#tippen attempts art

[tippenfunkaport]

The story of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, has been stalking me lately and every time it finds me again I think to myself: Glimbow AU? Because, you know, immortal moon goddess, plus her love, Hou Yi, was a legendary mortal archer so it's tempting.

But then I remember that every version of the myth involves the mortal she loves dying and them being parted forever as she ends up trapped alone on the moon, missing him for all eternity, and I decide, no, we're not doing that.

Anyway, here is an older Glimmer feeling contemplative on the moon for no particular reason.

#glimmer #chang'e #moon goddess #moon #spop #glimbow #shera #she ra #chinese mythology #tippen attempts art #fanart #art #artists on tumblr

[billyboymiki]

5 Works Tag Game

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (ish) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and post or link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

I got tagged by @tippenfunkaport and @caramelaire for this tag game!!

I’m not one to compliment myself on anything honestly. Recently I remember thinking about how I barely drew anything this year. There was a part of my brain nagging at me to check how much I had drawn last year. So, I uh did. Turns out I drew basically nothing?! I triple checked this in fact. My DeviantART, Tumblr AND my camera roll. Nothing . . . I drew 5 very basic pinback button designs and that was it. I couldn’t believe it; but, it made be feel so much better about what I did this year. Basically my whole instagram is all artwork from this year, since I am actually really new to IG. I got super close to 40 works this year!

Now onto the works! They are in order of when I drew them 😊

Glimmer Inspired Patterns

I wanted to teach myself how to make patterns on Clip Studio so bad! I watched a couple of YT tutorials, and I can’t even remember why I decided to make She-ra ones specifically; I’m glad I did though! The Glimmer one means so much to me. Just looking at makes me so happy! The fact that so many people have now called it ‘aesthetically pleasing’ makes me feel as though I actually created a work that others could relate to. That was enough praise for me; to create something for myself that everyone else loved as well 💖

Glimbow Cuddle

This was my first real She-ra artwork. When I saw there was a Glimbow Week again I knew I had to join this one. I don’t know if anyone knows this; but, drawings take me forever to make. I used to be strictly a traditional artist and still prefer to draw rough drafts on paper. I couldn’t decide if I wanted them on Glimmer’s window seat or in Bow’s dads’ library. I was afraid of doing backgrounds; so, both sounded absolutely terrifying. I decided to go for the fireplace even if it meant fancy lighting on top of the background aspect. I think I actually spent more time on the lighting that’s hitting Bow than on anything else in this picture. It was worth it though. I studied how the show did backgrounds and lighting for a while. I tried so many different attempts at how I wanted it to look and ultimately went with this one! I love it so much 🥺

Bow’s list with doodles

Ah, yes the drawings I did for Tippen’s birthday!! I knew I wanted to draw a scene from ‘Tuna Cans’, but I was worried to try something like this. You see, I’m somebody that likes to stay in a comfort zone and only uploaded fully rendered perfect artworks. This year was the first time that I let the ‘fun’ aspect overrule my perfectionism. I’m so happy that I stepped out of my comfort zone for this, because I love Chibi styles so much. I can’t even explain the absolute joy I had drawing these. I didn’t tell anyone what I was up to, so it was just me laughing at myself for being an absolute goofball. The end result and everyone’s reactions were more than I could have ever expected. I’ve decided I’m going to revive this style soon as well so please look forwards to it!!

Space Suit Squad

Okay, so I cheated a little with this one! I couldn’t just pick ONE of the squad. Honestly though, I drew these with the thought of making them into prints in the back of my mind. I taught myself how to draw a space background and I’m really proud of it! So much in fact that the one in the final pictures is the first and last one I ended up doing! If I had to pick my favorites I think I’d have to pick Glimmer, Bow and then Catra. I LOVE the way I draw Catra I don’t know why? Maybe the eyebrows I’m not sure 🤔 It took me a while to decide on expressions and poses; although, I figured these were the ones because I could look at them and go ‘yep that’s them.’

