#I really struggled with his face here

[puppyeared]

axolotl

#covers my face. this is dumb theyre dumb idk what was going thru my mind making this.h #i like this brush tho i think ill keep using it #i had this thought awhile ago that axolotls kind of remind me of macs ears. and i had a nice thought that if wukong ever saw one #he'd say the same thing. and thats why im sitting here with my head in my hands #macaque doesnt know if hes embarassed amused or straight up smitten. its all 3 #i have such a hard time drawing necks and shoulders.. mac is supposed to kind of hunch up his shoulders #the way some ppl do when they bow their neck down kind oflike. defensive-tucking in position when theyre making themselves small #i cant really get it to look right so it kinda looks like his head is sunken too close to his shoulders. so i guess ill keep practising #maybe if i brought his head closer to the collarbone it will look better. but i struggle with foreshortening so theres a chance itll #just look like his neck starts at the collar. ughhh #god have mercy if i ever draw hugs. i hate positioning the shoulder i hate hate hate it. 10 dead 17 injured #i have new design note ideas for em but ill post another time #myart #doodles #lego monkie kid #lmk #monkie kid #shadowpeach #lmk sun wukong #lmk swk #lmk macaque #lmk six eared macaque #lmk liu er mihou

[canisalbus]

I love the shape language for Machete and Vasco, how angular and pointy the former is VS how round and soft the other... It's so GOOD I adore that

Thank you! I like the contrast as well, it makes them very fun to draw together. I try to keep them visually distinct while still making sure that they look harmonious and complementary next to each other.

#some more design musings that I've noticed that don't really matter but I tend to think about when drawing them: #Machete's shapes have an upward direction the ears the neck fluff and even the tip of his snout has that upturned angle #while Vasco's vibe is more loose and relaxed his huge floppy ears almost make him look like he's melting #neither of them have strong markings but the positioning of the gradients they have is very similar it's just different colors #Vasco has dark almond eyes (with what I can only describe as disney eyelashes) #his irises appear nearly black but if you shone a strong light directly on them they'd reveal a honey/amber hue #Machete's eyes are big and prominent with disproportionally small pupils #lately I've been drawing him with just the faintest salmon colored irises #but if the color scheme of the piece calls for it they can be depicted more vividly red #Machete has longer untameable fur here and there while Vasco is uniformly smooth and velvety #Machete is supposed to be the serious and inhibited half of the two but his face has a lot more expressive potential than Vasco's #it's actually kind of a struggle that I can't make Vasco emote with his ears at all those are typically a huge advantage in furry art #Vasco's body language is open and casual he takes up space confidently #Machete is usually very closed and defensive he has a habit of crossing his arms and legs and keeping his hands together and close to body #in general Vasco shouldn't be wearing anything black or red and Machete can't be seen wearing blue or gold #white is neutral territory it's usually the color of sleepwear and undershirts and as a result has a more intimate tone to it #answered #ardate

[thecrowsart]

top fav matobas (and natori) i've drawn so far i must say

#first one i just think i nailed like baby pre clan head era here though its a time we dont get to see in the manga #older than the flashbacks younger than the present time #second one...need i say anything #(?) #third one was an early drawing but i somehow managed to really get his face as i imagined it down. i have a pretty distinct mental image- #of him so i was happy #fourth that whole drawing just ended up kind of good imo both their faces came out well and the pose and the lined look good i think #i struggle with profiles but i for once managed i think to get matobas kind of bird like face #and like i said i like how natori looks there too #anyway just putting these here because i like looking at them #matoba seiji

[bericas]

scott appreciation week (day 1) → a teenage boy

that's the way every day goes, every time we've no control.

