So, I've just been making more and more and more sticky notes. This is getting out of hand lol. On a side note, I now starting my Jellal redesign for my digital art, so I'm not done with digital art ofc!
I have a clear preference for Mary Jane and Peter Parker it seems. This is getting unhealthy, I just want them to be together and happy again.
So, I secretly really appreciate Luvia as a ship. That's the name right? I hope so😭. It mostly came from their interactions in the first few arcs especially with these two having the first unison raid in the series. I think they have so much potential. I ship the main ships more, but this has a little corner of my heart.
I tried a very different method of shading this time. I haven't tried this method since I was using ibis paint on my phone back in 2020 which funny enough, I drew this exact picture for Amino a millenia ago actually😭. It looks terrible, but it will be down below to show the improvement.
Reference/Sketch
Video footage
[Horrible 2020 art beware lol]
This took me so long because I've been a bit burnt out with digital art, but I HAD to at least get this one out. Hope everyone likes this!
I am slowly trying to improve my art. Recently, I have been getting into doing a lot more traditional art. I have gotten so used to doing digital media that this is a great learning experience again. I used to do a lot more traditional media, but I found digital art to just be a bit more convenient for me.
However, after reading some older comics with my best friend, I decided to just start doodling these in my free time at work. I miss how laid back traditional art could be. I didn't have to have a big plan or an elaborate sketch. I could just draw what I wanted and hope it turned out for the best. I missed the pure free wistfulness of it.
[You can definitely see where I started to improve lol]
I was no longer super overloaded by all the tools in a paint program nor was I focused on the blinding white background of my tablet. For the first time in ages, I could just sit and sketch and be comfortable. I realized I wasn't drawing for a specific audience really anymore or with a specific goal. Aside from close friends and family, I was mostly drawing for me. I love all of these drawings both the good and bad.
I'm so happy with my journey so far. I know this isn't what I usually post or my usual style, but I hope people appreciate it anyway. I hope everyone out there can find themselves in love with their art. Be safe and be well💖!
Well not Spiderman[technically]...Peter and Mary Jane😭. One of my closest friends is a pretty big fan of Peter Parker/Spiderman, and I was on break at work, so I made even more sticky notes. I will soon need more.
I think I shaded Mary Jane's hair too dark, I fixed this in the later sketch of these two together. I also took a lot of inspo from John Romita Sr.'s artwork of Peter Parker. I loved the sharper features and spider bangs.
I personally still love Mary Jane, Mj, and Peter together. I know some writers [FUCK YOU ZEB WELLS], try to really mess up their relationship, and hurt Mary Jane's characterization, but when people get it right, they have a truly beautiful and mature relationship where they both grow together and ground each other. I love em.
Well anyways, along with Spideytorch, these two are my favs. I love sketching like this, it's js so relaxing. I hope everyone like these.
Yo this is a REALLY short post😭. I just HAD to redraw Han tho because I think I did him so dirty in my last sketch. Han is NOT chopped. I ended up taking some reference photos from Harrison Ford and what Han looked like in Legends to give myself a rough base on what an older him would look like.
Also I have like ZERO clue how old Han is, I always thought he was around 10-12 years older than Leia, but apparently he's even older than THAT, so I totally got his age wrong. I was just doodling at work, don't kill me please....
Second, I think I nailed my sketch of what I would redesign Ben as. Honestly, I think it's pretty uninspired to make Ben another evil Skywalker/Solo, and I would have much preferred Rey to take that mantle. We just don't see enough leading female villainesses imo. I based his design off of Jacen and Anakin Solo from Legends, Anakin Skywalker [grandpappy], and of course, his own parents.
[Side note, why is his name Ben? That would make sense if he was Luke's son like in Legends, but shouldn't his name be something like Lando or maybe Bail?, people who were close with Leia or Han? Idk, js a thought ig.]
