The journey of Kama's Art

I'll continue posting new art here, but the content on these new accounts will be curated and filtered for quality. I'll also exclusively do commissions with them. The collective brand is "Kam's Art". Please follow as many of these as you can, as I appreciate any and all the help you're willing to give!

This is the first proper layout I'm proud enough of. I'll be sharing a handful more in the future, but here we are for now! Made as an exercise to learn how to use InDesign, this is an alternative character sheet for the Cyberpunk RED TRPG. I'm pretty happy with it! Its goal is to give players with a bit more experience a slightly more compact sheet and removing a little bit of the pretty fluff from the original (which I still adore, it's great). It's still heavily stylized, but I did my best to make sections such as the Lifepath and Skills sections smaller. If you'd like to use this sheet, you can download either picture files or the full Editable PDF here (Google Drive).

I have the feeling like I should call the Fate franchise a guilty pleasure. There’s a lot of things I ought not to like, but the concept in itself is so interesting I keep wanting to explore more and see what it does. Here’s a drawing of another slightly older original character that I’m really happy with! (Now with a bonus making of GIF!)

Right before starting the Adobe CAD classes I was really excited for, I looked through old art and found a design I wanted to revisit and try again. This is a Homestuck OC’s ancestor, and here’s the original. I realize I never mentioned her name, so let me present to you: The Hallowed Lorekeeper. She’s only slightly inspired by cults, different south hemisphere religions, and soviet era communist symbols.

Back in May, I finally caught up with Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel and it’s been a lot of fun. I find a lot of fun in the art style. It reminds me of beginning of the XXIst century cartoons.  Here’s a character for which I ended up losing myself in the world of 1930′s blues for my research. He’s inspired by the likes of Sun House and Robert Johnson, with his stories of the Devil Blues.

After the DLC, I was inspired to return to my Helltaker characters, and I thought I’d create a mockup of an end screen for Uriel. I’m pretty happy with the result, and the approximation of Vanripper’s style!

Here's another rendition of my Medtech character for a gala event. I thought she might look nice in dark colors, but wouldn't exactly feel at ease.

A quick set of random illustrations I made over the month of May. My cat Joline is a muse and an inspiration, and I felt in a Synthwave mood.

I haven’t uploaded in a while, have I? Inspiration for illustration has been very fickle lately, and I found myself much more inspired by, of all things, the creation of documents like Character Sheets, homebrew rules, etc. The visual aspect is a lot of fun, and I’m going as far as taking classes in InDesign and Illustrator to finally allow me to take advantage of these tools. I had been procrastinating learning them for too long. I might post some of the documents I created for Tabletop RPGs like Cyberpunk RED Oh! And this is Dr. Marie Grant. She’s eternally tired and an expert surgeon turned field medic for Trauma Team.

The rendered image is also a test for a new shading technique and I'm really enjoying it, although it gives me some 2000's comic book vibes for some reason.

Anyway, here's another rendition of Spyke. I've taken some more inspiration from Cyberpunk 2077 for the cyberwar and the pose. It's also one of my latest attempt to give my art more 'life', and more 'style', so she's pretty fashionable, like in a photoshoot.

Guess who? Yeah, I have finally gotten over the absolute geological era that has been the blank page syndrom I’ve been through. Between November 2020 and now, February 2021, I don’t think I’ve drawn at all, or at least haven’t done so for more than 5 minutes a time. I’m not sure I’m completely out of it, but now I have a renewed confidence so. Who knows? This isn’t my character, it was a quick fan art for somebody I know.

It’s spooky month and I’m feeling like Helltaker still, so I made another sprite for little old Belphie. I also have a clean alternative because I originally saved it as clean and forgot I wanted her to be covered in oil and grime.

In the beginnings of October 2020, I got inspired to draw a troll or 2 again. It had been a few since I had done that so why not? I have really enjoyed the art style of Homestuck^2 (The story is a whole other can of worms I won’t open right now.) and their artists really have managed to level up the art direction of the comic.  I thought I’d try to emulate them as I did the original art style for these ones. The first is my own character and was made after the second. I think I needed to draw that yellowblood first as a test, so it feels more like a transition between the classic “hero mode” and the new hs2 style.

I went back to drawing Uriel a few days ago, just for fun. It's been a little bit of a difficult week at the start of October, with a lot of self-doubt concerning my skills as an artist. I'd really like to get back into regular drawing and focus greatly on better rendering of my pieces. I feel like that is one of the elements that are holding me back from being completely happy with a lot of what I produce. Also, a little demonic Uriel just for the fun of it. It's Halloween month after all.

A few weeks ago, a friend had an idea for a Fate servant, some kind of joint servant. I liked the idea and we tried to design something based off the welsh dragon stories. With the red and the white dragons fighting without end. It was a fun process, and even if I’m not completely happy with the final result, I can’t help but find the second picture cute. I also really started using myself a lot more to take pose reference pictures at that time and it’s worked wonders on the first drawing.

I thought I would make another character inspired by Helltaker and this time inspiration struck to make some kind of angel. Here’s Uriel and I have allowed myself to commit the sin of giving her a previous relationship with a canon character. Because I think it works well with her character. I also used a technique that’s a little different for the GIF.