today is the day i chose to have noelles birthday on! i believe ive explained why in the past before, so i wont repeat myself here (unless anyone wants to know!)
so i made a little comic for it ^^
its dess meeting her new baby sibling! shes not very enthused here lol, she doesnt like having her own upcoming birthday and christmas being overshadowed by this new baby
but it wont be long before she grows attached and loves her little baby sibling 💚❤️
making comics is tough, i dont know how people do it lol. this one is small and i was still kinda struggling 😅
what, this is late? nope, cant be, you all just must be early to the 12th 😋
lol, anyways, i didnt mean for this to be late, sorry about that! ive been working on this pretty much all day (i even started thing yesterday, because i knew it would take awhile), with only stopping for school and family stuff, and i still finished late 😖😫😫 all that effort to do it on time lead to nothing, i suppose 😞
but its not actually that serious lol, its my own challenge so i guess i can do what i want at the end of the day :P (i wont make a habit of this though, i promise!)
heres the drawing for today!
this is an entry for doecember as well, with the prompt being tree! with that, i decided to have it as little baby noelle putting the angel on the tree 👼🎄
if youre wondering about the little tape piece, thats mostly due to me headcanonning noelle as trans, so that originally said her birth name, but it was edited when noelle came out ^^
(a cute idea i thought of while drawing was that, when noelle came out to her parents (i think she came out to dess first) dess wanted to help calm her anxieties afterwards and had her and noelle go up to their attic and fix things like this, that had noelles old name or said the wrong gender 😊 but thats just a little thought of mine)
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okay, this also took awhile because i didnt want to just leave this all happy and nice, cant have that! i dont think ive done any angst at all this month, so i had to do something!
noelle looking at old memories, and making herself sad by remembering how happy things used to be 😢
so, heres me taking this cute image and making it more sad 🙁
for todays dess-ember i also did a doecember (challenge here https://www.tumblr.com/noelleholidaily/768172116835254272/christmas-is-just-a-month-away-yaya?source=share ) and todays theme was reindeers!
woo-hoo, ive finished another month of dess-ember!! it really has been fun, if very time consuming, but ive made many pieces over this month ive loved and had a great time sharing them all with yalls 😄😄😄
but anyways, lets get to the final entry! its a bit of an unusual one :D
its some pixel art!! i have only done 2 other pixel things this month (i originally wanted to do more, but i am very slow at it 😔), so i felt like ending with it wasnt a bad way to go!
i took dess, noelle, berdly, kris, ralsei, and susie and made some different sprites of them, which were taking the way i draw them and making them into sprite version, and also me making omori style versions as well
i had a couple different versions of the art, layed out in different ways, but stinky tumblr only lets me have 10 images. unfortunate 😔.
but anyways, now weve got the main part, each individual character! you can skip past this if you dont want to hear my thoughts i had while doing the individual drawings, its kinda alot :/
i put them all in a format like this, hopefully it isnt confusing!
