2D (OC) Mira's Art Practice Log

[MetaMira]

Hey! I'm working on a NSFW game (A Very Full House, still early in development), and I'm doing all of the writing, coding, and art for it. I'm a programmer by training and experience, which means buffing up on my art skills to make sure they're up to the grade. Consistency is the key to improvement, so I've started doing practice drawings every day to make sure I'm putting in my hours. I thought you might all be interested in following along, and practicing in public forces me to stay on schedule!

The goal is for each sketch to take about two hours. Early sketches were B&W , but lately I've moved onto taking the extra time for colouring (and sometimes animating!) things.

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[MetaMira]

A quick catchup post, here's the practice sketch from yesterday: an elf gym bunny!

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This ended up being some good practice for hair dynamics - I'm still trying to nail down doing up-dos without the hairline looking strange, and this turned out reasonably. Hope you like it!

 

[MetaMira]

Some dick drawing practice today, plus a low-angle perspective to make things trickier. Today our elf gym bunny is presented with a very interesting workout offer.

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I'm also running a poll on patreon for what happens in the next sketch! It's free and open to everyone, so pop on over and leave a quick vote, you'll get to see the results in a couple of days!

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[MetaMira]

Back in the gym today, and let's see if our gym bunny is up to the multi-disciplinary workout she's signed up for! Getting the construction for four characters even remotely correct took a fair amount of time, but that's what I signed up for when I put "Gangbang" on my list of options I suppose!.

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I realised that I was started blocking out image sections in grey to more quickly apply colour shading, and that I might as well cut out the middle man and just go straight to using skin tones. What do you think, improvement over the grey+colour?

 

[MetaMira]

Trying out a new brush for my sketch for today. This one has more of a marker feel vs the construction pencil I've been using up until now. I had to be a little more purposeful with my linework, but that's probably a good thing for my practice anyways. The cleaner lineart makes colouring a lot faster (and look a lot better, IMO), so if I stick with this style I'll probably transition to doing this sort of mostly-flat coloured drawings.

Anyways, that's a lot of preamble to introduce today's drawing: An Elf Goth!

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My initial plan for this sketch had her with black hair, but I decided to go with bleached platinum hair instead. Somehow that felt even more goth to me, let me know if you agree!

 

[MetaMira]

More new brush+colouring practice today. Drawing lace lingerie is time consuming - lots of mirrored patterns that look very wrong if you try and cheat at them - but boy is it fun to look at! So here you go, an elf MILF in her bedroom lingerie!

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I have something particularly fun for today: some elf twerking animation!

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A combination of extra time on my hands + my brain not being in the right space to do any coding for A Very Full House resulted in me putting about double the amount of time I normally do into my practice art. About half of that time was spent on the static drawing, the other half was spent rigging things up in Live2D to animate it.

I'm particularly happy with this because I didn't put in a ton of prep work to animate it ahead of time (like drawing the butt/torso/head on different layers, etc) and the results still look decent. Most of the movement is driven by the Live2D physics system as well; I set up the deformers for the butt, head, shoulders, etc. and then hand animated the hips X and Y position (and camera position), everything else is driven naturally from that.

Side question, does anyone know of a convenient way to embed mp4's? It seems like there should be a straight forward way, but I don't know one!

 

[MetaMira]

Back to some static art with an eager elf nurse sporting some highly practical footwear for being on her feet all day!

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Blond hair is surprisingly hard to get right, but I'm happy with how it's turned out this time! The last few drawings have also been really good practice for drawing/adding new outfits to A Very Full House once I'm done with the current coding work.

 

[MetaMira]

Two things I haven't practiced a ton of in the new colouring style are breasts/nipples and rolled fabric, so I put both of those together for today's piece of practice art! She's a little shy, so she didn't want to show her face. Definitely no identifying information at all...

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There's usually a period of time when drawing/colouring these where everything looks absolutely terrible (I've noticed basically every artistic process has this period too. It even happens with code). That feeling hit particularly hard this time; I nearly abandoned the drawing after I put down the flat colours. It's not perfect, but I'm glad I kept working at it and got something finished!

