#i’ve never done a redraw before :) i like it!!

[tonariofjananda]

I want you to be in my future!

#Tonari #Tonari of Jananda #Tonari Dalton #My Art #To Your Eternity #Fumetsu No Anata E #To You The Immortal #Volume 6 cover redraw!!! yay!!!! #to celebrate her being OK in the manga! #but mostly to celebrate my name change #and to greet people onto my new art accounts! #bc I’ve made a bunch of new ones! even one on Twitter which I’ve never done before #and they’re all.. named.. cough.. anyway #I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again you can expect one kind of content on these accounts… #also feels like I’m deadnaming her still using the Tonari Dalton tag but people will probably still look for her there so tag I must #… ahhh…. the water reflecting on her was the most fun part to do digitally… #they kinda look like Fushi’s roots too so I… /)//(\ 💖 #anyway love y’all! have a great day! ✌️

[wqnwoos]

minghao knows he’s in a mood again, but frankly, he couldn’t care less.

his whole day had just been wrong, and he’d set about it with a frown marring his features and a biting undertone to everything he’d said. it just happened sometimes — one of those bad, awful days where nothing goes right and it feels like everything’s against you.

it was when he snapped at jun that he finally gave in, retired to moping in his bedroom. his roommate had said he understood — jun had plenty of his own bad days, after all — but minghao still feels awful about it. he’s still too irritated to apologise — he will do it, though, he promises himself.

for now, he’s thrown himself on the covers of his bed, staring at the ceiling listlessly, and blasting music through his earphones — loud, but not so loud that he doesn’t catch the soft sound of the doorknob when you twist it, and slide yourself into the room.

you do it almost apologetically, a regretful smile directed towards him. you don’t even speak, just make your way over to his side.

minghao wishes he could be annoyed, but he never can be, at you. you’re his best friend, and maybe something more that he’s not quite willing to accept yet. it’s lurking, though, at the bottom of his chest, and it pushes up every so often — like now, as you take a seat on the edge of the bed, almost as if you’re unsure; uncertain if you’re welcome here or not.

you always are, but he doesn’t quite know how to say that yet.

instead he thinks about how he knows jun must have called you, just as he knows you, too good for this world, dropped whatever you were doing to come and talk to him.

not that you’re doing much of that — talking, he means. you’ve only flopped beside him on the white duvet; and yet it’s enough to relax a little of the tension in his limbs.

it’s so easy to be around you.

it’s so easy to offer you an earbud without even looking. it’s so easy to close his eyes, slip his hand into yours. it’s so easy to interlace his fingers with yours too, squeeze gently, keep his eyes shut, pretend.

and then suddenly it gets hard. when you shift slightly, card a hand through his dark hair like you’ve always been doing it — you’ve never done it before, he hopes you do it forever — and you blur the lines even more. that makes it harder, harder to breathe with your careful hand against his cheek, the smell of your conditioner against his lips, he can’t breathe, he thinks he loves you.

you move back slightly. the moment is gone, he can breathe, but the lines are still blurred and you can’t unblur them. god knows he doesn’t want to redraw them.

your hand slips back into his, and squeezes. his eyes flutter open — yours are shut — your breath catches — minghao realises, then.

“oh,” he whispers softly. and it’s his turn to brush your cheek with slender fingers, but he’s always been the braver of you two — he leans, he brushes his lips against your cheek too.

you might not be able to call it a kiss, but maybe you could call it a confession.

an / guys i think this might be one of my fav things i’ve ever written which is so annoying because it starts off kind of badly 😭 but also it’s 12:17am and i’ve slept like 4 hours max in the last 24 hours so my judgement may be misguided. idk. possible deletion when i wake up ⁉️

#minghao fluff #minghao comfort #minghao x reader #seventeen x reader #seventeen fluff #seventeen comfort #minghao fic #minghao imagines #minghao scenarios #seventeen fic #seventeen imagines #seventeen scenarios

[gaybae1021]

Day 12: Is this love?

Aka, a Garrance lore dump!

Garroth was assigned to help Laurance get acquainted with Phoenix Drop during his recovery from the nether. Aph thought it would be good for Laurance to have someone else to talk to aside from her and Zoey, and thought him and Garroth would get along due to their shared guard experience.

Laurance is pretty down during their first few meetings, but he starts to perk up as his health improves, and he grows more trusting of Garroth guiding him through the village. It doesn’t take long for Laurance to start flirting with him, though Garroth writes it off as him just being friendly, even as he’s lowkey reciprocating the advances.

During one of their “totally platonic outings” Laurance opens up about his past: He was born in O’Khasis, and had no memories of his birth parents because they were arrested when he was a baby. He spent a few years in an O’Khasis orphanage, but quickly transitioned to living on the streets, experiencing first-hand the struggles and cruelty O’Khasis hid from the rest of the region. It’s why he’s so slow to trust; after having no one to rely on but himself for so many years, it’s difficult to be so reliant on others while he adjusts to blindness.

Garroth, while not revealing everything (for obvious reasons), also opens up; he had run away from home because he didn’t like the person his family was pushing him to be, and he’s still struggling to be his own person.

When Garroth drops him back off at his home, Laurance kisses him on the cheek before going inside.

(Old art, didn’t feel like redrawing the scene)

Garroth.exe has stopped working.

Garroth avoids Laurance the next few days. He feels awful about it, but he can’t pin down how he’s feeling, and he feels talking to Laurance would just make it more confusing. Eventually, he gets frustrated enough to go and talk with Aphra:

G: I need to ask you a question.

A: Sure? Go for it.

G: Hypothetically, if someone kissed you, and afterwards you felt like you were gonna throw up, what does that mean?

