#style experiments

[kayzig]

the SU style is still incredibly helpful for my symbol sets when I am trying to figure out how to heavily simplify my designs, so here's a silly simple Chaise!

I am not the best at style imitation but it's fun.

#chaise lounge #doodle #OCs #style experiments

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[sunlit-mess]

silly lil guy

#like me #trying to experiment with how i draw him w my style- kinda meh on this one but ya know. #messyr #doodle #artists on tumblr #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer morningstar

[zuzu-draws]

How come more people aren't redrawing depictions of this panel??? This was my highlight of chp 254!!

#ryomen sukuna #sukuna #jjk sukuna #redraw #panel redraw #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #manga #king of curses #manga redraw #im thinking about experimenting with noses hmmm but for now consider this to just be my style #is it me or is Gege drawing Sukuna more n more handsome lately?? #can't wait to see how MAPPA makes Sukuna look im sure he'll look HOTTTTTT #snukums wukumns i just wanna bite that nose wwwwwww #wonky art #jjk254

[an-albino-pinetree]

Warnings: New Digital Circus vid spoilers!

Crogodile-

#my stuff #I never draw in a lineless style like ever- #this dude doesn’t have a name yet so I’ll just put #candy canyon croc #I love this gummy gator #so have Tree experimenting wildly 🤌🏻✨ #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc characters #gooseworx

[chewytran]

happy 3 oct 11 ❤️🏠🔥

#playing with a lineless style..... #really happy with it !!!!! #aaaaa!!! #sometimes.... experimenting is good..... #proud of this one though :''') #3 oct 11 #don't forget 3 oct 11 #fma #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #happy birthday elric family house fire

[steelscorner]

BG3 Comic: An Unwelcome Surprise

(Be forewarned: Dark Urge Act 3 Spoilers. Post is tagged. Click “read more” for the full comic.)

I always find myself wondering about the side conversations that must happen between the other characters while your PC is busy talking to the plot point givers.

#astarion #gale of waterdeep #enver gortash #dark urge #astarion x durge #durgestarion #OC: Jiril the Wildling #bg3 #bg3 fanart #gale dekarios #bg3 comic #I’m not going to tag this durgetash since that’s not end game for Jiril but 100% they did in the past #Jiril is a wild magic sorcerer and their hands darken with magic when a magic surge is coming on #make of that what you will here #bg3 spoilers #spoilers #dark urge spoilers #also don’t mind me changing my inking style up I’m experimenting and inflicting it all on you #my art

[valeriapryanikova]

i finally watched across the spider-verse recently so here have some messy doodles :D

#miles morales #gwen stacy #the spot #across the spiderverse #atsv #spiderman #spiderverse #fanart #eyestrain cw #i was just using atsv chars to experiment with art styles ngl lol

[starryguykai]

cain and abel, reunited

#my art #rainworld #rain world #five pebbles #looks to the moon #going to be experimenting w style + subject matter for a while ^^ #spoilers in the next tags! #ik his puppet is shorter than hers but i made him leaning down for the point of “getting on her level” #the rivulet ending is very touching to me. i sincerely hope they had some good years together

[nohtora]

chúc mừng năm mới ! wishing you all good luck and good health for this lunar new year !!

in vietnamese culture, the zodiac animals are slightly different – instead of the rabbit, we celebrate the year of the cat ( aka my year hehe ) 😺 — art prints / stickers & posters !

#lunar new year #vietnamese new year #year of the cat #tet nguyen dan #tet quy mao #chuc mung nam moi #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #cats #nohtora art #this is my favourite zodiac illustration i've done to date i think !! #really happy with the overall composition #as always - love experimenting with a different visual style each year #LNY is jan 22nd but posting this a bit early bc i'm gonna forget gjhkdlfsg

[cleric4vampire]

wyll.y.am ravengard, I love you so

everyone loves to put him in gold (rightly so) but my personal style is lots of silver jewelry + heavy eyeliner so that's what I gave him. also roses because he's so damn venusian

#wyll #wyll ravengard #bg3 fanart #bg3 #three color versions because I'm so damn indecisive. I'm experimenting with a more sketchy style and had a lot of fun with it #I have so many thoughts about wyll and his venusian qualities; how he embodies some of the truest and starkest aspects of venus #as well as its most painful and burdensome weaknesses #I could write an essay on it but I don't know how many people live in the intersection between bg3 and classical astrology. so I won't #also - I've had this sitting in my drafts for way too long and it was in danger of entering the ''I changed my mind I don't want this to #see the light of day'' phase so Im pressing the damn button #my art

[somerandomdudelmao]

Oh look

Tiny peepaw

#rise art style is kinda fun #don’t mind me and my little experiments haha #he just looks so funny I wanted to show #somerandomdoodles #rottmnt

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

2 years later and my man is fucking losing it

#old one was a style experiment this one is too #very excited about this one #look at him he's so scrunk #friendship ended with line-smoothing #adventure time #simon petrikov #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake fanart #adventure time fanart #simon petrikov fanart #draw this again #re draw #re-draw #cate's scribbles #scribbles

[itseghost]

some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him

#essek theyless #the mighty nein #critical role #critical role fanart #critrole #cr2 #m9 #i wanna experiment a little more w him still bc i cant settle on a face #or a skin tone? i feel like i always make him more purple than i want. i think more a dark greyish indigo would suit him #yknow. he might just be a character i draw different every time. im okay with that #i do like the idea of him with these very styled waves though #at least until he starts to unwind around the nein a bit #itseart

[reds-skull]

There's a lack of Gaz angst out there I feel, so I'm doing my part and letting him suffer as well.

#call of duty modern warfare 2 #cod mw2 #cod fanart #cod ghost #cod soap #cod gaz #this can be gazsoap but i intend them to be more like brothers #also ghost was definitely also having nightmares thats why he was at the gym #angst #btw im using fanart as a place to experiment so unfortunately my comics will never have a consistent style </3 #dont let my other art fool you i will make these boys suffer a lot

[pianokantzart]

Mario's normally the last one to stress about visitors. But there are exceptions.

#experimented a bit with my usual comic style in this one #also a good excuse to practice backgrounds because boy oh boy did I need the practice #might do a followup but who knows #my art #Mario #Luigi #piano can art #Super Mario Bros #Super Mario Brothers #tag this as marioc*st and I’m coming for your kneecaps