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Posters | Multifandom (see below)
November 1 - 2, 2024
Nov 1 - Printing + Pickup
Nov 2 - Cutting excess print margins
Printer Ink on Paper
The posters I made for Anifest! Fully realized and tangible!!
There are 4 designs:
Made in Abyss | Riko, Meinya, Reg, Nanachi, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon
Hellboy | Hellboy
Jujutsu Kaisen | Sukuna
Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face
Did some test prints at my uni. Would've straight up just printed them there if it wasn't for the discolouration that was consistently showing up on one side of the paper.
Printed the final posters at a printing shop near my uni because I wanted them to be good quality. Printed 15 copies of each one (very funny on my part).
I really love these posters. Having my own digital art printed is really sick and I legitimately look at and appreciate my own skills whenever I look at these posters irl. I'm really happy with them and happy that I haven't come to look at them as flawed as I do with a lot of the art I make. I truly became a beast for this artist alley.
Anifest Stamp Rally Poster
October 23 - November 3, 2024 Time: 6:03 IbisPaintX
Poster design I made for Anifest at my uni.
Me and a few of the other vendors joined up to organize a stamp rally, and this was one of the things we prepped for the artist alley beforehand. One of us had suggested different colour palettes, and this orange/teal one won the vote.
This was just a really cute little thing to draw. Was a good break from the other more complicated illustrations I had been working on.
The Miku design and stickers were created by by @/ciel on instagram :3
Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face
June 2023 - October 30, 2024
~June - July 2023 - Preliminary Sketch in Krita
October 10, 2024 - Transfer to IbisPaint
October 29-30, 2024 - Majority of the illustrating process
Time: 19:58 Krita + IbisPaintX
This has been in the works for a looong time. Making posters out of it for Anifest finally gave me the motivation to work on it. Really surprised I got it done in time, too.
I think it's so magical to be able to go back to a wip like this and actually finish it. Not everything has to stay unfinished and I like collecting my wips in the event like something like this happens. A burst of motivation years later.
Anyways, 3-point perspective (which I have little experience with) of a very complicated building with hard-to-come-by ref pics?!?!! ...Yeah, I like throwing myself into the deep end with new things (see: MIA poster).
The 3-point perspective was so damned hard. Out of the 20 hours I put into this on IbisPaintX (which doesn't include my first struggles with it in Krita), ~6h was for sketching because it was killinggg me. I also went back and forth with IbisPaint and Krita during the sketching phase because it was a REAL struggle.
(Also I downloaded the mp4 video to check the above times (the video was bugged and would freeze at ~1.5h in IbisPaint) and encoding it took over an hour 💀))
I just kept fucking up the perspective. Idek how because I was using the perspective tools but it kept happening (I think I was accidentally shifting them in IbisPaintX so it was ruining me) (also that's one thing that Krita is actually better at. while their process to set up the rulers is much more complicated, you can use them all simultaneously. having to switch btwn them in ibispaint was making me go crazy) especially for the curved roof bits. Those underwent a loooot of revisions.
Rendering it was really fun, spent practically all my time out of lecs to work on this before the deadline to send the poster designs off to get printed.
Actually really proud of myself for this one. I especially like the gold bits
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor, Redesigned
October 26, 2024 Time: 1:25 IbisPaintX
Drawing of the Alastor redesign thing I made here. Really cranked this out like it was nothing ❤️❤️
Continuing with the airbrush supremacy 💪💪, sketching using an airbrush really helps me get general forms right without getting tunnel visioned on specific details
Jujutsu Kaisen | Sukuna
October 9 - 25, 2024 Time: 12:43 IbisPaintX
Poster I whipped up relatively quickly for Anifest.
