#been having an art moment recently

[xiewho]

i WILL take any excuse i have to draw the abernant sisters Btw

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #adaine abernant #aelwyn abernant #fhjy #me when im in a late episodical art competition and the opponent is myself #this does not apply to anyone else btw i just have to draw fhjy art every week or i die #this was gonna have a second part to it but i cld barely finish this one HAHAHAHA #been having an art moment recently #anyways ! theyre so. #aelwyn's first instinct being to copy fig's bit and fig IMMEDIATELY hating it #so fucking funny man #my art

[thewisestdino]

Auklet and Anemone from Wings of Fire > : O

#auklet #wings of fire #seawings #wof #my art #painting #princess anemone #anemone #princess auklet #digital painting #recently have been having a wings of fire moment well see how long it lasts #anyway here r the girlies with non canon designs bc its fun to mess around w how the dragons r drawn

[mumblesplash]

he's not even that light impulse is just really strong

#[elsewhere skizz is hit with a sudden inexplicable compulsion to teach the whole server about maslow's heirarchy of needs] #my art #tangotek #impulsesv #hermitcraft #taken completely by surprise by how much fun i'm having with the ambiguously-on-fire hair #random thing but i've actually been putting effort into drawing *fewer* fabric folds recently #it's one of those things i get like. stuck in #and i want to Simplify the Shapes #but do u guys understand. tango just has digitigrade vibes #vital to his character that he be able to scamper and clamber at a moment's notice #honestly the idea of designing shoes for nonhuman feet is super interesting #i defaulted to pseudo-claws cuz like..that's what they'd be used to using for traction? at the very least seems rude to remove that option

[seventeendeer]

walk forward through the cold dawn!

sonic frontiers made me feel some kinda way about these friends, so here’s a lil cozy messy thing to celebrate ;w; <3

also turns out koco are way bigger than I drew them here but I didn’t realize until way too late so ehh whatevs. they’re cute in pocket size ..

#sonic frontiers #sonic fanart #sonic frontiers fanart #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #sonic koco #i love the massive extended sonic cast but also the decision to have frontiers focus just on sonic's closest friends was sooo sweet .... #added to the kind of lonely atmosphere a lot + just a lot of rly cute moments w sonic and his besties .. my lil heart #artbytheherd #also hey i've been trying out a new art style! it's made it much easier for me to finish stuff recently i really like it #turns out it's easier for me to do quick messy lineart when it's ms-paint-ish looking pixels! #can't wait to do more stuff like this it's so fun to loosen up a bit and do quick cute lil drawings like this for once #been making animated gifs in this style too .. wanna make so many more

[losergames]

art things!

#cs art #many heads to be enjoyed #been having a category 5 dilani moment recently #sorry i post like 5 things and then leave for weeks again LMAO

[verndusk]

Re-drawing a screenshot from The Bad Batch everday until season 3 comes out: day 55

#tbb everyday #tbb #the bad batch #my art #tbb crosshair #star wars #bad batch #the outpost #i hated drawing the asshole on the right #i loved that they made him so hateable and killed him at the end #honestly the most satisfying moment in season 2 #that and rampart having his ass blasted to the senate #the batch fucking up evil people in power even when separated #sorry i've been inconsistent with these #i got really into breadmaking recently

[egglygreg]

Ok, so I had this dream last night right? And it was mostly nonsensical and weird and silly, but there was this moment...

#I was the winged fairy girl at this point during a big battle #someone sliced me right down the front through my corset and dress #it was inspired I think by that fight in Zorro between Zorra and Elena #except NOT flirty dude was trying to kill me and sliced a wound down my chest #not super deep but still #and then this other guy #the one in the drawing #defected from the enemy side killed the other dude and very distressed tried to help me #which involved a very funny moment of him pulling my hands back to see the wound and realising my corset had been cut clean through #and us both getting extremely embarrassed and him pulling the corset back together and telling me to keep pressure on it #literally the most YA romantic comedy moment I've ever experienced #I think the main influences of this dream were that I recently watched a youtube reaction vid of someone watching Zorro for the first time #A drawing someone I follow did of that popular YA fae novel that I've never read #and looking at tangled concept art #and actually definitely the first aid course I did this week #because I remember them talking about how you need to cut clothing off someone to put the defib pads on their chest #and I was uncomfortable with the thought of someone having to do that to me #AND the fact I was paired with a cute guy I'd never met and we had to practice putting each other in the recovery position #which was SUPER awkward #so clearly my brain was like You know what would be fun? an even MORE awkward and painful scenario! #but make it fantasy! #ellennart

