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[ (04-27-2023) Number 53 in the 'over 2000 views club']
Commissioned by
Backlash, this piece features "Roxy Skysong", a character belonging to a friend of his, @milla_sheridan who had been out on a walk, enjoying the clear skies and warm breezes, when she became aware of just how much she'd been walking. Figuring it would be best if she took a little break before heading back she finds a shaded park bench and takes a load off, removing first one shoe, than the other to give her toes some much-needed rubbing. That felt better than she expected--maybe those ballet-flat maryjanes need a little more break-in? Anyhoo, she's attained relief of sorts and will soon be headed back home, refreshed after some unstructured time to herself.
Technical:...(Oh, and there's a Clip Studio tip down below)
Early on, with the premise of the pic set, I pondered how I was going to render this pose, as it would involve a bit of foreshortening that could be easy to mess up, so I turned to Google and looked for images of "women on a bench rubbing feet". Oddly specific, but it produced results in the form of a Getty Images pic. If you find the one with a grey-jacketed woman with a black shirt intently massaging her aching toes, you've probably found my reference. But, I didn't simply trace that pic--the model was bent over too far for for what I had in mind, so after positioning her in the scene, I did a pencil sketch of her pose, then using Clip Studio Paint's various selection and transform tools, I cut up the sketch, rotating, resizing and sliding body parts around till I had some semblence of the pose I had in mind. From there, I re-sketched the pose and started the working pencils. Once those were approved, I sketched up the backdrop so I could position the park bench under her and build the remaining surroundings in reasonably correct perspective. Oh, and I had to re-draw her torso some, as she's like 14, so no obvious development upstairs.
The setting reminded me of an early high-water mark, a 2007 commission that also took place in a city park. Come to think of it, I tended to have a lot of pics set in "local" parks. So that backdrop came in fairly easily, and the only time consuming part came in detailing the bushes and trees behind her. When coming back to the shading and highlights, I was a bit apprehensive, as I had been working on projects in Clip Studio Paint, and didn't have one brush I had come to rely upon in Krita, the "rake.bristle.dry" brush that I had used for hair highlights. Fortunately the style of coloring here did not call for highly detailed hair, and a simplified highlight would suffice. Little did I know that would become simpler than I thought, as I happened upon the Picarto stream of
slugbox when he was doing a "tutorial stream" using Clip Studio, and during its waning hours the question of hair highlights came up...
Clip Studio Tip follows:
Slugbox pointed out that CSP has brushes for just about any effect you can think of...including anime-style hair highlights. Seriously. Just swish them across the character's noggin and instant highlight. Roxy's hair was shiny-ed up with one of these brushes (of which I downloaded 17 varieties). You'll have to use that oddball Clip Studio launcher (and sign up for yet another account if you haven't already), but then you can search for and install a variety of free brushes...and more that you need to pay for in some manner I have yet to research. More importantly, the launcher installs your new brushes into CSP...but then you have to move them into your brush menu to start using them. Here's where things get a little fiddly till you hear the tip. There aren't any blank sub-tool tabs for miscellaneous brushes--but you can make your own!
Simply drag the side of the sub-tool tab to stretch it horizontally, and as the tabs re-order themselves, space will open up alongside the last one. Now drag a brush from the CSP "Materials" docker in the "downloaded brushes" folder and drop it in that space. Instant tab that you can now rename to whatever category of brushes you can stick under it.
Digital drawing done in Clip Studio Paint EX 1.9.10. 13 layers, 146MB CLIP file at full size. Project ID# 488
[ (04-27-2023) Number 53 in the 'over 2000 views club']
Commissioned by
Backlash, this piece features "Roxy Skysong", a character belonging to a friend of his, @milla_sheridan who had been out on a walk, enjoying the clear skies and warm breezes, when she became aware of just how much she'd been walking. Figuring it would be best if she took a little break before heading back she finds a shaded park bench and takes a load off, removing first one shoe, than the other to give her toes some much-needed rubbing. That felt better than she expected--maybe those ballet-flat maryjanes need a little more break-in? Anyhoo, she's attained relief of sorts and will soon be headed back home, refreshed after some unstructured time to herself.Technical:...(Oh, and there's a Clip Studio tip down below)
Early on, with the premise of the pic set, I pondered how I was going to render this pose, as it would involve a bit of foreshortening that could be easy to mess up, so I turned to Google and looked for images of "women on a bench rubbing feet". Oddly specific, but it produced results in the form of a Getty Images pic. If you find the one with a grey-jacketed woman with a black shirt intently massaging her aching toes, you've probably found my reference. But, I didn't simply trace that pic--the model was bent over too far for for what I had in mind, so after positioning her in the scene, I did a pencil sketch of her pose, then using Clip Studio Paint's various selection and transform tools, I cut up the sketch, rotating, resizing and sliding body parts around till I had some semblence of the pose I had in mind. From there, I re-sketched the pose and started the working pencils. Once those were approved, I sketched up the backdrop so I could position the park bench under her and build the remaining surroundings in reasonably correct perspective. Oh, and I had to re-draw her torso some, as she's like 14, so no obvious development upstairs.
The setting reminded me of an early high-water mark, a 2007 commission that also took place in a city park. Come to think of it, I tended to have a lot of pics set in "local" parks. So that backdrop came in fairly easily, and the only time consuming part came in detailing the bushes and trees behind her. When coming back to the shading and highlights, I was a bit apprehensive, as I had been working on projects in Clip Studio Paint, and didn't have one brush I had come to rely upon in Krita, the "rake.bristle.dry" brush that I had used for hair highlights. Fortunately the style of coloring here did not call for highly detailed hair, and a simplified highlight would suffice. Little did I know that would become simpler than I thought, as I happened upon the Picarto stream of
slugbox when he was doing a "tutorial stream" using Clip Studio, and during its waning hours the question of hair highlights came up...Clip Studio Tip follows:
Slugbox pointed out that CSP has brushes for just about any effect you can think of...including anime-style hair highlights. Seriously. Just swish them across the character's noggin and instant highlight. Roxy's hair was shiny-ed up with one of these brushes (of which I downloaded 17 varieties). You'll have to use that oddball Clip Studio launcher (and sign up for yet another account if you haven't already), but then you can search for and install a variety of free brushes...and more that you need to pay for in some manner I have yet to research. More importantly, the launcher installs your new brushes into CSP...but then you have to move them into your brush menu to start using them. Here's where things get a little fiddly till you hear the tip. There aren't any blank sub-tool tabs for miscellaneous brushes--but you can make your own!
Simply drag the side of the sub-tool tab to stretch it horizontally, and as the tabs re-order themselves, space will open up alongside the last one. Now drag a brush from the CSP "Materials" docker in the "downloaded brushes" folder and drop it in that space. Instant tab that you can now rename to whatever category of brushes you can stick under it.
Digital drawing done in Clip Studio Paint EX 1.9.10. 13 layers, 146MB CLIP file at full size. Project ID# 488
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Fox (Other)
Size 780 x 1050px
File Size 177.9 kB
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