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Orochimaru with a nose? Gothic Guy? Strange Girl?

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I feel like my constant progression as an artist has led me to a point where the boundaries imposed by an anime/ cel-shading coloring have to be removed, and i want to explore the vast world beyond it: the world of digital painting and more realistic stuff.
I decided i'm going to take my time and focus 100% on studying and improving with digital painting: i'm not happy anymore about my anime style, and i feel the urge more and more to expand beyond the limits imposed by a manga/anime style.


Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying i won't draw anything manga/anime anymore!
On the contrary, i will of course keep the style i have now, manga/anime influenced.
But i will also start studying intensively photorealism techniques and realistic/portrait stuff, because i want to get good enough and fast enough with digital paintings, so that i can use these techniques for my comic.
Who knows, maybe i'll end up coming back to an anime style.. but it doesn't mattet, because, even if i'll do so, i'll be able to implement the techniques and the stuff i learned about digital painting, which is of course a great thing. (but i doubt i'll come back to a cel-shading style)



And yet another test!
This time i studied some tutorials and stuff about shading before attempting this second digital painting, drawn in a similar fashion to the first one i did for khayos.
This time, though, i added the eyes and tried to improve on the weak areas i noticed in the first digital painting.

The sex of this ... thing is so blurred that it could look like a female as well as a male.
I'll show you tomorrow a funny thing on how i came to draw this gothic guy, who was originally a female face. xD

It's in black and white because i want to start from the basics, and worry about values before properly studying colors.

This took 2 hours, just like the first one, but this is technically harder so i could say i got slightly faster, not to mention that the quality is definitely better than the first one.
I'm really satisfied with this one, i left the hair kinda sketchy because i felt that was fitting with this style.
There are some minor things i'm not happy about, but i think i finally have a clear direction on where i want to go with my style and the style i could use for my comic.


Do you like this style? (it will be like this one but with colors, and of course i need to practice with it and improve, just consider the style itself so i can decide)
Would it be better than the anime one i used for the Mark of Darkness prologue? 
Here is an example of the style i used there:
Last part of the Prologue (Ch3, part 6)
Mark of Darkness END OF THE PROLOGUE LAST PART (6) by Dex91




Check out my Youtube Channel, i have some videotutorials there and i'm going to resume making new videotutorials pretty soon! 
www.youtube.com/user/dexelkyr


Ch 0 of Mark of Darkness will be online very very soon, studying hard these days and experimenting with new stuff that will be useful in this ch 0 :)

Mark of Darkness will go on very very soon, don't worry!

About Mark of Darkness: i decided i wanted to change the beginning of the comic, which is why i completely wrote again ch 0 ch 1 and ch 2, including MUCH more action.
Don't worry, the events haven't changed: what changed COMPLETELY is the way i'll present them.
You'll see what i mean once ch 0 is online (coming very very soon!)




The Second Chapter of my Comic is ONLINE as a Motion Comic, with Voice Acting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjEMY…
Which means: open the youtube video, set it to full screen, sit back and enjoy watching, no reading thanks to the voice acting and no scrolling required, just relax and enjoy it! (At the moment only Chapter 1 and 2 are online)



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Mark Of Darkness Ch 1 Part 1, First Page (Part 1 was in a traditional manga/comic layout):
Mark Of Darkness Pag. 1.. SURPRISE! by Dex91




 

Here are my Tutorials and References if you want:
dex91.deviantart.com/gallery/4…



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Here are all the pages/strips i have so far for Mark of Darkness (constantly updated):
Mangamagazine: www.mangamagazine.net/manga-an…

If you like what i do and want to support me, it would be awesome if you could watch me here and follow me on mangamagazine or tapastic to keep updated about my manga and to ... support me, as i said! (by following me on tapastic and mangamagazine you will help mark of darkness get some visibility

As you can see, i'm giving this my best shot so if you could support me by watching and following my profile on Mangamagazine/Tapastic it would really mean a lot to me, because i'm putting every last bit of energy into this project and to improve my skills!

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TanyaDarkLullaby's avatar
molto bella la texture che hai creato sulla pelle, belle anche le labbra :)