this sprite was such a challenge for my very-stressed-about-moving brain at the end of march... but I love this design and the vibe they wanted so I persevered (through the challenge I made for myself)
I get through a lot of audiobooks while I'm working so I thought it might be fun to make note of them when I post timelapses - I listened to most of the left hand of darkness while working ...
2024-05-16 09:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
first is the finished pouflon design for kendall from march, then a dragon design I sketched ages ago and finished up recently that I'll be putting up as a donation adopt for gaza, and then the next few zodiac themed designs that are taking so long I guess each batch will be a yearly release lol... first is taurus, then gemini, and the wip for aries. I might actually make a different design for...
2024-05-09 13:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I worked on some of these so long ago that watching the timelapse was new and surprising for me like huh... interesting choices...
another fun nature themed portrait! I used my own photo of a local moorland for the background of this one.
finally decided on ćiro's colors! there's some sketches of her and her new pet rat (named thimblerig) courtesy of her grandpa, a mage with a strong affinity with rats. then her and briar, some various judi expressions, a random donkey furry and some rat studies. I gave them pointed ears as a joke- in our headworld there's a theme of rats being almost on par with humans, and all the humans have...
2024-04-18 14:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
always love drawing ungulates. there were some tricky small details in this one but got there in the end!
this was a fun commission for tofu's pixel art discord server! the whole thing came together faster than I expected.. I really want to do more pixel art foliage.
went with a more lineless/painterly approach to this one! sometimes these turn out better with bold lines and sometimes they're better lineless and this is still a mystery to me.
I redid the lighting in this one so many times. I blame it all on purple........ I have a harder time in general working with cooler colors than warmer ones.
a finished design commission for inneedofausername (deviantart), portrait sketches for tofupixel (twitter) & endtemple (discord), big sprite sketches for clovercoin (deviantart) & crowlets (twitter), and a wip of a design commission for kendall! I've been saving a lot of timelapses so I'll have a bunch of those to post later!
2024-03-14 14:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
this is a birthday present for my friend's birthday next week, briar is their character! ćiro's outfit colors were supposed to be temporary but I still haven't figured them out so she's just going to have to deal with them for now.
I went through a bunch of sketches for this piece so I thought I'd go through them here-
2024-03-07 16:56:30 +0000 UTC
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woe, ćiro upon ye... trying to figure out her colors but I'm not sure what direction to go in yet. also featuring a snuggly hug with wyn while I was testing my dying fineliner pens and some briars in his biggest wiggly worm form!
2024-02-29 14:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
first is an experimental chibi for fairytopia on toyhouse, then a big sprite made with a limited palette to be a cross stitch for vagabonddiesel on furaffinity, a wip of a big sprite for mwhiteart on twitter, and a sketch for the baby form of a design I'm working on for inneedofausername on deviantart!
2024-02-22 15:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
this piece got me thinking about exposure, which I'd really like to study and experiment with more... there's a great breakdown of it in devin korwin's creative fundamentals.
first are some sketches for a chibi commission- trying to maximize the small and cute factors.......
then some sketches of ćiro- I read through all of dungeon meshi recently (loved it) and wanted to mess around with giving ćiro thistle's hairstyle since they are both cute little jesters. the rest are call doodles of briar, judi, and ellie!
some more timelapses from other sprites I did this month!
I wanted to show the design process of the taurus themed adopt I've been trying to work on... forever, but I've really struggled with that design and restarted it once already so I don't think I could show a coherent process for it haha. it's usually more straightforward with design commissions- I was aiming to only take pixel art commissions this month, but kendall had a custom pouflon in mind...
2024-01-25 14:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
first up is the sketch for a pouflon design commission I'm working on- I saved a bunch of progress shots while I've worked on the design, so if it's done in time I'll be posting them next week!
then there's some rough sketches for a chibi I want to do of my unicorn character fable! I want to condense/simplify the proportions of my chibi commissions a bit so trying to work that out here.<...
some of the sprites I've done so far this month, for key & skeleton! thank you both again! ❤️
I wanted to take a big break from drawing last month but ... I drew anyway. some of these are from november though!
the first is a finished up sketch of wyn and sabs, which I tried a couple new things with- I remembered I have a great marker brush in clip studio that I want to mess with more later... the next three are doodles of my characters and my friends' characters, then some rough colo...
most of the commissions I worked on this month were pixel art that I've already posted, and the rest were these three- a fullbody piece for deuyr4 on twitter, a character design for quailtea on twitter, and a wereform design for kali-naan on deviantart for their pouflon!
I'll be taking a break ...
2023-11-30 14:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
timelapses from a few of the sprites I did this month and last month!
sometimes there are interesting divides between my regular artwork and pixel artwork owing to the nature of both mediums- for example I was actually excited to work on this portrait because of the modern city buildings in the background and I hope I never have to draw a background full of those outside of pixel art 🙏
2023-11-16 14:18:35 +0000 UTC
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tried something new with the underwater light effect in this one!
progress on this commission has been really slow but finally getting somewhere I think! the sketches include some boar studies, two furry character ideas I've been kicking around (earth grunge boar and vampire bunny) and kirie just being herself.
2023-11-02 12:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
this one was nice and relaxing to work on!
small sprites from july to october, pixel portrait for biolucent on twitter, big sprite for ophanimon on tumblr, character design for ellisgoats on twitter, and the sketch for the fullbody commission I'm working on right now!
2023-10-19 14:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I had strong cool lighting in mind for this piece that didn't work out at all until I slapped a warm overlay on at the end... which is typical for me, I really struggle to work with cool colors haha. I'd really love to do more forest backgrounds for pixel portraits, foliage in pixel art is so satisfying (mushrooms specifically always turn out great too)
2023-10-12 14:51:02 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to try more dramatic lighting than I normally do with my big sprites for this one- usually I pick colors by hand but with more complex characters like this it takes too long, so I used two layers set to soft light with a light orange color. I liked how the highlights on the glasses and eyes turned out!
2023-10-05 15:13:02 +0000 UTC
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I put off working on this for weeks because I was intimidated by how many pikmin I drew LOL
I have another pikmin fanart idea I've been sitting on for actual years and now that oatchi exists I can add him too... I took the perfect reference picture of some plants behind my flat so hopefully I can find the time to finally sketch it!