#because elaborate backgrounds

[retellingthehobbit]

The front door of Bag End in my webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit, as seen in Chapter 1 vs Chapter 18 :). It turns out your art style changes a lot when you draw a webcomic. (I love painting Ghibli-inspired backgrounds!)

Chapter 18 hasn’t been posted publicly yet, but you can view the first several pages (along with other art) on my Patreon.

#the hobbit #retelling the hobbit #not chapters #the hobbit comic #lotr #lord of the rings #:3 #but YEEEE this chapter is takin some time #because elaborate backgrounds #it’s important to convey the world! #but feel free to join my patreon there’s tons of stuff

[the-godly-beef]

Obito dirty basement metal band au!!

For @obito-week 2024 and heavily inspired by @badninken 's moldy basement metal au

#i got carried away with the background at some point but it was more fun than I thought! #obito week 2024 #first time I really made any sort of more elaborate background and I'm happy this grimey mf doesn't have to stand in a monochrome void #obito uchiha #naruto #naruto fanart #there is mold on the wall named zetsu for sure #also Obito says he wear the mcr shirt as a joke because he is “too trve kvlt” and “too metal” to be listening to this emo shit #but secretly mcr is his first love and the band that got him into music but no one is allowed to know (everyone knows)

[radjerda]

Some portraits of some fancy elves from Gondolin

Ecthelion and Glorfindel deserved some more elaborate designs than my usual, and how can I draw one without the other?

#Ecthelion of the Fountain #Ecthelion #Glorfindel of the Golden Flower #Glorfindel #Silmarillion #Silm #Silm art #the silmarillion #Lord of the Rings #lotr #Tolkien #I just wanted to draw elaborate outfits #Well actually this all started because I own the big flower patterned earrings that Glorfindel is wearing and stared at them for too long #and THEN I wanted to draw elaborate outfits for Glorfindel and Ecthelion ended up there too #And of course I made it fancier with the backgrounds so now my main and art blogs have matching icons #Please excuse the tengwar though if it's inaccurate #It's written in English with tengwar from a particular set of instructions I found in a book a while back! #It should say Lord of the Fountain and Lord of the Golden Flower respectively #What does it say about me that I got bored and learned to write English with tengwar though? #Radj Draws

[foxprints]

Not sure who it beat the futz outta but I'm sure they deserved it

#kept going back and forth on whether i wanted to make the blood stand out more #like to i make it bright and very very red or do i leave it more realistic #i ended up sorta compromising and then adding a bit of MBs own fluids to the mix cause why not #Murderbot #fanart #the murderbot diaries #art (asshole research transport) #Murderbot Diaries #secunit #first look at my Perihelion crew logo! #based on some of my favorite shirts from my own closet #shitty background because im working on another pic with a much more elaborate background thats slowly killing me #i have work i need to be doing and a zine piece i need to finish buuuuut my head hurts and rn its just #easier to work on some self indulgent stuff rn #anyway the scene in Network Effect where MB eviscerates the Grey Targets by more or less #liberating them of their spines #lives in my head rent free #i was having a good chuckle at all the tags on my MB character sheet that are like #ITS SO FRIENDSHAPED AND SOFT #because i was already drawing this one of it splattered in blood djejdhsh #get u a blorbo that can be both i suppose!

[prolibytherium]

I feel like Mac & Dennis had to have SOME in-universe rationalization for getting rid of all of their furniture and all I could come up with was

A) sold (or attempted and failed to sell) their preexisting furniture to invest in their awesome new inflatable furniture business

B) to make room for their inflatable furniture business inventory (would be a literal explanation for the 'no room' comment) or

C) they had actually been renting NOT JUST the couch but the beds and chairs and etc, and panicked upon discovering this was a dumb as fuck move

#iasip #Realistically leaning towards a combination of A & B. But I love C #I'm not even talking about the rationalization for one bed here I'm talking about getting rid of everything TO BEGIN WITH. #It's easy to come up with in-character excuses for the bed but just getting rid of all the furniture is a mystery to me #Ok I fucking love that episode because it is so pleasing to the part of my brain that likes to linger on unimportant background details #like the fridge contents or everything about Charlie's apartment/bathroom situation #Kind of want to continue elaborating on the latter in the tags here but it's 7 am and I told myself I'd be going to sleep at 4 so uh #mission failed goodnight

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I am asking this to take my mind off of the update because the anticipation is killing me

where do you get your art inspo from? As in the art style :3

yk this is kind of a question i've been dreading! because a lot of people can answer definitively - they'll give names, urls, blogs.

but uh.. I really don't know? I mean there were some deviantart blogs in elementary/middle school that inspired me then, but since? I couldn't say! My style has evolved from me doing my own thing, I suppose. I'd take little bits from other people's tutorials/advice and then stitch it into my own Frankenstein's Style.

