Sharing some random old art
When I only started drawing on PC I barely knew how to do that properly but since it was (is) the laptop I still had some kind of knowledge (I only knew how to draw on my phone)
I've been messing with the drawing program and literally didn't know how to do a proper outline that I normally do. So instead of figuring out at the moment I decided to try the style without an outline.
This was 2023 (!) and yeh, since that I had a lot of practice. What I wanted to share is the art that I was doing in that time and tell some lore behind it.
The art I will share are MAINLY with Midnight Sans and a few other characters.
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"I've been drawing a lot, actually. But this one is the earliest one I could find that I actually worked on as a complete art AND properly saved. I had barely any idea what I was doing and the only idea I had is to make a Sun Sans. The file name for the art is "Sanset" (Sans/Sunset) but later I named this guy "I've been drawing a lot, actually. But this one is the earliest one I could find that I actually worked on as a complete art AND properly saved. I had barely any idea what I was doing and the only idea I had is to make a Sun Sans. The file name for the art is "Sanset" (Sans/Sunset) but later I named this guy "Eclipse"
YES. Eclipse (the orange eye guy) was supposed to be a Sans as the very first idea but I eventually changed it in a process of development.
As for the image itself, this was the first attempt on the actual background (on PC) and basically first attempt at literally everything else too.
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After taking notes on what I did right or wrong I decided to experiment further with the drawing tools I had. And eventually, somehow, I got THIS MASTERPIECE! (this is like literally the second art I did after moving to drawing on PC how did I do that)
As you probably guessed (or not guessed) this is Midnight. And, unlike Eclipse, he barely changed from his first design. The only thing noticeably changed is the star-like things removed from the top of his robe plus maybe the moon necklace because I didn't know how to draw it properly at the moment.
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Another art with Midnight, this time it's him capturing a soul.
Now that I look at it I think that the coloring of his clothing was made like this specifically because of the style because I didn't know how to do gradient + doing everything the same color wouldn't look as good. But I stayed with this multi-layer coloring (although simplified) because I liked them. And yes, the colors ARE separated each and it's not gradient.
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An attempt on making the fell version of Midnight. Yeah, that didn't go well, the design is literally jist a recolor with different boots.
BUT! The art inspired me to give Eclipse boots instead (which he still does have in his design) so that's something.
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The art where I first got an idea to make Ruins yellow/brown-ish instead of normal purple. Also in this image I forgot to add the star-things and that made me realize that he looks fine without those too. Only after a bit more I decided to completely remove them (not at this point of time yet)
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An art with Midnight and a Sans version of Eclipse. Here I started experimenting with the shape of the necklaces. I was doing other versions of it too but eventually decided to stick with this one (you can literally see it in the most recent arts of Midnight)
If you are interested I could dig for more arts of this version of Eclipse and talk about how it got to the current version.
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An attempt at making a GIF. Literally two frames to make a blinking animation. Not much to say about it.
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Old character sheet that I made for Midnight. Though it did quickly became irrelevant because of me removing the white starry dots from the design because it looks out of place in the sprite version and also was a bit hard to draw on paper (and also as I said I like it starless more)
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The last art I did in the style without the outline (or at least the last one in the Midnight section)
As a reference for the corridor I used the background from the very first art but with the changed color scheme. Also Sans here starts using dark magic more properly in art (before that I didn't even try to picture it)
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As an extra here is th efirst attempt at drawing with an actual lineart. Did that only because it was easier for me to force-learn drawing in my current style than learn how to draw Papyrus lineless.
I probably have some more art scattered across the files but I think I shared the main ones and there is nothing else to see.
