#yes its a ref to that christmas art

[epicawesomewin-art2]

some metal doodles. my grumpy lil mosquito 🦟 🫶

[momomogos]

Hello! SS here, I wanted to ask if you have any references that you'd be willing to post to the discord? Maybe a ref for y/n character? And you mentioned you like a particular style. Is there any way that you could provide a link to an example? Idk if I'll be able to match it, but I'll try my best to provide you with a gift you'll enjoy. =) Thanks in advance!

OMGOMGOMG！！Thank you so much, my little Skeleton angel!!

Ahh!!h I'm sorry I couldn't get a reply because of the time difference, and I made you wait for a while!! Good!!! I'm going to gather the materials now!!

In fact, I don't really know how to use discord?and trmblr…… so…. This is my sona design that I've been working on lately, yes! Its original art is rough (because the focus is on making 3D models) (oh my goodness, the models are terrible too)

And then there are a few more costume illustrations about my sona.,My sona's image is characterized by golden eyes + black hair and golden highlights (please feel free to feel free to the length of the hair form!) (Please feel free to wear clothes, too!) ）

These are pretty old....... Please feel free to refer to it. As well as ignoring my stupid name..........

Next up is the style, first of all the J.C. Lendecker illustration series I mentioned, I have a collection of electronic manuscripts that I have purchased, welcome to check it out!

His Christmas campaign is my favorite! I'm putting out a few of my favorite ones here, and they're pretty cool! So even if it's not for your reference, I'm more than happy to share with you the beauty of this magical Christmas atmosphere! Enjoy! Sweetheart

And film and tape!

These are examples of vaporwave art and glitch art, from the Internet!

I've listed some of the stylized designs that I like, and as for the other art forms, I think it's easy to find them through Google, so I'm not going to put them on here (I can't put them downAAAAAAbad tumblr!

Are these just a few insignificant references to inspiration? Hi Sweetheart Angel, I hope you enjoy! In a word! Thank you for a wonderful day on my day!

Momo is very much looking forward to the day wwwww loves you when the gift is opened! Take a kiss!

[turquoiseted]

On new years resolutions

This is a very rambly post from me, a rare poster but here we are. If you're interested we're taking new years resolutions and art

I've never done new years resolutions before due to the fact, they're the worst way to decide to build a habit so why would I...

But I thought it would be fun to try and challenge myself to create a piece of week of art, with the expectation I wouldn't achieve anything but it would be fun to look back on.

And I fully believed I wouldn't hit that ~52 piece of art goal I'd set for myself, but on collating the above images I was suprised to find out that actually yes I had. So thats cool. But what I also loved about this is that it wasn't just the portrature studies

Pintrest board for the refs: https://pin.it/2uRxhz2

But that this year I tried to learn Blender, I took a pottery course, I finished 3 embridery pieces, I designed my friends VTubersonas. And a lot were studies, composites of 15 minutes at a time working on my painting skills, but shockingly I can see the improvement, even though my art goals have escaped me as I've aged.

Art as a kid was something I did and something I posted for the attention but art as I've grown older has been put on the back burner alongside work and life. Its nice to see in one image that its not gone anywhere and that I still love it, creating things is deeply joyful.

To bring back around to the point, this was a new years resolution, something that I hadn't done. Something that I felt wouldn't really add much, but it allows reflection and timeboxes the idea that I wanted to persue, something measurable and confirmable. It wouldn't have mattered if I'd hit the target, I just loved to see the things that I have done and enjoyed artistically this year.

I find myself wanting to persue the joy of looking back and of setting a new years resolution, but maybe I just need to take the time to enjoy the things I have achieved. I've just started to learn crochet so maybe next years collage will feel textile, or maybe it will be empty not chased by such a resoltion.

Anyway have a poggers Christmas and new year

[inkabelledesigns]

So Kat, who are you bringing to Art Fight?

An excellent question! This Vampire has five characters up on the site, and I'm REALLY EXCITED to share them all with you! So today we're gonna throw our refs under the cut so you can see everyone, even if you don't have an Art Fight account. (Or if the site is being majorly slow since it's sign up day baby!)

Ah my darlings, it's so nice to have drawn you again. I missed you. 💜

So let's go in order from left to right, top to bottom. More information under the cut!

