Battle's End

I've been rather sick this past few months and have been messing with Sims 4 to continue a weekly post. But yesterday, I felt like playing a bit more with my painting project. Attempted a bit of texture with it on the stones (may need to lower the opacity on those layers) and have thrown some arm and leg plans around to be covered up by what uniform the...'willing amputees', let's call them...had been wearing.

Painted! I don't know if it's actually done or not but I'm tired of staring at it. XD Time to start a new picture!

Battle's End update

 

Lovely! Was having an awful day where nothing was keeping my attention, but this bit of shadow detail in the background? This FINALLY made everything work out!
Did a little detail on the rocks in the lower right, too. Currently enjoying how that much has come out, too. 

The other characters SHOULD start coming through now that I have some shadow actually working. @@ Wish me luck. XD And...hm. So much for the predicted 'one week' from before, right? ^^;

(Edit Dec 11, 2021: There's been a bit of a breakdown on my end and I've lost that white fire for my site's background. Please tolerate this black on black site for a short time.
Thank you so much for your patience!)

Battle's End update

 

Oh my gosh, now I don't have to do more than some bare grayscale after I get behind the middleground healer and injured. It's awful and I'm going to keep enjoying how much I drive myself mad with this. The shadows in the scene are going to be lovely when I finally get my butt after drawing them. SOON though. This whole thing is going to be all finished and pretty at some month!

...I promise all of that natter will make plenty more sense when I finally get done with it all. ^^;

Battle's End update--That's...a little backwards.

Watch out! D= A dead pair of Jeans!

Agh, as fun as my little playing is, I didn't even put down any of my light sources yet. Why didn't I at least wait til I'd thrown the light in! XD

That's another thing to love about Layers though, isn't it? Can actually throw some lights in (and I have an idea what to do for that, thanks to my friend on Discord since I have healers working in the scene). So the lights from the healers and a couple of lanterns with the more alive three in the back? That will entirely light the scene for me. 

Thank goodness it's going to be good!

Battle's End character plan & general chat

Two more characters to place and the scene will be planned out.
It's been so fun to play with so far, too! Still can't wait to get Valeon in the scene so I can finally do a linework of the characters; getting them dressed and set up is going to be great. And then! I will FINALLY get to paint this whole thing properly!

Have to admit that I've been a little slow on this (obviously) and I apologize. I've just been so exhausted. Finally went by the doctor two days ago and I've been fighting some infection. ...I could have told someone that, what and the slime I've been coughing up...
Either way, I'm 2 days in on my antibiotics and can definitely tell a difference. So everything is turning better!

Battle's End wip

For a "beginning of the road" sketch and flat colors, I'm enjoying how the horizon worked! Can't wait to throw some lighter color and shade on this once the characters are drawn out, too.

(Edit: I have finally cottoned onto the idea behind drawing rocks without those plain straight lines! Oh my gosh it works it works it works!!)
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Speaking of 'drawn out' and everything, why do I torture myself with scenes like this? Aside from Valeon, there will be four characters in this scene if everything works like I want. That is 5 characters here. And since we all know by now that I can't half ass a thing once I have an idea...

Yes. I am utterly insane. And I'll drag you down the path as I walk it. XD Have fun!