#i CANNOT figure out how to do it

[robin-in-thewoods]

It's moomin time!

This is actually the concequence of my au-ish story idea brainrot. It follows moomintroll's journey through some epic piracy.

I may even do a mini comic. YES. I'm down THAT bad.

#also as a side note #i rll like this sorta direction that my art has taken #i just gave up with lineart #i CANNOT figure out how to do it #so i just #stopped #art #fanart #moomin #moomin fanart #moomins #moominvalley #moomintroll #snufkin #snufmin #sniff #little my #snorkmaiden #tove jansson

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

#mine #original #i cannot even begin to explain the anguish. the torment. this drawing has brought me #and i STILL dont like it. i simply cant work on it any longer i cant i cant. i must be rid of it #eating drywall as we speak #you want to know how many weeks ive worked on this. THREE. ALMOST. #you want to know how long my other cat drawings take me ?? 3 days absolute MAX #anyway. begon foul creature etc #i havent left extremely long tags for a long while hello everyone good lord there are many of you #we are going stratford this weekend very exciting #its going to be a little chilly and i want to take my new coat with me but issue its not chilly right now so i cant wear it onto the train #i do not think. i can. stuff it into my suitcase i dont think that will happen #i am sure i will figure it out #also. no longer vegan . eggs have won me over. egg egg egg. #im having to restrain myself SO hard from buying more wool i want a shawl i want a shawl #i want more cute DRESSES why are nice comfy dresses 10000£ #i look on vinted and its like dresses for popping your pussy in like not. the vibe im going for thank u #anyway. im going to eat crackers now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

he is just. so shaped. so so so So shaped.

#im Attempting some new tactics #it doesnt really show! but i am! #starting to fuck around w/ watercolor brushes... #holding him up like a little bee and saying I Just Think He's Neat! #< i jest! i think much much more about him #that i cannot share without devolving into an incoherent mess! #so. i just think he's neat :]c #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #frank frankly #im also trying... to do... (dramatic thunderclap) BACKGROUNDS #i know i know. very scary. they're still very messy #but... i like objects? i like Things? i like to look at a page and see put together clutter! #maximalism babey! #which is deadly when you're an artist methinks. but. whats one more agony added onto the rest! #it will be a while until i figure out how to Accomplish that put-together clutter.... #im still bad at colors! im trying to swim before i can walk! Yikes!

[greenrow]

The one thing they all have in common

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin art #my art #what do you mean this isn't how it went down? #i ran to make this as soon as i saw the og picture #still cannot figure out how to draw any of them

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Unhinged clown robot with the personality of an alarm clock [affectionate]

#my ârt #fnaf daycare attendant #moondrop #look there's something about this I'm not happy with but I physically cannot figure out how to fix it #i futzed around with it for so long my iPad ran out of battery just to make me stop #fnaf #anyway look guys I figured out how to actually to digital paintings :D #in a way that's fun at least #*yeets art directly at you* #I know I keep saying this but I might actually have time to do more drawing this quarter

[coolsvilleprincess]

They're off to see the wizard! The wonderful wizard of Oz!!

I actually started this last month and then got burnt out and didn't finish it until now but whatever I FINISHED IT!! I finished watching Scooby Doo and Guess Who last month and there's a Wizard of Oz parody in the last episode and I just knew I had to do fanart, a legal requirement if you will.

I kept Shaggy, Fred and Velma's costumes from the episode the same but I thought Daphne and Scooby deserved costumes that were a bit more personal too. But who would the wizard in question be?? Well don't worry because I drew art for that too!!

I just can't stop thinking about a proper direct to DVD scooby WOZ parody film and how Van Ghoul should be the wizard, like in my head it's perfect.

