I Figured I Have Trouble Drawing The Hair Of One Of My Ocs And I Figured Out I Have The Same Problem

And this is the hair done. I started coloring the shadows and the light parts seperatly and went over it with more pressure.

But my pencil broke so many times as I sharpened it 😞 I guess I must have dropped it somewhere for it to break that much.

Also, the paper started curling again. And another problem: due to the mass of pencil on paper, it sticked to my palm and stuck to the right side of the page. Luckily I managed to erase most of it. It's still slightly visible but so light that I probably won't mind.

Okay, I stopped working on the previous sketch since something about it was not right. I'm not sure what but it felt weird and I didn't like it.

Instead I moved on to the next one. Sadly, I forgot to make a picture of the sketch before slightly erasing but I wanted to show it nethertheless. So, here's Eijiro in his hero costume

Can't wait to line and color it 😀

I saw this video by Shady Cicada and I was thinking like: huh, would be a cool idea if someone made a start screen for that or something. I mean that music is SOO GOOD 😍😍😍

So, I sat down at my drawing tablet and started drawing. No idea what that was, I was just going with a feeling 😁

And that's what I came up with:

I'm so proud, especially since I had no real idea what I was doing. And I still don't know what this world is about 😂 But after all, it's up to Cicada how that world turns out.

Here the picture without the text:

That piece is pain. I traced the sketch on a separate layer and started with the lineart but I messed up the eyes. I tried to fix it but now it's smudged. Now I can start over again tracing my sketch.

I think this time, I won't trace the eyes and just try to get the expression I want.

Okay I made a sick sketch

It's tiny (like on the corner of my sketchbook) but I saw that pose and I was thinking like, okay this is EXACTLY how it looks when he uses his quirk so I scribbled down the pose and then drew him.

I want to make that in big. With markers. And maybe even make a background. And hang it on the wall to Kirishima and Denki.

And I was also thinking of something funny. The way he would describe how he fights with his quirk:

I can use my quirk as a weapon. Just think of it ... like a table. A table isn't dangerous, right? Then you accidentally drop something beneath it, try to pick it up and while getting back up you hit your head against the table. Although, it's just a table, it still hurts, right?

(I'm not sure if I'll allow him to reshape his forcefields but if I do, he would add:

Now imagine the table being a spikey pyramid...)

I like the card idea, so I just drew a couple hands holding a card from reference.

Still not sure if I should go nuts with his outfit or just keep it simple.

Whoop Whoop! Making another one 😀

I tried to animate again and I found a pretty decent way to organize my work folder 😀 (it still kind of ended in chaos but I'm really looking forward to animating even more stuff 😄 I want to become good 🤩)

And now as I was scrolling through my older posts, I realised what my mistake here was ... I think the pacing of the animation is completley off. He's falling way too fast ... it feels weird. Maybe if I find the file I could try to continue ...

I am trying to animate again :D

but nothing too big this time.

I was thinking about, how one of my OC's powers would work, and I had a little idea for a loop (after watching a sick fighting animation on Youtube, just that I couldn't figure out how to make something like that, so I'll just make a loop)

Anyway, I wanted to animate my OC Kael (Guardian of Time) and even with the keyframes, I am already impressed with how that looks.

Sneak peek below :D but don't expect too much

Note: Roughing it out, setting basic proportions, and so on ... I don't know if my timings are fine or if I need to tweak something about it ...

More sneak peek

I'm currently really pushing through. Also realised, I don't use any in-betweens by now XD (at least for now, but the animation feels fluid enough) AND I also needed to figure out the rest of the character design. I guess for now, I have something I might stick with, but this could change in the end or become more detailed.

AND NOW I FINALLY REALIZED WHY A CERTAIN PART LOOKED WEIRD!!! I copied the pose right as he turns around and forgot to change the legs so suddenly they were swapped.

And now I am realising that this might take some more brain power to fix, than just change that one frame ................

I think, I fixed it ... I guess it was not that visible from the beginning anyway ... just the feeling that was bugging me.

Well, it's still wrong and feels wrong. But this clearly takes more brain capacity than I currently have left. Guess I'll roughly animate the rest and continue hopefully tomorrow.

So, current state for today: (and yes, I still need to fix that stupid frame, or isn't it even noticeable?)

I realised I never posted the result of that one ... maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

I just watched the new trailer for pokemon z-a. I think pokemon got me again.

Also something funny I wanted to share: I still think about the days I first played pokemon. I think it must have been diamond or pearl and I picked Piplup as my starter. One day it suddenly evolved, I had no idea what was going on but as it evolved into Prinplup I was sad. I was thinking my cute Piplup just got ugly.

That's so funny thinking back to it.

also, I thought why not draw myself as pokemon trainer. little WIP:

Sometimes I think it's insane what I can remember. I wanted to draw a specific screencap I saw some time ago on pinterest (probably about half a year ago) AND I STILL REMEMBERED THE EXACT IMAGE! (I didn't give up searching until I found it again) Glad I finally found it.

(And then I think about the moments I'm standing in the kitchen and don't know anymore what I wanted a minute ago)

And yes, this piece ... I still love it even if it was one of my earliest ones ... and I think there's barely something I could improve on this (except the background ... and challanging myself with perspective)

I was looking through my devianart and found this picture I did about a year ago. Didn't post this here yet.

I still remember how proud I was as I finished that ...

Dream and Nightmare by @jokublog