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I did a few doodles of my Dragon Age characters from the first three games in December and January. Thought I might as well post them here.
Emrys Mahariel, the character I made for my first playthrough of Dragon Age Origins. He was a warrior in-game, but I used a bow the entire time, so I now think of him as a rogue - thus the rogue Warden armor.
I'm also really amused that the rogue Warden armor in Veilguard includes a hoodie. I just had to draw it.
My Hawke from Dragon Age 2. I tried out a different brush for lineart on this one, and I like it a lot more than what I've been using for the past few years. The problem is that I'm not entirely sure how to color it.
Pose reference is from AdorkaStock.
Emrys Mahariel, again, in the same style as Hawke. There's no actual lineart here, just a sketch that I didn't fully clean up.
My Inquisitor, Rhiannon Lavellan. This is the outfit she was in for most of the game.
After two years, it felt like time to draw a new profile picture! This was my third attempt in five days, and the only one I ended up liking.
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Posted to Dreamwidth on 26 December 2024, backdated to 30 June 2024. Originally posted on Pillowfort.
I was thinking about trying to do an acrylic version of one of my space pixel pieces, and here's the result. If anything, this made me realize that I really need more pigments rather than trying to mix unique colors.
This took about 45 minutes on a 4x4in (~10x10cm) canvas.
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Posted to Dreamwidth on 26 December 2024, backdated to 23 June 2024. Originally posted on Pillowfort.
More space art. This one is very blue. I intended for it to have a similar palette to the last spiral galaxy I did, but then I made a new palette instead of using the previous one, for some reason.
This took 1 hour 20 minutes in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 25 December 2024, backdated to 27 April 2022. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
Today's piece of pixel art is based on the Eagle Nebula. It was going to be pink and purple like the reference photo I used, but I've used pink and purple twice in space art, so I decided to go with blue instead.
This took 1 hour in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 25 December 2024, backdated to 20 April 2022. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
Today's doodle. Yes, it's a doodle; it only took 30 minutes. Drawn in Clip Studio Paint as usual.
I tried to reference Messier 77 for this, but it ended up taking on a life of its own.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 25 December 2024, backdated to 23 March 2024. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
I originally wanted to draw the Milky Way over a lake. Once I had all the base colors laid down, that wasn't what the piece looked like at all. It looked like - as the title says - a campfire producing a ton of smoke.
This took around 1.5 hours in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 25 December 2024, backdated to 2 March 2022. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
This weekend's piece of pixel art is something simple since I'm recovering from a cold: a bubbly nebula. The actual "base" of a piece like this doesn't take too long: around 20 minutes, with each color on its own layer. Then I merge all the layers and spend the rest of the time is spent on details (stars and smaller "bubbles") and cleanup.
This took a little over an hour in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 24 December 2024, backdated to 24 February 2024. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
I had a couple of ideas for Alan Wake 2 fanarts, but I knew I wanted to incorporate both Bright Falls and the Dark Place was well as the triangles into them. I settled on "an hourglass showing the water from Cauldron Lake turning into rain in the Dark Place" but that didn't quite look good - thus the lack of rain.
I didn't have good enough screenshots of the Oceanview Hotel and surrounding areas, so I improvised quite a lot of that section. I intended to put in streetlamps, but they were removed once I decided not to show the road. I did end up liking the sprite quite a bit, so I saved it in its own file:
Once Cauldron Lake and the Dark Place were done, I realized I had no idea what to do with the sides of the triangles. I considered drawing the Writer's Room and Mind Place, profile portraits of Alan and Saga, and manuscript pages. Eventually I decided on the very first manuscript page of Return (Saga's part), and some text from the first murder site of Initiation (Alan's part).
The title comes from Dark Ocean Summoning by Old Gods of Asgard (Poets of the Fall). This took a little over 8 hours in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 24 December 2024, backdated to 15 February 2024. Originally posted on Pillowfort.
This started out as a solar eclipse seen from outside the Earth's atmosphere. That wasn't working, so I switched gears to something simpler: an aurora. Why isn't it reflected in the water? It's too high up! Also I couldn't figure out a good way to do the reflection.
This took around 1.5 hours in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 24 December 2024, backdated to 11 February 2024. Originally posted on Pillowfort.
This is based on a digital painting I did back in 2012. The planet originally had rings, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it look good.
This took a little over 2 hours in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 24 December 2024, backdated to 4 February 2024. Originally posted on Pillowfort.
Would you believe that this started as a sunset over the mountains? I thought the sky looked a little boring and added some stars. Then I added some hints of the Milky Way behind those stars. Then I realized it would be better to focus on the Milky Way itself.
This took a little over an hour in Clip Studio Paint.
Posted to Dreamwidth on 24 December 2024, backdated to 28 January 2024. Originally posted to Pillowfort.
I love drawing fluffy clouds. I was a little iffy at first at having three different shading styles in one piece, but it turned out fine, I think. This took 2.5 hours in Clip Studio Paint.
