konekoarts:

Drew a CUTE NEP since I’m gonna be cosplaying her this year at Ai-Kon.

nnnngh the sketch for this looked a ton better o well

bg brush is here, I kind of feel bad for using it so prominently because its p much better looking then the res of the picture ha….ha….sob

mite add a bit more of a gradient to the bg hmmmmmm

konekoarts:

ever spend three hours meticulously rendering a piece of femboy furry porn for a childrens video game series, then take a moment to reflect back on your life and choices and figure

yeah

yeah this is my life

also holy shit the sketch for this was like a year and a half old I’m stunned it held up this good

I like how I’m reblogging this right after one of my rl friends starts following me on here

this is the kind of thing one grows to expect after befrending me for an extended period of time

konekoarts:

shhhh just let me touch your boner

my dad almost walked in or me drawing this you fuckers had better appreciate it

(may mess around with the shading on koneko’s fur a bit more or st idk)

hey guys look its hastily drawn porn

your favourite

konekoarts:

I really like cel shading even if it doesnt look as pretty as my usual style ‘u’ I think this turned out pretty decent too???? I was having some composition issues but it turned out okay

she’s supposed to be fighting the Black King if it isnt obvious enough, the tentacles were added in for composition sake, but I’m still not 100% sure how well they fit in. I have a version without the tentacles saved if anyone wants to see it??????? idk

anyone seen making ‘I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going’ jokes will be flogged

konekoarts:

THPEEDPAINT because I am notoriously awful at getting shit done quickly, and digital painting. Apparently, speedpainting is good for fixing both of those!

Took me about an hour and ten minutes, I was aiming for an hour so its p good for my first try I guess

I should probably be drawing people since I tend to do more full works with humans but fuck it I’m sure I’ll be able to apply my knowledge there if I hope hard enough

WOW those eyes are malaligned I may just go back and fix that because really

konekoarts:

I finished this last night and I was super proud of it and then I realized I didnt have any ideas for a good bg and I just sort of rammed my head into the wall

OH WELL I am the reigning champion of lazy ass backgrounds anyways heh

Drew QUEEN CHRYSALIS because she’s p awesome, although it came out not looking a ton like her ehuehue. Probably because I keep drawing ponies with human length necks because I dont actually know how to horse anatomy

I’m going to be completely honest this was 99% a reason to fuck around with cool effects

hello my name is koneko and I am attracted to this cartoon horse

konekoarts:

dicking around with this cutout style tutorial on an old sketch. This had about a million layers so theres some layering issues going on, but overall it turned out p good

wow my old facial/limb anatomy was really bad huh. that pic was only a few months old too. ~IMPROVEMENT~ I suppose

Theres no canon non-manga source I could find for these outfits so I was forced to WING IT with the colours. I think they mostly turned out p good save for Abiru’s boots, but somehow I’ll live.

MOSTLY OVER MY ART BLOCK aw yea B)

konekoarts:

more dumb doodles so I can get back into the spin of drawing. This is from a p old sketch I did ages ago

There’s a bunch of mistakes on this in regards to berns outfit design but I dont care because this sketch is a year old and I am about to pass out from cramps

Edit: NOW WITH ADDED LACE

konekoarts:

dejimans

(I’ll draw something that isnt doodlepages sometime I swear)

konekoarts:

I got some G1 ponies from a thrift store a bit ago, so I drew some of them in a vaugely FiM style

my Snuzzle had a really short haircut, probably because she was going to get rehaired, but I thought it was cute so I kept it in rofl

also Lofty and Kingsley are my faves lol

HEY LOOK I’M ACTUALLY GETTING AROUND TO THESE

I was dicking around with styles and apparently weird style means weird face now apparently

I promise it looked better in the sketch

konekoarts:

HEY GUYS THIS IS IMPORTANT YOU SHOULD READ THIS

so I figured I’d do one of those IMPROVEMENT MEME things since I was recently reminded of their existance and fuck if I have any actual art to do and I figured I may as well attempt to dissect my current art block with it.

so the original progression of my art is pretty straightforward, it goes from absolutely awful in 2007 when I’m using no references of any kind, and no digital media to use, and improves somewhat after I begin using (albeit heavily stylized) refs, practicing anatomy more, and getting access to a version of photoshop that actually works, although without a working tablet and instead opting for using the line tool, with predictable results.

the biggest visible improvement in my art was when I was 16, when I found out that the tablet I had for the past two years actually worked with my new laptop, which I then proceeded to use for the first time, to considerable improvement. Some may have attributed this to the magical powers of the tablet making my art automatically improve, and while I will admit that it had an obvious effect on my art, as it no longer had the stiffness and lack of depth that the line tool gave it, but for the first time in a long while, making a relatively completed piece was easy for me. I had more stylistic options, I could finally use pen pressure influenced tools like the Cool Kids, and I could produce something I actually enjoyed and was proud of in a matter of hours, rather then something substandard that I was hesitant to share online.

Now no shit not everything I made was a super awesome masterpiece, but I honestly thought that was of a benefit to me, I was willing then to spend half an hour on a doodle I’d throw up online rather then now where I feel I have to spend hours on a piece rendering it because I don’t want to waste an opportunity to create something super awesome and detailed, when all this has been doing for me is making creating art feel like a chore.

back then I was okay with doing some shitty quick lineart, slapping some quick colouring on it, and calling it a day, and that’s good, because I’m getting a shitton more experience from doing that a dozen times then I am sketching something, and then getting halfway done with the lineart because I’m overwhelmed with the thought of finishing it and the fifty other wips I have in my folder. I wasn’t so afraid of my lineart or colouring not having enough depth, or oh no what if theres a minor anatomy mistake, although I was still looking up to better artists, I didn’t feel so crippled by inferiority as I am now, and I wasn’t so paranoid about having the finished product absolutely perfect every time, because I was practicing little by little in my dumb little doodles.

So I guess what I’m saying is that it’s really, really important to just keep drawing, and keep getting at least something done, no matter how little confidence you have in your work. Not everything has to be a masterpiece, and while no fucking shit doing studies and using references are super important (And something I really really need to do more) Art really should be fun for you to create first of all, and not something that feels like a chore. You shouldn’t be so overwhelmed with how you want the finished product to look that you lose all enjoyment of the artistic proccess

idk theres a good chance I’m completely wrong about all of this, different things work for everyone after all, but this is what I’ve found has worked best for me in the past, and definitely something I’m going to try doing more of in the future

konekoarts:

ok I promised myself I’d refrain from flooding this place with wips but I am having Issues with mami’s arms here and I figured I’d grovel for a redline or something here

they’re supposed to be holding her dress up, but I’m pretty sure the angle/pose/how I already drew the sleeves has rendered me incapable of drawing them as anything more then malformed sausages

I’m pretty okay with the rest of it so far, save for the usual overly thick lines, and I’m glad I at least have a bg sketch to work off of as well lol

reblogging on my main blog as well because I have more followers here sOMEONE HELP THIS SAD INCAPABLE CHILD LEARN TO ART

konekoarts:

god I didn’t even notice how horrendously bad the anatomy on jade’s torso/davesprites head is until I finished colouring this aaaa

oh well I’m improving on colouring a bit and that has to count for something

also drawing space too, apparently. Although I did p much just derp out on the bg here since I am a MASTER PLANNER who totally plans compositions out before finishing a piece

totally

also I like drawing davesprite he is fluffy and kawaii