#it took me so many hours to finish it

[yrdnzz]

something i started during blacktober but didn't finish until a few months ago

#blue lock #blue lock fanart #reo mikage #mikage reonagi #nagi seishiro #zantetsu tsurugi #tsurugi zantetsu #team v blue lock #black edit #idk what else to tag but yea #confession time bc i dont think many ppl read tags so here i go: #this took me 27 hours to finish #27 HOURS #and i watched the entirety of the boys on prime video while drawing it #also i drew this for clout on twitter bc a lotta reo stans followed me at the time #but i genuinely love reo now so jokes on me ig #anyways darkskin nagi. thats it #I NEED TO DRAW ZANTETSU MORE HES SO SILLY

[wanderer-clarisse]

... for the sorrow and the strife in the house of Finwë is graven in the memory of the Noldorin Elves. (The Silmarillion)

#took me a solid FOURTEEN HOURS to finish #and i am very glad it's done #based this entirely on the silmarillion #gil-galad is son of orodreth purely out of personal preference #but because everything else is based on the silm i felt guilty about it and added that footnote in the corner lol #but hoorey! it's done. it was fun character designing #up next: more ballet sketches #tolkien #the silmarillion #elves #so many elves #i'm not tagging all those characters individually #peredhil #house of finwe #feanorians #feanor #finarfin #fingolfin #the end.

[frizzle-mcshizzle]

Elwin with his pattern shirt, as all things should be, try and figure out which of the elixir names i made up and which are cannon not tumblr blurring my art again

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@stopstealingtomatoes @kale-of-the-forbidden-cities @crymeariveronceagain @winterfireice @the-one-and-only-aroace @honey-the-dinosaur-ate-our-kid @xanadaus @art-isnt-arting @nyxpixels

#kotlc #it’s not that hard to come up with fake Exilir names #they’re all alliteration or rhyming #i spent so much time on those orbs you don’t understand #the background was actually the easiest part #well #i was able to finish it in a day #i don’t keep track of how many hours it took me to draw something #time is fake so i don’t acknowledge it #keeper of the lost cities #my art #frizzle’s scribbles #elwin heslege #kotlc elwin #kotlc fanart #elwin fanart #fanart #artists on tumblr #kotlc bullhorn

[hughjazzinthehouse]

"We Can Do It!" but with Cicero, to motivate for the clown poll, keep it pushing!!

#this took a lot out of me #BUT I MADE IT #drawing can really sap my energy #so finishing this in a day is a point of pride #even if it was agonizing drawing for so many hours at a time #I Do Not Draw Fast #skyrim #cicero #cicero skyrim #skyrim cicero #my art

[doll-elvis]

The story behind the pictures

“‘Hi honey,” Elvis said. He came to meet me and the first thing he did was hug and kiss me. Affection was something he loved to show. He seemed to want to give it — and to crave it right back from you. In large amounts and often. He loved to touch and be touched. ‘Let’s don’t forget this,’ he said, slipping the camera off my arm. ‘Let’s get some shots while the sun is still up’. He slid down into one of the lawn chairs on the grass and opened his collar a little and smiled at me. It could have been a movie poster. He seemed to have a way of looking great, no matter how he stood or sat. He was so beautiful I could hardly operate my camera…I ended up with a roll of twelve pictures all shot from the exact same spot”

(excerpt from “Elvis: This one’s for you” by Arlene Cogan)

#HE’S SO 💗💖💕💓💖💗💕 #I’m sorry but the second he opened his collar I’m forgetting about the camera😭 #also I’m super close to finishing scanning the book #I only have about 75 pages left (I’m sorry y’all the scanner I use is so slow// it took me 4 hours to do 200 pages) #but there are so many amazing lil stories like this and I can’t wait for y’all to read it too #arlene cogan #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #elvis book excerpts #elvis history #i love him

[puppyeared]

i am playing professor layton and the curious village on my ds. very fun!!!

I don't know if i'm very far in because most of the time spent in that game was me being confused and bad at puzzles. it's fun though.

