aka. Grim reaper.



I wanted to practice painting a bit, so I tried to "ease myself in" to painting by doing a drawing and then colouring it with mostly painting-ish methods. Would really love some feedback from people who are good at painting...

For those interested, the painting part was done mostly with Krita's mix brush tool, with some smudge and regular paintbrush thrown in. Linework was done mostly with my very own inking presets (which I can share if anyone's interested).

I like it DD but Halloween is such a long long away. lol

Or "Gimp rearer"

Very well done down to the ankles, but the foot phalanges seem to be a bit out of proportion?

Turns out, drawing skeletons is hard... I tried to get it mostly anatomically correct but didn't really fuss about it.

Nice to see you dd, you haven't been around much lately. Love your grim reaper.

Cool work here dd! I like how Death has this sort of reclining pose as if he's kicking back with one leg in front (hidden under the garment) - I get the feeling he's about to do a "yo" to someone out of frame. Clever to frame his right hand with the cloth, makes it stand out nicely. Overall I think the hands came out very well. I agree with ofnuts that the feet look a bit strange but it's a bit hard to judge just how too long the bones are since we are simply not used to seeing the foot without muscle - I would suggest shortening them a bit though.

Painting-wise I have no critique to give - this is a flat-lit cartoony kind of style. You might experiment with single-shade shadows (using a multiply-mode layer) as well as applying highlights on a normal-mode layer to match ... but that's not really necessary, it would then be a different style than what you have here.

Good one!
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Griatch

It would make for a great Halloween poster.

dd: great job! i think both the outlining and the colouring looks very good and to be honest i think i like it when cartoon style figures are a bit out of proportion, it sort of goes better with the style in general.

Thanks for all the nice comments O, I've been around, just haven't posted much lately, been busy with stuff like school and politics... I've been mostly drawing with "real life" instruments lately due to circumstances.



Thanks Griatch, good catch about the pose. I did try to go for a vaguely threatening, relaxed pose... kind of like, death can just take it easy, no need to run around, because he knows he'll get you in the end. And I agree about the foot, everyone always says how hands are hard to draw but personally, I've always found feet harder for some reason... it could also just be that I have big feet (43 european size) and maybe tend to draw big feet in my drawings... who knows.

I considered adding shading to this drawing but decided against it, I also considered adding some texture but figured it'd make it too busy due to there already being cloth wrinkles... that's mostly what I tried to practice here, getting the cloth wrinkles and other shade variations right with paint.

Scary subject matter, very skillfully done!

Really nice drawing and like how you've coloured it, gives the cloak a nice texture.

Updated (see first post). I fixed a couple of small flaws and made the foot slightly shorter, also added some subtle shading (is it too much? I hope not).

I love it dd. Skeletons are incredibly hard to draw and you've done a great job of both drawing and painting.