Honestly, It's Been A While Since I Have Drawn A Sans After All That Working On My AU. It Feels Great

Okay, I think I'm getting somewhere. Maybe I might make a design similar to Blake but make him distinct anyways.

I was thinking, okay, I'll stick to the idea with the cards because it's cool. Where can I find inspiration for characters using cards?

Yu-Gi-Oh. Most of them wear floaty jackets. So I'll give mine a floaty jacket as well and I already like the high collar.

Damn, replicating that pose in big was difficult. And the hand! I just couldn't get it right. It finally ended in me doing a second sketch but I kept trying to draw that hand over the old one and got it right but couldn't get it right on the new one. So, I cut it out and laid it on top.

And now, I think this looks so much cooler, that I'll keep the hand drawn on a separate layer.

Okay I made a sick sketch

It's tiny (like on the corner of my sketchbook) but I saw that pose and I was thinking like, okay this is EXACTLY how it looks when he uses his quirk so I scribbled down the pose and then drew him.

I want to make that in big. With markers. And maybe even make a background. And hang it on the wall to Kirishima and Denki.

And I was also thinking of something funny. The way he would describe how he fights with his quirk:

I can use my quirk as a weapon. Just think of it ... like a table. A table isn't dangerous, right? Then you accidentally drop something beneath it, try to pick it up and while getting back up you hit your head against the table. Although, it's just a table, it still hurts, right?

(I'm not sure if I'll allow him to reshape his forcefields but if I do, he would add:

Now imagine the table being a spikey pyramid...)

You know, I have lately finished my first playthrough through Undertale Yellow... I cried. And since then, I had this idea for a cool drawing in my head but I got sidetracked.

Here, have a Starlo:

Just be careful that he doesn't shoot you 🙂

Souls

Something that I should also probably explain before diving into characters, is the way I think of souls.

As already explained in Undertale, the soul is the culmination of a being. I perceive it as if all of yourself is condensed in your soul. Memories, preferences, opinions. Taking one part out of that, the soul wouldn't change visibly, but physically something is missing, making the person holding that soul act, think and feel differently.

I also quite like the idea of the soul being reflected in my character's eye colours. That way, you kind of can look into their soul if you're looking into their eyes 😍.

I also really like the part with the soul traits. That means, you have one trait that you can categorise the way someone is.

The only problem I see with that is, that it's too bland. It would mean a brave character needs to ALWAYS act brave and a nice person needs to ALWAYS be nice to everyone. Because of that being unrealistic, but still wanting to include it, I like to think about it like your soul trait only shows at extreme moments. That way a character can still feel normal doing something that wouldn't exactly fit their soul trait.

If you take it a level further, it's also more likely for a character to drift into a constant behaviour that hurts their own soul. That means if a kind person is constantly being mean to everyone, it's going to affect them negatively. It could be physical but also mental. (Just came up with this last thought as I kept writing it down, but damn ... I see potential for some deep plot 🙂)

I saw this video by Shady Cicada and I was thinking like: huh, would be a cool idea if someone made a start screen for that or something. I mean that music is SOO GOOD 😍😍😍

So, I sat down at my drawing tablet and started drawing. No idea what that was, I was just going with a feeling 😁

And that's what I came up with:

I'm so proud, especially since I had no real idea what I was doing. And I still don't know what this world is about 😂 But after all, it's up to Cicada how that world turns out.

Here the picture without the text:

Artfight really spiked my inspiration. Disregarding the fact, I wanted to draw each day and gave up after a week due to a lack of motivation, I kept working on an old story I once came up with. (But I will still revenge any attack I didn't start 😉)

And seeing how other creators work with full passion on their work (currently vibing to the EPIC-soundtrack) fires my passion as well.

I am currently more into redesigning the about 20 characters I have for my story ("In-Between" btw.) and trying to figure out how to draw them in the scenes I had in mind.

I don't know why I feel like I need to justify. Probably for myself because I am yeeting my goal for this month into the trash. But it's okay. The main thing about this, is that I learned something. And that is what makes improvement, right?

I have to admit, I set too high goals for myself this year of ArtFight (but I tend to do that very often.)

Attack No. 2: Mari by assiduousTorture

I'm doing an art challange this month with the theme:

Future Fantasy

Figured I could draw one of my OCs again, was looking through old stuff for a specific reference but couldn't find it ... instead found something else and I have another idea. I'm simply going to recycle one of my Undertale OCs who never made it.

And I kinda came up with this:

Here the pic I found of that unused OC:

God, my artstyle back then was something else 😂

I figured I have trouble drawing the hair of one of my ocs and I figured out I have the same problem drawing the hair of Bakugou. That means, I'll keep drawing Bakugou until I figured out the secret to his hair and why when I draw it from imagination it doesn't look right.

Grumpy boi and drawing no. 1

Also: that's just copied from a sceencap.

Good news, now I'm at 2 min.

Bad news, I don't know how to continue.

Well, here I am again, telling myself to start small and then wanting to whip out a 3 min animation.