Some lower quality drawings which I don’t think warrant their own dedicated posts.
First some images drawn for the Summer 2025 Drawabox Promptathon:
1. “It works” award, a.k.a. “The jank cup” (2025-04-24)
also also knowns as “Welcome to perspective hell, population me”:
One cool trick I found is that you can draw perfect squares in perspective using 3 vanishing points (VPs) placed on the same horizon line - 2 VPs at 90deg angle from each other and a third one at 45deg angle from the first two - that middle VP is used for drawing the diagonal of the square.
With a little bit of math it’s possible to calculate where to put your VPs to get the angles you want, but tbh it’s probably not worth the effort and it’s probably better to just place some squares/boxes in Blender at that point.
The cogwheel was first drawn as a flat 2D plan with a square around it. The multi-brush tool is pretty useful for this, since gears are very symmetrical. Then I drew another square in perspective and used the perspective transform tool on the flat plan so that both squares were exactly on top of each other. Similar method was used for the “It works” text and the pixelized emoji.
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2. Infernal distillation plant (2025-06-25)
A fictional facility which recycles trash by umm… throwing it into a volcano. The trash decomposes under heat, and the volcano has been converted into a giant distillation tower to separate the resulting gases.
The walls are 4 copies of the same fill layer set to one of the builtin textures and transformed using the perspective transform tool.
Then I added a bit of black gradient in the center using the airbrush, and a gradient map filter on top to add some color.
The lava explosion thing in the center is literally just a copy of the background, but with a different gradient map filter.
I really recommend experimenting with this pattern of airbrush/gradient tool + fill layer set to texture + gradient map on top. You can achieve all sorts of interesting looking effects with this approach.
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3. Pool is NOT closed! (2025-06-26)
For this art style I’m intentionaly restricting most things to a certain range of colors - 100% value and <50% saturation (line art is exempt from this).
Due to this restriction, shading has to rely mostly on changing hue and saturation instead of value:
- Less saturated colors will be brighter (since I’m locked at 100% value)
- Blue/purple tend to appear darker compared to other colors with same saturation&value
- Yellow tends to appear brighter
For the water, I just drew a rectangle in perspective and distorted it using the wave filter.
Then I added a fill layer set to simplex noise on top, transformed using the perspective transform tool so that it has the same vanishing points as the rectangle.
Then I just put a bunch of filter layers on top (gradient map my beloved)
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(image from day 4 of the Promptathon is here)
5. Airship port
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6. Magical lunch box
It’s bigger on the inside than on the outside.
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7. (no title)
Left unfinished because I ran out of time (this was my final DaB summer promptathon submission, and I started drawing it waaaay too late).
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Some recent doodles (all fanart).
Shinma (vtuber)
Osamu (World Trigger)
Naruto
Kokoro (Touhou)
Reimu (Touhou)
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Nice birch tree. Must have been a early snow.
Nah, I was just too lazy to draw the background.
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Endjinn, a djinn who lives inside an… you get the point.
I really like horrible puns for some reason.
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Some doodles for Drawabox promptathon
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Final illustration for a recent DaB promptathon.
It’s a bit sloppy because I was running out of time before the deadline
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“Supreme Printer Overlord”
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