#bumbleby Big Bang

[frishbi]

POSTING DAY!! I participated in this years @bumblebybigbang and partnered up with @mercenaryg and @lebastian5 for Merc's fanfic!

You can check it out here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52061515/chapters/131664610

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #yang xiao long #blake belladonna

[phoenixchaser]

Yay it's posting day! This is my piece for the bumbleby big bang 2023! I had the pleasure of working with @kayleen756894, who wrote a lovely fairytale-inspired au for our favorite bees. Her fic is full of emotion and evocative imagery, check it out at the link below!

#bumbleby big bang #bbb23 #bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #rwby #my art #fanart #pls click for quality tumblr really ate this!

[kosalus]

got to work with the wonderful writer @empressofedge and the amazing artist @ceosato for my first bumbleby big bang! go read Mixed Melodies here and check out the art here! make sure you give those two lots of love!!

#no seriously go read it and check out the art rn #the drums and bass were a struggle but i survived it #RWBY #bumbleby big bang #bbb 2023 #rwby fanart #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bumbleby fanart #my art #digital art

[sharky-arts]

Here's my piece for this year's @bumblebybigbang !!!

I worked alongside @agentayu , she was super fun to work with and wrote an amazing story so you should check it out!

Read Bazar here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51126940/chapters/129176521💛💜

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #my art

[ver-draws]

Tis the day! Here is my piece for this year's @bumblebybigbang. I had the absolute pleasure of working with @bazaarwords. I could not have asked for a better partner! She wrote such a fun, hilarious, feel good college AU for the bees that I thoroughly enjoyed seeing come to life over the past few months. (Honestly I don't think I read any part of this without laughing or giggling like a schoolgirl) Please go check out her fic, Unbecoming. You definitely won't regret it!

#bumbleby big bang #bumbleby big bang 2023 #bbb2023 #bumbleby #rwby bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #rwby blake #rwby yang #rwby fanart #greenlight volume 10

[clar-a-m]

My piece for this year's @bumblebybigbang !!

My partner was @itsraith who wrote the super fun Hot for Teacher fic!!!

It was a delight to be part of such an amazing event, please go check out all the other art pieces and fics as well!

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #my art #my stuff #it's an rock star!yang and school teacher!blake au guys!!!!! #it's super fun!!! #Go read it!!!!

[officialrocketjumper]

HOWDY EVERYONE- so excited to FINALLY be able to show off my piece for this year's Bumbleby Big Bang!

Unfortunately no accompanying story as of yet- but I really hope you guys get to read it someday! The premise involves Yang cursed to be trapped inside a sword, which was an idea I KNEW I had to make move.

Details and development stuff under the cut!

Lots of fun collaboration with the author, Celeste! We worked together to find the look-of-picture, Blake's outfit, how the Grimm look, the style of the sword, the whole shabang! I'm really happy with how it all turned out!

When I first saw all the prompts, even before claims opened, I got to work on a handful of exploration pieces based on some of the summaries, to decide which of the stories I was interested in would be the best fit. Here's the initial idea for this one I put together over a lunch break:

After showing Celeste, we got to work finding the look we wanted! Went back and forth a bit and found this great look for Blake! Also shoutout to Pinterest boards for visdev inspiration I love you Pinterest boards.

Just about everything stayed to final anim, with the simplification of getting rid of that purple cloth hanging from her belt, (since I already had the rope ends to think about working with), and the light purple strap across the chest, since leaving it out would simplify the linework on her chest.

The sword also went through a bit of change! Celeste had the idea of Yang making the sword catch on fire, which I LOVED. I went with a split design so we can see the fire more clearly start from the hilt and grow to cover the whole blade.

And from there we brainstormed animation ideas! I went all over Youtube for video reference of sword work (that would be complex enough to be interesting, but short enough to be manageable). I found something we liked from Motion Actor Inc., a channel I've used LOTS for both personal and professional work (I work in 3D Animation, for those who don't know). I edited this together, to see the action from multiple places at once, which gave me the idea for that camera move that's in the final anim!

Now for the fun part! Make that badboy MOVE. For the cam turn, the first frame she's in the air I'm referencing the top left video, and the frame she lands I'm referencing the bottom left one. While she's airborne I'm just inbetweening that! No reference for the Grimm, just wanted it responding to her attacks, but I end up tweaking the roughs later on to make the block feel stronger.

Then from there we had to actually figure out Grimm designs! Nimona had just released, and Celeste and I loved it, so she asked if I could take some inspiration from Nimona's shadow form! GLADLY. Here's what I came up with!

I was going between how the movies and comic designed Nimona, really loving the almost liquid shadow of the movie, but also how the comics had this broken up/held together rougher form. Celeste liked the second to last one the best! The original plan was to have it leave a wispy shadow trail like the concept art, but to simplify the animation we left it solid instead!

