A new animatic! This one is for a school project.
But it focuses on Minerva, the apotrodite character I made recently, and her stealing the Alpha Rune. Enjoy! 💜
This art piece made me scream into the fucking void omfg, this was brutal. 77 layers and a lot of folders on Ibis Paint X. Hopefully I didn’t miss any mistakes cause I did when I showed this to Discord, and while I was posting this I almost forgot to unhide Ben’s pillow.
In one of the Ben 10 Discord’s I’m in, someone was like “Hey I’m working on a Ben 10 character mixtape and was tempted to add Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo for Ben just for these lines.” And I was like “Yo I’m tempted to draw that!” And here we are 4 days later. (In app time says like 16 hours and 18 minutes lmao.)
More details about the drawing under the cut cause, boy oh boy does Allie have a lot to talk about with this piece.
I used a lot of screenshots from the show as a reference in order to draw how I saw this in my head. The second one was actually a reference to Young Justice episode Misplaced where Billy saw Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad on the TVs from the store he was walking past.
“I feel like no one wants me” I was originally just going to do only Azmuth and Ben, but I wanted to do a three thing and I ended up going with Julie since their relationship in UA was rocky. (I also debated using Grandpa Max over her, but I couldn’t think of a time where Max was like that.) Also fun fact everytime I kept writing “feel” I did “fell” and took me so long to get it right. I was gonna go with a school background, but I couldn’t get it right so I went with what I did.
Y’all know how when your life is a mess everyone seems like a shadow to you and everything around you is fuzzy? That’s what I was going for there. Also the fact that people want Ben for his aliens, not himself.
“And I hate the way that I’m perceived” For the news report I did use the screenshot of that pose itself because I honestly couldn’t get it right when trying to freehanded it nor did I want to straight up trace it cause of how I had the TV screens. Figured there was no harm in using the screenshot itself for it. Just like “feel”, I had a tough time writing “perceived” correctly, I kept doing “pre-” over “per-”. Listen pretty sure I’m dyslexic so bare with me, English is hard.
“I only have two real friends” Despite the fact that Kevin and Gwen are in their Season 3 Alien Force outfits, this takes place in UA. I went with those outfits for that lyric simply because I wanted to lmao. (And I guess cause it makes more sense cause before Vilgax came back the trio was having a good time? It makes sense I swear.)
“And lately, I’m a nervous wreck” I was originally using a photo of Danny from Danny Phantom as a reference cause he’s been a nervous wreck in some episodes, and I couldn’t remember Ben ever being nervous like how I wanted to draw him to do a reference. But Danny just ended up being thrown out the window when that wasn’t working out, ended up doing what I did though.
I was originally gonna color the floor, but I was playing around with brushes on Ibis and that happened. I kept it cause it worked for what I was going for lol.
Also just a FYI, my DeviantArt is Kira Sema so that’s why my watermark in the panels say that over my actual name/username here. I’m trying to keep my newer artwork with a consistent watermark that leads somewhere if someone were to look up the name. (Despite the fact I’m still very backlogged on uploading old/current artwork to my DA.)
I chose the song "Misery Business" by Paramore. (Did my song day prompt on a Paramore song last year as well lol) This song reminds me of both Mark and Ben. I have a whole animatic planned out for it but no motivation for finishing it lol.
I couldn't finish this on the day I intended to, so here it is now!
alr now that my s1 era is over (miss u bb) i’m gonna keep ALGAMATION (FOR s2e1) but do it a lil differently? so yeah!! for anyone who cares that’s the plan lol.
s2 is controversial so how about a rating for each ep?? why not lol. this one’s gonna b short cus i gotta get to bed but also
TYSM for people who watched my animatic and thank you for the kind words if ur reading this <3 still yet to put it on yt and make an official post. someday.
also sorry this is a mess i’m trying to get into my groove for this season and i want to try something new.
rating: 9/10
nine cigarettes out of ten!! (sissy ur an icon)
explanation:
i think this episode has similar vibes to s1 in introducing the hargreeves in their new situation, although it def has a mood change from before. less of a drama yk?
i LOVE the s2 characters more than i could ever explain with words. lila? ray? sissy? elliot? god i wish they treated u guys better oml.
the setting and the clothes are amazing, because 60s fashions and all that jazz.
THE MUSIC HOLY SHIT. they srsly never miss here istg. it 100% has those summer vibes i’ve heard people (one person <3) talk abt. i need to add all of these to my playlists RN!!!!!
ben ily this is ur season to shine too. goddddd he’s so fucking tragic. i’m gonna enjoy him while he’s here
while the vibes are definitely different from s1, i don’t think it would’ve necessarily been a problem if not for s3 (/neg). it has goofy sitcom vibes, lots of shenanigans.
the cinematography stays top tier as always, those shots at the end where they’re showing where everyone is and then they cut to the BEAUTIFUL STUNNING SHOT of viktor and sissy smoking in the barn and they’re looking at the STARS and the SKY and the MOON omg
god all of the character is where this season shines. lila howling??? i love her sm. ray is so tender with his WIFE bro. sissy is this tired exasperated mom but she’s also got this spark and sass and she’s got dreams too. i forgot how much i loved vissy.