CGS DSF 3536 65 mn "Tales of the Gold Monkey"

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“Tales of the Gold Monkey”
inspired by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFN6agkNnQ

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#2

65 Min.? I’m really bad at this time thing.

#3

(12min) Verve

#4

Well, you sure made good use of the bumpy shading in that one, Taron. Looks like real plated gold!

Mine is quite fluffy this time around, made all with a soft round brush. I could probably have gone over the worst areas again with a smaller size to make finer hair, but it’ll have to do. Should have been just within the time limit.

#5

Hehehe, yeah, I used my nifty metallic paint! :smiley:

Very, very nice painting, drpetter! It, again, has such a classic feel to it. You might’ve gone a little overboard with the soft round tip, haha, but it’s most likely perfect to find your bearing, or what that’s called…balance?! I find the eye contact with his thought bubble absolutely outstanding! You can completely feel the ape. You’ve made an ape, by the way, but the world of monkeys will salute you for it, haha! :wink:
Anyway, a kind of divine moment there. Beautiful!

#6

Thanks. Well, I guess I’m biased from cultural influence, but I did have a Google image page of macaque pictures up as rough inspiration, and I tried adding a very vague tail there behind the rock as a kind of token gesture. It’s hard to draw the line between species without further experience though!

Yeah, the mushy round brush has that “nice” quality of producing really ugly vague shapes early on, which lets me relax and not get attached to anything. Possibly there could be a golden path from blurry sketch to crisp textured painting if more elegant brushes are applied once the foundation has been laid.

#7

It absolutely looked like a chimpanzee to me, although I now can sense the monkey, too, but, however, it doesn’t take away from the artistic excellence at all.
The soft brushes have their own purpose just like any other brush and just like any other brush they do funky things, if used for things that ask for a different property in a brush. On fur, for example, bristles help a great deal, while a wispy cloud begs for a soft brush or large soft gradients.
But, yeah, sometimes they are actually quite nice for blocking shading, too, just like you’ve said…etc…
I’m currently mostly just doodling around with bristles, because that is the mother of vagueness, hahaha, and gives texture for free. :smiley:

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