[shrimpari]

“Godfrey, you were so brave…”

-

After lighting the beacon, Ji had his first encounter with Vampyr. It made him realize he empathised more with Godfrey than he previously thought.

#I think about this moment a lot #it really fucked him up #so glad our dm gavd us a place to talk to spirits that have been collected but not yet #moved on #I started this months ago and only recently decided to finish it #dnd #curse of strahd #dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #Godfrey gwilym #Vladimir horngard #dnd oc #dnd pc #jiji #my art #doodle #art #black and white #illustration

[deeva-arud]

Boo!

I'm the paranormal activity on your dash :]

#Udi posting in 2023? truly a christmas miracle #Now it'd be pretty funny if everyone seeing this collectively thought 'who the hell is this person?' I mean. UNDERSTANDABLE- #I've been gone for so long I don't even recognise this dash layout help?? #Excuse me while I have a grandma moment trying to figure out where things are #Anyway I don't have much to post since I've barely drawn in all these months. So many art blocks stacked on top of more art blocks #(among other things) #BUT I still have some drawings here and there. Not the best I've ever produced but hey it's something #and you know what happens when Udi has an art block? Exactly. Cateeva content (and silly drawings) (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ #Now it's time for me to fill my room with sticky notes reminding me to take things easy #you'll have to bear with my slowness for a little bit longer. Life hit me hard recently and everything feels so heavy to me #but I just didn't want to let this year pass without saying anything... #I actually missed being on here. If I see art or an oc from any of my moots I'll probably cry on the spot #Moot reading this you've been warned (🫶) #I'll shut up now. I really hope everyone's doing as good as they can. This is such an awful world #Udi talks

[befuddled-calico-whump]

welp, I've entered the "prepping to move" stage and will soon begin the "actually moving" phase. Chances are my speedposting days are over for a little bit, but rest assured the stories and doodles will continue 🫡

#...in their own time #ill also have the commute and spouse so less creative time but not zero ahaha #to be fair basically every free moment recently has been dedicated to writing and art so it had to slow down eventually lol #calico is befuddled

[bitchfitch]

idk. My like. Actual day job involves a lot of needing to know how copyright laws relate to the use of stock images and reference images in art. Like, That is an entire part of the studio I work fors legal teams monthly emails about like documenting sources and such.

And I just saw a post that had a stock model who linked his ToC. I feel so bad for this dude bc like. I prefer to respect folks wishes when it comes to how their images are being used, but he was going Full legal jargon with warnings about contacting lawyers and what not.

and basically none of his ToC was actually legally enforcable. Some of it was Actually Extremely Illegal as it would be classed as like discrimination under relavant laws. Some of it was absolute nonsense, you like need signed contracts for some of this stuff not a DA page that says them, and like. Idk. It's clear he was coming from a place of self protection and I will not fault him for it or use his images but I Desperately hope he never actually tries to go to court over any of it because he Will lose, and he will be loosing Hard.

#like tldr. if you post a photo of yourself and someone uses it as a reference image in art #in the US. you have basically no copy claim over the drawing. It does not matter how similar it is to the photo. #if an actual human sat down and draws it then their labor is typically considered to be the transformative aspect. #(Ai and filters do not get this protection. Filters are not considered a significant enough transformation and #real actual us court case Naruto v Slater establishes that anything not made by a Human can not be copywrited.) #(that decision has been reaffirmed with more recent court cases actually about ai) #(naruto was a monkey who stole a wildlife photographer's camera and took a selfie with it. PETA wanted the monkey to get money #from the publication of the photo. The court effectively said 'Shut up PETA human laws only apply to humans pls fuck off now') #that was a Super tldr and theres actually much stronger cases usually used as precedent im this sort of thing. But #naruto v slater has a special place in my heart and i will mention it at any moment possible

[henrysglock]

S4 Victims: Story by Proxy?

