#my favorite background character has to be that moss tho

[a-lonely-dunedain]

12.............. with Corunir?

So you have chosen... Tur-Morva. *evil laughter* wherein the rescue instance goes horribly awry in a canon-compliant way

“Eth… Help me” Ethedis hears a weak but familiar voice behind her, one that she would be overjoyed to hear in any other circumstances and speaking any other words. She was a split moment from sprinting down the tunnel, where she had heard Bregadir frantically calling for a healer mere seconds ago. 

Instead, she stops and pivots around to see Corunir collapsed on one knee, breathing heavily and bleeding more so, a deep shadow of crimson growing beneath him. Horror sets in the pit of her stomach.

She stoops to steady him just in time as he falls forward into her arms. “I think… wounds reopened…” he mutters faintly as Ethedis struggles to reposition him to asses his injury. 

“Corunir…?” No response “…Corunir!” She calls frantically, still to no avail. He’s fading fast. She fights to bury the panic welling up in her heart. She has to stay calm if she is to have any hope of saving him. She prays someone else heard Bregadir’s call for a healer, she cannot help both of them.

There is a long cut on his stomach, that seems to be the primary source of the blood. The wound is not fresh, seeming days old yet healing very poorly. No doubt an injury sustained during the Grey Company’s capture and left to fester after he was thrown into that dark cell, just beyond the reach of his kin. It seems to have reopened in the battle. His strength has already been long spent, and this rapid loss of blood would be enough to push him over the edge. His face is pale and his breath slows with each moment, he is minutes away from death.

She puts her hand to the wound, applying as much pressure as she can in her already weakened state. “Please… just hang on. Just a little longer…” she pleads, blinking away tears. He cannot hear her. 

She takes a deep breath and turns her mind outwards, beyond herself and this small corridor. She does not know how deep below the earth they are, but deep enough that she cannot hear the slumbering trees or even reach their roots, but she doubts they would be willing to lend her their power anyway, not while it’s still winter. She keeps searching. She finds some moss, it wants to help, but it is too small for this task. 

After a search that, in reality, barely lasted a moment yet it felt like hours, she finally finds something. An underground river, flowing swift and strong beneath the earth, unaffected and uncaring of all else, yet holding great power. She begs the dark cold waters for aid, to lend her its strength and grant this dying man in her arms new life. 

‘Please. Please just buy him a little more time. Let me save him. It isn’t his time yet. Not here. Please.’

There is nothing. The river has no reason to care. She fears it will give her nothing.

Nothing, and then the sound of rushing water thundering in Ethedis’ ears alone, the shock of cold water in her veins, and an unfamiliar power flowing through her hands. Flowing like a torrent of water too powerful for her to tread in such a weakened state, yet tread it she must. She sends it into Corunir’s near-lifeless body. Close the wound, stop the bleeding, give him the strength to survive. 

There is water now, but not from the river, it flows from Ethedis’ eyes. Her hands tremble and her arms burn as though she has been swimming against the current of an ocean. Acting as a conduit of power such as this would test her limits even on a good day, and this was anything but ‘a good day’. 

She cannot do this. She cannot hold onto this river. Corunir is still bleeding. If she stops now it will not be enough to save him, but she cannot hold on. More water escapes her eyes, a sob from her throat.

Suddenly she feels another set of hands atop her own, calloused, worn, and strong. A familiar voice beside her, it belongs to Golodir.

“Easy, Ethedis, easy. You’re doing well. It will be alright.” If he is afraid, his voice will not betray it, and that is all the better for Ethedis. 

With the practiced confidence only an experienced captain could possess, he manages to steady her. She can hold on a little longer, she is not fighting alone, Golodir found them. He says it’s going to be ok, and she believes him.

She keeps it up just long enough, but not a moment more. She cracks open one eye and sees Corunir's bleeding has finally slowed, if not stopped altogether. Some color has returned to his face as well. She thinks it is safe to stop now. She looks over to Golodir and sees worry in his eyes, but no fear. He simply nods at her, she thinks she hears him say something, but she cannot make out the words. She lets go and collapses. She thinks Golodir caught her, but her body is numb with cold and she can’t feel much of anything. He calls out to her, but she lacks the strength to respond and consciousness quickly abandons her. Corunir is alright at least. Golodir found them, everything will be alright.