Auran Dulce

Those of you who have hung around this account for a while probably need no introduction to this guy. XD But for those that are new, this is my nutcracker ballerino! Auran was built to be a soldier and hated his training for the royal guard. When he met Loraine, he was instantly enchanted by her beautiful dancing and let himself long for a life he could never have. The two used a glamour to disguise as each other and switch lives, and after they were caught (and had to answer for some serious incidents), Auran ended up adopted by the ballet. He now dances every day for thousands of people and couldn't be happier. He's come out of his shell so much and grown into a mischievous, charming, and kind young man, and Loraine is proud to call him her partner. He has magic that lets him manipulate aspects of wintry weather, such as snow, ice, blizzard winds, and Aurora borealis, and he's often compared to a Jack Frost with some of the shenanigans he'll get into. I've had him since 2018 during my last semester of college, a time when I was immensely inspired by ShinyZango's story The Last Nutcracker (which if you didn't know, I'm the voice of Clara for! Small world right?) I made him over spring break to be a nutcracker that had some broken parts, inspired by a late Christmas card from my cousins where one of the younger ones had a messy DIY nutcracker ornament. The crack on his face came from there, and it's been filled with gold, similar to kintsugi, a method for repairing broken pottery.

Loraine Celeste

Loraine was a doll first created to be a counterpart to Auran, not a Clara, but a mirror that wanted to be a soldier instead of a dancer. But what I've discovered is that being a soldier isn't really the right place for her either, that's not the story she's meant to tell. So she's out there exploring the land of Equinox, trying to find where she wants to be. She's still a performer at heart, landing in things like skating, acrobatics, etc, but she's found a lot of excitement while traveling as Manny Quinn's delivery girl. Loraine has a spirit as free as the wind, which is probably why her magic manifests as wind of many kinds. She's also one to experiment with magic. See doll magic is a dust like substance that comes out of the gems on their person, and it's unique to each doll that unlocks it. Loraine has discovered that it's possible to use another doll's dust, but its properties will change depending on who's using it and for what. She has some dust from Auran, Manny, and a few other friends on standby for emergencies and experiments, but it's a limited amount. I'm so happy with her, my little candy cane girl has grown so much.

Manny Quinn

Manny Quinn (the mannequin, yes it's a pun, I LOVE IT) is one of those characters that I have been waiting for AGES to show. He's so crucial to the world building of Equinox and I've somehow managed to not color him in until now. Manny is a tailor who used to be under the thumb of a cruel boss. His magic manifesting came from immense stress and hopelessness, and it showed him a way out when he thought he had none. He's secretly a shapeshifter, and he used this power to build a rival business to his boss' in secret to boot her out of the market under a false alias, after which said false alias turned over the business to him. He now has an openly queer found family with him in the shop, made up of his former co-workers who were also suffering, and they're all safe and happy making clothes. Their clientele ranges from the Swan Song Ballet and the fanciest of nobility, to the lower class that don't have much to call their own. Manny takes care of everyone. Most believe that his magic is telekinetic, and they'd be right, he does levitate objects all over the shop to do his work. But in truth, Manny has more than one soul gem on him. Some of the gems on him are his originally, but some were given to him from a mysterious friend who passed on. Which magic comes from him, and which is a gift from his friend? The world may never know.

Bella Ewe

Those of you who know me for Bendy probably know this one. XD Bella is one of the main characters in my fic, Searching the Depths. She goes from a custodian knocked off a ladder and taken in by Joey Drew to an ally to Sammy and Jack that's trying to break the cycle and release her friends into the real world. This particular design is how I've imagined her in the content of Bendy and the Dark Revival, fully evolved from her Searcher origins to an ink creature known as a Shepherd, one of the ink demon's followers intended to protect his subjects, though lately something is majorly amiss with the ink demon. She bears a pair of horns to signify her role as a crowned Lord Amok, a title she fights Audrey for in a desperate attempt to help Sammy (who's had his memories stolen by Wilson). She starts off really not liking Audrey, as she one, feels replaced as Joey's chosen protege, and two, has been busy undoing a lot of Audrey's work. Audrey's Banish ability sends ink creatures back to the dark puddles, whereas Bella's Dive ability lets her dive below the ink to pull them up so they won't suffer and drown. But over time, realizing they both need to stop Wilson and get out of the cycle, they find some common ground and even some friendship as they work together to take him down. Bella also has gained a friendship/slightly romantic relationship with a Keeper who helped her escape the Pit after getting to know her during experiments, who she affectionately nicknamed Richard (it started off as a subtle way to call him a dick, now they're both attached. Oops.) Bella has grown so much as a character since I made her in 2017, and it's been so fun playing with her again since Dark Revival came out.

