#that one drawing at the bottom is actually a redraw of one of my old art from this au

[pineapple-frenzy]

For your post finals art request, how about something from your Zutara scars au? Maybe Zuko gently kissing the scars on Katara's hands, with Katara looking absolutely flustered.

Thanks for your consideration and time.

I love soft scar kisses so much, I hope you don’t mind that I added a touch of angst to this

I saw something recently that was like what if Zuko thinks he’s the one that burned Katara’s hands, and I really like the idea so I wanted to incorporate it into this au. So here’s a little comic about Zuko apologizing for burning Katara’s hands (which he did not) insipired by your request :>>

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #soulmark au #my art #i like to think happens during a conversation about zuko's scar #he'd be opening up to katara about it and even telling her how it happened #he'd also talk about how he never wants to do what ozai did to him to others but he thinks he ended up doing it to katara #and that's what leads him to apologize #so when katara says it's not his fault do you think she's talking about her own scars or zuko's fukalfjlakfk #n e ways #that one drawing at the bottom is actually a redraw of one of my old art from this au #i was looking at old art from this au for reference for some of the flower placements akdjmajdkjsjd #and i thought i'd do a redraw of it cause i still like the art but i can do it so much better now djajdkskkf #but yeah thanks for making a request with this au #zk brainrot is so back #i am so back

[rhazberriquartz]

Some Lucio pieces for y'all. Drawing this man from the front was a pain in my arse. I see the mistakes now and maybe I'll redraw that piece in time. I could never quite get it right ha.

Bottom right with him tied up in the vines is a reference to Alfred Molinas film Manifesto! Drawn by @spectralgalaxii and colored by me.

Mixed a few of his suit designs to make a new one as well because there's a moment where he destroys his old suit! It's a therapy moment for Nadia and himself. And as a thank you Nadia had a new one made that was less garrish, but similar in style. However Portia may or may have not purposely put it in with Rosie's dress in a wash. But, the slight pink tint actually works for him.

Feel free to ask me about this story. It may help me get back into the groove of things. And if folks want I can share some of my edited sprites of Lucio! I have a ton of new expressions for him you might like!

#the arcana #count lucio #lucio morgasson #the last deal #thelastdeal #i want to talk about it #but dont know how

[fluffyartbl0g]

WE BOTH CAME OUT OF THE SAME LOINS

@wheryheart-rb and anon thats all the context u get, if u kno, u kno, ANYWAYS MORE UNDER READ MORE

@swordsmans OKAY WELL ILL SHOW YOU WHAT I HAVE ON THE CANVAS BUT U GOTTA KNOW THE CONTEXT.

Sooo…. This was a scribble i made of the rough idea at leik 12am….

BASICALLY SOGEKING AND POWER RANGER SANJI ARE BOTH FORMS THAT R KINDA LIKE,,,, THEIR WORST MOMENTS IN LIFE. Like usopp became sogeking when he left the crew and the power ranger get up is a reminiscent of sanji’s awful past, so i just wanted to draw them together goofing off and being wholesome! So sanji is holding back his laughter while usopp is doing his classic usopp act. OH and im drawing this for @sanusoweek when it comes to it :3 soooo if other people wanna participate too O////O???

It’s me doing a rough paint of what i want my redraw of an old artwork to look like! New on top and old on bottom, but obv the top one is not finished hahaha. That bottom one is actually one of my first digital drawings and i was Suuupper proud of it :]]]

@quinloki okay so DUNGEON MESHI IS ONE OF MY FAVE MANGAS and I have such a sick animation meme idea for it, but I CAN NEVER get this chilchuck motion to work like how I want it to and I havent had the motivation to draw him doin somethin else so I've been kinda stagnant on it ; - ; I RLLY WANTED TO GET IT FINISHED BEFORE THE MANGA FINISHED (which is gonna happen rlly soon actually) BUT I DONT THINK I HAVE IT IN ME

#asks #one piece #dungeon meshi

[anomnum]

Character Doodles (Vol. 12)

Been a while, hasn't it? Motivation is being a bitch right now, so I haven't been drawing as much as I'd like, but I finally managed to actually finish these doodles.

Top Right is the first one I did, and it's specifically based on one of the writing prompts on my prompts document - a sort of The Last of Us take on the Human Realm, but without the zombies, with the doodle being affectionately titled Survivor Luz. Bottom Left is the second one I did, and it's actually a redraw of an old artwork, specifically one of the doodles on Oops I Started Liking Another Ship.

Similarly, the Top Right doodle is another redraw, this time of Playin' Guitar - and my god, I did not realize how terrible that one was until I looked back at it. Honestly, it almost seems insulting to call it a redraw. The bottom right doodle is a little Gaster, keeping up my tradition of using Gaster as a space filler. 

