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Time for my,,, monthly post
I'm doing art fight this year!! I'm on team Seafoam (obviously) and this year I'm going to try and be really productive! Consider following or attacking me. I've got mutuals on high priority this year!
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It seems that I never posted this before! I have decided to rectify this mistake because I'm super proud of this piece.
The character here is my sona, Cosi!
I'll hopefully be making more drawings similar to this one in the future! Who knows, maybe it'll become part of my art style.
Reblogs are appreciated!!
Three raffle prizes I drew over the last couple of weeks for a raffle I hosted on Instagram!
1st: for c0mput3r_blu3_
2nd: for alpha.angrian
And 3rd: for amazonartdragon
Art trade with @hannyatiger !
This one took me 6 hours and 22 minutes, the second longest time of all the art trades I've done this year. I don't really know why it took that long. I guess I was just really slow at it.
It was an interesting challenge because I rarely work with really brightly coloured characters, so I had a bit of an experience trying to find a way to make it look a little less intense on the eyes.
Art trade with mushroomaaaart on Instagram, ft their OC, Miko!
I'm very happy with the background on this one. I installed the newest CSP update last night, which FINALLY added chromatic aberration and a variety of other useful features, and it really helped with this. Miko looks pretty cute here too. I think this looks kind of like a Warrior Cats book cover. Lol
I'm still experimenting with my art style, but I think I'm getting closer to something I like. Right now I'm trying to focus on lineart because I feel like my lines are pretty boring and I want to make my digital art look a bit more like the pen sketches I like to do. I didn't try very much to do that in this drawing, but I probably will in the future.
Time spent: 4h 20min (legitimately lol)
Lol I forgot to post this here. This is Mako, an old-ish OC of mine.
I'm trying to go through some of my old OCs and draw refs for them, and so far, this is the only one I've completed.
Mako originated in 2020 as a demo sona design. I never used her, but I liked her design enough for the concept to stick in my brain for the following three years. I did some redesign concepts for her last year and then promptly forgot about them until a couple of days ago when I noticed she was missing from my Toyhouse page. I decided to give her a ref, and here we are.
Her name comes from the Mako shark, but the shark aspects of her design are based on blacktip reef sharks and tiger sharks. The main inspo for this iteration of her design was how her old design looked a little like a sunset, or like musk sticks (if you don't know what musk sticks are, they're a pink Australian lolly. Look it up). Based on the sunset idea, I turned her into a surfer girl. Lol.
Art trade w/ @smewduck ft their OC, Night!
Night is such a cool character and drawing her was really fun! I haven't made any finished art in weeks so it's not my best, but it was still nice to make. I don't have much else to say lol
So pretty!!!
Hello! I crawl out of the abyss to share some artwork i did for my graphic design class :> cheers lads
My girlfriend had a comic idea and I just HAD to translate and draw it
The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???
I've been assembling a backlog for my DA, and this is the third thing from it. Thought it'd be worth posting here, too. It's cover art for my main Spotify playlist. More under the cut.
The playlist is called jammin (lowercase j) and I made it at the end of 2022. For a while, it had no icon, until I made this in like, mid-2023. I don't know why I didn't post it to my DA earlier, other than for fear of people making fun of my music taste. I'm very self-conscious about this stuff. It's a miracle I'm even posting this
If you want to investigate the playlist, here's a link (that Tumblr turned into a preview. Oh well):
It's full of Lemon Demon, Bo Burnham and Will Wood because I have problems. It's also heavy on the swearing and a few of the songs have some potentially upsetting content in them. But it's generally safe to listen to.
I haven't been super active lately (I forgot Tumblr existed, oops) but I made this at some point in February. It's my sona, Cosi. Drawn for a DTIYS I'm hosting on DA. It's still open so you can join if you want
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may or may not be making an alternative sona
Bark bark bark
I feel like shit!! So here's some art!!
This is Lightning Bird, an OC I don't use much. She's mean.
I'm currently not really sure what I want my art to look like so I'm trying to experiment a bit. This drawing features speed-sensitive lineart. I mostly just want to experiment with colour more though. Eh
Time to descend back into the art crisis void
"The Future's Out to Get You"
Featuring Maski Hart (an OC I've had for a few years now) and a strange ghost thing that may or may not be a friend. Time will tell.
I have another drawing of Maski on my DA, which has a tiny bit more lore in it, so I guess if you want more info, you could look there. The main idea here is that the ghost is suspicious but Maski hasn't figured that out yet.
Woo new Cosi ref!! Finally!
You Tumblians haven't seen Cat Cosi yet, I don't think, but they were a cat for a long time, and then they changed into a dragon just recently. But I didn't have a ref yet, so I made this. And I like it a lot. The fullbody looks good, and I'm proud of the background. I didn't want to highlight the notes with regular squares, because that's boring, so I added some little flourishes to all of them. It helps with the vibes. I wanted it to have the same feeling as a pine forest? Or at least, the taiga in Minecraft. And the swatches are alive!! They're a blue-tongued lizard, Cape Barren goose, kangaroo, koala, and quoll. And a leaf.