Vibrance Echo

Vibe is the oldest character on this list, being created back in 2014 as a Sonic fan character and evolving into an original one. She's an audiokinetic superhero that's a fusion of normal human teenager Vivian Kenson and the elemental spirit Audius. She does parkour, breakdancing, and acrobatics with a whole lot of music and noise to take down Tumult and the Anti-Sync, who want to control and destroy all the elements of nature. Vibe is excited, passionate, eager to help, and above all else, kindhearted. She's one of my more openly autistic characters too! Her headphones were designed by her friend Mitch to help her not be overstimulated in battle and hone in on specific sounds (as her super hearing from Audius' bat side is a lot to take in). Oh that's another thing, she's a little vampiric! Vivian didn't know this, but Audius lived deep within her, keeping her alive when she should have been dead, and since becoming a superhero, he's been overworked and she's starting to fall apart. So in an effort to help, her friend Dixon offers to turn her into an emotional vampire like he is. She now feeds off of people's emotions to keep herself alive and invigorated, something that she's got a lot of ways to spark given her emphasis on music. She's very animated and greatly affected by feelings even before this change, but she's definitely learning to work through this new part of her existence.

And that's everyone! Lots of sentimental characters here, they all mean so much to me, and I'm so happy to finally be able to share them with you! I've had such a great time putting them together, and now that they're done, I've enjoyed collecting references from my fellow creatives for Art Fight. I've downloaded a bunch of images and descriptions so I can start drawing the moment July comes even if the site is laggy. Can't WAIT to have a ball with all of you! Happy Art Fight!

(also if you ever have questions about my OCs and wanna nerd out together about OC stuff, my askbox and DMs are open! Please talk to me about this stuff, I LOVE IT!)

I'm joining Art Fight for the first time!

Hey gang, hope you're all doing well! I'm here to announce that I'm gonna be participating in Art Fight this year (Team Vampire once team sign-ups are open)! It's been so long since I got to focus on illustration, and while I'm traveling to see my grandparents for the month, I'd like to do some drawing. So I'm cracking open a new sketchbook and giving this a shot!

It is probably going to be mostly sketches for me, just to set reasonable expectations. I don't anticipate doing any big, fully colored pieces. But I'm so excited to draw, and I hope that people enjoy my OCs in turn! I had a lot of fun getting some art of them together for this, and writing their bios. I can't wait for you to meet them! ^^ Here's wishing you all a wonderful Art Fight, be you a participant or spectator, let's all have fun admiring our fellow artists!

[snakeliciousbaby]

Merry Christmas and all that from your resident vampire!

[artobotsrollout]

MY SON ARRIVED EARLY!!!!

Merry Christmas to me!

This is my first transformers toy (not counting the small one step transform McDonald's Shockwave I found frozen in ice one time znshsjej.) and I love him already!!!

Now some collectors out there would probably fight me for opening a still in package dark energon Starscream but I'm a collector who has to TOUCH ALL THE THINGS. I'm very tactile and also, as an artist I need my Starscream refs and pose refs ( yes it's a weak reason for justifying it but I'm sticking with it)

Also I preserved the card cause the Starscream render fascinates me cause he's slightly see through.

I LOVE THAT FOR HIS TRANSFORMATION his feets are tucked under kinda like birds. LEGG PLANE!

THE PAINT JOB IS ON POINT! So many toys the paint is OFF but his lil face is perfect ;w;

HE EVEN HAS A LIL SMIRK!

My abandoned TfP storyline arc sense is tingling with this logo and description HMMMM. Also fanfic inspiration??? In MY transformers toys? It's more likely than you think.

His LIL MISSILES ARE SO Cute! ❤️ ❤️

OKAY THO BUT I AM SO SURPRISED BY HOW GOOD STARSCREAM IS IN BOT MODE? Hasbro has good toys no doubt about it but with how cool it changes from plane to bot already it would be really easy to just slack on the joints and pose ability of the figure itself but NO THEY DIDN'T SLACK. Like... I've played with art mannequins, figures, dolls, yadda yadda and now I'm left wondering...

WHY IS THIS ROBOT MAN WHO TURNS INTO A JET SO MUCH BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER figure that doesn't do any shifting?

Like for real. He has tiny peets but he can stand on his own fairly easily and he can stand on his own in several different poses because of the weighting of the toy and maneuverability of the limbs! The joints are easy to move but not so easy it buckles under pressure. The weight is so well distributed. Hasbro may be many things but boy oh boy they do NOT skimp on the toys they make huh? At least the first edition ones

I also. Love how his signature hunch is part of his transformation! And he has two sets of wingies!!

