#drew says words

[drewzelle]

“nine mutuals you want to know better” tag game!

Tagged by @sarenhale ! I didn't have access to my computer the past couple days so I'm a bit late, but this was a lot of fun!! Thank you for the tag <3

Last Song: lately I've been relaxing to the Hollow Knight OST (City of Tears best track) but in terms of lyrical music, I recently rewatched the music video for "Little Dark Age" by MGMT because its vibes are fucking impeccable and mesmerizing (I can watch it on repeat for hours)

Favorite Color: purple is my go-to answer (especially blue-ish purples), but I also really love dark greens and desaturated earthy colors so much

Last Movie/TV Show: I feel like I haven't been watching movies lately (I'm more of a show person because I like longer form narratives) but I think the last one I watched was "Better Off Dead" while I was visiting my family for the holidays. It was a weird/surreal but good time! As for shows, I finally got around to watching Scavenger’s Reign!! Every aspect was just amazing, especially the worldbuilding and visuals. 2D animation is probably my favorite medium, so I'm really glad we're seeing more animation for adults that wants to tell a story instead of being a delivery device for lame sex jokes and cringe humor. OH ALSO DUNGEON MESHI!!! For a lot of the same reasons! Excited to watch the new episode tonight :>

Sweet / Spicy / Savory: I have a HUGE sweet tooth, so if I had to pick one, that would be it. Savory foods are great and I love them, I just have a leftover "now's your chance!" impulse from not being allowed much sugar as a kid that I can't seem to get rid of. I'm also weak to the "I deserve a lil treat" trap if I've got a bunch of sweet snacks around, so I have to be careful. As for spicy….I am SO completely unable to handle spicy food it’s almost funny, but really it’s just tragic because I LOVE cuisines known for being spicy, like mexican and thai. If I eat out, I always have to be like “can you please make it mild?” and even then, if it's not seasoned for the babiest of babies, my mouth will burn and my weak, white-person tummy will hurt.

Relationship Status: I keep forgetting I’m getting married in less than six months. My partner and I got engaged like two years ago and have lived together for almost five, so my brain just defaults to "there’s probably a guy nearby" and doesn’t think much deeper on it than that.

Last thing I googled: "morels" because I was discussing mushrooms with my friend and those are some cool lookin' guys! Shaggy ink caps too!

Current Obsession: …….One Piece 😅 I was a big fan as a teen but only got as far as the Skypiea arc before I fell off reading/watching it. The hype over the new live action version reminded me the series existed, so I’ve been not so slowly making my way through again, picking up where I left off. I love how absolutely bonkers, there-are-no-rules, anime-ass-anime it is, but also how genuine and heartfelt it can be. I also enjoy how character-driven so much of the plot is which works because of how interesting the characters are (Chopper, Robin, and Franky are my favs). I just got to the timeskip, so I’m maybe…halfway through? between this and BG3, RIP my free time lol

Last Book: I've been reading through Seiji Yoshida's "Houses with a Story" (slowly, because I want to really take it in and savor it) and it's been a delight. Very relaxing and inspiring :> (up next, I finally got copies of the Locked Tomb series, so soon I will be enjoying The Space Lesbians)

Looking forward to: Being able to organize and enjoy my "new" office space after some hectic days! My partner and I realized we barely spend any time in our bedroom except for sleeping, so we swapped my office into the bigger room in our apartment! There were some complications with getting the internet working on my PC, but we finally got it all smoothed out. Now I finally have all my books and sewing/crafting/creative stuff in one place without it feeling cramped or hiding things away in storage :>

Thank you again for the tag! I'm tagging @justagoos, @icicleteeth, @lunarliart, @saltsparkle, @fael-draws, @juliedillon, @ninamodaffari, @crabdominalpain, and the final slot for anyone else who wants to join in - but please don't feel obligated, this is just for fun! :>

#thanks again for the tag Saren :D #it was fun to read yours and I'm excited to read some for the people I tagged! #drew says words #personal.txt #tag game #long post

[drewzelledraws]

Long time no posting! What’s been going on you ask...?

