NEW // April 2023: News regarding my drawing app :(

Hi, you can call me Sky or Paula c: [she/her]
I´m a digital artist from Europe!
I specialize in drawing original characters! I do both, sfw and nsfw art. My focus are anthros, ferals, dragons and humans. I draw a huge variety of things basically. ^w^
My favorite thing to draw however are my personal characters. They help me to deal with boredom and bring me the most joy. On some days I do nothing but art and daydreaming because it keeps me alive ┐(‘~`;)┌.

Graphics: Any graphic you see on my website is self made (other peoples buttons and badges not included obv.) Borders, character art, decor, photos etc. And are not for free use/copy. One exception, are some free backgrounds on a few OC profiles. However I generally try to make most graphics myself because I just like it more. Backgrounds which aren't selfmade will probably be replaced in the future. (when I have time and ideas)

Last Status...
Lui

The character I identify myself the most with online and offline is Lui. He´s a very very special comfort character and a figure I started developing way before I even got into social media. You will see me drawing him a lot, use him as my icon on sites and more. He is not my Sona however. I don´t really have interest in having one and every past attempt at making one ended up in a disconnect with the character. I simply love to use my comfort OC as my "representation" but he is not me. I use him to escape into a different world sometimes..daily. Along with many of my other characters.

More...

oh look a ton of extra stuff. My opinions and everything I feel like sharing and writting down.
I kinda use this to dump information.

Artist Background..

From 2012/13-2015 I started drawing digitally for the first time using my Nintendo 3DS XL. Colors!3D was what mainly brought me into digital art and OCs. My first actual "OC" (that I labeled as such) was ChocoBii. I used to draw him so so often but unfortunately, I decided to delete most of the artwork back then. I went under the name "RainyBii" for a short time until I found my new and permanent name "Skykristal" which I identify myself with.

Back in 2015-2018 I was a traditional artist with my focus on fanart and cute chibi critters for the most part for a few years under the name skydiamond_art. (You might have seen my work before) Later then changed back to what I did before, digital OC art! At one point I completely lost interest in both, traditional drawing and fanart and spent my time drawing my own creations again which is one of my favorite things to do til today.

At some point, I started to notice that there´s a market for commissions and YCH which was something I was very interested in. Making money with what I love doing the most was always a dream for me. So, I started to slowly get into it. My start was everything but easy, but after a few years of struggling, I found my place and started to get noticed more, and got my first customers, which was super exciting. I´ve come a long way with my art journey and I´m very thankful for everyone who supported me and still does!

Beginnings of "serious" art (2012)

I have also drawn before this time, however It wasnt anything serious or something I still have photos of. PS: cringe.

Fav things to draw..

I enjoy drawing original Characters, backgrounds and story telling as well as working with warm & cold hues.

  • - Masculine characters
  • - Dragons & monsters
  • - Shirtless men ^^"
  • - Scenes

Least fav things to draw
  • - Sketches
  • - Anime
  • - cutesie art (cool sometimes)

Working on...
  • Human anatomy
  • Complex Environments
  • Consistent style in semi realism
Series..

I´ve watched the following series or.. I´m still watching them today. These are tiny reviews.

The Last Of Us (1 season)

Very very well made! I never played The Last Of Us myself. I only watched part of a Let's play and that was.. öhh 7 years or so a go? But I knew briefly what this series will be about. It was super fun to watch, story is of corse awesome too. I like how the primary focus are relationships, family, survival and less of empty monster shooting all the time. This is something I often quite dislike in series with a similar genre. In The Last Of Us, I felt like it was very balanced and for that reason also much more fascinating. I will definitely be watching future seasons too!


Lucifer (6 seasons)

From start to finish.. this is a master piece! I am glad I never watched it before, because now I had all seasons complete to watch and enjoy. ( I hate waiting for more seasons more than anything else, that, or the series is canceled) It says a lot when I finish watching and right after, watch all seasons again. It's been a while since I did this with a series, but this one was so good, I had to.

However, Lucifer made me pretty emotional.. in a good-bad way. Series in that genre always get me pretty bad mentally... and because the actors did such an amazing job, it was even harder not to cry lol.

Also a big 10000/10 for the music used in this series! Spot on.


The Walking dead (11 seasons)

Update: Finally watched the final episodes and honestly.. the ending was bad. I mean sure, they somehow had to come to an end but I was expecting something more... finished? It wasn't anything outstanding or something that really "ended" it all. I'm going to watch some of the spin offs however. I'm curious about what has/ will happen to Rick. Its a shame he didn't make an actual come back in the main series. I was hoping for this but already stumbled across the news that it won't be the case a few months back.

I have watched TWD to season 11 episode 16. And I can´t wait to see the last 8. As far as I know they will be released in late 2022?

I just finished rewatching. I already did before in like 2018 and watched to season 8 or 9.. And it was my very first series that I watched and it´s what got me into watching series (like actual series, I have watched series before def. But it was never in order nor was I following any story line.) But this one was my start that got me interested in it.. Since then I became more of a series person rather than a movie person.

