#THIS WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THE DRAWING AT ALL BUT THIS IS BETTER I THINK
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
THE WEEKLY CHECK-IN
Issue 2 Updates:
6/22 Pages have been fully inked
Page 7 is still in the sketching process, but I hope to have the inks started today!
I am technically ahead of schedule on inking pages! Yay!
Issue 1 Page 13 WIPS:
You guys voted last week on what you'd like to see from this blog between now and issue 2s release. WIPs from issue 1 won! Every week, I'll showcase a page. This week I've chosen page 13!
The Initial Sketch: When I first start working on a comic page, I always focus on getting the general layout of the page done first. This means understanding how the panels fit together and jotting down a general sense of the action. You may notice that some of these initial plans changed in the final version. I wasn't originally going to have Amy hit Sonic with her Piko Piko hammer and panel 4 was going to have Sonic kicking Amy again rather than vaulting over her. I wish I had saved more of the in-between sketches to show you guys how these evolved overtime, but I just didn't think to do it during the process. I'm saving a lot of the sketches during Issue 2, though to make up for it!
Final Ink: A page without color! You can see how some of the sizing on the boxes changed, Sonic's surprised face was turned around to better fit with his new vaulting pose and what I originally intended to be a fully in-shadow panel was turned into just having Knuckles in Shadow. This is one of the prettier inks in my opinion. It's the first page that I felt completely happy with the art once it was finished. Looking back now there are things I would do differently, but I can still be proud of it.
Color: And here's the final product, without text, in all it's glory! Coloring is not my strongest suit. In fact, every time I draw something complicated I think about how much trouble its going to be to color later. I'm always up for the challenge, though. If I were to go back and color this page again, however, I probably wouldn't use so many gradients on the background.
Let me know what WIPS from Issue 1 you'd like to see next or if you have any questions about page 13!
31 notes
·
View notes
Text
worm and salmon woodburning :))) 🪱
eerrrm .. finally woodburning this piece... that i had sitting in my closet for 2 years... also uhhhmmm *dies* i almost died when i didnt take my meds for the last 3 days never fucking do that it was HORRIBLE but im glad to be back on them things feel better
#eerrmm well tbh i do feel like my depression has been getting worse :(#i honestly didnt take them on purpose so i could spiral and hopefully go through with some plans#but i ended up just feeling really really physically sick this morning#so i gave up#i have not told anyone this but i will be telling my doctor and therapist bc i really do feel worse#doing all my coping skills tho! and handling ppl interactions alot better#artists on tumblr#art#my art#oc#oc art#artist on tumblr#salmon#salmon art#salmons#sockeye#fish#fish art#mixed media#traditional art#traditional drawing#furry#furry artist#furry art#monster oc#original character#artist#my oc#animal#animal art
623 notes
·
View notes
Text
good news : i might try to draw some more again this month bad news? : its mostly from trying to 10+ years later join the Equestria Daily NATG so its really just gonna be horses. might not share it all
also as mentioned this is drawn after the very very good picture from this post
#shevr#my lines#dont get too attached to it my plan for all this is to do cardboard paintings and to every paint over the previous day's one#and in that also i hope this quality of picture is satisfying to y'all bc im not sure i can do better#and the original will be gone so ! eh well#on a diff note the Nyegh! is a very specific reference to the most recent stream from australian comedian tom walker.#it is funny to mostly me and some other idiots#ahahahahah anyway yeayyyyy yayyye i hope i'll also manage to kickstart some more general drawing energy over that month !#if i manage it yanno !!#we'll see !!! hope you can enjoys horses in the meantime ! nyegh !
