I figured that since it's already been 5 crazy years on DA, I'd do a bit of a progress report! Hope you enjoy~
At this point, I had lots of zany ideas back then, with the first one being Vocaloid crossovers. There was this phase where I'd be raving about voice synthesizers, no matter how obscure they were.
My doodles were all in pencil because I feared that I'd ruin everything with color, and how I'd draw things ended up being super weird, not to mention that I had poor photography skills and drew everything on the backs of scratch paper. I'd always try to imitate other artists' ways of doodling, particularly those with an anime style. Not gonna lie, but I found myself swimming in that hole of artists wanting to make everything look like anime.
I really hate this era as of now. However, I tried going into colored pencils late in the year.
Come the year after, I started using colored pencils to try and improve my art. I began to widen my range of acquainted fandoms, particularly in the world of indie games. However, my doodles still ended up being pencil-based, which wasn't nice to say the least because they'd end up grainy and messy.
This was also the year a periodic table humanization project came to mind, but I made the mistake of taking characters from another user even while crediting him. In hindsight though, that was quite a blessing because I was implicitly encouraged to create my own versions of the elements, which I was honestly stoked about.
Also, this was my first foray into digital art, in which I started playing around with Adobe Illustrator Draw…on my iPhone. With my fingers.
I still really hate this phase, but I began to make sense of where I was headed.
With traditional art, I decided to snag a Copic set to test my skills, and with digital art, I took a whack at using Procreate. It was from there that my style found its footing and I was able to make my own content. I began revising my elements' designs that year, and found more fandoms to take part in. Funny enough, I also learned about Vindicaris starting that year, and I've been reading it ever since.
I tried to improve with hair, eyes, and all, but I realized my eyelid doodles were…too thin. My shading had noticeably improved (if you say so), but somehow, my limbs looked pretty off at times.
Then came the pandemic, in which I started to experiment with more backgrounds and all. This was the year that I found my place in learning musical theater, trying voice acting, and all. I did all I can to experiment with different blending modes, brushes, and environments to create something better than three years back. I found my way to participating in art challenges and daily doodles, which I've carried on to this day.
A year later, I found the world of drag and then tried to create my own alter-ego (it was Anderson Picnix at first), and tried to do more daily doodles from Mosstober. I think I've been unafraid to venture into previously untapped things like variegated backgrounds, effects, and somehow creating full-on backgrounds because. I felt like the plane had took off at this point.
And here we are folks! We're almost halfway through the year and I'm happy that I don't hate my art as much as I used to anymore. I try to continue experimenting with things—my clothes don't have as much folds, my proportions have improved (drastically?), and I'm still trying to continue improving today!
Yes! I do mean it!
Been kinda running out of ideas until I rediscovered my love for Wii, Wii Sports (+ Club and Resort), and Wii Party (+ U)! Just comment down any of the CPU/canon Miis you'd like me to doodle ala Ryu/Nix/Tyler I guess so I can sorta get out of art block~
(Note that these aren't requests! Thanks!)
Hey guys! Thought I'd make this so I won't have to continuously make status updates. I love art trades and stuff so yeah. I'm usually very lenient towards style so go ahead!
Also I'm willing to be part of Art-Trade-Bulletin! Art trades keep me happy because I love drawing all sorts of characters and it motivates me to challenge myself with new designs.
I CAN draw: - humanoids and humans (includes OCs, canon characters, real people, etc.)
- simple to moderately complex designs
- furries (I will try)
- canon characters
- OC x canon, OC x OC, canon x canon ships (platonic or romantic, just as long as there's no incest!)
- mild gore
- multiple characters
I CANNOT draw: - anything related to fetishes
- sex scenes (I am not a minor, but I have my limits, okay?) - overly complicated designs
- incestuous ships
- organs (I really can't because they're complicated)
(Un)fortunately I have too many characters, but I've got folders just in case!
Superiodyc (periodic table):
OLD: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/67293361/superiodyc-old-references
NEW: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/80391939/superiodyc-new-references
Eight Deadlies (seven deadly sins + despair): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/73758463/deadlies-references
Eight Heavenlies (seven heavenly virtues + hope): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/74019182/heavenlies-references
Smash Hit checkpoints: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/77625039/smash-hit-checkpoints
Solar system (+ Pluto): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/81190957/planet-references
Pastel Zircrew: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/81108472/zircrew-refs
Waze moods: https://www.deviantart.com/postcretaceous/gallery/85130701/humanized-waze-moods
CiFu: they're in my Starlight Express (Train Musical Mania) folder
Trog: they're in my Vindicaris Stash folder (they have a scarf and is in light blue)
Terra: she's in my Vindicaris Stash folder (she's emerald green)
Cad: he's in my Vindicaris Stash folder (he's got dark skin and yellow hair but there's only one doodle of him) Tyler A. Wreck (drag persona): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/78205473/anderson
Miuna the Planarian: they're in the Art Challenges folder
Mobius Dickrell: check the Mosstober folder
Other science-related characters (please rummage around here): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/66369227/other-science-stuff
Humanized Mr. Men and Little Misses: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/79734118/mr-men-little-miss-nostalgia-corner
Shakespearean characters: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/68973062/big-willy-shakes-ruined
Candle (dragon sona): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/81383068/candleee
Other sonas: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/66247472/sonas
Keep in mind that I usually doodle/finish first although you can also get started at the same time I reply to your comment. I'll doodle a bust for a bust, half for a half, etc. and I doodle everything digitally BTW!
