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sonas and sonics (also a digital uwip of my oc, koren hehehehe)
A bit old and messy but it’s iidamei so it’s okay
My friend says she looks like the American flag. Is this ture
Vee?? Wtf???
Uh, so I don't like Vee's canon design, mostly her palette. A green palette could work, sure, but her specific palette is not good. Primarily because the two shades of green are almost exactly the same value (which makes them blend together), but also because it makes her look much more like a computer than a TV. Besides the colours, it kind of bothers me that she (and many other toons) are basically completely naked.
So I wanted to take a shot at redesigning her.
Here, we have a red/blue/grey colour scheme. This just makes the most sense to me; when I think "movie" or "TV" those are the colours I think of. The red and blue are also supposed to mimic 3D glasses.
She's fully clothed, in a suit because what else would she wear. Gave her white gloves bc the light value draws attention to her hands and makes her gestures easier to understand. Her face and tail glow for the same reason. I'd have Vee's tail always showing, by the way. I do not want to know where she puts it in canon. Uh. Anyway, she has a belt chain too bc they're cool.
Will make a good drawing of this design at some point, but I'm feeling lazy tonight, so yeah.
Ok that's it byeee (I will go back to my regular stuff eventually, I promise, but feast well in the meantime)
P.S. Reblog if you wanna see my other toon redesign ideas >:)
Vee?? Wtf???
Uh, so I don't like Vee's canon design, mostly her palette. A green palette could work, sure, but her specific palette is not good. Primarily because the two shades of green are almost exactly the same value (which makes them blend together), but also because it makes her look much more like a computer than a TV. Besides the colours, it kind of bothers me that she (and many other toons) are basically completely naked.
So I wanted to take a shot at redesigning her.
Here, we have a red/blue/grey colour scheme. This just makes the most sense to me; when I think "movie" or "TV" those are the colours I think of. The red and blue are also supposed to mimic 3D glasses.
She's fully clothed, in a suit because what else would she wear. Gave her white gloves bc the light value draws attention to her hands and makes her gestures easier to understand. Her face and tail glow for the same reason. I'd have Vee's tail always showing, by the way. I do not want to know where she puts it in canon. Uh. Anyway, she has a belt chain too bc they're cool.
Will make a good drawing of this design at some point, but I'm feeling lazy tonight, so yeah.
Ok that's it byeee (I will go back to my regular stuff eventually, I promise, but feast well in the meantime)
P.S. Reblog if you wanna see my other toon redesign ideas >:)
Restless.
I never post here so I have crafted some mysterious OC ship art for you. Congratulations
Urmmmm I don't remember whether I've posted stuff about these guys at all in the last few months, but these are the two OCs I brainrot about the most: Ice (lighter one) and Pip (darker one). I've been working on their story lately which is a huge W for me because I'm allergic to actually working on my stories
The context for this is that they are sort of in love but the relationship is toxic. I'd say more but I don't want to give away spoilers (also because the details tend to change since I'm very indecisive).
ive had this as an old sketch for ages, so the other day i finished it up a little
im not sure who originally it was meant to be but it is an alpenglow cat sooo.. art :]
really tired but i dont wanna sleep :( its 1 am ish
anyway cat art moment so that this post isn't nothing
just some stuff i've drawn over the last week or so. mostly kitty cat busts because I'm kinda lazy tbh (/j)
image one is a character i got from Upsilon on TH. i have inserted them into one of my warriors fics but i might move them somewhere else. currently their name is duneleap, like sand dune, like beach.
second and third are the same character. as img 3 says, their name is unicorn. they don't really have any lore yet but that may change! they have a bf who i haven't designed yet named mon, after v723 monoceros, the star that accompanies the black hole unicorn is based on. i really like space
and the fourth image is of an old oc who i sometimes think about. his name is claude. normally he is very chill and positive, but that's boring, so i drew like, edgy symbolic art about his trauma. yay!
I saw that Flix might be getting redesigned and decided to do my rendition of what I'd want in a redesign! More under the cut ✦
Traits list (some are on the ref but I'll expand on them here):
I changed the palette quite a bit. I like the original black and gold, but it didn't give me space vibes, so I wanted the highlights to vary more in hue. That might be a controversial move, but I like it.
Keeping with the colour change, the blood and fire breath would probably be pink here.
The eyes are on the side of the head. This is inspired by seagulls, and sort of by their herbivory, although I would make Flix an omnivore (if not a carnivore) if I could. There aren't enough omnivores in CoS and I think it would be a better fit for Flix than herbivory.
They walk on their wings and feet like a pterosaur, just because it looks cool. Plus it makes them look a bit less like a different font of bird.
Their wings look more bat-like here. Ideally, they wouldn't; I'm just not good at replicating the canon wings. I wanted to emulate comet moth wings (because comet, like space) but I don't think I pulled it off. I could settle for feathered wings in a Flix redesign, but I have beef with feathered wings in spec evo because they're so unlikely to occur since they're such a derived structure. But CoS is already so unbelievably unrealistic that it's not even spec evo anymore, so whatever lol
The hindlegs are syndactyl, so they can perch! Their toes are also webbed, so they can actually swim! And maybe paddle around on the surface like ducks (wait that's cute... I might animate that).
They have claws on their wings. These would help with perching and perhaps climbing (like if they needed to climb a cliff instead of flying or something; maybe for stealth.
The back wings are attached to the hindleg. That's the case in the canon design too, but I bring it up here for clarity and also to add that I (and I assume the original designer) based this on microraptor's hind-wings. Microraptor beloved <333
I couldn't add them here as they'd obscure stuff even more, but I think there would be a couple more comet-shaped shards down the back. They would be floating particles, like the orbs that they keep adding to new creatures.
I gave them little star spots to make the black areas look like a night sky!
You can't see it due to the hind wings covering it, but the tail has the same gradient as the little danglies on the wings.
I just realised this version makes them look a bit like the Flickaflie, which people seem to already mix up with this guy anyway, so uh, oops. I think they're different enough.
If you have any thoughts to add to this, leave a comment! I'd love to discuss and I'm fine with criticism of this design. I might make a second rendition if I become unsatisfied enough with this. :3
WIP for a new Cosi ref!!!
I really need to post more... trying to get over my aversion to posting WIPs. A full description will come when the ref is done!
Some owed art for Upsilon on Toyhouse!!
My school year ended today, so I'm free over the holidays! Hopefully, I will remember to post here! But I'll have to see.
I return from the void with art!!
First is a temporary ref for a new OC! Say hi to Poultice! He is emo
And now a bunch of extra stuff because art dumps apparently do well on Tumblr. A halfbody of a new design I'm developing for Cosi (my sona), an icon thing for an OC I never use named Ono, a redesign of a character I first made in 2019, and a drawing of a new OC named Willow (I can't remember whether I posted their ref here lol)
Um yeah, that's it for now! Have a good day. Uh. Eat something and drink a lot of water. Like, drink one, maybe even two glasses (woah). Listen to a good song on loop. Just be cool today. Bye
Three raffle prizes I drew over the last couple of weeks for a raffle I hosted on Instagram!
1st: for c0mput3r_blu3_
2nd: for alpha.angrian
And 3rd: for amazonartdragon
Yesterday (maybe the day before) Hibiscus_Cove on TH just kind of. Gave me a character. And this is the character's new ref!
This one isn't quite as refined as my usual art because it wasn't supposed to be a full thing at first. By the time I decided to finish it up I was too far along to redo the lines lol. I still like it though.
One of the main design changes was adding more colours and patterns. I tried to stay true to the OG though, and I think it worked? I also gave them a bit of an outfit and I changed their species. They were originally just a dragon, but I've got a species I'm developing and I'm looking for more OCs to add to it, so yeah. This guy got hit by the species beam.
Likes and reblogs are greatly appreciated! But don't feel obligated of course :3
Custom! For TempestTossed!! On Toyhouse!!!
