Photobashed Desert, 2020. This was part of a phase where I was experimenting with combining royalty-free photo assets and Krita's Gradient Map tools. Here I'm using color palettes yoinked from Hylics 2 screenshots.

HYLICS KART: Somsnosa. May 2020. I remember listening to Gorillaz "Double Bass" on loop while making this one. I wanted the characters to have very different outfits than their original designs, which perhaps makes them less recognizable, but was nonetheless quite fun. I should redraw this sometime.

HYLICS KART: Wayne. May 2020. This was the month I got my drawing tablet and started experimenting with Krita. At the time, I was a moderator on the Hylics discord server and would regularly stream F-Zero GX and other racing games in voice chat, so "Hylics Kart" was a running joke.

For those curious, here's what the base drawing looked like. I used Prismacolor grey markers on Canson Mixed Media paper. This strategy of drawing just the values and adding the colors in post is something I still use today in some digital work, it's a great process.

Whoa, Wayne Hylics! This is a style experiment I did back in May 2020, shortly before I bought my drawing tablet. These were drawn with alcohol markers, digitized with a crummy phone camera, then colored and dithered in GIMP.
His face here would later become a recurring artistic flourish.

Gotta issue a correction, this is actually in my *7x10* inch sketchbook, not 9x12. here's the spread, with a spec hand for reference

Hylics Golf, drawn I think in April 2020 with Posca pens and microns on Canon 9x12 Multimedia paper.
At the time, Chuck and Mason would regularly host Instagram livestreams of them playing Everybody's Golf, which inspired this. Shockingly, that red Posca still isn't totally dead yet.