Let the Good Times Roll

Hey, tumblr! Long time, no see. 

So the other day I got the news that a pilot I did character design & art direction for last year sadly got the ol’ red light (i.e. the company it was being pitched for passed on it), which is unfortunate - BUT it also means I can probably get away with posting some snippets of the work that I did for it without getting in too much trouble, so here’s a smattering of pages from the pitch bible as well as a bunch of assorted drawings I did during the development. 

I’m posting this stuff becuase all things considered I’m still pretty proud of it! I won’t go into detail about the particulars of the show premise or its name or anything, but in a nutshell it was going to be a show featuring a diverse bunch of different characters from different videogame worlds, kind of a Wreck-it Ralph meets Drawn Together or something. 

Design-wise I guess a lot of it falls into a sort of “I get that reference!” territory (Lorna is clearly Samus-inspired, Edge is a Final Fantasy protagonist, etc etc) but I tried really hard to give each character their own… well, character. Also we tried to go beyond the more low-hanging fruit in terms of videogame references (did Wreck-It Ralph have a Bubsy tribute?!??! I don’t think so!!). 

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Thanks! Uhh it generally shifts based on the texture & shape I’m going for, but here’s my general process / rule of thumb:

Or if you lock layer transparency — or however its called in Photoshop — you can use a textured brush to quickly pepper in some highlights & shadow to add a gold-ish effect:

You can make shiny & glittery gold pretty easily when you use a dappled airbrush. It’s the same process as above, but with a spray of large-to-fine dots. It takes a little more time, but the result is cool.

The standard version of ClipStudo comes packaged with the saturated line tool, which generates sunburst effects. And so we wind up with something like this:

That thought isn’t helpful right now.

Now is not the time to think about it. I can think about it later.

This is irrational. I’m going to let it go.

I won’t argue with an irrational thought.

This is not an emergency. I can slow down and think clearly about what I need.

This feels threatening and urgent, but it really isn’t.

I don’t have to be perfect to be OK.

I don’t have to figure out this question. The best thing to do is just drop it.

It’s OK to make mistakes.

I already know from my past experiences that these fears are irrational.

I have to take risks in order to be free. I’m willing to take this risk.

It’s OK that I just had that thought/image, and it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t have to pay attention to it.

I’m ready to move on now.

I can handle being wrong.

I don’t have to suffer like this. I deserve to feel comfortable.

That’s not my responsibility.

That’s not my problem.

I’ve done the best I can.

Dungeons and Dragons Skirts

Paolas Pixels on Etsy

Artist: Ira.exe

Date: 2018

More: Your dash has been blessed by this pleasing paint video. 

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

have fun drawing kisses now!!!!!!

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Found some hands tutorial by me

under the cut because it got really long: