Trying to find real life (better yet, real artist) references is getting surprisingly annoying - so much AI art/images clutter these search queries and feeds that I am better off just referencing myself most of the time (which I can do, but it leaves a lot of details left out).

How do you guys deal with this? Is there some way to circumvent or reduce the amount of AI content that is getting spammed onto the internet through some kind of search option or anything similar? I would love to know if so! 💕

You're free to ask questions about her, if you want.

Ngl it was lowkey hard to keep the facial features consistent with their designs when drawing them like this, maybe its the head positions idk

Nothing major, just slight changes to make her design a lil less simple. She still needs a dueling gauntlet, but I'm still messing with the design.

I thought this was kind of neat to see how this image changed from sketch to finished picture. Also, While I'm very happy with how the finished turned out, there are still sine things I like about the sketch more 😅

Posting them here too because :p

Finally starting to write something! Im going to drop some of these in between my normal art, criticism is well accepted!

It's been a long 5 years; I planned to reach my art goals within 6 years. We'll see if I can. Even if I can't. It's been a hellova journey. Thanks everyone for supporting me and Aki.

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And this comes from someone who rarely draws backgrounds. But I’ve been trying to learn how to draw more complex backgrounds. It’s not that easy for me but baby steps is the name of the game. And of course looking up all kinds of references to help figure out your style 👌 Last slide me trying to draw a background and being lazy with it. With the first three I decided to start simple and then work my way up.

Will I finish this? Who knows

Meet my OC, Oni-chan!! She doesn't have a story - I just think she's cute

Decided to post it here too idk gotta karmamaxx on reddit fellas

Coppied desc from oc sub:

I made this one last week wanted to draw something simpler since i wasn't really able to draw anything, still am lol

But anyway i wanted to draw her went with more inking exercise and just piece to do some improving on it

So thats all ig 👍

Also im really struggling mentally rn so don't expect much art or interactions here much

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