Ben Eblen
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✍️ 🎨 Sharing what I learn about drawing/painting 🎤 Talking content/business @makenowthinkl8r 🎥 Get my latest 8+ hour real-time tutorial below👇
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7/8 🧵 If you're enjoying this stylized character stuff, I think you'll like my latest tutorial 👇
- 🎥 8+ hour real-time walkthrough
- 📚 40+ page Field guide
- 🗿 3D models to study from
- 📁 PSD files & a Procreate tutorial to reference from
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I painted Gus, here’s some sketch notes one the process 1/6 🧵
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1/10 🧵 I drew and painted Joel and Ellie from the last of us. Here's a few notes on the process and what I learned👇
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Slowly building the traditional painting habit. Oils and gouache 👨🎨🎨
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1 of 4 🧵 I drew Joel and Ellie from the last of us... It was a heck of a process, it's one of those ones that is a slog going through it, but pop out the other end having learned a ton! A sketch note on my learnings will be dropping soon. But here's the result.
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1/9 🧵 I painted a character design of
@travisbarker
and below are my notes on the process 👇
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WIP efforts from yesterday's stream, thanks to all who joined. It was a fun one! ✍️🎨
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I hate when I'm painting and I think "This isn't looking right, and I don't know why"... For me, this usually means there's a lack of understanding of the –
a. Form
b. Light source.
To get out of this rut, I like to 'wireframe' the form to get a better understanding of it.
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Live in 15! doing some laid back stylized art study and chatting
This stream may include but is not limited to:
✍️ Drawing
🎨 Painting
🗿 Sculpting
Hope to see you in there! Feel free to ask any questions ✍️🕺🎨
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Result of todays painting stream (8 hours 😱), thanks all for popping past and keeping me company 😅 can’t wait to finish this one up 🕺
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Todays Gouache practise. Went a little more simplified/ stylized with this one.
I'm finding the thicker the paint, the more vibrant the colour (probs super obvious to a lot of you). It's really apparent on this kraft paper though.
Keeping that traditional art habit going 👨🎨🫡
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I painted Spidey🎨🕷. And below are my notes and thoughts on the process from sketch to painting. 🧵1/7
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Had some fun with this character painting exercise (Reality vs VR). The idea sparked from a little gesture study 🤷♂️. Individual characters & time-lapse inside 1/3 🧵👇
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A fun little stylized character / anatomy practise. sketches and time-lapse inside 🧵 👇 1/3 *painted in photoshop
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One of the things I didn’t realise when I started to share my process/journey, is how much fun it is to figure out ways to visualise and communicate abstract concepts… almost as fun as doing the paintings in the first place 😅
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Skull study (if you know, you know) and rendering techniques 4/6 🧵
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This mornings gouache practise 🖌�� less stylised than usual. But the traditional art habit continues 🫡👨🎨 learning a ton about how this medium behaves 🎨
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Couple of fun little studies from last stream, I feel like this might be worth taking a little further 🤔
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A little late night painting study 🎨✍️ using one of my wip sculptures done in alien clay 🗿
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1/8 🧵 Some new character painting exploration with swing dancing skeletons (time-lapse in the last tweet )✍️🍿
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1/14 Thread 🧵🎨: As a content experiment, I've tweet stormed today's progress on painting this stylized Travis Barker character. Sharing some of my thoughts, tips, and processes as they happen throughout the day. Welcome to today's session ✍️👇
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Finished this little gouache page today. The traditional medium habit grows deeper 👨🎨🕺
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Some expression studies for my spidersona, trying to really simplify the lines as much as possible ✍️
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1 of 4 🧵 I drew Bill and Frank from The Last of Us... The goal here was to get a little looser, more painterly and more colourful with these characters. Loved this episode! A sketch note on my learnings will be dropping soon. But here's the result (time-lapse on the last tweet)
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What we ended up getting done on yesterdays stream…
The stream was riddled with tech headaches 😤
Ended up having to draw with the mouse and the fillthy photoshop plug-in and lasso tool (shameless plug, but true)
Had fun and good chats despite the tech setbacks 🕺
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A random little character study I wanted to get REAL geometric with 📦 time-lapse 🎥 in next tweet 🧵 1/2 👇👇
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Here’s how far we got with yesterdays live stream. We did screen cap colour studies then used those learnings to play with stylization using a similar lighting set up ✍️ 🎨
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1 of 10 🧵 I painted a character design of
@jennaortega
and below are my notes on the process👇 (the time-lapse is at the end 🍿✍️)
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2/10 🧵 Likeness always takes the most amount of time. Boiling it down to really simple shapes can help a lot. Simple shapes are a lot easier for me to manipulate and then complex ones so I try and keep the simplicity for as long as possible
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1/4 🧵 And here’s where this character painting ended up. I streamed the process on my YT channel (slowly getting used to talking and painting), was a ton of fun! Below are the sketch and time-lapse
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1/17 🧵🎨 Day 2 of documenting my process with drawing/painting this stylized Travis Barker Character.
