Ooh, I haven't uploaded in a minute. I've been very busy, you see - my latest project is a duo Let's Play with my brother! More info *here*





We're playing a certain Spyro game, and I was struggling to come up with thumbnail ideas. When you're playing Pokemon, making a thumbnail is easy because you encounter a dozen or more different Pokemon in the course of an episode, so you can just use the official art of one of them. But Spyro is in the centre of the screen doing the same three or four animations THE WHOLE TIME, so... what else can one do? Well, an easy way to make your thumbnail more unique is to p̶u̶t̶ ̶g̶l̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶n̶a̶i̶l̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶t̶ put some custom art on it! And since it already had some custom art - the obligatory Grump-style heads of our scalie avatars - some more wouldn't look out of place. And as I was drawing it, I decided to make it into its own thing by adding a caption and some familiar onlookers.







I hate the way Spyro's in-game model looks in Enter the Dragonfly. His face looks... so stupid. I don't know exactly what it is, but it's some combination of the way his eyebrows, eyes and snout/mouth look. Oh, and in the opening cutscenes you can clearly see that Sparx' pupils are floating a good centimetre or two in front of his eyeballs, so I drew that too. I think I captured Spyro's 2002 derpiness (I cheated a bit by pushing the eyes in different directions, but this is honestly the impression he gives me).

The shading is, again, the cheatsy-shortcutsy method I've been using a bit more recently. Now I'm actually able to tinker with it once it's been done, to make it look a bit nicer, it's actually a perfectly fine method for quicker drawings, or drawings which will mostly only be seen much smaller than actual size. Oh yeah, and I changed my avatar again, this time to the portrait of the boy that appears in the new intro I made. Don't know if I'll upload a still, but again, this is probably only temporary until I get around to drawing myself a good one.