#the rendering is messy but i really like it??

[bestworstcase]

the perennial Tai Discourse is really interesting to track bc, speaking broadly, the two major camps are just:

those who focus primarily on ruby’s recollection of her childhood and relationship with her dad (and filter what yang says through that lens such that “i had to pick up the pieces and keep things together when i was five” gets diluted into “yang had responsibilities as a child”)

those who focus primarily on yang’s memories and her arc in v4 (and tend to just ignore or minimize the things ruby says that suggest a positive relationship with tai, in particular often just flat out disregarding how excited ruby is to spend time with or receive care packages from him)

when it’s like. yeah that’s. literally the point. that ruby and yang had profoundly different childhoods.

they’re half-sisters in a story about fairytales and only one of them had a decent dad. rwby is unsubtly interrogating the fairytale archetype of the Evil Stepmother/Dead Mother with raven (not dead, but absent) and summer (villain, presumed dead) and that archetype quite literally requires its counterpart archetype of the Neglectful Father who remarries and tacitly participates in the Evil Stepmother’s abuse of his child from his first wife

tai is as much an exploration of the fairytale Neglectful Father as raven is the Dead Mom and summer is the Evil Stepmother. that’s. a core aspect of the narrative surrounding the rose xiao long family.

the Dead Mom often reincarnates as a bird or tree or similar spirit to watch over her child; rwby turns this on its head by reimagining the Dead Mom as an absent one. raven watches over yang in her bird form because she is too afraid to be meaningfully present; she isn’t dead, but her absence in yang’s life is so complete that she might as well have been, and the fairytale tension between the Dead Mom’s death and her lingering presence is explored through these cramped and inadequate half-measures raven takes in trying to have it both ways.

the Evil Stepmother is a vehicle for making the fairytale heroine miserable; she has no identity nor any reason for her monstrous treatment of the child who is not her own. rwby, again, flips this over with the mystery of summer rose. who was she, really? did anyone know? she was a good stepmom—she loved yang like her own daughter—but now she’s gone. she left. she never came back. she lied. she joined salem. why? what expectations did she feel on her shoulders? what broke her? why did she do the things she did?

lastly, the Neglectful Father must either be a love-blind fool or a weak, contemptible man with no love or loyalty to his own blood; he forgets his motherless child at the behest of his new love. rwby turns this on its head too by rendering tai as a human being—messy, flawed, fully-realized. wicked stepsisters exist for the purpose of being spoiled by the Evil Stepmother in juxtaposition with her cruelty to the first child, who is kind and good because she remembers her mother’s lessons. the fairytale children of these archetypes function as repetitions of their mothers. rwby makes that the central conceit of its spin on the Neglectful Father: what if he loved both the Dead Mom and the Evil Stepmother so much and then both of them broke his heart in mirrored ways, leaving him a single father to both of their children? if he sees raven in yang and summer in ruby, how does that color his relationships with both girls? if you take away the Evil Stepmother but not her daughter, does the Neglectful Father remember his first child? or are people more complicated than that?

and with all three, the narrative engages with these one-dimensional archetypes by constructing complicated, multi-faceted characters on top of them; by tossing the simplistic moral didacticism of a fairytale and presuming, first, that everyone is trying their best, that bad choices can be made from good intentions, and that no one gets it right all the time, or even most of the time. love and profound dysfunction can coexist.

ruby and yang had very different childhoods. that’s the narrative foundation the whole rose xiao long family is built on, because they’re a deconstruction of the archetypal fairytale blended family.

#this is also why every permutation of ''tai isnt rubys Real Dad'' is nonsense btw. ruby being yang’s half-sister instead of step-sister is #on purpose. the condemnation of the archetypal fairytale Neglectful Father is he mistreats his own blood in favor of another man’s children #and rwby uses his blood relation to both his daughters to question that framing; #the dynamic doesn’t become any Less dysfunctional if the favored child is equally the father’s by blood

[fiendishartist2]

redraw of this post from bunnyfarm's release

kofi|instagram

#my last piece kinda disappointed me just bc i feel like i can do better #idk i think my style is taking a turn and im not sure how to work w it yet. i like messy art that looks kind of childish?- #-if that makes sense #but that kind of clashes w my way of drawing and i also have like no energy or creativity left bc of school </3 so its hard to draw #at least stuff that i really like that are like fully rendered and not just doodles or character standing w white background lol #so i took inspo from an old piece of mine to make this and sort of update it and i really like it!! i think my colours are way better #in the original they were kinda washed out i think and this is a lot more striking #me when primary colours #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #the walten files #twf #bunnyfarm #sophie walten #jack walten #felix kranken #twf spoilers #tw eyestrain

[martyryo]

his biggest sin was having blue hair and pronouns.

