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Random tired face, in color and greyscale
Genuinely not sure which version I prefer, the color or the greyscale. So I figured, fuck it, why not post both?
What's interesting about this one though is that not only did I not use any references (photo or otherwise), but I didn't even do an anatomical construction drawing for the line art for this one. And considering how the facial features line up, I think I'm starting to get pretty good at proportions (at least for the face, anyway).
Feeling better today, so have some more fanart!
I saw one of the posters for Cowboy Bebop today, specifically the green, red, blue, and yellow one depicting Jet, Spike, Faye and Ed, respectively, and I wanted to try and see if I could recreate Spike's portion of it, but in black and white, to give it a kind of film noir look. At some point during the process, I noticed that I shifted the angle a little bit, so his face isn't facing the viewer head-on, but more like he's glancing over at you.
Overall, though, I'm happy with how it came out. Gave me a chance to practice with my values again, and also to play around with negative space by painting his smile and left eye into the black using my eraser rather than drawing with white on the pen tool. Quick, easy, and pretty fun to make. Took me about an hour. Seems like I'm getting a little faster--though the quicker time might be just because of the simplicity of the subject and the fact that I was relying on negative space doing half of the work for me.
A limerick. Based on a true story.
What I felt like drawing today
Don't really have a title for it. Took a stock photo of a dead plant from an image search, blew it up to fill the screen and decreased the opacity so it all the features were blurry. Then drew over it, deleted the photo, and painted colors underneath. Then I decided to put it on a table to give it a background, then added the hand and painted background colors. This is the result.
Don't really have a reason for drawing it. It's just what I felt like making this morning.
Not really sure what to title this one, to be honest.
Been away from the computer for the past month, due to a family emergency that unfortunately led to a funeral. This is the first piece of art I've drawn since I came back home.
Sharing an original character of mine
So, here's a neat one. Back in September, when I was still teaching myself to draw, I had an idea while I was at my night job for a Conan-esque barbarian character in a mid-to-low fantasy world of anthro animal characters, kinda like Small Saga or Redwall. For some reason, the idea of a muscular barbarian woman who was also a rabbit -- one of nature's least threatening prey animals -- was just so funny to me at the time that I just had to draw her. She went through multiple iterations since then, but her final design as I had conceived of her looked like this:
That drawing was finished beginning of September. It's unsigned because I used a lot of reference photos and a little bit of tracing to put it together. That, and my line work was pretty shoddy at the time, and I was still using the spray paint tool to approximate shading. But it's been several months since then, and I've been making some improvements in my growing skill (such as it is), that I wanted to try redoing this design drawing from scratch, using only the old drawing as a reference. With that, I bring you "Mev," the first character from a collection of character pieces I tentatively called my "Barbarian Bunny" collection (I think when I came up with that title I was imagining a concept for a comic or maybe a game or something? I didn't really put much thought into the setting beyond a handful of characters and a title though). Peep this final design I just finished about an hour ago:
There's a handful of inspirations that went into her look. The axe and front skirt are Kratos from the Norse-era God of War games. The shape of the head is similar to Zootopia's Judy Hopps. The pauldron on the left shoulder and the blue body suit are inspired by Final Fantasy VII's cloud strife (as is the pose here where her weapon is on her shoulder--it's the same pose Cloud has in all his classic concept art), and the facial expression along with the bandolier of throwing knives is meant to be reminiscent of Guts from Berserk.
I'm pretty proud of this one, as you can see!
And just for fun, let me show you some drawings I made of Mev back in September/October when I was first putting my BB collection together and I was also still brand-spankin'-new to the whole digital art thing:
This here is Morrigan, the owl that raised Mev since she was a child. The owl wasn't a pure sketch, but rather me tracing the outline and face of a photo of a barn owl resting on a fence post I came across randomly a while back, with the finer line details and coloring I did myself. I was still in my phase of experimenting with paint and blending tools for the background (I had thought they were just the coolest little things on the UI and I had a ball playing with them).
Here's Mev facing down a fox. I kind of had this idea in my head of predator animals being like dangerous mythological creatures to the anthropomorphic prey animals in this fantasy world, akin to how our knights and fantasy authors think of creatures like dragons (that's also why Morrigan appears so much larger than life in her picture. I got the idea from playing Small Saga, and seeing how the cat mini-boss was rendered in the early game after the prologue, and I just thought that the image was the coolest thing ever. This one was just the outline of a fox (another wildlife photo), but I kept the finer details of his body deliberately vague, while using the spray paint tool over the foreground to sort of shroud his body in darkness and give his eyes a bit of a glowing effect. I think if I ever followed through on making a comic book or strip or writing a story for a game, this fox would be like a first boss encounter or like a first issue antagonist, to kind of set up the threats that exist in Mev's world. The leather and metal pauldrons and the bandolier strap are backwards, here. I didn't notice the accident until much later. This picture is also where I first gave Mev her two green and red beads hanging off the back of her ears, which wasn't present in the initial version of her final design, but which I made sure to include in the redraw.
