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ultraviolet-cello · 3 months

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Gooooood morning Trigun fandom, I'm up bright and early, ready to sink my teeth into today's analysis/detailed watchthrough episode - 11. To A New World.

I can't believe we're almost done with @tristampparty. These 12 days have been a blast and I'm very glad that I got to chat abt them!! I've been in a bout of artblock recently too, so I'm glad that I can just ramble instead!

Spoilers for Trigun Stampede and Trigun Maximum, and CWs for. okay this one is a Lot, but discussion of violation of bodily autonomy, sexual assault and trauma, pregnancy, transphobia, harm coming to children, Millions Knives in general, Vash's passive suicidal tendencies. If I think of any more I'll pop them up here but this episode is a heavy one!

If you wanna skip those first few CWs (Totally understandable <3), you can skip the paragraphs labelled with a [CW] at the front.

[CW] Okay so we're gonna tail off the end of Episode 10 for a second, but uh. Knives in this scene is using extremely Loaded Language to outright tell Vash that there is something wrong with him that needs to be fixed.

Just to be clear I do think Vash is very trans-coded (intentionally or not), and that very strongly influences how I interpret this scene - I myself am a trans man as well.

Cool, moving on! That's all really for the end of ep 10, I just needed to point out that Knives is using language that is commonly used to justify corrective sexual assault; which is pretty much what my reading of this scene is analogous to.

what in the fresh hell i got jumpscared by dub again. returning to subs hold on a moment. Like i've been checking dub occasionally to match up some dialogue and make sure I'm not being misled by Subtitle Jank but I'm one of those guys who can't listen to anything without subtitles lmao

But i also think i do get the funniest possible translation of this line - actually wait no i hate the double meaning (with Vash's body being used to kickstart the pregnancy imagery). was that intentional. who did this.

Anyway Meryl kicking Wolfwood is really funny but also like. Yeah. justified. She's having a no good awful time but like. She's so willing to believe in Vash, to chase after him even into Extremely Dangerous conditions (There's those hints of Trimax Meryl again....) and Wolfwood is being an ass here. (An understandable ass. But an ass nonetheless). Which is to say YEAHHH MERYL GET HIS ASS!!!

Knives' gay little like. bodysuit here. He and Vash have the same build but their respective clothes make them stand out very differently. Also that Knives' stuff seems to have more muscle definition (HYDRATE. You shouldn't have that Knives you need water :pensive:) which could be building towards his more intimidating appearance.

Also I'd be a fool to not show everyone my initial reaction to this

I've talked a little bit about how Vash uses his gun as a tonfa (thwacky baton) most of the time in melee combat, and I think that's a great way to show him utilizing something Knives gave him to Kill as a nonlethal weapon - in this, however, he doesn't have it and his normally very fluid very good form martial arts is flailing and panicked. Vash is pretty good at keeping his cool in most combat situations, and is a very skilled fighter. Seeing him lose that cool and just start struggling when Knives tries to grab him is :(

Once again the metal/organic dichotomy is coming into play - the creation of inorganic but the destruction that comes from the organic. Typically plant (as in flora) powers in media lend themselves to being creation powers, life, and healing. But Vash here has that plant (flora) theme but those are very much a force for destruction.

Also Knives with the angelic white, and Vash with the black.

I hate Conrad So Much (he's such a good character). Like we Know to some extent that dependent plants are self-aware enough to feel pain, to hold onto memories, to hatred, to love. They don't have consciousness the same way humans or Independents do, but they feel, they live, they understand what Vash tells them. Maybe it is a shallow form of themselves. But I think something a lot of people fail to realize is that (some, not all, because they are individuals even throughout a hivemind) plants appear to enjoy their purpose.

Once again the memory that is shared with Knives in Trimax of a woman and her child thanking the plant for her service and she smiles? After being fused, that plant held onto that memory. I've been given no reason to believe that plants in Tristamp are different, so Conrad is just,,, ignoring the subtleties of plants and taking away their agency to choose for themselves. Doubly so for Knives, who can communicate efficiently with them.

A very quick blink and you'll miss it detail is that Vash says "It was our fault humans crashed here!". The shifting blame and guilt between the two is something that is fighting the narrative allll the time, but Vash attributing to both of them as an appeal to Knives is interesting to relay how he feels.

I also don't think Vash is right, though, when he says the only reason humans abuse plants is because they crashed. Tesla was before, Chronica in Trimax has apparently seen independent fusions before (For what reason?). Like yeah to this extent it's a result of the big fall, but there'd still be problems without it. Nobody is right in this argument lmao

(except me. I'm always correct about everything ever)

[CW] Once again - violating Vash's consent and autonomy because he does not agree with or differs from Knives. Corrective violation, in this case. It's also important that it's Meryl who calls this out - she has to really really struggle for her autonomy to be important. She's small, carry-able, inexperienced, doesn't have any special powers or genetic modification. She's carrying a tiny gun from a man who can never back her up anymore. In fact, nobody is backing her up! She's out here alone! But she's sticking up for Vash. She cares about him,,,, so much

SURPRISE ROBERTO ATTACK [sobs]

Meryl pulled the nail out of him and placed his hands gently over the wound, as one might do in a casket. A memorial of cigarettes and his flask. All this will be destroyed soon, but Meryl did give him a funeral to the best of her ability.

Knives using Roberto's image is cruel as hell. Not to Vash but to ME. He's already dead you can't do this to meeee. "How do you think they'll react when they learn you caused the big fall" He will never learn it!! he never got the chance!!!