I don't really talk about transformers with my family much cause there's different levels of acceptance you must reach before discussing politics about transforming robot cars makes sense but my dad comes over and goes "Oh is that Starscream?"

And that's when I remembered "Oh yeah Transformers has been around since the 1980s and my dad is 65 years old and raised 3 children so inevitably he's at least heard of the names." I just love how my Dad sees a stick bug looking feral creachure and immediately, with very little former transformers knowledge was like "Ay its Starscream!"

But I think he astral projected into another dimensional plane while I tried to explain what Dark energon was.

In conclusion I love my Scream and he's grabbing my wallet and clicking on Ebay. I should stop him but like.... That Optimus Prime tho...

[biolizardboils]

30 Questions, 20 Tags

Tagged by @rabbitkinder! Thanks fam i havent done one of these for a while

Rules: Answer 30 questions, tag 20 blogs

Nicknames: Biolizard, Boils, BiolizardBoils

Gender: gorl

Sign: aquarius

Height: im shorter than most of my friends

Time: its 2:21 pm

Birthday: i dont want anybody to feel obligated to celebrate it but its in february

Fav bands: mumford and sons, crush 40, the mowgli’s, bowling for soup, lots of others

Fav solo artists: owl city, ingrid michaelson, brent cash, emi jones, porter robinson, brad breeck, and again lots of others

Song stuck in my head: PURPLE AND YELLOW HES ONE SUPER FELLOW

Last movie I saw: the greatest showman, consider me shook

Last show I watched: good morning america but only cus the spongebob musical cast was on it

When did I create my blog: 2015 i think?

What do I post: sonic lore, animation and art refs, gifs of early 3d-era games, and as of 2017 the importance of captain underpants and its author’s commentary on how school and society in general constantly let down people who differ from the traditional understanding of the human experience

Last thing I Googled: how to spell “pursuit”

Do I have any other blogs: @soothsquitobites is my gravity falls and general spooky sideblog, and @treehouseblogsinc is an ask blog i ran last summer (i still miss running it)

Do I get asks: not as often as id like but i cherish the ones i do get!!

Why did I chose my URL: this bigass salamander with acne is my daughter and darkgaiaeyeballs isnt alliterative

Following: wait how do i see how many blogs im following again

Followed by: 474! thanks yall im glad you like what i post!!

Average hours of Sleep: idk i keep waking up and nodding off in quick succession its not fun

Lucky number: 8!

Instruments: i played the baritone in 6th grade cus it had the only mouthpiece my lips would fit into

What I am wearing: pajammies

Dream job: concept artist!

Dream trip: i got a tag for that

Fav food: ravioli ravioli please hold the meatioli

Nationality: i live in the us of a and my enthusiasm about it declines further each day

Fav song: The Man Who Lives Forever by Lord Huron take me to the jungle please

Last book I read: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (yes really i asked for it for christmas)

Top 3 fictional universes I wanna join: uhh gravity falls, sonic the hedgehog, and captain underpants (judge me all you want but you know theyre better than reality)

I Tag: idk if i can do 20 but ill try uhhh

@kyoobot, @wispon, @memeberd, @team-chaotix, @sydster999r, @hamatopurity, @bewitchedbunny, @jumbawibble, @youaremydesertrain, @theidiotrealm, @galaxyteeth, @angrybeavers, @toonbutch, @adhdvinniedakota, and @enigmew!

[ikkydikky]

Here it comes! Time for an end of the year “Here’s what I drew this year” list. Mainly just to archive my art now for future’s sake and tell myself my thought process and how I felt about it now.

I’m skipping over sketches and going straight to stuff that was finished and polished and I’ll explain each image as we go. Buckle up boys its going to be a long one. 

We’re going to go to the first image I did this year and explain how things went from there!

Drawing #1, Scrubbed off Katia Managan 

March 3rd 2017

Art is actually kind of hard when you don’t know what form, line consistency, anatomy, or any of those things are! In fact I only know about two of them right now! And how to put into practice one of them! This image shows what its really like to start out with base-nothing. The idea is cute! And I’ll probably redo it later on when I am probably a years worth better. It marks however the first thing I really posted online. To me, that makes it special.

Drawing #2, Sigrid, but smug.

September 9th, 2017

BIG gap between the two! And not a lot of improvement, or maybe a lot of improvement? Who knows. I think this image was the first thing I did digitally that I put up for other people to see, and it was exciting! There’s absolutely no construction to this. Prior to this image being done I was basically drawing people’s heads and circles. Like, pages upon pages of circle grinding to actually know how to draw a circle digitally.

