Beep Beep Bacon Art

[Kingdom Ablaze]

i just realized i still have my joke name, im normally plague180

 

[bacon]

eh~
i gotta finish it so its still rough~

i seriously struggle with every pose so this is practice
practice posing~

 

[bacon]

oh dear

5 color challenge oh no~

i need to stop doing the same thing x:
because I seriously am
Ive been basically touching up so there isnt tons of improvement happening right now just small things

hopefully my next big art stride will happen next month or so

 

[dadevvtsvre]

yeah, don't let yourself fall into a comfort zone of drawing "creepy pupil-less girls" all the time. i believe in you, bacon. expand your horizons, and show the world what you're made of :cheers:

 

[bacon]

i know
I totally realize that
ive been basically just constricting and refining and trying to solidify things
which sounds super silly but
I have a really hard time with keeping consistent
so thats something I am seriously working on
and my gesture
because I am also so terrible at gesture
but by doing comfort things its pretty easy to work on gesture
and I have gotten better in the last week so yay~

Ive been playing around with body parts
how to shape them and how to move them
and how to define them
Ive been trying to extend and de-extend things so that i can maybe make things without a human proportion and make them look normal

but yeah hopefully I have my next art stride in the next upcoming month
i tend to switch off between comfort zone and then strides

 

[bacon]

WIP background
working on painting and colors

a lot of stuff is missing like grass and vines and details
and I gotta play around with the contrast

 

[bacon]

they said I couldnt do males
I proved them right~

the final version is cleaned up with the lineart im just too lazy to resize it x:

 

[bacon]

at least i am trying to expand my horizons~
its pretty bleh in terms of shading
but shading isnt my strongsuit x:

 

[bacon]

ugh
gotta clean it and shit and add more detail and texture but i guess its an okay start x:

what i am really proud of is that for the first time in history bacon actually removed his lineart
yeah
there is no lineart in that
cool shit
super cool
so cool
just
so
cool

 

[Toams]

that is pretty cool
a little bit dark too, try adding some bright shades of green, or some highlights somewhere

 

[bacon]

yeah, i still need to add some more lighting and stuff this was just some basic coloring
yeah green would probably be a good idea im going to tweak it a bit and see what pops out
thanks

 

[bacon]

so yeah I dont know how to make things blend in the background at all so it is pretty terrible
and the background is super cop out but
im done working on this
i am still really new to painting and coloring and stuff so please forgive the huge technical errors~
some coloring advice would be great because
again i am so new to coloring
i dont ever color anything x:


also jesus fuck its sloppy i didnt notice some of the slop
i would go back but i am burnt out beyond belief i am really ready to move on~

also
I bought an art book and it is shipping so hopefully my poses wont be
super fucking terrible anymore
and maybe get to a maximum level of semi decent~

 

[Perihelion]

That's actually really nice, bacon! I think your problem with the background is that it's flat, so it looks out of place with the insect. You need to paint the background too if you want it to blend in.

As far as coloring advice goes, I think you need to consider the overall dimensionality of the thing more. Before you paint, maybe block in the light and dark areas roughly so it's easier to keep the overall form in mind.

 

[bacon]

super sketchy WIP sketch

 

[bacon]

That's actually really nice, bacon! I think your problem with the background is that it's flat, so it looks out of place with the insect. You need to paint the background too if you want it to blend in.

As far as coloring advice goes, I think you need to consider the overall dimensionality of the thing more. Before you paint, maybe block in the light and dark areas roughly so it's easier to keep the overall form in mind.

yeah I know what you are saying peri. Lighting and shading have always been a super struggle and its always been super hard for me to imagine a 3D perspective. Its something I am working on and hopefully am getting better with over time.

The background is terrible I just got so tired of the piece that I sort of stopped

Thanks miss peri ma'am

Also Badmonur gave me some tips hopefully with some practice I can get good~

I also got an anatomy book so like
hopefully I go full fledged with learning the human body and stuff
combine this with learning how to paint digitally and hopefully my art will get better~
(and I will restart that comic~)

 

[bacon]

oh
I also have this
this thing
you know
this terrible thing
that I gave up on
yeah that thing

its pretty terrible so thats why im done with it. Its forever a WIP

 

[Venetia]

what :x hdear: that is quite creepy

you need to watch your softness/hardness values on your paintbrush/whatever tool you're using. The fat lines are crazy soft and the thin lines are super sharp. Looks amateurish ... The blending modes need to be consistent (and imo should always be done sharply, then perhaps softened later as a whole, if you're trying to demonstrate foreshortening or effects or what-have-you).

 

[bacon]

i got some help from peri~

its streaky as shit
I need to block in my colors a lot better :c
and stop being such a puss when it comes to shading
so i apologize for this step back ~

 

[mouse_std]

you have quite artistic touch i admit, but lately its been creepy creature, why is it?

 

[bacon]

thats always been my shtick

Ive been doing hardcore anatomy studies on paper and murals while learning to paint on the computer

Technically, I think Ive always treated everything I do as a monster in some ways
and I like drawing monsters a ton

but if you have any suggestions on what I should draw be my guest and suggest~
and thanks