Art Process - Blog Posts
Art Summative
December 26, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Final project for gr11 art that I did finish, but never submitted because they did a goofy thing where our summatives couldn't lower our marks.
Uhhh, ig I don't have any pictures of the finished project? It was a whole illusion thing of a hallway. I wasn't too happy with it when I first did it, but it's a solid idea. Prolly gonna revisit the illusion in the future, not sure if I'd take a stab at making this exact scene again.
HIghlighter, pen and pencil on sketchbook paper
Still Life Assignment
December 13, 2021 - December 28, 2021
The fated gr11 still life.
This took so long. So, so long. Started it at school, but did the majority during the winter break. Was several days of me hunched over this in the basement slaving over it for the whole day. Put movies/shows on in the background, and all of 'the witcher' passed before I finished this 😭
Pencil and charcoal on paper
Scratch Art Assignment
October 19, 2021 - ~November 2021
Gr11 assignment that had a focus on lighting and intentionally lost details because the light doesn't reach it.
I included so much detail in the sketch that I didn't want to lose any of it,, so the light source got hella messed up.
Scratch art paper
Sketchbook Assignment 1-6
~September - November 2021
gr11 art sem1
Just fun little jacked up sketchbook pages
Pencil and pen on sketchbook paper
Miscellaneous | Caravan Palace, Jordi, Little Nightmares II, Rush Hour, Sir Chloe, Dark Shadows (Barnabas Collins), Cowboy Bebop (Spike), League of Legends (Ashe)
~September-November 2021
Bunch of unfinished fanart for random ass things
2021 - 2022 Yearbook Cover Contest
October 6, 2021 - October 13, 2021
My entry for the yearbook cover contest in gr11. Didn't win 😢
I remember really really struggling to come up w an idea for this. I'm okay with the front cover (I think that bull needs some work), but I think I should've used the back cover's watercolour theme throughout. I prefer that look a lot more.
Dusk Devil, Beastboy, Creation, Snow tree, Ari
~July 31, 2021
Fanart of some of the heroes created by Matt Rose's omegle escapades.
Wanted to do all of them and then also the villains but I lost steam
School Sketches #1
~Apr 9 2021
First of many school sketch compilations
insta notes:
functions and history scribbles
characters, some posing n foreshortening practice, planning 4 future drawings/painting and scribble
prolly gonna post all my current wips tmrw to see how many, if any at all, I end up finishing during the break
feeling kinda artblocked digitally, at least for when it comes 2 rendering, so I'm probably gonna go more traditional for the next bit.
Morgan, TBN
April 2021
Didn't like and still don't really like either of these two drawings. So much so back then that I archived it from my insta cos I couldn't stand looking at them (and I was embarrassed that i seemingly downgraded in skill)
insta notes:
so uhh I finished this sometime last week but got too lazy to make a post and now I dont remember which day I finished it
i started these at the same time as my mako drawing and oooh boy they'd been wips for wayy too long
ngl I had no idea what to do for the background and everything after the initial cell shading was just me playing around. I like the finished piece for the pink one but I dont rlly like the bg effects on the orange one.
orange one was supposed to have a shotgun of some sorts but uhhh something something the hand position was dif than what I had and I just didnt do it
Lizard Lady 🦎
Mar 25 2021 - Mar 28 2021
.kra notes:
1000 x 1500 canvas size
Lineart - jackpack turnip pen
Bg texture: Flat decay tilt (#2 'fuck'), Jackpack special foliage
Shadows duplicated + gaussian blurred
*tried* split complimentary palette
^ gave up :( don't understand
2 shadow passes + highlight pass
insta notes:
forgot what it's like to hate Instagram cropping :>
anyways joined an art discord for critique n stuff and they had a ~redraw an old art piece thing~ so this is that.
