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melonnade · 4 months

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spent the whole day rendering a fake book cover for my ocs and I’m only halfway done,,,, arghhhh

#when I finish I’ll stick the polished version on my main art account #but this wip is driving me nuts #I managed to watch two movies and half of frieren in the time it’s taken me to get this far in #why does it take so long to draw #made a whole ass ‘wiki page’ for them on toyhouse too #tbh it’s all Riyuan’s fault. she’s the hardest to draw. can never quite get her clothes and hair right #<- (I say like I didn’t make her design myself…)#if this cover was just Yuqing I would’ve been done hours ago #alas. what kind of cover doesn’t have the protagonist on it #anyways. my new year’s resolution is to do more OC stuff for myself. so here it is lol #okay time for sorting tags —>#clear days faraway rain #my ocs #wip #my art

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clouvu · 7 months

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Offering to you all some sandy doodles in these trying times

#genshin impact #sandrone #Coming out to say that I think that sandrone genuinely has one of the prettiest designs in genshin #kinda makes me sad that no one really gives a shit about her except for like 5 other people #somewhat understandable though #cause she got like a total of one (1) line from the lazzo trailer and her big ass robot takes up 70% of the screen when she DOES appear #but anyways thats not deterring me from being deranged about her nowadays #She's smart. She's talented. She's mean. She commits atrocities against man on the regular. Shes French #She has it all #also i have no idea why it took me so long to actually draw her with ball joints bc she looks really neat with em imo

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deancasforcutie · 1 month

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everyone: *talking about how Cas' confession demands to be addressed in any Supernatural followup* *still phrasing it like it's an obstacle or accident they didn't think through and not the emotional climax the whole season was building to and the whole text supports, like the trap it laid on the network to demand acknowledgment in this way somehow wasn't always the plan*

Bobo "emotionally invested" *queering-the-text-to-defy-and-expose-censorship-constraints* *wrote-the-confession-to-expose-how-it-was-already-queer-and-pull-fandom's-pants-down-on-heteronormative-bias* Berens:

#SAY HIS NAME COWARDS. like acknowledge the obvious answer to why we're here (the queering is coming from inside the house) or draw 25 #HOW many times does he have to kick your asses intellectually in retrospect by your own willful ignorance until you GET IT #HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON FANDOM #sorry for the outburst lol but like the man said: the takes are so bad this morning how long can I endure this sweet torture #supernatural #spn writers #robert berens #spn #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #spn is queer #dean is bi #it's underrated due for a reboot #network fuckery #mine

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radaverse · 3 months

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Ch II. On My Own - Page 8

Tower of Mistakes

First - Previous - Next

Join the Discord!

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soldierkitten · 12 days

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its taking so long (the tilly god au thing) im starting to feel bad. I have nothing but this to offer

#IM ONLY ABT A THIRD OF THE WAY DONE #why does drawing take so long sometimes

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ruthytwoshakes · 4 months

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cicadas are fun to eat if you are an animal , or a person, nom nom nom crunch crunch. They only come out every couple of decades though, so you’re gonna have to wait a long time before you can see them again. Gorge yourself until then. Decorate your windowsills with their shells, record their buzzing to listen to while you sleep. Don’t forget, you can’t forget. okay bye.

#tf2 #sniper tf2 #tf2 sniper #tf2 fanart #fem fortress #butch fortress #futch fortress??#somebody needs to get on that #pin up #you get it #cus they’re gonna pin her up to the wall #like a bug #that’s why she’s so scared ooooooo oh no I hope she runs away very fast so she does not get dried out and put in a collection case!!#daffys drawings #y’all ever think about the bugs you grew up with and how you’ll never see them again because I do that a lot #SEND ME BACK TO THE STICKS SEND ME BACK TO THE STICKS PLEASE ILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT!!!#you can take the butch out of the country (not for long)#but you can’t take the country out of the butch. I want to chop wood for the fireplace again. Why is there so many buildings everywhere.

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izloveshorses · 9 months

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here's a little wip share!

