#and this coloring was not easy either

[yourfavaschips]

America from Hetalia: Axis Powers would be Ruffles Cheeseburger Potato Chips!

#hetalia #america hetalia #ruffles #easy joke #LOOK even the colors of the bag match that picture of him lmao #it was either this or the Wendy's Pringles

[skunkes]

I feel like if talon was a neopet he'd be a kyrii..!!

i saw this ask cut off in my activity tab and was thinking "oh please say kyrii" as i opened it

yes!

darigan kyrii, but wit faerie elements (wings and antennae) ^_^

#too lazy to fix the glaring tangent #skunk mail #Anonymous #a doodley #blue is my favorite color but its so hard to work with. true blue is TOO boring and swinging too far green or red breaks the pattern really #easily #anyway yeah. i wanted to add bright yellow greens here as contrast to the blue purple but he doesnt have any green themes at all #closer to blue looked too muted. so went with the teal even though he's not a teal guy either. close enough to blue #original darigan kyrii colors are fitting. talon loves royal and navy blue but its easy to represent him with red #he has purple scheme regularly because of dis (in his usual hair and eyes) #so making the beast blue purple and keeping the eyes leaning toward red fits ! #the big ears and the teeth and nose...kyrii just looks like the bat monster version i wanna make for him

[solroskajan]

It’s fall. That means my favorite characters get to wear knitted scarves! 

#Drawing to calm myself down #sometimes all i need is copy paste and some colors to feel a little happier i guess #submas #pokemon ingo #pokemon emmet #next step would be to actually knit these scarves #as i always do #but i don't have any of the colors and i already have way too much yarn... #either way i love these two they are so fun and easy to draw like they're just shapes

[origami-fleur]

Contrast

Peony instructions by @origamiaround

#Origami #Papiroflexia #Paper craft #recycled paper #I have to be honest. I eyeballed every fold because ironically math is my worst enemy lol #also the first time I folded it I had the colors switched so I went back and flipped every fold........ lol #I didn't have any kind of wire or ribbon either so I kept the bundles together with a rubber band lol #so yeah I was kind of messy with it but it was fun and easy to make

[mister13eyond]

talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"

like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like

imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.

i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.

#i know and love so many people who have intense anxiety about their ability to create art and who are so hard on themselves about the result #and i think that's a REALLY easy thing to feel because creating is also vulnerable & physically difficult and there is SOOOO much to master #but i think for me the people who churn out 300 colored pencil front facing hands behind their backs oc doodles on lined notebook paper- #are the ones with the right idea. they're the ones i aspire to be like #i'm not saying i never struggle either bc tbh #as someone with depression and adhd there are times where the Act of Having Fun is simply not possible #sometimes i CAN'T enjoy things because my ability to feel joy is locked behind a barrier of my mental illness #so i don't think it's an Easy thing to do by far and I don't think you can just Magically Make Yourself Happy And Having Fun #but i DO think that experimenting in a low-stakes low-pressure manner until you find something that clicks in your brain helps #doing things for the sake of doing them is the only way to figure out which ones WILL be fun to you #not all of them will. some things will feel like a slog #but i think you have to look for the passion before you're able to face the slog #if you jump right into the parts that are Hard and Challenge Your Limits it's easy to spin your wheels and get stuck #but if you focus on the super small stakes and the things that are thoughtless and focused more on Sensation- #the sensory experience of mixing paint or the scratch of pencil on paper or the smooth way a specific pen makes lines- #then you can lose yourself in the physical aspect of it FIRST #and then once you've started really ENJOYING those sensations you can start learning new ways to use them #because now you have the drive to want to do more #now you have the desire to find new ways to apply this thing you like doing #long post #even longer tags #art #drawing #artists #art advice

[kindheartedgummybears]

Random sad before bed thought: do you think the reason Taylor/Tabitha's eyes are brown is because Anthony forgot Tanya's eye color?

