January Sun

Bailin's Longing - finished!

High res finished illustration! I was stuck on this for so long. I hope you guys like the final turnout!!!

In another 3 days I'll post the pdf of the collection of all the Bailin and Liyun stuff I've drawn. I'll still draw them once in a while because I quite like them... but back to Langwe...

Jirou and Asui from MHA

a sketch of these two girls for a very kind patron!

bailin's longing - wip shot!

Here's a wip of the newest illustration I'm working on!

I finally decided on the colours... it was a pain, I'll be honest. But I'm finally happy to move on to rendering.

After I finish this illustration (before the end of the month!!!) I'm putting it together with the rest of my Baili...

Full res of recent studies

Chinese themed studies from the past week, at full res (I usually shrink them down 80 percent before posting on twitter)

Anyway, I'm eternally on the quest for a style I like. I'm circling back to the traditional calligraphic/watercolour style I had for a while before because I love the poe...

Bailin's Longing - illustration wips

Time for another illustration! I got inspired to draw him again... 

Here's a bit of my process. I do a rough sketch, and then I block in the illustration with grayscale, taking care to make sure my values show where I want my focal point to be. Note that the lightest values are only us...

illustration - Kelong

Another character from langwen's story, some of you may recognize him from a sketch I did before. I'm not sure if I like his name, I might change it later...

I went for something very soft this time, to reflect his personality :')

I think the next one I want to paint will be either Hu...

lang illustration full res

this was just supposed to be a quick sketch, but I kept working on it and it became more polished. I was experimenting around with a bunch of new brushes I downloaded on clip studio: https://assets.clip-stu...

Langwen illustration: Atuolar finished

full res! This one took a bit of time... I really don't like how his throne turned out, but I have no idea how to make it better, so I have to stop here.

I still think my style is too "realistic"; I want to stylize it a bit more. But I'm fairly pleased with how this turned out in general. C...

langwen illustration wip - Atuolar

The first twenty percent of work of an illustration is always the ugliest. But you gotta believe in the process, keep at it, and usually it turns out all right. We'll see how this one goes

langwen illustration - finished high res

Huge before and after!! I've included the before image for comparison. They're pretty much two completely different styles, one very rendered and painted, the other much more graphic. The rendered style is harder, so I went that route to challenge myself. Which style do you like better?

Not...

langwen illustration wip

I need to create a lot of illustrations for this comic, I better stop procrastinating hahha

langwen - experimental page

Experimenting with style and process. I'm still not quite sure about it. Quality and efficiency are hard to balance... you always have to sacrifice one to get more of the other. 

Hope it isn't too spoilerly, hehe, this was only meant to be an experiment but I did use some canonical plo...

Langwen - mini strips 1

I'm going to try to do mini comic strips of these characters while I develop the Langwen story, to explore their relationship dynamics and personalities. I feel like I don't have a full grasp of who they are yet, so these are going to be my "exercises" for character exploration.

I was inspi...

Langwen - new character Atuolar

New character introduction! I can't give toooo much away since it would be spoily. But he is an important character in the story! His design may look familiar to anyone who has read the first two chapters of the langwen story from way back when...

(I already ship him with another character....

Bailin and Li Yun, last page.... for now

sad day for the two of them ;m; Bailin wonder why human leave him, was he not good enough ;m; ;m; ;m;

The only thing he's left with is human's glove ;m;

There's a lot of different roads I could take this - scifi rescue? Something more fantasy? Or more slice of life - but in the arctic...

Bailin and Li Yun, page... 7?

This takes place a couple weeks after Dr Li Yun saves Bailin, after they've spent some time together... I might draw those moments later on.

;m; 

Bailin's "don't go!! Where are you going??" face was so fun to draw ahahaha

Also, hello to new patrons!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you all ...

Bailin and Li Yun illustration done!

Here's the finished image!!! 

Ah, this is a bit different compared to my old painterly style, isn't it. I've sort of started to deviate away from that old style... it's unpolished and I don't know where to take it anymore, and it's a style that I feel like I was forced into due to a la...

Bailin and Li Yun: illustration

Ahhh I can't let these two go just yet!!! I might have a couple more pages for them... tho it will not exactly be... happy. Just a warning ^_^''

But for now they are happy! This is just a wip. I will be trying to finish this in a couple of days.

Anyway, another perk of being part of t...

Bailin and Li Yun: last page

Last page for now. Just something short and sweet.

I did accidentally come up with more lore for the story, but that's going to have to wait as I resume work on the Langwen story!!!! Being distracted is a terrible thing. I might do one more illustration for these two though!

Hope you ...

bailin and li yun: page 4/5

hehe :3c 

bailin is actually a very shy bean

Bailin and Li Yun: page 3/5

Yeah I had to add an extra page... just how stories go. Only ever gets longer, never shorter

After the short story I need to get back to work on the Langwen story >.<

Bailin and Li Yun: page 2/4

Hahaha I... got a little bit invested in these two??? So a short comic story it is.

I think I'm overdoing it a bit, this looks so clean... maybe once I've done all the pages I'll be faster with how long a page takes. 

But doing lined art certainly "standardizes" the quality of my...

a little mermay comic

The style comparison votes are literally fifty fifty in results, which means it's still up to me to decide, ahaha. So this is the style I'm probably going to do! Lined characters, lineless backgrounds.

I've been experimenting in Clip Studio with its various comic producing features. This is...

Style Comparison: Which do you prefer?

A - line style!

B - lineless style (the Reaper and Waiting style)

This is one of the characters from Langwen's story! His name is Kelong (Kuh-long, pronounced a bit like cologne),...

sketches for AAA

Some exploratory sketches for An Affair in Assumptions... along with old AAA art (just to jog my own memory)

Prince Chen Kun/Lady An and his (best?) friend Elliott... clenches fists, they're so cute, I also want to do this story so badly

full res png of new lang illustration

a new thing for mermay! I thought it was fitting to draw lang right now 

langwen sketches (I haven't decided yet!!)

some exploratory sketches I've done!

So the poll I did showed that the Langwen story is ahead by just a few votes (30 to 26). That is really too close to truly decide for me, and those of you who commented brought up some very good points that I need to think about. I was thinking about the...

Just a little poll

Hello everyone!

Let me start off with a thank you for your support!!! <3 

I would like to ask you an important question: which comic would you like to read next? I'm having quite a bit of trouble deciding. Thank you!

And if you have any other comments, or have a specific...

LAST REMINDER

'Tis the last day of April! As per my last post, the patreon will only offer Sakura tier benefits starting in May (full res pngs of illustrations; sneak peeks of my next comic).

If you are a Violet tier patron and you no longer wish to be one, PLEASE REMEMBER TO CANCEL/DOWNGRADE. I ...