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Omori | Something
May 12, 2024 Time: 0:14
Quick little something stickers I made. I think it'll be funny to mass produce these and put em on everything 💀
No annoying ass watermark for these cos it's simple enough that I don't feel I have the right to be all protective over it
Hazbin Hotel | Lucifer
May 11, 2024
Time: 6:36
Okay so here's me continuing my sticker design escapades. Now the motivation is to eventually sell them at my uni's yearly nerd fest in the artist's alley >:)
This was also the start of me challenging myself to complete one drawing a day for as long as I could since it was summer and I had the time.
Finished this in one day! Whoaa actually hit a goal of the day for once!
You know, I don't really like a lot of the characters' designs (including this guy) from HH, but it grew on me when I was drawing him.
When I first realised that I should make his hat-fire the light source I thought it would go terribly, but I really like how it turned out.
Switched to ibis paint X for drawing--it's wayyy better for drawing on a tablet than krita. I can see why people call it a beginner program since the interface is really easy to use and get a hang of. Krita is great, but it's impossible to use on a tablet/without a keyboard for shortcuts.
I also like Ibis' feature where it records your progress. Really fun to look back on how i drew shite. It also records how long smth takes which is fun to see how embarassingly slow I am.
Arcane | Jinx
One of the many jinx fanarts
I feel like I have problems with her proportions, but I don't know what exactly. I think it's just cause her design is more realistic than the others I made stickers of so I'm not as used to it. I'll have to see it printed out to decide whether or not there's a problem.
Fun drawing her, liked doing the crazy colours/lighting. Also love drawing braids ❤️
Edited (idk what exact date) to make her face rounder (it was really sharp b4)
This is the last of the first batch of ten sticker designs. It was after this (when I was going to place the order) that I realised I only needed one 💀 (er- 2 because I had 2x the deal). My personal favourite was the Hellboy Angel of Death, so I put in that one. Alien Xenomorphs won the popular vote amongst friends, so that was the one used for the second order.
Omori | Omori
I like the vibes of this one. Simple but sufficient
Finished this during a little art cafe event I did with friends.
Hollow Knight | Grimm
God, I love this guy. Can't believe I actually beat nkg.
Would've made it nkg cause cmon it's nkg, but I like normal grimm's colour scheme better.
Top version is the edited/new one (done on 10/14/2024). While the fire isn't nearly as prominent, I like it a lot better than the former version.
Omori | Basil
Hey I think I'm super cool and smart and clever for including all of his (ahem spoilers) black space deaths in the design 💖
Edited on 10/14/2024 to adjust the colours and simplify his back foot. The original one looked a bit washed out so I amped up the colours (I'll still want to see how it looks printed to decide on what I want to do, though)
Hades | Zagreus
Zagreus sticker design. I drew it using the same style as all the other stickers, but I kind of regretted that, purely because the face doesn't look like zag. I eventually redrew it in the Hades style. You'll see it eventually ;)
Hellboy | Hellboy
Edited on 10/14/2024 to add some detail/gradients since the design was a tad too simple beforehand.
Shout out to my friend who pointed out that blud looked like a baby which made me realise i completely forgor his facial hair.
Yeah uh sorry for the annoying ass watermarks. ik that it decreases viewer engagement, but isn't that a double whammy if you don't include a watermark? More people see it and it's more stealable.
Pan's Labyrinth | The Pale Man
My little cutie guy. I'm obsessed obsessed with him, have been since I first saw the movie way back when ✨
Used a slightly different style and didn't do fullbody because I couldn't find a pose--his head/hands are the main focus anyways
Alien | Xenomorph
Drew the majority of this when I should've been working on a presentation 🗣️🗣️
Edited afterwards to increase the contrast btwn the colours and increase the width of the green stripe because the stickers I received from stickermule were really dark.
Most of the details are made up because there weren't many clear reference pictures, and the details varied depending on the reference anyways.
April 3 2024
Animation I made to showcase the movement and associated friction points (red) of the mechanism we made for DP4 💖.
Just a quick lil animation, was funny busting this out.
OK. So krita 5.5.2 having ffmpeg just in the normal installation is so much more convenient than having to download it separately??? BRO I needed to get this done the day I started it and downloading ffmpeg was gonna take a whole day 😭. -7kB/s goofy ahhh
I ended up exporting the individual frames and uploaded them to openshot video editor to get the video. AND THEN openshot would not export as a .gif correctly so I exported as a .mp4 and then converted it to gif format w convertio 👯♂️👯♂️👯♂️
If I had just known I coulda just updated krita 😒😩✌️. Would've saved me sm hassle 😭
Hellboy | Angel of Death
I LOVE this guy's design. Go crazy every time they're on screen.
