Topic: NintendoLife Artists Thread

@Zuljaras I’m not really a Pokemon fan but thank you for the thought.
This will sell well if you try Etsy.

@1UP_MARIO I can't sell items that are intellectual property of someone without their consent. And I really want this to be a gift

@Zuljaras That's a thanks, but no thanks for me. I appreciate the offer, and I applaud your skills, but I'm really not that big of a Pokémon fan.

The following are likely a little out of character for this thread, but I wanted to share some images of drawings that I found in my old third grade notebook; I rediscovered it while going through some of my things a few months ago. These were drawn at the height of the initial Pokemon craze here in North America. Forgive my poor third grade spelling. XD

(I'm pretty sure the reason Kakuna is green is due to the fact that the yellow marker ran out by that point. There was a Pikachu drawing as well, but it was very hard to see.)

@Tyranexx
LOL 🤣🤣🤣
The spelling....
Actually i have some sketches on note book when i was college age.
It was about the fatherhood of main character in Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life.
I have played the PS2 version long time ago and got two different endings. Somehow it inspired me to create my own life stage of the kids from Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life.
My sketches had no color with a few Engrish words.
I created my own life stage after i have touched a bit from the storyline progress that was really linear but had something touching at the end (very predictable though).
Well, let's see if i can find my old sketches....
And if i have enough time, i think i will recreate my old sketches with better design and added with color as well.

@Anti-Matter Cool! I'd like to see those. I'm by no means an artist; I wanted to be one around that age (I was 8 or 9 when those were drawn), but I learned long ago that I can never live off of my art. XD I do like to draw a little now and again, but moments when I can sit down to do that sort of thing are few and far between.

There was a still life that I did on a sticky note at work that isn't half bad though....I worked on it over time Lol.

@Tyranexx
Well, i have found my sketches.

Become Farmer

Become Scientist

@Anti-Matter Those are really good! Pretty neat representations of the stages of family life for different job fields. I just wish I could read some of the penciled in dialogue better. I'm on a laptop with a 16 inch screen even.

Finally done with this Christmas Candy House!

Everything is glued and all the sugar addons are done!

@Zuljaras Looks pretty good, man. Might need a modest touch of a little rainbow or silver glitter, to give it that typical Christmas figurine feel, but other than that, really well done. Too bad Christmas is already over, but at least you've got something really nice to put on display next year.

I will post here as well in case people do not visit the Chit-Chat thread.

So I finally painted the Unholy Warrior!
I apologise in advance for the terrible lighting!
Here is a video:

The metal plates and the sword on him are painted with metallic paint to simulate real metal.
His armor and weapon are rusted and only show little of his former glory!

@Zuljaras At the risk of repeating myself: your skill is definitely improving. Looks pretty damn good.
If I would have painted it, I would have used some dry brushes/washes to pull out the higher parts, though.

What I mean by that is for example the head, arms and legs. Brush them lightly with a broad brush (or a brush that you've cut the tip off, so that you have a short and broad end) with a lighter paint, such as off-white, and let it dry out on the brush a bit, or smear it out on a piece of paper or cardboard, and then lightly brush the eye sockets, nose bone and cheek bones so that the skeleton becomes a bit more natural, and then it also emphasizes the raised bits, for a bit more contrast. (edit: and the same for the raised parts of the arms and legs, obviously)

You can do the same with the raised parts of the clothes and do the reverse with the lower parts of all the metal bits. On the clothes, I would have used a slightly lighter green, and I would make the metal look tarnished, so I'd probably use black for that.

Mind you, it still looks good as it is, but I'd go for a more gritty look, as if he has actually just risen from the grave.

EDIT:
Alternatively, you could also have painted all the weapons and armor all in black, and then do a gold, silver or any other kind of metallic dry brush afterwards, to emphasize the raised bits, and get that authentic used/tarnished weapon and armor look.

@ThanosReXXX Damn that sounds too advanced but I get it. Next ones will have more thought put in them for sure.

@Zuljaras It probably sounds advanced if you've never heard of it before, but the act itself isn't that complicated. Later this week, I'll go into my personal archives, and see if I can dig up some of my old Dungeons & Dragons figurines, with which I can show you what I mean. That is: if I can actually find them.

If not, then I'll find some examples online. It's really cool stuff, once you get the hang of it/get used to it, and it raises the quality of figurines from nice (or even great) looking plastic models to professional, artistic looking models. Over here in the city, there's Games Workshop stores, where they sell all the Warhammer and Warhammer 20K stuff, and they also give paint classes. I don't know if you have something similar somewhere in your area as well, but otherwise, the links that I gave you some time ago, also contain a couple of tutorials on the matter.

@ThanosReXXX I do not have such places in my country

So you get unpainted figurines and paont them? I would like to see those!

@Zuljaras Yes. They are usually made from some kind of tin alloy, and quite a bit smaller than your figurines, so patience and a sharp eye (or a lamp with a magnifying glass) required....

Here's an example of a shop that sells the kinds of unpainted figurines that I used to buy, to give you an idea:
https://www.miniaturemarket.com/table-top-miniatures/nolzur.html

Some of the larger figurines need to be put together from loose parts, so a bit of glue is needed before adding the primer coat:
https://muy.troyathenshoops.com/index.php?main_page=product_i...
Because these figurines are made from metal, you first need to coat them in primer, as a base, and then color them. Primers come in white, grey or black, so depending on how the final figurine is supposed to look, you choose an appropriate primer.

@ThanosReXXX Those look really cool. I prefer to make them myself but if people are not into that they can buy those beautiful figurines.

@Zuljaras I actually got into collecting and painting those figurines through friends. We used to play D&D games online and on board games, and I read a lot of fantasy series, so learning to paint figurines, which are also sometimes used as set pieces on a board game, was more or less the next natural step.

@ThanosReXXX Nice! Today I got my First D&D games. The Collection of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 for the Switch and I got the other one Icewind Dale + Planescape Torment (Switch) waiting to be delivered.

Just passed the tutorial of Baldur's Gate 1 and it is a little overwhelming but the journey will be worth it!

@Zuljaras If you find that you like it, and if you also like to read books/fantasy novels, then I've got "a couple" of recommendations for you in that department...

EDIT:
Those are great games, by the way.