Uhh bark bark doggy boy. This took too long lmfao
The person I drew this for is great and deserves some love so!! Here's the character's page!
https://toyhou.se/29660097.nero
And it's back to the void for me. Farewell, Tschüss, etc (I will be back soon, maybe)
We watched the Devil die that day. We watched him die 9 times
Mother's Lair
lil baby hippo and penguin
The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream...
Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15 :)
I made this little baby during AF, and I'm super proud of it, so yeah! At the time, I was trying to experiment with my art style (I still am, technically, but anyway). I still have yet to decide which parts to permanently incorporate into my art style, but I have some ideas.
(the lyrics above the cut are from Suburbia Overture by Will Wood)
Putting the good ones above the cut LOL
This grid setup is very awkward.
I wasn't as productive as I wanted to be this year, but I'm still happy with all of my attacks. Sorry for never posting here. I always forget that I have Tumblr. Maybe one day I'll get good at posting.
:DDDDD
This character is designed and owned by @aposterous ! It was a pleasure to draw their OC ^^
4 more slots for this style of headshots open! As well as 5 of my other style (SandWing banner) and 1 fullbody slot for each style! Let me know if you're interested ^^
Time for my,,, monthly post
I'm doing art fight this year!! I'm on team Seafoam (obviously) and this year I'm going to try and be really productive! Consider following or attacking me. I've got mutuals on high priority this year!
:D
these dragons are QUEER!!!
It seems that I never posted this before! I have decided to rectify this mistake because I'm super proud of this piece.
The character here is my sona, Cosi!
I'll hopefully be making more drawings similar to this one in the future! Who knows, maybe it'll become part of my art style.
Reblogs are appreciated!!
Three raffle prizes I drew over the last couple of weeks for a raffle I hosted on Instagram!
1st: for c0mput3r_blu3_
2nd: for alpha.angrian
And 3rd: for amazonartdragon
Art trade with @hannyatiger !
This one took me 6 hours and 22 minutes, the second longest time of all the art trades I've done this year. I don't really know why it took that long. I guess I was just really slow at it.
It was an interesting challenge because I rarely work with really brightly coloured characters, so I had a bit of an experience trying to find a way to make it look a little less intense on the eyes.
KITTY ON THE BALL!! This is awesome by the way!!
I drew @aposterous character Carnical! I love the silly robotic clown kitty :3
This is apart of an art trade I’m doing with them! I enjoyed drawing their little goober
Anyways, circus cat cause gave off clown vibes lol
Art trade with mushroomaaaart on Instagram, ft their OC, Miko!
I'm very happy with the background on this one. I installed the newest CSP update last night, which FINALLY added chromatic aberration and a variety of other useful features, and it really helped with this. Miko looks pretty cute here too. I think this looks kind of like a Warrior Cats book cover. Lol
I'm still experimenting with my art style, but I think I'm getting closer to something I like. Right now I'm trying to focus on lineart because I feel like my lines are pretty boring and I want to make my digital art look a bit more like the pen sketches I like to do. I didn't try very much to do that in this drawing, but I probably will in the future.
Time spent: 4h 20min (legitimately lol)
Therivin! Or Theri. NPC Character I made for an RP. I had a lot of fun writing them and I got very attached lol
Lol I forgot to post this here. This is Mako, an old-ish OC of mine.
I'm trying to go through some of my old OCs and draw refs for them, and so far, this is the only one I've completed.
Mako originated in 2020 as a demo sona design. I never used her, but I liked her design enough for the concept to stick in my brain for the following three years. I did some redesign concepts for her last year and then promptly forgot about them until a couple of days ago when I noticed she was missing from my Toyhouse page. I decided to give her a ref, and here we are.
Her name comes from the Mako shark, but the shark aspects of her design are based on blacktip reef sharks and tiger sharks. The main inspo for this iteration of her design was how her old design looked a little like a sunset, or like musk sticks (if you don't know what musk sticks are, they're a pink Australian lolly. Look it up). Based on the sunset idea, I turned her into a surfer girl. Lol.
Art trade w/ @smewduck ft their OC, Night!
Night is such a cool character and drawing her was really fun! I haven't made any finished art in weeks so it's not my best, but it was still nice to make. I don't have much else to say lol