Cypress Painted Skcthpg! ๐ฎ (Moodity Warning)
🕑 Added 2025-03-29 20:32:24 +0000 UTCHey guys! Hope you're all having a great Weekend! The Cypress page is now complete! What began as just wanting to see what Cypress looked like with longer hair, and maybe a tad more "scruffy," turned into a full sketch page, which then became a lighting exercise, which then became this ๐ I'm not complaining of course, but it's just funny how plans change sometimes lol.
Getting the "Viewer originating light source" down was probably the most challenging, because the few times I've done it, it was more like a... "flashlight" type of lighting? That's not exactly what I wanted to try out though, because it's very pinpointed, and the result would be a brighter centre area that fades out near the edges. What I was really looking for was more of the lighting set up that the base material lighting had for my 3D sculpt I've been working on in Nomad. So in the end, that's what I had to pull up as a ref a few times, just to get the lighting right ๐ The main thing that I had noticed, was that there were NO cast shadows what so ever. Definitely a big difference from what I normally do.
With the two bust shots though, I stuck with my go to angled, top down lighting. No issues with those ๐
Working on this also gave me some ideas for Cypress's new outfit, so I'll be working on that soon enough.
Thanks again for your patience guys! Hope you all enjoy! ๐
Comments
Sully Mancilla V.
I Love you art pretty much!! Do you make commissions?
Reo
Gosh he's so PRETTY.
Hakawne
This came out heckin' great, Tarn. Obviously Cypress is looking great, even when scruffy and shaggy, but the highlighting around each figure, the border of the page. These also give it character, and that makes every part of this so nice to look at. ๐
Victor Kowalski
I really like the roundness of his upper abdominal area. That curve where it connects to the rib cage. It's realistic, but not something you often see in drawings of muscular characters.
Reaver
Loving the Moodity, Cypress is a sexy beast! Nice work Taran!
hirumono
I'm happy that you tackled this challenge so well! Cypress looks even better in his usual beautiful, muscular, serious, and slightly goofy self :)
Benji
Cypress is the perfect moo and I love him
kai
I really love his headshot in the top left corner. He has a handsome smile!!
Jezz
It's amazing how Cypress has changed over time, you've given him a much fresher look ๐โจ I loved everything in general, the poses, the lighting, the expressions, that little blue bird and that little detail of putting your signature as part of the picture frame ๐ Amazing work as always, keep going.
Guilmour ASC
Have a nice weekend, Taran. Greetings from ๐ง๐ท
Po
Damn loving itttttt!!!!!! imagine this on my wall. ><
Potatoes
I love so much the headshot you did at the bottom right! To me he looks so much more appealing like that, but that's just me xD itโs prob cuz of the lovely long hair and the fluff that looks like chin facial hair. It makes him look older and badass <3๐ฅ overall, this all looks spectacular
Matzuki
What a beauty !! Cypress is one of the most magnificent minautor I ever seen ! Your style and drawing skills are stunning !! Thanks for creating such beautiful and sexy creature's.
Buru
Yoooo, long hair Cypress looks awesome!
Jack
This is super cool!!!
Koushiro
This is just too epic. You've given him so much character compared to your earlier pieces of him ๐ฅ
Soren Ashe
The longer hairstyle is charming. And that smile, that damn smile.
DerpyDrake
Wooo, welcome to the loincloth club cypress. Yoy look stylish
zankies87
Bud calm down- he ain't going nowhere! It is inspirational tho ๐
zankies87
MAN AGHHH Tarn stop making me want to see more moos ๐
zankies87
Gosh your sketch pages are legendary Taran ๐
JustGruff
Always happy seeing more Moo-re Cypress. :D
Hash
AHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOSH HES SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL MAN YOU KILLED IT ๐ญ๐ค๐ค THE LIGHTING DOES LOOK SO CHALLENGING BUT U DID INCREDIBLE EVEN WITH THAT IN MIND THE POSES AND THE EXPRESSIONS ARE SO INCREDIBLE AND INSPIRATIONAL I LOVE THEM SO MUCH ๐ญ๐ค๐ค๐ Instantly saved onto my phone ๐
kuroson
what a nice skcthpg, it the very first one I see. Wonder what is the difference with regular sketch
Apis_GER
Your rendering and lightning is insane! The bust on the right handside looks so freaking awesome. Always a blessing to get the email that you uploaded something.
Boo
THE most handsome moo ๐ฉ๐ I love the format of these pages