Cyclamen Babs - Blog Posts
The Babs | Saffron, Monarch, Marine, Rosewood, Duke, Tyrian, Pitch | Choice by Jack Stauber
September 14 - December 31, 2024
Programs used:
IbispaintX - Drawing
Krita - Minor drawing edits and timing
Openshot Video Editor - Exporting/cropping
Finished animation meme based on these thumbnail sketches.
Decided to do it in ibispaint to test out their animation thing (I usually use krita to do everything related to animation). it's good until timing comes into play. Def gonna use it if I ever make random gifs
This still took a long time to make (I'm slow, okay), but the repetitiveness helped a lot in cutting down the work.
Tried to export using krita but the sequence after all the glitch effects would export improperly, so I had to insert it all into openshot video editor and then the exporting worked better (it was a struggle). There's some timing issues I feel but not so bad that I can't live with it.
**I'm in the process of redoing it so that it's a perfect loop and the timing's a bit better, just posting it now because it's holding up the rest of the line
This blog functions as my chronological art archive/diary.
To keep it tidy I do not have asks open nor do I reblog others' posts.
Bug me however you like on @flowerspeakz. There you can also find a lot of my yappery and wips/random doodles of mine that aren't deserving of a formal post here.
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Tags:
#cyclamen fanart
#cyclamen oc
#cyclamen babs
#cyclamen school assignment
#cyclamen trad
#cyclamen canvas
#cyclamen dig
#cyclamen inktober
#cyclamen anim
#cyclamen exhibit **get rid of this one too
#cyclamen costume
#cyclamen stickers
#cyclamen prints **get rid of this one
#cyclamen crafts
#cyclamen wip
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Post Guide:
Artwork
Title | Media, AU | Character(s) | Song Title by Song Artist
Longform Month XX, 20XX
Shortform Month, 'XX - Explanation 1
Shortform Month, 'XX - Explanation 2
Time: XX:XX Medium(s)/Art program(s) used: X + Y on Z, U + V on W
Notes
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The Babs | Iris
June 10-11, 2024 Time: 6:37
It's ironic how long this took, considering this is sppsed to be a 'just throw it down using whatever scratchy lines you can' character.
The character sheets for most of the others are in-progress, but this was the last one I finished for a while
The Babs | Marine
May 31 - June 10, 2024 Time: 5:35
I had a bit of a strugglel with this one, namely because this guy's a bit hard to pose considering their limb situation.
Tried to push the expressions, but they're all pretty much the same. It fits the character's theme so I'm not mad about it
The Babs | Duke
May 31 - June 5, 2024 Time: 4:22
Explored angles I had never drawn this guy in before (seeing the bottom of the dress and the back of their head). Also gave em more sharp/cartoony hands compared to how i've previously drawn em
The Babs | Tyrian
May 30-31, 2024 Time: 7:42
This one took me foreverrrr. I can see why the others' designs are so cartoony in comparison - lot faster for me to draw.
Explored what this guy would like when angry, and I like what I came up with
The Babs | Monarch
May 30, 2024 Time: 3:17
Finally got around to remaking character sheets for these guys. It's meant to be a colour reference sheet, but I'm tweaking their designs so that there's more distinction between the different charas
Played around with this guy's expressions a lot. I really really like how emotive the butterfly face can be
The Babs | Rosewood, Iris
December 19-30, 2023
Sketches: ~April 5-12 2021
Paper Art: December 19-30, 2023
First doodled the sketch in class, then drew it on wc paper to make it a full blown illustration. After that it sat for two years and I finally picked it up again. I don't know why I got the idea to make it 3D paper art, but I'm glad I did. The piece is complicated enough that there's a lot of interesting overlap, and it let me make Rosewood's horns bigger.
The background was originally going to be a wall full of eyes, and I had the idea of also making those 3D so it would look like they're moving. But I was too lazy to do that lolll. I have a psychedelic neon background thingy instead that I'll have to print sometime.
Watercolour, india ink, micron pens and glue on watercolour paper
Golden Ratio
July 25, 2023 - July 26, 2023
Painting of all my bab guys I did during a cottage trip. Wanted them all in one cohesive piece, so I thought up the spiral composition so it wouldn't look ass.
I had so much fun making this (really pumped this out like it was nothing 😲) and I love love love how the final ink turned out. UGHHH I still wish i'd saved colouring it until after the cottage trip so I could have scanned it beforehand. It's not as bad as when I first painted it, but, idk, the non-coloured version just has this chef's kiss muah to it.
Microns and watercolour on watercolour paper
School Sketches #5
July 2023
5/5
Stopped taking pictures of random sketches and would instead cut the doodles out and glue them into my sketchbook cos this was a lot of work.
