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I made pixel art for the first time ever and I'm pretty pleased with how it came out, maybe more forthcoming, we'll see :D

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I painted something inspired by a friend who wrote a poem based on these paintings!

This is Kevin and the Duck

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I'm watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation and wanted to sketch

Anyways, I don't think I got the shape of his face quite right so I tried a coloring method I've never really done before

Ref photo & timelapse under the cut

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quick screenshot warm up sketch, really i was looking for a reference and then this happened instead

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Not quite a portrait but finally drew Hamil, he’s one of the main bad guys and owned the hotel that Cheren now runs

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I've wanted to draw Bails in some different outfits for a while

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Before I forget again! The first attack I did on Day 16, and the second I did on Day 18

Oshea and Zaida belong to AnimationDalmatian

Bernie belongs to Lethal_Lefen

timelapse under the cut

I didn’t know before just now that you could only put in one video

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Another Artfight attack, probably my last one for the year (unless I get something done quickly today)

This has been one of the biggest pieces I have ever made, it took me anywhere between 22 and 32 hours over the course of the last two and a half weeks. There were a lot of things happening in between working on this which is why I’m not entirely sure about the time. The full timelapse video is 16 minutes long. I’m really glad I pivoted from trying to make this into a comic, I don’t know that I would’ve finished it if I had. This is one of the only pieces with full shading I did this artfight, I didn’t draw in a light source but I really tried to work off of one. Even though I had a reference photo for the sketch, a lot of these poses were new to me and some were difficult to figure out (a couple of legs are missing, and one of the mugs are weird)

Overall I wanted to draw a bunch of pirates (loosely inspired by a scene in Bloody Cape) and that’s what I did and I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out

Solevi ‘Levi’ Starlance belongs to tieflingcxre, @tieflingcxre on here

W.H. belongs to fuzzheadlola

Luciana Requin-Tiburón belongs to LeafyLilac, @leafy-lilac on here

Rina belongs to hamjoe

Tempest and Callisto belong to CaptainHarrie, @diosmaden on here

Leandro Acosta belongs to Teeb, @tinta--branca--art on here

Elaine Sherwood belongs to AmyIssen, @amy-issen on here

Therasia belongs to kaeri, @glitterrgalax on here

Green belongs to 7lizardsinacoat, @7lizardsinacoat on here

Arlo belongs to 8regrets

Timelapse under the cut

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Artfight Day 16

Aziel belongs to Reggg

The second of two attacks today (I’m waiting for permission to post the first)! ngl the phonograph was a bit tricky, but still a fun piece to do :)

I’m out visiting family and have been enjoying time with them, so haven’t had much time to draw but I’m hoping to make some more time (and of course there is always the rest of the month after I go home)!

Timelapse under the cut

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This attack was done on day 4 of artfight! It also took around 6 hours but I had a lot of fun with it!

Astrid Blackk belongs to StarlitMachine, @starlitmachine on tumblr!

timelapse under the cut

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No artfight attacks today, I instead did a redraw of this guy I originally drew back in 2019. I was packing up old sketchbooks and saw him and thought it would be fun

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Day 2 of Artfight!

Imbrych Ilatoris belongs to OldManOnMain

this one piece took me 6-7 hours and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out!

Timelapse video under the cut!

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Day 1 of artfight!

Lola (top) belongs to -beetlebug-

maskot (bottom left) belongs to vrdosage

Watermelon Kitty (bottom right) belongs to benonirenamed

After a day full of packing & loading the moving truck I had a lot of fun sitting down to draw for a few hours (hopefully after more of today's packing I'll be able to draw some more)

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Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 💗

It's kind of funny I get this today, cuz I've just turned 20 and I'm genuinely proud of myself for making it another year and in a general upswing at that. Thank you for sending me this ask :)

1) I'm a good person, this is important to me because whenever I'm having bad anxiety/depression my brain tries to convince me otherwise (even though it's not true). There was this time I was in New Orleans with my Dad & youngest brother, we were going to Audubon Aquarium but I wanted to bring a sketchbook so we went to a Walmart. Except I had routed us to a Walmart in a dangerous part of town so my Dad wanted to get in and out as quickly as possible. We were rushing past this older man and his kid/grandkid who was in one of the electric carts and I didn't want to cut right in front of him (like my Dad had just done) and also didn't want to lose my Dad (it was very busy) so I cut to the other side and accidentally knocked some clothes over. I felt really embarrassed to have to now hold the man up but I apologized to him and hung the clothes back up. He ended up getting in line behind my Dad and was like 'you've raised really good kids' and talked to him about how my youngest brother has said excuse me when darting in front of him with my Dad and how I had cleaned up after myself and he doesn't always see that with other kids. I swear not every bullet point will be this long, but this is a good reminder for myself so, yeah, good person

2) seeing as this is going up on my art blog, it might be weird to not mention that I like how creative I am! I have tried a bunch of different art things, am a video editor, a writer, I enjoy photography and am not half bad at design, I will learn the bass guitar someday (I've been learning it for four years now :), and so on. Being creative is one of my favorite things to do and be

3) if I care about you then I will do what I can to help and be there. This was kind of instilled in me by family, as they say 'no matter what you've done we will try to help,' or what I hear more often is 'just give us a call if you need anything' but I know it's true for me too. When I was living with my Dad I wasn't allowed to have people over if he wasn't home but there was a time when my best friend had messaged her group chat that she needed someone and was worried about being alone and immediately I told her she could come to my house and she did and I comforted her until she felt better. And my Dad never found out but I wouldn't feel bad if he ever did because I was just doing what I could for a friend

4) speaking of I'm also very protective of the people I care about, I've got a lot of brothers and friends I worry about. This can be a bad thing sometimes cuz it also means I tend towards suspicion at times, but I still like it about myself.

5) I think I make people feel invited and involved. I pay attention when someone is talking and try not to let others talk over them. I'll invite people to go to things with me (when I am going to things anyways). Even when I don't know a person super well or don't necessarily like them I try to make them feel welcome cuz I don't want anyone to feel ignored around me

I don't know that I have 10 followers! But I'll find people to send this to, thank you again for sending it to me :D

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7th portrait done! Except this time it looks a little more like a ref sheet cuz I found a cool pose to reference (bottom left) and also wanted to show off what the top of his wings would look like (top left), though I did get a little lazy by the time I started adding colors, hence the lack of shading

He’s based on the Anhinga water bird (don’t mind the feet, I was following a guide for drawing bird feet and only remembered much later that the feet should be webbed)

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Clover wasn't on my list of characters who needed a portrait made for artfight, but I didn't like the previous one so here's the 6th portrait done!

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This is my second artfight! Pretty excited to be participating again (although I’ll be traveling quite a bit during July)

I don’t know how everyone gets the featured character images to be high quality on these