Hey everyone! I hope you are having a great Christmas and soon enough a great New Year's eve.
For this season I decided to paint Tracer, one of my favorite characters from Heroes of the Storm, in a Christmas attire. It's quite a simple concept but I had a lot of fun with this one. Especially playing around with the foggyness from the outside and...
December 25, 2017
December 13, 2017
This speedpaint took me about 3h30 which I was quite happy about. I wanted to be a bit more carefree
when it comes to lighting and coloring.
This concept was inspired by a really cool detail from one of Happy D.
Artist's painting - a butterfly holding a piece of hair. Her painting is
called "Stories for a Ghost".
I really liked...
December 10, 2017
Hello once again! As I mentioned on my previous post, I'll be posting the step by step process of my recent digital painting "Prairie". It all started when I was practicing anatomy from a reference picture I found on Pinterest. Sometimes when I see a pose I start to visualize a whole other setting and context to it. And that can be used as a trick...
December 6, 2017
Hello! ❄
Phew, this is my second try repainting a sketch I did few days ago. I've already spent around 6h hours on the first try, so starting all over again from scratch wasn't an easy decision. However, I'm very happy I did!
I used Paint Tool SAI to sketch and thanks to the stroke stabilizer it was so much smoother to draw than Photoshop.
I also...
November 27, 2017
Hello! ❄
I've been experimenting a lot with
smudge brushes. I found a really nice set of brushes on DevianArt for
this purpose that work really well.
I love how when we find something new to use on whatever we are working on, it gives us such a breath of fresh air.
Regarding this digital painting timelapse, I wanted to practice
rendering fabric...
November 9, 2017
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After much doodling around one of these days, I came up with this. It was my first time painting armor/metal and I loved doing it. It's really fun to play around with the color reflections and highlights.
The background was highly inspired by Grimes music video of her song "Go". At first...
November 4, 2017
Hi!! :)
I haven't posted anything in a good while! I figured I would take my time making this piece while I am still trying to learn Blender and figure out/discover what I could do to make interesting content. I've been watching some 3d tutorials and types of animation that I would really like to be able to do in the future.
But for now - on this...
October 23, 2017
Hi! I've been wanting to paint Tyrande for some months now. I frequently play Heroes of the Storm and even thought she isn't one of my favorite characters to play, she is certainly one of the most stylish. I really like this Love Goddess skin she has in game, so I chose this one for her outfit.
Hope you enjoy!
Please like this video and subscribe...
October 19, 2017
Hi! On this digital painting timelapse I chose to paint a lonely looking female elf that is sitting in a tall tree up in the sky observing the world from the above. Yup, very specific description!
I wanted to convey a really mellow and lonely feeling that I tried to achieve with the colours and atmosphere.
I had a blast working on this one....
October 18, 2017
Hello! Today I thought I should share what I've been learning to do - how to animate in Photoshop!
On
this sort of mini guide, I will be animating a crying face which is quite a simple
concept. I've been watching so many cute short story animations on Youtube that have really inspired me to do something similar in the future.
But I'll start...
October 15, 2017
Hello :) ❄
On this digital painting timelapse I bring you a cute witch based on the concept that she can only activate her powers under moonlight.
This will mark the beginning of my Halloween themed videos for this month. So I'm pretty excited about that!
Please like this video and subscribe to my channel :) ...
October 12, 2017
On today's digital painting timelapse I bring you a wall of vase flowers
being sold by this lovely girl character. I loved painting her silky
clothes by adding all of those lights and shadows.
The initial pose was from a previous sketch I did months ago that I
never got to take it further. I decided to take it and transform into a
different idea.
There...
October 8, 2017
Hello ❄
On this digital painting timelapse I am posting my take on Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe on a semi realistic perspective. I went back and forth with so many backgrounds before this final version that I almost gave up haha. From a giant wave behind her to a very starry sky, I settled with these bubbles around her.
Hope you enjoy and please...
October 4, 2017
Hello! :)
On this digital painting timelapse I decided to go the grayscale to
color route. I love how clearly mistakes are easy to spot this way and
how fun it is to see the gray base finally colored.
It took me a while to sort of understand this "method", but I'm slowly
getting there.
Also,
I was recently commissioned to do artwork...
September 27, 2017
On this digital painting timelapse I am painting a photo I came across from Azealia Banks. There was something about the colours and the lighting that made me want to replicate it. And I never painted dark skin before so this was a cool way of practicing it!
Hope you like it!
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September 23, 2017
Hi! :) I recorded this painting short hair hairstyles type of thing
and I'm releasing for free the PSD file with all the layers of the
process on my Gumroad page!
