#my weird commentary

[godmerlin]

I'm just going down memory hill with looking at old photoshoots and this is the cutest one I think they ever did! Look at angel! She's stunning and sooo adorable smiling like that! Also her hair in this photoshoot just aces. Colin looking cute as always. Katie is gorg ans so smiley. Loooook at Bradley! I Just....ugh. it's so good. Chefs kisses all around. I love the whole photoshoot and should just go and post all the pics I have from it without the weird commentary. Hahaha perhaps another time. What a great cast truly award winning. I love them all so much. I already knew I was bisexual when the first episode aired but let me tell you, solidified it for me. 🤣

#angel coulby #colin morgan #bradley james #merlin cast #my weird commentary #just ignore me #im chatty with myself tonight aren't i? #it's because i need to sleep but i am scared for tomorrow #but my god look at them #katie mcgrath #just noticed i typoed her name oops

[non-un-topo]

hot guard summer

#tog #the old guard #andromache of scythia #nile freeman #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #kaysanova #that's right!!! i might have kicked my art block!! hopefully!! let's not jinx it!! #siggy draws #alternatively titled: WHERE IS THE TRAILER #happy almost-summer! #director's commentary as always: #it's probably too small to see but the vespa has a little engraved name 'Destino' on it #not sure how i feel about joe's look but the poor guy is so hidden behind his husband's shoulders anyway #joe does have a poofy ponytail but it's hard to see #they're probably all chilling in italy between missions and that weird safehouse we have yet to see #nile is absolutely reaching for a gun tucked into the back of her shorts btw. not sure what the girls are looking at #andy is wearing nile's pants and nile is wearing nicky's 90s jacket (which is totally not my actual real life jacket) #you know that man would wear it ok #if the lighting seems a little loud or sloppy it's because i am inexperienced dsfgfds. also my first time attempting bi lighting sort of #i am sad that the lighting erased nicky's sunburned nose dfgfds. just know that it was very pink before #shoutout to my lovely friends who helped me figure out lighting/shadow stuff -- apple and wingodex and captainshakespeare #*damn it accidentally added an e on the end there #thank you for helping me navigate the digital art world beloveds <3 #this took my entire day and all of ABBA Gold at least 10 times

[joyfuladorable]

Second Batch of Mikey twt doodle requests! Plus a bunch of Mikeys who didn't get requested just for funsies ^w^

#tmnt #tmnt mirage #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2007 #tmnt mutant mayhem #tmnt bayverse #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1990 #tmnt 1987 #tmnt next mutation #tmnt archie #rottmnt #tmnt sainw #the last ronin #my art #pie splat noise on bayverse mikey #unfortunately he is the lowest ranked on the bestie scale due his weird ass commentary about April when they first meet her #washing that boy's mouth with soap everyday til he shapes up #anyways this was a lot of fun! #did the bonus mikeys cuz I didn't want em to feel left out lol #my favorite of this bunch was definitely Mirage Mikey just cuz I was doodling to match the style and it was again lots of fun #rice krispie treat ass texture /pos

[fefairys]

i know ive basically said this already lol but a lot of ppl have been like "oh man i should reread homestuck with the commentary!" and i do want to warn yall it is an extremely mixed bag of genuine insightful stuff and good writing advice and then just like. terrible writing advice, and weird off-kilter bad-taste jokes. i've just been posting the stuff i think is good and interesting or particularly funny, but it's not all top tier commentary lmao

if ur doing a reread with book commentary get ready to be annoyed. and put on ur critical thinking helmet lol because you have to parse through so much of hussies bullshit. u have to ask urself CONSTANTLY "are they serious, or are they being satirical right now?" and i genuinely do not know the answer for some of the shit they say.

#i generally try to interpret everything as kindly as i can #just for my own sake if nothing else because i dont like getting mad about it #i just ignore the weird fucked up remarks and roll my eyes #and pay attention to the actual good stuff #next read i need to turn off the commentary and read it in its pure form #bc sometimes it does get distracting #homestuck

[zytes]

something’s wrong?

