★ Day: 90 ★ Theme: Finish/Improve: Day 89 spirited away ★ Time spent: 15 mins
Comments: I'm probably done playing with this now. I still see a lot that I can tweak... but don't care about this drawing that much. Was just nice to have something to color again today
Finish/Improve an earlier work from this event; Pick a previous unused theme (state day #); Style Challenge: Ink Wash; Realistic neopets; Porcupine; Celadon City (Pokemon); Ginger; Pandemic Legacy (boardgame); Untimed gestures
★ Day: 94 ★ Theme: SC art collector ★ Time spent: 48 minutes
Comments: lol accidental double prompt since it's pretty much all green. The quail prompt sounded fun. I looked thru the art requests jic and saw this cute bat-deer-hybrid concept.
Spirit Challenge: Draw art for an art collector!; Color Challenge: Monochrome Green; Maid’s Quarters; Quail; House of Honey Supermoon; Marriage; Practice drawing cast shadows on objects (volumes if you’re comfortable!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59k5J4SbkSQ Spirit Challenge info: Art collector requests can be found here or at our Discord server
★ Day: 95 ★ Theme: off theme - Continued oranges from day 93 ★ Time spent: 42 minutes (75 total)
Comments: still a WIP. Idk if I’ll finish it during the event (depending on prompts), but just didn’t want day 93 to stand alone since I posted it at such a crappy stage. XD. Day93, I made a quick, splotchy bg and used Gaussian blur cuz it was just my base. But damn, that was ugly
Design Challenge: Assassin Creed outfit (videogame); Cruel; Sea Urchin; Underground Spring; Sphinx; Medusa; Portrait study from photo reference
I wanted to mimic colored pencils with digital art. Figured coloring a coloring book sounded fun. I didn’t know crayola offered so many free coloring pages. Very cool I think I spent longer coloring digitally than if I’d just printed it out XD ... I also find this art a little ironic because I'd fill it in better with traditional pencils.
Side rant: I exported my art as a png file (I doublechecked). I uploaded my png file into Imgur. And Imgur saved it as a jpeg. :/ It doesn’t affect this drawing but that’s irritating
★ Day: 97 ★ Theme: off theme - Continued "oranges" from Day 95 ★ Time spent: 68 minutes (143 total)
Comments: finished. Made two versions Edit; just remembered I forgot some stuff. Not finished. It's still a WIP
Check Discord for the time stamp. I submitted this on time to Discord. Gaia and/or Gaia guilds was down every time I checked yesterday. Gaia has made Staff Notices about the ongoing issues. I was never able to see them cuz Gaia would already be down. XD;
Design Challenge: Hair/Braids/Accessories for hair; Vulnerability; Panther; Salazen Grum (Alice in Wonderland); Aphrodite; Resurrection Plant; 5 minute gestures
★ Day: 99 ★ Theme: off theme - Continued "oranges" from Day 97 ★ Time spent: 20 minutes (163 total)
Comments: I smeared more “paint.†Hopefully it's obvious, but I want the background to be out of focus. I also want the leaves in the back to be somewhat out of focus. That's not my idea, it was in the ref. Photo by "Cristina Anne Costello" on Unsplash.
I think I lost some elements I liked. I might add them back, might not Next day edit; I've sat with it and I see stuff I want to tweak. I likely will after the event.
Color Challenge: Monochrome Gold/Yellow; Below the depths; Birds of Paradise; Cave; Libra; Goats Foot Flower; 10 minute gestures
★ Day: 100 ★ Theme: Color Palette Challenge ★ Time spent: 37 mins
Comments: I hadn't made up my mind yet on what I was gonna draw today. Past years, I made a shrine to some of the pieces I'd liked that year. Idk if I have enough pieces to do that with this year. I haven't looked, but I *feel* like I don't. I was leaning towards painting a sea grape picture... but, I equipped this olllld avatar earlier. I love this fake music album of cats. So space; so serious. It made me want to attempt to draw it with the limited palette My drawing doesn't capture the same vibes. I knew it wouldn't... with my skill of applying the limited palette colors... soooo I feel eh (shrugs) about it.
I like the idea of redoing something from days 1-5. But 4 of them were intentionally drawn silly like that. My redraw would be same. And... the noodles, well, we don't talk abut the noodles. XD; ..And their unintentional cat face. XD;; ugh. If I redrew that, I'd want to stay loyal to my main intent with that... to form noodles by drawing the shapes and not noodles. I could totally improve it by focusing on noodles and not just shapes of colors... but that wasn't the goal. And I could take another stab at noodles from shapes. (I wouldn't go so dark in the cat face. XD; ) Ijustdon'twantto. I still feel irritation when I think about it. XD Also, the ref really does dip that dark in those areas... it just needs a lot more in between colors and tending to thee actual noodle shapes to fix it up. @ .@ I think I should've attempted it with a different ref.
Anyway, as I alluded to above, I'm overall meh about my work from this year's event. However, I'm perfectly happy with it. I rambled about it on some other post in this thread but I had MONTHS of a weird mental block where I could no longer draw. I couldn't create art from my own ideas. I've drawn all my life and always have had ideas so it was... odd. Hard to explain. I'd only broken free from it like a month before this event started and felt rusty when drawing. So I'm content with the fact that I'm even able to draw. c: ... Hopefully next event will be a good one Thank you for this event! As always, my fav part of the event was looking at what everyone submitted c: :>
Edit; for the record, I always make my Discord comments shorter because of the format. So this got shortened to Comments: I hadn't made up my mind yet on what I was gonna draw today. I equipped this olllld Gaia avatar earlier. I love this fake music album of cats. So space; so serious. It made me want to attempt to draw it with the limited palette My drawing doesn't capture the same vibes. I knew it wouldn't... with my skill of applying the limited palette colors... but oh well I've included my avatar that I used as inspiration for this drawing Thank you for this event! As always, my fav part of the event was looking at what everyone submitted c:
Look at your art from Day 1-5 and pick one of them to redraw Finish/Improve an earlier work from this event; Pick a previous unused theme (state day #); Color Challenge: https://spectrra.tumblr.com/image/189198069067; Bee spaghetti; Jellyfish; Egg Shop; Habanero Pepper; Sea grape Draw a bunch of cylinders with proper perspective - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdtDtGBu-Dc