A: …like throw up from disgust, anxiety, or butterflies?

Garroth shrugs.

A: Irene help us. Come inside.

It takes a long conversation with some input from Zoey (Aroace Aph is somewhat limited in the advice she can give), but they eventually get to the root of the issue:

G: I didn’t have a say in anything growing up. Everyone just told me what to do, told me what I wanted, and I went along with it. I thought I was finally getting better, but it’s like I’m still waiting for an approval that doesn’t exist anymore! I’m so confused, I can’t even tell what I want.

A: Well, that might be a good thing to tell Laurance. It’s okay to be confused, but it’s not okay to just ignore him while you work through this. You should let him know how you’re feeling, even if you’re not sure the feelings match.

Garroth goes home to think a bit more before leaving to find Laurance. When he opens his door, Laurance is already standing there, about to knock.

L: I just wanted to say sorry for the other day. I feel like I crossed a boundary, I should have asked before trying that.

He talks faster, clearly flustered.

L: I thought we were on the same page, but I guess I’ve never done this without being able to see so maybe I misjudged how comfortable you were, and either way I’ve really liked talking to you and I don’t want things to be awkward so if you just want to pretend it never happened I’d be fine with that-

…

G: Please? For real? I need to know.

#aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #garrance #aphtober #aphtober 2023 #mcd #minecraft diaries #mcd rewrite #aphmau mcd #mcd garroth #mcd laurance #aphmau garroth #aphmau laurance #garroth ro'meave #laurance zvhal #garroth x laurance

[jollyfang]

It’s my birthday!!!! 🥳

It’d mean a lot to me if y’all could show some extra love to this post/art. Not just cuz it’s my birthday but because this is my favorite drawing I’ve done all year. And this is sort of a birthday present to myself, posting this particular fanart. Which sounds a bit weird, but! I cannot think of a better day to post art of my favoritest of favorite boys.

So here’s Sam 😊

I finished coloring this about two weeks ago, but I told myself I wasn’t gonna post it until my birthday so it’s just been sitting there in my files waiting for today. Coloring this piece was what got me through all the Quinn videos, especially the background. Needed something calming to deal with the stress haha. I’ve never drawn clouds before so the background is kinda wonky but I just thought it looked pretty and decided to keep it. (and I kinda thought about redrawing my darlin and giving them a matching background but we’ll see what happens lol)

Anyway, I love Sam to pieces. So much so that my sister (who is not part of the fandom) knows all about him cuz I apparently talk about him too much 😂 I have no idea why but I’m just fiercely attached to him and Darlin. I’ve never spent as long on a piece as I did on this one; but I wanted to get my precious cowboy absolutely perfect because it’s what he deserves.

That’s all I’ve got for this post. I hope you guys love it as much as I do! Like I said, any comments/likes/reblogs will be much appreciated. But of course, as usual, no pressure and I hope y’all have an awesome day!😊

#redacted audio #redacted asmr #redacted fanart #redactedverse #my art #fanart #redacted sam #first time posting anything on my birthday #but I figured why not?

[kinqarou]

0K HII!!! Y0UR ART STYLE IS S0 C00L AND Y0U ARE A HUGE INSP0 F0R ME !! H0W DID Y0U FIND Y0UR STYLE? LIKE WHAT MADE Y0U DECIDE UR STYLE WAS WHAT U WERE G0ING F0R? (s0rry if I s0und weird im n0t g00d at talking ): )

UHHH HONESTLY IDK ??? it’s always changed and warped over the years i sorts just add to it what i think looks good at the time ? most of my inspirations as of lately that have affected my style are sena and neil (no idea what their @s are now), kiana mai @kianamaiart, vik @reviked and zee @treehairr — i generally just steal bits and pieces of their styles that i like and add it to mine, but sometimes my style will just morph on its own i guess ? it typically happens when i get into a new media or make a new oc , since it means my style has to adjust to accomodate for the unfamiliar designs. my latest example of this is rysparks 🫶 ⭣⭣⭣

never drawn sparks before and ryan just got a redesign soooo l’l of this is unfamiliar territory. this is the first sketch i’ve done of them both that i’m actually completely happy with ^_^ that’s a bit off topic from the q but my point is i didn’t really Decide on a style i guess ? i hop from inspiration to inspiration and my style fluctuates with me as i go; it’s always just been pretty fluid i suppose.

for some comparison, here’s something i drew when i first got into tmc, vs it’s redraw from literally only two months later ⭣

like what on earth even happened there . if i redrew this again again it would look completely different again (which . is tempting…………)

#asks #rysparks cameo #my actual answer is i never know what i’m doing #if something looks good i keep it #if it doesn’t i replace it with something else #shrug emoji #ie the way i draw face shapes now i just stole from sena

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

art by em year in review 2023!

for the fourth time, i present to you a selection of the art i did this year! this definitely was the Year of Understanding Procreate, and i think it paid off. as usual, reflections under the cut.

january: i saw @malcolm-f-tucker tag a picture of abigail thaw with a comment about a theresa faceclaim and it left no survivors, i.e. i decided that theresa should have greying hair and did not look back. this was from when i was still trying to figure out what brush to use for lineart in procreate. luckily i had learned my lesson from the sketchbook learning curve and realized that what i liked for lineart would most likely be in the pencil section. however i wasn’t a huge fan of the brush i used in this one, so i didn’t use it again. instead, for later pieces, i decided to customize the 6b pencil brush to my liking, and…

february: …this came out of it! this is still one of my favorite things i have ever drawn, and it’s my favorite thing i’ve drawn yet for herc and linda. this piece really convinced me to use overlay layers more in my art, and the amount of detail i managed to capture in this one still amazes me now. and before anyone asks, yes, they are doing specific things in the startup procedure for an airbus a320-family aircraft, except linda is doing things off the CM1 checklist and herc is doing something off the CM2 checklist, which i learned later is not really something that is done. let’s just say herc is not the tightest stickler to convention.