#i mean think about it #besides himself anne and megan #everyone in the house(that he probably saw more of) had brown eye #he seemed to remember annes eyecolor but like. he saw anne more and probably had her eyes burned into him due to him getting in trouble #megans was probably really easy for him to remember due to a factor of reasons #tanya was either at work or with Vince #and every picture you see of tanya is in black and white do her eye color is almost impossible to decipher #im 1000000% overthinking this but #:') #Anthony Clarke #Andrew Little Hope #Tanya Clarke #Taylor Little Hope #Tabitha Milton #let me be sad #it destracts me from my tooth infection #Little Hope #we ignore the fact i forgot to tag the game.

[aquilamage]

[Image Description: a set of five edited bug fables screenshots from the pre-battle zommoth encounter. The first is the same as in-game, Kabbu saying "W-What is that!? Something's coming!" The second is of zommoth appearing on screen with its sprite edited to be various shades of pink and yellow, wings the same pattern as Leif's (but still with the purple blight magic stuff in the chest area.) The next three images have the sprite edited in the same way.. The third image is of Leif's saying "...Wh, Rkejrm-m-Muse!? Kjdrira, mebsrgr...!!!" The next is Kabbu saying "Muse!? Leif, that's..." The final is Vi saying "T-That doesn't make any sense!" End ID]

I thought about one of my fucked up and evil au ideas for five minutes again, so I decided to spend like fifty hours making a thing about it. Basically what if Muse went back into Snakemouth later to try to rescue Leif or at least bring back his body and got caught by the roaches.

Putting just the edited sprites under the cut if you wanna see those without the lab mood lighting:

#bug fables #bug fables spoilers #muse bug fables #or as I've been saving my files for this as: #Zommuse #:3 #Leif bug fables #despite taking a super long time (not actually fifty hours but it felt like it) this was fun! #I am so much more comfortable with writing than visual art stuff but since I don't have any specific thoughts on the scenario #past this moment this is a way easier way to get my thought across in slightly more description than my one paragraph up there #eyedropped all the colors off Muze and Grandpa's sprites and then played with them a bit to make them go together nicer #part of the length was me figuring out how to do stuff and part of it was because I had to stitch some stuff together inconveniently #as I said earlier: aa spoiled me. what with having all the game assets and backgrounds either conveniently already extracted #or at least mechanically very easy to get myself because it's all just pixels and all the bits are on different layers! #(also storywise I usually tend to go with giving muse fire magic when I'm thinking things. but keeping the blight was easier shorthand. #and also all those times she's more on leif's end of the cordyceps spectrum. mind more there. so.)

[noisemastter]

he has 72 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces

tboy swag!!!!!

#i think itd be really funny if he couldve easily powered the noise blaster any other way and just really hated piano #that shit was targetted #its ok he was having a bad day #noisemaster #cucumber quest #i hate that this is now the art piece ive spent.the most time on. #like 5hrs #most of it was lineart because i kept scrapping shit #i didnt actually use a sketch for any of these i just drew whatever #no references either #hes really surprisingly easy to draw without references actually!!! or maybe i just have his design memorized #never ask me for a tutorial on lighting because not even i know dude i just blot colors wherever it looks nice #i feel it in my balls ( i dont have balls ) #sterotypical art tag

[theinfinitedivides]

can't believe we're doing this for the second time in less than six months but. you see any Key content being reblogged during the next few weeks (whether recent creations or over the past comebacks) that's the queue talking. someone needs to take that man back to church and pray for him what is he doing

#shinee #kibum #key #kim kibum #first the Minho colorism debacle now whatever the f*ck you want to call this sh*t over the past week or so #this is what. strike two out of three for me?????? for personal reasons the McDonalds ambassador drama + the KeyLand #Lucas shoutout are being grouped together for me to keep track but what is he doing. what's happening. i don't do legal speak so #i don't know how easy it is to get out of huge contracts like that especially if they were renewed months in advance but i do agree #the all in promo is not. it's not giving it feels super icky. in these times it's not a good look that's all i'll say about that. #but Lucas?????? tf?????? who let him out of the cellar after the sh*t that went down for him to even be there the public needs to know #if this is Key's quarter-life crisis era can he keep that offline pls. can he not embarrass himself by speaking on sh*t he does not #need to speak on. can he keep quiet and go back to vibing with Kany is that too much to ask #i'm not going to speak on his relationship with Kany either bc i'm not qualified to speculate + they look like they really do get along #genuinely well and as a shawol of color i'm generally happy for her. that being said tho #Jinki come back ily you need to be healthy yet pls note we're entering the danger zone rn

[snailfen]

i got some watercolor brush markers for christmas !! did some other coloring to get used to it then pumped this out. anyways now all i can think about is drawing slither wing

[reblogs appreciated !!]

