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romans-art · 6 years

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I really love how much details you put in your work and I'm wondering how do you practice it? Or what did you do when you first started? Cause details just scare the shit out of me and I don't know how to go around it.

Detail work is super meditative for me!! There’s nothing I love more than finishing figure lineart and being able to lose myself for a few hours in adding whatever the heck detail work I want to that bad boy! (I curse myself later when I have to colour it all in but anyway)

The first trick is to look at a lot of references for inspiration. And I mean A LOT. The second trick when actually drawing the details is to Start Big. And by that I mean: pick a larger basic shape/repeating pattern, and then start filling in the smaller details around it. Here’s a post where I talk about it briefly. I’ll go into more detail on specific references for Yellow Diamond below the cut.

ok so, to start I usually fall back on Egg and Darts or Arabesque when I’m doing detail work. (here and here are links to the wiki pages for some very basic referencing). Please note that the pictures I show you below are just a sample of what I’ll be looking at for these kinds of drawings. I hoard this kind of stuff.

For the latest Yellow Diamond Gambeson design I wanted her to have a more relaxed outfit she might wear when holding Court, but which was also practical because she’s That Bitch. Ergo, I ended up picking a brigandine/gambeson look, under the assumption that she could throw her plate armour over the top of it and hop right into battle if she wanted.

A brigandine is a coat of heavy cloth or leather with plates hobbled along the inside with nails. Here’s an example from the Met below (reference link here)

This bad boy is from around 1470 found in a fortress on Chalcis, part of the Venetian empire during the war with the Ottomans. You can see the studs riveting the plates through the velvet. Below is another view of a brigandine:

Except the plates inside probably would’ve been covered in cloth so as not to be so owchie.

Now, brigandines wouldn’t normally have been worn under plate armour, so I decide I’m going to mix it up to create a sort of hybrid reinforced gambeson. Normally gambesons are just padded jackets combined with mail or plate armour. They’re designed to act as cushioning for heavy blows and were often quilted. Here are some examples:

Sidenote: I wanna look as awesome as this lady one day ^^^^

Anyway! At this point I figure Yellow Diamond still needs 2 very essential things for her outfit to be complete: 1) her sword, and 2) her gem.

For the sword, I already have an idea of the pommel and hilt design from previous drawings. I just need some more inspiration around the belt and how it would hang from said belt, as below:

For the gem, I go with a livery collar (also known as a chain of office) because it fits with the time period, the overall courtly theme, and would fall in the right place on her chest, which is where her gem is supposed to go. Here are just a few examples:

I can hang the gem off the chain, call her a poncey dunce, and be on my merry.

#yellow diamond #diamond authority historical au #replies #art references #art refs #tutorials #the-loud-and-crazy-rabbit-pirate

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moodymerboy · 7 years

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Because I'm totally a person who has a life, I thought of two new Crystal Gem characters, complete with backstories!

I know fan ficcy stuff can be cringey sometimes, but bear with me. I wouldn't say either of these characters are my gemsona per se, because I don't really identify with either of them. I was just hungry for content, and my creative juices got flowing. Unfortunately I do not have an illustration for you because I have very little artistic talent (at least in that medium). Obviously you're welcome to draw them if you feel like it, but I wouldn't be able to pay you because I'm currently unemployed and can't spend money willy nilly.

Anyway...

Tourmaline was a scout for Pink Diamond. She was sent to Earth to find good locations for various gem constructions. Like Rose and the other Crystal Gems, she had some ethical hesitation because of the life there, and Pink's zoo solution didn't do much to soothe her. When the Rebellion started, she sought out the CGs and joined them.

Early on in the Rebellion, Chalcedony was sent to Earth by Blue Diamond kind of as an assassin in an attempt to shatter the Rebellion’s leaders and nip it in the bud before it could become a full-on war. She defected and joined the CGs as well.

Tourmaline and Chalcedony fell in love and occasionally fused to form Turquoise.

During battle, Tourmaline was poofed and cracked, and Chalcedony picked her gem up to protect her. This was shortly before the Homeworld gems left, so Chalcedony was affected by the Corrupting Light while Tourmaline was not, as she had not yet reformed.