Now more about the series.. I liked it a lot. But I was hopeing for a few other things to happen which never ended up happening, but it´s a great story noneless. Though sometimes it was kinda bothering that nobody trusted nobody and the extreme aggressive behavior along with it. But in some cases they trusted a random person without problems??. Yea that kinda bothered me lol. I mean I get the no trust thing but sometimes it felt a little off.

Also, I can´t help but laugh at the sound effects when some head gets smashed in.🥬


Timeless (2 seasons)

I found this one very very addicting to watch & well made. Loved the story & the characters all fit quite nicely into everything. I cared about every single one and was currious what happens next. Might watch again sometime.


Teen Wolf (6 Seasons)

I've watched this one a couple of times now. Especially the later seasons are cool. The first make me laugh a bit. Not in a "bad series" way but how they play the werewolves is a bit trashy/funny? However not in a way that makes me not enjoy the series as a whole. It's just.. the way they run on all four sometimes xD was a pretty silly concept. As a full animal, this makes more sense, but as a human? A bit laughable.

That aside, I'm loving the characters. Especially Stiles is one of my favorites. I love his silly personality and how he always runs into trouble and acts funky. Generally, I feel like this series got much much more quality over time. Seasons 3-6 are my favorites! Especially with the hate-to-friend relationship between Scott and Christopher as well as a couple other things. I remember watching it for the first time, not knowing if It would be worth watching more of it, but it was totally worth it!

Also, can we talk about the intro? One of my favorite intros of all time tbh


Lost (6 seasons)

One of my all time favorites I enjoy rewatching from time to time. And let´s not forget this song which won´t leave your head for a good week after watching.


Riverdale (6 seasons)

I´ve watched all 6 seasons and it was kinda meh. Not my favorite series to be honest. I found the overall story very poor and the characters & dialog not well made.. Some parts of the series were actually kinda enjoyable but with later seasons, it feelt more and more like a fever dream.


The Vampire Diaries (8 seasons)

aka the series I watched 20+ times. I´m honestly very tried of the series now after watching it so many times. But why did I do that? Right because I absolutely love this series. I know half the script from memory lmao. Season 4 and up are my favorite ones. Yea.. I´m a huge Delena shipper. No fights please.


Smallville (10 seasons)

Smallville is actually one of my favorite series of all time.. and I like how it´s 10 full seasons long. Now, most of it are filler episodes in my opinion. Especially the first few seasons (1-4) seem slighly repeatitve but it gets a lot more interesting in later seasons. I wouldn´t say you can ignore the first seasons though. They also tell important parts of the story and a lot of it is fun to watch.


The 100 (7 seasons)

The 100 is a series which I quite injoy for a bit, however I ended watching it after a few seasons ( I think season 4 or 5). It just became a little to agressive for me/ the characters personalities is what mainly drove me away. I find the overall story telling is not bad at all. But it´s not really my kind of series.


Supernatural (15 seasons)

Supernatural is one of these series I restarted a few times before finishing it. I always lost interest or wanted to watch something else instead. I think the issue is the massive amount of seasons. I´m someone who watches a series from start to finish before starting a different one, otherwise I forget the story quickly and I´m kinda lost. However Supernatural is a fantastic series in my opinion. And it has one of my favorite character combos. Seeing Dean, Samuel and Castiel fighting agast the evil was always very entertaining. I think the later seasons were my favorite ones in terms of story.


Mood
The current mood of Skykristal at www.imood.com
Fav Food

Tomato Soup

Fav Game

Starbound
Legend of Slime
Animal Crossing

Fav Color
Music

What do I draw with?

Update: Sad news regarding LayerpaintHD (jpn)

I was always an android tablet user. It´s the only thing I´m comfortable with since I got into digital art after the usage of my Nintendo. I upgraded to a Samsung Tab S7 (wifi) in the past. Which is my very first tablet that isn´t low range. + It comes with an S pen. A rubber pen stylus is awful compared to the S pen experience. Which is what I used for many years on older samsung tabs (I started with a Tab 4 (7.0) ) If you are also an android tab user and are looking for something, I can recommend the S7.

Software?
I use LayerpaintHD since roughly 8 years. I learned pretty much everything with it and have my own brushes and settings. I scrolled trough the playstore in search of a drawing program I could enjoy and somehow sticked to this one, which at the time I had never heard of before. I didn´t clicked with all the other programs which is why I haven´t sticked to any popular ones. (Fun fact: I used a ripped version of LayperpaintHD before actually buying the app back in 2018. I did because I couldn´t really afford anything at that time. Buying it is worth it! It still gets updated and new features and improvements get thrown out here and there.)
However I also use Ibis paint but only to make final touches such as filters and text, which my regular program does not offer (yet), unfortunately. For (rare) Animations and everything that moves, I use Flipaclip, Ezgif, Motionleap, AnimeEffects. Primarily Flipaclip tho!

Fav brushes
- Sketch: just the regular pen
- Line: Airbrush, because I love the soft look
- Rendering: Hard watercolor brush is my number 1 for most things. Along with a few custom brushes.