Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!
Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.
A finished commissioned piece for Chanidae's beloved Unnamed (how mysterious). Thank you so much for supporting me!
Very lovely, Tumblr has shadowbanned this account. Sorry that I cannot reply to anyone sending me nice things right now.
Illustration for me and @wi55iams' F1 dæmon AU.
A very large web-weave project under the 'read more' for context to a man and his fictional wolf.
And that's all, folks!
Uk peeps!! Letβs get this going! π³οΈββ§οΈπ¬π§
i love playing flight rising bc i get to experience runaway inflation in real time
Niki Lauda β Sunday 28th March 1976 Long Beach
Another go at colouring a black and white photo. The full colour image above is only 75% the size of the full colouring I did due to Tumblr's image size limit.
Some explanation to my process below.
From what I learned with the previous image, I did a lot more manual editing on this one to hammer out more of the small details. The days of colouring it took just to get the overall picture, aside:
Had to desaturate his hair and skin from my original colouring. Niki's a lot more ash-brown than first assumed. He's also a pale lil' rat with some notable five-o'clock shadow and some minor pockmarking.
The sunglasses also ended up being further desaturated because I think an aspect of the time's colour photography made the lenses appear much more orange than they were in reality.
Four different very shades of red I had to keep track of the palette for, please save me.
Manually went back and desaturated/detailed the shading on the fireproof and jacket's stitching, and the black of the inner-jacket.
Manually detailed his skin more where some shadow and flush was not captured in the original black and white, or was lost when coloured. Skin is the hardest part to capture in colouring, so please tell me how I did!
Manually painted in all his flyaway hairs and the temple and sideburn area.
Manually placed back in a lot of lost shadow throughout pretty much the whole thing.
Manually fixed some photo degradation and other photo issues, and ran it through Topaz to denoise the image to make it easier to detail the colours in.
Added a very minor warm lightening tint since the day was so bright. It also adds colour continuity, which helps it look more natural.
All of Niki is coloured fully accurately to the times and to real life. Only the background (not including the road and concrete barrier) has been coloured with some amount of creative liberty, though it still matches the colour of the area from other photos.
Please tell me what you think, and if you know any photos that might look really nicely coloured. Who knows, maybe I'll take coms for it.
An MLP AU? In this day and age? It's more likely than you think.
I also drew a version with the academy uniform and started on Viktor, but I ended up overwhelmed by the work, so, here's Just Jayce. Thoughts below, and stuff.
Jayce "Forged-Future" of House Talis
Mule with historic unicorn ancestry on his maternal side, which effects a lot when he started screwing around with raw magic and his X gene starts bit-flipping his alleles.
They get a personal name, a ceremonial name which is used unless you're friends, and a house name here, yay.
Bay with a minimal amount of tobiano expression. E/_ | A/_ | TO/n are his exact genetics, but that doesn't matter because:
Completely sterile due to his donkey/horse heritage, which he is debatably a result of procreation tourism of. I have 5k of world building for this, no I will not get into it now.
Talent-Marked after undiluted exposure to the arcane in the mountains. Talent-Mark form directly granted from Mage-Viktor, who only effected its creation form because he knows adult Jayce's talent-mark, which is only what it is becauseβyou get the point: Jayvik Bootstap Paradox.
Chionophobic, as a treat.
Self-conscious about his ears. I'm sure he will do nothing drastic to them in about *checks watch* seven years.
Name and mark from @ / doe-drawz bc finding her mlp arcane art sent me on this spiral lmao.
i scratch you, you scratch me π€ a pair of warm and cute Eohippus for this cold winter
Closing my anons for a bit because I'm quite literally getting about 30 spam anons a day and I cba to keep blocking them when they seem never-ending. Tumblr is a functional site.
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