Yayy it's my birthday today!! And my bby Gala's 3rd birthday gahh how time flies!! Unfortunately no big piece this year but I felt like I ought to draw something. Please check out my purge asw: scratch.mit.edu/projects/1315662427/ In vague reverse chronological order. So the more recent at the top. 1. Yayy aren't we so cutsey!! I downloaded a new brush to draw hair and lord does it make things easier. 2. Quick commission offsite because I needed the currency to participate in a character auction hehe. The commissioner sent me a few reference images, one of which was ai but the other was from xhs! Idk the artist but i'll attach them inside the proj 3. Fanart of Mint from NTE. This is actually barely rendered but dispersion & gaussian blur makes everything look 10x more finished. Somehow only took 57 minutes 4. WIP Vgen comm because i forgot to close them sobs. I censored most of her outfit which is why the shading might look weird. Ref images inside asw 5. Okay i drew this with my tablet on max brightness so it looks so dingy without. AT with @otterudoin 6. My bby Matteo‘s ref sheet!! I was gonna make a post abt the universe (Slipstream) he's in but I completely forgot. Expect one in summer. 7. WIP ref for Phoenix except I hate every outfit I draw him in??? What do yt boys wear bro 8. Icon of my oc Anya. Tried out the app Heavypaint after seeing my goat Milly use it. 9. Gala's official FIA card!! This year vs last year's one. The improvement in both art and like...composition is crazy. 10. Icon. 11. Meg icon. Canonically Gala thinks she looks like a bug 12. WIP for Krou's new ref. Bbys the only oc to get a redesign each year because I end up hating each one. 13. Redesign of Kaitlyn!! 14. Art of my oc Alana designed by @otterudoin 15. I wanted to try that flash effect and lke a more vintage anime art style. Neither really worked because I was dumb and didnt use references but it still turned out cute! 16. Custom offsite. 17. Another custom offsite that I struggled with cuz the commissioner didnt want it to be too complicated...I cant not make them complicated 18. Ref sheet comm 19. Jia'er ref cuz he was in dire need of a ref. Deffo gonna redo in the summer he looks so so buns 20. Quick art pieces of Kelly & Lola + trying out a new brush. Hensewhy they look so...crunchy? Idk this brush artstyle reminds me of rock candy. Its crazy how much a brush can change your style 21. Wip of my oc Raziqel inspired by Yaafei's compositions. Dunno if i'll ever get the motivation to finish 22. Wanted to draw smth for CNY but I just couldnt get their faces right?? I wanted it to be like cute vintage shanghai posters but oml everything i tried just looked so bad. Somehow got staff pick on PA which i was not that pleased about 23. GALA AS A KINGSMAN AGENT. Okay Kingsman is my favourite movie ever and I really reccomend to like-older audiences. Because like all british movies, it has a lot of cussing & violence. Anyways I never finished this. Maybe I will in the summer 24. BABES ASCH AND CAINE. My current fave (as you can tell by my pfp heh.) Caine designed by Aeon 25. More sketches. Asch, Miette, and some rando's oc who's username I did not note down. 26. Quick studies. I did a LOT of studies but most r so buns that I havent included them 27. Sketch of an ex-oc 28. Alt outfits for Slipstream again bcz realistic racer outfits are boring 29. Krou and Raziqel. Maybe i'll refine, maybe i wont. 30. Drew me and friends as woodland animals!! I'm the lil ferret. 31. Me n friends again as hello kitty 32. Studying R1999 artstyle has been SUCH a help and I just wanted to put an example of that. Still so much to learn thoughhh. 33. Haha muscle cell. I actually rly like it its a fun procedure. The lil cat is my oc Bill. 34. Did the 'how pin sees me' trend. I think its pretty accurate. I didnt yap much on my last project so i'll do it now lolol. I'm so glad I took some time off!! I just constantly felt a self inflicted pressure to constantly draw stuff for other people, AT's, dmc's, etc etc and idk just the expectation to post? Anyways it was getting a lot, so this break was a really good time to reevaluate my decisions and work on my own art skills. And I think it did help a lot!! Finally developed a more consistant style I think as u can see from the first few illustrations-but I dunno i'm not very happy with it. It just feels so..boring and generic yk? I'll experiment more in summer for something more stylised Oh i wanna yap more but i've got a test tomorrow I gotta revise for aaa okay being quick. I did a lotta art studies but I didnt include them since they're all buns. Massive inspo from R1999 official arts. I wanna work on colour practice next since thats something i am not very good at. Wont b very active from now until June/July but i'll be super active for the latter half on artfight! Everything drawn on 画世界pro. Filters & colour adjustments all on my default gallery app and any text is from ibis <3
