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From Curious to Hooked in One Evening
I went in skeptical. An AI girlfriend sounded like a gimmick. But one evening on sweetdream.ai turned that around fast. Designing her was genuinely fun, and the first real conversation felt warm and surprisingly natural.
By the end of the night I understood the appeal. The chat remembered what I'd said, the photos matched the person I built, and a quick voice message sealed it. SweetDream is the rare thing that's better than the pitch.
Drawing of Celeste. Yeah, kinda what it is basically.
Wanted to do a Celeste piece, so I did. I’m very happy with this one! Especially how much quicker it took to make than my previous drawing, which is refreshing :) Honestly, I don’t think I have a lot to say except rambles about making it. I like Celeste a lot so I made a thing. That’s pretty much it.
Drawing this one was a real breeze compared to recent work. No torture devices hidden as perspective, no tedious referencing, and no excessive amounts of minutia (sort of). As it turns out I am much better at drawing whole landscapes than even the smallest sections of interiors. It’s a lot more freeform and you’re not necessarily required to keep inside the lines and it speeds up my process a lot more. I guess when everything is lined and defined I feel compelled to take my time (What rhymes!), or be more precise? I’m not sure, maybe it’s just the nature of interiors that I get caught up in.
This one’s got some of my favourite stuff to draw in it: night scene (so I can do a vignette), simple colour scheme, glowy stuff, and a sprinkling of snowflakes through the air. I like my sprinkles :) I absolutely love the foreground, very snowy, very icy. I’m very proud of it. Also Madeline and Badeline on either side of the ice in the asphalt. It’s kinda lore accurate and that kind of detail makes me happy. heheh.
Anyway, 5/12 is coming up soon so I should be starting something for that hopefully soon. No comic updates :( Been getting too into the flow of making stuff other than it.
Quanxi and her brood eating out
(at a restaurant).
These guys have been knocking around my head for quite a bit. I feel like their stay in the manga wasn’t long enough to show their capabilities as characters in full, or maybe I just want a spin-off following them run around, doing stuff and killing fools. My solution is fanart :)
I’m back! After a couple months of not peeping out of my hide-y hole I’m making a peep! Haven’t been active for various reasons: burn out, mental health, interpersonal stuff. Life stuff really. Anyway, things seem to be calming down a bit so I’m hoping to get back into the rhythm of making things. So here’s the first of those! A Chainsaw Man thing!
Yet another torturous angle. I discovered how to use three point perspective while making this! But by then I had already drawn so much… Anyway, I had a blast making this one. I got to try out a lot of things I’ve been wanting to for a while (loosey goosey light, drawing a ton of food, different wall texturing methods), and indulged in some of my favourite stuff (an absurd amount of lining, lot of different characters, boobs… and a Signalis reference because I couldn’t think of anything else to put there). It’s a very jam-packed picture, and much more ambitious for me than what I normally do. Although what an “ambitious” drawing for me is seems to be getting steeper and steeper as I make more and more. Well, that’s how things go! Because of that the timelapse ended up being 38 minutes long. I’m hoping I’ll set out to do something a little less involved next. (Like seriously, this took 46 hours all up!)
(Not much news on the comic front, still writing it. Very slowly. Like how a snail writes.) Hope everyone has a good spooky month and a happy HALLOWEEN!
BONZO! BONZO BONZO! BONZO BONZO BONZO? BONZO!!!
I've been quietly working in the background on a bunch of these little illustrations to flesh out my sticker catalogue for when I evetually get around to selling them... one day... And the most recent project of these I took on was inspired by The Magnus Protocol! It's a horror/mystery podcast currently airing weekly (and as of today has started the second act of Season 2!!!) The other drawings I've done for this project have been the main cast who are all relatively human, while this guy's been sitting on the end of my to-do list, looking all... bonzo. I've been DYING to finally render him: Mr. Bonzo. Just yearning to get into and draw all his disgusting nooks and crannies.
ENJOY LOOKING AT HIM! I SURE DON'T! HE'S YOUR PROBLEM NOW.