#oldest joke in the artist book BUT IT'S SO REAL #I really do want to draw more personal art but after several years of the freelance/portfolio grind it's been nice to just...have free time #I want to actually learn to make art for fun again too since 99% of my art brain has been solely focused on making better/hireable art #long story short I have some ideas but I'm not going to rush it #but in 18-ish months you will likely get to see what I'm working on now so that's cool! #drew says words #not art #kinda

[dr-zl]

I haven't gotten around to unfucking my desktop dashboard yet, so in the meantime I get to see more wild and stupid decisions made by tumblr

like how now after I sent in feedback saying "the post section of the dashboard is too cramped and everything is harder to read now" tumblr was like "yes I understand, we got rid of blog icons to remove even more of the buffer room around posts and icons actually don't even show up on reblogs anymore, so have fun having to squint at blog names : ) "

#like really??? #I know I need to unfuck but I'm busy #anyway I'm just complaining to the void since no one follow me here anyway #drew says words

[taravangians-storming-balls]

AU where everything is the same except kaladin has a skateboard and sunglasses at all times

bonus panel:

#he deserves it #and as they say: 'boy likes to grandstand' #also sorry for the style whiplash I drew this like a month ago and then drug my feet on finishing it #i will draw differently nearly every time this is a warning #stormlight archive #skateboard kaladin #kaladin stormblessed #comic #fanart #stormlight fanart #cremposting #words of radiance #whitespine uncaged #the stormlight archive #WoR #honor is dead #au #cosmere #my-storming-posts

[unexpectedbrickattack]

this is for a comic i havent even finished sketching out but it would NOT leave my fucking head

John comes back from meeting up with peppino and understands him a little more; hes a shivering chihuahua in human skin and John has no idea how hes survived living all these years.

#pizza tower #pillar bros #arts #mine #and gerome is so happy :) his brother is socializing again :) #'did you say that to his face?' #'no. but i was tempted' #gerome is like :) he is being nice about his words :) #this is great :)! #also i am so sorry. but i was thinking of spongebob from the early seasons and the way he smiled when i drew the last gerome #he was so happy......... #also i am SO sorry if the text is hard to read. i was lazy w my spacing

[adeleine-everyday]

day 102

no sabo kid

#can you imagine. having phrases of words being intrinsically stuck with you from a language you cant understand #it feels like home but you cannot speak a word of it #and you *should* know it but you dont and it feels like that part of you is lost forever when you can barely say your own name #anywayssss my mom never taught me spanish so now i have to take the ap spanish exam in 9 hours 😋 #here i purposefully drew ado from dl3 under the axiom that shes a younger adeleine..no older than nine id think #younger as in she still remembers a couple of words from the Forgotten Language #after that? lack of use and lack of people to talk to made her forget by the time 64 rolls around #by star allies shes completely forgotten the language. its unrecognizable and she barely has any memory of it. #and then of course FL comes and the Identity Crisis #adeleine #adeleine kirby #kirby series #day 102

[skgtp-vn]

Happy Valentine’s Day, Starshines~

He’s a little shy.. Give him a chance?

#vix buddy they can’t see what it says if you’re covering the words #skgtp #skgtp vix #art #i drew this instead of studying for my chem exam #male yandere #yandere male

[solar093-art]

"I pray we meet again."

#my art #ffxiv #endwalker #emet selch #hythlodaeus #wol #waaaaah i'm so glad i finally drew this ToT #honestly i'm not a fan of ultima thule part of ew #(the music was GREAT tho) #but holy shit THAT SCENE with these two HOOOOLY SHIT #i still feel tears in my eyes when i remember about it #but it's so unfair that the wol didn't even say A SINGLE WORD to them #=_____= #didn't even nod #at least in my drawing they can hug T^T #i miss them every day #listening to 'jenny of oldstones' while drawing this was a mistake T^T

[lunarharp]

kitchen of witch hat vibes

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i have more stuff but this looks like a normal post someone normal would make #MR QIFRY SOUNDS SO GAY IN KITCHEN VOLUME 3. WHAT IN THE. every single word he says. #i'm sorry i scorned the translator because i thought orufrey was being made less gay. i still have Quibbles but im sorry. #sensei drew live orufrey in canada but i dont know that actually bc if i read about that i would feel so jealous i'd feel sick! thank god #(takarazuka talk->) REIKOUMI.......i have not thought of zuka for months bc i really drifted away due to reasons #and it was hard to feel the full emotion i should be feeling. :( mix of depression & witch hat atelier hyperfixation #that makes it physically impossible sometimes to access lain aside feelings that i really do feel #BUT...right at the end of the sayonara show with the long long held kiss and the music suddenly everything HIT and i started bawling #they were/are deeply deeply special. i will NEVER forget what they mean..i'll go on my personal reikoumi pilgrimage leading to tokyo raku.. #i love takarazuka even if i love witch hat atelier <- Autistic affirmations

[extravagav]

AND WE JUST DONT TALK ABOUT THIS?!?!?!!????

