Wonderful Memories

 Resolution in 2024

    One of my resolutions in 2024 is to create a lot of fanart. I want to practice anatomy and coloring digitally, because honestly I feel stuck because I've never practiced well. I'm actually more comfortable drawing traditionally and semi-realist is one of my skills, so drawing something digitally takes time to master.

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Gojo Satoru in AU (WW Artist)

    I decided to draw digitally because it was easier to do (I didn't need a place to store my paper and drawing tools) so I decided to be more active in drawing digitally. It just so happened that at my old job, one of my jobdesc was designing clothes for shows and I drew them digitally, so I wanted to keep doing that.

Jujutsu Kaisen - Gojo Satoru

    To be honest, my favorite character in JJK is Kento Nanami. But I've never talked about it at all haha. I trained myself to draw Gojo because sometimes I had trouble deciding on the color (shade-lighting) for silver-white object. Sometimes drawing digitally requires imagination and I think seeing a lot of fanart and practicing it directly makes me better at mastering digital drawing.

    I've made two fanart for Gojo and now I'm thinking about making other characters besides the characters in JJK. So please wait for Marianiworks's next work!

Commission : Marianiworks Art Commission (marianiworkss.carrd.co)
Instagram : MAR (@marianiworks) • Instagram photos and videos
Twitter : mar (@marianiworks) / X (twitter.com)

 Frieren Beyond's End Journey

    To be honest, I haven't watched Frieren anime at all, but without me watching it I already know the story from friends' updates on the timeline. Am I upset? of course not. I'm open to spoilers and sometimes we can't deny that hearing other people's stories through writing, we can find out the storyline briefly.

Marianiworks | Frieren & Himmel Fanart 2024

    I was intrigued by one of the moments in the anime when Himmel gave Frieren a ring and that was the beginning of this fanart. Although I haven't watched the anime in full, I had read the manga until chapter five, so I quite understand about the blue flowers that "stick" with Himmel's image. 

    Perhaps it's just a short story of the formation of this fanart, I hope to be even more excited to watch anime in the future. Sometimes I do so many things that watching anime is the umpteenth on my to-do list.

 Fanart

    Drawing fanart is one of the things I usually do to practice my digital drawing skills. I forgot, when was the last time I drew digital. Actually earlier this year, I planned to make at least one fanart every month. Unfortunately, I still can't do that well.

    I've previously created fanart for Luca Kaneshiro and Vox Akuma. This time, I made Ike with his first design costume. To be honest, my patience was greatly tested when drawing the details of this costume. I'll include some before-after photos, even wip while working on this fanart. Hopefully in the future I can be more consistent in making artworks.

Behind The Scene / WIP

    Like other artists, I usually make rough sketches first and then later it will be tidied up through line art. Usually the thing that spends a lot of time in developing artwork is in the initial idea of posing and drawing details on the image (clothes & bakcground).

    It turned out that I found a way to actively draw, by drawing in the early hours of the morning. I usually wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and draw until 5 or 6. The rest I can continue during the day because usually the morning time is to clean the house and help cook or take care of pets.

 POG DAY!

    To be honest this is the artwork I made to celebrate Luca's birthday last April. Unfortunately, I forgot one quite crucial detail which is his chest tattoo!! Honestly I think every artist has the same problem. Even though your artwork is already finished, you will definitely find small details that you think look strange when viewed repeatedly. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful in every drawing process ;;;;;;;

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ig : MARIANI (@marianiworks) • Instagram photos and videos

    So, after I uploaded my images on all SNS, I just realized my fatal mistake. This September, I just got a chance to correct my mistake. I'll include a picture of Luca with a variety of different backgrounds below.

carrd : marianiworks (marianiworks17.carrd.co)

ig : MARIANI (@marianiworks) • Instagram photos and videos

 Art Block : CSP Pro Vs. Paint Tool Sai 2

    I've been having art blocks since January 2022. I tried to draw from the start of the pose, but couldn't finish any artwork. Eventually I piled up a lot of reeference poses that I made myself. I thought, even if I'm just drawing a rough sketch, it doesn't matter, maybe I can use it in the next few months.

    I had a lot of trouble because I wanted to sharpen my skills with Clip Studio Paint Pro and run into some obstacles. I was originally a user of Paint Tool Sai 2 and already have my own style and color palette. When I tried to bring that color palette to CSP, it turned out that the result was different with a more doff color impression. I was quite surprised and at the moment I'm still facing the same obstacles.

