#my next art is in half a year

[diornies]

based on this poem by mavigator

#tubbo #tubbo fanart #qsmp #two posts consecutively?? oyu know what that means!!! #my next art is in half a year #(slash j hopefully) #my art

[panthermouthh]

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

#Frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic lit art #victor frankenstein #happy new year lads #ive been thinking about nothing else but them for the past 3 days #been trying to figure out a decent design for victor and i think im getting closer #he needs to have a cruelness to him #and he needs to be kind of pathetic #someone who the creature could snap in half yknow #and i need to make the creature more Mean looking but it just feels right to draw him sad and despairing #THAT BEING SAID i think i did a good job here hehe #henry is next :))) #my art #illustration

[a-sketchy]

potatoes of indeterminate size

#goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #p5r #shuake #doodles #my comics #AFTER THREE YEARS IM FINALLY REALIZING MY VISION!!!! #I FINALLY MADE THE LITERAL SMALL POTATOES COMIC!!! #i’m five days too early for 2/2 and this is only half of the whole idea #but if i don’t post it now it will languish forever forgotten in my files #so. here it is #lol maybe next year i’ll polish it up into the thing i’ve always imagined #but i’m still supremely happy i’ve gotten it out of my head like this #long post #akechi bewildered in the produce aisle is the best thing i’ve ever drawn i think #persona 5 #p5 #my art

[starrysharks]

jan - april - september - november

2023 was my purple period if you will heheheheheh

#zeno's art #old art #yea i know exo-plosion isnt really purple WHO CARES #anyway i used a lot of colors this year but also a lot of purple. next year i want to use lots of different colors #of course next year theres gonna be a lot less art in the first half because i'll be non-stop studying #but still look forward to next year #because thats the year i want to start properly working on my oc projects

[elytrianicarus]

silly comic from limited life, someone get this guy his emotional support dog back

#<-incapable of starting and finishing literally anything in a timely fashion. forgot about this for half a year. bon appetit #limited life #martyn inthelittlewood #renchanting #my art #I've actually been working on a real drawing lately that i might post. i also forgot about it for a while though so #maybe in the next 6-8 months yknow

[saradiation]

For 11/11 you get Jane & Roxy because I never draw them and they deserve some love <3

#Oh look I didn’t forget 11/11 was a thing #alpha kids day but you only get half of them #and maybe you'll get the other half next year who knows #i do want to draw dirk and jake before that though #I was actually planning to render this but I like the simple look better this time #especially since I feel like it's a little bit more cartoony that what I usually do #homestuck #homestuck fanart #hs fanart #roxy lalonde #jane crocker #alpha kids #my art

[luzho]

take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me!

finally!! a little older zukka with (sorta) their new movie looks along with piercings and tattoos from a beloved au, listening to some abba, dancing real close and laughing<3 (zuko is the one telling the joke here... he can be silly too); referencing the iconic ipod ad campaign and based on the ‘let’s rock!’ photoshoot by steven meisel

[ID: This is a digital drawing of Sokka and Zuko dancing close together and listening to music from an iPod, drawn in warm colors and against a deep blue sky background. On the left, Zuko (wearing septum and snake bite piercings, earrings, long hair in a bun, and Fire Nation clothing) holds the iPod from Sokka’s lower back; while Sokka (wearing matching earrings, a long warrior’s wolf tail, his Water Tribe clothing and a moon and stars tattoo on his arm) holds his shoulder. Both of them laughing and tearing up, they share the ear pods while its cable gets tangled in their visible arms. End ID]

#my art #zukka #AAAAAA half the semester waiting to do this one!!! and i really liked how it turned out!!! #this has everything i like: #orange zukka #gradient sky backgrounds; laughing; being silly; referencing ads and photoshoots; HANDS... #too late for zukka week but whatever because this doesnt even account for any prompt right? heheh maybe next year i'll do something for it #or this one! i liked the rivals one>:) #also: i did say i was gonna draw them with piercings and earrings from now on no matter WHAT #and of course; i'm also saving the longer version for... ;-) #sokka #zuko #zukka fanart

