#how do you do backgrounds???

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

#unforth rambles #this wasn't really prompted by anything #I'm just sick and tired and distractable #or i should say it wasn't prompted by anything recent or that happened now #like no one has disrespected me #but as i hit the point that it's regularly taking me an hour plus every single day to queue things for the danmei art blogs #i just think of all the times people go WAIT YOU RUN ALL OF THOSE??? BY YOURSELF??? #like i just don't think a lot of people realize how much work it is to really do background fandom labor long term #and i appreciate places like rec blogs and networks and events and just everyone #y'all are awesome #thank you so much

[forecast0ctopus]

we continue to draw that old man………

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek tos fanart #star trek fanart #leonard mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #doctor mccoy #you know how it goes. #oh i’ll do some flats for fun #no it looks boring add some light #but where is the light from. add background #it compounds

[wolfram-but-art]

drew one of the memes in this person's post again

reblogs > likes

#did i put way too much effort into what is essentially a shitpost? #yes #do i regret it? #no #tf2 #tf2 fanart #engineer tf2 #sniper tf2 #spy tf2 #soldier tf2 #tf2 demoman #i suck at drawing backgrounds so this was me improvising #bus i think it actually turned out pretty good. lmk what you think #also i'm so proud out of how the fire turned out #sniper's legs were so hard to do FEUSIGFYESFSE #anywyas i'm done rambling :3 #i'm gonna go do the sniper teeth ask next

[ghafahey]

I want to stand with you in front of all the Daturma Ox things to come.

JESPER FAHEY and WYLAN HENDRICKS in Shadow and Bone ( 2021- )

#shadowandboneedit #sabedit #sixofcrowsedit #shadowandbonesource #shadow and bone #sab spoilers // #bare chest // #wesper #my edits #*mysoc #delivered! #still not sure what theyre gonna do with them in upcoming seasons but u know what having them as an established couple #while the rest of the crows dance around their romantic dramas is not the worst possible scenario #and kind of funny to consider if this is how things would have gone in an alternate universe without weeks of annoyingly flirting #and first kisses gone wrong etc etc #also their scenes are cute and all but the best is kit&jack delivering whenever theyre just in the background adding little moments #lets ignore how you cannot make cohesive sets of this show at all bc the colorings are horrendous #*6k

[deep-space-lines]

okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.

yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything

((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))

and then they fucked nasty the end

#my art #my writing #who fuckin sent this. fuck you. come off anon so i can kick your ass. (the thoughts this ask sparked consumed almost 3 days of my life) #i dont know what this even is #i just work here #disclaimer i don't come from a particularly religious background so like. #most of my knowledge of christianity comes from when my mom sent me to vbs for cheap babysitting in middle school or absorbed via osmosis #so i have no idea what im talking about except for when i do! hope this helps #i love how i say that like i expect biblical scholars to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction #if you are a biblical scholar and you want to tear apart my ultrakill gay fanfiction please know i am not going to read the bible for this #ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #gabv1el #blood #love tagging ultrakill stuff with blood. hmm yes the floor here is made out of floor

[mienar]

remnants of where we have been

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#artists on tumblr #animated illustration #animated gif #digital art #2d animation #environment art #environment illustration #backgrounds #background illustration #art backgrounds #night sky #constellation #cozy #myillust #hellooo! just wanted to drop by and share this piece with you! #there were a combination of ideas here: i wanted to do a glowing cityscape of its city lights and have it softly blur into the night sky #the title is also a big description for this i guess - 'remnants of where we have been' is like how the city lights were where humans were #the clutter around the character shows the remnants or the past of what they did #the map-like contours of the skies are like where the stars have travelled #idk i guess it's something that i think about often and it makes my heart ache sometimes;; #anyways! i really hope you'll like this! thank you so much for reading through this if you have and for your support as always c':

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 279

Now Danny didn’t mean to make a Bootube channel. He’d meant to send that sleep deprived ramble to Tucker, but he had clicked on the wrong app and yeah. Apparently people enjoy his space rambles- or it could have been the ghost blob-cats that had decided to flop onto him. (Honestly he wasn’t surprised they would start to mimic the shapes of things in their surroundings)

Tucker? Found it hilarious, as did Sam and Val and… um, okay this has become their shared channel now, nice. Though there are some strange comments on some of the videos. Really, what do they mean green sky and crazy tech???

#Prompts #Danny Phantom #Tucker does coding stuff & how to fix design flaws in everyday technology #Sam has a gardening & eco-awareness playlist #Valerie has stuff with All Sorts of Weapons & a mini blog of Cujo #Danny does Space stuff and he loves it #Everyone is freaking out because the videos aren’t only showing up in their world but other ones too #Also all of them are revealing a bunch of stuff that Humanity Doesn’t Know Yet #Thank you weird time stuff of the Zone #Space Core Danny #Life Core Sam #Storm Core Tucker #Metal Core Val #Are they roommates or together who knows #Ellie shows up in the background sometimes too #They do a lot of stuff in the background of each others videos #Including their food fighting #DCxDP #DPxDC #DP x Marvel #DPxBHA #Danny Phantom Crossover #Do as Many Crossovers as you Want

[lilybug-02]

Bribed with Chocolate. The way it should be.

Part 22 || First || Previous || Next

--Full Series--

More to come as this is a two-parter. But you know how I am with schedules.

Bonus:

I think this was an equally possible reaction from Chara.