!!! im glad to hear youre enjoying it!! its one of my fav titles and honestly such an underrated series, id love it if more ppl gave it a try!

the puzzles can be difficult but very rewarding!! i used to dread them as a kid but now i find them nice and challenging. the math ones are still hard, but if u speak to Flick at the cafe he'll give you chess puzzles which i think were my favorite ^_^

#its nice because its story driven but gives u enough room to do the puzzles on your own to make progress.. and the rewards like #the gizmos painting pieces and furniture for the minigames are also a nice bonus because it gives u a little extra incentive to solve as #many puzzles as possible!! ngl i didnt know how the hotel room minigame worked but i had fun completing the painting and robot dog #plus the variety and the fact that u dont know which puzzles youre gonna get makes it interesting. and theres no harm if u cant finish or #end up missing some because you can find them in the riddle shack or just do a different one instead and its fine. very cool #i have dyscalculia so the math ones have always been hard for me and id need my brothers help so we'd work on it together #or i'd just search up the answer as a last resort............ #actually im gonna save u the trouble. if u get the camera case puzzle the answer is 95. ITS FUCKED UP I KNOW BUT ITS 95 #it took me like 2 hours with my brother just to figure that out and i dont want anyone to get a headache from that one ITS FRUSTRATING #ive only played curious village and pandoras box bc its the only ones i had as a kid. replaying pandoras box rn actually!!! #i have cracked versions of unwound future and azran legacy which come after CV and PB BUT my version of unwound future is broken #it freezes on the opening cutscene every time i try to play it which SUCKS bc i really wanna play the games in order. maybe ill emulate it #professor layton #ask #answered #yapping #doodles

[sailorjisunq]

omg tripleS... hi👋🏻

#literally took me 3 hours and so many tries to finish the 1st header #im never trying this template again #triples headers #triples meme headers #triples messy headers #triples edits #triples stuff #kpop edits #kpop headers #kpop meme headers #kpop messy headers #girl groups headers #ggroups headers #gg headers

[xieliancore]

haven't i given enough?

#genshin impact #scaramouche #scaramouche fanart #genshin impact fanart #genshin fanart #kunikuzushi #wanderer #it's 2:26am i should be sleeping but i was possessed and had to finsih this drawing #rip me at work tomorrow tho i gotta wake up in less than 6 hours #also i have the feeling this is gonna flop and i'll cry this took me so long to finish and gave me so many headaches #please like it T.T #my art

[vargaslovinghours]

Have you heard the [Good News!]?

#💟 #Full art #Digital art #Art #Edgar #Scriabin #Deltarune #Crossover #Brainrot brainrot brainrot #I'd like to say that I made this when I was deep in the Spamton brainrot but that would imply that I /finished/ it while I was still in hell #Which was not quite the case lol #According to my footage this took me about 9 hours in total from start to finish and that was over the course of a couple weeks so yeah #Honestly a pretty good turnaround for a lofty project hehe ♪ #Also ta-dah! The error boxes! This was the project I originally made them for ♥ #This actually originally started as a warmup project - I'd do one little section at a time until I was happy with how many - #Then go off and do art for the day - come back and line - do other art - come colour - do other art - very back and forth #It was relaxing ♪ And fun to design a big scary monster fusion haha #I guess it'd probably be SpamNEO and Edgar? Since he Big lol #I don't have an excuse for the teeth I just thought they'd be fun to draw and I was right lol #It's probably a bit on the Edgar-heavy side of a fusion but I did still try to incorporate a bunch of little Spam signifiers #His rosy cheeks bleeding into the scars - pun intended - and the puppet strings going from neon green to bright red are probably my faves #Oh and the beady pink and yellow eyes hehe ♥ #He'd be completely insufferable haha - proselytizing and preaching up and down! Religious imagery up to 11 haha #I also thought it'd be fun to have Scriabin at about the scale of his action figure but y'know - himself lol #Still trying to pick at him but there's somebody else in there now! How scary #This was a fun one #Oh yeah and also ft. the speedpaint! Pls do check it out if you get the chance #I forgot to mention that I've been lovingly referring to this fusion as Spam'n'Eggar lol

[alma-artts]

Rory Gilmore! loml <3

this is one of my favorite looks on her, I think she looks soo gorgeous in this episode and I just had to draw it

alma.artts on instagram for the progress video and more drawings :)

#rory gilmore #rory defender forever yes she had flaws but that’s because she is a human being #gilmore girls fanart #gilmore girls #this took me 8 hours 40 #I am very proud of this actually #I’m so happy I finally finished a drawing I have so many wips you don‘t understand #I love rory so much let’s just say that again #team jess #but mostly team rory #or ig in this episode #team Logan #dean doesn’t deserve a team #my art #my post

