The Gracest Gallery
Welcome!
The Gracest Gallery is the art focused section of my website! Here you'll get a look at my personal digital creations as well as some context and mush about my history with and opinions on art. My original artwork is broken up into these two sections:
This is the traditional kind of gallery - collection of my original artwork from the past 6 years. It's all sorted latest to oldest, and with the power of Javascript has a search function based on tags related to year, medium, subject, and related series/fandom. (Any reported bugs are appreciated!)
Updated every New Year. If you want to keep up with my art as (rarely) post it, follow my socials!
This is a toy.house-style section where you can get fun context for my OCs and related original and fandom projects. Characters have individual pages you can find sorted by series or all together alphabetically. There's original art not found in the Main Gallery here too!
This part is updated with a new character every other month or so, and there isn't any rhyme or reason to who's added - just whoever I felt like sharing.
Further down are just a few more bonus sections about myself, my art, and thingies I like.
Feel Free To Commission Me!
I'm currently accepting unlimited slots for digital 2D artwork commissions! Prices are listed below, and if you're ever curious for more examples, browse through the Main Gallery!
Prices:
[ Chibis - $15 ]
Lil minis of a character
[ Full-Bodies - Clean Sketch $20 | Color $30 ]
a head-to-toe of a character in my usual detailed style
[ Sketch Page - $30 ]
a full-canvas collage of random sketches of a character or characters
[ Original Character Design + Reference Sheet - $60 ]
based on your notes, I'll design a character for you and make them a ref sheet!
No-No's:
! No Pornography or Fetish Art; Artistic Nudity and Explicit Themes (Not of Minors) are OK !
! No Overly Complicated or Detailed Designs, Unless You'll Give Me Lots of Artistic Liberty !
! No Mean-Spirited or Bigoted Requests (Those Attacking Strangers Or Public Figures On Cruel Topics) !
! No Art for Part of A Large Scale Project, Especially Those Involved With Blockchains or AI Algorithms!!! !
Contact
Email:
GracestGalaxy@gmail.com
Discord:
Reg1na_C3parum
Art Stats:
What're My Primary Mediums and Styles?
- Digital 2D
- Digital 3D
- Comics, Character Art, Animation
What Do I Draw On/With?
- Dell Inspiron Desktop
- Medium Wacom Intuous
- FireAlpaca (2D)
- Blender (3D)
- Krita (2D Anim)
How Long Have I Been Drawing?
- For As Long As I Can Remember!
- First Sketchbook at 10
- First Digital Tools (Surface Pro) at 12
- Went Mostly Digital in 2020
How Often Do I Draw?
- Doodle 2-4 Times a Week
- Finish Pieces When I'm Inspired
How Much Art Is On This Site?
- 160 in Main Gallery
- 79 for Character Gallery
- Around 240 in Total!
Inspiration Corner:
Softmio's Greystripe Collage
SoftMio.Tumblr.com
What I Like About This Piece
This piece is a longtime favorite of mine ever since I first saw it in 2022. Very fittingly, it was Softmio's entry for a WC Zine, and I think the theming of it is perfect for celebrating that DIY spirit of the WC art community. Along with Splatoon, WC was my first fandom that really brought me into the depths of online community spaces, even if I mostly just lurked behind my accounts and kept my drawings inspired by other artists to myself. Drawing throughout my childhood years and even now is somewhat of a private experience born out of a distant fascination with fan communities, and the pen-and-paper doodles of this piece bring me back to those middle school years when my love for the craft and the characters was divvied up among scattered worksheets, looseleaf, and messy sketchbooks. It's a deceptively simple piece - a collage of monochrome doodles with a very convincing paper filter over it - but in its details it shares such an overwhelming nostalgic adoration for this design of a much beloved WC character.
My Journey With Art
For as long as I could remember I've loved drawing and have had a somewhat supportive (though very ignorant) family in my endeavors. My biggest inspirations as a child and a to a lesser extent now were children's TVA, feature films, and video games. High amounts of cartoon radiation throughout my artistic career have left me with a very deep appreciation for cartooning as an artform, and the skills of abstraction inherent to the creation of art. I'm rather serious about the silly, that is to say.
In my earliest artistic memories, I grew up on Looney Tunes Anthologies and Disney DVDs, as well as public access television and the few Nintendo DS and Wii games I got my hands on. In 2013 however, I fell in love with MLP which had a huge impact on my style due to its strong art direction, and the window it gave me into the world of independent internet artists (for better or for worse). In 2015, Splatoon was my whole world and I was forced to incorporate humanoid characters into my artstyle, but I wouldn't truly reach a stride with that until 2019 when I started designing Kirby gijinkas. But back in 2015 and 2016, Undertale and Yo-Kai Watch's cooky monster designs taught me flexibility outside of the thick-lined sterility of MLP, and the wonderful world of Warrior Cats independent animators helped me develop my anatomy. In 2017 a soul-consuming Sonic the Hedgehog fixation did a lot to help me work on heavily stylized and fluid character designs, which in 2018 was refined by a few months of studying Golden Age animation artstyles.
Since finally learning to draw humans (ironically for a series with the most simplistic character designs imaginable), my general grasp on anatomy has skyrocketed for creatures of any body-type. But one more major development of my style was in 2020 when I became incredibly fixated on an elusive aesthetic from my childhood, the original "CalArts" or Modernist limited animation style - that which was pioneered by Studios like UPA. I've always enjoyed playing with different styles out of my deep appreciation for cartooning, but studying such a treasure trove of cartoony beauty has given me fluency in stylization I can't be grateful enough for. And which I hope to some day compliment on the other end of the artistic spectrum with studies into realism and detailed rendering.
Quite little of this journey can really be cataloged on a website due to the vast majority of my artwork before 2020 being in paper sketchbooks, but I hope from what is on display you can follow a part of this!