Sketchies! December 15, 2024

These days I've been diving into my sketchbook regularly for the first time in ~5 years! I gotta say, I can't believe I stopped drawing in them for a time because it's sooo much fun.

I had regularly drawn in sketchbooks and on loose pieces of binder paper as a kid, teen, and during my early 20s (can I say that now that I'm closer to 30 than I was to 20?? lol), but around the time I got my iPad and acquired Procreate (literally the one reason why I bought it lol), I stopped.

I love digital art and always will, but boy it doesn't give you the same satisfaction of putting pencil to paper. Maybe it's just me? I'm not sure hahaha. But I'm having a lot of fun lately!

Here's some assorted pages from my current sketchbook! The current one I'm using is a 5.5x8.5 (around A5 size) sketchbook I grabbed for around $5. Since watching TheStarfishFace's recent sketchbook tour, I've fallen smitten to sketching with highlighers and going over them with pen!

All of these were explorations of Byn, Greeveal, and the PRISM (still debating on that name though!) in their respective stories: Mystic Paintbrush, Endaria, and Awaken. All of these names are pending hahaha.

Byn I was able to nail pretty easily, the top right doodle sealed it for me! Greeveal is going through a design change and I was trying to nail down different aspects of their character! Hopefully I can come up with something solid in the future.

And for the PRISM, I already had their design down previously, but I considered whether I wanted to make them more like a bird or similar to a phoenix. Something something more ethereal! I ended up sticking with their current design but that bird like design is still on the table...

These doodles will be in my sketchbook in due time too! Just..gimme a sec to finish adding thumbnails to everything that's already there haha (time consuming but soooo worth it in the end!!).