#Chara and Azzy have another talk #Finally Chara shows their mischievous side. #and Azzy knows Chara's language well #my art #deltarune chara timeline #art #bread #deltarune #ngl im so happy with how that chocolate shake came out. I want to eat it so bad #yay 6 pages of taking :') i hope you guys like that lmao #Glad I got this one done in basically a month and a week! Hah. I'm trying me best :') Halloween.. Exams and a ton of other things came up #surprisingly these backgrounds weren't terrible to do... I mean took more than two hours but you know what I mean #i struggled with how to frame the background though. I actually liked drawing it. But because both the background and my characters-- #--are super colorful I have to make sure I don't muddle the whole page. #Ive been thinking of doing the overworld in black and white recently... may help me actually finish the comic lol. idk i may make a poll #gonna try and get the new part out in maybe a month again? sorry. Thanksgiving and Christmas get me exhausted.

[rocketbirdie]

i feel like i failed you.

#me? sobbing my eyes out about these two again? it's likelier than you think! #featuring an exercise in actually doing backgrounds and lighting for once! hooray!! #also i don't actually know what the official name of the track is yet. so let's just call it zack in sector 5 for now lol #gets the point across #ffvii #final fantasy vii #ffvii rebirth #zack fair #cloud strife #zakkura #my art <3 #my music <3 #phew. #this. uhh #took a while. #which is to say i started AND finished both the music and the art TODAY #do not recommend! don't be like me. take breaks lol #in my defense! i had an idea and i NEEDED to get it out of my body or else i would die. you know how it goes. #anyway uhh. enjoy!

[chamm0y]

RUMBLE FRENZY WHOEVER WHAT DID YOU DO???

that one tiktok audio bc i thought it was really funny (go watch the tiktok i love stopmotion lmao)

@vivificanousprime

#tf #shockwave #soundwave #wavewave #tf rumble #tf frenzy #maccadam #transfromers #logical proposals #id do a tiktok too but... idk how #plz imagine theres a computer behind shockwave lmaoaoao i got lazy at the end #backgrounds are my enemy #backgrounds and shockwaves canon cable #curse you prime models #chammoyart

[ph-cutie]

trustworthy interviewees

nonshiny version belowcut

#these were gonna be little doodles for a bigger project but then i got turbofocused you know how it is. #disco elysium #evrart claire #joyce messier #my art #wahhh. im still not sure i chose a forgivable shade of orange for the background #again yeah you cantell these were meant to be complementary to something else but i like little demon ev too much to keep him in drafts #theyy do need more polish but if i leave this file another day itll start rotting. you understand

[blackkatdraws2]

The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

#tsp blank scripts au #non canonical art #shitpost #this is fr how people be drawing narrator and stanley.... narrator being way too handsome and stanley as a background character naahh.. #honestly i just drew him like that because it was funny but then i got too attached to it like an idiot aghh #The Narrator (Black) is an entirely different made-up species originating from the ancient Arctic north #long before the Crystal Empire was even built. #The old one's tail only ever wags whenever Stanley is around. You can clearly tell who the favorite pony is #Imagine Black showing Stanley courtship behaviors like rolling on his back #showing his stomach to him #sliding his wings on his chin #trotting like a dancing mare around him #and generally just showing off to show Stanley that he's interested in him... #But because of the species difference (and because Stanley is one airheaded fella) #Stanley doesn't understand what Black is doing other than he looks beautiful while doing it. #the narrator (Black) can read Stanley's thoughts btw #so he knows what that silly guy is thinking about :) #tsp au #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #mlp #my little pony #mlp oc #my little pony oc #tsp #tspud #tsp narrator #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #tsp stanley

[spllwys]

endless ghifs 11/? ⛧ source — "I don't wanna end like this—"

#but the sting in the way you kisss meee #we are back to ghostposting! #i should be working but the fire alarm went off in the library so what can you do #work at home? nahh #lgifs #alltag #eg_series #ghost #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #nameless ghouls #the source material was soo crusty i am actually thrilled with how these came out all things considered #added a bit of noise which is smth i started doing for s///up//ern- i cant say it #did not do many of those. just made some things for myself then ducked out #forgot about that trick until today #it really helps i recommend #just 1% to kind of hide the grainy smoke background #i don't know what i'm talking about ngl

[keitorinrose]

My day be so fine and then boom i think about branch's past

#i do not like drawing backgrounds 💀 #HE WAS SO YOUNG WHEN HIS GRANDMA DIED #AND THERE WAS NO ONE TAKING CARE OF HIM #him having a hug time bracelet my mind immediately went to angst #how must it have felt to hear the bracelet ping and you look around and then you realise you're all alone. #i feel like that's a big reason why he stopped wearing it because it would just remind him every hour that he is on his own #sorry for rambling but everytime i think about branch i go insane #dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls branch #trolls rosiepuff #kei's art

[frilled-cheese-sandwich]

📻 🌹

"Oh I'm just kidding, I know you're an ace in the hole," "A what now?"

Hehe they're besties 🤗☕😋

A little collab I did with @flynnarts! 😎 We did a swap, I drew lineart for Alastor and colored Rosie and Flynn drew Rosie and colored Alastor. Flynn did awesome on both parts of the swap, and they've got a lot of cool stuff on their blog too!!

#hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #rosie hazbin hotel #radiorose #art collab #flynn is super chill go look at their blog #good job dude 👍 #ooo and I also did some scribbly painting for the background #I used a reference and colored in the main parts of the background and blurred it #that way #you have to look at it to see that I don't know how to do the things #foolproof plan 💯 #frillve

[aphantimes]

wooo sonic x redraw yAAYYYY

ty @nights-nonsensical-ramblings for picking a screenshot!! this was fun :D

ref:

#can you tell idk how to do water #i was too lazy to look up how so i just did whatever LOL #i dont do backgrounds okay gfshjsdfg #knuckles the echidna #sonic the hedgehog #sonic x #redraw #aaphant art