landscape practice in procreate P:
The beautiful background art of Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name)
Art Book (Japanese): Kimi no Na wa Official Visual Guide
Cheers~!
Aaahh…..I keep drawing Sakura’s bob longer since I’ve been practicing on my OC’s hairstyle.
Once Upon A Time
It takes hundreds to thousands of years for trees to grow into giants. Deforestation all over the world will leave nothing for the children to look up to. No more magic and wonder in their eyes, only the disappointment of how we failed them.
The biggest reasons for deforestation is clearing trees to create land for cows, palm oil, and other agriculture. You can help protect these ancient giants by eating less meat and donating to Rainforesttrust.org
“I am new to the Moomins. What is it? Where do I start?”
Recently I received a lot of asks. I tried to do a mini moomin guide and I hope it will be usefull. :) If you want others informations, feel free to send me a private message!
The 30 day thigh slimming challenge starts tomorrow! Print out this calendar and do the moves listed every day. It is so simple that you could just do it in the morning right when you wake up or do them in bits throughout the day. Just do it and you will start seeing your thighs getting stronger and slimmer!
Reblog if you’re in! Let’s DO THIS!!!!!
Printing for watercolors, an experiment
One of the problems of coloring a piece traditionally, and especially so with watercolors is making mistakes. If we make a big mistake when coloring a line art, not only we lose the time we spent putting the colors in but also the original line art done with ink or pencils.
To be less stressed while coloring and to allow myself bolder use of colors I often scan the line art and test the colors digitally to be sure that the coloring scheme I have in mind will really work. Also, having a high-resolution scan of the lines comes in handy (especially with pencil lines) because it can be used on the finished piece to make the lines appear darker using Photoshop’s “multiply” layer.
Recently Kana started doing watercolor illustrations, and she wanted to test her colors directly on the watercolor paper - using a printout copy of the lines. And since we have a printer (Canon PRO-10s) that prints using pigment inks we wanted to test if printed lines can be used for the final coloring work.
The print went well: nice and sharp on our usual watercolor paper (300g Waterford white cold pressed), but when we started painting, strange things started to happen. Waterford is a good paper, I used it for many illustrations but we had problems to make our washes look like they supposed to.
Even simple washes that were done without any hesitation, pausing or correcting did not come out as expected. Mostly in the area of lines the paint wouldn’t just dry properly and evenly.
I did some testing and discovered that the printer’s ink (or clear coating that the printer apparently also applies) does not play well with watercolors. The watercolor’s pigment seems to be repelled by the lines resulting in very uneven washes.
Even in places where there is nothing printed the paint behaves weirdly (?) so I guess that the whole printing area could be covered in some sort of coating.
The paint behaves in completely different way than usual, the moisture being “sucked into” the paper really rapidly behaving more similarly to alcohol markers. I tried to do some simple color gradients from full color intensity to transparent and failed on the printed paper. What’s more the washes had strange blurriness and blotchiness to them.
Overall - the fact that we can print lines on regular watercolor paper is a step in an interesting direction. The printed lines are certainly waterproof and sharp enough to be useful, but the watercolor repelling properties make them only a test ground for colors. For now, for the final pieces, the original pencil or pen lines have to be used.
Read more about the tools I use here: https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/tools/
Al Borde (Arquitectos). House Of The Flying Beds. La Esperanza, Imbabura, Ecuador. photos: JAG Studio, Al Borde & ENOBRA.
Source: albordearq.com
Alts Design Office. 吹田の家リノベーション - Soft monotone colored house. Osaka prefecture. Japan. photos: Alts Design Office
Source: alts-design.com
Went hiking with my SO in SF yesterday :D we stayed up on the mountain until night time to get a shot of the fog rolling into SF. The clouds were so low it felt magical every minute.
