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worlds coziest leafpool

#warriors #warrior cats #leafpool #2023 #this is a bit lazy but i like it so here it goes

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update on this! This project got finished, the final pic is here + has also been edited into the original post :3

school work has beat my ass but look at my wip slay the spire maps

#school art #2023

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#2023 #oc #just wanted to post. I'm sleepy.

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school work has beat my ass but look at my slay the spire maps (wip vs finished)

#school #2023 #slay the spire

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Broadsheet about eutrophication for my information illustration class! graphic design is my prison

#school work #2023 #very basic but the target audience is an 11th grade bio class

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the boys are in colour now

#lon is flashy and i love it about him. professional shithead #oc #2023

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beastie updates :)

#we gotta draw these lads for the rest of the sem and theyre very subject to change. i think theyre neat #character design #oc #2023

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new beastie sketches for a character design class

#obviously very rough #school work #oc #2023

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bunch of gesture drawings from class this morning

#I'm gonna be honest 70% of these are plain bad but we had a time limit and I hate buildings what can I say #there's no coincidence the final ones are better because they're 10/15 mins #2023 #school work

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Practice in animating on singles :)

#animation #oc #2023

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a bit of a life study of my cat that turned into an ivypool!

#warriors #wc #2021 #ivypool

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Animation 300 assignment, just a little walkcycle :)

#loosest possible definition of walkcycle imo but an A+ is an A+ #animation #oc #2022

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Maintenance Note:

Hey new followers! Now that twitter's gone belly-up for real I'm gonna be queueing some stuff! It's not gonna be quite chronological so I'll tag for what year it was made in. As well, probably gonna post more animations+doodles, so apologies if you joined for a fandom account!

#not art #for those not in the know the new TOS states any art can be used for training a/i (please keep this out of the tag) #said tos goes into effect at the end of the month. My accounts have been deleted for months now but for anyone who wants to remove anything #- do so now

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Went to pride today :)

#just doodlin #good time tho. very good time . better than the other post-2020 pride events the city's put on but man 2019's was kinda peak ..... #fursona

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There's an albatross around your neck,

All the things you've said,

And the things you've done,

Can you carry it with no regrets,

Can you stand the person you've become?

#sorry its 2023 and i still adore the lyrics-as-the-caption gimmick #frostpaw asc #frostpaw warrior cats #song is weight of living part 1 by bastille also if u dont feel like clicking a link #warriors #warrior cats

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Leafkit and Squirrelkit make "travelling herbs" for Sandstorm before she goes for a walk. They're delicious, she assures the kits, through tears in her eyes. They run away proudly, she rushes out of camp for the nearest creek to wash her mouth in. Nasty, she mouths, but she'll eat whatever they make. The kits' smiles make it worth a wet face.

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Had a ton of fun with this one but don't wanna bog down the main post. A lot of unrelated-to-wc process talk below the cut!

So this was a bit of experimentation with a new brush which turned into exploration into gradient maps.

The original idea was simply to modify csp's mechanical pencil brush into something that felt a bit more natural. It started with simply turning on a bit of tilt-controlled thickness and setting my colour to about 80% grey, rather than black. It didn't quite feel right, but setting the brush to blend with the subcolour on each tip, setting the subcolour to the 80% grey and the main colour to the canvas' colour, then setting the brush's blend mode to darken gave me a brush that felt like it had FAR finer line control.

The lines themselves look like this (on a more saturated bg to show how the values layer/fade in and out with pressure and tilt):

(edit to pic: completely unnoticeable when on the intended base colour*)

This is where the gradient maps come in. The way I usually change my linearts' colours is to make a new layer, mask over it, and manually paint. It gives a lot of control to your end result, but it's time consuming and often takes many adjustments to make it feel like it has enough contrast to make the drawing actually *readable.* If I wanted to add a gradient map to the lineart, it would be unable to read the transparency and would pick from the single value that the lineart is (usually black), then the transparency would take over. This gives me a dull result.

With the "transparency" being an actual colour, that gives it an actual value for the gradient map to read. So instead of having your lines fade from black to the colour behind it (often desaturating as it goes), it'll go from something like dark blue -> reddish-grey -> orange -> yellow. It adds a little something i think, and while I absolutely don't have this down pat, it could be something interesting to explore!

I also wanted to go further with this piece, namely painting it rather than a shading layer set on overlay with the aforementioned gradient maps all over it but ... it wasnt happening. The art skills clocked out for the day. That said, I definitely want to explore how this would look if I coloured everything for realsies rather than doing the fallback method. Could be where they really shine!

#warriors #warrior cats #squirrelflight #leafpool #sandstorm wc #btw. the post did get bogged. i talked a lot but damn it was fun to doodle around with !! give it a shot if u want! #2023 art

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woe, fake game textbox portraits be upon ye

#I'm making a fake game demo for my illustration class #oc #I'm now invested in these guys. naming em indigo and statler (former is octopus latter is the manatee) #2023