David RevoyFeb 4

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🎨 📹 Timelapse/Making-of video: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/038.mp4

It's not often that I paint directly from scratch with no sketch or line art, so I wanted to share this one. It's a risky technique, and I'm even eyeballing all the perspective, no grids here. I also avoid blending and smoothing, showing the brushstrokes on the canvas more clearly. I'm doing this to incorporate 'errors made naturally by humans', and I like it. It feels closer to the spontaneous style I like in my ballpoint pen sketches.

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Show threadcryptaxFeb 4
@davidrevoy amazing! But I'm surprised you put in the text first, image after! I do it the other way, but I'm a real amateur, so maybe actually what I do is stupid!
Show threadthem#ticFeb 4
@cryptax @davidrevoy This had me think of printing text and only text, then penciling.
Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 4

@thematic @cryptax I took this habit after applying this (gold) tutorial, that was an in-house comic 'tips and tricks' at Disney: https://www.tumblr.com/fundz64/150897623108/aapstra-disneys-comic-strip-artists-kit-by (page 1 shows the problems, page two the solution).

The max area size of the panel is rarely what we can fully use to express the art, character and acting. The space occupied/eaten by the text speechbubbles substracts to the full area of the panel (and usually goes on the top). That's why I prefer now to place it first.

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Show threadcryptaxFeb 4
@davidrevoy @thematic thanks! Very interesting!
Show threadcryptaxFeb 4
@davidrevoy @thematic this is gold mine!!!
Show threadPixlarFeb 4
@davidrevoy wow!
Show threadLeahFeb 4
@davidrevoy Thank you! That's awesome. Your talent is truly impressive.
Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 4
@Leah  Thank you!
Show threadArneBabFeb 4

@davidrevoy If you hadn’t written that, I wouldn’t have realized it.

(the only thing that feels a bit off is the toilet seat)

EDIT: loos ⇒ feels ← strange typos I do as of late …

Show threadRune Skovbo JohansenFeb 4
@davidrevoy This comic looks quite different to me than your others (also before I read your description). Less traditional cartoon-like and more painterly. Somehow even the facial features and expressions seem quite affected. Both styles are nice, but there’s a certain charm and expressiveness to this one here.
Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 4
@runevision Thank you 
Show threadMoss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{Feb 5

@runevision
+1

@davidrevoy
… and in both styles it’s the details. Here: that parro…, I mean AI-shaped paper holder in the last panel got me giggling.

Show threadedgarejFeb 4
@davidrevoy nice, i love it.
Show threadRaina RavenFeb 4
@davidrevoy impressive
Show threadrivalFeb 5
@davidrevoy I have a couple of illustrators in my family (partner, nephew) and I'm always insisting in that, to my humble taste, the more artistic, expressive, interesting, poetic, etc., version of their draws, is that which they call drafts, sketches, etc. I understand the ideas of clean and polished, but for me the magic is mostly in that primitive or improvised phase, where the creative search is still an uncut gem, let's say... I guess, tastes. But for me, seems like live music, let's say. ❤️
Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 5
@rival 💜 Thank you. I sort of learn more and more to appreciate this small "built-in' mistakes that I have hard time to correct while sketching or painting directly (eg. Like on this ballpoint pen sketch on my sketchbook). Those 'honnest mistakes' due to the process itself and skill is a good "human made" signature in our times. When I post fix my art too much, I get comment suspicious that I used AIgen now anyway. 😆
Show threadrivalFeb 6
@davidrevoy I really love this. Really beautiful work. ♥️ 👏 I guess is in general the aesthetics of preference to me. But this illustration in particular is awesome. 🤗
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsFeb 5

@davidrevoy this is beautiful and fascinating to watch, like a dream coming into focus, the opposite way round to how I've been trying to draw

(is this video on your website?)

Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 5

@ifixcoinops Thank you! Yes, it approach the scene with big blocks of sort of Nintendo64 low poly resolution ( a pass named 'blocking' ), then directly on the top a paint-over with smaller brush, and layers of glazing to adjust the tones, light and shadows.

Yes, it's on my server, but I don't have yet a front-end php/html/css page to list the making-of (on my TODO!). The directory is here:

https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/

Index of /0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of

Show threadKevin GranadeFeb 5

@davidrevoy I watched the video before reading your comment so I was already thinking along the lines of, "oh wow sketching with blobs of color, I wonder what the tradeoffs are vs line art".
Now I'm really curious how many different traditions of... for lack of vocabulary, "order of operations" for constructing a piece of art there are.

I would guess a lot but I'm very ignorant in this area.

Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 5

@kevingranade Thank you. Your intuition is right: a lot! But the main family branches are (imho):
- Sketches/line colored then optionally painted over (the colored drawing workflow)
- Greyscale painting then recolored (the grisaille)
- Direct painting ('Alla prima' family), the one here.

I started painting this way 11 years ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lMLEuxSLk ) but I went back to colored drawing because I couldn't paint perspective, anatomy and pose.

Maybe now, with more skill, I can revisit.

Speedpainting Timelapse, Krita 2.8

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Show threadFellFeb 5
@davidrevoy I like that you can see the brushstrokes in the final image.
Show threadDavid RevoyFeb 5
@fell Thank you! I'll try to keep this economy of brush stroke. It's more difficult than smoothing all surfaces, but on the pro side, it is slightly faster, and the result feels more human and spontaneous, so I have motivation to train this ability and continue.
Show threadArneBabFeb 5
@davidrevoy Your process seems almost as if your molding clay, refining the forms until they fit, but instead of clay you mold color.