This is an 8-page one-shot I made. I will continue it, but I only have 8 pages so far. All my links: aracne.codeberg.page

I tried recreating the witch from dark souls 1, but yeah.... .My insta has some more.

I'm posting my notes from today's session, looking for feedback.

Drawing

Cute girl

Reference Image

Study

I worked for a while on tracing, but scuffed the original and just kinda gave up on the exercise:

Most of the work went into the eye

I made some comparisons to get the different proportions between two references, but I didn't catch most of that in my initial notes, from an ucky preview I happen to get a snap of:

I think the reference is super pretty.🥰 Let's undo it piece by piece to understand what is working here. Removing blush to see if that is the secret sauce:

That didn't really detract as much as I thought, still very cute.

It actually takes a bit of work to reduce the charm; the fundamental features still some through. What if I just erase the eye and replace it with something lazy?

With context 😭 it's literally so uneven

Spike Spiegel

Reference, very low rez, want to capture the pose, then detail. After noticing how impactful the structure and proportions are, I want to work with those basic building blocks. I can develop floating head syndrome later.

I get a rough outline from a sketch

Refining shapes into pieces

More refinements

Final sketch

Tracing was a lot of work, it take like an hour or so to complete this. I used a lot of touch screen. The truth is that this is very beginner level. I hope trial and error, evaluate, refine process will help me advance, but there is definitely a long road ahead of me.

I'm not going to lie, I recognize there are huge issues with learning to draw by tracing. I told myself that I would focus on actually learning from it, hence the notes, but the truth is that I probably need to face my insecurities and produce hot garbage to actually begin tangibly improving.

Had an idea of a drawing that came to me, and I wrote it down before it faded away like a dream.

"A drawing of a pool of blood at the bottom representing the people Three glass of wine standing on top of a pool of blood Like a social hierarchy overflow The top glass containing a skull or a guillotine Manalie Monelia smiling in shadows Her four chosen, her four killers, aiming at the top glass Because the top glass represents an end to the people at the top And colors should be mainly black and red for the background Maybe a theatre curtain or such"

I didn't really follow on the whole idea in the end. Didn't expect that I would finish drawing it, thought to myself that it looked, okayish or meh when I started.

A weird result for a weird idea.

The orange makes me feel this is a sunset, but I saw these colors early one recent morning

Art piece by me. Presented in WiggleVision, you may need to click the link for the full effect if it's not moving.

In Washington, the elk are fed during the winter to help keep the herds healthy and conflict with human agriculture to a minimum. It's pretty cool to visit the feeding stations.

A portrait of TheArtisticPoledancer making this look easy.

Dilly-dallied with this one a bit, but another card in the books. Note to self: get better at cutting tiny curves.

My main antagonist in the kingdom of Asgal.

Her goal is heavily related to the Mage's Guild, so I drew her in the same background than the Lokina drawing, though, in a nearer spot.

I also wanted her appearance to be similar to Aria as she is her mother, though, could have done better at making her look a bit older.

She is Lokina's apprentice, just like Lyulu, and treats magic like a math problem. I drew magic eyes because I imagine she uses coordinates to snipe spells accurately beyond the usual range of 40m, and manages to keep the power level consistent by multi-casting her spells at least thrice.

Made over the course of 24 hours for this year’s 24-Hour Comics Day challenge.

(part 1: https://lemmy.world/post/53986600)

Made over the course of 24 hours for this year's 24-Hour Comics Day challenge.

(part 2: https://lemmy.world/post/53986803)

When I drew this character a while ago, my mind was inspired and then I found that the background was interesting. After drawing the Halloween drawing one where I put Lyulu in a picture/painting in that area, I felt like making a drawing of this place in my imagination.

At first, I drew it at dawn, but then I looked at the map I made for this kingdom and since this part of the land is west, it should actually be dusk in this perspective.

And not satisfied with how I drew the character, I will have to redraw it one day, with a more interesting outfit or such.

My main character in the kingdom of Monelia. I was pondering what her story would be about, after scrapping a previous plan I had for a story in that kingdom.

While I still don't know what to go for, I may at least retain the idea that Aria and Julianne may travel together in the kingdom of Asgal one day, and that Julianne wants to know about Aria's complicated feelings.

There's no metaphor here, I just didn't recognize myself in a reflection and wanted to draw about it.

I am not very confident about the left baby. I chose this symmetrical topic to test if my brain still works right after my health/life issues.

Trying to commit to it. I have forgotten how good is to focus on something rewarding.

In honour of Patrick Stewart, I drew Jean-Luc Picard, graphite on A5 paper