#dagne doodles

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I GOT MASKING FLUID AND I HAD SOOOOOO MUCH FUN WITH IT

Also this is where I remembered the grass clumps cheat. I do enjoy some mushrooms more then others, and there it some shading and shape things I'm not 100% pleased with, but I had fun and experimented with masking fluid so I'm really pleased with this

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For these I followed a tutorial, and that's the long and the short of it. I started watching some tips and tricks on YouTube for watercolor after the mushrooms, and came across a short tutorial on five minute flowers and it was really well done! Really easy to follow, and makes pretty pretty flowers, though I'll have to do it a couple more times and branch out more to really get the hang of it.

Here's the tutorial if you wanna try it out yourself!

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Okay, I did this because I think I saw a picture of a mushroom and went "oooh I can do that" and I went and found a couple others and made this! It was legitimately very fun, though I did struggle for a little bit. My main struggle was figuring out that graphite moved with water, specifically to just barely make everything greyer and to mostly go into my clear brush and not come out!! Yayyyyyy

At he end I also had the bright idea to do a purple circle background, which would've been nice I think, except I didn't want to sketch it out b/c of what happened earlier, and then when I started I immediately was hit with "oh no, this isn't gonna be a circle" and then I went "oh I'll just go all the way with the purple!" and then my stamina went "haha no" soo the purple became a mistake. But one I learned from! But yeah, this was fun but rough, and I'm glad I did it.

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So I was messing around with my black water color and made the (now) sky fade, and I went "oh no, I have to do something with this or else I just wasted a piece of paper" never mind that I've done that to like. Eight other pages.

ANYWAYS so yeah I just did the first thing that came to mind which was a city! I need to practice/figure out how to keep the ink from bleeding everywhere, and I just realized I could've used my white out to make the windows.

BUT!! I'm actually really proud at how this came out. It was fun! Like all the antennas were fun to add, and one of the buildings got a water droplet on it and got a really cool shape. All of the buildings were fun to make, and doing the fade was a really fun way to practice keeping an eye on the consistency of my paint.

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Treeeeeee I did a watercolor tree!! Trees are a lot of fun to do in general, so it's a good study for like. How watercolor acts with a subject im comfortable with. I'm not entirely pleased with the grass, and I don't enjoy how it looks after I added the darkest green in the leaves. But, I did enjoy making the leaves, so now I'm trying to have patience and let the paint dry completely before adding a new color, see how that'll change how my trees look. I think my goal is to get to the point where I'm confident enough to attempt a full scenery painting.

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So. My mom got me these watercolor brush pens, so I've started experimenting withem, and the first thing that I've learned is that almost all my pens(like my inking and gel pens) are water based!!! Yayyyy

My sharpies are alcohol based though, so they're my go to if I need some nice lines atm. That also means I need MORE. But like. I always need more sharpies? So it's not new lol

Still, I'm having fun experimenting with them, and I started with Dierdra! Specifically, I've been seeing what I can do to lean more into her witchfolk heritage, because that seems fun thematically. So I've been playing with lighting her hair on fire, as you do, which has been fun! I'll see if I can find the other versions I've been doing and adding them to this.

I'm definitely going to need to practice skin tones before I do more with my characters though. For my first time playing with watercolor, this was fun!

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Because I can only draw Eir tiny because that's just what she is, I drew three Eir's! And its also kinda become a character study? But first: Eir now has a color scheme and a completely solid design! I'll talk about it at the end, b/c how I did this I think is pretty cool, even if it was sliiiiggghhtly unintended at first.

So! Starting with the left, I really liked this at first and started disliking it more and more as I kept going for this piece (I literally almost redid it). I'm still not entirely pleased with it, and I may redo it sometime later, BUT I like how it's ended up being a reflection on how she tends to try and. Hide her flaws? Or well pose herself and her personality in a more flattering light in order to hide/cover her flaws.

Skipping the middle and heading all the way to the right, this is Eir in her element! This is what she hides of herself. Her medical expertise and enjoyment of it. (Sidenote, during this i realized that giving Eir a plague doctor's mask means I should've given her some sort of bird's wings. However, I don't wanna give her a bird motif! So I'm in the process of redesigning her mask to be more insectoid, because I want to keep with the insect wings.) Especially because she's been shunned from her home for her expertise (+ her attitude, but I'll get into that later).

Then it's just Eir. I kinda gave her a dead-eyed stare that may or may not stay. On one hand, she isn't an extremely dark character (so like Wednesday Addams), and she hasn't been in a lot of trauma, so I don't know if she's earned the dead eyed stare? However, it is EXTREMELY funny to me to give a very bubbly character a trait like this. I don't even know how to describe it but I do enjoy it. So it'll probably stay. Also! Another detail! Her dress now has concrete patterns! They're so cute! I don't know how to describe them but they are there and are there to stay!! Uhh another another detail, Eir now has a lock of hair that's getting in her face. Yeah. Anyways, yeah! That's this! Bye

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I wanted to do a more dynamic pose, so here's Maki in pants! This scenario is specifically the first time Maki can go shopping for pants. With her tail, for most of hey life Maki has to go to a tailor and get pants made especially for her. But Maki likes to shop! She enjoys feeling the fabric, seeing what's to small or too big, and walking down the aisles. She can do that with skirts, dresses, shirts and anything in between, but not anything with pant legs.

Until we meet the lizard people! I don't have a special name for them yet but they're on the furry planet (the planet with werepeople and people who are just Like That that I've been calling the furries. But they're not only animals! There's gonna be birds, lizards a stated defore, bugs, and maybe even fish people/mers. There's also normal people too, so the werepeople aren't like. Just weirdos that lose their hair for however i want to do that.)

I got distracted up there but yeah Maki goes to a place with enough lizard folks with tails like hers so she realizes she can go shopping for pants and y'know. Anything fairly tight that doesn't have an open back. Also, mild aesthetic thing, I might be changing Maki's hair a little! Specifically her bangs so they're following her head more and less sticking off to the side weirdly. It might help me draw her head in different positions!

Underneath is an alternate version that I actually did first! Or. Well. I kinda did them both simultaneously?

Okay so! This technically would never happen simply because Maki's Deili mark is on her back so she'll always wear a shirt before anything else, BUT I wanted to do Maki's skin on a larger plain then her face and hands, and on something more complex then her tail (also the torso/arms are things I'm more confident in doing for some reason? I just find the shapes easier to understand. Especially against the legs. I'm going to have to do a leg study soon simply bc I'm STRUGGLING with legs atm.)

So since I've basically been rendering Maki's skin, I had to figure out how to make her pants and shirt interesting without also rendering them. Which may have been easier? Anyways, first I got one of my cool brushes and tried to add some texture, which worked with the shirt, but the pants were still looking flat. While I was trying to figure it out, my super cool cousin who's been doing art for a very long time suggested I do a minor gradient from the bottom of the pants up and it worked! You can't really even tell it's there, but it gives some nice depth to her legs/pants with barely any work! It's a miracle!!!