So fun fact you can actually eat geraniums. It's just that if Rem had said yes Vash probably would have eaten it right there and then. I've made that mistake before (told one of my class that nasturtiums were edible and he just ate one. right from the plant)

So; the Tesla scene. Something I do want to point out is that Rem finds them almost immediately, and Knives doesn't immediately pass out - Is he still catatonic enough to miss Rem's speech, or did he hear it? Because the reason that Vash turned out like he did is because he was awake to go through that with Rem - Knives was unconscious the entire time and didn't get to start that trauma recovery.

It's also important to recognize that these memories could be unreliable, especially as Knives tampers with them later.

I do want to know which version of the Bible Knives was reading. Because depending on translation/version, you can get Very different ideas out of that.

Anyway Knives is kind of beginning his spiral in that memory - "Humanity never learns" kinda shit, which seems to take place after Tesla. Who knows how long. But baby Vash calls that out and goes "yeah lets have faith"! Baby Knives looks a tad shocked and then Present Knives just. Cuts off the memory. What was the ensuing conversation!!! Hello???

Like he's clearly Having Thoughts (The Horror), we just don't get to know what those were.

So remember when I said it was interesting that Vash said it was "our" fault that the ships crashed, sharing the blame?

Yeah that gave Knives some ammo that just. Broke him. Shifts it allllll to Vash. Update Vash's description to running on 18 guilt complexes, CPTSD, and bisexuality.

[CW] There's so many different forms of assault, metaphorical and. Not. That is happening in this scene from mind violation to Knives literally using Vash's (specifically Vash's) body as a vessel to impregnate other plants which. Hey did you know that pregnancy is a massive fear of a lot of trans men. So many transphobes reduce trans men to their capability to have children, as if that's all they're good for (even if it would kill them.), and that often leads to corrective rape in order to "remind them of biological reality". In this case, Vash is a plant, he's meant to create, and yet he doesn't. But he's still being used to create anyway.

Again, Meryl also directly calls out Vash's lack of consent and gets shot down by Conrad. The whole scene is just. Hgnrhgnhrhnrnrn. It's So,,, everything to me, because it's a really good scene and shows you how far gone Knives is in Tristamp.

There are panels in Trimax that are,,, the imagery is there, but it's very overt in Tristamp.

Also hey yeah. Why is Conrad still alive?? Did he have access to cold sleep? or it's probably the robotics but did he not think of enhancing humans that way? It might just be a temporary solution, I guess, given that he is. Actively coughing up blood.

Alright! I have finished this part of the analysis that I always Feel Strongly about lmao - I have fun doing it but that's such an emotionally heavy episode.

#cli speaks #trigun #trigun stampede #tristampparty #cli analysis

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magnificentmicrowave · 6 months

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Okay genuine question now, but how do you handle stress and pressure whenever you're stuck with a drawing? Like what do you do when a specific part of it looks irregular, an no matter what you do it'll always look off or bad? I have this problem while drawing eyes, and sometimes it works on a simple angle, and other times they just look inhuman, and terrible, and no matter how many times I redraw them it keeps getting worse. Also, here's your egg girl smoking the fattest dooby, since I blew your ask box with that boob question, sorry!

HOOOOLY FUCK she's absolutely schpuffin on that shit. thank you anyway this is a really good question and something i feel very strongly about. here is where i will go on a rant

in general when people are giving art advice, it's easy to hyperfocus on the technical aspects of improvement, but i think it is just as pertinent if not moreso to put an emphasis on improving your mental as far as art is concerned. i had artblock that lasted far too long, and lost years of potential art progress just because my mental towards art was just completely wrong. you NEEEEEED to enjoy and want to do what you're doing or else you'll start associating the act of art with all those bad feelings. self-discipline is also important to an extent, but anyway

with all that being said, concerning your specific problem i think there are a couple main pointers that i think more people starting out in art should know: frustration and lack of confidence in your lines comes from lack of understanding. when you are struggling to define or place lines in the right place, all that means is you lack the right resources in your mental library to recreate those details in your art. polishing a turd, no matter what you do, will only get you a shiny turd!! to that end, use references, so that your art can have a solid skeleton based in reality for you to build on. for the love of GOD please use references. sometimes i'll overlay an image and trace it just so i can get a good idea of how the limbs are working in space. as a quick example:

i'm not going to go all in on this specific process, but my point is: don't feel ashamed to use references, trace to learn, or use whatever tools at your disposal you may have. not everyone can be kim jung gi and have an insanely large mental library, so don't feel bad about not being able to draw your art 100% from memory. when you're drawing the same line over and over you're practically gambling points of your own sanity away in the hopes that the right lines will magically appear. sometimes you just gotta step away and take a mental reset, or trash the piece altogether. that's another thing, don't be too attached to every little doodle you make, not every piece you work on is supposed to be a new magnum opus.

this was more philosophical than technical advice but hope this helps :) i don't want anyone else to go thru the years of artblock that i did bashing my head against the mental wall that i was. take things at your own pace and, most importantly, enjoy what ya doin,

tl;dr: frustration comes from lack of understanding, use more refs, don't feel bad about trashing WIPs

#ask #art by op #yuno #all this coming from me must sound real pretentious considering im just drawing this dickhead catgirl over and over #trust me i went to art school :^)

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kris-yagami · 2 days

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Joining OC x Wesker ship club. He is my wife but it feels too cringe to selfship and besides oc with his own lore and different characteristics is more interesting. I hope I'll draw them more in the future.

I'm cringe but I'm free 🧍

I'm still working on Vigo's design because I don't like it again. And because of artblock I can only make some low quality doodles. But I am still trying to do something, it's like my therapy.