546 notes
·
View notes
Text
That one creator meets oc thing
Shhhh ik there's giant watermarks and it's super bad quality sHHHHHhhhsh
Mandatory @dingodoodles
Credit to this guy I guess ┐( ∵ )┌
#Tbh I kinda got lazy drawing Rooster#Original plan was to have him either turned around or spinning the teacup#But i spent all of my motivation on drawing dingo and sips so ┐( ∵ )┌#fools gold dnd#fools gold#fools gold sands#Rooster#Sips#Dingo doodles#Idk I just feel like this could've turned out better#oh well c'est la vie
359 notes
·
View notes
Text
sunrise ☀️
#YAYYYYY YIPPEE MY TREAT FOR DOING TASKS TODAY. FINALLY LETTING MYSELF DRAW SOMETHING#THIS WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THE DRAWING AT ALL BUT THIS IS BETTER I THINK#it's not perfect but That's Okay i'm allowed to post art that isn't my best (<- affirmations)#it's been a while since i used that brush :D i couldnt see myself making a background without it so i just. didnt even try JHDJGH#dante was described on priv as chewy btw i just need to let that be known. im glad bc i was going for squishy slime creature#sb#my art#rising sun#technoblade#(that is techno btw! just in the rising sun gear so 99% of him is covered jhdjgh)#i was gonna include energy being sent to him to from the players scattered around. ya know like how the dialogue goes#but then i finished part of it and decided to leave it alone bc i liked that way more#just pretend that all the mana has already been sent his way. pictures taken moments before disaster (for dante)
102 notes
·
View notes
Text
I haven't drawn since the start of the pandemic in 2020 everybody fucking clap its my Screaming Worm Boy (tm) from my fanfic Duality
#im not expecting people to clap im clapping for me cause holy shit i can still draw#also i lied i did 1 drawing last year in april for ardyn and that was it#had no plans to draw anything but the noodle wouldn't leave#Two Legs (plaga)#his variant is based off the spider plaga arana and the cephalo#threw in some snek#his body was longer had a standard stinger tip like the regular plaga but he got half his body crushed from a giant rock#and lost all but two of his legs#his body was originally more spider like then he mutated to have more worm like traits to compensate for the lost limbs#so the spaghetti at the end of him is his tendrils that connect to the central nervous system#he redirected it from the mouth and back area where it used to be#tendrils also come out from the little holes down his belly#so he sucker fishes himself to the spine like a pleco#anyway this is the fella piloting Luis's body in Duality post Krauser stab#i just realized im literally writing a fic with the same energy as “would you love me if I was a worm?”#fuck#resident evil#las plagas#plaga parasite#two legs oc#plaga!Luis#sawyer kiddo oc#re oc#duality fanfic#duality resident evil#wish my lighting for photos was better
14 notes
·
View notes
Text
trying to psych myself up to finally do oc refs by doing fandom-related refs instead: volume 1
wanted to update my yuma from whatever tf this au is so he was a bit more unique... takes inspo from a lot of different things while also trying to be its own sorta thing? which is fitting given the au ;)
bonus chibi now that i'm also figuring out how tf to do chibis lol:
#my art lol#synth v yuma#yuma synthv#synth v#synthv fanart#synthesizer v#vocaloid#vocaloid fanart#YES I KNOW ITS DIFFERENT but at this rate its the umbrella tag. all vsynth shit goes under there just like on main 😔#sorry for the annoyign watermarks i just dont want this to get stolennn/traced it'll b my joker arc. is2g#like thats never happened to me before as far as i know but now that my art is getting 'better' i begin to get scared that it will happen#if my fanart got stolen i'd def sting a little yeah but not hurt AS bad as if someone stole my original shit. THAT would hurt#one of many reasons why i post less personal oc stuffs. although as mentioned above i AM in an oc mood so i wanna draw em maybe...#and stuff like this is a step to develop a PROPER FUCKING REF STYLE bc i SUCKKKK AT MAKING REFS LOL 😭 BUT I SHOULD GIT GUD#i have a few other refs planned for vocaloid au (i guess???) related shit but they're not done yet. this one was also a wip that i just??#impulsively decided to redo & finish bc i wanted to draw but nothing else i was trying to draw came out right. advantages of many wips#i have SOOO many things i could say abt some of the things that went into this redesign but i dont wanna come off as pretentious 😔💔#obviously it was primarily inspired by the vimalion yuma design but. there's moreeee that i can't explain here bc tag limits and im shy#i do think i want to try and be more intentional with my character designs now so i'm seeing how that goes as i redesign some old ocs#man though this kind of stuff makes me remember i used to LOVEE doing this stuff. and now its even crazierr given art improvement#uaurhghh my head is buzzing w/. so many thoughts. THIS ALWAYS FUCKING HAPPENS I GET SO MANY IDEAS WHEN IM BUSY GFD#this is actually from today though unlike some other things i might eventually post. that'll make more sense soon#and fuckkk i forgot the chain necklace thing on the chibi yeah but i couldnt get it to look good. whatever