(Yaaay Golodad to the rescue! there was meant to be another part to this, where Corunir comes to later and actually has the chance to talk to Ethedis, but it wasn't coming together fast enough so I'll probably just add that part *gestures vaguely* "later". I DO like what I had so far, but it was my first time actually properly writing dialog between those two and I wanted to make sure I did a good job, ya can't rush it. you'll see it later.)

#anyway heeey look my first time actually writing about the ranger I'm so obsessed with! #idk why I put it off so long I think I was just worried about doing a bad job #you know when you have a blorbo you care so much about you're afraid to make content about them bc what if it won't be Good Enough #yeah me with Corunir #I still don't even know how to draw him #ty for the ask friend! #I'm doing these horribly out of order I still haven't technically gotten to the first one yet oops #oh well! #love that cameo of Tossdir literally dying in the background hehe (the reason Bregadir was frantically calling for a healer) #also hi Bregadir how do you keep showing up in my fics? #my favorite background character has to be that moss tho #I wants to help!!! it's just moss it can't DO anything but it wants to help!! I love it #lotro #lotro fic #Corunir #Golodir #lotro oc #Ethedis

[losttheclown]

I did a thing 😅

I made a character that would live on @fluffomatic 's Tickle island.

Is he my best work? No, but I like the way it turned out better than my first attempt.

This shit took me forever, please appreciate it 😭

More about my character ↓

Blue = Answers

Orange = asks

Pink = sections

✧─── ･ ｡ﾟ★: *.✦ .* :★. ───✧

Name

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Name

BurnShell Jansin (Jan-Sin)

Name meaning

Nickname

Burn, Shelly, giggly

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LGBTQIA+

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Sexuality

Uranic

Gender

GenderFaun (any gender but female alignments for those who don't know)

Pronouns

He/they/it/fire

Relationship orientation

Monogamous, but willing to try poly out to see if it works

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Physical appearance & Life

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Race

Demon

Occupation

Tk island Resident

Social class

mhm

Age & Birthday

26, 8/23

They Look

Younger that 20

Eye color

Teal

Hair color

Deep redish brown

Style

Height

Forestcore

6'8

Weight

200

Body build

Skinny, but not scrawny

Skin tone

Reddish Pink 😌

Freckles

No

Moles

No

Scars

Top surgery scars

Piercings

Took them out when accepted for the job, as to not get hurt on accident

Tattoos

No, always wanted one tho

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Family

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Mom/Dad

Relationship

Mom/Dad

Relationship

Step parents

Relationship

Siblings

Relationship

Lover

None At this moment

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Background

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Hometown

Hell

Childhood

I mean as good as it could be in hell

Earliest memories

Being sent to earth

Education

Some college

Religion

Agnostic

Finances

On the poorer side of moderate

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Personality

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Strengths

Really good with animals and kids, good sport about most things

Weaknesses

Absolute introvert, tail gets in the way A LOT he tends to not know where to keep it

Comfortable when

In a very warm setting, reading, or doing anything with people it likes, ext. As long as it's warm

Uncomfortable when

Forced to be in very large crowds

Priorities

Making sure fires friends are safe

Thoughts on self

"I like to think I'm okay, maybe even cool"

Soft spot

His best Ler friend (who isn't set in any way, bc it's not like he's in a rp /s 😒)

Is it clear?

Maybe?

Vulnerability

Tail, it's very sensitive, and it's very obvious (tickle wise and just in general, it's been stepped on a lot)

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Favorite

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Color

Moss green

Music

Pop rock [ghost] (me? Self inserting? Nooo)

Food

Fish, in any form

Book

Doesn't have a favorite, but really likes horror books

Movie

Howls moving castle

Transportation

Walking or skateboarding

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Traits

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Optimistic or pessimistic

Pretty neutral

Extrovert or introvert

Hard introvert

Talents

Can in fact look more human, he looked human when he went in for the job interview, and scared the shit out of a few people when the magic blocker turned him to his natural form.

Skills

Really good at running, like for someone who would rather skip all exercise, fire has great indurance (sorry that's probably spelled wrong, not even my keyboard could figure out what I was trying to spell lol)

Flaws

Would much rather make other people comfortable than himself, even if it's just small things.

Biggest secret

Tail is hella ticklish

Anyone know?

E V E R Y O N E K N O W S

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Extra

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Do they want a family?

Sure, maybe sometime in the future

How gullible are they?

50/50

Drink or do drugs?

