Ames' Art

Amy Fay, Illustrator, Comic artist, digital painter and archer.

[sweetiefayce]

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I made a Ko-Fi page!

Look, I’ve accepted that I’m never gonna make it big in the industry…but I wouldn’t mind another crack at a bit of financial independence if possible, so I may as well try right?

Plus, in addition optional donations I’m offering something which I thought was pretty cool: an in depth look at design and development, as I was taught in Uni. Also includes a “How I would do it” tier: I’m basically selling my thought process, but only on some ideas that I’d hoped to be able to see “out there, on the screen” someday. It’s gonna include an in-depth look at the characters used, as well as sketch/design developments and annotated mock-production sheets.

[sweetiefayce]

Another Batwoman Watercolour, this time on hot-press paper. It's so interesting to see the impact of different textured papers; what impression I get when it's finished. What do you think?

I love making painting that mask; it's the balance of armour and masquerade...

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I think I've officially latched on to Batwoman as a comfort character.

Or, at the least, I find that there's something incredibly cathartic about painting her. She's angry. She's an angry, hurt, woman who makes no apologies about being absolutely pissed off at the world...and she's right!

And yet, all she's been through...she takes no guff, but she makes a point not to do any harm. She fights back, but she's fighting *for* something and that cause is clear in her mind.

I love Kate Kane.

Done in traditional, physical watercolours on cold press paper!

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Gambit AMV tribute: "All of my life"(Spoilers for episode 5, "Remember it.")

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu0MnwsSuvs&ab_channel=AmyFay

Newest episode broke my heart: have a cathartic AMV on me, Gambit fans and shippers!

[thataroacedude]

REBLOG IF YOUR BLOG IS A SAFE SPACE FOR AROMANTIC PEOPLE AND IF YOU THINK THEY ARE VALID

I want to see how many people actually are willing to say this and not just act like it

[sweetiefayce]

Don’t mind me, just counting down to Thursday by quietly willing Nightwolf into the new era as a magical hacker/dimension hopper/thorn in Lord Liu Kang’s side.

Seriously though, I’d love to combine his tech-head skills from the old cartoon with his skill and knowledge of mysticism; I just feel like there’s so much potential there!

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Still battling some internal demons: designing this dress for Kitana helped!

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Haven’t been having the best couple of weeks with my mental health, but I’m fighting through it. So here’s Sonya Blade beating my issues into a bloody pulp! (What dya mean that’s not how self care works??)

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Can you believe Sonya and Nightwolf invented that cat meme!

(Redraw/reimagining from ep 6 “Familiar red.” AKA the BEST ep…because it’s mostly all about Nightwolf. And tbf, he gets some good, heartfelt moments!)

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I’ve re-discovered Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the realm. Cheesy? Yes, undoubtedly. Lovable? Oh absolutely. In terms of character chemistry, it’s got that hint of found-family that pretty much drives me and severely untapped comedy potential. (And weirdly, that carries over into the main game narrative, which I’m absolutely delighted to find out?? Ya know, considering what Mortal Kombat is most renowned for??)

Anyway, Nightwolf has always been my absolute favourite out of the roster, but more so in the cartoon. He’s just got “team’s tech-head little brother” vibes that I can’t NOT build on here! …And I just love the idea of Kiba getting into mischief on Nightwolf’s behalf.

…Not sure if I just wanna go full throttle and create a whole little series of doodles in the same vein as what X-Men: Evolution was to the X-Men series. Really tempted.

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Just a quick update for everyone who followed me for my Sonic and Chaotix content: Bear with me!!

Art block’s been a nightmare, so I’ve stepped away to re-watch old, cheesy cartoons from the 1990’s. Non-Sonic doodles and thoughts incoming!

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Celebrating another win in my archery with my redesign of Fleetway Amy Rose!

I’m still only a novice on the competition scene, and I still score less there than I do on my regular range, but I’m proud to report that my score was greatly improved today compared to my last one! AND!

And! Even though I was the only one in my own category (women’s barebow,) according to the official scoresheet released today, I actually matched the winner of the men’s category! I know that I still have a very long way to go, but that felt like a huge achievement today.

Now I need to keep improving to get the practice scores to match the competition one’s!

[sweetiefayce]

Been so overwhelmed with all the notes, re blogs and wonderful tags I’ve been getting lately that I just had to draw my favourite found family as a big old THANKYOU!!!

It just…means so much to me that this one little thought has been shared by so many of us. I don’t know -why- it means so much to me, but I’m treasuring it; just like I’m treasuring every single like and tag and comment these pieces get.