march: one half of an intended two pieces centered around the f1 au (which, regrettably, i have yet to continue… i just reread what little of the second part is on ao3 and god, it slaps actually, i really need to continue it so bad) depicting a pivotal scene from around the outside, where theresa and linda decide to put aside a childhood feud at the top of the banked curve at monza. at sunset. on theresa’s birthday. i know, very meaningful, incredibly homoerotic. read the fic to see how well that turns out!

april: i always knew i wanted to redraw the first filipino!hercolyn thing i did back in 2020, the one that completely solidified in my mind the notion that These Characters Are Filipino, Actually, and when i got comfortable in procreate i quickly jumped on that. (if you notice, a lot of the stuff i did this year were redraws of old pieces i really liked but wasn’t fully satisfied with.) of course i wanted to draw them in the traditional clothes in my parents’ and grandparents’ wedding pictures. the implication of this being, of course, that this is the soft shoe shuffle wedding. i have a fic planned centered around that, from douglas’ perspective. now that grad school apps are basically done, if my honors thesis doesn’t kick me too hard, i’d love to get on that as soon as i can.

may: YOU JUST GOT COLINED! SEND THIS TO A FRIEND TO TOTALLY COLIN THEM! ah, colin fairbairn: the figure whose presence haunts all of newcastle but is never actually. named. (much to the chagrin of a lot of people who genuinely thought linda’s dad was named colin bc i Wouldn’t Shut Up About It) i just love him so much and i love this piece, i wanted to depict the wistfulness of an older colin whose airline is on the verge of collapse, who has been secure in his job as chief pilot of air cal, who looks out over glasgow airport (that’s glasgow’s runway in the background) and wonders if it’s time to put himself out to pasture. wondering what he could have done differently. it’s okay bby. there’s no way that you could have prevented this. but he’d never believe it. he’s too duty bound. he lives in my head rent free.

june: another redraw, this time of a piece from 2021. i was so happy with this one, and i am very happy with it still! everything about the older piece i loved was improved massively by this redraw: the poses, the proportions, the line work, the coloring. honestly, just thinking about the two of them just existing in the airport, overlooked by bustling passengers, just part of the landscape, but having such a rich history and relationship between them… it’s something i think about a lot and i love it.

july: this comprises the third part of an unofficial trilogy of drawings i did centered around douglas/martin/theresa. in each one, i centered a different member of the ot3: i did one centering martin last year, one centering douglas in the spring, and this one centers theresa between douglas and martin. i really enjoy how i did the expressions in this one: martin, looking out toward the planes; theresa, following his gaze, eager to share in the passion they both have; and douglas, looking down at both of them (yeah i think they’re both shorter than him. i think it’s cute). i feel like when i draw these three, where they look and how they look is very important to me.

august: can you believe before this point i had never drawn herc and douglas together? yeah, me too. anyway, them 🤍 i’ve literally only ever drawn them as older men so trying to draw them younger was. lowkey kind of hard. i’m hoping to revisit air england herc and douglas in the future, especially since i didn’t intend for this to be anything more than a quick bit due to those bisexual divorcee brackets (which i don’t know what became of them in the end except that douglas got through and herc didn’t, lmao)

september: unposted self-portrait done as a part of my aerospace fellowship application i wound up getting rejected from because they required me to do a creative component. not much to say here. anyways.

october: yet another redraw, this time of a portrait of herc, carolyn, linda, and arthur i did a year prior, in october of 2022. i like to think that lfeu!herc carries pictures of linda, arthur, and carolyn in his wallet: he had never wanted to be the family man for most of his life, but in his new life, this new form, he can play it well. something about the coloring seems a little off to me: i think i may have to go in and adjust arthur’s skin tone because i think it doesn’t look 100% right. but i love this one too. i hemmed and hawed for ages over what they should be wearing but in the end i put them in what they’d wear for work bc i couldn’t think anymore. but it turned out super cute and i think it emphasizes what brought the four of them together in the first place: aviation.

november: a cute little doodle of young!colin with baby linda, from a bigger piece. something i generally feel like i’ve gotten stronger with this year has been drawing a larger variety of poses. i discovered that procreate allows you to import reference images in a smaller window that can be very easily dragged around and resized, which was a massive improvement over my previous strategy with sketchbook, which had been to import reference images as their own layers. often, moving it around or resizing reference images resulted in some loss of quality. anyways there’s something just so tender about colin and linda and i love to revisit them.

december: last but not least, we finish off the way we started, with theresa (and an added douglas lol). and boy, how different does december look from january? granted, it’s a different angle, but i personally think there is so much more dimension at the end of the year compared to the beginning. i was less afraid of using overlays to enhance the coloring. and the brush i wound up settling on for lineart really ended up serving me well this whole year, culminating in this piece. not much to say on this one, i like it a lot :)

overall thoughts: i didn’t think i drew as much as i wanted to this year, but looking back i still think i made really good progress and improved a lot from last year, so i’m still happy. definitely want to draw more next year, explore new subjects, and maybe work on redrawing more pieces from previous years because those projects have been very fun to undertake.

once again i want to say a big thank you to everyone who’s ever shared or commented or left a like on anything i’ve drawn: it will have been 10 years next year since the end of the show i primarily create fanwork for, and to still have people out there who like what i do is such a gift. yes i create for myself, but i do also like receiving feedback from others and sharing it with others, so thank you thank you thank you. and happiest of new years to all :)

#em draws #em retrospects #art by em year in review

[jayie-the-hufflepuff]

Happy 20th anniversary fellow battle kitty fans!  I didn’t quite get this done in time for the anniversary, but I was only about 3 hrs late and I spent most of the anniversary night working on it, so whatever.

