Greetings!
Online, I am known as Vsuvi [as you could've guessed lmao]. I am a 15 y.o digital artist doing stuff for fun :3
I do commissions and art/design trades whenever I have free time! So, if my status of those says "Open" then feel free to DM about commissioning/art trading/design trading >:D
I don't have a preference of artstyle whenever I art/design trade with somebody, because it's just fun doing one
I'm currently not too active in the closed species/adoptable community like I used to be. But, I'm trying to improve on my animations and art while being on a design-block :,D
I am not too active on Discord and Instagram anymore, so I don't post much because of how AI art is a threat to the art community ;-;
I almost always introduce myself as "Your local penguin enthusiast" because of my sona/mascot, Pengu
About my Penguin Sona:
Pengu was purposefully chosen to be a penguin because I wanted to be easily remembered by my mascot. I got inspired by kekeflipnote, who's known for animating bouncy pigeons, to choose a unique animal to represent as myself. I almost chose seal, but then I struggled drawing seals haha
Pengu's Toyhouse Profile: https://toyhou.se/11003430.pengu
Small QnA because I'm bored! Yipee!
"What app/software do you use?"
My go-to program to draw & animate in, is Autodesk Sketchbook! Very simple, I love it. I'm starting to get into animating again, and I'm currently exploring OpenToonz! [Send help I'm dying trying to figure out how it works]
"What do you use to draw?"
I use my finger on my very smol phone. I also used to use a mouse because that very very smol phone started getting full TwT. But now I have a graphics tablet and I work on it a lot, I still use my phone though
"What brushes do you often use?"
A simple round brush or a round brush that has random size and spacing. If you use Autodesk Sketchbook, then it's basically Pencil Pal but with no texture & shape!
Side comment, one of my pet peeves in art is when people doesn't use the same brush to match the lineart and color inside the lineart. Like imagine a super soft airbrush-y like lineart, and then inside it was colored with a hard round brush, so I try to use 1-2 brushes throughout a whole drawing
I don't know why I dislike it...but I do xD
"How did you get into drawing?"
Pokemon! I basically copied Pokemon drawings off of Pokemon Cards and started exploring what else I could draw :D
"Who are your inspirations?"
Ok, I'll split this into two categories [art & animation] and mention my main inspirations or else this'll be a very long list LMAO but this already looks so long get ready for it TwT]
Art
- Athenitte
- Krimmins
- Artiaze
- Aveartz
- artifisoap
- Clockbirds
- Neytirix
Animation
- weaselkat
- artifisoap
- Duckiefuntime
- zem_yata
- telepurte
- Artiaze
- Milt Kahl
- James Baxter
- Amelia Bothe
- Louixie
"Did you take art classes/school?"
I kind of did, but it was like 5 short sessions on how to use graphite. But that's basically it, mostly learnt from Youtube tutorials [I recommend Marco Bucci & Ethan Becker 👌]
"How did you get your name?"
At the time, I was very much into greek mythology & facts. Then I stumbled upon the story of Mt. Vesuvius' big explosion, I was very much facinated and just took that as my new username xD, I then just rewrote & simplified it to the way it is right now.
"How do you pronounce Vsuvi?"
Vee-soo-vee, but I let people pronounce it any way they're comfortable in!