Lastly, a really bad sketch of a redesign concept for Rey, since I'm intending for her to be at least a villain at first who's hiding her true intentions, I like the idea that tries hard to look cute, but sometimes comes off uncanny. Like think of hares in comparison to rabbits or river otters to sea otters. [Both these animals are still cute to btw, they're js definitely a little scary in comparison].
[Everyone together.]
Alright, I hope everyone likes this little slop post before I lock in for the future! Like I've said earlier, I have no ill will towards any of the actresses or actors in the Star Wars Sequels, all of that goes to J.J Abrams, and Disney executives. So much could've been done with the Sequels. Either taken from Lucas or Legends, or something totally new and fresh for the franchise that could've given so much more lore and world building. But oh well, I'm a day and a dollar short, so now I'm just yapping about this on the internet.
So, I've been a bit offline lately. I'm still continuing my art no problem! I've just been at work, and I've just had problems with fully rendering art. I love to still sketch, but I'm getting burnt out with making fully done artwork. I don't know why this happens to me sometimes, I'm sorry. However, I am embarking on a huge project recently.
I HATE the sequels😭💔. I know I'm not exactly in the minority for this, but man, I rewatched them recently because my friend is watching ALL of the Star Wars movies, and man they're all just full of bad writing and unused potential. It makes me so sad. [BTW this is no hate towards the actors or actresses they truly did their best with what they had]. I have so many ideas of what could've been done and how the franchise could've been more respectful towards both the new characters and the og ones we know and love.
I decided I'm just gonna redesign and write some drabbles about it, and post it to my Tumblr in the upcoming weeks. I might even actually post this stuff on YouTube if anyone is interested idk. I'm just super passionate about all this, and I needed a slight break from just straight Fairy Tail content.
Once again these are all just kind of bad sketches. If you guys have any questions or are interested, please comment or dm or ask me😆. I'm excited for all this. Hope everyone likes this!
Side note: I can't STAND Kylo Ren, everyone hates on Ren, but he is so much more of a bum from a writing standpoint to me, Adam Driver is hot tho so I guess this is an equivalent exchange.
So uh, I haven't posted in a hot minute 💀. I need to get back to work! I haven't been under a slump or anything, I've just been out on a fantastic family cruise, and I got a bit distracted 😭.
While I did a lot of new things [like karaoke in front of a crowd], when I did find occasional glimpses of solitude, I just ended up reading really good star wars time travel fanfics because there is NO end of ROTS!
Getting Padme's face right is always so weirdly difficult for me compared to Anakin. I don't know why, I just think Natalie Portman has such a beautiful face, and I find it very difficult to reference without messing it up too much. Anyways, I'm a huge fan of those modern au fics where Padme is a beautiful, career-driven lady who's just rushing her life, and then Anakin comes crashing in to keep on her toes. Also him being absolutely in love with her first is a MUST!
Well I hope this doesn't look too much of a mess, and I do plan on making more fully rendered pieces soon, and actually doing some writing once I get accustomed back to my job and back in my native state. Hope everyone like this piece and take care!
I always seem to draw Juvia it seems. I ended up making her gown a bit more intricate then the last post. I have never drawn lace before. It is really small, so you might have to zoom in to see it. This design is meant to be the gown Juvia wears when she is going to be sacrificed and killed. This is the arc where she must confront her past and put it behind her to be with the people who love and care for her in the present.
I added some more lore to the reason behind Juvia's rain always following her around. To be honest, it's not hard to give Juvia more backstory because well she barely has any😭. I decided to make her rain based not only on her emotions but a curse she inflicted by accident when she awakened her powers for the first time due to a horrific loss. We know that curse powers and curses [not the jjk kind] exist in Fairy Tail and are brought on by negative emotions, so I don't think this would be too much of a stretch.
I like the idea that the rain can also be a symbolism for her negative feelings or depression. This is kind of a headcanon of course, but throughout the series the rain mostly comes when Juvia is experiencing stronge negative emotions. I wanted to interpret Juvia as someone who is dealing with something similar to depression in arc she's introduced and only through gaining a real proper support system and facing the roots of her trauma and pain do those feelings mostly vanish. I'm not an expert or doctor, so I hope this isn't coming off insensitive, I just thought someone so linked to sadness and rain could be interpreted this way.
