"Post your Art" Thread

[Cynosura]

Just a random character

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Originally I intended it to have more stuff going on in the background but ended up liking it the way it is.

 

[HickoryDickory]

No drawing, but I'm instructing a simple bookmaking workshop next week with washi tapes. (Left off the covers because I don't have enough chipboard, atm)

I might teach an art journaling workshop in a couple months, but there are a couple of people that want me to redo basic doll making as they missed the last one.

 

[The Straight Seagull]

I have no idea how to draw Mog in my style.

Spoiler: Kupo!

Spoiler: FFVI's Blue Mage

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

Alright, I'm aware that crossover art is considered to be blatant autism, but I still like drawing it ('cause let's face it, y'all know how autistic I can be).
Anyways, here's a Ao no Exorcist and Team Fortress 2 crossover thingy that I drew today.

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I'll also explain the premise under a spoiler as well, because not everyone is familiar with the characters.

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Alright Shima is known to be a double agent for both Mephisto and the Illuminati in the Ao no Exorcist manga, so he's a spy. I decided, hey, why not have him try the disguise kit that the Spy from Team Fortress 2 uses. However, it backfires as Shima ends up disguising as Mephisto as a joke and Soldier and Mephisto quickly figure out that there's a Spy (in which this case, is Shima). Spy then facepalms because of this.

 

[nyess]

trying to keep up with sketches and drawings outside of class. Hard to find the groove with so much to learn and do elsewhere

Sorry, just have some practice crap

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[Motherboard]

Warm up doodle of Sonichu.

 

[Trilby]

 

[chimpburgers]

Some ballpoint pen doodles on lined notebook paper. It wasn't supposed to be Kengle at the beginning but I got bored and played around with the design more and more to the point where I wanted to turn the drawings about him anyway. I might do more work with this later and try to add Chris himself, but draw it on a tablet and ink and color it.

It's just that even with working with some of those programs like Illustrator before, I still don't feel like I can get that professional look I've been wanting.

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I played around with some ideas of what I'd thought Ken's ex-wife would look like and did Ken dressed up as a Hershey's Kiss holding up signs in the rain trying to get Chris's attention and wiping his nose with a tissue in the second drawing

"Kengle loves you" for the first sign. "Notice me Christine" for the second.

Spoiler: More Kengle doodles

The dialog here says this:

"You people would eat it up if Christine filmed herself with a bra stuffed with Hershey's Kisses. I have a Photoshopped picture of Christine wearing it, you guys wanna see it?"

At the top with a seedy look, Ken is saying that he wants Gloria.

 

[VJ 343]

I sat down and sketched a thing for s 'witchsona' art prompt. Twenty minutes out of your day feels like a lot when you're working.

 

[TyrannoNinja]

Spoiler: Nephthys of the Dead

This is my portrait of Nephthys, protective goddess of the dead in Egyptian mythology. She was sister to Isis and Osiris and sister-wife to Set (who was also Osiris's brother...what can I say, gods had different family values in that culture), and she was often paired up with her sister as protector of Osiris's mummified body in funeral rites. So when designing my version of her, I gave her the motifs of death and mummification. While others have given her mummy bandages for clothing, the fossil-headed staff and ammonite earrings are my own contribution to emphasize her stewardship of the dead (and because I love me some prehistoric stuff of course). The super-dark skin color I've given her is meant to channel the black bitumen substance used in Egyptian embalming.

Although Nephthys appears to have been a mostly benevolent goddess, her macabre domain still called for a rather sinister backdrop. I'll just say that as protector of the dead, she has to keep away would-be disturbers by scaring the lights out of them.

Spoiler: Ceratosaurus Knight

This knight has for her trusty steed a Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus, one of the large meat-eating dinosaurs from the Jurassic Period. I drew this as a birthday present for fantasy author and fellow dinosaur enthusiastic brandon-bowling, whose favorite dinosaur happens to be Ceratosaurus.

The girl's costume is supposed to have an East African, particularly Maasai and Swahili, influence.

Spoiler: Egyptian Momma Problems

"Sutekh! If you ain't gonna play nice with your brother, baby, by Amun I gonna make Poppa some croc bait outta your ass!"

