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I initially intended to only create the multi-coloured crystal at the start since I was inspired by some vector art I saw that included crystals in the design, however I expanded it to relate to the Dream SMP.

The head-canon I ended up creating is that the crystal is a manifestation of Karl Jacob’s time-travel powers, and so this is the moment Dream finds it and decides to steal some of the powers for himself in order to become immortal.

This is another of my interpretations of Dream’s in-game design, except his smiling mask is now a representation of how many lives he has left. He uses the time-travel crystal to create infinite lives and thus creating a permanent mask.

I am proud of this as I don’t often have full complete pieces, but I included base colours, lighting and some highlights. The rough lines instead of line art was intentional, as I thought it fit the feeling of the piece well. Although, to improve, I should practice using shading to give it a satisfying finish. 

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This poster was created as a birthday gift for the same friend as above. It includes references to some of her favourite things, such as the musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” by Dave Malloy, shown by the engraved quote in the comet and the comet itself. I also added her two favourite animals, a duck and a shark, waving happily and bathed in the comet’s light. The colours were difficult, but once printed and framed, it looked just as I had wanted. When my friend received her gift, she was able to see improvement in my art from last year’s piece in terms of general composition.

This was designed as a birthday gift for a friend, being an amalgamation of some of her favourite things, such as Mary Oliver (the quote), and the book series ‘All For The Game’, 'The Raven Cycle’, and 'Six of Crows’, and the colours peach and orange. I had to think of the symbols that represented the characters, as well as find the perfect colour gradient to go from peach to orange. I made a similar gift last year for the same friend, and she was able to notice the improvement in my art style.

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A friend approached me and requested me to make something for her and her girlfriend’s anniversary, and asked if I could draw them as the main couple in “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”, making sure they would still be recognised as themselves. This was a challenging task as I have often struggled to finish artworks of people in full colour and shading in the past, but I surprised even myself with how hard I worked on this. My friend requested something similar from me a few years ago, and even she noticed how big of an improvement there was comparing the two paintings.

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life drawings

at Bournemouth University:

Sketches of a toned clothed man using an HB pencil. Resource provided by the university and completed in my own time.

- quick one minute poses

- 5 minute and 10 minute poses, focusing on shading and tubular forms

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GIFs

How I imagine Percy Jackson’s sword to transform from pen to sword

Realistic timing with expressions and movement practice

I witnessed two of my friends having an amusing argument online that I decided to turn into a comedic bit using their personas (not created as a gif but is similar enough to the examples above to be included in this post)

I think to improve this for next time, is to use clean white paper, as previously erased markings and light grime can be clearly seen on these post-it notes. This was a good opportunity as it brought to light how difficult it is to time traditional drawings properly.

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sketchbook doodles

Two of my friends’ personas interacting with each other: Cap and Ender, displaying the contrast in their personalities, with Cap being more nervous and introverted, and Ender being more bubbly and extroverted

An observational sketch of a dancer turned into art of Catra from the show “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”

I came across a prompt generator and tried it out. I was given the prompt word “Sea”, and the first thing that came to mind was Percy Jackson, from the book series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”. I had fun with this since drawing the entire body traditionally is slightly out of my comfort zone.

Expression page of Jack Spicer from the show “Xioalin Showdown”

My personified interpretation of a popular content creator’s in-game design

Another one of my own personified interpretations of a content creator’s in-game design. His role at this point in the story is to be a ghost, and since he’s in a digital game, I decided naturally that he would look like he’s seemingly glitching. Still in the game, but no longer quite belonging. Glitch shown through how it looks like I’ve copy-pasted the lines but shifted them slightly to the right.

A small three-part comic referencing another content creator, his real everyday image.

Sketch from a reference image of Kokichi Ouma from the game “Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony”

Further sketches of the same character as above, but trying to incorporate my art style into his design. Expression page.

Some “failed” attempts at recreating his image.

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My friends and I decided to create personas for ourselves for a game, and this is the character I created. 

Expressions page:

Character turn-around:

Character description:

Name: Karma

Species: bakeneko (shapeshifting cat, so came into existence as a cat but became a human to fit in with people better - inspired by previous work)

Pronouns: he/him || ve/vim (pronounced so it rhymes with he/him)

Traits: cat-like, can fly, athletic, smart idiot, doesn't smile/talk often

Likes: hugs, parkour, dancing, randomly sitting on lamp-posts

Dislikes: water, work, loud noises

Has a brown complexion; four face holes; no visible nose (yet sense of smell is still functional); human mouth; straight pink spiky hair always tied in a ponytail that reveals a darker pink undercut; three ear piercings; purple cropped top and shorts over a black skin-tight under-suit; barefoot.

