Affirmation

Here it is: my final submission for the collab.

As someone who’s so strongly inspired by 2000s Flash media, I couldn’t not join.

Some more info about the piece that I didn’t mention before:

• The piece is inspired by “Castle in the Sky” by DJ Satomi, hence why I put the castle above a cloud line.

• The affirmation came from a comment under the video: “If you remember this you‘re not old.. You are high quality vintage” which I took inspiration from and turned into a Tumblr shitpost: “I’m not old. I’m JPEG-quality vintage.”
• Thin black outlines because that seemed to be a recurring feature in a lot of Flash media coming out back then. Could this be another shift in my art style? Tune in next time…
• I was talking to someone in an artists’ Discord server about the piece, and after looking at the word “windows” it just clicked, which led to the Windows XP logo for the castle windows.
• I thought it would be cool to have the castle poking out of a Windows XP window, so I used reference images to emulate the OS’s UI.
• Flash 5 because it was the first version of Flash to be released in the new millennium. Fun fact: it was also the first version to implement ActionScript.
• Last-minute decision to throw in a couple of Wingdings. Just because.
• I thought that to really hammer home the 2000s vibes, I would crunch the quality of the image. But I knew that I still wanted it to have a transparent background. To remedy this, I exported the final piece as both a .PNG and a .JPEG. I then used the .PNG version as a mask for the .JPEG version. This created a “hybrid” that combined the compression of a .JPEG with the transparency of a .PNG.

Sooooo happy with how this came out.

This piece has not been submitted to the Art Portal.

Speedy Shitpost

My entry for the Art Gallery Collab being hosted by @Aalasteir.

It's a speedy shitpost. Drew it in 2-3 minutes. Nuff said.

I think my latest work has done something to be because I've fallen into another outlining dilemma. Doesn't help that I was looking at Mausland.de via the Wayback Machine and getting drawn in by the ads and artwork.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--

Yeah I've been feeling kinda cold about missing the Flash golden era of the 2000s, so now I'm trying to find therapy in drawing. Here's a sketch I just did of Dimon from School 13.

It's gonna be for a winter piece I've got planned.

Also something I forgot to mention: earlier this month I bought a copy of How to Draw Manga Faces in Simple Steps by Yishan Li, since I thought it might be fun to try.

I started out with eyes. Drew these on the 12th. The ones on the right are the examples that Li provided; the ones on the left were drawn from imagination.

Also some mouths, drawn on the same day.

Been trying to work out Frank's front profile. Difficult when you only have a 45 degree portrait to work from.

But I like this

Even if it needs some work.

Hmmmm yes.

Yup.

Hands.

HAAAAAAANNNNNDDDDSSSSS.

WIP obviously.

Kiss, Kiss, Bang! Bang!

Merry Christmas!

A simple holiday pic featuring Frank and Ray. Wanted to do something for the season but didn't want to go overboard.

The piece shares its name with the Pizzicato Five song used as the title theme for Frank's Adventure 4.

As it transpires, it's also a Christmas song, so it fit hand-in-glove. Plus if you think about it, it kinda fits their personalities:

Kiss, Kiss: Frank is always in pursuit of more pornography.

Bang! Bang!: Ray is always shooting shit up.

Originally drew them together back in November, and finally got round to doing it digitally this month.

Had to put them in punny Christmas jumpers. How could I not? Also made them match their personalities.

Pretty pleased with how Frank came out. He was meant to photobomb the piece I did for Ray's 20th anniversary, since Ray - Part 1 and Frank's Adventure came out on the same day (22 October 2003), but I wasn't confident with how I drew him. Sorry Frank.

Fucking buzzing about the wood textures I did on the walls and floor. Probably one of the best things I've created in Animate.

Threw in some nods to my previous art for fun, and to add to the background.

Plus the Crescent Moo I drew for this.

Also I learned that you can add blending modes and filters to whole layers in Animate. No longer have to fill up my library with a bunch of effects converted to movie clips! You can mainly see this in the valleys of the Pawcelain, the mist in the windows, and the shade of the Lava Lamp.

Fun fact: This piece was originally called “Merry Pissmas” before that title went to my Snowman Collab entry.

This piece has not been submitted to the Art Portal.

Winter Night

This was what that sketch was for.

My entry for the BGW Art Collab being hosted by @DARKWEBASSASSIN.

It was interesting being restricted to black, white, and 5 shades of grey (hence the name of the collab). I think it came out pretty well. Since I only had so many colours to work with, I went with solid black outlines for different elements, as opposed to my usual outlining regime.

Usually I add little details and easter eggs in the background (in this case I was gonna add graffiti to the krushchevskas) but I thought that less was more this time round, so I kept things minimal.

Fixed a couple oversights, mainly lack of shadows from Dimon's hair.

Here's a lil creature based on one of the doodles. I named it Xenom.

Had to get my printer set up again, now I can share a few traditional sketches I did this week.

These first two sets were drawn on Christmas Day.

More graffiti. In case there's a graffiti shortage... I guess.

Some heads. Meh.

A wall of Dimons, also drawn on Christmas day, and from screencaps and artwork.

Face practice from yesterday (bottom row) and the day before (top row).

Swirlyboo. Not sure about the shading in the eyes.

Munchkin. Has a voracious appetite... and has my heart uwu

It's now on the Portal

Adding some additional shading.

Still not sure what to do with Swirlyboo's eyes though.

Unnamed cloud.

Random shit including a bulging P-Switch.

Ray sketchdump from yesterday and today incl. some poses like kneeling.

Tower done in a darker colour scheme than usual. Still love it though.

Faces n stuff.

Following a tutorial by hex_arts

Following a tutorial by dayebeeon

Meh.