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #art #faith #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #father john ward #hiii heyyy #watching videos abt this game got me out of some very bad mental state like wow #he's narratorcoded #bro is played by edward norton idc #anyways loved the game sm and I tried replicating the plai color on black style while maintaining my type of rendering #also I figured out thst adding additional lineart after the shading makes things kinda more organic #like it's not all a messy mix of colors #so proud of having done this in around an hour #also dw I'll still post fight club but I need to draw some other stuff as well or I'll get tired of drawing the same three prople all over #stage is going really well #feeling workercore workerpilled workercoded #huhu going to sleep cause I'm sealing my casket with this late hour stunt #bye bye <3

[otiksimr]

PRIMORDIAL BEAST

#my art #monster hunter #monster hunter rise #mhrsb #mhr #Malzeno #Primordial Malzeno #NEW MONSTER DROPPED LETS GOOO- #NOT WOF RELATED FOR ONCE!! #I got their design really wrong but I could care less- #sorry this is really messy #I speedran drawing thing #I may render this if I feel like torturing myself later #Primordial Malzeno gives me major archangel vibes #or guardian angel #either or #so Capcom #MHST3 when??

[purplecladmerchant]

I don't need you to be different... I don't need you at all.

#zirk vervain #stella vervain #eldermourne #naddpod #golly shit guys i finished it #it took me too much #and its not even like #a full rendered lineart shit #its just my messy shit that i love doing #anyway #Zirk naddpod save me #I love you #his relationship with Stella is just.... ouch #I love everything about Stella except this #and thats why i cant love her #sometimes a background is a purple dot #oh almost forgot #frey's art #I just really loved that little concept i drew before #and now its here #in my brain #Zirk looks /a lot/ like stella #forever reminder of her

[tokwana]

i had so much fun doodling this i miss him :(

#gojo #gojo satoru #i really liked making messy artworks recently #it hides my lack of skills in rendering HEHEHEH #art #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #fanart #jjk #my art #gege akutami #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jjk gojo

[screwpinecaprice]

AT with @dragonuva!

This absolute unit, Imp Steven. 😁 I super love drawing himmmm!

Just some more rambling about the possible future of my regular commissions under the cut.

As my laptop got (fixed?) adjusted recently, I've used this opportunity to try out if it can now handle regular commission work. It started to show something's up on the mild rendering process but the lag and laptop heating didn't actually got that bad until a bit further in the full rendering process. Still has a limitation it seems. I'm planning on testing it a second time on a different piece, then I'll decide whether regular commissions will be fully back the next month or not.

#AT #Dragonuva #su #my shiz #steven quartz universe #steven universe #SU #Imperfect Steven #Dgfgggdsdfhhhh Though the technical stuff kinda messed up the drawing flow it was still def fun drawing this 😁 #Okey that bg.. though my laptop did start like it's threatening to self combust while drawing it. It's not the laptop's fault ho #w messy that is. I'm just a hit and miss with backgrounds if I don't spend like a week on it. Lol 😅😅😅 #It's definitely the amount of rendering that it can't handle. #And perhaps the amount of layers too #Which is a problem cause I normally use 350+ layers when a piece is fully rendered+has more than 2 character or/and has an environmental bg #I think I actually would have a lot to ramble about but I also think I had to actually get some sleep rn lol #I really should stop posting stuff while practically half asleep. 😅 #monster Steven

[seagull-scribbles]

From Chapter One of On Mistakes and Birthdaycake by @bemmiecake on AO3

I started reading this fic when it first came out and it’s had such a huge impact on how I think of knuckles and you have definitely seen it’s influence in my art this past year! So it only seemed fair to try do something for the fic itself x

#sth #knuckles the echidna #tikal the echidna #I out tikal in blue because that was a royal Mayan colour and also water and chaos yaknow #and knuckles always gets green in my book tbh #I kind of merged my own design with the description from the fic to meet it halfway #this is the most canon I’ve drawn Tikal in a while ahahaha #on mistakes and birthdaycakes #bemmiecake #it’s been so long since I did fanfiction art #I miss being able to read fanfiction tbh #this one’s been like really good with me self projecting and trying to heal I guess #but I’m not going into that here #this is a beautiful unfinished fic about expectations and self pressure and found family #it’s got great details and world building and a lot of fun echidna culture and law interwoven into it #it’s tagged as sonamy and kuxouge but I don’t ship them and I’ve really enjoy it regardless it’s not in your face #so don’t let that deter you #it’s still being update btw it’s not abandoned but as of uploading this it is unfinished #I really wanted this to have an ethereal feel and also be like a book illustration so #messy by intention and I didn’t render the marking cause I really wanted them to pop that’s what I want your eyes to be drawn too #oh I forgot this fic actually goes into knuckles connection with the metals and how it calls to him and how he can feel and #sence chaos energy in everything and nom nom nom I am eating it up

[tunamayuuu]

i hate me too

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd atsushi #bsd atsushi nakajima #bsd nakajima atsushi #bungou stray dogs fanart #bsd fanart #screenshot redraw #this is unfinished i know #i left it unfinished because i drew this during one of my more difficult weeks #and i don't really feel like rendering and cleaning this up now #i quite like the messiness actually #what about you? #tunaart #my art

[cherrydistrict]

“but what if hearts could be born from ashes?”

