#you'd think it was a troll but it was real. and most of their older art was actually p good is the weird fuckin thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cozylittleartblog]

Just wanted to mention this to someone who does art and get their opinion on it:

Sometimes I see some artists do redraws of their old artworks or characters and think "Wow, uh... their older art looks better." Sometimes it's only mildly better, but other times it's vastly better. Like the Upgrade, Go Back! meme.

I understand that art skills are supposed to develop and change, hopefully for the better, but sometimes it just feels like they got... worse? Somehow? Idk. Maybe it's because they were copying another artist's style while finding their own, and it's their own style that doesn't vibe with me? Just curious what your thoughts are about this.

Also, your art has consistently been great, so this isn't directed at you.

I do see this on occasion yeah! usually (in my experience anyway) its because people take a sharp turn towards a stylization that either isn't to your or most people's tastes, or that they don't understand or are still developing. switching up how you stylize your art is like starting over in a sense, you're changing from what you have practice with and that's always going to cause you to revert some as you have to re-learn things you understood in your previous style. i had a pretty big style shift in 2014 when i took up the basis for how my art looks now, and i remember feeling like some of the stuff i was drawing might have looked better if i was using my older style instead. that's something artists just have to push through and figure out, and they'll likely come out of it a better artist than they were before. constructive critiques are a good way for them to figure out why their art might not be as "good" as it used to be, if they're open for those.

art is not always a linear journey, and i would also say things like passion and motivation have a part in it too. feeling inspired sparks you to make something the best it can be, if you're not feeling it (and esp if that feeling lasts for a long time) it'll leave you making decisions you otherwise would not have let fly, and that can result in worse art. and some of it is just personal preference! it's not that their art is better or worse, it's just different now, and maybe that doesn't vibe with you the same way their old stuff did. and that's fine 👍

(thank you! :3 i admittedly struggle a bit with Not Feeling It sometimes like i just described, so it's nice to know people still enjoy what i make when that feeling hits.)

#ask #anonymous #anon #art talk #or occasionally its because they let the h-rny take over and um. they get Grotesque about it whhjbdfdfg #i saw someone post a before and after fanart pic of tasque manager on twitter and everyone was like omg you've improved so much! #and they were all talking about. the older piece. because the newer one had some Proportions that werent even sexy they were just uhhhhhhhh #deviantart would be impressed. lets say #and just generally some of the other anatomy and rendering got way wonkier and broken from the earlier one too. it was strange #the weird thing is the older one was also a lil spicy/exaggerated but it was like tasteful and the anatomy was solid and it had some good #coloring and rendering choices etc etc. idk thats always the first example i think of because there were so many comments #pointing out - inadvertently - that the new art was Worse. but i do see it sometimes. i also think of um #there is some notorious artist whos style suddenly got really transphobically stylized. and racist #you'd think it was a troll but it was real. and most of their older art was actually p good is the weird fuckin thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #why'd you kneecap yourself like that bro. i dug around a bit and the artist was rcdart #i feel like most of the examples i've seen of this are COMICALLY bad. like the artist got brain damage #anyway thats a novels worth of text but tldr yeah it do be like that sometimes. rip

[blue--ingenue]

soft!sebastian headcannons - part 5

Author's Note: *shakes this post like a bag of cat treats* i'm back with some more soft sebby :) as a reminder my taglist is open, and if you'd like me to write any specific hc, feel free to send me an ask! and if you'd like a break from the fluff i did post some angsty!seb hc (link in my masterlist)

he’s an advocate for house elves. his parents found the idea of keeping house elves bound to their family barbaric, so he never had any growing up. stands up for house elves being mistreated by cruel students, so he’s a natural favorite among the Hogwarts house-elf community

boy is Public Enemy Number 1 for Peeves. they’ve hated each other even before the poltergeist ratted him out in the restricted section. he once dedicated an entire restricted section trip to finding books on how to cast spells to make his day a living hell (most common spells pass right through him). Peeves was livid, and so began a relationship of mutually-assured destruction

