Bobby Alice Butterfly

You can call me Bobby!

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Backgrounds! Brand new backgrounds! And they’re in full colour! WOW!!!

These are more like sketches rather than finished illustrations. Or they can be later used as concept art to develop projects. I first did the colours on these. When I do the colours first it’s easier for me. It could also be that these pictures are smaller, so I don’t get lost in the details. As a finishing touch I add the lines. They bring up the contrast between the lights and the darks. I can also imply details such as roof material and lace.

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Can I just say how much I HATE COLOURS?!?!

Sometimes it works out on the first try. But most often it feels like pulling teeth. Strangely it often happens when I have a specific idea for how the result should look like. For these, they should have looked like the backgrounds from the 90’s Moomin anime. Doing the sketches and lineart was actually quite easy. Dare I say fun. Sadly it did not last. I ended up with over 30 layers on one picture, redoing the colour over and over, the desired result always just out of reach.

The closest I got to a finished piece was this. And like… it looks… serviceable. Definitely far away from the soft pastels of the anime. But you can tell what’s going on at least.

At a certain point this art series just felt cursed. But I couldn’t just post the 4 pictures just lineart only. It would be too flat. All the lines are the same thickness regardless of an object being way in the back or way in the front! Then I came up with a lazy hack. Monochrome colour scheme! It makes the picture look like candy so you want to give it a like!

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Last post of this comic you guys! I had the comic done like weeks ago. I just didn’t have anything to post in between. That’s why it took so long. But look at me! Putting out a finished product onto my blog!

I might not post for a while any Squirrel and Hedgehog stuff. I’m not in a great headspace and I have quite a bleak SaH au. As you can see above. In the meantime I do plan on posting other art stuff. So if you can’t get enough of my art you can check that out.

Bobby out!

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A relatively quick (checks statistics on procreate) 2 HOUR?! messy Minecraft inspired illustration. It’s been terrible weather here and my mood is horrid as well. Barely drew anything in the past couple of days. Instead I gamed! I have a world I like to return to. The game loop of having to gather resources to build a house is very satisfying to me. Even if the modern style of building really kills my motivation. So I moved to establish a new base with a building style more like classic Minecraft. And I’ve been having so much more fun. I even got a cat!

I might write some story later on about my character. A romance! There’s this enderman that won’t despawn around my new base. Even placed a grass block in the middle of my house. Heh, my tall mysterious autistic admirer.

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Oh yeah! We got more of the comic! I had to keep my rule that only every second post can be Squirrel and Hedgehog related so you’re getting it a little later than expected.

The last panel where Commander Gosemdouchi strangles Commander Darami is my favourite drawing of Gosemdouchi I did so far. I managed to combine anime with 50’s kitschy Disney quite well. If only I did a reference sheet of Gosemdouchi’s spikes! They’re a mess.

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Oh my goodness! Bobby posted!

Is it more of her comic? Nope. It’s fanart for an obscure 2000s magical girl anime called Ultra Maniac. Someone uploaded the whole series onto YouTube in one big 10 hour long video. So of course I watched the entire thing. And really liked it. Since like October last year I’ve been on a magical girl kick. Damn Precure is such a good franchise!

But what I liked about Ultra Maniac is that the magical girls don’t fight monsters. Instead they use their magic to solve everyday problems. Only for it to obviously go wrong. It reminds me of older pre Sailor Moon magical girls.

More stuff I liked about the show were the relationships. The friendship between Ayu and Nina feels genuine. The romance reminds me of when I was the character’s age. Also the characters in relationships have like… chemistry and… no way…. Common interests?! Why is this comedy anime for tweens written better 90% of romance books for adults?

I should check out more of the authors’s work. Hm. Marmalade Boy. What’s this? Incest? And that’s not even the worst thing that happens in the show?! Luckily there’s none of that in Ultra Maniac.

