Tristan Yuvienco

SKETCH THOUGHTS 24

Oof I've been busy (with fever) for the past few days. Trying to slowly get back into things and apparently 2 days of not drawing at all....kinda sucks? Anyhow, here are some quick sketches of the usual gang ha ha. Also I since I draw them a lot, I decided to make a specific tag for them HAHA

WIP - Bat guy process

I did the sketch in Photoshop and transferred to Procreate. I kinda had a hard time deciding colors on this one. The timelapse didn’t do the time I spent adjusting the colors justice haha.

WIP 0601 - Shark Girl

I started a new WIP to add to the log of WIPs here haha as I seemed to have spontaneously created a character concept I liked. But I'm hoping I can see this through! When I do illustrated pieces with backgrounds, my comfort is to go with lineless as I can just "cheat" out forms with the lasso tool and textured brushes.

NOT THIS TIME THOUGH. I'm gonna try doing an illustration this time focusing on lines, round stylized shapes and colors instead of light and texture (which was my go-to). This w...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 23

Some sketches from the past days/weeks! I've been kept busy designing characters lately and it's been a bit exhausting to just think and draw so I just warm-up with some random stuff. 

I noticed I tend to draw angular forms lately so I wanted to see if I can loosen it up a bit.

That super smash bros sketch might be made into a final drawing but knowing me and grouped character drawings, it comes off as a bit daunting and i am not so sure if I'll have the strength to finish it haha.<...

WIP - Animatic Test

Went through some old files and found the base animatic for this shot which I did not delete. It goes to show that you can get away with many things with a little bit of camera movement--making stuff look more dynamic, for example haha. When I did this, it was actually over a bunch of separate occasions with me drawing over the base file (because I sometimes don't save my project files for small ...

OCTOBER UPDATE!

Another month, huh? Where'd the time go? This pretty much marks this Patreon's 6th month anniversary!! While I haven't been doing as much academic/structured learning as I've originally intended, I feel like there still has been some sort of improvement, nonetheless. I think that I've developed certain mindsets since I started this patreon and I find that pretty awesome.

Achievement-wise, we're almost at reaching that first goal! I'm honestly very surprised that it's even reac...

SKETCH REQUESTS 06

Here's this month's round of requests! Got to play with some fun designs!!

WIP 0506 - Gemanimate!

Here's it composited! Did some subtle shadow gradients, line art blurs, camera movements, and some small animation to the visor and gem shines. 

As usual, just the background is what remains and that'll be pretty much it! I decided to make a GIF because I don't think I can commit my PC to rendering much yet haha.

SKETCH THOUGHTS 22

Some more warm-up/side sketches of these magic folks!! Just practicing how to translate detail into short hands as well as some style and proportion experiments.

I can't believe at this point I haven't started any tangible project involving them as I've really gotten the hang of drawing them. With that said though I feel that I'm stuck with their final wardrobe. Maybe a comic? Maybe.

PROPORTIONS - How to Make Your Art Look Nice

Feeling that your drawings can look a little bit more fun? Do your character designs seem a little bit static or generic? Maybe they need a small push to their proportions!

This has been on the back burner for the longest time but I'm finally putting this out! Now that this is out of the way, I'm actually stumped on what other topics to tackle for the next one so I would LOVE to have some feedback! What tutorial or drawing concept should I tackle next?

WIP 0505 - Gemanimate!

Got to put in some progress on this thing! I added the shadows, the egg eyes and the visor effect. Just need to color in her gem and it's gonna pretty much be ready for compositing (my fave part!!!!!!!!!)

I'll probably end up doing the background last ahahahahaha

WIP - Naruto Tribute

Here's a cropped process of my piece for Gallery Nucleus & Viz Media's Naruto Tribute Exhibition. This is a bit of a milestone for me as I used to draw Naruto back in high school! I'm sure my 15-year old self would go nuts. I've always loved Team 8 so I'm drawing them being bad-ass!!

Breaking down the steps here, I went from--Thumbnail>Rough>BW Value Sketch>Flats>Lighting/Shadows>Post-processing/color adjustment

I actually experim...

HAVE YOU??

Finally I'm getting this tutorial out. THIS MONTH!!

(actually me neither. THE SHAME)

WIP - Inu Noodles

Went through some stuff I drew from this year and I forgot to post the process of this drawing. This took longer than I'd usually draw but I realized that my way of sketching depends on the brushes I use--for example, this pencil brush on Procreate. 

I also like how I spontaneously decided to include a background (which I usually don't haha). The perspective tools on Procreat...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 21

WOAH it's a bit down here, I'm very sorry about that! I've managed to work on some cool exciting stuff lately! Here are some sketches from last month that I haven't posted on here yet! They're a bunch of short hand sketches of my characters (again, haha). I also tried in experimenting with vector brushes on Adobe Illustrator and Clip Studio Paint just in case I'll spontaneously storyboard something with these characters. It's cool being able to manipulate and cleanly delete specific lines. I hop...