#THIS IS LITERALLY LITERAAALLLYYY THE BIGGEST FORM OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SUGISHITA COULD HAVE #NOT ONLY IS HE DOING WHATS BEST FOR UMEMIYA BUT HES PUTTING HIS TRUST IN SAKURA TO HELP HIM #AND OH IM SO UNWELL #HIS BODY IS PHYSICALLY REACTING TO HIM MAKING THIS DECISION IM JUST #IM SO PROUD #and then sakura acknowledging all of this too i just love them sm #they really have one of the best dynamics 😭😭😭 #wind breaker #kyotaro sugishita #sakura haruka #wind breaker spoilers #wind breaker manga spoilers #ok nvm im still talking bc the second image literally gets me everytime i look at it #first off the way they drew sakura in that scene in the first place is just so beautiful thats the only word i can think for it rn 😭😭😭😭 #second seeing this scene from sugishitas perspective and then learning later that the reason he has this reaction was because he thought- #-sakura looked cool and hes never thought that about anyone before just really gives us so much more for their relationship #specially how sugishita acts towards him 😭😭 #add that onto what umemiya says to him (which i couldnt include in this post </3) about how hes never really shown emotion to anyone- #-till sakura showed up then it gives us an even BETTER understanding of why sugishita acts the way he does around sakura #my brain is so frazzled by the sun today and words are not coming to me easily so apologies if none of this makes any sense 😭😭😭 #ill revisit it another time anyway #also the way they describe all of this really makes it sound like he has a lil crush and its so sweet 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[kaetor]

viii. justice upright: fairness, justice, truth, law reversed: unfairness, lack of accountability, dishonesty

#persona 5 #goro akechi #p5 #persona 5 tarot #justice tarot #persona 5 royal #p5r #tarot card #cleb art #someone fuckin. ask me about my compositions i have thoughts about akechi and the justice arcana #so i drew things instead of saying those thoughts with words

[drewzelle]

preemptive apology to everyone following this blog, I'm doing one of my "go through my likes to add tags/queue all the art I've been saving up" ...there's so much one piece 😅

#i'm tagging it all so if you're not a fan you can filter it out #but fun fact I've been going through the entirety of the anime since November and caught up about a month or so ago #so my likes are....FULL of one piece rn #trying to embody 'cringe is dead' because it's genuinely brought me a lot of joy in what has otherwise been a bit of a stressful time #and rekindled the fanart / OC fires that have been burnt out in me for so long from portfolio work + job hunting #fav characters are robin / chopper / franky / law so be prepared to see a lot of them but also all the straw hats because they are all grea #love that funky found family of oddballs who all complete each other in different ways #anyway TLDR is Drew's got a new obsession and isn't normal about it - you have been warned #personal.txt #drew says words #not art

[dr-zl]

just some social anxiety thoughts..

a few weeks ago (maybe even a couple moths ago? time is weird) I was worrying over a social interaction with my partner where I was worried someone I consider a friend actually didn’t really like me much and just tolerated me. I mention that we don’t talk much, but I always try to be around and chat when I can because I like them and think they are very cool. I lamented that it was probably one-sided, that they probably see me as a lost puppy lingering around and probably find me annoying.

as a result of these feelings, I don’t talk to them as much as I want to because I don’t want to bother them. I don’t want to be an annoying, I don’t want to give them any reason to dislike me. I don’t want to overstep any boundaries because they see me as more of an acquaintance than a friend. But as I sadly explained how I was feeling, my partner interjected:

“I’m sure they don’t actually feel that way, and instead you’re probably just coming off as distant and aloof”

and that.....felt bad. I realized I was projecting my own fears and anxieties onto them. I was so afraid of losing that connection I hadn’t done anything to strengthen it. In lots of my relationships, especially those online, I always tend on the side of “oh well I don’t want to be a bother so I’ll just let them come to me” but that doesn’t let them know how much I care. This person may not see me as a friend, but if that’s the case, its more likely because I haven’t made myself available rather than because I’ve done something wrong.

