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!
Last week I started sharing about my first time doing a subathon on Twitch since I've been streaming there for a while now and wanted to do something special for September since Twitch has a promotion on subscriptions the whole month. So I tried my hand at doing a charity subathon, which is a type of livestream where every time a streamer receives a subscription, more time is added to a descending timer with various rewards after a certain number of subs.
In general, I don't like the idea of subathons or anything similar but since we're doing this for a good cause I figured it's worth it. Anyway, the main impetus behind this was I just wanted to make a graffiti wall with the names of all those who contributed and that's exactly what I did!
As a reward, I also did lots of art and drew stickers for all those who contributed 5 subs or more. I obviously didn't expect people to drop that many but I was very wrong. The response was astounding and I ended up amassing quite a bit of art debt but it was fun trying to draw stickers and they came out really well so I thought I'd share them!
For the chibi head stickers, I had templates for the donors to choose from so they could build their own chibi essentially, with different hairstyles and facial expressions. I was thinking of adding accessories too but I think that would've been too much, maybe next time.
So for one of the biggest donors who goes by Rakun on Twitch, I drew him 3 chibi stickers and he chose 2 boys and a girl with 3 different faces, so this was the first one I drew:
He even said this was his ideal hairstyle and I can imagine this is what he would look like when he laughs with that hair. Anyway after colouring, we get this:
For the second sticker he wanted another boy one and chose this very emo anime hairstyle with a bored/sleepy look.
The face he chose also came with a sweat drop which I didn't want to outline so boldly so it would stand out. I asked him for opinions on skin and hair colour and he didn't really have any and just asked me to use the same colours at the first one which I thought was quite boring so I changed the hair shade a little.
The last one I managed to convince him to choose a girl one since he already got two boys, and I do like the girl hairstyles a lot. He chose this short cut with some fringe and a neutral-looking expression.
For the colours he suggested I reference his avatar which is kinda cute and based on Albedo from Genshin Impact.
I think they all came up pretty well and I liked the different facial expressions between them at least. I'm just glad Rakun liked them because that's the most important. Here's the timelapse:
I really enjoyed doing these stickers and was more than glad to do them for all those contributed! There's a lot more to go so I'll be sharing them over the next few posts!
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
Check out my previous post in this series!
