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this would normally be part of the original post or a reblog but i forgot you can't add a video directly in a reblog so here's the partial timelapse of the first drawing in the last post. if you remember that simon art from may, there was one drawing i kind of painted for by just picking a color, sometimes lowering the opacity, and working from there, instead of using any kind of blending brush (haven't found one i vibe with in krita yet). i wanted to expand on that process for a while, and finally did here. it's been different after using one brush that Did blend (very nicely might i say) for however long in csp, but in a refreshing, enjoyable way

#timelapse #sleep once again sucked so i might not have gotten my words out Well but i wanted to share this #but yeah lately im just like. kind of over layer modes right now. it's been interesting just picking colors directly instead #also this video took like... potentially an hour to upload i think lol. i was starting to think it just didnt until it showed up as a draft #anyways theres a collection of things ive been learning over the past few months that also factor into all of this but brain brokey rn #but if you happen to be curious about a specific piece of something i might be able to speak on it 👍

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assorted zags from the past week. finally got back to krita! and then almost immediately was back on my phone again

#my art #hades game #zagreus #krita #medibang paint #i think i kinda popped off with that first one but im Still being very wary of spoilers #so i ended up having the exact same like 4 images i had as reference material as the first time i drew him #and i didnt realize the like arrow-patterned bit is actually the spine to the cerberus skulls until i was basically done 💔 #only found his official character sheet while looking for something for a different drawing bc i didnt want to open the game ← brainwormed #would like to say also that the bottom left one is vaguely that one animation phoenix has. maybe apollo to some extent but im not there yet #i have only played 1 and a half aas over the years but its very close to my heart im excited to eventually catch up

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wip for whoevers awake. finally getting back on my krita grind 🙏

#wip #i would like to give a shoutout to his eyebrows i love his eyebrows. not specifically here just like in general. i like them #i like his face in general but i like his eyebrows in particular right now. theres such a like... shape-ness to them #honestly i think i might have messed them up a little? not sure its gonna matter

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it's some day of the week, probably

#my art #hades game #thanatos hades #i like this one enough to also tag the character heart emoji #medibang paint #after getting past the initial delight of seeing him smile for the first time some kind of dots got connected looking at his art #this is what came of it

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frankly i like the things i learned while making this more than the result itself and i wasnt really sure i even wanted to post it in part due to that but if i do keep iterating on the process i used during it, i feel this is valuable context

oh also before i forget: the sketch was done using this brush instead of the one i made earlier

#its only hitting me now how purple i made him 💀 do not color things while using a blue light filter #he did not look as purple as he is when i was coloring him #self reblog

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frankly i like the things i learned while making this more than the result itself and i wasnt really sure i even wanted to post it in part due to that but if i do keep iterating on the process i used during it, i feel this is valuable context

oh also before i forget: the sketch was done using this brush instead of the one i made earlier

#my art #medibang paint #hades game #for those of you who saw my last art for this game: i am much further along than i was before. i saw the credits 👍 #anyways... i dont like how i drew his face really. like For him. shape is all wrong. still struggle with lips from angles like this #but i really like my coloring here. polyline tool you are my best friend forever and ever #but im also trying to not make most of my art on my phone like ive been doing lately bc it wreaks havoc on my spine and hands and like. #those things are pretty important. but the siren song of 'oooo its meeee firealpaca but Portable' is nigh irrestible to me #it is a very specific form of hell i think. alas. also what the fuck is with my diction lol #<- the effects of posting on a whim at 11pm instead of giving myself time to think about the post without also being about to go to sleep #would say 'cant believe im stuck just drawing guys facing to the left if i want to actually get anything done' but its been happening #for long enough that ive accepted it as a small rut ill hopefully be out of soon. gotta get on my gesture drawing grind

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you ever almost go to sleep but basically get a vision of art to execute immediately, then and there? yeah

#my art #medibang paint #original #this was one of those times where for once i got directly from point a to point b in a drawing #i think it was less than an hour unless i Really spaced out and remembered the time i saw extremely wrong #im considering retiring some of the organizational tags ive been using bc i dont think theyre really useful #the more i do things the less helpful it is to try to categorize them definitively. i think i'm the only one who really cared anyways #call me a mirror the way i be reflecting #but yeah like. to call this a 'colored sketch' wouldn't be incorrect but as time has gone on it's really just a function of how i work #i color under the sketch and rarely do lineart. but the colors could be just shading or it could be flats or it could be more painterly #it could be so many things. i don't think its meaning is really like. useful anymore. you know?

