#I found “my people on tumblr

[salamispots]

heard it was year of the dragon : 0 also been trying to learn clip studio more

#artists on tumblr #sketchbook stuff #no art summary this year haha got very chill? plus didn't draw a lot this year (or at least the past few months) #buT I did draw something for new years fdghjf #how the fuck do people use screentones hAHA #thanks to everyone who's still hanging around or found my stuff haha #also I think it's absolutely fucking wild some peeps are getting very close to following me for 10 years >:'D #edit: ohhhhhhh man I checked when my first post was in the archive which was november 2013 so this tumblr is literally 10 years old FDJFKH

[alicenpai]

⭐🌛🌞 november trick or treating... spooky season can be anytime if you aint a scaredy cat!!! flynn, terence, nate - from my series Lost & Found Children

some WIPs!

^ some theatre costume designs that inspired Flynn's outfit. originally I wanted more of a pierrot motif, but I went with a sortof celestial angel to match nate's fiery devil. I do want to draw them all as pierrots one day...

my friend asked about the "costume" part of this - terence is not wearing a "halloween costume" per se, because he thinks he's too mature for costumes (haha). hence the star moon and sun theme to unify all of their outfits. he IS a piano player in the story, who wears a similar outfit to concerts, so you can see him as being a sort of astronomical musician for the occasion. i think these designs turned out pretty rad and since they're not "stereotypical" halloween fare, i would like to use them again...

tumblr killed my drafts... and unfortunately I am too tired to type out more of the description that got lost.

#oc #halloween #illustration #character design #my ocs #artists on tumblr #my art #flynn #nate #terence #i dont usually put so many 'generic' art tags but ive been wondering if it works! #tardy to the party as always. i debated not finishing this but i felt i had so little oc works in my repertoire so i wanted to change that! #moving on i want to put more narrative into my works so i made that short comic :) #i also want to change my art style more lately! my art became very clean in the last 2 years and i feel like people didnt really favour it #lost and found children

[luminarai]

& for a moment, when I’m dancing, I am free // prints, stickers, etc

made for darling @deresbabyh ♥

#my art #original art #ink art #artists on tumblr #dancing #body posititivity #body neutrality #joy #self love #friendship #wlw #inspired by this collection of photos of fat and queer people dancing that I found on ig somewhere #NOT inspired by matisse thank you v much #title by florence and the machine

[kulapti]

Aug 2023, bookbinding of The Silent Isle Imbowers by Tharkuun.

I’m sooo so so pleased to finally share this! I have been actively working on this for many months and waited until Tharkuun received her copy before posting so the final result would be a surprise.

-----------About this bookbinding under the cut

This binding has been one of the more elaborate pieces I have attempted so far. This has been my first binding where I (1) made three copies of a piece at once, (2) used a modified a historical illustration, (3) collaborated directly with another artist on the decorative elements, (4) finished matching art for the cover and title page, and (5) layered paint and heat-transfer vinyl for the covers. These are also (6) the first non-tiny books I have made with this style of hinge and cover attachment.

Pretty much immediately after I first read this story I felt I had to make myself a copy of this. I had a strong mental image of a vintage-looking cover for a fairy tale, with a deceptively simple design of flowers on the cover, probably with fancy metallic accents, the kind of thing you’d find in an interesting used bookstore with no summary, no text on the back, no dust jacket, just the flowers and maybe a title. I’m going to make a separate post about making this cover design a reality because oh man has it been a journey lol! I designed and drew the digital art for the cover (digital because of the cut and application method), as well as the corresponding title page illustration (pencil and dip pen, scanned, title added digitally).

When I asked Tharkuun about it she was excited to suggest I get in touch with quillingwords, who generously agreed to collaborate with me! Among her talents quilling writes calligraphy, and hand wrote both the book title and chapter headers for me to incorporate into my plans. Check OUT those chapter headers! So fancy! A font could never!! Quilling has also been very encouraging and let me yell about this project in dms for months so the final result could be a surprise for Tharkuun. Thank u so much quillingwords, your calligraphy adds invaluable amounts of swag to this project.

I was going to do some kinda neat font for the chapter headers, but quilling’s work is too cool for that and I decided to use a modified piece of a historical illustration instead. The illustration also happens to be cool as heck: I was browsing the Artstor database (an academic quality resource available for free via Jstor, my beloved) and found E. N. Neureuther's 1836 gorgeous etching for etching of the fairy tale Briar Rose, an illustration made for a printing of a Brothers Grimm recorded German fairy tale with Sleeping Beauty elements. Much to my delight this illustration not only matches the general look I wanted but is actually relevant to the story, itself a Sleeping Beauty spinoff.

Slightly less stylistically consistent are the endpapers, which are prints of two different paintings by Arnold Böcklin: Isle of the Dead (1883) in the front and Isle of Life (1888). The first painting had occurred to me as an excellent visual to go with the story, and Tharkuun and I discussed this and agreed that pairing it with the related later, more optimistic piece was too thematically appropriate to resist.

