『• • • ✎ • • •』 This is @bodi3's entry for @Berricake's 33k DTIYS! [Press space, arrow keys or click - to navigate] 『• • • ✎ • • •』 ✦ Art : @bodi3 (@beond-) ✦ Music : EXO - Love Shot [Chinese Version] If you use any of the art in this project, you must give credit to me as @bodi3 wherever you use it. 『• • • ✎ • • •』 IMAGINE SPENDING OVER 5O HOURS OF YOUR LIFE ON A SINGLE ARTWORK. IMAGINE WORKING ON THAT ARTWORK FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH ON SIX DIFFERENT DIGITAL ART SOFTWARES IMAGINE MAKING AN INSTA ACCOUNT OUTTA NOWHERE JUST CUZ YOU WANNA POST THAT ART (Btw my Instagram is @/benjinara_ if anyone wants to check this out on insta as well-) IMAGINE GETTING ONLY 4 HOURS OF SLEEP TO SUBMIT THE ENTRY ON TIME Now mash all those crazy scenarios together, and you will get my status quo X﹏X If you've ever looked at a contest and thought to yourself - "Screw it, I'm tired of always getting 2nd or 3rd. I'm gonna try and WIN this, all odds aside." - then you'd understand why I put THAT much of work into it :'3 So yes - like I said, I worked actual 50 hours on this :'D The first 40 hours were tracked on my tablet, but after that I had to draw on my laptop trackpad instead (because the tablet doesn't actually belong to me alone so I was afraid of breaking it or smth-) so I didn't have any way to track the time. BUT out of estimation - I can guarantee you I worked almost 60 hours on this over the entire month of July haha ;-; I started off with a sketch on paper, and with the "scan sketch" thingy on Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile ver. I managed to import it into my tablet. Then I got the linework and painting done on Autodesk Sketchbook (as y'all know - I use my finger to draw, even on the tablet *flexes*). But the proportions were all over the place, so I decided to import the artwork into Ibis Paint X and LiqUiFy What came next was countless hours of liquifying :'D I hadn't properly drawn the background before when getting the basic artwork done on Autodesk Sketchbook. So - as you can see in the "process" slides of this project - I spent a good amount of hours trying different backgrounds :'3 At first, I was able to get a good version of the entry done, and made the project to share it on Scratch. But then couple of days later, I went through the other entries by my greatest CoMpEtitTorS and realized my entry was still trash ;-; So I returned to square one, liquifying and trying different backgrounds, changing the pose around a bit, adding new elements to the artwork. Defining the shadows and highlights, and enhancing the overall quality of the artwork. This dragged on for DAYS - literally. And sometimes, I would scrap some of the new elements I drew and go back to where I started from. It was starting to drive me inSaNE - but my eyes were glued to the first place prize, and I wanted to impress - I mean, she is the very person who inspired me to take up digital art! Who wouldn't wanna impress their idol!? I must thank my pal and my lovely mom for giving me some useful feedback! TvT It was thanks to their ideas and constructive criticism I was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of this art piece and pull it off nicely. I must also mention artists Sam Yang, Kooleen, Laura Hollingsworth, , , and for inspiration! I actually studied a lot of their work to understand what made their art so good and to implement those ideas into my own artwork. The reason I titled this "Highway" is because Alyelle is supposed to be walking along a highway. I actually had this cool idea to add an animation part (since I'm more of an animator than artist haha-) where Alyelle would be facing away, and then suddenly swirl around to smile at the viewer. But then I lost too many braincells while making the art piece itself so I had to abandon that idea T-T Ah I'm actually very proud of how this turned out! I had my eyes on Top 3 from the beginning, and had the goal to get first place since I've been getting 3rd or 4th in most contests I've entered recently :'3 This was a chance for me to try something now, push my limits and to impress my idol . And now that I see the end result of weeks of hard work, I'd say I did alright! :D And to ! My congratulations to you for reaching such a great milestone in your Scratch journey! Please keep inspiring more young Scratchers! You're such an inspiration to me, so I hope you enjoyed seeing this <3 I used - Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile Ver, Ibis Paint X Mobile Ver, Autodesk Sketchbook PC ver, Ibis Paint X PC Ver, Krita, and Scratch Vector Editor 3.0 - so lots of credit go to those apps too lol I must confess- I'm praying I'll win or aT LeasT get into the Top 3 cuz bOy I worked so hard and my soul is exhausted ;-; *back/eye/neck pain go brr-* Now please excuse me, I must spend a week in hibernation to regain my sanity. I'll see you in my next project! Thanks for viewing! ^^ - ()