 

[MetaMira]

Today's art comes with a Choose Your Own Adventure poll, it's free so swing on over and put in your vote!

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I wanted to get some dick colouring practice, so I thought I'd put that center stage for today's piece of practice art! I'm also still trying to figure out a good cum drawing method, so if you have any tips or suggestions for that let me know. If you want to see some pregnant elf art make sure to swing over to Patreon and put in your vote!

 

[MetaMira]

The votes are in, and at 40-2 it's a landslide! Seriously, you managed a vote ratio that would make a dictator's sham election look balanced and fair! So knocked up she is, and since you can't get double pregnant she plans to enjoy it!

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I tried a different method for drawing cum (no hard outline), but I'm not entirely sold on it. Cum practice will have to continue!

 

[MetaMira]

Quicker piece today as I try and fit in a little more work on A Very Full House. I'm also planning to be adding a swimsuit outfit to the game in the near future, so this was good practice for that!

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[MetaMira]

More work on A Very Full House hasn't left me with a ton of time for practice art and I want to do the idea behind this current drawing justice, so I've gotten up to the the stage of colouring in the flats, I'll be doing the shading and fine details for my post in two days! Excuse the rough edges, this is very much in the "looks like crap" middle stage that every piece of art has to pass through (at least I hope it is!)

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Semi-related to this: I think "The Girls of St.Elf's" might end up being a game-within-a-game in A Very Full House. I need some sort of porn game for the nerd character to be playing throughout the game, and this seems like a good way to add some bonus content into the game without a lot of extra drawing.

 

[MetaMira]

Another CYOA poll to go along with today's piece, cast your vote to decide how badly our elf-student cares about her grade! Come on over and vote, it's free!

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Can I also point out how much better the shaded version looks compared to the flats from two days ago? If you're ever drawing something and you hit a super ugly middle step that's normal! Keep going, it'll probably look better soon!

 

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"The Girls of St.Elf's"

Tell me you're British without telling me directly.

I've been lurking so far but I am certainly enjoying your thread and seeing your progress. Keep up the good work!

 

[MetaMira]

Tell me you're British without telling me directly.

I've been lurking so far but I am certainly enjoying your thread and seeing your progress. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the appreciation! Sometimes it can feel like shouting into the void, but the little bits of positive feedback (hell, even negative feedback is welcome) help a lot!

 

[MetaMira]

Time got away from me and I need to get some work done on A Very Full House, so today's practice only got up to the lineart stage.

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The public poll for this piece of art is currently tied; I might have to make some additions to the back side of the image if that stays true until tomorrow!

 

[MetaMira]

A last-minute surge from the A+ crowd meant an update was necessary to my original concept. The (un)reliability of Elf Brand™ condoms is well document, so it's no surprise our elf maiden might be leaving with more than just a good mark!

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This drawing ended up having a lot of tricky parts that took some time to get looking right. Unrealistically large cocks means unrealistically open jaws, which I needed to make look hot instead of horrifying. In retrospect I probably could have gone a little more intense with the hip bend, but overall I'm satisfied with how it went. The second dick+creampie was a last minute addition, but it gave me a chance to do a little bit of liquids practice. Bit by bit I'm figuring out how to reliably draw aesthetically pleasing cum.

 

[MetaMira]

I took a break from full character drawings to do some anatomy study the last two days. My focus here was to try and some more familiarity with the various key muscles of the arms and torso, particularly how they impact a character's silhouette. Lots of sketching, erasing, studying, and retrying for this - and it's highlighted how badly I need to practice hands!

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In other exciting news, I released v0.4 of A Very Full House today! Visitor tier patrons can check it out right now

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[MetaMira]

I was going to do some outfit sketches for A Very Full House and put them up for patrons to vote on, but realized I didn't have any solid character drawings to build them around! So I've decided to fix that with a full body, back and front picture of the main character MILF. The next two days I'll do some shading for it and do some rough outfit sketches!

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I'll be doing similar art for other characters every once in a while too, so if you like the non-elf stuff stay tuned!