PineYard

Art by me:

Art by @quadrupedqueen:

This used to be my absolute favorite song, if you couldn’t tell by my calendar marking.

I’m not sure it’s the same now (probably been overtaken by Sludge lol), but it still holds a huge spot in my heart <3

This animation has to have been 1-2 years old at this point, I just never posted BECAUSE it was staying unfinished… plus my gripes with it. I was freestyling what would happen every scene, which, while keeping me captivated in the moment, it just didn’t give me more ideas for the next part.

I don’t fuck with all of the animation either- I always thought some of it looked choppy. I also kept forgetting to animate Vylet’s bun…..

This was sort of based on the story stuff that corresponds with Bass Cannon and originally I also used some lyrics from Bass Cannon but I decided to change it to lyrics from The Carrion Child because the original lyrics I chose didn't really fit with the drawing very much. Although The Carrion Child also has a lot of stuff in it that could be really interesting to draw so maybe I'll do something based on that sometime.

Anyways here's some WIP stuff from this since I spent maybe too long on it.

The first image is a little thing i drew over a screenshot to try and help figure out how to get the expressions and stuff to work better. When I did this I was almost done with the full thing though.

The second image is what would have originally been the final thing. But I didn't like how Lulamoon looked in it in like a lot of different ways so I eventually just decided to fully redraw her. Tbh I do think I like the original better in some ways but the newer one is a lot better overall.

The third image is an older version where I had the original lyrics I was going to use. The background also is much emptier.

little ramble about this i guess:

a couple weeks ago i was listening to this song and this line from it made me think about negative space kinda. so i wanted to try and make something based on that i guess.

anyways i thought it could be interesting to mainly draw a background and then have the characters be like a cutout of it like reverse negative space or something. especially since a lot of the time if i include a background its more of an afterthought. i also went out of my way to have the characters be transparent instead of just a solid color, although it isn't even all that noticeable in the end so. yeah. all it really accomplished is making the drawing look slightly different on light mode.

originally i wanted to have them both be solely like silhouettes (including their hair) but i decided to include some details to make them more recognizable and to help the poses read better.

for a while i had the text just use the text tool since i wanted the fonts to match with the fonts they each use in the comic series, but it looked out of place so i replaced it with hand drawn text, but i still tried to have it resemble their fonts (which is why the handwriting changes back and forth a couple of times).

i actually did make a full background even though a lot of it is obscured. sometime in the future i might try to remake this but change the composition so that more of the background is visible in it..

full background:

also made a gif of some of the WIP stages for some reason