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ribbonetteart · 8 months

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A request for something a little different than usual 🍑👑

Progress stuff below:

I haven't done progress shots in a bit and I think it's something I want to do more often because I like talking and blogging I guess haha.

Now that I have more experience illustrating digitally, this kind of direct reference drawing is MUCH easier to do digitally 😫honestly this felt like a self imposed challenge lol. BUT I did want to do some more traditional stuff because I feel that I had been doing a little too much digital, if that makes sense. It's nice to play with my markers and color pencils once in a while too!!

Doing the line art on this piece ESPECIALLY felt easier to do traditionally than digitally. For some reason, trying to do line art on a tablet screen feels too smooth or slippery or something. Lining traditionally feels easier, probably because I put so much pressure on the paper in the sketch phase that when the lining phase comes next, it feels like I'm just following the lines on the page like a train on a track ^_^

despite uploading a couple of illustrations colored with marker now, I still feel a bit like a novice when it comes to marker. I got a new pack of markers that I wanted to play with, which was even more motivation to return to paper for a bit. But honestly, I feel like I fudged the window color blending. I watched tutorials and stuff on blending with markers but I guess I still need more practice ^^;;; at least it looks a bit messy to me. This is how this piece came to be a mixed media illustration, since I tried using color pencils to make that transition from blue to green on the windows a little smoother.

I think the pot holding the piranha plant came out a tad too saturated and it's calling too much attention compared to the very light floor and dresser. I was trying to follow the colors on the reference closely as an easy re-intro to traditional art, but next time I do something like this, I think I'll take more liberties with color and see what happens.

Overall, I'm quite happy with how Peach turned out. I don't draw humans too often since I typically draw Sonic characters lol. Sometimes it feels like I have to re-teach myself to draw people as a result. I really liked using the gelly roll for the highlights on her face and the polka dots on her shirt :3 I highly recommend using that pen as my previous experiences with other white gel pens don't compare to this one (not to sound like a commercial I'm just really happy it worked as well as it did!).

And finally, although redrawing a creation from a dress up game screenshot is probably not the most imaginative exercise I could be doing with illustration, I think it's fun and it's pushing me to do things outside of my comfort zone. I'm using new art tools (I'll get better with marker I prommy) and I drew a background! I'd like to do more backgrounds like this as a practice to encourage more original stuff. Maybe. One day. Probably.

If you read all of this until the end, thank you! Have a wonderful day, and thank you for following me and supporting my art :3c 💝

#princess peach #super mario bros #the dress up game is called 'pink cutie' in case anyone wanted to know

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petra-creat0r · 4 months

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Annual Update 2024

Alright everyone! New year, new updates for all my stuff!

Starting with ...

AtDFF and AYC

(The new signatures for my main art, AtDFF, and AYC)

As some, and by that I mean most of you have probably noticed, I rebooted AtDFF... again. I technically started a revamp all the way back in 2020 where I was redrawing the older updates to better match the current style and reformat the asks and text for better readability, but that didn't impede on the main updates (well, besides putting more onto mine and the rest of the team's work load.)

The Reboot

This past year though, I made the decision to completely reboot the comic for a few reasons. One was an attempt to renew my motivation, another was wanting to rework some of the lore, yet another was being inspired by @askfallenroyalty to remake the comic and post to ComicFury, but I think the main factor was... I wasn't all that happy with it. I think I kept comparing it to other comics, especially Fallen Royalty, which is my own issue, please don't go blaming anyone else. I knew I could do better, especially after over 5 years working on this, but now looking back, part of me feels that, rebooting it again is, in a way, diminishing those years. Even with the 2020 revamp, prior to it you could go through the updates and really look at how my art has progressed, and though true you can still scroll and find the old updates, it's just... not quite the same. Same can be said for the 2023 reboot.

Does that mean I'm going back on the reboot? No. I already have the next updates planned (I just haven't had a chance to work on them that often) and I really like the new lore of the world that I've come up with. I just think this will be the last time I ever reboot the comic. Whatever happens, happens, and I need to just roll with it. Even if what happens is our little roadtrip getting derailed into a corn field again, lol.

Comic Fury and New Comic?

With that said, what do I have in store for the new reboots of AtDFF and AYC? (yes AYC got rebooted too, I just haven't posted the first update like I did with AtDFF) Well, I mentioned a Comic Fury, which surprise. Both AtDFF and AYC have their own Comic Fury pages now! Don't worry, I still plan on posting to Tumblr as well, but now you can also find them on Comic Fury. Along with another comic I'm planning to do (eventually), Undertale-ish: The Comic. Ever wonder what Ish Frisk's journey through the Underground was like? Want to see what happened in most (not all) of their 800 runs? Want to see this child grapple with their self insecurities, perfectionism, and the responsibility of having full control over time and an entire civilization's lives in the palm of their hand? Want to see Chara as a ghost? Well that's what you'll get with Undertale-ish: The Comic! Coming I don't know since I such at scheduling and time management for these things!

Schedule

Speaking of scheduling! When are any of these comics coming out? Well... I just said I suck with schedules, and I can't promise really... anything when it comes to release but like... I know I for sure would like to release things... regularly? Even with the start of the reboot, I started it in April, and that stuff extended until at least August. Every summer I naively think "Oh! I'm gonna have so much time to work on the comic!" and then I get a summer job. Because I'm nearly 20 and going to college and even if I'm still living under my parent's roof, I can't entirely rely on my dad to pay my tuition. Only for half the year. Then during the school year, I have classes, and I feel burned out by the time I get home, and- It's a whole thing I need to find someway to work around or else nothing gets done and my brain just screams at itself. So, I think scheduling is something I'm gonna figure out throughout January, and try and get a backlog of updates ready throughout February to April or May so maybe we can start posting again in summer. Does that feel like a long wait? Even being near a year from the first update of the AtDFF reboot? Yes. But also I'm trying to over estimate and give myself the time and space I need while still attending college, and I wouldn't just be working on one comic update, but multiple. I'm trying to give myself space and some grace instead of making promises that feel hollow after a while of being unfufilled.

