Murphy & Mitzi - (Incredibly late) 5th Anniversary Art
After 1 year and 4 months, its done, they say better late than never, I took it to heart. Kinda not wanted to at first, but it was worth it.
So, long time no see, huh? Where do I even start?
The original sketch for this dates all the way back to april of last year, it wasn't made for the anniversary but after drawing it I figured it would come in handy, it did since by the time may 24 came I started working on it in Krita, thinking I would finish the 25th (I thought it was the day of the anniversary) and I made the lineart, colored almost everyone with shadows and lighting but Murphy and Calvin etc... It was like roughtly 90% done when the 27th (which would already have been one day late) when uhh, "stuff" happened and had to stop working on it... For several months... I would get into it, but it's too personal, and I would be here all day, long story short: I lost my tablet, and the capacity to draw for a time. By the time I was able to go back to working on it... I really didn't felt like it at all, I preferred making new art again, but for the longest time I just kept making sketches on paper, without practicing on Krita nor finishing and coloring anything there.
The last few months I tried drawing on Krita again and sucessfully got back into it, it felt better than never before, specially than when I did it with mouse, and I regained the drive to work on it again, and decided I would just finish both 5th and 6th anniversary pieces after their respective dates and actually do the 7th one it time. After a whole year I didn't just shaded Murphy and Calvin which basically that's what was left this whole time, but took the time to tweak it a little to the point I liked it again, without straying away from the original vision nor redoing work that was already for the most part. All I can say it's that it just inspires me to keep drawing like this, hopefully finish the 6th and 7th anniversary pieces as I intend and keep drawing, including lots of M&M.
But I don't plan on posting so often, maybe at least once a month, but I'm not sure if from here or take a little more time, all I knew was that I needed to get this done now. I want to have enough artwork ready to be putting out in a steady-ish schedule. Maybe I'll do some kind of october challenge (not inktober this time) and then go back to inactivity for a time, or who knows, maybe I never come back! But yeah I'm way in a better place now, I also draw better than this, not by much but I do!
So far this is the best finished digital piece I've done, and also the first I've ever finished in 2 years tecnically... I love M&M and this is the best tribute I could do for it at the time, so it means a lot to me. Hope you liked it as much as I did when I first started (it aged a bit), here to even 10 years of M&M!
(I'm also aware that [bunny]'s ear being over Zoe's like that is ugly, Mitzi's ear and teeth position etc, and other details like that, but just keep in mind, this thing is tecnically a year old)