[Showcase] The Pie Bakery: Re-Opened

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The Pie Bakery

[Re-Opened]

If you go back far enough through the Art Studio, you'll eventually come across a Gallery called the Pie Bakery. It's been a long time since I posted there, and honestly it's not very good since I made it when I was very new to this art thing. So, while I'm definitely still a novice, I feel like making a fresh start and closing the old one makes sense. Some of the less terrible older works may find their way here, but this will mostly be newer (and slightly better) stuff now.

Pokemon Art

None yet, but I'll get to it. Probably.

Roleplay Characters

I don't always draw my characters since I have a stockpile of other art I own, but I've started doing so more often. Sometimes I'll draw other people's characters because all the RPT people are awesome and make cool characters.

Hael Clar (My character from Sapphire Rose's Yokai Academy)

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I found the idea of taking a creature that's usually depicted as bright, free-spirited and cute in modern culture and twisting it. So, Hael's a drunken asshole and even meaner than he looks.

Hael Clar with Laguna Beach (Laguna is played by Godzil. Also, this is probably the best thing in this gallery.)

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This is inspired by a scene that Godzil and I wrote together. Someone in the chat said they needed art of it, so here we are. Laguna's such a fun character I might draw her again some time. As "anime" as my art style is, my expressions feel very "Rick and Morty" for some reason.

Craw Nezz (Originally from Rika's Star Wars: Jedi Outcasts)

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Sephear told me all about a SW RP he's planning, I decided in advance to tweak Craw to fit it since he was so much fun to play the first time and drew this in anticipation.

Hartley (My character made for Dragon's A Pirate Tale)

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Fen's Floatzel for A Pirate Tale

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D&D Stuff

Since somehow I've ended up drawing my D&D groups characters somehow, I might as well add a section for it.

Aerin Sargwyn (Played by Sapphire Rose)

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Allys Copperlead (Played by Adventure, or whatever Riki's name is when you read this)

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Hat (Played by Turnip)

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Jovian Redtip (Mine)

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Krum (Played by Murkmire)

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Mask (Played by Lycanthropy)

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Other Art

Mostly random people I've drawn. Might throw in the odd landscape or something weird here sometimes.

Headshot

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This was the first thing I drew after refining my art style into what it is now. I'm still really proud of how the eyes look.

Weird Girl in the Rain

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I wanted to experiment with weather a bit, but could have had better luck making her clothes look damp from the rain so I'll have to look up some guides at some point. Still proud of those eyes though.

Somewhat Androgynous Shounenesque Looking Person Maybe

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Everything Is Better With Sky Whales

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Collaborative Pieces

What is says on the tin, things I've drawn in collaboration with other more talented artists.

Superhero Dudes (Drawn with my sister)

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A bit of an older drawing. A while back my sister and I randomly decided to start passing some art back and forth between us until we had something. In this one I did the sketch and line art and she did the colour, shading and extra details (like the god damn stunning murals on the walls that are the best part of the whole picture -_-).

Two Girls at a Creek ft. Weird Fish things (Also drawn with my sister)

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This time it was the other way around, she did the sketch and line art and I then cleaned up a few of the lines, coloured and shaded.

Alien, Ghost, Space (Drawn with Kitty. I lied, this is the best one.)

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This actually came from a prompt generator of Chura's iirc. Chura did the sketch and line art, I did the colour, shading and any effects.

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So, I randomly though "what if shounen characters looked more androgynous?"
Then I decided now would be a great time to experiment more with poses and the way I draw hair and stuff. This was the end result.

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Over all, I'm really happy with how it came out, especially the new way of doing hair which I'm definitely going to stick to and refine. I think the next things I want to work on are more elaborate clothing designs and the way I do shading, because I'm not happy with either of those. Suggestions for things I should look into?

 

[moon]

Ahaa I see what you mean with the different hair now! I like it!

I absolutely love the alien ghost space piece btw, lovely colors and mood. I'd put it on my wall c:

And wow your old Star Wars char! Man, that's cool to see.

 

[gimmepie]

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Everything is better with sky whales. This one took an eternity to do but I'm pleased that there was some degree of improvement. Especially because I was making a point of drawing a different age bracket than usual on top of the slightly more complicated design and actual background.

 

[gimmepie]

Time for an art dump! It's been a while.

