#i made a sketch and this is the result lmao

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

Appo, recording, with a straight face and red eyes: Day nr 256 with Torrent... Hardcase, hanging from the ceiling tangled in cables: *hysterical laughter* Fives, on Echo's shoulders: I've got you, I've got you! Echo: Hurry up! Cody: Rex... Rex, sobbing into his shoulder: I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE Anakin, levitating Ahsoka: *cackling* Ahsoka, her lightsabers in hands and Anakin's between her teeth: FMMMMWWHHH! (FEAR ME) Kix and Coric, gripping each other tightly, with deep deep bags beneath their eyes: We are medics. We will not murder anyone. We will not murder anyone. WE WILL NOT MURDER- Appo: I'm going back to bed.

#incorrect star wars quotes #commander appo #hardcase #fives #kix #echo #commander cody #captain rex #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #coric #rambling abt sw once more #i made a sketch and this is the result lmao

[todayisafridaynight]

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza series #ryu ga gotoku ishin #like a dragon: ishin! #yakuza 2 #masato arakawa #daigo dojima #ryuji goda #yoshinobu tokugawa #saigo kichinosuke #rintaro katsu #snap sketches #shoving him back in the chair HE DIDNT NEED TO STAND AT ALL IN ISHIN #trying to find chairs from the 1860s made me want to scream cause theres just so much and so many varieties #in any case i just . needed to draw him in a chair #also needed to legally inject a history joke #whats so funny is that like not even like ten years later saigo takamori would get himself killed in the satsuma rebellion #which was a result of the charter oath essentially nullifying samurai 💀💀 lmao 💀💀 #it's funny in the moment tho. for every reason ever #i love using my education #this why daigo got such heavy beef with ryuji down the line #ok im gona. move on with my day #i had the drawing sketched last night and just wanted to finish it before doin comm stuff but i spent my whole mornin with these 💀 #k byebye

[anichibicore]

unfading sin

#fullmetal alchemist #fma #edward elric #anichibi draws #yeah. that one shot from 03's first ending has been living rent free in my head for the past few days #and it made me wanna draw so. i did. lmao #also shoutout to this post i saw on twitter a while back that was like. if you wanna do lineart do a rough sketch and put the finer details #in the lines. cuz i took that advice to heart with this and i am so fuckin happy with the result #so. yeah. #also last note i'm putting here the red in the bg did not look that saturated on my laptop but surprisingly everything else? perfect #aniposts

[seven-skies-above]

MURDER CAT MURDER CAT MURDER CAT look at her go. efforts were made to make her fluffy but not as fluffy as saint which has resulted in her not looking fluffy enough so i might actually have to like. redesign my saint for better shape language LMAO.

also Arti only gets two additional sketches because i could not make room to fit one more. sorry bomb cat.

#i havent even played her campaign yet but drawing her has made me love her just that much more #rain world slugcat #rain world art #rain world fanart #rain world #rain world downpour #rw downpour #slugcat #rain world artificer #the artificer #wintercat96 #fan design

[genericpuff]

oh boy rachel's telling on herself a little-

so we noticed that her Twitter name recently changed again, now featuring her bluesky social in her username to obviously advertise to people that she has a Blue Sky.

She's had BlueSky for a while, but it obviously doesn't have as massive of a following because 1.) Blue Sky is still a much smaller platform than Twitter (undoubtedly because it still requires invite codes to join), and 2.) it's really, REALLY hard to move the entirety of your fanbase from one platform to another as many followers are bound to be "dead" (i.e. not active on the platform anymore) and others will naturally fall off because they may have followed ages ago but never bothered to keep up or unfollow from a page that was just on their backburner.

But interestingly enough, this change is very recent and when you check her BlueSky, which she would only post to every once in a while, it's now seeming to be a lot more active with multiple posts over the past couple days. So I think it's very clear at this point that she's trying to actively commit to the migration from Twitter to BlueSky.

BUT HOOO BOY. SOME OF HER POSTS Y'ALL. SHE'S PRACTICALLY DOUBLING DOWN LMAO

You've all seen me dissect the SHIT out of Rachel's art process and y'all can verify it yourself through those posts that never once has she shown herself drawing this way. Never in the process reels, or the time lapse videos, or the single sketch posts she's made. So her claiming that she "likes doing this as well" is just flatout false because she doesn't do this. So I literally don't know who she's trying to fool with this (aside from her own fanbase) but she ain't fooling me LMAO

But that's not even the best thing she's shared, oh no. Because this isn't even the full kit of clown makeup.