[astyrra]

new artwork i’m most proud of

sort of sequel to this painting from 2016

#my art #fantasy art #wolf #creature #artists on tumblr #clouds #lightning #digital art #elemental #i am legit. extremely proud of this. #no idea why it took like 6 months tho i started it in september #if id just sat down and worked on it it wouldve been done in like a week or two tops #but unfortunately i was working on it for like half an hour every week :/ #and the reason it took me like 7 years to make a sequel to that other painting is like #it's not like i havent been trying??? so many sketches and rough works that never got finished #also fun artist behind the scenes tip: the initial reason i put clouds in is because #i didnt know how to make the anatomy of the rest of the body look good #so now its all covered in clouds #oh yeah and this painting is transparent technically i just put a background bc it looked terrible on plain white

[carpisuns]

I’ve clocked 120 hours of totk play time in three weeks girl help

I haven’t even done much side stuff!! Just the main quests! google says you’re supposed to be able to do main quest in like 60 hours but I took twice as long 🫠 the curse of being…just not good at video games but still very invested…lol

#I also have 125 hours of botw #which I played immediately before this #it probably took me 100 hours to finish those main quests but I was doing more side stuff along the way #for totk I was really trying to focus on the main storyline and STILL it took me this long #good grief #miracle I even made it through the final boss lol #I can’t believe I’ve played 245 hours of zelda in the past two months #numerical proof that I do not have a life HDSKDK #I wonder if these numbers are increased or decreased by the fact that my sister and I play together #she does most of the shrines and I do most of the dungeons and bosses #and we kind of take turns with side sfuff/exploration #but I’ve definitely played more than her #anyway #I still have so much of totk left. and I’ve barely touched the botw DLC #these games are just. Huge #And totk is even more massive #I have so many lightroots to get lol

[coquelicoq]

i completely solved a cryptic crossword for the first time the other day! this is huge for me because i've always been so annoyed by them lol. but i kinda get it now, it is very satisfying to figure them out.

that said, there are several answers where i still do not totally understand the clues. if anyone who is familiar with cryptics (sometimes just called "crosswords" outside of the US) wants to help me out, i'd be very interested to hear your take!

this cryptic was in the 2022 puzzle mania edition of the nyt (released at the very end of the year), so if you are planning to solve it and haven't yet, i guess don't read this? lol. since i waited five months to do it i feel like that will apply to no one, but just in case.

i realized after drafting this post that the answer key is available online (here), but it did not actually answer my questions in every case, so i've kept my original text but added the answer key answer after each one in case it makes more sense to you than it does to me.

13A. Has misgivings about deception to an auditor (4): RUES. so "has misgivings about" is the definition of "rues". but i don't know what "deception to an auditor" is doing. could it have something to do with the fact that "rues" is a homonym and anagram of "ruse", a kind of deception? but i still can't figure out what "to an auditor" is for.

the answer key gives "homophone ruse" for this, so i guess i was right about the deception part, but i still don't get the auditor thing.

14A. A con almost grabs actor's awards left unbalanced (10): ASYMMETRIC. so EMMYS is hidden backwards in "asymmetric", which takes care of "actor's awards" and "left", and "asymmetric" means "unbalanced", i guess. so that leaves "A con almost grabs", along with the A and TRIC of the answer. i can't figure out how to make those relate to each other.

answer key says "a(symmE)trick – k (rev. Emmys)". fuck does that mean?? why are we subtracting the k? and i'm still not really sure what the con is there for?

26A. Concentrate for spare and strike (5): THINK. "concentrate" is the definition of "think". what is the "for spare and strike" doing??

answer key: "thin + K". okay i see how thin = spare but wherefore this K? does K stand for strike in baseball? that sounds vaguely familiar...

28A. African country returned Los Angeles family inheritance (7): SENEGAL. senegal is an african country, and it's also an anagram of angeles. i'm guessing the "returned" is a clue for the anagram? but what is "family inheritance" for? oh wait, senegal backwards is LA genes!! but then is it just a coincidence that "angeles" anagrams to "senegal", or is that indicated in the clue somewhere???

answer key: "rev. L.A. + genes". okay so it does sound like angeles being an anagram of senegal is a coincidence, or at least not covered in the clue?? seems like a missed opportunity but what do i know.

5D. Largely moderate Arizona city (5): TEMPE. tempe is a city in arizona. what's "largely moderate" doing here?

answer key: "temper – r". am i to understand that this is saying moderate = temper and the "largely" part of the clue is telling me to keep most but not all of "temper"?