#i also in a way took insp from myself? #bc for a while i had two styles - realistic and simplistic #and then at some point i wondered if i could combine them. and i did! #and That has become what you all see today! #rambles from the bog #i might be able to give an answer in a few years! who's to say! #i'm trying to Improve more constructively and that means studying other people's art #recently i've followed some artists who's art i greatly enjoy so that i can maybe Understand how to draw in such a way #- not as in draw like their style! #but to be able to choose colors & lay out composition and such #the technical aspects! #so that i can then apply that to my own style and like. Improve lmao #because admittedly my style is rather... bland. i look at my art and #sure there are Some that are genuinely creative and interesting but most of it is just.... meh? #it's not something i would stop and gawk at! #and i want to be able to great something that makes people stop and go 'Whoah' under their breath! you understand! #i want to create elaborate backgrounds! combine interesting colors! Wow with Composition! #one day... one day...

[dailykugisaki]

Day 127 | id in alt

They hangin out on a building fr.

#dailykugisaki #jjk #kugisaki nobara #itadori yuji #fushiguro megumi #tokyo trio #PEEP THE NAILS YALL #i had to draw Kugisaki with a watermelon sometime it's a thing of its plus i just wanted to state the obvious of where i stand again #i got into an argument with the politician major again yall #i dont wanna say anything out of context but they just said something extremely tasteless and it pissed me off a bit #thinking about the fact i watched a fucked up rose bush strangle another plant and thinking about Kugisaki like a freak #all plants can be a little weird #i enjoy drawing Kugisaki with scars. she deserves them #a friend drew Kugisaki earlier and i had never felt so much joy before. #everyday i am taken aback because i think of Kugisaki in lost beloved one movie scenes its dumb as shit #I DO NOT WANT KUGISAKI TO JUST SHOW UP OUT THE DAMN BLUE I WANT HER TO DO SOMETHING INSANE AND THEN SHOW UP #i cant elaborate because idk soul cannibalism for some reason idk ifk #Kugisaki's fit is like just a different colored fit of what i saw megan thee stallion wearing #famous people can rock shit if you find the right ones #im trying to do backgrounds more and i do refrence but what i do is called “getting references and then fucking it up” #i dont get down yall i fuck up #Nanami cameo because i just wanted to draw him looking technologically incompetent when it comes to face timing #ive just been tweaking as of late #ive been reading too much where people think Kugisaki barely knows anything due to her origin #YALL THINK SHE WOULDN'T DO A BUNCH OF SHIT OR LEARN SHIT JUST FOR FUMI??? WILDING OUT HERE #just realized why i can't do backgrounds in a certain way. its bc i dont do lineart.....

[bfilm]

The music just keeps on rolling along Yeah, I got my friends, and I got my song I'm gonna be living for the rhythm, I can't go wrong As long as the music keeps rolling along!

The Jim Henson Hour, Episode 8, Videotape

#the muppets #muppets #the jim henson hour #solid foam #clifford muppet #digit muppet #flash muppet #beard muppet #solid foam drummer #she has no name..... #bonus dr teeth looming in the background with no explanation! #anyways my first gifset!! shoutout to gifcam and ezgif (i will learn elaborate gif making/editing one day) #but i was surprised there were no gifsets of this. especially because of 1. the really fun camera angles and effects #and 2. prime muppet background content (including muppets falling over dramatically) #every time i paused i found new antics. they are the sillies #i wish they showed footage of the performers getting pelted with beach balls

[lil-cringer]

He painted a <3 for u

in red paint

of course

#i was gonna make this so cool and elaborate and with like.a background #like a cool person yknow #but then i remembered im me so i left it at this instead #was also gonna make a cool creepy alternate version like all the other cool cats ive seen on here but guess what #i said guess 🔪 #i joke #i want to draw more of him because he lives in my head and i lov he #ok lets tag this fucker #wally darling #wally darling welcome home #welcome home #welcome home arg #me arts #is that it #feels weird #ok bye

[veveisveryuncool]

"...where did we all go...?"

