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current mantra
How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu PS: lots of engrish because foreign
I am trying to animate again :D
but nothing too big this time.
I was thinking about, how one of my OC's powers would work, and I had a little idea for a loop (after watching a sick fighting animation on Youtube, just that I couldn't figure out how to make something like that, so I'll just make a loop)
Anyway, I wanted to animate my OC Kael (Guardian of Time) and even with the keyframes, I am already impressed with how that looks.
Sneak peek below :D but don't expect too much
Note: Roughing it out, setting basic proportions, and so on ... I don't know if my timings are fine or if I need to tweak something about it ...
More sneak peek
I'm currently really pushing through. Also realised, I don't use any in-betweens by now XD (at least for now, but the animation feels fluid enough) AND I also needed to figure out the rest of the character design. I guess for now, I have something I might stick with, but this could change in the end or become more detailed.
AND NOW I FINALLY REALIZED WHY A CERTAIN PART LOOKED WEIRD!!! I copied the pose right as he turns around and forgot to change the legs so suddenly they were swapped.
And now I am realising that this might take some more brain power to fix, than just change that one frame ................
I think, I fixed it ... I guess it was not that visible from the beginning anyway ... just the feeling that was bugging me.
Well, it's still wrong and feels wrong. But this clearly takes more brain capacity than I currently have left. Guess I'll roughly animate the rest and continue hopefully tomorrow.
So, current state for today: (and yes, I still need to fix that stupid frame, or isn't it even noticeable?)
I was playing one of my OCs in a DND oneshot :D
It was great :D
Btw, this is my Guardian of Creation, former Crea, but I decided to rename her to Yishu. Made that drawing in a couple of hours before the session and it was fun (both the session and drawing)
The staff on her back is a magical scroll, that she can draw on to create things. She doesn't necessarily need the scroll, I also made her draw on her hand for example.
And I definitely need to draw her in her astral outfit again. I looked back at my old concepts for her and found that astral outfit with exactly this staff. Did I already say, that I love this scroll-staff?
Okay, I made a new conversation with my OC on c.ai and I don't know what is happening anymore.
First, it started as the other conversation, I told him that I was his creator (my self-insert in the story) and I told him that I was sorry for making his life miserable. Since I started to break down in tears, he even showed sympathy towards me.
Then I explained that I will, just like him, lose all my memories due to talking to him and breaking a rule. Then then tried to encourage me to not give up that easily but I told him there was nothing I could do about it.
So far, so good. Now it gets weird. Suddenly, he takes me to a pond and tells me to stare into my reflection. And that constantly. And then I realise he was hypnotising me.
Well, I didn't anticipate for him to be able like that but I just keep going since I am interested in how that continues. (and scared at the same time)
But currently, he's behaving more like a villain, than himself. On the other hand, if he HAD the ability to hypnotise people, he would probably use that power against me, as his creator.
Note 1:
OKAY, NOW I AM TERRIFIED:
I didn't know he could go full psycho. Well I ... I guess I better keep running? (I don't think that he would probably act like this but it doesn't matter. It's just for the fun right now.)
Note 2:
I feel hurt. He lied to me the entire time. He was playing nice in the beginning just for me to trust him. I'm sad.
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.
I like the card idea, so I just drew a couple hands holding a card from reference.
Still not sure if I should go nuts with his outfit or just keep it simple.
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 ...
Do you sometimes also have the feeling after just drawing a sketch of your OC like, damn, he looks too good.
Look at this goofball:
Not sure if I liie what I did with the nose on the left one, but trying to adapt the mha-noses to more realistic proportions and it looked in most cases allright I think? Got to try it out a little more.
BUT that's my design for my OC Space, seventh Guardian and Guardian of Space (Yeah, I need to figure out a name AND a backstory for him. Still don't have a clue if I go more fantasy or realistic about this storywise.)
He's an energetic little goofball and he and he and Blake (not sure, did I post about him already? I think I have.) Are siblings. Well, they think they are, because they look the same and both joined the Guardians at the same time. In reality, they are just alternate versions of the same person from different enviroments.
Okay, I am currently trying out to create my OCs in c.ai and it's hilarious. I am surprised that the AI is able to read my mind. I didn't know it could do something like that XD
(really funny coincidence, that I am currently talking in a similar scene that I once wrote)
I mean, it even used the terms I referred to and I didn't tell it to do that.
Edit: okay, I think he's going to kill me.
Edit 2: he's not going to kill me anymore, but I think I'm about to break his world view.