[ameleah]

@buggachat​‘s beau fandom how we doin’ today

#my art #ml fanart #ml beau #bakery enemies au #buggachat has me in a chokehold and does not want to let go #this chapter destroyed me but cleaned my pores at the same time istg?? #the last scene was *chef's kiss* #the emotions in his eyes #the fear and hope and realization mixed together #kelly have mercy plz #i'm betting 50/50 on whether or not i will sleep or wait for 4am in the morning to read the next part tht comes out #i couldnt focus at my capital j job today bc i kept thinking about this au wtf #anyways sry for rambling #take the fact that i picked up the tablet pen after what half a year as a major compliment i havent drawn in so long istg

[lexiesdoodles]

Precure doodles

#I’m not putting these in tags I’m posting these here so they don’t get lost in my twt priv media #and I don’t want to post them to my main either #but I want to actually draw precure fanart next year I watched half of it this year like an insane person #one day I will sit down and do nice rendered art of all of my top faves but till then here’s so doodles of girls I like #/ #precure #my art #also if we are mutuals and you like precure you should dm me about precure I need more people to scream about it with #even if we haven’t talked before please #bc either we can talk about a season we’ve both seen or I can go screaming (affectionately) to you when I go watch a season you have

[whumpy-wyrms]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BASIL!!!!! 🎂🎉🐹🎊🍕

i could not decide on a background color so here’s some alts + a basil closeup :3

#YIPPEE!!!!! #FINSIHED THE DRAWING with an hour and a half to spare!!!!! #it’s nothing much #totally didn’t completely forget i wanted to draw something all day until like an hour ago #Anton’s wearing borrower basil’s sweater cuz he’s silly like that and Basil’s favorite color is ourple #just realized i won’t get to celebrate basil’s birthday next year though :( #four more years guys #they look so goofy i love them #silly creatures #nothing bad ever happens to them #my art #basil oc #anton oc #tllr art #the last lab rat #g/t art #giant/tiny art #giant/tiny #g/t

[2hoothoots]

i was having a chuckle to myself last night about Gristol, and how his plans are basically:

Restore Ford Cruller's memory

Find Maligula

???

Profit

but then... of course they are, right? this is Gristol we're talking about. Fatherland Follies drives home again and again that he's still operating on a child's logic, a warped and reductive version of the world that he never bothered to grow out of. both of his memory vaults center on the images of his childhood, this idealized version of the past that he clings to no matter what. and that's still how he remembers Maligula, too - as this saviour figure, who rushes in to help him when he's in trouble.

[ID: Two slides from Gristol's memory vault, Glory to Grulovia! Left: Gristol clings to Maligula's back as she summons waves to sweep away his assailants. Right: Gristol and Maligula waving from a balcony as the people cheer. Gzar Theodore brandishes a dagger in the background.]

like so much else, Maligula represents a return to this idyllic childhood - to the peace and simplicity of his youth, when he was free from worries and responsibilities. in his mind, he doesn't need to make any further plans - once Maligula's back, everything will go back to normal. Maligula will make everything better.

...is what i thought, but then i remembered this line:

[Screenshot source. ID: Gristol, in Truman's body, bows on his hands and knees in front of the newly-awaked Maligula. The caption reads: "Yes, High Priestess! I am here to correct the mistakes made by my father!"]

and that's kind of interesting, right?

to be clear: this happens directly after Maligula sees Helmut-in-Gristol's-body, and recognises him. her line before this is:

"Little Gzesaravich! Have you come to pay for your father's sins?"

my first thought was that Gristol hadn't expected to still be in Truman's body by the time he managed to find Maligula, and this was him trying to placate her and buy some time until he could explain the situation. but watching the cutscene back, that's clearly not what's happening here. Gristol is answering as himself, and his response of throwing himself to his knees before her is, as far as i can tell, genuine.

so what is going on here?

in Fatherland Follies, there's this line in the ride narration that stuck out to me:

"Why didn't the Gzar help Maligula in her time of need? No one knows, but historians agree - it is Gzar Theodore's biggest failure."

other lines mention Gzar Theodore's "mistake", and it's wording Gristol himself echoes in the screencap above. evidently, he believes that his father abandoned Maligula, leaving her to her fate at the hands of the Psychonauts, and it was that mistake that lead to them being driven out of the country - that mistake which he seeks to correct. maybe he even feels like he has a debt to repay to her for his family turning their backs on her all those years ago.

the 'High Priestess' thing, though - that's kinda weird, and threw me for a loop the first time i played the game. it took me until my second playthrough to connect the dots, and remember how the room in the Lady Luctopus - Gristol's room - was full of Delugionist scribblings and symbols.