#scottmccallweek #scott mccall #scottmccalledit #twedit #teenwolfplus #anyway hes my best friend #SO much happens in the pilot #anyway i took a lot of liberty with these lyrisc #die and come back to life. like. yeah. human scott died in the woods that night #up for air from the swimming pool. like. the blurring of it all. like hes looking at the world underwater #he looks at the dog and the dog calms down and its the calm before the storm of what that means #youd kneel down the dry land. each time hes forced to do so. shoved or struggling or out of control. never his choice #compounded by kiss the earth that birthed you but doing this like kissing the ring #and it doesnt matter whos ring it is. derek or chris. either way he ends up pinned to a tree. either way he ends up alone #gave you tools to stay alive is the shoutout to sciles wooo brief win #and then the sun is ruined. like. first of all hes face to face with the hunter from the woods in daylight #daytime is always safe in the horror movies. not here. the hunter can be anywhere. #second of all. allison as a representative of his new life! and suddenly it's so intertwined with terror that it stops shining #and then also obviously allison as herself #as this girl he really likes. as the daughter of a hunter #anyway i dont think frank ocean meant these lines this way sorry for lying king #but wolf moon went so crazy #i also did this in 3 hours so i had no time ot decided if i like it #but love an d light

[speedofsoundsketches]

Back in 2018 when I was first starting Shadow and Jolt, I made a test comic about Strike and Infinite. Since S&J takes place after Forces, it made sense at the time to try tying the events together a bit. I ended up nixing this altogether but the comic was still very fun to draw as a cool "what if" scenario so I felt like sharing the shots I still like.

(And just to be clear, I don't intend to bring too much of Forces in S&J. This was just an experiment during development.)

#Infinite the Jackal #Shadow and Jolt #Sonic Fancomic #Strike #Sonic FC #Sonic OC #onlyart #sketch #Jackal Squad #Sonic Forces #I can't say im a wee bit sad for dropping this #it ultimately wouldnt work for what I was going for but at the time it was very novel to me and was fun to explore #Infinite can be interesting if he was given a bit more screen time and more insight into who he was before absorbing the ruby #oh well #and yes the other jackal is mad at chucho lol #just couldnt help but try to rile them up as per his style #it wasn't super funny tho so i can't really share that out of pure shame hahaa #i struggled tho drawing infinite at the time so gomen for the ugly face here and there #really hard drawing his dumb snout from the front

[djosephqueery]

I wanted to post Eddie's lines from my exchange piece on their own, because I am still really proud of these.

#Mostly proud of his face #I struggle so much with faces #combination face blindness and aphantasia so they just never look correct #and while it may not be definitively Eddie's #it is undeniably a face. #also really proud of the perspective on the foot pointing towards the camera #camera??? I was an animation major and we said camera but that feels weird here #his hair is also just so much fun to draw #it's all swoopy and floofy #okay I'll stop rambling now its just rare that Im proud of a thing I made but lately Ive been proud of a lot of steddie work #something something we do better work on things we enjoy yeah whatever #kay byeeee #eddie munson #fanart #Len doodles

[duodusk]

since today is the 2 year anniversary of Your City Gave Me Asthma, i thought i'd post the thumbnails i made for my YCGMA set from earlier this year to celebrate! :]

#my art #wilbur soot #ycgma #your city gave me asthma #i gushed about this album already on the original post's tags but like.. it really does mean so much to me #these are my 'final' thumbnails but i spent such a long time trying to get this set how i wanted it #because i wanted to do some justice to this music that impacted me so much #i wanted to use red as a recurring symbol of stressors and/or the things he's blaming for his problems at the time #until he turns it inward #though in the final ones i shifted the palette to tell a bit more of a story rather than sticking strictly to the album's palette #anyway! some of these are pretty weak but others i still want to make into like.. idk. secondary versions of the final ones i decided on #i tried to have each one pretty clearly reference the song either through tone or lyrics or place in the story #struggled quite a bit with losing face surprisingly but also boris was a hard one #because my prof wanted it to serve as a perfect conclusion full circle for the album but he's still so conflicted in it #i think it works as a set though i tried to make it bookend with jubilee line #experimenting with posting mcyt related art on here and then reblogging it to my art blog instead idkkkkkk #these are gonna look so blurry on mobile im sorry LMAO #anyway love u byee