Lack of Motivation and How to Fix

Another thing to address, is my motivation when it comes to these series. I don't think it's accurate to say I've felt completely unmotivated to work on either comic, I mean, I was motivated for some of the beginning of last year to full on overhaul them, but I will say that, these comics have started to feel like a job. It's been something I've felt for a couple years now, where I've been having less fun with the comic as it's begun to feel like actual work. Believe me, I'm super excited for some of the later plot points of both AtDFF and AYC, and I love Undertale-ish and these characters but to get to those points or character moments, it feels like I'm slogging through what comes before it, which isn't good. This is something that sure, rebooting helped for a bit, before I got caught up in school and other stuff, but it's not a permanent solution and I've felt myself slipping back into the comic feeling like a job.

So how might I remedy this? Well, I think the solution might lie in another series I started this year, Drawing Junior Secret Squad until Chapter 3. Even if DJSSuC3 is more Deltarune focused, I've enjoyed drawing Chicago and my other fankids pretty much daily as, there's not that much pressure on it. Definitely not like there is with AtDFF or AYC. I don't have to line, or even color them since, they're just little doodles. I don't have to worry about missing a day since, I'll just do multiple the next day. They're quick, they're easy, I can just draw whatever idea I have with the characters I want, I'm having fun. Back when Ask the Dreemurr-Font Family was nothing but an ask chat on Amino, that's what I did it for. For fun. I wasn't worried with popularity or being like other creators, I just did silly little character driven roleplays for fun. I think that's been my issue with the comics. They aren't fun anymore. They're work because, I feel it's my job to tell this story rather than just... telling it because I want to. So, I think going forward, I'm gonna try to have more fun with the comics and Ish in general. For you all, that's probably gonna look like more sketches and doodles getting posted and maybe even just sharing small comics based off ideas that pop into my brain or from roleplays that happened in my server. Little things to help me regain the enjoyment I had with these comics and world.

Deltarune: Fool's Fate

I think that's all I've got to say on the Undertale based comics, so how about now we move onto something Deltarune related? As I was doing DJSSuC3, I introduced an idea called Deltarune: Fool's Fate. Aka, Chicago and Co's adventures through the Dark Worlds after Kris denied their destiny. So far, this has just been little doodles, character designs, and a roleplay I've been doing in my discord server. I've been having quite a bit of fun with that RP, we're nearly to the end of what would be the first "chapter" and have been fighting Dorothy, the secret boss of the Attic Dark World and who some of y'all might recall I made a real life doll of when my old computer finally kicked the bucket earlier this month. (I've still yet to make her dress or crown) I think roleplays have always been the thing I find the most enjoyable when it comes to character exploration as, I don't have to spend forever drawing comics and I get to sorta live through the characters. It's something I've been doing for characters from even before I was in this fandom. With the Fool's Fate roleplay too, I've also got to come up with elements that could feasibly be in an actual video game without, you know, actually coding a video game.

I don't know where Fool's Fate will go from here, while it'd be cool to have it be an actual fangame, I don't have that sort of skill. Nor the budget to pay a team. (My team for the comics is really just a bunch of friends I convinced to help me out for free.) Even with a sprite comic, it'd be too much. So, for now, it'll likely just remain a concept and roleplay. But, who knows. Maybe someday I could make it into something. I mean, after watching this year's Underevent I wanted to.

Other stuff

With all the UTDR stuff out of the way, what about some of my other stuff? (Because, surprise, Undertale and Deltarune aren't the ONLY things I do. Just the things I hyperfixate on the most.) Well, I've got my Fakemon region, Azmayca, POW-R, Dragon Riders, and Kinder Eyes which I started last summer. I don't really have any plans for them, asides from bugging people for ideas and doodling whenever I'm in the mood. However I think starting this year, I'm gonna try to post more of the doodles I make. Either ones in my sketchbook since DJSS gave me the confidence to post sketchy silly little doodles like that, or sketch doodles I draw digitally as warm ups. Though who knows. Maybe a hyperfixation swing some time during the summer will cause me to actually try to do something crazy like outline the whole Azmayca region and hypothetical game. Hopefully not something like that though. Making the evolutions of my redesigns of the starters might be nice.

Commissions

Another thing I'd like to finally do next year is update my commissions sheet. It's something I've had in the work for a while now, and was working on along side launching the comic updates. But, like the comics, school and work got in the way so... I sorta forgot about it. Regardless! I'm gonna try to post my updated sheet some time within the next few months, it's mostly just been havin to draw or find recent examples of my work. Hopefully then I'll actually get some more commissions because, um *looks at the whooping $3.94 in my checking account* I could really use the extra money. I might work during the summers and get grade payments from my dad but, that stuff is to pay my tuition and some of my lunches during the semester, and even with lunches, 500 dollars is spread thin through 17, 16 ish weeks. That's like, only $30 a week, which is maybe enough to cover buying lunch at the campus food court like, once or twice from the food court. Maybe three times if I'm lucky and conservative with my spending. Not to mention that $300 of that went to my new laptop, and even if I should be getting $300 from a paycheck I was never paid back when I worked at Arby's 3 summers ago, I still haven't gotten that gift card in the mail so... Yeah. If I was living on my own, I'd be screwed. Which is why commissions and Patreon are like, my only source of income during the school year. (I still need to look into getting an on campus job for this upcoming semester but that's its own whole big can of worms.)

Patreon

Speaking of Patreon, that's another goal I want to set. Actually posting to it again. I had a burst early last year were I was regularly posting to Patreon with early access chapters of The Puppet and the Real Boy (before I retconned that with Fool's Fate) and thanks to my only Patreon ever @kierangecko, I managed to make around $50 bucks which ended up being used to help get blanks for some of my Christmas gifts for people (thank you Gecko. I know I did stop posting after like, May, but that money really came in handy.) So for this next year, I'm gonna try to post to that again. Be it WIPs of the comic, scripts, little doodles I don't post on Tumblr or whatever, I want to make Patreon another source of income. Which involves posting to it at least monthly. And even if I don't, then you guys won't have to worry about anything since I've got it set to not charge for months I don't post anything.