#luz noceda #kris dreemurr #noelle holiday #susie deltarune #w.d. gaster #undertale #deltarune #the owl house #the owl house au #toh au #kriselle #noelle x kris #kris x noelle #kris deltarune #noelle deltarune #luz the owl house #luz toh #anomnomart

[cookieeks-art]

Here’s a little project I worked on last year, but kinda, forgot to post? It’s a fake Red shoes art book spread for Edda! The composition, and art styles used, is mainly based on Snow White first page, and Arthur's second page from the actual art book, including of course the artist featured in them (aka Jeon Mi-jin (전미진) who drew the art that the art on the first page and the drawing to the top right on the second page is based on, Kim Sang-jin (김상진) aka Jin Kim who drew the art that the first drawing and the four lower drawings in the second page are based on, and Choi Minjeong (최민정) who drew the the art that the top middle drawing on the second page is based on.) (I had to use Google translate to get the names in the Latin alphabet, so I apologise if there’s any mistakes, I tried to keep the Korean name order for all the names, with the exception of Jin Kim.) [EDIT: I took a closer look Arthur’s first page today and realised that it served as a bigger inspiration for the first page that I drew then I remembered when first posting this, so shout out to that page as well which have two drawings made by Jeon Mi-jin and Choi Minjeong respectively.]

If you’ve been around for a bit you might also notice that two of the drawings on the second page are redraws of older sketches, which I mostly did as a fun treat for myself, since I find redrawing old art pretty fun. I also took this opportunity to give Harriet’s clothes a small makeover, taking some inspiration from Snow herself, a bit from the shapes of Drottning Kristinas gowns (like the drape around her shoulders and how puffy their arms are, and the general shape of the collar), and most likely from looking at details of other dresses I can’t recall at the moment (I do specifically remember looking up images of historical lace collars to get an idea of how they could look, but I don’t remember if I looked at a specific site or what sites I could have looked at in that case). I tried to keep it relatively simple with some spots for details, but looking at it now I’m not entirely sure how well it would fit the movies vine fashion wise (both Regina’s and Snow’s dresses both feel pretty modern to my amateur eyes looking at the cuts and shapes), then again I guess I can always say that the fashion is different kingdom to kingdom I suppose.

Also small shout out to Kay @the-moonlightknight who was someone who helped years ago to actually put words to Eddas personality back when I had to make a reference sheet for a discords event, which is the reference I went back to and used small parts of when writing the text for the first page.

(ID in alt and under the cut)

[ID:

Two fake Red shoes art-book pages depicting my oc Edda and Harriet (A pale chubby woman, with deep eyebags, brown hair and grey eyes).

The first shows Harriet, dressed in a blue dress with lace and snowflake themed embroidery, wearing a crown and matching necklace, with her hair up in a ponytail, is looking forlornly at the viewer, her hands held before her. Edda, dressed in her casual while fluffy shirt, dark muddy red skirt and bodice, and brown leather boots, is looking to the side with a lopsided smile and holding out her knife. Cookieek is written under both of them. Behind them is a wavy dark red graphic with a pattern of thin leaves. In the bottom right corner is two patterns running side by side, one of simple tight stitches, and a more detailed snowflake inspired embroidery pattern. To the upper right of the page is a block of text titled “Edda & Harriet”, and reading: “Edda is a wise woman in the woods that Arthur stumbles upon after entering Frode kingdom to search for it’s missing princess. Edda is also the identity taken on by said missing Princess Harriet after she was able to leave the castle behind. Her life as a mistreated princess has left her jaded and with a distain for nobility and royalty, but her escape has given her hope for a better life. In leaving the identity as Harriet Edda has made a big change in her way of dress, as well as letting the mask she’d been forced into as a royal slip. She’s determined, eccentric, and considerate, with a hunger for magic knowledge. At first she doesn’t realise she’s falling for Arthur, taken in by his ridiculous yet sensitive personality and his way of smiling, but when she does she’s sure she can’t tell him at risk of making things uncomfortable between them. She doesn’t realise that a lot of the ridiculous things Arthur has done has been to show love for her, and that they are both just as willing to sacrifice themselves for the other.”

The second is a page with drawings of Edda and Harriet. The first is a grey scale drawing Harriet looking mentally exhausted, with a thousand yard stare in a profile view. Second is a head shot of Harriet crying in a blue frilly nightgown as pale hands with long nails grip the sides of her face, tips of light brown hair hovering above her. Third is a drawing of Edda sitting and talking to someone while smiling as if she’s about to laugh. Fourth is a collection of greyscale drawings of Edda making a few expressions, such as: 1, looking intrigued while grinning sinisterly with a shadow over her eyes as she holds her chin, 2, looking in awe of something with shine in her eyes, her hands hovering in front of her, 3, looking embarrassed and startled, a blush across her face and her fist held to her chest, 4, scowling deeply with a dark shadow over her eyes. Cookieek is written under all of the images.

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#oc #oc's #fanart #red shoes and the 7 dwarfs #red shoes and the seven dwarfs #edda

[refriedrambles]

If anyone was wondering why I draw Skoodge vastly different from in the show it's cause of Zim

I cannot draw his rectangular little body next to Zim with out fucking it looking super weird! Also I was really really struggling with twisting and turning him, so I embarked on this journey of finding a way to draw Skoodge that feels like Skoodge

Now none of those are bad (hell one is me copy a screenshot to figure this little shit out) but they're all in the same or very similar pose for a reason. I'd cut running Skoodge in half if I wasn't so proud of how I drew the top and bottom of his body separately

Wanna know what happened in the background? In the forgotten doodles of my sketchbook during this time?