March Artwork : Genshin Impact Fanart

    Finally in March, I ventured to try again using CSP Pro I started sketching Kamisato Ayato and the results turned out to be quite satisfactory. Really, when you're comfortable with drawing applications (pen stabiliser, interface and tools) I think it will be quite time consuming to re-adjust yourself. 

    I sketched and colored using the two apps above. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages.  I can't just stand still and am currently trying to conquer it by looking at tutorials on YouTube and trying it directly. I think if I consistently try and practice then there will be good results to be had.

    These are the two artworks I produced in March. It's quite a bit but this is a good start from someone who has just experienced art block.

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• instagram : MARIANI (@marianiworks) • Instagram photos and videos

 FASHION ILLUSTRATION

    Fashion illustration is a picture of a model being depicted using a clothing design; this illustration contains images of the front view and the back view. This illustration typically illustrate clothing on a figure with exaggreted 9-head or 10-head proportions. The fabric on the model will be depicted according to its original shape; thick-thin, patterned-unmothed; and the surface structure of the fabric.

DIGITAL DRAWING COMMISSION

    When I received my first digital commisssion, to be honest I was shocked because someone came to me and asked for help by facebook messenger to design a fashion illustration with narrow deadline. This is my first experience in digital commission, so I came with many shortcomings in terms & condition of my services. I realized that after discussing with fellow artists, so this is the cause of this blog entry with the aim of exchanging information, both in terms of the commissioner and from the party looking for an artist to create an image commission.

   So, initially an acquaintance on facebook messenger looking for people who can make some examples of fashion illustration, so she contacted me at first place by providing examples of design. At that time I mentioned the price of my services around 90 thousand Rupiah per one design (front-back with full body image type). Unfortunatelly, because of the limited budget by the commissioner so she asked me to help find another artist & because my fellow artist I know has a higher price so it won't fit the budget. I finally received this commission with second condition, where I was paid 80 thousand Rupiah per one illustration design (front-back with full body image type).

    I know I'm very stupid, she's looking for me first but why should I also bother looking for artists with prices according to her budget. Forgive my boredom, but because she's someone I know and I think I can still work on it by a deadline of about 14-15 days so I took this commission even at a fairly cheap price. I feel quite good with fashion illustration because my basic is fashion design. So, this is not too difficult especially with the condition of the image that only flat color without rendering, so it's not a big deal for me.

    I managed to complete all the commissions and unfortunately haven't been able to upload the work because the person who commissioned me hasn't gone through the exam, so I followed the rules she made. I was promised several times, such as in December 2020 and February 2021 (where they had finished the exam). 

    In March I finally asked again about that certainty, and unfortunately I should not upload on social media because the lecturer recognizes the rights of his student's work and they should not admit that it is theirs. I was quite surprised because this never happened to me in college, where lecturers took some work to be re-researched (?) and used as material for his work, so that students could not upload the exam work.

COMMISSION : THE PROBLEM

After a discussion with my fellow artist, I finally found out what I made:

• The first one : This fashion illustration that I made is included in the commercial work, "why?" because it will be used on many media, videos, book covers (included in exam assignments), merchandise and so on. The point is not only to be used as a wallpaper that is enjoyed by yourself but as a part that : "this is a work can represent the identity of the commissioner". Therefore it belongs to the commercial work.
• The second is term & condition when receiving an image commission. I felt the sample design given to me was quite easy, so I agreed with the price reduction proposed by the commissioner, but when starting the work, it turns out that the image given is quite difficult regarding painting on the skin (body painting) with details quite complicated and contain animals in accessories carried by the model. 

CONCLUSION : NEED TO RENEW TERMS & CONDITIONS SERVICE

 HOBBYIST ARTIST

    I finally realized that I'm a hobbyist artist, after loving my current digital drawing progress. Hopefully one day I will dare to perform this role professionally and therefore I will continue practice to achieve the ideal image for my artwork style. 

