Artfight 2025 - Fossils vs Crystals

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Mostly gouache and colored pencils, but I used alcohol markers for the base hair and skin color, painting the gouache pink over the dark brown hair, which gave it a pretty convincing dyed look, I think! There is also some white paint pen.

I believe this was another one I used some markers for some of the dark colors. Mostly gouache paints and colored pencils.

Gouache paints, colored pencils for detail, and pen for lines! At some point I was kind of choosing between colored pencils and pen for lines/details. It's fun to use both!

Unlike my usual, I wanted to draw my finalized lines before I put down the colors. I used a fine tipped sharpie for lines, and colored with gouache paint, trying to keep it thin enough to not cover the lines. Think there's a tiny bit of colored pencil.

Gouache paint and colored pencils. I worked hard on the lines on this one, switching between many different colored pencils. I find that layering light colors into the dark in the lines tends to have a really nice look. I especially enjoy layering pink tones.

Gouache paint, mostly from my favorite pastel palette, and colored pencil.

Gouache paint and colored pencils. I relied more on the colored pencils for shading and textures, with the gouache really only serving as a base coat.

Gouache paint and pen with a little bit of colored pencil. Pen looks so sharp and striking against a thick layer of gouache. It's generally faster than lining with pencils too. The drawback is that it's less forgiving so it feels scarier to do.

Gouache paint and colored pencil. Adding highlights with white or other light colored pencils makes a big difference.

Gouache paint and colored pencil. Tried to make the colors colorful and mix-y, or something. I really like yellow highlights.

Sharpie markers and ohuhu markers lined and shaded with colored pencil. I think there's some paint pen too. This was a bit experimental, and sadly I don't think the scan looks great. But it was definitely fun to do.

Gouache paint and colored pencils. I really enjoyed doing the lines sort of two-toned, with the pink and purple.

Gouache paint and colored pencils. Pretty sure this is when I realized I should get out my fine-tip paint brushes. This opened up the door to using gouache for fine details that I'd normally save for a freshly sharpened colored pencil.

Gouache paint and colored pencils. I think this was a new outfit for the character, I improvised it based off a couple of pictures on I managed to find on Pinterest. (Pinterest is crumbling and im sad)

Sepia pens, watercolor and gouache paint. I really wanted to do lines before color again, so I tried to use regular watercolor so as to not cover up my lines, but I'm really heavy-handed with my paints and I still got it too thick, so I started using my gouache anyway since I was struggling with my watercolor colors. I had to go over my lines in several places in the end. The tone of these pens are still super light.

Gouache paints and colored pencils, with black sharpie for the background. The high contrast confused my scanner and I had to wrestle with the settings to make it look right.

Gouache paint with colored pencils. I've written that a lot today.

Gouache paint and colored pencils, I specifically remember having a really good time with my fine tip brush when I was doing this.

Gouache paint and colored pencils, it looks like I may have exclusively used my pastel paint palette, this is a pretty good example of what it looks like.

Gouache paint, colored pencils.

Gouache paint and colored pencils.

Gouache paint and colored pencils, and the first time I think that I've added transparancy to one of my attacks.

Gouache paint, black pen, light blue paint pen, and some colored pencil for shading and highlights.

Gouache paint and colored pencils

Gouache paint and colored pencils.

Gouache paints and colored pencil. A lot of these descriptions say the same thing... ;u;

Entirely gouache paint. Changing it up just a little bit!

Pen lines, ohuhu markers and sharpie markers for colors. (The pants are something else I think? Can't remember what hmm...) Colored pencils for shading and highlights.

Entirely gouache paint. It's more time consuming to do lines in paint, but it has a nice look and I was really enjoying doing it.

Gouache paint and colored pencils

Mostly gouache paint, some shading I think was colored pencil.

Another entirely gouache drawing, this time I tried for more variation in the line color.

Gouache paints and pen, some colored pencil.

Gouache paint, colored pencil

Gouache paint and colored pencils.

Almost entirely gouache paint, I think a few details are colored pencil but not many.

Mostly gouache paint, possibly some colored pencil shading. Also my construction lines are more visible than usual, oop.

Mostly gouache paint with some colored pencils. Also for some reason I interpreted some piercings as extra little eyes... (the character is spider themed, so I guess that's where that idea came from) The recipient was kind and didn't say anything about that. ;u;

Gouache paint as base color, colored pencils for shading and textures, and pen for lines.

Gouache paint, lines and much of the details done with colored pencil.

Entirely gouache paint.

Gouache paint.

Gouache paint for most colors and lines and shading, ohuhu maker for base skin color. Some colored pencil. I tried to do the heart hands pose that you can do in Fashion Dreamer. I couldn't for the life of me find a reference picture of it in the game or anywhere else, (and I didn't dare turn on the game while I had so much drawing to do) so I had to reference two different hand pose photos and feel like I made up the pose in my head. But really, I think search algorithms just suck now.

Gouache paints and colored pencils..

Gouache paints, colored pencils and pen.

Gouache paints and colored pencils.

Pen and gouache paint, some colored pencil. Based off of the card "Fortitude" from the tarot deck Star Spinner Tarot.

Gouache paints.

Gouache paints and colored pencils.

Gouache paints and colored pencils, and the hopes that I don't try to draw a vehicle again for a long time.

Pens and ohuhu maker, some colored pencil. My second ever try making a little animated drawing! I'm pretty stoked it actually looks like something.

Fine tipped sharpie, gouache paints and colored pencils. I've never done a mass attack before, and really these could have all been submitted seperately, but I found it more satisfying to make into a set. These characters are all of a species called Wishfuls.