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someday i’ll finish this drawing guys. just not today

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hey guys i am very much still a minor so if ur not cool with that please leave my blog thankssssssss

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i didn’t mean to post this on april fools but i mean it genuinely when i say this is my favourite persona 3 character

older version + sketch and flats utc because there was fog and i forgot to add it back and i really liked the fog but im too lazy to re-glaze the image with the fog

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i’ve been playing persona 3 reload which is why i haven’t been drawing but i WANT TO. i want to SO BAD but im not allowing myself to interact with any fandom for this game until i finish it because i’ll be so upset if i get this one spoiled for me too

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i watch a lot of the drawclass videos by drawfee!! they’re pretty long and tend to be a bit sillier/casual but i find that helps me more than a short, clean, professional video. there’s 4 of them on the team, each with things they specialize in and sometimes a few join in to hang out with whoever is teaching!!! it’s the atmosphere that really sells it for me, but i understand it might not be for a lot of people!

they upload all the streams to youtube on drawfee extra, but you can catch the streams and participate yourself if you join the patreon! there’s a pretty good backlog of stuff they’ve got, i highly recommend going through the playlist on youtube and seeing what’s there!! they’ve covered a large range of general art topics (ex. animals, expressions, perspective, anatomy) but they get more specific as time goes on! (ex. animation, rendering/“fix it in post,” finance for people wanting to pursue art/do comms)

really great stuff. i tend to put them on in the background while i do other stuff and just absorb the info by listening. i find i don’t really have to watch and put 100% of my attention towards the video in order to learn. they usually explain what’s being taught pretty early on as well, and the rest of the stream is just applying the knowledge. check it out!!!!

90% of art advice videos on youtube are unhelpful dogshit btw no matter how good someone is at drawing knowing how to draw is different from knowing how to teach people art skills

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i’ve considered opening a print shop a few times before 🤔 i definitely don’t have the means to make the prints myself but i know inprnt handles it ? i bought some stuff from them before. i only got the smallest sized prints so i really can’t say anything about the image quality on the prints, but i’ll think about it 🤷‍♀️

there’s something beautiful and tragic in the fall out

here’s more babygirl. alternate version and commentary UTC (not really a process discussion more like. wailing.)

i’ve never been so indecisive on a piece in my life !!!! i redid the rendering once and this strayed so far from what i originally wanted for the sketch. idk how i feel about it actually. i might come back and redo it someday cause this isn’t what i wanted to do but im so sick of this drawing lmao i don’t wanna spend another 10 hours figuring it out again. i got finals to study for 👎

i was trying to combine my painterly art style with the more graphic style of my last drawing cause i thought it’d be cool. i was also looking at some of the art from reverse: 1999 but that didn’t really carry through in the final piece. i really wanted to do more painting ☹️ but whatever ive drawn so much in the last 2 weeks i need to stop lmao

this is the sample i made after i restarted the rendering. i like how this looks a lot more but i think a big problem was how i rushed the second lighting source (blue) so it wasn’t executed very well. the finished piece is just way too clean for what i imagined but i mean its still cool!

i could not figure out how to do the weird magic soul taking thing for the LIFE OF ME. i spent 20 minutes just redrawing it 😔

ok that’s all. i need to go will myself into studying now. o7

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another one?! 😨

fears

okay i never thought i’d actually like a lovers to weird exes to lovers story but i adore his DLC a lot 😭

been a while since i’ve done anything for this series… laughs nervously

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thinking of my next OL drawing. i have ideas. i miss baxter ward and his Problems and its been a while since ive drawn for this fandom 🥲 idk why its become a yearly thing lmaoooo whoopsies

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oh goodness that’s a record 😨

it got to 1k before a post i made last year …. wow. thank you 🥲👍

there’s something beautiful and tragic in the fall out

here’s more babygirl. alternate version and commentary UTC (not really a process discussion more like. wailing.)

i’ve never been so indecisive on a piece in my life !!!! i redid the rendering once and this strayed so far from what i originally wanted for the sketch. idk how i feel about it actually. i might come back and redo it someday cause this isn’t what i wanted to do but im so sick of this drawing lmao i don’t wanna spend another 10 hours figuring it out again. i got finals to study for 👎

i was trying to combine my painterly art style with the more graphic style of my last drawing cause i thought it’d be cool. i was also looking at some of the art from reverse: 1999 but that didn’t really carry through in the final piece. i really wanted to do more painting ☹️ but whatever ive drawn so much in the last 2 weeks i need to stop lmao

this is the sample i made after i restarted the rendering. i like how this looks a lot more but i think a big problem was how i rushed the second lighting source (blue) so it wasn’t executed very well. the finished piece is just way too clean for what i imagined but i mean its still cool!

i could not figure out how to do the weird magic soul taking thing for the LIFE OF ME. i spent 20 minutes just redrawing it 😔

ok that’s all. i need to go will myself into studying now. o7

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there’s like a race between my recent post and my baxter painting from last year to be the first drawing i have with 1k notes. its neck and neck 😟

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there’s something beautiful and tragic in the fall out

here’s more babygirl. alternate version and commentary UTC (not really a process discussion more like. wailing.)

