knifebaby3000

[knifebaby3000]

ridin thru just to put my eyes on you

#self rb #hi i touched this up for my warmup today if u saw the old one..... no u didn't #going to attempt to finally finally finally finish one more thing tonight......... we'll see............ #i'm stalled at like 80% on like 20 diff things it's so irritating

[knifebaby3000]

ridin thru just to put my eyes on you

#artists on tumblr #art #oc #digital art #cowboy #my art #??? i hate tagging ??? #tian #hello from art block central i have spent all april with a severe case of Cannot Finish Shit disease #is this bad??? is this good??? is this anything??? [ shaking myself by the shoulders ] It Is Done. That Is What Matters. Be Free #hoping this unlocks sth and i can finally get thru everything else i've been working on.............................. #it's been excruciatingggg #me + zhuzhu: save me tian tian on white bg... tian tian on white bg... #those are my boots btw i wore them to beyonce last year heehee

[knifebaby3000]

wading in waist-high water / wading in sight of fire

#artists on tumblr #art #oc #illustration #digital art #my art #tian #[ LDR VOICE ] MY BOYFRIEND'S* BACK AND HE'S COOLER THAN EVER #* MY FAV BRUSH #* TIAN ALSO #idk why i took so long to import it like it took fewer than 2mins to send the abr over 🤡 #did this w unprecedented speed..... excited to draw again ig and also had to adj the brush settings for procreate a bit #anyway [ blows a kiss 2 the sky ] for tian tian #and this stupid brush

[knifebaby3000]

four stars out of five

#self rb #vacation q! now i'm dropping spotify links! #i should do more photo studies like this... #pls notice will's horns btw. thank u #Spotify

[knifebaby3000]

Your OC Tian looks like he could he my OCs brother and I'm so obsessed with him. The beauty marks and the oblivious glazed over look really fucking do it for me

can u share more about him :0c

Omg thank you so much!!!!! I designed Tian to be so extremely husband-coded To Me so I'm happy some of the boxes he checks 4 me ✅ are checked 4 u also ✅🙏🏼

Tian (and Zhu) is the protagonist of two of my projects, the original and its overgrown AU. The OG is........ A xianxia romcom bildungsroman like....... Swan-maiden myth meets FFIX meets Disney Hercules.......... And the AU is what I usually draw/upload, which is a neo noir like...... FFVIII meets........ Drive (2011)....... Meets........... Disco Elysium which is a connection I'm only making right here, right now, as I type?????? Anyway OG-style Baby T is "tiger", "spring", vs Big T who is "dragon", "winter". Both are True Neutral tho I think Baby T leans Chaotic...

Some quick blips: Cap sun, Aries moon, Taurus rising, bday is 31 Dec; 6'2 188cm, ~190lbs 86kg, benches above his bodyweight; vegetarian, doesn't drink, healthiest guy you know (chainsmoking is healthy); blue MCR-coded tobacco depression wifeguy to Zhu’s red LDR-coded cocaine mania guywife

Charm points: natural curls, beauty marks, underbite

Talents: carpentry, wushu, gymnastics, fixing whatever

Likes: Zhu, tofu, his motorcycle

Dislikes: texting, cardio, doing laundry

Songs: MCR – Drowning Lessons + Fashion Statement + Desert Song (it's bad!!!!!!), The National – Walk Off, Hyukoh – 似是故人來 Like An Old Friend Arrives

Motifs: chrysanthemums, smoke, the temples, the moon

Not really a talker, he's all abt acts of service and can be hard to understand if you're looking specifically for words. I like to think of him as the lead in a Western film except the horse is a black motorbike – silhouetted against the horizon, never says more than he has to, does what needs doing. His catchphrase is basically "🆗", "Sure." Also he doesn't use guns but anything else goes 🔨

Some flavor:

More under the cut if this hateful app will let me add one 🤪

They also sometimes call him "Bodhisattva" bc he, due to Circumstances, grew up in a Buddhist monastery from age 8, along with Jin, his baby brother. He became an ordained monk at 20 but disrobed at 22 so he could help Jin thru university. During that time, he worked three primary jobs: seasonal construction worker/contractor, auto mechanic, and plumber. "why not model" No Vanities Lifestyle. He Is Just Some Guy. He Wishes He Were Still Bald. Fuck Fast Fashion Btw.

I think he's best understood thru the way other ppl talk abt him – so here are a couple names/epithets!

His maternal grandmother is a distinguished mobster known as The Old Empress, which is why most ppl call Tian "Crown Prince", "the Prince", etc. Their family is more/less popularly-elected local deities (see "city god" on Wikipedia) and he's the last of the bloodline But has been refusing to officially inherit for over a decade, though he performs all the duties anyway. Old, old agreements put them above virtually all modern law, generally thru loopholes that allow them to, for example, literally start a gang war at 23 bc you got a little too annoyed Or take an eye for an eye/publicly execute someone as ritual vengeance. Pls note that Zhu is a criminal defense attorney. Smile

With his name specifically, Tian Tian, 田 “field” + 天 “heaven/day/sky”, is his entire character – simple, no frills, unassuming on paper, but also strong, steady, salt of the earth. It's a name that once you see him both does and doesn't do him justice, like surely there's something fancier and yet between those two characters you already have the world. The name is also 9 strokes altogether! Fav number and an auspicious one – 9 heavens + if you've ever seen an imperial dragon robe, it's 9 dragons with scales in multiples of 9, eg 81.

