Pearllight on Break 2014 ID

Wow, can't believe I finally made this. For a very long time I've been planning to make a nice Deviant Art ID for my page that expresses my character, and me as an artist.

The above image does the trick I believe. Here you see Pearllight sitting on a hand crafted bench from the Po-Koro region, gazing off as she dreams and imagines of where she is and what she loves.

Note, this a surprise and first time image I've ever done of my character wearing her suit, but without her helmet. It was made to display both who's she's known as, and who she really is. Her helmet and armor are what most people know her for, but beneath she's a

 Human with many dreams, hopes, and desires.

Mata Nui Cow Milk

 

It's always been an odd interest of mine to make advertisement art, especially when it involves making products that don't exist, but wish they did.

The above Mata Nui cow milk advertisement is made to match the style in the Life of Lewa universe (and will be a product used in this world). The LoL universe contains many odd products that I love inventing and adding in as fake product placement; a way to make it more life like you could say. In the LoL universe, because the influence of Pearllight, the world contains Human aspects mixed with the already present alien aspects. In this case, retro style advertising, with both English and Matoran writing, meld together because of cultural influence on the planet. The beings of LoL use Human text on products because it's appealing and varies in style; great for getting the mood across in advertising. Most people of the universe know how to read most English text styles, but to make life easier, every product will also include the native writing of Matoran somewhere on the product. In this case the milk label is all English, but the back label (which I didn't make), will have both English and Matoran, (while the advertisement itself contains both).

What inspired me? Awhile back I built a Mata Nui cow for fun, only I didn't have exact pieces to make it look like the original design, so I improvised by using all brown and tan pieces, big black eyes which increases cuteness, and horns that make the creature look more like a moose. I called it the brown cow, but during creation of this advertisement, I was tempted to call it moose milk (there's a joke in LoL I might make sometime for that). After looking at the face of my cow again, I wanted to make a milk advertisement out of he blue for the LoL universe.

I took a photo of my cow's head, then did my work in PSE and assembled a retro label (don't ask me why it's a boy cow on the milk label..maybe girl cows of this world have horns too) either way, the product only looked interesting with the horns included. The rest was just playing around on PSE, and getting my final milk poster.

Did you know there's an actual company called Brown Cow? There is, but that's not why I labeled this Brown Cow Milk (it's simply that way because the cows they get this milk from tend to be brown.) Of course every company, even a fake one needs a little jingle; all that came to mind was "Mooore Please" (emphasis on the Moo).

Toa Axel Banner

 Toa Axel finally got his photo to me (see the original on his DA Toa Axel). He requested a banner after seeing the one I made for Makuta Nazo.

I don't know what the element of his character is, but I made the banner based off a few hints he gave. This time I took the approach of making this banner fit proportionately to the very size of the YT text safe area (although some have come to find that their page doesn't properly cooperate with the banner).

Originally Axel wanted his banner to look like Makuta Nazo's, only wanted blue and black splotches instead of red with black. This concept had to be changed though due to his choice of wanting the background black instead of white (a good choice for making it look classy). Because of this, I reversed the color scheme, and made the splotches white and blue; that way you could see them on black. He also mentioned that at first he thought some lightning in the border would be cool; later to feel it would be too much. I still went on that drift though, and placed selected bolts of lighting so they directed your attention to his character and name. Last was text, Axel wanted the same text style as Nazo's, only in blue. I went along that line, but flat blue seemed too muted in the surrounding border; so I decided to make it blue neon (hopefully that's ok). I think the neon gets your attention quite well, not such a bad thing (not to mention matches the lighting bit).

After I made the basic center of the banner, I placed it in the required canvas, and above is the main image meant for YT upload.

Bionicle MOC FTW banner

Making YT banners like hot cakes. BionicleMOCFTW asked me if I could make him one after he saw the Toa Firestorm Banner. I didn't think I was going to get this done that quickly; but I did. Here's his Youtube page- BionicleMOCFTW YT 

He told me his MOC didn't really have an element, just stealth, mentioned that it would probably be a neon green color. When I thought of stealth, and saw the photo of this MOC, the theme of a dark setting with splashes of green came to mind. I felt stealth and night, with patches of light seemed to just work. Again, I used pretty much the same techniques for this banner as I have for the last two. Only thing I did slightly different was add some striped texture to the black backdrop, put a glow back light to draw attention to the character, and added a glow outline to the name.

As usual, the above image was made to serve as a YT banner, to match the format exactly. Black bars will fill the sections of a screen that extend beyond the center.

Toa Firestorm Banner

 All right! Hopefully this is good for TF; this is a Youtube banner made for Toa Firestorm. See his channel here  at Toa Firestorm YT. Upon making the Makuta Nazo Banner; I was surprised to have two more people (Firestorm included) ask me if I could make them a YT banner too.

For this one I went along a similar style like Nazo's, only went for a firey look, used the same techniques on the photo, and this time used Matoran and veteran typewriter fonts.

Here's something important! I realized that YT requires specified sizes for images serving as banners. In order to get these banners to work, I looked up the proportion and found a template to use. This template allowed me to set up the banner in the exact format it needs to be in order to work on YT. So yes, I'm very happy to have found that, and now can have an easier time with this

 whole banner making thing. ^.^

Need A Hand?

You know that moment of, if the characters in Bionicle were just like their toy versions; that would mean their limbs could be popped off or replaced if one is lost. A pun came to mind for that, where Kiina is asking Kazikii (yes Kazikii, not Gresh) if he needs a hand (literally). He of course is questioning with shock on where in the world she got a hand, and can't believe she's offering it to him.

I love literal puns; hope to make more comics in the future, till then enjoy. ^.~

Makuta Nazo banner

This was my first art request, by a guy who's self MOC is named Makuta Nazo. He asked me if I could make him a Youtube banner, so I accepted the project, and ended up with the above image.

Nazo has a Youtube chanel, here's link to that Makuta Nazo YT (and for the record, he really does like the art piece, which is great).

At first I was shy to the idea of making this, especially when I thought about how much time it would take if I drew his character in full detail; but then I thought, why not make something more simple in my own style, using less strenuous techniques. 

The rest was easy, all I did was choose my canvas size, added splatter paint textures in matching color scheme of the figures armor; then took a photo from Nazo's page, added filters over it to make it poster and comic book like, reversed the image and made his hand direct you to his name. Tada, quick, but snazzy banner. ^.^

 As a final note, Youtube requires a certain size for banners (and I found a template for the exact ratios) which means the small banner itself ends up proportionate and perfect, smack dab in the middle as it's suppose to be. The above image is formatted to YT requirements exactly (it looks odd like this, but trust me, it works). ^.~