Thankyou: not just for that, but for reminding me what art can do and for keeping me so inspired! I can’t wait to get started on my next piece with these guys!!

[charrbok]

YEAH OF COURSE!!!

i’ve been really loving all the chaotix art you post and i honesty should be thanking you for it!

draw what you want to draw! even if you decide not to create artwork of the chaotix anymore, the art you’ve already made has already made me super happy (and will always make me super happy when i go back and look at it)!

i love your work, im glad that making it makes you happy too!!

[sweetiefayce]

You have no idea how much this has touched me 😭

Thankyou! This is exactly what I wanted from my artwork; but don’t you worry, I’m having too much fun drawing the Chaotix and their chaotic family dynamic, and as long as I’ve got an idea they’re gonna have a piece!

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Alternative background style of my redesign of Fleetway Amy as a barebow archery champion; I just couldn’t decide what I liked more. On the one hand, the other is more dynamic…but this one has glitter!!

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I know I’ve been MIA for a few days, but I had a very good reason. On Sunday I took part in my third ever archery competition…and I won!

That’s my second win out of three, alongside one second place!

So, to celebrate, I thought I’d try my hand at giving the Fleetway version of Amy Rose a slight re-imagining. I never got a chance to read the Fleetway Comics myself, them being cancelled before I was eight, but god did they look fun! I’m sure had I seen them on the shelves I would have ran right to them, but…I just don’t think I ever saw them on the newsagents stands?

Either way, from what I’ve seen they did a phenomenal job with their take on Amy Rose, and given that I already loved her from the mainline games it wasn’t gonna be hard to grab my attention.

For the piece itself; I decided to blend together aspects of both classic and modern, but rather than a hammer, I figured that Fleetway Amy would have some knowledge of traditional archery form (given how she wields a crossbow) and basically decided to lean into that angle. I know Fleetway Amy wore baggier, arguably comfier shirts, but that’s not always the best thing for archery—or barebow archery specifically—you don’t want anything that the string can whip against because it can knock your arrows off course; and even mm at the start can translate to whole inches or more at the target’s end—so I gave her more of a running-gear fit style shirt but paired it with a set of practical and fun as hell cargo pants! Actually, I feel like it works as a callback to the 90’s/00’s style anyway? And that was a fun style to revisit anyway, especially in Amy’s classic-era colour scheme! Also kept the modern pattern on her boots, but repurposed them to be a little more outdoorsy.

So, yeah, that was my weekend!

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It’s not really all about the money: not entirely.

That’s always the vibe that I’ve gotten from Vector. Yes, he needs that cash to cover their bills, but only so he can keep a roof over their heads and the boys fed. Did you know that in Sonic heroes, one of Vector’s idle lines is “Darn. I forgot to pay the electric bill.” —that pretty much cemented my impression of him as “Dad friend,” especially considering that Espio and Charmy are underage.

But I also like to think that he never wants the boys to see the bills. I like to think he doesn’t want them to be so bogged down worrying about it that they can’t do, or even enjoy, their jobs.

Hoping to explore this one a little further.

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Back with the second part of “Things I would have liked to see in the metal virus arc.”

Pretty much the biggest thing: Vector acknowledging how freaking traumatic seeing him get zombified must have been for Espio…

But then, he -is- a great detective…so I figure that he probably already knows damn well what it must be like: the trick is that Espio would probably have to be the one to broach the subject.

And, of course, Espio being Espio…just wouldn’t.

It was actually a lot of fun to play around with -how- to portray Espio here; there’s a fine line one can dance between stoicism and just shutting down on yourself completely, and it was intriguing trying to capture what Espio is clearly feeling despite his best efforts to hide it.

[charrbok]

oh my gosh. how is you keep doing this

the heartwarming family dynamic that the chaotix have in all of your other artworks is such a treat to see but the way you draw them comfort each other and get through difficult things is so sweet and comforting to me

and the way you represent them hits even deeper for me since being a kinda angsty teenager who shuts down exactly like how espio does in this, having a parental figure respond like vector respond this way genuinely makes me cry

in conclusion your artwork is so perfect and the way that you represent the chaotix is so perfect and in character makes me so happy

[sweetiefayce]

I’m so glad that my artwork has been able to reach you like this; it’s exactly what I was hoping for.

If I can offer even a bit of the warmth and comfort that I needed as a teenager when things got tough, then I can call myself successful. Hopefully I can continue to meet these expectations!

Thankyou; I’m so glad to hear this.