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Giovanna (Guilty Gear Strive)

Some fanart for Giovanna, newcomer to Guilty Gear Strive!

I know very little about this character thus far, given that she's pretty much brand new. The one thing I do know, though, is that her style is hella cool.

This was probably one of the harder paints I've had to do as of late, due to the fact that I've had to draw effectively one and a half characters. I think the thing that g...

Millia Rage (Guilty Gear Strive)

Fanart of Millia Rage, in her upcoming Guilty Gear Strive design!

Really been enjoying the works I've gotten to do, lately!
Guilty Gear was always one of those games I never really understood growing up, especially given that I had only gotten to play one of the games back during the PSX/PS2 era. 

This paint went really smoothly. I'd actually go as far as to say that it went...

Menat (Street Fighter 5)

My personal take on Menat, from Street Fighter 5!

Menat was a pretty high priority for me, for some time. She has that cheeky demeanor, slender form, and that straight bangs hairdo that I pretty much draw all the time. I think it'd be a shame if I didn't give a crack at painting her. This particular purple colour palette is also just visually striking compared to many of the palettes I've...

Superficial Anatomy List (Excluding Hands/Feet)

Here's a list of the muscles that affect the surface of the human form in some way.
I've promised this list time and time again, only to continually forget to share this here, even though it's available on the Discord.

There are a lot of muscles and nerves that appear in biological diagrams of the body, and it can be confusing to figure out what the heck actually matters as an artist.<...

Juri Han (Street Fighter 5)

Fanart of Juri Han from Street Fighter, in her Street Fighter 5 costume.

Really, really proud of this one.
I've been wanting to draw Juri for a long time, but up until now, I really didn't think that I'd be able to do something good enough. I think I'm real happy how it came out.

I wasn't totally sure about the wispy ink-like effect, but it just really helps create an interesting...

Sakura (Street Fighter 5)

Fanart of Sakura from Street Fighter 5!

This is literally my first fanart in months. I don't even remember the last thing I did that was fanart, I think it might have been the one art I did of Garnet some time ago.

Anyway, this turned out really nicely! 

There are a lot of red tones being used here and the whole scene is being influenced by some level of red/purple/orange...

Bunny

One more original character design!
VERY vaguely inspired by my time playing S4 League and their weird sci-fi sports costume... things. I definitely don't think it's the same feel though.

This is my first drawing since I came back from my half week off, kind of learning to draw stuff for the sake of it whether it's a good idea or not. 

I definitely don't think this is somet...

Fishing

More random character designs, let's go! This time, designed around some kind of crazy fishing. Honestly not really sure what's going on here but I dig it.

Still testing some stuff with colour and light, as well as how to integrate that into the recent improvements to sketching. I'm trying really hard not to fall into the trap of trying too hard to be loose or clean with the sketching, si...

Mining

Another random character design, featuring a character based around mining/construction!

I'm really proud of the colours on this painting! I think it's one of our most excitingly vibrant and colourful pieces. Combine that with the sketch work that we've been doing lately and I think we've really been making big improvements.

I started with a magenta, blue, yellow, and orange colour ...

Blue

Another random character design, focusing on the colour blue!

I felt confident about this one! Sort of a mystical, sassy fortune teller kind of feeling, especially due to the pink swirls going around.

This one comes after the two comfort zone paints, and just takes that little extra step to zoom out the camera a little and get a bit more work in. I'd say it turned out pretty nicely,...

Lemon

Another comfort zone drawing, similar to the Purple 2 paint!

Keeping with the whole comfort zone, simple portrait thing, I decided to quickly throw this one together! 

All I really knew was that I wanted to make something yellow, really. So I ended up pairing together those yellows together with a dark skin tone, which I think goes really well together. By narrowing down my who...

Purple 2

Another random character design based on the colour purple!

Keeping it simple and sweet, I decided to try a bit of work within the comfort zone. A really simple composition, keeping colours to a minimum, and just really focusing in on a singular mood and going hard on satisfying render transitions.

It's a little funny because this paint only took about 2 hours to do on stream, and I...

Corn?

Character design that was designed around the colour palette and shape design of corn.

This paint was pretty nifty, actually. There's a lot of stuff going on and I wasn't really sure if it was going to work out given the angle. Even the hand coming toward us isn't the most confident, but it is a difficult angle after all.

Aside from the stuff that gave me obvious trouble, though, th...

Year of the Ox

A painting commemorating the Year of the Ox, according to the Chinese zodiac!

I've been pretty disappointed with the lack of diversity in the designs meant to represent the Year of the Ox I've seen lately. Most of the design's I've spied are just girls with cow-patterned clothing, and especially bikinis for some reason.

I wanted to put a little something together that feels more lik...

Mask

A bit late at this point but my upload schedule didn't allow me to upload this sooner!

