#ITS BECAUSE I LIKE INVADER ZIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unoriginal-and-dumb]

heello do you have any tips for noobie artists? ur art is just so very neat to me :) plz never stop arting

Never do what I do unless it is drawing all the time

Use references!! Always use them!!! Seriously please use references never let a stupid little rat in your ear take that away from you, they are always so valuable

If you see art you like, don’t be afraid to basically try recreating the same exact thing. All you have to do is not claim it as youre own, and better yet don’t post it online! It’s for practice, people don’t need to see practice in the end it’s only for you

Tracing is NOT wrong. I’m tired of people saying ohhh tracing is bad don’t do it ITS LITERALLY NOT!!!! Just don’t trace over someone else’s work/images and claim it as your own it’s that easy. If youre struggling with hands take photos of your hands and trace over it! Break them down into simple forms until you have an understanding of them in a meaningful way!

Do some studies of specific things. Struggling with leg anatomy? Draw a page full of legs, just push and pull and scribble and see what works, study images and see how you can reproduce it or stylize it

Never feel like you need to find your own art style immediately, that task is practically impossible. Everything comes from something, be inspired by others take little art bits from styles you like and only then can you create your own style!! (I mean dawg my style can be broken down into adventure time, owl house, invader zim, gooseworx, eddsworld, sr pelo, a few others im probably forgetting)

Don’t worry about broadcasting your work, not everyone needs to know all that you draw, the internet can be a hateful place and it really does suck a lot but also try not to rely on strangers online for support on everything you do, I know it is hard and that approval feel good I cannot deny it but remember to keep some stuff for yourself, a little treat where nobody can criticize you :)

Try to draw everyday! Or having a sketchbook where you make it a goal to completely fill 2 pages a week, and if that’s too much then just some doodles! Art takes a lot of constant practice, and there’s really nothing more fun than just having a little sketchbook with you where you draw random stuff all the time. When I was doing that I would make 2 page mini invader zim comics

I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because I do maybe 1 of these things but i know they are really good, I have done them before and they were super helpful! But in the end I think the best you could do is just keep at it! Don’t let people get you down, do your own thing, break rules if you want, it’s all art and art is AWESOME!!!!!!!

[stump-salsa]

Thinking back to 2021 when I had to sit in school fists clenched eyes watering teeth grinding as I listened to everyone quote invader zim right in front of me and I couldn’t say anything because they only knew the quotes from tiktok.

#the most pain I have ever been forced to endure #I STILL LOVE THE WHEN YOU VIDEO I QUOTE IT ALL THE TIME #BUT PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY LIKE ‘dead audio LOL #ITS NOT BECAUSE OF TIKTOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ITS BECAUSE I LIKE INVADER ZIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #THE PAIN #I had to sit listening to all the people in my class who teased me and made fun of me by pretending to be nice #I had to listen to all the people who thought I was the weird quiet kid #quote my special interest RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. #AND I COULDNT SAY A WORD #THEY DIDNT KNOW #THEY DIDNT KNOW LIKE I DID #I WAS GOING INSANE IN MY HEAD ON THE OUTSIDE I WAS JUST SQUINTING AND TWITCHING #and drawing zim in my books #blue moments

[hawfstuff]

cringe-fail-girl Tak, abandoned by the Irken Empire after deserting her original post, misappropriation of Empire property and interfering with military planning. Gives up, ditches the Irken uniform and gets stuck living on earth in Zim's basement because she has nowhere else to go. Spends her time wearing large band shirts and watching old angsty anime. I have no idea what compelled me to draw this.