14 notes
·
View notes
Text
dawg so many people in the side of the podcast community im currently observing have their own projects and podcasts i feel like such a doofus for my only creative output being fanart
#the way that my only plans for this year is to get better at drawing comics....#like i do take the process of drawing quite seriously and im planning and keep a regular schedule and stuff#but WOW do i feel silly for being like. yeah all i do is draw niche podcast fanart. its the only thing im good at#but JUST YOU WAIT until i get better at music and also speaking i WILL make an audio drama it is NOT in my area of expertise at ALL b#ut WHATEVR#gonna draw a six page comic to feel better#i gotta start doing original comics too LOL
11 notes
·
View notes
Note
I'm so excited/terrified to see what happens after crocodile betrays Robin cause like. She's Luffys best friend and he's so not gonna take that well. Part of me thinks that Luffys gonna runaway(with Robin?) because of it and that's how we're gonna start meeting other people
:^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
#crocau ask#arc 1 is like. so close yet so far. like. i have the mini arc within the prologue thats about 4 comics long (could become 5) and then the#last thing i need to do is show robin's relationship between luffy and croc more clearly. which is at least 2 comics but might need more.#so including the comic im working on theres at least 7 comics left before were done with prologue!! but!! theres also the keeping up with#the strawhats interlude before we can start arc1 and mannn. im all hyped in my corner and i cant draw that fast (and shouldnt)#the prologue has already turned much longer than i had originally planned (and is much better for it for sure) but ough. hype
35 notes
·
View notes
Text
Becky Botsford jr high version is such a coin toss because I could totally see her leaning HEARD into academics and wanting to be taken seriously.........but you also cannot tell me she isn't wearing an alicorn onesie to sleep each night.
#She would havesuch a fun free cringeful jr high phase but also I think she represses her interests too much to indulge.#Violet? She's not repressing shit. Becky? Her whole existence is repression.#I think I'm gonna go with my original Becky idea and then do a little Wordgirl costume redesign.#To add some like Pegasus wings. And Bob manages to convince her NOT to add a unicorn horn to her costume.#You get what I mean Wordgirl fandom?#I have a few bonus drawings planned for when I post the 8th grade Becky drawings.#Because I have so many thoughts.#And I think they'll be actual drawings and not the edit drawings I've been doing.#The main one will be to fit with the others.#I think Huggy would bemoan the wings addition of the costume at first but then realize it gives him more room to sit while flying.#I mean. A secret identity is such a perfect thing for Becky wihle she's growing up.#She is such a high strung girl and I think that'll get worse before it gets better. Wordgirl could be her outlet for being cringe.#And no one but her closest friends and family know it's her. And her friends and family all know she's got a loving for ponies & princesses#OKAY!#Wordgirl#Becky Botsford#Sentiments of a vampire.
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm just about finished with My Little Inferno, and the ML (the LI) is so pathetic omfg. I feel like I'm reading Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudsai due to the main leads both being fucking losers (the FL in Dame na is in a dead end relationship and is practically a sugar mommy who ends up in debt to support her BF which almost leads her to being sold into prostitution. Her attitude isn't great either). Like if I could get a hot guy to fall head over heels in love with me even after he witnesses me puking, pissing, and crying myself out of fear and getting hassled by old bullies (if only I were a BL protag bc he'd think I'm cute), I would think something is wrong with him and that I probably made it in life. The ML isn't particularly... useful. The only thing he has going for him is being cute and short, and being needy towards the LI. The LI makes for a good house husband.
Based on the cover art for the manga, I would've thought it was really dark (like Killing Stalking or Blind play) but its mostly just about cyber crime and embezzlement and sorta the yakuza (mostly mentioned, briefly seen). To an extent, this series sorta reminded me of Semantic Error, but only because of the computer stuff though. Otherwise, I sorta like the slice of life aspects. I think the crime stuff is sorta underbaked. I wish there was more risk or something to make things tense bc the only thing was ML's mom getting get info stolen and getting $300k in debt.
