Sketches and Messes

This is my art blog. It might not look like much, but I only post what I'm proud of. I mainly do character design but I'm trying to branch out. You can also find me on other tumblr blogs such as @adventure-theorum and @nightmare-grass (main blog); Side-note, I do free commissions, but nothing too fancy, alright?

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The magical girl avatars of the dark dragon and light dragon, still figuring out character names but I know I want the light magical girl to be Ramona. On Ramona I went for a pastel CMYK color palette and for my main character I pulled inspiration from the various colors in the night sky.

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Slight redesigns, gave my main girl the same finger gloves as Garnet from Steven Universe cuz I think it helps communicate her darkness theme, and I reworked major aspects of my rival girl’s outfit, gave her an empire-waisted dress and brought her tights all the way up, adding the same pattern to some new sleeves. I’ve named the rival girl’s Ramona, while her dragon god is named Dawn since it’s the primordial concept of light. I’m still working on naming my main girl, but I’m thinking either Ava or Cora, and I think I’m naming her Crow Dragon friend Des, as a parallel to Dawn’s simple one-syllable name and as a shortened version of either Destiny or Destruction, to tie in the Wheel of Fortune tarot card inspiration and the idea that he’s seen as this harbinger of chaos.

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I drew these frames a long time ago but I recently touched them up cuz I had forgotten to draw in this OC’s most iconic feature, her antlers, and I also decided it could do with some shading, to make it clear that the bird was supposed to be a raven.

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Here’s a more finalized sketch of my dove horse dragon magical girl idea, still gotta decide how to draw the Light Dragon, cuz I want it to be draconic but also horse-like so I can pull in unicorn and Pegasus imagery to tie together the dove theme.

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Very rough idea of her color scheme, now I feel bad cuz I haven’t even decided the color scheme of the main character, this was supposed to be the rival character and I’m devoting more time and energy to her than I am to my main character

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I bought @abd-illustrates ‘s book, 100 Lessons to create Anime and Manga characters, and some of the poses and references in the book inspired me to draw my superhero OCs again, this time in training scenarios! I’m actually using up the last couple of pages in my moleskine sketchbook, I’m using this to cap off the sketches and designs I’ve made while I’ve had the book in my possession. It’s a good marker of how far I’ve come with my art, and a reminder that an artist’s training arc is never really finished.

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I think this is the first time I’m posting all these characters together, these are my next gen Mystechs! They attend a summer camp themed around learning practical superhero skills run by Starburst, original leader of the Mystechs, but under her guidance they don’t have the weight of the world on their shoulders, they can just be teenagers and goof around, learning about each other and themselves. I wanted to design their civilian looks to be their more standard looks, cuz they suit up for hero stuff a lot less than their predecessors had to. I’m still working out their hero designs, but from left to right their hero names are Troubadour, Arachne, Moon River, Lamplighter, and Skyjack sitting on the ground in front.

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Here’s a more finalized sketch of my dove horse dragon magical girl idea, still gotta decide how to draw the Light Dragon, cuz I want it to be draconic but also horse-like so I can pull in unicorn and Pegasus imagery to tie together the dove theme.

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Massively experimental mixed media piece, started as a pencil sketch, then I used watercolors to do the background, then I got scared and decided to color the characters in my digital painting app, did some digital touch ups, now it’s done! I love these ocs, but I still haven’t figured out their airship, their mobile home in the sky, I just barely decided certain things about its structure with this drawing, and I’m certain I’ll change things when I finally get around to designing it fully.

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How it Started:

How it’s Going:

So this is the diametrically opposed magical girl to my crow dragon magical girl oc, she is the light to my OC’s dark. The crow dragon represents the primordial universal darkness and dark matter, so this girl’s dragon is the Light Dragon, the primordial force that guides life itself, but the ones who worship her have long since forgotten their deity’s original draconic nature, calling it the Dove Alicorn for its horse-like traits and otherworldly beauty. Haven’t quite designed the light dragon yet, but I’m working on it! This is how my design process looks when I’m trying to go against all my usual design sensibilities to make a character that’s the opposite of all my aesthetics. I think I really like what I came up with, she’s got great shapes and she’s definitely visually different enough from the dark dragon magical girl yet uses enough similar shape language to make them from the same set of magic rules, yknow? I didn’t want a Sailor Moon style “they all wear the same outfit in different colors” thing, I was going more for a Madoka Magica style in that regard.

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Character Design Remix!!!

I loved these magical girl OCs so I redesigned all six of them into a hot girl fantasy circus troupe in my sky islands fantasy story I’ve posted about. They’ll be friends turned foes turned unexpected friends later down the line, and here’s a bit about each of them; Ringleader is a Siren, taking inspo from both bird sirens and mermaid sirens; Acrobat/Strong Woman is a Púca, so a shapeshifter who can turn into a few different animals, and I have her in goat horns and a tail for her mid transformation look; Mechanic is a gremlin, with lots of spikes, wild hair, and large clawed feet for gripping onto plane wings mid flight; Beast Tamer is a Dryad, specifically of a Weeping Willow; Blade Master is a Nixie, so a freshwater aquatic fae; and Clown is a Pixie, so she’s got insectoid features like a Rosy Maple Moth, to differentiate from fairies, which come with bird features and feathers.

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I customized a Mickey ears hat with Figment!

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I made a tiktok vid of my ocs and basically how they first met

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Decorated my sketchbook with stickers I bought from a local artist, @miraku_memo on other platforms, I dunno if they’re on here though

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I wanted to draw my short-lived magical girl oc again and it kinda reignited my love for her and her whole story concept; dragon deities inspired by birds being hunted by a misguided order of intergalactic knights, a magical girl companion essentially a fugitive with the powers of a primordial god and no sense of responsibility, a lonely girl trying to find her place in the world and becoming the host for this tiny fugitive god. I just like it a lot, it definitely sparks dopamine.

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Working on a post-timeskip version of Korei, for the period of time after MHA ends. I went less super suit and more business casual since I imagine the world is a bit more peaceful without All for One pulling strings and with so many great heroes like Class 1A running around as pros. In this, I actually discovered the butterfly I color picked from to make Korei’s eye wings had a green tint, and I preferred a redder grey, almost a purple grey, for the cohesion of the whole color scheme.

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I drew the first picture based on a Pinterest image with cool shadow work, and I drew the second picture without a reference just drawing from how I’ve been feeling today. I wanted to draw my OC Sylvan Scout so she became the guinea pig for these sketches.

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I wanna keep drawing her

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I decided these needed shading