#her design is actually so fun to draw out

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

for ruis birthday i gave him 4 seconds of attention (edit: there’s some ramblings about this design in the tags of my main blog’s reblog in the notes if anyone’s curious!)

[d-lanx]

Ok here's a little thing i thought would fun for any artists to show off their progress at learning art (plus I'm nosey🤭).

Show off the oldest drawings you did (or the oldest that you can still find), the first things you were confident enough to upload online, and your most recent drawings and talk about them and show off how much you've progressed :)

Probably gonna end up missing some people, but I'm tagging a bunch of cool artists I follow/am mutuals with and am nosey to see how they started out, but no pressure :)

@fantasticalleigh, @thlayli-ra, @heelhausen, @stupidmarkzone, @2ndcitynightmare, @punk-o-ween, @normallypassingby, @tvheit, @seasonal-depression-of-punk

And if you wanna have a look at my old stuff, I've got it below =)

Oldest Drawings I Can Find

Of course, the first is an OC. Never did anything with her tho. Notice the lack of forehead and elbows, the arms that barely reach the hips, how indishtinguishable each part of the body is from one another. They're a perfectly smooth pole. and of course those wings. This is the first thing in my first proper sketchbook when I decided I was gonna start taking art more seriously. This would have been when i started secondary in 2014 at 11 years old. And I can't find anything from before that, since I never kept anything in a proper book/folder.

Second image is another of the first drawings in the book. It was my first closeup of a face, and also my first time drawing anime. I know I'm not the only artist who was desperate to learn to draw an anime-style as a kid. I remember doing this while on holiday, trying to follow an online tutorial, taking about 4 hours to get the outcome I did, and getting so frustrated that I couldn't get it to look right, that I was almost brought to tears. I'm pretty sure this was one of those "I'm never drawing again! >:(" moments, lol. Looking back, it was a pretty good first attempt. But I guess I was always a bit of a perfectionist, lol. Funnily enough, while I carried the anime eyes forward in my art style for years, to this day, I still can't draw a proper full anime style character.

First Drawings I Uploaded Online

I put these on insta to show my mates from school. The first picture was an attempt at a close up face with the new brush markers i'd got for christmas. This was 2017 just before i turned 14. Pretty sure I copied the design from an art tutorial book, that was supposed to be hyper-realistic (another christmas present). But I just couldn't bring that to life so just did what I could. Also, first time I used a signature. My signature's very different nowadays cos it's based on my tumblr username and not me actual name. But yeah. I was tryna get more professional I guess.

Second pic is the first full body piece I uploaded a few days later. Again, used the drawing books trying to learn how to draw flowy clothes. Think it was a book about drawing anime clothes that I used for this (another christmas present). By this point, each body part could move seperately and had joints. Also note the anime eyes, cos my simpler-but-still-anime-inspired eyes were something I stuck with a long ass time. This was the style I drew most often, and could usually do without having references (but obviously for this drawing specifically, I had the reference for the clothes). Had a lot of trouble with perspective, so all my characters faced forward, and later they would always face a 3/4 angle. And they could never lean or reach forwards cos I just couldn't get that to look right.

Most Recent Pieces

The most most recent is on the left, being my most recent closeup of a face. Still has a cartoonish edge with the lineart but much more realistic. And I'm fucking with this semi-realistic look atm. Tbh I dunno if i'd have the patience for the tiny details in hyperrealism. Also, fun story, in 2021 when I was doing my a-levels, I did an art piece that we were free to do in any style we wanted, and my teacher saw mine and was like “I wish you’d done it as realism instead of a cartoon style :(“ but it was actually my best attempt at realism and she hadn’t even realised. So I dunno, maybe I’m not cut out for realism 😂😂 I like my style rn tho so who cares

Then I got my most recent drawing of a (almost) full body. I got joints and decent hands and proportions and more body details.

Also this last year is the first time I've really got into digital. I always used to just do pen and paper. I even got a cheap drawing tablet, but couldn't get used to drawing on one surface and the image being up on a seperate screen. So I could never get the lines right. I did draw on my old ipad for a while which was easier, but the stylus was one of those with the thick rubber ball on the end, rather than a fine nib. Again, I had trouble cos I couldn't tell where it would register the contact with the screen and draw the line, which made it hard to do details. I got a new ipad a little while back that supports apple pencil, so I got one for it. And it's so much easier now that I've got a fine nib and can see where I'm drawing. I'm in love with drawing digital atm.