#heheh what a name for a town. borger. brother that is a samdwich!! #I could prob talk about what this means to me but I don’t wanna #actually nvm I just thought of a funny way to describe the feeling: #you have two wolves inside of you. one HATES everything it sees soooo much. the other only sees beauty. you’re jaded. #or something like that #I’m trying to be conscious about only bending man-made structures and objects #unless it just looks extra cool to bend the natural stuff too #not rly a critical commentary. the basic premise is to show you how fucked up these little towns are; #while also communicating how they’re typically found in naturally beautiful places. #weird right? like finding ruins. it’s like these places settled and then worldly-priorities changed and everything fell apart #but you can tell - usually - that somewhere in the history of these small towns someone said: #‘what a fucking sweet view. let’s make camp’ #my art #glitch art #aesthetic #art #artwork #webcore #glitchcore #internetcore #abstract #artists on tumblr #photography #abstract art #distortioncore #glitch #weird art #americana #southern gothic #angels

[gophergal]

Life on the farm

#gopher art #mortal kombat #subscorp #mk subzero #mk scorpion #kuai liang #hanzo hasashi #mortal kombat legends #been holding onto this one for a bit! finished it more than a month ago lol #i was originally going to save it for subscorp week but then i was like. nah. that wouldnt be entirely fair lol #and besides. ive been wanting to share it for long enough and my resolve has kinda worn down #anyway - snowblind but AU'd! heres my concept of this (which i may use later on for something idk): king kano got his shit wrecked #like way before the events of the movie. by the revenants in fact. i want him torn to shreds. you still have random roving assholes #making trouble across the wastes. but its much less dire. kuai still retires to his farm. kenshi still falls for shang tsung's bullshit #and kuai mentors him. hanzo becomes warlord of netherrealm. BUT. he and kuai keep in contact. its long distance and they make it work #sometimes scorpion vacays to Kuai's farm. as a treat. thats what this drawing is #i cant deny that i literally just want them to be happy ok. thats literally all i want for these gay old ninjas #bonus commentary: at the time of drawing this i was still figuring out how i wanted to draw hanzo. he's so fucking hard to draw #when i draw him without his mask or beard he looks so fucking off. but if i draw him with the beard it feels weird too. #babygirl why are you so hard to draw?? dont you want me to draw you?????

[kritzenkriegen]

Evening Dust

I've got a dozen Heavy / Medic SFM wips lined up, but I wanted my first posted render to be a tribute to the ship I was obsessed with when I got into TF2 6 years ago <3

Alt Shots, process, and sources here

#take this away from me before I hate it again lol #sniperspy #SFM #source filmmaker #my stuff #sniperxspy #I've been away too long i don't remember what their weird shipname is #tf2 #team fortress 2 #second is because tu*blr mobile handle 16:9 poorly go figure #I've decided to be slightly normal and not post my unnecessarily detailed commentary unless this actually gets some hits #it still doesn't look great on mobile but. eh. #why does it look so dark on mobile!!

[lesbiancarat]

want to give my two cents on the AI usage in the maestro trailer--

i think seventeen doing a whole concept that is anti-AI is very cool, especially as creatives themselves i think it's good that they're speaking up against it and i hope it gets more ppl talking about the issue. i also understand on a surface level the artistic choice (whether it was made by the members, the mv director, or whoever else), to directly use AI in contrast to real, human-made visuals and music in order to criticize it. i also appreciate that they clearly stated the intention of the use of AI at the beginning of the video

however, although i understand it to an extent, i do not agree with the choice to use AI to critique AI. one of the main ethical concerns with generative AI is that it is trained on other artists' work without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. and even when AI generated images are being used to critique AI, it still does not negate this particular ethical concern

the use of AI to critique also does not negate the fact that this is work that could have been done by an actual artist. i have seen some people argue that it's okay in this context because it's a critique specifically about AI, and it is content that never would have been done by a real artist anyway because it doesn't make sense for the story they're trying to tell. but i disagree. i think you can still tell the exact same story without using AI

and in fact, i would argue that it would make the anti-AI message stronger if they HAD paid an artist to draw/animate the scenes that are supposed to represent AI generated images. wouldn't it just be proof that humans can create images that are just as bad and nonsensical and soulless as AI, but that AI can't replicate the creativity and beauty and basic fucking anatomy that's in human-made art?

it feels very obvious this was not just a way to cut corners and costs like a lot of scummy people are using AI for. ultimately it was a very intentional creative decision, i just personally think it was a very poor one. and even if some ethical considerations were taken into account before this decision, i certainly don't think all of them were. at the very least i feel like the decision undermines the message they want to convey

i would also like to recognize that i myself am not an artist, and i have seen some artists that are totally on board with the use of AI in this specific context, so clearly this is not a topic that is cut and dry. but generative AI is still new, and i think it's important to keep having these conversations

