India ink and carbon pencil portrait

I hope posting something I made a while ago is OK. If it's not lmk and I'll delete it. It's not good, but it's one of my favorite projects and I'm happy with how it turned out. I don't draw or post much because I know compared to people who actually know what they're doing, I can't draw.

This character is an incredible collaboration born from the vision of mercosplay and aviumpraesida. It was an absolute honor to handle the final design and illustration.

🎨 Design & Illustration: astra.menae 👤 Character by: mercosplay & aviumpraesida (Instagram)

Just sharing.

Thank you everyone for the kind words. I will try to keep doing art; didn't realize how much benefit it brought to my mind.

Let's stay creative. The world needs us.

On my flight back to Colorado I took a nice enough picture of Denver and thought it would look great if it was tiny. Using Snapseed I tried to add tilt shift and adjust the filters, contrast, etc. so it looks close and tiny. My mom is giving me all her cameras and lenses for Christmas apparently so photo editing is something I should start working on.

My plan is to take my own reference photos to paint as well.

Below is the original photo.

Does this count as art?

My art maps the busy human mind. I build dense, complicated worlds that mix natural shapes with mechanical designs. By using only black and white with sharp lines, I show pure structure without the distraction of color. I fill every inch of the canvas without a single main focal point. Instead, the artwork acts like a maze. Your eyes can wander, get lost, and find hidden pathways throughout the piece. Ultimately, my work shows what an overstimulated mind looks like. I balance messy chaos with extreme, careful control. These detailed universes invite you to slow down, look closely, and find peace within the beautiful confusion.

an image my daughter made of one of her characters from her upcoming graphic novel. thought y'all might enjoy. it was for an anti-ai rally on cara.

Working a desk job offered me time to unplug the creative spring

Drawing of Julianne in the city of Sept-Hurlements, playing with animals.

Before this drawing, I imagined the city as a gloomy city that had a focus on being the medical heart of the kingdom as well as made by the people that built railroads across the land. I was inspired and made this city a bit more bright, with a cat theme.

I guess in a way, I could imagine the de Crixis family and their ancestors as very eccentric people. I can imagine the first ancestor that designed the city wanted to have a bit of a silly side to this land of darkness.

By extent, I guess that the kingdom of Monelia has kitty trains, those built by the de Crixis at the very least.

She desires to know the secret of dimensional travel, so that she may travel to the 'Come On!' dimension and kidnap an alternate version of her recently deceased friend.

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74548697

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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.

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.

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

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)