I also think about their... I don't know what it is called when you give characters animalistic features like tail and ears. Cats and dogs are too trite (btw Wesker is a cat and Vigo is a dog, Doberman, if speaking about this trope) so I've chosen something different. Vigo as a bat and Wesker as a snake, naga (Naga Wesker is one of my favourite tropes about him💥). Here they are. But I messed up a little with their roles in the sketches above. I won't fix it maybe, just draw new ones.

I have no strength, time andd motivation for good completed arts ⚰️

#albert wesker #resident evil #dead by daylight #oc art #oc x canon

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rhonuscorner · 8 months

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Oop Five Nights At Freddie's fanart. Who would've thunk it. I've never considered myself a huge Fnaf fan but Security Breach, flaws and all, I adore the setting and the characters in that one and I'm in too deep. I've never played it (or any Fnaf game) because fuck that, I'm a coward and too much of an anxiety ridden mess to deal with jump scares and chase scenes, but I do love watching let's plays.

I am hopelessly OBSESSED with these two right now. Have been for a while but I've been trying to resist getting too attached because I already have so many fandoms and characters to hyper-fixate on... and then the Ruin DLC happened and gave me tons of feels and my obsession with them turned nuclear, resistance was futile and now here we are lol. I have accepted my fate.

I've also been binge reading Solar Lunacy by @bamsara which... y'know, didn't help because that's been keeping me up at night lmao. Had me mad cackling at 2:30am more than once. My sleep schedule is ruined :') BUT THAT'S OKAY. Will probably end up doing some fanart for that too at some point >>; Too many good scenes~

ANYWAY. Never drawn them before, this is just a quick and somewhat messy doodle to see if I can even draw 'em decently and get comfortable with it because this is not an art style I'm very familiar with. The Daycare boys lend themselves well for a more cartoony style which... is not something I do usually. But it was fun! For a first attempt I'm happy with it. I really enjoy drawing them (especially the gremlin on the right).

I will definitely develop my take on them more, there's a few things I do wanna change in how I draw them and I have tons of ideas now, which is good because this artblock is killing meeeeeeeeeeee. I'm just gonna use them to draw stupid shit and dumb jokes and hopefully some actual proper illustrations and hopefully get back into the flow of things (I keep saying that and it never works but PLZ T-T). I still don't have my PC back but once I do that's also gonna make things easier. And faster. Fingers crossed :')

Anyway, I am now officially on the Simping for both the murderous jester bot and the adorable Daycare Attendant who deserves all the hugs and then some bandwagon yeeeeeeeeeeee.

For non-Fnaf fans, feel free to block my Fnaf tags (Rhonu blogs Fnaf and/or Rhonu draws Fnaf) if you need to because there's gonna be more.

#Fnaf Sun #Fnaf Moon #Fnaf Daycare Attendant #Fnaf Security Breach #Security Breach #Fnaf SB #Moondrop #Sundrop #Rhonu blogs Fnaf #Rhonu draws Fnaf #Rhonu draws

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birbbones · 1 month

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Little update:

Oh man Hi all! It's been a LONG time since I've made a personal post updating how everything is.

Firstly I am BEYOND happy that people love the project and my team is working on which is The Skull Index (You can also keep up to date with news on the site, see ongoing projects, network with industry professionals or other students, as well as join in on general vulture culture topics and channels at the Discord Server (18+))

( TW: Medical ) I had a few ups and downs with physical health throughout November til recently with multiple brain scans, lumbar punctures, a bunch of EKGs, and heart issues, had a big C scare with my brain after an abnormal scan. However, thankfully everything is okay as it can be! Just have excess fluid and pressure (IIH) and POTs so a couple lumbar punctures to drain fluid and on some glaucoma, and beta-blocker medication with frequent appointments with a neurologist and cardiologist booked every few months.

I've been super busy with oxidation and skeletal articulation projects and commissions too! Here are a couple of progress photos of some upcoming projects: Domestic Dog (Dachshund) Leggies getting ready to add to the skeleton. Rearticulating the geriatric Meerkat!

I've also been going to the gym more, time to get swole. My legs are currently killing me after a workout which is good but MAN it is a struggle to walk up the stairs.

I've also gotten back into sculpting!! I've had a massive artblock due to MH and a long term relationship ending suddenly, so I haven't been able to draw or enjoy working on anything creative apart from skeletal work for a couple years now.. But slowly getting back into sculpting and hopefully art again! I have a craft market in my village next week, so I've been powering through getting original paintings and sculptures made before the 23rd, as well as sorting out the stock of my keyrings, stickers and pins.. craft market is raising money for Age UK Charity! That's enough of my rambling for now, I'm very excited to continue using tumble and sharing various specimens, reminder that my ask box is open! So feel free to send an ask, if you wanted to see any specific specimen in my collection, advice or ask for tips, or just to chat!

#birb rambles #vulture culture #skulls #my collection #taxidermy #vulture culture uk #bones #animal skull #vultureculture #animal skulls #personal

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skullsemi · 11 months

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Heyo! Fellow Mickey Mouse Universe Fan here, Love your artwork. You embody their world so perfectly. They way you let all characters interact. It just shows how much potential this franchise has but Disney just doesn't care. Like max babysitting the boys on a leash and gosalyn helping in escape. Della and Felicity interacting. Wish Disney would give us some stuff matched to your level. It's something I always had headcanoned all mickey characters combined. Also love your Goofy x Clarabelle and Backup Detectives. Keep going!