I decided to do a redraw of this to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Into the Wild. I also wanted to make it look like the Warriors book nook I made (I bought the wooden frame and cats (though I painted one to look like Ravenpaw), but the rocks I made from clay and painted and I decorated it all with bits of mini foliage I bought online)) that currently sits on my Warriors bookshelf. I think it's a pretty good interpretation of both of those. I'm particularly proud of how much I've improved between the 2016 drawing and this new one.  It looks so, so much better.

I'm ridiculously proud of how that background turned out.  It looks so damn good! I'm especially proud of how the Highrock and the walls of the ravine turned out. I never get rocks to look right, so I'm especially thrilled with how that turned out, and the hanging lichen looks so good! The patch of nettles next to the Highrock look alright, the tufts of tall grass look pretty decent, and I got kinda lazy with the ferns overhanging the walls of the ravine and the bramble bush behind the Highrock. This time, since it says the Highrock is at the end of the clearing, I figured the ravine must continue on at least a little while behind the Highrock, but it's all blocked off with bramble bushes and gorse so it's impassable. So I decided to show that here, and I think it turned out well.  Not sure the walls of the ravine are high enough, but oh well.

I'm also really proud of how the cats turned out.  Graystripe and Ravenpaw especially. Firestar still looks a little awkward on the face, but ah well. They're all missing some of their scars, since these are these three in their youth at the start of Firestar's leadership, a little after Scourge's defeat when the forest was at peace for the first time in seasons and ThunderClan stood strong with its new leader and deputy. Funny how they all ended up with one notch on their left (our right) ear. ^^ Not intentional, but funny.

The silhouette of the approaching cat is meant to be vague as to who it is. It can either be a representation of a new reader entering the world of Warriors for the first time and being welcomed in by the characters, or one of the future protagonists of whichever series, being hailed in by the heroes that came before them as the new hero of their day. Either way, I wanted the feeling of the viewer being welcomed in by our original trio.  Dunno why Ravenpaw's there, guess we just happened to stop in while he was visiting his friends in ThunderClan. XD

Overall, I'm super, super proud of how this one turned out, it honestly looks amazing.

#Warriors #Warrior Cats #WC #Erin Hunter #Warriors 20th Anniversary #Into the Wild #Rusty #Firepaw #Fireheart #Firestar #Kittypet #Kit #Apprentice #Warrior #Deputy #Leader #ThunderClan #Graypaw #Graystripe #Ravenpaw #Loner

[kbthebearcat]

Art from January! WALL OF TEXT INCOMING (I copied and pasted the desc I typed out on DA hgngh…) I looked up poses for some of the characters that inspire me when it comes to Troy’s character and his world.

The ones I picked here are Fred from Scooby Doo, Doyle from Galaxy High, and StarLord from Guardians of the Galaxy. 

All of these character I feel share similar traits and energy. All of them can be goofy and silly or like to crack jokes,  and even have similar physical characteristics. Fred is usually depicted as being a bit out of touch and does some pretty unexpected and funny things, also gives off “himbo” vibes. His actions or methods to catch the bad guy can seem unorthodox, but still work. Overall just quirky, but means well. I see Troy as that too. Unless it’s a very serious situation, Troy’s silliness and goofiness is going to come out while he’s on the job and in uniform, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him to get the job done.

In the more recent stuff they show Fred to have an obsession with nets and traps, and that reminds me of Troy and his love for tacos. He also just gets excited or really happy about certain things in general, which makes me think of Troy too, because he can get like that about things. I could have chosen a lot of poses and expressions with Fred tbh, but I saw him making that one in a clip I was looking at, and I just got an urge to draw it. 

I haven’t gotten to watch every episode of Galaxy High yet, (there aren’t that many as the show didn’t last too long) but from what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of elements in there that inspire me, not just the main character. The overall plot of him and another human girl from earth being chosen to attend a high school in space is already interesting to me. There’s aliens of all kinds co-mingling, futuristic tech, space-related hijinks, and just good-ole 80s vibes! Which of course, I always enjoy. 

Doyle himself is pretty much a jock. Not an extreme one, but I’d consider him being in the category. He’s sporty/athletic, plays football. That reminds me of Troy because he’s athletic and sporty too and plays basketball. That’s why I thought that pose there would be a good one to try.

They make Doyle out as meaning well too, but since he’s a teenager his choices aren’t always the best. There’s usually a lesson to learn at the end of an episode. Even though Troy isn’t a teenager, he’s still a young adult, and can honestly still act like a teen or big kid anyway.

ALSO Doyle works as waiter at a diner, and Troy works as a waiter at a restaurant when in hooman disguise! I didn’t even know about Galaxy High when I made that a thing for Troy, so I thought that was an interesting similarity as well. I’m tempted to draw Troy in the outfit Doyle wears just for the fun of it.

Annd then we have Starlord, who may be the least surprising choice here…. He’s a part of a group called “Guardians of the Galaxy”. They travel around space helping people, fight bad guys… and there’s some comedic flare thrown into the mix. I mean, that’s pretty much Troy’s concept in a nutshell. Starlord himself reminds me of Troy in a lot ways. I could see Troy listening to oldies music while in his ship, or exploring a planet, jamming out and all that. Cracking jokes while he’s fighting with something or someone. All that stuff. 