Tourmaline woke up, unable to speak intelligibly, to an abandoned battlefield and a corrupted Chalcedony.

She took Chalcedony to a remote rainforest that she had known about from her scouting. Over the years, she was able to “tame” Chalcedony. She built a treehouse with a spiral staircase for them to live in. Humans have very occasionally stumbled upon her, so there is folklore in the region that tells of a colorful woman in the forest who speaks gibberish and has a strange blue dog.

Tourmaline has pink skin with dark green hair in a braid. She’s medium height with a sturdy build. Her weapon is a blow gun which shoots taser-like darts. Her gem is on her left bicep.

Chalcedony is periwinkle with short pale lavender hair. She’s shortish and thin, very light on her feet. She has the ability to turn invisible, and her weapon is a slingshot. Her gem is on her right bicep.

So yeah! Tourmaline lives in the woods with her corrupted gf/pet and with no way to heal her cracked gem, and she's completely oblivious to the fact that Pearl and Garnet survived (or that Amethyst and Steven exist). I feel pretty confident head-canoning this since it has no effect on anything currently portrayed in the show. If you have any suggestions for changes or additions, let me know! Especially if something I've said contradicts information we have from the show or from the Crewniverse.

As an aside, I kind of like the idea of Chalcedony being nicknamed Chalcy. It kinda sounds like Chelsea ^.^

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cha1cedony · 6 months

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Just thinking about how Frank’s watch that Grant got from Darryl has a little mark etched into its face of the when the dads were supposed to kill Grant and eat his skin 😀👍 Darryl scratched the time into the watch when they jumped off the bus in For Knights.

And now that time is forever on Grant’s wrist: a reminder of how he was supposed to die, how he cheated death, how he was forced to cheat death by killing something else. The watch has been broken for years. Its hands are frozen, and I wonder if that reminds him of Frank’s death or of his own… his childhood that died in that moment. He’s forever that scared little 12 year old blindly swinging an axe too big for his body and hoping to (praying not to) kill something.

#or if it reminds him of Frank… and how Darryl’s childhood died with him #ahem ahemn anyway.#chalcy stuff #dungeons and daddies #dndads #tw violence #tw death #cw violence #cw death #idk how to tag content warnings on Tumblr :( sorry #or if it’s necessary #but better to be safe than sorry ig #I am still new and relatively inactive here okay 😭

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cha1cedony · 6 months

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Why do they call him Darryl Wilson? WIL his SON talk to him? No? Didn’t think so 🙄

#THIS?? WAS IN MY DRAFTS????#why didn’t I post this lmao #anyway #same can be said about Grant tee hee #chalcy stuff #should I tag this. yeah. I will #dndads #dungeons and daddies

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cha1cedony · 1 month

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HEY, YOU! 🫵

Are you a Tumblr user? (Yes)

Do you love Grant Wilson? (I should hope so)

Did you listen to this week’s Teen Talk and think, “Hey, that’s me! I’m the Grant angst enjoyer who was unnecessarily sad about him having to kill that chimera despite all the other wacky violence in this podcast!” ????

Well, boy, do I have the fic for you!

Um. You should read my fic Silver Linings 😁 which is now complete!

It’s over 110k words of 13-14 year old Grant angst (yay) set in a normal life AU! Mostly about his relationships (with his parents, his classmates, and his soccer coach Darnell), as well as his queerness and mental health struggles :) I’d say it’s coming-of-age adjacent.

Sound interesting? (Say yes /j) GOOD NEWS! 😎 You can.. go read it! (Wow) But if you’ve already read it, I’m planning two sequels and at least two Darryl-centric spinoff fics. I’m not sure which will start next, but it will either be White Lies or Good as Gold! (first time I’m announcing those titles ^_^ everyone clap. /j again) Thank you for the support and love on this fic!