Hartley (My character made for Dragon's A Pirate Tale)

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Fen's Floatzel for A Pirate Tale

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and also a million or so D&D characters

Aerin Sargwyn (Played by Sapphire Rose)

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Allys Copperlead (Played by Adventure, or whatever Riki's name is when you read this)

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Hat (Played by Turnip)

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Jovian Redtip (Mine)

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Krum (Played by Murkmire)

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Mask (Played by Lycanthropy)

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Mass posting of the things complete.

 

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Team Fruit Punch from my RP Seeds of Tomorrow. Characters are (left) Maria and Erin played by Stinging Bea, (back right) Logan played by Shak and (front right) Raeliana/Melody played by Sapphire Rose. They do amazing work so I put in a lot of effort for this. Even messed around with a stock photo on PS to make a background I was happy with.

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[gimmepie]

I've been experimenting with some stuff stylistically. Note sure how I feel about any of it yet lol
Except the shading, that's much better (mostly).

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[Nina]

These are nice and expressive poses! In terms of a new style, I think if you're going to go for an almost lineless look, you should be defining chunks and breaks in the hair more instead of being a mostly solid shape. In general, maybe details on clothes to break up those shapes as well. The bottom one does this better because of the movement of the body and overlap of the arms over the hair. The reasoning for breaks in solid shapes is that since you're very light and soft on the shading, small lines is a bit harder to pull off without losing the shape of the form and misunderstanding where body parts actually are or they blend into each other.

 

[gimmepie]

These are nice and expressive poses! In terms of a new style, I think if you're going to go for an almost lineless look, you should be defining chunks and breaks in the hair more instead of being a mostly solid shape. In general, maybe details on clothes to break up those shapes as well. The bottom one does this better because of the movement of the body and overlap of the arms over the hair. The reasoning for breaks in solid shapes is that since you're very light and soft on the shading, small lines is a bit harder to pull off without losing the shape of the form and misunderstanding where body parts actually are or they blend into each other.

Completely agree on all accounts!
I'm going to keep exploring around a bit more, but I'll likely stick to keeping some sort of lineart just because it's much easier to keep things defined. I'm definitely liking the airbrushed shading more than what I was doing before now, but I'm getting a bit stuck on how to shade creases - or even if I should.

 

[Nina]

Completely agree on all accounts!
I'm going to keep exploring around a bit more, but I'll likely stick to keeping some sort of lineart just because it's much easier to keep things defined. I'm definitely liking the airbrushed shading more than what I was doing before now, but I'm getting a bit stuck on how to shade creases - or even if I should.

It depends on the person, but there are different diffusions of shadows. It just depends on the angle of the shadow and how strong the light is. If you're going realistically then you'll have a combination of both soft and sharp shadows especially in the folds of clothes. I personally do not like the airbrushed shadows, as I feel they aren't describing much about the figure that way.



Here's a tweet I saw recently of different styles of shadows and lines, for at least a style that's not trying to be very painterly. https://twitter.com/ainmaio/status/1308188101089656834

 

[gimmepie]

The experimentation continues. Feels like I'm starting to narrow down what I like and dislike more now, but there's still a ways to go.

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I've been playing Little Nightmares, so this happened.

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[Sapphire Rose]

I really like how you're getting a lot better. If you look back at your older art and look at the ones you make now you can see a clear growth and that's super awesome to see. The only thing your art could maybe use is using shadows in the creases. In your new one with six from little nightmares you have a super good shadow/light thing going on but the creases are flat and not very visible. Would've loved loved to see more definition in the creases.

Overall good work though! c: You motivate me to keep drawing as well so keep on going!

 

[gimmepie]

I really like how you're getting a lot better. If you look back at your older art and look at the ones you make now you can see a clear growth and that's super awesome to see. The only thing your art could maybe use is using shadows in the creases. In your new one with six from little nightmares you have a super good shadow/light thing going on but the creases are flat and not very visible. Would've loved loved to see more definition in the creases.

Overall good work though! c: You motivate me to keep drawing as well so keep on going!

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do for crease shading.

 

[Sapphire Rose]

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do for crease shading.

I'll send you a few video's through discord c: Maybe those can help

 

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So, a story concept... well closer to an entire story, randomly popped in my head and I felt compelled to do something with it. I ended up drawing a scene and it turned into by far the best drawing I've done so far. Legitimately proud of this one.

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I drew an aged up version of my character from an "old" RP since there's an indirect sequel I'm in now. Pretty happy with how it turned out but my exploration of how to not be bad at creasing is still very much ongoing lol.

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I should also update the OP with all this other art lmao
Eventually.

 

[gimmepie]

I did Alby's (Stinging Bea) character too. She had a less happy ending in the story but I am way happier with the drawing.

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