Nendil's Procrastination Outlet

The art in that last post blew my mind so hard it knocked me out of my slump. Let's (start to) get some crap finished.

( Clean line art from me? That's unpossible! )

HOW DID I HAVE THE PATIENCE TO DRAW ALL THOSE APPLES (& LEAVES). I DON'T KNOW.

Whoops, I couldn't resist and did another 1sentence set... This one's strictly a sketch of Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask and beyond, in chronological order.

( Time will tell )

Yeah, so, I lied about sticking to working on the tarot cards (though there has been a lot of progress that's almost ready to show). We visited the de Young yesterday and caught their Birth of Impressionism exhibit, and man, do I love me some impressionism. Can I be the first true Skyward Sword impressionist fanartist?????</ego>

( Very rough color sketch )

Confirmed: this Link IS a total girl and I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to draw him as anything but.

( Finished... or at least as much work as I'm going to put into it. )

Now onto more serious ...effort-ful... things.

( From Nintendo's developers roundtable )

Edit: Nintendo has officially put up the OoT 3D screenshots, so here they are: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Haha, I guess they've finally officially reduced the size of Link's nose so I gotta stop drawing it as canon now. ;P Or differentiate between the two and do fanart IN THREE DEE for this one ;D

Got my Youtube stream, got my cup of tea, got Notepad open for snarking/rambling/SQUEEING. LET'S DO THIS THING.

( Nintendo connnnnnference )

Holy cow, Nintendo completely blew it out of the water this year, even with me expecting great things just from Zelda and 3DS alone. :D~~~~~ I can't wait to link you guys to the trailers for all these games; this post will be updated when they're up. Trailers up! Most of them are from the conference footage, I'll covertly swap them with direct-feed videos as they come in. Nintendo was nice enough to provide convenient links to everything!

Twilight side done! This must have been the most cooperative painting I've done in ages. Maybe I should look into using this kind of brush more often.

( french fries. )

I'm hoping to finish the whole thing this weekend if I'm lucky, hopefully Ammy's side won't give me more trouble than I expect.

Specific question, guys. ( Hope you understand. )

(Don't mind the weird coloring on Ammy, I shifted her position after the fact. It'll all be fixed!)

It is probably not the best idea to declare a painting finished at 4am but I DON'T CARE, NO MORE OF THIS.

( SO MUCH EFFORT. NEVER AGAIN. D: )

...is what I would say, but this has actually been a tremendously valuable learning experience.

Lesson 1: Plan composition and lighting BEFORE (or at least concurrently with) lineart or face the risk of BORING.
Lesson 1b: Rule of thirds! Easy and delicious!

Lesson 2: Don't count on painting to cover up f-ed up lineart, it will not work and you will regret it! D:
Lesson 2b: Get models D:

Lesson 3: Colors need to be unified in a picture, even with crazy bright & saturated fantasy designs!
Lesson 3b: Photoshop is the best lifesaver EVER. I fear for myself if I ever go back to a brush & canvas.

Lesson 4: Shadows on left side, light on right side ;)
Lesson 4b: However, objects in the composition should read left-to-right!

Lesson 5: Define the faces and hands well first, and everything else will come together easy-peasy.
Lesson 5b: Except fabric folds. >:[

Lesson 6: Strong, realistic lighting makes or breaks a picture. Lern 2 impresionsm.
Lesson 6b: Big/rough brushstrokes are okay valuable. Lern 2 impresionsm x2.

A-And I was going to ramble more here but I'M GOING TO GO DIE NOW KTHX BAI.