Resolution Review

So, to review some of my... I guess you could call them resolutions, though I'd rather think of them as goals I don't absolutely have to hold myself too but would just like to accomplish, I'd like to...

Have more fun when with AtDFF and AYC through drawing and posting more loose, silly comics and doodles

Try figuring out a posting and work schedule for AtDFF and AYC by then end of January

Hopefully get a back log of updates for both comics ready to release by summer

Start on and release Undertale-ish: The Comic sometime this year

Keep doing Drawing Junior Secret Squad until Chapter 3 until Chapters 3 and 4 of Deltarune hopefully come out sometime this year.

Possibly design hypothetical secret boss predictions for Chapters 4 and 5 of Deltarune before the next chapters come out.

Keep working on, designing characters for, and coming up with Dark Worlds for Deltarune: Fool's Fate. Perhaps even drawing some tarot cards with the chapter bosses.

Post more about my other projects, even if they're only sketchbook drawings or warm up doodles.

Update my commissions page and hopefully take more commissions to earn some extra money/save up for college or to move out.

Post regularly to my Patreon, also to earn some extra money.

Generally have a better year than 2023 and to find more enjoyment in my art and projects.

Closing

Ho boy! That was... A lot! This has turned out to be one very long post. Hehe. Well, should be over now that I've said all I need too. Also, if I haven't said it already, I'd like to thank all of you for supporting me and my art. Be it my comics, DJSSuC3, my other projects, or anything I've posted this year. It means a lot to me that people even like what I draw and you all mean the world to me. With all of that out of the way, thank you Creative Creators and I hope you have a Happy New Year.

#happy new year #update post #long post #petra's annual update #undertale ish #ask the dreemurr-font family #ask young chara #deltarune: fool's fate #drawing jr. secret squad until chapter 3 #djssuc3 #atdff #ayc #undertale-ish: the comic #azmayca #kinder eyes #pow-r #dragon riders #petra rambles

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esperanta-dragon · 1 year

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How did you get into glasswork?

Prepare, this is gonna be long and there is no tl;dr.

This is one of the good things my father did for me, actually.

I always wanted to study art school, and I chose it but my older brother always wanted to destroy everything for me or claim what was mine, so instead of going to a business school as he should have (as he was all about money and making money but he only knew how to spend them and not make them back), he said he will study as a blacksmith in the same school. Even though he never wanted to do it or was never planning to continue after school. And until this day, he never thought of opening an atelier.

I was pretty mad and after years I still don't get it but I tried to prepare myself for admission. My father had a company for making whirlpools and he wanted me to be part of it so he just put into my head I should study industrial design. So he doesn't have to pay for designing stuff and I can do it for him.

That did not happen because the industrial design was full as apparently a lot of people wanted to do it. So I signed up for restoration to be a restorer of statues, architecture, etc. I no longer remember why, if it was my idea, or if it was put into my head by my father that it's a lucrative profession and would be cool to have a restorer in the family.

I was accepted into the school without any problems. My class had around 30 people. And you can imagine that sitting in a big classroom with around 30 people was a nightmare for me. Worse, we did not vibe and I was suffering. Because big classes can never be connected so they divided into a few smaller groups and me, as a geek weirdo, was never part of any.

Plus, my brother did a very good job of gossiping about me before I even started how horrible and stupid I am so he made sure that people will look down on me and it was even harder to find friends there.

What made matters worse, the atelier was in a remote city, so I had to wake up around 5 am (I am chronically tired and I haven't had a good night of sleep since I was 12) to get there by bus and it was a lot of walking. My brother was going into the same village where the atelier was, just a different building so I never had a break from him.

And then... my professor. She was an artist with a big reputation apparently because there was an interviewer once in the atelier and he was asking us too how is it to be her students. While I was writing this, I found out that she has her atelier in Prague and even an exhibition.

I did not like her. Because she did not like me. I knew I was the best one in our group. It was not my ego, it was just visible from drawings who is on a higher level. But she decided to motivate me by putting me down. Because she thought I will grit my teeth and say: "I will show her." Which did not happen. For me, it was bullying and it was not fair.

She would give A to the rest who were on the beginner's level and I got B or C for much better drawing because I should get better. Once I drew a very nice and detailed study of one of the busts we had there. She came to me, and said: "This line is 1 mm wrong, put the whole thing into a trash bin and start over again."

"Can't I just use an eraser and redraw it?"

"No, you will redraw the whole thing."

So 4 hours of my work for nothing. Meanwhile, she came to my classmates, telling them how talented and good they are for their much worse disproportional drawings.

She did not let us have music in the atelier and when I don't have music, I suffer a lot because time slows down, and suddenly 8 hours feels like 16 hours. Instead, we had to listen to a radio station where only classical music was playing or there were only interviews. Don't get me wrong I like classical music but I don't want to listen to it while doing art stuff because it's draining me of energy.

And... she was a heavy smoker. Not caring that we have a headache and it's hard to breathe in the atelier. She was flicking cigarettes everywhere, not using ash tray, so the cigarette ash was everywhere on the ground.

As you might imagine, I've had enough after 1 year. It felt like 4 years and I have no clue how I managed that long. Maybe because I did not want to disappoint my parents. But after 1 year of bullying from my professor, waking up at 5 am, disconnected classmates, having to suffer bullying from my brother as we were going in the same atelier... I couldn't do this anymore. Plus, I realized that we spend more time learning in school than being in the atelier and I really wanted to learn and use my skills.

So I told my parents I am quitting restoration. Of course, they did nothing about my brother, they never did, he was always the chosen one so I had to suffer his bullying at school, at home, and on a train when we were going home. I never had a break from him. But I could at least remove a few stressing factors if not my brother.