The main reason why there was such a gap between March and September was due to me graduating high school. I basically didn’t feel like drawing at all when I already had the work load of school ontop of me. But the art starts coming a lot faster now. Yes you can see there was a huge prequel influence. 

Drawing #3, Blushin Bob

September 29th, 2017

Art is something that you can really do a lot of, but you can easily get burnt out on. Animal crossing is actually one of my favorite games out there, and to try to pay tribute I drew this. Not uh, not exactly my favorite. 

This image has me trying basically 3 new things I’ve never done before. Shading, clothes, fur tufts, and bodies. Yeah. Not exactly my best job at any of those. The shadows are, very inconsistent and its clear I didn’t really know how to do it properly. The fur is atrocious with it looking like spiked tumors, and the shirt rides up way too high like hes wearing a shirt thats way too short! Also he might be a bit too skinny. 

This is kind of an image that broke me. At the time I was trying to fix every error when I just couldn’t, from the arm in the first attempt being god awful, to how the shading and shirt looks. I genuinely think this is the worst image in my library, and I knew it at the time since I drew nothing for all of October. You know. The month that’s meant to be the most inspiring artistically?

Drawing #4, Gondola The Peaceful Giant

November 12th, 2017

This was actually just a shitty paint up I did of a sketch practicing perspective. It was mainly for a draw thread on 8chan’s /v/ and probably my only work I’ve posted to an image board. I think generally doing art for anonymous people is a bit thankless. Its great for practicing but it really gives back no validation.

Keep in your memory these clouds, I’ll be talking about those later. 

Drawing #5, Bunny, The space mechanic.

November 12th, 2017

This character was a mistake, not the drawing but the character! This is my first actual tabletop character and boy I flubbed it. But this is art retrospective. Not roleplay retrospective. Anyway. A portrait done with a new pen style that I don’t think worked out too well. It comes off a bit too rough and gritty. But it makes for unique coloring when it comes to painting. I’ll actually have some more to say about that in a bit too! This also marks the point where I really got into drawing again. See. The table top group I’m in rewards you for drawing pictures of your characters, no matter how shitty it is, as long as you do your best, you get a reward in game. Its actually a really, really neat system!

Drawing #6, Oh dear god why.

November 16th, 2017

This is going to be a reoccurring character, so. Lets get to talking about it here. This character was as far as I know, a joke character made by a friend that got turned into a full blown character for a campaign, she is nonsensical, random, actually crazy, and worst of all, vibrantly colored. She is the Deviant Art Sparkledog as a character. Which funny enough, is her character name. This was my first attempt at really going ‘sexy’ and ‘nude’. And actually I think Sparkledog is a perfect candidate for it because its already cringy and god awful to look at! So it hides my bad attempts at a sexy lady behind an already cringy character. Thanks friend.

Anyway to talk about the art its self. It was done with no ref or pose. And I think it kind of shows. Everything’s proportionate to a degree but something about the perspective of the whole thing feels... off. Of course the background is just slapped together with glue but I mean on the character. She’s laying on the ground but not in a way that I think is possible or comfortable.

This also goes as my second attempt at fur, it’s, better. But definitely not good. Ontop of that this is probably my first attempt at an actual muzzle! Pic below related.

Muzzles are really hard to do. For some reason. If you ever read Loomis’ Fun with a Pencil it becomes slightly easier, but it also kind of isn’t. A month later and I still struggle with them, A lot of my joke sketches I often forgo any sort of attempt at drawing a muzzle and go for round head shapes, this works out if the character’s species is a prey type, as the eyes for herbivores are often on the side of the head, while for predators, its facing dead ahead. On another note, apparently I can just *do legs* with almost ease. I’ll touch on this more in a bit.

Drawing #7, A background for the end.

December 2nd, 2017

Tabletop is a wonderful thing, art groups are also an amazing experience to ever be apart of. The group I’ve been with has been an amazing experience for me artistically as I’ve learned to grow so much more. This is an image I did as soon as I woke up on my birthday. Friend A. did the character sketch. Friend b. did the coloring of the characters, and I got to practice something that I’ve wanted to do for ages.

Environmental art.

Ontop of character art and such, one thing that always draws my attention is environment art. Its something you can always get lost in. Your eyes can search to every corner imagining what it would be like to be there. Genuinely amazing works of art is often environment art. 

