mocha's doodle dump

[mocha.]

hey mocha.! I love your two latest drawings, they are so adorable! The colours on Roxxy's and Bueno's drawings are beautiful!


Could you explain this more? I'm not sure I understand it... would love to try out that trick too! :3

Hi my lovely friend !! Thank you so much, of course I’ll explain it!

im using skin tone as an example but you could probably use it for anything really! I use a round brush for this (something with low ish opacity):

lay down your skin tone colour (max opacity) and then layer whichever colours you want to use on top, then colour drop the one that is mixed with the skin tone! Hopefully this diagram helps a little more because I’m rubbish with instructions haha

 

[Aquilla]

Oooh thank you for explaining and including that drawing, that's really helpful!

I am not sure I understand 100% yet but that's not your fault, I'm just slow and need everything explained like I'm 5 xD So let me see if I got it: BEFORE colouring you take for example a skintone as a base sample. If I know I want to use a shade of purple in the outfit, I overlay purple with lower opacity on top of the skintone sample and repeat for all other colours I want to use. In the end the overlayed colours can be turned into a palette for colouring that is more cohesive, because it was overlayed over a colour that takes up a big part of the drawing. You do this before colouring/rendering. Is that right?

I always make up the colours as I go and slap a warm colour gradient over my art at the end of the rendering process in the hopes to tie it all together, but might have to give this a shot because my method is hit or miss xD

 

[mocha.]

Oooh thank you for explaining and including that drawing, that's really helpful!

I am not sure I understand 100% yet but that's not your fault, I'm just slow and need everything explained like I'm 5 xD So let me see if I got it: BEFORE colouring you take for example a skintone as a base sample. If I know I want to use a shade of purple in the outfit, I overlay purple with lower opacity on top of the skintone sample and repeat for all other colours I want to use. In the end the overlayed colours can be turned into a palette for colouring that is more cohesive, because it was overlayed over a colour that takes up a big part of the drawing. You do this before colouring/rendering. Is that right?

I always make up the colours as I go and slap a warm colour gradient over my art at the end of the rendering process in the hopes to tie it all together, but might have to give this a shot because my method is hit or miss xD

Correct!! I’ve used the same image here but desaturated it:

Can you see how on the right side the colours are more cohesive because of their value? That’s essentially what we’re aiming to do. Hopefully this makes sense and I’m not confusing you further lol

 

[Aquilla]

Can you see how on the right side the colours are more cohesive because of their value? That’s essentially what we’re aiming to do. Hopefully this makes sense and I’m not confusing you further lol

Wow, yes I see! I was actually working hard to have greater contrast in my values so that things don't bleed together. I saw a tip online to put your artwork in greyscale to see if the values are too similar and to change up the colours if for example the skin colour and hair bleed into one another too much in greyscale. I noticed when I had to draw light skinned, light haired characters that also had a pastel outfit that it was getting really hard to distinguish between hair, skin and clothes when zooming out. I suppose there are several schools of thought x) I like the cohesive colour palettes in your work. Maybe I'll try rendering the same piece twice, once trying high contrast values and once trying cohesive similar values and see which one I prefer. Thank you for explaining it to me! <3 Sorry for cluttering up your art thread with my questions ;u;

 

[mocha.]

Wow, yes I see! I was actually working hard to have greater contrast in my values so that things don't bleed together. I saw a tip online to put your artwork in greyscale to see if the values are too similar and to change up the colours if for example the skin colour and hair bleed into one another too much in greyscale. I noticed when I had to draw light skinned, light haired characters that also had a pastel outfit that it was getting really hard to distinguish between hair, skin and clothes when zooming out. I suppose there are several schools of thought x) I like the cohesive colour palettes in your work. Maybe I'll try rendering the same piece twice, once trying high contrast values and once trying cohesive similar values and see which one I prefer. Thank you for explaining it to me! <3 Sorry for cluttering up your art thread with my questions ;u;

I’m the same!! And I usually do what you do, where I overlay with a colour at the end hahah. I definitely prefer this way but then again Ive only done a few pieces where I’ve used that technique, so will have to see if it holds up! And don’t worry, I enjoy chatting about the process! your art is gorgeous so the fact ur coming to me for advice… I’m in awe hahah!

 

[Aquilla]

I’m the same!! And I usually do what you do, where I overlay with a colour at the end hahah. I definitely prefer this way but then again Ive only done a few pieces where I’ve used that technique, so will have to see if it holds up! And don’t worry, I enjoy chatting about the process! your art is gorgeous so the fact ur coming to me for advice… I’m in awe hahah!

I'm curious to try it out and also see more of your art in the future :3 so nice you're back! And stahp - I don't know what I'm doing 90% of the time, don't put me on a pedestal lol xD I just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

 

[mocha.]

comm finished for the lovely @Kitsuragi <33
(character can be found here !!)

i am currently doing flash comms over on flight rising if anybody is interested!!

 

[Kitsuragi]

comm finished for the lovely @Kitsuragi <33

snipped the rest

THERE SHE IS!!!!!! ITS SHE!!!!!! everyone clap rn
thank you so so much she looks so cute

 

[mocha.]

another comm for the lovely @daringred_ <33
you can find her OC here!

 

[mocha.]

commission finished for someone over on flight rising. this took so long but i'm so so happy with it!

 

[mocha.]

my first ever dragon art - another commission over on FR ^^ I’m so happy with how this turned out. The rendering process takes me quite a while but I think it’s worth it for the outcome!

 

[Kitsuragi]

my first ever dragon art - another commission over on FR ^^ I’m so happy with how this turned out. The rendering process takes me quite a while but I think it’s worth it for the outcome!

WOWOWOWW YOU DID SO GOOD ON THIS!!! THE SPARKLES AND THE PRIMAL EYES LOOK SO GOOOOD

 

[mocha.]

WOWOWOWW YOU DID SO GOOD ON THIS!!! THE SPARKLES AND THE PRIMAL EYES LOOK SO GOOOOD

Thank u so much it was def a learning process LOL and those eyes nearly gave me a meltdown but FRUSTRATION IS PROGRESS !!

 

[mocha.]

another FR comm completed today when I should have been writing my dissertation OH WELL

 

[mocha.]

Another comm done !
I’m feeling a lot more confident rendering hair/eyes now and I hope it’s showing ??

 

[mocha.]

2 comms in one day, who is she?!

 

[Aquilla]

WAAA every time you post it looks MORE AWESOME!!! I love the dragons!!

 

[mocha.]

WAAA every time you post it looks MORE AWESOME!!! I love the dragons!!

I can’t wait to draw ur pretty dragons

 

[mocha.]

comm for the gorgeous @jiny ^^

 

[mocha.]

I love watching speedpaints so I did one (sketch -> lineart) for jiny’s commission ^^ if people are interested in seeing more of these I’m happy to oblige!