#i would've rendered this further but i really liked the messy urgency in the sketch #a friend said passionate artist finds something so beautiful they just have to draw it down immediately in the moment #and i think that sums it up perfectly #its me #i'm the artist #i'm not the first to draw it but i really do enjoy the wanderer bjd agenda #and i like to think ei modelled him after her memory of makoto so of course he needs to be beautiful #i can go on forever so i'll stop here #wanderer #scaramouche #kunikuzushi #genshin impact #genshin fanart #scaramouche fanart #wanderer fanart #my art #art #quick doodle

[wintered-debtz]

An Uneasy Inner World

#anytime i use krita im like... I have no idea what to do. lol wut #not used to digital art :U #drew this to represent how disorienting it is to be fragmented with pieces who do not trust each other #how memories are connected to feelings. how complicated trauma can be. how it complicates your sense of self and thoughts #ive always struggled to make art that is cohesive and makes sense. but art doesnt have to make sense... #for me i use art as a medium to have an inner dialogue with myself. im sure many do. #and sometimes... inner dialogues are messy and disjointed <3 lulz. so the art is too. #this could have been rendered more but I really dont know. maybe in the future one day. #oc kent #oc july #oc speedy

[lochlot-moved]

trying new things

#ibis paint #dragons #dragon art #cowboys #cowboys and dragons #dragon cowboy #original art #cowboy art #cowgirl #artblock don’t come for me now #these tags are messy #i have missy staring at me begging for attention #so I have to tag in between petting her #ANWAY probably gonna see more lineart from me as practice which is crazy #i haven’t done like much intentional and clean lineart since I was a kid really #it’s scaryyyyy I love slapping on colors until everything’s rendered #I’ll still do that obvs but . lineart . as practice .

[kithj]

#tfw you wake up in a pool of blood with an insatiable bloodlust #anyways im giving up on this it's just going to have to look bad #i didnt really finish rendering the blood but i cant get it how i want it anyways so. giving up! #the hair....sigh #i really wish i could actually paint :/ i always feel like my illustrations look so disjointed/lacking cohesion #like to me angel looks detached from the background and so do the curtains. but idk how to fix it lmfao #and none of my art is ever polished i cant do lineart everything is messy it is what it is #whatever :pensive: #angel #hell's holler #nudity #blood #my art

[sanchoyoscribbles]

metamorphosis / attack ✨

second one is a redraw of a tmm screenshot, comparison under the cut :)

not a 1 to 1 redraw but in my defense, the screenshot i was using for reference is CRUNCHY quality TwT and her cape covered a lot of the sketch :(

#magical girls #tokyo mew mew #first is actually a sketch i am still testing clip studios shader assist! #just put a ton of filters on it to make it look less messy but yeah shes not REALLY hand rendered #so if it looks fuzzy/blurry...hehe. its a sketch #with several dozen effects piled in a trenchcoat on it #still preddy cute tho #original #tm2 #tokyo miracle #mira aoyama #sketches #doodles #tmm oc #fan mews #ALSO THE MIRACLE MALLET GOT A REDESIGN. a soft one but still. overdue #still doesnt look anything like a MUSICAL mallet but . if u ask what instrument its TECHNICALLY KIND OF based on. yeah #i always get nervous abt throwing my ocs in the tmm tag btw i dont want to spam it as much as i draw em #so i usually DONT tag them w that and instead use tm2 #...but this one is good quality so maybe it is Ok #like its not TECHNICALLY spam or anyhing. these r my tmm ocs! but. like 40 posts of them in the main tmm tag a week... #would be obnoxious... #considering its not tmm real charas or anything #I SAY BUT I LOVE WHEN OTHER PPL TAG THEIR TMM OCS SO I CAN SEE THEM. JSDKDSF #all of that to say if u would like to see more of them check my blogs tm2 tag :3

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

Beth Wilder you deserved so much better, you deserve everything, you deserve the world!!!

#quantum break #Beth Wilder #she's perfect you're honor #Courtney Hope you are an absolute treasure to the remedy verse!!!!!!! #I want to do a more rendered piece later but I like how this sketch turned out even if its super messy! #my art #my doodles #also unfortunately I have given up on my quantum break playthrough... #it's not a bad game I just really don't like the combat and I cant get past it ... especially now...

[sparrowlovesskittles]

"You should have faith in yourself. You're a bright, talented medicine-cat apprentice, and StarClan wouldn't guide you wrong."

(click for better quality)

Okay so maaaaybe Splashtail is a little bit suspicious but until he turns evil I'm choosing to believe that his very cute relationship with Frostpaw is genuine

#splashtail #frostpaw #riverclan #asc river #warriors asc #a starless clan #warrior cats #warriors #wc fanart #warriors fanart #this is not my usual frostpaw design but tbh I like it way better #I sorta threw out the frost angle and focused on making her look like curlfeather and. i like it! #this is sorta messy but i like it. I'm trying to draw more frequently and more quickly #not everything has to be a beautifully rendered piece y'know #side note but. I'm just glad our protagonists are getting relationships like this #frostpaw and splashtail are cute as friends. blazefire and lightleap and sunbeam are cute as friends. nightheart is. um. #no actually he has a really cool relationship with his family #ANYWAY sorry 4 rambling #my art