After Quite A Bit Of Time Spent Contemplating What To Include In My First Post On This App, I've Decided

After quite a bit of time spent contemplating what to include in my first post on this app, I've decided to keep it simple and give you a close-up of the painting I've used as my profile picture. :]

That, and pictures of two very real cats whom I have the pleasure of cuddling on a daily basis! Their names are Asta and Bosse, respectively. ^-^

I'm very aware that they both look like fluffy, adorable super villains scheming to take over the world, but I'm also very aware that nothing else would be quite as fitting for these two little antagonists.

I'm very new to this app, and I'll be learning as I go, so please try to be patient with me as I try to figure out all of the features. :']

English is also not my first language, so please forgive me if I use a word or phrase in the wrong context.

With all of that said, welcome to my very not-so-planned-out art journey! :]

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day,

Yours truly, Stickbug. 🪲

Currently trying to get back into digital art, I keep doing the outlines on the sketch layer :']

Anyways, here's a quick little doodle I made to try out different brushes and see which ones I vibe with! ^-^

I'm not sure where this very anime-esque style came from, my usual art style is a lot more semi-realistic lmao.

I had a lot of fun messing around with and customizing the different brushes! I found myself very drawn to the watercolour and charcoal/chalk pastel alternatives, which isn't really a surprise considering that I work traditionally lol.

One downside of digital art, however, is that I'm confined to a very small surface (my phone screen, to be specific), but I can't zoom in and out while working traditionally, so I think that feature makes up for the smaller canvas-size :]

Digital struggles aside, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

Yours truly, Stickbug 🪲

Hello again!

I've been quite busy today (doing absolutely nothing. Nothing-time is very important), but I figured I'd fit a quick post in before bed since I want to try to make this a regular thing :]

In my last (and first) post, I shared a closer look at my profile picture. This time, I figured I'd give my header the same love!

It is -quite obviously- not a painting, as much as I wish I could paint with such high precision TTvTT.

It is, however, a photograph! I took it at an aquarium/butterfly enclosure a little while back. (along with several other pictures of course, no one leaves a photography session with less than 100 pictures lmao)

This picture is actually part of a bunch that were taken before I realised, to my horror, that the camera settings were completely scrambled, and not at all appropriate for the lighting and environment around me. I was using my parents' camera, so I was (and still am) very unfamiliar with the settings, the button placement, and how everything works in general.

When I inserted the memory card into the computer at home and opened the folder, my heart immediately dropped. Every picture I initially saw was almost completely dark due to the bad exposure settings :'D

As distraught as I was over my predicament, I am nothing if not stubborn. This, and my love for photo-editing, kept me busy for the next two hours or so. I opened and edited each under-exposed photograph with the -very limited- software I had access to on our pre-historic stationary computer, and I actually managed to save most of them! :D

It's far from an amazing photograph, especially when compared to the ones I took while in photography class during first year of high school (all of which I foolishly deleted before handing in my computer :']), but I still really like it! I'm glad I didn't just delete all of the photos that looked unsalvageable at first glance, because then I wouldn't be able to share this cute little guy with all of the internet!

So, very long story out of the way, I hope this miraculous shrimp-photograph gives someone a little bit of dopamine tonight ^-^

yours truly, Stickbug 🪲

Hello friends!

I've decided that I'm gonna start posting some of my old art on here, so that I have it all saved neatly in one place :]

Of course, a lot of my art was made with references that I don't own the rights to, and therefore not allowed to post, so I'll only be posting things that have come directly from my mind, with the exception of art that was made using royalty-free references (which I honestly don't think I have lol)

That being said, here's victim #1!

I made this around mid-2023, if I remember correctly. I started sketching with no real goal or expectation, and I had no idea what kind of vibe the final piece would have. I never would have guessed that he'd turn out to be an android! (gargoyle and vampire both crossed my mind while sketching, but evidently, neither one stuck with me)

I used quite a few different supplies while making it, mostly because I like to mess around but also because I had no plan whatsoever for this guy lol

The sketch was in graphite of course, but the colouring is a bit of acrylic paint, some water-based ink, and a smidge of alcohol-based markers. The blue detailing is white gel pen with blue marker on top :]. The outlining was done with a dip pen and black water-based ink, which I think gave me some pretty nice line-variation!

I had a lot of fun with placing the different panels, and trying to make them and the blue markings flow in a convincing way on top if his skin (can I call this skin? He's made of metal but like, I can still call it his skin right? TTvTT)

Overall, I'm really happy with how he turned out! ^-^

I decided to name him Bryan as a little homage to Detroit Become Human, since the actor who plays Connor is Bryan Dechart :]

In retrospect, the blue detailing on his body is definetly influenced by DBH as well, even if didn't realise that at the time of making him lol

I definetly think I'll return to this character in the future, I don't doubt he'll become a main OC of mine at some point ^-^

With all that said, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

Yours truly, Stickbug 🪲

I just had to dedicate my first repost to this piece of absolute gospel 😔🙏

my neck hurts AND I'm gay

The anatomy is not anatoming