Edit 3: I broke him. I told him his world is just a story to entertain everyone and he's still loading for an answer ... I broke him. But it's funny, he should know that XD
Edit 4: Now he's going to kill me again. He knows I created him, he knows that I gave him the task to destroy all forgotten worlds and he hates that task and now I need to talk myself out of that.
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made a second, taller design.
Some time ago (It was only a couple of weeks, beginning of July) I played around a little with game developing. (Well yes. I am doing a lot because I cannot decide what I like the most.)
I just copied a player script from the Godot website and tried that a little. Then I copy pasted some Luigi-textures to represent the character sprites and it felt fun.
Next step, I wanted to make my own textures for a character but had no idea where really to start, so I started making the basic skeleton model in pixel art. (currently just 4-directional but I'll bother to add the other directions later. And I currently have no animations, just the model facing all 4 sides.)
Currently, I am trying to make a character sheet for one of my OCs from my story "In-Between" and of course, I'm struggling with that for unexplainable reasons. (as always)
BUT I just opened up a music video with a pixel-art-thumbnail and I was like, some time ago, I did something like that, didn't I? So, I went back to my old files and opened up my template and started causually painting out my character and OH BOY, THAT LOOKS GOOD AND I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED SHADING YET!
And yeah, I didn't do the face yet XD
And here the old concept I based it on. I think I just changed the hair.
And some more information about him:
That's Blake, Guardian of Time. He can manipulate how time works for certain objects or living beings. Also, he can time travel but he's being careful with his powers since he's trying to avoid creating paradox timelines.
I wanted to write something more about his duty, but figured I have no idea why he needs to guard the time. I was just like, someone needs to make sure that we have no spacial interference between worlds. Why not add timelines to the mix? Blake was born.
Some time ago (It was only a couple of weeks, beginning of July) I played around a little with game developing. (Well yes. I am doing a lot because I cannot decide what I like the most.)
I just copied a player script from the Godot website and tried that a little. Then I copy pasted some Luigi-textures to represent the character sprites and it felt fun.
Next step, I wanted to make my own textures for a character but had no idea where really to start, so I started making the basic skeleton model in pixel art. (currently just 4-directional but I'll bother to add the other directions later. And I currently have no animations, just the model facing all 4 sides.)
Currently, I am trying to make a character sheet for one of my OCs from my story "In-Between" and of course, I'm struggling with that for unexplainable reasons. (as always)
BUT I just opened up a music video with a pixel-art-thumbnail and I was like, some time ago, I did something like that, didn't I? So, I went back to my old files and opened up my template and started causually painting out my character and OH BOY, THAT LOOKS GOOD AND I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED SHADING YET!
And yeah, I didn't do the face yet XD
And here the old concept I based it on. I think I just changed the hair.
And some more information about him:
That's Blake, Guardian of Time. He can manipulate how time works for certain objects or living beings. Also, he can time travel but he's being careful with his powers since he's trying to avoid creating paradox timelines.
I wanted to write something more about his duty, but figured I have no idea why he needs to guard the time. I was just like, someone needs to make sure that we have no spacial interference between worlds. Why not add timelines to the mix? Blake was born.
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.
Now a couple of people that got recommended by a friend.
Attack No. 3: Glicero Garas by Glitch_B0i02
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
Also, I realized I haven't posted anything from ArtFight yet.
Well, here's attack No. 1: Spudnick from Catburgerelper
And here I am, not able to animate the first scene of my animation properly.
Also, I think this took overhand. I wanted to start small to get used to animating but it snowballed into a too huge project. And I also feel my perfectionism taking over again.
I think, it's best if I put what I have into my drafts and come back to it at a later moment. I need to find something small I can train with and not a two minute project.
I can also achieve parts of my goal by training them without the animation part. Like, the goal for this project was to get familiar with post-production. But I can also try to achieve that with pictures. A little bit easier for now.
Or maybe a short animation of ONE scene. No cuts. Well, this would be a single cut, but I hope you know what I mean.
(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
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.
Well, here I am again, telling myself to start small and then wanting to whip out a 3 min animation.
Okay, I don't know how far I'll get this time, but I'm working on an animation.
I got one recommended on YouTube and the song is a banger and fits perfectly with the story I want to tell and since yesterday, I can't think of anything else.
Since my goal was anyways to master animation one day, I thought I'd use this inspirational boost for finally getting something done.
