These Are Various Character Exploration Pieces I’ve Been Working On Lately.

on a scale of Marasi to Vin, how well do you get along with your brother-in-law?

Axolotls are kinda pog ngl peak organism design 10/10

Breaking my extended art block with this bad boy

Hey loser ♥️

Spideychelle (heart eyes)

I really wanted to paint them before Sony and Disney screw them up somehow. I love their dynamic!

Flower girl!!

Seance

Rough sketch of my favourite Umbrella Academy character, Klaus Hargreaves.

I really really should be studying but

Redraw of a witch I made in 2019

Did I get better, or did I just get horny?

obi-wan is my favorite character in anything ever because the cosmic forces that control the universe literally have it in for him specifically and this is something thats flat out stated on multiple occasions and literally everyone knows including obi-wan himself but he just keeps on sadly careening from one disaster to another as everyone he cares about dies in increasingly horrible and tragic ways while wisecracking every 5 minutes like it’s going out of style and somehow managing to become the sluttiest magic monk in the galaxy to cope. icon.

things i did that forced me to be a better artist:

used a reference for everything

thinner line art (you think thats thin? go thinner….)

sketch, then do a cleaner sketch, THEN start finalizing

THUMBNAILS

color research, picking a set palette or light/dark for each work

you like that pose? redo it one more time

USE A DAMN REFERENCE

do not rely on stylization as an excuse for anatomy

draw the goddamn background you coward

just draw the hand- a bad hand is better than a hidden hand

the rule of thirds WORKS

take a considerable break between sketch and lines/paint

know that art takes longer as you get better at it

draw the seams on clothes

stop aiming for accuracy and focus on fluidity and motion, accuracy will come with practice of those two concepts

just…do the chiaroscuro. just DO IT. no excuses it always works

stop making excuses, make yourself an art schedule/set weekly(or daily) art goals and just DO IT.

concept

a beaded curtain, but instead of beads they’re worms on strings