#but I think I've (finally) figured it out

[tiny-crescent]

Light practice ⋆ ✦❨ ⊹

#light yagami #yagami light #death note #death note fanart #dn fanart #my art #light continues to be hard to draw for some reason #but I think I've (finally) figured it out #at least a little bit #he's tricky #he's all at once youthful looking but also mature #and intelligent and manipulative #and so very evil #but also sort of pretty #but in a conventionally attractive way #and I have no idea how to juggle all of that in a single drawing of this guy lol #also probably doesn't help that I'm inclined to draw things cute #that's why Matsuda and Misa come so naturally hahahaha

[tuffglove]

i can't stop thinking about this loser

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #harry du bois #i think i've finally figured out how to draw him????? #well at least im satisfied lol

[souldagger]

(some of) the vulture god crew from the final architecture books by adrian tchaikovsky 🚀

#my art #the final architecture #shards of earth #i've had this in my wips for MONTHS and i kept going oh i'll share it once i figure out how to draw trine #and then repeatedly failed at drawing trine. for months. 😭 #so i think it's time to accept that i will not be drawing them and post it as it is kjfngk #everyone look at idris and olli my BELOVEDS

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

#witch hat tag #orufrey #the first image is qifrey dressed as that guy. i'm glad she has an inexplicable attachment to some dorky pokemon man like i do #someone was like 'wouldn't it make more sense for deanreldea to be the champion' .... well no. not in my world . #it maps onto magic skill. champions aren't like the Rulers of the land they're just the most skilled at this thing #oru as a burnt out champion who's gently encouraging a kid like coco to reach him one day means a lot to me. i like pokemon narratives #agott went shiny hunting for the same thing coco had but cooler - just to impress her. she really is a pokemon rival type girl #pushing myself to the limit to prove my worth to you - to get to the summit first so i'm waiting for you.. #and then realising it wasn't just to be strong - i realised i started wanting to see your smile. i wanted you to have fun. #i think coco would defeat agott at the end of victory road and then defeat oru & i'll probably draw one last thing abt that at least.. #the image is very cinematic..the dialogue and music in my mind..I WANT TO FACE ORU!!!!!!!!!! #the super cool insanely powerful awesome champion is the spouse of my professor and he gave me advice at the beginning...no way.... #btw the elite four would be the sages which is perfect (and maybe easthies as the first guy?) evil Team Brimhats #coustas as their renegade gladion-type figure. the gym leaders would be like sun/moon and s/v combined #travelling around facing the best students from different classes - so jujy and eunie etc. #i've barely thought about 'teams' or anything bc i care amore about the narrative side of things always lol #but idk. tetia with a swirlix - eunie would be ghost type boy - riche with small things but also a ceruledge or a steelix something massiv #and brushbug would have a final form which is really long like an eastern dragon- fluffy and with wings like a fairy. It's beautiful to me #well anyway *tries to move on to the rest of life now the brief obsession has passed* #obviously oru would be fire-type tho and qifrey would be water-type and they set off together and traded their starters etc.....it goes on

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[bowenoke]

we talk a lot about how current kids, teenagers, and parents never learned internet safety in this age of social media, but i think we also gotta be honest with ourselves that most of us, adults on the internet who participate in fandom, never really learned how to engage with young people without setting them up for disaster.

might be weird to say it like this, but it's important to leave people how you met them or better. like hiking or going to a nature reserve. if you are regularly talking to people on the internet, especially teenagers, you need to consider whether your behavior with them is how another, shittier person would take advantage of them, because you have no real way of protecting them if that happens. like if you're going into discords and saying 'hey i'm mom! let me help you with your homework and irl issues. also please feel free to vent to me if you have any mental health issues or problems at home" you have to understand that the next person who says that to them may be leaving out the end of their plan; "that would make you easier to abuse."

sometimes you have to say "you seem fun and have a lot of great ideas but you are also 15, so if you wanna talk fandom, here are the boundaries we're going to follow, because these are the boundaries other adults should be following with you." or just refuse to talk to kids.

you decide what your responsibility, is but what you can't do is build an illegal fire pit on the hiking trail, if you catch my drift.