[came0dust]

frankly i like the things i learned while making this more than the result itself and i wasnt really sure i even wanted to post it in part due to that but if i do keep iterating on the process i used during it, i feel this is valuable context

oh also before i forget: the sketch was done using this brush instead of the one i made earlier

#my art #medibang paint #hades game #for those of you who saw my last art for this game: i am much further along than i was before. i saw the credits 👍 #anyways... i dont like how i drew his face really. like For him. shape is all wrong. still struggle with lips from angles like this #but i really like my coloring here. polyline tool you are my best friend forever and ever #but im also trying to not make most of my art on my phone like ive been doing lately bc it wreaks havoc on my spine and hands and like. #those things are pretty important. but the siren song of 'oooo its meeee firealpaca but Portable' is nigh irrestible to me #it is a very specific form of hell i think. alas. also what the fuck is with my diction lol #<- the effects of posting on a whim at 11pm instead of giving myself time to think about the post without also being about to go to sleep #would say 'cant believe im stuck just drawing guys facing to the left if i want to actually get anything done' but its been happening #for long enough that ive accepted it as a small rut ill hopefully be out of soon. gotta get on my gesture drawing grind

[boomerang109]

remember when you were like "do you want to go to england with me for a week even though we've never met and havent talked that much" and i was like absolutely and then we did it and it was a blast. LIKE WHO DOES THAT AKFHWLFHKWHD ARE WE WEIRD!?!?!?

we’re ABSOLUTELY weird but who else is doing it like us? when hella met my brother he was BIG sad cause he was like, wow you like have cool real friends. and like yeah partially cause she’s international, but also just like, the fact that i have so many friends who i know i can rely on no matter what. like, i know i’m kinda shit at responding to your snaps and your posts and everything. but if you called me rn and said ‘hey i need to get out of [REDACTED] can i come stay with you?’ i would say, yes hannah, of course. i have a full-sized bed and we’ve shared before. you deserve the vacation time and i would love to introduce you to where i live. when you texted me randomly this summer, i was SO EXCITED to meet you in a random ass dog park and see you for 15 minutes. my biggest regret of our friendship is that we don’t talk more, but also i kinda love that my tumblr moots all understand my constant ghosting isn’t personal, it’s just how i am and it doesn’t lessen my love for them. next time i’m on the east coast i want to see you. if you’re ever on the west coast i BETTER see you.

#i am filled with love and light #i love my college friends so so much as well but it’s so different when communication is so important #like my first roommate (who follows me here so if you see this hi 👋) is still one of my best friends and I always intend for her to be #but I very much struggle with transitioning from irl friendship to distance friendship #(which doesn’t mean I’m not trying/it’s not worth it/etc etc etc. but it’s just hard cause I KEEP ACCIDENTALLY NOT RESPONDING WHICH IS RUDE) #whereas internet friendship just works better for me? cause it STARTS with all the ghosting and intermittent texting #and if it goes really really really well THEN we’ll meet in person and only an elite few (looking at you hannah and clara and Marie and #ashla and hella) get to transition into irl. and obviously even the people who’ve seen my face (such as Theo and some others) hold a very #special place in my heart. even if we don’t still speak that matters. cause like. it meant something #anyway. i need to eat my breakfast #this is the fastest I’ve ever responded to an ask so I apologize for incoherency #ask a boomerang #hannah tag

[benevolenterrancy]

Is this seat taken?