GOODNESS YOU'RE TOO KIND THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAA

I'm so glad you like it!! And you're absolutely right Disney really should do more about their amazing characters, something to make them feel even more real, and not just the "face of the company"

I do try to take matters into my own hands and bring them to life a bit more. It's truly incredible see people enjoying and having fun with my take on them

If there's one thing I'd say to everyone is: Don't hold your ideas in place, release them, create!

I genuinely love to see all different ideas and takes on characters, me myself do that a lot, so it's great to know people like it too:))

(I'll keep going! I'm just in a bit of artblock but I'll be ok!

#inbox #ALSO I REALLY NEED TO GET BACK TO THE AU #I still have ideas to put out there

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norisus · 2 years

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Hey :) I've been looking at your blog and first off, wow. Second, you're really good at digital drawing and I'm trying to get better at digital drawing but I can never seem to get the lines straight or the colours even and in the lines. So if it's not too much trouble, could you maybe tell me what app you use or what brushes you prefer? I'm currently using ibisPaint X and I'm drawing with a sketchpad :) it would really help if you gave me some tips too! Thank you!! Also, you're really talented hehe

Hi there, I'm glad you like my art thank you so much! ; u ; <3 And sorry for the late reply, I wanted to write up a full response with some examples!

So for my artwork, I use almost exclusively Paint Tool SAI. I specifically use the original SAI atm, though I want to try using SAI 2 more (the brushes just feel... different. I've been using SAI for a decade now, so it's where I'm most comfortable.) SAI does cost money, but there are also free alternatives online as always. I'm not familiar with IbisPaint X, but I know that FireAlpaca and Krita are two good free options. I don't use a smart tablet or apps to draw, though, so I'm not sure what are the best options outside of PC.

As for brushes, I use three brushes for my lineart-- though 2 of them much more than the third. The first brush I use is my Marker brush. I've been using this brush to line my work for a very long time. It's thin and somewhat transparent (sometimes I copy-paste my lineart a couple of times to bulk out the transparency).

The second brush I named TEST when I made it and I just never changed it, so it's my very permanent TEST brush. It's sort of similar to my marker brush (it even uses the SAI marker brush base), but it's thicker and a little more ragged. I tend to change up my style when I use this brush.

The third brush I use for lines is not one of my "lining" brushes. It's a painting brush named GREGORY and I Mostly use it to paint backgrounds and details in fur. I change up the "blending" setting on it as needed. I usually only use this brush to line if I'm having artblock or am sketching around.

As for keeping lines straight, I honestly just gotta say-- there's tricks to cheat the system! The first, easiest thing is you can find the "stabilizer" setting on your art program, slide that bad boy up, and have some assistance with keeping your strokes smoother.

The second thing you can do is... not really "line" your artwork. I tend to fight with lineart a lot. Sometimes it's not so bad (especially with my TEST brush), but a lot of the time I just line something and hate the end result, if I can even push myself to finish it. So, instead of "lining" over my sketch layer, I just... make the sketch my lines.

My sketches are usually pretty detailed so I think that helps, but I basically just erase and go over the lines meticulously in small increments until I'm left with linework. And if I'm having trouble with a spot, I'll just make a new layer, "properly" line that spot, erase the section of the sketch under it, and then merge the layers and move onto the next section. (I also keep my fingers over my undo and redo hotkeys, since a lot of lining can be just undoing a mistake and redoing it until you like it.)

For example, here's this dragon I've been working on, in its original sketch:

And here it is halfway through the cleanup process, where you can see an amalgamation of clean lines amid the remaining sketch:

And here's how it looks now:

Lines won't cooperate? Make friends with the sketch! I often feel like it's easier to keep the personality of the original sketch when I do this also, though that's just personal preference.

Now as for keeping colour inside your lines, Layers and layer settings are your friends-- that and the magic wand tool (which is a selection tool).

When I use the magic wand tool, I tend to select the area Outside of my drawing first

If there's a hole in my lines and I'm having trouble finding it, I cut a line across the drawing and use the magic wand tool again so I can see which section of the drawing the linebreak is in and fix it.

Once the lines are sealed, I invert my selection so it's inside the lines rather than outside! I prefer to start outside since I find it easier than individually selecting the inner parts of the drawing. It's worth mentioning that the magic wand tool is not perfect (especially if you have sketchy, ragged lines like I often do), so you might have to clean up the edges.

You can make layers under your linework that you can freely draw on without disturbing your lines, and they will conform to your magic wand selection as well. What more, though, you can also make clipping layers/groups which are layers that affect only the pixels below them.

So like in this example here there are four layers. There's the lineart layer, the layer for the base fur colour, a layer for the details (beak, eyes, white spots), and then there's a clipping layer that is on top of the details layer.

Anything I draw on that clipping layer can only appear on pixels directly below it. This is useful for a lot of things like detailing and shading. It also means you can safely exit out of your magic wand selection and still remain in your perimeters.

You can also lock layers which is like using a clipping layer, only you're affecting that actual layer instead of going over it. Whichever one you want to use is pretty much just personal preference or situational. You can also use these layer settings to colour in your lines, if that's something you want to do!

I hope some of this helps! I also hope that you're having fun with doing digital art! :D <3

#also I love your username #so-once-i-was-a-chicken #digital art #replies #art tips #art programs #art brushes #brushes #paint tool sai #maybe I should put some of this under a readmore but naw #long post #not art

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phobia-sweets · 1 year

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Request: "OKAY I JUST SAW YOu put arkhamverse jervis on your requests and omg- i'm sorry it's only been a few minutes since you did and now here's a req for him-

♡ 22 “Can I take a picture of you?” with arkhamverse jervis please? maybe reader likes taking pictures of people they find interesting, so they can draw them later on? have a great day/night!"