#invader zim #art #iz fanart #zim #tak #skoodge #comic #this is a tumblr exclusive im not posting this to twitter because its so god damn emberassing #ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ talking heads and yellow magic orchestra mentioned #irken #i just like the aliens #we need more bug eyed green aliens in media these days

[defectiveferalfreak]

i rediscovered @nicktoonsunite and @choraa ‘s art like wowie did they inspire me to dip my toes into NUverse??

also i cant believe Dib and Zim basically waltzed into NU:GoD, like WHATS UP B*TCHS WE  GONNA HELP WHETHER U WANT IT OR NOT like can u believe that lol

#nicktoons unite #nicktoons unite globs of doom #nicktoons unite GoD #i find it ironic its called NU GoD #invader zim #dib membrane #iz zim #iz dib #ive been sitting on the doodles ideas since end of AUGUST. basically so long that i started to hate them lol #i have a lot of thoghts about nicktoons!Dib&Zim but almost no concentration to draw much of it #because helooo fandom interest change like autumn leaves #but i fell in love with possible nicktoons universe with those two assholes in it so they WILL live rent free in my head #so many details of this doodles that i want to talk about but im afraid to start rambling #so im just gonna sit and hope someone notices those little things #throwing this nicktoons!IZAU into the void so i could stop obsessivly staring at unfinished doodles. also gonna go cry over nicktoonsunite a #and choraa awesome OG4 art like those are fucking goals #and lack of fics for nicktoons adventures ;( like i wish someone was brave enough to write some cool NU advnetures <;( #danny phantom #fairly oddparents #the adventures of jimmy neutron: boy genius #spongebob squarepants #if someone asks me about this au i probably wont have much to say because its all very vague but i will most likely go feral lol #i wish i could finish my iz star wars au doodles ;( theyve been in my files since summer haha

[extradimensional-superghost]

This is Spaceghost! So-called because he needed to be quickly and easily addressed as an emergent issue for those with the displeasure of meeting him. The device he created appears to anchor his consciousness (and part of his physical body) to an extradimensional superposition.

(Lore on the scene ripper under the cut)

The scene-ripper (a play on seam ripper, since the blade seems to be fashioned after one) can tear a hole in reality. It can alter the structure of a reality, or simply traverse through it to a more desirable universal position depending on the dexterity and control of the operator (so pilot dib).

He made the device while trapped in a nightmare dimension, as no one was there to help him escape it. It was more out of desperation. The scope was useless on its own; he needed to find a way to control the jumps... so he had to work with what he had at his disposal. Which was, luckily or unluckily, a world full of fucked up impossible technology.

He was trapped there for a long time, being hunted down and tortured intermittently while trying to engineer the scene ripper. His work was made easier by the fact he wasn't the only one wanting to leave. Most of the work was done for him, he just needed to understand it and apply it. And scavenge all the parts... and eventually use untested technology on himself.

Point of no return shit was easier to fall into than to step into. It was a lot like putting his arm in a nuclear generator surrounded by a bear trap. When he was able to check on the status of his arm, he found the matter of his hand to be inscrutable. There was a void where his wrist should have been visible on the underside of the gauntlet and a sharp blade manifesting from the darkness. He could no longer remove it... but it did work.

The scope itself also received upgrades more closely tying its functionality to the ripper and operator, but none so costly as that of the gauntlet.

#mine #invader zim #iz pilot dib #dib membrane #spaceghost au #funfact this guys my namesake on this sideblog #well not really because i used it for an OC in like 2018... #extradimensional superghost was what i initially referred to my mega gengar gijinka as #similar vibes honestly #i have a type #its “i've seen everything and it broke my brain” #concept design #scene ripper #im nervous about posting this lol i usually dont bother posting shit thats hard to explain but almost everything i make is hard to explain #so i have to get over that.

[sharkiethedork]

#emetophobia #(just a brief mention but just in case) #i guess i watched anime while i was *at* anime club but i hardly did outside of it #mostly i was there cause one of my friends was #i tried to get into sgt frog because i was like 'oh its like invader zim but anime' but it didnt stick lol #sharkie babbles

[defectzim]

ROUGH ANIMATION IS...ROUGH.

#invader zim zib #zib #invader zim #iz #THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SIMPLE WARMUP BUT I simply got carried away. #MAYBE PERHAPS POSSIBLY will make this clean and tidy and use it for something else...MAYBE!!! #its like the inbetween point of dib becoming zib...so he's still. uh. more dib-like. #ZIM ART #ALMOST FORGOT? MY OWN ART TAG BECAUSE I AM TALKING AND RAMBLING? ME? NEVER!!

[sapphorror]

I love it when they do this. I really do.

