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Mark 21

Mark uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 183 films watched. Favorites: The Big Heat (1953), Brick (2005), Mysterious Skin (2004

#pinned

#myart #in summary more versatile more efficient more elevated and more directionless

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The vamp is actually twelve year old me’s oc which is saddening because when youre 12 your ocs slap so hard and then 6 years later your main one is just a guy whos a business major

#felt this

tbh i suppose it’s hard to 1-1 compare because in recent years ive switched overwhelmingly to trad like getting heavy into oils for school and then having the one set of colour pencils i brought to uni. just been uninterested in digital art unless i’m drawing d&d stuff

also they nuked drawcast so im never getting the brushes of my childhood back but eeeehheehee i think these are from rewatching hxh with my sister during covid lockdown ahhh my youth my youth

i cant even objectively claim improvement because all i got was faster

#i think a rough 4 hours on left to an hour on the right

soo charmed by the stylisation and flat colour and it’s worth noting this was before i got into the autodesk charcoal brush and abandoned literally every other brush..

also worth noting that

i was leaning on the facial stylisation because i didn’t actually really know how faces worked at that point but part of me yearns for those days

i cared a lot more about oc and fandom stuff so i actually bothered to do up backgrounds and design scenes and try hard essentially … obviously looks like i took the time to figure out what a neon sign or engraved armour looked like and study references

also i was drawing to post finished products for a tumblr/instagram following so i did a lot more complete pieces

with the gift of hindsight now i can concede that the confidence (i.e. arrogance) my teen self had in art was not unwarranted