Nope, that goes to this repost-

No hate to the person who posted this, I'm sure they're chill and cool, I just think the fact that Rachel of all people reposted this to her BlueSky which she's trying to replace her Twitter with is very telling. We all know this isn't just Rachel sharing something funny for the gag, we know exactly what Rachel likes and portrays in her work that she could see herself in through this post.

And what's even more telling (and hilarious) is that this may as well have been her running away to BlueSky after the "Never apologize for being Sicilian" tweet became the top result when you search "Lore Olympus" on Twitter LMAOOO

I'm not saying that's exactly what's going on here, but the thought of Rachel deciding to fully commit to moving to BlueSky out of sheer embarrassment over this one out-of-context panel from years ago that went viral overnight - and staying at the top of the search result feed because no one's engaging with good faith LO posts anymore - is hilarious, and if it takes this dumbass panel of Hades telling Persephone she should never apologize for being Sicilian to get people talking about how stupid and hilarious LO is, then I say it's about damn time.

#is this rachel's 'committing to the bit' era #is she finally giving up and just fully embracing the things we've been criticizing about her for years #her embracing it doesn't make it better #but if it makes it more clear to the fans that this is the kind of person she is then so be it LMAO #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #lo critical #Instagram

[fr-wiwiw]

I made a poll on twitter on which Gahan fanarts I should done first between sfw & nsfw. It ended up with 50/50 results lmao

So here's the sfw done first <3 Zoom in for their small details! You won't regret it hehe.. sketches context are down below the image

I'll be sketching the nsfw later, I have commission progress to do

black colored sketches:

top left - yohan smooching gaon's cheek based on a black & white dove pic from oomf twitter post

top middle - yohan is pissed that someone (you) is stalking & taking pictures of them on their date, gaon is oblivious and wondering why yohan looks annoyed at the fishes. yohan is thinking how to dispose you without gaon noticing

top right - gahan talking about their likings in sex after post coital session. gaon likes when yohan ties his wrists. yohan likes/ doesn't mind gaon's nails scratching deep on his back or shoulder. there's also finger marks on gaon's thighs with how hard yohan was handling him. their toes touching and wiggling, can't get enough of skin contact. they're both clingy for each other

pink colored sketch:

gahan is taking a stroll when gaon notices something & pulls yohan's sweater for attention

orange colored sketch:

yohan leans his head on gaon's shoulder to take a nap after gaon bought a cup hot drink. gaon is surprised bcs yohan rarely leans on him physically in general

#artists on tumblr #the devil judge #digital art #kdrama #fris #fr wiwiw #digital illustration #gahan #kim gaon #kang yohan #yohan #gaon #fanart #tdj #their dating era #established relationship #there's yohan watching closely on stalker (you) and getting pissed off #he's thinking how to dispose you for spying on him and his bambi #gaon doesn't realize they have stalker #yohan will not have gaon worrying over you #they talk about their kinks btw #i believe in healthy communication #that's what will happen to gahan #also look yohan is comfortable enough to lean and take nap on gaon's shoulder

[thecoolerspringbon-t]

Here are some sketches I made of “The Missing Co-Workers event” And some details I enjoyed when making it.

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I have to start with my favorite ending I drew:

The Figurine ending!

I had to draw inspiration from The Creation of Adam painting, no specific reason, I just thought it would look cool.

At first I thought putting everyone of the ending on the planks that lead to the figurine on the Cargo Lift (Image on the left). But I figured, the first figurine that we find in the TSP2 expo would look way better giving that amazing feeling you get when you collect them all! (Image on the right).

I'm happy with the result, I feel like there’s something so poetic about it, like when you first get that ending …

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Ah! The confusión ending!

This one also had some changes, mostly on the first image (Left)

What I wanted is to everyone to be confused! That’s why no one looks happy in it (Except for the people who looked at the fern lol!)

But I also wanted some people to find the pages of Employee 432's lore. So it was either the secret hallway or the archives room.

I figured the archives room would be better, leaving everyone to wonder what they could find there…

Once again, I'm happy with the result on all the whole ending, I think it very much captures the feeling of dread and frustration you get when first playing this ending!

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The silly ones I also enjoyed drawing were the Is This… a Bucket? Ending (left) Mostly because of @mrfisherot Oc, They sent me their cartoon-y Oc but I asked if I could do the literal png character they had and so I did! So he’s just there… fishing… It was so funny, I really enjoyed it!

And the Mariella Ending (right), This one was special! I think it’s the only ending where the oc faces cannot be seen, I felt bad for doing that but I'm glad both @whosectype and @pawl3ss liked the result. And of course, I had to do the Family Guy dead pose LMAO!