I LOVED THE ENTHUSIASM ON THIS REQUEST SO MUCH---

I was very,,, indecisive with this. I had a lot of ideas, and settling with something was hard and it turned into a mess lmao. I'm not very proud of this, but hey, i did my best and i had fun writing this!

Arkhamverse! Mad hatter x reader

Warnings / Notes: I CANNOT RHYME FOR THE LIFE OF ME, i didnt know how to end this properly so i hope this is good enough, this is my first time writing arkhamverse jervis so i hope its not ooc, not proofread

When artblock hits, what’s the best way to get rid of it? Well, there’s a lot of ways, but you decided traveling was the way to go. Not far, mind you, just the next city over - Gotham. Sure, Gotham might be dangerous and corrupt, but it was full of interesting people. You weren’t too familiar with the villains and their shticks, but you knew to be careful, just in case something did happen. What did your friend tell you to do? Ah, yes. “Don’t draw too much attention to yourself” and “Don’t make friends with strangers.”

And so, Here you were in the middle of amusement mile, alone, people watching in hopes of inspiration. So far, it had not been successful. Sure, some people had great outfits, the amusement park would've made for a great landscape but... it just didn't feel right. You needed something… more. Something that piqued your interest. Something unique.

That's when you spotted... is that a top hat? It was a man! Wearing something thay could've been described as something straight out of a story. Maybe not a fairytale - the colours were too dark for that, but a story nonetheless. Your eyes were practically glued to him as he walked past the colourful booths full of cotton candy and popcorn. Before you knew it, you were up from the bench with your bag, slowly walking towards him as he was stood outside a small confectionery.

Then you stopped. “What am I doing?”, you thought, gaze still glued to the man. If your friend saw you right now, they’d probably be dragging you out for even thinking of conversing with the man. But then again, They’re not here, are they? What is stopping you? Nothing. Except, well, the fact that when you saw his face, you swore you’d seen him somewhere. Maybe he was a vill-

You brushed off that thought, Because, well, what’s the chance of you running into a villain right now? Zero. Nada. You breathed in the cold autumn air, and walked towards the man. You lightly tapped his shoulder, making him turn around to face you. "Hey, can i take a picture of you?” You managed to ask, hand tightly gripping your phone. Before he managed to answer, you started explaining yourself. “I’m an artist and I… like drawing people that I find interesting. And you- well- you stood out, and wanted to draw you…” your hesitance quickly faded away as his hands clasped together and he practically beamed at you.

“Oh dear, How frabjous! It truly would be an honour to be your muse, Rabbit.” He slightly bowed, and you finally noticed the ‘10/6’ slip on his hat. Clever. The mad hatter.

The mad hatter.

Oh.

You swore you’ve heard that name going around a few times the past few hours, and.. this is the guy they’ve been talking about? He didn’t seem all that dangerous. If anything, he seemed sweet.

“Ah, thank you, I suppose-- Let’s go somewhere with better lighting, yes? It’ll be easier to see the details of your clothes that way.” You suggested, walking towards the merry-go-round, which happened to be the place with the most… decent lighting in the place. You took your pictures, and he was very talkative. You noticed he spoke in rhymes a lot, which was sort of… precious, in a way. Your photo session was interrupted by your phone ringing loudly due to your friend calling. You excused yourself quickly with a “Sorry, I gotta take this. Thank you for helping me!” And walking away. Honestly, your friend would’ve probably punched you for the stuff you pulled, but hey, you got your inspiration. You stopped by the ferris wheel, talking with them. They were just worried about you – You were in Gotham, alone, after all. You somehow managed to convince them that, no, you had not been kidnapped into a riddle-filled death trap or had your back broken, momentarily easing their worries. Once done, you put your phone back in your pocket, Turning around and meeting the hatter’s gaze, making you jump.

“Oh my god, you scared me.” You sighed, holding your hand to your chest. This made his expression turn into one of worry, as he apologised,

“Apologies, apologies, dear rabbit! I just wish to know, Would you care to join me for tea?”

#jervis tetch x reader #mad hatter x reader #arkhamverse mad hatter x reader

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karol-chan-art · 5 months

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hi i was the anon asking the purelonganfort question!!! just wanted to let you know i didn't mind your rant/rants in general and you shouldn't feel self-conscious about whether you can get cookies to feel in-character or not. personally, I find that the more you make content where they're "ooc" the closer you get to cookies being in-character/cool new fanon content (not everything has to be canon!) so ummm basically what I'm saying is if you ever feel like ranting about any of your ships and how they came to be i will read it !!! also your art is amazing you do the cookie run style amazingly well n' i adore your rarepairs

My goodness thank you! I'm so glad there's someone out there who enjoys my rarepairs and art! Frankly I thought at first that Tumblr was going to be a place with toxic people(Like *cough* certain X place) but I've been in here for months and aside from the.. gross bots from time to time, I enjoy being here!

For the whole self-conscious of the characters not being in character enough, I'm trying very hard to change my ways on such, I'm progressing bit by bit!

Believe me when I say I'm trying to think of ways some of my rarepair cookies could've met, I have a doc about it too! It's just I've been a hard artblock and writersblock hehe..

Speaking of artblock, I am trying to post art here more often but as I said before, artblock is stopping me. ... Okay and maybe stress from finals has gotten me in a bit of a pickle soooo, yeah..

#question answered #questions

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southern--downpour · 2 years

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hello Virgil when you have the time you should explain your coloring and lining process

they way i do both lines and ESPECIALLY color changes basically every time i draw but yeah sure! im also p bad at explaining myself so idk if this is gonna make sense to anyone but me!

