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IDOL KNIGHTS: Yuko [multi]

Here's another one. I wanted to make a hot spring-inspired Idol Knight. I thought she should have an outfit reminiscent of a traditional ryokan attendant, with some cute flair added to it to make it into something more like an idol costume. Her name is taken from the term for "hot water." Like in a ...

IDOL KNIGHTS(?): monster design [multi]

Monster design of some kind...? Or mostly just practice. I don't draw many male figures so I figured I'd try it a bit every once in a while. Also looking at a bunch of Magic The Gathering art kind of inspired me to try something new. ehe

2017-07-12 06:22:25 +0000 UTC View Post

June 2017 rewards out! + notes

Hello! I just sent out June's rewards. Cheers to a couple of new patrons who joined this month! 

I'm glad (most of) the pledges went through early enough for me to send them out since I'm going to be out for a while today.

For July... I think I want to try to include more Idol Knights w...

tiny announcement: date format change

It's such a small change that I wasn't sure I wanted to make a post about just it and nothing else, but here it is.

Until now I've been using a date format that's different from Patreon's own system, such that rewards going out on July 1st would be called July 2017 rewards and so on.

... Lon...

comm: FFXIV

One of my commissions this month was to draw these two in their FFXIV outfits. It was a bit long because of trying to follow the costume designs, but it was fun in the end. Thanks!

Elizabeth Bathory

I don't actually play the game but I enjoy drawing the character, for some reason.

Anyway, I was always convinced painting was hard and I was awful at it, but I've been practicing a lot and I feel a bit better about it now. It's fun!

I saved some progress screenshots for a step-by-step page ...

shrine maiden reimu

Finished over  three days, with sketching and lines the first day and coloring on the next two, something like that.

Like I mentioned previously, I tried some new things (mostly a different workflow, trying to shorten working time) and I think I like how it turned out. Reimu here is one of th...

WIP: Reimu

I've been working on this since lunch or so. I'm trying new coloring ideas with this one and I think it'll probably be done tomorrow. 

I've taken screenshots of my progress that I'll compile into a nice page for the next $1 tier rewards. Instead of the usual format, I've taken the liberty of ...

WIP: chieri ogata

Chieri is very sweet and  I like her a lot.

Ahem. Today is some lineart I worked on. It'll be in the $1 tier in July.

For a while now I've been trying to draw thinner lines while still keeping it dynamic and interesting to look at, but it's been a bit difficult. Today I just decided to ...

May 2017 rewards out

Hi! I sent out this month's rewards a bit earlier,  with most pledges having been processed now. I hope you like them.

I think this month I'm really going to try to draw more things. Instead of spending hours and hours on a single drawing, I think it would be more interesting to spend a bit l...

comm: Akane

Commission for May, from Tsuki ga Kirei airing right now. Thanks!

IDOL KNIGHTS: Val concept

Continuing from my earlier post about Soralie, here's one more character from her universe named Val.

Two things you might have noticed: the project is entitled Idol Knights, and it's mostly a loose concept right now. In the beginning, it will be a collection of characters in a world wher...

shimakaze

You probably know I don't paint a lot, but I'm back to trying to get better at it. I had some help from a friend to do this the other day, and I think it's going in the right direction. It's a different mindset from line drawing, isn't it?

Anyway, I'm going to keep trying to improve at it, so mayb...