Hello! I drew something for Earth Day/a contest so here you go:
I drew one of my OCs here for this occasion. For anybody that doesn't recognize her or happen to have stumbled across this post with no context, this is specifically my OC Isoke. A long, long time ago, I created this character but her name was Isis back then. Fast forward a few years ago when this character along with her cohorts had already been conscientiously shelved because I simply wasn't coming up with ideas for them and the terrorist group ISIS becomes prominent. I said "guess I have to rename a character." And then I did. And honestly, Isoke is a much better name for her because as much as Isis as a name is of African origin and a pretty sounding name, the history of whitewashing ancient Egyptian civilization has made the name Isis sound more like a "white girl name" when it shouldn't be. Not hating on anybody that has chosen the name Isis for their child/themselves but I gave Isoke a Nigerian background instead of a "being descended from Egyptian royalty" backstory and wanted to distance her from extremists. And I saw Isoke in a baby name book and liked it so there. Her cohorts have been getting renamed too, I'm just missing one and then I have to move on to the last name stage.
Ok, now about the drawing. I wanted a softer look to this piece so it is experimental in that I barely added lineart and some features were painted in with the watercolor brush in MediBang. There was going to be a background with a cherry tree and other assorted flora but I didn't like how it was turning out and deleted it. I like how simple this piece looks, 10/10 would do again. I'm nearly done editing the speedpaint for this to add to my YouTube but this time, I changed what program I used to screen record (went back to the one I used to use because it does not awkwardly condense videos longer than five minutes) and this program allows me to "pause" recording and I have to edit that out so I'm watching all the videos beforehand to know where I have to edit. It's gonna be a long speedpaint unfortunately because I take longer on larger drawings and I don't thumbnail ahead of time like the trained professionals do so any time you watch one of my speeedpaints (if you do), you're also watching me make decisions on the fly.
Well, I have another speedpaint project I would like to do sitting on the back burner, I am still working [very slowly] on that comic of mine, and I have in my drafts two speedpaints that were already posted to my YouTube so yeah. I might post one of those tomorrow but until next doodle, toodles.
