#colugenta

i have no idea what to say to this,, sometimes digital art is fun, actually (don't look at the process video too closely, i was fighting for my life with the sketch hjdkshs)

nyways i used no references with this and i should know by now that that only serves to hinder my progress,, but i mean,,, this turned out pretty damn good despite of that !!! just don't zoom in on the hands or the kiss,, i was going with pure vibes only !!!

i hope it's clear that columbia's neck and ears are red bc she's blushing lolol (i was gonna go for a no make up, dressed down look,, hence the lack of hairstyling,, but in the end i couldn't resist the siren call of the blue eye shadow... and i hate drawing the pyjamas anyway bc of the collar and overabundance of stripes i would have to deal with)

magenta's hair turned out so great i might actually love drawing curly hair after all,, especially now that I've figured out somewhat how to do it digitally

also here's some sketching i did on paper beforehand !! i grayscaled it so that it'd be easier to use as a base, i like it better than with the colors i originally used !

the process video ends just a bit too early but it took like,, 20 minutes to encode and i ended up wanting to reshape magenta's hair just a teeeeny bit afterwards so you're not missing much

here's the very first doodle i did a couple months ago, and then a sketch from a couple weeks ago,, i still like the energy of the first one,, but i really don't know how to draw a pose like that without it looking wildly unrealistic,,, maybe the next time i meet up with more than one friend I'll ask them to model for me so i can see what it'd actually look like and if it's even drawable

I'm thinking of maybe doing the next version in digital ? i want to add magenta's gown to this idea but i don't exactly love drawing sheer fabric traditionally

anyways

a magenta i painted with watercolor for once,, she ended up real glowy looking bc of the orange sketch,,, i like it :)

this columbia is from the old sketchbook,, i didn't really end up liking how magenta looked in the sketch so have this very cropped version bc i do think columbia is so cute here :P

and then there's this one which i did not like at all at first because the watercolor kinda ruined it for me,,, but now i can appreciate it

the final drawing to fill my last sketchbook spread (hence the little crease in the middle)

i wanted to draw something w magenta and columbia but i didn't have a full idea,,, but then @muppet-hell did remind me of minecraft and i remembered i wanted to draw magenta with dogs ! but bc i can't draw real dogs I've been putting the whole thing of so !! that's why !! minecraft dog <3

IT WAS ME I WENT THERE AND GOT MY ART SIGNED BY NELL CAMPBELL AND PATRICIA QUINN ‼️‼️‼️‼️

this one took soooooo much planning and sketching and trying out things because i wanted it to look absolutely perfect !!! and it does !!!!!! and i love it even more now with the signatures i think they are the perfect finishing touch !!!!!

some progress pictures and also the first scan

I'm never shutting up about this,, I'll frame it on my wall and stare at it every day <3

no coloring, no cleaning up, no references (and it shows yikes) because i just felt like i could not be bothered !! to do that !!! because that's so !!!! much !!!!!! work !!!!!!!!

might have to put a cw on this,,, i would normally love to alt text but this time I've spent the whole day drawing and inking and then i spent over two hours fighting with my scanner and my google drive,,, so I'm all out of patience for that but i will try at some point later i think

anyways colugenta for you in these trying times (i had no idea what to do with magenta's hands here, but i did not want to figure out how interlocked fingers look like so i got very smart and covered it all up :3

i continue on having a big, embarrassing, really obvious crush on these two

this one really gave me trouble bc i refused to look up reference for magenta's dress so i redrew her apron like 100 times hsksksl

my favorite markers to use when coloring magenta's hair are both dying so i have been kinda switching it up but I've yet to find a new way that feels nice to me

this is probably one of my fave columbia faces I've ever drawn,, her eyes look very whispy (?)

i have this birthmark on my neck that apparently looks a lot like a hickey (as i have been told many times by both relatives and classmates growing up,, yes yes the girl who spends all her time sitting in her room alone and reading fanfiction must be a serious slut, what gave it away??) but somehow i have yet to use it as reference when drawing,,, if it's not clear, i didn't reference it here either so that's why this looks so weird lol

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