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This lil dude was inspired by a moodboard that I made :] This moodboard!![]()
This keepsie is just inspired by day/night! I wanted them to be split in multiple ways (like their face, eyes, body, etc.)
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I wanted to make a deer with birch tree antlers and for their keepsake I made it christmas balls :]
For this keepsie I wanted to do a skunk and dandelions are my favorite flower so I gave them a dandelion crown!
My fiancé suggested space dog so I did a dog with Pluto as their keepsake! :]
This last one I just had the idea to do a keepsie with a singing fish plaque because they’re silly >w<

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For this keepsie i wanted something fairly simple. Purples and pinks with a touch of green to break up the same-y-ness
For The second I went full contrast. The yellows and teals work off one another nicely, even with the complex patterning.
For the last standard, I let myself have fun with it using Space & Zodiac motifs all across it. The blue and gold is one of my favorite color palettes, and i felt it just fit the whole design vibe.
Custom Lines
Ok for this one I went for one of my favorite aesthetics big hair, clashy colors, and just a bit of edge! i absolutely love the vibes and the colors. Pure self-indulgence.
For Custom 2 I have been playing a game that's had me fishing nonstop so I had fish on the brain. I wanted this one to be more complex and used my favorite design choice. Neon transparent body.
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I used a color palette I found online! I mainly just wanted to play around with patterns and create a cohesive design with them
this keepsie was vaguely inspired by sandstone; I added a bit of teal for a pop of colour and to highlight points of interest in the design
alien wrote:
I know there are already,, many alien lines lol but I wanted to do my own take on them! areas like the hair, stars, and rocket ship are shiny to give that plastic-y toy feel, while the body is more muted to avoid pulling too much attention
love potion wrote:
to contrast with the cheerful alien, I wanted to do lines that feel more mellow. the initial concept was more sleek and elegant but I think more cartoony features like the exaggerated fluff and the stylized angel wings suited it better
alley cat wrote:
an edgier, more accessorized design! I was really inspired by those crochet cat beanies, and I thought it would be a really cool basis for a line
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albino keepsie
this guy is kind of self indulgent, i love a little albino critter so i of course wanted to make a keepsie one. but more or less my goal with this guy was also to show off some simple shading on a plainer design :- )
leopard seal
yayy leopard seal!! this is the usual stuff i like to do, i love making realistic designs with scratchy coloring! all of the gradients are done by hand and applied on one layer where i just basically keep making intermediate colors painterly style LOL.
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i love my ball
the lore of the keepsies is so super endearing to me, and since the whole thing with keepsies is that they're born from love & tied to their object, i wanted to make a simple set of lines where theyre cuddling their object :- ) . i wanted to challenge myself to do pixel art wings, and oh my god i was stressing. but i think they turned out pretty cool!! this is also a good example of a really simple design that i didn't stress too much over, but still wanted to make it cute and pretty : D
werewolf
basic fact about me is i love werewolves LOL. i wanted to make a big hulking werewolf keepsie that looked "scary" but was still cute since theyre a keepsie who's a werewolf HAHA. and of course they have a werewolf bite and their little item is a full moon. im chronically on the nose about a lot of the stuff i make. anyways! design wise i just wanted to go with a natural wolfy pattern since theyre super fun to do! if i put more time into it id have added more intermediary colors but i thought this was pretty enough!! i also tried something new with the moon which was adding some like random pops of color on it from the eyeshine but im not sure how well i pulled it off... i tried though HAHA.
other UMA examples! wrote:MY CATSHEE #mycatshee... heres some holiday event ones
a custom and a frontpage litter guy
and a mod custom + paid custom... the first one has unique lines, i think its pretty close to the catshee style : J
For my first standard I started off with the light brown color because it's one that I like a lot and it felt sort of like an orange creamsicle so I leaned into that and made the orb an orange!
Once I finished the orange standard I wanted to make another one that is a tomato inspired by my friend's favorite fruit!
