#this is actually a redraw from a piece i did in 2022

[deckoftrickcards]

this is their entire dynamic

[u3pxx]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S 2024?!?!

next, you're gonna tell me it's gonna be some made-up year like "2025" next. tch, imagine that.

anyways, whoo! 2023! compared to both 2022 and 2021, i gotta say, my art style took a hard swerve in some direction this year. i mean, look at that klavier from january and that butch kim from just this december! (granted, i heavily referenced the portrait of butch kim but still, i didn't use to paint! mama mia!)

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the way i drew faces has definitely changed, that's what i get for getting into something that's live-action and into smth that has realistically proportioned art lol

OH! OH! HOW COULD I FORGET!!! IT WAS (and still will be) THE YEAR OF THE OLD MAN!! i really learned how to draw aged faces this year! ach fraulein, i have not stopped drawing people in their 40's-50's! i would say "send help" but i'm actually having a lot of fun ASKSKS

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i think a funny thing about these art summaries i've done is that they're mostly ace attorney but then there's just a month where i become a different type of ill LMAO this year it was four months for the price of two new interests!

cheers! here's to 2024!!! hope y'all have a fun art year!!!!

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i'm gonna ramble more below about like, other art things i did this year but i'm gonna put it under 'keep reading' bc this baby is getting way too wordy now WHEEZES

1. FAVORITE THINGS I'VE DRAWN THIS YEAR (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

⚖️ mea culpa comic [x]

drawing this one was so time-consuming and ambitious but boy, do i love the end result! i had fun doing the inks for this one but was it a lot! i usually color in lineart and render everything but i had to stop myself from doing it for this one bc man, i'll die asksks

this also has some of my favorite apollos i've drawn, definitely

also! the part about the lineart not being colored and no rendering ended up being a deliberate stylistic choice for this one bc i had like more freedom to do just shadows with inks without it looking too out of place.

💐 my lawfully wedded zine spread [x]

now this one isn't out yet but take my word for when i say that this is one of the most craxy things i've ever drawn for this year, on account of drawing a comic AND group shot all in one!

also literally one of the prettiest things i've rendered this year, lookit that klav...

🎉 aa4 redraw - 2022 anniversary [x]

kind of like my wedding zine piece, group photos are insane, and rendering like uhhh [looks at drawing] 11 CHARACTERS IS ALSO INSANE if i try and draw a group photo again you have to stop me DFGHDJ

🎨 my art fight stuff [x] [x]

was possessed in the month of july or smth bc i pumped out like how many drawings so quickly (before i got burnt out that is pftt)

pace yourselves and don't be like me pls ajshgdghhjk

💥 people park day [x]

my friend told me that it was very obvious i watched across the spiderverse when they saw this FDFGHJD

but yea! this is when i started getting really into like, thought bubbles or just like, panels or drawings within a drawing when coming up with layouts

i still love the colors on this one...

🪩 fem disco portraits

ok so i haven't uploaded these yet but you have to trust me when i say that something was in the water DFGHDJ

who knew that all it took for me to learn how to paint was butches

2. ALSO DID YOU KNOW THAT I SOLD STICKERS THIS YEAR IN OUR UNI'S ART MART?

THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THAT SCHOOL I SWEAR PFTTT this experience has also awaken the merch beast in me and i need to make more physical things for my brain to be happy, that's just how it be pfttt

hopefully next year i can actually start like a shopee shop or whatever lmao

3. ART FIGHT

i'm actually quite happy i got to participate in art fight this year! very delighted for all the art i've gotten and very fun to have drawn for others too!!

