Hello, and welcome to Day 3 of what I’m dubbing Bomb’s Freaky Sweet Artist Appreciation Week, where I take an artist and one of their OC’s and make a cool little news posts here on Newgrounds, giving them a little showcase. This is 3 of 7 posts I'm planning to make for this week, with a final piece being posted on Pico Day.
Today's artist is @Ennuikal!
Ennui is one of the most recent artists I’ve started following, and the art he makes has a distinct “doodle” quality to it that I just find so appealing. It’s cartoony expressiveness, and simplistically designed characters just make his stuff so fun to look at:
And please know, me calling his characters “simplistic” is not a dig or a diss. Simplistic doesn’t mean low-effort or vapid in this case, if anything Ennui’s OCs show you just how much you can communicate about a character with a very low level of detail. In fact, Ennui, and artists like him, inspire me to be more streamlined in my own character design. You can see for yourself in this post Ennui made, that his characters are wonderfully varied and stand out from one another:
I really admire these two cat girls he did:
I also really admire Ennui’s paneling and how he’ll color backgrounds and whole figures specific colors to reflect what they’re feeling as well as the overall mood in the scene:
On top of making cool character and comics, Ennui ALSO animates! Here’s one of his most recent animations: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/785029
Ennui is ALSO ALSO working on a visual novel project at the moment:
It seems like there's nothing this guy can't do :0.
To wrap it all up, the OC I decided to draw for this post was Ennui's Trudy:
Despite her near featureless face, Trudy's buns, side hair, and three-pronged eyelashes give more than enough detail to make her iconic. In a way, her buns give her a kind of Mickey Mouse silhouette and make her easily translatable into any art style. I look forward to more stuff with her!
Keep an eye for the next post tomorrow!
Ennui’s stuff
https://www.instagram.com/ennuikalart/
https://twitter.com/EnnuikalART
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJXIMVXPNt6_8DsV4khep_g
Ennuikal
Holy crap dude, I had such a stupid grin while reading all of that... Thank you so (x10) much for the kind words and general reflection about my work!!! I'm happy you enjoy it, and this was just so much more than I expected, and I'm honored to be featured.
Also, love the Trudy drawing!! It's always nice to see my characters in other people's styles and seeing her in that more fully-rendered style is great :)
Thank you again for the words, and I'll be looking forward to the rest of the artist features!!
BombsAhoy
I'm glad you liked it *0* Your response lets me know my effort has been worth it! U////U