I wanted to make a cutie pastel keepsie and I got inspiration from my favorite childhood cartoons like Care Bears in terms of the colors and soft gradients, but to keep it from looking too light I brought in a bright rainbow inside the orb
My friend suggested that I do a picnic design so I started off with a picnic basket and some fruit on the head! With the fruit on the head it make me think that maybe this picnic pal was a little clumsy and got some peanut butter on their tail. Of course to finish things off I had to give them a gingham picnic blanket cape.
For my last design I realized I that my designs were pretty light and bright so I wanted to make a little bit of a darker and more earthy design. I started off with the lilypad on the head (which in turn made me make his ears droopy so they would fit) and then I leaned into a sort of marsh-y kind of vibe complete with cat-tails and moss. And of course there was a lilypad so I had to give him a frog (or rather a tadpole in this case)
Designs I did as an artist for Sqim!![]()
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★ standards:★ inspiration: sunstone
★ little yap sesh: little desert vibe with a sunstone, shading with hatching because i personally like the rougher vibe it gives off, especially trying to tie into the sandy desert theme >.<★ inspiration: obsidian (water+fire)
★ little yap sesh: i love split designs as always so i went with two contrasting elements of water+fire, which makes obsidian (in minecraft at least) hence the little ball of obsidian for the keepsake :3 also another shaded with hatching >.< with little fangs because teeth on keepsies is cute...★ inspiration: moon at dusk
★ little yap sesh: wanted to do a softer vibe without hatching on a standard, so i just dug through pinterest for a dusk palette and laid it down on a standard :3 smol hints of mountains + clouds, with some highlight,,, soft shading, and a purply moon as the keepsake :3 and eyelashes because im a little freak for lashes.....★ edited:★ inspiration: nerd glasses......
★ little yap sesh: little snow leopardesque with nerd glasses on hims. wanted to play around with clothes on keepsies, so gave him a tie and buttonup shirt, as you do. gave baby some fluffier fur and a little "☝️ erm achtually" fingie. also went with some thick outlining to make him look like a sticker, which i like but it might just be upon request / on random giveaway guys and personal stuff, not really a common occurrence >.< we do try to please the masses.★ inspiration: those hoodies with the big paws attached to them :keepsiesdrool:
★ little yap sesh: spookier vibes, did this after watching the new fnaf or in preparation of it probably. felt a little haunted but in a silly cute way, so did a fluffy domg with a hoodie on, and huge paws™️ :3 tried to tie in the stars with a little moon on his thigh, and went with a sleepytime night purple/yellow contrasting palette. bear.★ inspiration: beegle ! bee + beagle.......
★ little yap sesh: i love domgies but i thought id branch out with a domg i dont draw a lot, which is a little hound :3 and bees and beagles are cute together, so >.< softer color palette and shading, to show a bit of my shading + coloring without the hatching like before. gave her green accents and a little heart pupil and swirly blush :3 mr bee is chubby and roumg as he should bee....... hahahaahahah........
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For this one, I was heavily inspired by fallen angels and that kind of theme! On the left hand side I designed it in my usual style, with some blurred markings using a brush rather than digital pen in ibispaintx, however when i read the guidelines and saw that it was not preferred, i remade it using only digital pen, and did so for the rest of the designs aswell.
For this one i was inspired by scene culture, i didnt want the colour palette to be too hard to read, so i muted down the red orange and pink markings after i finished the design!![]()
I was very inspired by electricity this time around, i like mucking about with pc parts and working with old consoles and modding them, it doesnt help im getting a new car soon lol, but yeah i thought the idea of a crocodile clip head this time around would be REALLY fun! Just a lil silly! I used my usual shading style this time but used digital pen with all of the markings too apart from the caution tape and i think it still looks really good :)
The second one i made a little later as a different version without ANY use of brushes with blurriness, including in the shading! Not sure which one i prefer and im still developing the techniques i use for the digital brush only :)
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I am the most proud of this one. I was inspired by the sea, just the sea, and went full pixel artist on this one, no shading with fancy layers, just regular layers.
For this one i was really inspired by childhood type toys, with the silly floral print and stripes. Not complex, but still a comforting design, at least to me. I'm kinda iffy on how some of the flowers turned out, despite the fact i was trying to replicate the style, i wasnt the most fond of them.




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