- She/Her
Hiya! I'm Hazel, but you can call me Cosmic, Cosmo, Cos, CE- Anything works! I'm an artist working in 2D & 3D, with a little bit of interest in music on the side! Profile doll by @synthbun ! Cursor sprite by @plamnet
so i'm working on a new icon for myself of RGB- and i had it at 150x150 but i didn't like how it was coming out
(shaping is super hard for me @ spriting so i was just kinda sobbing over my lumpy lines)
but i'm using an ipad app atm for this, which- it's fine! it works very well, it's basically like a port of aseprite
but i decided i wanted to try and scrunch it down to 100x100 and see how it'd look- and then instead of hitting the undo button like i intended, i accidentally touched the gallery button, which sent me back to the menu.
i open the file again
i can no longer undo, so i've basically committed to 100x100
(anguished wailing)
i'm currently trying very hard to convince myself this is a good thing and i'll have an easier time cleaning this up at 100x100 and antialiasing it
like, here- this is before i scrunched it
aaand this is after(entirely unedited- i haven't made any fixes so this is purely the result of after resizing it from 150x150)
it is... not the end of the world..... but now i'm starting to miss the original version and there's no way i can get it back without putting significant work in........... so i'm just going to roll with it :'D it's either i agonize over the lumpy linework and spend 10x more time doing AA, or i make it easier on myself at a smaller scale that already looks significantly less lumpy, even if there's spots i know i need to fix now
if anyone has any feedback/critique/advice also, totally feel free to toss it my way! these are WIPs so i'm nowhere near done (shading's kinda placeholder while i figure out what kind of style i wanna go for still- and this will be animated eventually)
i'm a spriting novice still so i take whatever critique i can get!!
I think the one thing I really missed online for a while was, like.. Just looking at art!!
It's not like the platforms i've been on for the past years haven't had art on them, but it's like. Different posting and looking at art on social media oriented platforms, vs a platform like Sheezy. Toyhouse is fine, but there's a different angle to it, y'know??
but like, it's inspiring!! Being able to look at various styles and ideas and concepts and mediums and not have it specifically algorithmically served to me so I'm seeing all sorts of things!! I just think that's really neat, and it's scratching the itch that's been at the back of my brain for a while now, where I really kinda just missed this. On top of having like, my own little curated space- Setting up my profile how I want and everything.
In short, I'm feeling really happy and content!!! 👍
Sappiness aside, I feel really energized to like, gnaw on art again. I kinda go through cycles of burnout but right now I just really wanna DRAW. Right now I'm poking at making a new icon (the current one I have is a bit old- i still like how it came out a lot!! but i'm a little due for a new one and I think it'd be fun to animate one!!!) and from there, I dunno what else!! But I wanna be creative 💪
o/ Hi everybody!!!
I've mostly finished posting for today- I gotta filter through my art and figure out what to post, but I'm settling in here!!
I've used DeviantArt for like, most of my life, but as things have gotten worse and worse there, I'd been looking for a new place to call home. Same with Tumblr- I've been too nervous to post my artwork a lot of the time with the way things have been going online these days, but I think I'm gonna be happy here!!
I still have some customization to do (trying to figure out getting the pagedoll gif working + pinboard) for my profile, but I'm really happy with the options so far!!!
I've uploaded some of my favorite pieces I've done so far as well, though I may scrounge up some other stuff- I don't really finish a lot of work very often, so uploads might be a little infrequent!
I might go ahead and post sketches/doodle pages sometime, though- if that kind of thing interests anybody!
For now though... o/ I look forward to this site's future!!