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And finally…

The Skip Button Ending…

The people in the skip button Ending were supposed to be on different scenarios (Images below) than the one the ended up being in the end (upper images)

I wanted to capture the same things I felt when playing this, fear, confusion, regret and amusement. I thought to myself “What would they do if they were trapped in a room for an eternity with everything around them changing?…

…And then… having freedom, just to realize everything is gone”…

This was the last image I drew, I remember tearing up from drawing the characters and thinking about the sense of freedom but at what cost?… I still like it, I think about this one a lot…

I'm not sure if I captured the feelings I wanted to portray but I'm still proud. This event was a hell to finish because of problems and delays but I'm so happy of seeing people find their friends on the drawings! to find each other! To find the missing co-workers…

Thank you for reading and participating!

-Spring

#the missing coworkers #tsp #tspud #<3<3<3 #my artwork #bts #wips #such an amazing event #such beautiful memories

[ballblender]

"You can't film here."

Uramichi Omota x singleparent!tvstationworker!reader

summary: uramichi finds reader in the prep room, awkwardness ensues.

(LMAO IDK WHAT TO LABEL THE READER AS - also not much of an actual romance fic, more like an extra scene (if that makes sense??))

cw: sfw, workplace, reader was previously married to a man, secret pining, uramichi's tiredness lol

First non-headcanon post - tell me if there's any errors, I do not check these over.

"Thanks for coming today everyone!"

"WOOO!!"

"Thank you Uramichi!"

The screams and shouts of joyful children ring throughout Uramichi's ears, as he forcibly stretches his smile beyond what he thought was even possible. It's not like he doesn't want to be smiling, but when it's part of the job description, it doesn't feel that fun anymore. It's not like the children hadn't noticed it too; the dark circles of tiredness under his eyes, fitted with his pale complexion, it was no surprise that Uramichi had started being nicknamed 'Panda Bear' by the TV station president's grandson; it's just a shame that his co-workers started calling him that too.

"Nice work today, Mr Panda!"

The grating sound of Derekida's voice: not exactly what he wants to hear right now.

"Now, go over to the Prep Room, we need you to star in the new segment next week, and we need to measure you for the pig costume!"

A pig? Of all things?

As Uramichi walks to the Prep Room, only the worst scenarios run through his mind. Is the pig costume multicoloured? Will I have to wear a snout? Will I have to walk on my hands and feet for the entire segment? Will I have to do gymnastics in the costume?

That's when he hears rustling, and the sound of a phone video recording starting.

He unlocks the door, scanning the room, making sure there aren't any theives; not that anything that comes out of Hanabee's mind is worth stealing...

He catches sight of you, panning the phone camera across the set pieces, costumes and props.

"Hey..." he says.

You jolt a little, ending the recording, and turning around.

"You can't film here." His expression isn't exactly one of strong conviction, but he's suspicious of you nonetheless.

You slip your phone back into your pocket and say "I know, I'm sorry, my kid just really loves 'Together with Maman', so I wanted to show him some of the things that we made for next week's segment."

His face softens a bit at your explanation, before his eyes fall onto the pig costume; and it drops again.

"...you made this...?" You can hear the tiredness in his voice: he's not looking forward to next week.

You let out a pathetic giggle, sympathizing with his dislike towards the - certainly interesting - design.

"Well, it was initially meant to look like this,", you show Uramichi a sketchpad with an array of concept designs, "but Hanabee was screaming about how "It's Wrong!" or "You need to do it again!", so this is the result of the last 5 days of overtime.".

Uramichi flips through the pages of the sketchpad; obviously, it's a pig costume, one design can't be that much better than the other, but your sketches showed real skill.

"These, are actually good." Uramichi says, turning page after page of the sketchpad, looking at previous rejected designs.

You smile, happy to meet someone who genuinely appreciates your efforts. "Thanks." You start walking over to your bags and begin packing.

Curious to learn a little more about somebody on the team with actual talent, he asks you a question.

"You said you've been working overtime, is your husband watching your kid right now?"

"Oh, we're not married anymore, but my ex-husband is looking after him until next Monday."

"Oh- I'm sorry." Uramichi is a little shaken, afraid he's just asked a personal question, or maybe reminded you of something you didn't want to remember.

You've heard it all before, so this really doesn't bother you.

"Don't worry about it, our split was amicable.", you smile at him reassuringly.

He smiles back, eased by your kindness.

"I'm glad to hear that." he replies.

