hi y'all im evory or ev or cromnom or whatnot lol, pick your poison
i do art stuff sometimes!
i will art often of various characters. better be prepared for whatever
dms are open if y'all wanna chat or vibe or nerd out over art or fandoms, the whole works
also casual study/productivity blog where i do things sometimes as well @evorystudies
evory but real now hi hello im real in the real world doing things.
like an art market !
this was my first time being a vendor at an art market! terrifying experience tbh, but very fun :D
art market rambles
My friend's college hosted an art market a few months back. Since it was mainly geared for college students to be vendors, each 10x10 space only cost $25 which I thought was a pretty good deal.
I had a few months to prepare for it, but a mix of co-leading a conference, work stuff, and my differential equations class specifically made me procrastinate getting ready for a while. Not my brightest moment, but we live and we learn I guess.
these prints arrived in the mail like five days before the art market
I think I had two midterms the same week of that art market so I was WAY behind in preparations. And the friend who I was supposed to share a vendor space with bailed last minute, so I was really panicking. Shout out to my sister who begrudgingly drove my annoying ass around the next city over at 7am to get everything set up.
And shout out to my other friend (@massivelynerdymint!!!) who asked to share a vendor space with me last minute and let me use their vendor displays! They were way more experienced in doing art markets than me, so they did strategic art market moves like yanking me out of the corner of our booth because I felt awkward and was about to bolt.
Turns out people looking at your art in real life is a very different feeling than people looking at your art online! Go figure!
Because you're there, y'know? You can't just exit the tab or pace around a bit. You gotta be there and look at people looking at your art. And with a lot of people there being ACTUAL vendors with cool set-ups, I felt way out of place lmaoooo
In all honesty I didn't expect to make much since I joined mostly just for the experience. But the first ten minutes go by and my initial goal of "I just want to break even" shifted to "Okay maybe let's just try to make a single sale lol hah...ha..."
Anyways it look a while to get used to lol, but I think I was getting the hang of saying "Hello! Anything catch your eye?" if someone lingered near my section.
My first sale was a lady who looked over my prints and responded to that question with "Your art style.." So that's gonna be a core memory for the next eighty or so years. (She ended up getting a Vincent print :))
And throughout the art market, there were a few people interested in how I made the prints. So I ended up going on spiels about trying to imitate oil paintings and which particular oil painter I had been studying and how I tried to include their style and it was really fun to get to explain all that and have someone listen to me yap lol
I also ended up making a few art trades! Got some beautiful photography as well as a demon character print. And I bought a gorgeous print of an underwater scene with peak composition.
Overall, it was a really fun experience. I got to vibe with some friends and learn how art markets work. I also broke even!
And the feeling of someone buying some of your art when there were ~150 other vendors is unmatched. Like out of everyone here, you want to spend your money here???
an attempt at mucha's style since i haven't tried that in a while
art rambles
progression pics
and my horribly disorganized pureref sheet and layers
line art is hard lol. tried a bit to make it look weighted (?) but it's very much still sketchy
proud of how the helmet came out though. i meant to keep the shading mostly soft, but i couldn't help but add just a few brush strokes to carve out the lighting.
anyways this took forever so don't expect it often lol
off topic but i'm taking an art history class for the writing intensive credit, and it's been SO MUCH FUN SO FAR. the temptation to leave my betrothed (chemE) and elope with my childhood best friend (visual arts) haunts me everyday. old art is so much fun to look at. highly recommend. go look at old art. do it. do it.
narumi ipad doodle because there was free time between the conferences :D
never taking pressure sensitivity for granted again. i hadn't been aware how much i used it for brush size and especially opacity, so this was very much a struggle lol
had an art hangout with friends after being really busy for a while. never been the best at watercolor, especially for portraits but i wanted to try it out a bit more.
Finally FINALLY drew a pretty version of my Avior and Corvus what do we think gang :33c
I like to imagine that all demons have their constellation on their face, and even tho they can hide it most choose to leave it visible. Also Corvus gave himself extra freckles because he felt unbalance with his constellation only being on one eye- plus humans usually have them all over and he wants to fit in
@moronkyne's redacted art challenge once again. i just really liked the idea of making porter's skin gray like a corpse.
art rambles
doodled some thumbnails since i wanted to focus more on color composition and shapes.
my porter design usually has long hair but i liked the look of uneven short hair which would help frame the face in a stark white. also tried to keep the hair rendering to a minimum for that same reason.
also reference picture here. was helpfully labelled The Guy in my pureref sheet.
progress pictures
also i was looking for my old porter art and stumbled on my porter mini comic for redactedober 2024. that was. a rollercoaster of emotions lol
happy birthday to the ever amazing @evorycromnom who has been an absolute delight to get to know over the last year 🫶 here's to many more cam vids in the very near future 😋