#kirby oc secret santa

[kirbyoc-secretsanta]

hi starflung!! happy holidays! (it’s february right now and holidays are far out of sight but it’s okay!!)

making both of these pieces was exciting and a learning experience for me! i don’t draw orbs often (or fire, satin, grass, flowers or metal other than gold) so this got me out of my little comfort zone for the first time. i’m pretty happy about how these came out!

if i am to talk about the full artistic experience, drawing morpho dee was an absolute rollercoaster. his design is quite intricate, so figuring out how to portray him in my style ended up being fun! i was a bit nervous going in considering i’ve never done a dramatic piece like this before, but it turned out quite well!

drawing starstruck was everything, though. i saw ‘anything to do with stars’ on the prompt list and ran with it. that starry sky and the shading on her bow are my pride and joy right now!!

that’s all i’ve got to say right now, so sparkle on and have a wonderful day!!

from: @starsh0cked

to: @starflungwaddledee

#submission #starsh0cked #starflungwaddledee #kirby oc #kirby oc secret santa

[hoshinokaabi-secretsanta]

From: @post-it-notes7

To: @humming-fly (Instagram)

Message from Santa: "This was a great deal of fun, I'm glad I had the chance to draw for you Fly! I had to hold back from sketching up more or we'd probably be getting into ridiculous territory, but I hope you enjoy these!! (p.s. I've yet to master Fayre's color palette, but those feathers were a delightful challenge to pose)"

#post-it-notes7 #humming-fly #meta knight #galacta knight #sir arthur #sir falspar #sir dragato #sir nonsurat #kirby oc #hnk secret santa

[moonverc3x]

awaa i didn't know how to respond to this but i saw your tags; thank you for all the reblogs of my waddle dee!! i'm always so so happy when people like her or are interested in her so i'm excited by your response!! there IS lore but it's not *that* dense, i'm still working out her character relationships and so on, and there's been a bit of a hold-up on some lore related answers because i want to do a comic for her but that obviously takes time!! but she's just a weird little kreechur counting mould spots on the wall 😂

shes such a sweetheart and her character design is just!! phenomenal!! how could I NOT like her?? I am an absolute SUCKER for pink characters, not to mention the heart-shaped mark on her face is brilliant! cant believe I haven't seen it used on more Waddle dee ocs! and the big bow and the funky cheek marks??! she's got just enough going on to clue in that there's more to her than what it first seems!

I can not WAIT for whatever lore drops you might have planned!! good luck on your comic too, btw! Ill be following her story closely ;)

#ALSO I WAS. NOT EXPECTING YOU TO DROP INTO MY INBOX?! HI HELLO THERE COOL ARTIST!!!! #plus ive heard that youre in the HSK secret santa!! cant wait to see your part for that! #ask #verc3x txt #verc3x art #also in case my. insane rambling hasnt clued you in yet im? kirblrs resident kirby oc enjoyer so expect me to see me in your notes alot mor #now that I know you have a KIRBY OC #starstruck dee #OH ALSO. BEFORE I FORGET. happy belated birthday!!!

[maybe-arts]

unfortunately i don't know if Sok has tumblr but that was done for kirby secret santa on FFSH server! it's their sona + my sona and kirby hanging out <3

#kirby #kirby series #kirby fanart #kirby fandom #sona #others' sonas #others' ocs #kirbysona #secret santa #yes i did immediately guessed that this person was in homestuck #it was kinda 'girl what were you doing at the sacrament' moment #i did took inspo from rtdl's white wafers' levels yeah #i wanted to put them into either waddle dee town or winter horns but realized i despise drawing buildings #kirby is wearing my scarf! its completely wrapped around him <3 #maybeart #artists on tumblr #digital art

[yvetteiswhy]

A Glimpse of Serenity at Sunset ✨

A gift for my friend @blueberryfruitbat 💖

#yvette art #kirby #kirby oc #meta knight #king dedede #gift art #blue was my recipient for a secret santa and i went all out for it!! #im super proud of this #prolly took me like 70 something hours to make this lmao #was so worth it though ♥️ #thank you for being my friend blue 💙

[azumetapraline]

For @chaotic-spork! It was for the 2022 Holiday General Art Exchange in my hit Discord server Orb Appreciation Club!

