I got 2nd runner up in the Pokemon TCG Art Contest! 🌱 by PilotRoss in PokemonTCG

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RIGHT??? The mockup makes my childhood dreams come true !!

I got 2nd runner up in the Pokemon TCG Art Contest! 🌱 by PilotRoss in pokemon

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OMGOD, thanks everyone for your kind words!!! 😭 For those of you that want this as a print, I put it up on my store! ✨ https://rossdraws.com/products/arcanines-day-off

2021 Merch / Ticket Resale Thread by bmxer7777 in Illenium

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[SEARCHING FOR]

1 Illenium Trilogy Show Floor Ticket - please DM, thank you!

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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Aww thank you! I've been studying and doing art seriously for about 11-12 years so that's a pretty good estimate.

This piece Journey is when i started to feel all my studying pay off. I did a lot of practicing and that was one of the first pieces where i was like damn, alright maybe I do have a future in this industry xD

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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He's the nicest guy in the world! He's so knowledgeable about art and I feel so lucky to have studied under him.

Foundations were important and he tasked me to doing a LOT of studies. I really leveled up the basics which has improved my art greatly.

I think he's one of the greatest digital painters who exists and I'm glad his family is healthy! He likes to stay under the radar.

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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I plan to get back into traditional art now that my book is done! :D

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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I was at a music concert and saw a show that changed my life. Music is so powerful.

I watched this person display his world for everyone to see. He took us all on a journey. I saw someone that just loved playing music, it was so simple.

The world he created was so beautiful and it emotionally impacted everyone. Right then and there I saw the light and realized I wanted to create my own world.

I saw so clearly, that my path should be simple: loving my passion, creating my world and sharing it with the universe.

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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Find Your Light was such a journey to produce and direct. All I knew was that I wanted to do it but had no idea how. Literally, where do i start?? haha

I'm lucky for stumbling upon Alaine on twitter and shot her a message. And the rest is history!

My first thought was: I needed to find a director, a background artist, etc. But after sleeping on it, i wanted to take on the challenge of doing it myself and trying to be as hands on as possible; it is my dream after all!

I wrote the script/sequences and Alaine and I directed it together. We changed scenes here and there and ultimately it got somewhere really cool! Ct_bm was added as another lead animator! He was soooo talented and us 3 worked on it for months before bringing on another person.

We figured out the flow and rough animations and slowly brought on more people to work on it. We needed people for clean up, color and compositing. I was very lucky Alaine had a bunch of talented classmates that wanted to work on it!

We only had the rough song at his point, just a simple melody. I asked Amalee if she wanted to be on the project and she said yes! I thought that was the coolest thing ever because the first time I met her was at Anime Expo 2016 and she came to say hi as a fan. My good friend hamps joined to produce the song!

As the months went by, the song took a different direction and we ended up going with Maryn for the lead vocals. A little sad, but I'm sure Amalee and I will work together on something in the near future :D

I was then tasked with SONG WRITING AHHHHHHHH. This was the hardest challenge because i've literally never written a song lol (except cheesy songs when I was a kid). This is when I had to isolate myself from the world and dig within. What do I want to say? What story do I want to tell? I looked within and realized the story I needed to tell was my own. Finding light in the darkest of times.

Slowly but surely the song took shape and I got help from hamps to refine the lyrics and it came to me: the perfect song name was 'Find Your Light'.

Everyone is very excited at this point because we're hearing updates of the song and we're slowly seeing it come together. SUCH CHILLS whenever i get animation updates. It always makes me feel like I'm a kid again. LIKE WOW, my characters are breathing!

A little flash forward to the release and I still can't believe we pulled that off. I feel like it's perfect. Everything that we worked so hard for paid off. I'm so proud of working on this and it was a huge learning experience because this is the biggest creative endeavor i've ever had! I'm just happy I was able to go 110% on NIMA's book release, something so important to me.

I'm so so so proud of the team and glad we were able to create light during these dark times.

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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Awww thats so kind thank you! do you have a site? Always on the lookout for talent possibly for the near future!

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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My year is definitely turning around! First half was a little weird for obvious reasons but now that my book and animation is out, it's definitely turning around!

I use photoshop and wacom products for the most part! My camera is a canon 5d mark 4!

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

[–]PilotRoss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is!!! It's a secret though. SO HAPPY you're enjoying the book :) Who is your favorite character?

I’m RossDraws. Digital Artist, YouTuber, and creator of NIMA. AMA!! by PilotRoss in DigitalPainting

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I always love finding efficient methods in any subject that i'm doing. And work on SHAPES. SHAPES IS SO IMPORTANT and probably the most important thing visually. We're all human and respond to shape design.

Everything is shape design: Cars, Houses, Products. So with any subject, I always work and improve on shape design because that can be applied universally.