Its also time we talk about the clouds. I hope you remembered them from the gondola picture. See. Clouds are all about layers, and layers, and layers. Especially when done in a thunder storm. They’re something I might recommend painting if you ever want to start out! I do however think the clouds in the gondola image work a lot better. But I think that might be from the several things I did to trick myself to think they look better.

 And that’s all there really is to say on this image. Which is a problem. I learned a bit more about perspective and how floors work when under character’s feet... and how to do lightning kind of. But there isn’t much else. If I were to do this more I’d probably add another cliff to the background. A mountain, a landscape just beyond the fog, because it seems unfinished as it stands. 

Drawing #8, Oh dear god why, Revengeance.

December 5th? 2017

Probably the only unfinished image that gets posted! So lets talk about it. I think fur is my least favorite detail to make ever.Yet it also is my favorite when its done. The tail also might not be the best but its league’s better than my first attempt! But lets talk about the main thing about this image.

PAWS.

I don’t have a thing for paws, or feet, that’s not my kink. I think footjobs are sort of appealing sure but I don’t care much for it. so this was my first attempt at paws, and I think I did damn well. However, digitigrade legs are something I still have an issue with, and I am working towards fixing that. I don’t think furry characters look great when their legs are humans, but with paws. As well I think legs are the easiest part of the body to draw in some ways, that might just be me.

The face also is a bit of a mistake? Its better than its.. original incarnation...

[NOT EVEN THE DEAD KNOW PEACE FROM THIS EVIL]

Animal faces with human features is the proper way to do things, but human faces with animal features is... Hell incarnate.

Also that ass took me like 30 tries to get right god damn. 

Drawing #9, The last hoot for today.

December 18th, 2017

The last one for today. Some point after Christmas I’ll post probably another three drawings. But this is the final one. Lets talk about a few things about myself.

Art style is all about inspiration. You pick up inspiration from everywhere. Specifically from art styles you really, genuinely enjoy. You might have noticed the art style at first was I Wanna Be The Kazerad and then to something completely different from Kazerad but not distinct from anyone else. This is the process I think to finding your own art style. Emulation.

You might also noticed I ditched aliased (pixely) lines in favor of smooth lines, this was because I was having a tiny issue with drawing at large scale. For some reason I always liked zooming in real close on my 2000x2000 canvas and drawing tiny little things. The bunny picture is a really good example of this. He only took up the tiny corner of my much, much larger canvas. Speaking of his part of this post, lets get into color.

There’s been 3 ways I colored things, the first was plain flats, second was with a sort of homemade crayon brush (Ala Bunny and Gondola), and third was a unique way in how I did the eyes of this image. Looking at them closer you can see theres, actually a lot of rich detail in them!

This was a pretty easy thing to do and it has such amazing results that, I want to do a full image using it just to try it. For how I did it, I use krita, and how it handles gigantic brushes is like most art programs, by automatically raising the spacing between each ‘use’ (for a lack of a better term.)

Here’s what the blue part looks like with a white background behind it and the layer count to make this beside it. (Only one of them visible.)

It also kind of hits close to to another artist I’ve been following pretty closely as of lately. (And more recently on tumblr.)

You might not have heard of @jamdrawers , and you should definitely check them out if you haven’t. They are someone who, in my eyes, has such a wonderful art style. Other artists that do a style with pixelly, aliased lines don’t even come close in my opinion. I bring jam up here because of a few things, the art style he presents has thoroughly inspired me to pick back up trying to draw in aliased lines again, and because going forward I’ll continue looking to him for inspiration. Also if you read this jam tell winrarphile I said thanks for getting me into your art. 

Now, when it comes to the owl its self. I regret not adding a thicker outline to all of her character, and instead kept it to just the head shape, as well I do think she comes out a bit bland. Of course color wise its to keep in theme with the rest of the table top groups color theme. But outline wise? Definitely needs work. I tried a ‘hair style’ for her but that didn’t really work out either. So I kept it to the three feathers at the top of the head. I also think I spent more time on this image than I did any other, to quote myself “I’ll finish this owl up in about an hour or two”, which quickly lead to 8 days instead, just through procrastination.

Don’t do something in art if you really don’t want to do it. You can easily, easily get fatigued and burnt out with out delay, but among this procrastination came other sketches that, I don’t think I’ll post here, but helped me learn hands somewhat. So there is that.

Thus ends this posts governing topic. If you read this whole thing, good job. If you didn’t and skimmed to the end. That’s fine too! I understand I got a bit wordy but, I genuinely wanted to lay out my thoughts about all this.

