OC Ref From Last Year To Showcase That I'm Technically Primarily A Wings Of Fire Artist

DUUUDDEEE your art is insane!! I ADORE the scales you draw and render, and how you make so much of your illustrations look like real work staff from WoF would make! Do you have any tips for scales? Rendering? Drawing them :0?

thank you so much!! for scales, i'd recommend avoiding circle shapes and instead go for a more angular hexagonal shape! it reduces weird gaps in between the scales and makes the texture look a lot more tight-knit and interconnected

as for rendering, i think my best tip would be to start with shadows first. make a shadow layer, fill it in entirely with the base color for the shadows, and carve out the light source by erasing parts of the shadow layer. I've been trying out a new method of rendering which takes a lot less time but gives the same if not better results (using a color layer on multiply above a greyscale render layer with a color overlay to add color to the shadows! i'll go more in depth with this once i have a finished example piece to break down)

and i usually render scales by filling in each individual scale above the lineart to create an alpha mask and i use a clipping group using the mask

scale mask (normal layer mode, 100% opacity)

set to "color dodge" at 40% opacity, additional "shadow" layer (black color layer set to "erase" above the layers in the clipping group) used to create depth!

not to be a downer first thing in the morning but i think some people really do not take depression seriously if we aren’t actively suicidal. even if we are actively suicidal people won’t but thats a whole other post. We’re at the same if not a worse point than 10 years ago in terms of mental health acceptance in some ways and it kind of pisses me off

not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

Я водяной, Я водяной, поговорил бы кто со мной

a wet gentleman

Gargoyle NightWings is a really unique take and I'm here for it

Nightwing concepts. Going for a gargoyle look

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edit: If you aren't participating via the Discord server, please message me if u want to apply to participate off-site

Edit 2: If u join thru the Discord server, pls say the codeword listed in the rules and which team you want upon your arrival. I'd like to encourage you to join Team Turtle since they have less people, but it's not currently required.

I'm hosting a Wings of Fire Artfight! Lookin for more participants.

Teams r Peril vrs Turtle, it will run from Dec 15th - Feb 15th (The doubled duration is to make up for the fact that, unlike OG Artfight, most of us will have school and less time to draw.)

(reposting the ad because I finally made the Google doc 4 it!!)

Please read the google doc at the bottom of the post, as it contains 3 codewords which have to be included in your request to join. (Unless u use the discord server)

Discord server (not required): https://discord.gg/2ryERJHA

Google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VM0oxiHjY7tf95e8JSEVY8myUDj3ADPyWLdMjlO50Tc/edit?usp=sharing

Yooo this is sick

WoF Tarot Cards (printed)

Do you remember my Queen Wasp artwork in Joy Ang style? Now, finally, all the cards are printed! It took a long time because there were always some problems at the printing house, but finally I got my deck!

I really like them, they are bright and pleasing to the eye, although sometimes there are problems with printing, for example, my card with Wasp turned out very dark, but it does not bother me.

I can only mention all the artists with a link to the album with their works on VKontakte - https://vk.com/album-87048021_306386311 (all artists are mentioned in photo comments), since not all of them are in Tumblr, and it may not be very good to tag everyone in the post. You've probably already seen many of their works on Tumblr)

More detailed photos:

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day 1094

PUT SOME CLOTHES ON

I was going to do the one big image I had of the, but it was blurry so here’s a bunch of smaller ones

Here’s the big one btw: