I’ve been in a humongous art block/rut that made it near impossible to make anything. I got myself out of it, however, by going back to basics in a sense. Mouse-only art (no scanned lines done on paper nor lines drawn with a pen tablet) always makes me feel a little safer and more comforted? I don’t know how to explain in, but it’s a strong suit of mine. And MS Paint doesn’t put pressure on me for things to look good, so the combination is very good :D
I will say, while the sketch, coloring, and first phase of line art (the part where I put lines over the sketch) was done completely in MS Paint, I did jump to FireAlpaca for the second phase of the line art. Transform and line tools are very nice and speed up the process of cleaning up/making pretty lines, but tbh the main reason for the jump was because MS Paint limits how far you can zoom in :’) and that wasn’t cutting it for me. I did keep the blocky line art style however, mostly because coloring in MS Paint does not work if your lines have anti-aliasing. Oh, I also used FireAlpaca to quickly make the palette that I used for coloring. It was just quicker that way.
I’m not entirely sure what “my version” of Becky and the other WG characters are gonna look like. I had done some studies on her, but I hated them as much as I hated everything else coming out of my hands. I did put that knowledge to use though, and that plus the two reference images I used got me where I needed to be. (Heck, I wasn’t even originally intending for this to be a finished piece!) This art is pretty faithful to the show’s style (notice that I let Becky keep her eyelashes even though I have a not-so-secret anti-eyelash agenda, lol) and I embraced that. I don’t know if I’ll continue to do this.
Re: the hair; this is a technique I’ve been thinking about in theory for a while. So it’s not technically new, but this is my first time trying it in a way that like, makes sense. I mixed my usual MS Paint shading/blending technique with what I used for my drawing of Nurse and my drawing of Fae.
WiP shots under the cut!
