Amnesia

I feel like I have amnesia,

but I know it's myself I've lost.

I wonder what's happened so far,

and what might have been the cost.

I'm not sure I want to know

any of the things I've done.

I don't know yet where to go,

but I'll accept my past is gone.

I feel like I have amnesia,

and I've missed the heavenly host.

I'm surprised I've come this far,

living without what I need most.

So these are the inspirational lyrics for this next painting! I haven't been doing much lately but I've struggled real bad art block, so I am glad I'll get this even done!

Castiel has such animu kawaii eyes. But now next stop, skin!

Got it smudged in, will return later back to fix the ear and the cheek a bit more.

I need to fix his ear and a bit the shape of the head still, but  painted the eyes there now. 

Added some eyebrows and some noise to the picture, brings it nicer out. And some stubble as well!

I kinda then lost track here and forgot to take screencaps, but I guess that's alright?

So here's the finished product!

Tried a bit this old movie vintage picture style filters to the result and this is how it looks like. his nose is a bit off and the colours as well are a bit off, but... No can do I have to say.

But anyway, I hope you like it, and see you soon again!

Mysterious mail time

Hello guys! Again it has been such a long while since I've last time actually updated something in here, so it is about time that I am back in here and typing this and updating you guys about my art status and stuff like that. I haven't really even much produced art lately, since my Photoshop CS5 quit working, so I ordered the Photoshop CS6 extended and received it about two weeks about, and it has been working like a wonder!

So well,I have been eventually doing pretty okay, things are sometimes a bit complicated, but life is that, right?

If it wouldn't be, would it even count as life?

But anyhow.

Today I have again some Supernatural for you guys!

It was actually a 'Mysterious Mail' I've sent for a friend of mine just to surprise her, because she sent me something what I absolutely fell in love with, so I wanted to back favour her as well with something self-made as well. 

 So here we got the rough sketch/linearting for this one piece. I've gotten actually much better at straightly linearting and stuff like that, but this is actually a quite cleaned up version of what I usually paint and stuff like that. So it's a clean sketchlineart? I don't actually even know a proper word for that. /chuckle

A close-up on the face and how I sculpted it and already started to blend the colours togetherin this point. I am pretty happy how I've sculpted the nose and lips and the ears in this one, since I usually have most trouble with those parts on the human body, right after clothing and hair.

So here I've already started to paint on the shirt, and on this point I already got the hair and face set and done except for the detailing which still remains in this point.

I have been lazy enough to not save so many process pictures, so I am pretty sorry. So here we already got the shirt and the jacket done.

Honestly speaking I should quit being so lazy to take process pictures or screenshots... But oh well at this point I got quite the trouble to come up with a night background since I had already in the start decided that it's going to be in night vision, so you can only imagine with how many different backgrounds I tried with.

I first tried with a church window, but no.

A road?

Nope.

A forest road?

This.

Still in this point I had some lighting errors and stuff, but I painted the background in a separate window and added it to this picture, so I will add the background to the end as well, because I'm pretty pleased how it turned out.

/Note to myself; Never paint forests again.

So here I did the final fixes and this was the final result of this all! I am pleased how it turned out and it was my first painting on Photoshop CS6, so I was a little bit lost with all the features and stuff like that.

But I truly hope you will enjoy the result as much as I do, and I hope that you will maybe leave a comment and stuff like that. You don't have to if you don't want to, but it is always appreciated and it makes me smile. :) I used a bit reference on the pose, but I just can't find the photo anymore from my computer because I am not so organized as I should be. /shrug

So well, the background can be found right here!

So yeah... The file is much bigger than the painting itself really.Got a lot of different layers and filters and stuff like that to make it look a  bit spooky to work with the picture so... yeah!

So I sent her a Dean Winchester. I really hope she'll like it, because I'm really really nervous and feel like I didn't really do my best even though I did... God things are complicated.

But well, I hope you enjoyed this longer journal entry, and I will update later on.

Just started with a new project, called "Almost Me." And it's gonna be huuge. And Original /what

So well.

I hope you are doing well, and see you next time!

-Tove 

The forgotten Souls

So this one is actually for once; Original. had some reference on the facial expression and on the fabrics, but otherwise it's much what I've got together sketching around. I don't have the sketch right now to the hands, so I hope you don't mind that I'll jump right to the lineart as soon as I have explained a bit more close what the idea is with this picture.

So I don't usually make up any names for my paintings or for the characters I am painting (because the most of the art what I am doing is fanart anyway) so, this time; I did an exception. The characters name is Shazaem, and he's a Necromancer and did black magic of the end of the world before this consisting earth, and that's why we got the name for this painting, "The Forgotten Souls." He saved our race alongside with his companions and warriors of Necromancy, and that's the story and the start of the revolution we've gone through all these millions years. 

Okay that was a bit back-up for this, but now, for the lineart!

Since I don't sadly have the sketch layer anymore, so here is where we start. So here we got our Shazaem, and that what is on his chest is supposed to be a scar. And as I said, I hate to draw fabrics, it's very difficult and time taking, and I need more practice on that area, as well on the skin. But let's get started, now it's time for the colouring!

Plain and boring, yes, but now, It's time for the shading, and the most fun part! Sculpting the features to the facial structure and stuff. 

Ah darn, I see I did a small mistake, didn't colour the whole thing! But luckily I can crop the image if needed! So well, I chose dark colours because  wanted to bring the characters dynamic and create a dramatic atmosphere for the picture, so this is the result! Now blending blending and more blending ahead!

Blending blending and more blending ahead. I'm not happy with his facial structure nor his lips, so there's still work to do, but I keep a pause from that now. So the next step what I'll fix up is the fabric. Dear god I'm going to die. But let's see, hopefully things will be just fine! 

And Have I ever told you how much I hate to draw hair? Well now you know. it's a pain in the ass but well... I will return later on back to the hair layer, I want to finish those painful  fabrics, so I can then start with the background and fix his hair. But precisely I am quite pleased with the result so far. 

So now I've got the fabrics done... it was this time easier than I had expected! So now I'll re-do his hair since I am not at all pleased with that mess what I should be calling hair here. 

Now I've got a background, and I did a couple of final fixes, and this is the result of this project.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Shazaem!

This project was a lot of fun to do, and especially I enjoyed to sculpt his face and the fabrics, I am not too happy with his hair though, could have used more time.... Or well actually hang on a second, I'll try to fix that son of a mess up!

Okay. This is much better, and Now I am already exhausted with this picture, so I declare this picture as done!

I hope you enjoy this I-once-was-a-brunette-but-then-I-became-emo-Shazaem! :D

Sometimes things doesn't go as according to plan. But yes, I am over and out!

-Tove