#you can tell that my style has changed

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

#poorly drawn mdzs #art summary #It's so interesting looking back at how my style and technique changed throughout the year! #I used PD-wwx as the consistent factor (October is an exception) and you can see so many processes going on. #My little petri dish amoeba (with a little red bow to tell him apart from the other amoeba) <3 #Whether it's getting new markers or trying out a new shading style - it's cool seeing a snapshot of my journey like this B*) #There's certainly been a slower curve to my overt improvement *but* I have become so much faster! #My life outside of drawing has been hectic and at several points extremely stressful this year. For all the work this blog has been- #-It has truly been a life saving anchor when the darkest of times have hit. #Love is hard work. Change is even harder work. Sticking to a goal I set out for myself and striving to keep going was worth it. #And I love drawing. I think there has always been something in me that longed for this. And it is finally tangible! I can draw!!! #I wanted to make a more elaborate year reflection where I looked back at my favourite comics and jokes. #but I'll leave that to the one year anniversary. #I have also been collecting a ton of statistics throughout the year and I am desperate to share them. I'm that kind of nerd B*) #I can never say it enough: Thank you all for the kindness and support. I wish everyone a lovely 2024!!!

[charliesinfern0]

i freaking looove the older style of art for osomatsu san just like

girls you are so cartoon

#osomatsu san #gahhh season 1 has some of my favorite art #you can definitely tell when the style changes and its so good a #lot of the time #dont get me wrong i like some of the more detailed styles too #but like!!! theyre cartoon!!!

[totaled-drama]

April 16th 2023 vs April 16th 2024

A redraw of my first ever hockey bros drawing from a year ago!!

It is also the one year anniversary of my tumblr blog :) totaled-drama has been around for one whole year!!!!!

#total drama #marsh’s td art #total drama raj #total drama wayne #do not tag as ship please #my art style has. certainly changed since then ajshsjsh #you can tell that the first one was my first ever attempt at drawing them 😭 /lh

[stealthily]

yes yes i know the general stakes of the world are too heavy for it to be a reality but I simply think Vi and Jayce should have a very antagonistic relationship, but in like, a fun-bickering sort of way. where they’re just sort of reluctantly forced to care about each other. their entire energy boils down to “if it were up to me i’d leave your sorry ass behind, but then Caitlyn would be mad at me, so-” and it could just be either of them saying it at any given time

#‘caitlyn your girlfriend keeps stealing my stuff can you tell her to stop please’ #‘hey cupcake jayce keeps changing the locks could you shoot him for me’ #bonus points if viktor has his villain arc and anytime there is a Happening in piltover they get to argue over who deals with it #‘sounds like your sister is at it again’ ‘fuck off this has your ex written all over it’ #anyway tldr; i’d like to imagine buddy-cop style banter instead of the inevitable pain and misery that actually awaits me with this show #arcane #caitvi #jayce talis #vi arcane #txt #steph talks arcane

[partypanic]

Tommy coolatta, my favorite guy

(pls reblog if u like..I'm on my knees🙏)

#party panic posts #its been a bit #kinda #and my style has changed yet again #can you tell i enjoy drawing tommy in purple and pink? can you? #hlvrai #hlvrai tommy #tommy coolatta #half life vr but the ai is self aware #-wayne

[wizardgame100]

======= I woke up to this ask a couple days ago and it's been haunting me - Wyshe

@extravalgant

#sorry for the ping Val I just feel like I'm going crazy hahshdhds #anonymous #wizanon #wizard101 #w101 #wizzy101 #wizzy #wiz101 #wizzy fandom #wizard 101 #fave #wyshe draws #wyshe answers #can #can you tell my art style has changed hahshdh #spicy is the ns///w tag for me so it doesn't get flagged #spicy #I don't know what to tag this hahdshd

[smile-files]

(click image for better quality!!) golly i love thinking about clover's hair... i imagine she has really voluminous wavy strawberry blonde hair that she dyes green and wears in many cute hairstyles!! :D

#dandy's doodles #inanimate insanity #ii #ii clover #ii human #ii humie #ii humanization #ii humanized #kin #i think after the dye in her hair wears out clover would leave it natural for a few months before redying it #she loves it green but she also loves its natural color!! #and yeah her hair is very full and soft and wavy... #so pretty!!! #she usually wears it in the upper left style but she changes it up every so often #and when she goes to sleep she has it all the way down... #i've been making clover in picrew a lot lately so i've gotten to explore hairstyles! what fun!! :D #(given the oddly specific detail here you can probably tell that i've taken heavy inspiration from my own hair haha!)

[mermaidsirennikita]

The dichotomy between what's popular according to booktok (from what I've see) from the most blandest books imaginable to the most taboo erotica you can think of is kinda wild.