This mother fucker. This was my third doodle of Cherub. I'll admit its that little face that got me cause I don't usually draw randomly doodled characters more then once

I made him during this little character design task I set myself up with

I was having a lot more fun drawing girls or the tallest tho (which is why Krysa pops up a few times

This page is where he first appeared

And cause they're a pair here's the first drawing of imp

But this little doodle is what made me go Oh ho! This needs to be an actual character

I legitimately need to redraw this, it's so cute but so tiny and not easily readable

By the time I settled on the smaller details of his body shape and realizing oh shit this is basically what Skoodge should have been I had found some traits that feel like Skoodge to me (which is weird AF sense I've been struggling with his character so much up until like 3 or 4 days ago.) No visuals here cause I'm on my phone might add them later (also apparently am at the limit didn't realize I put so many up there lol

I'm pretty happy with my Skoodge design right now, but still feel like it could be improved or I learn how to better draw his shapes.

This was all spurred by me looking at character designs of old women, dads and tank like dudes lol

#refriedramblings

[wetbloodworm]

fuck it, post old zenith art

one of my first attempts at designing him! he's just down as 'dhampir boy' in the save file name. didn't have the skirt yet, irises were much bigger.

first attempt at an outfit. he used to be much scruffier lmao

lyrics from community gardens, which is still on his playlist. i should redraw this sometime.

the posing on this isn't terrible

i think i was drink while doing these lmao the one with his hair in a bun is kinda cute actually! i should draw him with his hair up more

reworking the original outfit, added the braids to his hair, establishing that his irises/pupils gotta be tiny.

first attempt at a true form design! he used to have legs. hooves.

and then a rework of the true form design! the clouds used to be more opaque and also more jewel toned than pastel-ish

this pic was entirely an excuse to draw sharp teeth lmao i had the vamp fangs vs shark teeth debate early on and went with the fangs for a while because i was a coward. i'm smarter and sexier now

rework of his default strahd outfit to what it is now! he's still looking off-model to me here, he also used to have two braids on each side instead of just the one but that was a pain to draw

figuring out how true form works

his hair started getting bigger here

from the first session of strahd where he dug up a grave. still got the double-braids but looking closer

close-up design of his symbol, which you can sometimes see on his amulet. it's a loose representation of his eyes. i remember before i revealed his true form someone joked that it was a self-portrait and, like, yeah actually, got it in one

considered giving him scythe arms but that didn't last long. also first considerations of the hybrid form/eye effect in the bottom corner

and finally we get to the ones that i think have been posted to this blog. the first time i really got his design down! it's my boy. there he is.

#art tag #zenith tag

[crazysodomite]

explore my old art with me. WORLD OF HAPPINESS!!! (2012-2013)

PREFACE

I really love the fact that part of my 'username' when I was a child was literally 'happy'. I signed my art with '___happy'. Poetic return of the happy smiler in the modern age.

I used to draw on the laptop touchpad using paint, thus I only had access to the basic paint colors to make characters. Interestingly I don't remember the names or anything about most characters displayed in any of these (except the one with the red and green scarf and the characters of my old friends). The background on the 'big' piece was drawn by my old friend btw (I drew the characters). Damn... Here you can also see the 'mouth tail' phenomenon that was popular at that time. The ones with writing I made as 'reaction images' based on memes that were in use during that period. And yes almost all of my characters were cats.

I find this one really peculiar... The way the colors vibrate almost look like what I would do now... It's interesting...

Edgy art in some browser art program.

Obviously, I had a murderous character with a 'dark side'. Obviously. With a scythe, too, obviously.

This has to be my favorite. This looks exactly like something I would draw now. Kill :3

Artwork done in paint tool sai. I thought I was a genius for drawing eyes like this btw. I kinda love it...

MY FAVORITES

These are the ones I found most joyful and cute out of my old art. What I find charming about my 'old artstyle' is that it's almost... Overly cute? Like it really overdoes the 'cuteness' and I really love it. So innocent and happy... Notice the one in the bottom right. Notice how it has a little microchip in its ear. The attention to detail!

These specifically. When I look at them I feel human again... Maybe not much changed after all...

This one, too... Cuteness...

This one I actually love so much I want to make it my pfp. It's just so overwhelmingly cute... CUTENESS ❤️

OLDEST ART KNOWN TO MAN

This has to be my first art ever made on the computer? It's a miracle it survived. Featuring Scourge warriorcats (Бич is Scourge)

I want to show my OOOLD paper art too, I'll try to find it and scan it. Hopefully it still exists...

REDRAW

i can't nail the 'overly cute' style still... 😑But I enjoy drawing like this... I should redraw all my characters... Actually, what's interesting... I used to struggle with drawing 'chibis' for YEARS, like actual years. I just couldn't draw something simple and cute. But now after looking at my art I feel like I can do it...

I ALMOST FORGOT. I MADE ADOPTABLES TOO.

These ones especially tickled me. The yandex logo?!?!?!?

#my art

[samwise1548]

:o i am Looking (pun absolutely intentional)

THERES SO MANY COOL DETAILS IN THE BACKGROUND

YESS!!! Thank you Tumblr people for letting me rant about my own art for a bit.

I have to go to the city today which is about an hours away. Let's hope I can get through everything I wanna say before then :)) Already gonna say, this'll be a long post so I'll put it all under a cut.

