#but i've been wanting to draw this for months

[wanderer-clarisse]

high king

day 6 of @arafinwean-week | prompts: Gil-galad, future and legacy

[doppel-doodles]

Wanted to do a quick and simple illustration before bed so have a Nox I drew months ago on paper, I've been itching to do some fanart for this game for weeks now so that old drawing came in handy!

Here are some funfacts nobody but me cares about:

His pupils are lil Cresent moons with a star in them because the name Nox not only means Night but is also shared by a roman deity who in turn is inspired by Nyx, greek personification of the night so I wanted something inspired by the night sky(god I'm a nerd)

If I were to draw Rus his pupils would probably be little squiggly suns!

I like the idea of each Sans and their corresponding Papyrus pupils matching in some way cause A. My style allows that and B. I think it's cute and I'm gonna be cute goddammit-

Also his little skull brooch, I would also draw it making little faces that match his expressions mainly because once again: my art, my rules and silly always wins.

[1driedpersimmon]

Do you have any advice for people who might want to get into making comics like yours? I'm always pleasantly surprised by how fast you pump them out and even have other little projects/doodles on the side. How do you keep the quality consistent?

(sorry if this sounds a lil cold (?) i rlly love your peppercakes they r so skrunkly)

First off - Thank you !! I'm honored you like my lil guys and comics hehe! (and no worries on the tone !! I didn't think it sounded cold at all!)

Alright secondly lets see...

Short answer: You really just gotta start and keep going!! Once you start you get the momentum and it gets much easier (like riding a bike, which people like to use as comparison often).

Long answer:

Alright I thought about how to answer for this for a bit and I think I'll break it down to the main aspects.

So timing ! Basically I'm drawing 24/7 (and I'm currently not working as it's an off time for me, but I shall in a week and you will see that my posting frequency will decrease substantially). Ok maybe not 24/7 but I essentially am drawing from the moment I wake up to when I sleep (minus eating, restroom, working out, some errands) and while I do not say this is the key to being better, I'm just realistically displaying how much time I'm spending on drawing. (... one of my new years resolution is to not in fact do that and go out more because I feel like I'm being cooped up in my room a lot haha). But minus the amount of time I spend itself a lot of it has to do with the importance I take in speed drawing. And when I say that I mean quite literally how fast I can draw. AND I think a large part of where that speed comes from is how I like to generalize designs and just my overall process of drawing. (Which, I will not go over now but if you'd like I could make a separate post on how I go about doing my usual sketch, lines, colors, etc) Like, I love ff and all of it's crazy designs but it's so complicated I simplify everything till it's juussstt recognizable, and that's something I feel like really adds to the speed of things.

Also that's sweet of you to say for the quality haha (I always am thinking stuff like ah man this aint it... not my finest work, and then just post anyways cuz who cares I already made it heh)! That being said my quality wasn't alwaysss consistent! Here's an example of my very first "comic" I made for my characters:

And here's the same 4 panels I redrew just about 2 years later:

So I've been basically drawing comics for this for just about 2 years now (will be 2 years officially in a few months) and I most certainly did not get here in one night. I think, as I've mentioned, it's really important to keep up with the comic making (or drawing in general) so that, yes, you can get better, but the way you get better is that it becomes familiar to you. So you can approach concepts and ideas with a more experience. And I think a large part of what holds alot of people back is the idea that "ah I can't do this idea I'm not good enough." So what !! Still do it, I most certainly did it a couple years ago when I barely scribbled my ideas. And then you can totally go back and redraw it ! no "Rule" saying you can't go back and revisit your ideas, like hell even professional artists go back and republish their works with their improved art styles ! (ex. Tokyo Ghoul... even though I don't care for the story, it's still pretty cool! I think he even added more scenes? Anyways..). I think there was that one post going around where it was something like do it scared and that's really REALLY what you gotta do.

And that leads to my final point. You gotta love doing it. I like to make comics because I LOVE my characters, their story, and actually the act of putting it all together into a story, drawn comic, visuals, etc. And, I found my method of loving them. For me, what held me back was the "structure" of comics. I mean you can p much see that the way I like to do things is def not the "traditional" manga/western comic book style right? I won't go as far to say that I "made up this way" of comic making where it's one panel at a time but it certainly worked for me. (I have no idea how many comic wips I have collecting dust in my folders from my earilier days of making this comic where I just gave up 20% of the way in because I really could not vibe with the formatting, but then I figured out I really like to "thumbnail" comics (a result of when I was studying storyboards alot imo) and I went on from there).

This is where I feel like alot of people get stuck too. Where they really do like their ideas, their character, their stories and such, but as soon as they try and go through the process of creating in a certain way... the wind is just instantly taken out of their sails. And while I do believe sometimes you just gotta push through and do it anyways, sometimes that's not the right method to go about it. So instead of brute forcing a method of creation and eventually forming a bad relationship with the process, find a method that works for you. And maybe it doesn't look all that great or good compared to others, but that comes in time and as long as you like doing it, that's what really matters at the end of the day.

Tl;dr: be a lil freak, and lil weird about what you do (this applies to everything, not only art :3)

Alright so I think that's all the points? idk if you still want to ask me stuff, feel free to anytime :) Always happy to share my thoughts!

[krowfaced]

↓ Self reflection below ↓

Since I started this blog, I've worked on rekindle my relationship with my art, bit by bit. And I'm proud of the things this blog has motivated me to see through. Making a piece every month for a year has been hard, but I did it and I'm proud. But I must put emphasis on hard, because I'm afraid that my approach this past year has unintentionally backfired.

I've gotten an idea that I must achieve certain things. I don't know what these standards are, but I've felt incredibly pressured by them. Like a blind test where I don't know what I'm up against but I need to pass it. I've been anxious each time I've tried to draw anything because of this undefined standard, and I think I've Pavlov'ed myself into equaling art to froth anxiety. It's nothing too bad, but mixed with my executive dysfunction it makes me paralysed to take action.

And that's not how I want this to go!

So, I need to change strategy going forward. I need to find that thing that brings me joy while making art. I don't know what that joy is right now, because I don't know what that undefined standard that loomed over me prevented me from doing. But I need to find what gives me that joy, that passion, so that I can actually mend anything with my art and not make it worse. That joy could be anything from... new rendering techniques, subjects, moods, characters. It could be fanart or a new style. I don't know what yet, but I need to find that thing that gives me a piece of calm. That's the art goal of 2025.

TLDR; If I end up drawing nothing but potato chips for a whole year, now you know why.

[erigold13261]

octomaid eve :thonk:

Never played Splatoon before, but I thought it would fit the ask lol

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[umblrspectrum]

i hate perspective. happy new years also

[sapsolace]

obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]

[doraingrid]

Happy Dragon Age Day!

Forever grateful that I got to experience the stories of Dragon Age over the years.

Thank you for the eternal inspiration and thank you for making Thedas my home too 💜💙 Adding some in game screenies of my dear crows under the cut, as a treat, for myself~

They are so very dear to me

[nipuni]

Once again I bring you some Eriks 😊

[lunacias]

these are the silt verses, and I name our disciples thus

[baylee-doodle]

Nii-san!

[aseuki]

His gorgeous beefcake charm and funny tactical boba holster have captivated me

[zivazivc]

Happy birthday @spooky-pop! Here's a delightful picture of Ivy happily posing with her newly hatched baby brother who she adores very much <3

[darqx]

Aren't you tired of being nice?

[evercelle]

2024 art summary! it sure has been a year