Okay so. In spitballing with Em...something stuck in my head.

So we all know how serial killers leave crumbs because deep down they want to be caught/want the truth to be revealed? Well what if the Duffers, or even current Henry, are doing the same thing. That is, leaving breadcrumbs.

This mainly has to do with the S4 victims, their stories, and the order in which they're chosen.

So, it goes like this:

Chrissy: Abusive mother who resembles Virginia

Fred: Eaten alive by the guilt of being responsible for the accidental death of an innocent.

Max: Suicidal over guilt about Billy's death and her response to it. Billy, who died saving her/while she was saving herself from the Fleshflayer, a regenerated form of the Mindflayer.

Patrick: Abusive father, not much else told.

Max (again): Suicidal Ideation, dies, soul taken, but was revived by El. She's now in some limbo-state, where her body lives but her identity/mind is elsewhere. She will likely be brought back entirely by El in S5.

It almost feels like a story by proxy if we piece it together.

So, let's piece it together:

Person with an abusive mother...feels responsible for the death of an innocent...a sibling who was killed while this person was trying to save themselves from a monster which came from Hawkins lab, which leaves them suicidal...and this person lives in a situation with an abusive father figure. This person becomes suicidal, and their suicide attempt was not entirely successful. They were revived by El, and end up in a limbo state. They may or may not be brought back by El later.

Now, let's collect details about our serial killer:

Abusive mother? Check. (No matter how we frame it, Virginia was not a good mother.)

Innocent died? Check. (Henry has nothing bad to say about Alice, which we know he would if she were not innocent, since he does this with every other victim.)

Sibling died as a result of saving oneself? Check. (The Creel massacre was a situation where Henry was, with whatever intentions we may assign for the other family members' deaths, trying to save himself from Virginia and by extension the lab.)

Ended up with an abusive father figure? Check. (Well...an abusive Papa, one might say.)

Brought back by El multiple times? Check. (El was the one who took Soteria out and brought Henry back from being powerless. El was the one who put Henry in the UD/limbo state. El was the one who opened the gate for his return to the RSU.)

IT ALL ALIGNS. So let's put it together with all the feelings involved:

Citations (I guess? Explanations?) are in the tags listed by number!

Henry had an abusive mother who was at least trying to have him shipped off to the lab, if not actually trying to kill him outright. This situation builds and builds, him wanting to be left alone (1), putting out subconscious and conscious cries for help (2), and her targeting him about it, until March 25th, 1959.

Virginia starts it, attacks, and this time she's out for blood (3). Henry defends himself (4). Virginia, being the parent with powers (5), doesn't actually die (6). Victor, Alice, and Henry go for the door (7). Virginia's on the stairs (8). She's got to finish what she started, since her original plan was botched (9). Henry puts his energy into trancing Victor (10), protecting him from Virginia, since logically two people can't occupy one person's mind.

This leaves good, innocent Alice to fend for herself, standing directly in front of the staircase. She's a loose end (11). Virginia kills her, but can't kill Henry or Victor while the trance is occurring. She figures Henry's going to run himself into the ground (12). She figures she can call Brenner in to collect Henry, like they planned (13). If she disappears, she figures it'll go into the news something like this:

"World War II veteran kills entire family in deranged fit of insanity. Wife missing, presumed dead. Son dies in hospital."

And on both counts, she's essentially right. It does basically go into the papers that way. Victor is taken in for murder, and Henry is taken by Brenner, but not before he sees that Alice was caught in the crossfire (14).

Henry ends up with Brenner, the abusive Papa. He's got the guilt about Alice's death, something that makes him sad and angry. Brenner, maybe, decides to push this in order to increase Henry's powers, but it backfires. Henry's powers increase, but he does...something. He lashes out, he snaps, maybe he even tries to kill himself. He's Brenner's prized pet, though, so Brenner can't let that happen. He seals Henry's powers away with Soteria. It's a death for Henry's entire identity, so far as to have him under the name Peter Ballard. Then comes along 011. She removes Soteria from Peter Ballard...and revives Henry Creel. She then exiles him to the Upside Down in 1979, only to eventually bring him back in 1983 when she opens the Mothergate.