Since I've been out of art school for a while now I've been craving a good long term project, and what better subject than my favorite show? :) I'm pretending like Anastasia is an animated production/video game/whatever and I'm in charge of putting together a 'concept art book'/illustrated guide (for lack of a better term). Which means there would be extensive artwork of each costume, character lineups, background/set paintings, and prop studies. I'm currently still working on drawing and rendering all the assets and once they're all drawn I'll arrange them in a page layout as if they'll be printed in a big book!

But since it will be several months/year+ before it's finished I thought i could share some of my progress so far and possibly document the process as we go along. Here is an act i lineup of the principal characters, some examples of character costume sheets, and a couple screenshots of some ensemble costumes in various stages of completion. I've also rendered several props and I've started a couple background paintings, but I'll share those later.

Why embark such a tedious project, you ask? Well! because. i want to. So far it's been pretty fun. my obsessive collection/scholarly archive of reference photos of this show are finally being put to good use 🙈

Feel free to send any questions about the project my way! <3

#anastasia broadway #anastasia musical #anastasia #my art #fan art #iz draws #i need a tag for this hmm #anastasia illustrated guide #i guess akhsjldf #anyway #i'm trying to share wips more often so we have that Accountability #idk how long this will take bc i haven't made a hard deadline for myself yet but i'm currently working on it pretty steadily so idk #but stay tuned :)#also pls take a moment to admire count ipolitov he turned out really nicely #u can tell my crush on constantine is showing aslhdkjf #ur like why does that one ensemble man keep appearing Extra Handsome? 🧐#bc... this is for me #also we're using his gleb ashlkdjf #bc. it's for me <3 #and dima is turning out well too <333 #his head is so empty #these may be adjusted several more times as the process goes on but rn i'm just trying to keep moving along instead of getting stuck on one #next post i should share my spreadsheet and reference folder aslhkdfj #bc it's almost neurotic #but i don't want to forget anyone alhskdf #but yeah pls click for better res :)#wip

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sysig · 8 months

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Care for your sparring partner (Patreon)

Bonus:

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Sylvia #Wander #Everyone asking Peepers questions that just skirt that line: The Series lol #Shoutout to Autumn for directing my attention this way and encouraging my brain to think about this A Lot lol #Drawing Peepers sliding around 'cause he just throws himself into everything ✨ That's it that's the whole thought lol #I haven't worn a binder for long enough to lose my breath so apologies if this isn't quite how it goes but y'know - *gestures at The Vibe*#He would overwork himself to the point of nearly passing out if it meant he could keep fighting the way he wants to pfft #Sylvia's rough and tumblr and she can be mean but even she won't kick him while he's down! Mom friend activate haha #She's grown a lot <3 #Also getting a bit easier to draw her >:3c She does have a fun design :D #Her mouth is the most fun haha ♪ It really reminds me of Moomin! Cute cutout shape :3 #''Why are you fighting with like five coats on'' ''Dysphoria'' ''Ah''#Notice how he covers his chest when she brings up his ''tank top'' ♪ She just goes on giving him a lecture and he's like ''Did she notice''#She didn't lol especially if that bonus is any indication #Weeks/Months/Years later and she's just like ''So that time we were fighting he was- He wasn't- :0000'' Lol #Bonus Wander brushing her comb ♪ Gotta take care of his best friend/steed! Probably just knocking the dust and dirt off haha #Their discussion would probably be silly hehe you know he'd ask and then /she'd/ ask #''Did you know??'' ''I don't make it my business to pry into other's personal matters-'' ''First of all that's not even a little bit true''#It's just all about respecting boundaries! All the way around :) Respect the sanctity of the relationship whether it's friendly or combative

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potatobugz · 1 year

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This isn't my first anything,

THIS ISNT MY FIRST ANYTHING!

