Celestie, Character By StrawberrySodaPopCat On Reddit

rendering practise

erm i love rendering skin i love adding colours to it

my hair rendering is also getting better and I'm so glad about it

it looks so soft i kinda ate

no i didnt draw the rest of her cuz this was just a basic sketch and i thought it was good enough to colour and render

magma filters are great but they NEED to add a blend brush and cool effects

we dont talk about the hands ok i couldnt care less 😭 and i did this quickly but i can draw hands ok i just didnt try

man i love colour schemes and saturation

and women

characters are Vulpa by No-Raspberry-1851 and Cosmos by CHEEZE224 (both on Reddit)

some simpler ones i did and forgot to post

allows me to chill a little bit if I don't have to draw too complex of a character

feeling lazy anyway i just binged devil may cry and it's so good omg

mfs will watch smth like that and still complain when you "try and bring politics into it"

also magma was down i was screaming crying throwing up I need magma so bad man I never seen a user base as loyal as magma users

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Hi, so I wanted to know what could I improve based on this drawing, you're free to do a paintover. Thanks! ^^

so first off i really like the colours I see a lot of artists use grey for shading because they don't understand how light and shadow work but you're using saturated colours which is great!!

although I like the colours for the shading, my biggest critique would have to be the shading itself, and especially its placement and how it's blended so much. there's also not much depth with the shading since one colour is used to shade whole parts, when in reality you need to use a big range of colours from only very slightly darker than the base colour all the way to even a colour close to black.

the kitten also looks a bit off with its anatomy, but I wont critique the kitten that much because... i cant draw animals either 😭.

the way her hands are positioned around the kitten look very separated from the kitten, it almost looks like she's praying and the kitten was just copy pasted on. her hands should be tilted towards the camera more to show that the cat is actually being held in her hands.

there's also some slight anatomy issues with rei like a lumpy head and uneven breasts. also the right arm is longer and bigger than the left, and her waist seems to end very low. make sure to draw the underlying anatomy, even if it's being covered up by something! below is me tracing what her chest would look like if I followed the lines that are drawn

you have a very cool art style and I like you draw eyes, but I would make the eyes slightly less wide and the irises a bit bigger so that it looks more like rei, but in the end that is kinda optional since character art doesn't have to look exactly like the character.

also this is optional but some more line variance, especially thicker lines where shadows are makes lineart look a lot more interesting and pop more

a lot of the problems can be simply solved by flipping your canvas regularly while drawing, since people arent usually good at being able to draw symmetrically or even tell when something is asymmetrical

rei's face is also kinda short and her hair is very round, especially at the top. rei's mouth is also really close to her nose, so I just moved her nose down a bit.

below is the paintover, but just the anatomy and design part, not the shading (I didn't do the hands because there's a lot of stuff in that general area and I would have to redraw everything and also I'm lazy)

i tried my best to retain your style while still making corrections. i hope this is ok!

ok now onto the hardest part: shading

the biggest mistake you can make is just adding shadows to the edge of everything, it suggests roundness and so if you're shading something like a face, which is actually relatively flat and definitely not a sphere, you don't need those shadows on the edge of the chin. well, technically a face and chin are slightly rounded, but if you look at a side view of a person, the face is still pretty flat (excluding the nose)

also that shadow right next to the arm that's being cast onto the chest doesn't make a lot of sense since the light seems to be coming from above, yet this shadow makes it seem like the light is coming from the left. make sure you have a consistent light source when drawing, you can mark the location of the light physically if that helps. if the light is being cast from above, then naturally shadows must go downwards

going back to that image of the sphere and cube, you can see that the sphere has blended shadows and the cube has sharp shadows, this is very important to apply into art, because it helps differentiate different surfaces. because every shadow in your drawing is blended, everything looks soft and round, but the human form definitely has some sharper areas. also, there's a thing called a cast shadow, which is a shadow that's caused by some object blocking light. it also has sharp edges and there's many cast shadows on a person (the nose casts a sharp shadow onto the face, and the head casts a sharp shadow onto the neck for example)

idk if you wanted a lesson or not lol but yk there's a saying about teaching a man to fish vs just giving the man a fish

also the shiny parts on her outfit are shaded incorrectly, explaining how to shade reflective surfaces is really difficult and I don't even fully get it myself, but if it's just clothes, all you have to do is shade clothes as you normally do and then make the contrast much higher (highlights brighter and shadows darker) and add some reflections ofc