[Screenshot source. ID: left, the walls of the hidden backroom in Gristol's hotel suite, covered in scrawlings of eyeballs and Maligula's name. Right, the pinboard from the hidden backroom. On its surface are photographs and newspaper clippings connected by pieces of string.]

i mean, look at this stuff! he had a whole conspiracy board and everything!

we learn very little about the Delugionists and their beliefs as a whole during the game, but i think drawing the connection here suggests two important things. one: that Gristol was in deep with this stuff. i don't know how he linked up with them - maybe via old family connections, or just good old-fashioned digging (we know he's skilled at worming his way into peoples' good graces, after all) - but it seems likely that he's begun to internalise their ideas, maybe even warping his own memories of events. and two: the Delugionists themselves are, if you'll pardon the pun, pretty far off the deep end.

like... i understand why PN2 didn't go heavy on the "mass-murderer cult worship" aspect of things, in the end, but man this is such a tantalising glimpse into the wider mythos around Maligula. Gristol is proud and haughty and thinks himself above everyone else; the fact that his first reaction seeing Maligula is to throw himself to the ground at her feet says so much about the way he's come to see her. he's not just trying to bring back Maligula, his childhood bodyguard. he's trying to bring back Maligula, the High Priestess of the deluge, the semi-mythical figure whose supporters believe even death couldn't stop. he doesn't even flinch at the way she confronts him, and maybe it's because he's bought in so completely to this deified figurehead, this idea of Maligula; more a living force of nature than a person. and it all comes back to the same place: an abdication of responsibility, not just to the person who protected him when he was little but to this avatar of floods and destruction. Maligula will make everything better.

i'd write more about my thoughts on the Delugionists but that'd be taking a hard turn into speculation, and this is already kind of long and rambling so i'd better end it here. but what an unexpected and evocative line, right? it's some of the only stuff we have to go off of regarding the Delugionists as a whole, but i think it does such a good job of hinting at the wider story - at teasing another layer to the mythos surrounding Maligula, one whose ripples we see throughout the game but which never quite breaches the surface.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #bored waiting at the airport so you get more psychonauts meta from me #the delugionists have been on my mind recently (because i Might Just have an upcoming au lorepost about them and also cults are fun) #so tossing my thoughts up here because people seemed to like the last few times i did this #and also it's my blog and i like to talk :) #related vent i HATE drafting posts in the tumblr editor because if you hit crtl+z to try and undo a formatting change #it deletes like half the post you just typed out #(yes i did it again while i was writing this. yes i'm still salty. why do i even bother) #what else... this is just becoming a disconnected thoughts dump #but if you've seen my posts you knew what you were signing up for when you hit the button to expand the post tags #there's new art coming hopefully this weekend if i can get it finished! it's more mermaid au designs #i'm two and a half weeks late for mermay but it turns out starting a new job and moving house doesn't leave you with a ton of free time #but that's okay it's never too late for mermaids #omg and artfight's coming up next month too! geez #i gotta make refsheets for the fsau trio because i would LOVE to get art of them #and this year i don't have a thesis to crunch on so i might actually have time to participate #oh and then in august i'm having top surgery! will make a proper announcement post for it at some point #i say 'announcement'. it's just a life update but it's nice to share #i'm super excited about it :) #i might end up blogging the process and recovery but obviously it won't be going here lol. i'd put it on my main #idk if anyone would find it useful but when i first started looking into surgery i had like very little idea about the whole process #and it's only through joining a bunch of online support/discussion groups that i managed to find more info and resources #so hey it might be useful to share? we'll see #our flight doesn't land for another fifty minutes so now i'm just writing in the tags because i'm bored #alright i'll proofread this and then post it when i land and have signal again. peace out yall hope your pride month is going well

