Makrie Drinks Bubble Tea
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!
Mackerel study
I'm still calling this the Photshop Takes Zero Skill series even though I'm using Clip Studio Paint now lol.
I've never done a colour still life study before, and wow, I really didn't know where to start to be honest. I laid down GREEN as my first colour! Am I insane? No, I just don't know colour theory.
I do like it for my first go, though I don't know how to achieve better shininess. Also, my colours turned out completely wrong from the original:
But I'm happy with my attempt!
Coffee Break (in the park)
Whoops, I gave two different drawings in a short span of time the same title! With the same characters!
This is a redraw of a 2015 picture, but again, everything is so much better this time around. Ristrel has ditched the muffin for a coffee lol.
Fish God
Ah MoonEye! The hardest to draw of all my "first" characters. This is technically MoonEye + 18 years, here's when I last felt I had a proper drawing of him:
I upgraded him from a wizard robe to a kimono, but even then I wasn't happy with all my attempts to draw him. It wasn't until I decided to add a haori a few days ago that finally I thought I could get something good, and I did!
But I still didn't have a pattern in mind, so I just went with fish scales for now. The haori on the other hand, I do like the patterning - even though it's vastly different from the original photo, the leaves are meant to be the same as those from the trees in the Land of Falling Caterpillars!