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Sugarplum Tea Party, pt. 1: redesigning old characters
Working on the splash art for Sugarplum Cafe - this will be the title art when my game is finally announced to the public!This is an image I've had in mind as the vision for the game - just two elegant ladies having afternoon tea and desserts. In my head the illustration is super detailed and delicate, and it captures the visuals that I hope will make this game stand out.Here's this week's progress. I started drawing the girls and realized I wanted to update their designs to capture ...
Sailor Cosmos, pt. 3 (she's done! also some updates)
The full version is twice the size of this but just loading the file was murdering my poor laptop, but this size is still pretty big (6000px high).This was a commission but the client was also kind enough to allow me to sell this as a print. This is now available on INPRNT, and you can use the code WVVW0JFJ to get 15% off all prints until 5/30! There is already another 15% off sale going on this weekend :)Sailor Cosmos has one of my favorite senshi designs in the series next to Princess Sailor M...
Sailor Cosmos, pt. 2
Lots of progress made on my Sailor Cosmos commission this week!I wasn't expecting to color everything so quickly, but I was really on a roll. I really wanted to add some sort of rainbow shading to her cape, and while I love how the right version turned out I think the left version fits in better with the rest of her outfit being shades of white? Idk. Still torn on it.I'm kinda obsessed with coloring the hair like this, it's very inspired by Barbie drawings from the 70s and 80s (1 2 3...
Met Gala fanart + Sailor Cosmos thumbnails
I'm still not a fan of the theme, but I am a sucker for black and white fashion 😩Here are some of my favorite looks from this year's Met Gala! I really wanted to draw more, Jenna Ortega and Brian Tyree Henry especially, but I was already spending precious commission time on this...I feel like everyone was more on theme this year than previous years, and more importantly the highs were a lot better than last year's highs. I know "black and white" is a much easier prompt to ...
Sugarplum Cafe updates
Before I start - I'm finally selling prints on INPRNT! If you've wanted to buy my EEAAO fanart, my Pantone series, or my Steven Universe series in print form, now's the time!It looks like there's a 10% off sale sitewide, but I'm also offering an exclusive 15% discount for Patreon backers this month, as a thank you for supporting me for this long. You can use the code WVVW0JFJ at checkout from 4/30 to 5/30.If there's something you'd like to see as prints that isn't...
The Stained Glass Gown
The Vampire Gown finally has a counterpart! My friends and I are doing a casual Met Gala collab, so casual that they didn't feel like doing this year's theme (Karl Lagerfeld was not a very nice person) and we collectively decided to play along with one of the best Met Gala themes from previous years: Heavenly Bodies.What I really wanted to do was draw looks for multiple past Met Gala themes, including redrawing my McDonald's camp look, but a couple of really exciting commissions came...
Doctor's advice + plans for this month
Had my doctor's appointment last week about my hand pains. Surprisingly, she did not recommend compression gloves, wrist braces, or similar aids. Something about how you don't move your muscles in them and your muscles can deteriorate...? I guess those aids are helpful to relieve pain if you already have injuries, but are not really ideal just for prevention.What she did recommend was a series of exercises for my fingers and wrists, and to take breaks often when I do draw, like every 20 ...
Sugarplum Cafe: introducing cakes and tea parties!
Hi! Usually I post on weekends, but since the month is ending soon I wanted to be sure you got my Sugarplum Cafe update as promised! As mentioned in my last post, I was unable to draw this month due to my hands cramping but it thankfully didn't affect my ability to type and code, so I made the most of my downtime to work on my cozy crafting game, Sugarplum Cafe.If you don't know what Sugarplum Cafe is or want to play the demo, check out this post!Here are some of the new features I'v...
Steven Universe fashion, now with fancy bgs!
It's old art, but I wanted to spruce it up with some proper graphics!I had a lot more characters I wanted to design fashion for, but I fell out of love with the series and even started to loathe the designs I already had, because I kept getting comparisons to Jojo even though I've never seen the show...if you'll learn one thing about me today, it's that my artist pet peeve is when someone comments "this looks like something" when a) I've never referenced the thing and...
Life update
Hi everyone, apologies for not posting last week. My hands started to cramp even when idle, and I'm reaching that point where I need to worry about straining my hands, or worse, carpal tunnel syndrome. Thankfully they stopped cramping after a week, but I think it's because I let them rest and didn't draw.As a result I won't be able to work on new art this month, so I will be spending this month on coding Sugarplum Cafe instead. I won't have exciting coding updates every week ...
