"Pontes Had So Very Many Appointments To Attend To, The Bulk Of Them Made Centuries In Advance. He Did

"Pontes had so very many appointments to attend to, the bulk of them made centuries in advance. He did not have room for Death in the schedule, and to expect otherwise was simply unreasonable."

Character design/drawing from 2020. Very much tonally inspired by the work of jouste.

All my big traditional pieces from last year. One for every month except March which had two. Some of them have funny titles but attaching them to this post feels fundamentally wrong.

Part 2 of the wizards based on Pokemon types, combinations with Flying. The designs definitely started to get a lot stronger in this set, though the overabundance of medium blues at the start is something I'd try to avoid if I did this again, and the last two dudes are a little boring to me. Flying/Water should be a sailor of some sort imo, idk why I only gave them a sort of vague navy energy. Very silly of me. I think the theming is overall pretty strong in this set but once again, here's the list for clarification: Flying combined with: Fighting, Steel, Dragon, Psychic, Fire, Poison, Dark, Grass, Ghost, Bug, Ice, Ground, Fairy, Rock, Water, Normal.

Next set is the fun set of the sets that there are so far. There are presently no sets after that. Maybe one day there will be.

Thing I made in 2021 for what would've been Steve Waller's 70th birthday. Credits on albums don't really go into the minutiae of what bit of what track who did what for so I can't quite be sure that he did what I'm about to say he did, but I've seen in live videos that he did guitar talkbox stuff, and he was Manfred Mann's Earth Band's guitarist when they recorded Angel Station so I at least have reason to believe that he was the one doing the really sick talkbox/guitar solo on Angels At My Gate, the title of which this drawing is inspired by. Not the lyrics. The lyrics are about being addicted to cards, which doesn't look as cool.

Some old art and some moderately less old art of the same things for comparison. For an art challenge sort of.

January 2023 vs January 2018

July 2020 vs (I think) December 2010

All but the most recent one in Adobe Illustrator with the pen tool and a mouse, the most recent one in Affinity Designer with the pen tool and a mouse. It was never a good idea but I've invested too much and can no longer stop myself.

Hunter's Dream from Bloodborne, from 2020 when the game was turning five. Drawn with an attempt to emulate Edward Gorey. The outlines for the church and the stairs were made with a very good and proper pair of projections, though you may notice some fudging in those four spike things around the spire because the projections were intersecting and I couldn't be bothered to fix it properly. Two wolves, one simply couldn't be bothered with that at the time and the other definitely spent more than a week getting this finished.

Ordinarily when I say I drew something with a mouse I am compelled to add, "using the Pen tool" as while it doesn't make the process faster it does take the need for precision movement away. Every single visible line in this drawing was done with the Pencil tool this time, though, because there were 60,000 of them and I think doing that with the Pen tool would take longer than remaking the game from scratch.