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so it turns out doing art requests is like. extremely not a thing i'm good at lol. between overthinking what i was doing and juggling other non-art things, i ended up just kind of getting nowhere with them (as well as with personal works, due to feeling awkward about not working on something else). i opened up requests impulsively and didn't realize just how severely i misjudged my availability and just general ability to work on them until i tried to actually do them and found myself struggling with them more than usual. to the people who sent in requests, i'm sorry for not really being able to deliver, but thank you for showing interest in my work regardless 👍 maybe some years down the line i'll be more ready to commit to something like this but it turns out this simply did not work out

#not art #you live and you learn! this was an experiment and it was not successful. c'est la vie or however it goes i dont speak french. such is life #to be clear: reqs will be closed indefinitely. regular posts will happen.... when they happen. as they do. #i try to pace myself by scheduling them most of the time as of late but as theres been a bit of a drought in terms of things im #willing to post i cant say how active ill be for the next while. people whove been here for a while you know how it is #not really much of a backlog to work from this time but to any splat enjoyers in the audience: happy big run 🎉🐟🦑🐙

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even though i've never really been able to play them (whether due to not owning them or struggling with execution), fighting games have always been really close to my heart for their art and design. last week or so, i did some gesture drawings, realized it could be fun to draw some moves from memory, very quickly realized that i did not remember them very well, and ended up instead just experimenting with working in different ways and in different programs. anyways this is getting long so more thoughts and also brush details under the cut

for clarity, the gambit-esque gesture drawings were done in samsung notes and then arranged together in medibang bc samsung notes has no image editing and the alternative would have been the world's longest screenshot. the i-no and anji were both done in medibang, with the i-no being drawn using a modified version of the default pen brush, while the anji was drawn with the brush i made using the image below. the lone gesture drawing and the ky were in krita.

(left image is the original, right is the one i edited for use as a bitmap. use the bitmap option, enable pen pressure size but not opacity, and set brush spacing to something low, like 8. i have random rotate set to 100, and as of right now i have opacity set to 36% but i don't remember if it was there when i sketched that)

i actually started out using a stock image of a rock for a bitmap, but it was too fuzzy and irregular for my tastes, so i looked through some images i had on my phone for something rounder, since that's closer to my krita brush, and this is what i ended up trying next. i really wish i did it sooner bc this is exactly what i needed. it was the One thing making medibang just not feel that great to use. it's probably just because i remember how i felt making them but i really think you can See how i'm immediately more comfortable when i can sketch with something a little looser

meanwhile, the gesture sketch (it was very vaguely based on a move sol has but i don't remember if it actually looks like that) and the ky were done in krita, before the anji and i-no, but after the gambits. tried to do some lineart but it didn't land so then i tried just coloring right over it and i didn't really like that either so it didn't get finished but outside of realizing his face (especially his chin, damn how did this happen 😭) is long as fuck i think i liked the sketch 👍 but here are those two phases anyways

also i've been trying krita's timelapse so here's that canvas's history. bit fast tbh, might make later ones slower

#my art #guilty gear #not my best work but i do think i've learned by doing these and also it's the last stuff i did in may so i'd like to share #... aaaaaaand the formatting did the thing where it unpairs the images i set to be next to each other. sorry if it looks weird #the only way i know how to fix it is to recreate the entire post but tbh i am simply not feeling it #sketch #colored sketch #timelapse

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happy pride month, everyone! i've been drawing a lot more recently, as you've probably seen, and i've been enjoying the direction my work is going in general. so, i wanted to try something. i would like to take some art requests, specifically to do with lgbtq+ subjects (tis the season)

disclaimers (for lack of a better word) and other conditions detailed under the cut

CLOSED

i'm not particularly fast (it might take some days for something to get done)

i reserve the right to simply not do a request for any reason, including but not limited to: "my hands hurt so i'm taking it easy", "i don't think i can fulfill this request satisfactorily", and "i'm simply not interested in doing it". no hard feelings, but it's my time, my effort, and my blog. you understand, i think 👍

you can request things like characters who are lgbtq+ (headcanon or otherwise. and feel free to specify design headcanons too!) or drawing ideas to do with lgbtq+ identities (something like, for example, "two male hummingbirds huddled together on a tree branch and colored using a rainbow palette". be as descriptive as you want, but try not to get too complex. expect the result to be relatively simple)

you can request your ocs! please provide visual reference if possible, however. my brain is a little silly so if i'm left to just kind of guess at details, it might end up different from what you're expecting from me just misinterpreting things

probably goes without saying but hateful behavior and sentiments aren't going to be given the time of day. i'm not interested in any form of di///sco//urse (attempting to avoid people searching the word directly), this is just something i want to do for fun

in that same vein, actually, please try to keep things light in terms of tone. the world is scary right now, so i'm not particularly jazzed about drawing something gruesome or depressing. please be niceys 👍

i'm still going to be working on my own things. this is basically a reiteration of the first point, but i feel it's worth mentioning that i'm not planning on exactly becoming an art request machine for the month. expect this to be a side-ish thing by default

i plan to post requested art as a reply to requests sent through the ask box (and please just Only the ask box. i'd like things to be in one place), but you can also send asks if you want clarification on anything mentioned here (or not mentioned! i might have glossed over a detail that needs further elaboration without even noticing it)

i would say anticipate receiving a cleaner "sketch" or "colored sketch" (see tags, linked) drawing as a baseline, maybe with some shading, but i might take it further if i really enjoy how the piece is going

you can use the requested art as things like icons or banners, but please provide credit somewhere. i'm just a little guy!

