Secret Santa 2025
Hello! Its been a while, huh lol
Going to yap abit more than usual because I kind of want to be more active and intentional in my posting... I miss the days of blogging- especially reading about people's days + experiences. In this cold and cruel era of the internet (esp towards artists), I feel compelled to contribute something... more human I guess.
So anyway, the reason I've been gone: I was studying 3D modelling at a local school (3DSense Media School) for like 1.5 years. It was tough and I'm low key glad its over lol but I learnt alot and made some good friends so its a nice trade off I guess HAHA
Will post my 3D works soon but for now, here's a fanart lol
As noted in the title, this was for a small secret santa event. I couldn't resist the opportunity to draw princess bubblegum even though I only watched like... 1% of the show lmao. I think I only know the characters and abit of the lore through cultural diffusion if I'm honest XD
My idea for this piece was to paint her in the style of those Italian renaissance paintings... In the end I chose to reference Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an ermine".
Here's a version without the frame and besides "Lady with an ermine" for comparison!
I mainly used Maxpack's oil painting brush set which was a bit intimidating at first because I know nothing about oil painting (still don't tbh lol) but managed to make it work I guess!
For the frame, I used True grit texture supply's monomania brush to keep the lineart consistent.
And of course, you know me! I love to post my sketches so here they are! I especially like the sketches I did for the little PBs around the frame. Was definitely inspired by the fluid sketches of Rebecca Sugar and Natazilla!
To end off, here's the procreate timelapse video of this piece! To be honest, its been a loooooong ass time since I used procreate (I'm more of a CSP user) so its still fascinating to me to watch the painting process LOL