2nd slide is the old one - ~ April 7 2020
3rd slide is a ~30min quick sketch of what itd be like if I hadn't had the idea of changing the whole drawing 4 fun
the old drawing was supposed to be a personified candy (nerds) but I didnt wanna do that that
I acc deleted the sketch layers 😥😣
March 14-21, 2021
Sketches for an unfinished horse/pegasus/alicorn illustration
Kill la Kill | Nui Harime
Feb 29 2021 - Mar 12 2021
.kra notes:
Krita 4.4.2
Lighting, colour palette, foreshortening
Stupid hair
Soft shading - cell shading erased w airbrush
so many clipping layers + groups
supposed to be moonlit. doesn't really read that well
^^(could've gone for a more downwards red/orange lighting 4 the fire)
took overall less time than the mako (i think)
mako - getting used to krita and digital art in general
nui - further experimenting
bg "thing" and signature taken from mako
more practice on lighting for metal (scissors)
^copied the way it's done in the anime
The scissors are p inconsistently drawn in the anime so not v accurate here
bg trees - "fuck" textured brush #1
4 ref images
insta notes:
played w soft shading. didnt plan on it but the light is sppsd to be from the moon so it was me tryna make it read better
did nui from the flashback cos I like the color palette n why not
I have problems w this drawing being too busy, so I might leave it alone 4 a while n fix it later. details r getting lost - not enough contrast.
p happy w it. kinda on the fence tho
"kill father owo.kra"
Castle kill redraw
March 12, 2021
insta notes:
ayo the whole drawing can't fit in the cropping 😎
redraw of the second pic. og was done sometime in 2016
slide 7 was the hair before I realised that it's at the wrong angle
the skull is kinda out of place, proportionately inconsistent, and looks horrible if mirrored, but I love it.
this was my first choice for the discord thing but they specified that the drawing had to be from 2020.
Kill la Kill | Mako Mankanshoku
28 Feb 2021
.kra notes:
Gradient tool
Alpha lock
Clipping + Normal groups
Overlay + Multiply layers
+3 brushes (textures)
Lighting
~Colours, yellow/orange backlit, blue-orange shadows
~Colouring metal/metal shines
Exporting
:o
"mako.kra" goku uniform Mako Mankanshoku,, Kill la Kill
Summer Plant Trilogy | Monstera, Bird of Paradise, Fan Palm Leaf
~June 6, 2020
Series of paintings I did for my sister.
Acrylic paint on canvas
UnknownSpy | clock woman (idk the name lmao 💀💀)
January 22, 2020 - January 23, 2020
Me in my ultra dtiys phase, except I just do what's normal and make fanart of an artists' oc. idk what the og piece I was basing this drawing off of looks like so idk if I changed the pose for once or not.
India ink, watercolour and acrylic paint on watercolour paper
January 19, 2020
Pfp I did for my old insta acc 'disabled fish' 😏
Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper
DTIYS | @/Roshimii on instagram
December 24, 2019 - January 2, 2020
DTIYS entry
I'm not sure roshimii still exists on insta. @/roshimii.archive seems to be the same person, but I don't know what happened to their main acc
Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper
DTIYS | @/Lilyntx on instagram
December 24, 2019 - December 27, 2019
DTIYS entry
This person doesn't seem to exist on insta anymore.
Watercolour, india ink and acrylic paint on watercolour paper
Imok | Dolly, Crow, Goat, TBN
2019
Character sheets: Dec 24, 2019
some sketches and drawings of ocs from my imok world.
Imok | Misc
~Sept 2018
One day I'll deep dive into this world and redraw everything
Just some miscellaneous sketches of my ocs from this universe.
imma put a slight epilepsy warning on this video (it's at the very end)
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH :D
i have returned this oc is named rinu! this is my first drawing of her, so i might update her design in the future :>
Jax # 3. Drew him in a couple outfits that I mashed together + put his string bean a** in. I really liked the colors I did with this one. ✨️
I wanted to try the long boi in some sketches 💜 ✨️ I'll try him again another time but here's what I got.