#invader zim #zadf #zadp #iz posting #saph reads #natterings #its just about having a nemesis so casual and omnipresent you cant help but be automatically civil with them #“oh yeah thats the evil alien whose guts i want to see strewn on autopsy table no big” #seriously though i feel like we get more moments of thoughtless friendliness coming from zim #largely because zim is less aware and also incapable of maintaining a single emotional state for more than three seconds #so its always fun to see it in reverse #also btw that second panel is one of my all-time favorite zim moments from the comics #given he screws dib over there with more subtlety than i honestly thought him capable of #that took like... actual complex manipulation and advanced planning and *patience* #all in the name of getting dib in trouble with their definitely-not-a-demon-teacher #because of course it was

[piggiebonez]

hi guys how do you feel about my incredible story where zim teleports dib and gaz on the massive as a sure way to get rid of them but the tallest hate zim so much that they just end up giving dib and gaz a bunch of awesome irken weapons so that they torture zim forever. there are many wacky shenanigans and funny jokes in my head surrounding this scenario. it just wont leave my head. theres like a whole narrative you know. i will never write it all down tho. because that would be a fanfic. and i would rather kill myself than write an invader zim fanfic. because im not an embarrassing weirdo

z*adrs dni and preferably disappear into thin air

cool gear gaz as a bonus

#my art #iz #invader zim #dib membrane #dib iz #gaz membrane #gaz iz #almighty tallest #almighty tallest red #tallest red #i might end up writing a fanfic about this whole thing but its gonna end abruptly because of dib and gaz fusing into a fleshy pile of meat #like in a freak teleportation accident. typical sci fi bullshit bla bla you get it. like THAT would actually be very funny #because of how anticlimactic it is. i would build this shit up like its goddamn starwars. the best most epic fanfic ever #and then it ends like that. yeah

[b0ylik3r]

rant about dib and him being white-passing in the show (while still being mexican) under the cut

#breakingmysilence i actually like that dib is pasty and mexican at the same time (in the series). i like that if you look at him you will literally never guess that he has any bit of culture in him. i like that he's whiter than snow at first glance. and i like that he's still mexican nonetheless. because people like that exist, i look white but that's because im mixed, my dad was puerto rican with the features and everything. he tried to get me more into our culture but my mom's side of the family wouldn't let him. thats off topic but you get it. ive gotten into arguments with people over my skin because i told them i was puerto rican and they thought i was rcta or some bullshit. they thought i was literally lying. that's what i thought when i heard that dib was mexican. until i thought about it more and i was like "oh. thats how people feel about me. im enforcing stereotypes that people have to look their race to be their race" and i accepted it immediately. because we don't, we don't have to look our race to have the privilege of identifying with it, we don't have to grow up in a household that's stereotypically assigned to our race to say that we are that race, we can't control that. it's not about that. its about our genetics and that is it. if you're half black, you can say you're black. if you're chinese you can say you're chinese. even if you dont have those features you still are. it doesn't matter what you look like. i feel like we don't get that enough in media, which is why i like that dib looks white so much.

tldr: we don't choose our features or our skin tones, just because somebody LOOKS white doesn't mean they are and i like that we get that with dib.

#dib membrane #dib iz #iz dib #rant #iz #invader zim #ive had this in my head for a few days now but i can finally put it into words #i feel like we need more rep for this genre of character in media #for every character that doesn't appear to be the race that they are there's like 20 that do (specifically in modern media) #maybe im just looking at things that came out recently or im just not finding the right media #but i still feel like it should exist more in new media too #you know what im gonna do im gonna make a human zim design and make him the pastiest motherfucker ever #and then make him puerto rican #because he's literally me #and we need more characters like that #and its my design #and i can do what i want #and nobody can stop me #MWAHAHAHAHAHAAA

[xxjeffthekillerxx]

that one mystreet episode

(dont tag as zanmau pretty pls)

