I made this a little while ago, it was going to be my banner on my main but I decided to go with this one instead. I was playing around with a bright anime style colour palette, I love anime backgrounds and scenery and how they manage to capture all the different colours that trees and leaves reveal under rays of sunshine.
Here's an animatic I've been working on these past few days, I was thinking about saving it for March of the OCs but I've had some really bad news today so I thought I'd post it for a little ray of sunshine.
For the past few weeks I've been volunteering for a children's art group and it's been helping me get back to my roots. (Sharpie and fine-liner lol)
Every Saturday morning the group is hosted in a little café by a lady who I've known for a very long time since she's worked in the art department of both of my previous schools. We basically teach the kiddos different mediums and let experiment with their art work while making sure no fingers are cut and no hoodies are permanently stained with ink lol. Now that there's two of us supervising we can try out more complex activities.
I was given a sketchbook to use for group and I've been decorating it with doodles and stuff. I made this Gordon to go on the front and I thought you guys might like to see. I've also been reminded of how much I hate having a limited colour palette, do I cave and buy those expensive pens from WHSmith's or do I just cope? Idk guess only time will tell.
Days of drawing and editing and nitpicking and battling with my body and my mental health and repeatedly not being able to get it quite right; He's finally done and I love him. Skeleton-Shark Halloween themed Gorbo for my lockscreen.💛💛
I don't think I've ever had to put in so much work and effort into a piece of art. I know he probably looks exactly like everything else I've drawn recently but over the past month, I've started getting moments of dissociation where my hands don't feel like they're attached to me which has made it extremely difficult for me to draw. Lately it's died down a bit and I'm hoping it stays that way, I'm having some medication increased and I'm hoping that will help my overall mental health which I hope will help with the dissociation.
So yeah lil update and story behind skelly-shark Gordon.🦴🦈
I found a nice set of colour palettes from InkspillDoessomeArt while I was browsing Pinterest, I only originally started with Alan but then the inspiration for each palette grew one by one. (;^^)
It took me weeks to make these, I hope you like them.♡♡
Alan in Wishful Kiss - Virgil in Cimarron Street - Scott in Falling Through - Lady Penelope in Dusty Rose - John in Taste Of Paradise - Kayo in Swamp Enchantress - Gordon in Harvest Queen - Squirt (my oc) in Pistachio Pudding.
Thanks for participating in our first ever @thunder-pride event, all of us who had a hand in planning it were so excited for this and it was everything we dreamt it would be.
People sharing headcanons, writing fics, making art, digging up old content to pass around again and just having fun. It also brought the Thunderbirds and Gerry Anderson queer community into the spotlight, there are so many more of us in this fandom than I ever thought and I hope that even though pride month is over, we'll all keep going strong!!
I'm so honoured that I had a hand in planning this, it was an amazing experience and I met people and made a bunch of new friends who love and support eachother.
@mrmustachious @knyee @silverstarfics @quasar-concept @tanushakyrano @avengedbiologist and everyone else.
Y'all are amazing people and I'm so glad that I met you.
And @tracybirds thanks so much for inviting us all to help make this event, you are truly awesome!!
Ok this is getting long so yeah thanks for tuning in, thanks for joining us for Thunderpride 2023 and I hope to see you all again next year.
I originally made something a bit more sunny and bright but it just didn't feel right, I may post it some other time but imo it was too harsh and kinda hollow compared to how I've actually been feeling. I've been dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts lately and the dark palette and soft and cosy vibes just felt a lot more comforting.
I know Gordon is known for being the loud sunshiny one but I like to think he's also the old reliable anchor in the storm.
My Thunderpride Secret Santa gift for @tracybirds.💛💛
Prompts:
• Scott gets a heckin' break/beach christmas.
• Brains and Kayo, engineering buds.
Scott getting a break, I pictured him chilling out on the beach so I decided to combine it with the beach christmas, sparkly shorts and Santa hat complete with holly shades.
The engineer prompt gave me an excuse to draw buff lesbian Kayo, she lifts weights to kick ass, carry girls and now also work on heavy machinery. I also haven't drawn Brains in a long time so that was fun.
When I had my mental & physical health crash about a month ago, I wasn't drawing anything because I just hated doing it and I hated everything I made. I felt like nothing was worth it.
Out of the blue I had an idea for a new wallpaper since I'd had pumpkin spice Gords as my lock screen since the autumn, this was the first drawing I was actually happy with for quite a while and it helped me gain motivation to art again.
As always, Gordon picked me up when I was down and got me back to normality.
I haven't posted this one on its own, it's one of my favourites. I think it's probably my best drawing tbh it's a comfort pic.
Atm drawing is still hard, putting in all of my effort to only get out the worst. I'm struggling with depression, feeling alone and kinda useless. It's not like I'm not used to it but it's still hard, I'm hoping it'll get better again soon.