Mannn Guillermo del toro is so good at what he does. The special fx / costume design in so many of his movies is top tier ugh 😩👌
I'm so sad he didn't make a hellboy 3 and instead it got rebooted :(((((
Forever wounded 😔👊
Beetlejuice | Sandworm
Here's the start of an era. I started making sticker designs because I got a stickermule deal of 10 stickers for 1$. I thought that it meant 10 sticker designs (it wasn't LMAO), but the misconception was good because it made me make 10 different designs >:J
Starting off strong w a sandworm sticker because great monster sticker design,,, I should make a beetlejuice illustration sometime im obsessed
Anyways, I was way too motivated for this when I should have been doing classwork, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
I might go back and redraw it in a more tim burton esque style, but I also like it how it is so we'll see.
Also this is the start of me being consistent with my 'signature' and adding annoying ass watermarks because stickers are quite possibly the most stealable designs. (and I don't trust yall)
Lego Figure Assignment | Hellboy
~December 2023 - March 9, 2024
1p lego assignment for bonus marks. They supplied drawings for the lego figure itself, but we would get more bonus marks for adding a special feature. I went all out and made a little lego hellboy.
When I first started this, I hadn't realised that we were supposed to follow drawings they gave us so I just made the figure on my own. Did that by looking at pictures of lego figures and just recreating it. And then I found out all my work was for naught 😢
Might 3D print this some day, but if I did I would remake the legs and leg connector. They didn't do it the way normal lego figures are (which is slightly more complicated,, not much though) and so the legs look dumber than they should.
Inventor CAD
Alice in Wonderland | Alice, The Cheshire Cat, The Hatter, The Caterpillar, The Queen of Hearts, Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum
February 14, 2024
Some Alice in wonderland redesigns I was playing with during uni.
Want to go back to and properly draw each one
Hellboy | Hellboy
January 12, 2024 - February 8, 2024
Hellboy posterish thing I wanted to make. Went with a mix of the comic hellboy and how he looks in the movies. I love Mike Mignola's art style, but I didn't want to rip it off completely. Especially since I'm most familiar with movie hb, so I wanted it to resemble Ron Perlman's hellboy,, (slightly, ok? 😭)
It's still not finished. Need to clean up the marker with some pencil crayons. This was my first time using some gifted ohuhu markers on a piece, and let me tell you markers are, like, the least forgiving medium. I'm predicting that's why they pair so well with pencil crayons (they be there to fix them mistakes 😭😏).
I learned that you have to be really purposeful with using the markers, cause a second pass will completely change the colour. This is what happened with his coat on the right and it bugs me everytime I look at it.
Some white acrylic paint was used to hide some leftover pencil marks in the bg.
I had had all of the weapons sketched in, but I changed it to be one big silhouette so it wouldn't compete with the piece's other details
The last picture is a little doodle of hb i did for fun. (I LOST THE FILE?!?? I hate my tablet's file system it's so badddd)
Edit** Finished it eventually (do not know the date xd) so I added it here instead of making another post 💔❤️💖
Microns, india ink, ohuhu markers and watercolour on watercolour paper
Omori | Sweetheart
November 16, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Cute lil drawing of sweetheart i thunk up in a 1P lec.
Not much thinking went into this, just digitized and cleaned up the sketch
January 4, 2024 - January 9, 2024
Discord art server pfp challenge with the prompt "winter"
First illustration I did on the tablet I bought for uni notes and drawing because my wacom tablet was bugging out nd making me go crazy. Used krita though and it was just as annoying cos krita works like ass on my tablet
August 19, 2023
Lineup I drew when I was trying to sort out a whole art commission thing. But I uh, forgor I need to do the whole have an online following bs before that'd work 🤠
August 9, 2023
Drew my angel oc w the LED/neon effect because why not.
Had been a long, long time since I'd drawn this guy
⚠️Flashing⚠️
Have you got the guts? 🐸 | Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys
August 25, 2022 - August 3, 2023
When AM lead singer sings "so have you got the guts" he sounds like a frog 🐸
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 #4
July 2023
4/5
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
July 15, 2023
Little plant guy I did for a weekly discord art challenge. Prompt was "plant"
See the only reason I join art discords is to have art challenges, cause I generally feel an obligation to make a piece for them. Ez motivation, yk? Except, like, no discords do them consistently. Ik I could do inktober 52 or smth instead, but there's a connotation w discord art challenge that actually gets me to do it (And maybe it's just because it occurs so few and far between that the novelty hasn't run out idk)
Anyways I really like this guy. V line of action-y and simple style that was quick and ez to do. Just a little dude.
Black Space Basil #3
Omori | Basil, Omori
Sept 5 2021 - Jul 15 2023
I really liked this when I finished but idk I have problems with it. Just seems slightly off.
Might go in with some static effects and blur the bg a bit cos I think the details everywhere are fighting for attention
TBN
July 1, 2023
Oc i drew in anticipation for art fight.
Had fun with a different style
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 😛
~June 25, 2023
Tentatively put in the timeline
Omori wips, but four of them are wips of one piece that I never found a good composition for xd