#the last post i reblogged reminded me of my longstanding vendetta against fandom parents #and while i've held this opinion for years i think i can finally verbalize it in a way that makes sense? #dont get people used to red flags!!!! do not be the reason someone things red flags are normal!!! #this is not to say you can never be friends intergenerationally. just that like... #a lot of friendships i was in as a kid were like lightening. fast and strong and over quickly #and what i learned was that it was fine to progress to very personal details quickly. #dont be lightening. be a hiker. keep a reasonable speed and dont be afraid to say 'you're walking very quickly on an unknown path. slow dow #also just. to be clear. i dont think this is a personal failing i see this as a consequence of all of US having INSANE relationships too #like many of us are still struggling to figure out boundaries with IRL people after that. #and trying to do right by the young people we see in the same shoes now is a daunting and confusing task with which we can only do our best

[buglaur]

#mr babysitter to be 🥰 #virgil's let his hair grow out while we haven't seen him #GUYS i figured out how to make my own custom ombre accs lol #i've wanted to know how to do it for ages and i finally got it #ts4 #sims 4 #/virgil #i'm feeling a lot better recently :) #i think i know whats getting me down #i get my exam results in 19 days 🤢🤢🤢

[men-in-distress]

My newest Tav, Yarrow, is now occupying 100% of my thoughts so I had to draw her with the man she is attempting to court

unfortunately for her, Astarion wouldn't know a gesture of sincere affection if it bit him on the ass, so she's got an uphill battle. (and I can't wait to write it!!) PLEASE click for detail i am begging you

#astarion #astarion x tav #astarion fanart #bg3 tav #bg3 fanart #please for the love of god show up in the tags #i abandoned my old blog because nothing ever showed up ;;-;; #i think i've finally started to figure out this style

[chiropteracupola]

you've got a long road ahead of you yet.

#em draws stuff #slightly belated summer of sutcliff #the eagle of the ninth #marcus flavius aquila #took me more than a year of trying but I think I've finally arrived at a marcus I'm vaguely okay with #now to figure out esca :/

[il-predestinato]

Charles Leclerc at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony | December 9, 2022

🎥: FIA

#charles leclerc #f1 #* #my edit #f1edit #2022 fia prize giving ceremony #red carpet glow #okay i think i've finally figured out B+W colouring

[marclef]

THE EYHM COLLECTION GROWS!!!! managed to make some space without having to move too much so they can all be together!!

(i made the smaller ones into stickers bc i'm running out of picture frames!! hope that's ok!)

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO'S GIFTED THESE TO ME THOUGH!!! I'M CALLING ALL OF YOU OUT HERE BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!! ❤❤❤❤❤

*sharp inhale* @eskariolis-con-salsa @oddpizza @woobab @the-little-knight @moon9931 @misdreavusplush @noodletime @witch-tower-au !!!!!!!

hope you all have a good holiday season!! love you all! *MWAH*

#don't worry about the fish tanks they'll keep the kitties company! there's literally almost nowhere else good to put these lmao #but!! i think they look good there at least!! AND IN GENERAL THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD THANK YOU #BUT NOW AFTER THIS I REALLY NEED TO FIND MORE SPOTS IF I GET MORE EYHMS BECAUSE THERE'S NO SPACE LEFT THERE! #....maybe i can move some of the pokemon posters i have by my bed lol. they're just kinda. there rn. #but yeah!! i never expected people to like this cat this much and i'm kinda freaking out!!! but thank you again so much!! #i'll say it 1000 times if i have to!!!!!! #eyhm stuff #gift eyhms #basically ALL of the gift eyhms i've gotten lmao. there's a couple that're in progress but they'll hopefully join the others soon-ish! #quick side ramble! i've got a couple more drawing things planned this year but they might take a couple days because Chrimbo and all! #but there's a couple pizza tower things/gifts and. maybe finally my About Me post? gotta figure out how i'm gonna make that heh #OK I'VE BEEN TALKING TOO LONG SORRY BUT I'M JUST SO HAPPY ABOUT THESE AAAHHHHHHH

[tervaneula]

It's WIP Wednesday and since I don't have anything new (and only a few people seem to be online so I just might get away with this) I'm sharing a really short bit from this exciting little fic because I've already shared all the (allegedly) tame parts from it LMAO

#should be fun to figure out which sneak peeks I've shared before are from this same one hoho #I'm in a spoicy mood and I think it's because I'm finally recovering and can start getting back on my gay af bullshit #can't keep working on this before I get my commissions finished though #also writing spice is interesting to me because I'm excited about it but never horny. does that even make sense. anyway #leoichi #tervdrabbles #wip wednesday

[bookshelf-in-progress]

There's always a danger of caring too much about a story, and then getting paralyzed by the need to do it justice, so it never gets written.