In conclusion, I think the rate at which I’m getting better is decent, Mistakes are being ironed out each new drawing I take on. Each study and figure drawing adds onto the many experiences I’ll use for later in my artistic career, and I think the rate at which I’m drawing is far too slow for my own tastes, as such its a goal for the upcoming year to get a lot faster with finishing each drawing so I can quickly move onto the next. Thank you for reading this.

Have a noid chewin’ some pizza as a reward for coming down to the end.

[pearson-and-crew]

HOLY FUCK 100 FOLLOWERS RAFFLE

Its only 100 but STILL

Okay I’ve seen these done by other people so I kinda know the rules

Here are the rules:

–You have to be following me. Not “following me since xyz or whatever, just you have to be following me. You can literally follow me, then join this raffle. Doubt that’ll happen tho.

–Reblog this (to spread the word) and either tag me in the reblog or drop me an ask.

–In a week, ill check over who did this and here are the prizes:

——————- 1st Place: One person gets an inked and colored sketch of a PvZ thing of their choice, so long as its not smut of some hella complex drawing. I can draw your PvZ OC but I’ll need a ref or two.

2nd Place: Two people get an inked and possibly shaded sketch and an icon if they’re CRAAAAZY enough to want MY art as an icon.

3rd Place: 4-5 people get a derpy-ass drawFree! sketch (example=my Z-mech icon) of any PvZ character they choose.

Everyone, however, DOES get to make a vote for this: Should I do Christmas cards with PvZ characters? Yes or no? Reply to this post with your answer! :P

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Pinoy Pop A Cappella in 2016

So much has developed in the mainstream a cappella industry in the country this past 2016, and so as 2017 opens, let us take a quick look at the notable achievements and moments of our local akapelistas!

1. International Recognition. In 2015, the young pop group Acapellago won as the grand prize winner at the A Cappella Championships in Singapore. Aside from Acapellago, and the Akafellas who joined the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival in Singapore (2008), no other group has tried out the international competition scene since III of a Kind’s triumph in San Francisco, USA back in 2002. And so it has been great news that not only one, but two groups ventured out in 2016 and came home victorious from the respective competitions they have joined:

Pinopela winning the over-all champion award. Also winning the awards for Best Lead Singer (Anthony) and Best Beatboxer (Zsaris) at the International A Cappella Championships in Singapore in July. (photo from http://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/pinopela-wins-international-capella-competition/)

Acapellago winning as champion at the AKA VIII A Cappella Asia Pacific League Competition (Singapore) in September. The group also won Best Lead Singer (Michelle) and Best Bass (Ron) (photo via Acapellago FB page). Earlier in August, they also won 2nd prize at the Vocal Asia Festival in Taiwan.

Performing in festivals with fellow a cappella groups outside the country has also been a great honor and an educational experience for our local groups. Back in 1998 and 2009, The TUX participated in the long-running AKA A Cappella VIII Festival in Singapore. This same festival was joined by Acapellago in 2016, adding to the list of festivals they have joined in the past 2 years: International A Cappella Festival (Singapore, 2015), Vocal Asia Festival (Taiwan, 2016) and Voices: A Festival of Song (Singapore, 2016). 

2. Apparent increase in local appreciation of the genre. Though contemporary a cappella has been used in commercial jingles and TV advertisements in the past such as of Sarsi in 1988 (performed by The CompanY and Ryan Cayabyab), it is a breakthrough to have specific group artists to be featured as ambassadors and performers of commercial brands. Acapellago, Pinopela and DynaMix were tapped to experience this platform!

Acapellago’s Rebisco Combi Sandwich TVC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSVTAMtR2lY

Dynamix’s Danes Cheese Online Commercial

https://www.facebook.com/danescheese/videos/1176685289088534/?pnref=story

Pinopela’s Neozep Online Commercial

https://www.facebook.com/Neozep/videos/1878891669024681/?hc_ref=SEARCH

It is also remarkable to note that there has been an abundance of performing stints and gigs for the a cappella groups especially for corporate events, TV specials, radio and TV guestings, mall and school tours, and weddings. Not to demean the professionalisation of pop a cappella singing and standard band setups, but it seems that organizers think and feel that hiring an acappella group could be cheaper in terms of technical support, while being even more entertaining. :D

Many thanks to Mr. Jungee Marcelo and the whole TIMS production for featuring an a cappella Christmas episode!