A mask painting for two reasons: one because I thought it'd be cool to do, and the other reason being to somewhat commemmorate 2020 finally ending. That said, the big ol' stinky illness is still going around so it's not like it's over just yet.

Either way, this might be one of the better paints I'...

Purple

A purple-focused random character design!

Not really a specific character or anything, I wanted to put together a character that felt sort of club-like but also a bit fancy and high class-ish. I don't know if I totally nailed it but I definitely think that it came out pretty nice. A bit more of a static pose this time around, but I think the silhouette makes up for it a little bit.

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Regarding December (2020) Sketchdumps

Just a quick reminder that we haven't been doing as many sketchdumps this month in December, meaning there won't be as many sketchdumps provided in the sketchdump pack this month.

That said, we've been able to put out more full painted work this time around, so there have been more regular PSD uploads than usual. I really hope those have been useful to some of you guys!

I just thoug...

Rod

Another original character design, quickly thrown together!

While working on this painting, I was primarily focused on just being more loose and less concerned about realistic lighting. A big thing here was the idea to try and think about the skin and clothing in two separate lighting situations. I lit the skin mostly evenly and placing shadows only in the necessary spots, while giving th...

Garnet

Fanart of Dagger/Garnet of FF9!

I like how this one came out! It's bright, colourful and energetic.
It also conveys a little bit of that FF9 feel, with the mix of blues and oranges, which the original game had a tendency to use. The process was fairly straightforward, too, mostly being a transitional paintover between the pre-paint and paintover portion.

The biggest challenge her...

Sephiroth

It's the man, the long sword boi, Sephiroth!

I wasn't sure what to think starting this one off.
There were a lot of concerns early with how it would turn out since I didn't really spend all that much time setting up the sketch. I ended up using lines that were a little too thick early on and it made a lot of the elements vague going through the process.

I did manage to narrow dow...

Djeeta

Finally got around to drawing Djeeta!

For the longest time I was pretty scared of working on her because I always felt like I'd screw it up somehow. Her design is super simplistic in the grand scheme of things, and her hair is really, really big. 

With the recent changes to my workflow (I'm sure I'll stop mentioning it soon), I had the confidence to just kind of go at it and ge...

Elk

A vaguely elk-inspired folkish feeling character design!

This character was made using our recent experimental workflow, and it turned out real good! 

I love the way I get to really push how colourful things get in the light, normally I have to really think about whether I want to push saturation that far or not. On the flipside, I also get to apply the ambient light however I ...

Earbuds

First paint using the new colouring setup!

I'm pretty happy with this one! It's the first time I've used this process where we keep all the shadows to one colour and only applying the actual colour of things in the light. With a lot of hesitation, I still managed to paint this one really quickly compared to other recent works. This really allows me to pile on the saturation without feelin...

Blue

Another bit of experimentation!

One that I'm more proud of than the last suit one.

I managed to get some really cool colours going on- I've really doubled down on the transitions from dark to light and hue shifting like a maniac, really pushing it in the blue.

I also retouched how I manage the colours in the face, as my facial rendering has really been bothering me lately. It'...

Suit

Some more experimentation!

I'm a tiny bit behind on uploads again, but I'll probably be tossing the next few of these up ASAP. 

This one was done during a bit of a funk I was having, I wasn't crazy about the result or how the process went while making this one, but I think there's something satisfying happening in the clothes and the nature of its reflectivity. 

Defi...

Reese's

Original character design loosely inspired by Reese Cups and Reese's brand candies.

I'm still figuring stuff out here and there with colours, and I went with really strong, vibrant colours here for this one. I've really wanted to make an attempt at making clothes sort of over-rendered while keeping the character skin somewhat stylized- I wonder if I can do it. There's something about that...

Puccho

A character design loosely based around the strawberry Puccho candy package art.

First paint in a little while!

With all the moving and cleaning and more moving stuff that we've been doing, it's been hard to focus on art. The other day, we had our first art stream in a long time working on this character. Here, I was really just trying to stay loose and feel around my comfort zone s...

Moving Update

So as most of the peeps on Discord know by now, as it's been sort of something I've just been talking about over the past few days-

I've moved!

Today's stream will actually be the first stream from the new place, things are relatively set up but I'm definitely not used to it yet. Not to mention that this current setup we're using is going to be only temporary before the new desk com...

Spirits (Original)

So this is my first original work in a really long time, actually.

I've been doing basically nothing but Genshin fanart and commisions before that. I haven't had the craziest itch to do original work, but I feel a bit obligated to since we've been drawing so many cool character heads. 

Challenges here mostly involved the darker skintones, I'm really not experienced with these a...

Razor

Fanart of Razor from Genshin Impact!

Now, to be straight about this one, I did have a few concerns when making it.

Razors head was like 40% too big for a majority of the drawing, and I squeezed his body into the composition quite a little bit until we stretched him out a tad toward the end. While it's not immediately obvious, I do think it affects the overall picture a bit.

Wi...