Eggtober 12 Avocado Toast (Featuring Tomato and, of course, Fried Egg.) Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Dry Gouache Brush, Airbrush (for the barely visible bread texture) and Freckle Pen (for the pepper.) 20 colors, 1 hour 30 minutes. Took a little longer on this one because I spent an inordinate amount of time lovingly rendering the tomato that I knew no one was going to get to see in the final product. (Don’t worry, I saved it to another layer since @quezify said last time that he appreciated the peek behind the curtain.) This was another request by a friend. I must say, I wake up every day excited to choose an egg from the many options I have available and just... have fun putting it down on (digital) paper. I’ve got some yammering about that, but since I’m already going to post a “behind the scenes” under the cut, I’ll shove the musings down there too. As always, big thanks to the Egg Master Supreme, @quezify​ for organizing this. It’s wonderful to see so many people getting into art again or branching out and drawing eggs for the first time, all because one zany dude said to Tumblr “You know what? Let’s paint eggs for a month.” And enough of us said “Hell yeah” that I get to see so many different styles and mediums. Loving every moment of it!

(Art first, because LOOK AT THOSE TOMATOES! I love how they came out, I want to shove them in my mouth! AAAH!) Now for the rambling musings. I’m starting to get really comfortable with the gouache brush, a tool which I previously never used, and I’m also getting more comfortable with art in general. My usual process from childhood, when I did much more art, was to slap down pencil work on real life sheets of paper, line it in pen or photograph/scan it and upload it to my computer to line with the pen tool, and then just do everything with pen for bright, solid colors. Most of my other techniques were one off flukes, like the fire I did in my icon’s background. And my newer process, as an adult who just started learning Clip Studio Paint, was fairly similar. (I just started with CSP recently because it came free with my newest tablet and my old standard, Photoshop Elements [I dunno the version, 7 maybe?], was too old and would resize on my new rig so all the buttons were SO GODDAMN SMALL it was a pain to use.) The only difference is that, as an adult who’s home more often than not, I skipped the paper. Sketch, linework with the pen tool, then color under the line art with pen. Or, for a certain other project, I color under the line art with the watercolor brush. I’ve always wanted to try gouache because I’ve seen it worked with IRL and it’s got such pretty results! Opaque like acrylics and oils but flows like watercolor. I suppose it never occurred to me to look for it in the toolset. The last time I even used brushes meant to represent real media before CSP was when Corel Painter was a thing and I had it with my very first drawing tablet. And even then I didn’t use it often. I mostly used the watercolors because that was my favored medium IRL. But I quickly started to prefer Photoshop Elements which also came with my first tablet. And slowly I stopped using anything resembling traditional mediums. But I figured, hey, Eggtober is already a time for me to learn some new tricks and get some practice in, watercolor will look too translucent and it has a paper texture to it that I’m not sure I want. Let’s see if this thing has Gouache. And it did. And now it’s my favorite brush. The way it blends naturally, the ease of pressure controls so the opacity is easy to alter stroke by stroke. It feels like laying down real paints. Once I got used to how it behaved it just... clicked. So yeah, now that I know how to work with it and now that I had the brain explosion necessary to figure out my new process of laying down the darkest colors first and working my way up, it was all too easy to go “Oh. I like laying down these colors. And instead of trying to predict where I’m going to put the avocado, I’m just going to draw the full tomatoes for fun and practice and then figure out the avocado slice placement.” And then I spent roughly 45 minutes just... adding detail to tomatoes. Because it was a genuine joy and I was smiling the whole time and I could just look at those juicy tomatoes forever. So yeah, I know I say it every time, but I for real owe quezify everything for giving me a reason to pick up a new tool and learn and just have fun with it. Kicking my depression’s ass, my ADHD’s ass, my artblock’s ass, and my (lack of) motivation’s ass, all with the power of “Egg fun, draw egg.”

splattered eggs💖 @quezify

Eggtober Day 12

@quezify

Day 12 for @quezify’s Eggtober! Some more runny yolks for today.

A dozen poems for @quezify's Eggtober! This piece was made with a cheerios box, a swedish fish box, 12-pack gushers box, a Sugared Grapefruit scented pen, and my very dirty windowsill, since I don't have a cast iron pan or an egg carton in my dorm.

Transcription under the read more

egg 1: ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!

egg 2: Snapping String

egg 3: coldest heat

egg 4: does it hurt?

egg 5: goo balloon

egg 6: Crunch! ~sizzle~

egg 7: itchy wall

egg 8: Eat your twin

egg 9: mango pill...

egg 10: midday moon

egg 11: Obligor

egg 12: smooth sipping

Eggtober 10/9-10/12 warmups :) @quezify

Drawing breadbugs stealing others' art posts: Day 6 (am slow)

This time, the breadbugs have taken quite the tumble, but don't worry, their soft doughy hides shall protect them 🥰 @goron-king-darunia

My submission for @quezify ‘s Eggtober! It took me 12 days of working on and off in MS Paint. I’ve been busy so maybe that’s why it took me longer but it’s so impressive to me that people are doing these daily. I also loved having an excuse to make a detailed drawing for the first time in a while.