Winter Glimbow

This one took me soooo long; I actually had to tell myself that I should put my pen down because it was done and I should stop touching it!!! I was sketching pictures in my sketchbook to make more patterns for my Redbubble account, and of course I’m like 100% Glimbow brainrot. My brain went, oooo you know what would be cute? If this skate was actually Bow’s and not just generic. So, I ended up sketching Glimmer’s as well. The heart that their skates make is like the cherry on the top for me, it had to be done! I’m not sure I did the background justice on this one? It doesn’t matter to me though because the concept was worth the effort. It was snowing here and I needed this picture like I needed air, even if it wasn’t even December at the time I posted it 🤣 I liked this one so much that I have similar ideas for the other seasons sketched out as well 👀

I’m sorry that I ramble so often. I’m like this quiet person; yet, it’s hard for me to get out everything I want to say? I’m horrible at it actually my brain runs at a hundred miles a minute and I’m not good with words most of the time. This turned out as more of a thought process than my actual feelings on each one I suppose. SO, in conclusion. I drew A LOT, I stepped out of my comfort zone, taught myself digital art and patterns. I let myself come to terms with the fact that not every piece of art has to be ‘perfect’. I drew at least 5 FULL backgrounds and I never used to draw them! I’ve also always been one for simple shading and lighting, and I do think there’s a time for that type of style, while other times sometimes a more difficult one might be appropriate. I’m glad that I did both because now I know I can do both, and they each give a characteristic that I adore 🥰 Thank you to everyone that has followed me through this journey, or just anyone who read my rambling! I have an honorable mention under the cut and some originals for anyone that made it this far! 💖

I’m not going to tag anyone; but, if you want to do this PLEASE do it. It was so great to reflect on what I did this year, it really surprised me and I think what you have done will surprise you as well! It’s been a rough year, and in the end we have been here supporting each other and that’s one of the most rewarding parts of being in a fandom! 💜

Glimmer screencap redraw

Another picture where I really tested myself on drawing a background! I love it even if it killed my hand!! The background definitely took the longest on this one too. My sister literally said ‘Wait, you did the background? I thought you just drew her?!’ And that was the only validation I needed!! I ended up thinning out Glimmer’s outline so she matched the background better. If you use the vectors on Clip please use this feature! You can do the opposite as well, it’s super useful!

Oh hi! Remember when I said I couldn’t decide between the two locations? Truth is, I also couldn’t decide if I was going to make it traditional or digital. I ended up getting really mad at the traditional version unfortunately. I haven’t gotten the hang of traditional backgrounds. In the end, I should have also done it in Copic and not cheap pencil crayons 😫

Just some space friends! There is something so rewarding about traditional art. Yes, I can see the mistakes and the proportions are most likely off; yet, it doesn’t bother me? I wanted to also show these bonus drawings because nobody is perfect and I thought some of you might like to see some of my process. Being able to hold it in my hands is something I will never tire of, in a way it’s super rewarding. I keep all my art actually and sometimes I like the rough drafts more than the finished work 👀 Outlining artwork can actually ruin the charm every so often 😔 I do really love the final versions of these though!

Annnnnd the last bonus!! As you can tell the final version stayed pretty true to my sketches! I almost went with a more realistic look and made the symbols ‘stitched’ onto the skates. In the end it felt like it didn’t fit the rest of the drawing unless I wanted to add extra details to the clothing as well. The wings on Glimmer’s skates turned into ‘Shwings’ PLEASE tell me other people know what that is? I had a pair a few years ago and misplaced them. I was doing the rough draft and it popped into brain and I treated it as a joke at first, until I gave it a proper chance XD In the end I fell in love with it!!!

#she-ra #spop #fanart #tag game #billyboymiki #Miki speaks #long post #sorry #my art #I actually cried a little writing all of this 😱 #the only thing I wanted to do really bad this year was make an spop amv #I might juggle art and making one so I can get one out at some point

[tippenfunkaport]

Why should the Disney characters have all the fun? 😤

Catradora and Glimbow edits of the Chibiverse kiss cam spots with Lumity and Starco respectively.

#adora #catra #bow #glimmer #glimbow #shera #she ra #catradora #edits #chibiverse #Disney #spop #disney channel #kiss cam #the poses would have worked better reversed but it felt wrong to not give Catradora the lumity one #tippen attempts art

[tippenfunkaport]

I had no choice but to do it myself.