(they’ll never reach a truce, but they’ve both decided to keep their distance from the other to avoid further headaches)

back to the house elves, the kitchen elves are especially friendly towards him. he recruited their help to bake you a birthday cake, and they gladly obliged

he inherited his father’s pocket watch. his father had pasted a beautiful photograph of his mother on the inside. he has since stored the picture safely in an album and tucked a candid photo of you in its place

Anne is two minutes older than him, and she uses the ‘older sibling’ excuse to justify bossing him around. he makes it a point to wake up before her on their birthday every year so that he can feel ahead of her for once

if you’re smaller than him, he absolutely loves just picking you up. loves patting you on the head, comparing hand sizes, scooping you into his arms to deposit you in your bed if you fall asleep in the room of requirement

when he’s sick, he’s a total drama queen about it. (especially if he thinks you’ll fuss over him for it). his extra-large slytherin scarf is wrapped around his neck. he’ll pull it over the bottom half of his face and burrow into it while napping during professor binns’ notoriously dry lectures. he positively refuses to take medicine. boy has faced everything from trolls to dark wizards, but will sit and pout like a toddler if madam blainey faces him with a spoon of cough syrup

(it’s gotten to the point where Madam Blainey calls you to the hospital wing before she sends for sebastian because she knows you’re the only person who could convince him to take the medicine)

his parents used to take him and Anne to the seaside every summer. every once in awhile during the warmer months he’ll fly you to the Clagmar coast for a picnic lunch. he ties a basket laden with little sandwiches, delicate cakes, a bottle of champagne, and a blanket to the broom handle before you both take off

he’s constantly keeping an eye out for pretty shells and stones he thinks you’ll like. he's constantly running up to you with his latest "treasures." once he was so excited to show you a whelk shell he tripped over a sand dune and dropped it. he spent nearly half an hour digging through the sand to find it until you reminded him that he is, in fact, a wizard, and could use accio

he manages to find a pearl in one of the clams in a tidepool and uses the muselet from the champagne bottle to fashions it into a ring for you. he kneels in front of you in the sand, exaggerating a proposal and sliding the ring onto your finger. (naturally it’s a perfect fit. he’s spent so long memorizing the warmth and shape of your hands for it to be anything less). you laugh at his antics, but he’s sincere when he tells you it’s merely a placeholder for the real thing 

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Taglist: @mlktea13, @mrsbrookesallow, @ithinkweallsing, @snickette, @crispywiz

#sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #sebastian sallow x reader #sebastian sallow x mc #sebastian sallow x you #fluff

[rizzyu]

Hello there! :D If u dont mind, can i req platonic friendship hcs for luxiem? where gn!reader looks up to them as an older brother figure? +bonus points if they also have a chaotic personality >:D Have a great day~

Big-brother Figure HC

Pairing: Vox, Mysta, Luca, Ike, Shu x gn! reader

Category: Fluff, heehee haha funni

Warning: C h a o s .  

Summary: Platonic relationship with the Luxiem members :D

A/N: Hi hi! That is such as cute idea! I can already imagine the chaos before even starting to write lol Anyways thank you for the request :D

Vox Akuma

He tries his very very very very very best not to bring in sussy conversations while you are around, since you're like his little-sibling figure

It's very fucking difficult for him to not straight up yell something like FORKIN- *** **** ***** ***, but he really R E A L L Y tries his best (c'mon you gotta give him some slack for trying this hard)

Even though you might already have learnt it from other Niji members (mr satan here might choke those specific members if he finds out)

But Vox also takes care of you very well

Like he'd go out of his way just to make sure you have the best meals every day

Overall, I think Vox would be a very caring but yet very protective big-brother figure

Mysta Rias

You'd be making fun of him A LOT (like real siblings lol) and also pick on him specifically

Like in every roast tier list, Mysta's in the "bullied" tier, and you're the living proof of that.