#south park #sp #tweek tweak #craig tucker #creek #oh god i hope the quality doesn't shit itself bwaaa #will repost w the file from my computer if it does #this took me. so long #me drawing for hours w/o stoppjng to take a break: hm why my hand hurt so much #i am going to eat and drink something. and then sleep probably #uuhavhhv #potatart

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ruporas · 11 months

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This is kinda a weird question, but how do you simplify your designs for vash and wolfwood (specifically their clothes and hair?) I’m trying to get better at drawing them and I love how you stylize them!

not a weird question at all!! i kind of try to stay true to nightow's design, so i don't think i'm simplifying a whole bunch, but i'll talk about how i got comfortable drawing them.

i tackled their designs by just referencing a lot. with trimax vw, i just started copy + pasting pages from the manga onto a slideshow and staring at it vehemently whenever i wanted to draw them, SPECIFICALLY vash. and for trimax vash, if you want to stay true to the arcs/outfit changes, that's something you have to note because vash has 4 main different outfits throughout the manga.

for me, my vw usually takes place after the leonef arc, so that's the vash outfit i reference. i recommend going through the specific arc of the vash you want to draw and gathering a whole bunch of pic references into a slide or compiling it on an imageboard, it'll help a ton once you get the general gist of it down!! nightow will draw things differently too though so don't feel too boggled by the references and focus on making things comfortable for yourself. here's an example slideshow of vash from the first arc

wolfwood is pretty shaped and has a straightforward design... if you can simplify a black suit, you got wolfwood down to the t. this is my single slideshow of wolfwood for his outfit. i also like to just study his body language because it's kind of peculiar

his shoes are dress shoes with laces and got a pointed tip to them! i'd look up real dress shoes to reference from, it's like the same thing

in regards to their hair... there are some days where i'm comfortable drawing their hair and then others where i collapse and die for my efforts. they both are just spikes ultimately... i try to keep true to how nightow draws it, but with vash's hair, sometimes i make it a bit swooshy because it feels better naturally to me. this isn't necessarily a guide but here's a headshot and some notes of what i try to keep consistently in my drawings of them.

for stampede, the designs themselves are super simplified aside from vash's prosthetic arm. when i was learning to draw the tristamp designs, i reference this doc a lot! it's very helpful, i think i generally stay pretty true to stampede's original design aside from wolfwood's hair. here's a headshot for them too

but yeah!! i think that's all i can say on that, i hope it was helpful and i wish you luck on figuring out how to draw them!! after repeatedly doing it, it will get easier 👍

#asks #sometimes when im in the process of drawing them im like “oh god why does this look so wrong”#but then i come back to it like an hour later and it looks fine so part of it is Trusting the process #trimax specifically their hairs are just so shaped . so many triangles #BUT YEAH... IM SORRY IF THIS WAS JUST LIKE “Here are some references” AND NOT HELPFUL ADVICE SFGMDKS #i think their outfits aren't super complicated... for vash it takes a second because his overall has so many shapes to it but after awhile #it gets easier! i like to just think of it as a crop top + long skirt

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mbat · 3 months

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i really wanted to try and write like, a thing explaining how i think steven universe future is one of the best portrayals (and my personal favorite) of mental illness in media, and how i think people misinterpreted it (me included at first, cause my experience over time has given me new perspectives) but i. AAA i literally dont even know if its necessary cause i dont know if people still think it was bad or a bad way to write steven (it wasnt!!) or like any of that, mostly cause. holy shit its just so obvious to me?

like i watch that show and i relate to him so much that i just understand it all and its so obvious to me and i dont know if other people find it. not obvious. like everything is right there in the text laid out i think

the main thing that i saw get misinterpreted when it aired was the second to last episode where steven turns into a fucking kaiju and everyone, again me included, thought that it felt rushed, but everytime i rewatch it i think... no it wasnt, actually. because we see it expecting a big fight or thinking it needs a whole lot to fix, but it doesnt. its not a fight, its someone having a mental breakdown and thinking theyre purely unlovable and evil, but being made to see that they are still lovable and arent evil even after all the bad theyve done, theyre loved unconditionally, and that other stuff mostly really doesnt matter (and hey, it can be fixed/dealt with later, its fine!)

