"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
This has been sitting waiting. Looking at it now I’ve been wanting to do it by just painting without line art. But thinking about it, this was just a practice piece so it’s fine as is. I’ll put some effort on new art instead.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
If I were to paint this, I wonder how I would go about it.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Wasn’t quite happy with the drawing I did for Inktober 2025 day 13 so I decided to fix a couple of things.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Clean line art version of the Frieren drawing…
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
My brother showed me that meme drawing of Frieren so I thought I would give it a try.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I was looking at my references and came upon an ad by Ano promoting some earbuds. While researching them I found out there was a Frieren version. And that lead to this drawing. Sadly I messed up with the eyelashes. I used the wrong pen which was too thick. But part of the fun of Inktober is dealing with a permanent medium like ink. I could always come back to it at a later date.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I finally finished the painting of Frieren. The original drawing was made for last year’s inktober for day 13.
You can see it here:
I decided to change a couple of details not just for Frieren but also for the background since the last time I uploaded it. I just finished it at the time of uploading, so hopefully I won’t regret not giving it some time to rest on my mind.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I haven’t been doing any Halloween activities now that I think about it. And that includes drawings. So perhaps I should do just that for these last days.
I kinda wanna see some movies too.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’m pretty tired today and time was limited so I decided not to ink or hatch it today. There are a couple of details I will have to fix at a later date, and I cheated a bit. I messed up on her cheek so I had to digitally white it out. Drawing those buildings took a long time and were such a pain. But now I have more ideas of how to draw them in the future. And next time they will be neater and follow the same perspective.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
After weeks, I finally get to upload this painting of Frieren and Himmel. I was more worried about getting the right look of the lake and the reflections correctly. But I think I managed to do that. I wonder if I did the right thing making Himmel’s cape capable of covering his head. In the anime I never saw him do it, but all the amount of fabric makes it seem so. Which is why I decided to take some artistic liberties.
I wanted to create a fantastical feel with the setting, color and brush strokes. I’m getting close to what I’m imagining but I haven’t quite fine tuned it. Nothing I can do except to keep painting.
On another note, I am getting tempted to start collecting figures. Not only because they look so cool and beautiful but they would help out a lot as reference material since I could study them from different angles. Perhaps in the future.
Also, since I recently finished reading Dungeon Meshi. It’s time I read the Frieren manga. Can’t believe I forgot to do that.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I finally got to see Frieren last month (thanks to my brother for recommending it). I’m a bit late, but I’m glad I was because I got to binge watch it. The concept felt very fresh to me. What would a being that lives longer than humans feel in terms of time, activities and the importance of the relationships one develops or lack thereof. Now I need to start reading the manga.
Although seeing Frieren in the river was only but a small moment in the anime, I really liked the calm aesthetics of it. But to change it up a bit I wanted to try and get a different vantage point. and also try doing a cross section piece. I really enjoyed and learned a lot while working on this painting. Obviously I want to do more artwork based on the series in the future. There’s so much I want to paint and draw but only so much time available.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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