howdy!

i'm Jim, a professional artist from slovenia!
My work can be found on here <3
i love to experiment with art styles & character design is a big passion of mine!
i am currently slowly but surely working on a script for a comic i hope to start next year.
some of my biggest artistic influences were Genndy Tartakovsky, Hirohiko Araki and Ančka Gošnik-Godec.

i don't really like to get involved with fandoms and prefer to stick to myself, but some of the things i currently enjoy are Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Bionicle, fashion & fashion dolls! and vampires

music is an important part of my life & my creative process and i have a very specific taste that no one can identify (me included).
I'd say that as I write this, my top 5 favourite bands are Good Luck, Voltaire, Gloryhammer, Cub and My Chemical Romance.

i try to get more into playing video games so that i can get myself to do something other than draw.
currently I'm deeply absorbed in Morrowind and the almost-lost-media game Bionicle: Legend of Mata Nui.

my favourite animals are wild boars, oriental cats and hercules beetles

my favourite colour is pink & i hate magenta

peace

nice to meet you! mind if i ask about the idea behind your comic, sounds like an exciting project! also i just now looked up ančka gošnik-godec because you mentioned her, and i love the work i've seen so far

yugocar wrote:

nice to meet you! mind if i ask about the idea behind your comic, sounds like an exciting project! also i just now looked up ančka gošnik-godec because you mentioned her, and i love the work i've seen so far

Sure thing!!
here's my handy pre-written description lmao;

Quote :

it's a story about a world that's built on memories, and someone within it who has bad intentions. The task of stopping them falls on a couple of characters, each with their own bad memories to outgrow.
The theme of the story is letting go of old memories and making new ones, because sometimes you have to destroy your past to be able to build a future.

And I have a list of characters here!
I've been very slowly developing it for about 4 years while working on a metric ton of other things and i finally got to the part where the story feels solid enough to start writing the script lmao

Also yes, Ančka Gošnik-Godec has been a huge inspiration for me ever since I was a kid, her work made me want to become an illustrator <3

aaaaa great to see you here! ｡◕‿‿◕｡

neonUFO (tiredsleepy) wrote:

Sure thing!!
here's my handy pre-written description lmao;

Quote :

it's a story about a world that's built on memories, and someone within it who has bad intentions. The task of stopping them falls on a couple of characters, each with their own bad memories to outgrow.
The theme of the story is letting go of old memories and making new ones, because sometimes you have to destroy your past to be able to build a future.

And I have a list of characters here!
I've been very slowly developing it for about 4 years while working on a metric ton of other things and i finally got to the part where the story feels solid enough to start writing the script lmao

Also yes, Ančka Gošnik-Godec has been a huge inspiration for me ever since I was a kid, her work made me want to become an illustrator <3

oh the idea behind your comic sounds so interesting. i'm a bit biased when it comes to the topic of memories as one might guess from my intro post i just really love the idea of having an entire cast who have to confront their own pasts as the very key to the plot! hope you keep us update as your work on it, altho i know how much work these things can be. also i love your character designs!! another thing that i have a soft spot for, used be my dream career, and i can very much imagine this cast fitting into what you've told about the story so far. (miss beatrice i know barely anything about you but i love you already)

yugocar wrote:

oh the idea behind your comic sounds so interesting. i'm a bit biased when it comes to the topic of memories as one might guess from my intro post i just really love the idea of having an entire cast who have to confront their own pasts as the very key to the plot! hope you keep us update as your work on it, altho i know how much work these things can be. also i love your character designs!! another thing that i have a soft spot for, used be my dream career, and i can very much imagine this cast fitting into what you've told about the story so far. (miss beatrice i know barely anything about you but i love you already)

cheers!!
character design is definitely something very near and dear to my heart, these guys took about 4 years of fine-tuning and streamlining to get them to a point where i actually truly like them lmao

actually for fun, here's a lineup of all their design versions, 2019>2020>2021/22

neonUFO (tiredsleepy) wrote:

cheers!!
character design is definitely something very near and dear to my heart, these guys took about 4 years of fine-tuning and streamlining to get them to a point where i actually truly like them lmao

actually for fun, here's a lineup of all their design versions, 2019>2020>2021/22

oh wow!!! aaah i love this, thanks for sharing!!! its so cool to see how you refined the designs over the time!! the current versions of the characters are both most striking and seem to embody a more particular personality per character. i think sometimes people who dont make art themselves underestimate how much work goes into character design

yugocar wrote:

oh wow!!! aaah i love this, thanks for sharing!!! its so cool to see how you refined the designs over the time!! the current versions of the characters are both most striking and seem to embody a more particular personality per character. i think sometimes people who dont make art themselves underestimate how much work goes into character design

thank you!!
the big thing i had to do was like... streamline the detailing, since as characters in a comic i'd have to draw them a million of times lmao, some of them had way too much going on

but yeah, people absolutely underestimate how much work and fine-tuning goes into a character design..
a lot of people think that a design with a lot of intricate detail is a good design but like...... are you gonna draw this again? or 5 more times? how about 20 more times?

and like it's not like it can't be done, but personally i'm firmly in 'less is better' school of thought when it comes to character design

i love your character designs! the colours you use are so vibrant and as a whole they look cohesive while still having tons of individual personality to each design.

tahwarts wrote:

i love your character designs! the colours you use are so vibrant and as a whole they look cohesive while still having tons of individual personality to each design.

thank you very much!!

EEEEyYYYYY
hi Jim :> Thanks for posting a link to this forum on Tumblr! also I love seeing all the character iterations and development that you posted here

DesDemonical wrote:

EEEEyYYYYY
hi Jim :> Thanks for posting a link to this forum on Tumblr! also I love seeing all the character iterations and development that you posted here

thank you!!
and no problem!! i'm really glad to see you here! ;v; <3