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Wishing it was summer already,,,

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I don't really talk about personal stuff here much but I'm the president of my local collegiate level IGDA chapter and we had a game jam this weekend! My team unfortunately got wiped out by sickness that's been going around so we didn't finish, but I'm INCREDIBLY proud of my concept art so I'm posting it here :)

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Can you move I'm trying to vacuum

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Happy Birthday Katamari Damacy!!! 🎉 I've only been a fan since June of last year, but I've been absolutely enraptured by this silly little green guy and all of his antics :)

It's been fun to see my art evolve as I go too!

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Happy Valentines Day!! Had to draw my favorite fictional couple for the occasion :>

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STAR! STAR! STAR! I thought it would be cute to add the Queen into the Beautiful Katamari results screen, I absolutely love this game. Dare I say, best Katamari game by far tbh

Fun bonus info under the cut!

I actually tried a new workflow for this piece! Most of my digital pieces I do in one 5-6 hour long shot, which isn't really feasible anymore with all the stuff I do around campus lol. So I did 2 new things! 1) Saved pngs of each time i finished working so I could see the piece evolve 2) hue shifted the pngs to black and white occasionally to make sure my values and shading were okay It kept me super organized and the hue shifting helped me find errors super easily, and stopped stuff rom blending in as much! Highly recommend it if you have a bunch of tiny details like I do :) Examples of those notes VVV

and some examples of the work in progress screenshots that I found fun VVV

Bonus zoom in of the prince too bc I think he's so cute,,,,

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Happy Pixel Day everyone!! And a happy (very late) 20th birthday to Katamari Damacy! I absolutely adore this game and I'm so glad I picked it up last summer, so I decided to do some fake Katamari "demake" screenshots to see what it would look like on the original Gameboy. I think it looks really good! I'm glad I pushed myself out of my comfort zone with the larger sprite size and the limited color pallet, it was such a great challenge. Under the cut are blow ups of the individual pieces, and another spread of just the backgrounds without all of the UI/game elements.

And finally just the backgrounds!

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What a year we've all had! For the first time ever I can post a fully digital, fully completed yearly art round up post. It's been so awesome to see my style change and develop around my interests this year. All of the pieces (and some commentary from me!) will be posted in full under the cut :)

January, Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 (Citrus Shampoo) The doodle that started it all! I was really busy with school starting back up so it's not the most polished piece in the world, but I really love the colors I used and I'm thinking about revisiting this piece in the new year.

February, Krystal from Star Fox (I can just draw anything isn't that amazing) Although this is only a doodle February is the shortest month so...

March, Faye and Falco from Star Fox, Miffy from Miffy (What are they looking at?) I was making a lot of 3D Miffy models and such for one of my classes this month, and I was still super into Star Fox, so I decided to just mix the two together! I really like doing art that puts random characters together like this in my sketchbook, maybe I'll do more crossover pieces next year :)

April, Falco, Peppy, Slippy, Fox, and Krystal's Arm (N64 collab over on Newgrounds) This was my first ever collab, and I'm really glad I pushed myself to join! This is a redraw of one of the covers for Earth Defense Girl Iko Chan, I reference a lot of Iko Chan pictures and media when I'm drawing lol.

May, Sonic the Hedgehog with the Beam Kirby Powerup (submission to the Sonic anniversary collab on Newgrounds) This was another collab, and I wish I had been able to put more detail into the background for the final piece, but the collab only required a clear background png of your assigned character so I really focused in on Sonic.

June, The prince and The King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (LEAKED 2009 DS EXCLUSIVE DATAMINE aka Hold Out Your Hand Son) The beginning of an era. This 20 minute doodle gifted me a ton of creative ideas and passions this year! The Katamari I drew here and the background (a cropped free Katamari wallpaper) are used in almost every single Katamari piece I made this year as a way to tie them all together (and a way to save time!)

July, The Prince from Katamari Damacy [And technically The King but I did not draw him this time lol] (Katamari Kart!) My sister is a competitive Mario Kart player, and while watching her I thought the Prince would be a cool addition to the roster. This was made before I played the We Love Katamari level where The Prince has his little ducky car or else I would have incorporated it here!

⭐August, The Prince and The King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (Katamari Creation) Side note this is my best performing piece, and I'm so glad I decided to make it!!! It is a redraw of a guy pretending to be a wizard by floating an apple between his hands. I was originally going to draw the prince hiding between the apple slices when you find him in We Love Katamari, but decided that the hands were impressive enough that I could reuse my own Katamari lol.

September, The Queen of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (Selfie trend) There was a trend on twitter where a cosplayer put her phone over her face to show the character, and I thought that was so cute I just had to do it with The Queen. I made this to be my pfp on here, but just wasn't quite satisfied with it (it was literally my first digital drawing of the Queen ever lol) SO-

October, The Prince, The Queen, and The King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy (He likes to feel tall) This is my actual current profile picture! It was originally made for both here and discord, but discord's circular crop completely removes the King from the picture whoops. I'm really proud of the King's hand and the subtle glow around The Prince to draw the viewer's eye to him, took a lot of trial and error to get both of them just right lol.

November, Ulala from Space Channel 5 (She's Stardust Chic,,,) November I actually had 2 pieces made, but this is the one I intended to be my big monthly piece. I got back into Space Chanel 5 something fierce over the course of the month, and I made so many of my friends play it with me lol.

December, The Queen and The King of All Cosmos (and the Prince really tiny!) from Katamari Damacy (Katamari Christmas) And now we're done! My most recent piece, inspired by family photos turned into Christmas Cards. I also really liked drawing the King and the Queen being cozy. The King's longer hair and more scruffy beard was really fun to play around with too. That's all from me this year! I grew a lot as an artist, but also a friend, mentor, student, and researcher too! I achieved a ton this year, and I can't wait to hit the ground running next year Now it is time for my once yearly "I'm putting one million tags to boost my views and engagement" giant tags section lol

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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone had a lovely day and got lots of good presents. Zoom in under the cut~

Dw the prince is here too lol

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She's stardust chic,,,

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Yeah, a winning can!

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SEGA CLASSICS ARE DELISTING DECEMBER 6TH !

Not art but PLEASE go buy any of the Sega Classics Games you like from the steam Dreamcast collection and more as they're being delisted December 6th, 2024. I know I rant and rave about how terrible sc5 pt 2 and jet set radio are on steam but this is the only easily accessible way to buy some of these games (sc5 pt 2 especially!!!) now that the xbox360 store is down too. You can read more about it here, its not just games being delisted from steam they're being delisted in a ton of places seemingly.

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Happy Halloween everyone! Please enjoy some gaming themed jack o lanterns I made in class earlier this month :)

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He likes to feel tall :)

A royal family photo that I can use as my pfp here hooray!

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Another friend of mine is teaching and wanted to do a katamari themed java project so I gave him my prince ascii art to put in the instructions,,,

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I also got the king standee when I got the prince, just finally got around to setting him up on my desk❤️

I’m so happy with the standee so I’m glad I snagged him at the last second!!

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Hooray!!