For context, this is the piece I'll be talking about. It's a redraw of an older piece I did for The Magnus Archives podcast.

Ok so, where to start... I suppose just with setting up all the details in the background? That took ages!! Imagine having to cram 14 fears into one small box, where only 2/3rds of it are visible? I excluded the Extinction for my own benefit, and the Eye and Web were covered by the giant eye at the top and the webbing at the bottom of the piece. So only 12 fears, but still that was a real struggle haha. I'm glad I was able to do it tho. Here's some of the drafts I did:

[ID: Six similar rough drawings of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood embracing as the cry while a giant eye looms above them. The artwork is rough as they are simply to lay out the design of the piece. A blue watermark of the artists signature is slightly visible above the pieces. \End ID]

I knew I wanted the Vast to be on top, because, well obviously. It's the Vast! And likewise, for the Buried to be on the bottom. But everything else was kinda mixed in wherever I had space. My favorite mini domain is the Strangers carousel!! I'm also particularly proud of the Slaughters war trenches below it.

Moving on, I wanna talk about the coloring now!! BOY HOWDY, DID THAT GIVE ME STRESS!!! For reference, here's some of the variations I made while trying to find the perfect colors:

[ID: sixteen variations of the same drawing, now with finished lineart. Each variation is colored differently than the next. The artists signature is watermarked over the drawings . \End ID]

GOING IN ORDER!!! first one is obviously not colored. That's just the lineart with a random color as the bg. Second and third ones I discredited cuz it didn't fit tma vibes. The fifth one is one I kinda still do like. The only problem with that one was that Jon and Martin were a bit too dark for my liking. The gold frames one next to that is one of my favorite ones. I color picked from the Mona Lisa for that one. I do like the gold frame but again, jmart didn't fit the vibe. The next few are random variations with slightly different color palettes and values.

What I ended up settling for in my final piece is honestly so beautiful in a symbolic way to me. The fear domains inside the frame were done in colors from the original piece from 2021. Kind of like an homage to my past self. Like I'm giving my past self credit for making a good drawing by including actual elements from that directly into this revamped version. I was so happy when I figured that out. It's especially lovely considering that I was struggling so much with coloring this whole thing. But looking back at the old piece made me realize that I just had to go back to my roots. I'm learning from a me that I no longer am and I feel so happy for that!

With that, thank you for letting me ramble about this drawing. It may not have came out perfect like I'd hoped, but I did make something I can be proud of while still honoring the original. And I'm happy with it :)

#no bodys gonna see this but i just needed to talk about it #i am really happy with how it turned out #and i feel like ive improved a lot since i first started drawing #thank you to the tma fandom for that haha #my thoughts #ask box #my art #long post

[the1weepinqguitar]

tally hall sketches and other assorted doodles

Here ya go guys! I also have improvement pics from last year! Almost two years in the Tally Hall fandom! Woohoo! My Marvin's CD is gonna hate me even more after all of this

A Ross sketch! I'm super proud of how it turned out! Below is a close-up!

The aforementioned close-up, showing the shading on his face and the folds of his sleeve!

Zubin! I love the side profile, and I used his picture in the MMMM booklet as a reference! Close up below, so you can see some of the more fine details/shading

the close-up!

Here's Andrew! His hair is kinda hard to not fluff-ify, but I dealt with it anyways and tried my best to keep it close to reality. Obligatory close(r)-up below.

next will be some other random stuff, mostly tally hall, but some of it is oc art

drew this drawing of Ross last September. Not amazing but very stylized, which I love/hate. the tag on the bottom left reads, "he's rather disheveled but this is the best I could do back then"

wtf is he doing? He in an action movie or something? btw this was last-year's andrew. very stylized. i hate it.

decided not to include the other last-year Rob cause i hate it deeply. this one's much better. very fluffy. i dont like the collar tho

just me poking fun at my horrendous attempts at stylizing joe. im not gonna draw him as much as the others btw.

This is from an au created by @bonkdd, but i did rob and andrew's designs bc i never saw his designs for them. i also added a lot of lore and plot stuff because i really liked the concept. in simple terms the tallies are robots that were abandoned by Marvin after he passed away so now they're falling apart n stuff without him to care for them (that's why rob hides his face). Anyways, huge thanks to Bonk for the original idea! They're a great artist, you should go check them out!

Edith, drawn/sketched with a ballpoint pen.

Another one. I like this one better, but I spent two days on this one versus a half on hour on the other so i guess it makes sense

Adrian and Reuben (OCs), done in a college-ruled notebook bc i ran out of pages in my sketchbook. next is a close-up so you can see more shading.

probably my favorite gay couple i've ever written ngl

Ace again, but wearing Reuben's favorite sweater.

Looking mighty fine!

He's lookin' tough, he's got the stuff, he's got the spiffy shades... (/lyric)

pose practice

Boll weevil, why don't you get out of your home? (/lyric)

old art jumpscare - i actually kinda like this one, might redraw it. Below is the full thing

why is zubes staring like that??? its creepy

here's another. i don't know why it's sideways. andrew is scared of joe btw, this isn't the entire drawing

Did an embossing peice. It's the Mojo Chessmaster! I tried by best to make it as detailed as possible, and I think I did pretty alright. The neck was probably the worst part to do. Below are close-ups

the head of the guitar was a pain in the ass.

