Tristan Yuvienco

MAGIC FOLKS - Fae Users

Taking a break to think about some faes and their users. I didn’t think too much though and will use these designs as a springboard.

WIP - Vagabonds Promo

A bit busy to do minor sketches but needed to make some promo art for the gumroad release. Here’s a process video for the promo. You can see a glimpse of an old piece I drew for this story and I wanted to follow up with that sort of style coloring wise.

In typical fashion I decided to add the logo when I finished the drawing so I just used the liquify tool to bend the art around without looking too warped. I think it sorta worked!

February 2020 Sketch Requests

Super late to this! Wanted to try out some brushes and techniques so did it for this round. I’ve been seeing Vaughn draw lately and wanted to figure out how he does it. Need to play around a bit!

Thanks for the characters!

WIP - The Ticking Stone Illustration

Was going to say that this would be the cover but we did some changes to the story that some of the stuff here is a bit out of date since me and Vaughn sent this in months ago!

We initially did thumbs for this but we went with the more...fleshed out one. 

In retrospect, we did want to give off a fairytale, Over The Garden Wall type of vibe! So for this illustration, Vaughn did the thum...

February 20202 Update (Rewards Delayed)

Hey everyone! February has been a bit of a rocky slope but I’ve been working with Vaughn on an upcoming comic! It’s a bit scary working on this given the time we have left!

Because of that we’ve been real busy for the last few weeks of the month so I have to apologize on the delay on the Patreon requests! Hoping to get to them later in the week or two! I’m also looking to str...

WIP - The Ticking Stone Page

Vaughn and I have been working on this comic for the past few weeks and we tried settling on a style for the final art. We are fine tweaking it as we go but we try to keep our deadlines in mind.

It has been a one big collaboration and I appreciate that our styles share similarities. In the case of making pages, Vaughn mostly does thumbnails, lettering and fixups, while I do pencils! We try to share the load on the p...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 57

Been a bit busy drawing some comics but it did get me thinking about my sketch process again. I really miss experimenting with brushes so I’ll see if I can pick up Max’s watercolor brushes for procreate. It just feels so good but I couldn’t get color combos and the brush dynamics right. I will get there though!

MAGIC FOLKS - Sketches 11

ideas and wips

WIP - Vagabonds Cover

Didn’t get to record the process of this but I compiled a sequence of my layers for the cover.

For the overall look of this cover, I wanted to base off of south east asian art so I took inspiration from a cambodian painting i saw online.

I realized I don’t play much with my colors so it was nice to use reds, blues and yellows together in such a manner.

To explain the gif further...

WIP - Jack Shot

Not a video or layer breakdown of an animation but some small info on the way of thinking when I was animating this shot. During a workshop, we were told that anything animated can be pretty much be viewed as a ball. Keeping this in mind made it easier!

MAGIC FOKS - Sketches 10

Fleshing out and trying some designs. Had this idea for a while but I couldn’t find the right look for this guy until now. I always had this idea of basing this faerie on an axolotl! Why that animal?? just because it’s cute haha

January 2020 Update

A bit late!  But we’re at the end of another month. Mostly did some preparations for an upcoming art market but there’s a ball from the past few months that is starting to roll. Hoping to post more about it in the coming weeks (or months?)! It’s a bit challenging at the moment but hopefully it will go smoother as time goes on

Looking back I don’t think I did much introspection this month but I did start picking up brush experimentation again and made some sketch pages from ...

WIP - Gaomon Process

Picking up other brushes again and playing around with them. It kinda takes me back! Used the Procreate 6B Sketching brush for the lines and the Watercolor Maxpack for the colors! Finished it off with the halftone brushes by Spoon Graphics.

Hoping to get better with these wat...

January 2020 Sketch Requests

Trying out a new thing for the sketchpages. Did this over the stream but i kinda like how these halftones came out. Thanks for the characters!

Vagabonds Style Notes - Old

Some notes I did for myself for the Vagabonds comic back in 2017 (it’s been that long!). Eventually it turned out to be too much effort given the time constraints.

It was a nice exercise in art direction and solidifying rendering styles, though! Aside from the shape language, I think it still aged well!! If I were to improve on this, I’d do examples on how to handle and distribute toning given how limiting it can be.