Quick egg today cause I’m sleepy - Eggtober Day 12

Eggtober 12: SUNny side up! Inspired by @captaiincool’s galactic eggs!

Eggtober 12th 2023

"Forbidden": Fried Eggs and Bacon

(Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Dry Gouache Brush, Gouache Blender, and some Pencil Brush details. Labor of love, however many colors, 2 hours.)

If you guess the source before you see the speedpaint, then I did it correctly. ;D

@lady-quen's breadbugs will have to wait for the fire to die down before they can snatch an eggy or two. And tagging @quezify, the, ahem, Wizard of Fried Eggs.

(This time I am not forgetting the speedpaint! Look at all those beginning details that end up hidden. XD

In other news, fire is hard to draw. I will have to do a study of it. Last time I drew fire it was for the background of my current icon and I used a method that would not work for this piece.

The reflection in the pan was hard too, the fan art I was referencing did is so perfectly. I'll have to study it further to properly do it justice.

I was going to use the grid method to make a more perfect study, but honestly it would have taken way longer and put way too much stress on it for me, I think, trying to get it perfect. Especially trying to put eyes on Calcifer. So it's all freehand and all eyeballed so you can see the pan is a little wonky. Also I couldn't find a good reference for the log-holder/grating in the hearth and I wasn't gonna pull out my DVD and get sidetracked for an hour for that one detail. So yeah, that part is just... being cleaned by Sophie. Or Howl disappeared it from the frame.

Anyway, 10/10, Ghibli really knows how to make food look ethereal and perfect and otherworldly and I hope I captured that with the unrealistically red bacon because yeah, I want to eat it even more when it's bright red for some reason... I was going to try to fit in a slice of bread and bowl of tea (That IS tea, right?) but didn't have a good place composition-wise to put it.

I wanted to do this piece last year but I decided that I would save it for a potential "film only" eggs ensemble, but couldn't resist this year. The pull was too strong. Besides, if I do more eggs from movies and TV, then I can always make a collection of them later.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys! And this time I made SURE not to forget the speedpaint! The file is too beefy for me to share on discord with friends, so I'm happy Tumblr can accept my hefty chunky speedpaint file!

Eggtober 2021 Prompts:

This was initially just for my own benefit, but since some of you expressed interest I thought I'd post it! I personally will be writing mostly Eggpire characters, but I’ll definitely have to throw in some Omelette members here and there. I'll be tagging these with #eggtober2021

October 1: Thorns

October 2: Asleep

October 3: Escape

October 4: Bleached

October 5: Caged

October 6: Blasphemy

October 7: Hands

October 8: Please

October 9: Blood

October 10: Lost

October 11: Hungry

October 12: Eyes

October 13: Recognize

October 14: Survival

October 15: Bloom

October 16: Lungs

October 17: Itch

October 18: Cleanse

October 19: Lullabye

October 20: Shatter

October 21: Hunt

October 22: Deal

October 23: Overgrown

October 24: Lies

October 25: Change

October 26: Invitation

October 27: Promise

October 28: Isolated

October 29: Ballroom

October 30: Sacrifice

October 31: Ghost

Eggtober 6th 2023

"Splat" or "Fun with Colors": Raw Egg.

(Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Pencil brush for details and highlights. 12 colors, I think? 1 Hour.) I actually really liked the rough version I made, so you're gonna get that one at the end as well, for anyone who also likes the rough one better than the smooth one.

But first... I finally discovered a feature of CSP, so now I am unstoppable and I will NEVER AGAIN have to ask myself "How the fuck did I do that?"

Because now I have EVIDENCE. Now curious friends, followers, and my forgetful ass, can watch the full process of how I made a thing. Including what references I used so it's clear how much is iterative and how much I am drawing directly from the visual reference. Today I had to do a lot from imagination because I couldn't find an exaggerated splashy egg, but sometimes I really am just making a study and trying to do a one-to-one recreation of a reference. So now y'all get to know all my filthy little secrets. I was intending to grab footage starting with Eggtober 1, 2023 but OBS needs a version of an NVIDIA driver that will absolutely wreck my computer with BSODs because I own a junker apparently. But it turns out CSP (or at least V2, IDK if it was in V1) has a way to capture a speedpaint natively when you create the file.

