willjelly

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I drew Signal Spires. It took 6hours across 5 days

Wth golden ratio jumpscare?!

HAHA thank you XD

women with swords anyone?

idk if any still cares about my OC art I've been posting so much rain world stuff I think I accidentally became a rain world blog help

women with swords anyone?

idk if any still cares about my OC art I've been posting so much rain world stuff I think I accidentally became a rain world blog help

ah I love signal spires. don't mind the tear in reality

just some sketches of me in the 1940's aesthetic~ I love love these new brushes I made they so yummy grgrgr

i somehow glichted myself of the back of a skywhale and was like "wait i have to draw this"

the reference screenshot:

After not vibing with its mechanics at all back then when the game came out, I finally finished Rain World! and I loved it!! a lot!!!

(by "finished" I mean I played Survivor + Monk in that order, I'm still making my way through the other campaigns)

AWW scug full of soup🫵🫵

the base colour really does end up being a big part of the whole colours and that's kinda on purpose. to me, it helps keep the colours more harmonious, it keeps the whole thing having a similar vibe

you could try to put more opaque colours over the base colour, or try putting colours over the base colour with a different brush.

for choosing the base colour(and most other colours), I kinda try to think about what colour palette I want my drawing to have. like I'll decide, "I want this whole thing to be very blue, I'm gonna make the base colour blue, the shadows more purple and the highlight's more cyan", i only do this when im drawing pretty dramatic lighting tho

when I don't have lighting that dramatic, I choose it based on the colours of the thing I'm drawing, like a slugcat, they're mostly white so i'd choose a pastel colour. I try to pick a base colour similar in darkness to the colour of the thing(light=lighter base colour, dark=darker base colour)

(I think about both of these things when I'm choosing my base colour, I just consider one or the other more depending on how dramatic the lighting is)

lots of time when I'm drawing the base colour is also too visible for me so I put filters over it till its closer to the colours I want.

also, often when I'm drawing I put swatches of the colours I'm using next to the drawing. so when the base colour is shining though to much I just go over it again with the colour

they're like these little dots of colour so I can colour pick them easily

this was a stage of my watcher art, the colours look way different then they do in the finished thing. I accidentally made the base colour too light and didn't put the colours over it opaque enough, so I put filters over it to make it darker. in most of my drawings the colours look pretty different when I stared to when it's finished

Remember that you don't have to listen to this exactly tho! ^^ experiment however you want with your art lol

@willjelly my attempt at replicating ur style!! :D How do u go about ur colors, and choosing your base color, because the base ends up being the whole main thing

can't read all of this yet cause I've only gotten one of the endings

I already got that the watcher was probably a kid from the toy room ending, but this made me realize spinning top was a child too noooooo😭😭

I dont wanna be bawling about this ending a second timeee

The Abandoned Children of The Watcher DLC (a ramble)

(Spoilers ahead, obviously, but this is just a quiet sort of pondering I've been having with myself, feeling an ache so profound where the child in me - lost and afraid and so, so cold - resides.)

I love the thematic change that the Watcher DLC presents us with. I know it's been a point of complaint for many, and to each their own, but I can't help but feel that throwing aside these painful, heartfelt themes, writing them off as rushed design is doing the beauty of the tale that we've been given a disservice.

Rain World - the base game - felt primal. You are an animal, wandering the world - eating, fighting, running and dying, thinking and moving like a rat in a maze, the maze being a god you could never truly hope to understand. And why would you? You have a family to find, and even they are soon forgotten in the pressure of the cycle, drowned out by the rain and the echoing, burning call of the Void.

The Downpour DLC was much more narrative-driven. It was character-based and iterator-focused, putting emphasis on these dying gods that feel less like gods and more like abandoned children, growing in their lonesome and their bitterness, losing themselves in their self-destructive tendencies until there's nothing left but metal slag and somewhat-organic rubble. That seems to be a repeated theme, here.

The Watcher DLC feels much more... personal.

A tale of two children, abandoned, never made to grow up. The Watcher themselves, so plagued by naiveté, busying themselves with toys instead of confronting what the little lost echo tried to tell them.

Spinning Top searching endlessly with a tragic sort of fervor for any evidence that anyone ever missed them, never having been taught the weight of what they were supposed to do, only doing what others did, what they were taught was right, and nothing more. A child, a little girl playing with spinning tops and plushies, made to ascend through that "white door" and leave the reality that they had just barely begun to set foot in behind.

The Prince, even, simply… learning. Growing. A toddler, smashing and breaking and rotting all in its path with delight, seeing what he's doing as something so wonderful. The tragic part about it is that he truly does - for all that he represents, he means well, but the Cycle is callous and omnipotent and cares not for the wishes of a mere child.

A cold, golden hand, marked with an X and sprouting flowers from its palm.