WIP - Sir Ranger

Here's a vid process of a drawing I posted of a new D&D character I'm itching to play. I did some preliminary sketches for this dude and just thought about the rendering in this one. I miss using the basic pencil brush on Procreate. It's so simple and it looks good too! 

When I was doing some preliminary sketches, I already had his shapes and (sort of) outfit in mind: a stocky build with a poncho. I based some parts of the outfit on eskimos and some fantasy art. I feel it could be bet...

SEPTEMBER UPDATE!

Late update, but better now than even later haha. I'm not gonna lie, this month has been a bit of a blur and there are some cool projects I get to work on so hopefully you'll hear about some of them soon!

I can't stress enough of how thankful I am for your support. I didn't get to follow-up on the stuff I said I'll do last update but hopefully I can get those done sometime. The tutorial I've had in the works is in its final stages so this month....THIS MONTH, I'll get it out!!

Will get t...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 20

Got to sketch a lot during a session zero for a d&d group. I realized that I'm getting better at shorthanding forms and figures. I'm starting to vary my proportions as well when I'm doing construction first. It's good to see the slow progress!

SKETCH THOUGHTS 19

For this year I've been mainly sticking with a unipin-like brush so it was somewhat refreshing to use my old brushes again. I am actually proud that i managed to draw the right most drawing without any guidelines--it's one of those rare moments haha

SKETCH REQUESTS 05

Here's this month's round of sketch requests for those in the seatmate tier! Wanted to go for more dynamic and active poses. I'm actually quite happy with that Deku pose!

SKETCH THOUGHTS 18

Here are some sketches with some I've drawn a while back. A bunch of these are just made in getting the feel of drawing on my ipad as well as just trying out (and failing) at different things.

A few years ago, I had this habit of just deleting the stuff I draw that I'm not proud of--kinda like crumpling the paper I sketched on and throwing it in the trash (that was even way back). While I do this very rarely now, I'm learning to save the drawings I'm not happy with. It's a good reminder that f...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 17

Exploring and developing these guys some more. I also tried out new proportions and shapes for them after seeing the work of James Woods.

I actually did a comparison drawing of them way back when I initially drew them vs now. I'm kind of glad I solidified some shapes for them so that they'd be more consistent when I move them around 3D space.

WIP 0504 - Gemanimate!

Managed to clean up and color Peridot now! Looking again, I need to fix some small stuff and I still have to do the clean up for the eyes and gem. Still seeing how this pans out haha!

SKETCH THOUGHTS 16 / WIP

This is sort of a WIP post as well as I'm trying to figure out the process I use for drawing the stuff I've been making lately. Hopefully analyzing my steps gets me closer to optimizing my process!

This was done rather fast where I play with ideas. I was thinking of a head-on pose with a wide angle effect. I expected a lot of overlapping forms in perspective from the head to the body.

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AUGUST UPDATE!

This was a bit of a weird month as I wrapped a bunch of cons, work and life stuff last July. While i've initially managed to make this month more focused on personal stuff like doing character commissions, this patreon, and maybe setting up some sort of streaming schedule (which I'll talk about in a bit) apparently some more life stuff happened!

Again, I'd like to thank everyone for their support! For this monthly Patreon update, I hope to add more goals to work for as this month progress...

WIP - Artstudio Pro Test 2

Here's another process of a test I did with Artstudio Pro on the ipad. I feel more comfortable doing my illustration/lineless style here. If anyone is curious about how I do my lighting, I start with base colors (usually I think that these are the 'lit' colors) and then I use a multiply layer for the shadows. Then I just erase the shadows for the lighting. It's a simple technique that's quick and works really well for me.

I also like to top it off with some subtle bloom effects. I think I over...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 15

Experimenting with how to switch up and proportions and shapes. I could use some more switching up, really.

WIP 0503 - Gemanimate!

Here's a a rough pass for the animation of this shot. There's a small blip in her head but I think I'll bump that out when I get into the cleanup. I'm actually planning to do a 2nd rough pass but looking at this it seems more or less what I'm aiming for! Perhaps I'll make a separate rough for the egg eyes.

I'm not going much into making Peridot move a bunch so I just focused on the lip syncing and the head turn. Compositing-wise, I'm looking into separating the lines of her visor, gem, and eye...

WIP 0502 - Gemanimate!

Not too happy about the colors and layout of this one but I'll get there when I get there. This is more or less the palette I want to use: a mix of blues, greens, and yellows! I also threw in the first key drawing/pose I want for the animation as well!

 Next up would be the animation and I am having mixed feelings for that step hahaha!

SKETCH REQUESTS 04

Trying something new for the sketch request tier! I figured I wasn't doing much with just busts so I feel like I'm achieving more with full bodies as I get to further push proportions/sizes! With that said though I still need to go even further (plus ultra, as some would say)!

It's more fun, nonetheless! A bit more challenging, but fun!