Okay, even though I kept being late and then setting the post dates back so it looked like I wasn't late, I really fuckin' enjoyed this year's inktober. This was really fun, and I actually liked some of the stuff I drew for this year, haha.
Right, now, onto this year's redraw of this:
I think this is the first time in a while that I blurred the shading on a piece that I did, and I really liked how it turned out!
And yes, pizza-logo tablets are now canon to Welcome To Cartoonia. Why? Because I can.
Also, yesterday's has Sarah's shirt open really wide and yet also somehow almost impossibly small. The reason is because she was facing forwards and I couldn't have hidden the buttons on there and just having a really low shirt would have looked awkward.
Also, catgirl blep.
:)
Last year's redraw:
aria & silver: [are canonically old enough to have adopted emma, therefore are far older than her] also aria and silver: [appear in the background photograph] |
Silver's barely visible but she's behind Mary in the BG picture, there's just a sliver of her visible.
Heh, sliver of Silver.
Sliver Silver.
Silver Sliver?
Whatever.
Super old and kinda derpy but I think that the little heart shaped bit in the hair being small and the funky wings are kinda cute.
Tf was I doing w the tits tho
Original:
Wow. Two years.
If you asked me about this then I'd've said "it's just a dumb drawing of some girls".
Asked me last year, I'd've said "it's still just a dumb drawing of some girls, but this time I've redone it".
And now look at me.
I'm semi-busy with animating Slime Climb.
I've gained, lost, and re-gained friends.
I've survived motherfucking 2020 so far.
I learned Norwegian.
Fuck, I even made my own Eddsworld DVD based off of those old ones that were planned to happen officially but didn't actually ever get released.
A lot has happened since I sat down two years ago and decided I was going to do this.
I had no fucking plans to ever go this far, for a while it really was just a dumb drawing of some girls.
And then I gave them names.
And then the second ever drawing happened.
And then I gave names to Aria, Silver, and Eliza.
And then when I gave them all their names, I decided I wanted to give them backstories.
...
And then it all spiraled out of control from there.
Now, depending on how much I feel like total ass emotionally on any given day, this is either the best decision I have made, or the worst.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just doing Welcome To Cartoonia out of sheer obligation alone, in fact around the middle of this month, I think it was, I had said in one of my discord chats with my friends that "i'll do the october stuff. i might get slime climb done. i'll post all the old art that never made it up. but after that, who knows?", since I just felt like I couldn't do it.
But instead of giving up, I decided I had an obligation to at least finish inktober.
And I'm glad I did, because even though I felt like my own little world had come crashing down, like everything was falling apart around me and I was burning out and I had lost my creative touch, I went and suffered on through, subconciously taking those long breaks between posts even though to me it felt like I had just fallen asleep and procrastinated.
Despite the accidental breaks, I still felt like I'd lost my spark, and maybe art wasn't going to be my thing after all.
But I realized then
just then
in that moment while I was doing the piece for the 21st
that I never lost anything.
I just felt like I did.
And there is a difference between feeling like you've lost something and actually losing something.
It's really subtle, can you tell?
The difference...
...
...is how long it takes for you to find it again.
Carving pumpkins was fun. I did a hammer and sickle on mine and mum wasn't very happy about it.
I'm not sure if trick-or-treating will happen this year, considering it happens at night, that means there's still time for it to be called off.
I don't have high hopes for it happening.
I did get a massive bunch of candy though, so that'll probably make up for it if trick-or-treating gets cancelled.
Regardless of whether trick-or-treating happens, it'll still be a pretty happy halloween!
:D
I'll see you all next year, hopefully with Creatober where I just do whatever comes to mind first, whether it be art or some other such thing.
Bye for now, then!
-Lance
p.s. last minute change to my costume: I think I'll draw blood on with a red sharpie, I might not though, we'll see, lol.