We are Stefano and Luna, a couple of Artists, Daydreamers and Fantasy Adventurers!
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Happy Earth Day ! When humanity was born, Mother Nature took care of us, and now that she starts to get tired, it would be appropriate to take a little care of her. We don't need to ruin this beautiful planet... also, it's envied by the whole solar system :P
Here’s a little quick drawing for you, made in sketchbook app on ipad! Hope you like! ;)
That's it! Another painting finished, she's Moonix, our original character who will become the front of Moonpix, to make us more recognizable and better tell our story! :) Made entirely in Procreate on the iPad, we also have a video of the painting process, if you're interested. Let us know what you think!
We liked a lot the skins of this year's Lunar Festival ... but unfortunately we not found Widowmaker T.T Never mind, we hope to find something nice in the Archives of this days. Best wishes to you too ;P Here's our digital painting Fanart made in Corel Painter, hope you like!
A new fantasy sketch! We just added a pinch of color to make everything more dynamic. Made in Procreate with iPad, hope you like it ;)
Daily sketch, a little practice! In the last weeks I've been drawing a lot... usually I'm more focused on painting. If you want to see something else, I've a bunch of sketches to share :P
Greetings! Meanwhile, I wanted to thank you for all the support you're giving us here on Tumblr, really means a lot! ❤️
I would like to start using this blog not only to show our works but also as a personal diary of our artistic journey... so let us know if you are interested in any particular content!
So... why not start with some artistic tutorials? :P
an artistic mind makes an artistic guy.
Before throwing ourselves in a deep technical vision and some kind of “how to” things, I find truly important to talk about attitude and mental arrangement, because a thing like knowing how to unlock when you are not inspired, are as significant as know which tool to pick. Or maybe more important, really.
1) PRACTICE
The first thing that we need to say is that, like everything, to obtain results, you need practice, time and passion. Everyone can draw decently, just need some practice and time. Natural talent doesn't really exist at all, of course for some people, truly passionate on what they’re doing, should need less time that other, but believe me, with constancy and dedication, you can do everything.
2) SELF CRITIQUE
Second thing you need to know is to be a self-critique, it’s really important to understand errors, and learns from it. That’s the fast way to learn something. Neither an instructor can gift a teaching better than that, because when we fail of course we feel bad, but for sure we will learn how to avoid this next time.
3) RESEARCH
Third fact is: when you feel stuck, don’t give up. Just take a breath, think about what you don’t like in your art, and then try to solve it. Example, you’re drawing a face. However, it looks horrible to you. Well, try to answer that question: why I don’t like this? The eyes are too small? His nose is awry? Look too flat? Well, then try to improve the parts you dislike. You don’t like that at all? Take a break then, some minutes, an hour, a day, rest on your eyes really help a lot. Maybe on your first attempts you don’t make some masterpiece, but is important to rejoice of small success and remember that a bad drawing will never, listen to me, never, be a failure, because from it, you will learn a lot, and believe me if I say that you became better after that.
4) FIND INSPIRATION
At the fourth position, we’re talking about finding inspiration. Inspiration it’s not something like a mana bar that needs to charge, of course on some day we really don't' want to do anything, but you don’t need a divine touch to make some art. So, my best advice is to look around, look at your drawing from distance, see the world around you, just make some steps in your room or go into the courtyard to take a break, or maybe search some image on the web. Take a look on the real life, to find some references to put and transform it in a piece of art. And well, let’s talk about references. If you're attempting to make a realistic drawing is essential to use a model, a photo to study how the light build the shape, how the texture looks and the proportion are connected with different part, but even if you make a cartoon character you need to take elements from real life. Even on an abstract painting you may find useful to put some elements in it, because from reality human use to find a correspondence, an identity, and it’s what can give to your art a personality. So to make art it’s very important to learn to observe. Don't just watch at something, observe, trying to understand every part in a thing. Sometimes to make a good painting is all about details, and the best way to know how to do is to synthesize what our eyes are teaching to us.
5) (extra tip) ENJOY!
