Some more stuff. I appreciate past me for finalizing having some sense and putting dates on things. It's nice to know when/what day certain stuff was made.
First drawing is a comic page test. The lighting doesn't really matter but I took multiple just to see what looked better. The few after that were my usual studies.
The crop top Monkey boy is very cute and makes me wanna work on my story. I did a few varying monkey boys to figure out which one stuck and the first image is an example of that. That aside, at the time I made these I was mostly trying to understand simplified male anatomy. These actually are probably some of my favorites from around the time I was doing so. And for the most part the improvement was steady going forward too, which is nice.
A rare occurrence of me coloring something. Just flat colors tho. These are pretty nice imo, albeit simple. But that's something so I'm happy enough. Plz consider giving black characters fun anime colored hairstyles. It can be done. I can't be the only person deciding to do so lol
This is around the time when I started putting dates on my art stuff. I was also mostly drawing dudes and did so until the start of 2023. If I remember correctly the first drawing here was technically one of the last ones I did. I usually leave the first few pages blank and return to them towards the end of the sketchbook.
Add on stuff, bit of close ups. I love them and can't wait to finalize some stuff for them. I think I might up some of the monkey aspects of his design, but I wanna be careful because almost every monkey esque character gets associated with Sun Wukong lol. Oh! Also, these will likely be posted again at some point, with potential color schemes for hair and skin tone. Just saying.
Some final stuff from this particular sketchbook. I finished it sometimes in June of 2022. Most of it is Naoto sketches. Did one for Apnea, and then there's some initial concepts for the protagonist from my main series. Technically a tiny bit of spoilers in here in more ways then one but this is an incredibly small account so it's probably fine. Last is random ship art, which I wasn't originally gonna post cause some people get weird and overreact, but the whole point of this account is having digital documentation of my sketchbooks sooooo, it's staying lol.
Some more sketchbook. I think this was essentially the last thing from my starting sketchbook on 2022. Which started around January and ended roughly in or before June. I was mostly drawing male anatomy at the time.
Initial concepts for the duo protagonists of my story. Designs are technically still in the design process. Art is hard and I'm still learning lol. But I will likely be using something relatively close to these.
Another post, slight nudity warning. The colors are flat but I like how they came out for the first guy. I have a bunch of markers but don't use them as much as I should.
These are some of the initial concepts for the protagonist of one, of the two stories I'm currently developing. His name's Naoto. Originally he was somewhat of a jock and troublemaker with a flirtatious personality, but those characteristics are now being used for a different character within the same series. Naoto's current interaction, story wise, is a lot more golden retriever/himbo adjacent, despite still being really smart. His character design isn't 100% finished yet tho, which sucks and is entirely on me lol. Progress is slow but I really want the things I make to be something I can look back on and be proud of. These were done toward the beginning months of 2022.
Also, slight content warning for a naked monkey boi at the very bottom. It's not really all that graphic but since I don't usually post naked people it seems like the polite thing to do.