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Post by charming thievery on Jan 30, 2018 0:08:46 GMT -5
That is such a cute scene, charming thievery ! I love all the little Bruces' expressions and interactions, they're so much fun to look at! It's such a sweet illustration. ^_^ It's nice to see the progress too, it's so cool to get to see how it went from the initial concept sketch to the finished piece! Thank you! It was fun drawing all the Brucies. :3 Yeah, I always like documenting each stage in case I royally mess up later on, haha. But it does result in having progress pictures! ^^
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Post by charming thievery on Mar 15, 2018 19:13:22 GMT -5
Belated Scorchio Day drawing! ...Sorta. It's more like Torchio scolding me for NOT drawing something for Scorchio Day. D: 'Cause I've had this particular idea for YEARS that I always intended to submit to the Art Gallery. Y'know, once I actually drew and finished it. Never happened. (And still hasn't, lol.) And then the collab happened - the milestone collab! The big 1-0! I wanted to be a part of it! What could I submit? The theme is Celebrations and Reunions...and hey, it's taking place in March! ...It's actually coming out the same week as Scorchio Day!! And I've had a Scorchio Day idea planned for like, ever! It's perfect! 😁 I'll just turn my AG idea into a comic for the collab! ...And yet, for the better part of the months we had in advance, I didn't work on it. I was still kinda torn whether I wanted it to be in the Art Gallery or as this collab comic (plus, I also liked the Reunions idea...Brynn and Hanso basically had a mini reunion every time she arrested him!), but it was mainly (stressful) life, laziness, procrastination (I'm a pro!), and my love-hate, perfectionist relationship with drawing that got in the way. But, y'know, excuses. It's my own fault. Long story short, it seems I'll be waiting for next year to submit my Scorchio Day comic, ahaha...ha...ha...T-T But! Another year to actually practice and *really* study Scorchio anatomy. Not to mention other buff and lanky superheroes...*cough* Maybe DoN will be back by next March, and it'll be good timing... Anyway, I decided that learning to draw Torch from different angles would help, so here's a pen sketch of that - as you can see, I had trouble figuring out the profile view. I also have ONE veeeeery rough pen sketch of the only panel/Torch pose I'm satisfied with, which I'll upload later. EDIT: Told ya it was messy! (Clean lines, why do you elude me so?? Dx) Woo!! I'll try not to be too upset about missing this special collab, and I'll make an effort to really go through it! (Haven't really been reading the Times all that much...) Congrats, everyone who did make it in! I'm sure it'll be a great issue! ^^ EDIT: What the heck, man. Now I've thought of a Brynn/Hanso comic that could also fit for the Reunions collab. Sigh. These ideas always come to me at the last minute, I swear.
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Post by charming thievery on Apr 15, 2018 0:49:45 GMT -5
I actually made something for the Random Contest! \o/ I liked the theme and decided this was a good opportunity to try for the avvie and trophy~ I originally wanted to recreate Stackable Babaas, but after making one, I was like, I don't wanna do this anymore, lol. Clay is hard, haha. Also, I think I need talcum powder or something so it doesn't stick to my hands. I didn't know that. (I was working with air-dry clay.) Anyway! I decided on Babaa Pull Along as it was the closest thing to what I had already made. I'm kinda mad at myself 'cause I forgot to take a pic of the wheel-less clay Babaa, but oh, well. *sighs* Painted version: Painted with acrylics! I like the unpainted version better, but eh. So, fingers crossed that my entry wins and gets displayed! ...Although the compilation image I quickly whipped together at almost 4am doesn't look as nice as it could have. I don't have good design sense, lol. Edit: And I won Second Place!! xD Recreation at its Finest
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Post by charming thievery on Apr 29, 2018 0:39:56 GMT -5
IT'S ME AS A NEOPET!!! Based on a DTI customization of myself, lol. Ahem. Well, it's how I've decided I would look if I lived in the world of Neopia alongside my pets. :3 Sketches~ I still suck at torsos, even simplified ones, so you will notice I stopped drawing the full body after that failure, lol. (That one was the first drawing I did tonight. Which is why it is the suckiest.) So like, I'm convinced me and Abi would be besties. We would bond over our mutual crush on a certain blue Ixi thief. x) I messed up on my eyes. And I still can't draw Abi's hair. 😞 Because, incidentally, finding out Abigail had a crush on Hanso was the reason why I initially took an interest in her. After all, we're drawn to people who share our same interests, right? 😉 So yeah, Abigail is my favorite Neopian after Hanso and Brynn, so expect more fun shenanigans with her. 😁 Whether they be quick pen doodles or I actually make an effort to draw cleaner pencil sketches, I don't know. Also, aishas are fun to draw. ^^ Oh, and I've been thinking up comics about my pets (I'm finally starting to discover the appeal of developing characters for your pets!! Though their personalities only come to me via comic gags), and since I play a role in those, I'm introducing my Neo self first, lol. Hi.