I think that what gets me with taboo books recommended by BookTok is that they're usually very poorly written. And if the writing is poor, you're not really getting the full "shock" value.

Like, when you read Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series, the scenes read as really intense because Sierra is an excellent writer. In contrast, a book like Hooked (that one dark romance~ modern Captain Hook book, a concept I was very open to and wanted to like, for the record) is very badly written. There's taboo content and a horrible hero, but like... It just reads juvenile.

I'm about 65% through A Kiss at Midnight by Anne Stuart, a historical romance that is QUITE dark, but the writing is frankly fabulous. Because Stuart can write, the darkness (which is not like, the corny "oh he's so bad he's in a motorcycle gang" torture sequence stuff--it's TRULY intense and pretty accurate for the era) is balanced out by emotional progression and honestly? A very dry, at times dark humor. If a lesser writer handled this plotline, it would just seem like shock factor after shock factor layered on just to get people talking. Very 2edgy4me.

And I'm gonna be really real here. Some fanfic authors are made to transition to actual published books. I think Ali Hazelwood writes a really solid contemporary romance. I really enjoyed You, Again by Kate Goldbeck, and that's based on a fic I actually read. The Hurricane Wars works as a book. (And mind you, let's not take away from the work the editors and authors did to rework fics into actual books here.)

Some fic authors are meant to stay fic authors and to excel at that. I personally think that one of the reasons why we have so many blaaand romance novels right now is that a) some of them are written by less-equipped fic authors trying to write real books and b) some of the authors have read less actual books than they have fics.

There are some tensely plotted, exciting fics out there. But personally? I think the standout nature of those fics--fics like Manacled, which... I think.... is not.... for me. However, bland it is not lol--makes people think that is the NORM for fic, when it's not. The norm for fic, and what I think a lot of more casual fic consumers and people who read more fic than they do books (compared to a lot of romance readers who turn to fic to supplement their reading habits) is very plotless slice of life stuff.

And that's not meant to be derogatory. It works, especially when you're writing about characters a lot of people know and love and are PROGRAMMED to know and love. Even if it's AU and they're basically other people, if you're writing a modern, sedate romcom about Katniss and Peeta and she mentions going to archery classes and Peeta being a baker, people are like aawwwww and they enjoy the nicely written scenes that are just people being people.

That.... ultimately creates a bland story when you're writing a book about original characters nobody has a preexisting investment in.

#romance novel blogging #lol idk sometimes i feel like fic gets this sweeping pass bc we're not supposed to critique the work #and not critiquing the work is fine i'm not here to tell y'all a thing someone is doing for free is bad when they don't want feedback #BUT... i think it's fair to critique the way fic has been uplifted and held on this pedestal compared to books #and EQUATED to books #which is my biggest complaint always #it's not better or worse it's different and if you think you can transition from fics to books #without reworking your products and your style #and frankly often putting a lot more work in #... idk man that's just so low effort and i personally think that's one reason why we see subpar books where nothing happens #they've always existed some people just do that lol but some of it i read and i'm like #this is like someone wrote a review 200k word fic about absolutely nothing changed the names and bit publish #(and another thing--one way you CAN tell there is a different type of work being done with fic is the wordcount dif #the standard for say a historical romance #which is often given more room traditionally in terms of word count than a contemporary romance #is 100k words #contemporaries often have landed between 80k-100k #then you have these 150k contemporaries and they're bloated as hell #but that wordcount is not unusual for fics #and fics are nORMALLY if edited at all being edited by amateur beta readers who do not professionally edit work #and often only look for typos or scene/character issues versus things like overarching plot and structural weakness #ADDITIONALLY! when you read a fic you're usually reading someone writing in real time #whereas if you are reading a well-done actual book you're reading someone's like... billionth draft that's been worked over by #multiple eyes. and i include indie in this bc the really good indie books have usually been professionally edited #on top of critique partners proofers etc) #ANYWAY. MY RANT.

[eshithepetty]

Tbh the funniest thing I've seen crop up for mob psycho s3 is when people complain about the characters being off model. Like.... really?? Off-model animation... in mob psycho 100.. Ohhg the horror. Surely the roughness and creativity and freedom in style hasn't literally always been part of this show's art direction.. mob psycho has never been off-model before. Yup.....

Like:

[ID: various screenshots of characters in Mob Psycho 100 getting off-model, either by being stretched, drawn with wobbly or messy lines, having intentionally bad anatomy, or colored in with botchy, stark colors. End ID.]