But. It's a little awkward now. Neither of you feel like you can just leave after that. So.

Suddenly, Mr Derekida bursts in, marvelling at the different costumes and props, followed by Edei, who tells him to "Calm down."

You take this as your cue to leave, waving at Uramichi, who does the same, before walking out.

Edei walks up to Uramichi with a smirk on his face.

"...Did I do something?" Uramichi asks, genuinely confused.

Edei's brows shift in confusion, "You mean, they didn't say anything?"

"Say what?"

"Y/N? They said nothing to you?"

"Well, we spoke, but it was like 1 minute."

Edei sighs in disappointment.

"You didn't hear this from me, but," Edei lowers his voice as to not allow Mr Derekida to eavesdrop.

"I overheard Y/N talking to Tadano the other day. They've got the hots for you man."

A lot of thoughts flood Uramichi's head at once; What?: They’ve got a kid...: I probably should already have kids...: Do I make a move?: Do I wait for them to make a move?: Do I even want them to make a move? Who even says "got the hots for you" anymore?

Edei chuckles a little at Uramichi's face, which is still processing what he was just told.

Mr Derekida slaps Uramichi on the shoulder, slamming directly on the area where the strain is the most painful, causing him to groan a little in pain, while also bringing him back to reality.

"Hope your shoulder gets better before next week, the kids need to ride the pig-horse in order to save the fish from the knight!"

....What does that even mean? And is that why the costume is so, that?

Uramichi sighs for what may well have been the hundredth time that day, before taking his leave.

"AND REMEMBER YOUR LINES!" yells Derekida.

As he walks home, Uramichi remembers Edei’s words.

Perhaps he should take a chance…

oh shit, he was meant to be measured for the costume.

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Well thanks for reading, this took forever, I don't know how to feel, goodbye.

can you tell i've never wrote anything like this before. don't tell me actually.

#this title was inspired by that brandon rogers video #uramichi x reader #uramichi omota #life lessons with uramichi

[faffreux]

can you tell us about when you fell in love with fawful? :)

Yep. In fact, I'll write a whole mini essay for you so I can add it to the FAQ section of my website coming up shortly LMAO (SINCE I NEED TO FULLY ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR THERE ANYWAY, RIGHT???) CLICK UNDER THE READ MORE TO SEE IT BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LONGEST THING I'VE EVER POSTED HERE, LMAO.

To preface, I have been a fan of the M&L games going back to the early-mid 2000s when I was a kid. I had no involvement with fandom or anything of the sort back then but I used to hop on my mom's bulky computer and look up fanart and other related content as early as 2004/5 and as a result, ended up captivated by the characters long before I knew who they actually were. (As a result of this, I have the names and art styles of various old M&L fandom creators permanently ingrained in my head and often wonder where they are today since a good deal of them vanished..!) It wasn't until 2006 that I got my first handheld console (DS Lite) and of course, what did I do? Immediately begged my mom to order me a used GBA copy of Superstar Saga. 

When I finally had the game in my hands it was like coming home to a colorful world that I'd been captivated by for so long but never gotten the chance to actually explore until now. The characters felt like old friends and the Beanbean Kingdom as a location felt familiar and comforting to me. (As a side note, Popple quickly became my favorite. Shocker, right?)

I used to sketch various beans in my notebooks as well as on printer paper we had lying around the house. Long story short, I finished Superstar Saga and then a few years later in 2010 I picked up Bowser’s Inside Story and THAT’S WHEN THINGS SHIFTED–

BIS brought Fawful and his personality to life in a way that captivated my imagination like nothing else had prior. He quickly overtook Popple as my favorite character from then on forward… and that’s where it ends! Or.. is it?

Nah, that’s where it gets funky. Life got a little chaotic after that and not only did I stop playing video games altogether for many years, but I also almost completely gave up on art - the one thing I was most passionate about above all and thought I would make a career out of someday. A series of depressing events caused me to lose all hope and motivation for anything I created and the spark I’d kept inside of me for so long all but died out as a result.

We’re going to timeskip again, this time to late 2019. I’d just moved away from home permanently for the first time and had been getting settled in and no matter what I did to make my new apartment a cozy place it always felt like something was missing. My mind would keep wandering to the fact that I never made art anymore despite it having been such a key part of my life when I was younger. I so desperately wanted to change this and over the next few months the frustration only kept growing until on January 1st, 2020, I sat down in the living room with a pencil and paper in my hand and shut my eyes tightly before saying under my breath:

“I do not care what it is, I don’t care how it comes. Just please… PLEASE send me something to bring my art back. Anything… anything at all. I don’t care what I draw, I just want to be drawing again.” And with that, I placed the lead onto the paper and began to sketch…

And from there… a familiar face appeared!

