#not my oc but still

[cloud-ya]

void nurse

#not my oc but still #honkai impact #kiana kaslana #herrscher of the void

[tapiocasketches]

Oops, my hand slipped

(Go check out @futuristiccrystal 's work, their artwork and OCs are phenomenal raaaaaa)

#doodle #sketch #my artist friends are so skilled and good at what they doooo #oc #oc art #not my oc but still #IVANI IS SO PRETTY #all I ask is once chance #PLEASE #I've been using Ivani to practice face shapes #her face shape is so distinct #I love it #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #my art #art tag #art style

[unknownadvisor]

Dropping in to say hi and drop A silly in

His name is also Vinny (Btw if you want me to draw a silly of yours in return lmk!)

i hope the mirror thing gets across haha, since we have the same name i thought it might be cool to draw both of us. i also have no idea what welcome home is but it sounds like a game i would play(? series i would watch?)

#technically #my name is vincent #but most people just call me V #v or vinny or vincent is fine #that or aries #i find a lot of people here use that for me because it's like #one step removed #like its less personal #if ykwim #i dont mind anything though #call me what you like! #advisor scribbles #welcome home #welcome home oc #not my oc but still #Vinny Vander #3amclothesmonster #ask #asks open

[kociamieta]

shapeshifting attempts

#id in alt text #my art #angel #Yup . still those things #oc

[everchased]

hahahahaaaa get safe and cared for, idiot

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 tav #astarion x tav #oc: finch #my turn to draw my tav being cute with his vampire bf heeheehee lalala my turn my turn #because i'm weak for a hug and tired bitches snuggling #and for astarion still being nervous about his boundaries being pushed #waiting for the shoe to drop but it never does #slowly lowering the hackles #because it keeps getting reenforced that. it might be okay #anyway i continue to be abnormal about this game bye #my art #bloodoath

[yvotoro]

pretty boy 🕷💚

#illustration #artists on tumblr #he's my oc! #no name yet...still deciding on it :-] #original #ocs #yvo draws

[artist-rat]

my main party and durge reveal <3<3 i call them the shenanigang

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #karlach #astarion #wyll #durge #oc: tavis #i love them<3<3 #this was before an Event btw i just semi drastically changed tavis' looks just last night lol. might elaborate later or no ehbrerbg :D:) #anyway shes still .so fuckin cute like. babyy ur my angle and my devil........

[deeva-arud]

He begged her to pose like that together (ft. Riddle "doesthisbreakaschoolrule" Rosehearts)

#anyone remembers that one famous 'draw your ship like this' pose everyone was doing on twitter? #yeah I did that too. Late and not showing it to anyone. But I did it 😎​ #When I drew that Riddle I was on autopilot mode #the next thing I knew this little creature was staring back at me #It's so silly but I still chuckle every time I see him #twisted wonderland #twst #twst oc #twisted wonderland oc #deeva twst #twst cater #Cateeva #my art

[saturnvs]

polaris; guiding light for lost horses

#this was done in krita!!! my first time ever using it and i'm digging the brushes :D #horses #art #horse art #horse #illustration #krita #artists on tumblr #my art #oc #oc: polaris #i love her wahhh #still deciding whether or not she has a human #does she just hang out in the dark waiting to help? or does she have a warm stable to come home to? #the harness is human made so someone has to be looking after her #might need to be silly and draw a reference sheet thing for her as well

[revvetha]

[shows up at your door at 2AM] hey can we go through that last D&D session scene by scene and discuss the symbolism and the narrative themes and their implications, and how each character has grown and evolved? But in a normal way?

#still crying 24h later by the way. Like not continuously but if I think about any of it for too long #I could write so much Marisol meta rn but she's my own OC so like. Nobody cares. But god. #dnd #d&d #personal

[sketchy-tour]

Beta playing pool beta playing pool beta playing pool beta-

ANYWAY! I brain rotted about this idea for a hot minute! Take these beta doodles. Putting them in your hands. Now I can properly beam Beta playing pool into your minds with a visual! Enjoy

#welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home arg #wally darling #beta wally #welcome home fanart #welcome home oc #wh wally #my art #sketches #dandy leon #aaa these are all over the coarse of MULTIPLE days. MULTIPLE DAYS OF JUST! THINKING ABOUT POOL!!!! #I wanted to do a doodle of Dandy getting excited about making one ball into the hole despite still losing #but energy low and I wanna post the main doodle rn not laatteerr #I so wish I coulda made it look cooler. BUT OOOH WELL!!!!!!!!! #flopping on the ground #(I am going to continue thinking about this)

[choccy-milky]

the twins and their jelly genes 💕💢 ((from the newest chap of my fic! ao3/wattpad))

#just 2 more chapters to go and the fic will be done🥲 #part of me is looking forward to having it done and under my belt BUT ALSO BIG SAD..... ill still keep drawing them tho #and will probs write some oneshots/a small series about their adult life as curse breakers and will also defs DRAW more of it #hogwarts legacy #sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #sebastian sallow x mc #sebastian sallow x oc #anne sallow #ominis #ominis x anne #hogwarts legacy sebastian #hogwarts legacy ominis #clora clemons #choccyart

[aipiepo]

#oc #my art #meme #I purposefully picked some of the worst stuff I remember enjoying except I still think they are good

[puppyeared]

my attempt at making a fursona

#i never see any mole furries so i thought id try my hand at it ^_^ #i was hungry making this and was thinking of dirt cup pudding so its partly inspired by that and mario grass blocks #i dont draw furries very often so this was a fun learning experience lol. also!! star nose moles are kinda cute!!!! #when i was coming up with a name my mind kept going back to that tiktok of dogs and the tts voice saying stuff like i like mulch #mulch is my favorite food! yippee mulch!! so if youre wondering where i got the name theres the lore for it #i also wanna make a sea otter fursona.. and perhaps a snowshoe hare or other winter animal. oh or a barn owl!! #im trying to free my mind when it comes to making multiple sonas bc im still trying to wrap my head around it #ive always kinda seen myself as my persona but i want to try and be silly with it. actually while i was making this i was a little doubtful #to call it my fursona bc it doesnt look like me but a little voice inside my head was like well. youre not a 5 foot tall talking mole eithe #so you might as well. and i was thinking abt ppl with their dragon wolves with wings and i was like wow.. youre right... i can do what i #want forever. and brother that shit was enlightening it was like my third eye opened when i realized that #my art #myart #my oc #oc #fursona #mulch #furry art #sfw furry #character design #oc ref sheet #reference sheet

[sabertoothwalrus]

so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

#animation #2d animation #indie animation #long post #not 100% sure why I made this post #all this to say: I’m still not sure what direction I want to go towards for my own show #ngl!! i think im confident i could get people to like my show. i think I could find an audience #i have some experience at this point getting people to like my ocs #its just a matter of MAKING the damn thing

[wis-art]

I was busy doing commissions and dealing with chronic pain, but it's still lesbian visibility week so i hope you all feel seen :)

Both characters are trans women (she/her)

#lesbian #my art #art #lucy #wiki #i really like how this piece turned out #transbian #trans #oc #illustration #lesbian visibility week #i love lesbians #i used to identify as one dfghdfhdfg #but you know.. #life happened #turns out i am bi #but im still kind of a dyke at heart #anyways the big scar on lucy's tummy is a uterus transplant #they live in the future #so they get future technology :) #anyways #transgender #artistic nudity #i did censor this a bit for tumblr