Thing I Made In 2021 For What Would've Been Steve Waller's 70th Birthday. Credits On Albums Don't Really

Thing I made in 2021 for what would've been Steve Waller's 70th birthday. Credits on albums don't really go into the minutiae of what bit of what track who did what for so I can't quite be sure that he did what I'm about to say he did, but I've seen in live videos that he did guitar talkbox stuff, and he was Manfred Mann's Earth Band's guitarist when they recorded Angel Station so I at least have reason to believe that he was the one doing the really sick talkbox/guitar solo on Angels At My Gate, the title of which this drawing is inspired by. Not the lyrics. The lyrics are about being addicted to cards, which doesn't look as cool.

Periodically I find reason (Discord server art challenges) to draw Pokemon gijinkas and a couple of times I've been proud of my efforts so here are those. Cacturne from 2023 and Dustox and Beautifly from 2021. I don't think Beautifly is especially clear but I was really invested in some kind of hippie drummer look for some reason so there she is.

Character designs for a game idea from 2017 that I occasionally remember, formatted in the worst possible way for most websites for height comparison purposes. Basically here's this fantasy setting with orcs (1, 10, 12), trolls (2), goblins (5, 6, 9) elves (8, 11) and various magical entities (3, 4) and a UFO crashes in the middle of it, hence the robot.

Here's some slightly less poorly optimised images:

And here's a 2017 v 2022 side-by-side comparison because I'm very proud of how hard I owned 16-year-old me:

Slightly regretful about losing the badger but his replacement is still a badger in spirit.

Hunter's Dream from Bloodborne, from 2020 when the game was turning five. Drawn with an attempt to emulate Edward Gorey. The outlines for the church and the stairs were made with a very good and proper pair of projections, though you may notice some fudging in those four spike things around the spire because the projections were intersecting and I couldn't be bothered to fix it properly. Two wolves, one simply couldn't be bothered with that at the time and the other definitely spent more than a week getting this finished.

Ordinarily when I say I drew something with a mouse I am compelled to add, "using the Pen tool" as while it doesn't make the process faster it does take the need for precision movement away. Every single visible line in this drawing was done with the Pencil tool this time, though, because there were 60,000 of them and I think doing that with the Pen tool would take longer than remaking the game from scratch.

Bleu from the Breath of Fire games. I have not played the Breath of Fire games.

Some old art and some moderately less old art of the same things for comparison. For an art challenge sort of.

January 2023 vs January 2018

July 2020 vs (I think) December 2010

All but the most recent one in Adobe Illustrator with the pen tool and a mouse, the most recent one in Affinity Designer with the pen tool and a mouse. It was never a good idea but I've invested too much and can no longer stop myself.