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Felt like I should make an art thread at some point. That point being now.
(No BCB fanart yet, I need to get better at remembering what Mike looks like. I promise I'll make some soon though. *shakes fist*)
Also, to clarify, anything outside the spriting section is probably 5+ months old because I haven't had a lot of time or motivation to do drawings lately.

So to start us off, the thing I really started drawing with:


Drifloon, Pokemon #425. I've done a lot with Drifloons over the three years or so I've been drawing them, so that's a lot of what will show up here.

If you have questions on some of my pictures, feel free to ask them. I'm open to constructive criticism and all that jazz too.

So, to start off, here's some Drifloon stuff mixed with a couple other Pokemon.


No room for fanfiction stuff because there's apparently an image limit. :c
It's all on my dA though which is linked at the bottom.

Some random sketches (will mostly be anime characters).



Now, a couple humans. These are both characters from my (currently dead) webcomic. Link is here if you're interested, hasn't updated since June 14th though. There are... ~116 comics that don't follow any set pattern, art style or anything like that.


Some random comics from Randomnocity if you're too lazy to read through the archive but are still kinda interested. These all include the "main characters" mentioned above.
(Took out the image tags because the comics are REALLY big for a spoiler box.


I'll also put up some of my spriting work.
CURRENT SPRITES STATUS: Been really busy lately with school and all. The Ancient Minister (Fully custom), R.O.B. (edits of a partially complete custom sheet), Konata Izumi (Fully custom) and DeMille/Aretha (editing sprites ripped and recolored from Tomato Adventure) are on my current list, all four have some amount of progress. (All four of these, incidentally, are for smash-styled fangames)


Here's my youtube channel in case people consider Anime Music Videos and random gameplay videos to be "Art" of some sort: http://www.youtube.c...60?feature=mhum
Here's my dA for drawings in general: drifloonfanatic on deviantART
Here's my dA for Brawl screenshots and other video game specific stuff: metaslasher on deviantART
and...
Here's my webcomic, in case people missed the link: http://randomnocity.net/

Ayuup. BRING ON THE SCORN AND DERISION! [jk]
Feel free to comment and all that stuff (I almost never get comments on my art threads so please do comment on stuff :<)

Drifloon. Drifloooon!

More Drifloon.

Haven't drawn anything in a while, lol. My Secret Santa thing was the first thing I'd drawn (not for school) since May or so, and I decided to draw a Drifloon after I finished it.

This post has been edited by Detta: 24 December 2011 - 06:28 AM

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DRIFLOON!
Other pokemon are avalible for requesting?

Possibly. I'm really only experienced in drawing a few Pokemon, Drifloon being one of them, so it really depends on which Pokemon it is.

Been doing a lot of doodling on 3DS's Swapnote app lately. Here's a doodle I managed to get onto my computer:

It's Togame the Strategist from Katanagatari. Might be posting more of these soon.

That's actually really good considering it's from a beefed up PictoChat.

More doodles. In video form.

And it being video means you can see them being sketched as well.

Time for a bunch of new doodles!

All of the images in here are embedded with a link to the picture on deviantArt so you can see it full size and favorite it or whatever.


Got a couple of new camera apps for my iPod and experimented a bit to get better pictures off the 3DS. None of the above have identical settings or processes, which is why they're all a bit different in quality.

Whoever did the OC request thing (Katara-numbers), I'll get around to it eventually. I'm gonna be really busy this week and probably the next, but I'll get it done. *clenches fist*

EDIT:

Yes.

This post has been edited by Detta: 16 January 2012 - 08:30 PM

Concept art of some stuff for a Paranoia webcomic.
Person is a Red-level Troubleshooter, the rectangle-thing is the almighty Computer, and the cell-phone is the notorious self-destructable cell-phone with matching "HAIL THE COMPUTER" background.
Drawn in my planner so the quality is crap.

You're pretty good. If I'm not mistaken, you're using a Wacom Bamboo for your digitally coloured art.
BTW: It's rare to find another 3DS user. Friend Code?

My 3DS friendcode is 3652 - 0526 - 4877.
I can send you a bunch of the swapnotes I've already made if you're interested.

