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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Rejected commission concept of "BARBARIENNE & GOBBOS" repurposed as a CSP brush test!
🕑 Added 2023-03-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTCSo!
Recently, I worked up a rough sketch concept for a commission that wound up going nowhere, so I decided to finish the piece as a Clip Studio Paint brush test... which proved educational, though almost entirely in a negative manner.
The basic idea was to feature a barbarian warrior forced to dance for a troupe of goblins who had captured her:
...with the punchline I worked in being that the "barbarienne" would, in fact, prefer to be a fantasy-milieu exotic dancer but has never before had the opportunity, nor the nerve to embrace that opportunity if it had arisen. (In fact, I worked up a whole short story exploring this concept, though it would've skewed juuuuust a tad explicit.)
Work Stages continued with me turning the illo's rough sketch layer to "non-repro blue" in CSP, like so:
...and then attempting to "ink" the line art with various CSP brushes, ranging from the program's default tools to a dozen or so different brushes I downloaded online:
And here are the inks with the blue pencil "underdrawing" layer turned off:
Gotta say that I had a horrendous time desperately trying to find CSP brushes that could give me the finished-art results I was looking for. In truth, none of the tools I tried out gave me anything of even vaguely acceptable quality; in the end, a few of the brushes were less crappy than the rest (such as the default "turnip pen" and a CSP market asset labeled "6pencil-soft"), but still proved far from being viable for published artwork.
Clearly, my so-far fruitless quest for workable CSP brushes to produce finished work has a long, long way to go, folks.
Finally, I grabbed my (semi-)beloved "design pencil" brush from the CSP default toolset and slathered on some gray tones using the "tilt" option on the stylus:
Anyhoo, CSP tests will continue, though I might switch over to the iPad version for a while, as I need to take a break from trying and failing ignominiously with the ol' Cintiq and PC.
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure at the moment as to exactly what's coming up in the next M/W/F slot, TBH. Let's find out together, shall we?
UPDATE: In fact, stand by for plenty mo' Distressed Damsels content in Friday's Monthly Exclusive Bonus post for the $10 & $20 tiers, as I knocked off all the remaining DiD art reqs from February's post in a single series of CSP pieces.
Meanwhile, one mo' M/W/F regularly scheduled post on Wednesday, okay? (Alas, I don't have enough content prepared right now to go "every-weekday" to finish out this month.)
Comments
Adam Warren
My main issue is that, when using CSP for finished artwork, several of the key brushes I use wind up behaving very, very differently on the Cintiq as opposed to the iPad-- and always to the detriment of the former, so far. (You'll see more of this tomorrow, as one of the Cintiq sketch sets involved a whole lotta brush tests.)
KranberriJam
I've only had experience with an extremely small Wacom tablet and my more recent Huion (no screens) and Photoshop/Krita. It does have a learning curve, but I'm getting there. Mind if I ask what's making the transition from the iPad to the Cintiq so difficult/frustrating?
Will_K
Dance !!!
Strypgia
The goblin playing the lute for musical accompaniment made me laugh.
JoJack86
Really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. One thing I'm constantly surprised by and appreciate is the funny dialogue you insert into DiD contnet.
Adam Warren
I've posted some of the older Big Spender art-request DiD sketch sets from years past here on the $5 tier on occasion; the new(er) content consists mostly of CSP-based sets along those lines.
Vlaphor
Really like this one. So any chance we could get a small preview of the higher tier pics?I like the DiD stuff and would be willing to pay more for more of it.
Eric
This is....pretty damned hot.