Occasionally, never anything hard tho

Anxious quirks

Holding tail more specifically the spade, looking down and kicking at whatever the ground is made of, nervous giggles in tense situations (you can count them as anticipation giggles too)

Stims

Flaps sleeves/hands, tapping on stuff, little jumps when really happy, mimicking sounds/ecolalia

✧─── ･ ｡ﾟ★: *.✦ .* :★. ───✧

That's all! Thank you for reading! ❤

#tickle sfw #tickle island character #transmasc #tickle fluff #tickle art #tickle #tickle content #hiiii <3

[staylavendertea]

ya head canons cause my brain won’t leave me alone

billy is low key a skater boy - he skateboards 🛹🛹 converse high tops, ripped black jeans with bandaids on his knees, and oversized stolen boyfriend jean jackets rolled sleeves god yes he skates 🛹🛹 he and tommy will team up just to be bastards for like ten minutes and do that synchronized talking just to both annoy and creep the hell out of eli and kate

tommy is a rollerskater - and roller blades - the twins are skaters, he totally would have been a roller derby kid i tell you, also quoting everything he hears on the internet “what are you doing out here with all that ass double checked up on a thursday afternoon hella ass” “tommy that’s just a fat pigeon stOP” and even tho he did have a hard time for a while to open up to everyone and be emotional in front of the people he loves, with the help of everyone, he’s slowly learning he can confine in people and have relationships and bonds and that enough is to make me cry at night, i love thomas shepherd and his character so much

kate is always hung over, even when she isn’t - sunglasses on, looking like every day is too much for her head to handle especially with all these dumbass clumsy boys she gotta deal with, just let her chill with cassie at lakes and look at fireflies, but that lake better have good service so she can text billy the first scoop on that celebrity goosip - they’ve been following this shit for weeks, phone service don’t let her down now

teddy is an artist, sketching like always ya know, usually billy ends up unconsciously being most of the drawings, but his favorites to use is watercolor, pretty flat colors and making his friends look all blushy in drawings, the group doesn’t believe him when he says that they’re all cute so he’s made it his life goal to keep complimenting him cause he’s the nicest boy alive - a stranger calls bee cute, teddy will nod and agree because truetrue, but will send a semi threatening death glare

nate is like the teenager that will go on walks by himself and end up stumbling upon abandoned and creepy places and then either like billy/eli/or cassie ends up getting a call at one in the morning because he got either kinda lost or kinda stuck and the gang needs to come get him - he and eli probably have matching jojo clothing merch but eli is a repressed nerd so rip nate who just wants to have matching jojo sweatpants when they go work out together

eli may or may not have done the jojo pose trend of anime characters in the studio he does his boxing and martial arts, katie and cassie may or may not both of saved the video, eli is actually a total repressed nerd but won’t admit it and tommy can totally see it, nate can also see it, why do you think these three argue so much - nate just wants to be anime buddies i tell you - eli is someone who feels very strongly about injustice and gets emotional when all his friends back him up when he speaks out about it - please i need to see eli bradley in more comic books, give him and tommy the fame they deserve

cassie went to the broug and got herself some frogs - not only do i not know if i’m spelling that right or what it is, i just saw the tik tok and the cassie energy was too strong, she likes froggies and makes those tiny moss environments in jars and she likes to chill in nature and steal nate’s flannels and when her, katie, and billy are hanging out, cassie and billy will be gushing about boyfriends ya know with katie making gagging noises in the background

david is that dude that can just read people but is also like really chill about it “like yeah i totally just did a mental psychoanalysis on you just by who your kins are, but i know that you get kinda guarded about it so i won’t say anything because i love and respect you” i love david a lot okay, - he’s also resident technology please make work or i need you to look at this video or photo and prove this shit guy - he’s fixed poor nate has somehow flung this thing across the room like four times now phone on more occasions then he can count but he’s pretty chill about it

noh-varr is a non binary asexual dork that likes aliens and video games, he has a jacket that’s green and has a human getting picked up by a ufo that only says “fuck this. i’m out.” 🛸🛸 and him and katie have given poor mom of the group teddy a heart attack on more than one occasion being deadass serious about storming area 51

america has got her hat on backwards and is ready to fucking party and to mess around with her friends, the best part of her day is to get stuck in abandoned places and flirt with katie, her and noh varr go randonauting like every other day and get so lost, then her and the chaotic twins team up to be mischievous little bastards, her and teddy did pride and racial injustice movement graffiti that one time and she really just here to be the most badass around and protect their group and also like the whole world

