Recent Gift Art

Here are some recent drawings I've done for my friends for their birthdays!

I drew my friend Hillary's character, Selene, for her birthday in mid-April. I thought her design was really cool and she drew her during Huevember this last year.

This one was for my friend Laura since her birthday was early May. This is her character, Gray.

Drawing for a Friend

This is my part for an art trade that I did with Jinny Hinkle! Check out her characters and art, too. :)

Art Trades!

A few pieces I got around to doing that didn't involve my characters.

An Art Trade that I did for an artist on deviantART!

Another Art trade I did for someone on deviantART.

And this is a little fanart piece (not an art trade, but different from what I usually post). I ended up beating Paper Mario 2 last week (since I never got around to finishing it 11 years ago). Weird coincidence that I literally just started playing it the day before the 11 year anniversary of it first coming out (also the day that I drew this)! Crazy that it's been so long, since it was the last really good Mario game I played. But anyway, Vivian was my favorite partner and I'm just about to get her in my game! Also I decided to try a lineless approach on this one. It was interesting, but I still enjoy lineart too much to do this very often.

Art Trade!

Yesterday was a pretty busy day. Since my cousin is leaving for college this weekend, we had a little going away party  for her. So I spent most of the day hanging out with family. But in the meantime, here's what I did:

Arianna has a shy and closed-minded personality. She usually does not admit defeat and thinks that her values and decisions are always the right ones. Although, it is not common that she will actually speak these beliefs, since she is often too shy to do so. She has trouble taking responsibility for her actions and longs for unity in her life. Arianna does not talk very much at all because she is afraid of making a mistake she cannot fix. She also has very much trouble speaking with anyone that she does not know and will often cower away or avoid all contact with people whom she does not know. She is also often very nervous and feels the need to tell her friends.

I did an art trade with ComicMakerJoe, my friend from deviantART, and this was my part. This is his character, Betty.

And on another note... I ended up finishing Dangan Ronpa, which is sad because I'm gonna miss playing it. But the story was amazing and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in mystery, great character development, interesting stories, suspense, crazy plot twists, or visual novels. It's one of the best new games I've tried in awhile, so it was a lot of fun. Anyway, this is Kirigiri, by far one of my favorite female characters out there, and in my top 2 favorite characters from Dangan Ronpa. So I did this little doodle of her.

Christmas & New Tablet

So the reason for my late update is because of Christmas, being busy with family and everything. But for Christmas I got a new Monoprice Tablet, and it works great so far! So now that I've got a new tablet, I can finally get back to being productive and get some digital art done.

"Lord of Pride"

My friends and I did a Secret Santa Exchange. So I drew Tara's character, Lucy. This was the first piece I did when I got my new tablet.

"Is This... Really the End...?"

A quick digital piece I did before I got my new tablet. This is Ted, when he is about to disappear.

"Pubby and Friends Christmas"

A Christmas present I made for my brother of Pubby and his friends.

"Colored Pencil Sketches"

A whole bunch of sketches I've done so far over winter break. I've found my love for colored pencils. I almost feel like I can't sketch in any medium but them now that I've become so attached to them.

"Squall Gestures"

Some practice digital gestures; I drew Squall (from Final Fantasy VIII) in all of the poses for these gestures though.

"Gesture Practice"

A bunch of gestures done mostly using figure drawing sites; some is from life though. I've done these pretty much every day of break so far. Some were done while referencing the Vilppu Drawing Manual. Others were done during drawing sessions Jinny and I had together.

First Semester of Sophomore Year: Completed!

So I just finished up my first semester of sophomore year this past Friday. It was a very busy semester, as you can probably tell from the recent posts I've been updating with. I haven't even had a chance to really upload anything not for my Design for Media class since early October. Now I'll be uploading everything else that I've done in my other classes and in my free time. Enjoy my massive update:

"Neuro's Evil Torture"

This was my gift for the Secret Santa Swap that the Animation and Illustration Collectives did at my school. I had a lot of fun with this and I really started to realize how much more I enjoyed using Painter Tool Sai after working on this.

"Abra's Concentration"

A piece I did for the Illustration Collective at my school. This was also one of the first pieces I finished in Painter Tool Sai.

"Light Festival Massacre"

This animatic starts out with the protagonist, Benedict, standing outside of a large, fancy building. Benedict's mission is to assassinate Harrison. He faces his arch-enemy Blaine in a race to kill the target. As he runs through the masquerade, he is not only faced with his mission, but he also comes across a woman named Kali. This was my final animatic for my storyboarding class.

