[Art] Nyil's Digital Paintings (Commission: Liger dreamscape) (mature) [1/17/13]

[Nyil]

I had a lot of fun doing this - I miss doing big landscapes with characters in them!

I may post a step-by-step of this, but I'm not entirely sure if people would really care. Well, we'll see!

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7718722/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4v5pra
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=226014
http://www.nabyn.com/art/road-to-earaghaidh-44412

[Mao]

With regards to the step by step, I'd say post it anyway, regardless of if people seem to care or not.  Only way to get them interested is show them something.  The only question that actually matters is if you want to post the step by step which can be a hard thing to decide, I admit, when you feel like no one is interested.

I'd ask myself:  Am I proud of the process?  Did it yield a result that I am proud of and thusly want to show my work?  Did you learn a new trick that might help someone that you could showcase here?

Anyway, just something to consider.  You're a very talented artist, Nyil.  Even if people aren't responding, I promise you that people are looking.

[Ignuus66]

Actually, I would very much enjoy seeing a step-by-step process (if it doesn't require too big of an effort from you)

[Nyil]

With regards to the step by step, I'd say post it anyway, regardless of if people seem to care or not.  Only way to get them interested is show them something.  The only question that actually matters is if you want to post the step by step which can be a hard thing to decide, I admit, when you feel like no one is interested.

I'd ask myself:  Am I proud of the process?  Did it yield a result that I am proud of and thusly want to show my work?  Did you learn a new trick that might help someone that you could showcase here?

Anyway, just something to consider.  You're a very talented artist, Nyil.  Even if people aren't responding, I promise you that people are looking.

I just think the process for this one is a little funny, and shows how much things tend to change for me on a total whim. At first, this was going to be a knight templar about to go ballistic on someone, but the background looked kinda cool so I decided to paint it in. I don't have all the teeny tiny little steps, but the process as a whole, I think, is interesting, and illustrates how flexible one needs to be throughout the process, and just go with new opportunities as they're presented. This particular painting also demonstrates how I use things like framing and scaling to attempt to suck the viewer right in. So the thoughts might be interesting to see, even for me - I'd like to see how I rationalize things afterwards.

Actually, I would very much enjoy seeing a step-by-step process (if it doesn't require too big of an effort from you)

I already took a bunch of screenshots, I really just have to post everything up and explain what happened. Thank you very much!

[Nyil]

Really, I just wanted to draw two best friends together for a speed paint. These things just have a habit of... Running away from me.

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7725615/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/art/Best-Friends-Forever-294394324
http://www.nabyn.com/art/best-friends-forever-44561
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=226392

[Ignuus66]

Proof that zombies use twitter?
Good thing for them it isn't faceook, or they would find mighty few brains to munch on there. 

[Nyil]

Fun little art trade.

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7737932/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4vi8o1
http://www.nabyn.com/art/art-trade-bix-44916
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=227175

[Ignuus66]

That somehow reminds me of a painting of a oracle, with all the incence (how do you spell it?) floating around

[Nyil]

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7745463/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4vn3w1
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=227664
http://www.nabyn.com/art/lone-tree-45085

[Nyil]

Full sizes:
http://www.nabyn.com/art/souter-creek-45260
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7750652/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/art/Souter-Creek-295184426
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=228059

[Nyil]

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7752509/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4vrs3a
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=228184
http://www.nabyn.com/art/kalamantinos-45314

[Ignuus66]

That scene reminds me of Mania from the shivering isles dlc...


... I played too much oblivion

[Nyil]

This was just going to be me blasting through another speed painting, but I decided to refine it a bit.

full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7756167/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/art/The-False-Proof-295350611
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=228413
http://www.nabyn.com/art/the-false-proof-45412

[Ignuus66]

  SKRIIIIIIM

Here we can see Dovakhin, dragonborn!

... I should stop

[Nyil]

SKRIIIIIIM

Here we can see Dovakhin, dragonborn!

... I should stop

I have no idea what any of that is ._.

[Ignuus66]

Video game: it's from a video game

Skyrim is a viking/medivial/norse themed Sandbox shitting around Hacky slashy Role Playing Game, and the main char is a dragon born called Dovakhin.

[Nyil]

Video game: it's from a video game

Skyrim is a viking/medivial/norse themed Sandbox shitting around Hacky slashy Role Playing Game, and the main char is a dragon born called Dovakhin.

Iiiii understood the 'viking/medieval/Norse' part and nothing else >.>; I don't play videogames; haven't touched them for about three years now.

