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how did xiphoid

their design. Is so. If I had an action figure of them I would chew on the tail. How did you make them. also where did the idea for ledd come from he’s such a silly little guy

(Hopefully these are like. What you were looking for my brain is shot

Very good questions! I love character design questions :]

I'm p sure you're asking about Doctor, Xiphoid's cyborg design (the one w the very chewable tail), which did get designed after Xiph's main design. So mostly the thought process was trying to translate my goofy robot into something hot and cyberpunk! So stuff like their build, their hands, their eyes, those are all straight from normal Xiph. Beyond that, I really wanted to take inspiration from like. 90s-2000s tech, for some reason that's what I associate with Xiph. Hence that epic clear plastic. Well, and cause I think exposed bones and wires are hot. In-universe, "Doc" is canon Xiphoid's hot mary sue self insert :3c so a big part of their design is also "what would Xiphoid want to look like as a hot human" and the answer is feminine person with small tits and long legs. A direct copy of canon Xiph would be wearing that white lab coat, but they only wear that coat cause it's the only thing they have! Robots locked in company buildings can't exact go on shopping sprees. So cyborg Xiph gets whatever cute outfits they want :3 If you want more proper character design process, I can talk about robot Xiph's design too ^^

LEDD is a very fun story! I got the idea for the name from misreading a box for LED lightbulbs and for some reason getting very fixated on what the extra D would stand for. Then, when I needed an evil AI for my Portal ripoff D&D campaign, I figured that'd make a good acronym. Most of his design is also very ripped from Portal, or more accurately, from fanon designs of Wheatley. A proper lab-controlling AI needs a fancy suit and tie. LEDD's meant to feel like a cute, unassuming mascot, so I took inspiration from like: mickey mouse, the fallout guy, the monopoly man, uhh pillsbury dough boy? And also puppets in general. LEDD's round and simple and marketable and so non-threatening! He's even got those retro oval-shaped eyes, except a liiiittle off cause he's got. Pupils. All the better for watching you with :)

Thank u for asking about my blue robots :]

#chayos speaks #ask #ledd #xiphoid #these r specific enough mentions. ill tag em.

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for the art questions thing: what’s your process for shading? how do you come up with drawing / animation ideas? how do you sketch / how does a sketch differ from a complete piece for you?

Oh boy thank u for the questions! Uhh i ended up writing a lot w these so I'll throw this under a cut. I added pictures too. We'll call this a first draft for whatever I end up doing for my class assignment.

My process for shading changes pretty dramatically between if I'm doing my easy cel shading or my fancy soft shading. Lately, if I'm doing cel shading, I'll just come up with colors straight off the color wheel (colorpick and move it darker, more saturated, cooler/warmer depending on the material). OR, one trick I like, I'll draw where I want the shadows all on their own layer, THEN copy my color layer, mask n merge it on top the shading, and multiply that onto the actual layer. So it's the same colors for each exact section multiplied on top of itself? If that makes sense? Does nothing for the Atmosphere but it is Darker, and if I'm drawing them in a void anyways, it works fine. Sometimes I like to just slap a random tilted rectangle on it like its a garfield background. My soft shading is much more trial and error; for those fancy Xiph pin-ups I've been doing, I'll have like 30 different layers going, all doing different shit. Multiply mostly for shading, then for highlights I'll just try overlay/screen/soft light/hard light until something Works. A fun thing I do on these too: To get that "painted" look without adding a bunch of random texture, I use my default lining pen sized WAY up with the opacity WAY down and just go ham. Close up of robot ass for reference.

For ideas: I'd say the majority of the art I put out is "inspired" from something else, like memes or songs or tiktok audios. Honestly, I'd say every piece of information I receive has to pass through a "could this be about my ocs" filter in my brain, and if the answer is even kind of yes, I Will Make It So. Everything is ocs to me <3 and sometimes I inflict those oc thoughts on everyone else :3 For actual Original stuff though? Most of my ideas come about as a natural result of trying to figure something out with my characters. How would they respond to this, how would they do that, how does that work? The whole reason I started doing art is cause I have such a hard time with words, and sometimes drawing it out is just the only way I can communicate a thought. Expressions, camera angles, visual gags, subtle details, timing, those are things I could never figure out in writing. So I make comics and animations!

Sketching, what can I say about sketching. My sketches are very messy because I try for a Zero Erasing method like I do in real life (<- enjoys drawing in pen). If I sit there overthinking every line of a sketch, I get too caught up in the details before I've figured out the full picture. Sketching is for blocking/framing/posing ONLY, clean up is for lineart. I do sketch in only black/grays if that's a thing people care about, but that's because I have very strong thoughts on color, again it's too distracting. The main difference to me (that im sure no one else notices) is I let my sketches get fuzzy from resizing. I'm very particular about my art having NO anti-aliasing/transparent pixels. Crisp and clean, and VERY easy to color. Sketches I have on hand for example. Lil preview of smthin im working on :3c

Actually, sometimes I don't do sketches at all ? Like I go straight to clean lines. Only for certain characters, like LEDD and the lab rats, and if it's not a crazy angle or something. I can just draw them on command at this point. Very handy.