Here's the link if you're interested: https://gumroad.com/starlingsnow#
And of course, you have the video timelapse available to watch!
Hope you enjoy...
September 20, 2017
Hello! With this digital painting timelapse I was first going to paint a themed character with cupcakes as inspiration. However, it progressed to a bigger idea - a cupcake store with a bit of an unsettling feel given by the cashier. It was super fun to make this one and it took way more time than it should :p
Hope you like it :...
September 13, 2017
![[Semi Realistic] Rose Quartz - Steven Universe (digital painting timelapse)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rGSq54MiItw/default.jpg "[Semi Realistic] Rose Quartz - Steven Universe (digital painting timelapse)")
Here's my take on making a semi realistic version artwork of Rose Quartz from Steven Universe! Had a really fun time with this one.
You can see the painting here: https://starlingsnow5.deviantart.com/art/Rose-Quartz-Steven-Universe-70427733...
September 10, 2017
Hi everyone! :) If you liked this video please subscribe to my Youtube channel!
For this week's digital painting timelapse, I worked on drawing a body instead of sticking to just a portrait structure size (head to chest). I've been getting more into anatomy because I want my pieces to feel more dynamic in their poses.
I also made an extra step in...
September 6, 2017
Hey everyone! What have you been up to lately?
I personally have
been inspired a lot by other artists on DevianArt.
Lately I've been drooling over the digital drawing and painting techniques and polished pieces by
Sakimichan. I've known her work for many years, but only lately I've
been looking at it in a different way - as in aspiring...
September 3, 2017
Hey!
For this week's digital painting timelapse video I went with the concept of holding on to those we love in times of despair.
I really liked how it turned out and I feel like I should think about a good story that could be built around this character :)
I'm thinking of making some voiceovers in future videos and tutorials on what I've learned...
August 27, 2017
Digital painting timelapse of this week :)...
August 20, 2017
I've been wanting to try and practice realism. It's still not quite there tho! Either way, hope you like it :...
August 13, 2017
This week's timelapse :) Hope you like it...
August 6, 2017
It randomly came to my head this awesome anime series that I've watched some time ago. I love Nana so much and her badass attitude!
Software: Photoshop CC 2017
Digital Tablet: Wacom Intuos Draw S
Current Inspirations:
Apterus: http://apterus.deviantart.com/
Guweiz: http://guweiz.deviantart.com/
Ilya Kuvshinov: http://kuvshinov-ilya.deviantart.com/
Serafleur:...
July 31, 2017
Hi! I was supposed to post this video yesterday but life got in the way.
I wanted to make something very pastel and peaceful looking, so here it is!
Hope you enjoy!
Software: Photoshop CC 2017
Digital Tablet: Wacom Intuos Draw S
A special thanks to the lovely Gabriel Simão for making this track for me to use!
His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gbriel1234567890
His...
July 25, 2017
It's only natural to feel the need to customize our brushes to fulfill our needs. Or even make our own from scratch! And that's what I've been doing lately. By doing so I came up with two brushes: one to blend the skin and another one to texturize it.
Here's another example of the brushes I made in action on my painting for this weekend's video.
I...
July 23, 2017
After some sketching around I finally found a direction for it. Hope you like it! :)
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Software: Photoshop CC 2017
Digital Tablet: Wacom Intuos Draw S
Current Inspirations:
Apterus: http://apterus.deviantart.com/
Guweiz: http://guweiz.deviantart.com/
Ilya Kuvshinov: http://kuvshinov-ilya.deviantart.com/
Serafleur:...
July 16, 2017
Hi! This piece was inspired by a picture my friend @Mechanessa posted on Instagram. Loved it so much I took the pose as reference and made some tweaks to the hair and shirt.
Hope you like it :...
July 9, 2017
Hey guys!
For this week I decided to experiment on a new approach with painting
skin and to play around more with Photoshop effects! Hope you enjoy *
Software: Photoshop CC 2017
Digital Tablet: Wacom Intuos Draw S
Current Inspirations:
Apterus: http://apterus.deviantart.com/
Guweiz: http://guweiz.deviantart.com/
Ilya Kuvshinov: http://kuvshinov-ilya.deviantart.com/
Serafleur:...
June 10, 2017
Yay! With college almost done I feel the freedom to be able to write on this quite abbandoned blog once again. My bad! It was never forgotten, but I just couldn't find the energy to commit to posting. Instead I began to digital paint.
This last summer I made a goal to myself to learn how to use Photoshop. I wanted to have another skillset that...
