Mitsuki - Art School Journey (+ Animations)

Lockenheim 2022-10-22 13:52:18 UTC #142

Lovely bunny character! I hope you don't mind but I did just a few quick adjustments that I thought might help the presentation. If you don't like them please just ignore. When I was looking at the bunny character my focus is drawn instantly to the shoes because of the very high saturation on the yellow. Its a color thats not used much on the design and very high saturation. I have a hard time looking at anything else than the shoes. I changed the yellow on the shoes and added a few gradients to guide the viewer to the face and brightened up the face a bit for more contrast. Maybe some change is to your liking! Hopefully you don't mind.

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-22 18:15:32 UTC #143

ohh i see.. thanks for the tip @Lockenheim appreciate the paintover!

snakker 2022-10-23 18:47:55 UTC #144

Awesome stuff

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-24 00:47:24 UTC #145

Thank you @snakker!

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-24 05:30:04 UTC #146

bout half way done... maybe like 55% done. (and yes ill contrast the characters against the background near the end after all the characters are drawn. still have like 5-7 more to go i think)

and yep def keeping the blue... its so pretty (turquoise is my fav color)

Sketch (will probs remove the dragon wings from the door since they don't rly look that interesting..)

prinzmoana 2022-10-24 21:31:27 UTC #147

I like her asymmetric cape and the cute ribbons <3

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-25 00:41:01 UTC #148

haha thank you @prinzmoana

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-26 04:34:41 UTC #149

mm i'm starting to like this a lot more now.. having so much turquoise in there helps

Worked on the bg some more cus thats the hardest part for me...

Also fixed the building "rims" or whatever those things are called (building edges)

Before Fix:

After Fix:

And worked on the door/gate which came out nice:

Value check also came out decent:

CYP2C19 2022-10-26 15:46:07 UTC #150

I admire how much work you put into this drawing, so many characters and so many buildings in the background!, It's phenomenal work you've got going!.

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-26 21:27:10 UTC #151

Thanks so much @CYP2C19 that makes me very happy ^u^

prinzmoana 2022-10-26 23:13:23 UTC #152

I'm curious how that will turn out ^.^
The turquoise gives it a more sci-fi look :}

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-27 00:57:29 UTC #153

yayyy scifi is what im going for

snakker 2022-10-27 02:55:43 UTC #154

This is looking awesome. Gives me some final fantasy 7 vibes, but with totally different characters and a much more lively setting than midgar

Cheers

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-27 04:02:21 UTC #155

@snakker thanks so much for the compliment and thanks for stopping by

holyjosh 2022-10-29 13:25:52 UTC #156

Now your whole work has a strong SCI FI feel! Really caught my eyes!
But I think It would be better if the bright blue bridge shape was a little harder.
and draw its bottom shadow.

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-29 17:03:22 UTC #157

Thanks so much @holyjosh!

It's not exactly a bridge tho its more like this ring thingy on the outside (idk what to call it either XD and its supppper big cus each beacon/tower/building in there is a internet connection so its huge.)

The actual image takes place like here (tbh its probably even smaller than that but u get the idea XD

Its just curved down cus of the 3 point perspective and my 3rd point being at the bottom instead of the top.

But i'll work on making it more solid and adding some shadows thanks!!

btw just for fun and context There are even more layers of buildings above this since there are many many floors of buildings here

me: buildings are so hard to draw

Also me: so theres this setting in my story with helllla buildings

Me when planning out the trailer: Camera pans across Atlantis (future earth) and its 4 main cities and all the beautiful buildings #scifivibes

hahaha but that's why i got this course so one day i can draw that with ease

mitsuki-youko 2022-10-30 04:08:46 UTC #158

Mkay, makin more progress...

SKETCH (stuff left to draw):

I also added my perspective lines in white and overlaid it on the bg cus it looks so plain without it:

Comparison:

Here are some closeups of the cute fluffy creatures that i probably named somewhere in my 445k word worldbuilding docs but forgot what they're called atm lol

I kind of like the design on the wings (added those cus they looked too plain)

Need to draw the crests on the head and the face for these little guys:

Tmr, i'll probs work on another bunny person (probs a bunny girl. since one of the fluffy creatures is sitting on her head (probs between her bunny ears lol).

I think i can finish this in about a week or a little more than a week if i draw at least 1 bunny person/character a day..

Then i can move on to term 3 yay! i already watched all the term 3 vids so i can't wait to start working on the hw after this one.

mitsuki-youko 2022-11-01 01:45:34 UTC #159

@holyjosh, @prinzmoana, @Lockenheim, @CYP2C19, @Xybb, and anyone else who passes by, I'd like your opinion please

Fur or no fur?

No Fur - but looks rubbery LMAO - but not exactly in a bad way either..

With Fur - looks weird.. idk why i went lineartless here... probs would look better with lineart..:

should i just add lineart XDDDD that'll probs make it look better

For reference this is what they normally look like (drew this september 2021)

Here's an animation i made like in 2016 for my animation class (hot daem its been 6 years felt so recent

CYP2C19 2022-11-01 06:17:45 UTC #160

First of they are absolutely adorable little creatures, Second, that animations is really good, especially considering you made that 6 darn years ago.

In my opinion, those Angelic Creatures do look better with fur, BUT I feel like you could render the fur differently, The way you rendered the fur on your new drawing makes it look more spiky, almost like a dragon fruit. Think of a cat or a dog, They're completely covered with fur on practically their entire bodies, so if you rendered fur over the entire Creature, sort of like a tennis ball instead of just "spikes" of fur sticking out now and then, then I think it'd look a bit more like fur. But don't make the fur too long, I think that'd look a bit off.

Take everything I just said with a grain of salt cause I know nothing about how creatures are supposed to be designed, Just a little idea of what you could try.
Other than that those darn creatures are so adorable!.

holyjosh 2022-11-01 09:43:01 UTC #161

I think your 2021 version of the little creatures is cuter and the flying posture is more natural.
Maybe your newest version has too long wing?
And the fur of the newest version is little bit like getting wet.
If you want the creature with fur that I think you should make it more simply or the style match more. Like your 2021 version, it make me see it really comfortable and cute.
Btw, I really like your colour, never tried me out!