#physalian's art challenge

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 6 | Wall-E

"Put on your Sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there!"

Glass lens eyes were harder than I thought they'd be!

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 2 | Blue-Eyed Knockout (TFP)

"I like the way I look in steel-belted radials."

Canonically he's a Decepticon but! He does the right thing by the end, we just never got to see this change in the show.

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 5 | Danny

"Yo, Danny Fenton, he was just fourteen when his parents built a very strange machine..."

American cartoons are so hard. Happiest with the ectoplasm-jelly texture of the irises.

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Physalian's Art Challenge: Day 8 | It's-a Me!

Portuguese Man o' War Physalia physalis

I love these funky little aliens. She'd fit right in the background of Finding Nemo 3. Not actually a jellyfish, but my favorite jelly, the Sea Nettle, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, is a bit of a mouthful.

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I just traced somebody else's artwork for practice, feeling quite guilty as I went. Didn't post it anywhere and wasn't claiming the design as mine, but still the "psssh you're a failure, other artists don't trace" thoughts creeped in.

Thing is, that piece still took me like, 3 hours, at least, because while I traced the lineart, in effort to perfectly replicate what that person did without knowing how they layered their own workspace, I still had to do all my own color matching and experimenting on how they might've done the shading, or what tools they might've used to get the line art to look a specific way, when they used black vs a darker color to the fill color, trial and erroring my way while focusing on single tiny details of their work that I wouldn't otherwise notice simply appreciating it as a whole.

Sure eyedropper tool exists but they had a ~gradient~ and layered highlights and shadows that, to copy-paste colors via eyedropper for every slight change in hue, would have been tedious as hell and sloppy looking. Despite my tracing, it's still not a dead on match, some of the lines are slightly different and my colors are definitely not exact to theirs beacuse I didn't use the eyedropper tool, but it might be the cleanest piece I've ever made.

And I learned a lot!

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 4 | Crowley

"Tickety Boo."

Switching from 2D cartoon recreation to actual human photograph recreation was like using a whole different set of brain muscles. Definitely happiest with how the glasses came out.

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 7 | My Cat

My ESA Loki, who has separation anxiety, so he also has an ESA, Hella.

Got bored with characters and he was sitting there all perfect on the couch so I just had to immortalize him in the digital medium.

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30 Piece Art Challenge: Day 3 | Lelouch

"If a king doesn't move, then his subjects won't follow."

I see why anime style is such a draw for so many artists. I can replicate it damn near perfectly without straying too far from my own style. Translating American cartoons is far trickier.