4. ZINES

i got invited and joined so many zines from 2022 continuing to 2023 that i kind of got burnt out from participating for now ngl ASKSKSKS not gonna be joining much this year oopsiessss! (unless i lose self-control [very likely])

5. SCHOOL

i don't actually like a lot of the stuff i draw for art school bc i tend to cram and not have fun pftt <- adhd moment, tragic! but here are some that i actually kind of like lol

6. THAT'S IT!

i think that's it! thanks for reading all the way down here!! o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

[woolying]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ‼️ 👻 🤍

this is based on their halloween costumes from last year (it is actually a redraw of the piece i did back then and posted on twt ill put it below bc its kinda bad alas thats why we improve)

(reblogs are appreciated <3)

the original from oct 2022

[gootube]

beba (baby eva) album GO!!!!!!!!!

i love beba so much, beba's age can span from like age 4 to 17 he's still baby. i doodle him a lot because i think the contrast between him then and him now is something special. also i like him before the light in his eyes was smashed into pieces. here we go

some doodles i did maybe last year or 2022 when i was trying to get a grip on how he'd look like in middle school..? fuck if i know. it was for an animatic i was making, which is still in wip hell. speaking of that animatic. i made some designs for his school uniform!

don't worry about the first one. he's an academic nestie he's going through it. i was playing with the idea of him having braces, which i like for him when he was real young aksjdakjda. gotta have perfect jaws somehow! (his teeth probably weren't even that bad)

ok here's some younger bebas because he's real cute. more lighthearted

hes showing u his good grades and asking for you to put it on the fridge. he is a clever boy. also the one with him reading a book by a video of a fireplace was a redraw of an actual image. also i have a soft spot for characters interacting with their younger selves because sometimes i wish i could hug my baby self. so there's eva being nice to him and not kicking him like a football.

here is beba being the little german boy from the weed cave (and his kitty) (named minka but he also just called it kitty. it's interchangable)

and last but not least. a GIANT doodle page of him to finish this off. featuring his imaginary uncle (it's a long story. he doens't exist and it never happened) taking him out to chuck e cheese

ok thats it. thanks for looking at this single celed creature. i love him he's my son (kicks him into a creek)

[shark-draws-stuff]

Been a while, keep forgetting to post stuff here, my bad.

Got some doodles done

First one features Ghidorah! Everyone's favourite space hydra from the godzilla series!

This is actually a redraw of 3 older pieces I did over the past 4 years!

Here's the older versions, and at that time I thought I'd never improve, but holy crap I have!

Here's the one from 2020, 2021 and 2022!

And lastly we got Flowey from Undertale Yellow,

Spoilers for the neutral route I suppose

Undertale yellow is probably my favourite undertale au because of how well made it is! Love the new characters, music, and my god the artwork for it is amazing! Undertale yellow feels like it was made by Toby fox!

Well done undertale yellow team!

Anyways, that's all I got so far! Will definitely be posting more here when I find time :D

[eschergirls]

Originally published at: https://eschergirls.com/photo/2022/12/13/worm-raider-redraw

@doodlebani submitted:

So, I’m by no means the world’s foremost authority on correct anatomy, but I do try to make my figures at least look appealing. Seeing a woman all stretched out like a piece of gum is just not very nice to look at in my opinion. 

Besides squashing these ladies down into more manageable shapes, I also did some little tweaks like giving Lady Jasmine (yes, that is the character’s name…) a less unfortunate skin tone and having her actually LOOK at the person she’s supposed to be talking to. Her pose is still pretty weird, but there’s only so much ya can do with what you’re given. It’s just not the best panel composition, and if I had been drawing the book I might have split it into 2 or 3 panels.

As for Lara, I tried to make her look more like she does in the games? Idk to me she’s got such a distinctive look and I feel like the way she’s being drawn here is fairly generic. Most FUCKING importantly, since Lara is speaking in these panels, I drew her with her DAMN mouth open. I find speech bubbles terminating on closed mouths to just be the most annoying thing ever, not to mention it makes the face less expressive.

Anyway, that’s my bit.

Lady Jasmine (that's certainly a name for an Asian character) not having vacuum-sealed butt cleavage and Lara looking more like herself and not one of those worm aliens from Men in Black definitely are an improvement.  And you're right that Lara has a distinctive look and should at least not be drawn as another generic hot comic girl.  Thanks for the submission!

(Redraw of this post of panels from Tomb Raider: The Series #36, Top Cow Productions)

[lubelzoldyck-artworks]

📍LOVE ME DEAD [REDRAW]🃏

Full artworks and the usual rambles under the cut 🌸

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL 🎃

I am posting this during the night between October 31 and November 1, I finished these two pieces a few hours ago ✨️

These two illustrations were intended to be done for Hisoillu Week 2023, specifically for the Lover / Killer prompt. I was unable to do the whole week and had to stop before I could finish these because I was getting tired, so I decided to finish them for Halloween!

