Nexyl and Múldir

Here is the finished piece of my Nexyl and Múldir piece I worked on for a few good months. I was playing around with a bunch of brushes that I am open to sharing with if you are interested. :3

First off, the textures I used were actually brushes like for the fur. I used the Dune Grass brush at around 25. The key to this brush is that with color effects it allows of your two selected colors (where your original black and white squares are in the toolbox) and it will take both of those colors and scatter them like grass. So it is good to make grass with different colors. However, for fur, I took the same color in both squares then at the line of shadow and tint, just kind of mixed directions and how much would come up or down. For the stripes, I did the same, just black and then strips of different sizes and lengths. 

For more shadows, I just took the opacity of black way down to around 18, and with over the shadowed areas I make ONE brush stroke. If I let go of it, I use the smudge tool to continue it in. 

For textures, I used filters. First I added the surface blur so the colors fuze together more and then for Múldir's clothing, I did Water Paper under Sketch and for Nexyl his cloth I did Smudge Stick, they were the best for fabric that did not distort the colors. I recommend them if you are wanting more realistic looking cloth. 

Everyone else was a regular brush stroke of coloring and I stenciled the design on Nexyl's top from a Celtic design. 

The hair I colored myself by hand....so much work... 

I started this in March, finished at the end of May. I had so much to do it, getting around to it was the hardest part. Once I got to it and I was done messing around with filters and brushes, I could get it done within a total of 4 days. Phew~! <3

Venril and Srel

I promised that Sundays would be a day to post artwork for the story. These two images are what I have done for the story based on the characters.

The first one is Venril showing off his archery skills and his Dragon form. It took me a long time to color in Copic Markers and I did some minor edits in Photoshop with the background and lighting.

The second one is of Venril holding Srel in his lap. I wanted to play around with body sizes considering Srel is a Half-Dwarf and around 5'2" in height. I looked up a lot of styles of body types for shorter males like Hiei or Vegeta but not as masculine as Vegeta. I did use the pose of an old image a friend did for me that I have hanging on my wall. I thought it would work well for Srel's size compared to Venril's, their relationship, and how angry Srel would get. I laughed thinking of Srel and the pose my friend did where the character in the lap was saying "This guy is so dead." And I just thought of Srel in the same position. But considering Srel actually really cares for and loves Venril it was more like Venril saying, "So tiny and cute!" And then Srel says, "This guy is so dead." Yes I want an angry short character. :3

I edited both images in photoshop to make it look cleaner and cripser than what my sketchbook and scanner could possibly do. I hope you enjoy some visuals to my story. :3 YAY FOR POSTING!!