My Flipnote Still Gallery

This drawing is mostly just a bunch of squiggles. It's a classic warmup exercise without even intending to be. I don't remember the exact order, but I did the yellow for noise, then I felt inspired by audio levels and maybe cacti or creepers for the green poles, they kinda look like a city skyline now that I'm looking at it. The red is meant to be an intruding observer, something like an eye or a ufo. The blue bubbles are there because I felt like it, or whatever reason it was I forgor 💀.

This one is a little more straightforward. I was still warming up and I wanted to mess around with the textures so I did the classic "Green hill, blue sky, white cloud, yellow sun in corner" drawing that everyone has done as a kid. Then I added sonic because I thought the trail was a good use for the textures I was experimenting with

I really wanted to push my ability to do detail with this one, I wanted it to be a clearly blocky minecraft landscape. That did't really end up happening, the contrast between the two different shades of sand also got absolutely obliterated when I exported the frames... I added a cat after I accepted that it kinda just looked like a regular desert, I like the cat addition, it saved it for me :)

All of these doodles were happening while I was waiting and listening during DnD. We're a band of pirates and I had recently been playing Phantom Hourglass, so as a Wind Waker fan this obviously put the better game on my mind and the king of red lions kinda just came to me while doodling. I couldn't quite remember the details, but I like how it turned out! Our campaign is on hiatus as of a day or so of writing and I wonder when/if we'll be back

You should probably read these in order, I drew them in an order and I'm writing about them in an order, so it'll just make more sense to follow along. Anyways, this is a pigeon! I was reaching peak boredom levels during DnD and I wanted to draw something simple so I drew a pigeon for my GF.

At this point we reach the boredom + experimenting with new medium sweet spot. I drew a skull, then made a few copies and did a different top layer for each. I didn't end up exporting all of them to my PC and I might go back to do that. This mossy skull is when I really popped off with my shading and layer usage. After this drawing I went back to the previous ones and added shading to them as well. I'm really happy with how this one turned out, I think it's my favorite

There were two skulls I remember not exporting: a skull with red eyes and serious shading that I didn't love how serious it felt abd a low effort sans. Finally the one I did export: this one is inspired by the minecraft painting that it looks like. I like that painting because it's actually a real painting, and that painting's sketch is a digital piece that includes the minecraft fire particle sprite. Its process was digital->physical->digital and that's how a lot of the paintings are! Isn't that neat?

I was still on an inverted color skull kick from the previous batch of skulls so I did some reverse etching. I filled the screen black then erased and drew this. The goal was a lot of abstract lines that I was roughly resemble a skeleton. Then I kept adding more :)

The pumpkin was just a shading doodle, I discovered that I can zoom in with R or L and an on screen button. When zoomed in you can use all your regular tools, but the width is forced to 1. I was testing out zooming in to add fine shading lines along my other ones. I also wanted to make orange, a color that isn't on the palette. Also maybe don't look into the relationship between trans girls and pumpkins :3

I drew the zombie to test out drawing the blood with two different textures, we were also in the middleof fighting a bunch of zombies. I actually happened to fall and have my warforged body sink a zombie into the swamp mud and was prone for the duration of my time drawing this lol. The design is something I kinda memorized, and it's semi inspired by Plants Vs. Zombies zombies. PvZ on the DS is also a game I've been replaying recently, and during slow parts of DnD too!

I don't remember the artistic process in making this, I kinda just blacked out and woke up with a mini Van Gogh in my hands. Maybe he posessed me because he wanted to try DnD and left that as a thank you from beyond the grave. I never thought about that, ghosts who know a creative craft can offer you something from beyond the grave. All they gotta do is possess you and then make it and boom you have a thing now, and they got to have a gross meat sack for a bit again! win! win!

While my party and I were fighting the froghemoth I got downed, this is why I drew a graveyard. Zombies had been on the mind as you have seen, so they obvisously made an appearance. I don't eally like this drawing I think it's kinda bad. My character Gurrt ended up surviving their encounter with the Froghemoth in the Ravenous Bog, but I think I would have been okay with him dying. I did his sidequest and I like my new character idea.

I believe I drew this pizza during DnD, but this second wave of drawings has much less of a linear path. I drew a bunch on different days, then I exported a cherry picked selection of them. I'm only just now uploading them, so I don't remember the exact order or inspiration for each one. I particularly like my use of textures on this one.

I drew this one either during EP introduction or during DnD. I know I created the star background without a plan for mars, then I later used it for a couple drawings, one of which is this one, another that was just a sketch of the cave we were in during DnD.

This was an attempt at a black hole, with the goal being a neat purpler and also blue and red effect around the edge of the event horizon. This is one of the first artpieces where I went in with a goal and came out with something closely resembling that goal. I'm happy with how it turned out, but it doesn't really have emotion tied to it like some of the other ones do. I might go back and redo the stars.

This was inspired by my misremembering of the pangram "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" thinking it had an obelisk in it. It was also more directly inspired by an animation by AnasAbdin called "Monolith". This piece is super derivative, but its mistakes and medium make it unique.

I just wanted to draw something spooky

This was another attempt at a space scene that feels like Starry Night. This time I got more abstract with it and made it look more blobby less space-y. I like how it turned out, but this is an example of a drawing that I have a plan for and it turns out different than I expected.

This was an abstract warmup in the same vein as the first one. I wanted to add a little more texture to my usual abstract patterns so I did! Nothing else to say about this one, it's just a warmup.

This piece was just warmup doodling. I wouldn't normally post it, but I realized artists rarely post their scribbles and warmups. I think it's important to show that this is the kind of stuff I make, I don't just make super cool space drawings, I also make scribbles.

I don't think the goal for these was to warmup, I think I just wanted to pass time and create something. Creating a piece with intricate detail sounds fun until it becomes dull and repetitive.

Swirls and curls are simply satisfying to draw to me. You can apply the previous 2 descriptions to this one as well. The -y trilogy could all have the same description, but I'm split it between them.

This has to be my favorite drawing so far. I drew this at a family event with the goal of drawing space. It turned out way prettier than I had expected, and I'm really happy with it!