For the record, here are the OG fanarts:

I am so happy with the result! The original pieces are some of the first HxH fanarts I drew in 2022 and two of my faves from then. It was before the accident and I was also still very new at digital art, and I cannot look at the OGs without cringing a bit at how ugly they actually are 😭 I think I did a great job with the redraws!

I hope y'all folks had a fun Halloween this year! Currently I just finished watching Saw with my GF, and now we will rewatch Reanimator, a movie I have already seen and know I loved but I cannot recall a single thing from it 🙃 I will try to keep up drawing regularly!

Oh also if you are reading this, please know that I am in a precarious financial situation, and getting commissions or even just tips would really help me a whole lot! If you appreciate me, my art or both, you'd be a dear if you reblog and share this post around! Also please consider commenting, or even a like 🌸

[totallynotzzombiecat]

2022 vs 2016

‘In Another World’ -- a portrait redraw comparison

Yeah, that was actually a redraw of my oldie fanart piece from early 2016 :D

It's always nice to look back and see your old arts like, 'Yeah, you did good back then, but now you're doing much much better and it's freaking awesome okay' and not just looking back at them with utter cringe. You are improving and that what matters.

That's what I call character development ^^

Also I really miss Dragon Age and waiting SO MUCH for december with hope to hear some news on next DA:Dreadwolf and watch Absolution. nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh bioware plleaseeeeee ;D;

Guess I'll need to replay DAI again lol

[procrastinova]

art summary 2022 vs art summary 2023

individual 2023 artworks below (plus some thoughts on them because why not. Said thoughts will include me critiquing some of the pieces, especially the ones from earlier in the year.)

also here's a link to all the artworks from my 2022 one if anyone wants to see them

JANUARY - Art piece i did right before For the Future aired of Luz and the rest of the hexsquad having a much-needed group hug. I didn't really look at any references for this one (apart from for the character's designs) so the poses look really awkward and stiff tbh 😭. That being said, I'm still glad I gave it a shot, and it looks a lot better than the one I did before Thanks to Them's release, since I was more used to drawing the characters.

I'm not going to go too much into some of the... questionable... anatomy choices I made, since they aren't exclusive to this artwork in particular, nor is this the worst example of them (*cough cough* my old King's Tide screenshot redraw).

Overall I think this is an okay art piece. Definitely could have been improved by actually using references for the pose though.

FEBRUARY - This one is actually another redraw of a REALLY old piece I drew in 2021. With my finger. Not a good combination to say the least. This one is miles better especially in terms of anatomy, facial expressions and composition.

That's not to say that it's without it's flaws. I do think that lining up Betty and Amber's poses better would have improved the overall look of the piece. Another thing that I did end up changing a little while after I drew this was removing the shine from the black parts of the mirror to make it look like it was actually cracked, which I didn't do in the original version (that one's on my scratch account if you want to see it). It's a subtle difference, but I think it makes the piece look a lot better.

Again, I think this is an okay piece overall. Looks like the mona lisa compared to the 2021 version, but honestly I think anything would.

MARCH - Yet another Owl House artwork (bet u guys cant guess what my favourite tv show is). This one I created for a zine which I was working on for my multimedia class (this artwork in particular was supposed to be an advertisement for the finale). You can kinda tell I still wasn't that confident in drawing King, since his pose is pretty stiff (I don't think I ever really got used to drawing him tbh).

I do think this piece would have benefited from some more shading and lighting that wasn't the singular multiply layer I placed over the characters then erased some parts of. (There is some other shading but there's no other lighting).

Most of the other issues I have with this pieces are just issues I have with my old art in general so I'll leave it there.

APRIL - This is the last Owl House artwork I promise. I made this one for Zeez Vov Gee 2's watching and dreaming art contest. I actually do still quite like this one, which might partly be to do with the fact that I really like all of the character's timeskip designs, but whatever.

