A curated selection of Kori's artistic struggles. Hover over the pieces to read more about them. The images have been downscaled, compressed, and had a watermark slapped on them. Sorry about that, but that's just how it is.
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13 August 2023
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Commissioned work for someone. If you are reading this, thank you a lot!
Mamimi Samejima cutting wood. I don’t think I should ever draw again, my art has reached it’s peak with this one. This is my final, tearful message to the world: Mamimi does carpentry. Goodbye everyone.
15 July 2023
digital, Clip Studio Paint
I didn’t know what to name this, so it’s named after the song I was listening to. I am very creative.
This was originally conceived as a physical piece, a painting on a few new sheets of thick cardboard I bought. However my hopes were dashed when I realised there was no way of transferring the digital sketch over: the cardboard is too thick for my light table, and the graphite-transfer-paper-thing trick doesn’t work on such a dark surface. I should look for a mini projector…
In usual me fashion, there’s also a fucked up version.
4 July 2023
digital, Clip Studio Paint
I designed tiny baby minigure versions of Emmet and Lucy from the brick movie a while ago but they weren’t that good so I remade them.
Yes, the brick movie interest is still going after… what, 8 months by now? Not as intensely as before, but it’s still there. Autism is very fun.
10 June 2023
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Yeah uh… Should I apologise? Or not. No, I shouldn’t. This very plain ship art is doing nothing but possibly making you cringe, and cringe is in the eye of the becringer.
This took an abysmal amount of time, from rendering the characters to the awful, awful background traced from 3D models and then rendered yet a-fucking-gain, but I’d say it was worth it for the experimentation alone.
21 May 2023
traditional, watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, oil pastels, black ink and white ink over watercolour paper, restored in Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint
Yuyu! Experiments with gouache painting, using tape to mask out parts and using oil pastels for a flat colour background.
Getting a decent digital version of this physical artwork was a pain in the ass. First, I tried scanning it. Didn’t work—the scanner utterly failed at picking up lower contrast areas such as shading on the clothing. So I had to take a picture with my phone, straighten it with Photoshop and fix the colours in CSP.
26 April 2023
digital, Kid Pix 4, color adjustments in Clip Studio Paint
Yeah, you heard me right, this was made in Kid Pix! Who knew some kiddy painting software from the early noughties would be so good for computer vomit?
12 January 2023
traditional, black ink, white ink, watercolour and oil pastels on watercolour paper
People have varied interpretations of what this piece represents. Someone says she’s been shot by a cannon. Someone else says this is a stomachache.
I know what it’s about, but is it any fun if I tell you? Listening to your theories makes the process better.
4 January 2023
digital, Clip Studio Paint, color adjustments in Photoshop
Lucy from The Lego Movie. I’ve gotten quite a bit of derision for my obsession with the funny brick people movie, people calling me annoying and childish and gasp cringe, but you know what?
Embracing your inner cringe is the true way to happiness. Probably. I made that up, but the sentiment is valid, isn’t it?
26 November 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
The two dumbasses of all time. I love Haki’s dynamic pose here, it conveys her energy better than anything I’ve ever drew.
Matti looking like a wooden slab as usual. The man is probably physically unable of expressing anything that is not mild irritation.
8 October 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Matti smile challenge (impossible)
Sometimes I just don’t have much to say about a piece. Sometimes I just want to draw my two favourite bastards, okay?
26 May 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
I painfully painted a painful painted girl inside a painting in this painting. I need painkillers.
She did nothing wrong, by the way.
19 May 2022
traditional, watercolour, brown ink and white ink on watercolour paper
Fan art for one of my favourite manga, Asper Kanojo (also known as That’s My Atypical Girl). I was quite overjoyed when author Souhachi Hagimoto noticed my work. It’s pretty fantastic to have an artist you like give kudos to your work, isn’t it?
13 May 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Experimenting with incorporating glitch textures into character art.
Maybe I should’ve done something more Disappearance of Hatsune Miku-y.
3 April 2022
digital, Illustrator, file corrupted with Audacity
If you can’t read Portuguese, it says “Insert a generic motivational phrase here”. A quick but deeply satisfying typography piece inspired by my hatred of inane motivational bullshit.
