Gourd Trees

Art Improvement <3

I was looking at some old art and found some digital paintings i did a year ago

For comparison these are a couple pieces i did recently

Happy to see I'm improving ❤️

This piece was made in the beginning of 2018 and was my first piece in Fire Alpaca and using my new drawing tablet.

I was big into Villainous at the time and my favorite was Dr. Flug. I was fascinated with what could be under that mask. I didn't use much for creative juices and just gave him a normal human face.

I remember really wanting dramatic lighting and dark shadows but I couldn't figure out how especially seeing as Fire Alpaca didn't have a straight up bleeding brush. sense the scribbling. I was unhappy with this at the time but it was an important start. it was also just during a drawing slump so there was only so good I could feel about it.

An experiment that once finished my gf dubbed Chadington

Based on a conversation My gf and I had. Also this is her first appearance in the manga.

Reblog if your blog is not a terf safe space

My girlfriend Ivy just made her first finished piece! I started teaching her to draw a few months ago from nothing and now we’re here, I’m so proud of her!

How the whole making manga thing is going

Fun Facts About Jira, my world building project #1

Jira is home to many intelligent species other than humans.

to date there are

Silfs - human like creatures with horns and fluffy hair who are always some variant of red & blue

Avians - Bird people

Ramlans - mountain species with tough hairs like wool and horns

Iora - stationary mushroom people

Ghosts - beings made of Artificial Magic

Merpeople - an overall term for a variety of sea born intelligent life

Crystalites - beings of sentient crystal

Halfling Crystalites - corpses controlled by parasitic sentient crystals, unrelated to the crystals of the Crystalites despite the name

Grotton - ape-like creatures who originate from the darkest parts of the Ridge

Hybrids - half animal people the result of wild magic sickness

Shifters - animals who can shift into a semi-human form

Many of these species overlap with humans due to the the grip human traits have on Jiran evolution and the fact that many species are evolved forms of humans for particular environments

Forgive the watermark this is from my old deviant art.

I was a huge Ink Potts fan. Their Count of Monte Cristo animatics in particular were very inspiring to me. The pony to the left is Mare my ponysona and to the right is my ex's character. I drew our ponysonas a lot.

I still love this one honestly I've always been very proud of it. I've been thinking of redrawing it with Mare's updated design and my new partners pony.