Now I am unstoppable, powerful. No more taking a break from art when life gets busy and coming back to pieces I drew 10 years ago and wondering "How the hell did I manage that?" I can just check. It's over for all of you. Once I practice anatomy again and start being able to draw shapes and volumes perfectly from imagination, I will become all-powerful. I will ascend. Hell, maybe someone might even pay me if I learn to draw anything that isn't an egg or a meme. XD Radical self-confidence, baby. I can art now, and I have evidence. My horizons are infinite!

And now, hopefully, any baby artists that are just starting out can get an idea of how I do it from this and future pieces so I can pull you all up with me in a bid of apotheosis. For the EGGsthetic! (Aesthetic.)

I wonder which version of this egg @lady-quen's breadbugs will snap up?

And I wonder which one @quezify will like best? My money's on the sketchy one.

I can't tell which I like better honestly. The smooth one us much more "My aesthetic" because it matches how I render eggs but... The rough pencil-y gouache lines you get with light pressure really remind me of how the classic modern quezify eggs look, and I of course only started doing eggs because of the first Eggtober so, like. On the one hand, smooth and painterly look that goes with all but one of my previous eggs (Eggtober 1, 2023 was a study from memory of quezify's style, after all). But on the other hand... dramatic color changes! Textrure, shine! Colors that aren't in the actual references! EXPRESSIVENESS. Two different moods on the same egg art and I really dig both of them honestly.

Eggtober 16th 2023

"Say Cheese" A study of texture: Cheesy Baked Cream Eggs

(Clip Studio Paint, Circle tool, Gouache Brush, Dry Gouache Brush, Airbrush Tool for the pepper. 12 colors. 40 minutes.)

For a quick one, I love how this came out. Mom saw a show, I looked at the website, I saw a neat egg, I drew it. I love the parcooked whites on the yolks that are juuuust starting to set and the way I was able to render that burned cheesy look! Definitely one of my faves so far!

Hopefully @lady-quen's breadbugs don't fall into the yolks before they set... Or maybe the breadbugs would like that?

Tapdancing my way into @quezify's notifications with this one. I cannot tapdance, but I can dream. XD

I love the yolk at the 4 o clock position there... the way it kind of looks a bit shriveled like it burst somewhere under the surface. Again, very proud of this one for a fast piece.

Eggtober 3rd 2023

"And Yet a Bit of the True Self Remains in the False Self" or German Fried Egg Cake (Spiegeleierkuchen) (Clip Studio Paint, Gouache brush and Pencil brush for highlights, 11 colors, ~40 minutes give or take. It felt longer but that's what my timer said and I did take a 10 minute break because my wrist was bothered) So yeah, apparently my anti-artistblock strategy this time is to just scroll the image results for fried egg until I find something I want to draw? Last year I had lots of ideas and this year I'm just "please send requests, I don't wanna draw the same 12 egg dishes that I like best from last year! I wanna practice with new stuff!" So yeah, technically it has egg in it because cake, and technically it looks like egg because of the pudding and apricot topping, but it's not technically an egg. But it's edible and egg themed and I really like how humans have decided that eggs are a pleasant thing to emulate. We have Easter egg-shaped candies and indeed many people serve this cake on Easter due to this association. Egg-shaped gummies. Eggy puddings. And the Fabergé egg. Humans just be liking fried dough, onions, and eggs.

I saw one sprinkled with poppy seed on top to look like pepper and I saw one with a cute teal-turqoise table cloth so I combined those ideas and several references for this. It may be sweet and not savory, but I hope you all enjoy! Haven't tried the recipe, but if any egg lovers love the look of this cake and want to try it next Easter, this is the one I found while looking for references.

As always, gotta tag and give props to @quezify for organizing Eggtober. Since this is cake, can we call it birthday cake for him?

Eggtober 17th 2023

Impressions of a Mushroom Quiche

(Clip Studio Paint, Gouache Brush, Dry Gouache brush, Gouache Blender. 12 Colors, 1 hour.) Last year I drew a bit of a sloppy Broccoli quiche on a bad day. Today I drew a Mushroom Quiche and had a good day. Last year's is a bit of an ugly duckling, but it grew on me, But I'm very happy about today's. Putting lots of shapes in the quiche filling where the sliced edge is is tremendous fun.

Hopefully @lady-quen's Breadbugs like mushrooms!

And, as always, joyous acknowledgement to @quezify.

Last year's quiche piece and speedpaint coming up.

Can you tell some of it was on the wrong layer because of how I had to physically erase the reference? XD

I still like last year's quiche, but even though I like it, I still think it's one of my weaker pieces. Wild how much emotional state can be transmitted when you know what you're looking for. Or maybe I'm just projecting mega hard.

Eggtober 22nd, 2022, for anyone wondering. For a barebones piece though, it's not half bad. But I'll take the mushroom quiche over this one. XD

(Insert something about that joke or meme of the confusion between "quickie" and quiche for the gaff. ;D)