#hand drawn backgrounds

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

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[hallowshumour]

First rate town.

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Progress

[spaceshipsandvodka]

The Kharidia Main Hall - pt 2

Let's talk colors.

As not to hide any bit of my process, I admit the colors were picked directly from a screenshot from Russian videogame Pathologic 2.

This action was intended just to limit my colors to a specific area of the color wheel and to use only certain saturations.

I likely could have picked the colors myself, but I was all colors of sick that week, and it would have taken longer. Not to mention, this was an immensely helpful exercise even if I already had the skills.

The setting of Pathologic 2 is very dull and dusty in color, yet warm. These were all traits I knew I wanted to emulate early on in the first iteration of Spaceships and Vodka. The warm beige, dark oranges and olive tones create a sort of calm elegance, but with just a shift of lighting they can grow eerie. The perfect setting for a thrilling mystery.

Backgrounds can make or break a comic so ensuring a sense of harmony was very important to me on this venture. The base lighting was hand picked. A deep, desaturated red for the shadows and a light blue from the opposite end of the color wheel for the highlights. Then a soft yellow overlay over the top to create a gentle golden glow.

As with ALL my art, everything is hand drawn. I use no 3d assets, no auto fill, no AI. It mostly boils down to preference. But as such, all of this was lined and rendered manually. Art deco has many repeating geometric shapes, so ensuring that each corner was carved out against the next via use of light and shadow was important in order to ensure a sense of depth. However it was also incredibly time consuming. There are still many mistakes and imperfections in my art, but at least in that way I can accept that I made it.

As for characters. Each character has a basic "neutral light" color scheme. This is primarily intended for use on the VCR to allow the viewer to have a reference point of visuals.

As each character enters the Kharidia, they will have a color palate swap to something more suitable. These will all be hand picked as Pathologic 2 doesn't seem to have a shade of red vibrant enough to suit Mirium's hair color.

Sample art will be made.

Finished this background that took forever

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BLO-ME

Now available as a sticker!

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hand jumper discord server october event!

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Neon City Rodimus

For an art trade with @/ryuudraws on x/twitter

[sforzesco]

CARRION EATER

this is some kind of standalone idea. the original version was much more goofy, crassus was going to cover up pompey's mouth and say, 'no, no. he's got a point. let him speak,' and then pompey was going to bite his hand and say, 'you're not even supposed to BE here.'

then I read a review about a staging of julius caesar that sounded like it got REALLY mean (because it involved improv since it seemed like the intention was supposed to be interactive with the audience) and decided to add some teeth into it.

(also yes, I broke the 180 rule. it’s fine. usually I try to include panels that show characters walking around when I do that, but this comic was a standalone, so instead pretend that I’m spinning the theoretical cameraman around on an office chair or something. or that the camera is a ghost.)

also because titling something Carrion Eater and then NOT having it get a little mean and nasty in the dialogue seemed. like a waste.

eventually, I'll figure out a design for lucullus that I like, I keep wanting to draw other characters when I draw him, so he might need a new hairstyle.

ONWARDS! this is playing off of this scene

To this Lucullus retorted that Pompey was going forth to fight an image and shadow of war, following his custom of alighting, like a lazy carrion-bird, on bodies that others had killed, and tearing to pieces the scattered remnants of wars. For it was in this way that he had appropriated to himself the victories over Sertorius, Lepidus, and the followers of Spartacus, although they had actually been won by Metellus, Catulus, and Crassus. Therefore it was no wonder that he was trying to usurp the glory of the Pontic and Armenian wars, a man who contrived to thrust himself in some way or other into the honour of a triumph for defeating runaway slaves.

Plutarch, Pompey 31

the romans are fightingggggg 🍿🍿🍿

finally, the painting panel is taken from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's The Triumph of Marius (through the Met's Open Access/Public Domain use policy etc)

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miscellaneous

[ghostedglitch]

Today we reached Chapter 23 of YWDMP in my stream series, and I've been so excited for it because of how it ends.

This moment is everything to me. I just had to illustrate it.

completed September 19 2024

[tohakumaru]

just a quick walk. it was a lot of fun working on this and getting used to the lights here. while working on this i've also managed to watch an entire playthrough of technobabylon get started on some new builds, and procured some curious materials for something that's been brewing on the back burners a while.

[lunapegasus]

Nearly a year ago today I made this blog and posted my art online for the first time. So here's a redraw of it to celebrate :) Also sketch under the cut because it actually looks very different than the lineart but I really like it (+ the lineart for comparison)

[jokerx-art]

rough background practice but it's ews

[caluupin]

a doodle that I did a bit ago