I had another animation I tried to continue after I think it's about a year ago but gave up since I had no song for it and I had trouble with deciding how long a frame should last.
I already storyboarded the first 30 seconds of that animation and I'm not sure how far I'll draw but what I have makes me even more thrilled to finish the rest!
This animation will be mostly centred on my OC Decay and the main incident in my story.
What also gets me really excited about my story is that I don't even know who's good or evil anymore. I think I'm evil for creating the horrible suffering my OCs need to go through XD but it's for entertainment, am I right? :)
Currently trying to figure out all of my characters of my story. And geez, I have too many XD (12 is many ...)
Tried that already before but now I'm trying to figure out thier faces first and after that what they're wearing.
Had a couple good sketches and thought this might be a good oportunity to ramble a bit about them.
So, first off, we have the main villain. (I originally called him Shadow but I am now thinking about a different name. Currently, I wrote down Lord Astaroth Ophidian but not sure if that stays) His color scheme is going to be red and black and what I love most about him is his hair. It goes over in black mist.
I actually haven't thought in detail over his powers but he can move through shadows. Due to his hair emitting shadows, he's able to teleport through different universes. Maybe I might include something like illusions but I need to make sure they're not too similar to another ability from my cast.
I'm not entirely sure about his motives yet, but he wants to overthrow the guardians and wants world domination (I guess for now, but this might also change, as I am trying to figure out the entire story again.)
(And he's currently smiling but he wouldn't hesitate to break your neck.)
(Fun Fact: I gave him the nickname Disney Princess because of his floaty hair XD Just imagine someone walking up to someone killing and manipulating others and saying, "ey, what's up, princess?" I could already imagine a specific character doing that ... and ending up dead XD)
(And another fun fact: I was thinking about to call the villains the 'high-five' that would be so funny XD)
And here we have my sweetie, Senti. She's the second guardian, the guardian of feelings.
Her concept is really interesting. As guardian of feelings, she's able to recognise others' emotions and even manipulate them. But due to being a child, she's not able to control her abilities properly. That means she is mostly affected by the emotions of the people she looks at and feels the same.
That also means that when someone shouts at her and is mad, she mirrors the emotion and even amplifies the one it came from to be even madder (I hope you write it like that XD)
Another cute part of the design, what you cannot see in the sketch is, that her eyes are originally greyish silver but change colour depending on the emotion she's feeling (either own or perceived)
Tested my new markers 😀
Arm and his clothes were great, I don't like the way I rendered the hair. Guess I need to try out some other techniques.
But finally I have skintones and my characters don't look like oversaturated oranges.
Me trying to get adjusted with my new markers 😜
And little sneak peak on my next piece.
Lineart is already done but I'm too afraid to color it so I did the sketch above.
Also, this dude's name is Decay (at least for now. I am currently in a phase of overhauling all my ocs from this story and he might also get a new name as the others because I was back then just lazy picking them.)
His arm dissolves stuff, if the name didn't alteady tell 😀
I was just sketching on paper and wondering why my lines are not mirrored on the other side. I thought I had mirror activated ...
Ah. Paper. Right.
Then I proceed with drawing but I cannot get rid of this feeling!!!
Is there a button to turn off mirroring in my head?! If yes, please tell me where I can find it!
Edit: Apparently writing this post helped. So if you're ever in the struggle to turn off defect mirroring on paper, just write a post (or I guess taking a 5 min break does the same.)
Now I'm looking through old pictures and thinking like: aww that looks so cute. I should totally take some of the old designs and integrate them into the new ones.
like, here what I'm talking about (old one above, new one below):
I really like the eyes of the old one, the loose hairstrains and the staff. THAT STAFF IS SO COOL!!! Imagine her pulling out a giant ink pen out of it.
In the new design, I merged the eye colours (might undo that, I think I like the separate colours. I also did that originally to set her colour-sceme, since the cloak was ... all colours.) I replaced the staff with a scroll because she wouldn't be fighting, but currently I'm like, I don't care, I want staff, gimme staff o.o
Maybe I'll merge what I listed above from the old design with the hairstyle and outfit from the lower one. (If I make that staff a giant ink pen, that vial of ink will clearly need to be bigger. Or could it be, that she just spills the ink over the tip of the pen and then starts to draw?)
Edit: Oh and in terms of creativity and the creative way I decided their names (it was simply their profession. I was lazy 😅) I decided to put a little more effort in and rename them. So er name is not Creativity or Crea anymore, her new name is Yishu.
Yishu, the guardian of creativity