I love listening to my playlists, but even more than that, I love listening to my friend's playlists. MGMT when you die is quite frequently featured in there, & more in particular my beautiful friend used it in her wonderful series about her character so it's always been pretty fresh on my mind (I highly recommend checking it out https://www.tumblr.com/mumpsetc/722528720375742464/is-there-some-kind-of-electric-remains?source=share)
A song with a central theme about self destruction by villainizing yourself and lashing out towards those whod want to reach out towards you? WOW! SOUND FAMILIAR? I wonder if some other characters conflict aligns with that theme. Maybe I'd even make a pmv out of it. So I did
Wrote out a outline of the story beats like last time but skipped thumbnailing bcz its a pmv
Here's where I'd say I wasted the most of my time. First I wanted to get outside of the comfort zone of the brush I always used because I felt I had been relying on it too hard (and the horror if I was nothing without it), so I was like "for this video I HAVE to use a different brush it'll give it a different vibe etc it'll be great" but actually I hated it.
(I genuinely cannot stand this version so I can only deign to share the frame of them being stuffed into the calzones. It may look relatively okay but the signs of wrongness are there.)
Then I was like "no you know what I'll do it in mspaint. everyone loves mspaint Hollyleaf The Wolf Pmv was done in mspaint and thats so good" So I did that and 1. I don't like that mspaint has layers now but maybe I'm just a pussy 2. I sucked
(The way I drew her here bothers me so much. Absolutely lacking in distinctness and personality. Utterly Souless. I got scared looking at this and thinking how it reflects back on to me as a person. Also just too busy from the lack of a tight color palette and time consuming if i decided to actually color every single little thing. Incoherent all together.)
so I've wasted a week not being able to decide wtf or where I wanted to even start this project
But its ok because next I hop onto krita. this time I make the canvas not too wide but not as small, play with a pen and stick with it, and call me goldilocks the way it was juuust right.
The only reason I could complete this is because my friends are the fucking goats. I couldnt have finished this without their encouragement but also it would not nearly be half as nice to look at without all their feedback
Now finally: Some roughs that I paticularly liked and Some frames that didnt make it in because it's little awkward and too janky
I think in the final version for img 1 doesnt have as much despair or awareness? it fits the description of not feeling the effects of too much ice cream yet comparetively to the draft where she seems incredibly pained, both versions work i guess. img2 I think the doodler being inside her was probably a incredibly physically and emotionally painful process and also i dont believe some schewpid collar could contain eldritch chaos. img3 originally i was suggested to have picture terry blink but it looked really creepy to me. img4 this angle feels weird and the timing would be too fast.
I tried multiple. multiple times but the editing and timing still seems wrong so please forgive the roughness of it all
If you liked this thank you so so much it means everything to me 🫶
if you didn't that makes two of us 🤝
if you read this far lets do an art trade! or request me something and ill doodle it <3
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