WWW airbrush I actually love sketching/rendering with the airbrush it's so fire. Also continued my saga of rendering in black and white and then adding colours
Sukuna is my second favourite character from jjk❤️❤️❤️(right behind Nobara🥳💖) (I'm happy on the outside screaming crying on the inside)
If I really wanted to profit off of JJK I would've made a poster of Gojo (or at least that's what was said to me, and it makes sense), but I don't really like Gojo. Idk that's the thing about free will. Quite a few instances of "if I did x it would be more profitable/popular to the general public" crossed my mind, but truly I cannot make art if it's not something that I won't really like. Profit isn't enough to motivate me.
(although it also just feels wrong to make art for that sole purpose -- same feeling of ick as when I realised I was making art for more likes in the past)
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor: Redesign, 2P!, Canon
~October 22, 2024 IbisPaintX
Made a little Alastor redesign/AU that sprouted from the thought of "what if Al actually had a poker face," since canon Al like actually doesn't have one at all. It turned into "Alastor that just doesn't emote with his face/is always expressionless."
Then drew this guy with Canon and @anic-mj 's 2P! Al, since they're both very emotive in very different ways).
I have a really hard time drawing Alastor. I'm finding that I really need to stray from drawing him like viv does for me to not see it as uncanny. I'm ok with this drawing, but it still feels semi-off.
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To keep it tidy I do not have asks open nor do I reblog others' posts.
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Title | Media, AU | Character(s) | Song Title by Song Artist
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CSS Mascot
October 14, 2024 Time: 1:52
Discovered the smudge tool when rendering/shading this guy. It was revolutionary
Quick thing I whipped up for a mascot design contest of one of my uni's clubs. I remember I'd seen the post for this a while back, but I wasn't sure whether or not I'd participate. I saw their last-call post on the last day they were accepting submissions and I decided I wanted to do it. Very smart of me.
Initially I wanted to make it a red panda, but I couldn't think of a good pose. I ended up going with a cat cause it's simple, cute, and the pose came easily.
Did this in one go and went straight to sleep after 😪😴
Hellboy | Hellboy
October 13-14, 2024 Time: 10:10
Redrew the hellboy drawing digitally. Got to clean it up (the white in the background of the og was quite smudged in places) and fix some anatomy issues.
Also, damn, the og drawing is just... a bad drawing lmao 💀 I can't get over how wonky his face is how did I not notice that back then??? 😭
Shoutout to my friend who was like 'why's he so skinny' when I was in the middle of the lineart - idky i always make hb so skinny. Bulked him up after that😈
Planning on printing these to make posters and perhaps sell at my uni's artist alley
Made In Abyss | Riko, Reg, Nanachi, Meinya, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon
October 10, 2024 Time: 22:12 IbisPaintX
⚠️⚠️SPOILERS- Don't look too closely at this illustration if you haven't seen the first season and movie of made in abyss.⚠️⚠️
Made in abyss illustration I made. I mainly worked on this during lectures when they were going over content I already knew ✨
I wanted to take a stab at doing the whole grayscale painting thing before adding colours for once. I think this was a pretty metal way to test that technique out 💀. complicated ass drawing right here
The problem I had with doing the colour layer is that it took a while for me to find something that would look like the right colour. Most colours were fine, but browns were really annoying in particular (they often showed up as bright oranges xd). It also took some finagling to make the shading look good (as in not shaded by pure black), but i got the hang of it. Honestly it was pretty fun using different colours to make the shading look better 😌
I basically painted everything on a single layer (it was divided between foreground (all the characters) and the background sections). yeah, I prolly could have done it in a much more efficient manner, but I had fun so it don't matter.
Really like how it turned out overall (they're so cute but the story is so fucked up it's all so fucked up) and the plan is to make posters out of this bad boy >:)))
Annoying ass watermarks are back because fuck you get away from my hard work!!!