#my art #scooby doo #scooby doo fanart #daphne blake #fred jones #shaggy rogers #velma dinkley #mystery incorporated #scooby doo and guess who #vincent van ghoul #mystery inc #the background took so long god it was so hard to figure out #im a not background girlie I mostly do character art so I figured the best way to learn was to draw something I like #idk i looked at other scooby background arts from trick or treat and the other modern movies but I still cannot BG paint I fear #turned out pretty alright though Im happy with it #mad props to background painters cause idk how they do it well I suppose they both know how to do it and enjoy doing it so thats how #but whatever the point is that it impresses me as I drew one and burnt out #but I LOVED drawing that sandwich like listen shaggy and scooby had a point to make when they make those things

[inkskinned]

what is considered "beautiful" by society is inevitably sexist, racist, ableist, classist, transphobic, and bigoted. it targets and attacks any perceived difference, and it particularly villainizes women of color while co-opting aesthetics; as if features and cultural norms can be worn as accessories.

and the scary thing! you can see all of these things, know them to be true logically, and also know that you are treated better if you are perceived as beautiful. if you have ever been treated as "ugly", you know exactly how much society reviles you if you don't manage to scamper along and perform to their rules.

and how are you supposed to balance that? do you want a nose job to fix your broken nose, or have you just recently been seeing videos about how many people look better after nose jobs. do you want to lose weight to feel good, or is it that when you lose weight people treat you better. do you want to wear this outfit, or is it just the thing that's least likely to get you harassed. do you want to get lip injections for your reasons or is your whole reason that you don't feel beautiful unless you get those lip injections?

and the definitions shift. the goals get more specific. in the way that you only become aware of your tongue when someone mentions it; parts of your body are introduced as problems. i had never heard the term "hip dip" until about a year ago - and it was in the context of how to get rid of this. i'm 30, i know this shit is invented, and yet! i still find that strange voice saying but do you think someone is going to notice?

how the fuck am i supposed to say "this is my genuine choice i am making for my body" when i also know that years of my life have been spent socializing me to accept this as my inevitable fate? how do i know i'm actually doing this out of love for my body - or am i doing it for how i want others to see me, which will be lovely enough to feel loved? how am i supposed to recover when my unhealthy habits are seen as self-discipline but if i relax i'm openly mocked for "letting time win"? how the fuck am i supposed to say "i'm doing it for me" when i'm also very aware that i'm doing it to stop myself from being teased or demeaned? is it my choice if the other option is being bullied?

we are living in a hostage negotiation - either consent to the demands or spend the rest of your life being treated like you're a despicable person.

#i also have things to say about how gender plays into this #but it became like 1450 pages #so i saved the rest in a draft #btw? hip dips used to be like valued in the 90s & 2000s during the ultra thin craze #which is so fucking wild to me bc i am old enough to REMEMBER that people WANTED them #bc they're literally the shape of your bones. they're your hipbones showing. & you literally CANNOT 'target' that area #that would be like targeting your elbow. it's a fucking JOINT. #it is a place where you either do or do not carry mass. the lower ur bodyfat percent and the higher ur thigh & glute strength #the less that you will carry weight there #which is even MORE fucking cruel bc !!! the type of people who are already trying to improve themselves helplessly #are going to be aware of their body! and ur literally GIVING them an insecurity they LITERALLY do not decide!!!! #“it rounds out ur figure” here's something my guy! maybe people shouldn't have to look uniform and sleek !!! #maybe you just want to fuck a manatee !!! #if we're really at the point that you have to apologize for LITERALLY HAVING BONES..... #like sorry my legs had to connect somewhere in my form :( i will hide that from u. my apologies ur honor #(fashion bloggers gagging bc there's evidence other people have skeletons)

[hellenhighwater]

Hmm....how hard can large scale mosaic possibly be? I feel like my plans for the room I'm working on could use something really shiny and impactful and maybe I want to make a fold-down cutting table and maybe I want to do it out of mosaic, even though that will be ungodly heavy.

It's a fun idea. I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

I haven't done mosaic since a one-off high school art class but I feel like the component skills are ones I already have, sooooo....

I have been keeping to a blue and gold celestial theme for both my guest room and my art workspaces, because if and when I move those spaces are likely to be combined. Cutting table, even though it would be for a different room, falls in the same vein, so I'm thinking something with a nice dark night sky and maybe some branches or leaves...

