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Published: 2015-03-21 16:14:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2896; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 6
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Second EDIT: I fixed the face. It is much better now, still not perfect but much much better. I hope you agree :3 Hope you like it then
<3EDIT: I fixed the hair. It looks so much better. <3
Ah god I love this character. Lapis Lazuli from the Steven Universe series
I hope you like my more background and colour based drawings because this is what I am gonna train with them :3
I am realy unsatified how the head turned out. I am so gonna redraw this sometime when I got better with those semi realistic stuff. ARGH it pains me to see that. Everything is great, the background and the wings were super fun but the face.... ugh! THE FACE Q____Q
I wish someone could just give me proper advice about the face because I just can't see mistakes anymore.
I really loved this and how it turned out. I loved the sketch, but... My boyfriend says it and I totally agree. My sketches always look perfect but really bad when coloured. I hate to see that.... I always see those other works from digital artists and they never have that much trouble making the face look good. Its rather the hands or skin, but not the face or proportions.
Ah well~ I'll just edit this someday and give it better looks. I hope you like it though, because I don't wanna be one of those artists having great ideas but bad concepts in the end. Well... I hope this looks okay, because there are many artists whose paintings look just awful when viewed in full view but really cool when viewed smaller. I don't wanna be like those artists who try to make their stuff look good and then post awful works, and I don't mean ugly stuff, no I mean great stuff which is ignored because of being false in proportion.
Uh god... Well enough of my hate, rather talk about Steven now.
Soooooo I watched all those episodes Steven Universe and I really wanted to do a fanart out of this. The next will be pearl, garnet and amethyst. I maybe make pagedolls.
But I just love the character developement in this cartoon and I am so excited for every new episode! <3 Go check it out of you haven't.
Also I feel very much like Lapis and I reallyy found it cool in the latest episode, because I was thinking she'd gonna pair up with Jasper and forget all her Trust in Steven, but then she did this really cool move and I really got a great impact from her episodes. Also Gregs Album cover of her looks magnificent and I really love Stevens Song about her, I am recently listening to this in a row xD <3
I hope you love Steven Universe as much as I do <3 And have much fun with this drawing <3
Also, if you wanna use this, no need to ask me, its free to use, just give credits.
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Hahhaha <3 Omg thanks you SO SO MUCH!
You're the first person EVER to write a critique that could actually HELP me!
Yeah I wanna draw without lines sometimes but it actually always looks messed up.. also I did the wings without lines and then they were far to transparent to I added lines xD damn that was so much work!
But I totally know what you mean. Its like... I often watch speedpaints and they people tend to just colour whatever they like and it turns out good. Not for me though, my stuff is always a bit more shaded/ or lighted too much. it really bothers me.
Thanks for the advice. I know the stuff with the blender and I always use them because I cannot properly see when my strokes are blended enough or not.
Thats also bothers me .___. But I just cant deal with markers..
Oh I realized this with the background. When I tried to draw the nebula, it was too dark so I just painted over it with a mid shade. It really worked! Maybe I should consider this. Thanks for critiquing, I looked through your work and its really like you say. But its awesome
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I'm totally glad to have helped you!! I'm happy my jumble of advice makes sense @_@Β
Often times, there are natural lines to stuff, especially things like water. I did a piece of Lapis as well and when doing her wings, essentially I lined the water in a highlight color and blended it inward. There's often natural hard lines of shadow and highlight in pieces (i.e, the line between the chin and neck is often very line-like and just feathered and blended downward toward the neck). When transitioning into non-lined pieces, I often do general highlight/shadows until I'm happy with it, and then merge down my sketch layer and just draw over it so I preserve the lines that are there and I can work with them, eventually blending them out where they need to be blended, and keeping and making them the shadow color appropriately where they actually happen naturally. (: Part of my bigger problems when first trying to do unlined works was hiding and taking away the line art, because then everything goes weird haha if you merge it down and blend it out and color over it, etc, it works better. I think a big myth is that lines don't happen naturally, because in tons of places, they do!
really, (INCOMING GENERIC ADVICE) keep practicing. Tutorials and speedpaints and everything totally help you develop strategies, but also just messing around with different brushes and what looks best helps you develop tactics that you can apply everywhere, like going over the nebula with a mid shade. c: That can be applied to a lot of things!
but thank you!
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Hahah I agree
Yeah... I practice. A Lot. My parents are already mad and my eyes hurt xD
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Ahh yeah, I looked through your gallery and heheh it looks much like the stuff I started off with digitally. I began doing digital paints in 2009. I think everyone kind of starts there, and really, you've come very far in that time!! You're better than I was after roughly 1.5 years of practice let me tell you what lol
I think you should be really proud of where you are. Your stuff is amazing! But yeah I know the feeling. I get that constantly, where you don't know what's wrong @_@ don't worry. I find it helps to sometimes put something down or let it be for awhile and when you come back, you might be able to see it more clearly, or just keep tweaking things until you make steps in the right direction. My most recent render was a lot of that for me. haha
I have a bad habit of giving up and posting things because I get frustrated, etc. and kind of give up. A big thing for me has been making myself just be patient.
bonus: here's some art from 2011 (about 2 years after I started)
it's very old
and in light of that please be super proud of your progress because you should, it's incredible! Just keep going
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I am patient but I just am not able to do it properly like I want to. And then I just do it the best I can and update it when I am ready to see the mistakes. I learned this at a very young age because I always did shitty sonic character redraws and pinned them to my room (yeah I was pretty young) and then I slowly realized when something was just... off... like the face, if it was not parallell or symetric or anything like that. The whole line composition falls to my eye pretty easily.