All this to say: It could be his own story, told through the stories of his victims.

Breadcrumbs, or maybe...obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Below the cut is where I speculate into motivations for his actions after Soteria's removal, so...not required reading for this particular analysis.

Years of MKUltra torture warp Henry's guilt about the situation into a bastardized, violent, brutal, unethical savior complex based in the notion that he's a predator by nature, but a predator for good. He "saves" the lab kids from a future like his own, filled with nothing but torture. He "saves" El from her ignorance about the lab and intended to have her join him, thereby attempting to "save" her, technically his little sister, from the lab entirely.

He "saves" his s4 victims from their guilt and suffering, which so closely mirror his own, which no one saved him from. I could even go so far as to say he was "saving" Will, who is set up to be so much like him, from a world of horrible people who (from Henry's viewpoint based on his lived experiences) would only serve to abuse and betray him.

This of course isn't to say any of it is right. None of it is right or good...but it makes sense. It follows a pattern. It coheres. The math...maths.

#Citations! #1: Henry often hides alone in the attic. #2: Victor's burning cradle vison (a child in need of help). The drawing of the Shadow Monster. Possibly Alice's nightmares. #2 (cont.): Can all be interpreted as calls for help. Children in distress act out and make disturbing art in hope of conveying that need. #3: Virginia may or may not have been trying to kill Henry but based on the Fleshflayer parallel re: sibling death...it's probable. #4: Henry himself describes that night as self defense/being forced to act. #5: Virginia likely had powers given that Henry has powers #6: Her powers are likely similar to Henry's and Henry has regenerative powers. There are also fishy scenes of her death which imply #6 (cont.): that she may have still been alive. These include: shots from her POV. The fact that her eyes are bloody-- #6 (cont.): but still intact in some shots. The unexplained POV from the top of the stairs. #7: Henry looks very nervous and fidgety at the door like he's antsy to leave with Alice and Victor #8: Again the unexplained POV on the stairs...stairs she earlier runs down after Henry gives her her mirror moment in the bathroom. #9: Henry was successful in disabling her initially which exposed her culpability. #10: Henry puts *so* much time into Victor in canon with basically no explanation why. #11: Alice seems to be a smart and upstanding girl. She might not be controllable re: Virginia being alive/the whole scheme with Brenner. #11 (cont.): The only way to eliminate that risk is to kill her...and we've already seen that Virginia is not good to at least one child. #12: If Virginia has powers like Henry's she likely has a sense of how long someone can be tranced before the trancer runs out of energy. #13: Who called Brenner to come get Henry during his coma? How did Henry end up in Brenner's hands specifically? #14: amerion-main's recent post re: Henry's position change in the foyer shots #End Citations! #This is all very much speculation when it comes to the actual path of events re: the Creel Massacre #but we can all agree that we don't have the full story about the Creels yet...so who knows. #henry/vecna/001 #henry creel analysis #henry creel #virginia creel #creel family #stranger things #stranger things analysis

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

I’m posting this knowing it’s not what my followers here care about. Let’s call it self care and not willing ignorance.

Anyway, anyone feeling up for vent art? Vent art that doesn’t even make sense!?

#personal post #personal art #vent art #eyestrain #the longer my hair gets the more I feel I’m trapped in my own ugly body but I’m too afraid of change to do anything about it lol #I’m kinda actively depressed recently #which you wouldn’t guess by all the fanart I made- #but things have actually been going really bad for me and it’s common for me to use art to cope #it’s like my ONE good coping mechanism #and it helps pass the time while feeling productive #because at the end of it I’ve MADE something and that something is mine and it’s GOOD #At least sometimes it’s good #in the moment #idk #this is a bit of a ramble I’m gonna go

[maramahan]

So there’s this thing in VtM…

When one vampire feeds from another kindred, it may happen that they drink too deep - and for vampires, blood is everything; it’s the essence of life, and it carries that bit of Self that (in humans) might be called a soul

And when you drain another dry… when you devour and destroy another person so thoroughly… it stains you. You’ve committed what many see as the ultimate sin — the most complete kind of cannibalism. Dark veins grow within your aura, and those with the skill to see such things will Know Your Crimes.