What can I say, this working-class Egyptian mother is in a lot of stress balancing domestic chores like bread-making with keeping her family together. And since large families were a cultural imperative in pre-industrial rural societies like ancient Egypt, you can imagine what a hassle she and her peers would have been subjected to.

I wanted her dialect to have a certain, recognizably working-class quality (it is of course drawn from African-American Vernacular English, or "Ebonics"), but I am not sure I got it right. Pretty much everything I know about that dialect has come from reading friends' posts on my social media feed or self-directed Internet research, not a lot of personal offline experience.

Spoiler: Crying for Help

This Kushite soldier is offering much-needed help to a little girl who has lost her mother (probably in some kind of crowded public setting, like a town square). In my opinion, there are few sights more tear-jerking than a child in distress because they can't find the people they depend on most. It certainly happened to me a few times when I was a kid, so I can relate to that experience even years later.

And yes, I still need more practice with drawing cute little kids.

 

[Motherboard]

Finally have a definite subject for my icons, and his name is Vora'glyth.

He's a tame-ish eldritch abomination with a tendency to smoke around other people on purpose and get irrationally angry at the word "diva".

He also has a scary face for someone only five feet tall.

Spoiler: Bonus purple version..

 

[Curt Sibling]

Spoiler: Some fun created for my friend's birthday...

 

[TyrannoNinja]

Spoiler: Polar Predators

This Smilodon fatalis, or saber-toothed cat, has decided on a fat, juicy polar bear for its supper on a long Pleistocene night.

There's something to be said for having extinct Ice Age mammals interacting with more familiar species from the so-called modern era. People forget the Pleistocene glacial periods only ended a little over 10,000 years ago, so a lot of wildlife we know from the modern day would have shared their habitats with the likes of saber-toothed cats, woolly mammoths, and the rest of the Ice Age cast. Not to mention our own Homo sapiens once we emerged in Africa 200,000 years ago!

Spoiler: Sherden Mercenary

This warrior character comes from a group of people known as the Sherden, one of several warlike "Sea Peoples" of European descent which swarmed throughout the Mediterranean Basin in the third millennium BC. The Egyptians would employ Sherden as mercenaries, even personal guards for the Pharaohs themselves, when not fighting them. These fierce, fair-skinned European warriors must have seemed exotically intimidating and barbaric to their darker African employers!

In battle the Sherden would have donned horned helmets like our cartoon depictions of Vikings, but I wanted to show more of this guy's hair off. I also wanted him to resemble Chris Pratt, who has become one of my favorite modern-day action stars sinceJurassic World. He'd look awesome as a Sherden character in a historical/action movie, if they ever get around to making that.

 

[Smarmy]

I'm trying to pull myself out of a rut, so here's a WIP of what I'm currently working on

Spoiler: 'CAUSE THIS IS THRILLER

 

[nyess]

A little sketch

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And a wax figurine update. What do you think?

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[wheat pasta]

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[chimpburgers]

I inked a few of the Kengle doodles I did the other day. I tried doing one with Chris in it directly onto the program but eh, I hated the way it turned out especially with how odd the scaling of the characters turned out (I attribute that to me drawing too big with the tablet) and it got all fucked up in the coloring process, but at least I know what seems to work more effectively in getting as close to how I usually draw on paper which has been the biggest issue with me trying to work digitally.

From now on, I'll just draw whatever I have in mind onto some notebook paper or look into getting small enough drawing paper that can fit into the scanner and just inking and coloring from there. It's also been many months since I last used any of these drawing programs so it's taking me a while to get used to again and seeing what works and what doesn't.

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[Motherboard]

More Vora'glyth doodles I've done for the heck of it.

 

[HickoryDickory]

Haven't finished colouring as I don't have any medium blues for her hair atm, but @autisticdragonkin shared his Iku pics with me so I decided to do a head shot... And aged her up a bit and gave her a coy look. Since I haven't illustrated anything in a long time, I made many booboos in lining and colouring... Note to self: Remember to wear glasses next time, knob.

Spoiler: Iku from Touhou.

 

[Dr. Meme]

A little sketch

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And a wax figurine update. What do you think?

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draw more katsu porn