WIP - Fairy Guy Walk Cycle

Not so sure what to categorize this as but here’s the sketch and line for a walk cycle I did. I‘ve been tackling some very quick animation lessons the past few weeks and it’s been a long while since I did a walk cycle.

We were also required to have a turnaround for the characters we’re animating so I quickly managed to churn one out.

Me and some of my friends were discussing of how ...

MAGIC FOLKS - Fairy guy iterations

New iterations to old ones from left to right. I got to thinking about the setting and story a bit and I think I feel happier making him look younger (mentally the youngest compared to the other characters for story reasons).

The designer in me doesn’t really want to default to the standard stocky character build so I wanted to see if I can spice it up a bit in between iterations but I seem to go back to it. I like where the latest one is headed with the bigger eyes, removal of wraps ...

DARNA - Sketches

A headsoup idea I have been brewing the past few years! It’s a redesign for a filipino superhero with a focus on school life/growing up. Some sketches here I’ve done perhaps more than a year ago already!

I just went into thinking about this more for an animation assignment thus this very rough take of the main character. Hoping to draw more of this and the other characters!

Gaming Fridays

Did this drawing for a thing and the more i think about this story idea, I want to develop it more.

WIP - Arlong and Jinbei

I was commissioned to make an illustration of the One Piece characters Arlong and Jinbei for an online campaign on instagram.

These were the sketches and boards I’ve sent based on what was asked from me. It was a real fun time drawing these characters!

December 2019 Sketch Requests

Trying something new! wanted to go for how I would draw on sketchbooks. Sorry for the short delay and thanks for the characters!!

December 2019 Update (Delay on rewards!)

Ending this year with a strange month! Didn’t feel much satisfaction in terms of productivity this month but I suppose it’s a nice time to recover, rest up, and think about things.

Not much happened other than attending FURUM and working on a comic. Thinking about it, i guess it’s alright to slowdown and reflect on other things! Even on these last days of the year i forgot to bring my drawing stuff. Feels bad to end a year without finishing with a drawing.

To be honest, i am...

Vagabonds Textless Preview

I posted this comic about a year ago and didn’t get to finish it due to stuff happening! I can’t believe I started these pages about 2 years ago already so I’m finally making the time to actually finish this darn thing and get this out of my hair.

It’s really interesting on how my style changed over time working on the remaining pages. The thickness of my lines, the way i stroke, the way i us...

SKETCH THOUGHTS 56

Some thumbs i planned to draw but lost the energy for. Decided to collate drawings i abandoned. Sometimes it’s ok to leave stuff as thumbs/sketches.

SKETCH THOUGHTS 55

Did these when Procreate 5 was in beta. I used to render a certain drawing multiple times to get the feel of brushes. I wanted to try out different rendering styles compared to my usual one. It wasn’t the most fun (albeit it was sometimes frustrating) but it’s a nice change of pace to not feel in control when handling a drawing.

WIP - Pokemon Gym Leaders

A process video for my gym leader drawings! I wanted to go for a minimalist and shape oriented look so I tried to push the contrast in sizes of the hands, heads, torsos, clothes, etc. Keeping the minimalist theme going, I tried to limit my colors to 2-3.

Kabu (fire) and Nessa (water) were the hardest to translate as their designs had a lot of detail going on. The Nessa drawing came out as the least consistent as I went in to too much detail and it just gave her a bunch of visual weight....

MAGIC FOLKS - Sketches 08

Some ideas and concepts i’m playing around with.

November 2019 Update

I was looking at all the monthly updates that I’ve posted and it’s wild that it’s the end of another year already. Past me wanted to do a lot of things but I guess I have to realize that things don’t need to be rushed. And things just happen!

I’d like to believe I’ve failed on a lot of personal promises towards certain kinds of growth but looking back at the things I did I feel like I’ve grown in other aspects which turned out fine!

This month has been catching up an...

November 2019 Sketch Requests

A bunch of new fellas! Thanks for the characters!

MAGIC FOLKS - Fairy Guy Construction

Trying to solidify how i draw this guy and this is more or less how i think whenever I draw him. I feel it’s around time i figure out how to draw them in the right proportions. His head and features are a bit tough to draw consistently in different angles but gonna see if i can figure that out.

EDIT: added some muscular structure because why not (i think it’s a nice way to study)