XUUNE (熏) / KAIIHUA (开花)

welcome (back) to chaos 🥟

i'm so happy that dorohedoro finally got its s2 release

shot progression, character sheets, initial color script/thumbnails/sketches, and some of the backgrounds from the animated teaser i did for the @jayvikwedding zine!

outfit sheets representing different sections of the zine: proposal, ceremony, honeymoon. i prioritized a more simplified art style for the sake of feasibility. i was most nervous about animating their leg braces bc it needs to have consistent volume/form during any movements like kneeling.

main backgrounds for the different sections, these were my faves out of all of them. i also had to develop a style guide for myself and @inhonoredglory to maintain a consistent coloring style (ty glory for helping me color some of the bgs!)

color script, storyboard thumbnails, and initial sketch for the ceremony outfits. this entire film was produced in the span of 5 months, but technically 2 if i were to exclude the many days i took breaks since i was working on other zines too.

i have to thank glory for encouraging me to apply to this zine since i was initially on the fence for joining. making an animation is a huge time commitment! but also making one for a zine is extremely rare, so why not do it? i think i'm content with how the ani turned out? not entirely proud bc there was life stuff happening + residual feelings of burnout after recently graduating from uni + working on other ppl's projects while making this, so at times it made me feel like the quality in this ani isn't representative of what i CAN do and what i CAN animate. but i have to let that go and let it be. so long as others enjoyed it, and brought people to consider purchasing from this charity zine (esp since it's for PCRF!!), then that's fine with me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

once again, thank you to the mods for entrusting me and my vision for this animation, and huge thanks to chibi inu/doré for composing such an ethereal and beautiful music and sound. i was blown away each time we sent each other progress updates, and our pieces really complement one another!

thank you! glad you enjoyed it :] take this doodle i did while working on the animation

no clue when i'll be able to make another finished illustration so might as well post these sketches. just some random doodles of me and my friend's ocs + doodles of me and friends' avatars from the on together virtual co-working game.

i think I've been stuck in this need to ask for permission/validation to allow my work to be seen. I've been coming across portfolios/webpages of other artists who freely speak about themselves and their creative process, whether it be long paragraphs of their thought process of their work, or just some free pdfs of their sketchbooks. its personalized, inspiring, and i like learning about what other artists go through when making their work, or whatever the hell they make that hasn't been posted online before. these people don't ask for permission, they freely share without the concern of if someone will see it or not.

i suppose the larger question i keep asking myself is "well, who cares enough to want to read what i have to say? who cares enough to look at a pdf i uploaded on some sketches, wips, and commentary of my own art?" but that's my desire for validation speaking again.

"Nick Wilde was an expert at the idea of a long con."

Operation: Cold Hearts by averagemalewife is by far one of the best fics i've read in a long while. couldn't help but adapt one of the scenes into an animatic and sketch a variety of moments from different chapters :]

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thumbnails:

imo the most beginner friendly software would be something like paint tool sai, krita, or gimp. if you use a tablet/ipad then it'd be something like procreate or ibispaint

🦊🐰🐺🦊gala double date (+ other wildehopps drawings)

variety of unfinished fanart storyboard sketches for the line is covered in jellyfish by @yunuen

i had a lot of ambitious plans to adapt various scenes from this fic into animatics, but due to the whims of life i don't think i can right now. few of my unfinished thumbnails are included below: