James Frio Art

Artist working in Animation • Background Design and Illustration • 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him https://linktr.ee/JamesFrio

[jamesfrio]

process video for my most recent Silksong piece.

[jamesfrio]

A few months ago, I decided to remake my online persona. Below is the illustration and the subsequent animation. The concept is being a warlock of art, with the patron being some kind of eldritch art god. Warlock is my favorite D&D class.

From here, I knew I wanted to animate it. I think this was about two weeks worth of work in total. Animation was done in Clip Studio Paint

The eyes are based on the divinity stance of The Watcher from Slay the Spire (can't wait for STS2)

Finally, all compiled together, this is the animated logo for my YouTube channel. The music here was a mix of a bunch of different things - whispering, weird vibraphone, and some other stuff I can't remember. I'll make another post breaking down how I animated everything in detail. I think that would be fun to expand on. Let me know what you think

[jamesfrio]

The Silksong is REEEAAAAL. Man, big shoutout to Team Cherry for another absolute banger. Silksong has been fantastic, and I'm still working through it (no spoilers!) Had to celebrate this one with some fanart. How are you liking Silksong? Have you made any of your own fanart yet??

[jamesfrio]

Astarion from BG3. Everyone's favorite vampire pansexual disaster. I realize that list is probably quite long now that I think about it.

[jamesfrio]

Testing out the waters for CSP and using screen tones/halftones etc. Arjhan and Vanak having a good ‘ol time fighting horrors beyond mortal comprehension. Go to my instagram and hit the like button and follow me there for more https://www.instagram.com/p/CnNGiQCOaV6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 

[mattsstupidart]

This entire twitter thing with Elon felt like a goddamn Eggman plot….though….I guess the main difference is that Eggman actually creates all his inventions himself lol Also a small cameo from @vtuberloveslug!

[jamesfrio]

Happy caturday you freaks. Maybe you’ll like some sketches based on some memes I found on twitter instead.

[jamesfrio]

Finally had some time between classes to finish some fanart. Thanatos from Hades the game. Someone made a short animation a while ago where Zag was fighting Theseus and Asterius and getting his ass beat when all of a sudden, Than shows up from a summon. It was so well done, it inspired me to make some Than fanart. This took me much longer than I had wanted - I blame it on my lack of process. I just sat down with an idea in my head, did a few thumbnails and started sketching. I expect more from my students...I should be a better example! Speaking of process - timelapse coming soon!

[zevlore]

ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021) by Riot Games and Fortiche Production Happy 1-year anniversary!

[jamesfrio]

better than the dota2 anime, no contest. 

[jamesfrio]

Animations I did [Part 1] About a year and a half ago, I started working with a company called Hit Point Press. They’re working on making a series of spell reference cards, and I was asked to make some animations for them.  The animations are 8-frame loops that were to be printed on these lenticular cards - so when you hold them up, you can move the card and see the change. I don’t have to tell you...8 frames is very resctivtive. But it was a very fun restriction, albeit frustrating at times.  The spells you can see here are: Feign Death, Blade Ward, Dispel Evil and Good, Blade Barrier, Mind Blank, and Plane Shift.  all in all, I think I did somewhere upwards of 14 spells? I’ll post more here in the future so come check it out!

[shnikkles]

Various old Beetlejuice scribbles. The first two images are my first drawings of the designs for Beetlejuice and Lydia I used for “The Whole Being Dead Thing” video.

[thebeardlyben]

So hey, let's carry on with this #Gnollvember YGH commission!

#gnollvember2022

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[bunniapa]

I’ve already said this on twitter but if you are a new artist coming to tumblr, please do not post all your artwork at once! Tumblr hides the posts of new accounts in both searches and tags as a way to verify first if they are a bot. This happened to me. 

You need to first be a little active here: like some posts, follow people, rb stuff you like! I wish I knew this at the start because I had to deal with my art posts being hidden for months even. Take it slow at first and best of luck!  

[jamesfrio]

for all the twitter migrators 

[jamesfrio]

Here’s a recent profile pic commission I made for a friend. They wanted a raccoon with antlers wearing a decked out witch’s hat. Very fun project just in time for Halloween 🎃

[toothulu]

i did this awhile back for an OC vampire ball thing but it's spooky season again so i get to repost it now

liv's date, sael, belongs to my friend nami

[jamesfrio]

Happy Halloween everyone!! Here’s a spoooooky Chandelure for your viewing pleasure. Did this just about a year ago but came back to it to touch some things up. There’s something to be said about revisiting a piece with a new perspective - it’s something I do from time to time, and it’s nice to see growth between those periods. 

[jamesfrio]

Hello Tumblr...it’s been a while. with the recent events of twitter hindenburging due to it’s new very-normal-and-okay owner, I’ve decided to try new avenues. Truth be told, I’ve been meaning to come back here for a while. It was a nightmare trying to find an audience on twitter. It felt like no matter what, I couldn’t grow a following. Same for instagram but we all know why that is.  Anyway, Here’s some self-indulgent Fanart of my D&D character (the dragonborn) Arjhan and Ana, the  half-elf and her *babby* dragon, Spark, in the back seat. They’re both very dragon-adjacent in our campaign. 

If we haven’t met before, please say hi! I need new art friends!!