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it's finished aaaaaa

Little snippet of the work that will hopefully be done by tomorrow (because tomorrow is May 1 and I need to post this on Pico Day LMAO). I'll most likely post both the colored lineart and non-colored lineart together. Honestly arguing in my head which one looks better, so why not just post both?

anyway yeah Cassandra lol

Lmao and it only took an hour to actually decide on the brush, this is so sad.

Lineart is finished! Unfortunately, I don't have a screencap, but the original line art for some of them used a textured pen. Normally I like to go "sketchy" for the sake of style (and having the textured pen just helped make it look pleasing), but today I decided to actually face my fear of smooth and clean line art ahdsajhkadhkj

Line art isn't difficult for me with a calligraphy brush for traditional art. Digital gives a learning curve tbh. I personally think it's because of the lack of feedback from pen and paper. Like, with calligraphy, you can feel the pressure of the pen and decide from there. Man.

I'd rather post WIPs like this so I get to talk a bit more about the piece! It's nice to have a little place where I can talk about the process. I tend to discuss the creation of my stuff on Instagram. But the overall nature of the application is for photos, not "blogs", so it takes up too much space. I love to just talk about the behind-the-scenes of a piece lmao. Tumblr is close because it's literally for blogging, but it's very cluttered (most people organize their content via tags, and only desktop users get to use CSS for their blog, which doesn't get translated in mobile). Also I pretty much dropped Tumblr lol

Anyway, Pico Crew + Cassandra! I like to try different art styles. For this one, I wanted good shape language and bold outlines. I plan to do flat coloring for it. Most of my recent works are paintings (or a mix, having only details painted). Line variation is a bit frustrating for me. I feel like I need to find the derivative of a function or something to find how fast I should change the line weight oof. I'll probably color the outline as well, I really want everything to POP. Saturated colors definitely will take the (color) wheel! I want the piece to be funky!

I think I have to tweak Darnell a bit. His right leg is too stiff (or at least now enough folds on his pant to show volume), literally looks like a stick rn.