This is the last part of the Nunnery backgrounds (okay, there's one more shot I completed, but I'm keeping it for later).
I think it might be less fun if I explain the exact plot of everything happening in advance. I'll keep working my hardest.
are you doing okay? like genuinely. everyone has been really up and do...
2020-10-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You can tell I had fun with the backgrounds, right? I said before, but I set one specific goal for each video so I don't get overwhelmed, and having some kind of sense of adequate perspective was my goal this time.
The character animations have a separate goal ('timing', or like, spacing the movements nicely), so that's...
2020-10-27 23:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm about 3/5ths done with the video if I were to put a fraction on it, apart from the character intensive stuff that I'm going to do once the backgrounds are finished.
thank you for your patience and support, it was really appreciated.
2020-10-27 23:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Final update. I'm going to move into roughing out the action for this part of the video, as well as finish as many other backgrounds as I can. In some ways it's a scary stage. Thank you for your patience.
2020-09-30 03:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The references for this video are based on a real place that I know. The gargoyles had to be changed into lions.
2020-09-30 00:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Back on the horse! I'm back on the horse. Aiming to color and finish as many backgrounds as possible so I can get this music video moving forwards.
I actually have a kind of narrative planned when all the music videos I've made so far are played sequentially, so if I meet my goals for this one, it will make more s...
2020-09-29 23:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The subtitle on the lower left hand side reads 'Nekov's gun'. Credit to (twitter users) @campmonday and @partyprat for design collaboration.
I wrote in the inspiration section that I was thinking of Oleg Vdovenko's work (concept artist from art station), but I was also thinking of Focus' paintings (@qs75834 on twitter)....
2020-09-26 06:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys, I'd like to share some personal pieces. The first is a set of stickers I did as a gift quite a while ago. The second is a new character (not from any particular project yet) that I feel kind of fixated on.
It's been a rough month. A friend died and I have mostly been dealing with that and trying to help where a...
2020-09-25 06:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I forgot to explain my process for this! The song is like. super long, so I divided it into like 6 sections. This is the second one, I'm kind of approaching them as distinct scenes.
This part is based on Rook's videogame!
2020-08-30 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a lot of fun with research! I looked at Notre Dame, the Black Cauldron, and even a little bit of concept art for panty+stocking. After a while, I was filled with unease that I wasn't doing the video fast enough, so I started the storyboards.
I hope everything is going okay. I really appreciate you sticking by me t...
2020-08-29 20:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working hard on the next video! The research stage is kind of fun, honestly. I want to push myself to improve a little bit. It's a little rough so far, but it's coming together!
Song by Heaven Pegasus (now known as @ASHNERVE) ft rook & nomie
2020-08-17 20:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's going to be broadcast on a youtube premier thing on Devi's youtube 9PM EST / 6PM PST - the channel is here! https://www.youtube.com/user/someblacksquares
I'm going to try to do more 'unpaid' posts, since times are hard ...
2020-08-11 18:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Early WIP - for the first time I got to hire someone which is really exciting. I gave direction but the posing is all thanks to them. They are still deciding how they want to be credited so I'll need to update this later.
I drew/posed the tails for this, and they did the dance lineart/coloring so far. I'm still wo...
2020-07-30 02:54:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm so proud of how this turned out - it looks like a normal stepmania/DDR game on the left, I spent a long time trying to nail that, but the bright side is I can use it to frame other sequences now : )
Nervana's devil zukin outfit here is a rotoscoped from the original game, and we're going to use that as the bac...
2020-07-26 01:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi again! I realised my animation process videos needed improvement, so I'm showing the sketch layer as well!
This is a pretty rough production since I want to finish it within the month, so I didn't do any undersketches for this one, I just worked from reference material directly to get the shapes right.
Ev...
2020-07-24 06:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! I'm nearly finished with this music video which is exciting;; I wanted to make the progress videos that I share better - so I'm looping them to make it easier to take it, and including my 'sketches' so you can see the work develop.
I mostly just wanted to talk, everyone is really financially stressed rig...
2020-07-23 04:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Concept work for Rook's new video. I had to make some basic turnarounds to feel a bit more confident with these characters! I thought it would be more fun to get a bit more 'behind the scenes' as well as posting finished clips.
For earlier development than this, I mostly do collage and hunt out references. I'm excited a...
2020-07-01 06:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is going really well, I feel like i'm definitely improving!
Let me know if you have any art requests and I'll try to do a few. : )
2020-06-30 05:41:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Is doing updates of the different shots I'm working on like this okay? Is it better when I do a breakdown of how I color and stuff?
2020-06-28 21:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For the 'heaven' music video - I started roughing out my plans for Rook's video too (from the 2020 knives album)
2020-06-27 22:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
working on the video for 'Heaven' by MOM(/girlrituals) still, then I have a video for Rook's new album in the works! This was a lot of fun to do;; Blengins are from Henry Darger's Realms of the Unreal. His works aren't for everyone, the cat-headed blengins are an element that I hyperfixated on.
2020-06-27 02:21:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really proud of how this turned out so I thought I'd do a breakdown of the steps I went through digitally. the full res picture, and fully photoshop file (layers unmerged) is attached, too.
The characters belong to Velvetomo and Goblincouture on twitter. Hopefully I'll finish one more animation post before the end o...
2020-05-28 00:53:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the still images! I've been working hard on layouts. The second one is a Henry Darger thing. Doing some character animation next!
2020-05-22 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Preview of how the next black dresses vid is going. or maybe its girlsrituals im not sure
2020-05-20 23:18:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The original album cover for MSI - FGWSS was drawn by Jamie Hewlett and is only included for comparison purposes. Attached are the full resolution pictures, and also the photoshop file for the first picture!
I was really productive with these.. it's kinda a coping behaviour for me, haha. Next month we are getting back i...
2020-04-29 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an insight into my digital process! A lot of the times the final pieces you see online, including my comics, have been worked on digitally after the paintings are scanned.
Do you like the original painting better, or the digitally edited version?
I've included the full photoshop file attached below, if you...
2020-04-28 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my most honest but least informative process post ever. Ref material 'Proud Maisie/the end of love' by Frederick Sandys, character is Juno from Beastars, part of the collage in the top right is original art by Paru Itagaki, taken from Beastars comics panels, and is included only to explain my process producing the fin...
2020-04-27 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This got me back into painting again after a year long art block. I had an amazing time, and it took the entire run of Tiger King reality show to finish. The actual painting is pretty small, so the details were super painstaking!
The reference is 'The Bed' by Toulouse Lautrec
2020-04-26 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Monthly round-up!
I had a great time collaborating on this fanart for the videogame FALLOW, by Rook, out soon. The creature in the background was drafted by Kenzie, @yoplatz on twitter and instagram.
Next month, April 20th, 920LONDON comes out. Please make sure you have the latest copy downloaded if you want...
2020-03-30 05:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post