Haven't been doing any print work as of recent, mostly because I've wanted to be working on stuff like this, as well as my comic project, though the latter has been kinda in the background recently for no particular reason. Maybe just because it's getting increasingly bigger and it's my first time doing something so big and it's getting intimidating. I haven't even finished the first draft! Now that this MAGP stuff is done I hope to dedicate more time to writing it. But even from where I am, it's looking like it'll last for the rest of the year doing everything else... Yay?
THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS
Deltarune Chapters 3 & 4 are out, so that means more of the famous mystery man, W.D. Gaster, who doesn't actually have any confirmed design :) He's slowly becoming my favourite character because of how enigmatic he is and how the curtain is slowly, ever so slowly, being drawn back to reveal tiny things that imply other tiny things about him... It compels me deeply! I hope one day we get to meet him face to face in game and get the payoff for the decade of mystery he has to him.
I tried a new process! Instead of lining and flatting everything out after sketching, I just jumped straight into rendering! Digital painting pretty much. It shortened the time on the piece by maybe like 10 hours (maybe?) and it was incredibly fun! I saw another Gaster fanart that I really liked that used rainbow lighting, instantly got hit with inspiration to do that, and jumped straight into drawing this. I think this method of painting is best for illustrations like this where I don't have an actual human body to deal with, in which case I think I'd line it normally for the sake of the anatomy.
I'm hoping this is the first of many Deltarune arts I do. It's such an amazing and DENSE game already, and Undertale was such a big influence on me growing up that I think my soul is due for a lot of drawing about these games. ---- (still working on my comic project. It's taking very long to write, because it is my first time writing something serious.)
Just two girls with their big… artillery cannons…
(cough)
Happy 5/12! (Or 12/5 where I am). Been sitting on this one for a little bit because I wanted to be prepared to post it in a timely manner. So here it is! Very happy to finally be participating in a communal art dump.
I really have a habit of picking the most horrible and torturous angles to draw, huh… This one feels rather strange because the step by step process though out seemed short, but rendering everything felt like a hyperbolic time chamber. Having to fix the perspective in the foreground at the very end made me REALLY angry too. And then the CSP file wouldn’t save cause the timelapse was too big so I had to copy all the assets into a new file and then pretend like nothing happened. I felt a bit crazier by the end of it all. Luckily nothing important was lost, just the metadata in the original file, but I have a spreadsheet to keep track of that.
As a minor announcement, I will ~kind of~ be taking a break (very loosely) from doing print work for a bit cause I feel like I’m holding myself back having that be my main thing at the moment. I want to convey bigger things and better stories more clearly and I don’t feel like I can do that enjoyably in a print medium right now. So, I’m pivoting to work on a relatively short but hopefully sweet comic. Whether I’ll post it when it’s ready, I don’t know. Whether it’ll even be ready is a different matter entirely. I just want a thing to fulfil myself artistically and emotionally for the time being, not made for my profile or anything like that. That being said, fervent inspiration will probably strike me with a politely obtuse blow to the head eventually, exactly when I don’t want it. Who knows how things will go.
Visions from beyond the gate (Signalis)
CW Blood
Got a repost of this in my feed instead of the original. Didn't link to the original artist. Here's the original. It's cool as hell and it deserves the attention. Support original artists.
Someone left a teddy bear in the mines
Falke.
One of my friends describes this as having "The Burger Colour Palette". I think her halos look like macaroni... mmmm...
After my last print (HDWR) I realised I have to learn how to take things slow. I rushed that piece a bit because the manga ended and it's a series I love dearly. I just HAD to get it out of me, which became a roadblock when I found that I didn't know how to draw rainy environments and I got REALLY frustrated. So after that experience I'm not necessarily going slower but I guess I'm trying to temper my fervour and think things through when I encounter a problem.
First Falke piece! I was inspired by some portrait art by Aurahack where the subjects face is lit strangely by some enigmatic sources of light and I thought something like that would work well with Falke, and also I haven't really tried proper portrait art before. When I started this I was planning Falke to blend a bit more into the starry background, as if she is melding into the cosmos, but random "What if I add this?"s kept piling up and then this piece happened. It leaves me so conflicted whenever that happens. "I've abandoned the original amazing idea for an amazing realised graphic. I've done something good, but I didn't execute my original idea?" Maybe I'll circle back to that idea.