Fortunately, my father had another obsession. He loved architecture because apart from having a whirlpool factory at home, he knew how to build a house from scratch. And he loved Frank L. Wright. Wright was using stained glass a lot in his architecture, so my father said why I don't try this.

I agreed. My high school had glass blowing atelier, painting, glass engraving, glass grinding, etc. Everything with glass because Czech republic has a huge tradition of glasswork in general. And there was a huge glass factory in the same city.

And we had a stained glass atelier too. Because the professor who was teaching it was a stained glass master himself and lived in the same city, an old guy with 3 adult sons but none of them wanted to do stained glass. So he was going to our school, teaching kids so he could pass on the knowledge and skills. What more, the atelier was in the same building as the school and dormitory.

But I had to go to a different class with different classmates. It was better because it was only 8 of us. Even though 4 girls there were gossip girls and not very bright, which mostly results in them being mean and you never know if you can trust them. But it was better and I was just ignoring them.

The new class was set up for those who wanted to learn the skill and were not planning to go study university but still wanted to graduate and have a paper with a final exam. And set up their own atelier. We were looked down upon but I did not care, I knew I will learn a lot. Because it was 2 days vs. 5 days of practice per 2 weeks. And as you can see, when I graduated, I was ready to do stuff.

I had -1 year to learn the stained glass but I managed just fine. I've learned everything I needed to know and I've created a lot of big projects. Sadly, I had a bad phone with a bad camera and no good place where to take photos and I don't want to present myself with those.

And my new professor was much better than my previous one. He wanted us to learn everything, he was always in a good mood, joking around and he was making fun of everything and everyone. Including headmaster. School officials never knew he was making fun of them. And even if, he wouldn't care, he was making a lot of money from his profession and he would be teaching in the school even for free. He was there only to pass his knowledge, not to make money.

Sadly, I was bullied at home by my parents, by my brother both at home and in the school, my boyfriend was a gaslighter and mental abuser who moved into our house and my parents did not show any desire to help me get rid of him even though they were giving me hell for him and they allowed him to move with us, I had low self-esteem and my father ended up few times in mental hospital, so I was explosive and my behavior was not ok. Because I was very troubled and had nobody to talk to or who would support me because I had no safe space (WoW and writing became my only safe space). So I was sometimes explosive and mean to my professor too which I deeply regret now. But at least I understand now why I couldn't be different. Still, he did not give up on me and was very patient, he probably knew better than me that I am just troubled and lost.

Meanwhile, my old professor moved the atelier into the same building and on the same floor. When she met me, she showed her dislike that I left because I had a lot of potential. I told her: "So why were you putting me down and demotivating me all the time then?" She was pretty mad. But I don't regret I left. When I met my best friend years later, she studied restoration too. And I found out how hard it would be to even start or even find a master who would take me under their wings because most of the time they want to do things alone. And getting a paper or contract for restoration is much harder. No regrets I left restoration.

After 3 years I graduated from stained glass. I could not work straight away because we had barely money for food because my parents had a lot of debts so we barely finished high school.

But in 2019 I started my Etsy shop. Sadly, I had to run away from my apartment where I had my atelier (after agreeing with landlords) because suddenly landlords were not ok with the fact I am actually making money from that (as I got a big contract for Carnival Row Season 2 stained glass decorations and they randomly found out) so I had to stop for 2 years as I had shared flat and could not do it in 1 room with 3 cats around which wanted to be with me all the time even though they belonged to my flatmate.

So I could come back to it in 2021 when I moved into an appartment I have only for myself. And my cat ofc.

Yeah.

Kind of a journey.

#stained glass #ask me espe

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classicrocker2000 · 5 months

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So life got busy for me this year (graduated college, moved into my first apartment and have been working a full-time job, but that doesn't mean I've been completely unable to draw. I just haven't had as much time or motivation to do it as much I would like T_T

Anyway, my friend @gizmocrate-werecrow and I have a Pokemon AU and one of the many, MANY rock stars we've decided to include is Fran O'Toole. Most of you wouldn't have heard of him, but that's okay (I'm used to my obsessions being on the niche side at this point). My impetus for including him (and the rest of the Miami) in this AU was that they really, REALLY deserved better.

(L-R: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O'Toole, and Des Lee)

I know that giving Fran a pumpkaboo is probably a bit of an oddball move considering he is a dog person (one of the handful of details of his actual life I've been able to dig up), but at the time we made that choice, we didn't know much about these guys. And let's be real, even knowing that now, I'd make the same choice all over again.

Her name is Pumpykins btw. I know Pumpkaboos don't technically have pawsies, but I'm a cat person irl so I wanted them anyway. That and I was also taking a lot of cues from people who draw Pumpkaboos as "cats living in floating pumpkins." Pumpykins herself is a bit mischievous, and also loves snuggles (kinda like my parents' cat Willow, who loves hanging out with me, or at least in my old room).

Also while I technically finished this on the anniversary of the massacre, this was actually me redrawing a sketch I'd done a month prior with a set of markers I got at Walmart.

Turns out using a reference (or at least a better light source) does wonders for my drawing. But the main reason Fran went from blond in one drawing to brunette in the finished product is because the colorization in various photos can be a bit... inconsistent.

A good way to drive perfectionists like me insane.

(Reblog, don't repost)

#my art #fran o'toole #pokemon #pumpkaboo #miami showband #i refuse to justify my niche obsessions or how i cope with them

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roxtron · 7 months

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So I gotta be honest and get this off my chest, I know I started this account posting ROTTMNT fanart but honestly? I'm probably gonna be a bit cut off from the fandom. Sorry to those who followed me for my art but I'm probably not gonna make/post art for it anymore. I haven't had the motivation to for a long time anyway.