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Post by M is for Morphine on May 8, 2018 10:00:33 GMT -5
Aww, you make a sweet looking Neopet. :3
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Post by charming thievery on May 8, 2018 11:37:28 GMT -5
Aww, you make a sweet looking Neopet. :3 Haha, thanks! xD
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Post by charming thievery on May 21, 2018 1:41:12 GMT -5
Yooooo, I actually have some non-pen art to show off~ So today was a particularly productive day in terms of art. While it still did not go well on the comic and lineart front (only can get through one panel before it tires me out), I discovered I really like coloring. And coloring on black paper? Suuuuper fun! ;D I've been wanting to get back into the Danny Phantom phandom (is that kinda redundant? xD) ever since I learned it was still going strong 11 years after the show ended. And after discovering Phanniemay, I wanted to join in! So when presented with black paper, what's the first thing I think to render? The ghost portal, of course! It also fits Day 2's theme - Green. Oohh, wait, I can also do his glowing green eyes too...Yeah, okay, that'll be fun. I'll shut up now and just show you all what I did. Actually, one of the first things I wanted to do was re-render my MAGAX/Nox drawing. Oh, did you think I forgot about that unfinished piece? Nope, I did not! Though I didn't think my sarcastic prediction of finishing it 8 months later would actually be coming true, lol. 'Cause this thing I just did is still just an "experiment" and not what I had in mind for the finished version. MAGAX Pretty pleased with how he came out, his head - OH GOD, that floating head - being the exception. But I like that I could finally work with the green glow reflected on his face. 😊 Nox I retouched his face with black colored pencil. I wanted to just strictly render the light areas, but I was like...his face looks awful. Why can't I just use black pencil to fix stuff? I still didn't actually do lineart! Oohh, I have to say, though, his ghostly glow looks really cool! That is the perfect shade and the effect I was going for! Together This is essentially how I pictured it coming together, except tighter and within a circle. It's nice to finally see this idea come together the way I had envisioned it! Well, mostly. So like, now I'm all, screw my ink plans! This totally works better! And it's easier! I just gotta get me some bigger black paper. Yeah, this is how I'll do the final version, ho ho ho! This was so fun to do! I just went and did it! No stupid need to be perfect, the way I am with lineart. Screw lineart!! I really hate it, lol, except that's how I can achieve my more precise drawings. Ugh... Ahem. I'd really like to do more of this kind of thing - just going in and using light/shadow/coloring to define the form without having to sketch out the lines first. It was relatively quick and liberating, and I'm quite proud of the results. 😁 Materials used: pad of black paper and colored pencils (the watercolor kind 'cause that's all I have atm). I also was using my prior sketches as a reference. Especially since I wasn't sketching out anything first. I just defined the details by shading in the light areas. And since I couldn't find the notebook with my original drawings, I used my post in this thread, haha. I really need to find that notebook though. I don't think it's lost, just temporarily misplaced. I swear I saw it recently. :T Sorry, I rambled A LOT.