its just my favorite show ever, specifically future! and i really wish other people would see what i see, but do i even need to try..? i didnt really write it very well anyway, but drafts exist for a reason. idk ive just been thinking about it a lot

TL;DR: i adore steven universe future and im wondering if anyone thinks its even necessary for it to be analyzed for people to maybe better understand it/do you think that there are enough people misunderstanding it that it needs a perspective to maybe help be more understood

#genuinely i relate so deeply to him in future #its such a comfort show to me when im having a bad time cause like #he goes through so much and does so much. but everyone still loves him and he gets a therapist and a happily ever after #and it gives me hope. yknow?#i just keep thinking about athena p saying she didnt like steven universe future and im like. GIRL YOUR OPINIONS ARE USUALLY GOOD WHAT #WHY NOT. WHAT IS THERE TO DISLIKE :[#steven universe #su #steven universe future #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #su steven #steven universe steven #suf #my post #im mostly asking this cause it would be a lot of effort to finish it #ive got a first draft written but its very long #and im planning on turning it into a youtube video. not just posting a long ass essay on tumblr lol #so it would take me writing a second draft. maybe even more until im satisfied-#then id have to read it all out loud. and then make a drawing for the background video cause i #PHONE ISTG #cause thats just what i have in mind #then id have to edit it all sjfhsjf #its like. i want to. but im so demotivated about it. cause would it even matter #I MEANT FOR THE POLL TO BE LONGER I FORGOT TO CHANGE IT NOOOOO

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ask-artsy-oncie · 8 months

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I was reminded of the time that tumblr tried to make "monster high but with tumblr sexymen", and one of the characters was (obviously) the daughter of the once-ler.

And the funny thing to me about that is that in the canon of the illumination lorax movie, the once-ler is heavily implied to have an estranged daughter. I don't know all the sexymen off the top of my head but I think he might've been one of the only ones referenced in that trend who actually had a daughter in his own canon.

#Stupid shit #I'm gonna provide context in the tags for those who want it but I also like the idea of just leaving it there #Okay so for anyone who wasn't in the fandom: when people say the movie gave us no one to ship the Once-ler with they were LYING #The movie gave the Once-ler no MALE characters to ship him with - thus Oncest started #However - the second most popular Once-ler ship was between him and Norma #(Who - if you haven't seen the movie in a while - is Ted's grandmother who tells him about the Once-ler and how to find and barter with him #This was mostly just a ship born from theory and logical deduction - why does Norma know so much personal info about the Once-ler?#Were they perhaps friends? Lovers? In the past? Where was she in his life and at what points? When did she leave?#And people started making theories and shipping the two - primarily as past lovers. But there was art of them reconnecting for sure.#HOWEVER - this also meant that there was a theory that Ted's mom was also related to the Once-ler #As in - hmm this daughter of a very short fat woman is oddly tall and thin... hmmm #And so the running theory wasn't just that the Once-ler and Norma were once lovers - but that the Once-ler was also Ted's grandfather #Who was entirely estranged from the family due to self-exile and possibly bad blood between him and Norma at some point during his downfall #(I actually do think that it's funny that the Once-ler's youngest design purposefully draws some comparison between him & the Truffula tree #Only for the character theorized to be his daughter to also evoke some Truffula tree imagery in her design)#ANYWAYS that was a theory for about as long as the movie was out - Normaler (the ship) was a thing for as long (if not longer) than Oncest #And was present enough that there were like actively flame wars between the two groups of shippers #Like literally I directly remember this it's so insane to me that no one ever brings this up when talking about the shipping in this fandom #BUT THEN!!!! The Lorax comes out on DVD. The fandom rejoices and everyone takes pictures of themselves buying or holding the DVD.#If you dig far enough and I haven't deleted it yet you might find mine. I was in full cosplay wig and all.#Anyways - we have the movie in HD now!! No more cam rip footage!!!#And now we can take high-quality screenshots that truly show off the detail of the backgrounds in this movie #(The fandom loved to gush about how detailed and well-designed the movie's backgrounds were - that wasn't just a throwaway transition)#Only - what's this?????#In one of the shots at the end of the movie - we very briefly get to see the inside of the Once-ler's lurkim - like the living room #AND THERE - IN THE BACKGROUND - ONLY VISIBLE IN HD #IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF A WOMAN WHO SUSPICIOUSLY HAS THE EXACT SAME SILHOUETTE AS NORMA #Normaler fans rejoice and 'Grandpa Once-ler' theory is accepted into canon (or - more accurately - 'implied canon') by most fans #So yes - for those keeping track - while the evidence wasn't as concrete as it could have been #The Once-ler is implied to have been the father of Ted's mom in the movie

