#redraws are fun to experiment with art hehe

[wellapella]

hina redraw after 2 years ! 💗🌷🎀

[fraberry-stroobcake]

Hey! Long time fan of your art here and I was wondering if you'd be able to critique my first forte into pony fanart! It'd mean a lot if you could but I understand if you won't be able to

HI I AM SO. SORRY. oh my goodness, I've never seen your ask!! This is the first time i opened the inbox from my computer and realized someone else was here!! this is what i have on my phone

and THIS IS WHAT I SAW THERE

Im so sorry i feel so bad for leaving you hanging!! Thank you so much for the ask!

I looked through your pony art, its really cute! And the shading is super cool as well, i love how expressive they are! I think on your latest one with Shazam the legs might be a bit too short in the two drawings, maybe thats on purpose though, im not sure! I hope you draw more, I think you could make super duper cool art! I suggest experimenting with perspective to try and understand anatomy (even if its cartoonish ponies hehe). And not just perspective but maybe doing smth silly like finding horse memes and redrawing them, it's 1) fun 2) helps you practice drawing characters you like 3) helps learn how to put characters into different settings love how you draw eyes btw! Again, i am SO SORRY that I'm answering only like 3 months later, i feel ashamed... I hope that im not too late and i do hope to see more of your art in the future, dont give up please and good luck! Please send me a message if you ever want to! And have a good day for now :))

[lolorenoca]

"Go... don't look back."

[nutmegnautilus]

1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25!

WOWZA!!! THANK YOU LAPIS... Gonna answer the first few here and then put the rest into a readmore!!

1. Favorite drawing from this year

My favorite drawing from this year is probably this one!! I worked really hard on it and I was super happy with how it turned out ^^

4. Favorite character you've drawn

Both Jay and Tim hehe... love drawing these guys

5. (answered here)

9. Any new art mediums you’ve tried (or overall styles if you haven’t tried new mediums)

Unfortunately, I didn’t really try any new mediums this year. This year I took another stab at drawing Cartoon Horses though, and I had a lot of fun with it.

10. Favorite art medium

I like digital!! I use the transform tool and layer modes a lot. I used to keep a sketchbook before the pandemic since I do like doing pencil drawings, but I haven’t done much of any lately.

 11. Artist(s) that influenced/inspired your art style

OH it’s so many but I can list a few. Cleaverdream, KillerLicorne, Mawbwehownets, Tornets, awfulwingz, entry77, starryarts, jckielantern... basically any artist that makes me want to pull out my tablet and start drawing RIGHT NOW

16. Favorite piece of art from someone else (if you have one)

Off the top of my head it’s this drawing Jonny made of the hot topic hornets playing DDR. DDR my beloved

17. Favorite OC/sona drawing

OH MAN so my favorite from this category has not been posted yet... so I will hand you this little snippet for now (It’s Tangy Amongus)

18. Any art events you've participated in

I did artfight for the first time this year and I really enjoyed it!! It was a lot of fun drawing people’s OCs and experimenting with my art a bit. :]

20. What do you think you’ve improved on the most over the past year?

I think I got better at doing backgrounds!! I didn’t do too many of them this year but I enjoyed them when I did. I got some new foliage brushes and I feel less hesitant about painting scenes taking place outdoors now.

25. Best advice you've received this year or something new you learned about art

Through doing screencap redraws and studies this year I feel like I got a better grasp on how to shade and light things... back in 2020 I always dreaded having to shade my artwork, but now I go in and know that I can at least take a stab at it.

Thank you for sending all of these in!! <3

[venhydey]

I did toooooo many birthday arts dedicated to Venkman in this year because I was always getting new information, but I decided to stuck with 25 of October because I feel like it's the "right" one. Plus by the fun coincidence Helen is Taurus, and if to believe horoscopes (I don't believe, but when someone told me this I thought why not to use it?) Scorpio + Taurus is the best couple match.

For this birthday I thought to redraw my old sketch (someone may remember it) with the same idea that Helen gifts Peter a train model, but now just did it in comic style (I promise next time there'll be something different, hehe)

I already said a lot about Venkman, but I'll repeat the thing I adore in him so much. He had a horrible past, difficult time, but no matter how hard it was he never gave up. From the sad experience Peter knows how it feels to be lonely, so he always tries to make others smile for not making them feeling the same.

