wow art

i am free!

honestly i didn't have too much lore for this one as i just wanted a chill thing to end this on. the main design process was spamming a button labelled 'hearts' several times until i was satisfied lol.

i will note the widow's peak making the face a heart shape and also the slight inclusion of the envelope motif with the straps of the shirt being reminiscent of it

they're so textures i love drawing water

i went in with the idea of flenme being half water, half sand, as though a part of the beach itself. a few key elements like the tail being a river (which ended up my favourite thing about this design!) were decided later on!

in their world it kind of does actually exist as particles through the entire planet and i thought this was a fun way to allude to that. it's in the beach!! the ocean! the plants, the air!

for some reason it seems i am also treating this challenge as pose practice lol, i'm really happy with how this pose turned out! originally i had them lying down across the sand/sea split but i just drew a reclined flenme for day 5 so i wanted to vary it, and i like how the wings frame the water this way!

the water texture was fun, but i'm very happy with the sand texture too, something that i don't think i've drawn before, and it was easier that i thought it would be! and the hands and legs actually look a bit like a part of the beach which is very cool to achieve.

finally letting it have cool clothes outside of picrews <3

i did the lineart a bit differently for this one! which is to say i tried to make it thicker and more angular but the shapes are still not that sharp lol. i like the look though!

i enjoy how flenme's eyes turned out here, i might continue adding the deeper colour to them in future.

i could have lent more into the palette by making them. less bright green, but because i'd settled on the idea of it being a post-canon outfit i kept the base design fairly similar. same goes for keeping it holographic.

my two main ideas were a pre-canon concept and a post-canon one. i went with the post-canon because while the style made sense for pre-canon i didn't have any reason they would wear red in that design, and i felt it would be better to include that part of the palette!

i reused the patches from the plushie brush, for the same lore reasons! additionally there are a LOT more nods to other ocs in this design. the charms on the bracelet and belt, the bracelet with the gem, the capelet and the rainbow on the edge of it, the necklace, and even the general outfit style are all connected to other characters. the cloak isn't even theirs lol.

i played with the idea of giving it bat wings, but didn't in the end as that felt slightly too big a change to the base design with everything else, so i settled for tearing the wings instead. with the pre-canon concept i might have changed them!

cleanme (clean flenme)

turned them into soap! i was looking forward to doing the bubbles on this one for a while and i'm happy with how they turned out!

less complex that other designs in the linework, a lot of the difference is rendering! but i did make a lot of its shapes rounder to mimic bubbles, like with the wings especially i was thinking of bubble blowers.

i think i stuck closest to the palette on this one too, not exact but still in the general set of tones. it's perhaps my favourite in regards to colours specifically of the brushes.