Crutchy!!! (i Got Lazy With The Rendering At The End :p)

i've been exhausted the last couple days - but i have some (rather elaborate) gel pen swatching in portrait form :D

i'll definitely be incorporating the pens in other portraits/drawings and maybe getting some colored pencils along with the pens to supplement my marker drawings! (i really want some acrylic markers...) now my traditional style looks more colorful and more like my digital style :p

anyway yah. some messy low energy drawings for fun :))

i'll come up with their names as soon as i come up with their language i'll come up with their language as soon as i come up with their culture i'll come up with their culture as soon as i💥💥💥

look, i love older musicals, they're lovely and orchestral and have classical singing (mwah mwah) but the AUDIO PANNING is so extreme and for what 😭

studies for some worldbuilding i'm working on! :D

a porcelain tub wit boilin' wattah ‼️

i've been doing oc things recently, mostly character sketches and character dynamics/story arcs ^u^

anyway uhh 4 distinct ocs right now and some concept of their world and how they interact with it

quick corey cott face study :))

why is he so adorable

so...thoughts on blood drips?

ok. so.

i genuinely find it kinda disturbing LOL so they achieved their goal if it was to be horror! it was the perfect balance of horror, comedy, and absurdity that made me giggle way too much.

i also have many questions, such as:

who authorized this?

why did they allow the actors to spend time on this?

why is the costume department so trusting?

and so on.

i would also like to highlight my favorite parts (some i may have forgotten :p but i am not watching it again because of aforementioned genuinely being disturbed LOL.)

"SPIT or SWALLOW"

max casella generally

kenny ortega cussing us out

the fact that none of the ketchup blood got on the costumes

"forget about trey, where's my FUGGIN CHAYA"

christian bale's british accent. every time he does his normal accent i have to take a moment and revel in his acting because WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S BRITISH. i would never have known,,

max's death. like. oh my god lmfao. part of me falls for it and am disturbed at death but the other part is rolling because of the acting. again not a trace of blood on his costume

*long motivational speech* "ALRIGHT LET'S DO IT!!! ... oh shIt"

and then it got actually disturbing lol. but i liked their dancing at the end... wish we had that in hd lmfao.

anyway this was long. blood drips is awesome everyone go watch

my process is loosely as follows:

get a reference and look at the values and colors and get a bunch of markers (i use ohuhu alcohol markers) for the lightest value and ones in between. i usually don't set a darkest value from the get go because a lot of it is layering and experimenting, but i want to at least have some colors to start with and lay down a base. usually i get a bunch of skin tones and two to four cold tones, depending on what the reference seems to call for. the colors don't have to be an exact match because you're never gonna be able to exactly match the tone with a limited palette. keep in mind that this is mostly a face rendering tutorial because portraits are about the only things i've done with markers lol, but i'll try to keep it applicable to other things as well?

(also, something important to keep in mind is wet vs dry - this is less of a thing with alcohol markers - if you're layering over a part that you've just colored on the marker is going to bleed. this is a good thing for blending!! but if you want cleaner shapes i'd wait a bit for the page to dry before coloring to do smaller details or different parts of the drawing like skin bordering hair, etc. the wet/dry divide is more obvious in mediums like watercolor, but it's still a useful thing to take advantage of and be aware of.)

so i generally use a lot of layering for each portrait. the first layer is coloring in some shapes of where the darkest shadows are, using the brush tip of the marker. (keep in mind that i also spend a while sketching out a guideline) then i use the chisel tip to color the entire face in, while it's still "wet". (save the eyes, although you could do that too because this is a light color and eyes are generally in shadow anyway. also to be noted: keep these first strokes brief because layering the same color can darken it.)

now that all the white space has been covered for the subject i go in with either a darker shade of a skin tone or a cold tone. i find that lighter, cold tones (like blue and purple) elevate shading a lot if used right. ("right" being where light might be reflected onto bottom-facing facial planes or where shadows intersect, or just as light shadows.)

then i just layer various colors i've selected, (while selecting more sometimes lol) keeping in mind facial planes and structure and looking at the values of my reference until i'm satisfied. generally then i push myself to darken the shadows a bit more and add details as necessary. the hair is similar - lay down a foundation color, analyse shapes and values and layer.

i usually also outline stuff with a pen (forgot what brand it is but i'm sure any pen works lol) and add highlights with a white acrylic pen! (sometimes i color over the white and or dab at it while it's still drying so it's not as bright) this is. quite lengthy but it's the short and long of it. ^u^

some mechanisms marker drawings ;0;