Original prep work, and my progress through this. Originally there was not going to be the black lines, but I decided that it should be in contrast to (1/4) and be more stylised.
For the final, I scanned in some parts from a magazine and put them at low opacity over some other textures to make the image less boring, so as to speak. Strangely, it is my favourite piece out of the series though everyone likes the ad more
All made from the same base lineart and colours, readjusted for each new adoptie.
2 of the petpets, the yellow shit was drawn, scanned and coloured, while the other was done rightaway onto the computer.
The final was quite terrible, so I’m submitting the sketch I scanned in. This was a uni called Ida if I’m not wrong.
Another instance where the sketch turns out better than the final (this is not even complete anyway). This is when I started practising the shading technique I am doing now, which is using opacity instead of smudge like I used to.
Cel shading, something I haven’t been doing for a really long while already…
Unlike the previosu one, this was a simple scrolling skin. My main intention were to make it pretty to look at, nothing too complicated nor impressive about this one.
Some more illustrations of my red xweetok, just because I can. The concept behind MM is pretty much The Pet That Everyone Is Having, the typical one with the wings and everything in the world that you think is original but you will realise soon that your character is exactly same as the next one. It’s kind of shameless how on Neopets everyone designs their pet to be perfect, but it was very fun drawing my pet. Now you know what sort of a geek I become with nothing to do in the holidays.
The picture is bleh, but what I liked doing was the background. It was something that Endling was playing around with on his works and it looked great somehow. Not overdone like what I did here, but just enough to set a mood.
Won a beauty contest with this! I tell you, Neopets artists are damn loser can the Xweetok category is HUGE and they were all so noob! enjoyed working with the hair and all the highlights, technique is a bit obsolete by now but nevertheless, Gold!