An endless repeating pattern that will consume you utterly if it so wishes.

hii r u okay with ur art being used a pfp with credits ? :3

Yeah, As long as you credit me of course :D

TYY

I have a tendency to diy brushes, my main rending brush is a VERY modified chalk brush, it looks like this lol

I don't use the less pen pressure = less opacity thing with this one cause I mostly paint with it and the colour mixing setting I have do a similar effect

generally 99% of the brushes I use have texture, idk why, makes my art crunchy I like how it looks lol

I made a few like, tutorial pages?(idk what to call these) with my main brushes and a bit of an explanation of how I use them :)

(you have to zoom in to see this stuff properly, I hope the quality is not too bad lol)

+ extra notes

tbh I'm honoured that someone would try to recreate part of my artstyle XD. take what you want from this, i hope it helps :D

Bri hOW do you get the lighting and effects that you want?? Genuinely it’s delicious and I need to know how you do it

uh so the thing is I started writing an answer to this and realized there's a lot I could explain but I don't want this post to be ridiculously long, you just can dm me if you wanna know more :]

SO in short, For the lighting I put a lot of gradient map and tone curve filters over my base colours. Idk what program you use, but I use CSP(clip studio paint), these are the particular filters that I use:

I think most programs have these? ik procreate and ibis have some but I haven't used other programs in ages sorry haha

you can just google if your program has them and how to use them :)

for the effects, I just mess around with stuff till it looks good ig??

idk, I don't really have a set way I do the effects, but I can talk about some stuff I do

I only use airbrushes with textures, so that how I get glowing effects to look like they do

if I want something to really glow I use colour dodge or add(glow) as blending mode on the layer

If I want an effect to be especially vibrant, I use vivid light, colour dodge and glow dodge

Also what exactly do you mean with "effects"? you asked this after my last post, so I assume that post prompted this question. like do you mean the big 4 pointed spark? the gold effects ring in the background?? the voidspawn? the wobbly portal thing?? I can explain how I did those things, I just don't know exactly what counts as an effect lol

ALSO also, ty for the compliment <3

Bri hOW do you get the lighting and effects that you want?? Genuinely it’s delicious and I need to know how you do it

uh so the thing is I started writing an answer to this and realized there's a lot I could explain but I don't want this post to be ridiculously long, you just can dm me if you wanna know more :]

SO in short, For the lighting I put a lot of gradient map and tone curve filters over my base colours. Idk what program you use, but I use CSP(clip studio paint), these are the particular filters that I use:

I think most programs have these? ik procreate and ibis have some but I haven't used other programs in ages sorry haha

you can just google if your program has them and how to use them :)

for the effects, I just mess around with stuff till it looks good ig??

idk, I don't really have a set way I do the effects, but I can talk about some stuff I do

I only use airbrushes with textures, so that how I get glowing effects to look like they do

if I want something to really glow I use colour dodge or add(glow) as blending mode on the layer

If I want an effect to be especially vibrant, I use vivid light, colour dodge and glow dodge

Also what exactly do you mean with "effects"? you asked this after my last post, so I assume that post prompted this question. like do you mean the big 4 pointed spark? the gold effects ring in the background?? the voidspawn? the wobbly portal thing?? I can explain how I did those things, I just don't know exactly what counts as an effect lol

ALSO also, ty for the compliment <3

little guy is lost

And the rot is getting closer and closer to the "hero" of the occasion. 🫐

Speedpaint!! (>~O)///

fluffy little eldritch monster in a snowstorm

(I tried painting more for this and honestly I love it lol)

AHH THANK YOU

someone said they wanna eat my art, my art career is complete XD

Also, I'm so flattered you wanna do an art study on my art, you art is very cool too and your iterator oc is very pretty

omg he opened the ask box...

also HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, I'm so so obsessed with your rendering style and use of vibrant colors, it's so so awesome and cool and awesome

WOW, thank you so so much :D

I take you calling my art "like painting on stained glass" as the biggest compliment ever btw😭❤️

I've never really had someone compliment my art in my asks so I don't really know what to say but thank you

omg he opened the ask box...

also HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, I'm so so obsessed with your rendering style and use of vibrant colors, it's so so awesome and cool and awesome

WOW, thank you so so much :D

I take you calling my art "like painting on stained glass" as the biggest compliment ever btw😭❤️

I've never really had someone compliment my art in my asks so I don't really know what to say but thank you

so I dug my really old slugcat OC out of the basement, but I have no idea what to name this guy. Any name suggestions? :,)

(I mean I could just name them "the jellyfish" but that feels way too obvious)

close up of the coloured doodle:

Ancient people in the mural and slugcat.

It's interesting to imagine the size of the Slugcat with the ancients during their lifetime.

looks to the moon :)

(I originally wanted to post this for RW art month. I forgot about it, but still had the sketch lying around so I just decided to finish it)

rainy day

RW art month day 29: the watcher

Day 17: Achievement: The Chieftan

Save me!!! Save me!!!!

foggy day

RW art month day 16: precipice

RW art month day 10 + day 11: gourmand and sky islands

Day 8: The rot

Godlike in comparison

"This moment, right here! It is where we are meant to be."

RW art month day 9: Echos

alt version:

Jellyfish, Expedition, The Rot, Echoes and Gourmand

how it feels to go though unfortunate development:

RW art month day 8: the rot