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HOW MUCH DO YOU HATE?

#art tag #marble hornets #cross stitch #fiber art #cross stitching #totheark #mh #tim wright #masky marble hornets #extraction #image described in alt text #the smallest hoop so far - I'm still working on the Decay hoop but it's been like. two years and so i opted to take a brief break from it #to work on others bc well. why not?

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People in this demographic, please let me know how to tag to get a hold of you as someone who doesn't need Image Descriptions!!

#going to be keeping this in mind from here on out

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rewatching The Seven and trying to relearn how to draw; it’s been way too long since i’ve done either

[Image ID: a pen and ink illustration of Zelda Donovan. She’s a satyr with huge horns curled around her long, floppy ears. The bridge of her nose is split open, so is her lip and the curve of her cheek, and her visible eye is bruised and swollen. Her nose is bleeding slightly as she looks off to the left with a somber expression. End ID]

#art tag #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fanart #fantasy high #zelda donovan #the seven #seven maidens #d20 #pen and ink #image described #artists on tumblr #injury tw #the creative block has been utterly out of hand lately but still we weather on #and i love zelda so much i couldn’t help myself ❤️ #was thinking about brennan in ep 3 saying zelda doesn’t have Any ranged attacks #and immediately thought about how having to stay in close range to fight surely leads to a lot of piled up injuries #nd then figured well. the existence of healing potions will not stop me from drawing That lol

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i'm gonna go home and draw

ⓘ Misinformation check: He's not going to draw when he gets home. This user is known for often lying about this.

hey man what the fuck. untrue

ⓘ Misinformation check: This user has not drawn in weeks.

dude come on

ⓘ Misinformation check: He doesn't remember how to.

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sorry, i can’t show more art because it’s under NDA (Not Doing Art) so you understand

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"whocares ita just a bug its just a bird its just a fish" ohhhh its just the miracle of life on earth . its just the beauty of biodiversity in my local area. its just millions and millions of years of tiny changes to a bucnh of little strands of amino acids and eventually all these circumstances brought us to this moment.but i only like this one kind of bugs so i want all the other ones to DIE I think their amino acids that took millenia to develop are DUMB AND WORTHLESS and who cares about them who cares I just want to have some stupid plants in my yard that wish they lived somewhere completely different so bad and I have to constantly battle to keep their sickly bodies functioning in this place they were never meant to live. because I saw it in a magazine

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canyouhearme?canyouhearme?canyouhearme?

[Image ID: A color pencil drawing of an angel. Three golden interlocking wheels encircled by eyes, each with its own pair of white wings, lined in purple. It rests in a purple and blue rectangle, colored with streaky vertical lines. Around the rectangle are decorative golden lines, further outlining the piece against the white paper.]

#thanks for the addition!!

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i do not consume art btw it consumes me and its teeth are scary sharp

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Self-soothing

[Image ID: A digital illustration of Ayda Aguefort - a young black half-phoenix woman - looking over pages in her spell book. She's sitting with a weighted blanket spread across her legs and the open book in her lap; with her right hand she's stimming with the short hairs on the nape of her neck, and her left hand hovers, postured and curled, over the book's pages. She has golden-orange runic tattoos on her arms, her hair is a fiery bright poof of coiled undercut, and she wears an oversized 'Fig and the Cig Figs' tshirt. Her flaming wings are arched and curled around her shoulders, sheltering her off from the rest of the room. The edges of the frame are decorated with thin golden lines and stars.]

#art tag #dimension 20 #d20 fanart #dimension 20 fanart #ayda aguefort #fantasy high #canon autistic character #d20 fhsy #fantasy high sophomore year #digital illustration #image described #artists on tumblr #truly i get an extraordinary satisfaction over taking Notes on things; i love to takes notes on my favorite shows and such #and when i get upset or overwhelmed i like to look back through all of my notes and reread them and stuff it's just like really soothing yk? #i have so so many notes on ayda in particular she's my Favorite in the whole world #so i have this headcanon of ayda doing similar things - with her wizards research but also her own notes on her neurodivergence and stuff #i also am going to continue drawing ayda posture stimming forever and always <3 #also have crazy envy re: wings i think about the sensory potentials of those things Constantly

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all of my sketches wind up covered in notes in one way or another lol

[Image ID: A screenshot of a procreate canvas. It features a cropped sketch of a young black woman sitting under a weighted blanket, looking down at a notebook in her lap. She's wearing a Fig and the Cig Figs tshirt and is playing with hair on the back of her neck. Little notes over the sketch read 'like she cut the sleeves down' pointing at the sleeves of her shirt, and another 'mirror the logo like it's been turned inside out?' points at the seams on the shoulder and the shirt's text.]

