#magdalina dianova
Osamu is the local Daimyo and Makoto’s former master. Ruthless, brutish and with zero tolerance for disobedience. He often abuses his power for no good.
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Shiori is Makoto’s daughter who was kidnapped by order of the Daimyo when she was little. She’s taken to a ninja village where she undergoes their secret training and is told that her family abandoned her.
As she grows up Shiori starts suspecting that her father may be still out there and looking for her.
Occasionally she sneaks out of the ninja village and visits the neighbouring town. That’s where she meets Tomoe (the geisha) who recognises her as Makoto’s daughter but says nothing so as not to scare her away.
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Emperor Kazuhiko of Japan. Afraid of Norita-sama (the Shogun) and has delegated all important decisions to her. Quite vain and used to leading a lavish lifestyle.
Check out the rest of the characters from my story on my profile if you wanna <3
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Meet Norita-sama, Japan’s Shogun. Determined, strong-willed and adamant about her vision of Japan’s future. She will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.
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The third character from my lineup for ArtStation’s challenge.
Haruo-san is a local villager who loves nature and spends most of his time taking care of his herbal garden.
me on Insta
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Here’s the second character from my submission for the Feudal Japan Challenge on ArtStation.
Meet Tomoe - she’s a geisha whose two biggest passions in life are food and playing the shamisen. She owns a little Soba restaurant where she cooks and performs for her guests each evening.
She grew up with Makoto (the samurai). They were best friends and inseparable until her family had to relocate and they lost touch.
me on Instagram
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The ArtStation challenge is finally over and I’m SO excited to begin sharing my work with you! It was one of the most intense projects I’ve ever worked on, the last 4 days of it I worked for 15 hours each day and it was hell but I loved every second of it! I’ve never been this excited for a project and the characters I created are so close to my heart now. It sounds cheesy af but they feel like friends now and I’ll miss them in a way. ☁️
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The idea of the challenge was to create a lineup of 8 characters. It was my 1st time doing a lineup so it was indeed very challenging and new for me! I wanted to include some storytelling in this project to make my characters more believable and evoke certain emotions. I think this really helped me in the process and I found out how much I actually enjoy storytelling! So here is the main character in my story - Makoto, a former samurai who disobeyed his wicked master and became a rōnin. His daughter mysteriously disappeared after the conflict so he’s out to find her.
// I’m doing a step-by-step for this character which I’ll post this week so stay tuned!
I posted a lot of the progress on these characters in my Instagram stories so you can follow me there if you want to ^^
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Hey guys, today I’m working on my submission for the AS Challenge and I decided to stream for a little while (until my little MacBook bursts into flames at least).
Come join me and draw with me! <3
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yesterday’s inktober: villain / antagonist
This is the shogun in my AS story. She’s actually not a negative character, nor a positive one. She just has goals and would do whatever is takes to reach them. Really bad things sometimes.
I posted some process in myInsta stories if you’re interested :F
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Forgot to post this here!
Inktober day 2: Main character
I decided to combine Inktober with my project for the AS challenge because it will kinda help me build the world and characters better. So that’s the main character - a rõnin who’s in search of his little daughter.
p.s. undo, I truly miss you
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Inktober day 01: ‘That thing you draw most’.
People always tell me my characters look like me so I thought I’d do it intentionally for once lol.
Also, I’ve used ink like once in my life which was yesterday, so some of these drawings might be quite shitty but bear with me haha, I really want to learn ><
I posted my sketch in my Insta stories if you want to see it <3
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why oh why does inspiration always hit me at like 3am
I’ve been posting a lot of sketches and wips on my Instagram stories lately so if you wish you can follow me there:)
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Drew this at the beach last month. The beach is a friend. I miss the beach ><
SO MUCH.
me on Insta where I’m more active
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Random character from Black Mirror - the airport lady in the Nosedive episode. It was also one of the best episodes IMO
me on Instagram
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week 1 assignment for Schoolism’s Expressive Characters class
I post more sketches and WIPs on Instagram so feel free to follow me there if you want to ^^
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me, when someone says summer is over. NO.
woah I’ve been absent for quite some time now! Part of the reason is because I’m slowly transitioning to Instagram because it’s more interactive and well, popular.
I’ve had (and am still having!) a wonderful summer, worked on some very cool projects before that and now it’s time to get back on track.
