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Moana facial expressions. It was very challenging to make her every expressions and attitudes look like a 14 year old girl. Drawing a girl is always much harder than drawing a male character at least for me.
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Queen Crystallos - illustration
Illustration for an original character design, or rather re-design.
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Queen Throne Room environment design
Based off a cathedral setup; I really wanted to paint some stained glass (haha!)
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WIP of fantasy library environment
I named this as “Puddle” due to the original idea, which just kept evolving. And most likely will keep doing so, especially since I’m only working on this in between client work.
Desirable Future
Entry into THU 2019’s art challenge that happened a few weeks back on Artstation.
I had joined the challenge with 18 days left; been busy with client work I completely forgot about THU until then, haha.
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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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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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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