Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=40578&page=12#115 Author: Echosing Time Posted: 9/1/2021 at 11:10 PM Out on a job rn, good ol 13 hour drive yall I'm ready to go home - tbh not feeling super but wanted to draw and really didnt have the motivation to use more effort to get my tablet or try much so just used my mouse for the 2nd half of this wip Dunno where I'm going with this piece but got in the mood to draw these characters/explore them a bit more and easier to draw designs

so btw the way I learned how to draw hair was that my amazing artist friend told me that as long as you know how to draw grass you can draw hair

made myself something for pokefarm ^^
quick piece because I needed a break from my bigger project of practicing action and movement posing

^{im actually really happy with this piece ;;}



'lil preview of my action and pose sheet since I've not had much time to draw anything new recently including this practice sheet

Initial sketch for idea base


pose clean-up and changes


finished, characters belong to Noha

Too late to attempt anything for the contests but since I still had the bases saved wanted to try doing the thing anyway since it always looked fun and my first attempt going over the bases years ago was horrendous:



The idea is these are head pieces? Feathers either part of or put to a different layer if too much because honestly I did probably do way too much for a singular item piece - having fun messing around though


EDIT:
was intending to be more eastern dragon-esk but drew some ears and just combined them with the horns since the horns felt too bare?


Intended as head and tail pieces

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got highly motivated to attempt drawing more realistic(so tried drawing my avatar) - got lucky with a nice looking first draft sketch base, don't know what to do with this sketch now that it is this far because trying to smoothen it makes it look worse, woo

Partly inspired by user Dinnerbone who drew one of my OC's really cool(they have a forum in art trades I def recommend), and partly inspired by my returning to my xxxHolic phase from when I first discovered anime because I bought animal crossing for myself and my twin sister and because I realize I can make my own clothing in the game I've been making too many robes and remembered "yo, the outfits in xxxHolic were sick" and have proceeded to just use in game clothing anyway

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current progress

Current progress








Shading and lighting isnt right here but just a concept layer to see if I like the idea of making the image dark/if I wanna make the attempt at shading and lighting

here's how it's currently progress is looking - being liberal with the coloring because that's more fun

EDIT: new current