Hermittober Day 5: Echo

also, I gotta say, going from Etho POV straight to Martyn POV is quite a whiplash (although I imagine it'd be much stronger the other way around)

like, team renwood mining session is chill, you know right away that they'll stick together, they talk about being old men, Martyn gives Ren a diamond unprompted (at least I don't remember Ren asking? either way it's very chill)

meanwhile there's the B.E.T. team. not only do Bdubs and Etho spend pretty much their whole time on the surface arguing like an old married couple (which also carries on to their mining session), but also their mining session is so wild. every time someone finds loot or, gods forbid, diamonds, they're on each other's THROATS. like, they're acting as if the SECOND there's back on surface they're gonna run off in separate directions

guess who procrastinated until the very last minute and had to sit and draw for about 26 hours? (with breaks ofc) ANYWAY, HERE'S MY ART FIGHT CARD

lizzie for the soul

finally downloaded some new brushes and wanted to test them out, so decided to draw yet another version of her (seriously, I now have at least 5 drawings of her in different outfits)

ever since I saw this post I wasn't able to get it out of my mind, so I present you with my experiment on this, specifically on the colours bleeding into each other, albeit not in the animation form also please keep in mind that I chose these two pretty much only for their colour potential

If the life series was animated I think a cool detail would be animating the green lives with smooth, clean lines. Yellow lives are slightly sketchy, their line distortion being more notable during fights or chaotic intentions. Then red lives are animated very loosely and messy, their lines are never “still”, there’s always a visual tension with them because they look one second away from falling apart

And when reds fight, their colors bleed into each other as well. They become a messy portrait of themselves. Still recognizable, to some degree, but no longer the put together image they once were. Literally

I wanna draw this so bad I wanna draw this so bad I wanna draw this SO DAMN BAD

"why don't you draw it then?" cause I'm working on a session 1 compilation animatic and quite frankly I'm running out of time

I sleep, work on it, take occasional breaks, go sleep and repeat all over again

a rare ZombieCleo appearance

not feeling great, so have a wild life Gem doodle

the BAMs got their designs, so others will too

also as for the animatic stuff, I moved the deadline to "we'll see how long it takes" cuz it turns out I made a grave error in my calculations, so the previous schedule was literally impossible to pull off

bug

I'm watching Wild Life from Martyn's POV and I saw a detail in his skin that at first I was like "nah there's no way"

but then I checked namemc and this is what I saw

@inthelittlewood

MARTYN INTHELITTLEWOOD WHAT ARE THOSE

spoilers for Finale - Part 2 of When The Dawn Breaks made by @cedar-scented-soap

(if you haven't read it I highly recommend you go do that :3)

so, I was reading it and had a vision, a meme that I could make. but then I realized that I'd need visual design concepts for the Big Three, so I decided to have a go at it myself >:3

starting with One!

now, you may notice that I've yet again forgotten to give a character from wtdb their wings. and I've actually noticed it back when I was doing lineart, but couldn't fit it in nicely, so just imagine they're there. I'll probably make the wing designs into another post, but we'll see

and ngl, I started writing out my thoughts on design choices, but I have too many of those for this post, so I shall hold myself back :,) (if even just ONE (1) person asks me about those I'm writing a whole damn essay)