FINALLY DONE this took all day i'm not even kidding but I really like it

i lied, i did edit the kitten but just its head

anyway hope i helped i worked pretty hard on this

also thanks for letting me do a paintover!! paintovers are so fun but I can understand why ppl wouldn't want their work touched

bshshshshs the way you color skin is AMAZING the light scatter and reflection and stuff is awesome

what are your OCs like?? what are some cool things about their dynamic and reasons why? anything you want to talk about but don't get a lot of chances to?

omg THANK you i was just chilling and I instantly got like 10 notifications thank you sm!! ngl almost no one asks me about my OCs so don't mind if I absolute drop a bomb on you lmaoo

jayden (chinese guy with devil horns hair and eyepatch) thinks in a very black and white way, his two solutions to any problem are to beat it up or hug it out, no in between. and he loves snacks, one of the first parts of my comic (not gonna be posted for a long time unfortunately) is just him getting mad at a little spirit cuz it takes a bite out of his cookie!!

speaking of spirits the lore of my universe is kinda crazy too, there's a spirit world and tons of demons and cool creatures, and how it works is that ANYTHING you believe exists, exists in the spirit world its a true show for imagination lol and I love being able to just come up with wacky creatures or terrifying god-like beings.

also i said universe, not earth, for a reason. cuz there are ALIENS in my universe (the alien arc is gonna be soooo long, my plan for my comic is to include every character and plotline I've ever created, and I have been making OCs/stories since I was in elementary school) and I've made whole solar systems and technology and alien biology

magic is also a thing and it's closely tied with the spirit world. puma guy (no name yet but he's the purple blonde guy with eyepatch, and was literally created as a joke cuz I wanted to make a funny plotline about a flipped version of jayden) is a magician and he's very good at it too, and in my universe magic is actually quite closely tied to science, and for example, you cant just make an apple appear out of thin air, it has to obey (at least some, teleportation is completely not understood) the laws of physics and nature.

jayden is super happy all the time and he's rarely serious. he's very nonchalant about violence but it's not necessarily the first action he'll take. he cares a lot about justice and what's right though, he can't even comprehend that some ppl are truly evil, he innately believes people to be good because that's just what his morals are. he cares a lot more about other people than himself. also his Chinese name is 尊强 (zun qiang) which literally means something like "honour strong" he also has an evil sword with a demon in it that he can control cuz he has a bigger stronger demon inside him (unironically why his nails are black, he's not emo its the DEMON)

also i have something in my story called "levels" which is the shape inside my character's eyes (they all have one). jayden has a star, puma guy has a flower, yael has a backwards play button etc. what level you are is how many sides the shape has, with a curve counting as one side, so since jayden has a star, he is a Level 10. scientifically and medically its not called a level, but more like "spiritual fingerprint" since its unique for every person and cant be changed, its a literal part of your spirit. the levels actually do have an impact spiritually cuz the higher level you are, the better you are at seeing sprits and stuff which isn't necessarily better as the greatest warlord in history also had the highest level of 14 and went insane and died cuz of all the spirits he was seeing.

also prince lefayze (long hair dude with blue eyes) technically is level 1 but the monarchy insists that they are actually level infinity and just better than everyone else. lefayze is obv part of the very corrupt monarchy but he's quite cut off from what goes on and genuinely has no clue about all the horrible things going on until jayden comes in cuz he's basically forced to work for the monarchy but he takes his chance to get closer to the prince and show him how messed up the king (his father) and basically everyone else is. the king literally makes decisions in the prince's name, so this makes him quite the target even though the prince has never actually made any policies or statements, he's just a figurehead.

the fact that hes a target makes a lot of ppl try and kill him for valid reasons, although their hate is misplaced cuz again, he's not even doing anything, he's clueless.

i havent posted this dude, but there's a guy named fernando (I took his name from that abba song I kid you not, also took yael's name from new soul by yael naim, cuz that song is fr her) and he's... not on friendly terms with jayden, and that's being nice. I'll reveal what actually happens later, but he's the one who took jayden's eye, and no one's happy about that.

