Vidard Corner News: April 5 #1

It's time to give this blog some uses after months of hesitating what I should come up from my own thought. Also, I'm struggling a lot lately with how I want to grow as an artist myself, and also a "person". And here we are, my very first newsletter post on the blog.

I intend to keep posting in the blog like twice a month or so for now (but plan might change depend on my free time too).

Anyway, let's head up on some artworks I work on lately, which mostly personal works for now!

Latest Artworks

Hakurou (Shiro)

Kokurou (Kuro)

Before I draw these artworks, I did draw a lot of my own Digimon OCs with various themes and styles. I thought it would be great idea to settle one direction from others until I caught myself experimenting around which suit me the best.

I ended up with splash art of character with abstract background and swooshes, just like typical gacha game arts (notably Genshin Impact and Tower of Saviors, which are my main inspiration). Though I wanna to keep it simple first as I believe to improve as I keep going which sticking to what best for me.

Eid Ketupat (Rice Cake) YCHs 

Some of samples I did for Ketupad YCHs

I started this YCHs a while before Eid holiday, just for raising some funds to sustain myself (well, meanwhile I have no commission to do at that time so it's also time to pick up simple idea like this at least).

Even though, some of followers thought they gonna be ketupat themselves! Maybe I'll keep it here for future idea one day.

If you would like a slot, do reach me in Telegram or e-mail me!

Commission Slots Update

With recent focus on doing splash arts, I intend to update my standard commission slots as well. I'm considering accepting commission slots that are not splash arts too (e.g. half-body, stickers, chibis, etc.), but you may need to message me first as I don't set the rate for those types.

I also want to start my pricing for this type back from the start and working my way up. Yes, I can still maintain my high price at first, but I'm personally dissatisfied with my previous art experimenting. After several times of changing direction and finally settle up to one, I think starting from reasonable rate might be a good start for now.

I currently offer USD$40 / MYR120 for one full-body splash art so message me if you would like to! 

WIPs

Paildramon fanart WIP

I want draw more Veemon evolution variants despite all that. I started drawing Paildramon just for commission samples. Probably adding one human sample too later (whether a Vocaloid or Project Sekai characters). Even though, I'm more familiar drawing them compared to humans (this doesn't mean I can't draw humans at all. In fact, I started with drawing human first during my newbie years of drawing.)

Afterthoughts

(Veemon and Guilmon keychains are made by AviDaVinki!)

Since this is my first newsletter post, I'm pretty much want to get use with blogging. I would say venting negative stuffs on internet doesn't make the problems solve itself (which something that turned into habit and got myself into regret spiral, duh).

It's great to have your arts recognized through likes and shares, and the first time I experienced it was on Twitter. Some of my Digimon fanarts blew up there and even got reposted, which I don't really mind as long they credited me.

I did enjoy drawing more Digimon-related stuffs because of it. But sadly it didn't pay my bill with just exposure. So I decided to focus on my own OCs (including my Digimon OCs of course!) and less likely on fan arts in the future.

With that, hats off to my first post! It's a bit awkward at first if I'm going to read old blog post someday but that's fine with me. Hope to write better one on next one and also updating my blog layout.

(Vidard fanart made by SaifulSaltyBear!)