#or anything other than a design really

[cumulusbrume]

hey guys look at my oc he’s so cooolll😋😋

#he doesn’t have a name #or any lore #or anything other than a design really #im too lazy to do anything about that though so bowomp #rain world #rain world downpour #rw slugcat oc #rain world oc #rw oc

[bixels]

This Twitter MLP human redesign drama is a mess, leave me the fuck out of it.

#saw people posting my designs to put down other artists' designs saying that i'm the “correct way” of doing things #don't do that #i don't give a SHIT if people are redesigning these HORSES to be fat or “”“ugly”“” people they're all valid #this whole thing is so dumb just say “i don't like the art style” and move on #“hey op i spent 4 hours of time and effort to redraw your shitty redesign and show you how it's really done” you're fucking weird #you know that right? dedicating that much time to cash in on a hate trend when you could be creating something unique and original with lov #your insistence that human redesigns need to be attractive and symmetrical and anything deviating that is woke psy-op brainwashing #is fucking weird. saw an entire tweet reposting my designs listing off how i “got it right.” bullet point: “looks like real people” #the black fat pinkie design with braces that went viral looks more like a real person than any of my designs you asshole #or maybe you spent too much time in high school bullying people who look like that to notice #personal #delete later #do not use my art to belittle artists who've done nothing wrong this legit made me really angry today

[sysig]

Off to make mischief and terrible decisions for everyone (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Gaster #Papyrus #Sans #Help they keep appearing #Where have I heard that one before lol #Genuinely! I wasn't expecting to keep drawing them but my pencil kept moving and they kept showing up on my paper! #Especially Gaster but the other two plenty as well #Got to employ a bit of my favourite coloured pencil ♪ I Will find a way to use my blue on nearly anything #Luckily for me they come prepackaged with blue magic so that was easy enough #Wiggly baby Papyrus does Not want to go >:( At least he's not being hurt :( #Some smoking Gaster ♪ I still quite enjoy drawing smoke honestly - fun to get to do so with a character who actually smokes haha #You can see I also added swoopy-swoops to his Lost Soul head - I like it much better for being such a small detail #I think it looks weird in black rather than white but against a white background- #Without them he feels....hmm something. Something old that I don't want #Not like the Classic Lost Soul head tho haha - similar but not quite the same! #I love his design ahh ♪ He's really so pretty but so much of that is in his details! Like the way he wears his clothes or holds his body #I'm always a sucker for that style of turtleneck as well haha ♫ #Perhaps his turtleneck keeps the smoke in chest from escaping longer :0 Yet another reason to wear them! #Shot of the little family before things went Completely terrible - before the plates and all that #I'm rather pleased with his hand pose there actually :) Keep an eye on your kids Gaster you've only got the one eye to do so! #And then some silly ones lol - I am desperately curious if animated skeletons would have a hyoid bone #It's not as though hyoid bones are specific to humans! They're just A Type Of Bone! Surely skeletons would have All their bones right? #But in the human skeleton it's not resting against another bone it's just floating there tethered by muscle and sinew #Would it float? Would it rest inside the lower jaw? Would it attach to the neck vertebrae?? #It'd probably get caught on his turtleneck a lot easier than like - getting it caught on his neck bones for example #They have a kind of fused canine-teeth-like structure as well they're like a weird set of tongue-teeth lol #It's just fun to imagine ♪ Similar to how the rest of the skeletal body like - magnetizes? to itself :)

[yujateaandpi]

This concept has been microwaving in my brain for so long— Sharkboy and Lavagirl but what if they were anticapitalist Polynesian demigods fighting big resort corps. Character bios below for anyone who’s interested!

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Akamu is the son of Filipino marine biologist Joseph Ambong and Ka'ahupahau, the shark goddess of Pu’uloa. Raised by his grandmother after his father’s disappearance, Akamu is a PhD student working to protect marine macroecosystems. He’s professional and aloof at first glance, but only those closest to him know how reckless he truly is. He tries to act cool but he’s a bit childish and has a soft side for puns. He also has a cringe obsession with Jason Momoa.

His mana was inherited from his mother and gives him supernatural strength, speed, senses, and the ability to talk to animals. His demigod form is more natural so he takes time at night to let loose in secluded coves. After some slip ups, he’s accidentally started rumors about a horror cryptid named the Sharkman. He’s very proud of it, though Keahi scolds him to keep a low profile.