#desiree talks#desiree reads#speaking of which i havent really read BL since i decided on trying to actually clear my manga tabs#like i decided on lowering priority to the following genres: BL#action; manhwa; isekai#main reasons there is too many BL manga and after a while the tropes got repetitive and i needed a break#action to me is boring i need good character moments and dynamics in between fights#(me with demon slayer [and technically yowamushi pedal] all the flashbacks during the fights/races bc there's no where else to put it#i wish demon slayer had more group moments apart from recovering since a lot of characters didnt have any moments until the final battle#especially when fights can end up lasting like a year of updates (lookism gave me ptsd)#and action scenes can get confusing if the artist isn't good at drawing/planning them out#it can also get hard to tell whats going on#isekai- too many and there are a lot of bad ones and i am the type to get fomo and try them all#i technically prefer otome isekai#but only really like regression wherre theyre able to get revenge or make s#a better outcome like I'll Be The Matriarch In This Life#i dont like the idea of actual isekai bc what happens to the original soul of the body that the MC takes over#i'm also not a fan of serie where the MC is automatically doted over by everyone#its annoying#and for manhwa its more of a format thing#and i think with webtoon format there is a lot more being published than mn#manga so its even more to try and read#it doesn't help that a lot of series end up with like 100+ chapters#like a decent shoujo is usually over in like 50 chapters#though thats like 4 years of publication#its less overwhelming when the series is over
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
ok i'm finally doing my requests (college caught us up so bad but now it's summer break)
uhhhhhh i swear there was an ask that was something about a mouth stim??? (mouth click maybe?) but now tumblr has eaten it. whoever sent that, if you see this can you resend the request?
i'll try to draw some stims also, like mouth stims, in case i vaguely land upon what they asked for
as to the others who sent in requests! yes it has been. several months. but we are going to do them now! for real this time!
#i don't want to say like inbox closed or whatever bc the number of requests is like really small#we don't mind if we get more requests#we just really did not have the mental energy to do them lol#now we do#so they'll get done#and feel free to send in more if you want!#we have a bunch of wordmojis we made for a friend before we standardized their proportions#so we just need to remake those to be more consistent and we'll post them too#but we don't have. a lot of ideas on what to post lol#other than remakes (like actually remakes of/inspired by. not tracing) of emojis we've found elsewhere that we don't like the style of#since we originally started drawing emojis to better personalize our emoji collection and were just like#hey what if we post all these emojis we're planning to make#and we decided that was a good idea so we made this blog#and then basically abandoned it for like a year lol
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Old vs new
#all of these characters needed redesigns but for various reasons#mostly being that its old art and my design senses and skill has changed since#rain may fall was picked because compared to the other characters in her story they just felt very plain#i also planned on only giving them a brown skintone and i wasnt gonna change their hair or anything#but than while i was microwaving food i randomly thought of them with darker skin and curly pink hair and i thought it was really cute#so i did it lol#salem is a design i was never happy with even when i originally drew him i was not happy with his design#particularly cause he looked very christmas-y#so i changed his palette making the green more yellowish and the red more orangeish and i think that worked out better#delta needed a redesign for the obvious reason of being art from 2019 also i felt they didnt seem vaporwave enough#and the way the umbrella cuts off in the art i did of them looksbadman#alastair and earlene also from 2019 but also i chose them specifically because i... i needed seperate images of them#its awkward to crop that old art for their character pages#bell taurus also just old art from 2019 doesnt even have arms cause i used to not always put arms on stickman drawings#elmo primarily cause i wanted to change his colors and make him look older as well as get rid of his horns and give him a skintone#his story (and salems) had some lore development since i drew him in 2019 so this better fits the lore#belat is another design i was never happy i spent a long time on his old design fiddling with it back and forth and hated it#i decided to make him a catboy and now he looks better#and esteem. my god esteem. i got lazy with their old design and i hated it. they needed the redesign the most#anyways done rambling
4 notes
·
View notes
Note
You're more amazing than D
Black uncommons! :D