Outer Senshi Princesses, pt. 1
Continuing the Sailor Moon Princess series with the outer planet princesses! The lineart is done, so I've just got to finish coloring.From left to right: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn. This is my first time drawing the new faces without the split...I'm not loving them right away, wondering if it will take some colors to make them a little prettier or if I'll have to redraw them. We'll see!Just as a reminder, here are the thumbnails for all the Sailor Senshi so you can get an...
Sailor Moon Shoes
The Jimmy Choo x Sailor Moon collection was so good it inspired me to design some high fashion Sailor Moon shoes of my own 😚Every Sailor Scout has their own unique pair of shoes, and in a way each shoe says a lot about their personality. So it made perfect sense to make them high fashion! IDK if I can top the Jimmy Choo shoes, especially since I can't make these IRL obviously, but it was fun interpreting them in my own way.Sorry for not posting this on Patreon first! I rushed to ...
More Sugarplum Cafe characters! (White Choco, Dark Choco)
More placeholder art for more characters in the game!Lady White Chocolate (is that a mouthful?) is a princely lady and the first art I've drawn since actively deciding to update my art style. See this post for more info.I've decided all the different types of chocolate will be related somehow, and since Lady Chocolate is a ballet dancer I thought it might be cool for all the Chocolate ladies to specialize in some type of classical performance. White Choco is gonna be an actress inspired ...
Holiday Barbies, art musings, vacation announcement
To no one's shock, I've been thinking about changing art styles again 😩 Or rather, reverting art styles?I've been falling out of love with the split-face thing I've been doing. It's been hard to draw real people with it, or characters who don't have a slender face. My more "modern" fashion designs feel out of place with this face too. I was being put off by my own art...again.So I was particularly inspired by a very good shoujo manga called Kageki Shoujo to nix...
My fanart got noticed by the EEAAO crew!
So my Jobu Tupaki fanart is finally out there for the world...let's talk about it!The EEAAO fanart doing pretty well on all my socials, but it blew up on Instagram. Stylists and designers on the show, and even half of Daniels noticed it.Michelle Chung Aiello - makeup artistMeghan Heaney - hairstylistBCalla - designed the green Amoeba Jobu outfitAnissa Emily Salazar - hairstylistClaudia Li - sewed at least Plaid Jobu, maybe moreShirley Kurata - main costume designer and stylist (!)Daniel Kwan...
New Sugarplum Cafe characters! (Sugar, Rose, Cream, Citrus sisters)
Since the core of Sugarplum Cafe is about discovering all the dessert-themed characters, I decided that with my next update it was finally time to introduce some more!Please consider all of this placeholder art - I wanted to just get the ideas on (digital) paper so it doesn't entirely match the art style of the previous ladies. In fact, all Sugarplum Cafe art I share is technically placeholder - you know my habit of redrawing old art all too well ;)Sugar and Cream are two ingredients in futu...
Everything Everywhere All At Once (pt. 4)
SHE'S DONEI actually finished her while streaming on Twitch. My New Year's resolution was to start streaming on Twitch now that I have a laptop that can handle it, so I decided to test it out. It was really fun and chatting with people kept me from burning out, so I will definitely stream more art in the future!Here are all the individual looks.And here's all the looks together! This is how I currently envision a print would look like. I would still have to fix the colors for printin...
Everything Everywhere All At Once (pt. 3)
Part 1 | Part 2This week I started coloring the 10 Jobu looks. The good news is I've got 5 done so I'm halfway there!The bad news is I am burning out, lol. I've been trying really hard to capture every detail perfectly, but it's hard when some outfits only appear for mere seconds.It doesn't technically matter since you barely see each outfit in the final GIF...I'm just a stickler for outfit accuracy haha. The research I have to do is still fun despite being challenging, a...
Everything Everywhere All At Once (pt. 2)
Continuing my progress on this very ambitious Jobu Tupaki fanart, you can read part 1 here!This week I completed all the lineart on all the outfits!I will probably make some minor fixes, and most of the patterns will be done in the coloring stage, but at least the brunt of it is done.Covid Jobu (the one with spikes + feathery fur) was the hardest one to capture since the shape is so complex and she only appears for a few seconds. But I sensed the spikes were familiar and recognized the designer ...
Everything Everywhere All At Once
EEAAO is a movie that has stuck with me since I've watched it, and I've been wanting to draw a tribute to Jobu Tupaki and her amazing outfits for a long time now.There's a scene where she's walking in different universesand I've been wanting to draw her walking in her different outfits, but I knew it was going to take a LOT of effort to draw every outfit and figure out the animation and everything...That said, I feel more motivated to draw her outfits because now that I'v...
