I decided to redraw a character I made for an image about three years ago, and admittedly - three years ago I designed the first image to look cool without a lot of thoughts as to the how's and why's of the drawing. But my art style has come a long way in three years - and I thought it would be interesting to see what changes I would make to the unnamed character (I just called the picture Stardust) and how she carried herself. This picture is the result of that.
The character gave off sci-fi bounty hunter vibes, so I leaned into that - making her look very confident, as well as almost aggressive, and giving her clothing more fitting to that line of work. I tried to keep the original feeling of the first image, though - keeping the weird liquid hair and the bright colors. I know when I first did the picture I tried making her hair look like nebulas, but I liked the weird liquid/jello hair and decided to keep it!
More of my Fantasy au for Sunlight and Ashes. I wasn’t sure what to do with Anna and Arin for a very long time, but finally decided on doing sort of nymphs/forest peoples.
(I also tried some new art stylistic choices with more curly and somewhat incomplete line art and coloring in and outside it. For all the pieces here)
But because I finally decided on a thing for them, I needed to design Andi, because. Y’a know. Half siblings.
Then finally some important alternative forms for some characters
And uh. That’s it. Let me know if y’all can’t read anything and I’ll translate my messy notes
(I am so obsessed with this AU. Someone help)
Also I feel the need to clarify those things growing out of them? They’re branches not antlers lol.
in general, when i draw, it tends to be relatively normal humanoids whose proportions might vary, but are still overall leaning just kind of toward standard humans. i usually aim to have at least semi-realistic anatomy and i mostly draw with curved lines, and sometimes use a lot of them to messily find my way through a shape. ena, for me, was kind of the opposite of a lot of things that are normal for me. her design is pretty geometric and much more inherently cartoonish, i think, and benefits a lot from lineart, which i do infrequently enough that i actually don't really have a specific workflow for it. i saw a post once that suggested blurring the sketch to make lineart easier to distinguish from it and avoid that feeling of "man, i can't match my sketch" and tried that here, since i didn't feel confident enough to paint her, and wanted to try some other things i've picked up over time, like using linear burn/light to shade and... actually yeah no that's about all i can think of. but either way, it's a departure from what i'm used to
anyways, i had actually been thinking about ena for a little bit, but when the dream bbq trailer dropped i literally swerved back into the series. i had to do something immediately. like as soon as i managed to scrape my brain back together i had so many ideas about it, but i wanted to do at least one yellow/blue ena before working on anything for the new ena (i've seen "season one/two" thrown around?). i actually did this a little under two weeks ago, but i'm only posting it now because i originally planned on posting it with a different piece. i didn't actually start it yet bc i wanted to warmup with painting things in a different way than i have before, but it quickly spun out of control so like. here we are
Bird app seems to be stabilizing so I haven't been cross posting as much and need to fill up my queue again but I have art commissions open and wanted to let you all know over here too! Please get your requests in by Dec 17th!
I won't be doing FE Fates or 3 Houses style commissions anymore because I want to work on my own style. That said, I don't mind drawing any characters or ocs from those games! I have sketch, lined, painted, and voice reactive image commissions available for you all this run which should be just as sufficient!
Only 5 slots available.
Next run I'll probably be doing only acrylic charms and the next will be custom dakimakuras!
Please visit my carrd for details and commission request form.