this one is 100% inspired by old MS Paint, which was the first digital drawing software i ever used. translating the colors from the typical Smith color palette to MS Paint colors was tricky at first. especially the orange of her hair. i originally was going to use that burnt orange (bottom right corner of palette) but decided against it. the bright yellow matches the rest of the bright colors better.
when i "finished it" originally there wasn't as much detail, and the shirt color was different. but i really wanted to capture the chaotic feel of the old internet, so i added clippy and all the little MS paint motifs (along with my signature in the box tool). the background was feeling a bit plain so i also added that little rainbow in the back. also changed the shirt from cream colored to grey to make the colors more cohesive.
this is a redraw of a self-portrait doodle in one of my old journals. since it was such an old drawing i decided to keep my likeness how it wouldve looked around that time, when my hair was a lot longer/darker and before i shaved my sides. im 99% sure i drew the headstock backwards. oh well.
had to revert a couple brush settings in order to go for a manga-like brush stroke but i honestly regret it. like, its so unnatural for me to draw with smoooth and weathered lines like that. for the MS paint one the round and sketchy lines felt natural, and the same with the chibi, but here it just looks kinda bad. oh well, altogether i think it came out alright.
i'm not much of a vocaloid person but i couldn't skip an opportunity to do a miku
i've never done a selfship before. at least not in this medium. i, of course, am a connoisseur of many reader-insert fanfictions. but actually drawing myself with a character is a very odd feeling. i think that the initial thoughts of "this feels weird" stem from some insecurities or something, but in the end it felt cool to just be unabashedly cringe. anyways tl;dr i love that fat yellow man.