And I can't really lie, it's not entirely from my own issues. Sure, I kinda lost hyperfixation on the show and haven't watched the source material in a while, I'm getting back into old special interests, makes sense I'm not really feeling like it anymore, but it's a bit more than that honestly. The fandom hasn't felt like a very welcoming space if I'm being honest. The large amount of fanfics or fanworks throwing in SA for no reason really throws me off, sure that's because it's a bit of a trigger but it also just feels kinda bad to throw it in there 'just because.' I don't want to be too harsh on fan content as I do think there's some very talented people in this fandom that have created amazing art, and that's not to say fanwork that includes those topics can't be good just because it includes those topics, but for a fandom that's based off a kids show? It feels very odd to include a topic of that nature. But I didn't write all this just to say ''oh there's been some fanfics with topics that threw me off'' because, eh.. While I get every fandom has its issues, and this is definitely a minority of people, the issues with t-cest or sexualizing the turtles definitely make it a bit frustrating to just enjoy the fandom when you're constantly having to filter through content, especially on other social media platforms where you can't just ban those tags, or some people simply don't tag it with those tags. But honestly the thing that made me worried to post about this? As far as interaction goes the fandom hasn't been super welcoming beyond a couple of people, though I am grateful for those people, it can be a bit frustrating. I noticed I was getting more attention on my posts early on, then when I made a post about trans representation.. it went all downhill from there. and it's frustrating. It's annoying seeing and knowing people actively avoid interaction with someone just because they said something mildly political and left leaning. What's more frustrating is trying to figure out how to convey this without sounding like "oh I'm not getting a ton of likes :(" Like. I don't care about that, I truly don't, I've actually been really happy with the feedback I've gotten on one of my KH redraws even though it didn't get many likes at all. It's difficult trying to convey something that feels invisible. Most people might think it's just coincidence, but it really wasn't, it was a sudden shift and I certainly noticed the people that consistently followed my posts and suddenly stopped after the trans representation post. Like I said it's frustrating to make a post about this, because I do want to talk about it, it's very annoying and makes this fandom feel more like a space where people care about having a 'clean' image rather than a genuine community- But I can't help but feel I'm gonna be recieved poorly for it. I'm trying not to care too much about it. if I don't feel like I can be open, what's the point of even posting? I guess this was largely to get this off my chest, but I did also want to give some sort of explanation for why I'm not really engaged in the fandom anymore. I still see/like some posts, but I don't try to actively engage anymore. And this is why :/ That and also I just don't use tumblr a lot anymore but that's because I forget it exists a lot lol. I still wanna post on this account, I like making analysis posts and I wanna make more KH art, I just haven't had the motivation or time to do so. So it's not like I'm like, giving up this account or anything or disassociating from mutuals because of a fandom, just wanted to explain why I'm not really posting much of my own in this fandom anymore.

#and no i'm not really gonna tag this #lmao you think i'm gonna give this post all the popular tags when i'm already worried about how i'll be viewed for saying this #i will say this though #I'm not super engaged in the fandom #but I still wanna save the show.#While I may not be contributing to that by posting anymore #I wish you all luck and hope we can succeed in bringing it back.

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flowerbloom-arts · 11 months

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hi im sick and delerious but i want to say that i look up to your art so much... not only that but the way you write, characterize, and tell stories is so fascinating — to name a few i love the fillyjonk origins post and the dialogue of both moominpappa confrontations and the fuzzy Mafia au and of course the sun dog au!!! youve inspired me so so much and your comics motivate me to let myself indulge more into the fandom and make my own stuff (tho it will take a bit of confidence to post it, thats another story)

anyways, love rant aside, im curious : do you have any characters of your own, unrelated to fandoms? if so id love to see them/hear you talk about them !!

(ahem, and if you have time id also love to hear your writing process and how you structure comics to tell a story... sorry if this question doesnt make sense the sickness is catching up to me)

bye now im off to make a warm mug of milk to cure The Soul

AAAAAAAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It really means alot to me and that my stuff inspires you!! 💕

I had my own non-fandom OCs waaaayyy back before I even entered the SU fandom and back when Sony Sketch had a social media feature (which was ages ago - around 2015 to 2017 I think?) and I haven't touched them at all. Alot of them were random characters I made up while drawing or here-and-there concepts I just wanted to make, and quite a few of them were inspired by Greek mythology since I had a hyperfixation on it for a bit.

(I still have a few more but I couldn't squeeze them into a collage format)

They were a surprisingly diverse cast that didn't necessarily belong in the same world but I always had alot of ideas that I needed to get out and they didn't necessarily have to be used or drawn more times (although it would be very interesting for me to redraw/redesign a few of these fellas)

As for my comic making process? Hmm... I don't think I have anything too helpful to say. When I make a comic I start out with an idea I really wanna draw, it can be either a vague concept or a fully formed conversation/scene. I go into my drawing program and do the drawing first, then the dialog. It's a matter of going with the flow - sometimes the dialog you write isn't the dialog you thought about in your head earlier and that's perfectly fine, the main goal I have with my comics is getting ideas out there or to get a laugh from atleast one person out there.

My comics outside of the SunDog AU aren't any serious business and my mindset for them isn't super serious either. They're not meant to be the next Watchmen or Deadpool and that's okay! They don't even have to look good or be super well-written, they're fandom comics meant to fill a small niche and only a few would appreciate and that's it! It's about the fun of it!

