I Drew Cove For The First Time In A While.

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Sunbathed memories

Happy new year!!!! 30min daily paintings are back but for how long hahaha

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The Great Detective Turned Small

YOU CANNOT JUST MENTION AN ADORABLE CAT MUG AND NOT SHARE A PICTURE! I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO SEE IT! YES, GIVE THE CHILD A KITTY MUG! - DCMK

So it's supposed to have a wooden lid but I either misplaced it or it's where my mugs are but hidden in the back where I'm too short to reach, so here it is without the lid lol

But that's not my only cat mug with a lid, I have a pink one too that has a cat lid!

So hopefully this one makes up for me missing the lid of the other one. (and please ignore my messy apartment in the reflection)

I wanted to mention little details I did for this!

Despite Conan being totally a weird cat, the reason the filter has him as a puppy instead is I often see the cat one being locked onto the first person that appears. Similarly the pink first, blue second, and in some filters red first, blue second. Since Conan's short and spends most of it barely in the image, it made more sense to have the placement sort of switched in comparison to the personalities. I definitely wanted to make the poses and such make up for that, regarding Heiji at least. I can see Heiji being more of a puppy lol.

For the poses, I wanted it to seem like they didn't think the height difference through, and that the timing of the booth took pictures while they tried to get them both in frame. Overall a silly situation.

I considered making the theming more fireworks instead of space but the episodes I was watching around the time seemed to focus on the stars more often, so I think that influenced that choice.

The Happy New year label is actually just my handwriting since it was done last. I tried to make it neat though.

There's a few photo booths at a place I used to work, so I sort of took most my inspiration from the strip shapes from those.

Anyway, that's some details I wanted to mention. I had a lot of fun with this one lol.

Hello @elfchensdcartblog!

I was your DCMK Exchange Secret Santa! Here's your @dcmk-exchange gift!

I wanted to do something lighthearted and silly, and a photo booth strip was perfect for trying out a few brushes I had sitting unused. I saw you enjoyed the character Heiji, and I hadn't drawn him before, so I was excited to try that out. I added a New Year label version since the new year passing, and a blank one. I tried my best on the handwriting for that, lol.

I hope you enjoy it! I know I'm earlier in my Detective Conan watch journey in comparison, so I hope it fits the personalities alright. I had fun making this, and enjoyed our talks through the anon asks.

Sincerely,

Moss

You’re in art school right? Do you have any tips for making digital paintings like yours? They’re both hyper realistic and have a dream like quality to them that’s so amazing (also super excited for your prints, just ordered some!)

I graduated last year/that was my second degree :D!

A have a few things I can run down-

Photo reference. There are things I legit cannot get down right that I need photos for so my family ends up being my reference for things/I get photos from them doing poses I sometimes need.

If you can't get photo refs you can always use 3d models too to help with shadowing and where light should hit!

There's posemyart justsketchme -

Also anatomy4sculptors has some free photo scans and 3d models of the body

2. Pureref

Feel like no one talks about pureref enough but I like to make little refs and inspo boards before I draw! Plus it's like free

3. Thumbnailing

Omg please thumbnail. Like it's honestly a lot of fun cause you're not showing them really to anyone unless you need help picking but they're scribbles and doodles for you to know what you want your composition to look like or what the mood is gonna be

Again they don't have to be anything special could be stick-figures or whatever but it's to help you plan

4. Post-Work

I play around with curves and blurring so much like there's a lot that happens even after I finish comes sometimes I'm like "no I don't like these colors" and end up playing around with them more with curves and color balance

I made a tutorial about curves here! I also talk about the darken and light layer here too cause they're legit my favorite layer modes to play with and not a lot of people talk about them. I can't find my one talking about blurring+ noise(if anyone finds it please link it over :D)I might have to make a new tutorial on those- I think one of the things that gives it that dreamy feeling is the blur I use-

I like to keep things I don't want so much attention on blurred out/ and keep things I want you to grab your attention more in focus

also like using textures are fun too to add over art sometimes. It also makes like the art feel less sharp+ adding noise gives it that fuzzy look to it

I like make my own to add over or use some I got over the years! They're fun to slap on and have as overlay

5. Bug your friends lmao

I have bugged @chrispypapas in the middle of the before to ask him for help/to give me a second eye on things cause 1. Sometimes there's something you don't catch your friends do and tell you what to fix or 2. You're being overcritical and it's fine

I hope this helps :D!

detco doodles :3