Character trait explanation:

Karma, rather than having normal human features, has four eye-shaped “face holes”, inspired by a cat design from a previous post. The face holes themselves follow logic, in that they are, in fact, holes. When Karma turns his head, you can clearly see the depth of the holes. This might seem confusing, considering ve has a normal human-looking head and brain, and the fact that you can see straight through vis head when ve looks forwards despite this. Trying to make sense of it is futile, it’s all part of his mysterious nature.

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As part of my university course, I was given the task to design a character based on a combination of prompts. The first list was a collection of Japanese mythical creatures, and the creature I randomly chose “Bakeneko”, which is described as a “shape-shifting cat”. The next list was a collection of art styles, and I randomly chose Burtonesque.

The instructions were to first create silhouettes, as this would help you focus more on variety and creativity rather than details.

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Next, we were told to choose a few we felt we would be able to develop the idea further. I chose 3, 6, 7, and 9.

I decided there would be potential in merging 3 and 9.

The feedback I received was simply that I had accurately achieved what the task had asked me to do, and that my ideas were amusing and creative.

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A GIF involving aspects of perspective and environment. The leaves were added since they are often used in the beginning of movies and other media to introduce the setting.

Environment and backgrounds are not my greatest strengths, so I thought to create this to demonstrate that I am willing to go outside my comfort zone in order to improve.

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life drawings

at Ravensbourne University London: 

- learning to draw proportions, 2 minute sketches

- line of motion, 20 second sketches

- blocking technique, 2 minute sketches

- 5 minute sketch

- 10 minute sketch

- walk cycle

at The Wallace Collection: 

- 30 second sketches using charcoal, first plotting out body dimensions

- 5 minute sketch using white conté

- 10 minute sketch using charcoal

- final 30 minute drawing using red and white conté

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Some hand studies inspired by my partner, the first one uses the blocking technique.

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Captured above is my very first attempt at animating. I used the video in this link as reference: https://youtu.be/9AI5VPQK7_I

I purposefully didn’t follow through with exactly what the dancer did in the video so as to create a loop, and I intended it to be some form of a calming gif.

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orange and lemon

Notes:

The idea came to me when I created these two characters as simply two more character designs, and then a peer offhandedly commented that I should name them Orange and Lemon. A trope I am fond of is rivals to lovers, and so I decided to create a sapphic love story in this way. These characters live in a world where magic exists but discrimination and oppression don’t. They both attend a prestigious magic academy: Orange is ranked 7th in terms of ‘ability’, and Lemon in 10th place. I plan to add to the world building as the story progresses.

orange:

she/they pronouns, non-binary

pansexual

the only non-ability holder in the academy, still in top 10

likes working out

never leaves home without a fighting stance and a death glare

not here to make friends

originally had pigtails in the first quick sketches, but this later changed to a low ponytail with a side fringe as the pigtails were deemed too childish

lemon:

she/her pronouns, non-binary woman

lesbian

common ability vessel, top 10

wears bandages on her arms for the aesthetic*

wears tinted eye shields to protect her from her own flames

bubbly, flirty

*she claims this but we later find out that it’s due to past accidents regarding controlling her flames, which she doesn’t like admitting considering her power is supposed to be common and therefore easy to control

it came to my attention that bandages should not be wrapped like this, as this would harm the wearer in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, it should be as pictured below:

source: punchingbagsguide.com

Script: (+ bonus continuation)

A readjustment of a clenched fist underneath the sky of scattered stars, shoes digging into the concrete of the dimly lit alley. Eyes locked, bodies a fair distance apart, both glares seeming to pin the other in place.

Orange made the first move, a swift shift of weight from both feet to one as she pushed off from the ground and launched herself at the giant in front of her. ‘Giant’ she calls him, as if he wasn’t average height. Ideally, it should be her short height that is emphasised in this vague and enigmatic opening to a seemingly serious story.

Nonetheless, the giant leaps forward with surprisingly fast reflexes. They meet in the middle and the giant shoves her on the shoulders, her footing lost for a mere few seconds before she recovers, aiming a straight punch at his face. He blocks with a meaty arm, his other hand swinging immediately to punch her left side. She notices and moves her left hand to partially block the punch, the other hand grabbing his wrist and pulling. The momentum of his swing punch combined with Orange’s pulling causes the giant to twist and lose his balance, giving her an opening. She takes it with a clean side kick into his waist.

The action is followed by a gruff “oof” from the giant, but he recovers and grabs Orange’s foot, which had lingered at his side one second too long. She used his strong grip to push into his hands and stood, allowing her to swing her left leg to his head. It made a satisfying noise of contact, and he loosened his grip on her foot. She spun and landed with one leg outstretched to the side, the other bent, and one hand on the floor: a typical superhero landing, one she had been practising since she was seven years old. Her slow smirk that crawled onto her face was short-lived as the giant had recovered and upper cut her square in the jaw.