Given time, these marks will fade.

…provided you don’t do it again.

MEANWHILE

I never meant for any of this to happen but my baby bat Hatfield is out here making choices pls send help

#just me rambling #ttrpg stuff #my art #hi Hatfield #while Yes. Hatfield DID diablerize their sire as part of their backstory #I never meant for it to be a Thing That Kept Happening #but multiple times now I’ve rolled messy at the wrong(right?) moment #and the ST was like ‘YO HATFIELD ITS SNACKTIME’ #I have more dots spread between ventrue & malkavian clan disciplines than I have in my own clan powers #just because I keep ACCIDENTALLY EATING PEOPLE and the exp from that has to go SOMEWHERE #this most recent one especially… #I didn’t MEAN to eat the Ventrue Clan Primogen/Mithrean cult leader #I just wanted to. y’know. take him down a peg so he’d be a bit more cooperative #BUT THEN #but then… #he tried calling my bluff #and I rolled a messy crit #and ANYWAY Hatfield has been recognized as the cult leader/avatar of divinity now? #h e l p #I’m just a nobody Brujah who doesn’t know when to quit and SOMEDAY that won’t be enough anymore

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

/my god y'all this is gonna be one of the most inconsistently drawn updates yet with how my meds' sedation affected me between panels (the left being from last week's attempts skjdfnsds 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️)

I'll still need a bit more time, but I think we're Slowly getting back there in terms of my art's momentum huhuu 🙏✨

#fluff speaks !!! #wip #the right one I just got done today and I'm honestly happy with considering how awful I've been feeling the past few days :'} #definitely won't get these in time for pokemon day like I hoped buuut I wanna prioritize my physical/mental health of course #so I'll take this slowly and steadily as I can (even with how wildly inconsistent it is currently skdjfsndfs trust me y'all will See it) #I've honestly been........ feeling really down recently - not just with my art- but as a whole since- yknow the whole mental condition thin #it's still a lot for me to grapple with and it's---hard- knowing how non-linear this healing process is #one moment I'm riding on a manic high and the other I'm crashing down #but I'm still standing at the end of the day- I think that's what matters #I just hope it gets easer someday #anyways akjsdnasnd my sad rambles aside have some Mortys because he is the comfort character Ever #forgive me love you're gonna be insanely inconsistent this next update #Destiny Bond comicverse #gym leader morty #morty pokemon #pokemon #pokemon gsc

[persephonaae]

Helloooooo everyone hi, so as you may or may not know I'm trying to get things together to start offering art commissions because I'm facing a lot of pressure to earn more money for my family, but while I'm trying to sort all that out and have better examples of my digital art (and tbh wanna save up for a good art scanner so I can better do half my work traditionally and half digitally) but anywho yes while I'm sorting all that out I was wondering if it would be worthwhile setting up a ko-fi just to get some passive tips and hopefully alleviate some of the stress I'm feeling from family stuff. So below I'll just have a poll of some different stuff, I really wanna gauge where my followers are at with such things

And of course I'd love feedback in the replies!

#unfortunately i cant offer things like cosplay commissions at this moment #im also like mrrp i probably cant offer physical art at the moment either bc thats a lot of work working out shipping stuff and #and material costs that i dont have good ways to parse just yet #but it is something im interested in the future #especially since im traditionally a sketch and watercolour artist but im also trying to get into doll making #but anywho #i know it can be weird when an artist starts looking for monetary gain but ive had a rough couple years with no real start to my career #and my mom is really cracking down on me lately about needing me to bring in more money and i can kinda tell she really wants me to switch #switch careers to something i would fundamentally hate doing and would burn me out in ways it would be hard to create things anymore #anywho!!! sorry for a sob story in the tags it's just that yea im a struggling neurodivergent artist whos just been having a time recently