keikidisciple

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[rontra]

I made natsutrice a ryukishi-style sprite because i………..don’t know when to quit and never do anything halfway

About 70% pilfered from other sprites & redrawn and 30% off the dome art (style-matching the hand was a nightmare)

I don’t rly know what to say at this point because I’m just impressed at my own dedication to nonsense project no on asked for. I hope u like it.best witch. she is REAL……

[blatantly-contradictory]

Art by okolobaka

[meiuya]

beautiful world full of love

[sockssquishiiii]

birdify that bird girl more.

[narantaran]

hello narantaran !! Just wanna say i very much adore your art and characters 🙏 they're very much unlike any other I've seen and aaaaa idk something about them hits a certain part of my brain very well yes !!

I wanted to ask how you go about creating names for your characters. do u make them up? or are they derived from certain things? folklore? Particular cultures? perhaps baby name websites ? or is it just whateva

i find your character names to be very unique and was very curious how you come up with them !!

belllooooooo

i feel special thank you

thats great that you like meh characters. teehee

how do i go about creating names... yes i do make them all up x] ! i think them having unique names makes it easier for me to like them and also makes them stand out easier for when i create a comic or something!

as to how i come up wit them wellllll...

its all about how it sits on the tongue

for example this left characters name is definitely SASBADI of the stars and the right one is definitely YFALU the moon queen because it just sits right with me to call them that!

guy on the left is definitely ASTORTRO son of adraviras because this guy is letter A shaped and astortro sounds like something related to astrology so it does sound like a name for somebody like him... Demi god wizard guy....

the one on the right is ADRAVIRAS. OF COURSE her name is ADRAVIRAS! i feel like it somehow sounds so godly out of this world just like her

i think WUDSJAK is the name i love the most out of all the ones ive made up because the W sounds smooth and his name ends with a K sound so its both smooth and rough! just like him!

what im saying is that i alway try to make the names somehow represent the design

like bouba and kiki

[narantaran]

Hellooo hey narantaran👀👀 Gosh gosh gosh I have so many questions but I don wanna bother u. you’re literally the coolest artist I know and I admire your art more than u can ever imagine I’m a HUGE fan and I frickin love your ocs!!!

Pretty sure a bunch of people have already asked you this already but how did you practice art? All your designs are extremely creative and you’re style is super unique, how exactly did you build your style? Do you have any specific artists that you follow? Anything that helped you form it as you learnt how to draw? My main question is about where and how you learnt anatomy,character design and colour-picking, (or how u got your style/learnt to draw in general) since that’s what attracts me the most about your art.

I’d love to hear about it and I wish to be as good at drawing as u someday give me ur knowledge oh cool and enlightened narantaran

please DO "bother" me *itisnotabotherreallyyy*... keep asking stuff im entertained xD

aw eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeehehe thank you so much im glad to be in your mind.. i still have so much to learn x)

*here are my old characters that i still would like to give them use some day* for starters i used to draw like this:

i still like this artstyle.. it fit what i was drawing in the moment... these teen characters having fun... but i still wish i had made more art in these times... way more so i could have a lot of stuff to look at now because i didnt make that much art as i wish i had of my characters. i really wanted them to be famous and i did 3 little comics and i wish i had made more

so yeah i used to have this cartoonish style directly inspired by SPIROU! Im still a big fan of the spirou comics and wish to learn french one day!!

AND THEN.....

one day i found myself listening to mano negra *sidi h bibi* as i had found the song out of nowhere and seriously listen to this song!! something changed in me when i heard it i tell ya!!! SOMETHING CHANGED!!!! I LOVE MANO NEGRA!!!!!! MANO NEGRAAAAAA MANO NEGRAAAAAAAAAA MANU CHAOOOO

i pictured some beautiful scenery when i heard this song!!! so then i decided out of nowhere that i wanted to make cowboys. Never was i so interested about making something western related until now!! so...

i made these guys! chilly and viyone! this is a drawing from december 2023,, my second earliest drawing of them!! one thing i really liked about making characters was the kind of clothes they would wear so with these new cowboys and their story i decided i wanted to make something more fashionable... in a way... i want every character to look GOOD... explore how far i can take my designing skills... so yeah...

then i watched jojos

because obviously hirohiko araki has some INSANE stylistic choices that i wanted to learn about... *i havent read steel ball run yet...*

and then i watched a lot of movies!!! im still on my journey to keep watching movies!!! find more weird stuff that reminds me of my own story!!! i can mention to you some big movie inspirations like The Fall (2006), Zardoz (1974), Forbbiden Zone (1980) ANDDD the whole filmography of director Alejandro Jodorowsky hehe god i LOVE him and his art oh WOW the man is VERY VERY OLD now and im sad i wont get the chance to ever meet him... but yeah....

the book BLOOD MERIDIAN also got me very intrigued as a lot of visual descriptions of passersby in the book sound a lot like characters id make... i havent finished that book...

but the main inspiration *visually* for my art which revolves around my story has to be my city TIJUANA!!!! sadly but for the best i dont live there anymore, the moment i started making more cultural looking stuff i really wanted to grasp tijuanas cultural influence over me, i dont think i can explain it here but theres something about tijuana, this city sucks, it is not safe, that somehow makes it cool... theres a lot of diversity, a lot of surrealism, a lot of REALITY.... I dont even understand... but thats how my story feels like to me, and i wont say a word no more

did i even answer your questions :0 I got carried away blah blah blah lalalalalalaal

to make this post even more longer ill directly answer them here:

"how did you practice art?"

i am a visual learner everything i make is based on what i think looks nice and thats based on art ive seen, i just go with the flow with what i can do and if something doesnt look right i change it and if it still doesnt look right i kill myself

"how exactly did you build your style?

this one is what the post is about! hehe but i truly believe that like every person that creates in anyway i have something inside of me that has its own shape its own color and my job is to learn how to GET IT OUT EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT TO

"Do you have any specific artists that you follow?"

why is my mind blank sorry i wish i could think of some good answer hehe

"Anything that helped you form it as you learnt how to draw?"

