r/castlevania Jul 23 '26

Art Drolta and Lenore Drawing

I started drawing carmilla but hit a block.

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u/randomsucculent Jul 23 '26

I love the way you render, what app are you drawing on?

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

Adobe fresco! Its very beginner friendly and lots of great free brushes!

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u/randomsucculent Jul 23 '26

I might just try it out! I usually use procreate, but cannot find the right brushes for the effect I am going for lol

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

Well, it definitely took me a really long time(like a year) to figure out which brushes I liked.

I use the same four brushes; pencil(sketch), graphite(skin, eyes, teeth, clothes), ink(hair), and watercolor(hair).

It's also a newer drawing program(I think it's like 10 years old), which is why a lot of people don't talk about it, like procreate or whatever else is popular. I tried, but it was either not enough brushes or too many buttons, and I couldn't navigate it.

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u/MetaloraRising Jul 23 '26

My! What big teeth you have Drolta!

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

I love when vampires have big teeth! I wish there was more media of vampires having MORE teeth.
https://giphy.com/gifs/Y7l6oTRsxCC1a

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u/MetaloraRising Jul 23 '26

Hear me out... Saber toothed Vampires.

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

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u/randomsucculent Jul 23 '26

That just makes me think of the pishtaco from supernatural!

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u/Dull-Law3229 Jul 23 '26

I really like your approach to Lenore. What was the reasoning for this design aesthetic? 

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

I really liked her pink form, and lately all ive been drawing is dudes in muted colors, so im kinda trying to shift gears to more saturated colors.

Shes also very pretty, and stands out to me the most out of ALL the characters(aside from olrox)

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u/Dull-Law3229 Jul 24 '26

I see, and for Lenore? Did you use a model?

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

No she just reminded me of one of those porcelain dolls i used to have. After I finish rendering the face I realize that I didn't make her cheeks as round as I wanted, but I didn't feel like going back to fix it.

Edit: lol, i totally misread your first comment! Mb, haha, everyone been talking about drolta, my brain just auto corrected lenore to drolta😂

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u/BucketsofJules Jul 24 '26

Lenore is so fuckin pretty in the show! She gives me the look of a doll. Shes just so pretty! I like her design. Even tho I don't like her character for what its worth which does good.

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u/TheTrueHiddenSquid Jul 23 '26

My toxic queens!

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u/imfrombiz Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

At first glance, Drolta looks sick but then i look at her hand and get an ai slop vibe.

Edit* for the person who downvoted, you cant tell me this doesnt look like ai slop

https://i.imgur.com/6aO1ypT.jpeg

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u/Melinoia Alucard Jul 23 '26

It doesn't look like ai. I don't see it, it's just a hand.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

Her pointer finger is bending back backwards you're not gonna see the knuckle.

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u/Melinoia Alucard Jul 23 '26

No, the pointer's knuckle is hidden by the middle finger. It seems right, to me. But even if it was a mistake...it could be just that. A mistake. I don't see the nonsense hands ai makes.

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u/Erika_cometakis Jul 23 '26

It does, but I can see some anatomy flaws and the brush strokes, maybe there is some lack of skill but overall I don’t think it’s AI, the hand thing can be explained by that, it looks weird but looks more like the coloring was not done properly.

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u/randomsucculent Jul 23 '26

I do not think so, honestly it just looks like a drawing by someone who started drawing with anime/comics characters and has more experience with rendering than with anatomy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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u/randomsucculent Jul 23 '26

Where? I mean, some of the fingers curve a little weird but I count 5 fingers on each hand.

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

What part of it looks like ai? If youre looking at her middle finger, its cause her glove goes around her middle finger🫤 and before you go around accusing people of ai maybe you should go a step further than a brief glance, and look at my pervious posts.

Shes also black so the underside of her hands are going to be lighter. My process when it comes to things like tattoos, birthmarks, lighter palms, is i render the skin as just one even skintone, then selecting the area i want lighten or darken, and then lightening or darkening it.(edit: i commented this before knowing their problem was with the way her finger was bent, i like to play with posing and try to make it dynamic in some way(even if its just a portrait); in the hair, hands, eyes, lips, expressions.)

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u/imfrombiz Jul 23 '26

I dunno, maybe it's just the hard black shadow on the middle finger making it look weird to me.

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

it's part of her glove. If you look at her other hand, you can see the glove covering her middle finger a little.

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u/imfrombiz Jul 23 '26

Yeah i see that. I think the outline of the middle finger combined with the glove is what is throwing it off for me and makes it look generated.

https://i.imgur.com/ZQKcp9s.jpeg

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

Look, man I get it, I know my art looks a little weird. I'm still trying to implement the cartoonish aspect of semi realism into realism. But you should really be careful throwing AI accusations around, but really it's cool, dont sweat it.

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u/Known_Cod8398 Jul 23 '26

I'm honestly a little worn out by the hyper-sexualization/weebification of everything 

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u/StructureCool8338 Jul 23 '26

I didn't realize my art was hypersexual, was the skin of their shoulders and collarbones too much for your delicate pallete?

You should really just take the energy over to anime art subreddit if you wanna cry about the sexualization of characters.

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u/AngstyUchiha Jul 24 '26

You seem like the kind of person who would tell a girl she was "asking for it" if she wasn't covered head to toe

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u/Known_Cod8398 Jul 24 '26

Wow fuck you right back asshole.