(biweekly bitchfest about their dumbass companions)

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da #da2 #fenris #isabela #fenbela #isabela absolutely will sit on top of anyone who sits still long enough and doesn't immediately try to push her off #fenris accepted his fate long ago #i really love these two as a bromance/friendswithbenefits sort of thing #see my problem is i struggle to find witcher fics that aren't agonizingly netflix centric so whenever i fall back into the witcher fandom #i start reading fics from other fandoms that have a close enough vibe as like... a proxy #ofmd has been holding me off for a while but now i've started hunting down da fics again so here we are #but the real problem is it makes me want to go and replay the dragon age games which doesn't work well when this whole mess started from me #replaying the witcher.... #it is fun to try drawing these characters again though #like a lot of art i've been doing lately i haven't drawn these guys in a long while and it's fun to see how much my art has improved #i didn't quiiiiiite get fenris' face right but it's close enough for a first-time-back-in piece #my art

[keepitdreamin]

If you're wondering how I'm doing at 3am, I just spent a harrowing 20 minutes trying to get a collar back on this dog, the whole time worrying he was gonna bite me and I was gonna have to wake up my grandparents to drive me to an ER 🙃🫠

But hey! Good news no dog bites for me and now his electric fence collar doesn't look like it's about to fall off if he does one good shake so he can go back to avoiding me completely outside

#But for real this dog is stressing me ouuuuut #It was already a struggle to get him inside and the collar Off in the first place #(I did think he was going to bite then but he just nipped and didn't really apply pressure) #But then I was trying to get it back on immediately and he would Not have it #But he Needs the fence collar on bcs he's mostly an outside dog and that's fine! #But I need to know he's not going wandering who knows where #So eventually I was like 'okay I can try again in the morning first thing before taking all the dogs out' #And then I laid in bed for three hours stressed about it and how was I gonna do it #So eventually I gave up and got up to do it #And with a combination of American cheese peanut butter #And literally him going in a spot where he was stuck facing Away from me #(plus the thickest--not even that thick--hoodie in my aunt's back closet for semi bite protection) #He's got the collar on again and fitted better so hopefully I will Not have to do this again #I'm just really glad that he just kinda... Gives up? If you approach from the back #Like he still could've easily turned his head and gotten my arm good but he didn't #Anyways I'll be dog sitting him (and his much sweeter sister) for a few weeks #And hopefully it goes a lot smoother from here on out #Mypersonalthings

[serenedash]

when I think about baldr and xehanort I think about yuri in DDLC like specifically the part in the latter half where yuri has the real eyes and is in your face and is like "I want to crawl inside your skin" or whatever. I just think baldr with an unhealthy obsession.

#sorry I have so many thoughts lately #baldr is my little blorbo guy after all #I've been trying to think about how to convey this in art and like. struggling. #Ive got this image in my head of baldr gripping xehanorts face- nails digging into his skin- foreheads and noses pressed together #all the other images in my head probably would come off the wrong way honestly #gestures to the post #but like I WANT to draw something really uncomfortable to get the point across yknow #idk I also just have this thing of like. wanting to have all my posts on my art accounts be quote unquote clean and more family friendly #which feels ridiculous but yknow #also the amount of luxu art I absolutely can not post here for that reason LMAO #khdr #baldr #xehanort #im rambling

[transhoverfish]

I FOUND IT

Like I get where this person is comming from but when Ryley landed on 4546B Bart would be 29

I think that the game made it very clear that the Degasi crashed a decade before Aurora and Bart was 19 at that time.. which means (in combination of Subnautica lore and math) that IF Bart survived the 10 long years he would obviously age up

Maybe reading the PDAs is something that should be done even if you wouldn't get addicted to the game... just saying🤷🏻‍♀️

[I just remembered that I saw someone on Instagram ranting about how shipping Ryley and Bart is weird (or 'fucked up', I don't remember exactly what they said) because Ryley is like 25-30 or something like that and Bart is 19 and I was like "do your math pls" So yeah... I ended up laughing for like 5 minutes (Too bad I didn't take a screenshot)]

yeah ok i get the concern here but like yeah as you said!! this isnt like one of those "taking a 15yo and aging them up to 18 to make them legal", bart's already 19, and he's 19 a DECADE before the events of the game, including any possibility of meeting ryley.

