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Madoka Magica AU where Kyubey becomes a domesticated fat cat (good ending)

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A little late but a lovely mermay collab with WittleBagel

Our mermaids Elena (above) and Harley (below) admiring the skull of a very handsome sailor (he's so dreamy~)

Sketch + Lineart - Me Sketch + Colour - Bagel

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He's a Phantom

Heya, I've been meaning to post my parts for the Rephanimated project and suffered a terrible case of procrastination.

I have a few scenes in the MAP, so more posts to come~ Behind the scenes and animation progress under the cut:

Part One: Base sketch and keyframes. Pretty self explanatory, redrawing Danno in my own style and figuring out his moving parts

Part Two: I wanted to have his eyes react to the light somewhat, so I workshopped some ideas regarding pupils and shine. I usually try a few different effects in the draft stage before I decide on which I'll choose

Part Three: While I took some time to think about it, decided to move on to the line art and blocking out the silhouette.

Part Four: By now I had a better idea of how I wanted to animate the eyes, having them follow the light along with the cat pupil (because why not) I coloured the base here too

Part Five: I continue colouring like any regular drawing, adding overlays and shadows (multiply layer) to give it a bit more vibrancy.

The eyes also get a shine effect that I had attempted in the draft, just a lot cleaner looking

Part Six: This part was painful, since I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the know how on how to make it happen. Turns out masking/clipping can be temperamental for animation if you don't plan ahead. I ended up getting it to work after several attempts

Part Seven: Now I was ): because the eye animations were mostly hidden, so I decided to copy + paste them onto a new layer, then have them fade out so you have a few extra frames of spooky atmosphere

Part Eight: Lastly, darkening the scene and exporting

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, I hope some of you's found this interesting. If you have any questions on how I did stuff, feel free to ask~ I look forward to animating more in the future, this project was a real learning curve, but very rewarding to work with everyone ty

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It's been a while eh? Seeing all the cursed Dannopocalypse posts summoned me from my hibernation

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Tumblr needs to apply the cat boop tech for the Ides of March. Let me stab my mutuals and earn little badges

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Heya fellow tumblr kids, be sure to check out my shiney new bluesky!

I'm still going to be on tumblr, tl;dr below:

Yes:

new art

wips

nsfw

No:

personal BS

politics

reposting old tumblr art

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So sorry you briefly admired this portrait of J*mmy

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A series of slightly spooky minimalist posters

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What inspired your art style

I find it unique the way you draw shapes and line art!

-cracks knuckles-

The recipe for my particular flavour of art is quite obvious once you know the ingredients, please follow below:

I’m a 90’s kid first and foremost, YuGiOh was the first big inspiration.

You can spot Kazuki Takahashi’s solid black shading and white highlights on reflective surfaces are a staple in my current style.

Look at this beautiful Millenium Eye, don’t you just wanna lick it?

Another specific technique: fabric folds. I love how Takahashi uses solid wedges of black to carve out the wrinkles in fabric (or in some cases, solid white on a black fabric). No blending needed! I apply these shapes both in the lineart (with solid black) or the shadow layer (on multiply) without softening/blending on the edges.

Next up is Jamie Hewlett, most known for designing the Gorillaz characters. This heavily influenced my aesthetic away from pure anime/manga and into a wider culture of pop, punk and graffiti.

On the technical aspects, I started thickening my lines and squaring/rounding off my shapes to have a more blunt, chunky feel.

On the Character aesthetic side, it also made me realise that characters don’t need to be conventionally attractive to be appealing. Bad posture? Crooked teeth? Baggy eyes? Hewlett is 100% responsible for all my ocs slowly turning into gremlins and tumblr sexymen.

I absolutely have to highlight how he draws hands, there’s an almost uncomfortable level of detail and realism that feels out of place on a cartoon character. The tendons, joints and wrinkles wouldn’t be out of place on a zombie, but all the gestures and poses feel very familiar. Like these are people I could have passed in my day by day.

That could just be me projecting - as someone who rarely looks people in the face, I tend to watch peoples hands the most; They give the lions share of body language and help humanize a character.

And now we have colour, which is a bit tricky since I still haven’t quite managed to figure out.

So instead I’ll point towards what I’m wanting to do more.

BrotherBaston: his use of bold shades, constrained colour palette and a light touch of gradients are something I aspire to use more.

There’s a level of clean, knowing when to embellish, and when to hold back on an artwork that I still struggle to balance. The ability to clearly visually communicate a character’s pose, design and intention.

This kind of precision and restraint is something I wish to learn, both in linework, colouring and character design.

Luckily for us he makes tutorials on youtube for anyone else wanting to check out his techniques!

And that's about it~ I've got a few honorable mentions to throw in at the end here: Banksy: Their bold stencils further influenced my use of solid shadows and strong shapes to build volume in an image, as well as being my introduction to graffiti

Mike Mignola: More amazing solid shadows and fantastic blocky shapes! I love the chonk.

Zdzisław Beksiński: Whenever I'm drawing more detailed body horror, this guy lives rent free in my head. A real chaotic layering of skeletal limbs twisting together into knots.

H.R. Giger: On the more erotic side of body horror spectrum, not much more needed to be said there

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I love your art style so much

And your anatomy is so good

On of my favourite artists here

ohmygoshh you've made my week I am honored you appreciate my little hoard of shiney things.

Receiving a like spam from people is like having someone tap on my glass enclosure; startling because it's easy to forget that there are actually people outside that noticed me is but also has me foaming at the mouth at the prospect of delicious snacks and validation

thank you again and please keep your fingers outside of gnawing distance

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A series of slightly spooky minimalist posters

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