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I bet you thought I was gonna disappear for several months again. But no! I was just cooking something up. A comic that will stretch over 2 more posts. It took me forever to finish. I don’t know how comic artists don’t go mad. Forget comic artist. Animators! All that work just for one second of animation? At least when I release this whole comic it will take one minute to read. LOL.

The positives are I got an idea I had in my mind for a while onto page. And I see a lot of improvement from my last proper comic. Plus with more experience this whole process should get faster. Something I desperately need because I have so many ideas for short comics like this.

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Felt like I should post something today. I decided to avoid tumblr burnout every second post should be unrelated to Squirrel and Hedgehog.

What I have on offer today are some illustrations I did a while ago. For most of these I used a fake anime name generator and went from there. The first image was based off the title Angelic Misconduct. As I was drawing this, I came up with the idea of an angel detective that solves murders. He felt unfulfilled in heaven, wanting to help people, so he travels all around America. Helping solve mainly cold cases.

This one was based off the name Gun Marionette. Unlike for the last one, I don’t have anything more to add. I just wanted to draw a cool anime girl with a gun. At the time I was watching Heartcatch Precure. You can see the influence mainly in her nose LOL. And I love how dynamic the image is. The poses and compositions are all from my imagination.

Last but not least, we have this lady returning home from the club. She was actually the first illustration and not based off a fake anime title. She was made to embody early 2010’s. I have vague memories of that time because I was still a kid. And because of that, that era feels very cozy to me.

This illustration was however such a pain! The sketch and line-art part went fairly smoothly. Now that I look at it again, the line-art’s kinda wacky. Oh well. But the colours! For the life of me I couldn’t figure them out. It frustrated me to the point I talked about this picture in therapy! But I forgot to download the image onto my phone, so I couldn’t show it to my therapist. Luckily she had some paper and more importantly coloured pencils! I drew her a little sketch of the picture and finally managed to colour it right with the limited pencils I had on hand. Therapy really helps you guys!

Bobby out!

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It is time for me to emerge from the dark. Show off my new art skills. My mastery of colour and light. My cinematic compositions skills that would even make Steven Spielberg cry!

(EVIL VILLAIN LAUGH! Cough, cough,cough)

Alright. I may be exaggerating. Just an ever so slightly… But I really like how this piece turned out. Especially compared to the DRUMROLL!!!

ORIGINAL!

My first post in the Squirrel and Hedgehog fandom. Nearly 3 years ago. Can you believe that? The OG isn’t that bad. For how much I way dislike my early digital art, I will be always grateful for getting me where I am now. I’m still far from a professional artist. But at least I can see myself reaching that level one day.

The OG piece is interesting because it’s in the show’s style. I would immediately (literally the next piece I made) turn to using my old furry art style. Slapping animal heads on human bodies. I didn’t know what I wanted my art to be back then then. All I knew was to just copy reality. Mainly for the ego boost. I bet every artist tried to copy a photo only for it to look like shit. So finally reaching that level where I could make a thing look like that it’s supposed to… I felt like I was a master of my craft. Like I won at art. All the while losing my ability to draw from imagination.

These are my current designs for Geumsaegi, Juldarami and Bamsaegi now. I enjoy making them look all cute and cuddly. I love when thriller/horror shows have cute main characters. Think Madoka Magica.

I think if you asked me now what I want my art to be this would be my answer: I just want all those cool stories in my mind to be out there in the real world. I still will do studies. But only so I can communicate my ideas better.

Bobby out!

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(Checks the date)

Few! It’s still pride month!

I’m not as active in this fandom as I was a year or two ago. But these little critters are still near and dear to my heart. Also they might earn me a lot of money in the future. I learned a lot about how to draw furries thanks to these guys.

Please don’t get mad at me for the queer identities (heh tities, I don’t know how to spell, I haven’t read a proper book this year) I gave Mulmancho and Aekku. This is what they are in my AU.

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One of my OCs Yedsing as a flirty merman washed up on Jeju island.

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Part 2

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Part 1