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Post by charming thievery on Jun 25, 2018 0:16:34 GMT -5
So I definitely should post this before the AC is over. *nods* The thing my Brucey loves best about FLUFF are the muffins. :3 Pencil sketch: Inked: I forgot to take a picture before I started coloring. OTL Colored: I've been wanting to draw something for FLUFF, and since we're all about the muffins here...xD I showed my sis the sketch of this idea, and that's when she came up with "Come to the FLUFF side - we have muffins." I really wanted to complete this drawing soon (especially since it was almost the weekend when I'd have time to work on it!) and post it on the FLUFF board while there was a title relating to muffins, so when a fellow FLUFFian needed a suggestion for the next board title, I jumped at the chance to supply this one. 😊 I'm not crazy about the Barney wings though...my color choices on that were not so great. :/
^ The blurb from my petpage, which I shared with my fellow FLUFFians. :3 I love FLUFF and it's the reason why the AC is my favorite annual event. ^^ I had another FLUFF idea (comic) and an AC comic idea, but I'm definitely not going to finish them this season. Or possibly ever, lol, because once the AC is over, I probably won't have the motivation to do these drawings. Especially since I have other ideas to work on too. * * * Also, as a continuation of my black paper drawings, I also did one for my favorite swoon-worthy Hanso image too. It was quick and I wanted to do it over (read: better) because I messed up the proportions, but as it hasn't happened yet, I'm just gonna post it. Meh. Posting first, then will add image. I want to use the Tapatalk upload option, you see, and I need to be on my phone for that. Edit: Here 'tis.
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Post by Moni on Jun 25, 2018 3:32:22 GMT -5
Okay, so Bruces are not really my favorite neopet (I mean, they exist, I feel nothing toward them), but the way you draw them is so... CUTE! The little poster makes me want to join FLUFF, too.
Hanso looks super stealthy!
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Post by charming thievery on Jun 25, 2018 22:45:11 GMT -5
Okay, so Bruces are not really my favorite neopet (I mean, they exist, I feel nothing toward them), but the way you draw them is so... CUTE! The little poster makes me want to join FLUFF, too. Hanso looks super stealthy! Thanks! ^^ I've found I really enjoy drawing Bruceys, and since my own has the most developed character and comic ideas, I'll be drawing more. Haha, that's one of my favorite panels of him from the comic, and I thought it would be perfect to recreate on black paper.
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Post by charming thievery on Oct 9, 2018 13:24:28 GMT -5
I haven't really posted much lately, though I have sporadically been working on stuff. They're still WIPs (comics) that I want to post together, but I haven't finished all the panels yet because they involve drawing stuff that's difficult for me (read: torsos & animals/Neopets). Thus, I've been putting it off. :/ But Inktober tends to coax some motivation out of me, so that's been keeping me busy (and slightly drained! Lol) these last several days. I'll post some of my work here, though I think it'll mostly be pencil drawings, as I like those better and haven't really posted them anywhere. (Plus, for the most part, they haven't been watermarked with my IG handle yet, which I'm still reluctant to associate publicly with my Neo account, as it reveals my name. 😅) Anyway, here we go! My initials are okay though. This was Day 1. I really wanted to try making a drawing where everything kind of just fades out and blends into shadow. This is my favorite so far, and that's kind of a big deal for me, since this wasn't planned; it didn't have an elaborate idea behind it that I wanted to capture to a tee; and it was fairly quick and something I like to draw most (female faces). What's more is that even though I did mess up on the inking, I actually like it better than my initial pencil drawing, which like, NEVER happens. 😱 Don't go away yet, more is to come! But I don't wanna risk losing this post, so I'm gonna submit it first like this. Edit: More added! Here's Day 2. I like the pencil drawing much better. 😊 I had initially wanted to draw Chat Noir but got frustrated and ended up using myself as reference instead, lol. At least for the hair and expression anyway. Day 5. Yeah, I hadn't been following the prompts at this point. But anyway! I drew this when the hat-wearing Pikachus started appearing in Pokemon Go! They were so cute, so I just had to draw 'em! (Plus, it was a simpler thing to draw, which I welcomed. And the black hat was just so suited for Inktober, so yeah.) I did a poor job with Hiro's pose. 😞 Day 6. Right, so I'm a big fan of BH6 (it always seems to be my October movie, lol. I had drawn a lot of fanart for it back in 2014 before it released in November), and I also love the tv show! Particularly the dynamic going on with Karmi and Hiro, lol.
