Hey Steemit!
We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!
So I've been sharing about my first time doing a subathon on Twitch since I've been streaming there for a while now and wanted to do something special for September since Twitch has a promotion on subscriptions the whole month. So I tried my hand at doing a charity subathon, which is a type of livestream where every time a streamer receives a subscription, more time is added to a descending timer with various rewards after a certain number of subs.
Anyway, the main impetus behind this was I just wanted to make a graffiti wall with the names of all those who contributed and that's exactly what I ended up doing!
As a reward, I also did lots of art and drew stickers for all those who contributed 5 subs or more. I obviously didn't expect people to drop that many but I was very wrong. The response was astounding and I ended up amassing quite a bit of art debt but it was fun trying to draw stickers and they came out really well so I thought I'd share them!
Apart from chibi head stickers I also wanted to add special icons beside the names of those who contributed significantly. The idea I had was to ask those people for their favourite emotes on Twitch and I would draw them into stickers and stick them beside their names on the graffiti wall! I thought it was a good way to fill up the little empty spaces on the wall too.
Anyway, now that I've shared the chibi head stickers I did for chai and Rakun, I thought I'd share the emote ones I did for them too!
So for chai I thought I'd do 2 for him since he did contribute the most on top of a tier 3 subscription too, this crazy guy. He told me he liked the smug cat emote which looks like this:
Source: reddit
Initially I thought of changing the colour of the cat but then figured I should just go with the original colours so they would be more recognisable. Here's the outline I did:
Then I coloured in the eyes and the base coat with some highlights and shadows:
before finally adding in more highlights for the white parts of the fur. The original was a lot whiter than I thought but I wanted more contrast so I limited the whiteness and it turned out okay.
The second emote chai wanted was this one called pepePoint that looks like this:
It's a little cursed but I figured that he'd choose a cursed one. For this one I wasn't going to make an animation since it's supposed to be a sticker after all.
I drew the outline:
Then coloured it, adding some highlights:
and finally with some shadows and more highlights:
For Rakun, he wanted this emote called GivePLZ which looks like this:
Source: twitchmetrics
It's actually really cute and I don't see this used often in my chat but he likes it so I drew it, starting with the outline of course.
The eyes were a little tricky but I tried to make it as accurate as possible, with the gradient and everything. I didn't add in the red touches because I thought it looked a little creepy with the red eyes. I did add a shine on the stars though and in the end we get this which I thought was really clean and perfect.
Overall I thought the stickers looked really good and they actually didn't take much time at all. Here's the timelapse:
https://youtube.com/shorts/db4uxLyEu1g?feature=share
I really enjoyed doing these stickers and was more than glad to do them for all those contributed! There's a lot more to go so I'll be sharing them over the next few posts!
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