I had fun and learned a lot making these books and I am very pleased with the result!!

Materials: Archival bookboard, cardstock, cotton cheesecloth mull, archival PVA glue, linen thread coated in beeswax, paper cord, red cotton embroidery floss. Blue cotton backed with archival paper, acrylic paint, machine cut black and gold heat-transfer vinyl. Laser printed text and illustrations. Metallic scrapbooking paper.

#artists on tumblr #bookbinding #ficbinding #fanbinding #dreamling #my art #here there be fandom #the sandman #the silent isle imbowers #tharkuun #described #id in alt text #pls imagine me screaming continuously about this project for oh idk 4 or 5 months? oh I can make shiny books?? #im not allowed to @ people in this post apparently #links and fic rec in reblog #laying on the floor I found a few missing words I must have deleted on accident while fixing formatting #poppies (Papaver somniferum) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) #tailfeather binding

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Master manipulator vs Master manipulator

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #a-qing #The scenes with XY and A-Qing are so delightfully tense and anxiety inducing #They are both so deep in the mind games with each other. Convinced they have the leg up when in reality they do not know the full scope #Also is is just me or do XY and A-Qing give off the vibe of internet nemeses? #A-Qing coming in hard with 'Oh you think blind people cant do XYZ? Get canceled idiot' #Meanwhile XY is the kind to purposefully use leet speak in descriptive text to antagonize the screen reader population. #a teen girl and a 4-channer who found his way to tumblr would be awful to watch fight irl but the vibes are equivalent. #Meanwhile XXC is going on a nice little walk to pick grass. I love him so much actually. #through writing these notes I have also gone down the rabbit hole of trying to pinpoint Xue Yang's age. Hello? Is it actually not known? #The best resources I could find put him as 1-3 years younger then xxc and song lan #So? early twenties? late teens? Someone who has absorbed more mdzs knowledge...Please help #Oh no I'm even deeper in the rabbit hole now. What do you mean the ages are mostly just relative? #What do you mean cultivators can age differently (usually slower in xianxia) #Oh no oh no wwx doesn't have a golden core. I was too accurate in my homestuck AU re: lifespans. I want to go back. #(I love angst and am now marinating this thought in my little thinking chamber)

[canisalbus]

*gasp* ITS THE PERSON WITH THE SICK DOG ANTHRO DESINGS AND INTERESTING AS FUCK LORE WHO'S ART I FOUND UNCREDITED ON PINTEREST!! I HAVE FOUND YOU IN THE WILD! FUCK YEAH

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#hello hello! #glad to hear you found me! #and thank you for the compliments! #how did you know about the lore though? I mostly save lore rambles for tumblr only #answered #fox0war #I still don't love the fact my art gets uploaded to pinterest without credits or proper sourcing #but it's nice to hear people out there are liking it #if you wish to get your anthro dog art fresh from the oven I'm also on twitter (kalpeakoira) and bsky (canisalbus) #and there's also instagram (kalpeakoira) but I consistently fail at keeping it up to date so it's mostly inactive #but tumblr has the best coverage out of all these you're not missing out on anything if you only follow me here #oh wait except the mature artwork I can't post that here tumblr doesn't allow it

[midnightfrappe]

ARE YA’LL READY FOR THE FINAL ROUND?

i really love the chaos of these polls and i had to do my part at posting some shitpost. Tbh i don’t have a specific design for Cecil and couldn’t chose one so i just drew the fkin eye.

#welcome to night vale #sans #tumblr sexyrematch #mob psycho #reigen arataka #cecil palmer #wtnv #sexyman #tumblr sexyman #the onceler #once ler #shitpost #my art #mp100 #tumblr sexymen poll #THIS IS SO DUMB #JDKSAJ SORRY #btw the last two panels were made bc apparently a lot of people don't know who cecil is #i found it kinda funny

[fayzart136]

The Bifrost Incident. Any schoolchild could tell you about it. The fall of the old order; two hundred years of Asgardian hubris come together in a single epoch-defining event...

This one took Quite A While, I was relating to poor inspector Lyff by the end of it! I put the description and design process in the alt text, I apologize if it's a lot, I just have a lot of thoughts. Closeups are under the cut!

#artists on tumblr #digital #sfw #the mechs #the mechanisms #tbi #the bifrost incident #art #the mechanisms tbi #I think i finally found a way to make the closeups work! kinda. #also i am so sorry for the wall of text in the alt text #people just have been very positive about hearing the design process and i like talking about it! #if you check the tbi tag on my blog #youll find the old lineup i made. #its so funny. i clearly had the exact same vision. but now its actually executed like i wanted!

[ionomycin]

Happy New Year everyone!