(Now I could ramble to you about how much I do NOT like this drawing and how off model it is from how Fawful actually looks… but I’ll forgive myself since I hadn’t touched the M&L games in over a decade at this point and had forgotten most of Fawful’s character. And yet?? Here he was.)

How else can I explain it except that in that moment it felt like the pencil in my hand had suddenly become one of these:

A joy that I hadn’t felt in SO long suddenly filled my entire being and without wasting another second, I immediately went online and ordered both Superstar Saga and Bowser’s Inside Story to replay again. In the time waiting for the games to arrive I had started drawing daily again - sketching out various old characters of mine with dozens of doodles of the bean man stacked in between them all.

There he was… always smiling, always happy to see me, and oftentimes with his arms outstretched as if to give an encouraging hug. When the games arrived I worked through them quicker than I ever had prior - finishing up Superstar Saga in less than a week and subsequently moving onto Bowser’s Inside Story with a LOT of excitement built up for it. 

It was my first day playing and I was having the time of my life! The way Fawful looked in his little grey cloak with that enormous, charming grin of his as he bamboozled Bowser into eating the Vaccuum Shroom had me giggling with joy while words repeated in my brain over and over of: “I need to draw this later, I NEED to draw this later!!!” I WAS EXCITED ABOUT ART AGAIN… AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. I was practically hopping in my seat from the happiness I felt in my heart and chest every time Fawful appeared at this point!

This was how it felt until the moment I arrived at the Fawful Theatre and watched as he began dancing on the stage floor. THIS time.. something different came over me. If you’ve felt it before, then you’ll know what I mean when I say that it was like my entire body turned warm all at once, like some sort of flame had been lit inside. I’d never felt it for anything or anyone prior to then, and that's partly why it hit me as hard as it did. I was practically sweating.

Heck, I was so absorbed in my feelings that I had forgotten there was anyone else in the room with me! That is.. Until my roommate at the time spoke up: 

Her: Are you alright? Me: Uhhh… yeah, why? Her: You’re red as a beet. Are you sure you’re okay?

By this time I had realized what was really going on so I reassured her I was fine, grabbed my 3DS, and ran to my room to finish the playthrough on my own so I wouldn’t embarrass myself any further, hahaha.

In the days, weeks, and months following that moment I became dedicated to drawing the best art of Fawful I could possibly create! What started as a challenge to myself to ‘give back’ to the person who’d given me back the ability to create again turned into someone I genuinely could not stop drawing for how much fun I was having doing it. The desire to make better and better art in order to honor him drove me to improve at a speed I never had prior, and soon thereafter I created Jolligig as a way for me to be in this colorful world with him and to express the deepening affection I was feeling for him with every day that passed by.

By some miracle, my prayer had been answered and here it was in the form of a grinning lima bean.

[End of Part 1. Interested in the rest? Yes… there’s more, I’m sorry. Please let me know in the comments. This took a while to write so I thought splitting it up would be best if folks are interested, LOL.]

#ASKS #MY GOD I AM SORRY (no i'm not) #fawfultalk #important

[arabiidhound]

Some sketches and notes I made about my headcanon(?) version of Blitzwing. Anatomy is still a bit uh- quirky, but I'm getting there lmao. It's fun figuring him out, even if the results are a bit weird looking XD Anywho, If you can't tell he's a bit different from the norm TFA version, some of the wacky proportions and such are intentional. Might've made the oxygen tubes on him a bit large but eh, it's alright.

#my art #sketches #character design #transformers #transformers animated #decepticons #tfa #tfa blitzwing #blitzwing #ooga booga aaaaaaaa

[yamujiburo]

since you made your own fankids, how did you get them to stay how they look like, how did you stay satisfied with how you made them? i’m trying to make a rocketshipping fankid myself but she never turns out how i want her to and is becoming a bit of a burden. you don’t have to answer though.

Hmmm that's a good question

I'd say it's because I make my designs very self indulgent haha. Like I give the characters features or clothes that I really like on other characters. Like for Jules, I like the "fitted top and baggy pants" silhouette (that kim possible look"), gloves, pigtails etc. It probably also helps that Jessie and James have designs that I very much enjoy, so combining their features can only result in a character that I think looks cool hahaha.

