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Made In Abyss | Riko, Reg, Nanachi, Meinya, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon

October 10, 2024 Time: 22:12 IbisPaintX

⚠️⚠️SPOILERS- Don't look too closely at this illustration if you haven't seen the first season and movie of made in abyss.⚠️⚠️

Made in abyss illustration I made. I mainly worked on this during lectures when they were going over content I already knew ✨

I wanted to take a stab at doing the whole grayscale painting thing before adding colours for once. I think this was a pretty metal way to test that technique out 💀. complicated ass drawing right here

The problem I had with doing the colour layer is that it took a while for me to find something that would look like the right colour. Most colours were fine, but browns were really annoying in particular (they often showed up as bright oranges xd). It also took some finagling to make the shading look good (as in not shaded by pure black), but i got the hang of it. Honestly it was pretty fun using different colours to make the shading look better 😌

I basically painted everything on a single layer (it was divided between foreground (all the characters) and the background sections). yeah, I prolly could have done it in a much more efficient manner, but I had fun so it don't matter.

Really like how it turned out overall (they're so cute but the story is so fucked up it's all so fucked up) and the plan is to make posters out of this bad boy >:)))

Annoying ass watermarks are back because fuck you get away from my hard work!!!

AAM Inktober Day 9: Spicy

October 9, 2024

This was me hella trolling ngl.

I didn't have any ideas for this prompt and I also just wanted to get this in before the day ended so i whipped this stupid thing up in a min

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 8: Soar

October 8, 2024

I actually finished this one on oct 8 (i almost forgot about it). I did forget to send it in the discord until the next morning, though xd

I have problems with the front wing, but considering I just jumped into the drawing w no preamble it's fiiiiiiine

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 7: Supernova

October 7, 2024

Didn't want to do another night sky one since it'd be too close to the first day's drawing, so I did a character instead. Took inspiration of the characters some people made for the galaxy prompt

Made a tiny thumbnail for this one, too

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 6: Serpent

October 6, 2024

Used references for the open snake mouth, but just jumped straight into the final drawing wo practicing beforehand.

Ofc I had to do the whole snake slithering about a skull its iconic🗣️🗣️

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 5: Coffee

October 5, 2024

Like this one's composition. Had fun drawing it

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 4: Cloud

October 4, 2024

Still didn't do a sketch for this one (which was scary cos it's a person), but I did do a little thumbnail sketch on another page so that I would have a clear idea of what pose I wanted. I do think that the sketch's pose is more dynamic, but I like the final piece.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 3: Garden

October 3, 2024

Initially wanted to do a full garden, but I was a bit tired of doing full backgrounds so i settled for a tomato plant

Pretty simple, I like the different textures I can get with this one brush. Sometimes reminds me of the technique used in chinese paintings to draw bamboo/trees

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 2: Abundance

October 2, 2024

Couldn't really think of something for 'abundance', so i did a bunch of little guys in a forest.

I was really unhappy with it in the beginning (second pic), but I decided to keep going because why not. I'm glad I did because, while I still have problems with the final piece, i like it a lot better than i would if i'd left it unfinished.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 1: Galaxy

October 1, 2024

Here's the beginning of my inktober escapades. All of the prompts are from my uni's art club. I was planning on using both this prompt list and the official one (for certain prompts where I need more to get my brain going), but the official prompt list is kinda ass this year.

Challenging myself to only use my one brush pen that i've never used before (along with no sketching beforehand) for all the drawings

This one was pretty fast, but then the stars were really annoying and took a decent amt of time. I like how they turned out, though.

Gonna post them all separately because I have things to say about each separate one 😜😝

India ink on paper

Style Challenge

August 24, 2024

IbisPaintX + Movavi

Wanted to do the thing where I see how much my style is influenced by what brush I use. Was fun! There were a few others that I halfway finished, but I like this lineup of four that I got done. Cool to see how different they are. Airbrush supremacy tho 💪💪💪

Used a ref from pinterest for this one (now I'm a certified real artist 😎)

Used movavi to create the gif so that it wouldn't have the huge ibispaint logo on it

Jeremy, The Civil Engineer

September 19, 2024

Painting I did at the art club's watercolour workshop.

Me and my friend jokingly made a backstory for this guy. He's in civil eng and he's suffering

Watercolour on watercolour paper.

Hazbin Hotel | Husk

September 8, 2024 Time: 6:39

I started this wayyy before (around the alastor one), but I had problems with it for a while so I just left it alone until I practically finished it in one day. Ig something just clicked cos I didn't really change much, other than redo what little progress i'd made on the lineart

Hades | Zagreus

September 7, 2024 Time: 7:08

Redraw of the zagreus sticker I made previously.

I really liked making this one, and I like the way it turned out (actually looks like zag 😱😱😱🗣️). The Hades style is so fun and cool (it in of itself is inspired by mike mignola, among other influences, so ofc I love it).

Used ibispaint's hard japanese brush, which was really nice to use. I like the different line width variation you can get with it.