School Sketches #3
July 2023
3/5
School Sketches #2
July 2023
Collected so many of my school sketches in my phone (would also go through large batches of me taking pics as i threw out old notes at the end of the year) and went through it all to make a bunch of compilations
2/5
June 25, 2023 - July 1, 2023
See this is an example of a drawing being embarassing because it's so recent.
Updated version of one of my lil goober guys but I make it realistic (and in doing so, completely ruin it). I think it looks coolio as just a robot lil dude, but the clothes are so stupid. It aint workin.
Was the beginning of me trying to make character sheets for art fight. I never ended up actually doing any art fights because the site was so damn slow 😛
PMV | Alien Blues by Vundabar
September 18, 2022
PMV I did featuring the following ocs
Saffron
Duke
Monarch
TBN
Iris
Marine
Tawny
Pitch
Eerie
Proud of this one.
Animation Meme | Wrap Me In Plastic by Chromance
February 7, 2021 - September 2, 2022
Unfinished animation meme I was planning on doing.
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.
⚠️Flashing⚠️
AMV | Coffee by Jack Stauber
January 4, 2021 - March 16, 2021
Animation meme/AMV featuring my ocs:
Monarch
Duke
Tyrian
Marine
Iris
My first full blown animation. Could definitely be a lot better, but could also be a lot worse.
Colour Ref Sheets | Marine, Monarch, Ivor, Tyrian, Iris, TBN, Duke, Saffron
March 7-9, 2021
Holy fuck what did I do to red's feet why they dogs like that 😭
gotta redraw all of these because I don't draw em like this anymore. And also to do them justice,,, there are improvements to be made
I think I've named them !!! (see updated colour sheet?!! (it has not been made at all at time of writing))
insta notes:
my low effort guys
needed a color ref sheet 4 them
finished b4 the nui one but I dont remember which day. did the sketches the same day I started nui
they're all nameless qwq
done on one file on dif layers. copypasted onto the color ref 4 easier life
"color ref the babs.jpg"
white one.jpg
yellow one
scissordrago
red one
blue one
butterfly
"motal.jpg"
sketches
The Babs | Monarch, Duke, Marine, Tyrian
February 3-15, 2021
Random comic thingies with these ocs
The Babs | Robot, Rosewood, TBN, Saffron, Marine, Iris, Duke, Orchid, Rosewood, Eerie
~December 27, 2020 - January 29, 2021
Buncha sketches of my lil bab guys
~January 9, 2021
Digital drawing practice I did on firealpaca when I was first figuring out digital art. Did a lot of the drawings when on call w my friend.
Includes:
Saffron
Marine
Tyrian
Monarch
Duke
Iris
Baxter
Lucy
Angel
Second one is figure drawing I did way later after I'd converted to krita
September 18, 2020
Another glitch effect painting. Had a lot of fun with this one. Started it over the summer but didn't end up finishing it until school had started.
Got permission to use this as a submission for one of my art intro assignments. Don't remember what the prompt was.
Traditional wips
March 12, 2020
insta notes:
sketches/first pass for my traditional stuffs too lazy to get all my digital wips together but there's a lot of them (~7?)
I'm hoping to get the spring plants done this week and hopefully get the fall/winter ones sketched after that gonna focus on the bg and flats of the bird for the hawk painting 4 now. I'll limit myself from the details until the frame for the wings is thought out/the rig is made #5 is a mixed media thingy + maybe 3d drawing cos i havent doen anything like that in a while
wanna get the castle bnw detailing done today
hawk - started apr 11 ti plant, #5 - apr 12 algaonema, caladium - apr 8
Well lookie here, look at how much I lied. hoping to get the spring plants done? What an absolute buffoon I am. There is one success story here, though - Rosewood and Iris, surprisingly. Everything else are failures.
Acrylic paint on canvas | Pencil on watercolour paper
The Babs | Tyrian, Duke, Marine
~March 2020
I completely forgot that I made this, until I randomly found it in my parents' room.
Again, tentatively put in the timeline. It must have been recently after their creation, since it's just the three of them and the hourglass was a feature that didn't stick for long.
(plus this painting's concept sketch = is in the same sketchbook as my first drawings for them)
Acrylic paint on canvas
The Babs | Tyrian, Marine, Duke, Monarch
March 2020
Miscellaneous drawings of when I created these ocs. It's crazy how long ago I made them.
Shout out for A Night at the Movies by The Scary Jokes. Lil ty wouldn't'a been born if it weren't for them
Pen and pencil on paper