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Some Hivers
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"Three of my five hiver characters. (the other two are another soldier and another worker.)
Hiveless bugpeople gotta stick together. It's a harsh world."
13 Comments
Dartanous May 14, 2021 @ 7:02pm 
Amazing art as always!!
Greyhound600 Aug 25, 2018 @ 7:33am 
that looks Awesome
Ymedron  [author] Jun 10, 2017 @ 1:02pm 
Thank you for your kind words, and I wish you luck in your artwork efforts as well. c:
BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M! Jun 10, 2017 @ 12:08pm 
I appreciate the further insight. Always nice to hear about other peoples techniques. Especially when they've clearly got some amazing talent.

Thanks again. Gonna certainly add your gallerys to my list and be on the lookout for any future works of yours.
Ymedron  [author] Jun 10, 2017 @ 9:30am 
I usually draw on an image of around 3048x2480 pixels (not using the entire image but still, zoomed out at around 50%) using a 6px brush.
That way I can easier make use of the line weights and have cleaner intersections etc. 1 pixels likely wouldn't end up even visible on the finished picture for me.
BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M! Jun 10, 2017 @ 8:57am 
How large are we talking here?

I've generally worked by taking a scan and blowing it up to around 3 times its size. I then use GIMP with a ~1-3 pixel brush (based on if its outline, detail, etc) and the line tool to carefully go over the lines of the image.
After thats done I toss it into Inkscape and use the one filter, completely forget its name, to convert the pixelated lines into crisp strokes. The results are usually "good" enough (not like yours though), but sometimes its wonky and takes special attention to make work. Especially when dealing with areas of fine detail or a lot of intersecting lines.
Ymedron  [author] Jun 10, 2017 @ 5:52am 
The crispness of the lines comes at least partially from drawing at a large resolution.
You could even use a pixel brush if you draw big enough, and it'll be smoothed out when you shrink the image down. :3c
BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M! Jun 9, 2017 @ 5:39pm 
Thanks for the gallery link. I'll have to check that out. I'll have to check out that clip studio paint thing as well. I'm not familiar with that one. I generally use GIMP for art / coloring work, but damn your lines look crisp there.
Good luck to you in any future works. You've got talent for sure.
Ymedron  [author] Jun 9, 2017 @ 10:28am 
@Boycott Thank you. c: I don't think I'll color this, it's been a bit too long and I'm not quite feeling it anymore.

I currently use clip studio paint (as I did for this one) and a wacom intuos drawing tablet.
Some galleries that I update every now and then:
http://umbbe.deviantart.com http://ymedronart.tumblr.com (the latter more often)
BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M! Jun 8, 2017 @ 10:30pm 
Impressive. Any chance of a colored version? Also if you don't mind me asking, what do you use to do your work and do you have a gallery hosted anywhere?