In your comment you must note:
Which character of yours you'd like me to draw
Which character of mine you'd like to draw
Full, half, bust, or head-shot?
Flat or shaded?
How long will you take?
Please, please, PLEASE DO NOT RUSH YOUR PART! I know y'all have a lot of stuff going on so don't. Also, do mention me or tell me if you're done so I can see your beautiful work!
Happy trading!
Eh, just dressed up as a friend's original character and everyone thought I was someone else last year.
If you'd like to see me:
(No tags today, Satan. Not today.)
Journal:
Brothers and sisters,
let me set the scene
for a nightmarish creature so foul & obscene
that penning this poem makes me want to scream,
but the timing is perfect - for it's Halloween.
So, if we must, let's just start at the top
of his oversized skull with his unruly mop
of so-called hair the no-color of dust
on a fissured scalp peeling & leaking out pus.
His locks wind 'round horns, they're
teeming with germs,
and look more like the husks of a million dead worms.
You've heard of bats in the belfry?
Well, it's not just a phrase;
small ones nest in his curls to hide from the sun's rays.
One more word on his noggin, for this must be said:
it's ten times the girth of a normal-sized head.
And if I haven't yet made the case for distaste,
let's move to the horror this thing calls a face.
Skin's the color of pumpkins dying a slow death
or a failing sun breathing its very last breath.
Brows like hairy slugs perched on orangey dough
crown flat yellow eyes peeking out just below.
Those beady orbs nestled in pouches and folds
of flesh home to all sorts of fungus and molds.
I suppose that's a nose next up on the list,
but it's rotting & roaches peer out through the slits.
Lips: scaly twin creatures all coated in muck,
like two lizards who crawled in some mud and got stuck.
Yes, his mouth is a marvel of nature's mistakes.
He has not one tongue - he has twelve made of snakes.
Oh, that slithering nest-hole just can't resist
striking at themselves as they writhe and they hiss.
And it's best if we speak even less of his teeth,
but they're green as the serpents who sleep underneath.
Now, we've seen enough here, so we shall begin
to speak of the mess under his bulbous chin.
(ART by Manzanedo: https://www.deviantart.com/manzanedo/art/Horned-Wild-Boar-828381992)
And what appears next is not what you'd expect,
but two giant flaps like his neck... ate his neck.
His dermis is saggy, his guts are all stored
in a carcass that's shaped like some mutated gourd.
Yet he wears tailored suits, expensive and fine
that cling to limbs clunky and elephantine.
At the end of each arm is a claw like a crab.
The horrid appendages pinch and they grab.
He keeps them well sharpened and shined to a sheen,
but they are so small they can hardly be seen.
This would be almost a humorous twist,
if only this beast didn't really exist.
His mountainous legs suffer from the same flaws,
capped off in feet as tiny as his claws.
His whole frame reeks of sulfur.
He's covered in grime.
He leaves a lingering trail of malodorous slime.
This journey, I know's been an unpleasant one.
Dear reader, hang in there. We are almost done.
(ART by @penguin-jar: https://www.deviantart.compenguin-jar/art/Slime-Monster-162280033)
He lives in the depths of an ill-smelling bog,
shrouded at all times in a venomous fog.
Lit by giant mushrooms
with an unearthly glow,
a sick, swampy kingdom where twisted things grow.
A pestilent monarch, he squats on his throne;
sips gallons of blood from a goblet of bone.
His subjects are legion, they flock to his side;
all manner of ghouls that the heart can't abide.
There's a pale hateful zombie,
who's bedecked in flies,
and humanoid shape that has fanged mouths for eyes.
There's a three-headed harpy who screams at the sun
and a man-eating frog that weighs nearly a ton.
One could spend forever
trying to describe
the monsters that make up his hideous tribe.
But our time draws to a close,
my stalwart friends.
Lock your doors, say your prayers -
for this is THE END.
(ART by: @ : https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/Bog-Unicorn-14403629)
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Journal:
I wanna see your take on this! Get a deviation for each stanza and link the works!