Okay shameless self-promo over 😁 My AO3 is chalcedony if you’re interested in checking it out! Idk if anyone will see this rn but I’ll probably rb it after the S2 finale or something idk. Okay byeeeeee :3c

#I made one of these after posting Ch 7 so I wanted to make another after Ch 10 #but I kept forgetting T_T anyway. here it is. silly self promo post #hehehe #chalcy stuff #dndads #dungeons and daddies #grant wilson #darryl wilson #^_^ okay byeeeee <3

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cha1cedony · 2 months

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Grant Wilson is shaped the same as Sans Undertale

#dndads #chalcy stuff

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cha1cedony · 8 months

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This is the best day ofbf my life I’m still emotional about “Marky” and “first you gotta fix that tie” and just everyhtign but also WHYA RE THEY ON THE TITANIC HELLO?

#sorry I’ll be nromal now #I knew this episode would break me though 😭😭 whew #Darryl & Grant stuff always gets me #the last like 10 minutes were soooo so good :’)#okay ramble over #chalcy stuff #dndads #dungeons and daddies spoilers #dndads spoilers #dungeons and daddies #I think I covered all those tags idk. brain nto working eight now #🫶🫶 augh

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cha1cedony · 7 months

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Grant Wilson (laser beam) (explosion) (landmine) (submarine missile) (sonic boom) (particle collision) (implosion) (machine gun) (nuclear meltdown) (chemical burn) (supernova) (naval mine) (solar flare) (another laser beam) (shock wave) (cannon fire) (explosion) (explosion) (REALLY BIG explosion)

#inexplicably found this in my drafts #?????????? hello??#is this the quality content y’all followed me for….#wow. so flattered #(/j)#chalcy stuff #grant wilson #<- only tagging this because.. silly

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cha1cedony · 21 days

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I think part of the reason Gothcleats has literally like consumed my mind since becoming canon is because I think about the Wilsons in the context of marriage/romantic relationships SO much?? Like. Being aro, I normally don’t like analyzing characters through the lens of romance and how they function with crushes or in relationships… It’s just not that interesting to me, and I don’t like basing a character’s personality or worth on their romantic (or sexual) dynamics with other characters. BUT THE WILSONS? OH BOY.

Ramble under the cut bc this got way too long

ALSO!!! Warning for discussions of sex! Not very in-depth. (It’s mostly just about Grant and Marco hooking up on the Titanic lol)

Anyway!

So so so much of the Wilsons’ identities in canon (and also to an even further extent in my fics/headcanons/mind hehe) are based on their marriages and immediate nuclear families. For Darryl, his entire life WAS his family. As far as we know, the same was the case for Frank, and even Robert Wilson was pretty much always talking about his gal Sal iirc. Like obviously bc this podcast is about family, BUT as your resident Wilsons expert (lmao), I want to put forth that the Wilsons in particular are about marriage!

I think the best example of this, actually, is in S2 when (on the night before Grant’s WEDDING), Darryl is talking to Grant about marriage and says that he and Grant both know that Carol and Marco respectively are too good for them. Which like. is also one of the most loaded and important statements to me in this whole goddamned podcast (and probably THE most important for the Wilsons) for many reasons. but I digress lolol

For Darryl and Grant both, there’s a perceived power imbalance in their marriages: not in an abusive way or anything, but rather as like… a measure of self-worth? For better or worse, their self-esteem and sense of self-worth are dependent on the people close to them, especially their romantic partners.

Darryl is constantly comparing himself to his father (as is Grant), but not just as a father—as a husband, too. Darryl tells Frank that he wishes he had the kind of relationship with Carol that Frank had with Darryl’s mom (which is. doubly ironic and sad bc Darryl’s mom was cheating on Frank, and he almost cheated on her, too. but I digress again oops)

But he compares himself to Carol, too, thinking she’s smarter and ‘better’ than him, and Grant especially compares himself a LOT to Marco, saying that Lincoln would be better off with Marco as a single dad and that Marco is ‘better’ than him in general. I find this extra interesting bc Frank does NOT do the same with Darryl’s mom; in fact, he (albeit light-heartedly) says she’s worse than him for having cheated—I don’t have transcripts in front of me, but something along the lines of “If you think that’s bad…”

And that’s why I think the best (and honestly only) way to really examine the Wilsons as characters/people is through the lens of their marriages.