[Ignuus66]

wall of text\

Basically: It's game where you play as a single character who you can go around anywhere you want (as long as you can reach it) you kill enemies (or civilians if you want to go on the odd rampage) collect their dropped weapons/money/jewelry, you speak to some people, do some errands (quests) kill (lots of) dragons, get rocketed up into the sky by giants (a glitch), you explore dungeons for treasure, usually crap by the end of the game, you can use bows, shields, axes, swords, daggers, maces, (possibly spears in a later update) and magic, you can use 1 weapon each hand ( a shield in 1 and a sword in the other, magic in 1 hand sword in the other, 2 swords in each hand, double magic, ect) you can buy houses, steal everything from everyone in existance, and just basically fool around, the more enemies you kill (from wolves to dragon) the stronger you get in what you used to kill them, the more non-combat abilities you use the better you get at them (alchemy for example, you level it up by making potions, and the better you are at it the more potions you can make) The game has a massive world, filled with secrets and different areas (from snowy tundras to lush valleys, no jungles or desert though, the climate is mainly frigid)

/wall of text

Basically: it's a game about hitting bad guys (or not so bad guys), exploring, and collecting loot.

[Nyil]

Yet another icy image

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7763668/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4vysve
http://www.nabyn.com/art/pressed-for-time-45607
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=228914

[Inumo]

Something I noticed, a lot of your figures seem to be facing left recently, if not always looking left, and in quite a few pieces their chins are down. Not a very consistent observation, but one I thought I should mention if for no other reason than a "Oh hey, lookie thar".

More on topic, I love how you did the hair in the last image. Very natural. Something seems a bit off with how the dress lays on the chest (sounds pervy when I say it, but not sure how to say it technically), though I haven't exactly studied anatomy so it might just be a lack of experience. The way you do blood is very neat; it stands out as a good contrast to the rest of the scene, but it doesn't seem ridiculous.

[Nyil]

Different head angle all together - Inumo helped point out that I was drawing a lot of left facing critters, or at least flipping the image to face left towards the end. Hng. Well, here's something different.

Full sizes:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7769466/
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/#/d4w2n66
http://www.nabyn.com/art/whistler-from-rosslea-45719
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=229431

[Inumo]

Well, that's an angle you don't see every day. Nicely done! I like how the lipstick and nail polish stand out against the mostly dark hair. I'm guessing that she's smiling and her eyes are closed, not that she's some demon with black, soulless eyes or something? Either way, she looks quite happy.

[Nyil]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18403558/O18%202012%20Fleadhset1.mp3

This weekend was spent at a competition for Irish music - this was my band's set. This was recorded a few days before the fleadh, when we finally decided on what to play and how to play it, though a few hours before the competition we made a few more major changes.

The competition was a sobering experience, one in which I realized that judges would prefer a poor musician to me, a half Asian. Although many of the door guards and staff thought I was a judge because of my playing (I practiced in the halls and spare rooms when I had time before my solo competition), I was given last place, despite many of the other competitors not having kept beat and being off tune.

Regardless of the weekend, the judges' prejudice has only strengthened my resolve to become an even stronger musician, and to continue growing. Irish music is part of who I am, and part of how I communicate and spread joy to those around me. No judge will ever take that away.

[Ignuus66]

Gogogo! show 'em who's boss 

Good luck!

[Nyil]

Well, since Mab drew something really really nice for me ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7759139/ ), I thought I'd counter with a picture of Lorenda!

Full sizes:
http://www.nabyn.com/art/lorenda-s-lunch-46312
http://mouseymachinations.deviantart.com/art/Lunchtime-Lorenda-296510303
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7795301/
https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=231223

[Mao]

Hamburger eaten by a cow.  So awkward.

[WhiteFox]

Hamburger eaten by a cow.  So awkward.

For awkward, that ud- utterly trumps the fact that cheese is a dairy product.

[LionHeart]

I'm pretty sure I've seen Lorenda eating a hamburger in the comic...

[Ignuus66]

I like the drawing, but I sstill think you drew Lorenda a bit too fat, but otherwise to the people saying that it's awkward she's eating a hamburger, don't forget that the cheese doesn't have to be from the dairy product of a cow, (goat cheese for example) and where I live we don't always have beef in our (homemade) hamburgers, other types of meat work equally well (turkey burger is my fave)

[justacritic]

Wasn't there a couple of strips that dealt with this very concept much earlier in the comic's history?