The tricky thing with that though, is your taste can change. I made other rocketshipping kids waaaay back that were also very self indulgent at the time but i (obviously) scrapped them to make new designs that I liked more. I've also tweaked the current fankids i've made a few times. who knows i might just start over again in another year LMAO

As a character designer, I think it's also helpful to do explorations and sketch out many options for how a character should look! trial and error is a good way to narrow down what designs you like. having a lineup of 5 potential designs to choose from is nice, but then you can also pick out stuff you like from each design and combine them.

What i'm saying is that i don't really have an answer ahaha. but i do think fully embracing character design elements that you like is the way to go!

#ask yam

[interstella-eyes]

Some fella I came up with the other day!!

Literally came up with this design while i was half asleep lmao but I refined it and am rly happy w the result!! It’s a centaur furry oc thingy made out of fruit, specifically a snowberry! They don’t have bones or anything, just completely fruit lol

Maybe I’ll make an original species out of this, I rly like the concept… I’ve thought of some potential lore too, that these creatures can only eat the fruit that they are made of… except they don’t really eat it, but rather absorb its cells to restructure them into their own body to grow. The yellow stems on their back would probably spread pollen of the specific fruit/berry too!

These were the original sketches I made in my phone‘s gallery app with my finger while I was half asleep!! (Who needs rest when you can make furry ocs amirite)

#art #oc #my ocs #oc art #considering naming this species fruittaur #oc artwork #oc artist #oc lore #furry #furry oc #furry art #furry artwork #furry anthro #original species #original character #original furry species #character illustration #illustration #digital art #digital artist #digital illustration #anthro #anthro oc #centaur #centaur oc #kinda inspired by moomin

[cathchicken]

So um this is sort of random. But. Last night I had a crazy dream with ToH characters, and there was a part of the dream that focused on discovering the collectors true origins through Pokémon battles (please don’t ask why) but eventually I got to the end of the path, and very dramatically, this old man announced… “the collector… was created by… THE JESTER!!!” and I thought “the who” and out of the sky THIS JEVIL-LOOKING WANNABE appeared and emitted the most goofy aah laugh I’ve ever heard, said “YES YOU LITTLE LEMON DROPS, I HAVE THE POWER TO SPLIT UNIVERSES UN TWO AND I BESTOWED UPON ALL WITH THAT LITTLE GREMLIN!!”, did a funny dance, twirled around, and finished by saying “Imagine having daddy issues lmao” before disappearing back into the clouds

WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT HELLO anyways I woke up still utterly confused, and eventually I made this sketch which I digitalized just now. The result is honestly pretty accurate to my dream, especially those stupid looking tassel fabric things. I didn’t bother to color him in, but if I did, they would resemble jevil’s color scheme, but with more bright pinks/purples. Maybe if people somehow enjoy him I’ll make a real color version

Anyways I am convinced he was my sleep paralysis demon that got insanely bored and decided to shit on my dreams and my hyperfixations. Thanks I guess

#toh #the owl house #the collector #my art #sketch #digital art #original design #original character #oc #oc artwork #toh oc #??? idk #he’s not really a ToH oc but since he’s the collectors weird gay dad in my dream then I guess it has some relevance #if this somehow gets a decent amount of attention I don’t know what I’ll do with myself

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

today on 'shook does things she has no reason to, but wants to anyways':

learning how to do ZUN art!!!!!

now i've actually wanted to do this for a while, but just decided to now on a complete whim because i'm just Like That.

i do wanna go through my process a bit, but first i'll just. give the art bc i know that's why most people are here cjhvbcjuv-

there she is!!! the funny highlighter!!! idk why i chose her of all ocs but i certainly did!!!

ok so process time: i mainly referenced a few of touhou 18's portraits, specifically reimu, mike and misumaru. using these, i made a base sketch of reimu's pose, which i then took and made into a sketch of ayeno that tried to stick as close as possible to ZUN's artstyle (see sketches below). then, i took that sketch and made another but changed some things to fit more in-line with my own art style (specifically the eyes [which i ended up changing back], arms and legs, eyebrows, and some of the clothing details).

the main thing i struggled with though was DEFINITELY the shading. like, i don't really shade my art at all ever...? because it's just. very time consuming. and looks bad half the time. and uhh i gave up halfway through on this because i just couldn't anymore B]

so yeah rip the clothes shading but hey! i'm still really happy with the result, and totally want to do this with more of my touhou ocs in the future :] (just... not now. it's been like 5 days lmao i need a break-)

#touhou oc #shook arts #ayeno (oc) #oc shiz #yeah that's about it lol #also isnt it great how you can see the skirt get worse the further up the stripes go cjhbvcjhv #OOPS forgot to actually plan out the stupid stripes before i drew them!!! #*insert shook headbonk drawing* #anyways. i am tired! time to make another new oc bc i know not of self restraint!

