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Behold, a gallery of the crappy MSpaint sketches that I occasionally doodle while I'm taking a break or I'm bored. Anthro 'mons, regular 'mons, fanart, humans, objects, anything really. I'm by no means an artist (and it definitely shows dear god), but since I've been wanting to get back into drawing and hopefully improve I imagine now would be as good of a time as ever to get started. Don't know how often this will be updated, but if I ever make something semi-worthy of being posted this thread is where you'll be able to find it. Advice/critique very much welcome!
For the first batch, here are some characters from a couple of fanfics I've been working on.
Delphox dude:
Gengar lady doing a midair kick:
Trainer and Eevee:
Mismagius showing her Banette buddy her "collection" of drawings she does to make a living (gotta pay for med school somehow):
Alright, here's a new, smaller batch of sketches. More fanfic characters. God, I really should start getting those written out and posted here.
A Lugia. The exposed wing feathers on her forearm are no longer a thing since I drew her while experimenting with various wing designs, please ignore those:
A group shot of the Bird Trio, who are currently in their underwear because they were already a pain to draw as they were and I haven't finished designing their armor yet. They're really taking "casual friday" to a whole new level here:
"I really hope no one's secretly filming us posing in our underwear like this, we look like total jackasses right now." Taranis bashfully crossed his arms, the Zapdos' playful smirk betraying the aura of seriousness he attempted to put up.
"Oh you're the one to talk-" Nusku glared upwards at him, somehow maintaining that ridiculous pose of his that looked like it came straight out of some mind-numbing television series from the Japanese mainland. The Moltres had clearly been watching some of those in his spare time, Taranis thought to himself. He hoped he wouldn't be donning an eye-bleedingly colorful spandex uniform anytime soon. "Do I need to remind you of what happened at that one Christmas Party back in '97? One drop of alcohol hits your tongue and any facade of seriousness you put up goes right out the window... ALONG WITH YOUR CLOTHES!"
"Are you ever going to stop talking about that? It's been nearly three decades at this point!"
Nusku grinned. "I don't think anyone here will ever forget the sights of you drunkenly singing Mariah Carey songs while standing on top of a table, completely naked. Or being dragged off by security after they found you passed out in the lab's power plant the following morning. You're lucky Master Erzulie and Mr. Tollphrine are both incredibly forgiving otherwise that would've gotten you fired. All things considered, you don't look anywhere near as stupid as you did then!"
"Besides, Taranis-" Tengliu interjected. "Flamboyant poses are all the rage among mortals these days! Have you taken a look at what the Trainer Teams are up to in the League? They remind me of the GRANT Force back when they were still around."
Been pretty busy with some life-related stuff so I haven't had much time or energy to draw in recent months, but this seems to be changing as of recent, so here's some more random crap featuring my characters. I promise I'll try and start posting some actual one-shots or story chapters featuring them eventually, I swear.
Nervous Charmeleon:
A fusion of the Bird Trio:
A sleeping Gengar:
A bust sketch of that same Gengar:
And yet *another* sketch of that very same Gengar and the Banette from the one drawing of he and the Mismagius, based on a DBZ reaction image. So yeah, there's a lot of Buki here:
Decently-sized batch of random bits of fanart coming up.
The Lambda Symbol, the logo of one of my all-time favorite games since my childhood, Half-Life. Made this to practice perspective, and as you can imagine it came out wonky as hell since this is probably the first time I've actually tried practicing with it, but progress is progress.
A depiction of an infamous scene from Cosbydaf's NES Godzilla Creepypasta, which I had decided to reread recently, featuring the demonic antagonist of the story, Red. This one's probably my personal favorite of the bunch simply because I've never drawn something this detailed before. Not too proud of the "KILL" spam in the background, though. That was originally intended to come out a lot better but I'm not a pro at overlaying images.
My attempt at imitating Dragon Ball's art style more than I usually do using everyone's favorite bladed dragon lady from a fanfic I had reread a few months back in my spare time. Her hair was a pain in the ass to draw, though. But then again, so is hair for me in general. Might come back and clean up the lineart and color this later on depending on whether I feel like it or not. Also, this came out way bigger than I intended holy-
Personality-wise she's basically a Saiyan, which makes this strangely fitting to me..
A recreation of a shot from an underrated (in my opinion) Fallout New Vegas Creepypasta. I'd announce a spoiler here but I don't really expect anyone here to recognize or care about it (or hell, really anything in this post in general save for maybe the third one), but if you happen to know where this is from then you're great. lol
*Civvie11 voice* "HEY KIDS LET'S TALK ABOUT DOOOOOOOOOOM-"
And finally, one more attempt at a DBZ-styled sketch, and one I actually just did a few minutes ago in my sleep-deprived state (which is why the quality is somewhat worse than usual upon closer inspection). Doom's always been another favorite game series of mine, so I thought I'd draw this as yet another crack at something in this art style. Like I did with the last one, this might be finished at a later date. Though this'll require more work since I still have a lot more of Doomguy's body to finish here. And once again, this came out way bigger than I intended it to. Might just leave this as a simple colored bust sketch, who knows. lmao
Also, if anyone here has any suggestions for things I could do to improve, or ideas on what to draw; I'd love to hear them!
Only one sketch for now since I've been pretty busy and I haven't had much energy to draw. Have another Lugia, a sister of the one from before, except this one's now evil for various trauma-related plot reasons. The hair is something I'm likely going to ditch since it came out looking terrible with my drawing skills.
I was originally going to make this a drawing of her sitting down on some kind of throne while wearing some kickass armor, but I can't even draw someone sitting down, that's how ass I am at drawing anything more complex than basic standing poses. Anyway, enough whining, here's the thing. Seriously, if anyone could give me advice on how to actually improve, I would appreciate it a lot.
Gengar lady doing a midair kick:
Trainer and Eevee:
Mismagius showing her Banette buddy her "collection" of drawings she does to make a living (gotta pay for med school somehow):