Literally where have you been 😭

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #anime #and even if theyre talking about like. not intentionally going off model for gags or exhaggaration like it is in most of these screenshots #and instead just. little changes in face shape or whatever.... that has also. been a thing forever??? #like actually look at the past episodes. sometimes mobs jawline is sharper sometimes rounder. sometimes reigens face changes a little #thats not like... some new horrid thing born from laziness. different storyboarders just have different styles #and sometimes those styles reflect in little ways 😭 that has been the case for animated shows forever. not just in mob either #like tell me you know nothing about animation without telling me you know nothing about animation lmao #and like fine you can be a bit annoyed by that ig. but.... in regards to /mob psycho/ tho??? the series literally about expression?? #and s3 has been comparatively so polished too!! #and ngl i kinda miss the roughness and sketchiness of the past seasons... #don't get me wrong there has absolutely been some Incredible and creative animation this season #but it doesnt... quite have the same vibe i feel? not in like overall presentation? #i wonder if the staff has been switched up a bit for this one #anyways #ill stop rambling now jdgdhd #watch 'the psychedelic sakuga of mob psycho 100' by traventalks on youtube its such a good video essay and criminally underrated 🙏 #my own post

[chiropteracupola]

...what if I put him in the videogame.

#em draws stuff #the flight of the heron #ewen cameron #this is. sillysilly. but in the last couple of months the tf2 artstyle has really been affecting the way I draw. and so you see. #just trying out some more exaggerated shapes and a slightly different coloring style and seeing how it looks on ewen #I can apologize like jake blues all the live-long day but nothing will change and nothing will be learned from the experience :] #the way it is is that the worms in my brain tell me to draw something and then I draw it. and that's it. #in 2023 we are cringe but free &c &c #'I Am Not Going To Learn To 3D Model To Make This Real' I say [is completely unable to stop thinking about doing that]

[cheesecake-beech]

Hey me again i wanted to know if you could do claude and wild knuckles ( I love there relationship and there romance)

I drew old gay people GSHSJBCSJH

GRANDPAS respectfully of their own little groups 🙏🏽🙏🏽 GAUGDHD I MISSED DRAWING THESE GUYS SM 😭😭😭😭😭

sobbing and crying and sobbing

#Bro my art style has changed and you can tell #SLAY #I yassified the old men #LMAO #BRO this has been sitting in my inbox and I just hadn’t had the motivation to answer it 💀💀💀 #BUT I FINALLY GOT TO IT AND IT FEELS SO GOOD AHHH #cheesecake's art // my art #cheesecake's babies // my ocs #claude/frostbite #tako/heartache #wild knuckles #minions rise of gru #my doodles #I was gonna add a menacing Sugar doodle where she would be at the end of the hall and Knuckles would be standing in the doorway #but i think this is a good doodle dump LOL #Also Tako doesn't believe In privacy #Plus he also doesn't know what they're doing LMAO #he doesn't know what two old men kissing looks like #DJSGFKJADSHFGDSJHLFJGADSKJDFSHG #I WAS GOING TO DRAW THEM SMOOCHING EXCHANGING SPIT FRFR #But nah not yet have a little tease 😼😼😼 ;) #SKDJFHSKDHFDGS #They're talking about coffee and going golfing in the top left corner pic #yknow just old people activities

[widevibratobitch]

moments like this when im really glad im a sad little cynic who always considers the worst possible outcome and never lets herself truly get comfortable and trust the good things in her life to stay there and builds her life around trying to soften the blows of the eventual disappointments just waiting around the corner lol never leaving my edgy teenager era peace and love

#i mean if the alternative is whatever the fuck is going on with my best friend rn then hooooo boy #cancelling therapy immediately i never want to change i wanna keep my trust issues forever and ever if its gonna save me from THIS #is he a dick? kinda. yeah. and a coward because if dude was sure he didnt want it since AUGUST and didnt have the guts to end it till now #actually he didnt end it. she was the one who finally snapped. but we seriously fought twice before because she just woudlnt listen #when i said that girl this isnt gonna work and you trust him too much and you're attachment styles are incompatible as hell #your* #but nvm. the least you could do when a 7 years younger girl who's clearly obsessed with you is breaking up with you #cause she just cant take it anymore. and you can see she's still in love with you because you've been lying to her for half a year. #imo the least you could do at that point is just. dont tell her that jfc. just say you're sorry it didnt work out etc etc #dont fucking tell her you stopped being in love with her in fucking august #and just 'didnt know how to end it' and lied when she asked if everything's alright #like my god. yes ig this would never have happened if she hadn't trusted him so completely and expected love to fix her whole life #but jesus dude. she's not even 23 she has a right to be naive. you're almost 30. you DONT get to be a man child anymore #christ. okay. #anyway i wish i could help her but telling her to 'trust less' and 'never truly rely on other people' sounds horrible and cringe and edgy af #but i genuinely dont have any other advice #like babygirl im sorry but your bestie is a piece of human garbage and she's doing the best she can but her best is Not Much alas

[cassynite]

realized i'd finished this ages ago, put it as my sidebar for my blog and then never actually posted this drawing. which is a shame i was pretty proud of it at the time! anyway posting it basically so it's in the archives.

