Aaaaaand we're done with #NaArMaMo! Back to making my silly drawings at a more leisurely pace, though I hope the habit of picking up a pen or pencil every day will at least partly stick with me. I think the main thing I've got out of this is that my inking has sped up greatly and maybe even improved, which makes rendering less daunting. I've also had a chance to try more styles because there felt like less pressure to get it right when it's just one day out of 31.

I've also identified a lot of things I struggle with, which is super useful when I'm doing practice because I'm paying more attention to those bits as I sketch!

#NaArMaMo for 31st August.

Some people* might be a bit cautious about a portal that's opened up out of nowhere. Boom, on the other hand, takes a specific detour from her cloud bouncing to jump right in.

*Slash and Thud, above, on the 6th and 21st of August

#krita #OC #drawing (4h)

#NaArMaMo for 30 August.

Back at the #LifeDrawing class this week, and this time I tried to draw bigger, using both sides of the A2 paper.

The middle three poses were drawn in a style the instructor suggested, a series of lines imagined as the contours a drip of water would take down the form (or up it, in the second one). I hated this one! I could see one person in front of me making a recognisable figure and gesture with like five lines across the five minute period, whereas I drew something that looks like it should be in a horror film 😂

I think I was having a bad art day in general; I didn't remember until the final 15 minute pose (bottom right) to actually do the gesture first before going in with any kind of detail, even outline. Still, looking back at last week's I don't think I remembered to do that at all. So, progreeeeess?

I wouldn't usually post gesture drawing practice either but this is my art output today so it counts for the NaArMaMo challenge XD

#NaArMaMo for 29 August.

I asked Mastodon what I should draw tonight; @spankyworks and @Euan said "something with a CRT TV as a head", "and long legs", and "wearing a cowboy hat".

This clearly signposted horror to me, so I went with a style inspired by #Drawfee's Julia Lepetit (https://www.instagram.com/julia_lepetit_illustrates/)

#krita #tv #monochrome #horror #MastoArt (1h45)

#NaArMaMo for 28 August.

Time To Conquer Earth! It's #PowerRangers' 30th Anniversary today, so I decided to draw a companion piece to the one I did in May, this time with the villains!

Previous piece: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/110487592640547873
Timelapse video: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/110969176965104768

#PowerRangers30 #RitaRepulsa #LordZedd #krita #MastoArt #sketch #fanart (2h40)

#NaArMaMo for 27 August.

Decided to attempt rendering myself as a #SheRa character, so I'm some kind of ... skating word-mage?

Was going to just do a waist-up pose but then I remembered that skates are one of my identifying features, oooops. Not sure about the arm ... rings? but all the character in She-Ra seem to have something shiny on them XD

#krita #SheRaFanArt (2h30)

#NaArMaMo for 26 August.

But they were so close to home!

#Lemmings #krita (1h20)

#NaArMaMo for 25 August.

This is @djnrrd's cat Orko, a regular on his twitch streams.
Likes: getting food.
Dislikes: Snarf getting food too.

#krita #sketch #cats (1h20)

#NaArMaMo for 24 August.

Another scene from @DemonTomatoDave's teenage Sonic fanfic from the 1990s, as read on the @sonicpodcast patreon streams. I may have taken some artistic liberties…

#SonicTheComic #SonicFanart #KnucklesWasPink #TheEndOfMobius (1h15)