And yeah, I do use a Bamboo. I was going to get a new graphics card for my comp a while back, but it wasn't compatible and I traded it in for enough in-store credit to get a tablet.

EDIT:
Another Swapnote compilation video. Watch on Youtube plz, it's 720p with annotations.

This post has been edited by Detta: 26 January 2012 - 06:56 AM

More concept art for Mutant Commie Traitors!



Hoping to get the comic itself started around my Spring Break (so late March/early April). Should be plenty of time to get an entire mission scripted to the last clone and get a comic buffer started.

So the big screen with the face in the background is The Almighty Computer, supreme overlord of Alpha Complex. He's about to terminate the Team Leader (the included Troubleshooter) due to reports of him being a Mutant Commie Traitor (which actually is going to happen in the comic, as far as we've gotten character-development-wise). The laser thing coming from the ceiling is my generic Violet-Level Clearance terminator whatchamacallit.

In Alpha Complex, where we all live~,
lived a brave Troubleshooter named Roy-G-BIV~...

Oh yeah and I'll be getting around to whatever requests I've gotten within the next couple of weeks (likely the weekend after Valentine's Day). It's a four-day weekend for me and I'll have finished all of my major projects for the next month or two.

This post has been edited by Detta: 02 February 2012 - 04:41 AM

Gonna update with a couple of things, but not all the stuff I've done since my last post here.

Preview of the first page of Beta Complex, the webcomic I'm working on.

Doodle I made of myself a couple weeks ago in LA class.

My main character in the game ClaDun X2. Only reference for this one was a set of four sprite animations that were around 16-bit.

tumblr that I made. Has some stuff that isn't necessarily art on there, like a plan for a second-person shooter. I'm gonna use it for general purposes, like blogging and stuff too.

Yup.

Updating with some Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko stuff I made recently.
Doodle.

Legit sketch.

This post has been edited by Detta: 19 March 2012 - 07:41 AM

Working on some new Pichu sprites.

Idle:

Run:

Credit to JoshR for the base sprites.

EDIT:


Goggleschu

EDIT AGAIN

Goggleschu, Earbandchu and Camperchu.

This post has been edited by Detta: 27 March 2012 - 10:03 PM

Finally finished the Erio Touwa sketch I made two weeks ago.

Time to bump!

Another Denpa Onna thing from a while ago I apparently didn't post here.

Lilligant is now my favorite Pokemon, and to celebrate, a Gijinka!

Drew a girl in Swapnote, then redrew her on paper.
Too lazy to draw legs.

Today I found out how entirely ridiculous and difficult sprite-making is. I must say it's a respectable craft and your skill and patience are admirable.

oh wow someone actually posted in my art thread

Most of what I do is editing pre-existing bases, so it's a lot easier. My custom stuff is turning out to be pretty difficult (still haven't bothered finishing my second Konata animation).

Speaking of spriting, here's a couple new ones. Both are Tachibana Kanade from Angel Beats, one is a base sprite and the other is an animation of her activating Hand Sonic version 1.




Made them by editing the JUS Eve sprites on the Spriter's Resource.

Might as well do a couple updates
this one is from like, two weeks ago but apparently I didn't post it here

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this is new (reposting from dA)


Been playing Gravity Rush a lot lately (just beat chapter 17) and have had a lot of instances where I feel like I'm definitely doing something that Kat as a character wouldn't do, like spending time collecting gems to become more powerful instead of going and helping some old lady get rid of an old bed. Here's two of them, and there'll probably be a lot more in the coming weeks (hence the "1" in the title).

first time drawing kat yay
newt is terrible and people should never have hair like that
if the mission didn't restart after every time I lost newt I probably would've thrown him off the edge of Pleajeune to his untimely demise

and that sliding thing is stupid and impossible to control
the one level that it told me to do it, I just shifted because I kept falling into the lava instead of actually turning

I just got Gravity Rush today. I look forward to empathising with the comic.

How many of these sprites you make are truly original? Which ones? Or do you only work off bases?

