Post 54 – Light Charcoal, Moho-styles. 🎄😂

I know, I know, we haven’t even had Thanksgiving yet, but we’re back with our second edition of the 12 Days of Christmas, Moho Style! Last week, we explored an overview of the 12 default style lines Moho 14 has to offer. We took a closer look at Wet Ink, which really did give Bear that “wet-ink” kind of feel. This week, we’re looking at Light Charcoal.

I almost exclusively used this brush to create all the shapes, lines, and shading for Mr. Lion (who is actually built more like a skinny tiger). There’s probably some latent Calvin and Hobbes influence lurking around in my brain or maybe some Disney animated Robin Hood

And… I’m proud of myself for not totally derailing this week. Distractions stayed to a minimum! I did, however, try Liquid Shapes on a character’s arms for the first time. Man, they don’t look the best, but they sure are easy! Here’s a video on their wicked easy status.

Things to Know:

✔ 12 Default Line Styles
✔ Light Charcoal

Moho 14- 12 Default Styles

Light Charcoal

Light Charcoal is kind of what you’d expect, and not at all. Keep the line small, and it really does resemble a charcoal pencil. But start increasing the line width, and you get this unusual, scratchy painted look. It’s crazy.

Like the other styles, you can use it as a stroke on a shape, but you can also draw and paint freehand. This one is really dependent on stroke width, and it’s fun to see just how much the look can change. Just remember to grab all those points and point bind them to whatever bone they are closest to, or you want them moving with. Trust me you can loose track of points very easily lol 😉

“The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.”

— Chanakya

Rawr like a Lion

Mr. Lion started with the Light Charcoal style, which I used to build his head, body, and most of his highlights. To give him some variation, I drastically changed the line width on each shape.

I tried to stick to painting with Light Charcoal, but I did grab a splatter brush here and there to break up that very line-y look. For his nose, eyes, and PJs, I kept the same style but lowered the line width to around 2. That gave me a nice scratchy look without going overboard. And the flowers? Of course, those were made entirely with Light Charcoal, too (see above).

Pulllllllll

I’m still working on the animation, trying to get the character to show some resistance as the flower pulls. It’s harder than I expected to get that feeling of weight and tension across. I sorta kinda got it, a little bit anyway, I think. But it’s hard when, clearly, I’m enjoying the painting part way too much!

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Post 54 — Afterthoughts

I am loving this little challenge of restricting myself to a certain default “style” to create something. It energizes me. In a world of grind, I will take all the energizing I can get.

The algorithm got me this week, and I ended up watching a video on making YouTube videos, not my typical genre…but hey, sometimes YouTube gets it right. I didn’t actually resonate with the YouTube advice as I did with his thoughts on living in a world with instant gratification and how counterproductive that is for growth. I was nodding my head the entire time, and then sent the video to three people lol.

Other than that, it has been a quite week. Geesh, Halloween is tomorrow , then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, and before you know it, it will be 2027. Crazy.

lion rawr (not a dinosaur rawr) 🦁 nik