Spitfire

I should really get working on getting my fanart collective page up and running huh?

This is finally a post of another recent piece, except this one isn't even a month old at the time of me writing this! Maybe it'll be a month old by the time I post it... I keep a backlog of posts at the moment, so every week or so, even if I don't feel like writing, I can get something up on the blog.

For this work I mainly experimented with how to draw fire and lighting from multiple sources. I didn't really focus on the rocky texture all that much...

My more primitive method of drawing fire

Some stuff that I haven't posted elsewhere though except to friends, some screenshots of me working on the piece. At first I was actually just going to draw fire the way I usually do, but ended up wanting to improve in that area, so I started to look up guides to drawing realistic fire.

Early stages of drawing fire

I learnt to start with a layer of the darkest parts of the fire, and slowly work up in brightness with more layers in Color Dodge. I don't know what color dodge actually does, but it looks a lot better than what I would have made without it. Another useful tip I picked up, was to make the pointy parts of the flames blurry, it better sells the illusion of movement.

Working out shading

The lineart is still there in the final work by the way, all I did in the end was blend it with the rest of the art. I like having my lineart remain in my works, (since I usually work without color,) since I feel like it really keeps me tethered to having one thing be consistent about my art, when everything else changes all the time.

Almost every part of the fire was drawn separately from each other, the arms and hands were separated groups, the body and wings are separated groups. Though this new method of fire cost me a lot of storage space, with the file easily going over 2GB with 108 layers. The drawing itself was also too big of a file to send on Discord without being compressed...

I'm glad to try improving my art, learning more specifically how to draw more realistic textures at the moment... I'm not sure if I favor this piece or the Jawbreaker piece, I don't feel like either are good enough to be honest.

Jawbreaker More Like Wrist Breaker (ouch)

I should start posting about my fanart again shouldn't I? (If your answer was no, why are you on my Skylanders blog in the first place?)

In total this took me about 6 hours, I was really focused on learning how to draw metal properly. I think I did fairly well, at the time when I finished it, I was quite proud about it. I showed my dad, though he just kinda said "cool" and walked off. Which is fine I guess.

As you can tell I haven't really figured out how to draw crystals yet, a friend told me it looks like transparent cheese. Sure I'll practice drawing glass and crystals... eventually.

I just think Jawbreaker is neat. I don't even own him at all. Lol.

Grave Clobber

I just really like Grave Clobber

 

Various MS Paint doodles

A few days ago I took some Microsoft Paint doodle requests for Skylanders alongside a few I just made for myself. So this post is to dump my various doodles of random characters. 

Further art shenanagins and freedom from school!

What, the last day of my Junior year? Next year I graduate... 

What better way to commemorate than to post a few MS Paint doodles that I made with my mouse since I was too lazy to take out my drawing tablet? 

Featuring my designs and takes on random Skylanders!

My doodles

I have a lot of random Skylanders doodles laying around my room and in my notebooks, so why not upload some here?

Messing around with a tiny bit of perspective on my design of Trigger Happy

Yes. I have a Skylanders self insert, what else would you expect from a rabid Skylanders fan? I would like to expand on my character some more someday. Most likely in some sort of insert fanfiction... I may be cringe, but at least whatever I'm doing makes me happy.

More perspective practice on Dive-Clops

Hugo running from my poor attempt at drawing a sheep

 

These are smaller doodles from my school notes, these are all drawn from memory since I can't use my phone in class.

Imaginators 3Ds leak?

Happy New Year! And with this new year we have Skylanders Imaginators for the 3Ds?! Well, actually I just worked a little too hard on a prank...

I modelled the banner and made the icon but not much else. Actually, I modelled the text, and retextured, posed, and heavily modified King Pen's Ring of Heroes model. I retextured the whole thing to avoid suspicions of using any other model, and also to make it look more '3Ds-like'.

The model has to be one mesh and use only one texture. Which resulted in the end result texture looking like this.

I'm pretty proud of this project in general actually!

"What about the application itself?" That was all done by Maff, a programmer in the Skylanders community who works on multiple fangames! (a few of which I have also been a part of, but have left for various reasons.)

This just kinda spawned as a joke from somebody saying their favourite Skylanders game was Imaginators 3Ds, I thought that was funny, and thus became this. The fact that there would be a leaked beta is inconceivable but I wanted to see what the community would believe after all these years, and if they would actually believe that the game was planned.

After doing this I made the Reddit post and waited a few days to see what would come from it.

It turns out most people played along with the joke. And some unfortunate people asked for downloads or a dumped rom. It doesn't load anything but a blue screen but they don't know that. I lied about file size and other junk, "yeah a friend sent it to me".

Well happy 2024! Personally I'm having a crisis over this... 2024 already? Trap Team turns 10 this year-

Thank you for reading and I hope you stick with me through 2024!

Old art dump

 I'm dumping a lot of my old Skylander fanart here, hopefully, I'll get around to working on the Fanart page soon. I'll also add the dates of creation to show improvement! They're put in order of creation.

Fanart Showcase!

I uploaded this here a bit late, whoops-
Some Tree Rex fanart from the idea of making the Giants accurately sized. I plan on doing Crusher next, he would be good practice for texturing stone.
I am also happy to upload this here so I can have the full resolution image somewhere, not sure if Reddit kept the high resolution.

New Reference Sheets!

 I've been working on my Skylanders AU now called the Skybridge AU, for a multitude of reasons. I have a bit of the story written finally and more detailed sheets for the protagonists! Enjoy!

Skylanders AU Reference Sheet 1

 Working on a Skylanders Alternate Universe and I've finally finished the first reference sheet! I'm planning on making a webcomic, so far I only have a small bit of the story planned. 

I plan on adding the rest of the Senseis soon, and I'll work my way down to Spyro's Adventure. I have quite a few more characters planned and I need to work on another reference sheet for another batch of 5.

Sorry about my lack of posts, I'll upload a lot more soon!

Another MS Paint Doodle

A quick doodle of Countdown

 

MS Paint doodle

A doodle that I made in Graphics Class while I was bored

Boom Jet

Redrawing AI generated Skylanders

So I've been wanting AI art to burn in a hole, and it still makes me angry, so I decided to flex my superiority by actually making its art comprehensible.

Please, never use AI art, it hurts our work and it's based on stolen assets. Unless you want to generate a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti or something like that, then go ahead, I won't stop you.

Introducing...! (wait I don't have names for these guys...) Eh, I'll build on them later. 

BlasterTech Fanart

 A drawing of the scrapped Dust Bunny from Skylanders Imaginators by yours truly, General-Robot. Or Aquatically if you want my actual online persona.

I personally like his names Dust Guster and Jackrabid the most.