Nonetheless I love where this ended up. I wish I could've expanded upon the motif of her cracked eyes but nothing came to me. My favourite parts of this are the clouds that are in front of the back of her halo, and the delicious contrast... oh the delicious contrast...
Well, after this I want to make some daytime art. My best art recently has been the nighttime stuff (this, Elster Bathroom, Ara/Eule, and Star/Eule), and I think I'm lacking the skill to not hide things in a vignette.
Miwa and Saeko from How Do We Relationship?
Prefacing with a recommendation to GO READ HDWR: it's great! It's a romance between two women in their band club (for some reason all the best yuri involves music???), and it's about the struggles of relationships. It focusses way more on the stuff that a majority of romance stories do not include, like: breaking up, strained romance, whether the people in the romance are actually comparable, stuff like that. The first three volumes are scanlated for free, the official english localisation is releasing the twelfth of its total fourteen volumes very soon. It just ended. Go read it. Please. It's more than worth your time.
Aaaaagh. I was in a bit of a scramble to get this done. Not because of any actual demand for art of these two, but because the manga just finished and it's a story that really means a lot to me. So I guess I just wanted to get it out for myself? For like catharsis, or something. Maybe if I get round to making more art of these two the process will get calmer cause I'll have explored more ground. That's kinda how it feels with the Signalis stuff I've done.
Getting this piece off the ground was a bit of a hurdle. I hadn't properly studied what a rainy scene actually is, so there was a lot of futile teeth grinding and hair pulling and just generally being angry. But after I asked my mum about it and I came to the understanding that it's actually pretty dark when it rains the rendering became so much easier and it was pretty smooth sailing from then on. (I'm proud of the rocks)
That being said, I think I need to practice daytime scenery more. I feel like drawing them isn't quite suited to the more noisy style I've developed because you can see more and therefore there will be much more noise than if it was dark I guess. Or I need to fit the style to the scene. IDK. But I think I'm happy with this? I always write these descriptions RIGHT AFTER final export so I'm always unsure about how I feel. Sorry about that haha. Enjoy :)
Because the 'Falke Posting' brainrot is spreading, I want to suggest that when it comes to the Falke/Elster/Ariane relationship, we call them the 'Penrose Polycule'
They need a tag or something to identify them as a throuple outside of just putting slashes between their names, this is my suggestion...
Maintenance 🛠️
Elster with a metaphor problem. (A metaphor for what? It is lost to me...)
I feel like I'm getting better with achieving what I have in mind when I start a drawing, and this is one of those so I don't really feel like there's much to say. Though this was definitely a more ambitious composition than what I'm used to I suppose. I can see technical improvement in a lot places but some things look wonky to me for reasons I am yet to understand (it's perspective stuff, ugh)
I love environments that are lit with sickly green fluorescence, and I’ve done something with a similar colour scheme in the past that I still love, and I wanted to explore that again. I could've left out the red in the foreground to emphasise that, but It's Signalis, I'm obligated to put ominous red light in somewhere. I also had the idea of overlaying a sketch of Elster at some point but the composition just wouldn't allow it, but it looks really good so I have included it.
I'm definitely finished with this, but I don't know how I feel about it yet. I can recognise that it turned out good technically but feel like I lost the sense of emotion at some point. I'm sure I'll find it later. I'm sure the me who started the sketch would be proud of how it turned out. I am going to now read some books and let it be and we shall see how I feel later.
Ara and Eule, deep underground.
Another drawing that surprisingly didn't take as long as I was expecting! It's always wonderful when that happens, and I’m very happy that it did. I've been very excited to explore this style I've happened to fall into: being very noisy and detailed; but I’m also trying to practice enjoying the process and not being too serious or hard on myself. And I feel like I succeeded because it was fun! But I've certainly felt the pull of getting serious and planning a lot of future stuff which I know burns me out severely. So for the sake of my workflow, and because I want to make more things this year than the last, I'm trying to be easy on myself.