But yeah. That's how i've drawn over the years. Mental to see how much my style has changed and improved :) makes me feel better when I get frustrated with a drawnig and think I'm shit. Cos I know I'm getting better with each new drawing, even if it's only baby steps.

First: Now:

[mewochy]

entertain my nichijou x deltarune au before my excitement wears off

instead of a roleswap its more "what if we opened a dark fountain in shinonome labs" for the shits and giggles

all of the darkners are either based off of hakases toys or one off random robotic creations and either they love her or hate her with a burning passion and want her dead

the main """""plot"""" revolves just trying to save hakase before she gets thrown into a meat grinder and at the end of the day hakase learns a very important lesson about treating her things nicer

the darkners all love nano though as shes sort of a robot and they admire her for being so strong and resilient in the face of the mad scientist. shes like a martyr for them LMFAO

specifically maybe like fuckin biscuit 2 or something makes the dark fountain he heard his bretheren crying out for revenge and took the plunge to give them let their voices be heard

maybe the dark world would be steam punk based. i dont know ive never been good at designing fantasy stuff

chapter starts off with them all being seperated from each other and sooner or later meeting up with each other but wait a minute where the fuck is hakase. and then they have to go downstairs where hakase makes her robots and then le tonal change (unserious(they gonna kill her

not actually too sure about the dark world designs themselves but at the time probably the fellas were just studying and shit until the gas leak kicks in hey does anyone feel really sleepy all of a sud

following the deltarune weapon pattern yuukos silly pencil turns into a sword mio has like a staff based off of an inking pen, she draws patterns ont the floor to cast spells and shit and mai has like. character erasers. theyre shaped like something. they turn into beasts she can order around. "life eraser". lol. AWESOME!

nano and hakase i tbh just want to put them in cute little princess dresses for the fun of it

nano in particular. i have ideas considering shes not exactly human so either there are two nanos. if we're taking the. human soul in robot body idea. there is nano human soul that lives nano and then nano the robot body vessel (?????? vessel??? 😻😻😻) maybe they both have differing opinions on each other. woah. its like a zelda spirit tracks situation.

in particular the dark world split them up because of how differently they felt about each other. nano (robot body)s darkner form is a lot more negative and depressing about things

theyre like nano what the hell hapaed to your legs and shes like listen i dont know man WHERE IS HAKASE

and then evil robot nano appears!!! woah!!!!!!!

or shes just nano. like the anime says.

idfk what sakamoto is doing dawg idk would his scarf count as a darkner

also the fey kingdom is important somehow idc every nichijou au i think about sooner or later NEEDS to have starla in it or i shoot myself in the head

[chloesimaginationthings]

I'm screaming at how you draw Poppy rn. SHE LOOKS SO CUTE

😭

She’s just so small

[nox-in-a-box]

babygirl <3

[dewwshi]

princess of mithral hall

[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

More wartime/SiB timeline sketches, this time with some Goats :D

Asmund and Gormflaith are my ocs! I'm a big fan of when ppl use Asgore's old design as a base for his dad, so, of course I had to as well, hehe. And then I wanted Toriel to have a cool maiden name so, Eldis :>

[cerebral-device]

THE COMMITTEE FOR RAPACIOUS INTERLOPERS AND MANIACAL ESPERS !

drawing dump I definitely can’t fit all of them in but here’s most of em lol. Neo Cortez the founder and Head of C.R.I.M.E. Got a complete redo which I actually Like now so’ll probably expand on him more

[anishenanigans]

worlds most normal and well adjusted girl (lying)

[catgirlkirigiri]

Iris my love... gotta have the girly secondary fursona. For gender time. Actually think she's being demoted to fursona number 3 but idk we'll see about the pecking order when refs are all done. She was waaay overdue for a redesign oh shit I just realized I didn't put a color palette on here. Oh well ig too late for that now I am not rearranging that bg

[wildflowercryptid]

the surviving pointer ladies

[chloesimaginationthings]

There's doomed yuri... in my FNAF ruin?

[mikumikugerms]

IKU!!! i've been trying out her utau voice bank lately (particularly for growls/scream vocals) and she's so much fun!

[genderqueer-miharu]

[Image description: Traditional drawing of Cure Idol from You and Idol Precure. She is grinning widely while pointing her fingers at her smile. /End description]

Cure Idol! She's so fun so far!!

[chiropteracupola]

MAY, SHE WILL STAY / JUNE, SHE'LL CHANGE HER TUNE

[@baronetcoins' pyrite and my rowan!]

[c-0f-chaos]

What the hell am I doing setting up an art fight account at 3 am

Hi, I should sleep but I'm putting Dessie in there :-)