Some of the proportions on the hands are a bit weird, and I REALLY wish I put the shading on the lineart as well, considering how light of a colour it is.

One thing I do really like which I didn't notice while I was drawing it, is the pose Luz and Amity are in forms a sort of heart shape, which is really adorable akdjfhskhdf ;w;

Anyway, overall a pretty good piece, might remake it later. Who knows 👀

MAY - as you may immediately be able to tell, I did not make that much art in May (I might've had a few tests on at the time. Or I was just lazy). This one is actually OC art for once (wow shocking never seen before).

It's kinda just a doodle/a more doodley art piece, but it's pretty alright. I actually really like the pose that Robyn (the OC in the drawing) is in. This is also kinda the first time I drew their design, so yeah. The background isn't great, but I can't really expect that much from a doodle -v-

overall, pretty decent doodle. (for anyone wondering if I'll ever post more about Robyn... maybe? I'm mainly using their story for writing practice, but I think I posted something from it on here)

JUNE - June was literally the polar opposite of May. I'm not kidding, there were like 3 artworks that I was debating putting for June (this one, some deltarune fanart and a TOH screenshot redraw). I eventually went with this one because HOLY CRAP am I proud of that background.

This one was really heavily influenced by cartoon backgrounds (in particular ones from Gravity Falls and Hilda), and while I do think there are a few things that could be improved (like some of the trees), this was the first time in a while that i'd tried drawing a background that wasn't grass and a couple of trees (and i think the first time ever that i'd done something this complex).

I think another reason that this one turned out so good is that it was a birthday card for a friend. And if there is anything that I am constantly trying to do better at every time I redraw it, it's birthday cards (probably bc they're for my friends, love you guys sm /p).

anyways, overall a really good piece, 11/10 background.

JULY - behold... the first artwork I posted on Tumblr! I drew this shortly after seeing Across the Spiderverse in cinemas (which I have to say was one of the greatest experiences of my life).

I wanted to mess around with lineless art a bit on this one, as well as sort of try to give it a watercolour feel like earth-65. And I gotta say, I think it turned out pretty good. Though I did spend a good 15 minutes looking for references because ATSV wasn't out digitally yet ;w;

overall, I like this piece, I tried something new and I made fanart for the greatest movie of all time (in my opinion)

AUGUST - I don't think I drew nearly enough Omori fanart when I was super into the game, so I'm making up for it now. I wanted to redraw one of my favourite photos from the photo album for this one.

I probably could have put a bit more detail into the background for this one, but I really like the warm lighting, and the dappled light effect that I used for the characters. The lineart is also a bit sketchy, but I was (and sort of still am) in the process of figuring out how I actually want my lineart to look.

overall, I really like this one, nice colours, nice lighting, has the omori characters being happy in it :]

SEPTEMBER - like in May, I didn't get as much Art Stuff TM done, so it's just a doodle of some of my OCS (except this time it's Copper, Lapis and Peg, who I have posted about before).

I kinda just wanted to draw something cozy, so I didn't put too much effort into the background and stuff. One thing I will say, is that I wish I drew them looking a bit older, since they are all 16-17 lol.

overall, this one's ok. Could be better, but it's just a doodle.

OCTOBER - ohohohohoho we are SO back. Yet another birthday card. I love the perspective and poses on this one (because, you guessed it, I used references for them). Everything about this artwork was really fun to draw (especially the characters).

Overall, really good artwork, 11/10

NOVEMBER - redraw of an artwork from 2021 part 2: electric boogaloo. I remember being so proud of the original artwork, so I wanted to make this one an artwork I was proud of too (which was a success).

One of the main things I wanted to do for this one was to actually draw a background, instead of getting one off google. The one I drew was simple, but I think it really works, because I wanted the focus to be on the character, not the background. I also added some slight perspective to the drawing to make it look a bit more interesting.

Overall, amazing, especially compared to the original

DECEMBER - and finally... December's artwork! Aka my banner. I wanted to do something kinda simple for this, because I'm probably going to redraw it or make a new one later. I really like the contrast between the colours in the foreground (which is supposed to be inside a train, but it's kinda hard to tell), and the background.