I've been working on this on and off for the last four days, so a lot of the original thoughts I had have died by now. I wanted to change the markings and colours more, but everything I tried looked bad, and I didn't really have any problems with the original anyway, so I just kept it.
Reblogs appreciated :D I worked really hard on this lol
To increase activity on this blog, I thought I'd post some WIPs. I make way more unfinished drawings than finished ones so there's a chance I'll never finish some of these.
Anyway, the first is a redesign of a sona I had in mid/late 2020, named Seppos (September Apos; Apos is short for Aposterous because I'm very good at naming things /s). She's supposed to be summer-themed.
Next is a concept for a creature to inhabit the world of a project I'm working on. These guys are omnivores who live in woodlands and grasslands. The design will probably change.
And finally, a commission for an irl friend (I don't take commissions currently, by the way; this one is from a while ago). Ft our cats, Remy (left) and Lev (right).
So yeah. I'm going on holiday until Wednesday so bye
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me.
Rambling under the cut
The character here is Firestar from Warriors. I'd tentatively recommend reading the books if you haven't read them, but I'm not confident people will like them as they have their problems. Although most of the problems show up after the books that feature Firestar. He's supposed to be a Somali cat here. There wasn't any reason for drawing him. I just default to cats with my art experiments because they're easy to draw. And I did a study last night and I wanted to put the stuff I remembered to good use.
I'm trying to experiment with art that mimics traditional art, specifically the doodles I like to draw in class and stuff. This was really my first attempt and I think it turned out good so yeah!
Also, this is my first art piece of the year! Well, the first finished one. The New Year's Redraw is coming... eventually... I'm not too fussed about that coming out on time because I'm not usually on time with them anyway. One of them took four months and another was just never finished because it looked so ugly. This year's version will hopefully turn out very good, but I'll have to see. Anyway. Thanks to all my followers and stuff, and here's to a good year. Maybe I'll even open commissions.
Back at it again with my ClanGen game! You might remember me talking about ClanGen. You may naturally assume I've picked it up again recently and decided to draw my clan's ten founders, and that I spent a few days to a week making this. And you would, naturally, be wrong. I started this in February. I drew the first eight cats. All that was left was Morningpaw and Creekpaw. But I just. Stopped. And forgot about it. Until a month or so ago, when I FINALLY drew the last two cats. And then I forgot about it again until a week or two ago, when I finished it up, and I'm now posting it.
These cats are from HeronClan, a fanmade Warriors Clan that lives by the sea. They are the Clan's founders. You might have noticed the 2:3 adult to child ratio, which was an accident, and resulted in Rowanstar getting four apprentices: Wolfpaw, Webpaw, Morningpaw and Creekpaw. I can only imagine what that must have been like. Mouselarch was the only warrior at the beginning, too. I'm now in the 30-somethingth moon, and the Clan has wayyy more members now; I'm thinking of drawing another list of cats once I get to Moon 50, but we'll have to see.
Here are the traits/skills of each cat, so you can get a bit of a feel for their personalities:
Rowanstar: calm, unusually strong fighter
Toadheart: careful, great teacher
Skystripe: faithful, great hunter (pain)
Mouselarch: strange, good teacher
Wolfpaw: patient
Ganderpaw: ambitious
Hillpaw: ambitious
Webpaw: loyal
Morningpaw: compassionate
Creekpaw: cold
I started this game before the experience system changed, so that's why the apprentices don't have skills yet.
Anyway, I've been procrastinating on this thing for long enough, so here it is! Enjoy.
These are two characters from my main ClanGen game: Hillpatch and his son, Shellpaw. Hillpatch is the brown-and-white one and Shellpaw is the black-and-white one. I don't have much to say about them lol, I just wanted to draw them. I also drew the original ten starter cats (which includes Hillpatch, just as an apprentice), and that drawing will be posted eventually.
Idk what is expected on Tumblr in terms of having a theme for your blog, if you can't tell. I'm probably just going to throw all of my OC stuff into this one, including my ClanGen stuff, unless I start making a lot of ClanGen art, which is unlikely. So yeah. Expect that
Yoooooo
Update: I redid the ref's background and changed her name, but I left the original description under the cut
New OC?? Technically. Not really. This is Anthropos, a character I made 3 years ago and redesigned a week or two ago. She has dug her claws into my brain and is refusing to let go.
Anthropos was one of my sonas in 2020 (although I barely used her). You can see her first design on the ref, but I also have a very underwhelming redesign from 2021 that I’m not going to bother with linking because it sucks, and I spelled her name wrong on it. What’s going on with the name? Reasonable question. It’s short for Anthropomorphic Aposterous.
You can see the old design on the ref. Look at it. It's so ugly. I can't believe I made that and didn't hate myself for it. The new version is a lot better imo. I tried to make the demon theme (because that's a thing) more apparent since the original is just an anthro cat with horns and four ears.
Note: she has a sort of mohawk and a set of long blue spikes at the base of her tail that I couldn’t include on the ref because it’d look weird. Her tail is also technically longer than seen here.
K thanks for reading, bye