F&F stuff (Patreon)

I learned about a different way to get Clip Studio Paint to generate lines from 3D models and tried it out to get a lovely pencil-esque effect. I think this makes my art loser and much more expressive, which is so important for visual storytelling - but it isn't as 'shiny and modern' so it doesn't quite fit the aesthetic I want.

I'm not sure what's more important to me - aesthetic or expressiveness - so I did a test scene with pencil-esque lines and a test scene with crisp lines (both posted below, for ease of viewing on Patreon) and the crisp line test was so much faster, but despite this I think the pencil-esque line test looks more rushed. So I'll be sticking with the crisp lines.

(I am happy to have learned this new way of doing things in CSP and I'll keep this in my mental toolbox for future projects!)

A lot of the art I post for F&F is questionably in character, but the following two scenes are both grabbed from my current scripts. So, everything's in character :)

(Also to clarify the second scene is not a spoiler, F&F is a fake dating romcom.)

I've been told that it's not easy to browse through archives on Patreon, so I've dumped all the F&F art onto google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jUeSqRvgcJkP_FZPFIafmvbgLYLpZeou?usp=sharing

(It's really interesting seeing all the art in one place. I still really, really like art like: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXRClDQUwvR-N_tMpurCxWUIpm2MwYSt/view?usp=sharing
But I was told this could be confusing to readers who are scrolling quickly on a mobile, and it needed either to be neater, or to have more contrast, and I found myself doing both. Now I can't see F&F without the brighter colours and the crisp lines - as I said above, I think it's a good aesthetic for the story. But I do hope to do something with this sort of sketchy art style one day!))

(I've mostly been not drawing Tess with a hat because I felt it was important to practice drawing her snakes but realistically, at the start of the story, she wears a hat every time she leaves the house.)

And here are those scene-tests I mentioned above:

Pencil-esque lines

Crisp lines