🌋

Keahi is the 140 year old reincarnation of the volcano goddess Pele. When she was ten, her village was raided during the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893. She was tossed into the ocean and lay buried in her demigod form until Akamu found her in 2010. She awoke with amnesia. She stayed with the Ambongs for a couple years and became close friends with Akamu. After Joseph Ambong disappeared, she bounced around the foster care system both on and off the islands. Her powers manifested uncontrollably during this time, resulting in several arson charges.

After a tough few years, she returned to the islands to work, regain her memories, and reunite with her childhood friend. She still doesn’t remember everything, but she’s trying to enjoy her life a little at a time. Keahi is a peacemaker with a strong appreciation for the natural world. She has a cheerful disposition and comes off as naive sometimes, but deep down she carries the kind of wisdom that’s built from pain. She doesn’t like talking about her past.

Unlike Akamu, her mana was transferred directly from the soul of a goddess, making her essentially immortal. In a thousand years she will become the living embodiment of young underwater volcanoes and new islands. For now, she’s just trying to appreciate living a mortal life (and taking down some greedy tourist economies in the meantime).

I’m open to asks about these characters! I think about them. Every day.

#is this an au in anything else other than name? #not really tbh. No taylor lautner here #the 2005 movie was horrendous but it slayed and I thank it for its service #sharkboy and lavagirl demigod au #sharkboy and lavagirl #sharkboy and lavagirl polynesian au #character design

[tunaf1sk]

A fast little doodle of Blyndeffswap!Lorelai and Molly looking uncharacteristically happy - because this AU has been around for a year now! Thank you so much to everyone who’s been interested, all your nice comments and questions have always brought a smile to my face :D

#my doodles #epithet erased #lorelai blyndeff #Molly Blyndeff #blyndeffswap au #I really wanted to do something a bit more involved for today but this was all I had the energy to draw... #I feel kinda bad that it's been a whole year and I still don't have anything more substantial to show for this AU than character designs #But I just haven't had the time or energy to work on it due to a lot of different life factors #couple that with the fact that there's like 30 other things I also want to work on and it definitely ended up on the back burner #I might pick up the pace more once PoP comes out but we'll see!

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

#my art stuff #digital art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #this is part of a series I like to call “I’m never settling on a singular detailed artstyle” #I have no consistency in drawing realistic people/characters other than my shapy cartoon style #but I truly don’t get enough opportunity to properly shade anything with art in that style-!!! it always looks weird to me-!!!!! #I think some rude lil worm in my brain is wriggling around telling me it’s a futile attempt at still doing realism #cus I’m one of those “gifted” artists that grew up promising his parents he’ll end up among the big names or whatever #constantly training to become better at art but with realism oil paintings as the goal #you know how it is 😔 #I wanna shade my lil funky designs but they never feel good enough to really put energy into or whatever so I compromise with stuff - #- like this where I try to draw characters more accurately while still stylizing them and shading them however I feel like it #which is great and all but I should really learn to give my more relaxed and less perfectionist art a chance #I deserve to enjoy the process and the result without working myself dead #it’s so much easier and rewarding to copy cartoon styles - stylizing realism makes me too anxious of doing it “wrong” #at least cartoon styles give me a goal to reach or a reference to strive towards #man I really should just cut myself some slack altogether #either way - this man is a flustered mess and he’s embarrassed about being called adorable in public or something #being teased in an affectionate way about his sweeter side and stuff #don’t ask why he’s shirtless - anatomy is just a lot more fun for me to draw sometimes #tasteful nudity and all that is extremely gorgeous to me #i need to practice anatomy more cus I just kinda did some shit and went with it this time with a BIT of consideration for muscle structure

[onewolfaday]

