#cobalts art shit

Had to animate a simple walk cycle for my 2D Anim I class. My teacher suggested a stick figure to start.

Well… I came up with a stick figure, alright. Tried to make this one feel vaguely unsettling. :)

Well. Put in over 6 hours on this today, trying to complete the 30 minute tutorial I followed. Aaand I’m still not done. But at least I managed to do the modeling and texturing today. Tomorrow I’ll do the lighting and rendering, and then I can wash my hands of this embarrassment hahaha.

But hey, at least I managed to complete something in Blender. All it took was bashing myself over the head all day to accomplish this much.

tfw your best friend is oblivious as fuck

Debated whether I was gonna post this up since I lost the latter half of the footage where I get to the entertaining part (coloring), but I figured I might as well since I went to the trouble of recording it. Not worthy for a YT upload though, since it’s an unfinished recording. Also it just doesn’t look very good when TikTok cropped. So, I’m afraid this one’s a Tumblr Exclusive.

@buttlawyer​dog-dared me to make a Muppetsona, so here she is!

Some facts about her:

• Her name is Nicole and she’s a Dragon (obviously). She breathes reddish-pink fire, can fly, and cast limited magic spells! Despite being a dragon, she’s furry instead of scaly.
• Young adult, in her 20′s.
• The white spot on her belly is heart-shaped!
• Gray-romantic as fuck. Right on the edge of being romance-repulsed, even. Ironically loves hearts as a shape motif and lovecore as a general aesthetic, though, just to be contrary. :)
• Gender expression fluctuates, but pronouns stay “she”. She’s experimenting with the idea of using “they”, as well.
• Black boots or sneakers mandatory. She’s deceptively light on her feet. 
• Likes wearing her sunglasses as an accessory, regardless of if she even needs them.
• In terms of the other cast-members on Sesame Street / Muppets, she’s fond of Bert, Ernie, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Alan, Cookie, the Count, and Oscar. Despite not liking kids, she’s got a secret soft spot for Elmo and Big Bird, too. Despite having a lot of fondness for most other cast-members, she doesn’t like Zoe at all.
• In terms of scale… she’s slightly shorter than Cookie Monster.

And finally, perhaps the most important tidbit about her:

• She’s got a signature laugh similar to how Bert and Ernie each have their own signature laughs. Hers sounds like “tch tch tch tch”.

Some very early concepts for my muppetsona design. As you can see the earlier ones (the two on top) were WAY off the mark for the Henson universe. I think the bottom design is getting closer, but still needs a bit of refining. At the very least, I discovered the species and body type I’ll be using for them!

My 2D Animation I instructor asked us to do more ball bounce animations, this time with balls of different weights and physics based on reference video. Once again, I took things too far and built a rig for it. This rig is more advanced than the one I made for Nightmare’s bounce. Figured I’d share a little behind-the-scenes glimpse into how it all works, on the surface.

I’m not quite sure yet if I’ll use this single rig for all of the bounces I have to do, or if I’ll make new rigs for all three of the bounces. I’m leaning towards the latter, bcuz I want them to look and behave differently based on the kind of ball I’m animating.

Rip. Here I go making things waytoo complicated for myself!

It occurs to me, I never posted this up on here. This is actually super old, from like 2019. I was just reminded of it today when I was browsing my old linkedin that I never use.

Was an assignment for my Vector Graphics class I took at the time.

2D Animation I Assignment: Do a simple ball bounce in After Effects.
Me: ‘Simple’… I don’t follow.

Listened to this for most of the time I was working on this.

This drawing is no bigger than an index card, but I clocked over five hours on it today. Oops. I regret that the original sketch was so close to the edge of the page; but then I suppose that’s what I get for going all out on what was supposed to be a doodle for a sketch dump.

My SpongeBob OC, Cristoff Vishus-VonFishus.
Gelly Roll pens on multimedia paper. About 4.5″x3.5″

So I saw a cute look today and I had to draw somebody wearing it.

Comm for @opulent-octopus!
( I’m offering SpongeBob-related comms for super cheap rn! Snag one while you can! )

BG from the comm I did for @opulent-octopus. :] Full res, just cuz!
(Wanna snag a comm from me for SUPER cheap? My SpongeBob-related comm info can be found here!)

Doodled this to enter @squeaky-boots-blog‘s SpongeBob-OCs-only collab.

Some WIP out-of-context frames for an animation I hope to have ready to post by next week or so. :]

Drew some Al’s with some new pens. ♥

Daddy’s Little Princess.