Inner Princesses + SM artbook update + Sugarplum Cafe
The Inner Princess fashion collection is finally complete! The version I posted on Twitter was lower-res by accident so you get the nice hi-res version. (I learned the hard way that Twitter's drafts and scheduled posts will always save a low-res version of your images...)Here's Venus individually as I've shared the others individually on here. The individual posts weren't performing so well on social media, so I ended up sharing the rest as a group instead.Although the group illu...
Sugarplum Cafe - new demo ready!
Hello! After a year, a new demo for Sugarplum Cafe is ready to play for free. I would love playtesters to help me break the game as much as possible 😄 If you're interested, there'll be instructions at the bottom of this post.For those of you who don't know...Sugarplum Cafe is an elegant crafting game for those who love desserts, tea parties, and fashionable designs. It's got elements of cafe simulators and merge-3 puzzles, and all the characters will have designs inspired by d...
The Pantone Collection
I know I've shared this collection many times before, but this year I wanted to try something new with the layouts. Plus, gotta add this year's color, right?I really like this new layout, personally. I've always been into "infographic" style posters, and I think sharing multiple designs on one image makes the pieces feel more like a set of designs rather than just an illustration. Let me know what you think!So I might start sharing multiple designs at a time again, I had play...
Redesigning Disenchanted
I drew Maya Rudolph in Disenchanted! The movie was better than I expected (better than Hocus Pocus 2) but the costumes were mostly disappointing compared to Enchanted. The budget was probably a lot less though, so I get it.Still, I felt like there were some good ideas in this dress, so on a whim I decided to redesign it this week. I also thought it was a good opportunity to try a similar composition to my Pantone illustration!The scalloping and the beaded fringe were giving me hints of art deco,...
Phases of the Moon, again
Princess Venus is still getting touched up, but my perfectionist ass has been wanting to redraw the Sailor Moon busts that decorate my Patreon tiers + banner for quite some time now 🤣Here's how they used to look, when they were drawn last year:After staring at them for a while I started to think their faces were kinda long, and the colors were kinda blah...With some touchups, here's how they look now!Top row: Sailor Moon (left), Super Sailor Moon (right)Bottom: Eternal Sailor Moon (le...
Princess Jupiter (early access)
Part of my Sailor Moon Princesses series, see the other looks here!Jupiter was one of the designs that came most clearly to me. I really wanted to play with the rose motif on her dress and add some pink to contrast the green, especially since pink is her secondary color on her sailor senshi uniform.The tricky part was making this dress feel more fashion-forward rather than just a pretty dress with flowers on it. I think pairing it with boots instead of the typical heels makes it a little more ch...
Princess Mercury and Princess Mars (early access)
Starting a new fashion collection inspired by the Sailor Scouts in their princess forms!Each of their gowns is relatively simple, with maybe one feature that makes them unique. As a result, it was pretty tough to come up with creative designs, but I think I'm finally ready to take on the challenge.I've already taken my fashion spin on Sailor Moon's dress with the Serenity dress collection, so I'm starting with Sailor Mercury this time.Princess MercuryHer gown's unique feature...
Pantone 2022 (early access)
Very Peri is done! She'll be posted in December but patrons get a sneak peek :) I went with a different composition this time around, couldn't pick between two poses so I decided, ah heck why not draw both??I decided to go with the periwinkle flower as inspo rather than the periwinkle snail, because I do not like snails very much. As I mentioned in the WIP post, I'm not in love with this design as a whole. But I like it from the waist up, so getting to draw a close-up portrait focusi...
Commission thumbnail + art post update
A design commission for a drag queen client who is gonna make this IRL! It will probably be a while before I render this out as an actual drawing, since I've been asked not to post the final piece publicly until she posts pictures of her look and I imagine construction is gonna take some time. I have no idea how she's gonna make this, but I'm gonna be hyped.The client asked to be a literal crown for jokes, but I still wanted to keep it glam and we ended up with this outfit inspired b...
Sugarplum Portraits
Mocking up character portraits for game dialogue 💖 I decided to add some flowers and sweets representing their flavors for extra flair - it felt plain without them.For now I used the character models I drew a while back as a placeholder. I would like to draw more customized portraits and have them show different emotions depending on dialogue, hoping time and budget allows!Here's how I'm hoping the full dialogue box will look in the game:This is the first time I'm mentioning Sugar...
