First time drawing a dragonic? draconic? dragon-esque? character i think it turned out well. Getting better with the wolves though so im happy about that. Fabric is still kind of difficult to do so i might do some work on that. Hope everyone is having a good day >,<
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yeah, I'm having a hard time with that. If i follow image references it looks even weirder just looks like random spots of light. I don't know how to make it seem as if the sweat comes from the impact.
Do you maybe have image suggestions or other artists work that i could reference and study to help with that?
Do you maybe have image suggestions or other artists work that i could reference and study to help with that?
I am not the best artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say that there doesn't need to be a lot of white behind the water in the air and that you'd benefit from not having the sweat drops be so "fuzzy" or blurry. Light going through small drops of water in the air doesn't diffuse as much as one might think. Maybe try a sharper brush and just dot out the individual beads of sweat. Whenever I bother to draw out sweat in the air I just (lightly) jackhammer the tablet with my pen on a really small brush size, occasionally make small strokes to indicate direction, then erase as needed (you don't want overlapping drops.)
If you're worried about directly following reference images because it might not match the rest of the art style and look too out of place, maybe keep the water style, but have it "outline" more of the face? Either way, I still think getting rid of the white blurring behind the drops is a good idea. In a lot of clear boxing photography shots, you can still see individual drops pretty clearly. (In another comment you mentioned using video stills as reference, which are good for getting cool pose references, but not good for small details because of how video encoding may blur between frames.)
https://www.insidehook.com/wp-conte.....50507539-1.jpg
If you're worried about directly following reference images because it might not match the rest of the art style and look too out of place, maybe keep the water style, but have it "outline" more of the face? Either way, I still think getting rid of the white blurring behind the drops is a good idea. In a lot of clear boxing photography shots, you can still see individual drops pretty clearly. (In another comment you mentioned using video stills as reference, which are good for getting cool pose references, but not good for small details because of how video encoding may blur between frames.)
https://www.insidehook.com/wp-conte.....50507539-1.jpg
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