#the big-ass american crossword was not that interesting i'm sorry to say. the actual solving was too easy and the logistics were #very annoying. it was so huge (four newspaper pages & almost 800 answers) i had to do it on the floor #which was uncomfortable #and looking up each clue in the list took so long because there were so many #i was interested to see how long it would take so i timed myself and it took me 2h04 (though it felt like it took 10 hours #based on how sore my neck and back and legs were lol) #and i could have finished in under 2 hours but i didn't realize that i didn't have to do anything special with the super mega words #in order to solve the crossword. like i figured out what the words were but putting them together according to the instructions #is only necessary for solving the metapuzzle and so could be done separately. so i wasted a few minutes trying to do that #the other puzzles were p cool except the word search bugged me for reasons that were mostly the fault of my own poor planning #but psy is a one-named singer!! so technically there were 8 one-named singers not 7!!! #i actually haven't solved the metapuzzle final answer yet #i have all but one of the letters but then they have to be put in order and i have no ideas for what the order is supposed to be #cruciverbs #my posts #but anyway very exciting that i solved a cryptic for the first time! maybe now i can get past my mental block about them

[g-r-a-y-p-h-i-c]

quick thing based around the idea of the orange county sun

4 image credits:

"Circular Saws" by Filter Forge is licensed under CC BY 2.0; Modifications: cropped, resized, silhouetted

2. "Round orange fruit slices on black background" by Marco Verch Professional Photographer is licensed under CC BY 2.0; Modifications: colours adjusted, cropped, filtered over

3. "Untitled" by Ada Gonzalez is licensed under CC BY 2.0; Modifications: colours adjusted, converted into a filter, cropped, resized

4. "Gold Texture” by TIGER500 is licensed under CC BY 2.0; Modifications: colours adjusted, cropped, resized

#took me about an hour to make #and then at least a week to post because Reasons #artists on tumblr #collage #mixed-media #illustration #autisticart #i have multiple other mini art projects underway. this is- no joke- the first of six so far #but ive hit a slight wall on the second (i know what i need to add i just gotta find an image that matches up with that idea) #so it might be awhile til its done and posted #and the third i literally have to start over on so. again might be a grip #which is frustrating because the FOURTH art project is already finished #but i wanna post these all in the order i started em because its like- stream of consciousness #theyre not all about the same subject or anything #but you can sort of see like some vague themes/motifs shared between one and the next #nothing huge. but i think its worth preserving #this is what i get for getting so experimental on multiple art projects in a row #if id done something more basic like straightforward character portraits i wouldnt be running into so many walls #but NOOOO #i had to get ABSTRACT AND SHIT #i had to CHALLENGE MYSELF out of a LOVE OF THE GAME #so like fuck me ig #still also working on the huge art project i started in april 2022 btw. on and off #just kind of doing other stuff too to keep my momentum up #still havent quite got the hang of balancing it all. but practice makes perfect

[artsy-book]

why is doing money things and bank things and government things so annoying T-T

#artsy.text #i just finished doing something that took me like. 3 hours to do. #the website kept going down/just not loading and then i had to hop through so many hoops to get things i need #i hate hate hate hate doing bank and government things

[mattodore]

#making my two favorite ocs like oh i’m gonna give you both sooo many character flaws you’ll be helplessly drawn to each other bc of it #river dipping #theodore doe #echthroi #cw drugs mention #questionnaire lb #hello all........ i come bearing good news: theo's doc is already at 9.2k words <3 #not so great news: i actually still have 29 questions left so.......... um. i'm still not done... #😂🔫💥 #i'll definitely be making some cuts for length once i'm done answering all of the questions #like i simply can't have this go over 11k at any point... bc that would be....... just too much. like just way too much. #editing is gonna be rough when i get to it like i can just tell but whatever kill your darlings etc. etc. #also :) i've been so good at not opening tumblr or letting anything else distract me which is how theo's doc is already this long #in such a short amount of time like!!! i'm really proud of myself actually!! #i'm trying to finish it quickly bc i miss being on here but dfjkhh when i took that three hour break the other day to catch up i lost all #of my motivation to write and ended up stopping for the day bc i felt like everything i was writing was awful and ooc 😭 #so i'm holding off....... i do see my activity feed and i'll get to it i promise i'm not ignoring anyone on purpose!! #or. well i guess i kind of am but jsdkchddkj i'm just trying to get this done first!! #honestly i'm moving pretty fast tho so i feel like i'll have this done soon :) theo favoritism etc. etc. #okay... i need to go now........ i've rambled here for much too long #just felt compelled to drop another little update since my blog is inactive otherwise #logging out...... wish me luck friends and lovers