A few bonus reasons I chose 天:

I associate him with swans (symbol of beauty but also violent, aggressive birds), 大天鹅 Big Heaven Goose

Single-character names are so elegant/Tough to me

Canonically seen as a "Fifth Great Beauty", literally a man named Heaven, the H is for Husband TO ME

FACT I decided on the monk thing after I named him and I think it's funny. His Dharma name is 釋恒心 Shi Hengxin btw which means "monk", literally, and "resolution"

Final bonus, literally my man:

#Thank u anon!!!!!!! I hope even 1% of this word wall is!!!!!!! Interesting!!!!!!!!! #I wrote this out between two Shinkansen rides and couldn't make it any shorter but I Did succeed in making it longer. My power... #Congrats on a no-doubt beautiful OC btw 🙏🏼 #Tian #Bab Talk #This wretched app is so annoying to use on mobile btw give me a break #Pls feel free to ask abt my characters btw I luv talking abt them

[knifebaby3000]

peek at the lines - i rly liked this set!

happy new year!

#my art #tz #helloooooo vacation q still! i like this colored and uncolored.... colored would be better if i didn't have like 20mins to flat it jfljg #u would think that'd be enough but i almost didn't make it #trying to decide if i prefer this brush for lines but it rly depends on the piece...........

[knifebaby3000]

24 March!!!!!! It's my birthday!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone who's supported me, new followers, old followers, mutuals – every reblog means the world and every tag is such a gift, esp after being away for so many years and also as someone drawing [ checks notes ] the same 2.5 OCs over and over and over again!!!!! Thank u again I luv u so much!!!!!

#24th just ended in Japan BUT it's still early in the US!!! We celebrate for ~20 more hrs!!! #PLS have a beautiful day on me!!!!! #And thank u again 4 supporting my art!!!!!! Esp ppl who like it enough 2 put it on ur blogs!!!! I luv u forever!!!! 😭🙏🏼 #Bab Talk #Not like I spent more than 5mins on this if that but Tumblr is compressing it to fuck hello whyyyy........ PHOBIC

[knifebaby3000]

80% / portrait of the blue-green sea

eastside bodhisattva

#my art #tian #hello from my vacation q pls look at my man (z: he is MY man!!!!!) in greater detail #wanted to add close-ups bc THE PROBLEM with this piece was i drew it too big for the scaling on the brush.... #i almost always draw a3 in photoshop but in procreate that gets real funny real fast for a few diff reasons lmfao #anyway i rly like this one but i think it loses a lot scaled down....... u gotta look at this man in a big way..............

[knifebaby3000]

hey hope this isn’t bothering you but i really love your art and i was wondering if you take commissions? like even simple sketches if full drawings are too time consuming.

Hiii not bothering me at all, thank you so much for your support and for the ask!!! I'd be happy to talk about it – please feel free to email at bab33si @ gmail! 💘

#What is my tag..... #Bab Talk #Will retag later whatever #Thank u again anon!! #Answering this over lunch in Tokyo I feel very Fresh

[knifebaby3000]

“temple”, 1 july 23

#self rb #vacation q!!! still rly love this one 😭 spent so much time on it. def top of the ''draw this again'' list #this was before i finalized t's gigantic tattoo which i have yet to show properly.... soon

[knifebaby3000]

the wind has carried us too far, it's blown the moon down

#self rb #hiii vacation q.... pls look at the first thing i made myself draw start to finish in procreate lmfao this was such a learning experience #i can only use my ipad under highly specific conditions like i need my gay little glove my ergonomic grip my adjustable lap desk #i did not have those things working on this dasjdlg i was in shrimp-pose on my bed at my parent's house for the holidays

[knifebaby3000]

gemini rights

#self rb #hiii i'm on vacation here's some art i did last year i'm still fond of #when i finally stop being lazy and import this stupid brush into procreate it is so over btw #''i miss photoshop...'' SO WRONG BABE u miss this gouache brush you used for literally EVERYTHING

[knifebaby3000]

steal your man's clothes

#artists on tumblr #art #oc #digital art #my art #zhu #just some warm ups that went together so i cleaned them up! excuse to draw zhu's ass tattoo #fun fact he and tian are the same height (6'2 188cm) z is just a huge twig

[knifebaby3000]

eastside bodhisattva

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #oc #digital art #my art #tian #did not think i was getting this done and i'm not even sure why it was suuuch an uphill climb i've been picking at this for like a month #''i'm not even sure why'' it's bc i lined And toned this like a total clown lmfaooo #anyway hi once again it's zhu's husband and his big fucking [ checks notes ] hammer. cheers

[knifebaby3000]

down bad 2

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #oc #digital art #my art #tian #zhu #tz #babies au #Hi This Is All I Think About #i have a color version of the portraits that i don't Hate but i'm still thinking.................... #also i know there are tangents leave me alone

[knifebaby3000]

down bad

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #oc #digital art #my art #tian #zhu #tz #babies au #hi this is all i think abt #they canonically do not meet at this age (20s) for so many reasons but mostly bc they would break up every 5 minutes #also hi i'm a fucking ipad baby now who is photoshop............

[knifebaby3000]

listening to your heartbeat, realizing it's my heartbeat too!

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #oc #digital art #my art #tian #zhu #tz #📢 Gay Married And In Love And I Love Them Goodnight #📢 Happy Valentines Btw #did not think i could pull off a valentines draw also.... back to back holidays + big work deadline = ?????? #drawing in procreate is so fast it's scary i keep thinking ''wow i'm just not used to software that doesn't hate me 99.99999% of the time'' #GOODNIGHT i'm not supposed to be awake formatting this