So if you’d like to have pure vocal sound in your events, check out these groups who have been doing the rounds in the past year:

1. Acapellago - https://www.facebook.com/acapellagofficial/?fref=ts

2. Pinopela - https://www.facebook.com/Pinopela/?fref=ts

3. Dynamix - https://www.facebook.com/dynamixofficialph/?fref=ts

4. The Akafellas - https://www.facebook.com/akafellasonline/?fref=ts

5. Astrafellas - https://www.facebook.com/astrafellasofficial/?fref=ts

6. Conchords - https://www.facebook.com/conchordsofficial/

And more groups are certainly building their gig repertoire for the months to come! Abangan sila. :)

Another exposure for the genre would be this year’s Philpop Songwriting Competition where just like in the previous years, an a cappella number became one of the Top 12 finalists, thanks to JC Paez Jose’s Stars Are Aligned which is interpreted by Acapellago. 

3. More workshops and learning opportunities. Aside from Akapela Open’s yearly visits to some parts of the country to throw in tools for contemporary a cappella arranging and performance, 2016 has been especially gratifying as the a cappella community learned from beatbox master, bass virtuoso and music educator, Tobias Hug! We surely learned a lot from his activities for vocal and physical warm-ups, group coordination, group improvisation, music leadership techniques, and his greatly inspiring ideas. We can’t wait to have him back! Mr. Hug was also the very first non-FIlipino adjudicator at the recent Akapela Open Finals. 

Nov. 7 Inspiration Day with Tobias Hug (photo from Myran Etorsa on Facebook)

4. More local competitions, more new groups. On its fourth year, Akapela Open proclaimed a new set of winners: Astrafellas (Grand Champion), ConChords (1st runner up) and DooWop Sounds (2nd runner up). It is also the first year that a foreign group joined the competition - DooWop Sounds from South Korea. Rebisco Combi has also put up a competition in November with the following groups as winners: Phisix (Grand Champion), GVabs (1st runner up), Mouthfools (2nd runner up). Here’s to more friendly and supportive competitions and festivals next year! 

Astrafellas’ performance after the announcement of the Akapela Open 2016 winners (photo by VerJube Photographics)

Phisix winning at Combi Nation competition (photo from https://www.facebook.com/pg/thegreatcombi.nation/photos/?ref=page_internal)

5. Trying out the all-a cappella repertoire in concert. Teaming up for this experience are Pinopela and Baihana who gave two performances together this year. First in April at the RCBC Plaza in Manila, the second in September at the Center for Culture and the Arts Theater of St. Louis University in Baguio City. Also performing a solo concert this year is Acapellago, performing their first solo concert in the country in  Dumaguete in September. They also returned to Singapore to perform 3 full shows at the Esplanade in December. Taking the stage during the Christmas month was the country’s premier vocal group The CompanY, who performed a concert entitled, The Acappella Show. We’re all excited to see next year’s roster of all-acappella concert events!

Pinopela and Baihana in AKAPELA at the RCBC Plaza (photo by Julian Bacungan)

Acappellago performing at the Esplanade in Singapore (December, 2016) (photo from Facebook)

The CompanY during their concert on December 4 (photo by Jaypee Maristaza from Facebook)

6. Trending a cappella videos. Yes, YouTube and Facebook have been the venues to dive in for instant celebrity status for a cappella groups. Plus, groups and individuals this year have improved their productions of creating sound and visual recordings to become more aesthetically appealing! Check out the videos of these following groups that have garnered audiences: Acapellago (their Tatlong Bibe swept the most trending a cappella poll of the year), DynaMix, Iskala, MVibe, Pentastix. Also great to note are the fun and well-produced one-man a cappella band video recordings by Raniel Herco, Mikey Bustos, Jake Gates Ricablanca, and Jan Aprille Sanchez. Check out Raniel Herco’s videos and let him trend some more:

Here’s his arrangement of Jingle Bells:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAmonNOurY

There’s a lot that we can imagine for pop a cappella in 2017! Nothing’s set yet, but for sure, contemporary a cappella would be gearing up and gliding wide.

*I might have missed out on people and events, please do enlighten me!

References:

http://www.singers.com/group/III-Of-A-Kind/

http://www.philstar.com:8080/entertainment/74791/let%E2%80%99s-not-let-akafellas-down

http://www.harmony-sweepstakes.com/hs-search.php

http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2016/09/30/1628772/acapellago-triumphs-singapore-tilt

http://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/pinopela-wins-international-capella-competition/

http://www.gigsmanila.com/news/acapellago-wins-2nd-place-vocal-asia-festival-taiwan/

http://www.ohohleo.ph/2016/09/AkapelaTheRepeat.html

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