I DONT KNOW AHHHH

"My main question is about where and how you learnt anatomy,character design and colour-picking"

i learned copying and studying other artists anatomy style... the artist "gunkyfrogs" on tiktok is who im talking about! i was hooked by how fluid their drawings were.. i think that helped a lot! IM NOT THAT GOOD AT ANATOMY HONESTLY HEHEHE NOT REALLY NOT REALLY THAT GOOD MAN and sometimes in a blue moon i practice drawing real human bodies

Colour picking comes just from inside my heart which is warm. I like warm colors. I actually like the yellow mexican filter people hate... i like it for my own reasons... thats why my drawings are yellow... and i just really like colors... i play with them until they are pleasure to my eyes...

I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS GODDAMN LONG POST! you made me think a lot now im tired hehe but its a pleasure to be able to speak this much to someone whos interested! toodles!

[narantaran]

there is a BIG cockroach somewhere in the house

[dont-play-with-scissors]

[star-conch]

Hi! I really really like your art. The way you stylise it is just so cool. Do you have any art advice for someone without a lot of experience?

thank you so much this is like the biggest compliment ever!! I wasn't sure how to answer this so i tried just to write a lot and give examples i hope this works

i remember obsessing over sinix's anatomy quick tips series

might be too much info i just like to pause and copy the sketches

basic things about the face i always use as reference when drawing

exaggerate/loosen up -

I redrew some old character interactions so u can see what I mean. Making characters lean and squash their faces together makes poses less stiff and more interesting I GUESS. Pic 2, different angle made it way more aewesomeness

and don;t be afraid to exaggerate expressions just because they make you characters look ugly

steal from other artists -

The biggest way I improved was just copying ppls artstyles.. in pic 1 I tried to copy the expression by taking my fave traits like the dark eyebags and whatever theyre doing with the mouth and eyebrows. pic 2 i stole rendering style and eyes

studying from life is good of course too. but i feel like it can be too mych and you just dont know where to start and it can be real boring so referencing other artist style can really help figure out how to stylize and simplify and its more fun...........

artists i referenced are Narantaran on twt and mean.velvet on insta

here's some process stuff. I like to look at peoples art process so maybe you do too

last things to sayyy um

dont stress so hard on each piece, zoom out to the big picture no need to obbsess over one mistake no ones gonna notice anyway.

avoid doing the same boring 3/4 busts over and over again.. experiment, but dont take expirimenting so seriously that you get overwhelmed

More on avoid doing the same boring thing having an intention b4 i start drawing makes me draw more and the end product is cooler. Like i write down a bunch of ideas in my notes and now the next time i sit down to draw i have somewhere to start. Sounds like a small thing but now i draw less to doodle and more to make cool projects

biggest thing don't lose your passion.. get artist friends to inspire u, draw your self indulgent stuff because it will probably be your coolest and most creative, andd don't get caught up in what other poeople would want you to draw

[llamasyes]

shou comm 🐅

[rylusussy]

yachisaki compilation

[narantaran]

Latora... third main character who doesnt appear for much but enough for you to miss her... shes the comic relief who plays a crucial part for the story aaaand she can cook with whatever she finds around

[shandzii]

YAYAY

[touhoufigureposts]

By Gadouken, Hijouguchi, Nekoshiki Bou

[keikidisciple]

HI SHOU

[dingdrawz]

Frankly I think we should all start coloring like Lisa Frank

[aragonlediagon]

🐉🐰🌧️

Late posting this, but introducing one of my OCs, Ame (雨 ; あめ ; "ah-meh")

Theyre a character I made for a story Im writing since quite a while now, inspired by shinto mythology, Ame specifically takes part of a personal reinterpretation of the myth of Izanagi & Izanami. This story was initially only PC98 Touhou headcanons, but as I retired from Touhou, I ended up twisting it into its own thing.

Ame is a kuzuryuu (dragon yokai which has powers over the weather) plus a mix of ghost eel, jorunna parva ("sea bunnies") and cyerce elegans. I really like fih 🐟. A lot of their concept also takes inspiration from kofun era's fashion which I find very underrated, I think it fits for a very ancient and hidden deity.

This is also a concept Im working on associating with an Utau voicebank, hence why I havent been posting much art these past monthes, I have been focused on Utau. I had initially planned on showcasing their debut on december 29th but had to postpone it as I faced technical issues. This is long to explain because its due to my IRL situation, but finding occasions to record the voicebank have been a huge pain. Im also unsure yet if Ill make the voicebank openly available for download because im very protective of my concepts, especially if it has my voice associated with it.

Anyway, for a near future, Im considering having some place on neocities where I could put all the lore Ive been building. Ill keep posting on here, but I think a more classic blog interface is more practical for that sort of stuff.

[ratrocity]

happy new year, here's some drunk old women