Monica Ion

@monicaion.bsky.social

Visual Development, Concept Artist, sometimes Art Director. Worked at Mediatonic, Supersolid and Space Ape. Free-Range Organic Human Art 🐓

Going to try the 100 Face Challenge again. I think I only managed 10 last time in my old sketchbook? Let’s see how far I get! I find human faces so challenging. Curious if it’ll help. Trying to spend less time per face to not burn myself out.

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Some traditional painting. Base in acrylic inks then painted in gouache and finished with Neocolor crayons. It wasn’t quite what I was going for but on the whole I’m happy with it ❤️

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I technically have two new sketchbooks, one is fully new and the other is an old one I has only used a few pages of and gave up on. Painted on some acrylic and drew some happy little AC friends on top with acrylic marker. Then added some scribbles of Isabel in different styles.

Acrylic pen drawings of Nook and Isabel from animal crossing.
Acrylic drawings of different seasons in Animal Crossing. Sketches of Isabel from Animal Crossing

It started out as a little experimental sketchbook painting to cover up some drawings I truly disliked. Then I liked it a lot and scanned it and the scan turned out good so I did a couple small edits and now it’s a print we’re going to put in our living room??? First time I’ll have my own art up 🤯

A photo of a painting in a sketchbook, showing California poppies and the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena. A framed print of a painting of california poppies and the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena.

Making some art for this and it’s so much fun ❤️ Worked up a first draft of the Hell break room and could feel my soul leaving my body as I was drawing it 😂 @chaosgremlingames.com is awesome to work with and love seeing the game come together!

Diabolocracy 🔜 SIX@chaosgremlingames.com · 3mo ago

For this week's #ScreenshotSaturday, we're sharing what Hell's breakroom looks like in the world of Diabolocracy, a #roguelite #turnbased #tactics game where the bureaucracy of Hell runs on violence. What's your favorite detail? Mine's the ☕ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Made some art! Followed a Blender Tutorial by Polygon Runway as the base because I hadn't touched Blender in a while. Did my own lighting setup and then an overpaint. Enjoying this workflow, definitely want to experiment more with it.

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Finally finished this drawing of my husband's Genasi Swashbuckler! It's been a very busy couple of weeks 😭 Was nice to have some drawing time. Our living room is still utter chaos but my PC is set up at least!

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Finished my Kenku Bard, Chee! We had a fun time over Pandemic lockdown playing DnD over Zoom, it was a lovely experience during what was a pretty shitty time. This was a tough drawing, I'm not used to this painting style. Gotta keep at it though!

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Sketch studies from tonight (in red) cos I'm nostalgic for S1 Stranger Things. Also progressively older face studies from the past couple weeks. Including the first set where I actually cried because it felt so bad and I thought I couldn't draw faces anymore.

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Day 5! Some WIP of what I'm working on. It's messy and I'm terrified of actually rendering it and sharing process is scary and I also feel like hot garbage so I'm gonna eat some chocolate and lie down. Love you all this place is so nice.

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Don't think I ever posted these together as a little set. I still love them, when I have walls I can make holes in I'm going to print them out and have them there because they make me happy 😄

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