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Commission piece for Donibolt6.

It’s his OC Kokoro. She's a female knight he created for a world inspired by the video game franchise by Capcom consisting of Ghosts N' Goblins, Ghouls N' Ghosts, and the Maximo series. She fights wearing armor but like all the other warriors in those games when her armor takes enough damage it will fall apart, leaving her in her underwear.

This one was fun!

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Commission Info

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Patreon | Ko-Fi

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Felt like drawing something evil and dug up a sketch I had forgotten about.

If you ask me, the Amphibia crew truly hit a home run with the design of this character. Genuinely menacing, and still looks exactly like the edgy stuff a fantasy gamer kid like Marcy might think of - and still looking gangly and noodly underneath all the scary armor. Just A+ stuff. With a little luck I did her some slight justice here.

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Commission Info

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Patreon | Ko-Fi

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So, as you may know, I run a YouTube channel called Fiction Adiction where I make jokey videos about all sorts of strange, obscure media.

In a recent move, I have started a video series called "Jumpscare!" which will consist of short (5-ish minutes) reviews of some of the many, many indie horror games I play over on my other Let's Play channel - both just to give my thoughts in a quick way, and to maybe get some of my viewers to check both channels more often.

The latest of my (so far only 2) videos in this series is a review of the recent Chilla's Art game "Shinkansen 0" - give it a look if you got the time!

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Much like the last time I made one of these, it was just the evening, I was bored, and it started to feel like I hadn't drawn anything just for fun in a while, so I once again grabbed some random small sketche from the sketchbook and finished 'em up. This is actually fun to do every once in a while, so maybe I will keep it up when I have more lil doodles to do.

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Commission Info

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Patreon | Ko-Fi

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Free Resources for Digital Artists

I try to save resources when I come across them, just in case myself (or someone I know) ends up needing them, and this is one of those collections.

I have not tried all of these, so please let me know if there are any problems.

💻 Programs:

Digital Art Specific:

Krita: Open source free program

Light Brush: a web-based drawing program

Photoshop Alternative:

PhotoPea: online (no download) alternative to photoshop

GIMP: photoshop alternative program

Other:

Blender: pro-level 3D creation software

OpenToonz: animation

Inkscape: Free open-sourced program for Vector format files

Vectr: Create and export vector graphics as SVG or PNG files.

Polotno Studio: Free Canva alternative

💃References

👤 Humans:

Kibbitzer: Draws references poses and images

toshi: Draws references poses and images

Character Posers:

PoseMy.Art: a free character poser

Referenceangle.com: You can move a head in any angle

JustSketchMe: Character poser (Free limited version)

Poseit (app only)

Easy Pose (app only)

Other:

Wildlife Reference Photos

Floor Plan Creator: design a floor plan, then view it in 3D

x6ud.github.io: Skull poser

Character Design References: it has an overwhelming huge list of references for drawing

📚 Misc:

🎨 Palettes:

CoMiGo’s Palette Generator

Palentton

Colors.co

Colormind

ColourLovers

🎮 Video Games and Pixel Art:

Universal LPC Spritesheet Generator (free)

RPG Character Builder (Free)

RPG Map Editor 2

LDtk: Level Designer Toolkit

PixilArt: Create and share pixel art

LibreSprite: a free open-sourced program for animating pixel sprites

💬 Fonts:

Calligraphr: Turns your handwriting into a useable font

FreeTypography: Free fonts for commercial use

Creative Fabrica: Free fonts for commercial use (sign-up required. Click “Menu,” then “Freebies.”)

Google Fonts

💡 Learning:

Line-Of-Action: This one could go in references, but I didn't put it there, because this website is specifically for practicing art

Quick Poses: Practice drawing poses

The Etherington Brothers: A free encyclopedia of drawing tutorials

📃 Other:

TinyWow : Collection of several free online tools

Pattern.Monster: Create patterns to be used for clothing or website background tiles

Designspiration: lets you search for graphic design inspiration and see what your competitors are doing

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Big shoutout to that one guy who keeps commissioning me to draw one-shot lady characters from Usagi Yojimbo. Always happy to draw some samurai rabbit stuff.

Lady Mura from "The Hero" might very well have faced one of the meanest and most petty things that ever happened to anyone in this franchise. Goes to show what happens when society values social status over genuine talent.

You gotta give Ayaka credit. She lived in a craphole of a town, caught in the middle of a gang war... but never stopped doing her dty as a barmaid..,. and was never afraid of telling anyone what a moron they were being for thinking they could fix it by flexing their muscles a bit.

Lady Maply from "The Courtesan" was certainly given a rough deal. But hey - she has the distinction of being one of the few characters to make our man Usagi feel a little randy on-page. That counts for something,

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This took me a while, so it may seem late compared to everyone else's.

'But when the news hit us, and I saw everyone drawing Goku, Arale, Dragon Quest or the occasional Chrono, I thought some others might wanna say their farewells, too.'But when the news hit us, and I saw everyone drawing Goku, Arale, Dragon Quest or the occasional Chrono, I thought some others might wanna say their farewells, too.

For the curious, from left to right: Beelzebub (SandLand) Kajika (Kajika) Jaco (Jaco the Galactic Patrolman / Dragon Ball Super) Shu (Blue Dragon) I know there are more, like Nekomajin, Chowa, Ackman, Cashman and so forth, but I stuck with those i know a little better.

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The last two weeks of internet summarized

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So here's the drawing from the art video I posted earlier today, where I took it upon myself to try and redesign an obscure Superhero from the 70'ies - namely Peter Pan Records' "Holo-Man, the Living Hologram", who existed for a grand total of one issue! My design:

VS the Original:

What do you think?

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Oh man! I did NOT mean to immediately leave the art channel alone for so long! But hey - I am back! And this time, we are looking at a particular interest of mine - OBSCURE SUPERHEROES! And more specifically, how to update their costumes a bit! Go give it a watch, and sub to the channel if you haven't already!

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Older than that, and also screw you whippersnapper, get off of my lawn with your hippety-hope and your smartphones

Anyone?

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POV: You got in Sanji's way as he was going over to give the ladies drinks.

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Commission Info

Deviantart | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram |

Patreon | Ko-Fi

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It was starting to feel like I haven't drawn anything just for fun in a while. But I also didn't wanna sit down and work on a big piece right this moment. So instead, I dug through old files and found a bunch of quick little sketches I never actualyl finished and decided to work on those. Some of these are based on sketches from over a year ago! 

I have more of them, so I will probably do this again. it was fun to touch them up a bit and see that, yes, I have actually improved at least a little.

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Commission Info

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Patreon | Ko-Fi

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Goth Librarian Bath

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Multiple Mabels

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Oh dang. I finally made a new video. And this time, I am gonna cover one of the most (in)famous things to ever come out of my homeland. So join me on #YouTube tomorrow, when I finally take a look atHUGO THE TV TROLL at 7:00 PM (GMT +01) / 12:00 PM (CST)

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Look, you don't understand I CANNOT stop singing this fucking song I also have basically no singing training. I am torturing myself over here.