#melia.txt #also want to add that as musicians svt are more directly threatened by AI generated audio than they are by AI generated images #and yet AI generated images is what was used in the video #and i guess the MV director/production company are the ones directly responsible for putting that in there #whether it was their initial idea or not #and they work in a visual medium so perhaps that makes it more 'fair' but idk it just feels like #the commentary is around music. which makes sense. and using human produced music/sound #but then taking advantage of AI images #idk just feels weird #i mean i don't like it either way #like i said in the main post i understand the intention behind the creative decision #and i'm still happy svt are speaking against ai at all i do think overall they're doing a good thing here #i just don't agree with the creative decision they/the production company/whoever made #edit: deleted the part about not boycotting svt over this bc ppl were commenting about boycotting bc of the 🛴 stuff #i meant specifically /I/ am not calling for a boycott because of specifically the ai stuff #was just trying to make a general point that im not making this post bc i want to sabatoge svt or whatever #bc kpop fans love to pull that catd whenever u criticize anything #so yeah just removed that bit bc i dont want ppl getting confused what im talking about #respect ppl boycotting because of scooter/israel stuff but thats not what this post was intended to be about #edit 2: turning off reblogs bc im going to bed and having asomewhat controversial post up is not gonna help me sleep well lol #may or my not turn rb's back on in the morning

[brother-emperors]

Now, Caesar had long ago decided to put down Pompey, just as, of course, Pompey also had decided to put Caesar down. For now that Crassus, who was only waiting for the issue of their struggle to engage the victor,​ had perished among the Parthians, it remained for him who would be greatest to put down him who was, and for him who was greatest, if he would not be put down, to take off in time the man he feared.

Plutarch, Caesar

me Crassus when Caesar and Pompey start fighting: 🍿🍿

there's a more dramatic illustration I want to do of this particular aspect of the Caesar-Pompey dynamic, courtesy of Lucan's Pharsalia, but first. I need to get this out of my system

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#gaius julius caesar #gnaeus pompeius magnus #marcus licinius crassus #tris homines #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #other things i need to get out of my system: all this sulla-crassus-pompey brainrot #sometimes i have commentary in the tags but i keep circling back to the homoeroticism of patron-client relationships #(and resulting debt subtext) courtesy of the quattrocento #and quite frankly. i am too sleepy to talk about economic discourses without saying something deeply weird about it all

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I already loved Wyll but then I discovered one of his idle comments is, "Where there's a Wyll there's a Y." This boy. This utter dork.

I had to pause the game to process.

#wyll ravengard #blade of frontiers #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #wylliam! #i keep seeing commentary that wyll is the normal one #please he's just as weird as the rest of them (affectionate) #here he is hanging out in my team flirting clumsily with both astarion and lae'zel

[helaenasaegon]

“Aegon was unfazed by Helaena dancing with Jace, but AEM0ND CARED!! 😏🤭😍”

Ah, yes, totally unfazed...

And in the bookverse (You know, the canon source material that these show writers simply refuse to acknowledge?), he almost starts a full-on fight with Jace over it! 😱

#Book!Aegon: ''THAT'S MY WIFE!'' 😤😤 #Show!Aegon: 🥺 #Book!Aem0nd: *couldn't give a flying shit* #Show!Aem0nd: 😒 #But a real question here: On the show was Aegon upset about Helaena... or about Jace? 👀 Let's be real now. 👀 #He is so weird about Jace and he was picking on him for no reason when they used to be best friends. #Like when a kid has a crush but they don't know how to handle it so they just shove their crush into the sandbox. ☕ #aegon ii targaryen #aegon x helaena #helaegon #helaegon nation #commentary #hotd commentary #txt #anti helaemond

[nagararitsu]

idk nothing abt ursa’s favouritism seems surprising like I think she’s just a textbook boy mum. like some women just genuinely think their boy child is inherently more loveable than their girl child

#weird as hell but it’s true #thankfully my mother is not like that but some of her friends r and she was telling me abt it #and I was like. that’s crazy #zuko #azula #ursa critical #anti ursa #not rlly just a commentary #atla

[non-un-topo]

More clothing studies, this time from my fic Axis. I was aiming for authenticity while also trying to have each of their personalities show a little bit in their clothing choices. Two for Nicky, to show his layers.

