Aaaah I messed up the eyes and chin! But it was definitely fun drawing her, she’s so pretty! I really only wanted to attempt this digitally, because of how much black there was and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to do the highlights properly. It didn’t turn out so bad!
Now I have to get out of my face shot comfort zone and really get more practice on full body and hands…
Part of my out of context baguette series! I wanted to draw a finished picture of one of my characters with a random baguette, and decided it’d be fun to do one with Freik chomping on one in a threatening manner. Then, somehow I also wondered if the demons of my world are kind of like monotremes, since they’re mammal like, but also egg laying. That then lead to the fattypus on the t-shirt, after I realised Freik in a platypus onesie didn’t quite look right haha.
And that anime finger whorl! I finally drew one!
A group picture where I chickened out of the background! Yay! lol. I am definitely still not ready to take on a perspective background, though I did think about how George St looks in Sydney. I also feel like now I’ve definitely drawn enough of some of my characters that I no longer need their face in the shot, so this not-face angle of Irutha was fun to draw! I still have no idea what Broen’s costume is or what colour his hair should be!
Whoops I forgot to actually upload this as soon as I’d finished it. I saw a photo of a master sommelier sniffing wine with his pinky in the air and it was so hilarious that I had to draw my own version of it, so Ris, Soulfear, and Freik took on their sommelier personas once again (this is the first time Freik gets to play somm!). Freik kind of got squished at the end though, and when I tried to redraw it to give him more space, I ran out of focus and the whole thing turned out terrible, so I stuck with this version.
Why did I give Freik a shot of whisky instead of partaking in the enjoyment of some barolo? I have no idea lol
Yes this is a very shoddy edit of the panels, I didn’t try too hard and was just checking to see if the format worked. The end goal is to colour this! But we’ll see if I ever get that done since it feels like it’s a big project and I still don’t have enough skill and patience.
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I didn’t actually intend for this drawing to turn out how it did! I walked through an underpass lately with a “post no bills” sign and thought to myself, I should draw something that has that poster in the background. The vibe of it had to be similar to this world, so it ended up being Arridon. At first I thought maybe Irutha would be the one waiting here, but I’ve been drawing plenty of her, so the next best fit was Makrie. Why not bubble tea! That idea came after. I’m not even sure the world has bubble tea. Then I thought, this should have more meaning than just a random drinking bubble tea in an underpass. So, I figured, there should be graffiti. Meaningful graffiti, and considering I am still in a “the pigeons are drones” phase, it would be fitting for there to be messaging about taking down the government or something. So after a quick Google crash course on how to do graffiti fonts (I really hate artception; tattoos and graffiti and the like are so difficult to make up on the spot!), I went with the phrase “blind the drones”, meaning hide from the pigeons. But I still need an artist tag or something, right? So there was another piece that was meant to be on here for “see no eyes”, but maybe that’s the signature left on the original graffiti – it’d just be “SNE” and it’d be roughly behind Makrie’s head. The final decision to be made was whether or not the whole wall was made of bricks, and I really didn’t want to draw that, so it’s just concrete!
Making an actual full piece with background is so difficult ugh!
I can’t draw him lol. I’ve tried and tried and something is always off. This is mouth attempt number 3…
I’ve been too afraid to try this drawing even though I’ve wanted to for a while. There’s this fear that I won’t capture his likeness, and the main mission – drawing hands! These hands are hard! But it’s a style of hands that I’ve not drawn before and it was my main focus.
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Haha, this isn’t about my actual pigeons. It’s inspired by The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind and also Drones by grandson. Moosh those to together, and you have the idea that Irutha and Merisde are in a room, discussing their latest mission over tea, and then from the corner of their eye, they see a pigeon head poking around at the window. There are no real pigeons; all pigeons are government drones. The sight of this pigeon spells immediate danger for the two, so they drop what they’re doing, yell out, “pigeon!!!” and make a mad dash for escape.
Except I couldn’t get that image on paper because I lack artistic ability, so this was the next best drawable scene I could think of – and even then I needed the help of google to learn how people look when they’re running.
Finally! After how many years, a sketch of Saryel that I don’t hate? And she actually has a complete costume? Amazing!
When will I get good at hands though. And she needs arm tattoos but my brain can’t.