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He's experiencing the range of human suffering

Prints

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practice with color palettes and stuff!!

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Another Josuke redraw💎

I didnt feel like drawing the other in the background coz this was kinda quick but ye :'>

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dug up some old scary monsters sketches to polish bc I was in a dino mood :)

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Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

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whos ur favorite Alucard?

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Siblings :]

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More laois sketches

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Charlie saving Angel Dust or if she was more demonic ahahah

its kinda trash

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Worldbuilding Masterpost

I realize I’ve created a lot of stuff oops, so I’ll compile it all here by topic and update it as I post more. Here’s a desktop page that’s better laid out.

Worldbuilding tag, and a crash course on biology

Ask dump 1, ask dump 2, ask dump 3, ask dump 4, ask dump 5, ask dump 6, ask dump 7, ask dump 8

Biology

General overview of frametypes and details

Size classes and maturity stages

Only humanoid root modes

Size null

Modal frames, more modal frames

Mutacons

What self repair systems can’t do

Mutations and defects

Hotspots and spaklings

Sparked life vs nonliving drones

Beastformer resemblance to animals

“Venom” in beastformers

Sentio metallico

Frame dysphoria

“Skin” conditions

Datacables

Biolights

Faces

Dentae and braces

Emotive optics

Tears

Neurodivergence, mental illness

Shadowplay doesn’t exist

Stasis, entrapment protocols

Internal anatomy

Interfacing

Supernatural frames

Survival limits, healing

Soundwave’s tentacles

Supernatural paintjobs

White in paintjobs

Subspace and relics, how subspace works

Use of multiple relics

Corrupt relic brands

Sparktypes with powers (headmasters, cityspeakers, etc)

Leftover outlier abilities

Family

Group home families

Nuclear family structure

Sparks, siblings, and relationships

Twins

Ecology

An ecosystem of recycling

Cyberflora and energon growth

Pets and working animals

Insecticons

Turbofoxes

Leylines

Culture

Holidays

Amica and Conjunx Endurae

Faction ideology

Junkers

Gutter children

The Gatoraider, a startlingly real cryptid

The mothmech Necrobot cryptid

Five Primal elements

Fireworks

Dances

Locations

Map of Cybertron

Rust Sea

Seas and submerged societies

Government

Functionism and the classes within functionism

Public executions

Beastformer domestication

Beastformer empurata

The Grand Architect

City-states

Colony governments

Colony legislation

Alien relations

Language

Pronouns (and a meta ramble on gender)

Names and titles

Slang part 1, part 2

Accents

Accents in hero form

History & Mythology

Guiding Hand, 13 Primes, and Knights of Cybertron

the God War

Quintus Prime

The Allspark

Simfur

Doradus

Artillery (OC)

Unicron

Demons and abandoned places

Food

How eating and digestion works

“Plus size” mecha

Mechanimals are NOT eaten (usually)

Energon grades and scavenging

Fossil fuels

Edible and non-edible materials

Eating with faceplates

Cooking show

Utensil sizes

Individual dishes

First post, utensil size

Second post

Third post

Fourth post

Fifth post

Sixth post

Seventh post, rebars specifically

Eighth post

Ninth post

Tenth post

Eleventh post

Cupcake

Helium

Milkshake

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I love this so much I just think Salem needs some like the curious cat in her life.

i've always enjoyed the theory that the ever after is salem's (unintentional) creation—positioning her as its author to mirror oz authoring remnant. it's a place that's generally very salem-aligned, so her being its storyteller once upon a time would be cute. even if the place "coming alive" was an accidental side effect, it would still ofc make her the "maker" CC wants to meet and interrogate

ofc CC is transparently another salem mirror (in this 9 season long hall of mirrors all shaped like salem) so the idea of writing a self-insert character that comes alive and realizes they HATE BEING YOU bc your life SUCKS is very funny to me. HRBHDBG

anyway what i'm saying is i think we should let the cat out so they can hang out

#salem gets a cat arc!!!! #rwby #rwby9 #salem #curious cat #i could say something actually serious about this but im not going to. please understand<3 #anime #animeart #art #willow schnee

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nyc foods w sam

#food art #foodlover #artists on tumblr

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Go kerala yayyyyyyyyyyyyy

I love love LOVE learning shit like this

The animators put so much love into every frame of this movie and I love seeing the real influences for every character

#marvel #spidey #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #atsv #atsv bts #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman india

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I wish more people would talk about the he man 2022 reboot it so stylish 

The Prince and Princess of Eternos: By Hero Central: 6/3/2022:

After seeing the second season of the He-Man cgi reboot, I was inspired to do this for a future crossover I have pending on what I see in future seasons. However it has given me plenty of ideas for the future story.