This part was also pretty tricky but it came out okay. the dials at the bottom are raised as much as I could get them to go, so I'm not worried about them. My issue here was the pickups.

I also added Flansburgh's little signature guy but i drew his hair because why not? Anyways this piece took me a good hour or so to finish, I think it'll fetch a good grade (it was for my metal design class).

I'll add a sketch I just did as a bonus:

it's from a tally hall fanfic/au i made back in may after my grandpa passed away. It was a great stress-reliever and I still really like how it turned out. It's about cryptids and monsters and shit. I'll post a summary on a different post because this one was mostly for the drawings. I might post a few installments of it on my ao3. It could be a weekly thing since i usually have time on fridays to write.

Once again, a close-up is available below.

I put literal hours of research on cryptids and of the area (ann harbor, MI) while writing this fic. It was fun though, and it helped me a lot. Feel free to ask me anything about the plot or world-building !

#ivan's art tag #tally hall fanart #oc art #random assorted sketches and stuff #buh-bye

[clutchpowers]

Sooooo... i wanted to stick this little rambly thing at the bottom of the redraw but it would have made it look UGLY so im doing this separately... just wanna talk about the whole thing and What Not.

TLDR: its been a slash positive ride thats been worth it to try "something new" every year and my favorite piece out of all of them is the 9th. also for the curious heres the comparison of the 5th anni piece to the recent one (2018 -> 2023)

anyway. personal post time.

oh where to begin *rocks on my rocking chair* i guess it would be with the 5th anniversary piece...at the time it had been a long while since i did lineless art and i thought it would be cool to try it again for that one so i did by redrawing an old piece from 2014... that was the first "finished piece" i made of Them. i think i even made it into a wallpaper for myself lmao. anyway after i posted it i was like "aw man i should draw something every year until the 10th" but i thought yeah right. im going to forget next year like the idiot i am. but i Some How managed to do one every year... th worms got me... i honestly didnt think id make it all the way to the 10th but i did!! AND WITHOUT MISSING A DAY EXCEPT FOR THE 7TH WHERE I WAS A WEEK LATE???? UNREAL especially when fun fact! every year i had no idea what i wanted to do! all i knew for sure is that i wanted each piece to be out of my comfot zone to push me to do something a little different. unfortunately the subjects tm where always the same so it feels a little. samey. but these are my celebratory posts I GET TO ONLY POST ABOUT THE OTP SUPER BLORBOS OF ALL TIME

the 6th anniversary was a redraw of that one scene. you know the one. the helicopter one. fucking hate that scene btw it actually causes me psychic damage i cant watch with the audio or ill scream. but it is my favorite scene of mine despite all the horrors it causes <3 and i wanted to redraw it as if it was a cartoon... like i had taken screencaps from the lcu cartoon in my head. i still remember the backgrounds being such a pain in the ass. honestly id like to go back and redo this one one day too or do something similar to the concept because its a fun one that i always saw done growing up and i wanted to try it myself.

for the 7th anniversary you can see the turn.. no more humans... return to lego... i was getting a little more confident in drawing them in the lego form so i did another redraw this time with the ending!! honestly i still like this one and how it looks even with how late it was but i wanted to test my confidence and do a real True and Finished piece with COLORED LINES and EVERYTHING!!!!! im glad i ended up taking the turn because for the LONGEST TIME i wanted to try and draw them as lego so bad because all i did was draw them as humans and its funny because now its the exact opposite. glad this piece was kinda the solidification in my head that yeah okay im a bit better at drawing the stylized lego toy now i can keep drawing them like this without feeling like im going to want to delete this in 2 weeks.

the 8th anniversary one is so weird. somewhere toward the beginning of the year it got into my head that i wanted to do a comic of them but time/school would have gotten in the way so i ended up opting for a page. another redraw of the ending scene which honestly out of all of them this is my least favorite one and its solely because its all so off. i def could have formated it better so the background shot doesnt take up the entire fucking page but then again im not a comic guy and this was my first time so the layout was bound to look HORRID but this is something id like to come back to ive had the idea of making like a genuine short comic about them since FOREVER and now that im a bit more experienced (lying) i would like to make one day!!!! just gotta stop getting caught up in my scripts!! and going in circles!! Because im obviously not a writer and i keep getting first-hand embarrassment from these!! but ill get over it one day lol.

OH THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY PIECE MY BELOVED. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PIECES ACTUALLY i love this stupid thing so much you have no idea.i know its re-using lineless but i just loved the idea of what it would look like lineless AND IT CAME OUT SO PERFECT I LOVE IT SO MUCH obv it needs a few touch-ups so the main issues dont stand out to me but god. i love this piece so much. idk what came out of me to make this but its so good ill never get over it. and the little lego them as a cake topper ITS JUST SO CUTE I DONT HAVE MUCH TO SAY OTHER THAN I LOVE THIS SO MUCH SORRY