I never liked how in the original series the rain simply just vanishes after her fight with Gray. Someone who has been so sad for so long isn't just going to magically get better after one good event y'know? I'm not saying this wouldn't be a catalyst for happiness for Juvia, but I wished we could see her actually get better at dealing with those negative emotions on her own and with the help of others.
In the fanfic, I wanted Juvia to be someone who is incorrectly managing these negative emotions and feelings in the Phantom Arc where she is introduced. She bottles her emotions to seem more presentable to others, and not disturb anyone, seeming aloof or even apathetic to most. While her rain isn't exactly pouring down, it is forever present, a symbol of the pain that is always there and always present. This would put her at odds with someone with as much tenacity as Lucy. Even after she joins Fairy Tail, she still has trouble letting go of these more unhealthy behaviors she has carried from the past. I planned also for Juvia and Lucy to have more of a dynamic, I'll probably go over it in another post.
I wanted Juvia to indeed see the sun after her battle with Gray [a light at the end of the tunnel], but I wanted her rain to somewhat remain present until this arc where she faces her past, and truly accept the love of Fairy Tail and join team Natsu. It is only then that the rain finally disappears for the first time completely.
Whoa that was a lot of yap, I'm so sorry. If you have made it this far, I'm just going to go over the design choices.
I wanted Juvia's look here to give a feeling of slight romanticism/eroticism. A loose gown that still shows off her form, and a forlorn expression. I got a lot of inspiration off of 1980s gothic romance book covers, an unused nightgown for Padme, older wedding dresses, and other gothic movie influences. I wanted her look to be both very vulnerable and still look regal and sensual. This is the arc I wanted Juvia to properly fall in love with Gray in so that also played a part here. What I mean by this is of course want Juvia to have a strong attraction to Gray from there very first meeting, but several moments and this arc leads to her ultimate passionate and unyielding love for him.
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Overall, I am very proud of this so far. I haven't done thin and sharp lineart like this in a while, and it was great practice and very refreshing. I'm so sorry if this post it too long. Once again, I do apologize for that. I hope everyone likes this post. I love drawing Juvia, and I hope that was conveyed here.
This is actually supposed to be a design for Juvia in an arc for the fanfic I've been yapping about in most of my posts. I feel like for such a popular character, Juvia really doesn't have too much known about her background compared to some of her companions. I wanted to rectify that, so I had a full arc planned on her past, and her working through that. I wanted to integrate her into Team Natsu in the fic since that would give her more time with everyone and elevate her to that more mc status, but I wanted the transition to feel natural. I noticed that in Fairy Tail there's a bit of a formula for Team Natsu characters.
Especially in the early arcs, every member of Team Natsu would get a bit of their own backstory and arc introduced, and this arc would always have them resolve an issue from their past and bring the team closer together by the end. Power of friendship, fighting, all that good stuff.
Examples:
Erza-Tower of Heaven
Gray-Galuna Island
Wendy-Cait [or cat?] Shelter
Lucy-Phantom Lord [Key of the Starry Sky Arc, although I think this is anime only]
Natsu- Tbh this one is more confusing but I guess, Tartaros would be a good answer.
Point is, there is always a backstory arc for a member of Team Natsu that brings everyone closer as a team and as friends. If I wanted to put Juvia in Team Natsu, I needed to make sure it didn't feel too forced or uncomfortable. I decided to create a backstory arc that brings in Team Natsu and Gajeel and Levy, and by the end Juvia would be closer to everyone in Team Natsu, and become a part of the team.
The arc's main themes will be about memory as well as present relationships over past guilt. Frowndown is gonna be the name of Juvia's birthplace/town. I even mapped it out [I'm doing way too much ngl]. I actually looked up Frowndown because that sounded almost like an arc in One Piece, but I was both surprised and happy that it wasn't. Anyway, I am placing the arc a little after the Battle of Fairy Tail arc and before Cait Shelter arc.
