#brie replies

[chytilovian-daisy]

your OC Yusei 🤝 my OC Pomegranate always lying about themselves

Do not worry if they ever met he cannot tell when other people are lying either--

[brie-draws]

whats a folder cap? :o

it's a way to customize the look of folders!! Like so:

[brie-draws]

in the drawing where himiko and yukio are together, what was your inspiration for yukio's 帯締め?

Hihi!!! The inspiration behind thart sort of look is two fold-- a look reminiscent of guts and to tie it into the spider lily motifs in the outfit!

I tend to like a similar look in his clothes because of both of those things :3 You can see a similar feeling in other looks of his in varying degrees [like below]!

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Have you drawn a character with dreadlocks before? I'm interested in a commission but I haven't been able to find a drawing you've done of a character with them so I don't know how you'd draw them.

Hihi!! I have!! Here's an example with how I draw them on my OCs Magnolia and Seth!! ^w^9

[brie-draws]

hi! do you happen to have any tips/advice for creating pixel art? i'm a huge fan of your work and have always wanted to do pixel art myself but i've found it pretty difficult to understand x_x

Hihi!!! Giving advice is hard because I kind of live by the "fuck it, we ball" way of life but I'll try my best!!!

Not necessary in all cases but I think page sizing is important!! I used to draw on like 3000x3000 canvases now I think I only reach that with refs... I think in general it's easier on smaller canvases, and if you need to size up for posting sake, Photoshop can do it [or I think there's sites that can as well?]. If you're wanting to do certain things [icons/icos, rpgm assets, whatever], they do tend to fit into certain constraints so thats important!! Similarly, there's nothing wrong with drawing something on a 1000x1000 canvas and then scaling down the image to 100x100 and lining over it!!

I tend to sketch with non-pixel brushes first unless I'm lazy, just because I feel it makes it easier!!

A small thing that I'm trying to take heed of too is going back over artwork and deleting some pixels to make the lines less "clumpy" (ofc, it depends on style too! I like thin lines usually though, especially on things that are 48x48 to maximize space!!)

I draw (mainly) in Sai and MediBang (for mobile). Things like MediBang and CSP also have downloadable brushes, which for things like screentoning I find important!! [Usually, I'll draw in MediBang or Sai, edit further in CSP]. For Sai, I just use the standard Binary brush and an edited version as an eraser:

For MediBang, I just go into settings and check "Turn off anti-aliasing" and use the normal pen brush and eraser; Only word of advice though it it does create some not fully solid pixels, but you can either go over them or duplicate the image a whole bunch and then combine the layers.

As for further stuff I think it's also just important to look at things you like!! What started me into pixel art was playing a lot of rpgmaker games [Ib, Yume Nikki, Mad Father, The Witch's House, ectect] Now I also like things like the art of older systems and games, like TokiMeki Memorial 1994 has some beautiful artwork:

And the pixel sprites in all the BlazBlue games has been really inspirational in the last couple of years for me as well!!!

I hope this helps in some capacity 'w'999!!! For me, I think experimenting and playing around with stuff is the most important and having fun!!! [Which is why I'm so inconsistent bc it's just fun to try new things n see what sticks, what you like, can improve on, ectect!!!]

[brie-draws]

I absolutely adore your pixel art!!! mwah

omg thank you so much!!! ;;;w;;; <33333!!!!

[brie-draws]

I was looking at ur icons and noticed all the download links are broken :( I have 3 of the Malice Mizer ones on my computer already and wanted to complete the set haha. Thank u for all ur cool art :)

Thank you for letting me know!!! Not sure if you meant the folder icons or others? But if you meant the folder icons I just fixed them all up! Links should be working on this page: https://briedraws.neocities.org/Vkei/icons.html

[chytilovian-daisy]

trying so hard to pick one of your OCs to attack for art fight but instead I'm just getting inspired to work on my own VKei OCs lmao

AAAA ty i'm honored ♡♡♡♡ (also very interested 2 see more vk oc work of yours :3ccc)