JULY 2024-NOW ART

4/12/2024
A (barely legible) sneak-peek at the artistic process: figuring out consistency and finer points in Badgersaurus design. Sometimes I forget how much I love drawing her. I plan to do more comix projects soon, practicing lots of stuff in preparation for that.
The shirt originates from this edit (the original was referring to violating the Pennsylvania state law against sodomy, if you're curious. God do I love old gay rights shit, so cool.)

28/11/2024
Basic Hisone and Masotan 3DS theme I made. Top is official promo art, bottom a screencap of the intro. I hastily recreated the Gifu Air Base OTF logo as a vector for the folder icons using a photo of an iron-on patch as basis. It plays Le Temps de la Rentree as BGM, of course. This was a fun little exercise in using weird software for really specific things, might do another one in the future.

Tested working on my beat-to-shit old 2DS, might upload it for download later.

26/11/2024
Predator and prey commuting home after a long day of filming for National Geographic.
The guy on the left is a gerenuk, the other one's a spotted hyena.
I just wanted to make something sleek and simple and fun. Sorta BNA inspired? I haven't watched it yet but it's been in the back of my mind.

How long has it been since I drew something with a proper background? I have no idea. And I have even less idea of how long it's been since I shaded anything. Nothing fancy on this, I'm basically relearning it from the ground up, but approaching from the idea of drawing light rather than drawing shadows really helps.

19/09/2024
A lemur artist. Best known for his series of 'fossa paintings', exploring the nature of violence in natural society through abstract imagery, his works have been featured in the MMOMA (Madagascar Musuem of Modern Art) and in private collections worldwide.

23/08/2024
"Moi j'aimerai longtemps/lorsque reviens le temps/Le temps de la rentree..."
A design based off the severely underrated anime Hisone and Masotan, and old motorcycle graphics, which have become a minor visual fascination of mine recently. I am so proud of how this turned out, I feel like I'm really starting to find my groove with digital art after years of thinking I just can't wrap my head around it. There's like one thing here I'm finicky about at my current skill-level and it's so minor it's not worth mentioning. Hard work pays off!

This show is so, so good and really I think it's lack of popularity is just due to unlucky circumstance (Netflix-only release overseas, hard-to-parse official subtitles (seriously please watch with fansubs), airing in the weird bridge years between 2000-2010s 'anime fan' culture and modern widespread popularity of anime as a replacement for the genre crap Hollywood isn't making, typical weeb misogyny.) It's stylish, it's shmaltzy, it's super-sweet, it's almost a magical girl show with dragons about self-improvement as a form of self-love and how relationships help and hurt people simultaneously and it fucking rocks.
It's dragons occupy one of the most interesting spaces I've seen such beasts in in non-folkloric fiction--to go into detail would be spoiling it, I think, and the more blind you watch this the better. They are so damn cute too. Futomomo's my favourite I think but I would die for any of them. Even the lyrics of the ED (a cover of the France Gall song I linked above) have a bunch of interesting readings relating to the show's themes, I think. I wish I could spoiler tag on my site because I am itching to talk more about this show!!
The 'White Hearts' title is a slight variation on the show's describing the D-pilot personality types as 'white lovers', pure of heart but 'blank' in terms of self-identity and desperate for approval and affection; I thought the original phrasing might come off a little worrying next to the motorcycle imagery though :b. Here's an alternate version that calls them the Gifu Air Base Dragonriders Club because I liked the sound of that too and couldn't decide.