It's no secret 2023 was hard for a lot of us, so here's hoping for a better one. Thank you so much for the continued support here, it really means a lot. I have been posting on Tumblr for 10 years now, and it still continues to have the most wholesome, supportive people. I read your tags and they make my day every time. This is the place where I love to post my art the most, and it's all thanks to you.

Year changes, life continues as normal. Thank you for looking at my art and letting me know your thoughts. I'll keep doing my best this year as well.

#artists on tumblr #how time flies #what a baby i was when i first got here #how much i've grown since then #how much everything has changed #met people #lost people #found my style artistically #still looking for my place in the world #the journey goes on

[its-me-seven-eleven]

i love how there's a small community of people on tumblr who are all just collectively like this

#i found my people #tawog #rob tawog #tawog rob #rob wrecker #the amazing world of gumball #gumball #i thought i was like... one of 2 people in the entire world whose brain waves were Rob-shaped.... then i made a new tumblr

[roseddraws]

So. That secret keeper guy looks pretty cool huh?

#I’m BACK babes! #had art block for a bit but found out a very cool very secret trick !! #I’ve just been procrastinating on my art by writing on ao3 lmao #but this new smp got me EXCITED and I will definitely be posting more fanart #and I really like how people have been drawing the secret keeper so thought I’d try #even though full drawings without people are kinda outside my comfort zone #I’m pretty happy with how it came out though! #trafficblr #secret life #secret life smp #trafficlife #trafficlife fanart #secret life fanart #digital art #artists on tumblr

[isbergillustration]

Inner Glow (It's Radiation)

#illustration #artists on tumblr #acrylic painting #painting #colour pencil #fantasy art #horror art #my art #this is the semi large canvas ive been working on since i found it in january #this is now the 4th iteration #anyway this is a print and the org is for sale sometimes people like canvas things #oooh it's missing like a centimetre and a half on the right side #oops #the canvas board is a little more than twice the size of my scanner

[posi-pan]

pansexual is good 💗💛💙 bisexual is good 💗💜💙

just respect how people self-identify and resist the urge to assign bad faith assumptions onto why they identify the way they do. we as a community need to be kinder and more understanding with one another. we all have our reasons for the language we use for ourselves and our queerness, and more often than not, there isn’t some bad, harmful reasoning behind our labels.

and of course, some folks identify as both bi and pan. this post is just about how people just assume every bi and pan person who does not use both labels has made a choice between the two labels, or in other words, considered both labels and rejected one for the other. and this is simply not the case.

i can’t speak for anyone but myself, and personally i don’t like when my self-identification is painted in a negative light in comparison to another label; that my pansexuality is a rejection of bisexuality. it isn’t. i have nothing but love and respect for bisexuality, bisexual history, and bisexual people. i’m just simply not bisexual. it isn’t any deeper than that.

and if you’re wondering why it matters if people think this, it’s because language matters. queer people’s experiences with their identity and the language they use for it should be acknowledged and respected, rather than dismissed in favor of creating a uniform narrative, especially one that is negative, that we all neatly fit into.

#pansexual #pansexuality #bisexual #pan positivity #pictures #mine #long post #FYI: the id is in the tumblr id feature!!!! my posts often get ''needs id'' tags from people but i ALWAYS use the id feature #i used to put the id in the caption but then tumblr upgraded their id feature so i started using that instead #but if id in the caption is what's preferred by folks who actually need the ids then pls let me know i'll switch back #(i've tried searching for posts about this but it's kind of hard so i haven't found any)

[tracle0]

Final dragon

#animation #animator #animator on tumblr #2d animation #hand drawn animation #my art #artist #original art #original animation #dragon animation #dragon #dnfjisdf #trade-marked #I did this forever ago and maybe published the sketch on here but found the final file recently cool! #twas for a festival my city had going on except the people never really wanted this I just made it #proud of it mostly. Lil leaf flutter down. Lil cloud move softly... yeah #would love to do more dragon animations but I don't have any animation software anymore alas!

[mirananananan]

i’m so dead still thinking about that moment in the punisher where frank was trying to comfort (?) amy when she had just shot someone and she was like, “wtf omg i just killed someone,” and frank was like, “oh no, you sweet summer flower, you just shot him,” *turns and shoots* “i killed him, see?”

#did you think my return to tumblr would be fueled by short bursts of brainrot #don’t worry Joel & Ellie could never fall from the top spot #i binged s2 of the punished in like 3 days #I didn’t realize I had only seen s1 #I had seen little things about how there was another found father daughter relationship #but omfg I didn’t expect it to hit this hard #the punisher #this part was just so top-tier Frank castle comfort #Just mowed down 5 people #TO GET TO HIS KID?????? #then she’s all distressed about having potentially killed one of them in self defense #so he makes sure she knows she still hasn’t killed anyone #now that’s a father to me #frank castle #amy bendix

[rabid-mercenary16]

What makes it all worth it

Thank you all!

#i genuinely cried #I’m so happy to have found where people actually like my art #you made of my whole year #artists on tumblr