Finally, the last picture I drew before I decided to redraw Mev's final character design this week: it's just Mev chilling a campfire while contemplating a rabbit skull and thinking about mortality. It's very "Alas, poor Yorick!" Notice that her hands are backwards (thumbs on the wrong side). Body shape and proportions are something I was having trouble pinning down at the time (I'm better at it now, but there's still always room for improvement). I also put a bit more effort into the landscape back and foreground here (in that, a setting backdrop actually exists, lol). There's something cozy about sitting at a campfire. I used to go camping all the time when I was a kid. I kinda miss it sometimes.
Anyway, that's all I have to share with regard to Mev. I've got some other character drawings from Barbarian Bunny that I did...I wanna say in October (they're undated)? Maybe I'll share them at a later date. But for now, I hope you like looking at these pieces!
Because I just realized that the bio might be hard to read (either due to the size of the png or because of my handwriting), here's what it says verbatim:
Character Name: Mev ("derived from "Maeve")
Age: Exact age unknown, but appears to be a young adult (she herself stopped counting after sixteen summers)
Likes: A good fight, a good story, & a good meal
Dislikes: Liars, cheats, overly wordy people who don't speak plain
Loves: Her guardian/surrogate mother, Morrigan the Owl
Hates: Fate, the gods, wizards, & foxes
Bio: The last daughter of a dead tribe, Mev was raised to fight by a wise, mysterious, and terrifying owl. Now she works as a mercenary for hire. Often ties back her ears and sometimes wears a mask and ear covering while on the job to obscure the fact that she is a rabbit woman.
Primary Weapon of Choice: Axe
Secondary Weapon(s): Throwing knives, dagger, and her fists (she's also proficient with a crossbow, though she dislikes using them--too fiddly)
Sharing an original character of mine
So, here's a neat one. Back in September, when I was still teaching myself to draw, I had an idea while I was at my night job for a Conan-esque barbarian character in a mid-to-low fantasy world of anthro animal characters, kinda like Small Saga or Redwall. For some reason, the idea of a muscular barbarian woman who was also a rabbit -- one of nature's least threatening prey animals -- was just so funny to me at the time that I just had to draw her. She went through multiple iterations since then, but her final design as I had conceived of her looked like this:
That drawing was finished beginning of September. It's unsigned because I used a lot of reference photos and a little bit of tracing to put it together. That, and my line work was pretty shoddy at the time, and I was still using the spray paint tool to approximate shading. But it's been several months since then, and I've been making some improvements in my growing skill (such as it is), that I wanted to try redoing this design drawing from scratch, using only the old drawing as a reference. With that, I bring you "Mev," the first character from a collection of character pieces I tentatively called my "Barbarian Bunny" collection (I think when I came up with that title I was imagining a concept for a comic or maybe a game or something? I didn't really put much thought into the setting beyond a handful of characters and a title though). Peep this final design I just finished about an hour ago:
There's a handful of inspirations that went into her look. The axe and front skirt are Kratos from the Norse-era God of War games. The shape of the head is similar to Zootopia's Judy Hopps. The pauldron on the left shoulder and the blue body suit are inspired by Final Fantasy VII's cloud strife (as is the pose here where her weapon is on her shoulder--it's the same pose Cloud has in all his classic concept art), and the facial expression along with the bandolier of throwing knives is meant to be reminiscent of Guts from Berserk.
I'm pretty proud of this one, as you can see!
And just for fun, let me show you some drawings I made of Mev back in September/October when I was first putting my BB collection together and I was also still brand-spankin'-new to the whole digital art thing:
This here is Morrigan, the owl that raised Mev since she was a child. The owl wasn't a pure sketch, but rather me tracing the outline and face of a photo of a barn owl resting on a fence post I came across randomly a while back, with the finer line details and coloring I did myself. I was still in my phase of experimenting with paint and blending tools for the background (I had thought they were just the coolest little things on the UI and I had a ball playing with them).
Here's Mev facing down a fox. I kind of had this idea in my head of predator animals being like dangerous mythological creatures to the anthropomorphic prey animals in this fantasy world, akin to how our knights and fantasy authors think of creatures like dragons (that's also why Morrigan appears so much larger than life in her picture. I got the idea from playing Small Saga, and seeing how the cat mini-boss was rendered in the early game after the prologue, and I just thought that the image was the coolest thing ever. This one was just the outline of a fox (another wildlife photo), but I kept the finer details of his body deliberately vague, while using the spray paint tool over the foreground to sort of shroud his body in darkness and give his eyes a bit of a glowing effect. I think if I ever followed through on making a comic book or strip or writing a story for a game, this fox would be like a first boss encounter or like a first issue antagonist, to kind of set up the threats that exist in Mev's world. The leather and metal pauldrons and the bandolier strap are backwards, here. I didn't notice the accident until much later. This picture is also where I first gave Mev her two green and red beads hanging off the back of her ears, which wasn't present in the initial version of her final design, but which I made sure to include in the redraw.
