July 2024 Art Blog

 Hello! Today marks the day I create this art blog! It is to (hopefully) keep me in check and help me focus on what I need to improve on. I think I'll mainly post like personal art here, but also probably some designs when I get back to uni. 

Sooo let's get started! 

July was probably the best month for my art since like... literally last year. Hit a HUGE ART BLOCKKK I never thought I would recover from. Luckily for me, I found artfight and now I've made like 7 whole finished pieces! Wowowowowowowow!!!

Soo this was my first drawing for artfight. Uhhh yeah this one is... something!! I don't really like it. For one, the left hand is in the most bizarre pose EVER? and the hand behind the ear looks bad too. eck. But the person I drew this for liked it! or maybe they were just being nice 😓Anyways, what would I change about this one? Mainly the pose and some of the shading. Also the expression is boring. Moooving on.....

Second drawing! I think this is what i should have been aiming for for artfight. Only took like 3 hours, which is nothing compared to the others... sigh. But anyways I really like this one I think its cute. I think mainly the expression is also boring here but idk it works for this one

Third piece!! The person I made this for never commented... grrrrr... but I think its cute. The backgrounds kinda ugly you can tell I gave up. But atleast I gave him a cool expression. Yeah honestly not much to say about this one either other than WHY DIDNT THE PERSON COMMENTTTT

This one... yeah this is very cool. I love this one. I think some parts of the pose might be awkward? I spent SOOOO long trying to figure out the reference photo i used so ugh it would be sad if it was but whateve. I added some complementary colours to his hair and it looks SOOO GOOOD. This one was good but the real winner is the person who designed this guy cuz whattt hes so cool.

It was at this point that I realized that I needed to add more of my OWN characters other than Pearl... oops... but i literally had no good art of my existing characters. SO SAD. So I kinda half created Nori? I mean I already had imagined her character I just hadn't given her a name or designed her until that point. I think this drawings cute. The pose is fineish??? could be worse i think. Expression is boring yet again (huge shock) but idk shes cool 

My first revenge!! I like this one too. the hand is maybe a bit awkward and the hairs kinda weird but overall not too bad. The background is super sick i ate with that one. 

This one... hgmmmm... the colours are very pretty. The og design had many pretty colours. I think its pretty good. Expression is boring, but kinda gets across the point of the character yknow. I think shes very uninterested. But yeah other than that I think her face is like slightly off... somethin is definitely off. but the colours make up for it! OH AND HER LEG ugh I had trouble with the pose (as ALWAYS)

Finally we have my last piece (as of rn) and it had two versions....

JUMPSCARE WARNING (BAD ANATOMY!!)

yeah ik... what is THAT. I spent SOOO MANY HOURS TRYING TO FIX THAT ARM CUZ THE REST OF IT WAS REALLY CUTE BUT I JUST COULDNT!!! I COULDNT DO ITTTT. It put me in such bad artblock omfg. So i did what i do best... GIVE UP! I restarted entirely 😞

So this is what I did instead! this one miight be my least fav unfortunately. HUGE STEP UP from that failure above but idk it looks kinda bland. Cute!! but lacking for sure. I think its the pose, very boring and the face is my basic ass :) face again. But honestly im just proud i finished it at all after all that suffering. GO ME!!

And thats all for now! I have one more attack im gonna finish ill add that here if i remember. Its a three person attack >:) other than that, Jen wants me to make a mm emoji for her so i might do that but if i do thatll be an August addition. 

Things to focus on for next month... EXPRESSION!! and anatomy. Anatomy is hugeee. Other than that uhmmm maybe just make sure you're actually finishing pieces. I fear for my motivation once art fight ends. sigh.

Oh also I assume no one is going to see this blog but me, which is why i didnt credit any of the creators of these characters, but if for some reason you stumble across this and want the creator, I will gladly provide!! just ask i feel bad for not including but thats so much effort for like a veryyy small chance of someone finding this.

Cya in August (last month of summer :( )