#v1p-art

[k1ngsnak3]

"The only way to win a rigged game is to hope its in your favor."

(Clearer version + Thoughts beneath cut)

I tried a new rendering and lineart style with this, and I think it turned out really well!! This piece sort of flashbanged my brain and I just HAD to do it. I'm not super big on the final versions background and lighting but it's alright.

Also this is to showcase my Wildlife Grian designnnn. The actual design won't have the Watcher features, but everything else is abt the same. I took inspiration from casino dealers with his outfit, what with the dress shirt and bow tie and slacks, but I made the vest a sweater vest to give it that element of the original Grian. Also its really hard to see but the bow middle is meant to look a bit like an eye and a poker chip.

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Reblog of old art from my personal blog

Desert Duo s10

You guys can make up what Grian's saying however you want

I didn't reference Scar's s10 skin and I just guessed at the colors and shit :( Also I swear the anatomy looks strange somehow someway but it was a doodle so ig I'll give myself a pass.

[thebadchoicemachine]

This is literally the majority of the questions but I’m really curious so!!

1. - How would you describe your style? cartoony nonsensical and--not to be pretentious--whimsical.

2. What’s your favorite thing about your style? - I like being able to effectively make weird stuff!

3. What’s your least favorite thing about your style? - Making real things is... not my strong suit. That’s the thing about honing skills in imagination stuff, when you want to do realistic things you don’t have the same skills built up.

4. Favorite thing to draw? - Random shapes into scenes and Creatures. 

5. Least favorite thing to draw - perspectives and human feet. 

6. Warm colors or cold colors - Oh that’s hard. For real life I’d say cold but for drawing I think I like using warm colors better. 

7. Show us a WIP -

8 - What is the most/least fun part of your process? - Most fun is right after I had an idea and am working properly on it or when I’m coloring up layer by layer. Least is defiantly shading/clothe textures. Devil truly is in the details.

9. - Show us a finished piece alongside the original sketch - Here’s Thia’s musical one just because they’re the ones whose I have sketches saved close by.

12. Show us an old drawing - hooo boy. lemme look for one

here’s V1P-3r from about 4 years ago? (holy fuck time..) There’s a meaning for her name but I forgot. Something like: Vanessa, 1st of something starting with P, 3rd regiment). She’s a spy. I’m actually still really proud of the shading on this one.

21. Something you’d like to improve on - Memory and spelling. talking with the rest of us.

22. What inspires you? - weird but not bad feelings. Combinations. Inverting. Subversion. Music a lot as well. Words that get suck in my head.

23. What’s something you hope people notice when looking at your art? - Different for each art piece. I usually had some kind of especially detailed part I hope people appreciate. If it’s original, then the way I design my creatures. It’s the most fun part,

[k1ngsnak3]

Just goobers from smth I'm working on rn

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New Scar skins!! I got this out a bit late so I can say for sure that Scar is not the feral wounded animal type on red at the moment, but I think it'd be cool anyway.

No lighting version beneath cut

I haven't done done this type of cell shading in ages ngl I miss it

[k1ngsnak3]

Wild Life Lizzie concept art !!

I tried a new painting style on the left, I'm not a fan but I think it turned out right considering there was not a single sketch done in this entire image cksjd

Also it kind of served as a rough draft for my Wild Life Lizzie design; (Mostly) finalised lizzie in my regular style is in the bottom left corner! I made lizzie a bird bc I saw someone make a reference to her as the new 'canary' and her session 1 thumbnail was her as a bird. (Even the wings are shaped like half hearts)

[k1ngsnak3]

Little low effort Limited Life Scott doodles

Handwriting translation (and extra thoughts) beneath cut

(From left of image to right, notes I wrote in the image will be italicized and extra thoughts will be regular)

Pirate captain's jacket he stole from God knows where. I like LimLife Martyn and Scott as a siren/pirate type duo. Also the image is more of a rough draft but I like to think his jacket is very expensive looking like a pirate captain's, because he isn't actually a siren but I like the allusion to how sirens were said to kill sailors and sink ships.