#cassy draws #this is not anyone in particular. just a moon lady #i drew this months ago and you can tell lol my style has already noticeably changed since then but! oh well! it's still an okay drawing

[riftdancing]

💌siyoh please. :pleading:

It was a labor of love which left no room for rest, especially not for the weary.  The moon illuminated carefully crafted pine countertops which were littered with the various tools of her trade, one which had been clutched in her deceptively soft hand.  A hand softer than any Culinarian’s hand should be.  Softer than any woman as hard working as Siyoh Mari had any right to be.  Though when held and examined closely, one would begin to notice the battle scars of her trade.  Various old nicks and small burn lines told the tale of her learning experiences across tender taupe colored flesh dotted with small constellations of her beauty marks.

Her silky gainsboro colored hair had been drawn upwards into a neat bun and pinned with tangerine ornamented kanzashi, leaving her loose hanging bangs to cascade like a moonlit waterfall around her beguiling facial charms.  A simple tatsuki sash had expertly secured the sleeves of her kimono back from impeding any of her expertise.  The project?  Older than its wielder and crafted by the ancestors of her life-long friend, a treasured Sujihiki knife was used to slice through pork belly like butter.  Mari had been separating the belly into thick long cuts which she would then roll into an almost circular tube-shaped loaf.  It was wound tightly together, leaving no air in the center, by a coarse culinary twine both Siyoh and Azuma had spent a day together spinning in the late warmth of the last Spring.

The memory brought a warm smile to the Keeper’s painted red lips as the recollection was quite vivid.  As if she could still feel the afternoon sun warm and coloring her easily burnt moon kissed flesh.  She had sought sanctuary beneath the tangerine trees that day.  Though Siyoh worked in a kitchen full of savory aromas, the silvery siren could still smell the delicate fragrance of freshly blooming citrus blossoms which hung in the sweet air of that late season day.  Though the perfume she had infused with them later likely aided in the vibrance of her memory.  She had adorned herself with it daily ever since.

Azuma’s playful giggles echoed in her mind as she reflected on the gossip they’d shared that day.  Though she couldn’t remember the topic, Siyoh never forgot the warmth of her life-long friend’s laugh.  It was a comfort to her.  One of her greatest comforts.  To hear the happiness of both Azuma and Kokoya allowed a momentary respite for Siyoh’s soul.  Their happiness tempered her anxious mind.  Briefly the woman wondered if she would be so hardworking if the pair had not been such a pivotal part of her life.  But they, like Rex, were some of the last living strings left tethered to her deceased family and aching history.

The monochrome miqo’te’s focus was drawn back to the meal at hand as she seared the Chashu expertly for extra flavor before submerging the crisped pork into a bath of seasoning.  Zesty ginger, spicy scallions, ripe apples, sake, soy sauce, brown sugar, and fresh well water would create the long soak needed to bring out the meat’s true potential hours later.  As it had been snowing lightly in Doma for days now, Siyoh would be sure to inspire cold hungry bellies with the warmth of her hard work and passion in the form of a delicious 200-hour Ramen.

No one would ever go hungry beneath her roof.  They were free of the occupation now.  She would make sure no belly would ever go hungry again if she could.

♥ Thank you for the ask, @agenttrick! ♥

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[lovestryke]

early 2021 vs may 2023 :)

#march 2022 completely changed the way i drew withered bonnie...aaallll because of a traumatizing tiktok. now he looks like a little block!! #twilight looks meaner now <3 i love love LOVE my art style!!! thank you.....school...and craig mccracken....and ben balistreri.....YO! #i have not completely filled up my old sketchbooks during the same year i get them. this thing has drawings from 2019! maybe 2018 too? #and now it has drawings from 2023 :) im really. stunned and happy about the direction my art is taking. its genuinely so awesome #and you can really tell what i love. what does my art style remind you of? #ppp #withered bonnie #twilight sparkle #fnaf #mlp

[vivi-mire]

This Lacus has been haunting me for almost a year now

#riya speaks #riyart #gundam #gundam seed #lacus clyne #the linework for this was done sooo long ago #you can tell that my style has like. changed since then #shes been a wip forever #shes done now she cant hurt me anymore #for some reason no character fights me like lacus #consistently lacus drawings kill me