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teals n blues

#lon'queue

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Zero Week day 3 - Archery

#fe14 #niles #lon'queue

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rotating my OC in my head wasnt enough. I had to bring him into the physical world too. four different times.

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I'm being taken on a trip to the countries largest mall but I have no money to spend while there so if u got extra change rattling around perhaps commission me ᐡඉ́ ̫ ඉ̀ᐡ so I can get a lil treat

https://ko-fi.com/c/1828e32e99

I do stuff like this for monies

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uuugghhhhhhhh i got DENIED for foodstamps, I assume because I didn't send them a ledger, because they didn't SEND ME the ledger...!?!??!!?!!??!?!?!?! i'm so fucking frustrated

#prof.pdf #negative

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Since people were upset I didn't include the great lakes in my last poll, here's another one

#EVERGLADES

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i haven't started reading the dunmeshi manga yet (I plan to) but my biggest motivator atm is that the anime is NOT giving me information on kabru fast enough. i'm obsessed with him i want to know everything about him

#prof.pdf

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purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

#yes #i have shooting experience

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Kabru sucks when he fights monsters

#dungeon meshi

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reblog to meow at the person you reblogged from

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changing should never be shameful

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Had a dream that I was at a party with @wingedpikmin and then realized that it was the anniversary of TAZ balance starting so I was trying to find a clip from it to convince her to listen to all of it. But then she was like "wait watch this video instead" and proceeded to show me a YouTube video that went like:

The setting is some kind of marshland. There is a juvenile golden eagle on the ground, injured in some way. There is a man attempting to rehabilitate the eagle, and currently he is trying to feed it. He seems to be attempting to imitate a parent eagle?? He is repeatedly jumping and trying to nudge the haunch of an animal towards the eagle. He is making the most piss poor eagle impression ever. It sounds kind of like whimpering. The juvenile eagle is baffled and will not eat. This goes on for several minutes.

At some point she asks me what clip I'm going to show her and I'm like "I genuinely don't know I'm so fucking distracted by this guy's shitty eagle impression"

#dream log

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Oh gosh, if you're taking questions I have like, a bajillion. The neopets "style" has been pretty loose over the years but... What sort of guidelines did you have to follow? Were there any hard "no"s? Was there a style guide or bible? In terms of design, what were you most proud of? Anything that was rejected that was disappointing to not see come to fruition?? Pardon my excitement!

From my recollection there was no official style guide, which I'm sure is pretty apparent from the art on the site—we'd run things by our art director Anthony/Tigercatcher for feedback, or by Adam or Donna to get their stamp of approval, but otherwise it was relatively lawless. It is fun to be able to look back at the old art and immediately tell who drew it, though!

A couple memorable anecdotes:

There was this brief phase in the early years where we had anthropomorphized neopets, but we hadn't really standardized how we drew them. They eventually got fingers and fully rendered eyes BUT I do love this transitional period where I just drew a bunch of sexy aishas with nub hands and dot eyes:

At one point there was a moratorium on giving the anthropomorphic characters helix piercings. It had become a kneejerk instinct to just toss a couple hoops onto a character's ear as you were designing them and it got: wildly out of hand

the worst notes were the ones we'd get on the Neopets Magazine covers, hands down. We could have so much fun with the on-site art, but anything public-facing like merch and the magazine were under way more levels of impenetrable scrutiny. The feedback was always to make the smiles BIGGER and B I G G E R

#lon'queue #neopets

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Cuddling. don’t mind the claws of the beast

#lon'queue

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old pencil sketch turned into painting for sakura's bday!

#fe14 #sakura #lon'queue