I know that effort pays off, I realized that very quickly and for I am not one of those people who get stuff easily I always had to learn everything by myself and with others around me telling me it was impossible and I couldn't do it and I shouldn't even start. I just got a real rage-like feeling to proove them all wrong.
Thats why I am here. I also try to make progress with every pic I draw and just draw what I love.
I will study animation/vfx in a few months and therefore I will practice much more. But now... Lapis was a bit of a bigger picture but though she was not as good as I wanted this pic to be and therefore I am unsatisfied and all. But this doesn't mean I that I m not proud. because some people never get off their asses and visualize their ideas and thats pretty sad. I never wanted to become like one of them so thats why I constantly have the energy and willpower to practice.
Have you looked at my really old art... like this:Β Β its really really old and not that good. In the drawing process I changed a lot of stuff and I was drawing this with Art Weaver. And then I drew this a few weeks ago:
Β I think you can clearly tell the difference. I drew this in February this year. the older one is drawn in november 2013 I guess... But I'm not sure.
There clearly is a difference and I think its WAY better and thats a part where I am proud of. But its still not as defined as I want it to be. I can smoothen colours really well with normal pencils and I never seem to get it right digitally.
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Ahh I see what you mean. Yeah-- usually, for me, I have kind of two eyes. One for anatomy and proportion (like you were talking about the ones pinned to your wall, and the thing I just linked) The face is off and proportions aren't sound and I think that's something you can see CLEARLY with time.
The second eye is for other stuff like color blending and such. I think it partially comes with time but mostly it comes with experience of working with color and different brushes and effects. It's never very easy to see first-thing and usually it's a trial and error process to fix. I think the drawing improved -a lot-, your progress is really awesome. But I can tell from the second one what you mean, and my experience with working with hundreds of brushes overtime tells me that the problem you're having seems to be that you're using a soft brush. It makes it so that everything is fuzzy and phasing into the background, looking a bit blurry. It makes it so that it doesn't stand out or look as sharp as the mind wants it to be. You should try lining it with something with a finer edge (though not too fine, the balance is difficult and I have a special brush to help me with it haha ><)Β
Things like that are trickier. They're not as clear or concise, usually and take a bit of thinking and experimenting with different tools to figure out. I also think you should make the shadows on that picture a little darker on the skin(fur?) lol to give it a bit more pop.
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I'm just gonna challenge myself with doing what you told me I should try^^
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okay, good luck! I look forward to seeing it when it's done ^^
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It will look terrible xD
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I'm sure it'll look good (:
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I tried 4 pictures yesterday. I discarded every single one xD But I will do it one day...
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Just keep going (: You can do it~
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Hahah xD I changed tha hair. So I am gonna change the eyes.
I did that like you said
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Nice!
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It really did 
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No problem! I'm so happy that I helped! β₯
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I like how colourful the background looks and the hair is amazing, the water effect looks good too and I don't see the problem with the face
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I already changed the face xD A few times before that it was pretty ugly Β xD
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Thanks
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(: I look forward to seeing.
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Aw thanks so much. Also your artworks are really interesting.
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Very beautiful! Steven Universe has always been my favorite show ;v;
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Awesome
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O.k, as I already told you, I never saw Steven Universe but I liked very much of this piece.
In love with the background <3
That stars, galaxy and the semi-transparent wings are so perfectly done ^-^
But you`re kinda right with your opinion of the face kkk
I mean... I saw the sketch and the face then was very cute and nothing was wrong with it. Hum... maybe problems of shading? Nothing bad enough to destroy the picture, don`t worry.
The hair... firstly it seemed o.k, but on a second though... maybe softened a little bit and starts to mix a little, little bit with the scenary (Only noticed after long 15 minutes .-.)
And only a fisics tip... the circles on the water shouldn`t be more eliptic and completed? You know, like when we drop a stone in a lake... : /
Well, I tryed to be helpful (and failed totally because I`m not an artist >.<)
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I know what you mean... I was like... drawing the background. And I was like: Omg this will turn out so great.
And then I was drawing the wings. And I was like: Yeah This is gonna be a good pic
And then I was drawing Lapis. And I was like: Nah fuck all this I tried different shades/shapes and all stuff. Just take the best of it because you can't do it Q_Q
I really changed much and experimented much with her. I just took the best solution I could find but yeah...even this one looked so BAD .___.
What do you think about the dress and its shading anyways?
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Hey, it`s not so bad! It`s a cool drawing and the brightness of it allures me (me using English rich words XD).
In relation to the dress, I think it`s good
You used a bit of purple in the top to shade? Or it`s just my imagination? Oh, well, if you used purple there, produced a really smart shade. Look between her legs... there`s a sharpy point that breaks the perfect line of the dress, but it`s just the water on the background.
And this tip it`s just my opinion but I think you could have extended the Β«circle of white brightΒ» to hide the sharpy point. But, again, it`s just my opinion, it don`t even have to do with drawing good or bad, it`s a question of view and personal sensibility.
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Okay thanks :3
Did you see that I fixed the hair? It looks so much better now.
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Woahh, what amazing colours and texture!!
everything is so smooth and lovely <3
ohh man, sorry the head didnt turn out the way you wanted, I get that alot with my work too XD I'm not good with advice, but maybe do a bald head shape before you add the hair?
I'm looking forward to the next works!! lets steven-universe fangirl XD
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I did that head shape but this made the stuff worse xD
YAAAAAY steven universe fangirling
Thanks for advice though. I wanna have a perfect texture one day...
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ohohoh XD doesnt work for everyone I geuss XD
Ohh I love this show too much ;w;
ahh, thats okay
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I love this show so damn much too...
Thanks though :3 I will try out to make it look better in the future though.
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awwh, so cute! >w< I could just snuggle her! owo
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I also wanna do that QwQ
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Thanks so much <3
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