Say if you're playing Crab Game, you'd specifically throw a snowball at him out of nowhere, causing him (using his webcam mic that makes him sound like he's in the middle of a damn hurricane) to scream like he's stuck between the fabric of reality and the backrooms

Basically like this: "WHAAA WHA%#%@"#*@ WHO THE %##*@/× FUCK ^@!~# DID&פ^#*!/£₩※THAT /£&&$)#(@#:"

Meanwhile you: "MUHYAHYAHYAHAYYAHAYAGHAGSSBABBA L L L L L L"

And if Mysta is cooking, just like Vox his Mysta's cooking stream, you'd scold him for cooking in such uhhhhh c u r s e d ways

“Mysta, for the love of Riku Tazumi, by “pour oil into the pan”, doesn’t mean to fill the entire pan with oil.”

Overall, chaotic sibling-like relationship with Mysta :)

Luca Kaneshiro

The most chaotic duo in NijiEN

You two would both pull pranks and say random deez nuts, ligma jokes to other members

Whenever you two take part in collabs (especially large ones), I can imagine you both causing so much mischief that everyone would be screaming your names while chasing you two who are laughing your butts off (I love his laugh it’s so goofy)

He’d teach you his ways of pogging

Say if you’re playing Minecraft, you two would probably place lava traps in front of the doors of every house, before hiding nearby to see the other members scream when they fall into the trap

Basically he’s gonna troll with you all the time :)

Ike Eveland

Just like Vox, very caring but very protective

He really enjoys reading you the novels he wrote and making you caviar toast. Even if you dislike caviar, he (tries) to not be too disappointed in you lol

Ike also like to teach you how to write novels and how to speak some Swedish words

And usually when you did well when he’s teaching you things, he’d give you a headpat :3

Usually if some other members say something a bit sussy, broski would look d e a d into their eyes while having both hands covering both of your ears, before politely telling you to go somewhere else for the meantime. Then he'd threaten whoever did that in front of you.

I like it when he goes psychopath mode. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Shu Yamino

You’d definitely greet each other with “eyyyyyyyyyyyyy” everytime you meet lol

If you’re a smart person, you’d probably be talking about maths or something in the middle of a game.

“There are two boxes blocking that so if we double it we can cover the whole thing.”

 “Yea but there isn’t enough space to place 4 boxes there, maybe 3.46 boxes can work.”

“Seems like 3.48 would work better.”

“BUT IT’S JUST A 0.02 DIFFERENCE-” (made-up scenario lol)

The whole time chat would be spamming the nerd emoji 🤓🤓🤓

You, Shu and Petra would get along very well too, since Petra is like a sister figure to Shu

Happy penguin siblings :D

#riyugu writing #yorutenshi riyugu #nijisanjien #nijisanjien x reader #luxiem #luxiem x reader #nijisanji #nijisanji x reader #luxiem x reader fluff #vox akuma #vox akuma x reader #mysta rias #mysta rias x reader #luca kaneshiro #luca kaneshiro x reader #ike eveland #ike eveland x reader #shu yamino x reader #shu yamino

[bearmemesreviews]

Skylanders Review: Spyro Part 1

Ah, Skylanders, the Juggernaut of the Ingenius but short-lived toys-to-life genre. Before Battlepasses, Gachas, and DLC packages that added things that probably should have been in base game, we had the clever idea of making kids buy the characters they wanted to play as. Why grind or achieve some in-game feat to unlock your favorite character when you could spend extra money to get more than the three options you got when buying the game itself!

Is it sad to say that I think if this game came out now they wouldn't even bother with starter figures and you'd just get the game for Forty Dollars?

Anyways, some backstory before we get into our flagship Skylander, and the reason why most of you are here.

Skylanders began as a project for Spyro the Dragon, a task given to the company Toys for Bob. They toyed with a bunch of ideas that other games have done when they needed a reboot - even the dark and gritty remake route - but these ideas soon settled onto a pitch for "Spyro's Kingdom" which would lay the groundwork for Skylanders.

Quoting the wiki, ideas included Spyro and friends being living toys in a post-apocalyptic earth, this was scrapped but became the marketing heart of the franchise - toys you'd "bring to life" by placing them upon a station connected to your gaming set-up. Every Skylander would be a real-life figure, non-posable but fully painted and detailed, that you could collect to broaden your options for playable characters.