Art doesn't have to be a frustrating activity, it doesn't have to make you feel inferior to others or even better than others. It must be a way to express yourself, both with pleasurable and sad emotions, must make you feel free to communicate and not to feel yourself closed in a corner of your room. You have to relax, make you smile, but don't make you suffer, make you cry and make you angry. Certainly the creative process is not always fluid, but if you really like what you are doing, then everything else will not matter. Besides, art has a therapeutic power, and it can really help in difficult times. The art is our friend, who listens to us, and likes us. Not our rival that makes us angry, hurts us and makes you hate everything else. So always remember to have fun, first of all :)
I know, that may looks boring and useless for some of you, maybe you need to know how to make a perfect color blending or to make a realistic eye just with a pair of strokes, but attitude is the most important part of everything in the life. Learn from your error, never give up, and I’m sure you’ll create a lot of a masterpiece.
See you next time, talking about tools and everything you need to be an artist!
⭐️ Part 2 here => https://moonpix-art.tumblr.com/post/173191380078/art-tutorial-chapter-2 ✨
Work in progress! I just added a little color to one of my recent sketches. If you like this character I could think of developing her in a more complex illustration ;)
Some Sketches made this days on my ipad. I'm trying to improve my personal style, I hope you like it :)
We finally found the time to finish this painting, after a couple of week. Here's our portrait of a Draenei Lightforge from Warcraft ! Hope you like it!
For some expenses we stopped playing WoW from December, we miss it a lot... but at least we can draw some characters ;P
... (T.T)
A bit of practice! We’re not going through a good period unfortunately... but I can say that art really helps a lot in those moments and it heals many wounds ;) Timelapse sketch made in Procreate, hope you like!
Sketch made in Procreate on iPad, an Undead rogue from Warcraft. Let me know if you want to see a finished painting of this one!
Here' s something different from what I usually do.
These are some small vector illustrations, made in an app called Graphic on iPad. Recently I'm looking for expand my artistic horizons, trying out new styles and shapes.
I really hope you like it, and let me know if you want to see some more ;)
One of our latest Fantasy digital Painting, we really hope you like!
Part of the painting process is on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/moonpix/videos/all …
Another Sketch Commission made for a kind Twitter follower, she gave us a great support! !
If you’re interested, we made a sketch for you for just 3 coffee, just to say Thank You for supporting us! ;)
ko-fi.com/moonpix
Again, it's not really the period, but I had to show it to you :P This was a Goblin made for Christmas time. Who is missing the Witer veil? T.T
Made in Corel Painter.
Fantasy Sketch made in Procreate with Ipad, supposed to be Painted in our next streaming :P
Some emotes (emoticons or emojis, as you prefer :P) that we did recently. If you are interested in having similar for your chats on Discord, Twitch, etc... or to use as avatar, do not hesitate to contact us for commissions ;)
Maybe a little off topic, but here’s a painting made this winter for the Christmas period (or Winter Veil if you prefer). A Pandaren from World of Warcraft!
Digital Painting Fanart, a Void Elf from World of Warcraft, Battle for Azeroth! Made in Procreate and Corel Painter. Hope you like! ;)
Digital Painting Fanart of Jaina Proudmoore from Warcraft, made in Corel Painter while streaming, after a poll on Twitter to decide which was the favorite character. The most voted were Jaina and Maiev, then Kerrigan :P
Digital painting made entirely in Procreate for Ipad. Usually we do many portraits, this time I wanted to do something different.
“My heart sleeps in the Emerald dream”
Our new digital painting fanart, Tyrande from Warcraft. We really hope you like!
D&D Character Commission for a Twitter Follower!
If you’re interested in a painting like this, feel free to contact us!
https://moonpixstudios.wixsite.com/moonpix/commissions
Digital painting Fanart of Void Alleria from Warcraft, Legion. Hope you like!
There's a huge difference between protecting and imprisoning. Unfortunately, it seems easy to confuse these terms... Never be afraid to open your wings, never.
This was our last painting of 2017, may the new year bring a new light to all of you :)
Digital Painting fanart of Cassia from Diablo and Heroes of The Storm, made in Corel Painter!
Digital Painting Fanart made in Corel Painter, a blood elf mage from Warcraft ;)
Sketch Commission made for a super kind Twitter follower!
If you’re interested, we made a sketch for you for just 3 coffee, just to say Thank You for supporting us! ;)
ko-fi.com/moonpix
Digital painting fanart, a Night Elf Mage from Warcraft, made on our Twitch channel some time ago! ;)
https://www.twitch.tv/moonpix
Digital painting Fanart of a Nightborne elf from Warcraft, Battle for Azeroth. Made while Streaming on Twitch in about 4 hours, hope you like!
https://www.twitch.tv/moonpix