I drew his OC, Alex, during a holiday vacation with some folks from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! ☃️

#kirby #kirby right back at ya #meta knight #king dedede #this one was late too lmao… but it didn’t took me too long to finish it! #i am also very proud of it <3 #and the oc was really fun to draw #azu's artwork #hoshi no kaabii #tuff kirby #bun kirby #tiff kirby #fumu kirby #king dedede fanart #kirby fanart #meta knight fanart #friend’s oc #alex #secret santa

[eryth-arts]

A Konrad (and Star Dream) + a bonus Marxolor doodle for @riddlelikesstuff/ @askkirbnfriens for a Secret Santa! Happy Holidays, and have a wonderful 2023 Riddle!! <33

#Kirby OC #Star Dream #Marx (Kirby) #Magolor #Marxolor #Kirby (series) #eryth's arts #secret santa 2023 #I'm so happy with how the lighting turned out on Konrad ahehehehe :3

[starsh0cked]

okay so. two things!! first of all, over the course of january (and the beginning of february) i participated in the kirby oc secret santa, which was wonderfully hosted by @/moonverc3x. i was lucky enough to be the santa for @/starflungwaddledee, and ended up with two of my best pieces so far!!

these were CHALLENGING, though. which is where the second thing comes in!! under the cut, i'll be going over some of the sketches, drafts and phases of either piece! there's also a speedpaint. exciting!!

i'll be starting with my starstruck piece! the theme here was wanderlust - literally one of the most whimsical words i know - and generally anything to do with the stars. i had a few things in mind, but considering how long it sometimes takes to make artwork, i decided to roll with what inspired me the most.

this is the final sketch compared to the final artwork. certainly one of the crazier transformations i've done. i had a mental image of most parts of the artwork, from the material of starstruck's bow to the lighting cast by the stars. everything except for the grass (i hate grass!!) i ended up rendering the grass and background first, anyway.

doing the background before the rest of the artwork helps define the lighting and shadows! if i decided to draw starstruck before the background, i'd have to draw it according to the lighting.

weird explanation, but in summary: background before character helps the character look like a part of the environment! character before background means extra steps need to be taken before the character fits in the environment!

starstruck's bow was also a decent challenge! i'm a fan of bows and satin, so a satin bow sounded like a good idea. it was, but i've never drawn satin before. the workaround was an active satin study! i stared at a satin bow i found on pinterest and tried to understand how light spread over the material. it's quite interesting!!

you might notice that i flipped the direction of the shooting stars. this is for composition reasons!! i wanted to make starstruck the obvious focus, and while the contrast between her warmer palette and the background's cooler palette easily achieve that, i wanted to cement it. i also added little hand drawn sparklies everywhere. because i like it.

of course, i have to talk about the eyes!! if anything, i noticed that in all of starflung's drawings of starstruck, she had really glittery eyes. literally adorable. so i made it my mission to capture her feelings in her eyes!! i had a lot of fun making them super shiny and adding little stars in there. i also needed to pay attention to the subtle gradient, though - they fade from blue to pink if you zoom into starflung's artworks - and decided to keep it vibrant.

okay. thats all for this one!! i'd like to mention that in the original sketch for this specific pose, bandee was in the background. i really regret scrapping that now. oh, well!

time for morpho dee! i'll be starting for with the speedpaint for this one, mainly because it sort of explains some of the process by itself.

i restarted the shading... three or four times at least? so yeah. i was losing it on this piece. i'll be completely honest, i contemplated dropping it for the sake of meeting the deadline. it wasn't stressing me out, but i had studies to worry about too, and i was worried that it wouldn't be of great quality? but after some advice from my beloved older sister, i managed to turn the tide!!

this is a first for me, but everything here was a challenge. if you scroll through my account and the few artworks i've posted, you'll notice that i draw gijinkas far more than orbs. now, you may be wondering why this didn't pose so much of an issue for my starstruck piece! it's mainly because i chose a far simpler pose for her than i did for morpho over here.

for morpho, the artwork needed to be dramatic. i draw cutesy things - while i've always wanted to draw something dramatic, i've never pushed myself to do it. until this artwork! i went for a dynamic pose which would (hopefully) pull the viewer's eye towards morpho dee. that's what's up with the foreshortned spear! i also realised that the plcement of his feet would be quite significant to the artwork. you might not know this, but feet are my greatest enemy. i'm still trying to figure out how best to draw them for people or orbs, but i'm getting there.

after 'lineart' (which really ended up being a cleaned sketch - this was supposed to be linelessly rendered, but i gave up on that) the pose was no longer a problem. because the shading was! hooray!!

nothing has quite bewildered me like metal shading has. i've shaded gold. satin. cotton, fluffy scarves, shiny things, grass. yet metal shading continues to elude me! this was, hands down, the most difficult part of this artwork. i struggled to make sense of how the lighting was supposed to work, even with references. and every time i thought it made sense, i ended up with something i didn't like the look of. the solution? long breaks, more references and pinterest tutorials. i have no clue how i managed this, but we got here anyways. i finished it off by colouring the lineart according to the shading.

