I studied and practiced with the Asaro head and Loomis method like crazy and made a lot of progress. He's still imperfect but I'm happy with where I'm at.

This is my oc, August. I'm proud of his design too!

I tried reworking the rendering on a drawing I did earlier this year as I was rather unsatisfied :]

Back then I was still figuring out the digital linocut style.

Back then I was still figuring out the digital linocut style.

I'm not expecting a whole lot, but I'm sharing because I'm proud of the progress I'd made with her. The time frame was short, but the concepts were ever changing.

I recently started trying to practice backgrounds again since I don't usually draw them. I took inspiration from an old image I made in 2018 since it had a background that I thought I could improve upon haha. My new version is far from perfect but I still like it!

Not quite where I want to be, but I feel like I've actually made some really good progress over the year, regardless.

I just.. Suck at studying. Haven't really found a way that works for me, so I just keep drawing OCs. Which definitely helps, but is likely also why I haven't made as much progress as I'd hoped.

Started around January this year after I forgot that Valentine's Day existed, so I thought I might as well spend some time working on myself

Hi everyone! In April I decided to buy an iPad, and I’ve been loving the transition to digital. Here are some of the things I’ve been actively using:

Software: Procreate
Artbooks: Taco Point Character Drawing 1, plus artbooks from some of my favorite artists for inspiration (Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Yoshitaka Amano, Takehiko Inoue, etc.)
YouTubers: Chommang, Pikat, Viyaura, Marc Brunet

The funny thing is that the answer was in the style I wanted and imagined from the very beginning, not the ones I let myself be influenced by. Ever since I was a kid, I always knew there was a simple way to blend a cartoon style with realism so I could make animations, because I always wanted to bring my stories to life. My main inspirations were Gumball, the realistic animation in The 'Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya', GTA 4 and 5 graphics, the old AC CGI trailers. Instead, I was stuck in limbo between 2019 and 2021 trying to copy others instead of finding myself, my inspirations where there, but like… deactivated, like, if didn't knew how to reach them, that's why i tried to look for answers on internet very literally.

At least, I picked up some good tricks along the way in ""copying phase"". So in 2017 i was full anime, then 2018 - 2019 i copied some deviantart artists style, trying to imitate useless tutorials, or copy anime styles like death note learning how to paint, but in 2020 i attempted to do realism, well… i was very influenced by anime and its flaws, so didn't go very well haha, pretty scary looking i will admit but i was not only looking to cube anatomy anymore, i looked into 15 - 19th century artists, real artists that are still my inspiration, i went outside, and saw the world, how even a leave and light work and looks, my 'exploration and observational phase', so i learned more anatomy here than painting

Then, after 2021, my actual real style journey began. I brought my inspirations back from the grave, combined my painting learned techniques with the anatomy ones, merged them together, and I've been refining them ever since

The last one is more of an alternate design than a full redesign but I’m including it anyways. Meet Kira I love her. Fun fact there is a drawing of her (the very first one in fact) now forever lost to time where she had blonde/pink-dyed hair, was skinny, white, straight, and neurotypical. She is now none of those things <3