"Entering The Link Between Worlds"

Music Interpretation animatic for storyboarding class. This is basically about the beginning of The Nays. The Nays find themselves in a mysterious new place known as The Link Between Worlds. They are faced with many obstacles that they must overcome.

"Return to Muko Inc."

Ted and Doge come across a mysterious box in warehouse. They decide to return the box to Muko Inc. because they think that the owner would like it back. Once they push it outside, it is revealed that there is Lotus, a slave boy, inside the box. Lotus seeks their help, but they are scared off and retreat. This was my final for my Animation I class. We had to make a 20 second animation about pretty much anything.

"Eather's Banjo"

This was my first time animating to sound. We chose a sound clip out of a select few, and this was the one that I decided to go with. It's from a clip of MLP:FiM with Pinkie Pie. So this animation is really rough since we weren't given all that much time to come out with a finished piece. In fact, he wanted us to keep it rough in order to focus more on the movement rather than an actual finished animation. So this is my character Eather, since I figured this clip was close enough to her voice.

"Marker Sketches"

This was my first time using markers, so I did some experimenting with mixing colors to start it off. Jinny gave me a quick demo on how to use them.

"Colored Pencil Tests"

This semester I started experimenting with more various mediums in my sketchbook, thanks to Jinny. These are some tests that I did using colored pencils.

"Sketches of Me"

So I was trying to figure out how to draw myself. I couldn't really get the right style or way to draw myself though, even after this many attempts. Drawing myself accurately and stylistically is a lot harder than I thought.

"More Sophomore Sketches"

A whole bunch of various sketches from throughout my first semester of sophomore year. The majority of these are my characters, but at the very bottom there are a few sketches of Abra and Missingno.

"Gesture Practice"

A bunch of practice gesture drawings I've done throughout the semester.

On the Road Back to Digital Art

So this past week I've been trying to get back into doing digital art more often, but I just couldn't feel satisfied with my pieces. So I'm definitely gonna try and do more digital art soon that I can actually be satisfied with. Plus the only sketches I've really been doing are just gesture drawings since I figured that would help me improve on drawing the figure.

"The Link Between Worlds Concepts"

Some landscape studies I did to look at real environments as reference and create my own creative spaces. This is the location known as The Link Between Worlds, that connects all of The Worlds together.

"Rocko Quick Sketch"

Just a quick digital portrait I did of my character, Rocko. Mostly practice to get back into doing digital art.

"Final Pass"
An art trade I did for one of my friends.

"Final Pass Sketch"

Sketch of the above piece.

 

 

 

 

 

"Gesture Drawings"

Just some gestures I've been doing daily.

Weekly Updates

I decided that I'm gonna start updating weekly instead of daily just because it'll be a bit more manageable now.

"Active Luna"

Here is my part of an original character exchange that I participated in. This is someone's character named Luna. I decided to make her be standing on a glass ledge standing over a city because my partner requested an active-type pose.

 "Active Luna Sketch"
This is my sketch for the above drawing.

"Paelo Concepts"

This is one of my characters, Paelo. He is one of the antagonists that isn't all that main. I just felt the need to draw some of the not as main characters.

"Mowzeye Concepts"

This is another one of my characters, Mowzeye. Mowzeye is a cat who likes to help those in need. Whenever she sees someone who gives off negative vibes, she will seek to correct their unacceptable behaviors. She lives on her own and is very independent, yet caring.

"Dorby Concepts"

This is one of my characters, Dorby. Dorby is a creature from Biggert City. He enjoys digging holes, and is often seen hanging around with Lappy. The two of them are often causing mischief and moving about.

"Edina Concepts"

This is one of my characters, Edina. Edina is a very proper young lady who loves royalty. She frowns upon those who are improper or make fun of her. She becomes very upset if anyone is rude to her and will begin making strange noises.

"Zozo Concepts"

This is another one of my characters, Zozo. Zozo is a bird who used to be friends with Raven and Yaguh, but once he had Alphonse's beer, he changed completely. Zozo now hangs out with Alphonse and his friends and enjoys drinking.

"Model Figure 03"
More practice.

"Model Figure 02"

More practices.

"Model Figure 01"

Just some practices I did in drawing class.

"Gesture Drawing 03"

Some more gesture drawings.

"Gesture Drawing 02"
Just some quick gesture drawings, still getting used to doing those.