i have experience with drawing fire, at least! it was three or four years ago in an old artwork, but i have experience! i simply had to figure out how to work it into the atmosphere. for the glow, i duplicated the layer, gaussian blurred it and used a slight glow layer! i did something similar for the durst particles, but i used motion blur instead.

i also want to talk about the spear a little bit. you might notice that i added a bit of ambient glow around the blue gem. that was with the light intensity in mind, but also for a sense of realism! i also had to keep the pink light in mind, though. so i ended up using an airbrush to create a base for the lighting and i continued from there. i added a few scratches on the handle just to give it a bit more life, too.

and, finally, a one-to-one comparison between the sketch and the final! i have literally no idea how i pulled either of these pieces off, but i'm quite proud of them.

i recommend you drop by @/kirbyoc-secretsanta for other artworks! a total of 75 artists participated, so there are plenty of super cool ocs to adore over there and new artists to find!! this was my first secret santa experience, and @/moonverc3x made an amazing host (thank you for hosting, by the way!!) bye bye!!

#kirby #digital art #starstruck dee #morpho dee #sorry to everyone who thought this was short. and sorry to everyone who reblogs this #it really wasn't supposed to be so long but i had a lot to talk about #i'm pretty sure i've covered everything though #but these were a thrill to make!! #i've always wanted to make fanart for starflung because her characters are so cool and unique #so i was hoping to get her in the santa and. somehow i did #yeah i screamed when that happened. heehee #but!! i'll probably try to participate in more events like this!! this was super fun!! #i literally cannot thank moon enough for being such a great host #i'm generally a nervous person when it comes to talking online but moon was quite warm and sociable!! #this was an exciting first time for me!! #glitter in my ink

[george228732]

Some OC's to choose for the Kirby OC Secret santa!

#not tagging

[jazzjlan]

made some quick refs for a few of my ocs! mostly for the kirby secret santa event, but might as well share this here too cuz why not

forgot to mention that landon is dedede's spouse and they've been married for a while!

(at least in my au)

#my art #this was super rushed and not my proudest work cuz the deadline's in a couple days #but i NEED art of my blorbos istg #and to get art of my blorbos i need to give refs of my blorbos! #hoping this is enough a a a a a aa a a a #jazzlan #jlan #jazzlanart #kirby nintendo #artists on tumblr #nintendo #digital art #kirby #fanart #kirby oc #kirby ocs #oc art #oc #my ocs #ocs #original character #drawing #reference

[kirbyoc-secretsanta]

from: @anistarrae​

to: @humming-fly​

#submission #Anistarrae #humming-fly #kirby oc #kirby oc secret santa

[hoshinokaabi-secretsanta]

From: @chaotixcowboy (Instagram)

To: @starflungwaddledee

Message from Santa:

"Surprise! I’m your secret santa! 

You’re honestly one of my idols so I was really surprised when I was assigned to be your secret santa! I hope you like my gift, I had so much fun working on it!

I saw your post the other day about a message for your secret santa, at that time I couldn’t reply without blowing my cover but it was such a sweet message and gave me so much motivation to work on my piece for you! I just wanted you to know, I’m thinking about you too! ;)"

#chaotixcowboy #starflungwaddledee #meta knight #bandana waddle dee #morpho knight #kirby oc #hnk secret santa

[moonverc3x]

you're going to look at my blorbo and you're going to LOVE her,,,

#J #kirby oc #whiteboardfox #my art #the very top one twas a secret santa gift to my server! arughgh #Edith #Cassius #reference #you want to kiss her SO bad (me using the jedi mind trick on you)

[mossyriverrocks]

All my Kirby oc refs in one place for the secret Santa thing (minus calypso because I haven’t updated her design yet Oopsies)

#Myart #my art #mossy’s ocs #Oc refs #kirby #kirby oc #kirby ocs

[ferahntics]

have you heard of that kirby oc secret santa? will you be participating?

I've heard of it but I haven't seen any mention of it for this year? I'd love to join, but I'm unsure how busy I'll be so I might have to pass.

#heck i might reconsider but as of right now I'm all over the place #very curious to see what others will draw though! #hoping others have fun <33 #ask #anon

[azumetapraline]

I did this last year (HAHAHA) for a Secret Santa in a Kirby FC-focused Discord server called Stargate, and the person I drew this for is @arson-n-quwubeezz !

Their OCs are really cute, but I really liked how fluffy Lucky was! 🍀

#kirby #kirby fanart #kirby oc #kirby fc #secret santa #azu's artwork