DIGITAL DRAWING LOG

    It's still mid-April 2021, but I can't wait to create this blog entry! I'm very happy that doing this hobby can be very much progressive with just more patient workmanship per one drawing. I've been told many times to be slow and enjoy every step of drawing progress. Initially, my digital drawing in 2020 was only took 2-4 hours for one picture, from sketch to coloring but since April is a bit different. I try to extend the working time of one image by maximizing the finished result, such as adding a background and also more detail per each image. So this one picture can be spent 6-12 hours. This applies to images with complex details and has a proportion from head to toe. In contrast to the 'waist up' or 'bust up' images, of course it will faster in the process.

SKETCH LOG

    Some unfinished sketchs. My laptop screen got into trouble earlier this month and caused it to turn pink and green. Luckly, I can still work in that condition.

NEW DRAWING TOOLS

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     Woah, in the early of 2021 I can't imagine that I'll be this active to do digital illustration. Well, thanks to Ameryl, she was the one who asked me about my persona in January if I wasn't mistaken and I finally decided to design it later. So because of this, I found out that persona has different meaning to original character. So, what is persona means ?

PERSONA

     So, I lil bit curious about what is persona means ? why we can't reffer it to original character ? So, from my point of view after hearing the description about another artist's persona, I've got this conclusion. So the persona can be descripted as a depiction of ourselves in 2D form. In my friend's case, personas can take shape from physical similarities to other things such as a penchant for reflecting the artist.

ORIGINAL CHARACTER

     What sets persona apart from original character is that the OC are drawn from an idea that has been conceived by ourselves and they have a background in the story behind it, both physically and spiritually. They are fictional depictions of the characteristics we describe in 2D. We can build what kind of OC character we want.

MY PERSONA : NAMI-CHAN !

     Let me introduce you to my persona, Nami-chan ! (psst, it's short of my cosname NAMIEKA). As you can see, she's looking like NPC in games but the one make it special for me is the hair style. This one is commonly used when I'm an elementary student back in old days (I attached the photo if you're curious about it). For me, it turns out that designing in a sketch book with a laptop is very different. I feel better in manuals than digital. Something that comes to mind in the head, sometimes it doesn't go as well as planned and you can see the result here. I want to make it as close as possible to my physical form. Actually I want her to have a blue color and wave motif (the origin of the word nami in Japanese). Maybe I'll design it later.

     Honestly, I'm flustered about persona and original character at first (lack of curiosity & less in deep study about it) so because of this I accidentally make an OC named Rhea Lyrish. My friend just asked me directly : "Hey, it's looks like original character based from her looks. I don't think your daily life looks like that if you want this design to be called a persona, right ?". So from here, I asked again and studied what the hell is a persona? and finally after thinking and re-designing in the sketch book, I got the conclusion afterwards.

THE BORN OF RHEA LYRISH

     So Rhea Lyrish was born from my thoughts on Hydrangeas. This flower is quite famous in my home town, because it has cold weather so it matches the growth of this flower and even sold to big cities such as Denpasar because it is so fertile. The color selection for the clothes is also not far from the original color of the flower itself and for the hair color I adjust it to the color of the clothes so that it looks a sweet blend of colors when viewed.

NAMIKA MINAMOTO

     If we're talking about original character, I'll also talk about my old OC. Since my friend invited me to art trade in 2020, I finally decided to draw it again through digital. So, this is one of my OC when I was in junior high school, therefore the story is not far from the life of the schoolgirl. She has two best friends and Namika has a cool and assertive nature (she is around junior high school). In this picture, she looks cute in a maid-like dress that has been designed in such a way.

Rhea Lyrish - OC

Namika Minamoto - OC

CONCLUSION

After one year and half of hiatus, finally YG Entertainment gave BLΛƆKPIИK a long period of comeback. It's started in July 2020 with pre-release single "How You Like That" and on September 4th, YG Entertainmet showering fans with new M/V in collaboration with western artist - Selena Gomez.

"Ice Cream" that's the name of the newest song, filled with colorful set for each member. Surprisingly, we can see the cute side of BLΛƆKPIИK through the MV & BLINK finally can have the full length album of their favourite artist this time. 

Congrats for BLΛƆKPIИK for surprassed 800.000 pre order in 6 days. At this rate, we can acknowledge their achievement because the album itself will be released on 2nd October 2020. Both of BLΛƆKPIИK & BLINK already worked hard and now I hope you guys can enjoy the full length album.

Here I am, making a fanart of BLΛƆKPIИK and each member have different set of costumes.