desmond!

forgot to post this a while back….an attempt was made at concept art

and a couple attempts at illustration that didn’t quite work out the way i’d hoped…i thought i’d share anyway bc hey at least i improved some of my techniques while doing so. i’ve been gradually developing a style for comics, and this is the beginner stage of how it’ll look eventually :)

when it comes to original illustration, i’m pretty terrible at coming up with random characters on the spot, so i have to design them beforehand. these’ll just be one-off pieces so there won’t be lore behind them (or even names lol) but it’s fun to see what kinds of mini-backstories make their way into the designs :)

limited color palettes my beloved

here’s a wip (for once)

decided to treat this series of drawings as character design practice. idk about y’all, but i find it next to impossible to come up w a character on the spot for one of my full-background drawings, so this’ll give me a library to draw from in the future. who knows, maybe i’ll add some color to the next one :)

ngl this piece was a huge struggle from beginning to end…i redrew both the character and the building at some point, used a gazillion layers and layer modes, and called it done at least 7(?) different times? even after all that i still have mixed feelings about how it turned out, but hey, maybe y’all will enjoy it anyway :)

anyway, if you didn’t know, my eventual goal is to get into the comics industry! i have a massive project i’ve been working on for 6 (almost 7) years now that needs to be seen by the world…it’ll be a while before i get there of course, so in the meantime i’ll keep practicing w quick drawings like this :)

drop a cool-sounding word in the comments and i’ll use it as a prompt for an ink drawing. i probably won’t be able to do one a day, but my goal is to do the first ~20 suggested. and you’ll get a free tag in the post if your word is chosen :)

some building designs for a fishing village…might try to make something out of this 🐟

more backlog of original art

continuing to post the backlog from my other account 🌻

my other account, @desm-doodle, will be exclusively fanart from now on :)