#spop #adora #catra #shera #she ra #catradora #tippen attempts art #fanart #wlw #spop fanart #beach #sapphic #netflix #DreamWorks #she ra and the princesses of power #Bow took the picture #glimmer is dramatically rolling her eyes in the background #i could make this better but it's sleepy time

[tippenfunkaport]

Prom theme was Under the Sea for the second year in a row and Mermista says it's going to stay that way until someone else volunteers to head up the prom committee.

#i was going to draw all the couples but then I got lazy and just did glimbow #story of my life #anyway glimmer picks up her giant boyfriend as often as possible to assert dominance #and he loves it #glimbow #glimmer #bow #spop #shera #she ra #fanart #tippen attempts art #she ra and the princesses of power #prom night

[tippenfunkaport]

For the @glimbowweek Enemies / Rivals prompt, here's Glimmer and Bow as Gimli and Legalos, a thing I've joked about multiple times and had to make reality.

(Did you know that you can just draw anything you want and no one can stop you?)

#glimbow #glimmer #bow #spop #shera #she ra #lord of the rings #Gimli #Legolas #gimli son of gloin #legolas x gimli #gigolas #lotr au #tippen attempts art #I had an actual real fic and art from one of my AUs I was going to post but I didn't have time to finish either so instead you get memes

[tippenfunkaport]

I have a headcanon about Etheria having the need for an official Space Fleet post war and Adora, Catra and Bow all end up as officers while it's getting off the ground.

And Glimmer meanwhile is already busy enough with Queen duties so she doesn't hold an official office in the Etherian Space Fleet, but she does use her position to shower her friends with random medals and commendations from Bright Moon whenever possible because she can.

Anyway, here's a little Glimbow short about this to go along with the drawing.

Malicious Compliance

(1,154 words, fluff) ~ Read on AO3

#someday I will also draw catradora in their uniforms but today is not that day #glimbow #glimmer #bow #fanart #fanfic #tippen attempts art #tippen's fics #spop #shera #she ra #artists on tumblr #krita

[tippenfunkaport]

This was in my head and I had to make it real quick.

#tippen attempts art #glimmer #bow #spop #glimbow #shera #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #valentine's day #cupid #fan art #fanart #trying a more realistic skin color for this one

[tippenfunkaport]

For @glimbowweek Day 2: Meet Cute

Some time ago, my buddy @pinksunshinecosplay proposed an AU of Disney's The Little Mermaid with Bow as Ariel. Which at first seemed like random casting, but then she opened our eyes to the possibilities and we realized that it actually works really well so here's how this AU would work in my mind...

Continue reading on AO3

#glimbow #spop #shera #she ra #glimmer #bow #the little mermaid #disney #disney au #mermaid #merman #merfolk #idk what to call him #fanart #tippen attempts art

[tippenfunkaport]

My only thought when I started this was "hair cut swap" but then I was like, eh, might as well swap them entirely while I'm at it.

#glimmer #bow #glimbow #shera #spop #she ra #swap au #fanart #tippen attempts art #trying to get less reliant on hair brushes

[tippenfunkaport]

I am actually the only person in my household who is not obsessed with the Legend of Zelda and 90% of the time when I'm doodling it's while heckling watching the others play BotW or Totk so when I saw these tweets from @butchbiscuit I had to draw Bow as Link.

Yes, Tears of the Kingdom Link would have made more sense than Breath of the Wild, but that arm looked complicated to draw and no wanna.

Just two dorks who like fiddling with gizmos and fixing ancient tech while making stupid combo arrows and hanging out with a magic princess.

(I originally gave Link Bow's hair since it's a swap but then he didn't read as Link anymore so instead he gets his dumbass OG hat. And if you're wondering why Bow is kinda purple, it's bc I was lazy and color picked from the picture right next to him, sorry Bow!)

Meanwhile swapped Glimmer and Zelda are just watching them bond like "Oh Hylia, now there's two of them!"

Also important commentary from Twitter:

#bow #spop #shera #she ra #link #zelda #glimmer #swap au #loz totk #loz botw #botw au #glimbow #tippen attempts art #fanart #loz au #zelda au

[tippenfunkaport]

Tumblr, I have been so busy, but I still love you all. Please enjoy this random Glimbow doodle I made forever ago as a reminder that I am still alive.

