Can Anyone Tell Me How To Draw Lightning And Tunder?

I just watched the new trailer for pokemon z-a. I think pokemon got me again.

Also something funny I wanted to share: I still think about the days I first played pokemon. I think it must have been diamond or pearl and I picked Piplup as my starter. One day it suddenly evolved, I had no idea what was going on but as it evolved into Prinplup I was sad. I was thinking my cute Piplup just got ugly.

That's so funny thinking back to it.

also, I thought why not draw myself as pokemon trainer. little WIP:

Why is it so hard to come up with a backstory for my OC? I guess I will just keep drawing his cute stupid face until I have an idea.

Here doodles no. 3 and 4. Let's see what happens first, me coming up with a valid idea for his backstory or me drawing him 100 times.

I just got an idea of maybe expanding his powers to trap specific coordinates into a card and then being able to carry them around and place them somewhere else. That's quite a cool idea. (Just need to be careful to not copy Yishu's powers.)

Note: I still don't know if I like the noses in profile-view ...

These are my two OCs Yishu, Guardian of Creation (former Crea) and Edward, Guardian of Destruction (former Decay).

They are currently walking through Ed's dead forest.

I imagined te scene just like this in my head and just drew it. That was satisfying ... and I suck at backgrounds but for a full illustration this looks pretty good.

(I looooove how Yishu looks. She doesn't give a care in the world walking through a scary forest.)

Looking back, I stressed myself out too much in the beginning of ArtFight. One full rendered drawing a day is much. It worked for the first couple days, as you can see, but overall I lost motivation. If I ad spend some more time on these, they would have been even better.

Or it's just me being a perfectionist again. Whatever. I had fun and that's what matters.

Some Sketches

I've realized that I didn't post anything from my sketchbook yet 😆

I just drew a nice picture of one of my main characters Toby:

Pretty proud on that one 😁 I also put a sticker-like outline around him and it looks cool 😊

Should I post more of the sketches I did? I'll think about that later. Guess I am thrilled again to draw after taking a couple of days break 🤩

(I've been playing Sea of Stars lately and that game is sooo good 😍)

And I already made a second one, with my second main character Clyde:

Aaand my collection is getting bigger

The links to the individual pieces:

Kirishima, Izuku, Katsuki, Denki and Shoto.

There are also links of the wips of those (except Shoto because I forgot to take pictures) if you're interested to see how I made them.

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.

Been doodling. That's my OC Percy. He's a cute one ... also a poor soul. I made him being hunted by a ghost.

I realised I never posted the result of that one ... maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

I just watched the new trailer for pokemon z-a. I think pokemon got me again.

Also something funny I wanted to share: I still think about the days I first played pokemon. I think it must have been diamond or pearl and I picked Piplup as my starter. One day it suddenly evolved, I had no idea what was going on but as it evolved into Prinplup I was sad. I was thinking my cute Piplup just got ugly.

That's so funny thinking back to it.

also, I thought why not draw myself as pokemon trainer. little WIP:

(Whatever follows, take it with a comedic grain of salt.)

I wanted the world to know that I am suffering creatively.

Starting with a small project, she said. But she forgot to specify small. (She is in that case me.) Now we're into a 2-minute animation of a 3-minute song ... I'm not going to plan out the last minute.

And now, I've realised that in ALL of the frames that feature my protagonist, he's drawn wrong. So, I've got to draw them again.

(It's only in 16 of 116 frames and I'm still in the planning phase but still.)

Did I already mention I like to torture myself on a regular basis? :D