More than anything else, I want to be able to help other artists.
Don't get me wrong, I love painting and creating my own characters, but helping is what I feel like I'm meant to do. It's the reason why I created my...
2019-05-03 22:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostMy main program is photoshop, but I use other software for various things like creating pose reference and lighting schemes! Some of them I just bought or rarely use, and others have become essential to my process.
As someone who could never afford art school or online classes, I have gathered a lot of useful resources over the years to teach myself. I wanted to share all of them, but I am going to separate each into categories like programs, websites etc. T...
2019-03-18 17:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis post has been sitting in my drafts since November of last year. My confidence was at an all time low and I was feeling really sorry for myself, so I started writing about dreams. One of the bigger dreams was to work with Guillermo Del Toro, e...
2019-03-04 18:40:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I am uploading the three brushes I use for almost all of my work. I found the source of the main brush 2019-02-27 18:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh look, another Sargent master copy! No one is surprised. 😂 This one is of 2019-02-20 17:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I had to put off the other lessons for now, I thought I would make a post where anyone can ask questions. Do you need advice on something, or are you just curious about what brushes I use? Maybe you just want suggestions on how to practice. ...
2019-02-17 18:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostSince everything that happened with tumblr, I have been feeling a little discouraged.
Tumblr is where I became kingcholera. Most of my followers are there, and I have definitely noticed how much it has changed since the NSFW...
2019-02-08 22:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
TV and film style illustrations has always been one of the ways I pictured telling this story. When I imagine scenes it is in a very cinematic way, even down to the subtitles. The problem was, while I have done a good handful of studies just like ...
2019-02-05 21:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The lighting is a lot better this time around, but it is still pretty inconsistent in both contrast and color. I apologize for that, I was constantly changing the angle of the lights to see what worked best and so I decided to make them all black ...
2019-02-01 19:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I kept putting this off because my equipment and the space I can shoot photos in is pretty limited, but I think with a lot more tests I can get lighting that is more consistent so I want give it a try. Right now I have an older model iphone, a tri...
2019-01-28 16:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There are two of these names that I am not 100% on yet, but everyone else feels 'right'. Some of them you already know, and others you might be able to guess, but either way I will match the names to their faces for all of you soon enough...
2019-01-17 18:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostNothing is off limits, so ask away. 😊
2019-01-11 19:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostIn the summer of 2017, I was asked to participate in a Dorian art book by two amazing people that I now consider friends. That art book, Fortitudo, went on to raise well ove...
2018-12-31 19:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostI will have more to show you after Christmas, but for now let me show you a few of my favorite things:
A favorite art book of mine, "2018-12-22 18:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned this on twitter, but I have spent so many years studying from photos, doing master copies and learning realism that I forgot to practice drawing from my head alongside it. My confidence is already shaky to begin with, and using reference ...
2018-12-15 19:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostFor the lessons, should I go into detail on each individual subject (value, color and light) or give a brief explanation and then focus on the relationships between all of them?
Originally I was going to do the first one; foc...
2018-12-05 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhich can translate to something like 'both sides' or 'two-faced' in Japanese. This is the name of an idea I've had in my head for a few years now, alongside Pestilent Prince. Uraomote is about the nightlife of the living, the dead ...
2018-11-30 18:56:49 +0000 UTC View PostA lot of you have been with me from the very beginning. Not on Patreon, but since I made the name kingcholera and started posting on tumblr. Some of you were also the first to commission me when I was so scared to try again. Many of ...
2018-11-19 17:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Using some of those gesture poses I posted, I messily put together a look that I would love to see for him in DA4. I must have a preference, because this is very similar to what he was wearing in my Necromancer painting. Either way, I want Dorian to ...
2018-11-13 21:38:14 +0000 UTC View PostA few months ago I came across a collection of scans done by Benjamin Bardou (@meryon) of sculptures at the Lourve Museum in Paris. I was blown away by the amount of detail, and as ...
2018-11-10 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I did these studies from reference for an idea I had, but who knows when I can get around to doing them, so here are the gestures for now. I will leave you with a few hints:
It involves training with a stave. Pay close attention to the b...
2018-10-27 17:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Since Camilla and Marion are both characters based off of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood paintings, it seemed only fitting to use Waterhouse as inspiration for a painting.
This is just a rough WIP of it, and I probably won't be able t...
2018-10-21 16:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I can finally draw and paint while I travel! Expect updates as I try to learn how to use procreate. 😅
2018-10-05 18:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostFiguratively speaking, if I were to study and teach specific subjects next year, what would you like to see covered first?
Figuratively speaking, of course.
EDIT: 'Value, light and color' is winning by one v...
SPOILERS...but I wanted to share a moodboard for one of the infected. One design out of ten isn't giving away too much, right? Keep in mind that Marion is going to look very different from the portrait on this sheet. She is going to be so cr...
2018-09-27 17:33:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Not sure why I keep coming back to this drawing in particular, maybe because I know where the reference photo is and it is of one of my favorite singers, but anyway...
There are things I like about all three, but I am going to tell you w...
2018-09-15 15:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I tried not to take too long on each, and so some turned out closer to the original than others. I am pretty happy with all of them though, considering how strange a few of the color palettes were and each was painted around 500x500. I...
2018-09-08 17:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I already study almost every day, but I decided to try and do faster, more focused studies instead of long poses and master copies that can take me weeks to finish. So here are the first few!
2018-08-27 17:28:17 +0000 UTC
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