Style Challenge
August 24, 2024
IbisPaintX + Movavi
Wanted to do the thing where I see how much my style is influenced by what brush I use. Was fun! There were a few others that I halfway finished, but I like this lineup of four that I got done. Cool to see how different they are. Airbrush supremacy tho 💪💪💪
Used a ref from pinterest for this one (now I'm a certified real artist 😎)
Used movavi to create the gif so that it wouldn't have the huge ibispaint logo on it
Hazbin Hotel | Husk
September 8, 2024 Time: 6:39
I started this wayyy before (around the alastor one), but I had problems with it for a while so I just left it alone until I practically finished it in one day. Ig something just clicked cos I didn't really change much, other than redo what little progress i'd made on the lineart
Hades | Zagreus
September 7, 2024 Time: 7:08
Redraw of the zagreus sticker I made previously.
I really liked making this one, and I like the way it turned out (actually looks like zag 😱😱😱🗣️). The Hades style is so fun and cool (it in of itself is inspired by mike mignola, among other influences, so ofc I love it).
Used ibispaint's hard japanese brush, which was really nice to use. I like the different line width variation you can get with it.
Hazbin Hotel | Rosie
June 2024
IbisPaintX
The last of the drawings I made to embed in a fic I'm never gonna finish 😔✌️
Also I really don't like this drawing in hindsight. I'm fine with it in the show, but everytime I try to emulate the ultra skinny proportions of hazbin I really don't end up liking it.
I originally had these drawings posted on a secret sideblog so it wouldn't be associated with me, but fuck it we ball.
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
June 6, 2024
Drew my aunt as a rat (to annoy her >:J) and then made her the rock (as an apology)
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
Coraline | Cocoa Beetle
May 21, 2024 Time: 0:49
(from zanzibar)
Another quick lil guy. Last of my batch of trying to compensate for lost days in the 'make a drawing every day' goal.
Also the last of stickers in general for a while 💔
Hazbin Hotel | Little Demon Minions idk
May 21, 2024 Time: 1:10
Just a quick lil thing. These guys are very shapeful, was fun to draw
Edited on 10/14/2024 to change the background colour (was too dark before)
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor
May 21, 2024
Time: 5:50
Really like how this turned out. I had had the pose floating around in my head for a while, but it took a couple tries for me to put it on paper.
Had to go back in and add his horns cause I completely forgot them the first time 😛
First of a batch I did to try and compensate for the days I didn't make a drawing for
The Amazing Digital Circus | Gangle
May 15 2024 / May 16 2024 Time: 2:57 / 2:38
Really like the contrasting poses for this one, also like how i shaded her ribbons ❤️
This is the last of tadc stuff I did, and also the last of me drawing every day 🥲
The Amazing Digital Circus | Jax
May 14, 2024 Time: 1:42
I can't tell if I like or hate this one. Might play around with different bg colours sometime cause I think that's what's bothering me.
Jax be super lanky so I think i did good at squishing him to be more square.
The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni
May 14, 2024 Time: 2:42
Ohhhh here I am, milking the Big Indie Show. I quite liked ep 1, but I've been on the fence about 2 and 3, since the 'find an exit' central focus has kind of been dropped. I get that the exit was fake, but I still feel that Pomni should be a lot more annoying (ask questions) about anything and everything regarding how the circus works. It's only at ep 3 (at time of creating this post), so we'll see how I feel about the future eps.
Really like the pose I came up for her here. Very anxious 🌚. That's the thing I've really enjoyed while making the sticker designs, I really want to convey the character's personality with their pose.
Coraline | Coraline Doll
May 13, 2024 Time: 4:15
Simple little drawing
Hollowknight | The Knight
May 12, 2024 Time: 1:05
Just a simple little design for a simple lil guy
April 2024
Krita
Another drawing I did to embed in a fic. Not even gonna tag it with hazbin stuff because it's 99% noncanon shite.
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor
April 2024
Krita
"Alastor landing in hell and seeing himself for the first time" moment I drew.
Made it to uh embed in a fic that I wrote,,,a klalfghg, d, a,,, Ughhghghg dude if anyone I know irl ever reads this it's over for me like forreal🙃🙃🙃🙃
Drew this using krita on my tablet and exporting/saving the .kra file without it becoming mysteriously corrupt was such a struggle. Krita is absolutely horrendous on my tablet.