Whew boy, uh… sorry for this wall of text here. If you made it to the end of this then kudos to you haha. ;w; Just felt like giving a bit of explanation for each character here… there’s many more characters that have inspired me with Troy though. 

Also this was a experiment here, taking screenshots or looking up pics of characters that inspire me and trying to redraw their poses/expressions. I gotta do this more. I’ve never really gotten to before but it really helps with going out of my comfort zone and exploring a character more. 

#my art #my ocs #original character #Troy

[almond-tofu-chan]

You ever just like blink and remember a fandom you were in like 3 years ago?

Anyway old art redraw:

OLD, BOO, BAD, CRINGE ART, WHY ARE HER ARMS LIKE THAT vs. NEW, KICKS ASS, AMAZING ART

I’ve never actually done anything pixel art like before so this is a first, but I think it looks pretty good!

alt. version under cut

#edited #might make this an annual redraw thing #dwellers empty path #escaped chasm #I remember literally nothing about these games #marry me yoki #yoki #lonely girl #tuyoki #temmie chang #pixel art #fanart #old art #redraw #indie game

[aberrantcreature]

Hello! I have a few questions for you if you don't mind

What got you into writing fic?

What got you into Star Wars, specifically ObiKin?

What's your favorite dynamic, shipping, and/or otherwise?

And what's your favorite piece of art?

Don’t mind at all! Thanks for asking out of interest!

✨Gonna add a break here since I’ll be rather detailed I think.✨

I’ve been writing fic since 2022 for the Reylo community! (I have a side AO3 account.) I’d been a Reylo since the beginning, but was never really involved online or in fandom spaces. In late 2021, I started reading fanfic for the first time and was blown away by the quality of the stories for Reylo I had found. After a while, I made my own account to read stories in dark mode, then decided to try my hand at writing for that ship, and I have enjoyed it ever since! At the moment, I have taken a break from Reylo. Partially from burn out and partially due to breaking from a toxic side of the fan base. So I’m taking a much needed breather and Obikin was there to meet me! 🤣

I’ve been a SW fan since I was 13. Had an all-nighter at a friends house and we watched all 6 (at the time) in order and I fell in love with the franchise! It was such a blessing to experience the sequels coming out not long after.

As for being an Obikin, I only got into that ship late last year! My friend online and I were watching all the films over again, and she’s a big Anidala shipper, and I am not. So while watching, I was debating her about Anakin and Padme and I said something to the affect of. “To be honest, I think Anakin and Obi-Wan have better chemistry.” And the thought just sort of…took root. 🤣 Now I’m a rather die hard Obikin!

I am a damn SUCKER for enemies to lovers. ((Looking at Reylo, and also Zutara.)) But I won’t ever be like ‘eh, nah’ to other variations like friends to lovers. I usually like a ship as long as I don’t perceive it to be toxic. I hate reading fanfic (or published, original media) that’s riddled with misunderstandings and miscommunication. You will not see me write anything like that. I just always love it when a ship has ‘I have seen you at your worst, and I still will love and accept you and stay by your side.’ Not in an unhealthy ‘I can fix them’ way, but where character A knows character B can be and do better, and will support character B as they work to be better. I’m all for angst, but I’m even more for overcoming it in healthy ways.

At the moment my favorite piece of art of mine that I have done is probably this:

I had never attempted a screenshot redraw like this before, and have never been comfortable painting digitally. So as I was drawing this, I was kind of amazed at how well it was going? I was also just, SO proud of myself when I was done. So it’s a special piece to me. 🫶

Thank you for all of your questions!!! 🤣

#anon ask #anonymous

[brodingles]

Year in Review, 2022

I actually made a couple of these, because it was hard deciding what really encompassed my year. The version above is the one with my Aesthetic version, which has the pieces I think were the prettiest or most aesthetically pleasing ones I did for that month.

This post has my thoughts on the pieces and some overall thoughts on my progression through the year! I’ll post one with just the image afterwards.

January

I spent most of January coming off the end of IR and DMP, and as such I had a lot of. Juniper, Dorkus, and Angie on the brain. I actually made a few of these little comics. >:0 Dorkus is one of my favourite expressions I’ve done in a long time, and it lives in my army of Discord emotes haha.

This kind of WAS my meme for the month, my favourite thing overall.

February

This piece is actually part of a set that I did on stream! It’s part of a set. Keep this artstyle in mind, it will come back later!

Was still drawing Triad Shenanigans this month. I just wanted to share Discount Chocolate Dorkus.

Despite what it may seem like, I actually spent this month planning Tiny Gents! I made headshots for every important NPC for the first oneshot I ran ever in my life. Very shaky knees, but everything went well!!

March

I have no idea what came over me for this one I just went as feral as Barbeau haha. This HAD to be when we were talking about doing a certain DnD game, but the DM and players have been so busy all year we never played. Maybe 2023 is the year Barbeau comes into fruition??

Not the full comic and no Dorkus because I’ve already shared plenty of Dorkus and Juniper needs to be in here SOMEWHERE, but apparently I was still going strong with these in March?? Wild!

We ran the second(?) Tiny Gents session this month. I am including Tiny Gents because it was such a big part of the year in total haha. April

I actually don’t like this piece very much, if I’m honest, but I made it and that should be worth something!! I had the song Eyes Don’t Lie going on loop for this, and I put it on my Rememdium playlist, which is probably my most played playlist of the year (If not, it’s TG). This song is going to come up again, but it definitely put me in A Rememdium brainspace.

I actually spent the month drawing more Tiny Gents stuff. Pictured above is one of the “Feral Group” PCs (featuring Charming reading a book). I did some more character design stuff this month, mostly sketching traditionally.