(an extra billy one cause i relate to him on an emotional level)

billy is a film kid, like in a non powers au, he’s the dude that literally does all film related classes and is gonna be a film major and the best sfx make up artist, knows all movies/quotes/and endings - he’s the kid that knows the sfx stuff too well, he will liquid latex and cotton ball zombie your ass up if you let him to - you can’t tell me that his favorite genre of movies is horror monster and aliens, but also those pretty aesthetic romance ones that take place in country side france in small towns

these dorks also totally go to abandoned places for adventures (most of them stumbled accidentally upon by nate) and just have fun ya know

these are the most brain forth ones atm, i definitely have more, and will be adding most of these to the young avengers fics i’m working on, but please do add your own !! these dork teens are currently my everything

#young avengers #headcanon #billy kaplan #teddy altman #thomas shepherd #cassie lang #nate richards #eli bradley #kate bishop #noh varr #david alleyne #america chavez #ya #marvel

[sageblogsthings]

🖋 matthias!

ish is the og matthias stan let it be known 🙌😂

but ty for asking about my grumpy old man i love him so much! i’m just gonna chuck some fun facts here and make it seem like i’ve thought about this more than i actually have whoops

idk if this needs a tw but just to be safe very very brief mentions of trauma

when we meet Mathias he’s in his 60′s (i’m thinking 65 probably?)

Matthias used to be a soldier in the Aemornian Army (when he was in his 20′s) and he traveled a lot bc of this

oddly enough, he traveled to Dorian’s homeland of Cornus. He didn’t really like it there, tho he was a fan of the spicy food! there’s even some food that makes u breathe fire for a short time (completely harmless) and he had a lot of fun with that

i’ll get more into this when i do the pen ask for Dorian, but Dorian lived in a very high crime area and had a super messed up childhood. while Matthias doesn’t blame himself for this, he does feel a bit guilty/bittersweet about it because he was stationed in Cornus while Dorian was still pretty young (about 5 or 6)

he would never tell Dorian this, but part of the reason he is so overprotective of him is because he feels like if their paths had crossed sooner he could have saved Dorian from an entire childhood of pain and trauma

he also comes from a traumatic background and he would never wish that on anyone, especially Dorian

another thing he would never tell Dorian, but which Dorian kinda knows deep down is that Matthias sees him as his son. Matthias was married for a time but never had any children. he wasn’t upset about that, he didn’t really want kids anyways but he’s got a soft spot for Dorian <3

Matthias opened The Culterus’ Cup shortly after he was discharged from the Army. he’s always had a dream of making a beverage so good that people would come from all corners of Arnora to try it. he makes Dorian taste-test his experiments and uh they have not exactly gone well yet lol. Dorian doesn’t mind too much tho cuz free alcohol

Matthias spends most of his time taking care of his tavern, but in his free time he loves to go to these large communal dining areas in the middle of town. there’s always a bonfire, music, and lots of stories!

he also loves puzzles, board games, and any sort of strategy games! he actually meets a very sweet man at the communal dining area one day and they often play puzzles and games together. matthias lets him win a lot

i won’t say too much on this but uh he will meet Mikah at some point and i’m really excited to write about that ;P

his favorite color is green! most people think it’s something more intense like red or maybe “basic” like blue, but he fell in love with green when he had to travel through countless forests as a soldier. he loves the color of moss after rainfall the most ^^

he is very short but surprisingly strong. like don’t mess with matthias he will fuck u up lol esp if u comin after dorian

oh lawd this got long but i think that’s most of what i’ve got for him so far! if anyone ever has any questions about him (or any other character) tho feel free to ask! ☺️

#thank u for the ask ish!! didn't realize how much i needed to ramble about him til i wrote this lol #arnora #kit answers #matthias

[ask-ssec]

Eevee Academy Reboot

Might as well post this here too.