#honestly this looks a LOT better than anything i colored with my copic markers like holy shit? #i might actually start doing traditional art fr again.... ive been doing nothing but doodles for a while now LOLE #hopefully ill be able to draw more often!! i really want to but i just. Havent. for the past year and a half. what happened man... #i used to crank out so many drawings and drawpiles like in one week alone. 15 year old me was different #but ANYWAYS i got my first ever screen tablet (its a kamvas 13 and its really nice. im loving the hotkey buttons) #so im excited to do more digital stuff as well!! #also. new sketchbook. it works with my mechanical pencils much better than my last few holy shit #like if i was struggling on a sketch in my old ones i could only erase so much otherwise itd start rubbing the surface of the paper off 💀 #this one does not do that at all! and it doesn't bleed easy either #hm. maybe i could draw some scrimblos in here ...... #pokemon #slither wing #my art #pkmn art

[sakurarisen]

🍡 - Can your muse cook? Can they bake? How well can they do either? Do they have any kitchen disaster stories? (I'm sorry, I HAD TO)

Miscellaneous Synbol HC's!

🍡 - Can your muse cook? Can they bake? How well can they do either? Do they have any kitchen disaster stories?

Asking Sera to cook is asking to lose your kitchen and stomach in one go. Full stop. XD She CAN'T cook, no matter how much she's taught to or tries, and worse? She can and will make something explode in the process of trying - And if she doesn't, well... You clearly don't value your stomach very much. Even if the kitchen is intact (and a little blackened from being cooked itself, if it doesn't explode that doesn't mean it's coming out unscathed; something is broken or burnt beyond repair), the end result in terms of food is... Not good. It's an odd color, clearly winking at you, bubbling oddly... At best it's burnt to a crisp, and whatever you find under the layers of burnt food is just more burnt. Asking Sera to cook is going to get someone begging you to save yourself!

On the flip side, though nobody is ever able to understand how, Sera's an amazing baker. While she can't make it translate into regular cooking, she's incredible at making muffins, cakes, cupcakes, bread... If it involved just full on baking, you can't go wrong asking Sera for help, and when she needs help, she'll just call on her older brother Thoma to give her a hand, or her in-laws! <3

That said, she doesn't have any specific kitchen disaster stories - Anything involving kitchens and cooking will do, though perhaps the worst times are when she's blown an actual hole in the wall from making the stove explode... She's forever sorry-

#Questioning A Flower [Asks] #Waltzofphoenix #Colors Of Sakura [Sera Headcanons] #YOU KNOW SERA WILL NEVER DO WELL WITH A KITCHEN XD #YOU AND KASA BOTH OF ALL PEOPLE KNOW XD #Sera can and will destroy SOMETHING ad it's either the kitchen or a stomach and she'll always be apologetic #But never be able to not XD #Even she has no idea why she can bake pretty well tho XD #Reasons why if she's not offering a sandwich or something that's just put together easy like one #It's a baked good XD

[chipadip]

help me decide which twink to go as for halloween this year

#willard #willard 1971 #polls #mr bungee #a new brain #a new brain 1998 #a new brain oobc #chip zien #bruce davidson #bungee pros: colorful. frog #cons: the pants and frog helmet are hard to come by #willard pros: easy to put together. excuse to die hair #actually from a horror film- #cons: possibly too generic/boring #both are unrecognizable so i'll have to explain either way #my cousin didn't respond to my text :/ #so poll time ^⁠_⁠^ !

