Fun Facts About Jira, My World Building Project #2

Old Art Time!

This was the first piece I ever did in fire alpaca. I didn't have a tablet yet, so I was still using a mouse. This was my attempt to see if I could make what i usually did in MS Paint work in Fire Alpaca.

I liked the piece but didn't end up making the switch to fire alpaca until I had a drawing tablet. Partially because it took 3 times as long to draw and really hurt my wrist.

My girlfriend Ivy just made her first finished piece! I started teaching her to draw a few months ago from nothing and now we’re here, I’m so proud of her!

Inspired by my gfs guild wars 2 character. I enjoyed photo-bashing the background.

How to draw manga books are wild man.

Art Improvement <3

I was looking at some old art and found some digital paintings i did a year ago

For comparison these are a couple pieces i did recently

Happy to see I'm improving ❤️

Hi, I'm Cypher. I've been drawing for over a decade now and built up a lot of random art. I decided to raid my old collection and start posting it.

These are not the oldest pieces I have but they were some of the first MLP fan art I drew. In fact Fluttershy in the upper left hand corner was my first attempt at drawing a pony.

This is what I typically consider the first art I ever made. Everything before this was just a creative outlet and mindless scribbling. This was the first time I was aware I was trying to make art.

Fun Facts About Jira, my world building project #1

Jira is home to many intelligent species other than humans.

to date there are

Silfs - human like creatures with horns and fluffy hair who are always some variant of red & blue

Avians - Bird people

Ramlans - mountain species with tough hairs like wool and horns

Iora - stationary mushroom people

Ghosts - beings made of Artificial Magic

Merpeople - an overall term for a variety of sea born intelligent life

Crystalites - beings of sentient crystal

Halfling Crystalites - corpses controlled by parasitic sentient crystals, unrelated to the crystals of the Crystalites despite the name

Grotton - ape-like creatures who originate from the darkest parts of the Ridge

Hybrids - half animal people the result of wild magic sickness

Shifters - animals who can shift into a semi-human form

Many of these species overlap with humans due to the the grip human traits have on Jiran evolution and the fact that many species are evolved forms of humans for particular environments

Ive been taking my art in a more manga / anime inspired direction lately so here I tried a lot of new techniques. This was my first time using screen tone and Action lines in a piece. The Japanese should say “Good Househusband”, I checked everywhere To make sure this was the right way to write it but I’m still learning so it may be incorrect. I’m also not sure if I over used the screen tone but I really like how it looks.

Overall the content of this piece was inspired by me finally taking a stab at cleaning my apartment lol. Sadly it isn’t as clean as the picture would suggest.(or as big 😅)

How the whole making manga thing is going