[moonstruckdraws]

Rottmnt Sketches

I was looking into my last sketchbook for a reference for my current illustration, but I ended up looking at my old sketches. And I decided to post some of em. If you can ignore the pencil smears and old art and somehow read my handwriting, I'm sure you'll like at least some of these lol.

These are all sketches from before I started posting on here from Jan-March or somethin so yeah

I am EXTREMELY bad at using markers, but I decided to try using them this one time. I'm still pleased with the results tbh

My rise mona. I haven't drawn her and Raph much, but I might a little bit. I have her wield heavier or longer ranged melee weapons, for fun :] (the pose was a template)

HUGS!!! I wanted to redraw Donnie & Raph's bear hug, but haven't gotten around to it

Babies. Me and my friend planned to make a story with the baby tots, Splints, Draxum, & Big Mama; it being a comfort story. I might bring it back but i'll have to ask them tho lol. I even made some one-page comics of it lol

Big Mama design (still love this design lmao) I'll talk about her role a lil. She's still the boss of her hotel & is a powerful yokai in the hidden city and all, but she's a bit more formal. Again, the story for all this isn't even really thought out so bare with me lol. But what's different is that her and Draxum are closer business partners than they are in the show.

One-page comics though they lead to one another. Basically the tots find an elevator that leads to the hidden city & Big Mama's hotel, which is why they meet Big Mama in the second image. That second page is also where I got my profile from lmao

I made lil emojis for them too lol

#rottmnt #old sketches #the story is also about Splinter healing from his past experience with Draxum & Big Mama #I believe its also supposed to become a bit of romance between them too lmao #at least thats what my friend wanted and I support to a totally normal degree #is this something I should maybe revive? or at least just make sketches off lol #idk maybe lol

[ashwithapen]

yooo writer questions tag!!

thank you @yesireadbooks

no pressure tagging @leisoree @palebdot @tea-and-mercury @the-stray-storyteller

clean questions list at the bottom below the cut!!

1) What motivates you to write?

hmm good question... motivation has always been a really tricky thing for me in every aspect of my life (which more recently i learned could be in part because of dual adhd+autism), but at the end of the day, it usually comes down to want, one way or another. i want to write to define these ideas and characters and places i can't stop thinking about. i want to write because the song playing demands i do so. i want to write to prove that i can do it, even when i doubt myself, even when i convince myself that everybody thinks i'm worth shit. i want to write because i've never been much of a speaker, and with a pen, i can tell you what my lips never will. so a combination of all of that, i think.

2) A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud/happy of. If not maybe share a line of someone else's work you love (just please credit them)

ooh ok. honestly, i have quite a few lines that i'm quite proud of, that i go back to however long later and have to pause at because Damn, I Wrote That?? but a recent one was actually in an email—of all things—that i sent to our therapist in which i ended up writing ~4k words just to explain something we've been keeping very private for a very long time. i had been doing that thing where you try your best to explain yourself away before you even get to the whole point, and when i realised that i was just going in circles and sounding pathetic, i cut myself short with this absolutely banging one-liner:

all this prelude as if it will soften my casket.

like daaamn i sound Philosophical and Poetic and shit :0

3) Which OC makes you smile every time you think/talk about them and what are they like?

there is this one dork (affectionate) that i made a few years back for a thing that never went anywhere, but i keep him around in case an opportunity comes up. his name is Scott Thomas and he was originally a sorcerer in training. he's a teen (he was going to be a part of a series that spanned about 6 years), has a secret alcohol problem, enjoys not sleeping, and is a professional couch surfer. he has a little sister who the reader wouldn't have even known about until his dying words where he asks the protagonist to go save her from his childhood home which, upon visiting, reveals that his other-worldly hilarity was a classic result of trauma and abuse. he's just a silly, classic-vans-wearing, hoodie-dwelling, guy. the type to try and fix a bullet wound with a bandaid. love that kid lmao

4) What process of writing do you enjoy the most?

it's a small thing, but the moment when you have The Idea that is The Best Idea You've Ever Fucking Had. getting to sketch out the idea, seeing it fit into the plot, figuring out how everyone reacts to it and in what ways it changes the story. the excitement of it all, that "i can't wait" when you think about how your readers are going to react to what's happening. ugh i love it <33

5) What part of writing do you think you are the best at? (Yes stroke your own ego it's okay)

again, the little things. the add-ons tied to the backs of sentences with em dashes, the palpability of every emotion as dictated by whichever little inflexion that character lives with, the pauses in the conversation where the birds chirp outside. just whatever i can do to try and make it feel like a real sensory experience and not just words on a page, whether it be the temperature of the air or the traffic in the streets.