Drawing of my Vampire Pierce 🫦🩸
Drawn with one brush (two if we count the sketch), one blending brush, and ten(ish) colours. The blending brush is my best friend when it comes to digital art. Pierce looked like a Muppet in makeup before blending.
I had more to say about the process, but I feel the need to go play dead for a while, so I'll leave it at that. If there's any you want to know, let me know, I'll be in my coffin.
(Repost because the video wouldn't load)
Spider-Man WIP
Hi!
Feels like ages since I did a superhero. I don’t really read many comics these days, not that many that managed to keep my interest. So I haven't gotten that many new ideas either. Kinda feels like I’m losing touch with a big part of my childhood, wondering a little what will take its place.
But I have started on a Spider-Man/Captain America Team-Up and felt I wanted to share my step-by-step drawing ol’ Webhead!
First of all, open up your friendly neighbourhood JustSketchMe. Really helpful when you can’t really see the full canvas when you draw. And start with lineart. Spidey’s suit is tight and thin to allow him to use his powers and to hide under his clothes. So, abs, ribcage, toes should even be slightly visible while adding wringage or stretching in groin, elbows and knees. If I make a younger Ditko-era Spidey, the mask would have more wrinkles and the ears more prominent but for an adult Spidey, the head is smoother and the neck tighter.
Spider-Man’s eyes are one-way-glass and in my render, not that flexible so I imagine them being this round shape and the mask form around that and are held by two shiny plastic frames, them being separate from the thin fabric as well.
Most times I have to adjust the ratio of red/blue in the torso to make space for the webbing but managed to pull it off this time without any major readjustments. Webs are drawn on an individual layer.
As the lineart is done, the next step is the coloring. I actually make Spidey’s eyes quite dark here as a dark base will make it easier for me to make it shine afterwards as I try to catch a glass-effect. I always make sure to keep an extra layer for each color in a hidden folder so I can mark the specific colors when needed.
Next step is my highlighter. Simply strengthen the lineart and first step to add a little depth in it. Where I chose to highlight and not has changed over the years, like the space between the head and the further arm lacks highlight as it’s further away, same with the closer arm and the torso as well as left leg/thigh. Areas where one piece of clothing goes to another gets a subtle highlight like shirt, gloves and boots.
Next step is a 3-parter where I depthen the figure more. First layer’s functions the same as the last step but in a larger area and wider brush. Second layer goes more along the edges of the line art and makes the body rounder. Last is just focusing on areas with more depth like collarbone, ribs, some wrinkles, maybe if I missed a spot on the wrist.
So now is the basic “pillar” of the character done, the steps I undergo for all my figures, so now are the personal details like eye colors or hair coloring. This is where the spare layers are mostly welcomed. I give my Spider-Man a halftone effect on the red areas, making the suit look more breathable and giving the thing a comic-effect while the blue parts get darkened. I then eliminate the already shadowed areas, kinda reversing the work so wrinkles get lighter and smoother parts get darker. Inspired by how the suit can be portrayed black with blue detailing in classic comics as well as the fabric in Tom Holland’s second homemade suit.
Speaking of films, I also brighten some spots. I add a light grey spot on the eyes and I brighten the webs, inspired by Tobey Maguire’s suit but more subtle.
Last steps are brightening the black areas like the frames and logo. A lesser layer along the edges to showcase the shape and bulge of things and a brighter one that can be splashed across, reflecting light. I add more black and white on the eyes for that glass-effect.
AND… That’s basically it! Things might change and get added when I put in a real light source but for a basic 3-Dimensional Spider-Man in a pure white world, the process is done!
This might need explaining.
This was a school project from (year on screen) that I wanted to remake. The premise was to design a restaurant focused on bug-based meals and I had this clear image from the start how I wanted it to look. But not the skills. Now I might have better skills but also free space to just explore my bad humour.
Two years today (I think) I have been drawing these two on a regular basis! Time sure flies by
