SCLPTURES

2025 art summary

as 2025 comes to an end (holy shit?) i've decided to make a post dedicated to things i made that i think are kinda cool. this serves as a contrast to my last post where i cry like a baby about how much i hate my work

a notable thing is that around late 2024 until now i started making a lot of fanart, mainly for stardew valley. i've never been much of a gamer beside a few MMOs and the occasional console game so this was a huge thing for me. even my proudest work this year was fanart of sebastian

i've been going back and forth from liking that artwork to slightly hating it, emphasis on the 'slightly' part because i usually despise my drawings. i had to use a 3d model for the motorcycle because i wasn't gonna do all of that myself... there's many things i could've done better but i think i captured texture fairly well on here where i otherwise can't

a more recent piece i like and enjoyed making was actually an original drawing

i never knew how to use gradient maps and actually make it look good so this was somewhat of a challenge for me (oh yeah did i mention i used a gradient map for that?). i'm a big fan of the "statuesque" feel of this piece, it was originally a sketch where i go like, really fuckin crazy with hair and make it super detailed, but eventually a basic sketch turned into an entire thing... yeah, we all get that

if you scroll through my art gallery right now, you will notice a great lack of colour in 2025. i've mainly lost my spark when it comes to colouring and rendering and i feel i can't do it like i used to so i've taken the path of least resistance and focused more on shadows and values, although with little to no effort. i think i've generally been more open to sharing sketches as well where otherwise i would've just dismissed them as WIPs

an artist that's inspired me lately

aidan "brute" hughes is the guy behind KMFDM's iconic album covers, i started listening to them this year and it really caught my eye. after some digging i discovered the artist and found even more cool stuff

although it doesn't show in my pieces, i'm a big fan of the dynamic elements in his work and the use of parallel lines for shadows. he has cited soviet propaganda posters as inspiration and it shows very well. so far one of my only motivators in art have been other artists so if you see some "brute" influence in my drawings, whether now or later, then you know why

EXTRA: special thanks

my mother, my family who i miss dearly (i'll see you guys again soon!) and my great aunt who was a wonderful human being

thank you to every artist on the indipendent web and everyone who has decided to follow my journey, you know who you are! i don't do anything remarkable so it's crazy to me that there's almost 100 people all with their eyes on me