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I tried drawing with MS paint for the first time! My lines are a little shaky because I don't often use a mouse to draw :( . It was really fun just messing around with color theory because you don't get much options for brushes with MS paint! I think I'll be using this thread to post some artworks (probably fan art of some story games ^^) !

(Edit: The image is so big.. I have no idea how to resize it TT)

Fixed. But it's easiest to just resize it in MSPaint while you have it open. Try to aim for a max of 650 width or so if you're posting it on the forum. You can always just link to a bigger version.

Thank you Mizal! ^^

Awh! Very cute! ^_^

Yay! 🥳

i have tried digital drawing time and time again, but i just can not get it down for some reason. and trying to use any sort of colored art tool for physical art is treacherous for me as well. so, my drawing and characters all live in black and white.

all of this to say, i love the color scheme here, and i envy your digital art skills.

(also, the story game i am currently working on is not yet published and won't be for a while. but if you are bored one day and interested in drawing some art of any of my characters, i would love to have you read what is done so far. your style is very cute. the story game is horror and about zombies, though, so i understand if you aren't into that.)

TYSM!! Digital art is hard to get used to, especially if you come from traditional art (everything feels a little bit off.. ) I also absolutely get leaving your characters in B&W as well (I think the last time I touched a color pencil was for an assignment). I would LOVE to draw fan-art of your story game, if you end up publishing it! I actually happen to really like horror and post apocalyptic stories, so I'd definitely be down to draw something! ^^ 

oh, great! it shouldn't be too long until it's published, but i'll let you know. and yeah, idk if i'll ever get into digital art but i'm sure it would be a long adjustment period before i'm comfortable with it, lol.

Now that I've gotten another device long enough to see this, this is cool! It's really good, was it based off of your pfp? :D

Thank you Avo! It actually wasn't based off of my pfp, but they ended up looking alike lol.

Oh, ok. Still good! :D

I finished reading "The Tales of Erenel", so I decided to make some fanart of Shia! (I don't recall there being an exact description of her appearance, so I took some guesses. I apologize for any inaccuracies!) Since I'm also participating in MHD's reading competition, I'll try to make some fanart for the storygames I really enjoyed! ^^

BHP, you rule! First you post a great review and now you're illustrating my story :D This looks great, very close to how I imagined her, and it's also great to hear you'll be providing fanart for other story games :) Looking forward to it!

     Wow, that's cool! My only critique is that the should armour looks more flexible than it seems it should be. It seems to be made of unflexible metal, but the way the shoulders are makes it seem like the designer expected the soldier to always have their arms at their sides, which suggests that it can bend upward for the soldier to raise their arms.

     Unless I made a stupid mistake, that is.

That's a good catch Avo! It does look like the shoulders are glued to the chest piece LOL. I assure you it's not supposed to look that way, I just didn't want to draw all the armor details so it's very squished together. The shoulder piece is seperate from the chest piece, don't worry! 

Oh, ok.

It's funny you say that because the flexibility of the armor is giving me some confusion in writing the story :) I imagine it as a kind of breastplate with arm and leg guards attached and open joints at the shoulders, elbows, hands etc where the characters can get injured. Looking at some of the old suits of plate armor that people usually wore they look practically bullet-proof and no monster is going to injure someone wearing them unless they're armed with a tin opener, a blow torch or an industrial-strength laser (which would admittedly make encounters with Goblins more fun). I think the armor I'm thinking of looks tough but is in reality pretty flexible, similar to BHP's drawing :D

     Yeah, there are weak points in armour. It's been taken advantage of, too. I don't know if armour is still like this, but back a while ago (I really don't remember how far back) armour had a weaker chainmail at the bottom of feet, so people could walk properly and run.

     There was a war, I really don't remember many details because I learned this years ago, and the opposing side, at least in the beginning of the war, didn't send any troops. Instead, they put sharp metal in the ground that was hard to see. The armour, because it was lacking at the bottom of the feet, was easily pierced by the sharp metal and the troops couldn't cross the terrain.

     I don't know how armour is made now, but back then these kinds of weak points were around the elbows, (very slightly) the shoulders, armpits, feet, necks, and so on. However, there's hardly ever armour around necks anyway as the helmet is a separate piece and usually they just make the helmet go lower or have it exposed.

     Surprisingly, these weak points were taken advantage of shockingly little except for the common lack of protection around the neck. The neck part is a bit obvious, considering how common it is to know the go for the neck thing. Not only is it vital, it needs to be covered less so your head can be turned around.

     I'm not sure about this but I think armour on the shoulders and the top of feet was made of plates sort of, at least one kind of armour did this (although I'm not sure how common it is). It decreased mobility on the feet a bit, but was pretty much fine for the shoulders, The plates could get farther from each other or closer, designed to cover the feet and shoulders even when farther apart and sort of stack when closer. This did however impact mobility, and you couldn't do any clever footwork or bring your arms too far in or out. This made a sort of giant barrier, where no matter how good you were you couldn't really increase your performance because of the limiting armour. I don't think this was used much, and I don't know what it's called but I'm nearly certain it's not plate armour.

I had no idea that Avo was so into armor :D Of course they don't make it now except as ornamentations in ostentatious old country houses but I do know the neck used to be a weak point. People used to roast in those things too, die of heat stroke or people would sometimes get an arrow in the face when they'd raise the visor to gulp air or drink water. The metal on the ground you are talking about might be caltrops which were kind of spiked metal balls used for shredding horses' hooves and legs and bringing the riders down (which was pretty harsh on the horses, who probably didn't really want to be in battle at all and would have been much happier wandering round a field).

Modern descendants of armor would be the bullet-proof Kevlar vests worn by police and soldiers.

     I'm not really into armour, it's just that my environment is so controlled I tend to grab at information when presented with it so I don't know a lot of things I should and know a ton of random scraps of info. My most consistent knowledge is from school.

Will, have you not heard of the Society for Creative Anchronism? Them and LARPers are very into having at least visually time accurate full armor.

Wow, this is nice!

Since I haven't tried drawing realistic faces in a few months, I decided to try my hand at drawing Arthur Morgan! The facial proportions ended up really off though.. Oh also, Rdr2 is free on Epic Games on December 31st as well for anyone who's interested!

 

     Holy freak, that's so good! That's absolutely amazing how the heck did you draw that?!?! Also I'm not sure what you're on about about facial proportions it looks fine to me.

Thank you!! What I meant about the facial proportions is that I messed up Arthur's features, compared to my reference image he looks very different TT.. 

Edit: the image was really big so I resized it! 

Damn, that's some fucking good arting right there! ^_^

Thank you Avery! ^^

That is some really accurate drawing :D