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Nerve-wracking device

I am hope. | Dream | The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman.

I can’t lie, I’m in a huge creative slump at the moment (massive burn out, you know how it is), and though I’m not completely happy with this piece it’s the first thing I’ve been able to finish for weeks now. Gotta start somewhere, right?

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.

I used different brushes and color scheme so it looked too jarring when I tried to put it in the set

Saw this short bit of fan fic by @lolaalee

https://www.tumblr.com/lolaalee/726386470447874048/in-my-vision

So I had to make this:

So I’ve been drawing this today

Basically I was thinking of this one JJBA artist who draws the characters very stylized and with weird colors, and I kind of wanted to do that with Cookie Run characters, which is what I attempted here

I was going to do colors, but I was having trouble making stuff with my normal sketching brush, so I went rough sketch brush to try and figure out the shapes, and then I never got around to doing colors. Maybe in a second part

Dark Cacao and Dark Choco I know were going to be greyscale, with the exception of certain purples and reds respectively

I was just planning on starting with Dark Cacao and Dark Choco, and for the most part that’s what I did, but I wanted to try others since the stuff was looking weird when I was drawing in math class. I’m now in physics and I think they look better after that

I think Golden Cheese looks the best, outside of maybe the DC fam because I drew them a lot and like them. I wasn’t sure what I was doing with Hollyberry and Princess, and I was just making something up for Licorice for a quick joke. I can redo them at a later time

But for the DC family, I wanted them to basically just be rectangles and diamonds (outside of the eyes I guess). They’re the only ones I really tried on

Part of the idea was just simplifying the designs, so what I did was basically just have Dark Cacao’s crown fused to his head. Don’t ask me how it happened, but it’s stuck there now. I wanted to give Dark Choco a diamond shape on his forehead, as like a birthmark, and later on I decided that he basically now has a piece of metal growing from his head too. He gets to be a unicorn, technically speaking

But yeah, just take these random sketches. Hopefully I polish this concept later on, but I might just draw the Dark Cacao family because I like them

ZombieCleo in all her deserved opulence as a Hades character. The polls being delayed allowed me to finish this before the next round SO GO VOTE CLEO she is a goddess and the true sexyman we deserve

girls!

Classic Link 💚

Beach!

Lanky silly ahh villian

Far Shooter, rouser of armies.