Sam Powell Designs

Finished my Con Panna themed coffee cat. It's another kitten. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out, though it took me a bit cause of family tragedies... ANYWAYS- I think I'm getting better and better at drawing cats. It IS a little weird as I do more pins, because the older ones always look a bit out of place and too simple. But much like the Catte and Mochat, maybe I'll revise the next ones a tiny bit. idk.. They end up as about 1.5" pins so I guess it doesnt matter?

Another Warcraft OC headshot, once again of my own. I had to tweak the skin a few times (and later made the mouth and eyes a LITTLE less open for less intensity.) with the shading and lighting depth just a bit better. Originally the skin was a little too orange for my taste. I also darkened the lineart which I think helped. It may be hard for some to see but I'll share a second image to show what I was experiencing and MAYBE people will see what I'm talking about. ...I may be a little crazy and perfectionist but I think it turned out to be an improvement.

Sharing my WIP of my next coffee cat pin, the Con Panna inspired "Con Pawna". It will be an orange on white type cat (not a tabby) and is meant to be kitten like.

These are more of my coffee cat pin series. I've been getting better over time in drawing cats, which led to me going back on my original Catte Lattes to revise them (see previous post). The Cappuccino based white long hair cat was my next cat after the Lattes and I put so much effort into the fur that I felt like the Espresso needed extra detail. Then came the Pumpkin Spice cat which took me awhile because I was worried about it fitting in the limited space on the production template. It was taller before and I had to make it more squish. I LOVE how it came out and its my favorite but omg-... The macchiato cat was a different challenge because a traditional macchiato is small, similar to an espresso, so I wanted it to be kitten like. It never really turned out quite as obvious as my espresso kitten but hopefully the big paws give that look somewhat. I have one I'm working on right now based on a Con Panna. It's way more kitten like, like the Espresso, which kinda...is counter productive cause it SHOULD look more like the Macchiato in size.. Blah blah blah I'm rambling.

I started a series of Coffee Cat illustrations that I've made into wood pins. First was a seal point Siamese that was meant to represent that Latte. Then, I figured that the color of a Latte is such a light orange/brown that a FLAME point Siamese would be better suited. However when asking my fellow artists in the convention community, they said they really wanted me to keep the seal point. So I did. Later I renamed the seal point after the Mocha, calling it "Mochat" sometime around early this year. When I did these cats ORIGINALLY, it was very simple (see the top one) with little details. After working on the next two cats (the Cattuccino and the Espurresso), and being in the middle of doing the one after (Pawmpkin Spice), I felt like they were way too simple in comparison to the rest of the cats. I had gotten better at drawing the cats and was getting more detailed. So I revised them around the time I had maybe 5 Flame Points left.

OMG there are apparently several pokemon sticker art I never uploaded. Rattata and slowpoke should have been uploaded before a lot of my chibi pokemon charm art. And the rest of these are newer, some before my last sticker update but mostly newer. ANYWAYS heres a load of my pokemon stickers. I slowly still add to the collection. I knew Snorlax HAD to be added and he's pretty popular. I also really wanted Magikarp in the list. Haunter completed that group of Pokemon (Gengar is the most popular but I wanted all 3 available). I also did some birds cause I REALLY wanted to do a series of bird pokemon. I still need to do a few but I CANNOT remember which ones I sketched. The caterpie was one of my earliest sketched back in the day so I'm glad I finally went back and redrew that so it could be completed. Drifloon and Pumpkaboo were part of my Halloween release of stickers.

I don't keep my tumblr updated enough and APPARENTLY sometimes forget to post things that should have been posted way back. Anyways I did another moth for my moth necklaces a ways back. I'd love to do some butterflies at some point. The patterning on these moths are so friggin HARD. It took awhile to figure out how to do it. It's been awhile but I believe I just used a speckle brush and did a lot more "painting" than I'm use to plush MULTIPLE layers of colours to try and make it look accurate.