6) What is something in the writeblr community is most enjoyable?

i like how people here are excited about what they do. i like seeing people be endorsed with their own worlds and so willing to share about them.

7) A writing tool/device you use that helps you with writing? (It could be speech to text, a writing program etc)

OMG OK so i'm shit at reading lmao, so everything i write is written just freestyle, fuck it all, forget the spelling, just get it on the page. then it goes through Grammarly, just for spelling (i don't like when it tries to rewrite my sentences or tell me that my grammar is poor. i'm good with grammar and neglecting to use an "and" there was a stylistic choice, get off my back.) (i've been using the free Chrome extension for everything i've ever put effort into writing), and then i reread it with the help of text-to-speech for any words that Grammarly might have missed because they are technically spelt correctly, but they just weren't the word i was trying to write anyways, and for anything that sounds a bit funny out loud sentence-structure wise. for someone without a beta reader, Grammarly and Read Aloud (the Chrome TTS extension i use) literally save my illiterate ass time and time again lmao. even my emails, even my essays, sometimes even longer posts on here (like this one lol)

8) A piece of worldbuilding that you like in your own story? (It could be the magic system, a particular place in the story, a law etc)

tbh most of my stories have relatively modern settings (which makes sense because i typically write psychodramas rather than fantasy or sci-fi, so most of my "worldbuilding" consists of me googling shit like "how long is the train journey from Brighton to Newcastle" lmaoo), but i did have an unfinished world i made not even for writing purposes, just for daydreaming, called Aldenhors which i still have an unfinished digital map of (made with Inkarnate). maybe i finish it before school starts back... anywho, Aldenhors had a unique calendar: 16 months a year, 20 days a month, 5 days a week, 20 hours a day (roughly 8 light, twelve dark). the months were named Annua, Verlo, Manna, Klaus, Jaes, Deboh, Firen, Liero, Caden, Temma, Fento, Quazo, Sprill, Wideo, Oraah, and Ulyss. which month you are born in determines what you will be innately skilled at and in which way you use/channel your power depends on your race. the majority of the inhabitants of Aldenhors live to the west of the Wyvviet Mountains and nobody crosses over to the east because it is said that horrors await there.

9) What piece of advice would you say to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

pretend you are creating a rant post about some media that isn't yours that the most recent episode/chapter/whatever of was released and you are a theorist. start with something like "okay so recently in [WIP name], X and Y did so and so and now X doesn't know how to feel about Y, right? well, i think that..." and just pretend to be taking part of a mass discussion happening online. keep going until you hit something golden, then write that golden patch into the real story. get yourself excited for what happens next. be your own fan. if you don't like what you're writing, then how can you expect anybody else to? some more advice is to pick up an idle hobby like crocheting, make a playlist with the vibes of your WIP, sit down, and just go at it, thinking the whole while about your OCs and your setting and all that jazz.

10) Tag some people whose works you love/have been your biggest supporters:

in terms of people whose work i love, there are two people in particular who come to mind. @inkskinned, i love the way you articulate absolutely everything that i've read of yours. one day I'll crack the code and reach your level. @thechildoflightning, although you've moved on from tumblr, your encompass series on ao3 is one of my favourite literary works ever and it will never cease to inspire me. thank both of you. when it comes to my own supporters, i'd want to tag every single person who has liked even one of my posts about any of my WIPs. as that's not possible, i'll have to name some people in particular, however, neither of these two people has a tumblr to my knowledge. anyhow, thank you to the two guest users "!lurk" and "The-Kings_prince" on ao3. without your two names littering my inbox sporadically, i know for a fact i would not have written quite as much as i have by this point.

and that concludes this essay! :D

clean question list below :)

1) What motivates you to write?

2) A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud/happy of. If not maybe share a line of someone else's work you love (just please credit them)

3) Which OC makes you smile every time you think/talk about them and what are they like?

4) What process of writing do you enjoy the most?

5) What part of writing do you think you are the best at? (Yes stroke your own ego it's okay)

6) What is something in the writeblr community is most enjoyable?

7) A writing tool/device you use that helps you with writing? (It could be speech to text, a writing program etc)

8) A piece of worldbuilding that you like in your own story? (It could be the magic system, a particular place in the story, a law etc)

9) What piece of advice would you say to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

10) Tag some people whose works you love/have been your biggest supporters:

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