The thumbnail kinda looks like sonic

BazaarMonk! Your drawing is on fire!

bonus unhinged reference art collage

Thanks!

Nice!

Thanks a lot!

haha nice. And thanks a lot! I appreciate it.

Awesome!

may I see it?

looks great, would make a good album cover

Au-- AURORA BOREALIS? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized ENTIRELY within a drawing you made?

... fukkin' sick.

Thanks! Yep I need to practice more haha but definitely I'm going to add more black tones and effects haha XD ^^

Very good angles and shots—the positioning of the cathedral, in particular, works well. It might be worth refining the fire effects and adding more black tones to the characters.

Most of it is black metal and 90s/00s idm album cover art 😁

But more seriously, I think it all probably stemmed from a few things.

1. Mindless, repetitive doodling would help me focus during school, boring work meetings, etc.
2. I've always been terrible at answering the question "what should I draw?"
3. I really like detailed, glitchy, grungy, generative computer art; illuminated texts; and pre-Columbian art of the Americas

There wasn't ever a "I want to specifically do this" thought to it. One day I just decided "I'm going to just fill up a page with straight/angular lines" and kind of liked the result, so I just kept doing it and it evolved from there. Here's some super old ones:

Using dots instead of lines at some point:

Here's a couple of styles that I don't really do anymore for no particular reason:

After doing it over and over and over for years I gained more control, built up a repertoire of "patterns"/"structures"/"styles", and could more confidently make "decent" drawings more often that garbage drawings.

But yeah, most of it is just using a small set of simple marks in repetitive ways to slowly build more complex structures, evaluating how it's progressing, and trying to add more without messing it up (or trying to save it). Almost always "intuitive" rather than a conscious decision. The main conscious decisions are essentially:

1. What medium?
2. Angular lines? Drippy, organic shapes? Stippling?
3. Color or no color?
4. Size?

And just wing it from there.

I just remembered a piece of my childhood, probably explains instinctively going to tracing. I used to draw sonic the same way. My parents yelled at me for it, saying it would damage the monitor, so I took my game covers, manuals, and comics out and taped them up against a window in the sun to trace.

Thinking about it now, I was able to make fan comics and share them with friends. It worked then, but I guess the biggest difference is that the excitement to pursue has been somewhat replaced by the dread of not pursuing it.

It's very interesting. I probably am not the best for making a comment as I'm not really skilled myself and am afraid to make a wrong feedback, but you reminded me of when I actually did some sort of tracing when I started drawing as a kid, by putting a paper on the computer screen and try to draw over the lines that way. I also had a book on "how to draw manga for noobs" on the side.

There's no issues to do some tracing, it kinda does help to study how other artists do their proportions.

It's like a sort of, going out of your way to draw something that is out of your comfort zone and understanding why it looks good.

Don't be afraid to do more, I'm sure you'll find and improve your own style on the way.

wonderful!

I appreciate a wholesome use of wigglevision. Salad Fingers tainted the format for me.

I love it!

I wonder if we do that in Oregon. I've seen the elk in winter, not sure if they were being fed.

Aw, I love this! The elk are so cute! Well done! :)

I think you captured it well!

It happens, just in case it comes up it would actually be 2nd, not 2st.

very not lousy. nice work.

Thank you—do come back and share any thoughts you might have! 🙇

Thanks for pointing that out!)) Yes, that’s a typo; the previous text template had "2 st" I forgot to put it away .. . 😩