Yuletart Art: Fire Emblem & Phryne Fisher (G rated)
This entry is rather late, but Yuletart is finished for the year, and the masterlist is here . My giftart was this lovely clever, melancholy portrait of Rory from Dr Who: here by nextian.
I ended up doing 2 pictures in completely new-to-me styles.
I like to offer a whole range of (mostly western) tv, movie and book fandoms, and this year added in the 4 Final Fantasy games I've played. I was more than a little panicked when I matched with Lea, who likes anime series and games (we matched on FF7), and saw that she most wanted art for a Game I didn't know. Luckily she also request art for the Phryne Fisher books as a wildcard, and I figured I'd do a backup piece of Phryne in case the other didn't work.
Thanks so much to ileliberte and ashlan for beta comments and advice.
The Honourable Phryne Fisher is a wealthy feisty amateur detective in Melbourne of the late 1920s. Here she is attending the 1928 revival gala performance of Ruddigore in
"Ruddy Gore" by Kerry Greenwood. The poster is a copy of the English 1928 poster, her outfit is specially chosen as the gala is in honour of aviator Bert Hinkler, and sounded really cute *g*. The background has elements to reflect the book's secondary plot which involves the Melbourne Chinese community. I've based the style on George(s) Barbier's beautiful fashion plates from the era. Phryne is rather a fashionplate herself, so it seemed appropriate!
This is Guy and Matthew from Fire Emblem 7 (which I haven't played and don't know). There is limited promo art of these characters, so I took my chances, and tried to paint something in an anime style.
Eeep, anime style is hard! I could not get their eyes big enough and yet still show the sort of emotion I wanted, and I ended up adding back in a lot of realism elements (I gave them actual noses - and lips!) to get it to look better than my first attempt.
I tried out a couple of How To Paint Anime Style Tutorials, including painting in greyscale and adding the colour later - but this was just frustrating and the colours weren't exactly what I wanted. I had to drop the image to fuse the greyscale and colourwash layers, so I could paint over half of it again directly in colour. The technique is interesting, and I might try it later for simple portraits, but I want more control over my colours.
Digital (CG) Painter X + Wacom Intuos3 tablet (I found a Intous3 tablet on sale, which is great to use, and have retired my Graphire tablet)
Crossposted here (
comments).
I ended up doing 2 pictures in completely new-to-me styles.
I like to offer a whole range of (mostly western) tv, movie and book fandoms, and this year added in the 4 Final Fantasy games I've played. I was more than a little panicked when I matched with Lea, who likes anime series and games (we matched on FF7), and saw that she most wanted art for a Game I didn't know. Luckily she also request art for the Phryne Fisher books as a wildcard, and I figured I'd do a backup piece of Phryne in case the other didn't work.
Thanks so much to ileliberte and ashlan for beta comments and advice.
The Honourable Phryne Fisher is a wealthy feisty amateur detective in Melbourne of the late 1920s. Here she is attending the 1928 revival gala performance of Ruddigore in
"Ruddy Gore" by Kerry Greenwood. The poster is a copy of the English 1928 poster, her outfit is specially chosen as the gala is in honour of aviator Bert Hinkler, and sounded really cute *g*. The background has elements to reflect the book's secondary plot which involves the Melbourne Chinese community. I've based the style on George(s) Barbier's beautiful fashion plates from the era. Phryne is rather a fashionplate herself, so it seemed appropriate!
This is Guy and Matthew from Fire Emblem 7 (which I haven't played and don't know). There is limited promo art of these characters, so I took my chances, and tried to paint something in an anime style.
Eeep, anime style is hard! I could not get their eyes big enough and yet still show the sort of emotion I wanted, and I ended up adding back in a lot of realism elements (I gave them actual noses - and lips!) to get it to look better than my first attempt.
I tried out a couple of How To Paint Anime Style Tutorials, including painting in greyscale and adding the colour later - but this was just frustrating and the colours weren't exactly what I wanted. I had to drop the image to fuse the greyscale and colourwash layers, so I could paint over half of it again directly in colour. The technique is interesting, and I might try it later for simple portraits, but I want more control over my colours.
Digital (CG) Painter X + Wacom Intuos3 tablet (I found a Intous3 tablet on sale, which is great to use, and have retired my Graphire tablet)
Crossposted here (
comments).