Juvia's backstory timeline goes a bit like this:
Time in Frowndown- Birth until 8 years old
Orphanage time- 8-12 yrs old [she meets and befriends Gajeel at 10 years old, this would be not too long after Gajeel was sent to the present]
Time as a Phantom Mage Wizard- 12-19
Fairy Tail- 19-Present
Hope this all makes sense, and I'm sorry for such a longer post. I'll probably make a more concrete design for her appearance in the future.
May the 4th be with you guys! I drew a snippet of Padme during the funeral scene. This is lowkey for an art project. I always loved how she looked in this scene even if it does make me incredibly sad. If only Anakin had stayed in that damn temple!
So for this design, I obviously went a bit simpler this time. This is primarily because Levy is not as main of a character as the others I have redesigned and honestly, I was already pretty happy with her original design. I apologize if it's not detailed enough, I've been super busy with finals. After this upcoming week, I will finally obtain freedom.
I liked the idea of Levy both being super cute while having a very slight edge to her. I imagine she explores this more as Gajeel perhaps rubs off on her a little. I don't know if I conveyed her frame properly, but I always found it funny that Levy canonically is pretty flat-chested but has a great ass, so I tried to draw that. I hope I succeeded 😭. I ended up making her hair in the unfiltered art a lot more saturated and blue-green leaning, and I made her eyes much more yellow in color. Besides liking the color scheme, I wanted her hair to be very different from my Juvia redesign and I wanted her eyes to read as more of a golden yellow than the golden brown I used for Lucy's eyes.
In my writing concepts for the fanfic, I plan on including a lot more scenes for Levy to get to show off her intelligence. I really loved her scenes in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, and I always wished we got to see more of Levy's very high academic intelligence especially since a lot of people headcanon her as a nerd anyway. I always felt a little sad all of that bookish knowledge just ended up going to Lucy as the series goes on, they both definitely could have shared that role. I also didn't want Levy to look too shy. She's fairly popular and even had three guys pining for her at one point, she's definitely got to have a little confidence y'know? She's definitely an underrated baddie for sure!
Anyways, I hope this design still feels like Levy. I tried using Clip Studio Paint again to some interesting success. I hope everyone likes this design, and more will come in the future as I descend into studying for my finals and reading anidala fanfiction.
So, I decided the next person I wanted to redesign would be Levy. I like Levy a lot, and honestly since she's not quite as major of a character like Jellal or Wendy [my other two choices for the next redesign], I decided to go with her instead.
I wanted to make Levy still have that cute, bookish vibe she had in the original, but I just added slight stylish differences. Originally, I thought about giving Levy a very office-siren adjacent design, but I ended up deciding against it. I instead wanted her outfit to read as cute with the slightest bit of edginess. Like a bunny bearing its teeth y'know?
I ended up changing her hair a bit because honestly, her originally style was just hell for me to draw. It was probably the bangs or something. I instead gave her the ponytail style she had during the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, and her hair without the hairband look. I also thought she would look cute with freckles.
I'm obviously not done, but this is all I got for now. I'll come back with more soon. Like I said earlier, Levy's design will be a little less detailed to give me a break before doing a really huge redesign like Wendy or Jellal. This especially concerns Jellal with his 50,000 identities [I know there's only like 3].
So um... I'm obviously a huge fan of Gruvia, and I haven't posted in a while so I just whipped this up. I always like the idea of Gray being the more hesitant one when it comes to initiating romance, but when he goes in, he GOES IN y'know? Does that sound dirty, I sure hope not...
It's been a while since I've actually drawn a kiss scene so sorry if it looks bad. Their looks are based off of the redesigns I posted for them in the past so especially with Juvia if her hair looks off, that's why.
I hope everyone likes this, I love them so bad.
P.S. I totally suck a paneling so pls don't judge me too harshly if the formatting is wrong💔😭.
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