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a handful of recent life drawings in chalk and copics

I haven’t updated in ages, I’m so sorry! if anyone is still there, here’s a paintover I did this week for uni (my coursemate Dave designed the base model, I’m now working on colour palettes). This is the protag of the game we’re making. Will be posting a backlog of stuff over the next few weeks!

A virtual plein air study, approx 2 hours ujsing @krita-foundation . Map view: http://bit.ly/2jXNfHs

basic concept for “cardboard cutouts” for the in-game characters: aiming to mix Jess’s 2D drawings with the 3D environment.

Huevember #2: #edef00

30min speedpaint (well, one hour, but interspersed watching markiplier’s playthrough of Undertale which took half of that hour haha) (I can’t concentrate on anything if there’s a video playing so I can’t do the “let’s have a movie in the background! that @little-smartass is able to do)

Huevember #1: #e6ff00

I’ve made colour wheels to use huevember to practice James Gurney’s Gamut mask exercise. Feel free to use them. The first is the colours chosen in the original post on huevember, while the second is the more mathematically accurate colour wheel, where each of the hues in the first wheel can be found by the position of a small white spot.

inktober! at the request of @mrsmarymorstan, herself upon a dragon who is actually @lenleg, accompanied by @little-smartass playing a harp.

Inktober 4! whenever I’m stuck for theme, I invariably draw surreal beautiful women. (Holler @ ladies who keep the fluff on your cheeks, keep being fab. unfortunately here it’s less visible after I coloured it but oh well it’s there).

[This one’s blue because in my small collection of rarely-used copics I have a total of 0 skin colours. ]

Bonus: Inktober 3, which I forgot to upload yesterday

In honour of my Fave Strange Film, “Princess Raccoon”. It’s truly an experience. (and no, unfortunately the raccoons in this film don’t look like raccoons. But they do wear kimonos...)

A tree for the wall in mum’s kitchen. Mostly PaintToolSai, some Krita and Gimp.

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Aberford poster! wow 50s ads sure had ridiculous blocks of text. Who even read that stuff I mean really.

Pleeease sketchypandagames let them have ridiculously exaggerated silhouettes a la tf2 or disney infinity. Of this I beg. I really want to see a teenie tiny Peggy, Betty is the Most Fab, Doris is a liiittle old-fashioned and has long hair (!no one did that in the 50s!!?!) and Sylvia is mildly inspired by my Nanna who is over 6foot tall (but personality wise could not be more different).

I reckon Sylvia would be used to talking down to everyone bc it would a) be something she picked up as an academic, in the common way elitist intellectuals do, and b) be something she picked up as a woman in a male dominated field from men who didn’t know better. Betty on the other hand would be used to dealing with people who expect her to be inferior, as a woman and being black, which would make for an interesting dynamic between the science gals. Betty would be more practically experienced and Sylvia would be more theoretically knowledgeable.

drawin an Aberford thing yeah! Betty is probably my fave (but they’re all my faves rly tbh) sketchypandagames (I rly hope they dont release more designs for her and Sylvia between now and when I post the final one cause i’ll have the wrong designs haha)

I bet you forgot my degree is also in Graphic Design! Thought I’d do some 50s “Swiss style” (which was used primarily for poster and book design) compositions for sketchypandagames’ ‘Aberford’ (I am too excited about this)

(those are skillets btw)

(becomes increasingly frustrated at how different the colours are on each screen) (The top one isnt as mathematically precise as it would have been at the time so I might get around to fixing it some day) (also the font its a bit lazy haha)

speedpaintings for coursework ( :

Aberford by sketchypandagames : aka what I’d actually spend time doing and actually properly researching if I actually had time and wasn’t on the wrong side of the Atlantic

I will take it personally if there is no Googie architecture in this game. Or if you dont hire a graphic designer who makes the most of a word like Aberford which is an absolute delight typographically.

Latest project was to do with making a looping gif about Prague, where we went on a trip to a few weeks back. Made with Gimp, Krita, Motion and then Gimp again.

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More draw-y things for Artemis the 13-yr-old trans-girl freedom flyer - we got rid of the term pirate cause she doesn't actually steal things. She's an outlaw tho, and the government kidnapped her parents and she's on a recue mission to get them back! Most of the crew are part of a minority or two, largely bc we all agreed that representation is important in general, but also bc I have friends who are v precious to me and I wanted to give them some??? sort of representation, as a personal thing. I'll prob post something of those characters too.

The airships, clockwise from top-left (to-scale comparison). In this world, there's a tradition of making everything that flies, ie the major ships and islands, as pretty as possible, "so that on the day it falls, it will be a beautiful wreckage":

her parents' vehicle before they get kidnapped, built for speed and carrying essential supplies; copper-coloured support structure to allude to aid, but a more subtle balloon and ship colour to avoid too much attention.

a government vehicle, built for power+to impress, with vague Ancient Egyptian warship references, with a dark colour balloon bc it's a sign of wealth that they can afford so much dye, to stand out against the gold-plated support, and cause you know, general dictatorship references;

a merchant vessel: murky-yellow balloon bc who has money to bleach/dye that much fabric, not merchants anyway, basic steel support.

Teenie Tiny airship of the Artemis' crew. Blue to vaaaaguely blend in with the sky and generally avoid detection. Bit old-fashioned.

the model sheet is what I drew initially as a reference for the model but have since drawn over + coloured

Background concept for the latest project

The rendering's really crude bc I've only had lessons on modelling [and only like four hours at that] so I had to kinda figure materials and stuff by myself? So 50% is just different colour surface shader haha. But yh here's an Artemis, 13yrold pirate protagonist of my group's assignment.

Digital Plein Air doodling: view of the sea from a restaurant near Piraeus, Athens. Device: nexus 7 (2012), app: artflow

No.4 of the 51 animation exercises! I feel like I missed the point a bit on this one bc I spent too long on details that I didn't make many frames (there are only 5 distinct frames) but w/e.

51 animation exercises! I'm determined to do all of them, but for now, here are my attempts of the first three.

In light of the finale, have some lovers on honeymoon girlies on holiday in the spirit world

working on the background for my animation project! P pleased with this colour palette. It's based on the palette of the logo I designed earlier in the project, which is in turn loosely based on the uni colours

A mug design as my grandmother's christmas present! Based on Greek iconography. My first go at using Krita, which is an ace opensource painting program like wow (although I used it in conjunction with Gimp for some adjustments)

I love this game so much and have finally gotten around to handling colours in a way I feel satisfied with. Thankyou for such an excellent experience in gaming! ~Eireni

There are very few things in life that I am certain of; however, my ability to draw cute princesses is definitely one of them. WIP of a Monument Valley fanart.

yes sir. of course I spent today on that essay due next week. Not on drawing. yep.

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Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

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Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric