Painting forum signatures

Recently, I decided to finally paint a signature for the guild forums I've been more active in.

It took me a bit to figure out a slightly creative way of displaying the text, though it's probably not that creative. 

I started the process with creating a gradient and sketching out the pose and clothing. After that, I painted in the values, blended, then added an overlay layer with the colors over the values. 

Originally, the text "Flaming Lily" was written over the partial painting and towards the bottom, but I didn't like it. I had the idea of having the full name of my character on the side where the "nickname" (in game name) was sticking out more than the "full name" (first and last name). 

The original painting, where I only wrote my in game name on the bottom, generated an interest with one of the guild members and I accepted the request to paint one for him. 

He sent me 3 reference screenshots of his character in their respective clothing and poses and I proceed the same process to paint the signature out. 

I've sent him the image and may or may not make changes depending on what he'd like to change. 

Character Design request - the Husband, remade

2:38 pm EST

The Wife got the OK but the Husband needed a remake since the husband and wife character designs didn't seem to compliment each other. For example, the Husband's face was at least twice as wide as wife's and a lot more...unrealistic compared to the wife. 
I took my friend's advice (same friend who requested the character designs) and overlayed the wife over him as reference. 

Character Design request - Husband & Wife updates

6:29 pm EST

I met with my friend about the character designs and after going through the different version, Version 1 of Wife and Version 1 of Husband were selected, but still needed adjustments.
The wife's outfit lost the jacket, for modeling's sake.
The husband needed to match with the wife a little more and he got a wider neck and double chin. 

Character Design request - the Husband #2

11: 13 am EST

I wasn't satisfied with myself with only having 1 version of the husband, so I brainstormed some new appearances of the husband yesterday and quickly drew and colored a second version today.

Again, coloring was rushed; I'm not usually like this with coloring.

Brainstorming the Husband's hair

Character Design request- the Wife #3; the Husband

I figured with a sharp face shape and hair style, wearing pants might make some sense...?
Then again, it's 3 am when I'm having this thought process.

Coloring wasn't my focus here , so again, it's not much usual style.

And here's the husband's character design. My friend 's character details only said a short fat husband, but from the story details, I came up with this instead.

I'm trying to think of another version of the husband but end up coming back to designs similar to this one.

Coloring wasn't focused here, so it's sloppy compared to my usual work.

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I got a Character Design request!; character designs on wife

I was asked by a friend to design two characters he had in mind for his short: a short fat husband and tall skinny wife.

I'm writing this down on the blog mostly for my own memory's sake as I doubt I'll remember all of this when I wake up.

So far there's the short's details he told me ( I wont say in case he doesn't want to reveal yet, and I probably can't do it justice if I tried to explain it),

From listening to the short story details and doing a quick couple of sketches, I've decided upon:

Wife;

- tall,skinny

- " oh, what is my husband doing now?" Sort of reaction

- shoulder length hair, light brown? Blonde? Sharp on ends , goes with face ; maybe a slight bob style

- sharp face shape ,

- long enough neck ( nothing too crazy!)

- necklace,pearl

- short scarf , yellow?green?

- turtle neck shirt , elbow length

- short heels ( she's already tall. I believe these types of shoes would be called "pumps"? Even though I'm a girl, I'm behind with fashion terminology )

- lengthy skirt, "pinstripe" (Again, I don't know the right fashion term, but the outside if the shirt looks like it has lines on it but not striped pattern or plaid)



Husband:

- fat , short - knees should show a bit of this

- " the idiotic husband"? ; comical w/o trying to be comical

- short hair, parted in middle; brown

- mustache

- rounded face , almost oval?

- slight chin

- barely any visible neck

- leather flat shoes , black

- vest, green?red?

- tie, black ........ Actually, No tie. ( too troublesome for the husband to wear given his size)

- white dress shirt, no cuffs,loose collars

- dress pants (since they're usually look loose enough I think? I wouldn't know.), black

Notes as well as variations of initial ideas

I felt that having my blog as the first thing people see wasn't quite what I wanted so to combat this, I moved my artwork page to the first to be seen rather than my blog page. Hopefully it looks better?

 /edit 
As I mentioned in my previous blog posts, I was asked by a friend to draw/create the two characters for his short. Here's the wife, version 1.

The coloring is a lot rougher from my usual methods. I also tried setting the tablet pen's sensitivity lower than usual, to force myself to "paint" lightly. Hopefully this prevents my hand from getting too tense and cramping. 

Here's version 2 of the wife, for my friend's short. As with the first one, I didn't focus on the coloring as much as I would typically with my other work since I was more focused with getting the idea through rather than the coloring. 

Loki fanart /artwork request part 3 Final

Loki and Avengers belong to Marvel



Total time  (excluding searching for references and How to Draw tutorials on eyes )  : 5+ hours

A friend of mine is a huge fan of Tom Hiddlestonn and his role as Loki in The Avengers. She made a request of drawing Loki/Tom Hiddlestonn with an evil grin while standing up or looking up. Other details included him wearing his helmet and holding his scepter.

The reason why he isn't wearing a shirt is my friend has a fan girl crush on him. The drawing would have been more extreme but I decided to keep it a bit on the lower side and just have him without his shirt but with his jacket/cape.

deviantART link

Loki fanart/ artwork request part 2

Finally got around to coloring him. I meant to color him yesterday but ended up getting distracted with school work and a game. That and I woke up pretty late...( > x < );;;

Took about 2 hours to actually finish coloring him, mainly due to the eyes. The original sketch I had of his eyes were oddly placed and didn't show his evilness quite well enough. After at least 5 re-dos I think I finally like the eyes now.



/edit 1 hour later

After watching a How to Draw Eyes video,

I changed my eyes again so they look like this :

Loki fanart/artwork request part 1

Upcoming project - fanart/ artwork request from a friend

Loki and Avengers belong to Marvel

request details:

evil grin, standing or looking up

with helmet and scepter

screen shot of the number of references so far