Simple epaulettes that double as armour. I like to think that if the players try hard enough they can make a full armor piece into anything, kind of how irl you can mod things to make armour look cooler.

Kelp wrapping, cetacean hybrid features instead of fish. The kelp wrapping is just because of the siren thing and a very very subtle reference to the stripes on his shirt in the og skin . Also he's like a dolphin or smth instead of a fish because the way the flukes (fins) on mermaid tails are arranged is actually how cetacean tails are (one fluke on each side) and not how fish tails are (one on top one on the bottom)

Rusty hinge, Heart locket, heart gem, Pocket watch. I really like the idea that every player in Limited Life had some sort of pocket watch type device to show their hours remaining. Oh dude I should make the little points on the clock hands hearts. Scott's watch is in a big fancy locket with a massive gem on it both as a way to show how much time he's on (the gem changes colors) but also to allude to the pirate thing with treasure and gems and such. Also its rusty because he's always around water.

Also extra thoughts on drawing Scott in general cause this is my first time drawing him ever. I wanted to draw him rounder because it fits hit personality in terms of shape language because he's a very friendly, social person does well not because he's really good at pvp but because he knows how to play the other players.

[k1ngsnak3]

BOOM 💥 💥

Foreshortening jumpscare !!

(WIP/draft/thumbnail)

[k1ngsnak3]

The Hall of Victims Victors is soon to welcome a new display.

Close ups under the cut

[k1ngsnak3]

Close ups of the crowns bc I'm so proud of them!

Design thoughts beneath cut (prepare for yap)

Grian - I had a very clear idea of what I wanted going into this one - Sun. So we got big spikes like Sun rays and brilliant gold. We got the tricolor heart gems ofc bc 3rd Life is the og and Grian is the creator. Its also fucking massive bc its meant to be heavy as hell. It weighs down him like the guilt/grief he feels for killing Scar! :3

Scott - The image is fudgy bc of layering issues but the rods like those blaze rods that float around his head (I don't draw those words his design normally). I couldn't not include them, they're too iconic. Silver instead of gold bc it just goes better w his palette, and the crown is meant to vaguely resemble a many pointed star.

Pearl - I LOVE this one. When I started I actually had no idea wtf I was gonna do but halfway through I had the idea of placing a mourning veil of sorts over it, bc Pearl's rage was born out her grief over Tilly's death. It also works like a 'blinded by rage' sort of situation, cause it would cover her eyes if she was wearing it. The uneven edges of the veil are meant to sort of look like blood dripping but it's not realllyyy showing.

The gems are meant to be shaped like phases of moon. The big ruby represents 5am Pearl, and it looks like a full, blood moon. The two adjacent crescent gems are more blue tinted bc they're meant to represent Scott. The two gems are the sides are both semi-circle even though you can't really see it at this angle. They're supposed to be opposite half-moon, and they're red and blue respectively to represent Pearl and Scott, two sides of the same coin, two halves of the same whole.

Martyn - I don't like this one as much..but it turned out visually cool so. The bottom part is meant to be a reference to how a lot of people draw the LimLife players w bomb collars and such for timers (its a bomb headband not a collar tho sshhh). The timer display is gold for fanciness and obviously its on 0:00. The coral is, well, for Mean Gills. But also the two biggest front stalks are meant to look like swords crossing, and one of them is supposed to look broken at the top.

Scar - I went for a very retro Disney villain, Maleficent typa vibe w the base crown (its obsidian btw) bc that is what Scar would want. Also I think it plays very well into his whole loneliness thing. The flowers are partly there bc I needed smth to add interest and partly there bc...actually no that's all really ����

Cleo - The most visually boring one imo but also the concept for this one got me so excited I actually though of this concept before even starting sketches for the others...Its supposed to look like one of those shitty plastic princess crowns both as a reference to the real world and as a reference to how Cleo is the only non-canon 'fake' winner. Also bonus the gem looks like a Watcher eye bc I think Real Life is the most connected to the Watchers.

The Hall of Victors is soon to welcome a new display.

Close ups under the cut