"...i will bring us back."

kirbytober day 13: drizzle/ancient (plus bonus spook for friday the thirteenth

#hyness isnt actually that scary in retrospect #i thought he was scary when i first saw him tho #granted i also thought he was a girl. so maybe my judgement is not the best. #i used the background designs of mago epilogue for inspo! i think they represent magolor's personalized view of the ancients' world #anyways hyness is. a very loaded character #i need more elaboration on what hapenned with the sisters like pls #he is neutral to me. not because i have no thoughts on him but because my negative and positive thoughts cancel each other out #ill stop talking now heres the real tags #kirby series #hyness #hyness kirby #veves ultra cool art #kirbytober #kirbytober 2023

[wigglebox]

Colors 🌈✨

#spnfanart #destiel #destiel fanart #spncreatorsdaily #spn fanart #dean Winchester #castiel #wiggleart #this just started as a doodle on a destiel sketch page I was doing yesterday morning and decided maybe it’d make a cute simple pi3ce #usually I color the backgrounds first before the main characters because it helps decide what colors I’m going to use #but I colored them first and I used a muted palette #thinking I was just going to have like a heart red glow coming From between them #because I’ve done that a couple of times already #but then I did the background after coloring them and well yeah #so I had to color them again #and then I didn’t like the first pass I had with Cas so I had to re do him for a second time before I started on deans first recoloring #so it was a process but I figured it out lol I think #and honestly I always want to do halos like this now at least for elaborate pieces #simple ones can stay like how I usually do them but with elaborate pieces I think I want to do stars #it was so much fun #anyway happy Wednesday!

[hyperionshipping]

Think the twins don't even care about Tricks because bandits dying is not all that concerning and I think people assumed "that little dog of Jack's" died with him.

I think Tricks only becomes a hassle sometime later on. But no one can seem to find him... Lilith keeps dealing with vandalization and her already small crew getting picked off ("It's like a professional is hitting us. I... I think I know who it is") and, I think, just because he can he fucks with streams/the towers. He's got so much hate in his body.

Oh, and Jack's shield. Now you see him, now you don't, and now a corrosive bullets lodged in the worst spot it could be. Killing you agonizingly slow! If he doesn't shoot again and... oh. He did already

#s/i: Borderlands #Mote self indulgent bc of HIS background I could see Lilith asking Zane to try to find Tricks and he thinks he gets close. But it never work #s out. The one true lead he gets ends up being an elaborate trap. And Zane's not stupid. He knows he got out because (Tricks) whoever set it #was leaving a very firm message. Lilith is pissed and says she should've killed him. He had to have been around Jack's body before they tras #hed it. Tricks leaves an Echo recording of him killing a crimson raider as they yell their location. It's gruesome enough Lilith doesn't fin #ish it. #<- this is all too say since Jack is gone Tricks has no idea how to act. He went through he depression and without Jack I think he starts to #teeter back towards being The Demon. He can't finish Jack's plan but he sure as hell can make sure no one gets Pandora. #Or. I go with the idea hes still depressed. Still not a person. Either way. I really like my idea of a side quest from him being that he as #ks you to kill some bandits who've been fucking up Jack's grave. Do it? He gives you the location to an old weapon stache? Listen to Lilith #who says tear it down? Tricks very calmly with no music or anything goes 'You Vault Hunters are all the same. I'm coming for you Lilith.' an #d the reward is next-to-nothing

[golden--doodler]

Okay, so there's a Roudise warmup prompt (Cult classic / Picking out Costumes) for Halloween over at @roudiseshipweek, and I knew after reading that prompt I just had to sketch out something for it (yes, I did coloring and simple shading, but no lineart! seriously, this keeps happening)!! I know I already posted a drawing today, but I couldn't help myself, I wanted to participate!! I had the idea to draw Rudy and Louise as Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, as that is one of my absolute all-time favorite movies, especially for Halloween time! I also wanted to draw them kissing because I don't draw them muppets kissing often enough 😌

Happy Halloween again, y'all!! 🎃 👻 🍫

It has basically become my mission to draw the muppets as characters from different movies, especially Disney movies. Also, I headcanon that Tina, Gene, and Louise went as Lock, Shock, and Barrel for Halloween once. It just seems very fitting for them.

#roudiseweek2023 #the nightmare before christmas #i totally stole that background from the actual movie because i didn't want to draw a background myself~ #let's be honest louise would totally wear dorky little sneakers under an elaborate halloween costume #i also drew all of their hands!! are ya proud of me?? :D #rudy has such simple hair that i wanted to make it floofy!! because of course i did #i'm also not sure if he has a canonical eye color so i just chose blue

[nishicchikouchi]

The novel isn't bl but... there's just a lot of relationships on it that can be unmistakably bl... its makes me kind of sad actually.