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I don't think I mentioned at the time because it was in the middle of kirb2k #but I had an appointment with a hematologist last week #they confirmed the culprit behind my chronic illness is definitely my mast cells #but I need to get a bone marrow biopsy next month to find out #if it's actually not-technically-autoimmune (mcas) #or if it's actually not-technically-cancer (mastocytosis) #which is actually good news cuz 1 someone finally confirmed my nearly 6 year old hypothesis instead of just agreeing (or disagreeing) #and 2 if it *is* mastocytosis they're gonna start medicating me A Lot more aggressively :) #which I need! I've been sick for right about 8 years now but it's gotten rapidly worse in the past 1-1.5 years #so clearly I'm badly under-medicated #(since I've been on all the same meds for 2 years except for my own emergency intervention.) #(I mean technically I've been chronically ill my whole life it just wasn't disabling until early 2016) #anyway I'm so tired I feel like a ragdoll half the time! sure hope I get adequate medication in a couple months!

[enralis]

#enraliart #enralipic #art vs artist #2023 was so long i dont remember doing half of these #i thought i did the pokemon sv one last year but it was in jan #i increased the number of blahaj in my pic from 1 to 2 #does that mean next year i need another blahaj #artists on tumblr

[varilien]

welp that's a wrap for this year ig. it's funny i think this year would have been another oops all trigun except that whenever i got really super busy FAR too busy to make trigun art i did usually end up doodling something else lmao

december's spot is @stardvst-diving's lysithea :)

#art summary #2023 summary of art #2023 art summary #txt #honestly. i think this is the first year in a long time where i really don't feel that happy with the progress i've made with my art #like in 2020 i finally got comfortable with drawing digitally after SO MANY YEARS of chipping away at it #and 2021 i finally pinned down some stylistic choices i enjoy working with and figured out how to color #and 2022 i mostly just pushed the limits of what ''finishing'' art even looks like for me #since in the past i'd tend to leave everything pretty half baked #2023 was SUPPOSED to be the year i started into things like comics and composition and increasing dynamism #but i think mostly i just ended up hammering out more stuff in regards to color and line confidence #which are both good. i'm glad i made that progress #but it's a little disappointing i didn't finish the year with the specific takeaways i'd gone into it wanting to have #sighhhhhh maybe next year idk

[gnawonid]

is there anything more riveting than putting characters in silly little outfits

#my art #fanart #adventure time #marceline #princess bubblegum #the way I literally improved in rendering from the first piece to the next like #dam practice rlly is key! Im sick to my stomach #pb piece has its own charm with the flatter look too tbh #literally I have not posted in a year and a half #the way I started off as an ff/xiv account lmfao #I do not have time to play games anymor! #I will howevr rewatch adventur time

[murderous-coffeebean]

One Rawking Ghoul :D

This one’s for Tumblr Ghoul (@thebandghostofficial) - thank you for rawking so much! 💜

I had a bit of an art block after my last digital drawing and I am still stuck drawing left-handed for a little while longer, but Fanart Friday gave me a good reason to draw something fun and to say thanks, as well ^^

#FroqueYourself #PhantomimeUnholyVestments #Fanart Friday #ghost #the band ghost #ghost the band #nameless ghouls #tumblr ghoul #art #fan art #ghost fanart #my art #my posts #digital art #i tend to check tumblr in the morning before work and seeing the latest Rawking tour update or Fanart Friday reblogs always makes me smile #so - thank you :) #meant to finish this for the FF before the last but i'm a bit slow left-handed (also the heat's tiring) #anyway hand surgery's scheduled for next thursday and i should be able to use my right hand normally again soon after #i can't wait tbh it's been a long half year #side note: the coloring reminds me a lot of my first digital drawings about a decade ago :') #kinda sweet #learned a lot since and here we are #2023 #24.6.2023