[trickstarbrave]

i dont think i really have time to like. restart my secret santa gifts im working on. but man. i keep feeling like they just. Aren't Good. i look at my other art and i like it way more and i cant figure out why i dont like these but i just gotta hope the ppl like free art and find it pretty

#TO THE PEOPLE I GOT: I AM SORRY I AM NOT HAVING AN EASY TIME MAKING ART RN #i cant even really like or color pictures i wanna do either #hopefully the finished pictures look nice.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Suddenly realizing I've had seizures before :0 but this was just the first one where someone who knew what it was was there to witness it (my girlfriend)

That's so cool and definitely not terrifying /s

#for context i dont spasm uncontrollably like people imagine seizures #i think from the outside it probably just looks like im having a bunch of tics and staring intently and being unresponsive #but then afterwards i end up being really confused and disoriented and forgetful #so its been very easy to forget about the seizures i had in the past because i didnt remember them #until just recently when i was like 'huh that felt familiar-' #from my perspective though its like uh idk its really weird #its a bit different every time but just in general #i tend to be unresponsive even if i can tell whats happening around me #i cant talk or control what my body is doing but i know what part is moving (usually jerkinv my head or arms) #my muscles feel either really rigid or really lax #and then my vision gets so weird #everything is sparkly like colorful static and the edges of my vision gets really dark #and there's intermittent flashes of lights or floating shadows #it feels like im extremely focused and very spaced out at the same time #i keep describing it like my brain is smashing all the buttons at once cause thats what it feels like #its also kinda similar to the feeling of being electrocuted? but i dont think many of you will know what that feels like #hopefully you wont at least #i just happen to #its like a weird buzzing just under your skin that doesnt exactly hurt but doesnt exactly not hurt either #it would be like the pain of a constantly tightened muscle- not painful at first but like strenuous to endure ? #and thdn painful if it stays like that or gets worse #i feel like im not allowed to say i had a seizure because i cant go to doctors about it so i cant get diagnosed >_< #but the thing is not bei g diagnosed isnt gonna stop me from having them #yay denial /j #im hoping theyre just dissociative seizures because god i cannot deal with epilepsy on top of everything else rn #and also because i cant see doctors right now sooo #god im exhausted and scared but i feel like those words dont even measure up to how im doing right now #i dont know. im just enduring #thats all i can really do i think #but i hope i dont have to much longer...

[zillyeh]

I did Miles for a "draw your character like they'd draw themself" prompt. Did you know that he paints. That was his Thing before he became a monster.

#art tag or st #his background being almost exactly the same color as my marion icon was not intentional if u believe that #Smiles tag #Mr. Smiles #im obsessed w how this came out. hes unfortunately so easy to draw. hes so character #he doesnt usually do self portraits either...

[sergle]

conditioning dyes? what kinds of dyes are those? 🤨

Like stuff that only deposits color onto the hair, as opposed to penetrating the strand / lifting the pigment from the natural hair! so, stuff like manic panic or oVertone and stuff like that- they only deposit color, they don't strip it. those are conditioning dyes, they're basically just ultra ultra pigmented conditioner, which your hair does absorb, but they don't PENETRATE. the benefit there is that you aren't damaging the hair every time you re-dye it. hair DYE, like box dyes and stuff like that, usually contain some sort of developer (or ask you to use your own developer), which opens up the cuticle of your hair and like... dissolves some of the melanin inside? which lightens the hair, and deposits the color in a more permanent way, but is damaging to the hair.

#there are more brands than overtone and manic panic BUT those just happen to be the ones I've used! #coloring conditioners are great bc you can get color payoff while keeping your hair as healthy as possible #bc application is just like a deep conditioning #and hair dyes are great because they can lift color from your strands to give you a brighter more permanent color #but they damage the strands in the process #it's sort of all about personal preference and also what color hair you have #mine is either a dark blonde or a light brown depending on who you ask #so it's REALLY easy to put red coloring conditioner on that and get a really intense dark cherry red #but if I put like. blue. on there. it may get swampy fast #if you have naturally light hair then there is no reason to not use coloring conditioners #and if your hair is super dark it would be hard to SEE the color unless you lightened your hair first #etc etc etc #that's more info than you asked for lol but I have opinions abt these things #sergle.txt #I only started dyeing my hair in the first place bc someone did me a HUGE SOLID and sent me some overtone. FOR FREE #so coloring conditioner was my first experience with dyeing. and probably my friendliest experience