WARNING: NUDITY!
Okay, just had to throw that image up there so that the naked woman doesn't appear in your feed. I am continuing my exploration of Clip Studio Paint and am loving it so far. So my thinking was that I could save a lot of time on an image if I skipped the pencil step and instead just used the 3D wire frame model, then just jump into the inks and colors. Ink outline was fine, then the brush started doing what I thought was misbehaving, but I realized later... No, it's actually just behaving like real world oil paint.
For those that don't know, I have a B.A. in Art from the University of Hawaii with an emphasis on drawing and painting. I loved working with oil paint in the studio, but it's expensive and requires a lot of storage space so haven't touched oils in years. For those that have never worked with oil paint before, it is stretchy. It also takes weeks to dry. Painting in oils is less like drawing and more like "molding" the paint. So every time I placed the brush to paper (not literal paper, you guys get it, right?) where there was already paint, it wouldn't put down new color it would just kind of stretch out the color that was already there. Part of that problem was my light touch. My old software paint.net does not have pressure sensitive brush strokes so I would just sort of feather the screen to preserve my nib. But with oil paints, when you just lightly feather it you can actually move an entire section of painting in one direction by just kind of brushing it in that direction, usually with a big brush.
Once I figured out "Hey, these are oil paints!" I was elated. And just started kind of filling in the wire frame using miscellaneous skin tones and smudging them around. I was feeling very nostalgic for my college classes. Also, I took several life drawing classes which is why public domain superheroine Moongirl ended up being nude.
Sorry I don't have any process pics because this was actually all done in one layer over the wire frame which is still visible in the feet because I felt like I was done exploring this tool. It's neat to use, I may use virtua-oils for fantasy illustrations in the future, but for now, I need to get back to comic art.
I use the wireframes heavily to layout my pages. But I do my best to just translate them to a traditional “mannequin” underdrawing and then exaggerate a bit & draw from scratch. The perspective tools in Clip are incredible, but the models can come off a bit stiff if you use them too closely. You can actually alter your character models build & dimensions and save them as different variants for various characters & body types too. A lot of 3D models can be imported too, which is great when you need vehicles or prop references at all kinds of angles.
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That's what I need to figure out at some point. How to build 3D character models, so that my character proportions are less random from frame to frame... but yeah, I can see how just tracing over the models will lead to sort of stale movement. Still useful for proportions and weird angles. I've always had issues with drawing armpits when the arms are in weird positions so that's nice.
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It’s pretty easy to alter proportions in Clip Studio to at least get a customized mannequin going. Making a bulkier type makes the anatomy wonkier but still works for layouts. This was some customizing/importing experimenting I did getting to grips with stuff. The female characters are slightly different heights & builds and there’s more extreme troll & goblin stand ins.
I know I’ve posted these before, but here’s glimpses of some of my Clip Studio layouts. I’ll admit, I’ve been bouncing over to Procreate more for some of the drawing work... but both programs are excellent and have strengths of their own. I’m constantly torn on my workflow & deciding what to use...
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Hello @sidekickmatt, thank you for sharing this creative work! We just stopped by to say that you've been upvoted by the @creativecrypto magazine. The Creative Crypto is all about art on the blockchain and learning from creatives like you. Looking forward to crossing paths again soon. Steem on!
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Awesome! Thanks, @creativecrypto
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