Most of the work I do nowadays is working with pre-existing bases, but I do have two or three projects that I'm making fully custom (one of which I haven't really started on yet).
Out of what's in this thread:
Custom: Primids, Konata, Mawaru Penguindrum
From a base: everything else

I think I have more spriting work on my computer that I never posted that's custom, and I also have a really crappy spritesheet of the Ancient Minister from Super Smash Brothers Brawl that was fully custom too that's available on some of my other art threads scattered around the internet but I decided it wasn't worth posting here.

I'm trying to lean further towards custom though.

Most of what I'll be updating with soon will be from a base because my next two projects are finishing Pichu and R.O.B., but my next planned project will be fully custom after those two (The Ancient Minister).

This post has been edited by Detta: 27 June 2012 - 06:36 PM

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When will this game exist?

Also, you may want to start your drawing with a line that's striaght up and down- it'll help you, well, not draw people at an angle that looks like they're about to fall over.

Probably never because I'm still working on another game with other people ; -;

And yeah I started at like 1 in the morning and my paper was busy being slanted and I was busy not really caring.

basically repost from my tumblr

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I played Gravity Rush but found your comic about it dull

not quite the bcb turtle but


based on




there will be lots of animations at some point

edit: are the gifs in my thread not playing? nvm

This post has been edited by Detta: 20 November 2012 - 04:44 AM

Oh, cool stuff!

hooray sprite art

maybe one day i'll post more bcb fanart

but for now, have a quote idle animation



fully custom, but I heavily referenced the CS3D model while making the original base sprite

edit:

another one incoming

This post has been edited by Detta: 25 November 2012 - 09:17 AM

his gun shrinks and expands while he runs, hehe. where is this character from?

Migrant, on 26 November 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:

you must play cave story

now

also the gun is approximately the same size in each frame, it's just in a couple frames it seems to blend in with his leg

repost from my tumblr


caecensis design made by gigapichu
both sprites are edits of characters from a game called “Shining Force Feather” since i suck at making custom bases
i kind of made the zephyra design but it’s basically a recolor + armor of the character whose sprites i edited

so explanation yeah
a while ago i came up with an idea for a game that would help me review latin. it would be a turn-based rpg at its core, but to perform attacks and cast spells, you’d have to answer questions like “Translate this sentence”, or “What does ‘doceo’ translate to”, with the difficulty of the question corresponding to the strength of the attack/spell. the story would be based on the myth of proserpina (tl;dr pluto kidnapped proserpina, daughter of ceres, and ceres was so distraught that she caused all the plants in sicily to wither, and then jupiter ordered pluto to give proserpina back but since she had eaten food from the underworld she was forced to stay there for 3/4 months every year, and this period of time became winter) but a small legion decides to go take proserpina back themselves and it’s led by caecensis and zephyra (who bought her way into the military because this was roman times and you could buy your way into just about anything and i felt like having a heroine for story purposes) and there’s a big battle at the entrance to the underworld and caecensis is nearly killed and zephyra has to retreat with the rest of the legion and then caecensis wakes up and doesn’t remember anything (this is where the game starts), so pluto tells caecensis that he was pluto’s loyal servant and has to go forcefully convince ceres to let proserpina stay with him in the underworld for the whole year. pluto assigns some nymph to help caecensis along the way and teach him magic stuff (not sure what it’d actually be called yet and i don’t want to be boring and call it arcana or something like that). then he eventually gets somewhere and he runs into zephyra and her legion and there’s a big battle where zephyra reveals the whole story and then they both go and beat up pluto and save proserpina and then there’s never a winter again yaaayyyyy.

also
caecensis = caecus (adjective: blind) + ensis (noun: sword), since he has no actual idea that he’s being completely manipulated he’s basically a blind sword
zephyra = zephyrus (noun: the north wind) but turned feminine, just thought it was a cool name when i was randomly flipping through my latin dictionary for ideas

i feel artistic when it gets to be 2 in the morning

some more stuff







currently debating whether or not to become an active poster again and stop lurking

eeeeeeeeven more sprites


Finished these a while ago. (Edits)


Did this slightly less than a while ago. (Edits)

And I'm planning out a real version of this thing and to that end:



(fully custom)

That's all for now I suppose.

I was thinking of possibly doing some BCB sprites at some point since I'm getting quite a bit better at custom work; they'd be about the same size as the humans in this post.