Art notes

Art notes

Preface: These used to be their own notes under my gallery page with some cute gradient backgrounds on the ones with pride flag stickers on them, but figured since I have a blog now, they're better suited here.

glistening

Front-facing portrait of Sundae focused on the right side of his face. He looks vibrant and has glossy features. His hair, nose, eye and eyelid are particularly shiny Older version

Incredibly proud of this!

I used TOMBOFNULL's stipple beast brush pack, which I'd been meaning to try out before.

Inspired by one of kaitty's avatars (specifically from their bandcamp), which I thought was really cute.

It first started out as a doodle, referencing their avatar. Although, I wasn't that happy since the colors I used were a bit flat.

I had spent the next 2 days experimenting with the brushes and color mixing, and it started to really stand out as its own piece!

vector bun

Modular vector shape avatar of a white bunny; unnamed original character Screenshot of the bunny in ROBLOX

Made using lvllvl's vector mode, with the "modular shapes" vector set.

A character that I first made in ROBLOX. They're unnamed, because I haven't done much with them outside of this artwork.

Although, I was surprised how cute I could make an avatar that's not restricted to the default square body that I've been accustomed to for a decade.

Color palette used: CS112-V2 Transgender pride flag

starchild

Full-length portrait of Sundae in a glowing blue and pink form with white hair, suspended in outer space; sleeping on the edge of a blue nebula on a space gas cloud that's his size

I was incredibly surprised to discover that I could create the space background in-program with Krita, just by using different built-in presets from the "Halftone" filter.

This is one of my favorite artworks that I've spent time working on!

pride

Shaded sketch of a previously unfinished artwork of Sundae, superimposed on a pink shiny stained-glass background. The color palette is themed around the colors of the Pansexual pride flag Older version; Half-finished artwork of Sundae on a hike

First done in Clip Studio Paint, but I eventually settled on Krita and re-drew him there.

The scope of this was originally much larger; with Sunny scaling a grassy hill on a windy day. It would've been a huge undertaking to re-do the background for it; which is why I re-purposed it for pride month. Pansexual pride flag

PETSCII sunny

Revisioned PETSCII avatar of Sundae Older version

A hybrid pixel and PETSCII portrait of sunny. I'm quite fond of both versions!

One looks more glossy and true to his model, and the other's got a cute pouty look to his face.

Color palette used: Calm 48*

*The lime green nose is a modification and not part of the base palette.

sunny's model

Sundae's reference/model sheet

For this, I took reference from the work of Dr. Presto (18+ warning), specifically with how they used to create model sheets of their characters, during 2020.

They're a huge inspiration for me to start drawing, and I haven't made proper reference models until this.

PETSCII kass

Side portrait PETSCII artwork of Kass from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Reference screenshot of Kass that I took in Breath of the Wild

My most positively received art by others thus far!

A PETSCII rendition of a screenshot that I took in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, of Kass looking back at the player.

Color palette used: New Worlds 46

PETSCII lurantis

Front-facing half-length portrait PETSCII artwork of Lurantis from Pokémon, but with a zig-zag mouth

This isn't so much PETSCII as it is pixel art, but it's my first artwork that I've done using lvllvl, which is to say that this is done using a bitmap character set, despite it looking like pixel art.

Lurantis don't have a mouth, but I thought I'd give them one anyway, because they look cute with.

Color palette used: Pastel Horizon

ACNL sunny

Revisioned bust portrait of Sundae drawn with Animal Crossing: New Leaf's pattern designer. He's smiling at the viewer with his eyes closed, superimposed on a rainbow flag background Older version Screenshot of my Animal Crossing town hall featuring the artwork

Fun little flag design(s) that I did for my town in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

(?) The most recent revision is one that I'm not sure when I actually did, and I don't have chat logs or file creation dates associated with it anymore, unfortunately.

2022 was largely a year where I wasn't that mindful or inspired to create, so the revision isn't exactly that much of an improvement. Actually, it has a few errors that I would fix, but I'm not that attached to it. Rainbow pride flag

PETSCII sue

PETSCII artwork of Sue Sakamoto from Cave Story. The view is from behind them, sitting, looking out from the Outer Wall

The first PETSCII artwork that I've done before knowing the existence of lvllvl, using a much less user-friendly tool.

Inspired by kiophen and lati's initial PETSCII works! Do check them out, they're good creatures!

Color palette used: Commodore 64

furred dragon (scrap)

Bust portrait of Sundae as a furred dragon. He's looking at the viewer with a concerned look on his face, and flopped-over dragon ears

This was supposed to be a full-length portrait of sundae's dragon form, but I had difficulty figuring out perspective, drawing dragon wings and ultimately got frustrated.

I did draw his entire body, but it had some issues, coupled with the ones above.

city

Poster artwork of Sundae sitting on the edge of a non-descript building's rooftop, with distant skyscrapers and fog looming Older version

Done in paint.net with a mouse when I was feeling under the weather. I used to be extremely proud of this, but since then I've noticed a lot that I could've done better.

When I was switching over to GIMP, I re-imported the layers (with equivalent layer modes) from the paint.net project file out of curiosity, which resulted in higher contrast and more vivid colors.

sundae doodle

Bust portrait pixel art doodle of Sundae in monochrome and dithering

The first doodle of the boy, done in MS Paint.

(?) I'm not sure when I actually made this, again due to lack of chat logs and file dates. The earliest I could point to is during 2020, when I made a secondary youtube channel to upload Cave Story's soundtracks, since at the time there weren't any great uploads.

Unrelated to my art, but I'll say this again: it's better to have music stored locally instead of relying on streaming platforms. ...although, that goes without saying for most things.

wow that sure is a lot of words about pictures!