I've solved this problem in the past by writing stories so fast that I don't have time to get too invested, or writing stories that I'm not that attached to.

But maybe the trick is to love the story so much that I want to share it any way I can, even if it's imperfect. To feel that any version of this story is better than the story never getting written at all. To get out of my own way and stop worrying about what other people will think of my writing, or even what I think of my writing, and love the story for its own sake, love the readers enough to want to have the joy of sharing the story with them.

Maybe it'll work. Maybe it won't. But so far it feels like a much better approach.

#adventures in writing #i think inklings has finally born fruit for me #other years i've stayed far away from beloved story concepts #for just this reason #and then i mentally shelved most of those story concepts #recognizing i'd likely never write them in a way that lives up to my imagination #and that probably gave me the distance i needed to pick some of them up again #for one thing the short time frame of inklings forces me to get down to the heart of the concept to fit it into a short story #and the long development time means i've had time to figure out what the core of the concept *is* #what keeps this story lingering in my imagination; which means i know what the good parts are #and then the deadline also forces me to try to write it fast and short #because if i don't write it for inklings i likely never will #and that's a tragedy i want to avoid #having such a clear concept of the story's core #means i can put up with ugly haphazard drafts #because i know what the overall story feels like; i've had years to develop it #so instead of a bad draft proving a story's not worth writing #i *know* that the story's worth writing because it's stuck with me this long #so the ugly drafts are just the building blocks necessary to create the final product #of course the danger is that i'll put out a story and it won't be as cool outside my head #and people will hate this piece of my soul i've poured out to them #but if i love it enough maybe it'll reach that special status #where it means so much to me personally that the wider audience reaction doesn't matter #but before i worry about this i gotta write a draft first

[varilien]

welp that's a wrap for this year ig. it's funny i think this year would have been another oops all trigun except that whenever i got really super busy FAR too busy to make trigun art i did usually end up doodling something else lmao

december's spot is @stardvst-diving's lysithea :)

#art summary #2023 summary of art #2023 art summary #txt #honestly. i think this is the first year in a long time where i really don't feel that happy with the progress i've made with my art #like in 2020 i finally got comfortable with drawing digitally after SO MANY YEARS of chipping away at it #and 2021 i finally pinned down some stylistic choices i enjoy working with and figured out how to color #and 2022 i mostly just pushed the limits of what ''finishing'' art even looks like for me #since in the past i'd tend to leave everything pretty half baked #2023 was SUPPOSED to be the year i started into things like comics and composition and increasing dynamism #but i think mostly i just ended up hammering out more stuff in regards to color and line confidence #which are both good. i'm glad i made that progress #but it's a little disappointing i didn't finish the year with the specific takeaways i'd gone into it wanting to have #sighhhhhh maybe next year idk

[omaano]

For the poly drawing meme, 2M or 1E! (Asleep pile and one-awake two-asleep slump respectively) if you wish!! ⭐️⭐️💫💫🤩 I would love anything Star Wars, platonic or ship (if you have any in mind!) 🥳 I am a big fan of your Mando, or any of the Vode, if that inspires you! 👀

Thanks so much for asking dear! ❤️ here we go dipping our toes back into @sidhebeingbrand and @toughbreaks changeling AU (I hope it's okay!) Also, I haven’t recommended it in quite a while, so this is your sign to go read it and heap some love on the spectacular writing and world building!! Because I'd give my life for this story and AU, and I didn’t forget how eagerly Gregor had tried to chat Din up in the first chapter XD so here you go, nap pile! Kinda

Boba is going to be down to 98 brothers if Gregor doesn’t wake up first though >:3

Help me get back into sketching through some of these polyam/platonic pose prompts :3

#I don't know how I feel about it but I think I finally figured out how to draw the clones appropriately young looking!!! #same face synfrome? I don't know here even though I really should #I've done my best to match Boba's scarring to my earlier drawing please appreciate that even though it's hardly visible #bobadin #and gregor #he's there I love him #changeling au #my art #answers #lesquatrechevrons #sizing characters appropriately and in reference to each other? Pft #not gonna happen unless i want to spend a week on a silly thing like this #this was so much fun thanks so much for asking!!! #poly sketches

[quietbirdee]

a couple amity sketches for warm-ups today!

#i think i've finally figured out how i want to draw her sdfjlk #the owl house #toh #amity blight #sylphee art #i've realized that i've never drawn her with her mint-chip hair whoops