Beautiful!

Beautiful! ♡

Shar’s Embrace

Dark Justiciar Shadowheart, baptized in her Lady of Loss’s eternal darkness…

I occasionally draw the women of BG3 too.

Really cool!

SH study to try out a more painted style

So helpful advise, thank you!

I saw your advice on art (different anon here) what brushes in CSP do you use for hair and skin? I want to learn to render them properly but I don't know where to start. Sorry to be a bother!

Hello there! You're not a bother, I promise!

I've been using these brushes by Magda Proski for years now. My favorite is the one called Magda's. I use that one for almost everything because depending on the pressure you apply, it can be a soft or a hard brush, so it's very versatile. For the hair, for example, I outline and color it with the Magda's, then I add highlights, shadows, and texture with the Flat Brush and Hair Brush.

It's a pretty complete set, and if I remember right, it's free! Worth giving a try.

The other set I've been using for a long loooong time is this one by Herssian. They're the main reason I kept using Photoshop all these years, to be honest. PS brushes can be imported to CSP from last year, so I no longer use PS but I still render all my drawings with them.

I don't have a public WIP advanced enough to show you every stage of the process, but I'll let you some examples.

This would be my first stage: lines are clean (I always start working with this kind of lineart even when I'm going for a lineless painting) and I already have the flat color for his skin.

Then, using Herssian's #3, Magda's or any ther hard brush I start outlining or painting (usually in the same layer, but you can add another one if you're not confident enough yet) the shape of the face attending to where the light source comes from.

Once you have the shapes of the face ready, it's time to start blending. In my case, I use the Corel Painter Brush by Brian Allen. I also use this one for hair, sometimes lineart, details... together with Magda's and Herssian #3 (you can also use those two for blending); it's one of my essential brushes for everything. I play around with their opacity and the eyedropper tool until I'm satisfied with the result. I prefer keeping noticeable brushstrokes.

After that, I add freckles, skin texture, scars, or whatever detail I need to add to the drawing, and once I finish with that, I start working on the lightning of the scene, cast shadows, etc.

Let me add this super short, humble video of myself rendering. I hope it helps a little bit.

I also recommend this tutorial by KauriArt, which was very helpful for me back in the day when I started trying to figure out how to paint and render. And this video by EricAnthonyJ (their brushes are amazing too) about how to paint skin.

I'm sorry this ended up being longer than I expected! I hope you find the brushes helpful, and please, don't hesitate to ask again if you need anything else! Let me know if you try them!

Have a nice day, Nonny! ♥

Really cool!

⚔️ Jaheira 🐱

What do you mean I can't romance Jaheira?! Why? :3

So sweet ♡

I redid the drawing I wasn't satisfied with last year.

crawling back out of the dark depths with a little portrait :)