#if nothing else #I am likely to bleed less on my project than I did on the one in high school. #i sliced my arm open and bled profusely and never quite got all of it out #the third bedroom in my house is basically a junk room rn because the layout is awful #and i have been rotating that room in my head for weeks trying to see how it fits together in a functional way #it's going to still be storage but also my digital workspace/home for my modern tools #aka four ink printers #the laminator the 3d printer the laser engraver the cutting mats the paper storage #and also random crap like luggage and wrapping paper. #i think im settling on a library/bindery vibe #so loooots of built ins. #on a budget level i cannot afford to start this room for a while yet #and the same is also true on a time management scale #but for each project like this I tend to prefer to have everything fully realized in my head before i start #so im doing that now #mentally putting together lumber cut lists and figuring out if im going to have to buy a jigsaw

[brother-emperors]

cassius and trebonius are interesting because there's about three or four different variations on how their dynamic falls into place that exist in my mind, and all are equally compelling to me. like, does cassius approach him first? or is it trebonius that seeks him out. maybe cicero is the one who initiates the first meeting! I could make full comics about each of them if only there was time.

this one, however, is much more balanced in that they don't really seek each other out for conspiracy, but conspiracy creeps in on it's own. brutus is a character here, theoretically. like, I thought about him when I was writing this, and cicero is here for two panels.

also, it's funny to me if they both stay up late complaining about caesar for six hours straight because caesar fucked them over on the political ladder in comparable ways, but also (in reference to (Plutarch, Brutus 8)):

cassius, 4am: and he took my fucking lions, man. trebonius, immediately: do you want me to kill him for you

it's like. aughghhhhh. weeping. wailing. can we talk about how trebonius is identified in association with cassius here.

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War, Gareth C. Sampson

and in turn, it is cassius who will act as retribution personified in the matter of trebonius' death

Philippi and Perusia, Ronald Syme

ko-fi⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

#im going to do something really unwell with them in bad governance actually. once i figure out. how to filipino-ify trebonius' name #or. hm. do i have a cayo yet. maybe trebonius can be the single cayo #anyway. caesar humiliating both cassius and trebonius. cassius of 'cannot stand a tyrant' fame and trebonius of 'look at everything #i did for you' dedication. hmm. HM. this conspiracy was always going to happen #it is funny to me that ive voltaire-ed brutus in my own stuff even tho i have written at length about brutecass and they have their own tag #its just. aughghghh. trebonius.........cassius!!!!!!! (head in hands) #gaius trebonius #gaius cassius longinus #roman republic tag #drawing tag #komiks tag #cicero

[moonsun2010]

Ms. Mina Murray, soon to be Harker

Other portraits:

Mina | Jonathan | Dracula | Lucy | Lucy...? | Lucy (Final) | Jonathan (3 Oct) | Mina (3 Oct) | Dracula (Final)

#my art #dracula #dracula daily #mina murray #mina harker #id actually painted this a few weeks ago dunno why i didnt post #planning to do more portraits for a few more of the charas #quite fun to search up john singer sarget portraits and rip off (or attempt to) his style...how does he do hair Like That #also i cannot for the life of me figure out what the cloth thing wrapped around the neck is called

[desatu]

never forgive me. never forget me.

original prompt & following reblogs by @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 | ao3 ficlet

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dcxdp #cant remember which tag is the right one so we are doing them all #my art #also i FINALLY fuckin finished this ive been working on it for like. #nearly three weeks. i checked. #the roses turned out so good. i am very smug about them #this will be the first written thing ive ever posted to ao3 i think. (not just a comic its actually got SENTENCES. how exciting) #edit; added the link to the ao3 work. also cannot figure out why there is a tiny white strip on two sides of the image #i shall live in shame for-ever #(also im too tired to figure out why tf its happening) #edit: i figured out why the FREAKING LINE WAS THERE. and fixed it. idfk if itll show up in the prior reblogs but idc it is FIXED

[otaku553]

Some sketches of the new eepy

#ryuunosuke naruhodou #tgaa #dgs #ryuunosuke’s hair is so shape. it’s so much fun to draw #face.? I cannot figure it out #how do faces work #what even is my art style #anyways after I get over the ‘draw the character 10 times’ hurdle I’m sure I’ll be more comfortable drawing him #I really want to draw him with the full cap and cloak of his uniform more #and also ryutaro. #I need to draw ryutaro.

[coyoteclan]

Big TW for pet loss

Hey, clangen tumblr and those who just enjoy the silly cats on this blog. I know it's been a little bit of time since my last update, but unfortunately during the past few months, I have been caring for my closest friend, Comet.

She's been my best friend for 15 whole years, and on February 9th of 2024, I'm sad to say that she has passed. I won't lie when I say that this is one of the hardest posts I've ever made, but I want to continue this blog in her honor. Normally, I have a terrible habit of just letting projects like this slip by me and gather dust; however Comet was meant to play an integral part within the blog to immortalize her, and I refuse to let something meant just for her to go to waste.

