Topic: NintendoLife Artists Thread

@Link-Hero that was very harsh

I do not like him one bit but still I know from his words that his family is caring for him and they will continue to do so

But I agree that he is jealous because of attention. He stopped talking to be after I started posting my art.

Let's keep this thread all about art after now!

Jayden the Blue Jay.

He is a 17 years old anthro Blue Jay. He is the classmate of Russell in the school. Jayden actually a nice guy but his behavior slowly changed as he get closer with Russell. He is the most handsome bird in his class but with Russell, he is also a troublemaker. Ironically, Endymion was used to be his classmate when they were kindergarten students. After they graduated from Kindergarten, they studied on different schools until both of them studied in the same school when they are Senior High School students. He got trained by Alberto to become Sky Boxer apprentice.

@Anti-Matter they all look the same. Maybe try something original as copy and paste is not eye catching.

@Anti-Matter I have to ask, why do the birds have both wings and arms? I get that they are a chibby interpretation but it looks weird seeing birds with 6 limbs. Apart from that maybe try different poses as a lot of these look like generic re-colours.

@Zuljaras I needed to learn how to make my faces to not look the same but I'm still trying LOL. But I do agree they all look the same when he does on change and do more human looking characters you do see the change so I know he can do it.

Not the first time on this thread as a viewer but I have some work to share that I feel is pretty good. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm quite horrible at drawing, so I've found solace in graphic design. I designed my school's yearbook cover last year, and the design turned out quite nicely despite minimal input in Adobe Illustrator. I was sent some images, I took one and ran some filters over it to give it a fresco aesthetic. The physical book itself has a nice shine to it. I worked on various pages as well but for obvious reasons I can't show them.

I'm also developing a potential cover for this year, with the theme of masks. It's a bit boring if you ask me but it's very relevant. I used Canva so the assets are heavily simplified.

@Anti-Matter I used Adobe Illustrator, and applied various filters to a real photograph to create the image you see.

@Anti-Matter Yeah, my license expired a few months ago so I can't make them anymore.

Not gonna stop me though, I also do landscape photography whenever I travel. I took a wide ranges of images when I went to India in December '19, a few of Mozambique in January '20, Circuit Paul Ricard in June '19, and more.

@CactusMan Many thanks, I’m glad they’ve turned out alright so far. I do hope I can simplify the bottom image, it feels far too busy at the moment. Minimalist art style is good of course but I’d want to convey the theme of masks.

@TheJGG Cheers for you mate Its amazing..

@TheJGG The cover with the Lions turned real good. Oh and a question what is Canva?

@Snatcher Thank you very much!

@Zuljaras Despite the seemingly simplistic nature of that cover I'm extremely happy with how it turned out in the end. And Canva's an online graphic design software. It's not at all like Adobe Illustrator; I relied on pre-existing assets and graphics to make this. One area it has over Illustrator is that the stylistic font choices are very diverse, so there's a number of messages one can convey.

@CactusMan I've taken that into account and I believe it works very well, and have implemented it. Thanks for the well wishes, I hope my passion can translate into quality.

Here's the revision of it, it has a bit more text but that'll remain a work in progress unless I find a good angle. I edited out my school's logo for obvious reasons.

@TheJGG I do not know any of those programs My drawing path through the years looks like that:

Real Paper >>> MS Paint (best drawing software on the world!) >>> GIMP >>> Corel Painter >>> Photoshop >>> ProCreate

So all the buildings are done finally! I am still not sure about the magnets. I might just put sockets in the terrain for each building.

Here are some of the buildings up close. The Town Hall is colored and varnished

Wow, @Zuljaras you’re extremely good at using clay. Applying the smaller details must have been very painstaking.

@Zuljaras Yeah, I have to agree with @TheJGG about the detail. I used to work on the smallest of figures myself at one point, half a lifetime ago, but honestly speaking, I really don't know if I'd still be able to find the patience for it, nowadays.

@TheJGG @ThanosReXXX

Thank you both. The little details finally coming together after baking is awesome feeling

@Zuljaras You're very welcome. And I can definitely imagine that feeling, after having put that much time into it. Success always feels all the greater after such an effort.

I'm slowly trying to learn how to draw humans properly, as my main goal is to draw characters I'm using in my writing and stuff. However, I'm mostly just drawing heads over and over again until I feel like I'm at a good point to start drawing the rest.