Also something I've started doing for a few artworks is making a duplicate of the artwork, blurring it slightly and lowering the opacity, which makes it look a lot more visually interesting :0

overall, love this one, good artwork to end the year off with :] (i'll prolly still draw more stuff tho)

(fun fact - I was going to put the redraw I did of the 'get in loser we're going shopping' scene with the characters from TMC for December because it's the highest quality meme i've ever made but it looked weird next to the other ones bc it was in black and white 😭)

[transmasc-wizard]

woah its two Macks, almost exactly 1 year apart, who did that--

oh wait me! i did that! December 26th 2021 on the left and December 17th 2022 on the right!

ive been posting digital art for a year now and decided to redraw the first digital piece I ever posted (and the 3rd thing I ever drew on my tablet at all!) to just see how i've improved. And to be honest, I was terrified there would be no difference, but imo I definitely did get better. (For one thing, I'm not absolutely petrified of any sort of background anymore, lol.) The second one also took less time than the first, which is nice--better work in less time.

Val Saintly Taglist: @void-fireworks, @idkjustgowithitok, @albatris, @cream-and-tea, again my memory is horrific, lmk if you are not actually on there sjdhksdhkf

[image IDs under the cut]

[ID 1: a digital drawing of my OC Mack. They have a blue hoodie that says "fruit bat", pale skin, dark hair, red eyes, dagger earrings, and broken pink heart sunglasses. They are covered in blood and have a neutral expression. Orange lighting comes from an unknown source.

ID 2: a digital drawing of my OC Mack. They look the same, though their hoodie is purple now. He is now standing in a doorway, with the lighting coming from behind, and her eyes glow. end ID]

[acetechne]

2022 Art Summary

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This was a hell of a year for art.

I had a big milestone birthday this year in April so I found myself doing a lot of reflecting on why I do art and what started me into it, so there’s actually a bit more fan art represented here than usual. (The most important, naturally, is Sonic since we’re close to the same age and since Sonic is what got me into drawing and posting online in the first place.) (That piece was also done in wax crayon for EXTRA nostalgia!)

I also went back to pencil crayons, I dabbled in gouache, I made it through another world watercolour month (and took my paints out on vacation too!) but I made sure to have lots of time for digital art as well (especially since I was stuck at my desk at work which made me extra productive!)

I also made a comeback with chapter 8 of @athensandspartaadventures after a long time, and formally made the switch from doing the pages in photoshop to csp. I even went out of my comfort zone and tried making a webtoon style comic which pulled be back into my complicated long time love IAmMatthewian. Of course, I did a lot with @battle-of-alberta too!

I’ve been sad about losing one of my big figure drawing resources, so I think in the new year I’d like to figure out some more exercises for doing that. I think doing more fan art, studies, screencap redraws etc. would be very refreshing as well just to keep getting out of my own head. I think overall I did much much better than last year!

[eldritchdraaks]

OC-TOBER 2022 :: Day 31 :: Halloween

I DID IT! Holy crap I actually made it to the end of the month. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have much faith in myself at the start of this. I thought I’d give up eventually, that’d it be too much for my feeble mind, but I MADE IT! There were plenty of moments along the way where I stumbled, I almost always stressed out over making everything look good and right, and endlessly bothered my friends that are actually good and quick with their art. Irony, Pidge, Deer, Pine, and Meraki, I thank you for all your help.

Kind of a redraw of another piece I did. I think I’m just really attached to that silly expression he’s doing, and the witch outfit from Splatoon, which is the masc design but with the sparkles from the fem design. I really love the whole vibe here, and still have it set on Alternia.

This took me 5.5hrs.

[metalbenders-and-telepaths]

💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕

Thank you for this ask <3 <3 I think I'll go through my art folder and sort it out by the years (and also a fun look of my past fixations haha)

2020

My obsession with AU's still hasn't changed at all. I really miss my traditional sketches because nowadays I draw digitally and I abuse the heck out of ctrl+z and my sketches take like x4 longer lmao.

Also I am pretty proud of my edit of The Merciless. I still rewatch it from time to time (and cry about it haha).