I want to thank you all first of all for being such an amazing community. I've genuinely had so much joy come of this blog, and it pains me that I let it go stagnant for as long as I have. There are 568 of you now, which is so extremely wild to me; but I hope that from now on, you can all love Comet as much as I did, even if as a memory.

I hope to return to posting content both here and on my main, @mxssacre , but for now I still need time to grieve and come to terms with the loss of someone that was so incredibly intertwined with everything I've done since I was 9 years old.

Thank you for everything Comet, my heart, my soul, my love.

More of my favorite photos of her beneath the cut.

It's hard to choose favorites out of the thousands of photos I've taken of her over the years, but I hope these do her justice to show what an amazing being she was. I hope you're hunting your toy mice in the stars, Comet.

#Yeah this is a not so great post I'm sorry #I won't lie to y'all I've been sobbing my eyes out for the past week but it's helping me come to terms to write about her #I wanted to draw something for her in order to post this but ngl I just can't right now #I will be okay for the record. it's just an extremely difficult adjustment for me and I really do love this community #Seriously though. I've seen the hundreds of notifications I get from this blog weekly. I cannot thank you enough for the love I've felt #tw animal death #tw pet death #tw pet loss #I'm not sure exactly how to tag this but I hope the warning at the beginning helps #I literally finished writing a memorial for her before writing this post so clearly I'm a little in my feels lmao #I tried finding some of her sillier photos to add but there are so many. I might post more on my main later when I try figuring out- #-my memorial tattoo #hug your cats extra tight for me ❤

[romeoisalesbian]

I did a quick sketch of Aziraphale and felt contractually obligated to also sketch one Anthony J. Crowley

#good omens #good omens fanart #go fanart #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable lovers #they are. Like salt & pepper. You simply cannot have one without the otjer #slowly figuring out how to do digital art…. #Tumble has killed my quality and colors a little #I must confess I spent MUCH longer on this than azirapjale I’m sorry Michael sheen #I think my sketch didn’t do aziraphale justice so he may be redrawn soon

[frecklystars]

Protective bf mode activated

#ryan gosling #drive 2011 #drive #driver #drive driver #💕♬♪ ♡ I do nothing but think of you - ̗̀💙🔨 ̖́- #my art #made this awhile ago when I was feeling unsafe (but I’m better now) #drawing this helped so fucking much 😭😭😭 #cannot for the life of me figure out how to draw him but I’m trying

[mewtwo24]

Something about Hua Cheng's expression here is killing me--I know this is supposed to be a delicate moment of reassurance but the pure hater energy radiating off of him is just immaculate

#tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #words cannot express how much I love hua cheng being a hater #hua cheng in this pic is that energy when you keep spamming the A button when an npc you don't like won't stop talking #like his face when lang qianqiu keeps going on and on about his parents meeting an untimely unjust and grisly end #is so 'it was hundreds of years ago and it wasn't even gege's fault for fucks sake grow up' #'leave my goddamn wife alone he raised you with love and diligence' #'you had your bloody revenge what more do you want. figure it out far away from us.' #spoken like a true ghost king who slaps eming every single time it expresses a single inconvenient emotion he has #every day i have to resist the urge to gush about hc he's just hilarious and peak every single time i love him #no notes just banger after banger after banger #that's the face of a man who was orphaned as a child and clawed his way through life to survive and keep his loved one alive + well #a bastion of unmoving strength for 800 years #unmoved by the whining of a young man born with everything and mourning the loss of his innocence way past his expiration date #10/10 hua cheng you've done it again #hc said 'oh? a traumatic life event? we have several dozens of those git gud' #and honestly i mean that with no malice i just feel like lang qianqiu is old enough to start parsing the world in a more nuanced way ;;;;; #as much as xl thought lying to him was the best outcome hc was right--the truth d o e s matter--and not just to absolve xl #its also about giving lang qianqiu closure and moving on. about qi rong facing the consequences of his actions #so much of what is wrong with the heavenly court is the obsession with maintaining appearances over being sincere #and so much of what hc adores about xl is that xl was never really interested in those empty words and empty sentiments #he truly wanted people to prosper and live well no matter the cost to himself