Feature 185--hyacinthandsal

Damage Control

If only shouting 'damage control' would clean up any messes in the area. It'd be so easier than what we already do...so why hasn't anyone invented this yet?
And what a terrible way to run a club that is supposed to be for yogurt! Throwing it in the floor instead of being able to eat it all? Terrible terrible...at least the one who is cleaning up seems to recognize the issue. Perfect for a giggle!

Nature of Sage

That fox girl thinking she's really getting into reading...really made me laugh here.
Gosh if only getting into reading and understanding the whole book was so easy! But...it's honestly more fun to actually read instead of just glancing at things. Pity the fox gal isn't going to get it til she finally checks one out!

No Joke

Oh yes. Dad getting a joke is definitely the way to tell when one is actually funny, right? ...that or Hyacinth has just barely learned the magic of a proper dad-joke and how it definitely makes everyone else groan.
Love this one so much! But I've always had a soft spots for bad jokes. Especially ones that are just told in the calm and quiet of what is probably a living room. Thank you so much David for showing that these jokes have their times and places.

To see more of these great works, here is hyacinthandsal's dA! Be sure to check all of it out, it'll so be worth it! He also has a link to his

Feature 170--JuliaMersmann

 

Lamia

This background is so perfect for some of the images of vampires that I've seen. I wonder how long it took her to make this come out so well? And just take a look at how the lightning from the storm has lit up the floor tiles!
Speaking of light, don't those candles look perfect? Especially how the light from them touches so perfectly on the vampire's dress and the baby's wrap. This whole piece is just gorgeous, definitely one of my favorites!

Flora of the Moon

Interesting piece! It's a Draw Everything June and Julia drew the Moonpresence from Bloodborne. Isn't this just the most interesting pose that this creature could have been drawn in? It looks just as distorted as the game makes it look but I just adore how the moon appears to be something of an egg for the creature; just waiting to hatch.
The tentacles look amazing and it would just be wrong to not mention how well the ribs and spine came out. My eyes keep going toward the creature's feet and claws on the toes. The whole piece is super well done!

Drow me Like a French Girl

It's so fun to see people draw their D&D characters. This one is a Drow who is more than happy to lay out on a comfortable surface and appear so lovely. Why not, right? All of the focus he gets on his bare body while he just gets to lay there in the proper poses!
The darkness of the image does perfectly to help censor certain places and it almost looks natural for how the shadows fit. And then the characters blue eyes just seem to glow with all the candles shining into them...he probably has eyes that glow anyway, to be fair, he's a Drow!

What a fun image to get to end on, right? These pieces are amazing and I truly love her painting style with all of these. If you'd like to see more of JuliaMersmann's artwork, her deviantart gallery is right here. Go check it out!

Haley is being difficult

Panel 1, for example. Look at her arm that's leaning on the table. That thing looks horrifying to me and I'm not quite sure what's messed up yet. I'll hopefully find a better reference pretty soon. Complaining aside? I'm excited to be starting on the characters now! It's going to be fun to get to Panel 2 to draw the girls' surprise at Valeon's show of temper!

Oh if I weren't so slow doing things without the dolls, though. At least the characters will be a lot less stiff. ^^

Speaking of drawing without the mannequins: My tutor has started lessons on how to draw the figure from the bottom up. We're on sketching the armature right now and finding how the body masses are tilted and shaped!
Expect to see plenty of my homework on this and please please wish me luck on this new adventure.

Coffee Time

I have the scene set up in all three panels, finally! Doesn't it look so much better without all that sketching mess in the middle of everything? (I can't wait until I'm finally done with the sketch layers. XD) And that little addition of Find the Way on that far table is going to fit perfectly!

I can't wait to see the illustration finalized!

...Of course, let's just ignore how much I'm panicking that I have 4 characters to throw in here. They're going to look great without using clip studio's dolls like I was. And they're not going to be so awfully stiff like in FtW. So what is there to be afraid of?
Nothing at all. But give me a couple hours and I'll have a few more nonsense worries. But let's look on the good side.

The illustration is almost finished!

Stock sites and "Coffee Time"

Have I ever complained enough about not finding good references? Because I am complaining now. XD I have all of DeviantArt's stock, Shutterstock, Freeimages, Rgbstock, and several other places to look, but I am so blasted picky when trying to select the right references.

...yeah, that's my story for not having anything last week with my current piece, and I'm sticking to it. XD I'm sorry about that.

Anyway, here is my current sketch of the gestures!

I'm so happy with how much better the scene on panel 1 and especially the actions on 2 seem. That's definitely new, coming from my stuff! Here's hoping the rest of it comes out!

Coffee Time's gestures!

Gestures are finished!

Tip #1: Do not attempt to go through DeviantArt's search without knowing all the information needed for what you search for. This is a very well known thing to those of us who have been on that site for ages, but it seems that Eclipse beta hasn't begun to get straightened out on the search? At least before, it wasn't so hard to avoid bringing up a nude image starting from a low angle by searching for "slapping a table"! 

I hope that they can get things straightened out soon...we're all able to use more search terms than before, so I hope that the good folks will start adding them. (There'll always be users on that site whining that it's deviantart so they don't have to...but the majority are rule-abiding!)

Tip #2: Did you know that for thumbnail images on a comic thing, you don't have to use such strong attempts at perspective? I played a little too literally here and let it have too much focus, but I can't say that I'm upset with playing with the gestures. In a few days, I might go over the gestures at the far table again since Find the Way did better showing Valeon's action than this one did, but these are complete!

I had fun with the whole thing while getting to this point! ...so whining like I did earlier about 'not doing this again' is moot. I'm probably going to make more short comics like this if I get any more ideas for them.

Coffee Time, sketch 2.0

...Yes I have "demoted" this version a little to 2.0. BUT I'm still very happy with how it's worked out so far. When this one is actually finished, it's going to be a proud moment to put it on the Art page!
It's been very fun to play with this to this point so it can't do anything but get better on the final version!

All that said, I hope no one is going to be disappointed that I'm probably not going to do another comic for a little while? XD Still prefer my full images over this, however much fun it's been to learn some tricks and all for this one. I'll definitely be applying some of the shortcuts for this to some of my full images, though!

Before I leave today, I must say Thank You to a certain "bad influence" friend of mine for even making this idea begin to sound fun, what and all the short and hilarious comics he spits out at anything funny that crosses his mind. Just had to say!

Coffee Time as a comic!

I wish I still had some of them to show you (had a computer that held most of them die) but I used to mess with Sonic comics all the time. Why do I bring this up now? This will probably not be something that continues in a regular basis but it's finally come around that I came up with a small comic with a handful of my own characters. Look at this. XD

Right this moment I'm very happy with how most of this has turned out. And I'm more than aware that thumbnails are meant to be my eyes only...sorry if these are difficult to read right now, but I'll get them lined and cleaned up as soon as possible for everyone!
   Oh gosh, I hope I don't get slow on things now. I want to get this finished now that it's started! Just knock on wood with me!