im grey. 32 year old funny little guy (agender) from florida. artist, graphic designer, crochet bastard, yuri warrior, frog enjoyer, bad game enthusiast, and dwarf fortress understander who drinks too much iced tea. banned from twitter for being too epic and sexy.

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in reply to @citriccenobite's post:

Hey grey.

i love this piece and the earlier sleeping Beatrice piece you did. They have a really cozy, nostalgic feel.

What do you use to make them? Got tips to achieve a similar stylistic feel?

Thank you! πŸ’œπŸ’œ

hmmmmm fantastic question actually

well, these are mostly painted on one layer with like "soft" brushes in CSP. i would suggest using a brush with color mixing (you can check that in the settings if you have CSP, idk if you do, it's a thing in other graphics programs as well). the color mixing attribute basically takes the color you have on your palette and the color on the canvas to form an intermediate shade which is nice for digital painting and helps achieve a more... naturalistic? i guess? look. sometimes i also change the opacity/tip shape of the brush if i'm trying to get a subtle effect like i did on beato's cheeks

im not really good at explaining my technique i hope this helps

very helpful! thanks!

I don't use CSP (I used to but then my hand-me-down drawing tablet died). I use Procreate but i think i can do this with the brushes that come baked in.

I should try to do a monochrome piece on colored paper too... Great way to learn.

i wanna say these should be compatible with other programs but idk much about procreate unfortunately.

also the monochrome piece on colored paper is a good idea, i'd definitely try it in charcoal/charcoal pencil/whatever else. idk how much Classical Training TM you have but when i first learned to paint in the real my teacher was like. we are not going to use color until halfway through this course; we are just going to focus on value. so we painted in black and white for 8 weeks to learn about value differentiation. and it works pretty well tbh!

yeah, I have 0 classical training. Lately i've been doing just random styles, lineless colors (where there's very either no value change or very drastic value change, no in-between.), lined flats, etc.

I'm more or less just doing it for fun as a hobby so i try not to stress too much.