Hey, I'm opening up commissions again for the new year! Please check my collaboration page for the document link on my commission info and terms of service: https://www.newgrounds.com/collab/view/13155
Self-taught illustrator and animator, draws humanoid robots every once in a while
Male
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Joined on 2/5/19
Posted by itsabluebanana - January 3rd, 2021
Hey, I'm opening up commissions again for the new year! Please check my collaboration page for the document link on my commission info and terms of service: https://www.newgrounds.com/collab/view/13155
Posted by itsabluebanana - January 1st, 2021
2020’s almost over, and I’ve been doing digital art for around 4.5 years. Wow.
Despite everything in the world gradually going worse as the year went by, I’ve did a lot of things that I’m proud of. For one thing, I finally found a full-time job. While that made me feel more independent, it also dampened my art productivity, on top on a couple other discouraging stuff I dealt with the past few months. Regardless, there’s a lot of art that I’m proud to have made or made progress on.
Animations
Probably the most significant skill I’ve developed this year. I created my first digital animation in Clip Studio Paint back in April:
This is a very basic animation loop mainly to get used to animating on CSP; later on, I created more detailed loops. These are my favorites that I worked on (and coincidentally got the most attention here):
Despite the number of short loops created this year, it’s likely I won’t have the same output for next year because animations take a while to finish and I have a full-time job. Even then, animating was a nice thing to explore beyond just doing illustrations, and I hope I’ll make a short that I have in mind next year.
Background and Still Life Illustrations
I’ve done a lot more of these types of digital paintings than I expected this year! One reason may be that I've done a couple for some art contests on Newgrounds:
Another reason is that I did a fair amount of background illustrations:
And there was just stuff that I wanted to do:
I like that I’m slowly getting used to creating man-made/urban environments. I’ve always wanted to create a full illustration of a big city, and I found my chance via the Music-Inspired Art Contest a few months back. The experience I’ve gained from doing these types of illustrations is making me more confident in doing a couple ideas that I’m planning to draw out in the future.
Original Character Designs
One of my pet peeves that I have as an artist is that I always draw the same two characters over and over again, so I wanted to make more this year.
This was a character that I made back in June and was built off another OC I made for an online activity forever ago, but the animation I wanted to make with her took months to finish and was lacking a little in quality than I’d like. Nevertheless, I really like the overall design of her and felt that I was able to achieve my goal of having a clearly inspired design well enough.
This is another character design that I intend to make an animation loop about, and it’ll probably be much shorter than the above OC’s. I want to get started on it sometime in the first couple months of next year.
(I swear, I’m going to do something substantial with these two eventually.)
Other Good Things
Here’s to the new year for hopefully a better time for everyone, it’s been really rough.
Posted by itsabluebanana - September 17th, 2020
...so I made this cake that no one can actually eat. Not even me.
Posted by itsabluebanana - August 29th, 2020
Hi, if you haven't heard about it on my Twitter a few weeks ago, I've recently got a new full-time job! Because of how much time this takes up during a week and how physically demanding it is, this results in a couple of things:
If you're still interested in commissioning me in the future, please feel free to message me. I'll keep it in mind when I do decide to open comms again.
Posted by itsabluebanana - February 13th, 2020
working on a character sheet for another OC I draw frequently, likely going to be similar layout to this one
Posted by itsabluebanana - October 23rd, 2019
been working on a halloween illustration, background's mostly done at this point
aiming to finish this by next week
Posted by itsabluebanana - August 15th, 2019
hey what's up
I'm planning to open up commissions soon, so look out for that I guess
I also may use news posts to put up some previews for some WIP projects every now and then, like this one
ok that's it bye