August 19, 2023

The Babs | Tyrian, Duke, Marine

~March 2020

I completely forgot that I made this, until I randomly found it in my parents' room.

Again, tentatively put in the timeline. It must have been recently after their creation, since it's just the three of them and the hourglass was a feature that didn't stick for long.

(plus this painting's concept sketch = is in the same sketchbook as my first drawings for them)

Acrylic paint on canvas

Made In Abyss | Riko, Reg, Nanachi, Meinya, Prushka, Turbinid Dragon

October 10, 2024 Time: 22:12 IbisPaintX

⚠️⚠️SPOILERS- Don't look too closely at this illustration if you haven't seen the first season and movie of made in abyss.⚠️⚠️

Made in abyss illustration I made. I mainly worked on this during lectures when they were going over content I already knew ✨

I wanted to take a stab at doing the whole grayscale painting thing before adding colours for once. I think this was a pretty metal way to test that technique out 💀. complicated ass drawing right here

The problem I had with doing the colour layer is that it took a while for me to find something that would look like the right colour. Most colours were fine, but browns were really annoying in particular (they often showed up as bright oranges xd). It also took some finagling to make the shading look good (as in not shaded by pure black), but i got the hang of it. Honestly it was pretty fun using different colours to make the shading look better 😌

I basically painted everything on a single layer (it was divided between foreground (all the characters) and the background sections). yeah, I prolly could have done it in a much more efficient manner, but I had fun so it don't matter.

Really like how it turned out overall (they're so cute but the story is so fucked up it's all so fucked up) and the plan is to make posters out of this bad boy >:)))

Annoying ass watermarks are back because fuck you get away from my hard work!!!

Anifest Stamp Rally Poster

October 23 - November 3, 2024 Time: 6:03 IbisPaintX

Poster design I made for Anifest at my uni.

Me and a few of the other vendors joined up to organize a stamp rally, and this was one of the things we prepped for the artist alley beforehand. One of us had suggested different colour palettes, and this orange/teal one won the vote.

This was just a really cute little thing to draw. Was a good break from the other more complicated illustrations I had been working on.

The Miku design and stickers were created by by @/ciel on instagram :3

English Assignment

September 16, 2020

Something I did for gr10 english. Don't remember what for

Pen on paper

DTIYS | @/Vellatrelle on instagram

March 24, 2020

DTIYS challenge, but I change the pose for once.

More of this trend. I was obsessed with doing DTIYS. I mean it's just easier to make art if you don't have to put the brainpower into making a character/setting (hence the fanart, DTIYS and, tbh, life drawings)

Watercolour and coloured pencils on watercolour paper

Crow Costume | Shoes

September 22, 2021 - October 27, 2021

Resizing and heels cut: Sept 22, 2021

Paper mockup: Sept 23, 2021

Glued to tights: Oct 24, 2021

Painted and glued little pieces: Oct 27, 2021

This was a later addition accompanying the mask and claws. Took inspiration from hoof heels.

Used an old pair of high heels with a large base. Cut the heels off (hacksaw and jigsaw for the final bolt/metal thingy). Also expanded the shoe size in the heel and toe areas by making vertical cuts and then sewing them to a larger size with red wire 😭

Then came the paper mockup that was essential for me to painstakingly figure out the template for the toes. These all got the foam clay and dremel treatment for extra detail 😋. The painting process went the same as the mask

I traced the bottom of the shoes onto paper and used that to cut sheets of rubber to the perfect size to act as the shoes' soles. I then glued the soles onto the black stockings when they were around the shoes. I glued the toes onto the shoes once they were done, as well as some EVA foam scales I'd made to smoothen the transition

Claws were made out of the same polymer clay as the masks' teeth and then glued into the dawgs

These are definitely my favourite component of the costume. I just think they're really sleek and fun to walk in and cool.

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

Materials List:

High heels

Rubber

Stockings

Eva foam

Super glue

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Acrylic Varnish

Gloss Varnish

Foam Clay

Polymer Clay

August 11, 2024

Another painting I did at the cafe. Used the metallic white as my base, and then sketched a fish skeleton on it using my silver metallic pen. Then smoothed out and fixed the forms with a damp brush.

I like the effect using the metallic-on-metallic paints give. Depending on the angle you're looking at it you can either clearly see the fish, or see nothing at all. I think it's neat

Metallic acrylic paint on canvas

AAM Inktober Day 14: Mystic

October 20, 2024 India Ink on Paper

Worked on this one at the same time as the rest of the batch I completed on oct 19, but didn't complete it until the day after because the brush pen I was using was running out of ink!

I tried refilling it with the india ink I had, but it didn't work. The pen definitely uses some special kind of ink to let it flow through w/o clogging.

Anyways, I ended up just dipping my pen in the ink and using it as a brush. It worked, it just wasn't the same experience :(

This drawing was fun. The unicorn ended up pretty well. Think I messed up on its body's form, though.

Omori | Omori

I like the vibes of this one. Simple but sufficient

Finished this during a little art cafe event I did with friends.

Spirited Away | Bathhouse, No face

June 2023 - October 30, 2024

~June - July 2023 - Preliminary Sketch in Krita

October 10, 2024 - Transfer to IbisPaint

October 29-30, 2024 - Majority of the illustrating process

Time: 19:58 Krita + IbisPaintX

This has been in the works for a looong time. Making posters out of it for Anifest finally gave me the motivation to work on it. Really surprised I got it done in time, too.

I think it's so magical to be able to go back to a wip like this and actually finish it. Not everything has to stay unfinished and I like collecting my wips in the event like something like this happens. A burst of motivation years later.

Anyways, 3-point perspective (which I have little experience with) of a very complicated building with hard-to-come-by ref pics?!?!! ...Yeah, I like throwing myself into the deep end with new things (see: MIA poster).

The 3-point perspective was so damned hard. Out of the 20 hours I put into this on IbisPaintX (which doesn't include my first struggles with it in Krita), ~6h was for sketching because it was killinggg me. I also went back and forth with IbisPaint and Krita during the sketching phase because it was a REAL struggle.

(Also I downloaded the mp4 video to check the above times (the video was bugged and would freeze at ~1.5h in IbisPaint) and encoding it took over an hour 💀))

I just kept fucking up the perspective. Idek how because I was using the perspective tools but it kept happening (I think I was accidentally shifting them in IbisPaintX so it was ruining me) (also that's one thing that Krita is actually better at. while their process to set up the rulers is much more complicated, you can use them all simultaneously. having to switch btwn them in ibispaint was making me go crazy) especially for the curved roof bits. Those underwent a loooot of revisions.

Rendering it was really fun, spent practically all my time out of lecs to work on this before the deadline to send the poster designs off to get printed.

Actually really proud of myself for this one. I especially like the gold bits