Makai and Hourai (Shanghai's Art Thread)

• Shanghai wrote on 2014-03-26 07:43
  Oh no, I've hit the second page! Haha, I guess that shows how much I haven't been drawing, and wasting time on video games/doing classwork. This isn't really a show-and-tell, but just an update for that one person out there who worries if I've given up or not.
  
  I've been scrapping a lot of things. I'm closely stalking Murasaki's art tutorial for weeks now, and it's amazing how her progression from simple sketch to final art piece pieces together. I know it mostly involves a unique style of painting, and since I've never painted in my entire time, I tried experimenting with it. I've got to hand it to Murasaki; she's so talented with her work. Lots of sketches were archived mainly because I didn't have a sense of direction of where to go. I think this one was the closest that came to completion, until I didn't know what shade of gray to use for the lights and mediums(And accidentally merging the crummy line-art with the paint so it made it hard to outline).
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  I've probably been thinking the wrong way: that I can get my art to be the way I want it to in a fortnight when in reality, it'll take years to even get it to where I want my art to shoot towards. I don't draw doodles and sketches now because I'm afraid to be ambitious to take the next step with coloring/shading, only to have it fall into ruin because it isn't going the way I want it to go. I've got to keep drawing to get to that goal, not completely give up when it doesn't look the way I want.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-04-06 02:11
  Bloop:

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  More Amans. Woo. I'm staring to question my own creativity in characters at this point if I keep drawing the same thing in different ways(I don't even play TERA anymore too). What became a sketch turned into an experiment that actually went somewhere. I tried focusing on perspective and shading, opting for a very stark/hard/comic kind of shading to get a general idea of how shadows work so I'll know where they go in the future.
• GODZILLA wrote on 2014-04-06 02:55
  That's freakin sick dude.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-08-07 12:52
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  Oh hey. I’m not dead. Just wanted to post this before I throw it away after a session of color-fail like the many sketches before this. Maybe I'll actually succeed at making it look like I want it to be in color. Most likely not.
  
  The Godsworn Shaman is an Epic Unit from the game Honorbound by Juicebox Games, not my own.
  
  [SPOILER="Here's the reference if anyone is interested"]

  [Image: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140221200406/honorbound-juicebox/images/5/58/Godsworn_Shaman_.png]

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• Brynn wrote on 2014-08-08 01:22
  You're Aman drawings are really good! You think you could do your own humanoid/monster characters?
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-08-08 06:18

  Quote from Brynn;1238215:

  You're Aman drawings are really good! You think you could do your own humanoid/monster characters?

  
  
  I've experimented with Draken after playing a bit of Wildstar a while back but that's a sketch lost to time when I tried to paint the final work. I guess failing to draw a Meltia from Brave Frontier counts as a humanoid/monster character as well. Really though, the reasons why I stopped experimenting with my creativity after awhile(OCs and stuff) was to simply get better at drawing on my art tablet, and try to draw fanart of games of characters that people don't normally draw upon.
  
  I started getting likes and reblogs from... the more furry/scalie residents of tumblr after that most recent Aman post. I don't have anything against furries and I can understand why some people would see some of my art as being of that trope, but I do want to draw humans every so often and other things as well(landscaping's interesting and should help with coloring) and I haven't really had a chance to expand on it. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm not going to draw more monster-like characters; I've just been drawing way too much and too little of other things to balance it out.
• ShadowFox31 wrote on 2014-08-12 20:33

  Quote from Shanghai;1238277:

  I've experimented with Draken after playing a bit of Wildstar a while back but that's a sketch lost to time when I tried to paint the final work. I guess failing to draw a Meltia from Brave Frontier counts as a humanoid/monster character as well. Really though, the reasons why I stopped experimenting with my creativity after awhile(OCs and stuff) was to simply get better at drawing on my art tablet, and try to draw fanart of games of characters that people don't normally draw upon.
  
  I started getting likes and reblogs from... the more furry/scalie residents of tumblr after that most recent Aman post. I don't have anything against furries and I can understand why some people would see some of my art as being of that trope, but I do want to draw humans every so often and other things as well(landscaping's interesting and should help with coloring) and I haven't really had a chance to expand on it. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm not going to draw more monster-like characters; I've just been drawing way too much and too little of other things to balance it out.

  
  
  I dont really see anything wrong with that. Just because someone has a habit of drawing certian types of characters (aman) dosen't mean they should only focus on drawing that type of characters. I do like your aman characters, but I would love to see how you would draw your human characters as well. point is, I'm attracted to good art, and I just want more good art.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-09-21 00:02
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  I have absolutely no idea on what I'm doing~
• Brynn wrote on 2014-09-21 15:39
  Awe, really cute shading.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-11-15 02:03
  I wasn't one of the finalists for the character creation contest I was doing this for, so I guess I get to post this here.
  

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  [SPOILER="4-Star Evolution"]

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  Coloring sucks, even when you're using masks to expedite the process and a palette; I guess I'm just not used to it yet.
• Shanghai wrote on 2014-12-08 07:29
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  It’s been awhile since I did a D&D thing. This used to be Cord, my Favored Soul Doppelganger. He unfortunately passed away fighting for his cause for peace to return once more to the world he lived in.
  
  RIP Cord. You had a great run.