FANART (FFVII): "Swan" (Rufus)

[dnatio_memoriae]

Title: Swan (Afraid I'm not very creative, this time of the night)
Character: Rufus
Tools: Corel Painter

I haven't drawn in a while. On that note, dear self, in future, please do not be so stupid as to download an obviously malicious file, thus screwing up your computer and by extension losing a good few working days that could otherwise have been

Comments

[messageinbottle]

oh my god you are fantastic *_* this must be the best work I've seen from you. so intense. lovely!

[dnatio_memoriae]

Thank you very much for the comment ^^

[dnatio_memoriae]

Heh, thank you! <3

[karanguni]

i am so sleepy and jetlagged and stuff but before I flail unto bed I will say:

1. i am so glad you got painter
2. i am so glad that i lived to see this
3. ajsfljalkfja lkfjalkfjasklfjaslksk fjlkafjlkasjf

[dnatio_memoriae]

1. I agree. I was ridiculously excited when the thing arrived in the mail.

2. I'm glad you lived. Full stop.

3. Ah, how I've missed your flaily, joy-inducing comments. Again, welcome back!

p.s. Watched all of Baccano! in two sittings. I am going to have to rewatch it because it initially confused the hell out of me (I'm not good with dates, or when there's an excess of characters) but by the end I was in love. Let's see. Multiple story lines/perspectives (tick). Non-chronological narrative (tick). Psychopathic (to varying degrees), badass characters - both male and female (tick). People in suits (TICK TICK TICK). Now I will understand one half of the cross-over in I Met a Man (Save Me),one of my favourite drabbles by you. All I need to do now is rectify that other half...*goes in search of american gods*

[karanguni]

1. Hohoho! Which version is it?

2. Me too, me too. *yawns* Still so damned sleepy and unaccustomed to the warmth and humidity back here.

3. FLAILING I AM GOOD AT. And god, there's so much stuff to flail about. *stares at the to-do list of doom*

p.s HOORAY. Hehehe! Baccano! does take a watch-through or two (or three, or four), but there are just so many lovely characters that it's insane and brilliant and wriggle-inducing. \o\ I do love me my Gandors - and, if you're on IJ, you can check out the community 1931, where I've done some translation work (albeit very bad translation work). :DDDD

AMERICAN GODS. I CAN SEND A COPY TO YOU.

[dnatio_memoriae]

1. Corel Painter X <3

2. Warmth and humidity. Too much of it here, where I am. Meant I couldn't sleep last night. As a result am falling asleep at keyboard. *joins in with yawn*

3. To-do lists seem to grow at exponential rates.

American Gods! Do you mean a hard copy or e-book?

[wedgwood]

I'm afraid, sir, that you are holding my dinner.

I love how you paint, the shadows are so realistic. Can I ask what tool you use the most in Painter to achieve this look?
Now I must go find a picture with David Bowie holding a swan I will not rest till I do so.

[dnatio_memoriae]

Heh. Rufus obviously has a predilection for roasting things. Tasty swan is tasty.

For realistic styles such as this I tend to use airbrush. There is a probably a better brush I can use, but Painter is a program I've only recently started using and I'm hardly an expert at digital painting full stop, so it suits my current needs. The background is a combination of oil pastels, textures, lighting and zoom effects.

[ani_mama]

This is gorgeous! Do you use ref for these, or just do the drawings out of your head?

[dnatio_memoriae]

Thanks. For pictures like this I usually use a combination of references for different elements of the picture (e.g. shading, pose, features etc).