2021

Man I kind of miss my Loki show era. I was literally pumping out art every second day for like two weeks. I liked this one in particular because I actually allowed myself to calm down and complete it across a few days, whereas these days I only allow one day for each art (because adhd - out of sight out of mind lol). (x)

2022

Last piece of art using Procreate before I switched to CSP. My goal with this piece is to replicate the 山水畫 (shan shui) style and I actually achieved what I wanted :D (x)

Dot pen my beloved! My second art using CSP. I remember drawing this while giggling like a maniac. Drawn during my honeymoon phase with Formula 1. Good times. (x)

I had so much fun abusing the grid snapping and straight line tools. I was exclaiming things like "wow technology is great" haha. Also first time I thought to myself that I wouldn't mind having a keychain of my own work hehe (x)

This one is like, my magnum opus. I don't think I'll ever be able to top this (or have the patience again lmao) (x)

I think this is the first time I actually vibed with my own art? Like wow I can actually feel warm and fuzzy looking at my own creation? (and now knowing Seb is retiring makes me even more emotional) (x)

Another art where I achieved my initial goal and drew something that I'm happy with (look I even added watermark and signed it lol) I also manually drew the background (because I couldn't find a png file that didn't have to pay for lmao) and I liked how it turned out! (x)

I always wanted to do a redraw of that bisexual anne hathaway photoshoot and I finally did it with my current blorbos! This one was initially going to be full b&w but I'm glad I decided to add the red last minute (x)

OOOOF this got really long lmao anyways thanks for the ask once again :))

[joxaren-ebelyn]

For christmas I give you another free space ask (ignore that is it, in fact, not christmas when I sent this)

just gonna knock out some questions i wanted to answer but forgot from the end of year artist list!! no specific order to em

19. i did my first ever art trade a little while ago on discord but ive never done a collab!! I'd love to do some, maybe like a swap lineart and color what you get type thing :) im also open to doing trades

5. i LOVE drawing eyes and putting little details into them, so heres a bunch of my favorite pairs of eyes! warning!! semi-spooky missing eye and facial scarring on the last one!!

honorable mention: crimson's hand scar from that one rp <3

14&15 i have no idea how many pieces ive actually finished the past year, paper or digital, but i have 352 files (medibang canvases) under "Gems." (And I only started drawing with medibang after christmas of 2021, that's when I got my drawing tablet, so most all of them are from 2022!)

Most are wips but yeah. Lotta shit!! This year im gonna try to go back and finish whatever I can, and redraw anything where my style is too different to be cohesive now. Im already failing bcus I've drawn like 8 new things and haven't started looking at old stuff

thanks for interacting so much with my blog fiery :)) i need to start posting more unprompted soon asjhdjkfh

[illym]

I posted 45 times in 2022

That's 37 more posts than 2021!

41 posts created (91%)

4 posts reblogged (9%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@butterfly-danna

@illym

@floating-far-from-earth

@kidfoundonstreets

I tagged 41 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#witch's heart - 27 posts

#witchs heart - 25 posts

#illym art - 21 posts

#whnoc - 13 posts

#wilardo adler - 8 posts

#ashe bradley - 8 posts

#claire elford - 8 posts

#whtober 2022 - 6 posts

#whtober - 6 posts

#genshin impact - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 22 characters

#marinette dupain cheng

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

WHtober day 5 - Ashe route.

I HAD to draw the ShortCake Project for this. I just had to. Anyway this took me a hella long time lmao. Tried to replicate Iz's hair shine, I'll decide if I like it in a few weeks.

Minute timelapse under the cut since the 30 second version moved at the speed of sound.

Claire's hand and arm is genuinely killing me but I'm kind of worn out from this plus I don't know how to do it better lol.

See the full post

16 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

#4

Happy Birthday (again) Claire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! girl of all time she's my favorite character in the history of ever

this piece took me a few days and I'm pretty bummed I forgot to timelapse it. Very proud of it :)

17 notes - Posted August 10, 2022

#3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILARDOOOOO i spent like 4 hours on this and thats not including the tuneups i just did. love this dude. i think my issue with linearting lies in the g-pen, so i'll look for a good replacement for it. This is a redraw of one of the game cards :)

Timelapse under the cut :)

See the full post

20 notes - Posted October 26, 2022

#2

this one i actually like enough to post on its own.

