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Just Squidding Around

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My last post for Blaugust, after a month of heavily-Splatoon weighted content.

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I drew this picture for a poster I’m planning. It’s the first digital art I’ve done in ages. I think the sketch process of this one was kinda funny, the very initial sketch was way simpler than I normally do but it worked quite well for establishing the feel I wanted.

I inked this in FireAlpaca. I seriously enjoy that program more every time I use it, and not just because it’s called FireAlpaca. Everything else was done in Photoshop.

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Slippery Squid

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This is a substitute post for my missing Friday post.

If the last picture was all about the weapon, then this one is all about the sub-weapon! I started sketching this one out before checking what gear the player wanted. I had the squid posed with a raised left hand, which I didn’t really have an idea for how it would fit into the picture. Maybe the character was taunting? After checking that the weapon was going to be a .96 deco I decided I’d depict the character as throwing a Splash Wall and making a hasty retreat behind it.

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Unfortunately there wasn’t really the space for the splash wall, so I erased the original portrait sketch and restarted in landscape. Even then I didn’t leave enough space at the top of the page for the splash wall to fit but I think the idea is there.

Maybe it’d be a better picture without the Splash Wall at all, but I want to draw one so there! Next part is to decide on a style to paint this up in.

Phlox

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Hey I actually did a thing I said I was gonna do! Today’s post is the completed painting of Team Altaira’s captain, Phlox.

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I used masking fluid to mask out the lettering on the shirt and the warning icons on the weapons. Other highlights were done with white gel pen and paint. The splatter on the right boot was created by blowing on ink patches; this time I tried using a straw to more tightly control the direction of the splatters. Additional splatter effects were created by tapping on a paintbrush held above the paper.

Custom Hydra Splatling

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Another piece of Oceanink Offensive prize-art, this time featuring II Phlox.

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Drawing weapons from Splatoon is always fun, and working out how they fit together is part of the challenge. I actually had an “aha” moment when I worked out the handle for the Hydra Splatling is a valve wheel.

Since the previous one was inked I’m debating whether to ink this one before painting it – I’m not sure how much I want to have the entire set fit together visually. Currently leaning towards not-inking it. I’ll wait a day and look at it with fresh eyes later. I can already see some bits that I’d like to fix up before proceeding.

No I’m not delaying the painting to drag out another day of Blaugust content, what an outrageous suggestion!

FalleN (June Oceanink Offensive Prize 1/7)

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The player described his squid thusly: “He’s very cocky”. I did my best to get that across in his portrait.

The face seems to have picked up a bit of splotchiness, not sure if that’s from the scan or if the art did just turn out like that. I did have trouble deciding how to tone the skin as it was described as being “tan”.

Got Kraken!

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Throughout the last few months we’ve been running the monthly Splatoon tournament series Oceanink Offensive. As prizes for the tournaments I’ve been doing art!

For April’s tournament, I drew portraits of the runner-up team Got Kraken. I’m pretty proud of these. I had a lot of fun coming up with poses and trying to illustrate recognisable weapons and equipment. I erased and redrew the Octobrush three or four times, and I’m really glad I did so because the end result is something I’m very happy with. I’m only a little sad I didn’t take some photos of my earlier attempts at drawing the Octobrush because I think some of them were actually pretty good stepping stones to what became the final drawing.

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Inkling Boy and Girl Wii Remotes

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Just a quickie for today’s post. These custom Wii Remote backs are another experiment in using watercolour on not-paper surfaces.

One of the tricks with painting these is taking into account that there’s a larger surface area to paint than is necessarily usable due to the curve of the wiimote.

 

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These guys sold at AVCon so hopefully they’ve gone to a good home! I may open up custom Wii Remote commissions at some point.