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!
So I've been sharing about my first time doing a subathon on Twitch back in September since Twitch has a promotion on subscriptions the whole month. It was my first attempt at a 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. I'm not really comfortable having such goals but since it was for a good cause I wanted to try it out.
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 ended up doing! I also did lots of art and drew stickers for all those who contributed 5 subs or more. 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!
Apart from chibi head stickers I also wanted to add special icons beside the names of those who contributed. The idea I had was to ask those people for their favourite emotes on Twitch and I would draw them into stickers and stick them beside their names on the graffiti wall, with the number of stickers indicating how many subs they contributed. I thought it was a good way to fill up the little empty spaces on the wall too. Well in the end they ended up gifting way more than I expected so I just placed the stickers where I thought they would look good.
For one of my viewers who goes by Streetrata on Twitch, I drew him 2 chibi heads and 2 emote stickers, but I had a special idea for one of them.
He said his favourite Twitch emote is this dancing dinosaur called DinoDance which I thought was really cute. It was also the first animated global emote that was added on Twitch and I don't see it used often enough tbh.
Source: Twitch Wiki
Anyway, I wouldn't be doing an animated sticker since that would be a lot more work. And since their dino is pixelated I wondered how it would look smooth.
I did find a cute dinosaur reference that I thought would be good for a sticker too. I was thinking of drawing a revamped version of the dino to see how it would look but thought it would be more recognisable if I drew it as-is first.
So here's a sketch:
I didn't know how else to improve on it and thought this was pretty accurate to how it looks smooth I guess. So I outlined it:
And after adding some colours and shadows, we get this:
I thought this looked pretty good but I was still curious how the other dino would look and decided to draw that as well. So I sketched it out with the help of the reference but adapting it to the dino emote:
I thought this looked too cute not to finish so I went ahead and did it! Here's the outline:
And finally the colours with shadows! It reminded me a little of Yoshi tbh which was probably why I
liked it so much.
For the other sticker I wanted to do a special one for Streetrata since he's been supporting me a lot this year, and even bought merchandise that I designed! He also streams sometimes so I thought of making a special emote sticker just for him!
He really loves using this sip emote from one of the other streamers he supports so I thought I'd make a custom one for him, with a rat sipping on a protein shake since he always watches me while on the way to do his workout at the gym.
I've never done a sip emote before so I needed some references. I also wanted to give him a sneaky side eye kind of expression since that's similar to the one he always uses.
In the end I came up with this sketch which I thought was pretty good! I wasn't sure how to draw him sipping out of the protein shaker bottle so I drew a straw from it instead.
Tbh I don't think he actually drinks protein shakes but he's said that he drinks energy drinks a few times. I was thinking of changing it to an energy drink instead but thought this would match the gym vibe I was going for better. Plus with this expression the protein shake would make more sense. I feel like with the energy drink his face would be more ecstatic and hyper from all the sugar.
Here's the outline:
Once I got the outline down everything else was pretty easy. I decided on a grey mouse since that's the most common rat colour, and I didn't really know what colour is a protein shake but figured a light brown like coffee would work. I made the straw classic red and white stripes to give some colour contrast.
Now that I look at the references again I think I should've made the paws a flesh colour similar to the ears but it didn't occur to me at the time. Welp too late now I guess. I think it still looks alright though, and I'm glad Street loved it too!
Here's the timelapse for these stickers!
I really enjoyed doing these stickers and was more than glad to do them for all those contributed! There's just a few more to go so stay tuned!
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!