The goal... take a painting trip to render town 🎨 Let's start bringing him to life 🕺
Welcome to today's session 👇
*Yesterday's session linked on the last tweet
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A little spidey painting (full sketch note dropping soon with reference and Breakdowns 📝 ) but for now the time-lapse and line-work are below 👇 1/4 🧵
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And If you want to dive deeper, I’ve just launched an 8+ hour real-time tutorial including a 40 page field guide along with some other goodies walking you through my process and thoughts around the creation of this guy from sketch to full painting👇6/6
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9/10 🧵And here's where it ended up! I learnt so much with this one. Time lapse on the next tweet 👇
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Some sketches from the last couple of streams, loving me some wonky cars ✍️🚗
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1 of 4 🧵 I'm trying to get more colourful with my character painting, and I love golden hour lighting. So here's a little stylized character study. Time-lapse on the last tweet 👇🍿
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My first tutorial is live! But before we get into that a sketch note 👇👇 1/6
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A little Hobie clay head for today. Needs some tweaks then he shall be used as reference for some 2D painting 🕺✍️🕷️🎸🗿
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1 of 9 🧵I've been falling in love with sculpting and it's been helping my 2D work a ton! Here's my WIP of a stylized clay character bust & the notes I have on the process. Time-lapse on the last tweet 👇🍿
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Having some fun knocking the 3D sculpting dust off in blender. Not the most straight forward project to get back into it… but fun though!
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1 of 10 🧵Oppenblinders or Peakyhiemer?
Had fun exploring simplifying the line work to its bare essentials. I've added the reference and sketch next to one another below and the time-lapse is on the last tweet ✍️👇🍿 Also did a few if these on stream as well 🎥
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An oil wip from tonight’s little traditional stream experiment.
There’s something so cool about seeing a kind of ‘history’ of values and hues on a pallet vs a digital colour picker.
The traditional habit & exploration grows stronger 🎨🫡
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Had some fun slapping some colour 👋 🎨 on old mate Heisenberg today using the black and white to colour workflow I’ve been playing with. Takes a bit of set up, but can get some nice results pretty quickly thereafter.
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1/10 🧵 The other week I drew a couple of characters ✍️. Here's a breakdown of my OC's Astronaut Bloke and Gecko alien dude (working titles) Time-lapse on the last tweet 🍿
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4/10 🧵I wanted to have them in a dusk lighting setup because I want to play with the sunlight and shadows. Another benefit of doing this lighting setup is it gives a natural complimentary colour scheme with a blue diffuse skylight and the more orange key light of the Sun.
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Well that last post took off unexpectedly 😅 hello to everyone that’s new here 👋 here’s some more little gesture studies/notes for tonight (I do longer form context/carousels over on my IG as well for those interested ) time-lapse inside 👇 🧵
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3/10 🧵One thing I started to realise around halfway through was that I could really play each characters shapes of one another to build contrast. Joel having more solid, angular and ‘stable’ shapes and Ellie being a little softer, rounder and curved in her shapes.
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A little turn around practise for today + some visualisations of how I’m thinking about simplification of the head. Time-lapse below 👇 🧵 1/2
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6/10 🧵I was way out of my comfort zone with inventing the background but as I'm learning… the fundamentals cross over many art disciplines as clear simple shapes, values and perspective all came into play here. Adding texture to the shapes helped keep them feeling so sterile.
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1 of 6 🧵Hopped on the Spiderman fan art band wagon with a little Hobie character painting 🕺full crop, lines and time-lapse below👇🍿
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Got back into sculpting and decided to start sculpting my own 2D study tools, how meta 😅 hopefully this doubles the amount of progress I make, that’s how it works right?? (This was done in
@nomadsculpt
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9/9 🧵 And here's the time-lapse. Hope you got something out of this one ✌️!
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Tonight's fallout character sketch. Next to add some colour 🎨✍️
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Here’s a little sketch note on how I drew Walter and Jesse and the time-lapse👇👇🧵 + an exciting announcement 😱 1/5
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Playing with some more animation experiments to try and show how I use a kind of simplified 2D “blue print” when I’m struggling to draw/paint stylized hands 👋
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Did a little sketch note on my recent Cumberbatch style study + decided to do a much requested Sherlock version as well (forgive the cut off text, was originally a carousel on IG) 1/5🧵 👇
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A little skeleton sketch from today, a re-do from a couple of streams ago.
