happy holidays everyone!

Sorry for being inactive, lately I have been focusing on school and if you guessed by the title of this post: art practice!

my ultimate goal right now is to reach professional level art with my skills. Hopefully if i get that far I should be able to write up a commission sheet as soon as I can.

if any of you would love it if i started making commissions, please comment here about it! there isn't a guarantee that it will happen, but at least I will know if people want it!

without further ado: here is some of the stuff i have been working on that never got finished or posted!

Note that some of these look like utter shit!

Witch painting. scrapped because rendering is hard and i got frustrated with such vivid colors.

background assets like trees are unfinished

scrapped because anatomy looks bad. also i did not enjoy the pose and the composition very much.

It was at this stage that I decided i really needed to focus on anatomy and composition better. I have decided to draw the same image over and over again until something felt right.

first attempt. strange anatomy and not the best composition.

Attempt #2

so this one doesn't look too bad. the anatomy is still off with the clothing but i managed to render the face pretty good.

the problem? I am struggling to render it because i fucked up my layers. everything was too disorganized and painful to shade and render.

also rendering clothes? absolute hell.

attempt #3 looks way better.

I have discovered a new method where I first make every major color section into its own layer, then shove it all into a folder and make a clipping layer on top for the shading.

THEN i just copy and paste that clipping layer onto each indevidual color section when i am done erasing all the lighting.

I was on a fucking roll here. the colors were coming together. the lighting was starting to come together

why did i stop?

I realized i am struggling VERY hard to make hair that doesn't look overly rendered.

I love myself some rendering, but i don't like that "overly rendered" look where everything looks like its made of plastic. I prefer more stylized rendering with scribbley lines and textures.

I WILL draw this character and finish it eventually. I am determined

for now i have taken a break on her to draw something else to get my mind onto other things

with that in mind here is a teaser for my CURRENT project where i am learning even better techniques with sketching and composition planning!

this might also be sent to the failed drawing graveyard. only god knows the real answer!

happy holidays and i hope yall don't get your testicles stolen by krampus.

Also don't forget to let me know if you guys think i should try commissions once i get my art sorted out. cheers!