The beginning of Art and Friendship
With the return of @askthecookies in full swing (and seeing as these pieces arnt currently available anywhere since my old account got deleted) I figured this could be a fun time to go over my journey of not only my relation with the mod for cookie blog but the beginning of my journey into art in general, at least on the digital side.(Prepare for a LONG post)
So having gotten invested into the series a good few years into the series, what might have been the first item to act as the metaphorical spark towards this eventual friendship and starting of digital art? MEMEs!
Very simple stuff at first, cutting out the heads of cookie characters and posting them onto memes, some of you who have been around a while might remember the remake of one I made a few years back.
By here my OC had showed up a handful of times in the cookie verse from all the ask interactions, so some talking had started happening. As time went on, ideas for various extra gags came to mind that would require a bit more then just cut out heads, so I began to make very simple stick figures completely ripping off similar in style to cookie chibis seem at times.
Some of which not even being original backgrounds. As they began to get a bit more complex the model for the chibis evolved to be a bit more flexible and gags became more elaborate, even stemming into full blown comics at times, and by this point the mod and I were tossing ideas back and forth both for my gags, and their blog, some idea which even made it in as side gags, or even some story details. On some occasions even making some elaborate comics which worked as filler for when cookie mod needed some extra time for updates or long animations.
Art stuck to these figures for quite some time, I always thought they worked well for gags, but if I ever wanted to do a bit more serious or complex work they might not do the job. So at some point further in the future, I decided to make them a bit more complex, and this was just in time to make some larger scale side stories which ended up turning into a long running mini series to fill time as cookie mod took a break.
This simple gag somehow ended up turning into a long running strange side adventure involving Tangerine breaking out of the forth wall into Anon space for wacky misadventures, including meeting the @the-green-anon , @askbananapie an alternate tangerine from another universe! It was half way through this series where I would evolve the style a final time to polish it up a bit.
This series continued for a time until Tangy Mod had the series of incidents leading to their time away. This series continued for a time before falling off with its original purpose now gone. But with it fading out, the empty slot eventually made way for the series that was teased a few times throughout the fourth wall break series.
And thus began the run of the @askdarkriders . Even with Cookie Mod away, I would frequently update them with the adventures and gags made in this series, which seemed to have helped in eventually resparking their interest in finishing the cookies story again.
And there you have a short look at my fun little journey. Thanks for reading, and a big thanks to Cookie Mod for sparking the art journey and being a close friend, as well as all askers and interactors for helping all these stories and gags move along over the many years.
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Hello everyone !!!
From this blog and server we hope you all have some great Holidays !!!! Big thanks to everyone who joined RD in their wait for Santa!!!
Have a lovely Holiday everybody!!!!!
@kittyrinn-aiko @phantomarts @ask-the-antonymph-pony @ask-violinsunrise @askcaffeinehazard @blurry-kun @askwink
(This is a re-upload bc I forgot adding someone)
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Streampunk Erik old art #erik #erikphantomoftheopera #erikthephantom #steampunk #steampunkart #steampunkerik #eriksteampunk #erikau #phantomfanart #phantomart #phantomoftheoperaau #poto #potoart #potoau #lefantômedelopéra #leroux #lefantomedelopera #lefantômedelopéra #lefantôme #lefantome https://www.instagram.com/p/CbqXKaCOJyY/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Almost all inked....on the roof of the opera! (Apollo's Lyre) #phantomoftheopera #gastonleroux #palaisgarnier #phantomcomic #potographicnovel #phanart #phandom #phantomgraphicnovel #phantomart #phantomphans #parisoperahouse #inkedpages #inking #makingcomics #lineart #comicpages #landscape #architecture #beckylaff #beckaroo (at Arizona)
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🤔 Blue or Green, which eye colour do you prefer for my Phantom?🥀 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you were following Mili Fay Art from the very beginning you know that I’ve been scripting and directing my own version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” @phantomopera as a 2D animated feature for fun since I was 16 years old. Even after all these years, this is still my favourite musical (closely followed by “My Fair Lady” and “The Greatest Showman”). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For Inktober 2016, I created a series of thumbnail sketches, sharing some of my ideas for the first time. Then I released them as my first sketchbook on Amazon. To date this is by far the most pirated of my works.😅 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You can still view these sketches on Instagram — they are some of my first posts. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now that I need to update my storyboarding portfolio, I’ve decided to storyboard “The Mirror” and “The Phantom of the Opera” songs from the musical. Before doing this, I updated my cover illustration of the Phantom from 2017 using Procreate. I changed his eye color to green, just to test it out. Initially his eyes were blue to match Christine’s (Raoul’s eyes are brown). This visual clue was to illustrate that they share a musical soul. I also always saw Erik of Persian descent, which explained the connection with The Persian and why he was able to architect the Sultan’s palaces. I prefer the more handsome version from the musical to the creepy old man in the book, so my Erik is in his early 30s, 31 to Christine’s 21. Raoul is 24. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Are you a Phan? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 💕M ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #milifayart #phantomoftheopera #phantomart #phantom #illustrationoftheday #conceptart #characterart https://www.instagram.com/p/CODhU24Da1V/?igshid=1p23l55wsho18
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