BlastOfBN Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 (edited) Hi! I'm a Paint.NET who's been using PDN since Early 2020, yet I've learned so much in the course of 3.5 years! Now I'm no stranger to art, as I've been drawing stuff since I was about eight years old. I made a lot of comics with my elementary school friends during that time. Starting off with the expression sheet of my little rabbit avatar, Carter: I drew these using geometrical shapes, primarily crescents. Edited September 23, 2023 by BlastOfBN Spacing issue 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Those are soooo cute at @BlastOfBN Neat that you have your own emojis. They look great! ☺️ 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Awww @BlastOfBN those wabbits are so adorable. You are very good at drawing. That Dizzy is a hoot 🥰 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted September 28, 2023 Author Share Posted September 28, 2023 This is Heather, the main character I made for a cartoon me and several others are working on. The art style I use for her was primarily inspired by "kawaii culture" things, such as Sanrio. Also, while I was making that yawning image of her, I yawned about 6 times during the process. And I'm yawning as I'm writing this very sentence. Probably because my room is very tranquilizing in nature... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Very cute @BlastOfBN! You have a very unique style going on... ☺️ 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Heather is a real cutie-pie @BlastOfBN You have a talent for this genre 🤗 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted September 29, 2023 Author Share Posted September 29, 2023 This is Shayla, Heather's sidekick, ally, and best friend. After I had created Heather, I wanted her to have a best friend of some sort. Well from there, the Heather & Shayla series took off when this lil' doggy entered the picture... (please don't read the file name... I named it "Shalya PDN Forums Preview", misspelling Shayla as "Shalya" and it's really embarrassing...) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Love these little critters @BlastOfBN! A cartoon series in the making?... 😄 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 OMG - these little darlings need an Oscar 🥇 @BlastOfBN 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 This is Cody. A character I refer to as "The First Heather & Shayla Male Character", and "The Guy Who Had No Name Until Like a Week or Two Later" (he didn't have a name at first, because I didn't know what to name him). This is a character whose design is something that I'm not all that proud of. Possibly due to his exaggerated height, or the fact that his face just doesn't sit right with me. Although some people have claimed that I wasn't appreciating this guy at all, and that there is something to like about him. What exactly is it...? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 @lynxster4 Yes... Animation is actually something I've been wanting to do ever since I was about eight or nine. And when I turned twelve, I finally got into it... because I dug up my Nintendo DSi and made a 14-second Flipnote with Flipnote Studio. Anyone remember Flipnote Hatena? At the current moment of Heather & Shayla's development, there's actually a pilot episode I'm working on, which I'd say is about 47% complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 I think he's adorable @BlastOfBN. Don't be too critical of yourself...all these characters are wonderful! 😻 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Cody is another sweetie 🤗 An animation would be adorable @BlastOfBN Next stop - Hollywood. 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 Now we're getting to when the lore started to go deeper... This is Olivia, a character whose personality since her inception is primarily based on her enthusiasm for ballet, and is also rather childish at times. Her voice actor just so happens to also share the exact same first name! I wanted to focus more on the secondary characters around the time I had created her, as a way of building a cast for the Heather & Shayla series. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Sweet, sweet, sweet @BlastOfBN 👍 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Keep them coming @BlastOfBN Super cute! 😻 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 This is Cindy! I'm using exclamation points in my sentences because this one's a fan favorite! Even being a favorite of mine! Am I being too loud?! I wanted to add a fox to the lineup of our favorite little furballs, and my first idea was to name this character "Holly". But as I was typing something Cody-related before I got to making her for the first time, I misspelled Cody's name as "Cidy", which upon seeing that, it reminded me a lot of the name "Cindy", so I had went with that name for this character. If it wasn't for that typo, who knows where we would be? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 @BlastOfBN I can see you have this 'series' well-thought-out. Bravo! You should pitch this somewhere... 😄 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Cindy is a red head - just like a friend of mine with the same name Great work @BlastOfBN Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 On the topic of Heather & Shayla's branding, I already have a brand-new logo not seen anywhere else on the Web... Except I'm not sure which one to use as a primary logo, really. Earlier this year, I had first created this version to be a launch logo when Heather & Shayla is truly ready for showtime... But I had then created a more advanced version of the logo, with shading and highlighting, giving it more of a 3D look later this year, which does feel more energetic (thank you @BoltBait!). Personally, I use the version with the 3D effects when the logo is at a large size, and I opt for the more simplified version of the logo when it's at a small size. …Oh! And by the way, the logo that is currently being phased out is this one: It's been used since mid 2021, which is why it looks much less professional. Straight curves wasn't a Paint.NET feature in 2021, which is what lead to the edges of the geometry looking quite strange. I would find a workaround for that a year later though... until 5.0 came along. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 @BlastOfBN I like the 3D one also, except I would drop the shadow effects on the background shape and keep it on the lettering. My opinion only... great job! ☺️👍 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 I like the first image, with out the shading Great work @BlastOfBN and I also like your new avatar. Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlastOfBN Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 More on the topic of the background and behind-the-scenes of Heather & Shayla, Heather has indeed changed as time went on, slowly prepping herself for "showtime" (AKA, series premiere). As a character who was originally created for a school project, I eventually saw more potential in her, and decided to give her the greenlight, which brings us to today. Additional Info: Earlier designs of Heather looked clunky as I was still learning Paint.NET. Those first two weren't even made with PDN. Those were MS Paint drawings made with a school computer, not the big-boy machine that I call my aging computer (I've had it for 7 years, and the thing has been losing its edge since 2020 or so. No, it isn't Paint.NET's fault. I promise). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 She really pops off the page @BlastOfBN the subtle outline with the background is perfect 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Wonderful progression @BlastOfBN! Looking ready for 'showtime'! ☺️👍 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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