We love you, Dr V! ✨

[vivivinya]

It’s the end of the decade, and what a ride it’s been this year alone! I’ve made a lot of artistic progress this year! Finally getting a tablet has really paid off, hehe... Here’s last years’ review!

If you’d like to hear my thoughts for each month, you can read more below!

January

I had just gotten a little tablet for Christmas a month earlier, and so at this point I was trying my best to get a feel for the new tool! It’s here that I definitely laid down the base of what I wanted my art to be - a lot more freeform and doodley than my art in the past years! I think it fits my art mood a lot more in retrospect. This drawing was when I did a little game with my friend Dalblauw where both of us drew Plumber Peach, based on a SupperMarioBroth post we found!

February

Around this time, I was having a major kick with FanCom. The new Discord was in its prime, and ComProject had been resuming with relative success! Boy what I’d do to get the community and project thriving again... Anyways, I was still getting a feel for my tablet, so I practiced a lot on FanCom designs, like redrawing my very first FanPro, 2003!

March

Chilla Month!! At the time, I thought I would be going hard on developing this game, which hasn’t turned out exactly right... however, I still have plans for these characters (when I don’t have to worry about programming for VR)! I mildly redesigned Chilla, Edith, and Merida, and also came up with two new characters! Eugine, the timid sheepish boy, and Jack, the hat person dad who’s trying his best!

April

This one has a bit of a sad story... The musical artist Wowaka was a heavy influence on my younger self, and his music still has a profound influence on me to this day. He passed away that month, and I was so struck that I felt the need to make a tribute of some kind. This was an animated image based on Rolling Girl.

May

The end of the semester of college is always one of the busiest and most stressful times, so not too much came out of me then. Plus I had started to get burned out from how few people were submitting for ComProject... But I gave it my best shot, and some of my best designs still came from this month! I also drew one of my best works at the time - Nyaga striking a little pose! This is notable for being the first time I tried actively shading since getting my tablet!

June

This is when I finally understood what I wanted to do with my art. I wanted to do a little pop-y sort of art with FanPro 0049, and what I ended up doing basically defined my art style from then on. Dynamic posing, backgrounds with popping colors and gradients, stronger shading, and notably the silhouette border. It’s an emphasis on fun looks!

July

Artfight time! I took this time as a means of experimenting even more with what I started last month, and I think this is when I fully grasped the sort of poses I wanted to do. One of my absolute favorites from this time was my drawing of Dalblauw’s character Naomi!

August

Once again ending on Artfight, and another character from Dalblauw again - Sam. However, this particular piece is important to me because it’s the first time I drew a background with any level of complexity, and properly did a pixel animation involving wind. I did a lot of research and planning, and learned a lot as an animator from this!

September

One of my favorite things I did was a little series on FanCom monster girls! It was four different works with the same premise: a halfbody of a design with the crop being stylistically approached based on their unique attributes. It was a lot of fun, and I’m definitely thinking of doing something like it again!

October

The month that changed my life the most, easily. Rivals of Aether revealed Workshop support, and after some thinking, I decided it was time for me to create something I could finally play! I started off small - four buddies based on FanCom designs. Then, I created my first character, Shy Guy! He was a blast to work on, and I learned a lot about animating and coding in the process! People say he’s fun too, which is a great plus!

November

Continuing with the Workshop, I had released two more buddies based on Super Mario Bros. 2, and finally had to challenge myself to create an original stage. What I ended up with was Subcon, a unique stage layout with (mostly) original sprites! It was the first time I’ve done a background of this complexity, and it was surprisingly fun!

December

And finally, this month, I started missing regular art. Spriting and coding and animating is fun, but it’s nice to take a break and put some variety in the mix, so I drew Nyaga again! I think this piece is important because you can directly see how my art changed from half a year earlier! More popping colors, more distinct style, more dynamic poses, I realized that I really had improved!

I think that’s the important takeaway from not just this year, but this decade as a whole. I’ve changed a lot over time, and I have a lot to look forward to! See ya next year with more art and gaming content, because you know I’m not stopping now!