i’ve never been so indecisive on a piece in my life !!!! i redid the rendering once and this strayed so far from what i originally wanted for the sketch. idk how i feel about it actually. i might come back and redo it someday cause this isn’t what i wanted to do but im so sick of this drawing lmao i don’t wanna spend another 10 hours figuring it out again. i got finals to study for 👎

i was trying to combine my painterly art style with the more graphic style of my last drawing cause i thought it’d be cool. i was also looking at some of the art from reverse: 1999 but that didn’t really carry through in the final piece. i really wanted to do more painting ☹️ but whatever ive drawn so much in the last 2 weeks i need to stop lmao

this is the sample i made after i restarted the rendering. i like how this looks a lot more but i think a big problem was how i rushed the second lighting source (blue) so it wasn’t executed very well. the finished piece is just way too clean for what i imagined but i mean its still cool!

i could not figure out how to do the weird magic soul taking thing for the LIFE OF ME. i spent 20 minutes just redrawing it 😔

ok that’s all. i need to go will myself into studying now. o7

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i played the babygirl grim reaper visual novel expecting to get murdered but instead all i got was this grown man i call my girlfriend

can you tell i REALLY like the intro cutscene 🙂 i am so very normal about the visuals hahahahahahahahahaha

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oh we’re still so young, desperate for attention

this was super experimental so i will talk about my process (+ clearer version) under the cut

i’ve been looking at a lot of “messier” or more textured painting styles recently and an artist that stuck out to me is clariondeluna ! they posted a self-portrait recently that i really liked and i was super interested in the brushwork seen in their work. i love all the textures and how the shapes feel so loose yet everything is so detailed.

that’s not a method for me at all!!!! i cannot paint like that at all and the stuff i like to paint is very different to theirs. which is okay!!!! i had no intention to copy this artists style so closely like with what i tried to do in my raiden painting, i just wanted to try this style out :^)

it’s been a goal of mine to avoid over-rendering like i tend to do a lot, and i think i’ve been doing good with that recently! the mindset i’ve got going on right now is that if i find myself staring at it too hard for too long, i have to leave it and move on. if there’s still something wrong with it, i can fix it later once ive got a fresh view!

i’ve been trying a lot of things with my art this year. i always try to challenge myself with each piece, and to end the year off i wanted to be as uncomfortable as i possibly could be with this painting. i let myself draw whatever i wanted because i still wanted to enjoy it, but everything i did in this process was new, including parts of the subject matter.

i’ve never drawn a head at an angle like this, and i struggle with drawing mouths open. i don’t do bold lighting like this, and if i do, it’s not fire. i’ve never drawn fire! i also rarely work with warm colours and i hate using green, so i combined those to be my colour palette. i like working cleanly so instead of having a dozen different layers for one section, each section only had 1-2 layers for rendering. instead of clipping masks i would simply paint over things loosely and clean it up later. i never like having limbs cut off in a drawing so i had his other arm go GOD knows where. i don’t like weird patterned backgrounds so i made myself figure out how to like it!

IS THIS MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF ALL TIME. no. absolutely not. but i’m very proud of how this came out with all the challenges i put on myself. i WANTED to get better at these things and be more broad with my art, both in terms of the styles and subjects i portray.

okay let’s talk about wtf this drawing is

for those who don’t know, the design in this painting is my fatui/“Father” lyney fan design (read the design post here). the concept isnt super complicated and i don’t really have much explanation for it, but i wanted to combine the story of how lyney wanted a delusion before getting his vision, fire eating circus acts and how olympic medalists will bite their medal to prove it’s real??? don’t quote me on that i’m like 75% sure that’s a thing that happens. i don’t watch sports though so im just believing someone i heard on the internet ages ago.

anyways. i think fire eating acts are cool. and i think the fact that lyney wanted a delusion is very interesting to me. scratches my brain in the right places. and yk as a magician lyneys character revolves a lot around fooling people and creating illusions so i guess what im saying here is that lyney is trying to prove to himself that this power he’s been bestowed is real. bc his whole life his only constant has been lynette so he is trying to see if he can trust this new power. cause i guess this is an alternate universe where lyney does eventually become “Father” but he never got his vision ??? idk im not making lore for this i just wanted to dress up this funny little guy.

ok i’m done

thanks for reading

here’s my dog

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experimenting with this new art technique called “not giving a fuck”

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i miss doing arcade au art i gotta draw these little freaks again

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this is MY christmas/holiday gift to you all /hj

but no this was a secret santa gift for someone on the kazuscara discord server 😊 adding to my list of homoerotic kzsc art with as little physical contact as possible

yeah whatever i died after october. and i’ll do it again ✌️ happy holidays everybody im gonna go stare at the wall

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we sure are in for a show tonight ‼️

happy halloween!!!!!!! i was gonna do something different but i decided to just slap a bunch of shit onto the canvas and i think it’s very neat. i just wanted to make something weird and i had fun with it!!

full designs ⬇️ because once again i show almost none of it in the final piece 🥲 lynette was supposed to be more visible but whoopsies…