025. yasha nydoorin but werewolf au

#my design <3 hi yasha #i cant focus on anything other than cr all day today so. yasha #i loooooooove werewolf au yasha. my FAVORITE canon-adjacent au for yasha #it fits everything. it fits everything #bit by a werewolf as a young kid. used as a weapon her whole life. abused even further by obann. runs away and never stays #someplace for too long bc she sees her wolf as unstable and violent (and well. it is. bc shes traumatized) and so runs on full moons #in the kings cage shes forced to transform by obann and. etc. you get it. i love this au #i have a really weird and specific headcanon for this au which is that instead of her fur turning all white slowly as it grows in #she just suddenly starts shedding like crazy. and then it grows in white. #okay anyway. this is not the place to ramble about cr stuff. oops :-") #werewolf #yasha nydoorin #wolves #critical role

[wretchedraymond45]

idk why but i wnated to draw a spamton... person? creature? thing? and got a little carried away and made a spamton oc djdhdkgdjsbfkgl.. I might make a better version in the future but here he is.. Scammy the II

#dont take him too seriously i just made him for funzies tee hee #i like to think that all scams look like spamton but just kind of different. #scammy the II being one of those spamtony scams #though hes not really based off anything. he just exists #i. hope that made sense #deltarune #my art #designs/refs/other #spamton #spamton oc #scammy the II #ALSO. hes supposed to be a little shorter than the addisonz #im going 2 sleep 🙏 bye #digital #spamily tree

[kiribread]

Ah... so at the beginning of winter break since I was sick and tired having having to draw stuff I didn't really want to at school, I drew and crocheted a bunch and ended up burning myself out. I was probably already burned out going into it so that didn't really help either. I recently got a bit of motivation back so here's some doodles! >:]

The first one was one I did randomly the second one was more intentionally doodle practice if you will.

Also it turns out doing quick imperfect doodles and experimentation can be really refreshing! At school we've really been hammering in realism which is fine, but doing it over and over again for months making sure everything is perfect contently with little room for creativity is exhausting. I'm actually kind of excited for the typography unit for whenever we get to it bc it's something other than realism! So yeah ig the moral of the story is doodle every once in a awhile tee hee.

#hehehe #wow #idk if i'll ever get to a Christmas's post this year or not but i will see how i'm feeling tomorrow #toga and ochaco are both really fun to draw! #both have simple yet effective designs! #Im pretty sure with the first page I was originally just practicing with edgeshot then moved into other characters #the second page i was more so playing around with poses #filling the page #and angles more than anything #really proud of all the angles actually even if they're not the most anatomically correct #the lil Ryukyus other lil chibis were fun aswell! #edgeshot #ryukyu #toga himiko #ochako urakara #miruko #best jeanist #that's all im taging bc i don't feel like taging everything in here #also ik the tags got messed up just ignore that T^T

[ruerock]

Do you ever wonder what people do with the adoptables after they're sold?

they have fun with them, id hope! sometimes buyers will talk to me about how the adopt joins some specific oc world or a dnd campaign and i find it really wholesome

#rue answers #i dont really think of anything specific when creating a design #other than i hope it finds home and make someone happy

[sysig]

Clash of sensibilities (Patreon)

#Doodles #Just Desserts #Villainsona #More concept art! These are kinda-sorta leftover doodles that've been hanging around that I want Somewhere #The first two are anyway the latter two are actually vent-adjacent lol #First two first! #I always prattle on about how perfect I think Charm's design is but agh her balance of flat and 3D shapes are so fun to me #My notes make sense to me but they are pretty all over the place so let's see if I can clarify lol #The numbers are how many pop-out features she has - anything that doesn't share a plane with her body (her head/torso/arms/legs) #So things like her hair - her glasses - the collar of her shirt but not the shirt itself since that's flush with her torso #Think like constructing a pattern where the clothes are part of the doll itself rather than removable articles #And while her hair is flush with what would be her body it's still an ''extra'' shape! Hopefully that makes sense lol #Anyhow - the dashes are flat features like her collar or the tops of her shoes on her thighs - they pop out but are flat shapes #As opposed to pop-outs like her bon-bons or her wings! Those are very 3D! The bon-bons are spheres and her wings are thin but not flat #I think she has a lovely distribution of flat and 3D pop-outs :D Considering she was designed with 3D in mind! Which I've gotten away from #Probably as evidenced by my difficulty coming up with her TVAU design pfftbl #I do still really like the idea of the dark stripes for her legs and scales for her body - and I canNot let that teardrop jewel design go #Oh and TVAU wings /are/ flat! Since they'd be animated in the same style as Kaiein and he's mostly 2D :) #I dunno hmm - it's hard to think of what features I'd give her that aren't just Her Outfit again #Probably it's the bon-bons that have me especially caught up they're just such a wonderful break between her torso and legs agh #Designed myself into a corner lol how do top or bottom half of design lol #As for the other two pfff |P Kaiein nonsense #Not irl at least lol minor blessings but still frustration! He's such an annoying little voice #She's taking none of it as evidenced lol #Don't let him in he just causes problems