#tog #the old guard #for reference the fic takes place in 1625 in iceland. i still don't think they're bundled enough though lol. #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #andromache of scythia #no quynh :( #these were a n i g t m a r e to crop correctly. tumblr why are you like this. #hence the cropping might look a little weird #siggy draws #i think these sketches took a month and a half lol. now i will be quiet about this fic and focus on writing something else. #what do we think about this style? the differently coloured lineart and the slight lighting? and the rough colours? #also i forgot my siggynature on ALL of these but that's ok. you know who i am sdfghf #my new obsession is clothing details i guess!! could always make it more detailed though! with lots of practice i can try. #no real director's commentary on these drawings like i usually write for my sketches asdsfgfd #just that this is mostly what they wear in the fic. add a coat for andy maybe and some mitts for joe. #and more weapons and bags and stuff #can't really see nicky's braids but he's got one big french braid and a few tiny ones on the sides of his head connecting to it. #his hair is like shoulder-blade length. it's about the symbolism!! of not making a change for a long time!! until he does cut it!! #and andy is wearing quynh's necklace under her shirt of course </3 #joe rolls his pantaloons above the knee for maximum movement (horseriding) and fashion (gay) #i have a crush on the first nicky sketch like he's so cunty for no reason #well. he's possibly supposed to be having a serious conversation/argument with andy #kudos to the ref picture i used of luca just standing Like That

[wheatormeat]

Thinking about putting together a digital infinity train mini-zine when I get the free time...

#it'd be some already posted stuff #and some new stuff along with process pics and commentary #and doodles probably #I just really wanna put together a digital zine and I have too much it fanart #thought about putting it on gumroad but I think gumroads doing some weird(?) stuff so if anyone has any other sites lmk #infinity train #infinity train book 4 #ryan akagi #min gi park #my art #fanart

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1 & 2 - Very bright pretty looking sky ! #2. HUGE icicle that looked like you could kill someone with it or something.. Pulled from near a gutter on the side of a building #3. & 4 & 5 - various images from a silly party I had where I pretended to be some elf king turning like 204 years old lol (also not like #a REAL party. Only my roommates were there really and we're all in the same household bubble. #just to clarify. I would never dare have a large party anyway given #my hermitous nature but on top of that.. didn't want there to be some implication that I'm having a Party while covid is still ongoing lol. #NEVER.. But I do love dressing up as some fantasy character so much.. The only thing that could ever bring a true hermit wizard #to engage with others socially is the prospect of connecting it somehow to fantasy worlds and costumes lol. One must simply dress up #as a silly 200 year old man from time to time and pretend you've never seen a balloon before in your life. etc. #6. bapy boye... feets #7. The main food that I made for the elderly elf man 'party'. which was a Deconstructed Beef Wellington (kind of as ajoke since I watch s #o many silly cooking competition shows and they always make stuff 'deconstructed' at the last minute when under time limits or whatever.) #I've wanted to make beef wellington a few times but Ithink to do it well I'd need like..an actual kitchen and a lot of time and #an oven that fully works to bake things and etc. etc. So I thought this would be an easier method. A thick steak cut round to kind of mimi #c the round tenderloin or whatever it is in a wellington. instead of the puff pastry being wrapped around - I just did star shaped cut outs #of pastry and baked them and put them on top (to go with the star theme). instead of mushroom duxelles being wrapped around in pastry #its in a little circle under the steak. and instead of mustard being brushed onto the meat I made a mustard gravy sauce type of thing #Then of course asparagus on the side.. my favorite... Though I know some wellington #also has a layer of prosciutto I think. or I saw one person use crepes. I didn't feel it was necessary to incorporate that too lol #8. bapy son helping me do a giant puzzle that took me hours and I had no idea it was actually that large of a puzzle #until I started putting it together and for some reason it made me stressed by the end instead of relaxed lol.. puzzle fatigue #photo diary

[hiomaiks]

Happy New Year!

This was finished back in 2023, in the 31 to be exact, since I didn't want to drag this WIP any longer.

Colored it in the last few days of the year since the original lineart for this was in my WIPs for a few months.

Rather than coloring everything in the layer for each color like how it looks with the bases I painted everything over in a folder.

Some colors would go on top of each other and then I'd just adjust it painting over a bit more.

Lineart that isn't used here since it was 100% scrapped 😅

Turns out that while I was moving to start shading it I noticed it would look way better if I drew lines over instead of using what I had done and it turned out way better like that.

Coloring this was somewhat quick compared to other artworks that drag on for many weeks or months. Either way I really like how this came out, the progress here was kinda weird but the end result was still good. Here are a few more detail shots (some zoomed out).

#hiomaika #yohioloid #vocaloid maika #maika vocaloid #btw this is obviously NOT any type of tutorial. i'm only commenting on how the progress for this was since it was kinda weird. #maika's transparent coat thing parts were painted over but in another folder that was above everything else. #feel free to remove my commentary if you want to reblog