finally. the 10th anniversary piece. oh my god. okay. i need everyone to understand this. i had woken up with this fucking Unbearable pounding headache that was trying to kill me. my body the entire day wanted me to stop and lie down, but last night i was already done with a good chunk of it and all i had to do that day was finish some lines and the coloring?? i literally don't remember all i remember is my body actively trying to shut down and force me to stop and sleep which i took a nap? didnt help. so i said fuck it im finishing this. i was. an entire goddamn corpse arched over my laptop. i was so delirious the entire time its a fucking miracle it even came out as good as it did but honestly. i still hate how it fucking looks. like you can TELL when i gave up (the shading) and it sticks out like a sore fucking thumb to me and it pisses me off because i knew i could have done so much better if i wasnt being stricken down by gods hand and his every attempt to get me to rest. idk like im generally proud ot it, with this one i wanted to go out with a bang tm so i tried to draw every important and relevant character instead of ALL of them like I was originally planning LMAO but ah well. maybe one day when im faster at drawing. this one i defiantly wanna go back and touch up but i everytime i open the file i can see 40 more things wrong with it and it drives me nuts. so ill just have to wait for when im ready. i guess.

can i just say though. the improvement is crazy. it always catches me off guard because tbh i uh. dont like my own art. im getting better at not fucking hating it because i can pinpoint everything wrong with it but whenever i see the side by sides it always surprises me. i always dont think im improving but then i see it and its like wow i really am getting better! i still suck at 3000 things but im getting better! and its overall just a nice thing to see after having drawn them for as long as i have... the power of the worms is strong and has ruined my brain...... speaking of i know ive said a few times that i fucking hate certain pieces, not just LCU related ones but almost anything i post, but if you love them and are able to look at them with a twinkle in your eye then thank you. genuinely. i honestly love looking over the tags of people exploding and saying nice things. it warms my cold little heart and im glad there are people out there that genuinely love some of the things what i do! even if its just fanart and its just their blorbo. thank you for sticking around even tho all i do is draw my otp super blorbos :'^) this game means the world to me and im glad like more than 2 people wanna spread it around.

to wrap back around to the anniversary stuff and speaking of big love to the people out there THE FREAKING EPIC ZINE i was just a small thing but it came out amazing even for how small it was thank you to the contributors and thank you to everyone whos downloaded it!! its still getting the occasional and i love getting the notif in my email about it. i love that there are still people out there who wanna see it and all the hard work everyone put into it to celebrate the games 10th just thank you again i really does mean alot to me ALSO IF YOU HAVENT CHECKED IT OUT PLEASE DO IT IS 100% WORK YOUR TIME AND ITS DIGITAL WITH PRINT AT HOME STICKERS AND YOU CAN KEEP IT AND LOOK AT IT FOREVER

uh to end this off....would I like to do this again..... I mean I kinda am? by that i mean ill do the big numbers (15, 20, 25, 30, 40, etc) till the day i freaking die!!!! but yeah no countdown stuff ever again!!!!! sorry :^( it was super fun to do though!!!! and im glad i did it that piece is the conclusion to the whole thing but that doesnt mean ill stop drawing them. duh. theyre my characters now! but heres to many more anniversaries and to hopefully another game! or to just see them again in any other lego media! or even better... a mischaracterized cameo in ninjago!

#long ass post lmao congrats if you actually read it all and made it to the bottom :'^) #i typed this all out yesterday thats how i got it out so quick lol

[disastersteps]

wip (not) wednesday

its thursday where i am right now, but its techincally wed in other places soo yeet!

i got tagged by @idlenight and ure lucky bc i actually have some wips- some are on hold and others are scribbles to get the ideas out the way so i get work on them later!

as for tagging, uhhhh, errrrr, im blanking and idk how many had already done wip wed game already so uHHUU tags anyone reading this! (you dont have to if u dont!!, also putting here bc at the bottom, i had a little relevations spoiler sketch jhdsgh)

...lets start with the ones im currently had them on hold-

^ these are together actually in the same file! its my fake covers im kiiiinda going back and forth- the lines are done, so coloring them is gonna be. a while :')

^ these are scribble sketches, for now, are something that i'll work on down the road! its cheshire and harbinger! left one is more of just wanting to draw their armors in the same canvas, the right one is a redraw of a old comic i made years ago wheezes

and now the REVELATIONS SPOILERS BELOW this is a wip i drew after i finished that short demo sooo yeet! (putting it under readmore sdgjsh)

just your typical 'breakup' scene (dw they're going to talk. i believe this in my heart wHEEZES)

#myarts #mywips #im excluding the wip animatics bc its ON HOLD (and mostly bc i am eyeing procreate dream so shhh) #tagged games #ure lucky bc i have these sjhdgjsjhgshjg #yes this is how i sketch roughly first before doing the next steps :')

[foreverrunningfree]

@czigonas wanted to see me answer those artist questions and I did them all so it’ll be under the cut

1. Art programs you have but don’t use?

As of rn I cannot draw on my laptop/tablet so technically paint tool SAI and photoshop(idk what version). But I guess I hadn’t used photoshop for /years/ back before my drawing hiatus. Sorry but SAI is so much nicer to look at and to use, for me personally.

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left,right, or forward?

I flip flop my canvas a ton to a) look at it for wonkiness and b) to get specific lines in a direction that feels good, but the actual act of drawing I typically like to have them looking left cause most the the lines flow from top right to bottom left which is nicer to do since I use my right hand to draw even tho I am ambidextrous.