#im normally opposed to doing captions like this telling people how 2 reblog but uh i just dont want it being interpreted as ship art #ship zanemau all u want but it aint 4 me #ANYWAYSSS #DONT SHIP DISCOURSE THIS POST!!!! #okay thats kind of a joke because this is TUMBLR but LOOK the invader zim fandom was a scary place 2 years ago #anyways #i should draw more pink and frilly and cute stuff its fun #this is like the first digital art ive made in a billion years #skool really art blocks me its wild #this feelsss unfinished it doesnt feel quite complete but im just sure what else to do with it so here #im scared its BAD but its okay if its bad and i can always redraw it in a year #okay real tag time #art #my art #artwork #digital art #aphverse #aphmau #zane ro'meave #mystreet #aphmau mystreet #zane aphmau #mcyt #sure ill put some aphmau in the mcyt tag

[spoonbenders]

my main problem with the invader zim fandom is that everyone likes to pretend it either is way less edgy than it is or way more edgy than it is. people pretending its basically postal 2 are just as annoying as people pretending its steven universe Hot freaking take i guess

#i just dont get it sorry. Maybe its more canon compliant but i think invader zim is just good as is. Doesnt need to have more or less. #maaaybe im a hypocrite cuz one of the reasons why i dont really like the comics is because it lacks the edge the original series had

[tiny-rat-telephone]

SKOODGE!!! Also human disguise Skoodge

#skoodge #skoodge iz #zim #zim iz #invader zim #iz #zasf #I might change the design later because I kinda just made it up on the spot a few weeks ago #although I do like it #also I'm very proud of the shading on this one #I feel like his disguise would be more convincing because he'd be a little more thoughtful about it #zim chose his disguise more based on aesthetic but i think skoodge would be more practical about it #he conquered blorch he's probably an expert on this stuff #my art #this isn't ship art but its ok to tag this as ship #eye contact

[funkylittlebaldcharapoll]

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL: BOSS BRACKET, ROUND 2

who's funkier, littler and balder?

#i like this one because its a vs z #second generation albinauric #albinauric #elden ring #zim #invader zim #boss bracket #polls

[random-iz-stuff]

Wait...so remember that episode where Dib is talking to the Tallest on Zim's monitor--do the Tallest understand what he's saying and vise versa? OR did Zim give the Tallest a stack of info on Earth's culture and languages ahead of time and they now of a inkling of a understanding of Earth speak? I know they never had a proper conversation, but that post about irken languages got me thinking about it 🤔

I think it’s funnier if the answer is no. Because despite Dib talking to the Tallest non stop, the Tallest never reply. They just stare at Dib and talk to each other about the size of Dib’s head. So the Tallest are watching this small creature with a massive head excitingly make a bunch of noises at them that they don’t understand in the slightest.

Meanwhile Dib is calling the Tallest alien scum and asking for their planet’s coordinates.

#invader zim #asks #headcanons #dib membrane #I’ve always found that scene hilarious #because one of the first things Dib does when meeting the Tallest is #1. call literal royalty that controls an empire more powerful than anything Dib will ever know alien scum #and 2. demand to know the location of their home planet #like……my guy…. #what are you expecting here? #first of all why do you think they’ll tell you especially immediately after you insulted them #and second of all what would you even do with that information? #go to Irk and single handily defeat the empire? #my friend you barely have a functional spaceship and you want to go against the full force of an armada capable of wiping out planets #you already know about the Massive #that on its own should convince you that you can’t just fight the empire one on one #(to Dib’s credit here though I headcanon that the simulation that Zim put Dib in in DWLOD had a lot of differences #meant to keep Dib from learning about irkens and space in general #so in the simulation the massive was a fraction of its real size lacked most of its weaponry and was basically made of tissue paper) #but you still know that the Massive exists and that thing alone could stop you

[ruiner-of-days]

wanna hear me rant?

The way some people will treat those who like hazbin hotel is horrid like... I don't even like it nor do I intend to watch it but oh my God?? Don't send death threats tf??? Ohhh boo hoo they like hazbin hotel! ok? and? They are shows that are far worse BELIEVE ME... don't like the show? Cool! Don't watch it if it causes you this much agony! And just don't send people death threats .. thought this was common decency but I guess not

#this is mainly a twitter issue #because of fucking course its twitter #but ive seen this happen on other sites #i dont care if this is 'cringey' #im just tired of people being horrible to others for liking stuff they personally dont like #cringe culture is dead! #and then they bully people for liking stuff that isnt mlp invader zim or scene