Drawing of a friend that i made for his birthday part 2

Here's the speedpaint of the new drawing style -- it is a pretty long video since I literally couldn't speed it up anymore than this :((

Side by side comparison between my art from 2024 to now

(First pic 2024, second pic today)

Here's those honey bees I just posted up close! Adorable!

Tried a new, more realistic art style in order to try and figure rendering out

Model reference is at the end

Time-lapse of my Lalamon illustration from a while back.

: Clip Studio Paint by Nver Avetyan

The redo and some close-ups

Redraw from a year ago fully:

Catos

Kept seeing people drawing with the lasso tool so I wanted to finally try it out.

I was going for a more cartoonish-doodle

I dont think I fw the eyes much tho, what do we think?