Portraits of a drunken, cross-dressing elf (art thread)

[lady leko-chan]

*opens compact and looks at own lips*
He did do a damn good job eek
I'm loving the depth in the eyes too.
So fun to drop in and look at the arts emotion_kirakira
okay back to slave labor work...  

[Kairanha]

A lil rough around the edges, but my basic process for coloring lips. 1. The starting point. 2. Block in the lip color. I start with the lower lip color as the base then to get the base tone for the upper lip I switch the mode of the Brush tool to the Multiply setting on low opacity and draw a line over and over until the shade looks appropriate and the block in the upper lip. 3. Keep in mind the light source and build up the basic shadows. 4. The highlights. The most important step since it establishes volume. Technically only the one big white dot on the left is needed, but to match my eye style, there are multiple reflected lights. To make the black line for the lips disappear normally I would have taken better care to match and blend it into the surrounding colors.

 

[lady ayami chan]

I always thought I was obsessed over eyes
but now....
god those lips are perfect emotion_drool
I mean *crap my extra emotes are not working this morning* redface *le sigh*
*drags feet to do her office bidding*  

[ThisEmptySoul]

Studying those steps, I can already see some things that I never took into account the times I've attempted making more detailed lips. The coloring job I'm doing right now isn't exactly in a style for those kinds of lips, but I'll definitely have to try it out next time I'm doing one of my own drawings.  

[Kairanha]

Done for today. There's still some more processing I'd like to do before I call the face finalized, but I think I'll come back to it later.

 

[Kairanha]

Getting there. About 25% done now. This is starting to make me feel like I want to cry. Just because I can put in a bunch of detail doesn't mean I should. emotion_facepalm

 

[Kairanha]

Going back and correcting some shading and anatomical issues. Not much progress. Mostly just various lighting effects being added because I'm not really feeling creative enough to do much.

 

[Kairanha]

 

[Kaori Silnaak]

I just did this randomly for fun. It wasn't for you or anything so don't get the wrong idea. cat_redface

 

[ThisEmptySoul]

BOOBIES!! scream  

[Kairanha]

... >> << >> ... and those are two of my favorite things~ heart  

[Kairanha]

 

[Kairanha]

Grah, her ribs shouldn't have a back light because she's wearing that cloak thing... but I'm not changing it now.

 

[Sabriel Thurirl]

@.@ So pretty..!  

[Kairanha]

I can die now. emotion_zombie