3. What ideas come from when you were little?

This question confuses me on what it’s actually asking soooo? When I was like 12 I had to write a story for school so I did a story about a plane crash in which the survivor came face to face to a rat/bat/cat/dog creature thing? I’ve always wanted to redraw the creature, idk if I have the original drawing I did and I don’t feel up to digging to see if I kept it during all my moves.

4. Fave character/subject that’s a bitch to draw?

My favorite animal color patterns aka brindle, merle ,roan, spots/stripes. So time consuming. In terms of shape, human faces for sure.

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself?

Before hiatus, probably 90% /shared/. Currently, probably 75% /posted/cause I can’t post the porn to tumblr lmaoooo but I have shared them with like half a dozen friends.

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously?

I’m sure there’s a ton but if it’s subconsciously then how would I consciously know?🤔 ok serious answer, probably every single 2D animated movie or show I’ve ever seen, and all the various artists I follow. I mean, there’s parts of my style I can pinpoint you to what it’s inspired by.

7. A medium of art you don’t work in but appreciate?

I’ve never /seriously/ tried oil paint, acrylic paint, or pastels but that shit always looks so good. Also watercolor even though i have tried and enjoyed using watercolors but I am far far faaarrr from being proficient in them. Non drawing wise, I fucking love dioramas, especially those that are then filled in(?) with acrylic(?). I watch a lot of those videos on YouTube.

8. What’s an old project idea you’ve lost interest in?

Most of my old animal ocs I had in the same universe in my mind and had a comic planned that I never got around to. I still love and wanna revisit those ocs. But also my dragon age ocs who I’ve SERIOUSLY BEEN CONSIDERING drawing in @soaps-hoe-141 universe 👀

9. What are your file name conventions?

Before hiatus/ on my laptop, subject or character and whatever was happening in the pic. Now using procreate on my iPad? I don’t think I’ve named a single one lol.

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw?

Nothing, no clothes, nude, nakedness please and thank you. lol but I guess I do sorta enjoy figuring out clothing in general, folds and shit, getting that practice in. Like how it hangs and creases in poses since I’m not used to drawing it.

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing?

I don’t usually listen to /only/ music while drawing, I much prefer having a favorite movie playing in the background and/or a show I enjoy rewatching/am actively watching. I also watch a lot of gamer YouTubers I put on as background noise/short watch breaks that their voice is just soothing to me even if I’m not /watching/.

12. Easiest part of the body to draw?

I’m not sure… maybe boobs/pecs for humanoids. General body shape for animals?

13. A creator you admire but whose work isn’t your thing?

Honestly can’t think of a single one. I mean, plenty of artists do work(or with a medium) that I can’t or don’t want to do/use personally but I read the question of “isn’t your thing” as “subject you don’t enjoy”. If that’s correct, then idk what to tell you. I don’t follow or remember people who majority does things I can’t enjoy on some level.

14. Any fave motifs?

Quite a lot of religious imagery I guess ex. Circles around a persons head. Less serious answer is drawing characters in meme formats lol

15. Where do you draw?

Please don’t tell any physical therapists I live like this… on my back on my couch with my head on the arm rest while holding my iPad propped up on my chest like 8 inches away from my face lmao

16. Something you are good at but don’t really have fun doing?

Idk???? I do shit for my own enjoyment so I’m not sure? Maybe perhaps backgrounds? Like I could do something decent if i wanted to but I’m not into it so I usually just don’t?

17. Do you eat or drink while drawing?

I take breaks… but while actively drawing? I often drink aka let the horny demons out while I enjoy whiskey lol.

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you’ve broken?

Broken broken? Next to fucking none? some charcoal sticks but otherwise…. None… I majority do digital art so really nothing to break there lol

19. Fave inanimate objects to draw?

Idk? I like doing life charcoal drawings? Of whatever, but particularly statues if that counts? I usually have living beings as my subjects.

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy?

Ok, I hate this question, cause we are all good at different things. Maybe it’s just most of those I follow have different strengths than me???? But I guess if I had to pick, recreating from life(or picture) is a lot easier for me than some others(like making it life like/very accurate).

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways?

Yooo, anything I’ve reblogged honestly. Love everyone.

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing?

Absolutely none, again don’t let the pros know cause damn. But I will do stretches or take breaks as needed.

23. Do you use different layer modes?

Absolutely. Mostly for lighting and shading but yes, if I’m doing digital imma take advantage of it.

24. Do your references include stock images?

Yes? I don’t really understand what it’s asking?

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were not inspired by?

Idk? I don’t usually get feedback of that sort.

26. What’s a piece that’s viewed a wildly different interpretation from what you intended?

Again idk? I guess my shit is straight forward?

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff?

Almost never, again don’t let the pros know lol I do sometimes jump between pieces or start a new sketch before going to something farther along.

28. Any art events you have participated in, like zines?

Nope, wanted to and have tried before but I tend to NOT do something if I feel pressured to do it.

29. Media you love but doesn’t inspire you artistically?

Again I feel like this is a weird question or maybe it’s just my understanding of it but I can feel inspiration from all sort of artist shit even if it’s something I’ll never do(ex making a crochet animal or dioramas). I guess I can feel inspired to create from other creators even if it’s not direct inspiration/subject/medium.

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated?

Underrated as in no one has seen aside from a few people irl would be my colored pencil pieces I did during afternoon naps when I worked at a daycare a few years ago.