Thank you again for questions ^^ I am. slowly figuring this assignment out.

#chayos speaks #im not gonna tag this oc talk cause Technically thats for Lore. I did mention ocs tho :] #ask #tumblr keeps wanting to move my read more. keep it where i put it Please

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probably a Wild Ask, but do any of yall have questions about like. How I made a specific art/animation/character design, or my Process in general? I have to write a thing for class and I have NO idea where to start >< what do people want to hear me talk about?

#NOT lore questions (right now) this is about The Art Itself #ill answer the questions for yall too of course. just not as academically as im gonna spin it for class #chayos speaks #i hate these assignments tbh. cant do this open-ended shit.

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Finally, a dress fit for a big tail! [pose reference]

#the things yall miss out on from my other blog (nice shading mostly) #my robots ♡ #xiphoid #suggestive

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Same guy btw 🐀

Original meme

and "POV: u are ledd checking the lab cameras"

#animation i spent 2 months on VS meme i drew in 15 minutes FIGHT #my ocs #my art #leddlabs #lab rat #meme art #oc meme #i love his fucking rat eyes so much. i love to draw them. #ledd's lab rats

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That's Life! 💀

#Riding high in April. Shot down in May. #except april and may are like 400 years apart lol #leddlabs #my animation #my ocs #my art #lab rat #gore #I GUESS. the death parts show up for like half a second each but theyre there. #sorry i missed national rat day. is mad rat monday ok? #ledd's lab rats

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Hello CanCan :3c It's my furries as sanrio characters

#my ocs #my art #furry #these furries specifically #my cancan #my shimsham #my boogaloo #my moshpit #i had to get obscure for moshpit. no ram sanrio characters (that i could find) #sanrio style

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Wow! Some old ads for that one robot! (made for class)

#please imagine: xiph carefully cutting out old magazine ads about themself and keeping them in a drawer in their desk. #not proud enough to put them on their wall with their other photos. but too nostalgic to throw them away. #my robots ♡ #my ocs #my art #xiphoid #school art #these are pics of 'baby xiph' aka when they were still in beta. idk if its noticeable but they are smaller with normaler hands. #robot oc

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sometimes i forget im getting a professional art degree. how did i get here. i literally just want to make art for furries and freaks, who let me in here with the painting and sculpture majors. put me back in cartoon class.

#having to take a professional art business class rn where im learning about like portfolios and artist statements and stuff. #and all the examples and readings are: 'how to get your art sold to a museum for 2000 dollars' which. Not Helpful for Me Personally. #literally todays reading was like: 'i know youre gonna wanna price your art at like a million dollars' and im like. #buddy i struggle to ask for 20 bucks. your experiences are Not Universal. where are the art selling guides for people with low confidence. #chayos speaks #hopefully i graduate next semester and i can be done with all this 🤞HOPEFULLY. #this post matches nicely with my immediate previous post of funny fursona dance i did instead of homework. my priorities.

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party at the pizza parlor :]

Here is just the gif. Look at me dance on your dash.

And also my favorite frame of the bunch. Looking into the distance. What do I see over there.

#my art #my animation #art of me #fursona #my fursona #meme art #i actually have so many gifs made from this now. i can wave. i can spin. i can sit. so many possibilities from one goof. #club penguin

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ollie pez dispenser

#lab ollie #leddlabs #doodles #yeah thats all the tags this needs #happy april 1st. i dont do pranks but i can give u: funny oc thought.

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Schrödinger's Cat

#wrote about Moe for a class thing and i didnt mention the. This vibe. #this is for sure up there for favorite drawing of Moe #i feel like im so 50/50 w drawing them where i either nail it or its Not Them. gotta work on that. #rb #expect more random labrats rbs im Thinking about them but i Cant Draw rn :(

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extra important diagram

Informational LEDD diagrams (made for a class :])

#the one downside to him being Big is you Cannot hold him. we can imagine tho :] #ledd #leddlabs #my ocs #my art #meme art

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Informational LEDD diagrams (made for a class :])

#ledd #leddlabs #my ocs #my art #school art #i love to dip into speculative biology. by putting my favorite fish traits into my fish guy and going What Does It Mean #i have so much to say about his long name. i will say one. #LEDD was always meant to be an acronym. but i only decided on the last 3 words in december of last year <3

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Outfits <3

These outfits inspired by: various blindbox figures :3 (they were gonna be all Molinta but i couldn't find any that fit Moshpit's vibe, so his is Peach Riot)

I love these things but i have no money nor space so ^^' drawing them will have to do

#they kinda look like dating sim character portraits lol #my art #my ocs #furry #these furries specifically #my cancan #my moshpit #my shimsham #my boogaloo #outfit meme ? #can you tell ive been having fun with screentones lately

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hii. minecraft fursona skin :]

#thats it. #art of me #fursona #my fursona

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Getting a feel for the cowboys' dynamic via comics

#if youre confused about ash's gender. so is she. dont stress about it. #my art #my ocs #oc comic #tree cowboys #BTW i did write up a bit of info on each of em on Toyhouse. if anyone is interested ^^