May

This piece is actually from a LIST of pieces that I did in a row for the Song Meme. This one just looks the nicest when cropped to me haha.

I also redrew a classic comic with the newer designs for the TG RA’s. I...got so much done this month haha.

June

Pride! Emilio and (then) Geon! This was actually NOT the highlight of the month, because this month I created Aine!!

She just POPPED into existence while I was listening to Eyes Don’t Lie and then she took over my brain for a while. 

I also did more Tiny Gents art because I had brainrot all year.

July

ANTHONY TOKEN

So Anthony, my boy, came into existence a little before this month, but I didn’t draw him much or think about him much until AFTER I drew his token. Now I’m obsessed with the goober. I plan on redrawing this, I’m not as happy with it now.

I actually posted this one here recently, but I did this as a send off with the Feral Group for TG. They haven’t played since and I miss them ;v;

August

I did a lot of doodles? This month? It was a little slow. I created Hisscisca (the half orc) and Jamie (the pink goth). I actually did frames for an animatic done by @anatthema-art 

Also created another character with the help of @churrobird

Got back into Triad shenanigans and made Dorkus a gf. I also did a set of outfits for Juniper! I’ll try to post these separately, this post is getting long.

BUSY MONTH.

September

More Tiny Gents. I did so much Tiny Gents. Not so much art but just doing Tiny Gents.

BUT I ALSO WENT INTO ANTHONY BRAINROT

I HAVE SO MUCH ANTHONY. I DID AN ANIMATIC FOR ANTHONY I WEEP. I SOB. I CRY.

October

I drew this one in a haste and for love of the game to do MOTI’s Songtober! It was a really fun piece to do, and I’m surprised I have not done more fanart for this game ohoho. Omori made a big impact on my art.

I also tried really hard to do a TG comic this month, and I did 3 pages. Hooray! I can’t find it in my files, but it sure is a thing I did.

I also did like...3 birthday pieces because I have so many OCs with October birthdays.

I actually also spent this month working on an even bigger project...

 So Monkey’s Paw is not mentioned ANYWHERE in this summary, and that’s because I forgot I had to do a ton of art for it despite it consuming my being for several months. It is a surprise I got anything else done, really. I don’t even remember when I drew these-- technically they should be earlier. I’m glad the song and video are out haha. Also yes I put an Omori reference in the video.

November

This piece kind of changed how I approach my pieces in general? There was a lot of reference gathering and editing that went into it, even though it didn’t take long to actually draw. I just wanted to try something cool, and it seems to have succeeded.  Really this month I did a bunch of cool art with Anthony, I’m also quite fond of the sword piece.

I have so many feelings about this image you don’t understand.

December

I actually don’t know if the person I did this for has a Tumblr, but it was a Secret Santa gift! I did other smaller pieces this month, a lot of them, actually, but I mostly just chilled out. December was very reflective for me personally, and I became so grateful for things that happened this year. This summary is very visual heavy and I apologize for that, but there’s so much art to share this time around and I wanted to do that! Conclusion

I spent this year working mostly on my own projects, which was very surreal. I’m very grateful for being able to do that, and would like to continue working on projects throughout 2023 as well!

#summary of art #summaryofart2022 #summary of art 2022 #art #long post #dingaling crossing

[outofangband]

Character Headcanon Collections: Míriel Þerindë

So far I’ve only done these for humans but I like to do these and include as much world building as I can so here is for Míriel!

Feel free to request anyone!

-She was born to parents who had followed the group that would become the Noldor, on one of the many rest periods along the great Journey. She has only vague memories of her very early childhood after leaving the Halls which is rare for the elves, even those born away from Aman on the Journey. Most of her memories are sense memories, the feeling of walking or being carried for hours and days, the swooping sense of excitement and fear when she would stray from her group to explore, the bright colors of trees overhead, and the dazzling white of the sands she would step onto after each boat ride. 

-Her interest in textile art developed in Aman though she showed an aptitude for precision work well before that, patiently arranging sticks for a fire, folding blankets and cloaks impeccably, learning to draw with a fine hand. 

-She studied embroidery and weaving, first working as an apprentice to a master of clothing design, spending hours embroidering the cuffs and collars of their work with delicate images of birds, flowers, flames, and more, and starting to make her own designs. 

-She prefers tapestries and embroidery for its own sake rather than in clothing though she doesn’t hate the latter. 

-Typical of the Noldor, she is relentless in the pursuit of perfection in a project, spending days without proper rest or nourishment drawing and redrawing designs, organizing threads and examining colors, discussing with dyers, and hours upon hours of fine detail work. 

-Míriel was praised early in her career for the sense of movement she could create in her pieces. She would make tapestries of aspects of the great journey, combining her own memories with the stories of others

-Her personality can be described as melancholy, thoughtful, exceptionally detail oriented and patient, precise. She was generally quiet but felt and thought things very strongly.

-She rarely took commissions or requests and when she did, they would never take priority over her own visions. Anyone who would request would typically understand and accept that, they would have to. 

