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Speedpaint: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoFE1…damn its been a while huh
these two have not graced my canvas in over a year
these two are really the only main characters from connections that i kept (i kept cae and meko but they never had a huge part in the story)
they're sitting in inactive but every now and then i like to see them yknow i have lots of memories with these guys
i gave away a good chunk of the connections characters, so i felt it was really only right to only draw these two
how far they've come
and yes, i did record this
it'll be uploaded sometime today
annd of course, here's the old versions
2014: fav.me/d72uuj2 (reading the description makes me cringe but also kinda proud that i've come so far)
2015: fav.me/d8e6yr1
2016: right here
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Comments: 32
Mann, the shadows/shading looks really nice-- you've improved greatly!
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thank you so much!! :"D
ngl i really like how the shading turned in this one compared to the others//
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i love the little glowy effect! this is super omg
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thank you so much!! :"D
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you've improved so much omg
they blend into the background so much better, and the lighting looks super great!!
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aA thank you so much!! ;o;
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DUDE WTF THIS IS SO GOOD???? YOUVE IMPROBED SO MUVH IM SO PROUD OF U STOP IT
but dude the owners of the other connections characters,. Imagine like separate pieces for each of the characters dude it's like a collage
like I could do one for Caleb, etc
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thaNK YOU AAA
frankly, i dont even know where half of the connections characters are anymore
i sold them to people who sold them yknow
it makes me kinda sad but idk at the same time i guess i dont really mind
i mean i know some of them are in good hands, like caleb, and some of the minor connections characters like jacklyn, but you get it
im glad i still have black and ace tho
they've always been close to my heart, as cheesy as that sounds,, i don't think i could ever give them away//
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aw dang dude that's really disappointing vmv I guess it's to be expected though. C'est la vie
im glad you trust Caleb to me though lmao //D I'm flattered tbh. I love him v much
THATS GOOD they are true friends and are good
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yeah,, i remember i saw someone pixel vector (ace and cae's father) once as a commission and it was tagged with someone i didnt give them too so that just
idk it makes me uncomfortable kind of yknow
its just like
it feels weird when i give people my characters bc i have my own personality set to them and they can change it however they want yknow
and im always pretty attached to my characters you know like i give them different parts of me and idk? ??
which is usually why i try not to sell my own characters
but yeah i def trust my friends with my characters bc i know they wont change them too much and that they wont just immediately sell them yknow
i know now that if i ever do want to get rid of my own characters, i won't make a journal advertising selling them, i'll just ask the friends i trust to take care of them//
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LMAO YEAH THATS KINDA WEIRD
i get where you're coming from though. I have a SUPER hard time getting rid of my characters for the same reason. Most of the time I want to get rid of them, I just retire them in case I feel nostalgic later LMAO
i am way too attached. I'm a little bit of a character hoarder lmao but I just retired a bunch of them (or moved them to secondary characters) a few days ago. There was so much moving between the groups..
dude tbh when I make an official reference for Caleb I'm gonna have to ask u about personality bits. I'm kinda thinking of making him more of a happy go lucky character with a past of mental illness that still bubbles up again? It's kind of hard for me to have tragic characters without it affecting me, similar to how you said all your characters are a part of you... But I'll DEFINITELY have to get some reference from u ok
thats a good idea tbh. It frustrates me when people buy characters just to immediately sell them for a higher price. Like, that it somebody's hard work. Show them more respect
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yeah,, i have a huge folder full of inactive characters that i keep around in case i feel nostalgic for them again
but yeah, no problem man uvu i'll be glad to give you reference for him aaa
and yeah i know what you mean
honestly bc im so attached to them, i can't like,, pair them with anyone else's characters
most of my characters come in pairs anyway, whether their love interests or not yknow
its just really hard for me to pair my characters with others bc they're special to me and they have a part of me that i have trouble pairing up with someone else if that makes any sense
like i know how they'll react to certain people and different situations and other people don't yknow
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thatd be really appreciated lmao.. i need a good ref on how to make him. what is your opinion on what i have so far though?? about the sporadic mental stuff?? i really dont want to make him completely different from how u had him ..,
DUDE I FEEL THAT
for me its not so much that my characters come in pairs as much as they come in groups, but having another character just thrown in and be related to one person seems so weird? like the whole story has to be rerouted to fit that character in somehow. and im always changing my characters so id have to be mindful of the other person's opinions and stuff and idk. its just very weird. id have to create a character knowing itll be part of a collaboration or something for it to really work.
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could you note me about him? :0
i'll let you know there uvu
yeah,, a lot of my characters come together
like trigger and ash, rowan and ignitus, mick and brooke, etc, etc
and i build their personality and story around each other yknow like i built trigger's story around ash and vice versa, so if anyone tried to pair their character with him, it'd just like,,
ruin everything i built him on yknow
not to mention, a good chunk of my characters all exist in the same universe, whether knowingly or not yknow
trigger and ash, and ayden and ellie are excluded but i think everyone else is in the same universe and some know others and such yknow
they have interconnected stories that cross with each other and its just
weird to bring an unknown character into all that i guess pff
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sent!
