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Playful Skies

Teasing the residents of North Tracer

Project Contribution - Ashe

Some friends and I put together a group render. Given a certain lack of dimensionality, I had to tryhard with Ashe's shading to mildly fit in.

[In progress] Sleep Dart

For a good home

Vet your foster mommy

Thrust

I'm itching to start creating comics, but lately my attempts have ended in burnout and with drawings I'm unsatisfied with. So I'm moving a few squares back again to focus on lineart and mileage to work on my general skill, and the speed that comes with simply drawing more.

Ready?

I've been working on a new lifeguard Mercy image, but I got a little frustrated with the perspective. So I cooled down with a nice, one-point perspective drawing.

Alone Time, Together

A little something for all my friends who had to work this Labor Day Monday.

Have yourself a warm, quiet moment.

Atmospheric

Working on a project with some freinds, but I was locking up in drawing what I needed to do. So I put together this random drawing to study some atmospheric occlusion and ease some anxiety.

Break Time

Kiriko is starting to become a regular for me.

[Blog] Weaknesses in the battle plan

Mid-August week (Aug 14, 2023)

Eventually we'll figure out how often and on what day I should create these blog posts. For now I'll aim for weekly updates, and in the meantime I'll be practicing with daily sketches.

Self-Awareness

It is my dream to be able to create comics, games and visual novels of my characters and ideas, macro and non-macro alike. I want to say it's my passion to simply create, however, the realization and discipline for such supposed ...

Shimada Stretches (Speed Sketch)

+ 1 Hour Study Speed Draw Week

Thanks for humoring me through this exercise process. It has been a little tricky, though I've been managing and building up mileage and understanding of how I can draw and share art faster.

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Aug 20 [Kiriko]

I'm going to aim for s...

Motherload parody

Practicing some programming with random games so I can do better at coding the various gts/non-gts games I have in the works.

What I've been doing. What I'm planning on doing.

[TL;DR] Been making video games. Shifting back into art. Realize I ought to update you on what I'm doing, so I'm starting a (likely weekly) blog. Also, I'm going to start daily rough sketches to build my speed and discipline skill.

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Firstly, I'm not good (yet) with community updates. Being the socially awkward introvert I am, I default tunnel into my art over sharing progress. Plus with how currently self-critical I am with my work, it's easy...

Disappearing Trick

Commission for anon

Symmetra is a sleeper S-tier waifu, she just doesn't get the attention she deserves. Granted, I think that way about all the Overwatch waifus who aren't Mercy.

I've love to do a scene that merges elements of her default OW1 and OW2 design, but for now I've eager to finish up some other projects in the queue.

Rumbling

Continuing to practice more standing perspectives.

Champions of Hyrule

Free doodling, plus Symmetra rough

Freedraw Session

23 / May / 2023

Like all artists, I started off both bad and unaware of how bad I was. When getting into the fundamentals I suddenly realized my lack of skill, which made me scared to draw as much as I used to.

Lately, I've only really been drawing when I have a specific idea in mind, but now that I'm more comfortable when my skill and (usually) being able to convey a scene I want, I'm finding that energy to just draw whatever the heck again.

(In progress) Kitsune Crush

I've been having an itch to draw more perspecctive. However, while in the middle of my work week, I don't have a lot of time to draw for long, dedicated draw sessions (one picture usually takes an entire day of non-stop drawing, sometimes an extra half day for polishing), and it's hard to start and stop in the middle of a more detailed piece. So this week I've just been doing sketches of future scenes I want do to before leaving for my job. Plus, it is fun for me working out what angles I lik...

(In progress) Hard Pocket

I like all sizes. However, despite some of my first uploaded art being giga, I stopped creating it (likely because, while not noticing at the time, I felt my skill could be vastly improved, and I wanted to grind out art so I could get better conveying massive scales). As I slowly build mileage and efficiency, I'm aiming to begin more OC work to practice appealing and readable charac...

Sentry Girls

I like to deconstruct other artists' styles, and I've been working my way up towards what I personally feel to be more advanced drawing techniques over the years. On a whim, I felt like doing Honey Pharah, a dormant idea I've had for a while, and decided to deconstruct the TF2 comic style for it.

TF2 comics have several artists, all of whom have changed their approach over the years of making TF2 comics. However, I feel there's a core direction for their style, and one I've felt to be f...

Brigitte Home Date

Still a work in progress. I'm experimenting with new line art and coloring work, and I'll be revisiting this, as Brig's muscles give me good opportunity to practice anatomical shading.

Under Her Dinner

Finally was able to finish this, though working during the American holiday weekend enhanced my burnout. I feel there is more I'd like to do with this, but it's taking too much time away from other projects. At least I did learn much in regards to line art style through this.

I've been experimenting more in how I approach scale. The last two Doctor Mercys, plus this, have been giving me some insight in how I choose to violate the laws of perspective.

A Cold Day in Paris

(plus bonus Mercy doodle)

What began as a normal, random drawing sessions spiraled into a style study.

Sombra's Scent

Commission for anon

Physical Therapy: Absentminded Rest

EDIT2: Uploaded high-resolution alts (3384px x 2660px, also in Attachments).

EDIT: After finishing up this, my brain demanded I add in two more panels. So I'm doing that now. The final resolution will be my largest and most detailed resolution, much to my computer's dismay.

Physical therapy Mercy making a second appearance.

I enjoy doodling in anime inspired styles, but when it comes to strong perspective, I lean towards drawing mo...

Widowdestroyer

Early Morning Speed-Draw

While I have a lot of pictures that I personally want to convey well, I worry I'm not getting the proper mileage I ought in the artist grind, especially if I want to make comics and videogames.

I'm working on getting better at these fringe pieces; impulsive and with little planning for the sake of drawing more. So as long as I'm doing something, I'm learning, getting better and faster.

Physical Therapy

Medical science can only do so much to help people get bigger after a tiny accident.

Also, I never want to draw a five-legged chair again.

Update on the going on of things

March was a bit of a shaky month, shared between some rough family happenings, health, and my job being a bit more stressful than usual. When I'm low energy, it's easier for my to write and program, compared to something like drawing, and I've finalized the coding aspect of a game where you play as a tiny traversing the fatigued body of an achy giantess, soothing her pains and cleaning her up for bed. Like most of my art, I wanted the game to focus primarily on conveying scale, and after a lo...

[In progress] Atomic Heart Twins

Practicing more dynamic posing, luckily this month's waifu(s) are perfect for trying out some expressive poses.

Bottopbot2 Fangame Update. Now back to drawing.

DOWNLOAD: In the below attachments, or at itch.io

It's been some time since I programmed a game, and now that my art abilities have been improving, I'd like to start making games with my own characters and my perspective draw style.  

I'm a big fan of Bottopbot2's rendering work, and with his permission I've created this small game as a way of practicing some coding conce...