Thread: Jade's Mega Art Restart

I had a dream just last night that some DCs who were singing off key to, "Hit me with your best shot" at some bar while other DCs were throwing tomatoes at them. What a deafening sound!! They sounded like my college ex-roommate did years ago. XD This drawing is Awesome! Keep up the great work!

Lololol xD Kiro's bad singing is hilarious. I love the picture and how much detail you put into it too.The armor looks so good on Dawn.Ive always wanted to see them in better get up but I always come up with something easy to draw.Also, your drawing with photoshop is getting better and better.Im going to put this as my phone screen saver. It also inspires me to be more detailed in my art. Im going to try drawing your characters too. Its been a while since I drew them.

Jack was never a dream character that I really particularly liked, but I used him to test how I might draw characters in photoshop in the future. I think I'm hot on the tail of my skill level in adobe illustrator.

I was wondering when you would draw Jack again.He looks great.When I look at the first drawing I can't help but think of G i joe. He kind of looks like a buff american soidgier which is cool. I also like the one where hes wearing casual clothing. It shows his soft side.

Me: So I've been thinking of drawing someone from Steven Uni-

Friend: DRAW GARNET!

Me: Ok...



I'm really happy with the way this came out, particularly on the gauntlet. When I drew Jack, I experimented with having two layers of shading. One where the line of the shading was really definite and the other more airbrushed looking. It sort of works, and the shading like that is a LOT of extra work. It's a lot easier just to have two tones of definite shading and it gives this sort of poster/comic book look. (It really starting to look like my old illustrator pieces.)

I should really do a scenery piece or at least one with more of a focus on the background. The background in this is obviously a brief afterthought. Maybe I'll do that next...

Edit: Man, photoshop export made the quality poopy.

I was wondering when you would draw Jack again.He looks great.When I look at the first drawing I can't help but think of G i joe. He kind of looks like a buff american solider which is cool. I also like the one where he's wearing casual clothing. It shows his soft side.

Yeah I think the solider in training was kind of the basis of his in-dream design. Though he was kind of an arrogant jerk, he did seem to have a sort of code of self discipline and boundaries like a solider/trainee. The outfit on the right hand side was one I never saw him wear in dream. I wanted to give him one that I thought looked cooler or more like clothes that I would pick out for him, while still fitting his personality.

Maybe I do new outfits for all my dream characters.

Garnet looks awesome! Nice choice in pose too. I can see the difference in shading but I think its fine as long as it doesnt look like the shading is smudged like how it gets on paper sometimes. It would be cool to see your characters in new outfits too. I actually wanna see how you would draw them in formal clothing. But you can do whatever you want. ^.^Hehe Clever choice of words btw.

I actually wanna see how you would draw them in formal clothing.

Tell me who in particular and I'll make it happen.

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

Tell me who in particular and I'll make it happen.

: D Sweet! I actually wanted to see your dream self,Manei and Marcus in formal clothing but if I had to choose one I'd like to see you do Manei.

Photoshop didn't go to town on the image quality like it did with garnet.

Its annoying. Theres like a million and two styles of dresses and like three variations on mens formal. Not to mention it pretty much only comes in the colors of blue, gray and black, so you can't really personalize it to characters nearly as much as I would like. It's p much as simple as just fit a sport coat and pants to the characters body type and draw the head and hands. .

At least Marcus looks good in it. He was practically born to wear these kind of clothes. I think I only got motivated to do this because I wanted to do the hologram watch.

Manei looks alright, I wish I'd chosen a dress where I could have worked in more different colors, or drawn a different angle to show the hair more. Also the height difference between us becomes ridiculous when she's wearing heels and I'm not. (TBH if she wore heels she'd probably have to worry about hitting her head on doors and stuff...)

And I always think I look like a moron in these kind of clothes, both in dream and out. It was still funny to draw myself though.

Woooow. I love the clothes you chose and the details you put to the side of the earing and watch.The dress really looks beautiful on Manei and the hair style is cute.The accesories really compliment her outfit too. Hehe And Marcus does look like he was made to wear that suit.Your dream self looks great in a suit too. I like how his hair is combed back and the shoes look spiffy as well. Fantastic job on the drawing and thanks for taking my request. I'm glad I finally got to see how your characters would look in formal clothing. It definetly inspires me to draw more.

Thanks

Would you mind if I put in a request of my own? Take it if you like. But you should draw like a shared dream between us with all of our dream characters meeting. I know you've already done my characters once, but I always love the way they look in your style when they come up.

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

Thanks

Would you mind if I put in a request of my own? Take it if you like. But you should draw like a shared dream between us with all of our dream characters meeting. I know you've already done my characters once, but I always love the way they look in your style when they come up.

Your welcome.^w^ Sure. That sounds cool. I already have an idea of how it would look like but I'll get started on it when I can.

An old old old dream inspired this. Technically it could go on DYD but I reread the dream and the way I remembered it and drew it and the way the dream reads are two completely different ways.

That picture is so fantastic! I love the dark side it has to it,along with elements that show discovery and adventure.The character in the picture was you in the dream? You did another super job on the design and the pose showing movement looks good.5/5 stars!Seriously this is one of my favorite. X3

Manei/Jonathan Outfit Redesigns. Redesigns are in the middle. Original dream outfits are on the edges. I like how these came out.

Those outfits really pop. Love the color choices too.The posing and facial expression also keep me interested in Manei and Jonathan. The chibi robot girl is cute too. Looks like they make great friends.

I've drawn enough Dream Characters for awhile. Steampunk Raiah and Satri... Why didn't I think of this ages ago...?

They look so sweet and your really good at drawing robotic stuff.

Spoiler for :

The case of a cool idea for a character but didn't put all my heart into the artwork. Maybe I revisit this concept at some point.

Looks like a cool villain and very unique to me. You should definetly keep her in mind if you ever start a comic or story.

Been in kind of an artistic rut lately but here have some messy sketches.



I always like seeing how others' characters translate into my style. Tho for Toph and Cyborg it isn't much of a transition, considering TT and ATLA are major influences on my character style. In other words, I wasn't influenced by manga/anime. I was influenced by the western cartoons that were influenced by manga and anime.



And this. I have no idea why I'm in love with this Paladin/Knight version of Dawn. I guess I was just secretly hoping that there would eventually be some cool action scenes in cafe's lucid dreaming comic.

Those steampunk cyborg arms looks cool! Do you ever experiment with art while you're lucid? Like try drawing in a dream?

One instance comes to mind, but it was quite awhile ago. This weird semi lucid dream involving going to Chicago, not being able to find a parking spot, and meeting my dream guide there. (I don't remember if I wrote it down anywhere.) She said that she wanted me to draw her and started modeling sitting on a rock by the lakeshore. I had surprisingly little trouble with the dream distorting and changing while I did an actually pretty good charcoal gesture of her.

Anyways have some character ideation.

I need to stop. I really do.