also the main cast of my TEN OCs (most are not posted) can turn into animals, jayden can turn into a lion, lefayze into a wolf, yael into an owl, Fernando into a deer, puma guy into... well, a puma etc

yael i've only posted once but i don't draw her a lot even though I've developed quite a lot of lore for her (involves autism and childhood trauma, very serious stuff actually, my story has comedy and very tragic/messed up stuff, but her story is one of the saddest) and she always ends up being the middleman between all the people fighting around her cuz she's dating fernando but she also doesn't think his actions towards jayden were fair, so it's kinda just complicated.

puma guy, being the opposite of jayden, is very serious all the time and he beats nazis up, that's literally his whole thing (very relevant in modern times I know) and he wants a relationship real bad, and it certainly isn't hard to find ppl who like him cuz he is attractive, but he can't talk to them!! he suddenly loses his ability to speak coherently around people he respects or people he likes, and it kinda messes things up for him. not to mention, since he's fighting all the time, it's just hard to manage a relationship, so even when he gets someone he isn't able to keep it going and it usually comes to an end. also he's probably got the strongest virtues of all my OCs, he only beats up bad people and he doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, always tries to be a good person (thank his parents lmao)

puma guy is literally the only one with a healthy relationship with his parents, the way he was raised by them did make his extremely selfless and it made him not complain (if he didn't want to eat veggies or smth his dad would just say "my dad was in the camps, eat up" and his mom wouldn't help cuz she would also just say "well my dad was starving and his house got bombed" ww2 generational trauma goes crazy

so puma guy bottles up all his problems and refuses to care for himself cuz "other ppl are doing worse than me" I love writing complex characters man

jayden and puma guy dont quite have the absolute hate for each other like jayden and Fernando, but because they are literally written to be opposites, they often disagree on simple issues (classic "I want to paint the wall blue" "I want to paint the wall pink") and they kinda have a really funny competition between them.

jayden and the prince... oh boy where do we even start. well I'll get this out of the way, they like each other a LOT, and its an interesting dynamic cuz jayden is always getting hurt to protect the prince, and the prince always feels really bad cuz he too cares about jayden.

i have one other character who's also fleshed out, but I haven't posted them (I really should tbh, but my current ref is literally more than a year old) and their name is rocksalt, and they are very blunt, no nonsense, say it like it is kinda person. they don't really show fear and they kinda just have a nonchalant attitude. very suited for being involved in laws and stuff. also they can turn into a cobra and again, more childhood trauma.

last thing... i have an old written story about jayden and his love for boba, it involves gang members and the old boba shop owner... who literally ends up in the hospital and has an IV filled with boba. and I wrote that for school, no joke. not to mention, I got a really high score on it the teacher was raving about it brooo

i lied about last thing, i also made a whole entire plushy of puma guy, except its a silly fat cat and that is literally the FIRST depiction of him and the first concept of him I ever made, a lot of the elements of his design make sense when you see the plushy

OCs i made when i was 9 part 3

lol the random hedgehog

some of these are... weird af dont ask about the person with the stick idek bro

i feel like it's kinda obvious what time period these were made in from some of these clothes lmaoo

im actually trying to redraw ALL my old OCs wish me luck the 37 I've drawn already are all from a span of less than a year 😭 I was pumping these out like a factory

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more OCs I created when I was 9 (these are a bit later than some of the first ones I posted, you can tell because the designs are more complex) these are all from a superhero team, except the blue hair skirt girl

i dont know whats with the yeti her name is devil apparently and she likes everything (actual note I wrote idk)

would you believe that the girl with the black bob is some sort of weird knockoff of... cleopatra idk how but I listed her weakness as romans??

Astrid, character by poppygumi on Reddit

erm kinda goes hard

made it so dramatic man it ain't that serious 😭

draw something that isn't super rendered with complex shading challenge impossible

that's why i probably have like 1 drawing on here that's cel-shaded cuz I just can't NOT add some nice gradient and smooth shading

although i didn't blend EVERYTHING this time I do gotta work on that cuz ik there's hard edges too and especially for shiny materials I shouldn't blend or else the texture will be wrong

doing art makes me appreciate it so much cuz i LOVE just doing the art, not just the product which is why I don't see the usefulness of AI, it takes away the part I actually enjoy doing

i gotta do more studies and especially learn how to draw backgrounds and perspective cuz I'll get a random burst of motivation to draw my comic but then... the first panel has to have a background shoot

my OCs i made when I was around 9 part 2

some of these look... kinda crazy but also some of them look good but I feel like that's pure accident