I made this big-ass to do list for this month because I really really want to start drawing more again. When creating it, it was very important for me to write down a couple of things that I really want to focus my attention on this month, and accordingly list some useful exercises.
At the bottom I also added a list of things I can draw should I get stuck (because oh boi, does that happen a lllllot). Actually that’s probably my #1 reason why I don’t draw enough - because I don’t know what exactly, I don’t have a goal, so I just don’t draw. I mean it’s only logical.
My other big problem when it comes to completing these lists, is that I’m fairly confident when giving my future self the assignments. But then when I actually have to work on them, I would start questioning my choices and rule out most of the assignments because ‘there are far more important and useful exercises to be done and completing this list would be a waste of time’. (read that with the most annoying smarty-pants voice you have) No idea why would I possibly think that this makes any sense, but I do. And I quit. And then of course I don’t draw anything else that’s supposedly ‘better than the things on my checklist’ because such a thing DOESN’T EXIST. Everything is equally important in my case, because no matter what I draw I will improve. But my overthinking-self doesn’t seem to think so apparently.
I heard this really cool thing on a YouTube video by Jake Parker last night. It was about those times when you’re afraid to draw because you’re afraid the drawing won’t be perfect. Now we all know that’s bullshit, but we’ve all had that thought at least once, or in my case - every single time. But the thing is, and those are Jake’s words - whatever you draw perfectly today, you’re gonna hate it a year from now, because you’ve moved on and you’ve gotten better. So why should you stress about it being perfect now, when you’re naturally going to get better in the future?
I mean when I heard this I had to replay that part of the video a couple of times, because IT JUST MADE SO MUCH SENSE. Like truly, I felt it with my whole body, it’s just so true! Finished, not perfect!
I wrote that whole thing down at the end of my list, so I can reread it whenever I need to remind myself that I just need to finish the goddamn list, and that I don’t need to question anything, I don’t need to think of better assignments, I don’t need to stress over drawing beautiful things. I just need to draw. Period. And most of these drawings will suck but that’s FINE and it’s kinda the whole point of it, so they can stop sucking at some point.
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Had my first day off on Saturday, after 2 weeks of working 12-15 hrs a day. IT FELT GOOD. (the day off haha)
I’m so exhausted but at the same time I’m learning so so much while working on these projects. Pushing my boundaries like never before probably. And most of the time I am so far past my comfort zone I can’t even see it on the horizon lol but I can literally feel the improvement day by day and that’s like the best feeling ever. It gets me so excited that I just wanna draw more and ‘try’ my new skills or something. I don’t think I’ve ever even felt that but there you go. Everyday something new haha
Okay enough rambling, gotta get back to work.
Also lately I’ve been a bit more active on Instagram, so if you wish feel free to check it out <3
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i thought i’d upload something and remind you that i’m not active here anymore (woah surprise) so if you’d still like to see my art you can do soon my Instagram
steps and timelapse video of this drawing will be available on my Patreon page for $5 - if you sign up you’ll also get access to all of my tutorials, videos and any content i’ve posted so far ✨
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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that I’ve finally launched my Patreon page!
It’ll be be like a behind the scenes of my work - a place where I can share with you my process- sketches, step by steps, high res jpgs, thoughts and more. I will also offer to give overpaints and feedback on your characters.
Here’s the link - patreon.com/magdalina /
Support me for $5 to see the full step-by-step process of this character with pictures and notes where I guide you through my whole process! It’ll be posted tonight!
I’m also making this a Draw This in Your Style challenge on Instagram!You can see teh rules in my post there!
I will share my favourite entries on my stories and I will pick the best 5-9 entries in the end and post them on my feed too!
Have fun <3
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Here’s my interpretation of Lya - Justine Cunha’s character from her comic series! Hope you like it ^^
//ANNOUNCEMENT//
So guys I’ve been planning this for a long time and so I’m very excited to let you know that I will be launching myPatreon page very soon! There I will share with you my work process, full res finished pieces, sketches and wallpapers. I will also offer to give feedback on your art since a lot of people have been asking me about that both here and on tumblr. You’ll also have early access to any art I post plus work I don’t post anywhere! I will announce more details soon so stay tuned!⚡️
Thank you for your support, you make me the happiest bean!! ✨
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