lizardjay

People with lots of icons (or any number, really): do you have any kind of philosophy on what icons to have in your collection, or which ones you like to use in what situations? I want to build up my collection but I'm getting choice paralysis :D

(I'm using my Tsuyu icon for this post, as my designated Thinking icon :D)

This question is prompted by me getting back into coloring manga panels for icons... it's really enjoyable! I'm catching up on the HxH manga (in some ways futilely, since it's looking like Togashi will never finish this arc, but it's still fun).

Here's a Kurapika from chapter 364. I find characters and creatures with big eyes and no mouths SO cute. I mean, look at him! As soon as I saw him I had to do something with this panel.



And here they are at icon size. I'm torn between my options! I guess it depends on the emotion I intend to convey with it. My range of emotions in my current icon set is kind of limited. Do I want innocent curiosity, or 'you've activated an interest of mine'?



Nobody look too closely at my shading. I don't know anything, I'm just here to have fun.

My latest masterpiece:
( Sasuke, the world's most pathetic wet cat )

Critical Naruto background for this: very early in Naruto, Sasuke pushes Naruto out of the way of a ton of needles, gets stabbed himself, and says his body "moved on its own". I watched the first two seasons of BNHA with my Naruto friend not long after we started watching Naruto, and we obviously came to the conclusion that Midoriya, in episode one, is mimicking this scene and playing the role of Sasuke, who he definitely... isn't. If anyone is Sasuke it's Bakugou.



I am aware that this is a perfectly normal phrase for a heroic person to say and it doesn't necessarily have any Naruto relevance.

Anyway, that's the background for my stunning three-part art:
( prepare yourself... )

I've been sitting on these pics for a little while but life has been very Busy...

The bnha_fans rewatch folks have already seen this one but I cleaned it up (only partially, it's still sketchy) and colored it and made a background:




And this one, featuring an anatomically questionable frog!

I've been drawing a lot lately and slacking off at work to do so which is pretty new for me. I mean, I've always doodled! But when I was younger, my siblings were always so good at art, and I was... not. Of course, this probably is mostly because they're five and seven years older than me :D But I eventually decided I wasn't "good at art".

But really, it doesn't matter how "good" you are, as long as you're having fun! So here's some of my latest. (Not to say that I'm bad, I hate when people share stuff and are like "oh it's terrible haha" and then you look and it's absolutely gorgeous. But it's new to me!)

( Mostly but not all Naruto )

If I really wanted to work seriously on my drawing, I'd have to.... idk, learn anything about anatomy? Practice a lot? Learn how to color? Do backgrounds??? But tbh I'm almost happy with the level I'm at. I just want to be able to make little sketches to convey jokes or ideas :D There's always room for improvement but I don't have the time or motivation to Go Hard.

I would like to find a better app for my phone... right now I'm using Google Keep which is just a notes app. Something with layers would be incredible. Or a better way to color than using the highlighter tool. Or maybe a way to flip the canvas so I can see where I've gone wrong...