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melonnade · 1 year

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how the epilogue should’ve gone

#orv #lgy #sys #kdj #kind of #his hand is there #my art #wip #they’re going to go eat fried chicken and pizza by the Han River #“the Han River is the middle of a city!’’#nah the city got destroyed #it’s a field now (:#I’ll stick it in my art blog once I’m done but dang. why does it take so long to draw things?

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sundial-bee-scribbles · 11 months

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I DON'T UNDERSTAND, HOW ARE YOU ALL STILL SO HAPPY?

alt vers b/c i'm not sure if the colors on the final vers came out the best

#my art lol #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #vocaloid art #vocaart #dismemberment #blood tw #kagamine len #kagamine rin #rin and len kagamine #rin vocaloid #len vocaloid #bad vibe hours 😔✌️ not gonna get too much into it #this is eh but whatever. posts it anyways #imo rin came out way better than len here lmao... idk what happened to him.#WELL OBVIOUSLY I KNOW she fuckign killed him but like. im talking pose/drawing wise. art is hard #was testing out some different color things here but GOD why does this always happen when im tryign to finish something #cause this technically isnt 'new' i already had the sketch i just never properly lined it. and then i finished it obv #but yeah 'im not gonna take so long on the filters ill keep it simple' THATS A FUCKING LIE. BRUH. im so indecisive

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anomalouscorvid · 9 months

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miss caroline 'carrie' _________ (looking way more presentable than usual) is offering you internal organs (not from a person!) and looking kind of smug about it and also at the same time kind of getting blood all over her sleeve. will you accept (yes or yes)

you can kind of tell that i was originally going to add a background but just... didn't. maybe i will later.

timelapse below cut as usual

#the flower here might be wrong but that's all i could find for anything like `minor convolvulus`.#well. if it's wrong blame some guy from the 19th century ok 💔#fallen london #failbetter games #fallen london oc #gore #blood #ask to tag #art #digital art #drawing #digital drawing #carrie (oc)#does the way i draw her change with every drawing? yeas. maybe.#anyway goodnight people. 👋 why did this drawing take so long....

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delilah705 · 15 days

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#Sfw #My art #Now And Forever #NAF #Millions Knives #Zemirah Indira Millions #When will I make his hair not fluffy? XD Your guess is as good as mine.#I would have added the computer version too but if I'd drawn this before this blog was made I would have made it more insert inclusive #And the colors I used for the computer version are not viewer inclusive as they are specific.#Listen let me know if you want me to make more insert inclusive art in the future because I will try if you want me to.#And I was so worried with my OKAF art that people would take that character as the canon look for OKAF's reader character. It is not.#And if you wanna draw and share your fanart of scenes from my fics with me please do! And insert yourself or your oc if you really wanna!#Because that's how it's meant to be! Whoever I use in these images where the appearance is defined does not have to be canon for you!#Put yourself or your oc in there! I tend to give these inserts the easiest hair I can draw so it's usually really short or long and flowy a #it's kinda awkward showing people in my personal life this kind of art and not having a defined look for the insert character.#I get “is that a guy or a girl?” “why are they bald?” “where's her hair?” questions. XP And I don't wanna have to explain reader-inserts #to them. But I can remedy that by taking a picture of and posting the inclusive version before I slap on some hair and stuff if you all #would prefer.

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