Hera: Queen of the Olympians (Hades Fanart)

Finished concept (using a in-game screenshot for the background)

Concept Poses

Isolated artwork and colours

Birthday Drawings

 Some fun 'digital cards' that I did for my boyfriend and one of my online besties.

Full Body Character Commission: Vania Pokémon Trainer

From the same client who had previously commissioned the Vulpix PokéSona comes Starbright Bunny's Original Character as a Pokémon Trainer. 

I was basically given free reign for poses, outfit style, and colour palette; so I used this commission as a good way of breaking down my method of handling the presentation of each of these elements to a client.

Finished character (full body flat colours commission)

Pose thumbnails and trainer outfit varieties for the client to select their preferences
(Pose E was selected with outfit elements from Pose A and Pose F)

Refined outfit design and colour swatch examples

If you are interested in this sort of commission for your own characters, please look to the Commission Information Page for rules, other examples, and pricing details!

Quarantine Monthly Challenge

While I typically participate in #MerMay on Instragram as a daily drawing challenge, I happened to start this May in government-mandated quarantine (since I was returning from visiting my boyfriend in the States). As a result, I decided to do a half-month daily, to represent the 14 days during which I was stuck at home. 

As it happens, Adorkastock (who I support on Patreon) had just launched a beta version of their Sketch App which was a wonderful resource for pose references. I took inspiration from a selection of poses, and for some I gathered colour palettes off of Canva to see what sort of masked character designs I could come up with.

Evrylburns Custom Emotes

Needed a smaller project for this month due to all of the preparations that I was making for travelling internationally and for the unfortunate passing of my doggo Lady. For this month, I made pixel emotes for my friend Evrylburns Twitch and Discord channel; using some recurring jokes, particularly from his Minecraft streams.

These were a lot of fun to design! I tried to focus on the silhouettes of the emotes and having vivid colours that would show up on a darker background and in smaller sizes.

Evrylburns Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/evrylburns 

Minecraft (c) Mojang Studio

Character Design: Briar Councillors and Council Guards (Line-Up)

This month's project was exploring some character designs for my boyfriend's Dungeon and Dragon's campaign. These are Briar's District Councillors and their personal bodyguards.

It was a lot of fun to explore the different cultural fashions of a city that is both a trade hub and one of the most magical cities in the campaign. There are influences from Tempergot's desert cultures, the Far Eastern aesthetics from Hob, and of course plenty of Fae Wild influences as there is a large population of elves living in the city. The two major organizations within Briar are both the Arcane Colleges and the Military (primarily Navy).

Final Character Linework

Rough Colours without Lineart (checking colour blocks and character silhouettes)

Rough Colours and Final Linework

Top - Garden District: Dion [Guard] & Frae'wyn [Councillor]
Bottom - Waterfront District: Fasi [Guard] & Weathersby [Councillor]

Top - Lower Residential District: M'lan [Guard] & Calore [Councillor]
Bottom - Markets District: Truth [Guard] & Blazing Drachma [Councillor]

Top - Military District: Svenson [Guard] & Fireforge [Councillor]
Bottom - Entertainment District: Saori [Guard] & T'Mas [Councillor]

Top - Arcane District: Pierro [Guard] & Cylem [Councillor]
Bottom - Upper Residential District: Alvin [Guard] & K'Tie [Councillor]

Character Reference Sheet Commission - Vulpix Pokésona for Starbright Bunny

Had an absolute blast working on this character reference commission for a client from a shared Discord server. If you are interested in commissioning a reference sheet for your own original characters, please look to the Commissions Information page for rules and details!

Finished Character Reference Sheet (done in the style of a Classic Pokédex)

Detail Shot of Character Expressions

Sketches for Character Expressions

Pose Thumbnails for Full Body Character

Self Portrait Wallpaper (Kill La Kill credits style)

Was thankful that I had decided to go with a simple concept for February's monthly art piece, because this month was certainly eventful! My Nana passed away, which resulted in a lot of arrangements at her house, sorting of items, as well as a lot of driving around to pick up family members.

That said, having recently watched Kill La Kill with my boyfriend, I was inspired to do a wallpaper in the style of the 2nd credits sequence. It was a fun style to work with and an excellent chance to work with simplifying details.

Skul: The Hero Slayer - Indie Game Fanart

One of my 2021 New Year's Resolutions was to beef up my art portfolio with more substantial illustrations, concept art, and character designs; as to push myself as an artist, as well as have a better representation of my work online.

As a result, January's challenge was both a celebration of the rouge-like/rogue-lite pixel indie game Skul: The Hero Slayer (in time for it's Steam official release) and something I'd never tried as an artist: playing around with an infinity mirror perspective!

Finished Piece

My overarching concept was to play on the gameplay of swapping Littlebone's into other forms, with it represented in the other skuls as reflections. The dark quartz in the foreground (and reflected on the left) plays an important part of the storyline and mechanically allows the player to upgrade Littlebone's skills through each new run. There are a few Easter Eggs for those who've played the game in Early Access mode, as well as a skul that you only get as part of the tutorial.

Enlarged details of Skuls

Skul: The Hero Slayer (c) SouthPAW Games

Darkest Dungeon 'Album Covers'

 A fun design challenge in 2020 from a friend: create an album cover inspired by the Party Combo names given to certain combination of heroes in Darkest Dungeon. The result was a lot of fun!

Masquerade: Bounty Hunter, Shieldbreaker, Plague Doctor, Leper

The Collection: Antiquarian, Vestal, Man-at-Arms, Highwayman

Beauties and the Beast: Arbalest, Graverobber, Abomination, Hellion

Persephone and Cerberus: Hellion with 3 Houndmasters