we can go in order of how i have them in the very first image, so we can start with kris :D
kris was a very fun one to do, they were actually the second one i made, and them turning out so well is what led me to making even more. i feel like im pretty much entirety happy with them, the omori style turned out cute, and the deltarune style isnt half bad either! i did forget to give them bangs though, like i normally give them in my art, but i was too much of a bum to go back and fix it after i finished :|. i feel like they translated very well ❤️
next would be ralsei, but im doing him last actually, because he has the most to talk about 😤😤
now weve got susie! her hair in her canon form was tricky to translate into the omori style, but i think it was worth it, cause it turned out well! and i think her canon dark world omori sprite might be my favorite i made, her outfit turned out great!! im not as fond of my versions of her design, they didnt translate that well into sprites, but it could be worse lol. her face was a bit difficult to do, since the omori head shape is meant for a human, but i think she turned out good regardless 💜
next is berdly, and im so sorry for him, he turned out roughhh. if i thought someone like susie, with her head, was hard to translate into the omori style, it was nothing compared to trying to turn berdly into it. with his beak and his head feathers and wings and his legs... yeah, it was not a fun time 😔. i tried though, and i dont think its entirely bad! the legs are probably the worst part, they are kinda hard to see, but the rest of it came together... kinda. dont get me started on turning my version of him into a sprite though, i dont wanna talk about it 😫. sorry berdly, if i ever sprite you again ill make it up to you 🩵
next is noelle! she was the first i did, and i feel like she turned out so cute 🥰🥰🥰. her dark world, my version, deltarune style sprite might be my second favorite one i made, i think it actually translated well to sprite art. her fur is a bit rough, gradiants are tough in pixel art, but i dont think its that bad overall. but yeah, im pretty happy with her 🤎
penultimatly, weve got dess! gotta have her, its dess-ember after all!! hers was hard to do, trying to take my own design and alter it to make it more canon (mostly, i just simplified some things, but i dont think it looks enough like a canon sprite :( ill keep trying with it), but i think she turned out cute as well! im not entirely happy with it though, as i said, i might go back to fix up the deltarune styled ones at some point 💚
lastly, weve got ralsei. ohhh ralsei, how cute you are, but how difficult you were 😵💫😵💫😵💫. to start off with, i had a goal in mind for the deltarune style sprites. normally, when you look at the canon ralsei sprites, you might notice they look a bit different. obviously theres the hat, and the fur color, but its more than that.
theres so many differences, and yet my goal was to make the sprites lose all those differences, and be more consistent with each other. i didnt think it would be too bad, but it was a rough time. i made his hatless version easily, and i was like, oh, ill just add a hat, change his color, itll be easy!! ...it was not easy 😶🌫️. i did that and he looked so wrong, it barely even looked like hat ralsei at all 😖.
i mean, that doesnt look right, right?? so i had to keep editing, and changing both versions, trying to make them better. i spent so much longer on him than anyone else, but at the end, i think it was worth it! i feel like he ended up adorable, but boy was it work 😂
the omori sprites of his were pretty easy though, once i had all the deltarune sprites down i just omori-fied them, took barely any time. i did make his outline purple though, like the headspace denizens, since hes a darkner 🩷
but thats it for that! this is where youd wanna skip if you didnt wanna read all that lol. now for me to yap about this month, and dess!
i feel like this was a pretty productive dess-ember!! i definitely ramped up my art from last year, trying to do as few small drawings as possible. was that a mistake? maybe lol. it was certainly difficult, and led to pretty much every drawing being late because most of them took like 8 hours or so, but i suppose a couple hours late doesnt affect much, and i still did all 31 entries!
and id say while it was a struggle, it was a good thing i did it! i enjoyed my time drawing, and sharing all my art with yalls is always a fun time for me ^^ and i really do like drawing dess, i think i made a pretty good design for her all those years ago (like 2) 😊
there is the question though, of 'what about next year? will you do this again??' and to that i say... i dont actually know haha. i would want to, even if im busy i could always do a smaller one, but the real thing that could affect it is that, in 2025 we are getting more deltarune!!! im more excited than i could ever say, but if we see dess in canon, then i dont know if ill do another dess-ember. there would be my design vs canon design, which would be strange to reconcile with, and i imagine someone would probably do an official month for her of art prompts.
but thats all if she even appears. if she doesnt, well, expect me back next december to do this! if she does, ill have to think about it, so we will see then ^^
anyways, ive had a good month doing this! it may be a bit before i post new art, to give myself a break, but ill be back 😄
i barely draw asriel, i gotta do him more! hes a cutie ^^
i was working on something else originally, but as usual i take too long so i have to do something simple instead 😵💫 maybe that will be for tomorrow, who knows?
this took me so long lol, like over 8 hours O.o. i didnt think it take that long haha
and sorry i uploaded it here so late, i posted it like one place last night then went to sleep :P
but anyways, for todays entry i also did a doecember drawing, and todays prompt was santa claus!
i decided to do something in the undertale world with this prompt, that being how asgore would dress as santa, and hand out gifts! i had noelle and dess be his helpers here ^^
i feel like this drawing turned out kinda eh, but ive already spent too long on it, so its staying like this lol
