#IbisPaint threatened to crash

[finalitydrawsshit]

HAHAHAHA

Ref sheet!

The name was a coincidence (I found out it belongs (?) to another character through the good ol’ name meaning search (am I weird?))

Also IbisPaint threatened to crash because “the file was too big”

Dumb phone…

Also; info sheet:

Enjoy, and feel free to ask questions

P.S.: I am doing this for all my OCs maybe I’ll finally be organized…

Maybe

[souperbooper]

her name was callie

she was a show girl

EDIT: FORGOT TO TURN ON LAYERS B4 SAVINF AND POSTING SHE WAS MISSING HER HIGHLIGHTS RAAUAGHHH

i rlly like the way her face turned out shes so squishy

[mildy-vibing]

So I spent some time cooking this up, and because the wonderful @owlygem 's Celestial Somebody comics had been living in my brain rent free.

I present a fan take on the Red Supergiant, Betelgeuse. If it's already been made and/or canon, then deepest apologies. This is a bit of a longer post going through my design choices and sketches that I've made when she was still in the "how do I draw this" phase

Design

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in our night sky and one of the largest stars we have documented. However, she is one of the youngest stars (only a couple million years old). She is also one of the stars due to supernova soon (estimated within the next 100,000 years). So, I did the following.

- Designed her to look more 'tough', bulkier, wilder, spiked belts and cuffs.

- Deep dark red and orange color scheme for the red super giant (making a cohesive color pallete was unnecessarily difficult for me for some reason)

- Striped suit is just a reference to the movie Beetlejuice, literally nothing more. The suit is also kind of a skirt(?). Fighting between coat tails and a skirt so I chose the ruffled look it has now.

- Couldn't decide between a mowhawk or a long, unruly mess. The unruly mess won, and I regretted it immediately when I had to digitalize it with nothing more than my fingers as a stylus and IbisPaintX threatening to crash. Worth it.

- Crammed as many stars as I can in here. From the studs on the belt to the patches in the jeans.

- The first draft was originally more monstrous, yet it lacked much of a direction, so I scrapped it in favor of a more humanoid look.

Personality

Betelgeuse craves attention and company. She wants to be surrounded by others, yet being a wandering star doesn't help this. One of her primary friends is the Hubble Telescope. She follows it around and protects it from harm. She isn't sure where it came from, but she enjoys its company and beeping.

Betelgeuse is also hyper aware of her impending supernova event, oftentimes resulting in panic attacks or periods of dimming. She is terrified of that event and lives day by day. This also leads to her doing some rather risky stunts as she falls into the "you only live once" mentality. (challenging a black hole to a fist fight wasn't the brightest of ideas; she survived this incident with a couple marks).

Below are some more sketches of the goober when I was still figuring her out

[Left to right, up and down)

- Fuck you mean I got 100,000 years left? (*on the verge of punching someone*) (**crying too, I guess**)

- Live fast, die young!

- *A whole ass black hole*

- Finally! A worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

- BRING IT ON!

-Without suit on, nothing but an unstable ball of fire (*got suit stained*)

- Sunglasses on a star?

- *Lost the black hole fight* NGL, I don't feel too good.

- *Eye tongue*

- *Under the gloves*

- (1995) *Confusion* *Hubble Telescope*

- Look, Hubble! Perfect for photos!

- Hubble *simplified*

- Sorry Hubble! Asteroids have NO respect!

- The more I think of it, the more I see that we aren't that different.

- Two lonely cosmic wanderers destined to eventually break down.

- Eventually.

If you read this far, hope you like it :]

[willowisapillow]

🎊🎉 A Peachy New Year! 🎉🎊

💕❤️ They’re girlfriends, your honor ❤️💕

Behold, another piece of fanart that I’ve kept pushing back until now.

I was planning on drawing this earlier back in January, but some complications occurred with both IbisPaint and my tablet once again, and one mishap after another, half of my files for the art got wiped somehow when my tablet crashed for the 104897th time, and I had to start from scratch.

A very similar problem occurred with one of my Pride Month pics from last year, and this time I just said, “screw it, I can’t be bothered to finish this”, and took a long-ass break and moved on to other art projects. Eventually, I did come around and finished it in the end.

2023 was honestly just a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. It started off bad, then it was eh, and it ended… not really great good per se, but decent. I had to miss out on a lot of art projects because I was doing online school at that time, but since I graduated way back in June, I have a lot of free time on my hands and I have a lot of exciting plans in the future ^o^

One positive of this year I have so far is that I finally watched the Super Mario Movie. As per tradition of me being slower than molasses, I watched the movie on Netflix, and I absolutely LOVED it! The whole movie was literally what little me imagined a Mario movie would be like, and the movie just was a whole lot of fun. I especially loved the references/easter eggs in the movie, I was just fangirling so much 😭

And once the DK Rap came on I just started singing along like there was no tomorrow. And funny story, at one point, my mom actually walked by my room, overheard my singing, and gave me a funny look as if she thought I was going crazy, which she wasn’t wrong/hj

I could go on and on about how I love this movie, but we’d be here all day, so I’ll just say my two absolute favorite things about this movie. My first fave is obviously Peach, I’m so happy that my girl isn’t being portrayed as a damsel-in-distress, and is instead an active team leader, she was just absolutely iconic. And my second favorite thing is Bowser. Jack Black has always been one of my favorite actors/comedians, so it was a perfect decision for Illumination to have him voice Bowser. He’s the perfect blend of comedic and threatening, he gave me a lot of Hades from Hercules vibes haha

As for the art, I went with the dark-skinned, red-haired version of Bowsette, which imo is better than the regular version. One, it makes sense to give her dark skin because she lives in a place that’s nothing but fire and lava, and two, Bowser is canonically a ginger not a blondie lol

And for Peach, I drew her in her movie dress but also combined it with her winter/holiday earmuffs and cloak. Also wanted to give her the Princess Peach Showtime bow because I’m still hyped for that game >:3

Here’s to hoping this year will be great, good, or at the very least decent 🎉

[kestrel-wish]

what software do you use to draw with? do you use a drawing tablet?

Whenever I draw digitally I normally tend to use FireAlpaca on my computer. Very rarely I'll use IbisPaint X on my phone but I haven't in a while since my phone's storage space isn't exactly thriving at the moment. For my animations I use Tahoma2d! it does tend to 'threaten' to crash a lot though. ( AKA freeze up for a prolonged period of time ) At least on my PC. Especially if you use the autosave, so that might be intimidating to some.

All ( from my knowledge ) are free to use and surprisingly easy to learn compared to some other more complex looking programs. At least from my experience. I do have a drawing tablet ( XP pen Artist 12 Pro ) but I don't use it as much as I probably should since I mostly grew up using the Animal jam masterpiece making stuff a lot when I was learning and getting used to digital art. I tend to prefer using a mouse ( especially for smaller less 'serious' pieces like the ones I post here. ) since I've just adapted better to it. Funnily enough it feels less restrictive and more forgiving to me somehow. It is fun to use the tablet sometimes though! It's just more of a weird personal thing.