ART TRADES STILL OPEN Istg Pleaseee Someone Draw With Me I Have Free Time All This Week And I Just Wanna

this was my first design of puma guy (technically second, one day I will share the handmade cat plushy OG version) erm... it's not very good lol, also from an artistic perspective... ngl find it crazy that this was less than a year and a half ago I improved like crazy!! also I couldn't draw buff people we don't talk about it I distinctly remembering him looking less weedy when I actually drew him idk

the space pattern sucks ew i've really stepped my game up on that too, face is also janky I was still slightly in my anime phase

messy lineart works but like... this is just messy and not in a cool way

its so washed out my art is so saturated now compared to this, this looks like a watercolour version where's all the pink my boy is PINK

shading is ehh i remember loving the skin and pants but it looks pretty flat and the blue... i didn't know what I was doing with that

i HATE the mouth idk it makes me uncomfortable

man it's so crazy to look at my old designs BEFORE I came up with distinct hairstyles for them

he looks like such a generic anime boy it's kinda funny

the basic things that changed is that he looks older, has curlier hair and looks a bit sleepier but I actually do tend to stick very closely with my original designs (even though I've created some of them when I was really young)

Hello again, I’ve “finished” that drawing I asked you about a while ago! I think I’ll add some lettering to the bottom and make the green-lighted lady’s arms larger, but aside from that, what do you think I should revise? I also wanted to add a glitch effect to the characters at the top (for lore reasons), but I can’t tell if it looks horrible or not. I also am a bit worried about compositional readability.

Please let me know what you think! If context helps, this is a project which will be included in my school portfolio. Thank you for answering my ask before also ☺️

the glitch effect is cool, but id stick to red, white, and blue for the colours of the glitch, as the green looks out of place and muddy. the characters at the top are also very dark and at first glance I didn't see them at all. if they are meant to be hidden that's fine, but I just want to let you know they aren't very visible, so if that's not your intention id make them brighter or the lighting on them stronger.

the shading looks great for most of the characters but I cant understand where the light source is coming from for the yellow character on the right (not the one in the middle). the shading is also very soft, which for some surfaces makes sense, but in this drawing, everything is shaded very softly with an airbrush. id include some more hard edges in shading since those are important, especially in the face. there should definitely be harder shadows/highlights on the noses too. the hair needs harder highlights especially, all of the hair here looks very soft like a pillow, and not shiny like hair actually is. darker skin is also more reflective and has more contrasted shading, but in this art piece the lighter skin and the darker skin are shaded the same.

the strong coloured highlights really swallow up the colours of the characters clothes and skin, which is why I prefer to use multiply and overlay blend modes, since it retains the colour underneath all the shading.

if I blur my eyes and look at the drawing as a whole, the lightest and most eye-catching part of the drawing is in the middle with the white character, but it seems the characters in the very front should be more emphasised. so i'd say to make the bottom of the image even brighter, simply an overlay layer with a white airbrush can brighten it up, also putting the overlay over the characters at the very top can make them brighter, its a very easy fix.

the pink and light blue character's skintones are looking rather grey, a little bit more orange/red can help with this. i would say the grey character's skin also looks grey, but that's their colour so I'm not sure if that's intentional.

also I'm not sure if the white text is important, but I do want to point out that I have no clue what it says, I can't read it. (I see starry mask on the left, but what does it say on the right? I'm seeing "cplouge") also this is optional but I really like to do it and it adds a lot of life to art, just adding a small white highlight in the eyes

hope i helped!

lol just a simple animation test i haven't animated in sooo long

Estheriel, character by by Estheriel_14 on Reddit

CHICKEN JOCKEYYY

i cannot escape from the brainrot

cool metal hand thing tho idk what's up with that

why must i be like this

everytime i wanna name an OC i feel like i'm naming my baby man that name is gonna be with them for LIFE it's gonna be everything to them

biggest example gotta be freaking puma guy man like i have so much lore for him, I have his whole FAMILY TREE mapped out I know all his traumas and psychology I know how the "don't complain cuz other ppl have it worse" mentality has AFFECTED him I know his whole relationship life I know his whole childhood I know his MIDDLE SCHOOL BEST FRIEND I know literally everything about this guy but a name? hell nah, not even a nickname

ig cuz names mean a lot to me personally... i asked my gyu po after waiting years in anticipation for her to formally give jayden a Chinese name, cuz I only trust her to be able to have that cultural context and meaning, and she gave me and my family Chinese names too, but that was such a big event to me and now I feel I gotta ask my dad for a name for puma guy bc I want him to have a russian first name but that's EMBARRASSING like imagine going up to your dad and being like "erm can you name a person who DOES NOT EXIST for me... and it has to be really meaningful and well thought out you have to put your life into this" unserious ahh

LETS GOOOO first drawing of jayden/zun qiang i have on here

starting off strong man i dont think (im 80% sure ngl) that i will hate this immensely in the future, unlike how i feel in regards to my other drawings of him...

if you know jayden from my reddit or artfight account... no you dont ignore EVERY old art piece of him ever idk what i was thinking

sid the sloth... if you know you know

me when the ibuprofen hits

why do transmascs make the most beautiful angelic art ever

like this is so specific but i'm not even joking I see the most beautiful art nouveau-esque renaissance painting art and ofc it's transmasc like what is the secret I HAVE TO KNOW

btw since i draw silly animals to represent ppl hats mean lgbtq don't ask why I just like hats

puma guy reference for my artfight i gotta draw more of these but they're kinda a pain but they help me figure out stuff about the character!! lock in their proportions and stuff so I draw them consistently and know what I'm doing

i hate drawing symmetry i mean im not aiming for it to be perfectly symmetrical cuz that's creepy af and unnatural and some elements of his design are purposefully asymmetrical (barely noticeable but his eyebrows for example I hate how I put small details no one will ever even see or think about)

but this took so long to correct i was constantly flipping my canvas… now I'm thinking about how I'll have to do like 9 more of these and probably have to redo them by july cuz I'll have improved and will hate my old art

crossing my fingers that i can just do small edits or liquify by the time artfight happens I don't wanna have to redo everything

my most masculine OC has unicorn toothpaste hair

lowkey cooked when i made his design I love purple he's literally just a flipped version of jayden though

i been so stupid, complaining about tumblr's horrible compression, but it turns out... it was cuz I was accidentally exporting all my drawings as jpeg 😭

obligatory repost of this image i cant believe the very first appearance of him and his OG design is a badly sewn cat plushy

rn i have THREE mangoes!!!!!!!!!!

now i have two mangoes....

sad update: no mangoes

Comic blurb pls I wanna promote it

brooo it's literally like infinitely long man but ig i can tell you a little bit about it?

so there's this silly guy named JAYDEN who's trying to overthrow the kingdom without being found out (and he discovers many disturbing secrets while doing so) with the help of the literal Prince of said kingdom. magical hijinks, spirits, demons, and even space arcs (aliens?!) to follow. also LOTS of lgbtq+ stuff lol. forgot to mention, GENERATIONAL TRAUMA

I... i dont have a title yet bro I need one STAT 😭 I've literally technically been developing parts of this story for SIX YEARS, but I still don't have a freaking title and I haven't even come up with names for half of my group of main characters. idk man drawing and making character designs is EASY, but names???

everytime i write about my comic it sounds dumb af, but this is why I chose a COMIC which expresses stuff more through visuals than writing lol