The Avatar Exchange 2020 - Round 1 - COMPLETE

[Griffin]

oops! A bunch of stuff came up during the day so I didnt have time to fill out the form before work, I can wait for the next round!

OK! See you in the next round, then, I hope!

[Griffin]

Btw I'm glad for these sign-up forms, I could add everyone to my DA watch!

And happened to notice your DA link is not working, Shaiyeh... fixing that for you https://www.deviantart.com/shaiyeh

[tailrustedtealeaf]

I was wondering where you came from!
I have a good idea for what to make! I just have to decide between traditional or digital...

[Griffin]

My sketch is done! And I can't wait to start on the linework, even though there's still plenty of time - I'm sometimes awful at prioritizing stuff.

I thought I'd try doing the lines with my phone again, it seemed to work quite nicely with the adoptable. Then transfer it to my laptop for colouring. I can colour digitally using a mouse of even just the touchpad on my laptop, but drawing any kind of lines is impossible which makes digital art difficult. Previously I've just inked the lines traditionally and scanned them for colouring whenever I wanted to do digital. It works ok, especially for ooak art, but adoptables are trickier since you have to prepare different versions without changing the main lines.

[Shaiyeh]

My sketch is done, too! gonna work on finishing it over the course of this week :3

[Griffin]

How's it going for everyone?

Mine has all the base colours but I still need to work on the shading/highlighting. At the moment my biggest fear is that the picture will look too busy and unclear in the small avatar size, I probably chose too big a canvas for the original. But I'll see if I can find a workaround!

[tailrustedtealeaf]

I was actually going to start working on it today! I think I've settled on a medium and I have a good idea for what to do.

[Minty_Magic]

How's it going for everyone?

Mine has all the base colours but I still need to work on the shading/highlighting. At the moment my biggest fear is that the picture will look too busy and unclear in the small avatar size, I probably chose too big a canvas for the original. But I'll see if I can find a workaround!

I’m at exactly the same stage, freak out over looking too cluttered included! I drew mine in a way if it looks too busy as is, I think I can crop it to still look nice as an avatar. I run into this problem a LOT when I make avatars, so I’ve gotten pretty good at workarounds!

[Shaiyeh]

almost done with mine also dealing with clutter anxiety haha, but I keep zooming out to check it's looking ok, and so far so good ^^

[Griffin]

I'm done! My partner was Minty_Magic - I hope you like the tropical theme I chose!

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[Minty_Magic]

Aaahhhh Griffin i absolutely love it, thank you!,  The tropical theme is so perfect for the summer! The colors are all lovely.

My partner was Shaiyeh! I went with the “indoor jungle” theme on yours!

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I wanted to include a more cropped version as well since the full size image is pretty busy at a smaller size. If you want me to adjust the crop at all just let me know! I hope you like it!

[Shaiyeh]

OMG Minty I love love LOVE it! Aaaah so cute!! thank youuu <3


Here's mine! My partner was Tailrustedtealeaf I decided to go with a nautical/seaside-y theme ^^
 I'm afraid the small version did turn out a little bit cluttered >.< let me know if you want to adjust how it's cropped ^^' (I also saved a version with non transparent (white) background, let me know if you want that as well


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I hope you like it ~

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Noo it's not cluttered at all I love it so much!! I love the scattered shapes around the edge too!
Griffin was my partner, here's a few options for the icon! I went with a sunset theme primarily but threw in the popsicle since it looked a bit plain.
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Super glowy fullsizes in the spoiler. I still have the .Svg file if you wanted to scale her to like 20k pixels! (Excuse the raw edges, I knew I had to crop)

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[Griffin]

Aaaah I love it!! Thank you so much, tailrustedtealeaf! The sunset theme is perfect and with the popsicle I can almost feel the lingering heat of the day. Summer vibes!

Shai and Minty_Magic, your pieces are gorgeous too! Awesome work, everyone - the first round is now complete! Let's take small break before I post the sign-ups for Round 2.

[Shaiyeh]

Tailrust - I'm so glad you like it! <3 I had so much fun with it :3 yours is sooo cute too!


everybody's designs were great, this has been a super fun art swap! Well done everyone! can't wait for round 2