#I'll probably share some of my other drawing 30sec videos too at some point because it's kinda fun to watch my sanity devolve lol XD

[bleue-flora]

Hi! I wanted to ask, from the characthers You have draw, what was the process in making their designs like with cpunz's? I'm really curious bc they all look really cool :D

Ooo yea I would love to talk about him and my design process. In fact, here is the 100 hours of me making Punz [post] reduced to 30 seconds (apologies for the part you can’t tell what I’m doing I like to work with no background a lot which defaults to black apparently.)

So as you can see, because I am not that good of an artist I use a lot of references mostly trying for real photos versus other people's art. I'll trace different elements from them and then change and alter, just so that I have a starting place, scale and general shape. I also use a shit ton of layers, laying different textures on top of each other as well as colors and such. As you can also tell I change my mind a lot but the foundation of the design was because it doesn’t feel right for these characters to be swinging around swords and fighting wars and such while just wearing hoodies. Like if this was a tv show that doesn’t really fit the vibe. Plus I made Dream look really epic [art] so for Punz I wanted to do the same thing so he can look like the bad ass necromancer mercenary he is with more of an assassin knight vibe than a comfy gamer lol.

[here's my art with removed purpled highlights so you can see some of the details better]

So just like with Dream, all of the elements of his skin are included in the drawing in one way or another, as well as Minecraft, skin and real life colors. His hoodie is now a white cloak, the stripes on the side of his hoodie are now stripes on the armor plate, his gold metal is now the gold pendant for his cloak and he is just wearing ripped black pants because that’s cool and I didn’t feel the need to change that :D 

One of biggest changes I made is background. I originally drew him much further away from the portal but the perspective wasn’t right so I ended up moving him to right in front of it with the portal magic like blowing his cape a bit.  I also was going to try and do the redstone lamps but I couldn't get it to look right and I realized it would make my highlighting process super annoying so I settled for some marble tiles.

Originally, I was going to make his metal one of the gold chains [right image] you see on medieval priests or the queen in GOT, but decided that was hard to show with the sword and took away the space I had to do armor details. Additionally, on his skin his hands and boots are also white, so I did white boots and was planning on him wearing white gloves [middle image], but I also wanted him to look really rich and liked the look of all the rings so decided against the gloves because it looked weird. (btw as you can tell from my recent art [art], I have improved on drawing hands quite a bit since this artwork :D). His skin shirt is also all white but I thought it’d look cool if his clothes where like white and blue gradients [middle image], not that you can really tell once all the shading happens lol. His is armor changed quite a bit too, because at some point I was going to make it kinda honeycombish [left image] (because Dream had a snake theme so I felt like Punz should have a theme too, hence bees) but that ended up being too busy and I didn’t like how that would be so complex versus Dream’s more simple looking armor. 

Like I wanted them to exist in the same world so even the way and colors I did the armor in the Dream drawing I did in this one. Because, that was the main reason I made him, so there could be a badass looking Punz to go with my badass looking Dream. :)... thinking about doing a badass looking Techno too but we'll see.