assuming ryley is 25-30 - which his age is never mentioned either, so for all we know, ryley could be 19 himself!! - but we're gonna assume he's 22-30 based on his job, general appearance and maturity in a high stress situation. in the ten years that pass between bart and ryley EVER crossing paths, bart would be 26-31, give or take a few years for that mentioned decade to be possibly rounded.

bart could be OLDER than ryley for all we know. worse case, these guys can't have more than like, maybe a 6 year age gap. and that's entirely dependent on someone's personal reading of ryley. his age is NEVER mentioned or hinted at. the youngest he could be is 18. oldest maybe 40. but who's to say?? it's never brought up!

taking the decade jump into account though,, yeah ryley and bart are like the same age. they're probably within 5 years of each other, both in their late twenties by the events of sub1. its just the time skip between the degasi and aurora that creates this weird "Bart's 19, Ryley's 26" mentality.

like an example off the top of my head would be like, saying you cant ship nathan drake with chloe because they show nate as a kid a couple of times. kind of arbitrary.

but on the other hand, yeah, i guess this ship is founded on bart's 19 year old personality. which is weird at face value now that im thinking about it. but even then, ryley doesn't have a personality to begin with, outside survival knowledge. and bart clearly isn't some super naive child; he goes through some massive maturing character development just over the span of the months the degasi were all alive. bart can clearly take care of himself and speak up on problems, and we don't know if he had another birthday after the crash or not. we don't know exactly how long the degasi were there! or how long they had been in space prior! bart could have been 20 when he died, he was definitely an adult by that point. young, but cmon.

if anybody is shipping bart in degasi era, where he's like explicitly 19, ie shipping him with marg, then YEAH thats obviously a problem. but ryley/bart is, in my experience, almost always written in a bart lives story where he spends 10 more years maturing before being introduced to ryley.

they're,,,, they're the same age. almost always, if theres some odd story out there making it not always, expressly written where bart is nearly 30, making him typically older than ryley. the central idea with this person's take is that bart is not, and should not, be written as his Recent Post-Crash self. bart is Post Reaper Incident, and gets added several more years on top of that. i think it's a misconstruction on the lore/fandom ideas of ages, but otherwise not a horrible thing to point out ig??

(some of the bart ships DEFINITELY NEED TO BE LOOKED INTO. ryley is like, the most tame option, and thankfully why its likely the most popular!)

#ok i wrote a whole ass thesis there huh #i have to awake at like 6 am tomrrow and here i am. explaining bart/ryley to people who probably already agree with me #and if you dont agree and think the screenshotted person is right: i guess i appreciate the reading this far? #like thats a lot of attempting to get my take. youd have to be p open minded and patient. #or maybe just determined #idk #POINT IS #i really dont think theres much wrong w the ship past face value #they dont canonically meet and they only time they feasibly could is when theyre both adults #and bart is typically intended to be this adult in fanfics #in my own i try to go out of my way to express bart's grown since the degasi. hes like 28 in my fic i think?? 29?? #i have khasar still think of him as a child in the first one and paul do the same in awa #just to show how bart has changed since they last saw him #bc hes not a kid anymore! he was barely a kid by the time paul dies anyways! #he went through a lot and matured v quickly #like yeah thats fucked up but bart is clearly matured and a badass LONG before ryley crashes #that personality and version of him as a young adult who can live on his own with limited struggles is the one reflected in most fics #esp ones that ship him with someone else #but then again. what do i know? im not ur mom or dad. im just some guy on the internet weighing in #problems like this arent gonna be resolved by some fanfic writer on tumblr #and my probably biased view isnt adding anything of note #and im tired and not thinking very much on this #so maybe im wrong #and maybe im not #well im running out of tags and im probably making this more convoluted than it needs to be #so uh. tldr: no ryley/bart are likely around the same age and bart matures enough by the time he dies that its fine anyways #dont get confused by the game's timeline consisting of several million years. there's a ten year skip. dont panic about it. bart is like 30 #bart torgal #ryley robinson #subnautica spoilers