Hazbin Hotel | Rosie

June 2024

IbisPaintX

The last of the drawings I made to embed in a fic I'm never gonna finish 😔✌️

Also I really don't like this drawing in hindsight. I'm fine with it in the show, but everytime I try to emulate the ultra skinny proportions of hazbin I really don't end up liking it.

I originally had these drawings posted on a secret sideblog so it wouldn't be associated with me, but fuck it we ball.

August 11, 2024

Another painting I did at the cafe. Used the metallic white as my base, and then sketched a fish skeleton on it using my silver metallic pen. Then smoothed out and fixed the forms with a damp brush.

I like the effect using the metallic-on-metallic paints give. Depending on the angle you're looking at it you can either clearly see the fish, or see nothing at all. I think it's neat

Metallic acrylic paint on canvas

August 11, 2024

Little sparkly ocean painting i did at a cafe with friends. Underpainted using a mix of metallic white and yellow, so when the painting catches the light it sparkles ✨. Can't really see it in the photos though 💔

Acrylic paint on canvas

July 28-29, 2024

Discovered a little hobby shop near where me and friends would go rock climbing, and made the mistake of falling for it. ngl bad decision because I just do not have the time to commit to it 😭

Anyways, I bought a light gray primer and primed a couple of my tyranids. The vision was for it to look like their skin is glowing underneath the scales. I did a pretty neat colour sketch of it on my phone, but translating it to the figure was the hard part. I am not made for painting minis, yall 😔✌️

Shouldve used a smaller brush than I did, but I was also just not patient enough methinks. Looking back at it now, the figure wasn't half bad, but I didn't like it back then so I painted over it 💀

I also just used my normal acrylic paints cause I am NOT paying for the expensive ass figurine paints or whtvr theyre called 😒😤

I'll redo this... eventually 🌚

Paint on plastic

The Babs | Iris

June 10-11, 2024 Time: 6:37

It's ironic how long this took, considering this is sppsed to be a 'just throw it down using whatever scratchy lines you can' character.

The character sheets for most of the others are in-progress, but this was the last one I finished for a while

The Babs | Marine

May 31 - June 10, 2024 Time: 5:35

I had a bit of a strugglel with this one, namely because this guy's a bit hard to pose considering their limb situation.

Tried to push the expressions, but they're all pretty much the same. It fits the character's theme so I'm not mad about it

June 6, 2024

Drew my aunt as a rat (to annoy her >:J) and then made her the rock (as an apology)

The Babs | Duke

May 31 - June 5, 2024 Time: 4:22

Explored angles I had never drawn this guy in before (seeing the bottom of the dress and the back of their head). Also gave em more sharp/cartoony hands compared to how i've previously drawn em

The Babs | Tyrian

May 30-31, 2024 Time: 7:42

This one took me foreverrrr. I can see why the others' designs are so cartoony in comparison - lot faster for me to draw.

Explored what this guy would like when angry, and I like what I came up with

The Babs | Monarch

May 30, 2024 Time: 3:17

Finally got around to remaking character sheets for these guys. It's meant to be a colour reference sheet, but I'm tweaking their designs so that there's more distinction between the different charas

Played around with this guy's expressions a lot. I really really like how emotive the butterfly face can be

Bird Mask 🕊️

May 24-29, 2024

Glued - May 24

Sanded - May 25

Pink paint - May 26

First pass colours - May 27

Second pass colours - May 28

Varnish - May 29

Acrylic paint + gloss varnish on wood

Got around to fixing this mask this summer.

Glued the broken pieces back together with wood glue. Pretty sure I wasted 180% more glue than I actually used, but it's been a while since ive done any woodworking

Should've taken the pics before varnishing :p

Coraline | Cocoa Beetle

May 21, 2024 Time: 0:49

(from zanzibar)

Another quick lil guy. Last of my batch of trying to compensate for lost days in the 'make a drawing every day' goal.

Also the last of stickers in general for a while 💔

Hazbin Hotel | Little Demon Minions idk

May 21, 2024 Time: 1:10

Just a quick lil thing. These guys are very shapeful, was fun to draw

Edited on 10/14/2024 to change the background colour (was too dark before)

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor

May 21, 2024

Time: 5:50

Really like how this turned out. I had had the pose floating around in my head for a while, but it took a couple tries for me to put it on paper.

Had to go back in and add his horns cause I completely forgot them the first time 😛

First of a batch I did to try and compensate for the days I didn't make a drawing for

The Amazing Digital Circus | Gangle

May 15 2024 / May 16 2024 Time: 2:57 / 2:38

Really like the contrasting poses for this one, also like how i shaded her ribbons ❤️

This is the last of tadc stuff I did, and also the last of me drawing every day 🥲

The Amazing Digital Circus | Jax

May 14, 2024 Time: 1:42

I can't tell if I like or hate this one. Might play around with different bg colours sometime cause I think that's what's bothering me.

Jax be super lanky so I think i did good at squishing him to be more square.