AH YES ive kinda noticed they come in pairs? like even if theyre part of a bigger story theyre divided into little sets within the story and thats rlly cute lmao..
but yea dude randomly inserting a third character woiuld be so weird. like since theyre in pairs i guess it could upset the balance of both characters and you have another whole person they could react to and itd be weird
YEA I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT U MEAN
it just creates too many possibilities that nobody was counting on before idk
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yeaH i think i do characters best when they have someone to interact with i guess
i always make personalities before i design the character and backstory and for me, it's a lot more easier to make a personality individual and unique when there's a second character for the first to react to yknow
i've been building up the universe for years, too
in fact, the universe was built off a really old story that used to have a lot of my old characters,, connections eventually branched off that universe too and it just kind of grew from there
i know where all the characters live in the universe and how some might see each other yknow
and bringing in a separate character that wasn't placed in the universe is just like
"??? what do i do with this character"
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DUDE THATS REALLY NEAT THOUGH?? i knew it was a p big project but i didnt know it was so old.. how old are we speaking? like even before deviantart??
thats such a neat way of creating characters though.. it really helps make them more thorough, i think, and u DEF have pretty thorough characters. tbh though i love how much thought u put into them.. its really inspiring
i totally get what you mean though. its kinda weird to insert a new character regardless of whose it is, unless something was definitely lacking before. but after having the universe set up for so long, even still it's a little difficult. like maybe it needs to change but ?? it just feels so weird
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oooh man,, it was back in the risk days, so pretty far back
although back then, the universe was pretty small, consisting of only two places (which are now the two "continents" of the universe)
i think connections helped me flesh out the two places more into cities and towns and etc
honestly, thinking about it, the universe is a lot more fleshed out then even i realize,, there are small towns, abandoned towns, big cities, small cities, etc
i appreciate a whole lot that some people think my characters are really thought out,, i spend a lot of time developing their stories and such and it always means the world when i hear someone acknowledge it ;v;
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thats p hardcore, dude. its neat that you can manage something for so long, too. i would lose track.
but dang dude.. im impressed.
ITS NO PROB DUDE its just what ive observed
i love that u ahve so much dedication though it's gr9
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im surprised myself that i'm able to keep up with everything :"D
i think i have connections to thank for that,, after working for so long on the story, everything that has to do with my characters' universe has just been imprinted in my mind lmaO
i really appreciate it man aaA
it makes me happy bc i usually dont even realize it
it just comes so naturally to me yknow i just start thinking of characters and putting them in situations and fleshing out their personality and story and idk pff
and i think the fact that i always give my characters a part of me helps me connect with them more too yknow
even if it's a smaller part of me aA
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I FEEL
it helped u make... connections
yEA dude seriously u have some real talent in that. like im not saying characters that are more disconnected from their authors or designers are any less valid bc everyone has their own reasons but idk.. its just neat, i guess, since a lot of pwople nowadays buy just for the designs or for saying they have a popular design. yours feel a lot more three dimensional. idk
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shit u got it
yeaH,, honestly its why i don't usually buy characters
and why the characters i DO buy are stuck in quaternary, which in all honesty, i don't touch too often
i have a really hard time connecting to a character i didn't design yknow
like i think i have 3 adopted characters, and they still need a lot of development,, those three being lupin, kasbiel, and rowan
like i'm still attached to them, but not as much as the ones i designed myself yknow
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SHIT DAWG
i feel.. to me it just kinda depends, i guess. i have like 15 or 20 characters ive adopted and im relatively close with most of them.. it just takes some doodling i guess. and usually the expression theyre originally drawn in helps me figure something out LMAO
but yea i get what youre saying. its just like... ok here we are what next
but developing a character from the start takes u on a journey with them or something
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yeye although my designs arent that great
i have very few characters where their design came first sO
personality always comes first along with basic details like name, age, etc, then backstory,, design is almost always last so they're usually just kind of
made up on the spot
which is why a lot of them are kinda bad pff
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SHH NO theyre wonderful stop
tbh im the exact opposite, i guess. kinda
idk most of my characters start of as some inkling of a design and then very basic personality traits?name USUALLY comes last except for fleshing out everything else
but there have been times ive started off with names (like,,. my character liszt? i dont know if u know him) and some color pallet or shape or design comes up and i just roll with it lol
im not too great at expressing what i mean verbally (or written) so most of my personalities and backstories are kinda bullshitty, for lack of a better term. i just spit it out and try to tell myself to go back to it later
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i usually just try to match the personality to design i guess pff
sometimes it doesnt work out but i try to yknow
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