Week 8 - Sketchbook only, final destination

19th February - 25th February

A good chunk of this week was spent animating, with my tablet put firmly away for the sake of my attention span, so it's sketchbook time baby!

I was itching to try copics again, so here are a few more colour sketches. These were done in my current sketchbook, which apparently doesn't like the combo of ink and alcohol as much as the pad of paper I was using last time, so there was a bit of bleeding unfortunately.

I also still can't draw traditionally with any semblance of neatness, but that's a work in progress haha.

I also revisited some old OCs. I've got a short comics planned out for them. Fingers crosses I get that together this year!

And some other miscellaneous sketchbook stuff:

Week 7 Inspiration

These Valentine hugs from Shannon Bea.
Such good line work here!

 Also a big fan of these low poly pals by colincake (click here for gif versions!) Simple shapes and nice colours.

Week 7

12th February - 18th February

I went back to my package design for my sticker sets. Very small!
I messed up with the planning and they're a bit smaller than I needed (or rather, the exact size I planned, which mean that the 'actual size' image is too small. Woops.) but luckily I can still make them bigger while fitting two on a A4 sheet.

I was also experimenting with how they close, which was either gonna be a flap tucked into the top, or into a slit. The slit is more troublesome to make, but altogether makes the closing nicer, so I'm gonna go with that.

I got a commission this week for a couple of DnD character illustrations. I was working from mood boards rather than reference, so I had a bit of free range and in the end they were super fun to do!

 

And lastly, a little roundup of sketchbook stuff (that second page is mostly me planning for designing to do lists, which is something I'm super keen to do! Still just doodling for now tho.)

Week 6 Inspiration

I really like these little cactus characters by moonsmoothie on twitter.

This pic by nemupan

This piece from "100 Views of Tokyo" by Shinji Tsuchimochi.

These invisible things (and the ones too) by Andy J Pizza on twitter

These cats by @neko_cer on twitter. I love this syyle of anthropomorphic, and the mood these more toned down colours gives.

Week 6

February 5th - February 11th

More prints! This time in Spiderverse flavour.

 I also finished off another fanzine piece, this time for the Portal zine. Preorders are slated for April.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Aaaaand also my piece for the Dragon Prince Aspiro Zine, also slated for pre-order in April.

Working on some new/revamped OCs. Brigid was a tabletop character from a campaign that got cancelled, but I love her a lot and wanted to do something else with her. So she's a superhero now?? And she's got a new girlfriend who is even worse than the one she got in the tabletop game lmaoo and also another kid to protect.

I'm also discovering that I'm bad at designing superhero costumes haha.

This week's sketchbook stuff:

It's con season!

Or at least, it's con sign up season (rip my bank account)

Here's what I've got lined up so far this year!

Wellington Armageddon

April 13th - 15th

Westpac Stadium

Wellington

Chromacon

June 1st - 2nd

Aotea Centre

Auckland

Overload

Table A04

September 28th

The Cloud

Auckland

This is the first time I'm exhibiting at Chromacon, which is exciting and nervewracking. I gotta get some more original art together! 💦💦

Week 5 - oh god, Wellygeddon is so close

Jan 29th - Feb 4th

This week my pal Alis commissioned me to sketch theirs and Sarah's DnD characters! Their designs are a lot of fun.

I've come to the realization that Wellygeddon is only two months away;;;; SO. its time for prints.
Starting with the evil girls of SheRa (in their prom outfits of course, how could I resist?)

Ahh, CMYK colours... I have not missed sorting you out.

I've been doing a lot of thumbnails for prints (and maybe a little SheRa fanbook?? We'll see...) Here's a little preview:

 Also it's Femslash February! as if I need an excuse to draw girls being gay. Starting it off with Abigail and Maru from Stardew Valley.

And a small sketchbook round up. I've had a bit of a distracted week, so there's not too much to show. Some photo referenced tennis shots plus playing with hairstyles for a potential new character.

 

Week 4 Inspiration

art1 by ghostpotion

 art2 by lowua

Lots of brightly coloured things again! I really want to get confident with using obnoxiously bright colours, and also ya know, learn how to use them good.

art by cpu1

by fernscare

And again with bright colours on black backgrounds.

From Kasey Golden 's video on Using Screentones. I really like the raised effect on the character and text boxes - can't do that with digital! Another traditional art thing to add to my list.

Week 4 - I continue to love stickers

Jan 21st - Jan 28th

Sketchbook stuff from this week!

I've been thinking about packaging for the sticker set I'm making this year. I didn't wanna use plastic, so I think I'm gonna do these little card envelopes. They're about 5 inches square, which means they should be easy to pack and I can show all the designs on the front plus the actual size on the back.

I'll probably play around with these more, but they're getting there! It'd be nice to have a good design template that I can easily adapt for future sticker sets - make everything cohesive as well as a hell of a lot easier on my part.

I also started planning some new stickers (is it obvious I love stickers yet). I was thinking about holographic printing that some places so, hence the flying saucers. Also something with Hanahaki disease (flowers in the lungs) could make some really good visuals.

I got commissioned by ducky.cos over on instagram to do some art based on one of their cosplay shoots. Here's them as Velma!