#asks#custom cards#zombie blade originally had the resurrection on an activated ability#but it was tough to balance and probably would lead to repetitive gameplay anyway#this feels better#i made it high-cost because black's equipment style is supposed to be the slower version and there weren't too many big equipment#the other 2 uncommon equipment are gonna be 3-drops because there aren't any yet#black is a kinda hard color to design for#like what does it even do? kill things? kill its own things?#it has control and it has unique costs but what is the actual game plan?#i have a similar problem with blue#like it draws a lot of cards but what is it gonna do with them??#counterspells tapdowns bounces cool but how do you WIN?#white makes tokens and pumps creatures red deals damage and attacks green ramps into big creatures#they all have a goal to work toward#what to blue and black even do?#flying?#in other news i'm writing a story about turning into a kitty
1 note
·
View note
Text
LIP BITE COMIC PART ONE {CLICK HERE}
GOOD GOD IT'S FINALLY DONE... maybe. even though i still plan on making a part 3 i'm going to take a fatass break first + plan it out more better in the future. for now enjoy this meal silly goobers
aight now for some quick behind the scenes lore: this took way longer than i was expecting with 17 PAGES in total while taking the opportunity to experiment this type of sketch + comic style. i have a BAD habit of starting a story with just a minor draft idea, and with the more i progress the more i start changing the plot. like- this was supposed to end with smg4 in the bathroom embarrassed but i didn't like it anymore + the scene of smg3 opening the pickle jar was rewritten to fit a better narrative. i have a difficulty elaborating a short story so i might do mini comics for now as practice. furthermore, i tend to get wAY into making sure the character's are accurate as possible to the original material. been doing my best to get out of that strict mindset and just enjoy it being fun and remind myself it's okay to break some cracks. doesn't need to be perfect after all ;^)
other than that, i want to sincerely thank everyone for supporting and enjoying the first part of this silly comic. never have i ever received such a positive response that not only has scared the shit out of me, but motivated me to make more for me as a person, artist, and for everyone in the smg4 community. genuinely has made me so happy this past month and i can't explain how much i am so excited to just start drawing these guys and everyone else in the cast + other fun stuff!! 💛
now i'm going to play wuwa and hide for a day bye bye :3c
#smg4#smg3#smg4 smg3#smg3 x smg4#smg4 x smg3#smg34#smg34fanart#smg4 fanart#smg3 fanart#smg4 mario#smg4 fancomic#smg4 comic#comic#gay#mario fanart#my art#tsb official
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
My Favorite Cheap Art Trick: Gradient Maps and Blending Modes
i get questions on occasion regarding my coloring process, so i thought i would do a bit of a write up on my "secret technique." i don't think it really is that much of a secret, but i hope it can be helpful to someone. to that end:
this is one of my favorite tags ive ever gotten on my art. i think of it often. the pieces in question are all monochrome - sort of.
the left version is the final version, the right version is technically the original. in the final version, to me, the blues are pretty stark, while the greens and magentas are less so. there is some color theory thing going on here that i dont have a good cerebral understanding of and i wont pretend otherwise. i think i watched a youtube video on it once but it went in one ear and out the other. i just pick whatever colors look nicest based on whatever vibe im going for.
this one is more subtle, i think. can you tell the difference? there's nothing wrong with 100% greyscale art, but i like the depth that adding just a hint of color can bring.
i'll note that the examples i'll be using in this post all began as purely greyscale, but this is a process i use for just about every piece of art i make, including the full color ones. i'll use the recent mithrun art i made to demonstrate. additionally, i use clip studio paint, but the general concept should be transferable to other art programs.
for fun let's just start with Making The Picture. i've been thinking of making this writeup for a while and had it in mind while drawing this piece. beyond that, i didn't really have much of a plan for this outside of "mithrun looks down and hair goes woosh." i also really like all of the vertical lines in the canary uniform so i wanted to include those too but like. gone a little hog wild. that is the extent of my "concept." i do not remember why i had the thought of integrating a shattered mirror type of theme. i think i wanted to distract a bit from the awkward pose and cover it up some LOL but anyway. this lack of planning or thought will come into play later.
note 1: the textured marker brush i specifically use is the "bordered light marker" from daub. it is one of my favorite brushes in the history of forever and the daub mega brush pack is one of the best purchases ive ever made. highly recommend!!!
note 2: "what do you mean by exclusion and difference?" they are layer blending modes and not important to the overall lesson of this post but for transparency i wanted to say how i got these "effects." anyway!