The story of Spyro's Kingdom had Spyro be an older guide to the player, now a king of his own kingdom. Obviously a reboot cannot have its title character play second fiddle to a bunch of newbies, so this would be altered. Spyro's Kingdom would've had new characters, who would receive quests from the adult dragon and these included five specific proto-Skylanders.

My god these figures, Hagen Renaker eat your heart out. Four out of five of these figures would be reworked into future Skylanders, except for the Cycloptic Blue Blob who suspiciously resembles the guy from Monsters vs Aliens. Guess they Old Yeller'd him, RIP.

In the middle sits a pissed off red-recolor of Spyro, with a very familiar headshape. This "Fire Dragon," who would serve as the player character before rightfully giving that spot up to his purple superior, never got around to getting a real name. In fact, all these figures had Placemarker names due to how early they were in the game's creation. From left to right we have "Rock Dragon", "Ghost Eater", "Fire Dragon", "Tarclops", and "Bomb Troll".

Only one to get a name and only one to not become an official Skylander, if only he had that second eye.

Fire Dragon is obviously the Spyro we would soon get, and soon Master Eon would take Spyro's old position so that the purple dragon can finally take his role as the de-facto leader of this group of toyetic weirdos.

[Image: Spyro the Dragon, Official Skylanders Series 1 Render. Spyro is a quadrupedal purple dragon with almost Mustard Yellow accents. He has three-toed claws, bat-like wings, two medium length curved horns, and fin-shaped spikes going down the back of his head and along the top of his tail. His bulky tail also ends win a yellow spike, almost structured like an armored sheath attached to the tip of his tail.]

Spyro here retains most of the characteristics from previous incarnations, but has a notably pug-like, squashed snout. Pug Spyro was a bit of a Black Sheep in the old days, especially since Skylanders took a massive departure from the dragon's previous games. In fact, outside of Cynder and Malefor, you wouldn't need to know anything about the previous games to get into this new canon.

Yeah, here's something I have to admit. I have no real history with Spyro games, and I was first exposed to him from his self-titled adventure in Skylands. I'm also one of 50 people who watched the Netflix series, which you should watch because the way THAT reinterprets the game's canon needs to be seen.

Said Netflix series basically make him Harry Potter, learning from Eon - a master of Portals and Tutorials - on how to be a Skylander with Stealth Elf and Eruptor because f*ck Gill Grunt and Trigger Happy I guess. Skylanders are protectors of Skylands (Literal Islands in the Sky), who have been banished to Hell Earth by Invader Zim the evil wizard Kaos, and apparently the heat created by Atmospheric reentry can convert you into a plastic toy that retains enough sentience to understand how horrific being an immobile plaything would be. Eon then enlists you, adults who thought this was a new Spyro game and random children, as Portal Masters. Portals are the platform onto which you place the figures on to unlock their character in-game, and it allows you to puppeteer the Skylanders as an extension of your own being.

If you think that sounds morally dubious now, wait until we get to Trap Team.

As a Design by Himself, Spyro is a good flagship character. To the kids he's just a good old dragon, with all that entails. And he draws eyes to this game in the same way a Licensed Guest character would, acting a bit like the Wolverine to Skylander's X-Men.

I like the pug-face, though it leaves much to be desired at certain angles. However, that's not all that Spyro has to offer, after all, I have yet to fully explain his whole deal, because in part two we get into his Element and new Lore!

Please look up "Skylanders Costumes", every time I visited Halloween City I would just see these guys and die.

#spyro the dragon #spyro #skylanders #skylanders spyro's adventure #bmoreviews #bmoreviewsskylanders

[nellia0pipia]

A young fish girl stands in one of her two respite blocks looking tired, irritated, and done with everything in the world. It just so happens that this troll with permanent bitch face is in fact having her 8th wriggling day. And no, that's not a good thing thank you, it's a very upsetting thing to this troll, why is it such a bad thing you may ask? It is the day you were brought into this awful world where everyone is unhappy and thinks they are the victim even when they are causing the real victims to suffer. 

