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[2024.11.17] Huevember part 2

Good evening, art blog! Work is kind of hectic lately, so I haven’t been able to stay on top of Huevember. I intend to continue the challenge, but I’ll be slow to catch up.

For recent art inspo, I picked up some digital art books. I got LAWEYD’s bundle on itch.io since it’s on sale until the end of the year, plus neuehell’s 2022 and 2023 ko-fi sketchbooks. I really like how both of them use color! I’ll share some low res sample previews:

from Run!! vol. 1 by LAWYED

from 2023 Sketchidoodle Collection by neuehell

I’ve been focusing on using Procreate lately, and I think I finally have a feel for brushes that I like. I’ve been looking at a lot of swollenbabyfat’s art (and lurking on their art discord server), and I really like the looks she’s been able to achieve with the default brushes. Bookmarking for myself for later: her speedpaints on YT.

Ok, onto new art. Here’s my Huevembers to date. I like some of these a lot!

Day 4: Lycoris Saint (Ceres from Virche Evermore. Pose ref by Adorkastock and Nyx Naia Stock.) Marker brushes. Photo study.

Day 5: Repeat Player (Ebana from Charade Maniacs. Pose ref by Jookpubstock.) Lighting study.

Day 6: Exhausted Genius (Aki from Baldr Sky. Pose ref by Adorkastock.) Marker brushes(?) Pose study.

Day 7: Sunshine Boy (Suzu from Jack Jeanne.Pose ref by Adorkastock.) Digital pastel brushes. Photo study.

Day 8: Snake. (Jamil from Twisted Wonderland. Pose ref by Adorkastock.) Pastel brushes. Pose study.

In other news, I started a micro blog on nekoweb because my brain is just plagued with one-liners and the idea of a one-page micro blog sounded cute. (I’d just rather not deal with social media platforms?? And tbh, I’d rather not have my disorganized rambling on a feed of any sort. They belong on my weird web page. )

That’s all for now. Byeee!

[2024.11.03] Huevember

Good evening, art blog. I’m trying to make updating this space a habit. (Side note: I’ve tidied away the October and September entries into a separate page, to cut down on the load times.) I didn’t end up completing other OC-tober prompts since my last entry, but I’m going to attempt Huevember this year. I’m going to be focusing on testing brushes and doing different studies (yay!).

Last time I attempted Huevember was in 2021, but my first attempt at the challenge was in 2015. I don’t typically complete it, but it’s a nice change of pace to focus on character portraits and rendering. Unfortunately, the beginning of the color prompts can feel a bit same-same if you’re at a loss with what to do with the color yellow three days in a row... But my approach is to plan out fav characters ahead of time, and try to fill in the gaps from there.

Ok.. I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m not going to like some of my Huevember pieces this year, due to the experimental nature of it all. But it’s a learning process!! And so I will post them.

Day 1: Jack Ace (Kai from Jack Jeanne. Pose ref by Null-Entity.) Various digital brushes including pastels, oil paints. Lighting study.

Day 2: Al Jeanne (Fumi from Jack Jeanne. Pose ref by Adorkastock.) Oil paint brushes. Pose study.

Day 3: Charme no Rinne (Shun Abe as Veuve Elizabeth from the Visual Prison stage play.) Oil paint brushes. Face rendering study.

I will try to elaborate more on my process and thoughts next time. Bye for now!