#not art

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esteemed tag readers, this is what i was alluding to last post. making a full-on original character again after however many years and personally i think ive made some major artistic strides these past few months, including while i was drawing him, that helped these feel fulfilling to work on (though also the fact that i was struggling with sleep at the time probably was a factor). havent really settled on a name yet, but his concept is "cursed werewolf except the curse is something else". i decided the "something else" was fire and his goal is, by some means or another, to rid himself of it

oh by the way the one looking up probably isn't him ultimately but it was the drawing that kicked off the session where i drew most of these so i thought it should also be here

#my art #original #my ocs #samsung notes #sketch dump #... i dont really know the proper procedure for warning tags. in any case i hope this will do #cw smoking #smoking cw #marked this as mature bc i will be frank i was feeling a bit 😳 drawing him but there are no bits or anything #hes shirtless on account of the whole fire werewolf thing but he always has pants or he simply isnt drawn far enough down for it to matter #im trying to be a bit cautious since i dont normally post things that might be suggestive is what im trying to say #and i dont think im exactly the best judge of whether or not it may be given that i am considerably biased in my perspective #werewolf oc #werewolf #sorry there isnt any like full werewolf form art here. still learning and the drawing i had felt too goofy to bring out. he deserves better #also the last ones were done with a pen bc ive been trying to be a bit more decisive with my sketches #also 2: please pardon the wacky formatting bc im gonna be real i dont think theres any way id like to set this up that isnt also obnoxious #i drew these a week ago as of when this goes out and ill be real theres a lot thats worn off about the sketches themselves to me #but in terms of the skills and techniques i got more comfortable with through them? very satisfied #trying to stop leading with the head when i draw and instead start with the body or a hand and its helped a lot with posing #edit: after some deliberation... yeah im taking off the mature label i think i overthought this. as always though like. ask box is open #need a tag? send in an ask or something. ill consider it and see if we can sort it out

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would have liked to do one big piece for splatoon's 8th anniversary but i simply did not have it in me. i did have it in me, however, to do a bunch of splatsona doodles in the dead of night

#self reblog #this is when i was going to originally post this before i checked and realized i was a day off 💀

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i had that post scheduled for tomorrow days ago yall i really thought the anniversary was on the 29th 💀

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would have liked to do one big piece for splatoon's 8th anniversary but i simply did not have it in me. i did have it in me, however, to do a bunch of splatsona doodles in the dead of night

#my art #splatoon #inkling #splatsona #by the by this squid (who is me) uses he/they pronouns thank you for your cooperation 👍 #samsung notes #sketch #colored sketch #anyone else changing their splat3 name for pride month? im changing mine to BiWerewolf. 'why'? you'll see soon 😈 #im a bit sad to lose my tag though bc it adds up to 17 and even if i dont really go to db these days i still love that twink. eh ill deal #oh and new tag actually. incoming #sketch dump #(this is also a hint 😈😈)

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finally started playing hades after having it in my library for about three years and truly supergiant never misses im in absolute Love with this game so far

#my art #hades game #let me just say now though: i also made a very active effort to avoid spoilers in that time. like ive blocked Every tag i could think of #so please be very niceys and say nothing plot-relevant bc i have worked very hard to go in as fresh as possible heart emoji. okay anyways! #samsung notes #medibang paint #colored sketch #fun fact: the bg is inspired by a color combination my rgb mouse does sometimes that makes me think of zag. its a warm green and an orange #hes like autumn-ish to me. if that makes any sense. again if theres actual plot relevance shhhhhhhh but like. you know. yeah #anyways... i promise i can draw things that arent some guy facing to the left i promise i Promise. i promise you this #but it keeps just happening. these keep being what i end up being like 'ooooh i could take this further' and then im like 'fuck. not again' #i have fun experimenting with the process but i cant help but feel it must be a bit dull on yalls end sometimes lol #(for context this was a scheduled post drawn about two days after last post went out. ive branched out a bit more since. you will See.)

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color experiment from when i couldnt get into my account last week. ouppy :)

#my art #colored sketch #dead cells #krita #ive taken a liking to just using a hard-ish brush in low opacity instead of using any form of blending brush recently #i think to say theres no influence from krita's color mixing being different from what im used to would be a bit dishonest but #i started doing it in csp too. im just exploring it a lot more as an option now that i dont have The Brush I Used i think #i like where it's taken me so far!

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got locked out of my account for a week so this is later than i would have liked, but here's some progress shots

and an early shading idea i had before i got to the final

i don't know much about gambit but he's cool as hell

#self reblog #thank you for the warm response gambit nation