, life is like that. Things come up. I am still trying to wrestle my own brain on I don't accept to practice it all. I call back giving myself that time limit has extremely helped. if I didn't have that cocky discipline, I definitely could accept spent hours and hours on each slice and felt overwhelmed. I think beingness extremely strict with myself about my vitamin and food intake as we caput into seasonal depression time is helping. I am very good at hiding the big Sad tm with tons and tons of tasks. The sad can't get me if I'chiliad constantly busy. I am hoping that as I keep, I will be more than at peace with this, and feel less broken-hearted nearly this inevitable fuck up. Considering....what if I manage to pull it off? I know I can. I know I can.

Completely switching gears here and dorsum to technical shit, I observe how much I am utilizing the Dry Ink Castor, the Crude water color brush, and my Tapered Ink Liner. Nothing wrong with finding what works, I am merely surprised that this is condign my become-to tool set afterward a year of swearing by the "For Effect" Line (it just autocorrects curves). I am noticing how I like to frame things with a lot of rough brush strokes. Some are images I find on open source sites similar pixabay, some are my own creations I've saved to a personal library of stock images. Right now, I experience as if I am at a crossroads of style. There's a part that likes the rigid structure, and a part that is absolutely vibing with beingness lose and unstructured. I tin can't wait to encounter what else I create and how my digital style evolves.

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Lets accept a Fangtastic Week 2 to Vamptober!

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