22 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

For day 2, I drew strawberry shortcake! The frosting looks like fondant... But the strawberries look good, and that's all that matters. This totally counts, strawberry shortcake is the driving force behind Ashe's Route.

timelapse under the cut

i completely forgot about the knife and fork huh LMAO

22 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[saltedsolenoid]

A silly little timeline of Rosine Strom's designs, starting from when I first began working on Together in Hell (November 2020) to now!

So, as a generalization- she's stayed about the same age throughout all this, originally being ~13 and aging up to be 15 as of the latest version of the story. Rosie was, surprisingly, an antagonist in the first draft, though she's actually changed her position around a lot and is now the protagonist of the story! Good for her.

Images (and much more explanation) below the cut- additional warning for my poor art skills as of 2 years ago.

So, let's start at the beginning. The very first sketch I did of Rosine Strom, before her name was even Rosine Strom. She had a name change somewhere in the first 6 months of development. I don't remember what her name was originally.

The first two pictures were drawn/colored in either December 2020 or January 2021. She was always going to have a sort of green/purple color pallet, and I see now that she's always had a necklace of sorts. I don't remember what exactly I was going for in this design- something unassuming? At the very least? She was originally way more nature-based than computer-based, so that's one of the major things driving this design.

The third picture, in the full on dress is her more polished design, drawn in late January 2021. Back in the early stages of development, her main Thing as a character was that she had two sort of alter-egos, one acting as a normal teenager (first two drawings) and one being more?? evil??? I guess? She was a character of complete dualities, being described as "childish but also really mature, loving but also slightly cruel, nice but has a lot of pent-up anger." Okay. Cool.

From here on out in her design, I mostly just started making changes to her everyday "normal" clothing. Character-wise, I started making her more normal and not, like, evil. Because that sucked as a character point, considering she was like 14. These two drawings come from different points in the development of the story, but from when her character was roughly the same. Her friendship with the other kids was still a key part of the story, but there really aren't many other similarities. She was overly bubbly and worked in??? tech stuff???? for the plot?????? It's not very overtly laid out.

Don't worry, though, she still had an evil-esque alter ego!! This time, she wasn't necessarily evil on purpose, but more because she was forced into a role overseeing a death game. It's about time that I bring up the fact that Together in Hell was originally a YTTD AU. Sorry. In this, she took on the role of a floormaster, somewhat. These are the best references I could find for her """floormaster outfit"", but I can't find a date for either of them. I'm still surprisingly proud of the piece on the right.

From here on out, we reach a sort of "interlude" in her designs. These pieces were made from when Together in Hell was actually coming into existence, and the YTTD AU it started with was fading out of existence. Around this point in time-- Summer of 2022-- I started to change some aspects to her character. She still heavily values her friends, but finds herself more occupied with a deal she made with a skeptical-seeming company which deals heavily in death. The leftmost picture has more similarities to the first draft of the story, while I like to refer to the rightmost picture as "a remnant from the forgotten second draft." It's called that because I forgot the plot but i like the sprite. These are where some pretty big physical changes also happened for her character; I stepped away from making her skinny and she got afro-textured hair. A few months before making these versions of her character, I had finally sorted out her family tree, and realized that curly hair- which her mother has- is a dominant gene. It took me six months to realize this and the fact that I'd have to redraw so many assets at this point actually made me quit development for a solid few months.

After that break, I restarted and started developing Together in Hell and her character as they sort of stand today.

For her current design, I gave her twists, which developed from braids in her first drawing in this state (leftmost). Later on, she gained green highlights, as green was her Character Color and I wanted to allude to that in her design. She still has a necklace- although now the necklace is a hard drive she carries around with an AI she made in it (that'll be plot relevant), and her outfit changed drastically, with a full-body reference in the center. She does like to change up her hair (see rightmost image) into a style which somewhat resembles her late first and second draft hairstyle, but these styles are more commonly found in flashbacks due to the short span of time the game takes place in. She greatly values her friends, but at the current, finds herself in the middle of a horror that she's going to have to face.

and that's about all :)