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Published: 2018-07-21 17:13:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 2389; Favourites: 258; Downloads: 0
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So, this is a commission I did for Blossom-fur7 !!First thing I have to say: she's an awesome person! Gave me a lot of artistic freedom, is super kind and was an amazing client! Hope to see you around again
This commission was very fun and frustrating at the same time. Fun because the characters were fun to draw, the background colors was something I really liked to experiment, the mountain was a pretty great experience to paint... Frustrating because it was very difficult to get things right.
I spent days doing and redoing, painting and repainting, drawing and redrawing... it was exhausting. I had to make that mountain twice, because the first version looked awful. Kaleo was pretty easy for me, but Angelia was very difficult for some reason.
I put a lot of my energy and effort in this and it turned out alright in the end. The client loved it and that makes me happy already
I believe that now I know what I should do the next time... and most importantly, what I shouldn't!
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I'll be closing commissions soon as I will go to Canada to study for a whole year, and I'll probably have no time to work on it. When I open it again, I'll make some changes. The first one I am really wanting to do is to remove the Fully Painted type and bring the price of the Detailed Painting down a little.
While doing some fully painted commissions, I felt... limited. It feels like I'm bringing the quality of my work down just to fit the commission type I'm working on. I doesn't feel really good, so I'll probably take it off the list.
For now, I'll be closing Detailed Painting and Fully Painted commission types as I'm going to be leaving my country soon. All the other ones will be open, as they take me less time to do.
Thanks for the attention
Cheers
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Comments: 16
oh my gosh..this is outstanding! how did you learn how to paint so well?
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Thank you!!! Makes me happy to see you liked it!
That's not an easy question to answer... Much less short 😂
In a nutshell, it's a lot of lessons, tutorials and observing combined with dedication, discipline, effort and passion.
It's not really a secret, it's a skill like any other
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WAAAAA
I still cant get over this piece dude holy shit ;;
Everything about this is absolutely breathtaking
I look back at this almost everyday now and try to look at all of the detail of the piece like
wow
I know this took u a long time, and it was very well worth it ;0;;;
I wanna start with the background, because everything about it is jaw dropping
I remember mentioning and asking for something wintery, but I never thought youd go as far with the mountains and ice lake ;sdjgdfg
All of the detail from the trees to the water, and even the way you painted that mountain are breathtaking, its like being in an actual winter forest
and idk why but that lake and the small stones are rlly eye catching and pretty, it all looks so playful ;0;
SPEAKING OF PLAYFUL look at these fluffballs in your style <3
I know I already said it but their interaction is adorable, you did rlly well with that piggback ride TvT
I love their faces and the way you drew them out, they both look rlly fluffy and happy, and the way that you draw smiles is so unique and so u, Its rlly nice ;v;;;
gaaaa theres just so much, it honestly takes my breath away ;;;
thank you sssoooo so so much for taking the time to draw this out for me and taking the time to do this, you were such a pleasure to talk to and get to know, ur rlly nice ;;;
I appreciate this a ton, again, thank u for everything ;v; <3
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Thank you very much, Blossom! For both commissioning me and for the comment
It makes me really glad that you liked it to the point of coming back to it regularly to look further into the details! That is honestly the best thing for me to read as it shows that an impact was made, and this is a huge sign of success of this particular illustration. It indeed took me a long time, but much more than that, it demanded a lot of my energy. As I probably said in the description (which I do not remember anymore XD), a lot of it was pretty difficult for me to get right! Other than Kaleo and a few other things, all the rest took a lot of doing and re-doing, painting and re-painting until it looks somewhat acceptable. Some of the elements turned out amazing, others not so much, but they balanced each other out in the end. Result of long hours of figuring stuff out.
Regarding the background, I do remember you asking for a wintery landscape. You even said it could be something Sonic like, and I actually considered it... but I remembered something far more interesting and personal. I spent 4 months of my life in Canada (and I am going to spend another entire year). Those were not just regular 4 months; they were months of a lot of learning, getting to know myself, opening my mind, discovering new things and being introduced to a new way of seeing the world. In order words, it was and it is still going to be a pretty important place and period of my life. When you asked me for this type of background, it did not take me long to start browsing a lot of canadian landscape references. The entire background is based on it, I am pretty sure the mountain on the back is actually a mountain somewhere in Canada (probably in British Columbia, but I do not know the place exactly).
One thing I like to do when people ask me to do an illustration of couples (which so far was only you and your friend, Zketcherz) is avoiding the so famous kiss scene. Although kissing is good and it has a lot of emotion involved, I see it more as a representation of passion rather than love. Kissing is an explosion of emotions and senses, something truly impactful and extreme in a good way. Love, however, is on the simple things: a walk on the park with your partner, having lunch together during the break time at work, even long hours of nothing but silence and the company of each other. I have two friends who are in a relationship right now. They have been together for around 3 years. I rarely see them kissing, I believe I can count on my fingers the amount of times I have seen them doing so. But I can clearly see how much they love each other on the most daily and simple of things! You characters love each other a lot. Truly. So when you asked for something sweet but playful (which makes a lot of sense considering Kaleo's personality), I looked for the simplest thing I could. The piggback ride is a super childish and playful thing that perhaps most of people have done on their lives, it was a great solution for this equation.
Finally, I would like to thank you once again for taking your precious and valuable time to leave a comment expressing your thoughts on my work and for choosing me among many others to do this commission for you. I know it took me long to reply to this comment of yours, but that is because I wanted to do so in properly. Just like you did with this illustration, I would regularly come back to this comment trying to structure a response in my head! I always want to deliver the best work I possibly can on the end of the day, because my commissions are not cheap after all
Live & Learn
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Absolutely beautiful :'))) Such amazing talent, and the background is a place I could only dream of travelling to
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Thanks a lot, Official-Stargazer
Btw, that's heavily inspired by Canadian landscape so... Put that on your bucket list
Cheers!
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I really must visit there!
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This is so amazing and adorable!!!!!! I really love the mountainous background as well as all those trees and how Kaleo is giving Angelia a piggyback ride! It's so magnificently beautiful and I really love it! Great work!
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Thanks, BluBoltra!!
The piggyback is what I came up with when the client asked for something "playful but sweet"
I admit that's one of the things I'm really proud of
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You're very welcome and that's cool!
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