[neatokeanosocks]

GO WATCH THE OCTOPUS LADY ON YOUTUBE, SHES SO COOL AND I'M LEARNING SO MUCH

#i didnt want to do a basic 2-sex system for these aliens. they're not descended from anything on earth. their dna is WACK. #sooooo... what if each form was a sex :) #alsooo consider... #Proteans: 'oh cool yall have around 2 sexes too?' #Humans: 'yeah! theres social roles and different language cases 'n everything for them! we call all that 'gender'!' #Proteans: 'huh. sounds kinda tiring to switch between that every single time you change sex. is it really that important to focus on?' #Humans: '...well most of us...dont do that very often??' #Proteans: '...i think theres been a mistranslation' #shitpost #they're changing sex technically not gender. i dont mean to steal genderfluid peoples modus operandi #maybe some proteans are genderfluid when they integrate into human society. #idk man i just recently learned theres no difference between an egg and a sperm other than whichevers got more nutrients packed with it #still trying to absorb that. it's just... so arbitrary #i mean. sex and gender are arbitrary even within a human framework. but the words we use for THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE ON EARTH are arbitrary #character design #speculative biology

[poisonouspastels]

#i figured this would be better suited for a separate post continuing from here #I've had people get angry at me for giving Steve a proper strongman build - thus making him fat and muscular in the process #ive gotten people mad at me for making him his direct colorpicked skin tone. got told I made him ''the wrong color'' for it #got called slurs #got told i need to just ''take a joke'' when im getting right fully angry at people telling me im wrong for making his AU design that way #been quite literally told our art looks ''ugly as hell'' when people ran out of bigoted arguments #its all just getting really hard and really tiring to keep doing what i love when everyone is vocal about hating it #and very few people are vocal about liking it #i do art for me dont get me wrong. and people have been supportive. #but i cant help but wonder if anyone would have even cared about the mega ref at all if it hadn't been surrounded by people full of hate #its just hard to stay motivated and put my all into something that's gotten so much backlash for stupid reasons you know #i've been putting so much love into my work surrounding this AU lately. my writing and my art. for over the past year now #i try not to ask anything in return other than for people to just pay attention to it at all. give it a reblog #but the one time we have something out of it become popular its because people are stupid and bigoted #i dont care about numbers this isnt about that. i just care about returning the passion i put into the world. #if anyone wants to send anything my way feel free. i could use it #sorry for venting

[runningatypufullspeed]

WOULD YOU GUYS LIKE TO SEE MY FUGLY UGLY ASS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE X FAHRENHEIT 451 CROSSOVER DRAWING THAT I WAS FORCED TO DO FOR SCHOOL….. ITS SO UGLY AND MONTAG IS

WHITE.

AND THE HOUNDS ARE DISGUSTING THE COLORING IS SO SHITTY AND MILDRED …. Well ok she looks alright kindof but the COLORING ….. SKETCH WAS BETTER but do you guys. Do you still want to see it…….,,,,,,