Eevee Academy is having a reboot! When? Idk. I have been slowly working on it in the background for the past few months. If you have a background eevee in ssec, and want them to be in Eevee Academy, tell me the name of your background eevee in the comments of this announcement on the Eevee Academy site, their background eevee number (on the list), and, a Paragraph (5 sentences or more) about your character in the world, or a paragraph on who your favorite character in the series is so far! Your eevee have to be currently on the master eevee list! Submissions are currently closed! Please add a middle/ last name, and at least 3 grade Numbers. Eevee Academy is a K-12 Private school. And, most Eevees who sign up will go here, others on the list who did not sign up, and a few will go to Eevee Elementary, Moss rock Middle school, or Eon high. I will close these submissions once I have enough Thank you for your patience! --- (Random Examples) 1. Name: Fred Lucas Tuber Eevee Number: 14 Grades: any Paragraph: Fred is that type of Enigma you only see once in a Blue moon. He has a super squeaky voice, is super hyper, and is pretty crazy. He absolutely hates Kevin for no reason at all, and frequently talks about an eevee named Judy, who seems to be a figment of his overactive imagination. He lives in a house with his morbidly obese mom who hates his guts. His dad is a wrestling super star that everyone knows, but, no one believes Fred when he tells them this because Fred is crazy and the super star denies that he has any kids. 2. Name: August Maki Badge Eevee Number: 3 Grades: 4th grade, 3rd grade or 2nd grade Paragraph: August is a weird eevee who likes to pretend that she is a great detective! She also bites her nails and eats glue sometimes with her bff, Walter. She always carries around a plastic toy camera, to take pictures of things. Ever since she solved the mystery of the missing Candy box, then solved the mystery of the un stuffed teddy, the eevees in the lower grades go to her to solve mysteries and other problems. She ofc, made a business out of this. She has a brother 2 years younger than her, and a just hatched baby brother. Her parents are flareons. 3. Name: Don Markus Banks Eevee Number: 9 Grades: Any grade in High school Paragraph: My favorite character in the series so far is Max. He is just so funny, and, I like his Naruto Bandana! I ship him and Sam SO HARD, Like, you have no idea. They are just. Perfect for each other. Even tho they are kids, you can like, totally see the romantic chemistry uwu. --- Master Eevee List Link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HSWRS3CPrv8agJqIYQ7blfwwsCmeRODirq54oGFdSk

Eevee Academy Site

http://eeveeacademy.smackjeeves.com/comics/2751198/rebooting/

#Eevee Academy #reboot #comic

[nibscribs]

So uhhhh I drew a lot of RWBY this year... only two of these are non RWBY and tbh I could have just as easily put something RWBY for June Template

