Yep. There's just that attention to detail and all those pretty curves that just scream CLAMP to me. Really, amazing work!
Yep. There's just that attention to detail and all those pretty curves that just scream CLAMP to me. Really, amazing work!
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While your digital drawings are magical as well, I have to say I really prefer what you do with traditional media. Hope to see more from you!
Y'know, I hadn't thought about it like that, but a piece that uses an homage of Giger's style to create Jenova might be really interesting. Jenova done in the style of the Xenomorph queen. That could be reeeaaally cool.
Not that I'm trying to brush off your own style, as it's obviously very strong. Just an interesting thought.
That's interesting, as I've had a thought for some time now that things I like doing traditionally don't show in my digital work as I would like it to show, it lacks the organic aspect I love while drawing with pencil. So I've thought that I want to merge them together and go towards the same feeling I've traditionally with digital painting as well. Took me few years to realize thought, to be more certain of my style and it's direction. Next digital paintings will be more in style of things I do traditionally, and that's intentional change I want to make.
I noticed that drawing digitally started to feel too much "digital" and not that organic, so I want to enjoy drawing digitally as much as I enjoy drawing traditionally and have the same feeling with both. I must have been afraid of what people might say about this new direction I took, so I kept doing things that I no longer felt as enjoyable as I would have if I was doing it just straight from my heart. I realized that I don't really want to try replicating video game graphics 100% and lose the feeling of drawing and painting. We'll see what comes when I try to be more honest to my tastes to digital painting as well and get it more organic. Great that someone agrees with me, it makes the decision to do this experimentation a bit easier .
When I was very little, my parent often told me that I should never go near the river bank on my own when playing outside. They told that in the river there lived a monster that lured people into water and then ate them. I was so afraid of that monster and never went near the river on my own, and that was quite common way to prevent children from drowning and not swimming too deep. I was afraid that if my legs wouldn't reach to the bottom anymore, Näkki would pull me under the water surface.
The monster they told me about is known in many cultures, but with different names. In Finland, the monster living in rivers and lakes is called Näkki, and it could take either female or male form, depending of who it was trying to lure into water with it's beauty and singing and playing. It's similar creature to sirens, mermaids and the like.
It's said that it could also be guardian of wells and bridges that reached over rivers. It's true from varies from being portrayed as a giant mass of water plants and moss or a frog/lizard like creature. It was also said that you could drive Näkki away by throwing a rock into the water, because it would cause a strong kinahmi water whirl ( or kurimus). Inside kurimus lived a great dragon that Näkki was afraid of.
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I wanted to draw him with his unfortunate victims. Anyways, thank you for looking!
Last edited by Midorisa; 08-12-2015 at 10:50 PM.
Just some quick painting practice, with a similar plant and nature theme I've had in my sketches. To get me past the little art slump I've experienced some days now, and get going again. I try to 'loosen up' my painting and shift a bit more organic and flowing. Lets see if I can do better with next ones .
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Thank you for being interested!
Last edited by Midorisa; 08-17-2015 at 05:35 PM.
That's a cool story behind the first piece. Both of these look great! Good luck with the slump.
Looks amazing, as usual
And the difference is noticeable. This one is much more similar to your traditional work. I like it a lot!
I do find it hilarious how your 'practice' work still looks incredible.
This time it's more original stuff. I wanted to paint with complimentary colors and practice more with my style and try to keep it more organic . I had an idea of a character that had some mechanical body parts mixed with organic shapes inspired by insects.
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I wanted to relax but also do something different. I wanted to try and get a bit cinematic feeling to this. I always find I interesting and also important imagining the characters as living beings, moving and breathing. Sometimes you can have this feeling that the character itself is telling you how it must look. Or then I'm just spending a way too much time painting, staring painted characters and thinking those as my imaginary friends and.. yeah . Just kidding.
Okay but seriously talking, thank you for the inspiring feedback this far and being interested!
Last edited by Midorisa; 04-13-2016 at 09:59 PM.