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Hide Illustration Process & Sketch Comic

Added 2025-02-04 18:39:39 +0000 UTC

Another day another song obsession that sends me spiraling until I make something out of the inspiration. I'm still as obsessed with Sweet Pill's music as ever, so I got their song High Hopes stuck in my head--this is the result! No roughs with this one, lately I've really just been hitting the ground running with illustrations. They're super spur of the moment and impulsive now, and when I get like this it usually takes me a few hours to crank 'em out lol. But sometimes I'll have no inspiration and not draw any illustrations for weeks, even if I want to!! My brain is weird. I'm really trying to pay specific attention to minor anatomical details as well, it's kind of a tough balancing act because on one hand I'm trying to do that, while also having to keep in mind that my style is cartoony and thus benefits from exaggerated proportions. I really don't want to get back in the funk I was in drawing in 2023, where my realistic style-mindset was influencing the cartoony one too much. But I also don't want to forget how to do realism!! Though I think realism benefits more from exaggeration, and the opposite (stylized being subconsciously influenced by realism) can sometimes make the drawings look stiff. Anyway, I also was motivated to make this because it helps get the anxious energy out while I await Leo's next turn. I'm roughly a week away from getting to work on that episode, wahoo! I'm really excited, I plan to go all out with the art! I hope I can make it that far, not burned out just yet but when I'm really anticipating a specific episode I tend to get impatient with the ones I have to complete beforehand. But I'll get there! 🫡

Additionally I made a little dialogue-based comic with Leo and Hazel, I do this a lot with scribbles to get ideas out but haven't committed to more polished drawings till now. They make me feel a lot of things... Hazel's pretty good at cheering him up but sometimes her attempts fall victim to dramatic irony 😔 it's this sad situation where she's saying all the right things in theory, but Leo's own self-loathing makes him take her words and use them to confirm his suspicions that she'd hate him if she knew. It's one of his fatal flaws, he subconsciously assumes the worst even about the person he loves the most. She can't help him if he won't take the first step and open up! Tbf Leo has no self-awareness regarding this behavior, if he did he'd make efforts to change it. But for now he's just not there yet!