-She suffered from insomnia and sleepwalking during her pregnancy with Fëanor and had already begun to make trips to the gardens of Lórien seeking rest before Fëanor was born. I think she knew for awhile before she laid down for the last time what was to happen

-Míriel’s inability to work due to her constant exhaustion became nearly unbearable. She began to suffer violent nightmares and premonitions shortly before Fëanor’s birth

-She has little memory of the gardens and did not dream there. Nor does she have clear memories of the halls before the death of Finwë. Like her early childhood they are contained in sensory memories, gray lights and soft ground and floating

-She did not witness firsthand the death of Fëanor or the capture and torture of Maedhros but knew of it from other weavers of Vairë soon after. She did weave the capture, torture and death of Celebrimbor firsthand

#the silmarillion #míriel #musing and meta #celebrimbor #fëanor #Maedhros #mentioned

[crowstare]

new Hank icon let’s GO

If you have followed me long enough or scroll far enough you might remember my last Hank post and me saying I would redraw it sometime when I feel I’ve improved substantially enough. A n d. Well. This is not that redraw lmao. This is just a render of a Hank drawing I had done even before that one but never finished because I reached a point I thought it was irredeemable but kept bc I like the colors. I’m glad I managed to fix it and finish it tho

I swear I really do plan to redraw that one someday

TW VERSION WITH BLOOD BELOW

#madness combat #hank j. wimbleton #hank madness combat #madness combat hank #madcom hank #hank madcom #madness combat fanart #madcom fanart #digital art #fanart #fan art #my art

[mostspecialgirl]

Insiders (2023) - redrawn from 2019

(rambling under the cut)

thank you tumblr for compressing my image down to disgusting crusty poop pixels on the app

i love to do a new big reference piece for my babies every few years, and the time has finally come due… and WOW !!! LOOK AT THAT IMPROVEMENT !!! everyone looks Normal And Alive and Non Bugeyed !!! everyone is a little less pasty white (im talking about you, tanith) !!! i think they all show a lil bit of nice personality in their faces now too which is lovely for me. i love to see my children happy. now to write about each of them

angelo’s line art has the least effort into it here and i was GONNA redraw him but honestly if anyone is going to look like a scrunkly little bug IT IS GOING TO BE HIM !!!!!! It’s been a minute since i’ve drawn his body-saws and on a whim i made them red AND !!! IT WORKS !!! I’M A FAN !!! i think he’s due for a main-outfit change though. not sure. i struggled with finding him a natural-looking skin color too because i’ve slowly made him as a person less undead-corpse-like and i think i’ve found a good spot. for now.

i pulled the perfect angora out of my mind and honestly i am shocked at what i have created. she looks so sweet and kind and innocent here (as she should) that to any unfamiliar observers you’d be hard pressed to tell she’s a big lazy gross vulgar piece of shit rat of a fishwoman. and that is EXACTLY how it should be. i have lost the plot for too long, giving her more sharp edges and a hunched back and wild expressions, but the standard angora really should be deceptively pretty. because that’s my girl.

Mila looks great as always. What more can I say? She’s always perfect. I had fun giving her lips for the first time!

AMPH … MY ADISHESHA … (slamming my fist down) I’ve finally perfected him… isn’t he pretty? isn’t he so pretty? I chose to draw him in his naga/incarnated form instead of the shadow form this time because i wasn’t lazy. I decided to throw a big coat on him, originally intended to be more lab coat-y, but influenced by how fucking cold it is outside i allowed myself to give him a big fur collared one. because if you can’t tell i love giving characters though. i think it worked out well for AMPH here, and now I have to be putting him in all sorts of cowls and capes until the end of time.

TANITH !!!!!!!! GGGGYRRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!! LOOK AT MY GIRL !!!!!!! I’M FERAL OVER THIS!!!!!! LOOK AT MY IMPROVEMENT !!!!!!! it’s been a hot minute since i’ve colored her, but i changed her palette in my mind a while ago AND looking at it here ? existing ? i’ve done it again. My lovely little sword daughter … i know i JUST doodled her but christ something was in the water here because SHE LOOKS SO GOOD. this is the best ive drawn any of them. i gave her some nice clothes this time instead of her usual big t-shirt because i realized i only gave her that in the past because i didn’t know how to draw clothes.

speaking of “best ive ever drawn any of them” somnus … THIS IS HIM … i’ve gotten close to capturing him in all the times i’ve drawn him but i think i’ve finally pinned him down here. and of course, he’s hitting the same pose as his wife because they’re cute like that. i ripped his colors straight from the solo reference piece i made for him a while back which has held up quite wonderfully.

FINALLY !!! SETH IS HERE !!! HE HAS ARRIVED IN PROPER INSIDERS GROUP ART !!! he looks pretty good here. i think he could still look BETTER, but for the purpose of having a nice group reference piece he looks pretty great i think. I struggled pinning down some colors for his clothes and was pretty lazy with the Purple Under His Hair That Glows BUT WHO CARES !!!! LOOKS GOOD TO ME !!! LOOK AT MY HANDSOME SON !!! i also decided to stick his full name on here that i’ve kept vaulted up for the reason that i’ve never had to put it anywhere before. if you know why he has “-zoe adamiel” as his chosen full name, congrats, you’re a huge fucking nerd.

eventually, i’m probably going to tack daisy, kane, sampi and demiurge onto the right side of this piece, but that’s for another day down the line. thanks for reading!

#insiders #oc #oc art #original character #original characters #oc design #oc designs #mostspecialgirlarttag #relicverse #sinai clan #angelo rust #angora heta #mila sinai #amph #tanith #soma somnus #seth-zoe adamiel

[whosbex]

I tried not to send EVERY question this time, but I did still end up sending most of them. 😅

1. Art programs you have but don't use?

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)?

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw?

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself.

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate?

9. What are your file name conventions?

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw?

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what?

12. Easiest part of body to draw?

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing?

14. Any favorite motifs?

15. Where do you draw most often? (Like what environment/room/place is your favorite for sitting down to draw for a while?)

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what?

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)?

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy?

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any?

23. Do you use different layer modes?

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended?

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with?

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)?

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated?

Good Lord there are so many😭😭😭 (I’ll skip the ones that I don’t have an answer for)

2. are usually draw all my characters from an angle like not totally facing left or right, but also not totally facing forward.

