Kisaki Tencha artworks and sketches
Kisaki Tencha 1st anniversary
- I actually drew this as a way to practice posing and flat color, to expand my options and not relying on polished rendering anymore.
- I started working on this in January 2023, slowly sketching out the poses. Each week I would spend anywhere from 30min-10hours on this.
- Good things:
- compared to last year, I'm more comfortable sketching fullbody.
- I spended more time on the 3 fullbody poses. I'm getting better at imaginative and constructive pose drawing.
- I really like the layout, especially the big portrait on right side. The size contrast in this artwork is really on point. I intent to polish this further as a commission sample of this specific look (flat color, character-centric, multiple angle and pose of the same character)
- Facial expression is improving too.
- My gradient game has been improving though still kinda bad. I used to hate gradients with a passion.
- Neutral:
- My "perfectionist self" dislike many parts of this artwork and objectively speaking this looks worse than the average quality of my works. But considering this is essentially a passion work (this is not a commission), it is good that I was able to curb the perfectionist, make many compromises and decided to stop at an acceptable quality. I still feel very bad uploading this work but well I still got 1 more commission to do so can't spend too much time orz
- Bad:
- Because of my underestimation, I had to rush a lot of details towards the end.
- The time constraint destroyed my focus ability, I wasn't able to apply the clean sketch skill that I've acquired in my studies and just reverted to my old habit of not thinking before making a mark.
- Color looks acceptable while zoomed in, but a mess while zoomed-out, I used Color Burn too excessively as a way to separate the fullbody poses and everything else and it backfired.
- I switched to a more Orderly Workflow (on the spectrum of Chaos vs Order in Art Workflow) for this artwork, and aimed for a clean look (as opposed to a more painterly look) and frankly didn't do a good job. The sketchiness of the line, the ragged edges that is ok in a painterly look are very apparent in this clean look.
- The thumbnail also suffer from the difficulty in Editability🌱. While I have more control for each individual layer in an orderly workflow, it is a expensive decision if I ever want to apply a global adjustment layers (which has harmonizing effect) as I always do in my usual chaotic workflow.
- Overall, this artwork has plenty potential to be my best work, but was hampered by time constraint and my lack of practice in an Ordered workflow. I really love the clear improvement in posing and 3d forms. The content and layout is really lively and cute too~