note: i'm posting my april and may art blogs around the same time, so my april blog includes comments in hindsight. may blog will come very soon!
for the first half of april i struggled to draw, similarly to march. i had a difficult time finding the motivation to get up and draw, but at least i was beginning to get some inspiration. my pieces this month are limited to sketches.
my oc venn. i've always had a gripe with the way i designed him. drawing him never came easy to me and i do not like stepping out of my comfort zone for art so i ended up drawing him less. i'm stubborn and didn't want to completely redesign him because he's been around for so long. if anything, the difficulty in drawing him made him one of my more unique ocs. instead i made a minor tweak to his hairstyle (longer hair and a messy style) that makes drawing him come a lot more naturally to me.
this is such a minor annoyance, but venn having piercings never made sense in any context of his story besides aesthetic. i could just not gaf but it bugged me for too long so i removed them.
sorin and rias comic. the version i posted doesn't have sorin speaking at all and i do not remember writing a speech bubble for him lol. i want to draw out more comics with them, but all i can manage are nsfw ones. regardless, i have a lot of fun drawing their expressions and reactions.
group ocs. with the release of the witch hat atelier anime, i wanted to design my oc (amel) as a brimhat and ended up making designs for the other three alongside her. these group ocs are already all monster-like and have some sort of modification that reminded me of forbidden magic, so they slotted into their brimhat roles quite nicely.
one-off design and friend's oc. these were the only colored drawings (and the last drawings) i drew this month, around the 20th. the first was a demon-like design. i think i straight up forgot how to color. if there is ever bright saturated colors at the scene just assume it's because i don't know how best to color the piece. it is a miracle i managed to color the birthday piece. at the time i wasn't satisfied, but with my low motivation i tried not to be too hard on myself.