#fb answers #non fandom ocs

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mdverse · 2 years

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What are some of your favourite Glee ships and why? I'm thinking like... top five? Or more if you feel like it :)

ooh this is a fun one because anything after my top ship can and will change at the drop of a hat lmao

1: brittana

hopefully this will come as a shock to no one aksdjhfsk,,, brittana is actually a ship i found out about before i watched glee. like i would see all of these compilations on youtube of glee moments out of context, and idk how exactly but it led to seeing clips of brittana. i remember being salty bc some of my friends at the time had seen glee and not a single one of them told me that there was a wlw relationship i would've liked lol.

but yeah there's just something really compelling about getting to see these two girls who start out as background characters with funny one-liners grow into an actual couple that gets happily married in the end. especially because i don't remember really seeing any wlw relationships get any kind of focus or open acknowledgement before brittana? at least not any relationships that lasted more than a couple of episodes? and maybe i just wasn't watching the right shows bc i only started watching glee less than 2 years ago lol but their development on the show, while very flawed thanks to the writers, was just super special for me. and it still is. i have a lot of love for them and even though i haven't drawn much brittana lately, i'd like to think that my love for them shows in some of my older art :)

also? wanting to draw brittana is what got me out of months-long art block and depressive episode where i just did not have any inspiration or motivation to draw anything, and it quickly became the catalyst for so much of the artistic growth i've made over the past almost 2 years. idk if that means much to u guys but to me it really means the world and i don't think i even have the words to explain it asksdhfk i just. i love them a lot.

2: hevans

ok listen to be completely honest, i don't think about hevans that much but once in a while i think about s2 hevans and how that would've been so nice? like,,, s2 sam was so refreshing because he arrived at a time where i was used to seeing the glee boys (finn and puck in particular) being like "oh we get called gay for being in glee club and associating with kurt, a gay kid :( and that's bad :( we don't like the idea of being seen as gay :(" and sam just did not care. he didn't care that singing a duet with another guy might be seen as weird, he didn't care that he might get bullied for it, he just cared that kurt had a lovely voice and he wasn't gonna go back on his promise to sing with kurt. and then we got rumours and kurt not even hesitating to keep sam's secret, even though his friends immediately accused him of cheating on blaine. idk hevans just had this bond in s2 that wasn't explored enough after that, and then sam was dumbed down in s4 and onwards and ugh i miss s2 sam goddammit fuck the writers for turning him into whatever the fuck we got in s4-6

also hevans makes me consider an artist!sam x model!kurt au? like when i drew kurt as the boy with a basket of fruits i could picture sam being a painter and having kurt as his model/inspiration, and i have a second very unfinished wip based on another painting in the same vein. lowkey veering into a picture of dorian grey moment now lol but is that not compelling??? i can't believe i only thought of that just now aksdjhf i love that book,,, also there's yet another painting i'd like to redraw as hevans but who knows when i'll get around to it

3: quinntina

i don't think the writers were ever gonna give us quinntina and idk if there are even many quinntina moments in the show aside from like,,, teeny tiny background moments here and there. also the show butchered them both so i'm not basing this ship in canon at all. i just think they would have an interesting dynamic i guess? popular girl quinn fabray and shy tina cohen-chang possibly wishing they could switch positions for a while because quinn is exhausted from all the pressure she puts on herself and tina wonders what it would be like to be in the spotlight? slowly bonding in glee club because tina realises quinn isn't the bitch tina assumed she'd be, and quinn finds it refreshing to be around a sweetheart like tina? indulging each other's dramatic moments but also keeping each other grounded? the mental image of tina helping quinn dye her hair pink? that time in s6 where we got half a quinntina duet in jagged little tapestry, which for the record, i think would've been a mashup of so far away and ironic? (also, vb au quinntina sharing the brain cells of the friend group?) idk i think it would've been nice and i am once again cursing the writers

4: wildebrams

i don't have much of an actual explanation as to why i like wildebrams because it feels like i haven't seen s4-5 in forever, but iirc their relationship allowed us to see a much softer side to kitty and i really loved that. like,,, kitty being nervous about committing to a relationship but then opening up to the glee club about her feelings for artie? wholesome shit i love it

i can't think of anymore ships rn because i'm not deeply invested in any ships besides brittana but this feels like a solid mini list. i feel like im forgetting a lot of the big ones so feel free to specify any other ships you'd like me to talk about :)

#ask md #backslashdelta #glee thoughts n opinions #brittana #hevans #quinntina #wildebrams #also honourable mentions to the following ships for piquing my interest a bit:#puckurt; partie; quinncedes; marlique; quinntana; potentially others i can't remember rn #oh and kelliott #thank u for the ask bella! twas fun to think about :)

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disgruntleddemon · 1 month

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i should have my frostpaw pmv finished in a day or 2, but i plan on posting it april 2nd for the new book release :]

in the meantime, have some frames that i've redrawn, or have to redraw, in the case of the eye closeup. my redraw for the splashtail one is probably my favorite frame, in the whole thing, which unfortunately only lasts like 2 seconds lmao

this damn pmv has given me so much trouble, even though it was fairly simple. and i just haven't had a lot of time the last 2 months to work on it. and other times i just didn't have the motivation. def one of those things where i've worked at it too long, and i feel like i only see the flaws and kind of hate looking at it. buuuut, all the same i am excited to finish it and see what you guys think!

once this is finally done i'm thinking of doing a little squirreldaisy pmv. they've been on my mind <3

#not tagging this cause anytime i post wips for vids it alway gets more notes than the vid itself and it drives me nuts

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hexfloog · 3 years

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Draft version here!!

After taking my heart around the WORLD (see: how I thought I had lost a whole entire month's work after the master file exploded one night) this is done at long last, and I am so so happy with how it came out kdhsgds

Technically a redraw/reinterpretation of my favorite panel in Magic Kaito Volume 2 (from "The Boy Who Bet on the Ball") which made its way to this stage after I listened to The Phoenix about 745 times--

Some more thoughts below the break, spoiler warnings for Magic Kaito 1412:

At this point in time, I don't have much to postulate about Kaito like I do Shinichi... but given they're basically two sides of the same coin, I'm sure I'll eventually have more to say about him once I'm more caught up on everything. I did finish Magic Kaito 1412 a couple of days ago but, sadly, thought it fell short except for the two seconds they use to tease me about magic lore and the apparent RIVALRY between genuine magic users and magicians-- *EXPLODES*

To its credit, I did enjoy a few things about the show-- there were some isolated scenes which tickled me, maybe a few arcs which captured my interest, and of course the implication that Supernatural Elements do indeed exist in the background of the DCMK universe-- but generally I think it's done better and far more effectively on the DC side. Kaito is, in my opinion, a character who works best when shrouded in mystery, and it's just harder to keep the audience guessing when he's the protagonist of his own show. His presence in DC feels much more impactful because it's both waaay more restrained-- in a "less-is-more" kind of way, I mean-- and is also bolstered by the relationship he has with Shinichi/Conan as the Frenemy, the Foil, etc (something which, although present, I still found to be woefully absent in Magic Kaito 1412).