(first off dont draw on pure white canvases!! itll psyche you out and intimidate you because of the blank canvas, also its fucking eye bleeding!! i like going with a medium/light grey but ive seen people use a beige or light brown too just anything but pure white. also helps to just get SOMETHING onto the page if your having trouble w/ artblock, doesnt matter if its good it just has to be something u can work with. trust the process 100% and if it doesnt turn out good theres no shame in restarting from scratch, at least the idea is out of your head and easier to work through what was wrong)

my sketches are usually super messy and i go through like two to four different layers of refining it before starting lineart, and with lineart i usually use either a simple hard round brush or a sketchier one if im doing painting? my go-to ones are the default G-Pen in clip studio edited a bit to fit how i like pen pressure and 1834113 and 1761353 in the asset store but i like messing w/ whatever i can find on there and whatever feels fun at the time lmao so its not very consistent

i try and keep my lines pretty thin on the inside and thicker on the outer edge? as well as adding bits of cross-hatching and hatching both in the lines and when i go in with shading!

i keep my lineart brushes pretty minimal with the pen pressure as im not the best with my pen control and just change the size of pen as i go lmao. More prevalent when i'm doing super clean lines for comics and not sketchy ones like this for painting but its generally the same, i'm not the neatest person when it comes to lines

I draw a lot of the individual parts (head, facial features, hair, clothes, hands, etc.) on separate layers so if something looks wrong i can either wipe the layer entirely or go in with the transform tool and not mess with the rest of the lineart in the process lol

(also i saw someone keep the eyes and facial features visible under the hair but erase where they meet the lines for the hair? and just yoinked it for myself because it looks super nice lmao.)

starting colors is almost always the same, where i just go in and block in the base color for each part (skin, hair, clothes, etc.) on a separate layer to make going back and editing colors a lot easier. with painting like here i also go in and add basic shading, mostly around the skin! usually i add a darker & warmer color around the cheeks, nose, eyes, fingertips and joints as well as in places where theres shading like under the head and under the nose.

also in the darkest parts of the shading like under the head/neck and under the nose i like to add a light bluish/purpleish color very lightly as a bounce light! it doesnt always fit with the piece but it does look very nice when i can make it fit so i try to remember to do that lol.

(I dont take many progress shots or timelapses so i apologize for not having the best reference images lmao)

if im doing painting, after finishing the base colors & light shading i put everything ive done into one folder and make a clipping mask over top of it and paint over it!

i usually add more detailed shading + heavier highlights on places like the nose and edges of the skin showing to make it look nice and shiny lol

(i dont have any recent drawings i can show progress pics of but just trust me on this) if im doing cell shading though i do the same thing with putting the lineart and colors into a layer, but add a multiply layer on top of it and pick a pretty saturated color to go in with the shading. if i have a background i try and keep in mind what colors are in the background and what the lighting situation is to make sure the characters blend into the background more realistically. also airbrush tool and the add glow layer is your best friend in this situation

usually after that i go back and color the line art! I pick the darkest color in a part of the drawing like the clothes or hair, make it warmer and darker and go in on the innermost parts of the lineart with it and keep a lot of the outer lines black for contrast

then i just go completely fucking ham with overlay layers and gradient maps lmao, they ARE the fucking best and are usually what i use to finish off a drawing lol.

usually i use a combination of just fucking with the default "sky" graidents in clip studio or one set i got from the asset store (1814319) on a soft light layer at like, 10-30 opacity because it gives it a REALLY nice look. again just keep in mind the lighting situation (darker night? daylight? funky bright colors?) and just go until it looks good lol.

that's basically it? though tbh i tend to just grab onto whatever technique or tip i saw on tiktok or someone on youtube do and use that, as well as changing how i color hair/skin depending on what i think looks nice at the time. none of my shit is consistent what so ever so i just kinda change things or try new brushes/coloring styles on the fly if i think it looks nice lmao. pure essence of fuck around and find out every time i open clip studio

really hope this makes sense to anyone but me and hope this was helpful!

#virgil arts #virgil asks #long post #(?)#honestly best tip is just browse the clip studio asset shop and try as many brushes as u can #and just watch every coloring tutorial u can find on yt or tiktok or wherever #just try shit!#eventually youll find stuff you really like and wanna go with #my entire style is a mish mash of my favorite shows or comics or artists styles that ive yoinked and blended together #(((((specifically stole the way abd illustrates draws faces if u want to know how i draw faces just binge his yt channel)))))))#((((also i go tt the way i draw hair 100% from ikimaru and the general homestuck fandom back in the day))))#also one of the best bits of advice ive gotten is to not worry about finding a style #eventually if u just start adding cool shit u see other artists do itll just come naturally to u #pure trial and error motherfucker!#tho tbf i learn mostly via the 'trial by fire' method #where i just throw myself into something im not remotely qualified to make and figure it out as i go #because eventually if i do that enough i do in fact get really good at the thing im trying to learn!#thats how i learned background stuff!#(also. if u dont have clip studio. u can do most of this shit sans gradient maps in any program)#(ALSO CLIP STUDIO IS BABY EASY TO PIRATE BUT YOU DIDNT HEAR THAT FROM ME)#(I FOR SURE OWN A COMPLETELY LEGAL COPY OF CSP)

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goosimp · 8 months

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yesterday I hadn't offered you goo thoughts

Today? Who knows

Oh no no queen, I'm not scared of hate and shit. Im scared of being lame. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

Ty for the compliments the toast smiles òuó

I'm mostly in the gungoo for the GOO and the fact their dynamic reminds me of that I have with my own friend who's like my gun haha

Omg the gun slander uhm don't tell anyone but tho I don't HATE gun, man whenever I'm searching my husband up and HE appears instead of him I just want to like *CENSORED DUE TO GRAPHIC VIOLENT* LIKE BITCHASS GUN GET OUT I'M TRYING TO HAVE MY HUBBY

Look I can totally understand the gun appeal,but you know what he's not? He's not semi underrated! My mind automatically not enjoy

Giving up? Oh yeah I gotcha-

When the consequences of your actions are easier to deal with than the action itself

pfft- oh yeah and about this talking habits of mine,, Yknow one time someone told me that I talk like a furry

You know what my reaction was?

