Two of em were, but the middle two I hadn’t ever seen before, so thanks for sharing! :)

Both of your posts are really cool! I dig your style. :)

Guns would definitely fuck up the roof of my mouth :(

Is this a joke riffing on the fact that May 9th is Go(5) Ku(9) day?

Superb. 😩🤌 Thank you 💕

Me too! :)

I opened up the comments to say that it was reminiscent of Lane Smith artwork, particularly “The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales” but I can see how it would remind you of Scary Stories artwork, too. :)

Ooh! I really like how you played with the negative space in this one! The haziness of the background and the way it frames the subject in a hazy aura gives it a real ethereal quality. Our eyes are naturally drawn to faces, so the lack of facial features only accentuates the dream-like quality of the drawing. I like the creepy hands, too! :)

Thanks! The idea of a kelp forest seems so mysterious and pleasing to me.

Something about the combination of the way light refracts through the (relatively) shallow water, the dramatically reduced range of view due to the density of water, plus all the life that these forests can potentially harbor have really appealed to me lately. :)

Here’s an article about the mural (and some others): https://kapionews.com/index.php/2020/12/04/local-art-powwow-kakaako-murals/

And the mural on the artist’s website: https://www.tatisuarez.com/murals/powwow-hawaii

Awesome! I’ve always wanted to do linocuts. Is this a metallic ink? It looks great! :)

This is cute! I like it! :)

This is dope.

Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi) from Bocchi the Rock.

I’m not a girl, but the intense social anxiety is the same. I think I’m more that future version of her that she envisioned - the one that was drinking beer and reminiscing about the friends that she used to have. I used to play guitar though I invested more of my time into art rather than music.

Ooh, creepy! I love how even with the mask it feels like it’s shooting me a menacing look. :D

Also it lends itself to a bit of pareidolia, I think, with the “bugged out”-looking slightly protruding eyes, the smudge that resembles a nose, and the mouthpiece (minus the filter) that makes it look like a monkey’s face.

12 monkeys? 🤔

Thanks! I’m glad you like it. :)

I’m in.

I really like the composition and framing with the wreckage on the right! Seeing this and your last submission, it feels like you have a really firm grasp on depicting narratives through your drawings. :)

Initially I got a sisyphean vibe from this, but it’s actually pretty encouraging. :)

Thanks! The process will vary a bit depending on what I’m doing the figures for, but generally I start with the purpose of the pose.

Sometimes there’s a story or narrative that informs the pose, and sometimes I’m doing the pose to do something else, like costumes or turnaround sheets. I’ll do thumbnail gestures to do variations based on that purpose and pick one or two to expand on. I’ll do a bigger gesture for that, check the balance, fill out the basic forms, and then add or finish little details, like anatomy that sits on top of the basic forms. Then I’ll flip the drawing and check to see if it’s balanced, tweak any details I feel need correction, and then flip it back.

If I’m just noodling around, I start with whatever area of the body seems most important - usually the head or torso - though sometimes I’ll have a specific idea or feel in mind, and I’ll start with whatever part of the pose seems most prominent. Like, the female figure at the bottom right, I thought, “I want a slinky female figure with a hand raised menacingly, as if pointing or casting a spell”, so I started with her raised hand and worked my way down from there.