Once or twice I did find the imagery quite poignant. Kaito's world is clearly meant to be taken much more lightheartedly than that of Shinichi's (it's a fun romp in general), so... perhaps ironically, the darker moments do hit a little harder when they come. Instances which come to mind are the final exchange with Chat Noir, the encounter with "Toichi" --that was 100000% a Real Ghost btw, I refuse to budge on this-- and the brief moment when he wonders out loud whether the KID charade is all there is for him in life. Respectively, they all evoke motifs of empathy, grief, and futility, the last of which is the strongest in my mind-- themes which, naturally, are barely explored in official content. Imposters hold some presence in MK also, but they hit as less thematic elements than in DC and more of a gimmick that's either played for laughs or as a segue into other themes ("Legacy," perhaps? Kaito's motives for emulating his father in both civilian and underground life certainly offers a little food for thought).

I don't really know where I was going with this Ted Talk this time, lol. I haven't thought about/been exposed to enough Kaito to confidently know what I think about him, so maybe this is a start...? He takes a very different path than Shinichi in his revenge story, which automatically makes him intriguing since Kaito is very much a sinner to Shinichi's "sainthood" (and I have expressed before that I would like to see more of Shinichi as a sinner). And I do like him even without that comparison! My thoughts on this in particular are not very fleshed-out. His story captivates me in itself, and perhaps the fact that there exists disproportionately fewer, official Kaito-centric developments is what keeps me wanting to pour thought into him... ironically, going right back to the whole "less is more" meta appeal, ahaha

#art #detective conan #dcmk #magic kaito #kaito kid #kaitou kid #kuroba kaito #kuroba kaitou #kaito kuroba #kaitou kuroba #phantom thief #phantom thief 1412 #magic kaito 1412 #internal screaming hours #mind this is coming from someone who has seen a grand total of like... 6 DC kaito appearances so far rip rip rip #pls be gentle lol

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cinnamon-flame · 2 years

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Warrior doodles

I was in a mood for drawing cats today so here's this little warriors art dump: First up a little redraw of an old piece of mine featuring Princess and Cloudkit

and just for fun a whole Cloudtail cause I love him

and a doodle of Ravenscale from my little warriors au with his trusty adder friend

and at last Sandstorm and Dustpelt's au versions:

au notes below:

Sandstorm - she was apprenticed under Whitestorm, when Redtail died she became extremely motivated to avenge him and seek justice. Due to this she often found herself in the medicine's cats den where she got to truly know Firepaw, who she previously ignored. They developed a close friendship and Sandpaw sometimes tagged along with Firepaw for his herb gathering trips, acting as his protector . She also taught him several self defence techniques for his own safety. She eventually became a warrior along with Dustpelt and Graypaw. Her efforts in solving Redtail's death have been in vain and she grew more and more frustrated with herself and Riverclan cats, tending to act violent when interacting with their patrols The tense relationship between the clans did not help as later she was banned from attending gatherings to uphold the fragile peace with Riverclan. Sandstorm however didn't give up and started to investigate near the borders to find some sort of clue regarding both the worsened relations with Riverclan and the murder of Redtail.

Dustpelt - He and Ravenscale haven't always gotten along, Dustpaw wasn't really interested in hanging out with him after he got apprenticed, especially with the rumors he heard from the younger warriors. After Ravenpaw alienated himslef from the rest of the clan he didn't really try to help him much, he mostly kept with Sandpaw and Longtail. After his mentor's death he found himself lost, Darkstripe really wasn't the best teacher for him and Dustpaw felt himself getting worse with his warrior training. After a lot of thought he asked Snowstar to change his mentor as he believed to not be suited for combat. He was put under Runningwind's care. After a while Dustpaw developed a good understanding of camp protection and tried his paw at building better dens for his clanmates. His experiments were met with a grand success and a while later he compleated his basic warrior's assesment and became known as Dustpelt. During this time he had time to notice the truth about Ravenscale's mentorship with Tigerclaw and he chose to step in and help him regain his lost confidence. After sometime they became friends again and Ravenscale even taught Dustpelt how to train a animal companion to help him find materials for den improvement.

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jordangordan · 2 years

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Yall yall yall

Do you wanna see my fnaf wip sketches 👁👁

To bad you're getting them anyways-

OK WAIT SO ⚠️WARNING⚠️ this is my first time drawing something like this, so it might be bad. (I also haven't drawn anything in like 3 months so-) I'm just trying to see how they work so it's not all that stylized yet? I swear I'll get better if you give me a chance 🥺

This is me just trying to warm up and see if I even could draw at least one of them-

This is the first one I drew and I really don't like it. I forgot his cheeks and idk he looks off.. I also hate Hate HATE the mouth. I didn't know what I was doing- I ALSO didn't know HE HAD A NECK? Like huh-

Then I got some references and tried again (forgive the 2012 humor)

I was just redrawing screanshots basically. I liked the last one I drew (and still do). There's not much to say about these-

AND THEN I GOT TO MONTGOMERY AND LIKE WOW. I'll admit I was a hater at first but he's 🥺 he's so good <3

I loved drawing him the most ❤ I was on tiktok and he was all over my fyp so I was feeling really motivated

I HAD TO CENSURE WHAT I WROTE BECAUSE IT WAS CRINGY IM SO SORRY 😞 But yea I was just redrawing screenshots just to get into the groove of drawing them