So much of Darryl’s character especially is based solely on Carol. He’s been with her since she was 13-14 and he was 14-15, and so much of his personality and life is entirely formed around her. She’s his best friend. When he gets the idea that she might be cheating on him, or dead (as a mummy), he loses himself because, like. What else is he if not Carol’s best friend, her husband, the father of her son? Almost any time Darryl has any character development (that isn’t related to his dad or son), it’s about his romantic and sexual relationships and feelings: with Carol, with Sweet Matilda, with the fucking sex pit! Lmao

And he and Carol NOT divorcing after S1 is honestly the only thing that makes sense to me; what else would he do? Even if they never manage to fix it all, what else does he have? (The answer is all of his family and newfound friends, but he can’t see it that way; his self-worth centers around HER, remember; she’s BETTER than him.) So they stay together, and he dies believing she still loves him and will be happy to be unchangingly domestic him with him all over again in heaven, whether it’s true or not. Until then, he lives with a facade of her and their son (btw the fake personal heaven Grant is a kid, so Darryl is presumably reliving his life before the events of S1 without changing anything which… is sad for a whole other set of reasons) because Darryl can’t be alone; what is he alone? ALSO. Okay actually no. I won’t get on my aromantic Darryl soapbox right now, but….. expect it at a later date lol. This part got kinda rambly/headcanon-y oops.

A lot of Grant’s character is ABOUT his romantic feelings/relationships; he’s pretty much inextricable from them. His crush on Yeet was originally his whole character (aside from aloof gamer kid lol): Shy, easily embarrassed, extremely obvious about his crush, trying to impress this cute and cool guy. And then, by the time of the Supper Bowl arc, after the chimera and everything else, he becomes more complex, of course, but those feelings are still at the center of everything—because they’re his escape.

He tells Yeet the TWO things that make him feel alive are violence (whether done TO him or BY him) and his crush on Yeet. Grant’s romantic feelings become linked and equated with violence and rage (which. makes me feel crazy btw but anyway. Sorry I love Grant beyond words) and are the only temporary cures for his dissociation.

So when Grant is an adult, of course he relies on romance and sex like a crutch; it makes him feel safe and real, and it’s an intersection of love and violence that makes him feel at peace.

I know it’s a funny moment, but this always makes me think of him and Marco hooking up on the Titanic: Grant believes wholeheartedly that they are both going to die and that there’s nothing he can do about it (or maybe he just doesn’t even want to try to save them). When Marco finds out what’s happening and sort of scolds Grant for it, Grant is embarrassed and says it’s because he’s just “having so many feelings” (probably not exact words), which is also interesting because that’s pretty much the opposite of his original problem of dissociating.

But, between being overwhelmed and dissociative, at its core, the same root feeling is there: hopelessness and helplessness. Also, in his second conversation with Lincoln is S2, Grant says that violence and killing help with his self-worth, also (which ties back to what I said earlier about the connection between the Wilsons’ self-worth and their marriages). When Grant kills someone, all of his doubts disappear and “it all goes white.” If we’re looking at this through the lens that Grant equates violence and love/sex, it must give him that same feeling of… blissful ignorance? Emptiness.

This leads me to believe Grant copes with feelings of hopelessness and self-doubt not just through killing, but through romance and sex, too—like we see on the Titanic (lol)

There’s a lot more speculation I could do about both Darryl and Grant (and Frank, and even all their spouses), but I’m trying to leave it to at least canon-adjacent stuff. Anyway, let me finally circle this all back around to Lincoln lol…

It’s clear that Lincoln thinks romantic relationships are very important. He thinks marriage is beautiful (and, based on his dads’ marriage, that all marriages are good and happy lol—which is especially funny/interesting to me when you consider the several times it’s been said that something Lincoln did/does is the only thing holding their marriage together, and he’s the whole reason Grant didn’t call off the wedding in the first place). His dads have spent a lot of time educating him about love and sex and personal choice in both of those categories, which he references a few times, but, despite their emphasis on personal choice and not raising him Catholic but encouraging him to believe whatever he wants, Lincoln, at 16, is SURE that he will get married someday (and probably young, since he said to Normal that a few years is a long time to wait lol). The Wilsons’ generational insistence on marriage, romantic relationships, and nuclear families persists regardless of Catholicism, it seems :’)

