More art I enjoyed making (2022-2023 edition)

 Hey. it's 2023 now. 

pandemic "over" but still hustlin.

mostly been fanart

zine from 2022

Shego here to make a mess! This was for a friend's fanzine - the "Wicked x Lovely" Villainess zine! I really liked working on a more extensive piece like this and my friend and her mod friends really made the piece work well with the rest of the zine.

Some Samurai Rabbit fanart! This show (and Rise of the TMNT) really re-lit my passion for fanfic. I started this blog post in May 2023, but since then I've really made a lot of arts for this show. I will be sharing more artworks from the different ideas I've had for stories in this world. It's based on "Usagi Yojimbo", Stan Sakai's wonderful comic about Miyamoto Usagi, an Edo-period rabbit samurai, but the show is essentially a spin-off with a different take - about a descendant in the future. I made a whole side-blog for rambling about theories and other things, but basically, I became obsessed with this show for a time. I still like it a lot! Just more on my mind this past year. Take this fanart and look at these tiny cats I drew! I haven't drawn cats in a while now since 2023.

I had also started drawing on the phone much more in 2022. Still do, a bit less, but it's a nice way to jot down notes or quick ideas so they don't run too far. I often have a harder time re-creating a specific idea later, so it's good to do it in the moment.

I've also been getting back to my own characters. Re-visiting some older art. Oh, and I believe 2023 was my "anniversary" of art in many ways. May 2023 was actually the 18th year of making digital art and posting it online. Before 2005, I mostly drew MSPaint doodles onto floppydisks.

"I am drawing comics of my character today"

Marra, from Blood Oath, a story I started in 2017 and have been tinkering at since then.

"Arleem" or Arli as I like to call him in my head. Another character from this story. I'm not sure anymore I want to make it a comic, but it's been fun putting my characters in situations.

Now in 2023, I drew things on the phone way more than elsewhere. 

I guess that's it. thinking of posting here more, to make it easier to keep a timeline of sorts up. This helps keep the depression from deleting my memories too keenly. Hope y'all enjoyed these memories ;)

Resting to the sound of new work

 

Hey all! haven't posted here in a long while. I happened on this blog again while trying to show some old work to a friend and felt like maybe it would be nice to post here again.

What's been going on is that there have been a lot of life changes. Nothing less to expect from 7 years.

The above is a bit of work from a project I'm working on. Somewhere along the way I realized that I've always wanted to work in games in some capacity. Went to school for that and... came out the same as I ever was, I guess? To some degree, definitely feel more confident about certain things in general. But probably the most about my art. I don't feel that nagging sense of "I'm not doing enough" or "I hate my work." Not anymore. Or not so much at least. Having a lot on my plate has something to do with that, although I'd still like to continue comics work and concentrate on personal projects.... But that's for another time, I guess. 

For anyone dropping in now, from maybe some other time and space, the entire world is currently in the middle of a pandemic. Lives seem really different nowadays and this affects our whole worldview, our living and working conditions. I think I probably wouldn't be able to work as fast if I had to continue in an open-office type situation or having weekly meetings face-to-face. I miss the people, but at the same time. I feel a lot less of that slog from previous working conditions.

I'd like to think my life has changed for the better in general but to be honest, I guess it's just changed a lot is all! It's the 20th of August, the 29th birthday of Estonia and it's a completely different year again where I'm mulling over life-choices. This year I feel like I'm pretty okay with most of them and that's a big step up. I always feel like things are going too fast and that I'm too slow for everything else but I'm finally allowing myself to take breaks and rest more. Maybe that's all I ever needed.

3D modeling solo practice

We had some really good practice in our tuesday asset design workshop, so I was inspired to try making some of my characters on my own. again.


here's some more screenshots!
http://imgur.com/a/aT98D
http://imgur.com/a/5aCUD
http://imgur.com/a/CNqYe
http://imgur.com/QeOXPUU
the last one here as an img too.


and here's some old work. http://supposedblog.blogspot.com.ee/search?q=3d

i feel like. what am i even supposed to do with this. maybe i feel too much idk

"Yom"

man,

i shouldn't even be online at all, let alone posting anything but,

here we are anyway

Been trying vectoring again. There's probably a more proper way to call working in inkscape or other vector software but who cares. Experimenting is still fun.
just some screenshots for now.

summer update(just text)

i was at a birthday party for a collective yesterday and got reaaallly cool drunk drawings out of it(i'm still amazed i got any drawings out of that, because lets be honest, drunk drawings have a very varied quality hahaha) but forgot to clean up and take the drawings, so that's it about that i guess :')

so yeah
for anyone still reading or passing by this blog? just a little mention and update that hey, i still visit this blog occasionally~

yoooo

Just thought i'd post some doodles from a class quickly before i go to sleep. I'll be trying to make a post with some turtles later maybe.

 

i better color this soonish, gotta show my swill

Less wordy

sorry about the last post being so long? word-heavy? anyway, here's some more.