Then I drew Sundrop because like it's Sundrop come on (wait I think I drew this before Monty actually) he was the easiest because there's not much really happening ig? but I wanna draw him again, I saw how some people were drawing him on tiktok and I don't really like this one anymore 😭🤚

I haven't drawn Chica or Roxy yet because I THINK(?) I'll have an easier time with those. So I'll draw them soon-

IM ALSO GETTING A IPAD AND APPLE PENCIL 🥳 so I MIGHT post more art for anyone who would care here

Ok but that's it I think aha 🧍🏿‍♀️

#fnaf sb #fnaf security breach #glamrock freddy #montgomery gator #sundropfnaf #fnaf sb fanart #artists on tumblr #idfk how to tag this #fnaf fanart

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jaymesdoodles · 3 years

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I've been in such a weird stop about my content lately?? like I want to make art, will have ideas, motivation, and see the thing in my head but I can't put it onto to paper. I'm doing the exact opposite of what I want to do; I'm putting numbers and clout above enjoyment. I see my viewer count drop while streaming? I'm so ready to shut down... I almost did on stream the other day. I post art on twitter, Instagram, here??? well I have to get a certain amount of likes or it wasn't good. For the past year I've been making dsmp fanart, most of the time it was bc I genuinely enjoyed it. I had an idea. Something inspired me. But I've realized I haven't done that much anymore. And for the past month I just haven't wanted to make fanart for these creators. Am I still hyperfixationed on them? oh yeah for sure. But I just don't know if I want to make content for them. The thing that kinda sucks about that is... I haven't made art for myself in a while. This kinda start a little while before dsmp, probably when I was into jrwi, smplive or something. But even with those other fandoms I would draw my ocs all the time, I would make new dnd characters, I would work on my stories, work on dnd campaigns or even make fanart for other things. and I just haven't done that. My sketchbooks have no life anymore. It's only dsmp/mcyt. That's okay... but it's back to the way I would draw when I was younger. One sketch per page, ones I would erase and not redraw, and things where you could just see I got frustrated and quit. It's so empty and I just don't draw anymore. I know I need to practice and i need to try other things to help me get out of this block but that's been so difficult to do. I've been trying photography again and I try it till I just feel worn out. I've been trying to make music and get into the grove of it but I just get so mad when my fingers aren't in the right place. It feels so artificial. I wanna make poetry again but I haven't done that in years. I wanna write something but nothing sounds right and I just don't feel like I have the patience like I used to. I know creation doesn't have to be perfect, original or unique. It can be bad, messy, the same thing over and over but I've been this unnecessary pressure on myself for so long it's overbearing. I have a perfectionism I've wanted to achieve that's so out of reach that I can no longer create something without it feel like it's all going to collapse in on me if I don't hold onto something that isnt there, I wont be saved. I no longer am that child creating folders and folders of art. Messing ever journal I get. Making and trying new mediums, not caring if I fail. Just wanting to create. To do something with my hands. The side of me that was so creative, the thing I used whenever I've been feeling at my worse, is now stuff in this rut I've been stuck in for a every long time. It just hurts to not create, y'know?

#Idk #this kinda a vent #just feel really bad rn #vent ish #jaymes talks

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blueberrydoodles · 3 years

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Tw for eyes and s/h (if triggers should be added please let me know)

Don't have motivation to start the redraw of the Christmas thingy so take this slightly ventish thing in the meantime

It also gets a little personal, so close friends I wouldn't recommend looking at the description (and maybe the drawing in general) since I don't want to worry anyone. Im ok though I promise so if you do look please dont worry!

Time taken: Just under 6 hours (Specifically 5 hours and 47 minutes)

"I should be getting better..."

"Why is nothing getting better?!"

Rambling

Ok but honestly after fighting for this pose for a good while I had so much fun with the coloring! I knew from the start I wanted to do either blue/red or blue/red/purplish or pinkish? (To reference fusion of red and blue. Also to reference the color Tom's eyes change to before he goes all monstery). I ended up going with red and blue, but I guess some bits look slightly more purple??? Idk. But yeah more ventish Tom stuff. Im sorry that the hand/claw/whatever Tom is holding up looks disgusting.

Honestly this takes heavy inspiration from Foxi Boxi's (youtuber) "Overthinking" video. Specifically the part where the character is standing with blue string on there arms/near their feet. I tried to recreate the feeling that frame gave me, as it felt very fitting for what I wanted to do and I related to it a lot (again, it was just my interpretation of that specific part. If what Foxi was trying to do was different, ok)

Oh btw Tom isn't monstery because he's mad I just headcanon generally overwhelming emotions can cause a shift (I think this is just kinda common knowledge in the Eddsworld fandom now??? Like A headcanon so widely accepted that its basically canon???)

MMM DWAH IM ACTUALLY REALLY PROUD OF THIS

I may do more lineless stuff in the future because I actually love the way it looks!

What is this?

Basically its me feeling pressured to stay in touch with the world around me and focus on things like school while trying to keep my mental health in check. I recently get out of a very difficult couple of months and I'm still recovering from the emotions I experienced during that time. I'm generally very closed off and tight lipped about what I'm going through. Especially with my mom, so I feel like she expects a lot from me without knowing its harder for me than she would assume. She thinks I'm just lazy. She was especially hard on me during the months I mentioned before. It was hell on me and I feel into one of the longest lows I've had. I struggled with temptation to return to self harm as a coping mechanism. But I made it through. Like I said, I'm still recovering from it all, and other things have been happening that haven't made things much easier, but I promise I'm trying to be more productive and take care of myself. It can be a bit hard for me to keep up with everything, but I know I shouldn't use my mental health as an excuse to not do anything. I just wish my mom could understand that I try, its just that there are days where I just can't, if that makes sense

UPDATE

Made a version with his lower legs

I think the first one actually looks better though

#Tw eyes #Tw s/h #tw self harm #venish #I'll be ok though #ew tom #eddsworld tom #IM REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS

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