Though that's not the only reason to despise such a horrid occasion such as a wriggling day, this day means that you only have one sweep left on this dirt rock your race calls a planet, and after that, there is an 85 percent chance you will end up being slaughtered like a seal in a shark tank, a 10 percent chance you will be stuck being an apprentice to an evil dictators left hand, and a 5 percent chance the unthinkable will happen. You becoming the leader of an unstoppable empire. 

Now honestly all these options sound horrible in their own way, one includes you dying, which obviously is disagreeable to you, the second involves you learning how to kill other people, and the third is just unthinkable considering you never in your life wanted to be a leader. You'd be terrible at it, honestly you don't have the luck or the training to even be a proper leader even if you did somehow get lucky enough to beat the seemingly immortal being ruling your people.

It is now that you realise you have gone off on one of the many unneeded rants about how terrible this shitty planet and race is and sigh as you realise you have yet to be given a name

>ENTER NAME

No way you idiotic braindead simplton, you cant enter a name becuse you already HAVE a name! You are eight sweeps old not six! Glob how coulds you be so stupid to beleive you could try and give someone a new name when they already have one they are stuck with for the rest of their worthless short lives!

Perhaps instead you should simply be asked to introduce yourself? Yes that seems far more appropriate and less offensive.

>>GIVE NAME

Your name is Nellia Pipian. As was already talked about in rantingly irritated detail, it is your wriggling day, and all it causes you is an empty feeling of tiredness to set in, if you didn't already have plans today you'd have going to your under respiteblock and slept in you coon the rest of the day so you didn't have to deal with this, but sadly you are here and you will have to put up with it. 

Lets change the subject from your suffering to things you actually enjoy doing hmm? Like how you love books and learning. Ah yes, that is your favorite past time, getting to learn as much as you can before your inevitable doom at the hands of a crazy woman. That way you can go on thousands of adventures in far away lands and worlds. Where you can learn about the histories of past trolls who were not even of your blood line, a way to escape the world around you in a moderately safe environment. 

Another one of your past times is watching Anime with your moirail who will be introduced at a later date your sure, she never was one to skip out on contacting you at least once a day despite her semi lazy personality. You have a fascination with the occult as well and have a collection of crystal balls that other people have gotten you as gifts, a pack of tarot cards, and crystals stacked away in your syllabus for later use when needing to contact the ancient ones for insight into how bad your luck is going to be this day. You find your bad luck to be a defining quality that ends up being the cause of half your shit going missing, breaking, or just plain being stolen by your quote unquote  “family.”

You also dabble in to horoscopes and old alternia mythology as a pastime to learn about the trolls from deep in the past that no one ever bothers to remember. You find these old ways quite fascinating and love to shine a light on what has been hidden in the dark. Like the moons you really love the moons as well and how they bring the ocean such a beautiful color scheme on the nights they are both full and glissoning.  You especially love when your family gains energy from the moonlight and then come deeper and deeper into the ocean and start to glow until everything is visible for miles. It really brightens your worst moods and gives you an almost smile on occasions when no one is looking.

You also used to be a fan of flarping but has slowly gotten out of the fad as you grow older, finding it too tiring when most other flarpers are too scare of you simply because you have fins on your face, and don't even get you started on if they saw you bleed even once. It's utterly ridiculous how they react to such things, but then again, past fuschia bloods tended to be tyrannical, cruel, and violent people so you suppose you couldn't blame them entirely for their semi casteist point of view when they already have such short lives like yourself.

You supposed that was a good enough introduction to your life yes? What will you do now then?

>Nellia, examin room

PT.1

#pipia oc #pipia #pipia ancestor #homestuck base #homestuck #homestuck oc #hiveswap oc #hiveswap troll #hiveswap #hivestuck #homestuck trollsona #trollsona #oc #fuschia blood #fuschia #hive #Nellia Pipian