But that realization hasn’t really fixed anything. I think about reaching out and I can’t do it. I want to, but the moment I start to type a message, it’s like the words die in my throat. I realize just how bad my social anxiety is. It's easy to forget when you’re a hermit who only interacts with a handful of close, trusted friends. But when you want to expand that circle, connect with someone “new” its like I’m a bumbling fool.

I’m rambling now, so I’ll probably just wrap this up. Really, I just wanted to get these thoughts off my chest since they’ve been lingering in my mind for weeks... Also, I have like two followers on this blog, so I doubt anyone will see this anyway lol.

#personal #drew says words

[starry-bi-sky]

Danyal Phantom Doodles uhhh i’ve got a handful of Danyal Al Ghul drawings that I like enough to share.

#dp x dc #dpxdc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dp x dc crossover #mediocre starry art #danyal al ghul au #danyal al ghul #dpxdc art #jumpscare appearance of shoddily done digital version of phantom done from mobile pocket procreate #he's looking at vlad fyi. that's why he looks like he's .5 seconds from committing a violence #second row middle is that one popular screencap of danny looking at lancer and iirc kwan. the fourth row middle is from a scene #where valerie as huntress tells phantom 'you're not the boss of me!' and he without saying a word. yanks off her mask right in front of #her dad. revealing her identity. before smugly sing-songing “no. but HE is~” and it was so funny i had to attempt to redraw it with Danyal #phantom was doing the soldier 'arms behind back' pose too which is like. somehow makes it funnier #those first four are recent. i drew all but the second one today. same with drawing 6. the rest are weeks old #anatomy practice is helpful but ANNOYING. wdym drawing the back profile is HARDER. why is it harder #also drawing front profiles my beloathed. how do i stop drawing you Prepubescent #out of all things Vlad was expecting from Jack's adoptive son. a sword was not one of them #shot myself in the foot with digi phantom by not doing lineart. but i guess him being hard to see is. Kinda The Whole Point LMAO. his suit #IS. after all. mimicking his dad + the whole assassin shtick. #its the brat himself. the bastard. he likes to climb things over flying.

[oplishin]

I don’t want that title Seth, I need it. // You fucking deserve it, man.

(December 18, 2023; April 7, 2024)

#wrestlemania #wwe #Seth Rollins #drew McIntyre #jrestling #rollintyre #insufferable bird of paradise #careful viewers will note. that those are not the words coming out of drews mouth in this gif #that is because drew saying that line was framed in like 4 jumpcuts #rest in piss Kevin dunn #jifs

[luck-of-the-drawings]

HOW DO YA LIKE THAT DARK DOG??

BEEN REAL ENAMORED BY THE 'SORRY' BOYS AND THEIR ODD ESCAPADES LATELY. I THINK THEY COULD DO A LOT OF GOOD THINGS WITH THREE GALLONS OF 'FAKE' BLOOD.

#sorry boys #sorry fanart #cw gore #cw body horror #DEAR GGODODDD I HOPE I TAGGED SORRY THE RIGHT WAY #PLEASE SORRY FANS IM HHEERE IM HERE AND IM CRAAZYYY GODDD PLEASE FIND MEEE FIND MEEEEEEEEE #GONNA BE HONEST IVE BEEN FLOPPIN BACK N FORTH ON THIS REAAAALL HARD LIKE. IM NOT SURE IF I LIKE IT #BUT EVERYONE WHO SEES IT SAYS ITS COOL! SO IMM GONNA TRUST IN THE WORD OF MY FRIENDS!!!!! THANK YOU FRIENDS!!!! #i tried to fit in as many things in the video as i could into his vile chest cavity. im rly proud of how jumbled n messy n fun it looks! #SOME THINGS TO NOTE! i painted over the bg of a specific shot from the video. painted over a portion of that LIGHT FIXTURE #BUT I Had to improvise the rest and im PRROUD LOOK AT THAT!!! WITH A MOUSE TOO BTW #DREW THIS WHOLE THING WITH A MOUSE. took some time but i think im gettin the hang of it #ANOTHER DETAIL: ranboos lil wires behind his mask. teeehehhehee i rly liked gen loss #i like this weird combo i do of cartoony and photo realistic. not sure where my balance is yet with that but im havin fun!! #ughghgh what else can i say abt this piece... other than it kicked my aASSSSSSS!!! #adding highlights in blood is always SSUCH A FIGHT for me guhhh it takes so much wrestling to make it look right.... #ggbbhhbbgbh thats all thats in my brain for now. enjoy my art and enjoy my notes about my own art. enjoy ur day aswell if u can