"Pfft-"

I like including them in my text, makes my text unique from others >u> (this too. I love it cause it looks like I'm looking sideways and stuff pssht)

speaking of fury which I'm not OH YEAH I HADN'T TOLD YOU MY KITSUNE GOO RAMBLES

But if I begin about it it'll be,,damn long-

And also yipee I love your arts<3<3 I get that, when you don't feel like your drawing good and you try again but the art just not arting--

Ah well I wanna see your artworks too tho >:]!

hail the queen imma spam my rambles

~🍞

Hello Toast!! uhh sorry for not replying to you for 4 days :P I was kinDA buys. I mean I still am but i don't give a shit rn.

ohhhHHHHH Goo ramble. I want goo ramble. I need a power point slide just on Goo. He is so fucking delicious to talk about, I wish the homework was based on Goo instead of fking cartilage, those are only good for crunch.

Lame? Who the fuck thinks you are lame? Clearly they got a brain problem if they do so :]

Gungoo was an immediate ship for me. Their dynamic is so fuking gooddddddd. Husbands fr.

I have mixed feeling with gun. I get that he is hot and what not but whenever I am praying for goo to pop up on lookism, I see those white orbs staring at the depths of my soul and I lose my shit.

YES. WE NEED A WHOLE DIFF FANDOM JUST FOR GOO. WE NEED A GOO EMPIRE. MINIONS FOR GOO!!!!!!!

...

I did give up buttttTTT somethig else happened. We, the whole class, came up with a plan to just not do it. These notes were for practical marks in the final examination. So we thought if the whole doesn't do it then the teacher won't be able to fail all of us. We tHOUGHT we could beat the system🤡. Turns out there was a rat hiding in the class and submitted the work before anyone knew, so the teacher threatened us that he will be calling our parents if we don't complete it under time and that is till tmr. 🤡.

If the consequences was being sent to the principal's office, i would not have give a shit but calling my parents is a bIG NO NO.

That person must have to be furry to know how a furry talks. But honestly I haven't seen a furry talk like that tho

'>u>' this one kinda cute ngl. Pointy eyes.

ohhh kitsune Goo. I am not saying but I would die to just get a brush of his tail. I would. I wish I could touch it.

Oh thank you<3333. I love your little art of Goo's as well 💝💝💝💝💘. I am just severly lacking in motivations rn so I have been experimenting on a bunch of ocs here and there to get out of artblock, which are not really worth posting so imma just tuck them in one corner of my mind.

YOU CAN TALK ABT GOO AS MUCHAS YU LIKE. I ENCOURAGE THIS. TALK MOREEE. SPEAKKK!!!! Althoug I might just dissapear on some bad days but doen't mean I am dead, I will even arise from dead if it means for goo. So please don't ever stop talking abt him.

#~🍞 toast #lookism #I need to sleep but i have so much work left to do

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phy-be · 3 years

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“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.” ― Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

#i'm feeling not too good and artblocked so here #have art of my fav sapphic book #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw

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mokutone · 2 years

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hii hope you are having a great day/night ! sorry if i'm bothering you too much, just wanted to tell ya your art has inspired me a lot the past few months when i felt really artblocked or unmotivated. in that moment i couldn't be content with anything that i made for some reason, and it feels so good to be able to enjoy making art again. seeing your drawings in my dash always makes me happy <3 here's a random naruto having ice cream !

You are not at all bothering me! I'm very glad that my art was in any way useful to you, and I appreciate you taking the time to share that with me!!! and this is so cute....i love his big grin + raised shoulders, it gives him a very like. slightly embarrassed/self conscious but mostly extremely happy energy!!

#gift for mokutone #art #submission #box of treasures #yamswers #poisongrrrlfriend #i'll believe in him #1) that's a very very cute naruto and i'm glad he's having such a good time he looks so happy...#2) i absolutely understand the feeling of being frustrated or upset by the things u try to make and i'm glad that #ur enjoying ur art again...it is sometimes very tough to find the way back to that!!!

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hella1975 · 3 years

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hello bestie!!! this is a very special good morning ask because as you may or may not know, it is the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of taob!!! to celebrate, hannah thought we should steal abby's idea of getting a cameo from dante so we've been secretly organizing that for almost a whole month!! a very special thank you to abby for the idea and the following people for donating five dollars: hannah (verdanthoney), boom (boomerang109), emi (emi_artblock), espí (drama-queen-supreme), jo (lessons-from-moths), clara (claracaboozle), emi (emi_artblock) mari (sifu-sugarqueen), nikki (im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh), mar (wrong-way-maremi), abby (abby420) someone who donated under the name oatmilkmocha who i can't remember who they are (FEEL FREE TO COMMENT, MYSTERY PERSON. I'M SORRY), and kai donated anonymously but i'm calling her out for a thank you anyway. emi's already been listed twice (yes that was intentional, as was listing abby again since she was both the genius with the idea AND one of the people who helped fund it), but i'm mentioning emi a third time because she donated a lot and we appreciate it very much. so yeah, in the attached video dante is only going to thank me and hannah (which is my fault cause i'm dumb and don't understand forms) BUT it's from way more people than just us, it's from everybody i listed here and (in spirit) it's from the whole cult. we hope you take dante's words about appreciating yourself and your writing to heart. it takes a truly special person to accidentally become a cult leader by drunk posting a fic, but it doesn't surprise me in the least that you did it--you're just that amazing. there are absolutely no words for how grateful i am to have you in my life and how beautiful i think you are (inside and out). this is long enough, so i'm going to let zuko take it away before i get too sappy: https://v.cameo.com/J1aMF8qjsib