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Post by charming thievery on Nov 30, 2018 15:23:09 GMT -5
Yayyy, new art! Not Neopets related, but I'm proud of it, so I'm posting it here! Anyway, in celebration of Wreck-It-Ralph 2, I wanted to draw some fanart of Vanellope (she's my fave)! Edit: Uploaded bigger and better image. I actually had to retrace the lineart because I had erased too much and that made coloring it impossible. But that also resulted in me missing some details and making a mistake or two. But I covered that up with my post-it watermark, lol. I'm hoping to draw more regularly and actually get the ideas I have finished and posted! Things on the list: - Brucey comic + pet comics/illustrations - Abi and me as besties xD - Hanso and Brynn - Lyra and Aurrick (mostly Lyra though, haha) - That Magax/Nox drawing I seem to have forgotten
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Post by Moni on Nov 30, 2018 15:42:35 GMT -5
vanellope looks super neat! i like the color layering. :-)
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Post by charming thievery on Dec 12, 2018 3:48:55 GMT -5
(Apologies in advance for the rambling - I'm oddly more chatty at night, so maybe that has something to do with it.) Here are some quick doodles I ended up coloring... So this started out as a pen sketch of just the face, but then I realized I actually kinda liked it? Enough to not want to ruin it. So I grabbed a pencil and drew in her jaw (something I often mess up). And since I'm terrible with hair, I decided to consult people who *were* good with drawing hair - Neopets! I love so many Neo wigs and have an outfit on DTI set up with an Aisha and several wigs that look good on it, expressly for use as a drawing reference. And after a couple tests with other wigs, I found I quite liked how this face looked with the Basic Beanie and Cherry Wig. I had been drawing the hair and hat with red and blue Col-Erase pencils, and kind of liked the color, so I filled in more of the face, like her lips and eyes. And then that looked too light, so I just whipped out my colored pencils and just colored the whole thing, haha. But like, that ^ drawing only came about because I had been trying unsuccessfully to draw Masila - because for some reason, out of everything in HatIC, I'm somehow hooked on her and her relationship with Kanrik, lol - and I needed proof that I could actually draw something good and cute, haha. So after this success, I tried again. Like, the goal was to actually draw a specific pose of her and Kanrik, but I realized that's beyond what I can do in one night, and I wanted instant gratification. So just her face, it is!! Oh, and I drew her as a human because like, the original pose I wanted to draw (and maybe will come later, we'll see how patient or impatient I am) was something I felt would work better in human form (plus, didn't want to deal with having to draw a muzzle...but on the other hand, I can't draw good-looking guys or just guys in general either...but if they're human, they won't look as badly off-model as they would if I tried to draw them how they actually look). (I'm kind of mad about that white line that is right across her face. ☹️) And hey! She actually kinda looks like a faerie! Can I actually draw faeries now? 'Cause I could never get their eyes right, and that's why I never drew them even though they're more in my wheelhouse. Yay! I like a lot of faerie designs, so this should be fun. But then I'll probably end up hating their eyes because this time with Masila turns out to be a one-time success. But yeah. Considering this came about from pretty casual pieces, I'm pretty pleased with them. So much in fact that I think I feel confident enough to attempt Brynn and Hanso! (As humans. I still can't draw them as they are. There's one sketch of Brynn that I kinda like but now can't duplicate the style. D: ) I may want to include Hannah next because she seems like she'd be fun to draw. Yeah. ...I also need to practice *not* drawing such skinny necks, haha.
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Post by charming thievery on Dec 15, 2018 23:26:50 GMT -5
I was gonna wait to finish some Brynn sketches, but I got too excited to post these because I really liked my last sketch, lol. Anyway, so here are a few doodles/drawings of human Hanso. This was the first face of several I liked, so I drew the rest of the details (really messily). The mouth was a happy accident; I'm not normally able to draw a decent mouth on purpose, lol. I'm proud of his hair, considering it's a huge pain to draw. 🙄 I feel like this captures his personality, though I'm not 100% satisfied with it. I will keep practicing his grins. I really liked his expression here, so I made the effort to actually draw more details and clean it up (sort of. As much as you can keep a drawing clean when you've been erasing a lot). Ugh, his jacket collar is also a pain. 😩 (Also, I avoid hands like the plague!) But I'm proud of this one! This boy is too fun to draw(*). :3 What a cutie, lol(**). *When I'm not slaving over his hair and jacket collar, that is. And when an expression actually turns out nice. **...who hopefully looks his age in my drawings?
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