So here we have Adam and Adora, Prince and Princess of Eternos.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 2021 © Netflix

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power © Dreamworks animation.  Artwork © A.Montgomery,2022-2025

Painted in Procreate.

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what if when weiss got her scar it caused her to go blind in her left eye also, but she never really told anyone cuz its an Embarrassing Weakness and just got gud enough that no one really noticed she was half blind. but she thinks everyone knows. she thinks everyone thinks of her as pitiful or stunted bc of it. she gets really sad abt it sometimes. 

#rwby #anime #animeart #art #digitalart #willow schnee #fanfic ideas #kali belladonna #rwby fanart

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Willow the Swan

I'm gonna fly With the swans and show my beauty

Willow is introduced drinking a brand of vodka called The Six Swans. This is a reference to the fairy tale with the same name written by the Geimms Brothers.

This minor reference is interesting for 2 reasons:

It ties Willow and the Schnees in general to the Swans in alchemy

It works as its own allusion by combining itself with the mirror imagery the Schnee Family has

At its root the Six Swans is a story about family, parents trying to protect their children and siblings saving each other. It can easily be seen as a loose representation of Willow's abusive situation, of her fear for her kids' safety and of her passivity towards Jacques.

THE FAIRY TALE

The Six Swans is the story of a King forced to marry an Evil Witch. The Witch targets the King's 7 children (6 sons and 1 daughter) by transforming the sons into swans. In order to save them the sister is tasked with the trial to sew 6 shirts in the course of 6 years. Throughout these 6 years, though, she is not allowed to laugh or talk. While she is sewing, she is found by a King that marries her. Together they have 3 children, but the King's Evil Mother kidnaps them and blames the protagonists. The sister can't talk to defend herself and is sentenced to death by fire. However, the day of the execution is at the end of her 6 years of forced silence. Her brothers turned into Swans come flying, are freed and help their sister defending herself. As a result, the King's Evil Mother is burnt and the 7 siblings, the king and the 3 kids live happily ever after.

The Six Swans basically tells the same story twice. There are 2 families threathened by an Evil Parent and both times the Good Parent is really unable to protect the children. The protagonist as a Sister though is able to save her Brothers and this lets her overcome her passiveness, speak up and find her 3 Children again.

It is easy to see how the story can loosely apply to Willow's situation. She is a mother, who clearly loves her children, but she is unable to fight off Jacques effectively and her weakness leads to an unsafe place for the Schneeblings. All she can do is to task her own daughter with the duty to save both herself and her siblings:

Willow: You haven't come back to stay, have you?

Weiss: No.

Willow: Good.

Willow: No matter what happens, Weiss... please don't forget about your brother.

Weiss: Whitley wants nothing to do with me.

Willow: Of course not, you left him alone. With us.

In a sense, Willow herself has been turned into a swan and trapped into a glass cage:

WILLOW'S 2 MIRRORS

There's a part of me that's desperate for changes, Tired of being treated like a pawn But there's a part of me that stares back from inside the mirror Part of me that's scared I might be wrong That I can't be strong.

Like daughter, like mother. Just like Weiss, Willow too has been split in 2 by Jacques's evil mirror curse. This is made clear since her first appearance, where her 2 opposite mirrors are shown:

On the one hand she looks at her daughter's suffering through the bottle. That is symbolic of her passiveness and of how she seeked refuge into alcohol to try and escape her abuse. On the other hand she looks at herself and Weiss through the cameras she has hidden within the Schnee Mansion. This is a sign of action and hints that Willow has in herself the strength to fight back, but must find it.

Dark is when she is forced to choose who she wants to be:

Symbolically she steps in front of a mirror with her 2 sides just there for her to pick 1:

Will she choose the bottle (passiveness, silence)? Or will she choose the scroll (action, standing up)?

Luckily, she chooses the 2nd and breaks the mirror in the process:

This is also goodbye to her passive Swan form. She finally comes back into herself, as symbolized by her using her semblance to materialize a giant mama boar:

A FAMILY COMING TOGETHER

Once the Evil Witch is removed from the equation, the curse is lifted and we see both Whitley and Willow rapidly growing back into themselves.

Obviously, this is also thanks to the brave Sister who manages to defeat the Evil Parent and his evil magic:

I didn't forget you

Thanks to Weiss, the Swans can go back to being humans and the Schnees can be a family once again.

(On a side note, can we have more swans motifs for the Schnees, please? What about Swan Lake's motif for the Schnee Sisters, which gives context to Weiss's dancer's outfit and to Winter's storm of baby Nevermore? And Whitely would be a wonderful Ugly Ducklyn as he grows into himself)

#rwby #willow schnee #schnee family #weiss schnee #once upon an allusion #rwby meta #my meta #anime #animeart #art #swan #magic mirror