Finally, the last picture I drew before I decided to redraw Mev's final character design this week: it's just Mev chilling a campfire while contemplating a rabbit skull and thinking about mortality. It's very "Alas, poor Yorick!" Notice that her hands are backwards (thumbs on the wrong side). Body shape and proportions are something I was having trouble pinning down at the time (I'm better at it now, but there's still always room for improvement). I also put a bit more effort into the landscape back and foreground here (in that, a setting backdrop actually exists, lol). There's something cozy about sitting at a campfire. I used to go camping all the time when I was a kid. I kinda miss it sometimes.
Anyway, that's all I have to share with regard to Mev. I've got some other character drawings from Barbarian Bunny that I did...I wanna say in October (they're undated)? Maybe I'll share them at a later date. But for now, I hope you like looking at these pieces!
You ever just lie back in your bed or in the middle of a hot bath, stare at the ceiling, and breathe slowly and deeply so that you can fixate on the sound it makes in your ears? And while your eyes glaze and your mind begins to dissociate, you notice that your breathing kind of sounds like the ocean in your skull, in the same way that the blood inside of you does when you put a conch shell to your ear?
No? Just me? Okay, fair enough.
Some FF7 fanart
Got bored this morning and realized it's been like a week since I've really drawn anything, so here, have some fanart of Cloud Strife! :D EDIT: Gotta say, I didn't mean to make Cloud's stare quite so...intense. It kind of works though, so I'm not complaining--still came out pretty good.
Been playing Resident Evil and watching creature feature indie short films on Youtube, so here's a little demon/cryptid drawing thing.
When I started drawing it, I was wanting to do like a little generic imp-like demon, and halfway through, I noticed it started looking more like la Chupacabra, hence the color scheme.
literally one of my favorite tweets ever
A little thingy I made to amuse myself after seeing the trailer and promo images
Memento the Bard mascot picture
Decided to try and remake the old avatar that I had for the Memento the Bard online persona now that I've gotten better at drawing character art. Aside from the hastily thrown-together background, I really like how this one turned out. For reference, this was the original concept:
Needless to say, I really like the improved version.
Headcrabs are cool
Here's some fanart. Decided to play with some digital paint, rather than just straight drawing and pen color tools. Headcrabs are cool, so figured, "yeah sure, let's go with that."
Today's scribblings
No fanart or meme or high concept idea today--just quick and dirty piece of me doodling what I happened to feel like making in the moment (what can I say, I'm a simple guy who likes schmaltz from time to time). Enjoy.
And as a bonus, here's a random doodle I made earlier this month when I was bored. The words are a lyric excerpted from a song I wrote, called "Where Dead Feelings Grow." If I ever get around to releasing it, perhaps I'll share it on the tumblr at a later date.
Young Solid Snake Punished by the Demon
This one is a reference to a fanfic I wrote a couple years back novelizing the original 1987 Metal Gear, in which before a young Snake meets Venom Snake/Big Boss at the end, I have him having constant nightmares in which he's menaced by a demonic figure who resembles the POWs' and resistance fighters' stories about him. He's wearing an Outer Heaven uniform because at one point in the story I have him using one as a disguise during the infiltration of the second building.
This art piece took me I think roughly about seven-ish hours to complete (I think--I wasn't really paying enough attention to keep an accurate count of the time). I really like how this one turned out.
I think...I think I might be getting good at this digital art thing, y'all. As an aside, if you want to read the fic I wrote which this piece of fanart is in reference to, you can find it here, where I wrote under the name of MaskedSongbird: Intrude N313, Target Designate: TX-55 - Chapter 1 - MaskedSongbird - Metal Gear [Archive of Our Own]
I have been made to understand by the people who've read it that it's...pretty good. ;)
There's a sequel fic in progress I started during 2025, but a combination of other artistic projects, my usual work life (which has nothing to do with writing, drawing, or music, etc.), my becoming more politically engaged (with all the psychological pressure that entails), and a recent personal tragedy have all left me finding difficulty in being consistent artistically (digital art excepted because it turns out this is actually kind of a mentally soothing activity for me), which has sidetracked things a bit. I do intend to return to Sins of the Past at some point soon, but I'm not exactly in a rush as I am still actively working to try to keep myself mentally well (and I still have an album to finish recording, if I can keep myself on task). Shout out to @allexonspace, who made a fanart piece of my fic several months back that I loved, which inspired me to do this.