Orange flew past bricks of wall and fell not-so-gracefully into a heap on the floor. She groaned as she sat up, hand cradling the left side of her face, focus divided, unaware of the giant’s slow approach.

Before either of them could react, a crackly hiss of blue loudly whizzed past Orange. She looked in the direction it seemed to have come from and saw the giant had had a perfectly round hole punctured through his torso, some blue electricity still buzzing around the cut ends of displaced organs in his body. He face-planted, expressionless.

His fall revealed someone standing behind him, a heavily (but also fashionably) bandaged arm outstretched, their hand glowing a bright, vibrant blue. The energy from what they had released created a slight breeze, their curly orange hair softly ruffling in the wind.

Orange sat in shock and awe as she watched, breath hitched, the mysterious stranger remove their tech green goggles with an elegant swish of their hand. They smiled a playful smile as they approached Orange. Their eyes found each other, and Orange felt an odd warmth in her chest as she stared, mouth slightly agape.

The stranger bent down and offered their hand, blue eyes sparkling, mouth a kind but knowing smile, a stray curl falling onto their face. Undercuts really did look good on everyone, huh.

“Hey, I’m Lemon, I use she/her pronouns. You must be Orange.” she said. She didn’t wink, but it was made very clear from her tone that the implication was there.

Orange sat there with a faint blush to her cheeks for two seconds too long, unintentionally drinking in every feature of Lemon’s face. She saw the slight slope of her nose, the piercings in her ears, her teasing lips, and had to forcefully drag her eyes away to stop staring. When she was done, she snapped out of the daze, a light scowl replacing her slack jaw.

She stood abruptly, ignoring the stars that flew around the edge of her eyes, leaning forwards into Lemon’s personal space, causing her to step back. Her arms were raised defensively, playful expression gone, surprise now etched onto her face.

“Why did you do that? I had that guy.” Orange accused, half growling, careful not to pitch her voice, “And how do you know my name?”

“How do I— ? Orange!” Lemon sputtered incredulously. “We— !” she stopped. She looked to the side angrily before huffing quietly and crossing her arms. “Who wouldn’t know your name? You’re in the top ten at the most prestigious school for kids with powers and you don’t even have any!”

“That still doesn’t explain why you just randomly showed up and shot a guy clean through his torso with some... blue glowy fist.” Orange returned. She’s good at changing the subject.

“First off, you might want to brush up on your knowledge of common powers if you want to be defeating people with said powers, no use being ignorant just because you don’t have any yourself,” Lemon retorted, slightly annoyed, as you can tell. “Second,” she smiled loosely, “isn’t me showing up unexpectedly with no explanation part of the magic? You got to experience a real life deus ex machina, I can only imagine—“

“Like I said, I had that guy. And like you said, yours is just a common power, so it’s not that great, calm down.”

“It certainly didn’t look like you had him,” Lemon said, bordering on a snarl, “He was this close,” she pinched her fingers together a centimetre apart, “to completely obliterating you. I saved your butt.”

“——-!” [time skip]

“You’re hurt,” Lemon said, softer, quieter, her hand reaching out to touch Orange’s face. Orange flinched and stepped back hurriedly. “I can help you.”

Orange averted her gaze and brought her hand up to touch the bruise forming on her jaw. She winced and dropped her hand.

With her eyebrows knitted and eyes on Lemon’s red sleeve, she mumbles a quiet, “Okay.”

Storyboard:

Colourised Scenes:

Rough Animation:

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Another original character: Eb!

His name is short for Ebina, but he prefers Eb because it sounds funnier

Eb is a floating head that can breathe underwater because he has gills

He is also aromantic and asexual

He likes puns, and dresses up as a spider’s wEb for halloween

He wanted to get tattoos on his face (partially due to wanting to cover his dehydration marks) but rappers ruined that for him

Extrovert - very bubbly

Enjoys complimenting people, which can unintentionally come off as flirting

Can appear and disappear at will

Has dehydration marks on his face because he was never supposed to leave water

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This art is very close to my heart because it depicts the imaginary home my partner and I escape to when we want to be alone together, since we cannot do this physically due to the long distance relationship. I enjoyed the challenge of a full background with lighting, even if it is not perfect. before the purple overlay was applied to imply the scene was happening at night, the sofa, walls, and floor were all shades of teal. This is because it is my favourite colour, and yellow being my partner's, which together created our perfect home colour scheme. I look different in this fictional world than I do in reality as this image of myself is what I feel happiest existing as.