<< stuff i wanna color

and yo i have like a million versions of this now, why : (

 !!!

Recent scraps

Decided i should post something here too, before another year starts!

I found a blog called "This could have been Frozen" on tumblr and took it upon myself to try drawing some concepts for the characters as well! The blog showcases different artist interpretations of the Snowqueen story, one which itself already has many different versions from/ in many different countries and cultures. Here's a link to the blog.

I kept thinking about making the snow queen and the girl albino and got a bit obsessed with this thought, because so far, there hasn't been much representation of that? especially in animated media. I also wanted the story to take place somewhere near home again(i'm more familiar with russian and northern retellings of the story), but in a more un-appointed, little-specific time, to distinguish the timespace and history from the characters a little bit, and focus on the characters and the setting.(if that makes sense....)

Here in these sketches we have; The Queen, the Friend and the Sister
So i imagined two different kind of Snowqueen stories:
One where the Snowqueen is the older sister of a young Anna, an orphan living in northern finland, taking care of her sick friend, a sami boy, in a small hidden village. The girl's sister decides to take the boy away from the village and the girl goes to rescue him,despite her bad eyesight.
The second one where the kids are older and the queen is an ancient hag who wants nothing but youth and rejuvenation, taking it from young weary travelers. The young man falls victim to her snowy charms and it's up to the young blind lady to gather people up and revolt against the queen who steals people away.

So there's a lot of ways for the story to go, if we just take it to a kind of a bare minimum, i guess. I could switch some of these thoughts that surfaced and mix them up and i think it would still make for something interesting, for a different version

I'm still not sure about which way i'd be finalizing towards, but i've started caring for some of characters on their own, design-wise, so i really don't know what i'm gonna do with any of this >_> A lot of the other designs are really good and amiable and likable too, and i'm a bit intimidated, but seeing my own drawings come to life is kind of encouraging.

So this if what i needed, a lengthy personally-approached blog post!

Holy shit, blogger is still pretty crappy about having images in a blog post, welp, gotta html this:

Some silly test doodles and brush tryouts, to weigh out the differences in Firealpaca, a relatively new painting/drawing software and openCanvas1 which i've been using on and off for various tasks and drawings from even before i had a tablet.
What I like about Firealpaca is it's bare minimum: it has all the basic tools of a painting or drawing artware, like layers that have an opacity lock or marquee tools or gradients and some customizable brushes and for it's price(freeware or something akin to opencource? it has ads at the startup but that's it, it's free) it does pretty great against other free software i've been using so far. For any beginners at using tablet-specific art software: don't be scared! and don't get too impatient either. Often beginners will have a hard time getting used to using the software; i know, because it's taken me about 4 years of photoshop experience and an additional mixed-3 years of other software. Honestly, it's not even that specific, it's just 7 years of experience of various different kinds of  software - they are tools. You're the artist. You get to choose.
Plus a lot of times, when you start a piece, it's really more about what you've set out to achieve with the art work. If  you know it's something where you've gotta let emotions take the wheel, you'd probably do so, and if the piece at any moment needs a pinpoint of focus, that'll happen too.
So what happened with those above sketches thar, is that i was supposed to be working on something else, but, relegated to our old dumpy computer with a skewed screen, i had opted for some doodling anyway, to work on something i had obligated myself to work on. That didn't happen of course, and in a fit of trying out different brushes, i started doodling out thoughts on my story, a comic, or maybe a novel? Shrug, who knows, it's fun thinking about it either way.
Another thing to remember for any moments of waning creativity: Thoughts are important too! yeah, 'course they are, but those tend to get forgotten, when just starting a picture. I've noticed recently that, whenever i have an instant thought(and i feel like i'm spilling out some kind of secret, speaking of this, but) and NEED to quickly have it on the paper already, i tend to completely forego the pondering part, or the part where i prepare for a session of drawing and sit down and fiddle and try to find a place to solidly draw on, but no, there's these moments where i completely skip all that and the drawings just appear on paper, from the thoughts, almost directly, if they are concentrated enough(think of juice? the kind that grandmas make).
This reminds me that i had this idea for a comic about a month or less ago, where i specifically wanted to focus on ...how thoughts appear outside of the mind. I had a very specific thought-way for it and specific paneling choices i had already imagined, but never got to putting it on paper right away, because i was scared of losing the original feel and thought process behind it. Now, usually i would kind of berate myself for not marking the ideas down right then and there in the bus(i did afterwards in a calmer environment, tho yeah, those didn't really work out). But not right now, because i just don't care! I have a new thought with this comic, but i still want to make it as simple as possible, as concentrated (juicy, but not sweet-syrupy) and as meaningdul as what the thoughts which i'm trying to communicate. But see, like all of this writing so far, i get a little too wordy maybe. I don't feel like this is entirely a bad thing, but just that it might get to be a bit too much in a comic-making situation. This is like prep-work for future comics and drawings and stories instead

Anyway,




looks like i'm at my character-limit? yo this post might continue if i don't go to sleep after this