4. hands. Must I explain?

5. I have a lot of old fanart.(not the best quality) that I did back when tangled the series was still running some of them, though I never finish coloring though. Most of the stuff I post on here are mostly all my recent stuff that I’ve done.

7. Watercolors and gouache paint I wanna try watercolors because I have the colored pencils for it but I feel like wash pain is a little too risky for me.😅

10. surprisingly,dresses. I like to add a lot of detail to them.

11. I wasn’t a lot of different genres of music, so I usually will listen to like a playlist or maybe one song on loop or maybe I’ll just watch KMK while I’m drawing. It really depends on what I feel like.

12. The face and hair

15. In my room.

17. i’ll eat whatever I can find in my pantry and then for my drink I usually just drink water or soda if we have it.

19.BOOKS!!

20. i’ve been told that faces and expressions are really hard to draw but personally I find them really fun to draw. I don’t know that’s just my preference.😊

22. Does procrastinating count as an exercise?😭😭😭

23.yah when I’m doing digital.

26. there is this one really good art piece that I did but I ruined it while coloring and I got really upset about it so I might redraw it now that my art styles a lot better.

27. Not really. I just need motivation and hyper focus.

30. I have a few:

Bill,and the one with Cass and Harry with their owls are old drawings..like I said I didn’t finish coloring a lot of them😅.

#tangled #tangled the series #harry potter #gravity falls #fanart questions #q&a game

[elecman108]

It’s finally done. I’m... feeling a little emotional, honestly. All my D&D character references are now “recovered”, as in redrawn completely, from my broken SSD whose files were all lost.

I... I just want to sit back and put my head in my hands. [Cont’d]

This... It’s every character I have made for D&D since I started playing. The first two I designed - Miri Evenwood and Cecillia - down to the most recent two - Zarris and Joy - all together, all forms, all types, all everything, all at once. I’m just... This was so much work and effort.

When I lost the original file with all these guys in it, I thought that was it. Nothing. But I do post my art here and on Twitter, no? I saved what I could off here and there, and the quality of these guys was... bad. Like, really bad. Most of the pictures I downloaded looked like this:

Fuzzy, illegible, and most details lost. Some were better quality, but...

...the image compression of being uploaded to Tumblr or Twitter was... difficult to contend with. I did have some I shared on Discord, however, those were a little more to work from.

I had some sketches, linearts, in-progress images, and some poor-quality finished works. All out of order, all wildly differing in quality. I sat back and had to think, what could I even do here? My character references, all lost to an SSD that Windows Recovery corrupted the data off of. That was probably the end of the story.

But I am stubborn.

I started to redraw them. Why did I start with Ezra, Axel, and Blaze? I don’t know why, but I’ve held these three close to me. And then I started making the basic line art for each other character, either completely by scratch (see Verda here) or with a crunchy, fuzzy, off-my-twitter-or-tumblr reference to work from.

With each new character I drew the lines for, with each finished reference, I felt like the task ahead of me was monumental - impossible at times. Work got stressful, life got in the way, and whenever I had a few minutes to myself, I was putting character after character through the redux machine and redrawing them by hand.

Some stayed incomplete for a while. Some were started and finished within a... week, reluctantly. I spent a lot of time looking at what I’d done so far, and then back at the ones I had yet to finish or start. At a certain point, I felt like I had given myself a task that I would never complete - a problem I could never solve. Maybe I would’ve given up after a certain point.

But then I didn’t. I refused to give up. I made notes for myself, I reviewed old notes saved to my old phone that barely worked that told me which of my unsaved list I had later dropped or redone. I kept drawing these characters, and about at this time I realized something.

I had been making D&D characters for almost a decade. Some of these guys are from that time - Miri and Cecillia, namely - and some had been in-progress for years before I actually ended up using them - Blaze and Axel came to mind - and here they were. Again. After I had initially lost them.

This was something that gradually made me better at drawing. This was history - my own personal brain’s history, at least - and I was doing everything I could to ensure I kept it. Not only was I determined to have at least one single full-body reference of each character I could ever use in D&D, I remembered my original goal when I was drawing these guys.

One of each race and class combination. Of course, a silly goal, but it allowed my creativity to flow and make some genuinely cool characters. I would always look back on these guys and smile, and now I can do that again - and add more.

And the satisfaction of lining them all up in a colour order was so good.

--

So yeah, from October to December. So much work, and the payoff was absolutely worth the effort and time that went into it. Through every burnt-out evening, from days I spent stuck on the couch unable to move through the pain to days I spent here and there and back again. Through each hour worked at my job, to each our I worked at home and doodled these guys. They’re here again, and they’ll see me through.

And I encourage you to design your own characters. I use D&D as inspiration for these, but I have others, after all...

But at least these references are more stuck towards their names than their full outfits, fuck’s sake. These were my May-August project of recovering files so... This year’s been certainly interesting.

#the disappointment speaks #drawings by me #OCs #D&D #the powerful stance I have rn is off the charts. look at these fuckin guys. so many of them #I challenge any AI artist to capture this feeling. spoiler: they cant! art is the combination of imagination and skill #and god. my skill is nothing in comparison to every other artist out there. #challenge yourself in the new year: become an artist. I don't mean like picasso or the group of seven artist. I mean draw something. #doodle a guy now and again. make some stick figures. have fun. get some cheap paints and printer painter and go ham. *make something* #one of these days you'll look back on those first drawings and smile. oh how far you've come. #that is the feeling I have. #the feeling of ''look at me now. look at my road and how far I've come. I could cry.'' #and to be honest...? #I might. who knows. #<3 anyhow love everyone and be kind. peace out and catch you all later