Retrospective under the cut bc it’s LONG 

RETROSPECTIVE January: First piece of the year! I still like this piece and I think it shows how much I improved from the original version of it. Also I just like looking at it bc it's soft content of my rare pair. I do think I made the rose look photorealistic which looks... bad esp with all the other more stylized flowers, and I got lazy with the bleeding hearts by just drawing one set and flipping them. Emerald's hair also could look better. February:  I made this around GNG week, which was a fun, good time, long before the server imploded on itself. I got really lazy with the backgrounds, obviously, but I do like the poses in this one, tho it helped that I based it off of screenshots from Young Justice. I also just really like how Merc looks in this one. March: March wasn't a very prolific month for art, I don't think I produced much besides this and one comic piece for GNG week. I'm not sure why exactly, I can't find any specific reason why I would be unproductive that month. I'm gonna just assume I was drained from work all the time and didn't have the energy to put out good art, and also I was getting into a slump bc all my art was starting to look same-y. This piece isn't very good, but I chose it because I did it without a reference, and at this point that was going out of my comfort zone. It's obviously not super dynamic, but at the very least you can tell I intended there to be motion to it. April: This also wasn't a very prolific month for art, not as bad as March, but for the same reasons. I was also really starting to feel burnout from the RWBY fandom, specifically wasps and conflict within the GNG server. This was also when the Art vs the Artist meme was popular, and I realized I didn't want to do that meme because my art was too similar and boring, which also brought me down a peg. Though I put out a few good chibis in April, I chose my Mercury redesign bc I was really proud of it. I could never get the Emerald redesign to mesh quite right, but I can say I'm really proud of how Mercury's came out. May: May had me bounce out of my art slump and in full force trying to expand my skills! Specifically exploring painting. Although May was about as prolific as April, what I did create I put a lot into. It was difficult to pick between this and my app of Edison, because I'm really proud of both, but in the end I went with this commission of Mercury because I pushed myself to try and use an interesting perspective for the piece instead of my usual stand still and face the camera pose. Because I pushed myself out of my comfort zone, this was one of the best things I made all year, and may be my favorite piece of the year. June: TIME TO STRESS OUT ABOUT CONNECTICON! So if you follow me on twitter, you might have noticed I made a lot of posts at the beginning of the year low key throwing shade at myself for drawing my oc's instead of more "important" art. Well, that important art that I was procrastinating was con merch, and con was the second week of July, so I really had to get my ass in gear to finish merch on time (spoiler, I didn't finish a lot of it on time). This piece and July's piece are both posters I made for Connecticon, and while I like July's much better, that doesn't mean I find this piece bad. I really should have known that no one at con would realize it was a goonies reference tho -_-; I also lost a lot of love for this piece after season 6 of Voltron, which I watched while I was about 60% of the way through this piece, so I had to force myself to finish it. July: I love this piece!!!! Don't get me wrong, I know it has flaws, but look at it! The lines are so crisp, the colors look good, Roman and Merc's expressions are mwuah chefs kiss, and I just love all of them!!! ... except for Neo. I really didn't do her justice in this piece, her hair is too fluffy, her head is way to oversized to the point that she looks like a bobblehead, and her eyes are too close together. Really if you take out Neo's head that whole problem goes away. I also love all the tiny details I put in this one, from emerald's chaps to roman's rose to Neo's lace parasol. You can tell I was way more passionate about this piece than I was about the Voltron piece.  August:  pretty sure this is when I quit my job cashiering, and thank god bc customers suck. If I was going off of sheer popularity, Chibi Pyrrha would have taken this slot no contest, and while I love chibi Pyrrha, I don't think it was the best of the month. I chose this little princess and the pauper au doodle because I tried a year ago to draw these two dancing, and it looked like dog shit. It was flat and ugly. But this has motion to it, and even looking at it now makes me feel warm and happy inside. It's just a good cute drawing of my otp. September: My piece for the RWBY tarot project! I have a lot of mixed emotions about this one. on the one hand, I love how mercury looks, his expression, the lighting, the visceral gore from his legs (ESPECIALLY THE VISCERAL GORE ON HIS LEGS) and the hands of the undead, all look stunning and I don't think I could be more happy with how they turned out. And then we get to the background. The caduceus isn't the worst thing ever, but it's severely lacking in quality compared to the rendering on mercury in front of it, and a lot of it is clearly pixellated from me trying to stretch and squash it just right. And the fire is a hot (no pun intended) mess. It's flat, incoherent, and doesn't lead the eye anywhere. It's a shame too because I wanted to do more with it, but I a) didn't have enough time or patience to figure out what I needed to do to fix it and b) didn't want to go outside of my comfort level, so I gave up and decided to be satisfied with what I had. October: October was another good month for art, I made a turnaround sheet for Moss, painted a full body (and slightly lewd) Rudy, and made a decent attempt at inktober. Ok, so I got like 2 days in, but I improved a lot on inking from last year! Fun fact! this piece was originally going to be fan art of Lindsay Jones, but after I did some thumbnails to figure out a pose, I thought it would suit White Diamond better, and I could also sell it as merch. I love this piece. I think I captured the sinister mood well, and conveyed the story I wanted to without any dialogue (at least the notes on Tumblr make me assume I did a decent job, lotta people really wigged out lol) I really worked hard to get the lighting right on this one, and I think it shows. My absolutely favorite thing about this piece funnily enough, is Amethyst. I think I just did a great job drawing her and I'm proud of myself ok. Stevens bubble and my trouble figuring out how to get WD's leg just right are the only things that I dislike about this piece, but I might go back and fix those. November: IM SO PROUD OF THIS COMMISSION!!!!!! I worked so god damn hard on this chef's kiss poifect,  and it really shows. I started using a new brush at this point, the Ojing series on Clip Studio Paint, which I recommend and have been using a lot since. I've also been using this shading technique since drawing this. I love how it sort of fades out but it's still really crisp. I also love all the little details that give this piece character, like her shoes and the stripes on her jacket. This piece really takes a lot of the stuff I learned over the year and combines it into one piece, and I could not be prouder of it. I have absolutely no problems with this one, though I do find the weapon a bit plain, but it's what the client described. December: AND NOW IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!! I had been working on this piece since August, going back to it every now and then and getting frustrated. I'm really glad I came back to it and finally finished it, since I love this pair and I put a lot of effort into it back in August. However, I'm also really glad I completely overhauled a lot of it, specifically the flowers. Though I'm not 100% happy with the mums in this one, they look a thousand times better than the mums I had originally sketched back in August, and were part of the reason I had such a hard time finishing this for months. I also thought it would be nice to end the year on the same note it started; with a flower couple. I've definitely learned a lot since January, and I hope to continue growing in 2019! 2019 GOALS!

Work on backgrounds for the love of god

Draw more stuff that isn't RWBY

Perspective

Make more speed paints and post more to youtube in general

#2018 summary of art #2018 retrospective #art progress #year in review #not art