#wip tag #posted an earlier version of this sketch this morning but decided to reupload the post with this one #because i liked it better haha #i think of details faster in text and it takes me a while to translate them into images; #pretty much all of my 'thumbnails' are paragraphs of text first and foremost lol #anyway i love ayda so much <3 drawing her again is fun

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“i make bad art” good. make more

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anything can be an angel if you love it enough...

[Image ID: A pen and ink illustration of an Atlas beetle, its shell and wings are opened wide, and its body is shaded in with parallel hatching. Handwritten serif text at the bottom of the page reads 'Be Not Afraid' in all caps.]

#art tag #traditional art #pen and paper #dip pen #bugs #beetles #insects #ink drawing #image described #artists on tumblr #when i was a kid i thought the shell opening up was another set of wings #also invoking a LITTLE of that rabbi jack abramowitz quote: #'an angel is anything that carries out a mission for g-d. this includes forces of nature' #beetles as forces of pollination and decomposition <3 my favorite little guys

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i love this piece for a lot of reasons, but admittedly my Favorite is that the lyrics are wrong because i posted this like, less than 36 hours after the song dropped and we didn't have the official lyrics then

TAKE HIS BODY AS A RELIC TO BE CANONIZED

[Image ID: A digital illustration of Alex Kralie. He stands profile in frame, bright red blood from the stab wounds in his throat pouring over his neck and chest. In the background the sun scatters rays over The Operator standing amidst five trees. The frame surrounding the image is bordered with brightly lined carrion beetles, and text at the top and bottom reads "As we stumble through your last crusade, when you welcome your extinction in the morning rays" in bright yellow and red. ]

#mcr's foundation of decay will never not be an alex song to me lol #the actual lyrics are 'and as You stumble through your last crusade #Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?' #not dramatically wrong but still fun to me lmao

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some sketchy fan art of @brittlebutch 's fic "angry like a bad dog"

[Image ID: a close-cropped digital sketch of Brian Thomas. He sits with his knees pulled to his chest, one hand wrapped around the back of his neck, the other wiping across his face. His expression is tight and upset, and his face and hands are covered with scrapes, bruises, blood, and bite marks.]

#art tag #marble hornets #mh #brian thomas #marble hornets hoodie #mh hoody #digital illustration #image described #been sitting on this one for a while lol #i love the sketchy look but for whatever reason i’m So hesitant to post anything less than Fully Illustrated pieces #tho that term is super subjective so i’m trying to let go of it #this is a redraw - the original is still posted on insta

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can anybody find out any other way? it's choking up his throat now and dripping out his mouth, like liquified dying sparks, like burning butterflies...

#art tag #marble hornets #mh #jay merrick #marble hornets fanart #illustration #traditional art #totheark #artists on tumblr #the composition was inspired by the tta upload 'fragments'! #this is a cross post of another old piece i did a few years ago for the 11th anniversary #realized i never posted it here lol; since i'm about to do another rewatch thought it'd be nice to post something while i work on other wips

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Still working on this monstrosity

[Image ID: a close cropped photo of the back of an embroidery hoop. Several messy and overlapping threads cover a portion of the fabric, and you can see the backside of cross-stitched work filling out the half formed edge of an image of one man standing over another.]

#wip tag #cross stitching takes an age and a half #and i made it worse for myself by choosing to work with so many minute colors and details #the third of my totheark hoops :3 #what’s really killing me is how i’ve gotten better at filling the hoop out to the edges with each iteration #so i KNOW that the minute i finish this one i’m going to want to go back and redo the first one #which ofc would lead to a redo of the second one as well #part of me enjoys it obviously but boy howdy. lotsa hours. this one’s at 70+ hours already and i’m not even sure i’m half done lol

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CREATE AMBITIOUS PIECES OF ART EVEN IF YOU DO NOT THINK YOU HAVE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF ARTISTIC SKILL IT IS THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL IMPROVE IT IS THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL ACHIEVE THAT LEVEL