I'm recording the full process for this one.
I'm feeling some back-lit lighting and some sub-surface scattering for the painting version 🧐 and maybe giving this a go in oils after 🤷♂️
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5/10 🧵I happened to stream most of this process and one point Joel's hand placement was doing my head in. So I picked up my backpack I've had since high school did some poses and used them as reference! There's some notes here on their hair as well 💇
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7/10 🧵I muted the background colours a bit to blend into the theme of the last of us world. It helped the more saturated colours of Ellie and Joel come to the forefront. I used Gaussian Blur to add a bit of depth of field which brings more attention to Ellie and Joel
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Playin’ with some gwashh. I used a stay wet palette for the first time.
It’s pretty nice not having the paint dry up on you so quickly 🎨 🌧️
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Some light rendering invention for today 💡 🎨 time-lapse inside 👇👇 1/3 🧵
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A little character painting practise. I used to play baseball and was a left handed pitcher, so thought I’d give this guy a go 😅 Time-lapse inside 👇 1/2 🧵
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1 of 4 🧵Here's a couple of new OC's I've been working on! And it's my first DTIYS 😳 Sketch and time-lapse below 👇👇
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Just released my first YouTube video “I DON’T use the Loomis method” hope it’s helpful!
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8/10 🧵 If you're enjoying this stylized character stuff, I think you'll like my latest tutorial 👇
- 🎥 8+ hour real-time walkthrough
- 📚 40+ page Field guide
- 🗿 3D models to study from
- 📁 PSD files & a Procreate tutorial to reference from
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A little breakdown of my recent gouache study as a predominantly digital artist 👨🎨
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Here's a 60-second time-lapse 🍿 from the sketch to the finished painted characters.
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A little anime painting style challenge for today 1/2 time-lapse inside 👇👇 🧵
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Going live in 15! Going to have some fun drawing, painting and studying faces, stylizing them and having a good ol chin wag with chat, hope to see you in there! -> ✍️🕺🎨
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A little sculpt I made on
@nomadsculpt
to help with 2D drawing practise. Nothing quite like trying to understand your own 3D forms
#artstudyinception
🤓🗿✏️
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Getting there, going to try and paint this one up in the one live stream today, hopefully see you in there ✌️
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A few stylisation iterations for today, time-lapse inside👇👇 🧵 1/2
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2nd YT video is finally done! It covers some of the key ideas that have helped me out with line-work so far. Would love to know what you think✍️🕺
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A little one pager sketch note for today. Time lapse inside 👇 🧵 1/2
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A fun little stylisation painting. Initial sketches and time-lapse inside 🧵 👇👇1/4
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Live in 30! doing some laid back Stylized art study and chatting
This stream may include but is not limited to:
✍️ Drawing
🎨 Painting
🗿 Sculpting
Hope to see you in there! Feel free to ask any questions ✍️🕺🎨
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1/8 🧵 So...I painted Cumberbabes as an Avatar Character based on a suggestion from a regular contributor in chat on my youtube stream (shout out to THUNGUNS ) ✌️...Weird, but fun af! Here are a few snippets from those streams (time-lapse on the last tweet 👇🍿)
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Wendy and Marty Byrde from Ozark likeness painting practise. Time-lapse inside 👇 1/2 🧵
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A few figure sketches/stylisations from the other day + the forms I’m thinking about. Time-lapse inside 🎥 🧵 👇
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Going live now doing some painting study!
This stream may include but is not limited to...
✍️ Drawing
🎨Painting
🕺Stylizing
🗿Sculpting
Hope to see you in there! And feel free to ask any questions! ✍️🕺🎨
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A little painting screen cap study of
@prattprattpratt
time-lapse & reference inside 👇👇 1/3 🧵
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Props - breaking them down to their simples 3D shapes
Lighting - using diffused blue sky light to 'place' the character in the scene
Drawing Through - to help me keep things feeling 'solid'
Next is the time-lapse 🍿
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Super loosey goosey study for today 👩🚀. I wanted to paint something reflective, so I threw a space helmet on a hoodie 😅 Done in
@Procreate
#drawing
#painting
#illustration
#Procreate
#digitalpainting
#digitalart
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2/9 🧵 When I stylize and exaggerate I generally like to base this on some inkling of reality.
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Some Peaky likeness practise, notes and time-lapse inside 👇👇 1/3 🧵
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Wip from todays painting sesh 🎨✍️ first solid session for the year 🕺done mostly in Krita
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