[single-malt-scotch]

i wanna redraw some old art for funsies and l mentioned it a bit ago but, i still have one of my old blog tile backgrounds saved, that i drew myself. as you can see it was a tile bg with various ships at the time lmao

i just love seeing this nd knowing it was my background at one point too. its dated as November 2013... which is just before the one wayback snapshot that exists of my old blog, the one with the milbee gif.

they were NOT all ships i was super into actually. i never liked vechsteau lol. and wasnt particularly into setho. i just wanted a bg that defined the mindcrack fandom on tumblr and these were pretty much the key ships + my own.

still if you cant recognize them: (left to right) top most - kurt/zisteau, nebris/etho guude/bdubs, sethbling/etho kurt/bdubs, zisteau/vechs very bottom center - pause/beef (i know i know i didnt draw beef w a beard so. very unclear there but i know it is from old post context)

pretty much all of these were popular ships minus... bookurt, which was just one i happened to like. so there you go, a little peek into popular mindcrack ships. its fun having such old pieces of ship art when ppl tend to think ships in mcyt are a new thing!

#old art #mindcrack

[spotlightstudios]

I love looking back at old art of mine. I tried do hard to make it just right and took an obnoxiously long time for every drawing. However, I'm much happier with my art now, with a simpler style and more opportunity for me to actually enjoy it rather than staring at it for so long that I hate it by the time I'm done. (aka art rant time, since I can do that here!!)

These four drawings are from within a span of at least two years. To explain, the top two are drawings of Catacombtale!Grillby (or Chance). The one on the left was my first version (an entry to a contest to draw Grillbys), the one on the right I redrew later on. The bottom left is something I drew for a crossover contest last year sometime, involving Dream and Nightmare (Jokublog). Lastly, bottom right is another contest drawing for the concept of an X-Tale oc (I used Ec-4o.Nightmare).

The first drawing of Chance is easily a good example of an attempt to make the drawing look fun and inviting. I've got a decently fund pose, the colors are warm, and there's a simple background. However, I did this Lineless. Why? I don't know, but I don't like it. Plain and simple, this is my least favorite of the drawings pictured because I took so long to meticulously shade and color and it still wasn't worth it. Served it's purpose for the time, but that's it.

The second one of Chance is overall better. I used cooler colors, and by now I kinda understood how to put deoth into backgrounds. The style I used for him is fine too. Here, I hate the posing. His composition in comparison to everything else makes him look like he's about to fall off his stool. His second set of arms look stupid too, since I recall I either forgot them or didn't want to draw more hands, so I just folded them unnaturally. Better, but not my favorite.

The Fnaf/UTAU crossover drawing is my favorite in concept. It's not the best drawing style, not the worst. I'd redo the designs slightly if given the chance. However, the composition and background I'd keep almost identical. I really liked how the background came out for this one (minus the doorway) because I started to paint my backgrounds around this time. The character poses, I like Night's more, but Dream's is good enough for it's purpose. The execution of using two characters with brand new designs works well enough here, but as I said, I took too much time with minimal effort for this to be too good. (Also completely skipped shading in favor of darker colored gaussian blur.)

The bottom right, X-Night, is my favorite of these specific four. The body proportions are clearly more rounded and small, the style of lineart and colors are very simple and bold, and most of the real charm cones from the lighting and after affects rather than meticulous shading or complex backgrounds. There were still things I'd change if given the chance, but this is a perfect example of my mindset at the time too. The other three drawings here were fun, but I drew them with other people's expectations in mind. For this piece? I drew what I wanted to, since it was my (relatively speaking) design and my art. I'm not as active or social on the app I drew these for anymore. So, I'm much less inclined to please the overlords that might've gotten it more popular had I drawn it in a more realistic or engaging style.

Don't get me wrong, I loved being on that site and drawing so much. I like all of the pieces I posted on too. However, this is a good chance to reflect on what exactly I've been doing all this time in the UT Fandom and how it helped me improve my art over the course of just barely 3 or 4 years.

More looks back on this, a continuation, will be coming soon. This is gonna be a long rant I'll probably revisit often just to catalog ideas for redraws, as well as notes for myself. (Not all of it is degrading, because I plan my next one to be about what things I have enjoyed drawing and why, followed by a completely redraw-cebtric post!

#Spotlight's Box of Rambles

[monstredesignesyherd]

A collection of old drawings featuring a bunch of creatures called the daughters of metals

These are all rather old drawings and my skills have improved immensely, I’m likely to redraw these pictures some time soon as paintings.

They are inorganic beings who are born from the earth, powerful and magical, each one is a unique gemstone. They are not actually the children of the metals but instead all plea loyalty to one metal or another, there are very few of them.

they have the ability to create creatures called crystalliths from the gems that grow along thier back.

The small stone on their forehead allows them to preside the world around them and is what lets them control their appearance. If it is ever cracked or broken thier body would revert to the original form it had, a feature-less semi-humanoid form covered on crystal.

(Left to right, top to bottom)

Amethyst, Diamond, Beryl, Tourmaline, Onyx, Opal, Lapis, Jasper, Emerald, and Amber.

#monster girls #art #sketch book #old art #fay creature #gemstone #gemstone people #fairy tale retelling