Next up is tiedown! Basically just getting the roughs more on-model, so the lineart comes out nice and clean. I've also transferred the new Grimm design to the base from earlier, and fire's also outlined orange so it reads clearer. (SPOILER- if you look REAL close here, you can see Yang visible in the fire! I liked the idea of Blake's slash also doubling as Yang throwing a punch. The idea is in the concept art earlier but now it's working with the action.)

Next step- final look of picture!! I asked Celeste for sources of inspiration to draw from when thinking about environment design, and we got Nimona, She-Ra, and Owl House! Used each of those as springboards for shading style, colour palettes, and how the fire would look!

From there, we kept the straight trees/bush/lake/foreground greenery from the first one, the blues from the second, and the fire from the third!

Once I had this frame, it was a matter of working backwards and making the background work pre-camera turn (which was ABSOLUTELY the most challenging part of this process). Learned a lot doing this! Procreate isn't quite equipped to make something like this efficient, but I'm pleased to say that Dreams would make something like this easier in the future (keyframing objects instead of hand-drawing/spacing duplicates by hand, for example).

From then on it was just colouring the lineart, adding shading, and finishing up the background! Beginning-to-end this whole process was beginning of July to end of October!

I had an absolute BLAST putting all this together. Here's to next year where I find a way to do something even more ridiculously complicated!! It's fun!!!

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #(technically!!! look at the fire!!) #officialrocketart #officialrocketanimates #greatest hits #HOOO WHAT AN UNDERTAKING #so glad I came up with an idea pretty outside of my comfort zone but having the CLEAREST idea on how to execute it #means things went smoothly it just took a Long Time #AND I LEARNED LOTS #hope you guys can read the story one day!! its dope!! #bonus bonus fact for tag readers i didn't put in the post proper: i showed the rough pass to ANIMATION INDUSTRY COLLEAGUES for feedback #shoutout to ioana and v love you both lots #ioana for tightening up the rough pass and suggesting i smear the sword #and v for notes on my sword smears #okay i hope you guys enjoy!!! #it has been true for ages now but The Bees Motivate Me To Create #and in these trying times i thank them for that

[ceosato]

My piece for the Bumbleby Big Bang 2023!! Had the pleasure of making this ol thing for @empressofedge amazing fic

I also had the pleasure to share this fic with @kosalus so please check their post!

(and yes im in my half tone era)

#bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #thank you Rocket for suggesting i jump in this year!! #fanart #2d animation #rwby #rwby fanart #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bmblb #rwby bmblb #rwby bumbleby #band au #toon boom harmony #toon boom animation

[eviestevie-nametaken]

You’re Lost, You’re Found

Summary: 𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘠𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘒𝘶𝘰 𝘒𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘛𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥?

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭.

Here we go! I’ve had the wonderful privilege to work with my bestie Louie aka @imnotgayyelling on this years Bumbleby Big Bang! I started working on this story and joining the BBB server back in May and it’s had me very busy @bumblebybigbang

#Bumbleby Big Bang #rwby #rwby fanfiction #my writing #bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #fanfic art #eviestevie fanfic art #greenlight volume 10 #greenlight rwby volume 10

[dae-stuff]

Here we go!

For @bumblebybigbang I had the pleasure to work with @chaoticevilspacewitch for her fic "The Monster Within Us" .

If you are a sucker for human-monster relationship as I am, you'll love it! Trust me, it's GOOD.

Working with Erys was incredible, she helped me a lot with every piece, providing sketches and clear instructions of how a scene should be done, but giving me total freedom and trust. At first, I was aiming to illustrate every chapter, but real life stuff didn't help me. However, I'm very proud of what I did, and I hope you'll like it!

Spoilers below, I highly recommend coming after reading the fic!

(Tecnically speaking this is spoiler as well, but hey, this is a bumbleby fic, a kiss is at least you can expect)

And then, a little bit of NSFW

#dae #rwby #yang xiao long #bumbleby #blake belladonna #rwby fanart #bumbleby big bang #bumbleby big bang 2023

[starmochu]

Day 2 of this year's @bumblebybigbang ! I was so lucky to be paired up with the extraordinary writer @lavendermeghan - her work is beautiful and full of tender moments, and I'm just a sucker for college AUs 🥺💕 Working together to make these pieces was such a fun experience, I hope everyone checks out her amazing fic!

#fanart #rwby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #i am so so so happy i got to work with such an excellent partner! her fic is truly one of my favs its so sweet and tender 🥺💕💕

[paponela]

Another year, another @bumblebybigbang!!!

This time I had an amazing time working with @dazzleyourmindseye on her fic i'm pushing up daisies (and i wish they were roses), a Pushing Daisies AU!!!! Go check it out immediately!!!

#bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #rwby #if you don't know what pushing daisies is let me tell you: it's the most bumbleby coded tv show of all time #get out of these tags and go read it!!! go!!!!!!! #my art

[riinkun-art-stuff]

Howdy ho! I'm very excited to finally be able to share this illustration I worked on as part of this year's @bumblebybigbang for @tahnex's lovely and super fun fic (with no pain attached whatsoever), "Of Dragons and Panthers," which you can read here! As soon as I read the original notes on it this scene captured me so much I had to do something dramatic for it. It's been such a pleasure watching the whole collab come together, tysm for having me!

First time joining an event like this, and I'd love to again if the opportunity comes around hehe. Still a few postings to go on this one, the pieces before us this year have knocked it out of the park and I'm super excited to see the rest once they come around!

Made a few process cuts just for fun, which I left under the cut!

I did do a few sketches roughly before I started out, especially based on other parts of the chapter, but this particular composition was so fixed in my mind that I ended up just sticking with it. In retrospect, I would've loved to go back and do some more thorough exploration for it. Here are a few of the sketches I managed to fish back up:

I also was thinking of trying a few other doodles/another big piece, but ended up not really having the time between other obligations :')

And the sketch I finally settled on:

Inking was SUCH a fun process on this piece in particular. I'm a huge fan of how dragon!Yang's mane turned out, especially, and all the detailing on the head and around Blake's fur and such. Feel like I'm really satisfied w the particular way the line weight variations came out, and it's where the piece shines the most imo.

Panther!Blake, too. Oh gosh. I feel like it took me a lot of reworking to get her structure to a point where she felt very leopard-like, rather than any other type of big cat- especially around the head.

Colours were such a challenging part. There was a big feeling I had for that glow coming off dragon!Yang in the middle of the heavy rain- I love seeing that sort of effect in real life so that's something I'm really hoping to work to capture better as I practice. Trying to get dragon!Yang's slight iridescence in there and to balance out the lighting on panther!Blake's fur each took a long time, too- I'm only a pinch sad that a good chunk of it is covered by other lighting effects XD

Blake's rosettes were SO fun. Augguhugg.

In terms of backgrounds. HOO boy I was going through a strange patch in life while working on the background and final polish for this piece, which is why (at least I feel like) it looks kinda rushed. I have been practicing natural landscapes and doing some observational studies but still struggling to get those rock shapes quite right, which I think is a big make or break point of something like this. I did really enjoy toying around with inking on the foliage and foreground layers of the ground, though! And in the end, lighting and effects ended up masking a lot of the big weak spots :D

I think natural effects like smoke/steam, and rain, are big things that I got to practice more of in this piece, but also really would like to get better at in future. Esp since I feel like it's been a great opportunity to mess around with different colours and brushes that I use way less, which I'm always grateful for w painting. I think just layering the rain on its own ended up being about 10 odd layers?

I think the only other thing I would have loved to improve is to just help the piece feel more Bumbleby™ in the final look. I think I like the cool colours of the lighting for this particular outcome, but I also would have probably tried to have made things much clearer (ahem at the very least switch to yellow/purple) in the long run in terms of representation and resemblance. Ik that at least for me it is fairly easy to associate the two characters with dragons and panthers since I'm more familiar w the fandom lingo around these two, but esp for outsiders I feel like it's probably not great at conveying who they are, and why they are potentially in this situation.

I'd also love to try and find a shading style that still has a painterly quality but compliments the inking a bit better, rather than overpowering it.

I think that, on the whole, I am pretty satisfied with the piece and had a great time working with Tahnex on the whole collab! And I've also has a fun time reading his work and notes in return, and thank you so much for being so so patient with me even as my updates were slow n rocky at points :'D

That's about all I got, have a great day y'all! Still a few big bang postings to go, so very excited for those once they come around!

#riinkun art stuff #my art #digital art #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #rwby #YIPPEEEE #very very happy to finally be able to show this off aaaaahugghh!!!! #it's been v cool working on this collab- tysm for having me again! :'D

[cseni-bean]

I had the wonderful opportunity to be in this years Bumbleby Big Bang! :D

The fic is writen by @emocean-is-trash ! It's based on a visual novel called "Our Life: Beginnings and Always!" You can read the fic >Clicking< there

My fantastic co-artist is @gummi-doodles who absolutelly killed it with each Blake, been a blest to work with them! :D

I did all the Yangs it was really fun to draw the sunshine gurl thru big events in her life

Here are some close ups:

#bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #bumbleby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #rwby

[erughostcat]

Here it Bees y'all

@bumblebybigbang 2023!!

for @sapphicneige 's fic

All That Glitters Isn't Gold

#bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #rwby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #rwbyfanart

[bumblebydyke]

My piece for the @bumblebybigbang! [Image IDs in alt text]

I'm so excited to finally be able to show this off as well as being able to share my wonderful partner @sssammich's fic "Homecoming"

It was amazing working with Sam and I am so happy to have finally been able to join in for the Bumbleby Big Bang this year!

#rwby #bumbleby #bumbleby big bang #bbb2023 #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #my art #art #moon draws