When I was a kid, the story I imagined for the kingdom of Asgal was more classic in a way. One man helped by two others on a quest to get a legendary sword to pierce the veil of cold and reach the old capital in order to defeat the witch of winter.

Before piercing that veil of cold, he would have a final confrontation with his sister, an antagonist who walked the path of murder. After her defeat, she would join his party as they all walk towards the end of the story.

This drawing is kinda how Lyulu is now the main character in the kingdom, walking a whole other path. I have changed the tale but kept some ideas of what I imagined in my childhood.

It is now a story of a girl who is afraid to change, with the sister of the former main character walking towards her.

Corvair (my photo, Fujifilm X-T5)

Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/54182469

As Sturka herself once said, 'Shoopy shoop shoop.' Wise words to be heeded.

There's a WigglyPaint version too, of course, but I feel it lacks, impact, or something. I actually like the collage way better. But here is a wiggle anyway cause eh :

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5 cards finished today and this is my favourite one!

Study of Artist Sergio Toppi

India ink and carbon pencil portrait

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.

Sirei, Eito, Takumi from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Hong Lu from Limbus Company.

Drawing based on pics I found online as a model (except for the trees), wanted to draw all of these in order to train myself.

I also wanted to improve at drawing men, since I rarely draw them because I find that the result doesn't look good or it's an okay result when I go at it, so, drawings that ends up with "why doesn't he look good?" at each attempt.

I'm the most satisfied with the Eito drawing since I was like, "why does he look so cute??" as I drew him.

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?

Time lapse on YouTube. Made in Krita.

Just sharing.

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.