#glimbow #glimmer #bow #spop #shera #she ra #what crimes will she commit? #tippen attempts art #i was already busy af and then i got sick so i guess the universe is just trying to finish me off

[tippenfunkaport]

I like to think Glimmer's hair glows when she's happy.

Right now, she's dreaming about punching someone.

#area woman continues meddling with things beyond her comprehension #such as: light... shadows... #glimmer #spop #shera #she ra #art #fanart #tippen attempts art #for some reason exporting this as png made it look terrible? so you get a jpg #artists on tumblr

[tippenfunkaport]

Scorpia's First Ball was a rousing success!

(The screenshot edits... they are getting more complicated...)

Posting this for the @glimbowweek Prompt Resurrection Round where we're sharing things for old Glimbow Week prompts leading up to this year's event! I wasn't in the fandom for the first Glimbow Week in Feb 2020 so I decided to do "Fancy Dress" from that series of prompts.

#glimbow #glimmer #bow #spop #shera #she ra #screenshot edit #she ra and the princesses of power #fanart #netflix #dreamworks #tippen attempts art #i have no idea what I'm doing but I am having fun #i just keep setting out to do things more and more beyond my skill level #and somehow it works out #and look! I learned to do shadow-y things pls clap

[tippenfunkaport]

@sometipsygnostalgic has made me so many doodles I figured I owed her one, especially since the text is inspired by our DMs

#spop #glimmer #catra #she ra #shera #this is their dynamic #mermista was going to join but she had to bail sea hawk out of jail again #tippen attempts art #fanart #but like barely #i was just doodling

[tippenfunkaport]

Princess Arrow of Bright Moon

First born child of Queen Glimmer and King Bow.

Nickname: Ari

Named specifically because Arrow wasn't a name ever used before in the Bright Moon lineage and her parents wanted her to feel free to be her own person, free of any pressures or expectations.

Wields the same moonstone powers as her mother: light blasts and teleportation.

As a child, she was a being of sparkles and pure chaos. That... did not change much as she got older.

Loves to take things apart to see how they work… not so keen on putting them back together again.

Closest to Entrapta of all her "aunts." The combination of Bow's tech smarts and Glimmer's complete lack of impulse control mean they are both a terrible influence on each other.

While most similar to Glimmer in temperament, she's closer with her father because they share so many interests. (Bow also has YEARS of experience dealing with a temperamental sparkly princess that can teleport!)

Glimmer spent most of Ari's younger years trying to find a balance between parenting her own way and trying not to become her mother, especially since her and Arrow often clashed about the exact same things. But as Arrow gets older and there's less rebuilding taking the queen's attention, the two figure each other out, sparring with their powers and studying sorcery together.

As a child, Bow taught Princess Arrow archery, expecting her to lose interest in it once she was old enough to receive her moonstone powers. But because her moonstone powers are so limited (she shares the power with her mother and brother, Prince Glow), her archery skills ultimately came in handy. To Glimmer's immense irritation and Bow's distress, though their daughter only has the simple sparkles and limited teleports she started out with herself, Arrow taught herself to concentrate what little power she had into deadly bolts of light that she could fire from her bow making her twice as destructive as Glimmer was at that age.

Arrow's prized possession is her bow. Her grandfather Micah enchanted it she can summon it to her side instantly, same as Glimmer's staff. Her father made it for her along the same design as his own, but in rose gold at her preference. Though he modified the design slightly it tribute to the princess' love of unicorns and her familiar, Horkey (one of Melog's brood).

Arrow considers Finn their unofficial big sibling. Despite the significant age difference between the two (Finn's about five years older than Arrow), they consider each other equals in matters of sneaking around Bright Moon and getting into mischief.

Arrow is very close with her Aunt Adora, who she actually preferred to everyone for a brief period in her babyhood-- something Adora lords over everyone for the rest of eternity--, but delights in antagonizing Aunt Catra to the dismay of everyone within earshot when her aunt gives it back as good as she gets.

Appears in the following fics...

Princess Arrow of Bright Moon

Glow and Arrow (short fic collection)

Prince Glowyn the Fourth

#spop #shera #she ra #glimbow #glimbow fankid #spop fanart #fanart #tippen attempts art #glimmer #bow #adora #catra #finn #entrapta #fankid #fanchild #spop oc