Two new pokemon chibi charms have been added. I adore both these pokemon. Their ear and head ratios is a challenge and more so when I need to make their head/body ratio simillar to the rest of the series. Emolga took me more time than Minccino because of the way the wings work. So I was losing myself on the pose and then when I FINALLY settled on it, the darn ears got me. Safe to say I drew the ears multiple times. I made them rounder than I typically found in reference purely because of the style. After many attempts at doing them normally they just NEVER looked right so I tried rounder and it seems to work. I think? I did Minccino in time to add to the chibi sticker collection for the October con and now Emolga will be available. But I don't think their actual charm selves will be produced until after. I'm trying to decide what pokemon to do next. I want to do Mareep but my sketches of them in chibi form don't feel right. I've tried doing series 2 starters but I struggle with Totodile.

I haven't added any Pokemon sticker art for awhile but for Halloween I attempted to do at least a couple. Plus Pachirisu (who was just-..in my sketchbook with the others so WHY NOT?) It's surprisingly difficult to try and keep the coloring/style simple and the same as all the old stickers because it's so plain to me now. But I think it fits? I redrew Litwick and Pachirisu a few times before I was happy. People were happy to see Gengar so I'm glad.

Looks like I'm behind on sharing recent art. Mostly just been doing stuff for merch/product. I made moths in 2 sizes for necklaces/charms. The larger one has it's chain go from one wing to the other, and the smaller ones attach above the antennae and are usable as keychains/charms instead.

I finished a bee illustration. I'm making it into 40mm acrylic pins. Was taking a break from struggling with other merch.

When I did the headshot of my druid, I wasn’t necessarily pleased with it. But continued on to the next characters. When I compile all of them together it still bothers me so I decided to go back to modify it. One of the main issue I had with it was how her shoulders/neck area look so off. She is meant to be “seductive” and bringing her left shoulder in but it doesnt portray well here. So I’ve decided to go symmetrical and straight on like the others. I was going to adjust the face, particularly the nose, but ended up revising a lot more. The hair had to be changed because it was no longer resting in the same way and I redraw the braid. I made the ears a tiny bit longer, made the nose bigger, redid the mouth etc etc. Definitely feels much more fitted with all the other fancy headshots now. I may even go back to my FIRST one -again- to revise her collar area too.

I have 3 more Warcraft headshots. The Kaldorei demon hunter and Draenei mage are both my characters. The humanoid is a worgen druid of my friends that I gifted.

Another warcraft headshot, of my Death Knight. Twin to my rogue so the face using copied parts. Adjusted the eyes/mouth to be different but the lines of the nose and jaw line are the same. Colors are the same except for the lighting on the hair, because I realized I didn't have proper soft highlights on the rogue to use here.

One of my much longer warcraft headshots. Looking at the ingame model of my paladin, I saw so many shades of blues and purple and pinks at various points and I couldn’t just go with simple “this shade for lightest”, “this shade for  darkest” and “this shade for highlights.” So I mixed a lot more colors into the shadows than usual. Took a bit to create the skin tone I was seeing. The horns also took me a lot of effort and I very much had to do a bit of tracing on my screenshot before doing transforming to match my earlier concept sketch after redrawing them over and over. I had to adjust them a few times when I realized the way the top curves and twists at the end was off. Front hair was a bit different before, as it went up at the center, and then I tried to imitate the ingame model bangs a bit more. But then I was like “nah” and freestyled instead. Overall I’m happy with it. Lot of details. Gold is always interesting to shade too. She’s one of my favourites of the headshots.

Did a gift art of my friend’s void elf bard(rogue) as she had been having a very rough time for awhile. Name is Trist.

More character faces. Still just my own characters. This time it’s one of my alts i don’t really RP. She’s related to 3 of my characters. Vestrell, being the main, has a mother who is my DK(to be drawn later) and a cousin who is a Druid(Feldrian who is portrayed in another art) This is the twin sister of that DK, and thus the mother of the Druid.