a quick test to see what I could get done in 30 minutes. I forgot the results, but I think sketching ended up taking the longest of all my normal steps. skewed a bit because of how obviously rushed the coloring is.
drew the first boss of neon ardency. a long long time ago, in a much earlier draft of the game’s story, he was the main protagonist lol. replaced by Red, then Vii.
I attacked someone. attempted a different coloring style, but it took excruciatingly long to complete lol.
and then I’m pretty sure they had like a call out post on tumblr about it being very obvious which reference image someone uses, and I’m like 90% sure my attack prompted that lmao. like fair enough but also I liked the outfit on that reference better than the others lol
they ended up revenging me later, drawing vii!!!
someone else attacked me, drawing etkaa! so I revenged. I ended up messing up her face a bit, which was unfortunate. also, please enjoy the random dresser in the back lol
I needed a reference image for vii for the art fight, so I drew these lads. it’s been a while since I’ve properly drawn her, so it’s nice I did it. I messed up her bottom arms on the bottom pose.
a quick sketch, just to try something. this is featuring a slight shift in the way I draw bodies normally, and I think it looks nice. her tail was supposed to be just resting-ish on the floor, with a lot of hair kinda just floofing out, but my friend suggested that her tail is actually rooted to the ground and she’s like a plant, and I have completely accepted this idea.
a random character I made up because I forgot how to use krita lol. the usual effects. usually I fill in the darker areas of the character with lineart, but this time I decided to make it a lot… “scratchier”. I like it. The coloring is messy in I think a cute way. I also changed my art style somewhat since the last image, using much rounder faces instead of ovals. the eyes are much larger and rounder, and hopefully a bit more cutely chaotic :3.
here is a random character I made up when I decided to try to throw together a bunch of random bullshit and pray that it looked okay. I think it came out okay? In particular, I really like how the hands turned out. I’ve usually just avoided drawing them altogether. The lineart feels a bit all over the place? I played with a bunch of effects for this one: I applied half toning to all the colors, I added some grain-ness for style. A millions little things for the glasses, which I’m happy with the idea of but I wish it could have made more poppy. There wasn’t much I could do without distracting from an otherwise dark image
this was an attempt at using krita for the first time! I did a few cute things with this, like the pixelated coloring or halftones, some glowing, two shading layers. I ended up messing up the proportions a bit, and so her hair looks a bit flat and her eyes are quite spaced out. as of writing this, this is a slightly older design of vii, featuring discolorations on her ears and cow lick, and a little gadget on her left ear
Heres a character, I named him Red because hes red, ans I forgot to draw his legs lol. Not happy with the ear colors but I didn’t want to add a new color to the palette. The background is me playing with blendmodes, etc etc. He’s basically a police in training, trying to rise up the ranks to follow his parents footsteps
