edit : i got an honorable mention, thank you for hosting this contest kana!! <33 - UH OH GUYS I FORGOT HER BIG PIECE OF HAIR STICKING OUT HELP - also her neck is um... its giving giraffe. i wish i could give it edits but i have to move on from this T-T... now playing : ocean & engines - NIKI 2:23 ───ㅇ───── 3:13 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀◁ II ▷ ❝ i guess this is where we say, goodbye… ❞ ✿ kimi’s on!! lets chat <3 ✿ hi everyone! i came back from inactivity with a pfp contest entry! im gonna start out real honest - i put a lot more on my plate than what i can handle. entered myself into way too many art contests when i can barely even keep up with school projects. speaking of school, im running for a position in our leadership office at school, and it's been taking a lot of energy at me, so please bear with me while i sort out my online life and…stuff. thanks for reading this lil ol’ ramble, you mean a lot to me if you read this all <33. quickly changing the subject, furina is super hard to draw. im actually gonna cry my back will never recover from the c-shape my back made [basically] the whole process. she’s super detailed, and genshin characters actually scare me; the designs are so intricate and i feel like i can't keep up… ouch. anyways, the whole drawing process was a huge struggle. i first started out with a chibi [which i actually messed up so hard, i dont think ill recover from how GARBAGE that art was] and it was a big huge flop. anyways, the process for this was really hard. the drawing that you see now was the second attempt, and it was actually so hard, im not even joking. art has never stabbed me in the back like this, my hands are sweaty and in pain bc of this teeny tiny pfp. hope you like the art!! 1. reference photos !! you can read annotations if you want bc im not gonna type it out - there’s way too many words to write lmao 2. sketch - first time using a digital sketch instead of traditional, the different colors are to tell apart the lines so they don’t get mixed up lmao - there was also different colored parts to show the shading and highlights in her hair 3. lineart!! - i tried a new style [lwk looks like marikyuun’s - she’s a youtuber btw, i did not trace / steal her art] - my friend said they were wayyy too thick and looking back on it, i can totally see the inconsistent sizes of brush for different sections [will fix that in the future, sorry it looks awkward HELP] 4. finished drawing!! - i actually love how this came out, and it's super cutesy <33 yipe !! also im so lazy i did NOT want to draw the rest of that weird looking arm :)) 5. end end end result - ahhhhh i love this so freaking much !! the lil chrome abberation is super cool and i took some aspects from kana’s og pfp and made it my own style!! i really love this pfp smmmm i hope kana likes it too <33 6. time tracked - yeah i re-used the same artwork as the og chibi art that got trashed bc i wanted to keep the same reference photos without digging back in my camera roll for it… also yeah, my style did change DRASTICALLY since my last real art piece [’s dmc entry] because i got completely ROASTED and obliterated by my friend who is way better at art than me. no i did not trace anyone’s art, this is my new more “realistic” style than raisin eyes </3 hope yall believe me because omg its been so long since i posted and it is kinda strange for my art style to change like that. have a good day, and i hope yoo smile <3! for : im sosoosoo sorry that i made promises i couldn’t keep [about the deadlines], i was on break during that time so it was hard to spend time with family and manage my art, its totally my fault and im super sorry ><;;. hope you still like my entry though <33 - i also have no idea if i was supposed to draw it or put together a bunch of furina images - im super sorry if i got it wrong T.T ✿ credits ✿ art : [me lmao] music : ocean & engines - NIKI [im not bawling my eyes out after reading the lyrics, you are…] time taken : 3 hours and 12 minutes app : all my art is on procreate!! code : [& barely me lmao] tags [ignore these ehaeha] :