#there's a yandere-ish trope... #there's the childhood friends trope... #there's a 'i-changed-because-of-that-person' trope... #although its different people hahaha #but even their backstory were elaborated... #how am I supposed to accept that this isn't a bit queer coded... #well there is a straight pairing and they're nuts for each other... #it doesnt make sense to have soooo much bromance in the background tho... #...

[severalowls]

Why do people have the idea that TikTok literally has a bot which "scans for skinny conventionally attractive white people and promotes their content first" when... No, they don't need a bot for that. That content is getting boosted because it attracts higher engagement rates as a result of deeply ingrained societal biases in the general audience.

You can't blame some mustache twirling racist software engineer for writing a deliberately racist algorithm to cause racism. Software tends to reinforce the existing biases of the data entered into it. And the data is users, mostly unwittingly, stopping to watch people who they find attractive on average more and for longer than other content. And concepts of 'attractiveness' are deeply based in societal expectations and prejudices, so those come to the forefront.

Content creators don't need to feature high expense professionally made-up "beautiful people" at the start of their videos to Trick The Racism Robot.

There is no Racism Robot. There is only a subconsciously racist population.

#nor am i claiming not to have the same unwitting biases to give greater benefit of doubt to people who i 'like the look of' #thats just like an entire sociological phenomenon #just literally insane to blame it on The Algorithm when its literally based off extant behaviours #the algorithm makes it difficult to break out of in the context of its own system ecosystem one the behaviour is introduced #but couldn't you say that thats... also true of a behaviour in a human population #anyway this is about that body positivity song tiktok where 90% of the dancers are conventionally attractive and skinny #and then they feature like 3 plus size women and one woman in a wheelchair towards the end #and people are saying this is essential to the system and not because your average schmo would #scroll past a video prominently featuring e.g. a fat black woman without even batting an eye #this also applies to the extreme bias towards rich kids with eye catching props and elaborate makeup/hair/backgrounds etc.

[utilitycaster]

@lynmars79 replied to your post “You know, I've seen the sentiment the CR cast...”:

Was going thru some of my 2017 archives & kept running into quotes from sessions in the final Vox Machina arc where they met several deities & got direct info/advice/encouragement & the discussions in the fandom about it back then. Not to mention the discussions Cad & Fjord would have in C2. Or Asmodeus in EXU. There's always been nuanced & IC discussion from the cast while the fandom reaction varies from "this is a neat way to see this in a fantasy world" to "this isn't how *I* see religion!"

​(and from @luckthebard on the same post) There is also a gross undercurrent in these complaints of the fandom at large’s consistent erasure of Sam’s Jewishness in the implication that their religious backgrounds are a monolith.

Yes to both, like...I truly don't know what the specific complaints are which makes it hard to have any meaningful commentary other than "...this seems good, actually?" but one person did pin it on the cast being American and uh, as a Jewish American myself, yeah, don't love that implication that the cast or, you know, the entire country, is religiously a monolith.

But yeah! There have been tons of examples in the past of the cast showing a lot of range in how their characters interact with the gods and they've said a lot of great things both in-game and on Talks or on 4SD. Ultimately, one's personal religious background doesn't really matter; what matters is that you have some sort of understanding of world religion. The fact that Taliesin's talked about drawing from east Asian tradition for Caduceus's practice, or that Liam's talked about being a non-Catholic at a Catholic school who's thought about his own personal beliefs is far more important than like, having people of any specific background.

And more generally like...I don't think you need to be able to explain why you do or don't personally enjoy how the cast is handling something or why you like/dislike things, but if you're going to make a blanket statement it is actually very valuable to have that explanation, both because this one truly has me like "so...what are you looking for, then, because I don't see any issue" and because writing out that kind of explanation often helps one eliminate things like the above erasure, since you have to actually sit down and take stock.

#with all due respect if I asked everyone on a busy day in my public library to name their religion #i'd get more diversity of answers than like. some entire countries. #and what matters is that you are exposed to or aware of that! not your own personal background. #we all only are one person and one perspective the issue is do you make an effort to see more than that! #anyway might elaborate on that final paragraph bc. truly so many things people say in the tag feel entirely tautological to me #like ok you like this that's fine you can but WHY. because I DON'T.