ALSO NO OFFENSE TO WHITE PEOPLE PLEASE I LOVE YOU GUYS ����😁👍 within reason

#like ok maybe it isn’t. THAT bad #NO NO I TAKE THAT BACK I JUST LOOKED AT IT RIGHT NOW AND THE COMPOSITION IS ALL FUCKING VOER THE PLACE #IT. IT IS. THAT BAD #IF YOU GUYS SAY YESS YOULL SEE #ok but nasty bad art aside I know some of you will be asking why white Montag is such a bad thing and #there isn’t anything wrong with it!!! it’s just that for me personally #after I did a bit more thinking I was. physically incapable of perceiving Montag as anything other than POC/nonwhite #so when I look back at my old f451 art and stare into the eyes of a pale skittish twink it just #it doesn’t click. like that isn’t MY Montag if ykwim #now trembling BROWN skittish twink. that’s a different story #AGAIN I DONT have any issues with ppl making their own versions white I just think that . for me specifically. he looked a bit funny #a little off. a bit too crackerish for my liking #where is bros melanin 😭 #I’m complaining right now but if I wanted to I could just… go in and try and make the skin tone darker #I might do that depending on how tired I feel after doomscrolling #also if it matters even though I have read the book over at least 8 times now not once have I touched either of the movies. #and it will STAY THAT WAY. until I completely log my notes for the book #then I can move on to the movies 🥰 #but I will admit 2018 did sort of lead me to having a change of heart w my design. just a little. just a teensy bit. kinda. sort of? #actually not really now that I think about it #I have my own reasons. #TOO MANY WHITE PEOPLE MY EYES THEY BURN AAAYHHHHH MY EYES OW OW OW OWIEEEE #my Beatty design was so white that my eyes developed stage 4 cataracts #I needed a palate cleanser that WASNT Millie… oh god my Millie design… #she was white there too. terrible #it’s okay… 💔 I’ve since learned and moved on #ARGH GUYS I DONT HATE WHITE PEOPLE I JUST THINK THAT MORE SKIN COLOR VARIATIONS WOULD E NICE

[troius]

#Bleach #Troius reads Bleach #ulquiorra cifer #kubo really said #this design is too cool for anything other than a two-page spread #he was right

[muninnhuginn]

kinda neat how media can be used as a jumping off point to learn about new things. there are the obvious things like documentaries, but then there are all sorts of other things. when 'hamilton' first got big, you ended up with people learning about aaron burr and the new york water system and various trivia from usa history around that era which wasn't even featured in the musical itself.

when 'mr bates vs the post office' came out recently over here (UK), a whole lot of people were able to appreciate the impact the whole horizon/post office affair had on its victims. sure, the story has been in the news for a few years now, but it's the first time it's been a story actively discussed in daily life. and people learning more about it has actively pushed the government to consider speeding up compensation or mass exonerations.

and even aside from these obvious instances, there are a lot that don't tell you up front and you realise as you're watching. when shows and films and books reference real life events through the veneer of fiction. suzume, referencing the tohoku earthquake of 2011 (something I imagine pretty much every japanese citizen is aware of - suzume's own age is very deliberate in how she lost her mother to the quake. she was very young at the time it happened, but it still had a huge impact on her and many others). link click, referencing the 2008 sichuan earthquake (and deliberately having the arc revolve around school-age children in a run-down old building when irl one of the reasons the casualties were so high was because of poor construction of school buildings). various kdramas referencing generational SK disasters: imf financial crisis (explored in 'reborn rich', but I imagine many other shows), sampoong department store collapse (referenced in 'move to heaven', but again, once I knew the history, it made a lot of sense why so many corrupt villains in kdramas were specifically involved in construction).

it's a mix of how, if you know the events being referenced, they'll impact you more. but if you don't know the events, then it gives you a reason to learn. I personally had very very vague memories of the 2008 earthquake, just in terms of some clips on the news at the time. I had no idea about the various factors that made the disaster so much worse until I realised what was being referenced when watching the show and decided to read up on it.

I have somewhat conflicted feelings on how fictional (or dramatised in the case of mr bates) media approaches specifically *disasters*, as opposed to other historical events, but I think the shows I've mentioned here at least take a victim-first approach.

#I would also mention tangentially that spy x family uses a mishmash of real history but it doesn't fully map one to one #so I didn't really want to put it in the main post when the others are talking about specifics. like yeah sxf sorta does cold war #and a lot of the countries are somewhat analogues (westalis/ostania being the obvious ones and a load of place names matches german places) #but I think given the whole commentary is more focused on war and propaganda in general rather than doing a deep dive on the actual cold wa #idk what this is. just been musing lately and seems like everyone's been watching mr bates vs. and then I ended up on a wiki spree #finding out about dutch child benefits scandal and robodebt in aus. I did know about the horizon/post office thing before but the other two #brand new to me #also if you noticed how I just designated everything as a disaster that's more because I'm not sure the best wording #than claiming that somehow the post office scandal or the imf crisis just happened independently or anything