But as with most artists probably, I want to draw so many things but have only so many hours in the day, so I want to plan around that so I can draw as much of the stuff I want to as I’m able to, but I know when I get in that mindset I start to burnout. It's a balance. And I'm not in equilibrium yet. Which annoys me, but It's not going to work if I'm not patient.
I also need to learn that often working on something new takes some effort to get off the ground before I’m fully into it and can just blast it out. Now that i’ve finished this, I’ve started working on something new, and it frustrates me because I knew pretty much immediately what I was going to do with this one. Which isn’t happening with the new thing. Patience, me!
Anyway, I really like this one. I think the detail of the planet framing their heads is very fun. And I really enjoy the concept of the whole thing!
Happy New Year! Koharu and Kanna from Love Bullet chilling with some pigeons.
The part where it’s revealed all the pigeons can understand what the cupids say + the chapter illustration of Kanna feeding them really made my heart bubble. That’s why this exists! I finished this yesterday but of course it was new years eve and I was very tired from the big ol’ year last year, so here I am.
Honestly, this feels like the first proper drawing I’ve done since September, which is kinda because it is. The Jammer Lammy drawing in between this and the Septmeber Star/Eule one was sketched and had the bulk of work done on it in July, then finished one day in Novemebr because I was bored, so it doesn’t feel up to scratch.
It feels like a breath of fresh air having finished this. I’m completely happy with it as well! Absolutely no caveats. Every thing balanced in a way that I like. A good drawing to finish the year with. Gonna have a rest now.
Hoping 2025 is a good year for us all <3 Also go read Love Bullet, it’s pretty cool.
Um Jammer Jammy from Parappa The Rapper :)
In a spur of the moment I decided to open a project today that had been collecting dust since September (but it feels longer than that because I started it in July) and it just so happened that I was able to finish it, since all the emotional attachment I had a couple of months ago which had made me rage quit it had dissapeared.
I don't know how to feel about this one quite yet. It doesn't feel like I've finished it, so much as I don't know what else I can do with it; and it lacks that satisfaction of finishing. I haven't dabbled too much in warmer compositions to be confident in them so I'm just like... sure, I don't know. I think I'm just going to have to sit with it for now. Lammy herself is nice though; I really like how I've drawn her hair.
On to something new eventually!
External Stuff:
-I didn't design the Signalis Playstation CD, it's by @namedr ! Their stuff's great! Check 'em out!
-Jamie Paige - Bittersweet
-Barton Fink - If You Know
-June LaLonde - Headjack
-Whale - All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones
A bunch of Helltaker stickers I've made over the last month! So many... So these just kinda happened. It's been a convoluted journey so far and hopefully this is the full stop before a new sentence. I started making a series of Signalis stickers not unlike these ones to "ease" myself out of some burnout in July. Ten stickers, small in size. That's easy, right? What I was unaware of is that it was not ten small things, it was just one really big thing, bigger than one print (which is big for me), which only dawned on me when I finished them in mid October. I had severely underestimated the scale of the project and went in unprepared. Making them dragged on for so long that I was quite tired by the end of it. So what do I do, two days after finishing the final Signalis sticker? I start sketching fifteen Helltaker stickers. Going in, I wanted to learn from the hurdles that I encountered previously. I wanted to draw each sketch in a circle representing like three inches, so I knew for a fact that everything would be the same size. Flatting and lining would be the same, breaking the project into sets of five so I dont feel overwhelmed (good method!). And for rendering I wanted to do something MUCH simpler than the very detailed Signalis project (they were SO detailed), and I hadn't really tried cel shading before so wanted to try something like it. And what I wanted most was to feel good having finished them at the end. And judging by how I'm feeling now (NOT like my soul has been ripped from my flesh), I think I've succeeded!! I'm so proud of these, and the part of my brain that likes collections is happy :) They just look nice! They are exactly what I wanted them to be: simple yet with a lil bit of challenge and personally fulfilling. And in only a month! Oct. 17th-Nov. 17th too! I feel accomplished. I'm kinda sad that this project is over too. Maybe I'll make some more alternative outfit ones eventually. Time will tell. I have a large amount of discontent for Cerberus though... Doing this has made me realise how much I hate her design...
Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is just on YOUTUBE? FOR FREE?
WHAT?