Lincoln’s marriage to Chris in the simulation was also clearly really important to him—and to Chris, too, since they asked him never to remarry. I know the cast joked about this, but it does make me a little sad that Lincoln’s relationship with Chris seemed to be a lot like Darryl’s with Carol! Granted, we only know a like two things about Chris lol… also, I LIKE Chris and Carol! A lot! No hate to either of them <3 but also, that doesn’t mean those relationships aren’t strained, you know?

Anyway! A lot of Lincoln’s character can of course be attributed to his dads’ marriage, like I said before, but his marriage in the simulation was pretty big, too. Although he doesn’t talk about it a lot, it must have matured him, at least on the inside. He later references the job he had in the simulation, as well as being a dad. When he marries the other teens in space, he still thinks of Chris and what they would think. Once again, like Darryl and Grant, a lot of Lincoln’s decisions and beliefs are tied to his spouse—even if they’re not there or were never even real to begin with. Even once he’s married to the other teens, he takes it VERY seriously with pet names and domesticities.

All of this to say, it makes me wonder about his marriage to Scary in relation to his characterization as an adult! I’m not speculating that their relationship is bad or anything; I don’t want it to be and in fact VERY MUCH hope they’ve broken cycles. I just wonder how it affects him as a character (and Scary, too, of course)!

I was really excited when Gothcleats became canon not just because I shipped them, but mostly because I think the Wilsons are most interesting when looked at through their marriages. Lincoln has always put a really strong emphasis on marriage, and all of his pet names and PDA with Scary in the S2 epilogue confirmed to me that they take after the previous Wilson generations in GOOD ways, which makes me really happy.

I guess the main question I’m getting at is about how Lincoln perceives himself in this relationship. In the years soon after the end of S2, does he still feel that same emptiness and feeling of “not caring”? Does he try to cure it in the same way as his father, making “it all go white” with violence or sex or getting someone else to hold him together, or his grandfather, suppressing his depression and trying to will it away with love and close/‘happy’ romantic relationships? Does he find any of those things in Scary? Does he see himself as her equal, or does he feel inferior, like she’s smarter or more capable or ‘better’ than him? He did say multiple times in S2 that she’s the leader, she’s the one who knows what she’s doing, and he just wants to follow along because he doesn’t care anymore.

I hope not. I hope Lincoln and Scary are really happy together. I hope their self-worth is not determined by their partner. I guess that’s all this ramble is :’)

OKAY WHEW. I’m done. That was fun :D

Thanks for subjecting yourself to my ramblings omfg… please send me all of your Wilsons thoughts always. I’ve been wanting to write a long thing about this FOREVER… The aro Darryl fic(s) will come eventually. Also one about Grant coping (badly lol) with sex, which has been in the works forever bc I am bad at NSFW. But it’s fun. Uhhh I guess that’s all?

OH ALSO. If you want to read more of my post-canon Gothcleats thoughts, I published a 15k fic the other day about Jerry being their foster kid! Here you go :3

Hit the Ground Running - chalcedony

(It’s very fluffy and sweet—which is rare for me, but I promise I’m not lying! It’s silly and fun. And I do not speculate too much about Lincoln’s inner turmoil, I pinky promise)

If you read this all. Um…. Sorry? LMAO. Here is a gold star for you ⭐️

#should I maintag this monstrosity..#sure why not. there’s some decent Grant meta in there if you squint #LMAOO #dndads #dungeons and daddies #darryl wilson #grant wilson #lincoln li wilson #okay that’s good enough.. 😰#chalcy stuff #wilsons meta #<- I am gonna go back and tag all of my (more coherent) Wilsons ramblings with this hehe. organization wooo

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