with the background figured out, this is the point at which i generally merge all of my layers, duplicate said merged layer, and Then i begin experimenting with gradient maps. what are gradient maps?
the basic gist is that gradient maps replace the colors of an image based on their value.
so, with this particular gradient map, black will be replaced with that orangey red tone, white will be replaced with the seafoamy green tone, etc. this particular gradient map i'm using as an example is very bright and saturated, but the colors can be literally anything.
these two sets are the ones i use most. they can be downloaded for free here and here if you have csp. there are many gradient map sets out there. and you can make your own!
you can apply a gradient map directly onto a specific layer in csp by going to edit>tonal correction>gradient map. to apply one indirectly, you can use a correction layer through layer>new correction layer>gradient map. honestly, correction layers are probably the better way to go, because you can adjust your gradient map whenever you want after creating the layer, whereas if you directly apply a gradient map to a layer thats like. it. it's done. if you want to make changes to the applied gradient map, you have to undo it and then reapply it. i don't use correction layers because i am old and stuck in my ways, but it's good to know what your options are.
this is what a correction layer looks like. it sits on top and applies the gradient map to the layers underneath it, so you can also change the layers beneath however and whenever you want. you can adjust the gradient map by double clicking the layer. there are also correction layers for tone curves, brightness/contrast, etc. many such useful things in this program.
let's see how mithrun looks when we apply that first gradient map we looked at.
gadzooks. apologies for eyestrain. we have turned mithrun into a neon hellscape, which might work for some pieces, but not this one. we can fix that by changing the layer blending mode, aka this laundry list of words:
some of them are self explanatory, like darken and lighten, while some of them i genuinely don't understand how they are meant to work and couldn't explain them to you, even if i do use them. i'm sure someone out there has written out an explanation for each and every one of them, but i've learned primarily by clicking on them to see what they do.
for the topic of this post, the blending mode of interest is soft light. so let's take hotline miamithrun and change the layer blending mode to soft light.
here it is at 100% opacity. this is the point at which i'd like to explain why i like using textured brushes so much - it makes it very easy to get subtle color variation when i use this Secret Technique. look at the striation in the upper right background! so tasty. however, to me, these colors are still a bit "much." so let's lower the opacity.
i think thats a lot nicer to look at, personally, but i dont really like these colors together. how about we try some other ones?
i like both of these a lot more. the palettes give the piece different vibes, at which point i have to ask myself: What Are The Vibes, Actually? well, to be honest i didn't really have a great answer because again, i didn't plan this out very much at all. however. i knew in my heart that there was too much color contrast going on and it was detracting from the two other contrasts in here: the light and dark values and the sharp and soft shapes. i wanted mithrun's head to be the main focal point. for a different illustration, colors like this might work great, but this is not that hypothetical illustration, so let's bring the opacity down again.
yippee!! that's getting closer to what my heart wants. for fun, let's see what this looks like if we change the blending mode to color.
i do like how these look but in the end they do not align with my heart. oh well. fun to experiment with though! good to keep in mind for a different piece, maybe! i often change blending modes just to see what happens, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. i very much cannot stress enough that much of my artistic process is clicking buttons i only sort of understand. for fun.
i ended up choosing the gradient map on the right because i liked that it was close to the actual canary uniform colors (sorta). it's at an even lower opacity though because there was Still too much color for my dear heart.
the actual process for this looks like me setting my merged layer to soft light at around 20% opacity and then clicking every single gradient map in my collection and seeing which one Works. sometimes i will do this multiple times and have multiple soft light and/or color layers combined.
typically at this point i merge everything again and do minor contrast adjustments using tone curves, which is another tool i find very fun to play around with. then for this piece in particular i did some finishing touches and decided that the white border was distracting so i cropped it. and then it's done!!! yay!!!!!
this process is a very simple and "fast" way to add more depth and visual interest to a piece without being overbearing. well, it's fast if you aren't indecisive like me, or if you are better at planning.
let's do another comparison. personally i feel that the hint of color on the left version makes mithrun look just a bit more unwell (this is a positive thing) and it makes the contrast on his arm a lot more pleasing to look at. someone who understands color theory better than i do might have more to say on the specifics, but that's honestly all i got.
just dont look at my layers too hard. ok?
2K notes
·
View notes