It’s Done! I’m Actually Really Happy About It. There’s Some Parts That Don’t Work At All, But

The previous drawing, but adjusted to be more accurate to reference.

I wanted to try hatching again, so I made this little piece based on the song “Let the Maggots sing” by the band Mili. It’s definitely busier than I wanted it to be, and very sketchy, but I enjoyed doing it, and I enjoyed the outcome. I might polish it up and ink it later, but this was mostly meant to be a quick sketch, and I already spent more time on it than I originally planned, so it’ll probably remain like this. As always critique is welcome, since I do want to improve.

My attempt at drawing Elphelt Valentine from Guilty Gear Strive. I haven’t played the game and don’t plan to, but her theme has been encouraging and motivational for me even though I generally don’t tend to like metal as a genre(Although I have found a few songs I like. There’s no genre I dislike as a whole.)

This is the first time I’ve used my digital drawing software, so it’s definitely amateurish. I only used one layer and didn’t even attempt colouring. It also came out looking a bit unhinged. Nonetheless, I’m happy with it.

Some miscellaneous things I’ve done in the past two days. All from photo reference, but trying out different styles.

Another progress pic. Unfortunately, since I’m a novice, there’s probably a 50/50 chance I ruin it before it’s done tbh, but I’ve been enjoying the process.

An attempt to draw Sancho from Limbus Company. I’m trying out a more simplified style for this one. I can’t do expressions at the moment, sadly, but advice on that (or just general art advice tbh) would be appreciated.

More stream-of-thought rambling under the cut.

Maybe it’s the text placement, but for some reason this gives me “live laugh love” vibes. Also apologies for the bad cursive. I was taught it in primary school but haven’t used it in over a decade. A few weeks ago, the thought came to me to try using it again, so I started doing that. Still not good at it.

Still and moving versions of a little poison vial. I’m actually pretty happy with it. I didn’t really plan anything about it besides the general idea of a vial of poison, and I think the tag and smoke actually worked out pretty well.

I remember seeing her video on this and being absolutely amazed by it.

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A little colored pencil doodle cause I was hungry.

The right edge was a bit wonky on the previous version, so I decided to post a slightly updated version. I made the skull linger a bit more as well. I think it’s definitely an improvement on the previous version.

Irrelevant personal tangent under the cut

I’ve honestly been really happy so far with my forays into digital art and animation. I haven’t had much time to practise properly, so I’m not improving as fast as I would have liked, but nonetheless, it’s been fun.

I’m sort of in a bottle phase right now, so my next piece is probably going to be a ship in a bottle.