100 days of art

[Leyelle]

Her family thinks she's a "degenerate hippie weirdo" for the way she dresses, having a lot of tats, etc. Mostly grandma has used some very choice words for her before, and nobody stops her because she's old.

Both her and Chili are kind of ostracized from their families for not fitting in. Him for being an artist while the rest of his family work high paying office jobs and Texas for being a free spirited vegan lib in a gun-toting, hunting conservative Texan family. But that's part of why Texas and Chili get along so well despite being opposites in a lot of ways.

Also yeah, I love the floral on floral combo for her

[abigaillmartin]

Day 55:

Finished an episode of Elsie today:

WOOOOAH! I didn’t draw Houdini! Woooooah! 🫢

[Leyelle]

Texas reminding everyone that she is a baddie. "Triumph" is the emotion of the day. Every piece of clothing she is wearing she successfully stole from Chili's closet with the exception of the hoops, so we should all count ourselves lucky we have never had to see Chili in those shorts

Also: we are half way there day 50!!!

[abigaillmartin]

Day 56:

Working on a logo with YooBoo

Yes that’s right! I’m releasing Bound to be Together onto Tapas!

[Leyelle]

A sketch for my comic ZZR. Every character and scenario is just an illustration of my real life in this comic so this character is basically a sona for a friend of mine (names all changed ofc)

[Lensing]

Do you have an art plan for next year already?
1st of january is always a good starting point for a personal challenge.
I usually start too ambitious and realise that it´s too much and it helps
me to define goals and set limits and have days off from training/learning.

I still want to learn coloring. I´m good and fast at flat coloring. I want to learn
to draw painterly and achieve that it stops looking muddy. It´s a very hard discipline
and I have high expectations about colors. I don´t like the too dark, too saturated
kind of colored comics and really love the traditionally painted looking ones.
I often think about how great comics would look like with better colors and at
the moment my comics are in the group of comics which don´t look good.
I tried to solve that problem with desaturated colors, which works but is
not really what I want.

Sorry for the long monologue

[Leyelle]

No worries about the length of the monologue XD.

I had a plan for 2026, I have to see if I can find it again. I want to study different weaknesses every month, backgrounds, individual poses, poses that include multiple people, hands, male bodies, lighting/shadows, coloring etc.

I think I'll start with male bodies because I have been putting that off for ages now

[Lensing]

I have a good but also hard training idea for drawing the male body.
I´m doing 8 poses every morning, full body turnaround with the
always avoided back poses. I do this with a timer to not spend
too much time on it. Then I mark everything which I want to
improve on and look up one thing. I´ll keep all sketches and
check if I improved.

[abigaillmartin]

It’s hard to draw the male body don’t I know it. I try though!

Okay. Bad example.

Haha Ernest. He gained a six pack by the second season of Elsie. So over the course of four years he got stronger.

[Leyelle]

That sounds effective but maybe too difficult for me rn

[abigaillmartin]

Day 57:

Cover idea

[abigaillmartin]

Day 58:

Completed cover! And it turned out WAY better than I thought it would!

Woooo!

[Leyelle]

Fear. Texas is deathly afraid of dogs, especially slobbery ones

[abigaillmartin]

I was scared of dogs too when I was younger. Like all the ones, but it got better overtime. I still don’t do well with big dogs though only the little ones I’m okay with.

[abigaillmartin]

Speaking of little dogs

🥺

[Lensing]

This is really good, I have the feeling that I wrote this before

[abigaillmartin]

I gotta admit. This undoubtedly cool!
The dynamicness! The colors and yet, it’s so simple.

Now all it needs is a logo.

[abigaillmartin]

It is though! Hehe!
Thank you dude.

I’m so surprised at myself how it turned out. I really thought I was going to fumble on this one.

[abigaillmartin]

Day 59:

Hmm. We may need another logo.

It’s cool in concept but in print… the practicality is just not there

[abigaillmartin]

This is so much better