It is currently 10:56am. I am hungover and sat on the edge of my friend’s bathtub because the bathroom is the only place I could sneak off to to listen to this (and when I say I ZOOMED off when I realised what the fuck you guys had done). I genuinely don’t know what to say. I guess when I clicked on the link I sort of was still waiting for it to be a joke..... but then it wasn’t..... and Zuko’s voice is just casually saying ‘hella’ and ‘redemption is a human word’. I about near lost my shit.

This is one of the kindest, most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for me, and I wish I could convey how much this means but I am genuinely speechless. I’m shaking and yes I did cry, which we all know isn’t something I do easily. But hearing ‘keep writing, keep writing’ from the voice of a character I have loved and have taken to create a story that so many people found friendship through - that was the part that made me full level sob in this here bathtub. I’m sure I look a sight. Sorry to my friend’s parents.

You guys mean the world to me. It’s taob’s one year anniversary and I genuinely didn’t think anyone had noticed, and I didn’t mind that!! I almost didn’t want it to be a big deal!!! But here you were, planning this behind my back, spending actual hard earned money (how dare you) on me, to create this beautiful gift. I will never forget this. I’ve been having a difficult time at the moment (AND YOU TOLD DANTE BASCO ABOUT IT YOU WANKERS) but this has picked me up so quickly that I might have whiplash.

Again, no words here can actually describe how much this means to me. I love every single person seeing this so fucking much. And for those of you responsible ( @boomerang109 @abby420 @verdanthoney @sifu-sugarqueen @emi-artblock @im-a-sokka-for-you-ooh @drama-queen-supreme @claracaboozle @hi-raethia @lessons-from-moths and I cant seem to tag the other two but this is absolutely aimed at you), you guys have made my day, and possibly my entire year. I need to reiterate that this is one of the kindest things anyone’s ever done for me, which I feel gets thrown around a lot but I genuinely mean it. This is so thoughtful and impossible and it’s from a bunch of people on the internet who owe me nothing. That’s what jars me about this. This isn’t like real life where there’s social standards and if you don’t get someone a gift it’s frowned upon. You all genuinely could have just not done anything and no one would have looked at you any different, but instead you came together and you did this amazing thing and I just. Thank you, thank you, thank you

I love you all so much. Happy one year anniversary to taob. I hope that even when this story finishes (not anytime soon lbh), the cult continues strong xxxx

#literally crying in a bath rn fuck you fuck you fuck you #taob nation/the cult/the community made here has always been what I’m most proud of here #and this gift the way you all came together #it’s a perfect representation of that #it’s just #you guys mean a lot to me ig #and to boom and abby who have had to deal with my shit daily in real time #I adore you. you’re both beautiful and lovely and you deserve the world #I’ll never forget this #even if I stop writing fic or grow up and get an office job #I will always remember this I cannot express that enough #thank you - from the bottom of my heart #and ty dante basco wtaf time to rewatch this until I can quote it word for word #taob #happy 1 year my baby I do love u as much as I joke #dante basco #?????? I’m losing my fucking mind

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wachtelspinat · 4 years

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It seems you have hard times and I hope you're ok. I'm just a random guy but I feel like I need to support you and tell you how awesome you are! There is something special about your artworks, smth I've never seen in anybody else's art, smth that makes me just stare at your art and think about story behind it even if I know nothing about the characters. You seem to put a soul even in small sketches, they all are very emotional. I just want to thank you for everything you've done !! :)

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Heya, it is overwhelmingly amazing of you to reach out to me, thank you so much :’’)

This may be a little too much info now but I’ve learned that writing things down and telling someone about them, even if it’s the void that is tumblr, can help in some way. Not gonna lie, the last months have been a constant up and down and between juggling university, helping out during the first corona wave here and generally trying to not lose my mind (we lost a family member and weren’t able to attend to the funeral due to restrictions, my brain nagging me with ‘the usual’ that is telling me I’m useless, nobody likes me, etc etc) I have somehow lost my drive and will for drawing which... is a real kick in the guts since although I don’t have a lot of original content and not much of an output, drawing is something I identify with. And now I don’t even wanna draw and when I push myself to do it, I can’t come up with good ideas or fun scribbles, and I think to myself ‘Why even. It doesn’t matter’.

This all sounds mighty bitter and grim but I can assure you that I’m actually fine. There are the usual thoughts that keep me awake at night, but nothing I can’t handle. It’s just... I wish I could get back to drawing with a snip of my finger, but it’s not that easy.

Gonna try different things now which friends recommended to me about what they do when they’re stuck with a massive artblock, not giving up here :’’/ !

So coming back to your message; again thank you so much, it is a very amazing gesture and I really appreciate it! It’s very emboldening to hear that the stuff that I put out there brings a little joy to you and others, so yes, thanks a lot :’’)

Hope you have a good day, stay safe and all the best to you <3 !

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