[witchwhaat]

finished crash course in romance

(yes, i will be using this shoma pic every possible occasion from now on aldjdhsjkkrfl)

#I LOVE THIS SHOW #it was so heartwarming and enjoyable and i really like how they've approached some issues #it made me miss math a little that's how good it was alskdjsjhxdjdj #romcoms about people in their 30s and about how education system is fucked up i love you #highly recommend #*people in their 30s AND in love #agna watches crash course in romance #agnes talking #omg AND i was right about mr ji!!! #i really liked his story and character and what they did with it #also hear me out #mystery/murder subplot>>>>>>>>>>> 'they break up for no reason and get back together 3 years later' trope #edit bc i have MORE THOUGHTS #i really like how this series shows how little support teenagers get from adults and how crucial that is #sua and seon jae struggle SO MUCH and their parents are too obsessed to even notice and then when they do they don't fucking care #they both deserved better and they both deserved and needed support and love from adults around them #it was... interesting to watch this show with my mom too #we both hated the moms in the show and my mom was FUMING with rage sometimes #but at the same time i did have to like. explain. that high school really is such a nightmare education and well being wise #it's definitely not to THAT extend here but it's pretty harsh too especially when you have to face everyone's expectations for you #what i'm trying to say is: it's a pretty good critique of how fucked high school is and how it pushes teenagers to their limits

[dxringred]

not to be an svu watcher on main and discuss episodes from almost two decades ago, but i think it would've been 10x more interesting if they'd brought casey's ex, charlie, back for an episode and ultimately had him going to get the help he needed, sending the message that mentally ill people aren't beyond help and shouldn't necessarily be abandoned, instead of killing him off in a throwaway conversation lol.

#svu #law and order svu #casey novak #idk how you tag this fucking fandom #anyway he couldve been like the witness to a crime or somethibg #and they struggle to get him to be coherent about what he saw #and when casey first sees him the Look on her face #bro we really couldve had some wild as fuck character angst and backstory here #but noooooo #fuck closure etc. etc. #god i truly hate dick wolf #his writing is truly ass water sometimes #anyway #i know she said he refused to take medication #but that was like... 10 years ago ????? #idk maybe he could be persuaded now #especially once hes lucid #idk idk i just think #it wouldve been more interesting than #oh yeah he got hit by a cab and he had my business card on him [dabs] #im saying this like 15 years afterthefact #bc i just reached influence on my rewatch #S7 was really peak svu ill fight everyone on that

[youngpettyqueen]

very very good bit that I think should be on this blog

#star trek: ds9 #vengeance #miles o'brien #julian bashir #ot3: o'briens + 1 #included the entire context so people can see WHY Julian is struggling #this novel has been a great look into Julian as a leader #he struggles with it! he is struggling! #his POV on all of this has been especially fascinating he is NOT confident #and he didnt WANT to step up to lead this group in the first place #he's just as terrified as the rest of them but he's doing his best to put on a brave face #and from Miles and Jake's POV at least thats been working really well #they havent been able to tell that he's panicking just as much as they are #until right now- Miles can see Julian's struggle here #and even then he's not seeing all of it #because he's not seeing that Julian's terrified just being in zero-G #honestly this novel has also been a great exercise in seeing Julian from Miles' POV #and seeing that Miles is very much blinded by his own biases and doesnt see the whole picture when it comes to Julian #he thinks Julian is a confident if naive leader #when the reality is that Julian is terrified and panicking and struggling every step of the way because he barely knows what he's doing #I love this sm #this really highlights just how young Julian still is #he's... 32 at this point #and would be a First Lieutenant by now #but still. young #and feeling all of his inexperience #and just trying his best to get everybody out alive