Getting the “motivacional genérica” to be corrupted but still readable was pure luck. This randomness is what makes glitch art so awesome to me.
23 March 2022
digital, Procreate, file corrupted with Audacity
Yes, it’s that piece from 2018, corrupted.
Not much to say about it.
24 February 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
I swear, this is not fetish art. She’s just painting with her feet.
It’s Rin Tezuka. I find her character fascinating and, some might describe this as worrying, relatable. She’s an absent-minded, kinda nutty armless girl who paints and speaks nonsense. Like the kids nowadays tend to say, “she just like me fr!”.
Except I still have arms.
You can see the initial thumbnail here, and a GIF of the painting process here.
24 February 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
My favourite grape-soda-drinking, totally heterosexual war criminal and supreme leader.
Both this and the Rin Tezuka piece were part of an assignment for my illustration class (and yes, the assignment was specifically to draw fanart).
You can see the initial thumbnail here, a second thumbnail here, and a GIF of the painting process here.
17 January 2022
digital, Illustrator
It was 4 in the morning, and I was up messing around with letters in Illustrator. Only good life decisions being made in here, yes yes!
Some people are addicted to drugs, others to gambling, here I am addicted to a font. lmao
14 January 2022
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Me when I’m awake at 2 in the morning playing Spore and I begin to contemplate the life choices that led me to this point.
23 December 2021
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Don’t you hate when the wind blows and your hair starts flowing in a geometric, sorta angular way? Pisses me off.
10 December 2021
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Probably heavily inspired on an album cover designed by Phil Lee. Not a big fan of the music, but I like the pretty lights.
4 October 2021
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Sometimes you must channel your inner 13 year old fandom girl into something tangible in order to maintain sanity.
2 April 2021
digital, Clip Studio Paint
A more story-focused piece: Haki and Matti as teenagers, in different parts of the world, waiting to get home from school. Matti in the sunny Finnish countryside, Haki in a dingy bus stop in the middle of Korin’s long winter darkness.
12 January 2021
digital, Clip Studio Paint
She has quite the blank expression doesn’t she.
A quick experiment with crispy lineless art. I really love this kinda stuff, even if it unfortunately resembles corporate art (everyone’s favourite!).
17 November 2020
mixed media, ink on watercolour paper, scanned and edited in Photoshop
A piece where both traditional and digital methods were essential to its production: first, aimless watercolour blobs and some random lyrics on paper (you can see it here!), then that was scanned and messed with in Photoshop to create a better composition.
This is actually an alternate version, the original is blue and white. I think the contrast between red and black looks much more striking.
15 November 2020
digital, Clip Studio Paint
Misaki Nakahara from the funny schizo anime.
I wanted to try something akin to digital collage but instead using the cutout for blocks of colour in the image. Drop shadows were applied to each piece of “paper” you see to create a bit of tridimensionality. The composition is pretty boring but the collage effect makes up for it.
3 September 2020
traditional, watercolour and brown ink over watercolour paper
Back when Haki still had short hair. She looks kinda awkward here, frankly. Anatomy truly is suffering—who is responsible for designing the human body? You overengineered the crap out of it, and now I can’t really draw it! And her hair is too blue.
Her shirt is great though. I want it.
20 May 2020
digital, Clip Studio Paint
I made this for someone else’s “draw this in your style” thing a while ago. The character was rendered without lines (a painful process if you’re as precise as I am), while the plants in the background have the colours slightly outside of the lines, creating a sort of printed effect.
28 March 2020
traditional, alcohol markers, black ink and white ink on paper
A fun experiment using tape to mask parts of the drawing. Despite using so many random colours without proper care to how they work together, I think it ended up being surprisingly cohesive.
5 September 2018
traditional, ballpoint pen, coloured pencil and highlighter over paper
School’s the best place to draw, isn’t it? Unfortunately, I couldn’t bring many art supplies. No problem for me though! I still had a blue pencil, a blue highlighter, and a blue pen.
I’ve heard from others that the person without a face over there is quite unsettling. It wasn’t my intention, but I embrace it.
18 June 2018
digital, Procreate
Probably my favourite piece I’ve ever made. Took over 10 hours of tapping away on my iPad’s screen, but it was well worth it.
It’s kinda sad that it’s half a decade old.
