Hey Hive!
We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!
One thing I like to do as an artist is to draw special personalised artworks for friends as gifts! Both because I'm a bad gift giver but also because I find personalised art a better gift than anything I could buy especially in this day and age. But here's the first one I did for one of my mods that I think is one of the better ones to this day:
This piece is for one of my streamer and artist friends, who goes by wolfie_taurus on Twitch! She's always really supportive and has actually done a lot of art for me despite me telling her that she doesn't have to! I felt like I owe her so much after all the avatars she's drawn for me even though she says it doesn't take too much effort. So I decided to draw her something for her birthday!
Granted, she did redeem a simple art piece from me on her actual birthday since I was streaming at the time, but I wanted to do something more special and legitimate.
I have a reward that viewers can redeem with channel points over on my Twitch channel where viewers can make me do a quick doodle on MS Paint and I'll tweet it out immediately after. Initially wolfie did redeem it with her channel points but I figured since I owe her so much and it's her birthday I'll just do it for her for free.
And after about 3 minutes, this was what I ended up with. It was really scuffed and I tried my best with a mouse which I'm not used to, so forgive me.
Wolfie's such a troll but she said she loved it and in fact made it her profile picture on discord after I sent it to her! I felt so embarrassed but I'm glad she loved both the doodle and watching me suffer drawing with a mouse under a time limit. 😅
Anyway, to sort of make up for it I wanted to actually try and draw something for her but since I was already going to be late for it I went with something simple. I was thinking of just drawing her OC but in chibi form, with a chocolate cake in front since that's her favourite flavour.
Then I thought of another piece I did for one of my streamer friends where I drew her hugging her cat and thought I could do that with wolfie since she has a dog, but I couldn't really get the right pose for her.
So I decided to just scrap that idea and go with them separated but I'd also include her dog in somewhere. Since she changed her discord profile picture I thought I'd make it fit in a circle in case she wanted to change it to something nicer.
I also changed her eyes a little bit so she looks more hyped and happy for her birthday, even though I know she probably isn't. Most of her OCs have a negative or neutral expression so I thought it'd be cute to see it happy for once. Eventually I got this sketch:
It seemed pretty good and I think this is probably the best version of wolfie's OC I've ever done since she made me draw her character quite a few times in Paint and they all looked so bad. I wasn't really sure what breed her dog was; I feel like it's a Golden doodle but I'm not 100% certain. But I figured my sketch was close enough. Anyway, it was time to outline!
I worked on colouring her first, and thankfully she only has about 5 colours to her OC. I chose yellow for the party hat to contrast the pink and purple and I think it worked pretty well!
After adding in the shadows and colouring in her doggo (wit a specialised TacoCat scarf to boot!), we get this:
And last but not least, the cake! This one definitely took the longest to replicate due to all the colours and layers. I thought the cake I drew last time was so good and just copied a vector I found since it's better than anything I could come up with myself, even for a cake.
Once the cake was done I was so relieved! I wasn't really sure what to do for the background but I wanted something simple that would make her stand out. With her colours it was kinda hard to decide, but I figured since she's wolfie, a moon would actually be quite fitting. It's also round so I wouldn't need the circular outline just to show it would fit for a discord profile picture too. I thought it was perfect since it's a more subtle way and worked with her OC as well.
I was thinking of making the background darker but decided to go for her signature pink and purple and it actually ended up looking better so I kept it at that. This was the final piece:
I was surprised I managed to finish it in less than 3 hours or so, but so thankful too since I could send it to her just a day after her birthday! I'm just glad she loved it.
Here's the 30 second timelapse:
If you're interested, I do draw on stream sometimes and you can even claim free artwork if you get enough channel points! We also play lots of interactive games so come hang out with us on my Twitch channel
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
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