Ljoonika @ljoonika@mastodon.art

Trying to imagine what my OC's would look like with actual clothes on (for a change :P) And also trying new ways to sketch things. Liking this one, simple, fast, and works its purpose. #sketching #oc

AND DONE! Rheon is like a bright autumn tree and Rruu looks like a shadow goblin and I'm happy with that~

As before, cw for fluffy nudity~

Ooop, I finished the lineart! Getting out of the depression swamp, I am~ Feeling super motivated to colour this too.

cw: Fluffies have no pants on. Bc they're fluffy.

cw for two fluffy creatures wearing nothing but fluff, I suppose :D

Rheon and Rruu are both Tundra dragons but Rheon's shapeshifting skills are just taaaad bit weaker... #sketching

Alnair has such a bright hair that I went majority tan on his skin, even tho his FR dragon is actually way more purple in colour. Also, need to test out other shades bc the purple is colour picked and way too saturated. Anyways, other than that I like where this is going so far~ #oc

Also, I haven't drawn in weeks. Mental block that is actually emerging as psychosomatic shit. My hand suddenly, out of the blue, starts aching when I think about taking a pen in my hand and when that doesn't work my mind starts trying to convince me that I can't breathe. I can recognize that stuff and it's kinda ridiculous. Best fix seems to be just Netflix and distracted doodling.

Trying to create a gijinka design for another Tundra dragon, Alnair. I tried to make the eye, nose, and ear shapes clearly different from Ori but the proportions and other stuff lean on the same-face side. I... I have a type haha :P Anyways, probably gonna test out curly hair to make him more distinct. His colours are completely different (flaming red hair, tan&purple skin, and green eyes) but I want the colourless version to be clearly different too. #wip

I'm trying something totally new for me. I probably have other, more important things to focus on (clothes, this means clothes) but I'm uninspired to do anything else. #wip

I'm used to thinking of myself as a clam, shutting closed tight with anxiety. I'm kinda doing that now. But maybe it's more like day&night cycle for some flowers? I do open up too, at least I've started to do so this last year. Night still comes but days are getting longer. This night will pass too and hopefully the next day is even longer than the last. Because I'm a damn flower, don't you know 🌺

Working with the head angle and shape and I'm increasingly just not happy with it. I want it to face a bit forward, not completely sideways, but if I attempt to turn it the snout also keeps becoming wider and I don't really want that. Or I don't know. I haven't really thought Ridgeback faces that much but I do imagine them long and narrow? Maybe I should try to imagine something else as their faces don't make much sense anyways.

I received the most magnificent redlines today, best I've ever gotten. It wasn't a suggestion for how to draw the lines but actual 3D boxes of the two possible perspectives that could be inferred from my problem sketch. Made the issues clearer than just about anything else could, I think! I'm feeling really lucky to receive such help from people who are under no obligation to do anything for me <3