The-Mobian-Viewer

Another year, another time to be thankful. And I would never want to skip out on tradition, so here we are. >v<

For those unaware, around Thanksgiving I have a personal yearly tradition. I make a piece of artwork for those who had given a llama badge at some point during the past year as a way of saying thank you, I have to give something in return after all. This year there were 130 llama badges given to me, and that's very much appreciated. ^^

This year, I decided to be more festive for the piece. It started by taking a look at how many icons I had to work with, and brainstorming what I could do with them. The result was a Christmas reef, you know those green tree-like rings that people decorate their doors with, even including a red bow for added festiveness. Also, because most of the icons were faces, I thought I'd be cheeky and have some of them interact in someway. Either by staring at each other from a distance, sitting them next to each other for comedic effect, or shipping because why not? ^^

I've been in sort of an art rut recently, so this year was something a bit more simpler. Closed pose without any large open arms, though I will admit the hands were something tricky. But yeah, what's more simple than a holiday card. And the idea of it being a card theme was because of the background, it looked nice and thought it would work. XD
And to those that decided to give me a llama badge from the past year, I just want to say thank you all very much. It's a small gesture to some, but it's one that to me is very much appreciated. >v<

May you all enjoy your respective holidays, or at the very least enjoy the rest of the year. Me? Well, I got something drawn down. So let's see if I can force this rut to loosen up, no promises though. ^^''

My apologies also if you weren't informed right away, DeviantArt's spam filter isn't exactly keen on letting me tag multiple people right away. eve''

I said I would be doing something small and simple, and I did. And it only took me two hours, so that's fun. =v=d

First off, for long time watchers, I've slightly redesigned an old character. Basically, a simple cartoony version of myself. I decided to use gradients for his color scheme, and changed the eyes from beady black to ovular spring-green. That, and now the hair is just part of the head's outline. Like with some Pokemon. ^^

Secondly... yeah, this speaks for itself. I should be doing artwork more often, I thought I got out of my art rut with Neo Fluorite, but then it only took me ONE WEEK to mentally go "meh, later is always there." =v=''

I have been productive, somewhat. It's not all been Twitter and Youtube. When I have the free time to myself I will be researching stuff I'm into, socializing with close peeps on Skype/Discord (mostly Discord. eve''), writing stories or concepts for stories (this month's theme is Smash Bros), and digging into what I call "holes of interest." Where once I get into something or get back into something, I will just keep going and going down the hole until satisfied. And again, this month's hole is Super Smash Bros. Especially with so much talk of leaks, I just need to know the answers gosh dang it! =V=

I decided to experiment a little with this, because if I'm doing smaller things then experimenting shouldn't hurt too badly. Right? A little background color blurring to give the background more color to it with just simple colors, a sort of practice with an old Pokemon background tutorial journal I did a while ago. Playing with gradients, hues, and a little light with the laptop screen. And my most unsure thing about experimenting, the color cut off. I wanted to try doing some drawings without feeling the need to draw the whole body, and I was reminded of the bust portraits on DA. The ones that are usually waist up, I'm sure you can find examples. So I tried doing something similar to that, though again I'm not fully sure. Let me know if it looks strange to you in the comments below. ^^''

May this hopefully be enough the get the art bones working again, if not then I'll probably at least force myself to be productive and do another one of these experiments/shorts. eve''

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