Up Drawing Everyone's Favorite Character (work In Progress)

back to January, when I finally made my very own 'Man of Progress' mug

it turns out I have just the perfect amount of strange stuff in my room for a photo shoot like this (jk, I have way more weird stuff (don't ask me about the laboratory scale))

it was already a year after I watched the show; I found the design hilarious right away, I think because of socrealism being a huge part of my country's contemporary history. it's something about it being very idealized, proud and majestic, but also an obvious propaganda. and Jayce overall just looks like a character from one of this kind of posters

the mug is store-bought, so I should rather say that I made a sticker or just painted over the original design and made it printable anyway, it was harder than it seems, but I feel like I learned more while working on this than I will at my uni (graphic design is my passion)

fought hard not to delete this post will never finish it because I stopped caring, so here's the full sketch (remember, workplace is your second home)

based on this poster

up drawing everyone's favorite character (work in progress)

the idea is based on a Polish socialist realism poster thing - for now it only says 'REMEMBER' with the rest cut out, but I'll obviously translate the slogan if I finish the drawing (then you'll find out what it is that you shouldn't forget about) I wanted to do this for a very long time, because I can't get over how Jayce looks exactly like the type of idealized men that the socialist propaganda posters would depict, and I find it extremely funny not only that, but also the slogans that were used back when Polish People's Republic was a thing are now hilarious

I also can't unsee how he kinda looks like or has the same weird, kinda cursed(?) energy as Alex the Lion from Madagascar, so that's what I used for his head for now (it is also great at conveying all of the feelings I was feeling when spending hours on the drawing) I've had a 4 months break from art and (as always) ended up setting the bar way too high, so this will most likely take forever I hate how I have no idea what I'm doing, but instead of actually learning I'll be wasting hours trying to figure things out on my own and getting angry with myself, because everything takes so much time and still doesn't look any good - I really wish I could work on my skill consistently and learn like a normal person, maybe then I wouldn't be so far behind despite (theoretically) doing digital art for half of my life

anyway, that's probably how my posts are going to look like for the most part, because I need a place to ramble (I have no one to talk to), which I used to do a lot on insta story; still figuring out how to do this on Tumblr without scaring people off with walls of text

after x years of living in a ridiculously small room with barely any sunlight, I'm moving into a better place

thanks mom

we have a bunch of "wild" cats visiting our yard and I jokingly named one Jérôme and kept saying he only understands french they won't ever let anyone touch them or even come too close, but one time I started calling Jérôme (with a terrible french accent) and he came and jumped on the bench next to me, then started cuddling aggressively out of nowhere

and he looks like this all the time (I tried to paint him)

that's it, that's the story

arcane s2 so bad it made me so angry I opened blender voluntarily (to get even angrier)

Zaun crest, don't think I will finish this

hey, I may be a few days behind (on Arctober), but I've finally finished my chomper grenade for the Jinx prompt (well, at least as much as I'm willing to, because there are a few details missing and the bottom part is not painted)

it's entirely out of paper, work in progress pics below edit: here's a post explaining how I made it

love the firts paintjob (I forgot I could mix colours instead of only using black and white 👍🏻)

anyways, it's not as small as it seems to be in the pic where I hold it - it's about 12 cm tall

it's rather cute and was fun to make (not so much to paint), would recommend

2017(?)-2019

I stole someone's uv map to make a sky rug

you think I gave up on Arctober? wrong! I NEVER GIVE UP

Vi was done on my worst day (although the 'rivarly' one looks the worst), didn't even use a ref for her (sorry Vi fans, hope it's not that bad), but I tried to fixt it a bit later; the weird creature on the very left is from that chubby dog meme, but I didn't use a ref for it either

blue was obviously my best day - I'm not saying it's perfect, just that drawing finally didn't feel as unbelievably hard as with everything else I did before and it didn't take ages to make

'tell the council I sad fuck you' is a quote from some yt video I saw recently; the context was quite hilarious and it stuck in my head

[IMPORTANT] just wanted to say that I expected around 0 notes on my first Arctober post, but it getting much more than that really motivated me to keep trying, thanks a lot

𖦹 ⋆｡°✩๋࣭ ⭑ it's Gertrude the weird shrew (not a bird, take a closer look at that snout!)

this just suddenly came to my mind but I drew some similar creatures before it's made out of air dry clay and paper the collar is buttoned with a wooden bead and can be taken off I also made a tiny pompon (great success) for her hat which is just the very tip of an ice cream cone packaging

I originally wanted it to be plain white, but in the end decided to give her some marks that'll resemble liver spots + a little bit of acne used a bit too much soft pastels for this and for some reason thought it'll be a great idea to try to sand it off; let's just say it adds some nice texture and was a long planned procedure

7th of May 2021, when the sky was burning