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genopaint · 2 days

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Week 16 of the Daily Dragon Challenge is here! Apologies on the delay for posting this... I was lazy. BUT!! We're finally in the 100's!!

As always you can follow me on twitter where they’re posted daily

And read more info on each of them below the cut

Daily Dragon #105 - Garchomp

Figured it'd be the perfect time to draw this fella since I just beat Platinum for the first time yesterday! Sadly I didn't end up getting one on my team but they're SUCH a cool dragon all the same

Daily Dragon #106 - Rex

One of the cutest Mario dragons! There's just something so charming about this little guy

+ 2 variants

While drawing this it really dawned on me how interesting this enemy is. It's one of the many Mario enemies that only appeared in 1 main series entry, but unlike a lot of other similar enemies it just will randomly appear in spinoff content a lot. Not even just as cameos, but like actual tangible enemy appearances. It's been an enemy in 3 games post SMW, 4 if you count the Minecraft Mario thing. That actually puts it over a LOT of random Mario enemies, but it still doesn't appear enough to be a Mario staple enemy. idk just kind of interesting to me lol

Daily Dragon #107 - Shelly Draws

A kobold with a passion (and a horde) for Trading Cards! She loves trying out new ones, and dreams of one day making her very own. Her favorite food are hamburgers.

This is a redesign of an old kobold girl from a Monster Girl design challenge thing I did back in 2016! Sadly I don't remember her name, but I do remember that I gave her a passion for trading cards. Which is more important than a name anyway, so I gave her a new card-pun name

Daily Dragon #108 - Koibito

My friend Sox's super cool Piranha Dragon! This design is super cool and I love Dragon hybrids of any kind! Thank you for letting me include them in this challenge!!

Daily Dragon #109 - Neonagon

Strange 2D creatures that appear on walls in cities. Be careful when using regular weapons on them, because their appearance doesn't make the walls any more malleable!

Another redraw! This was from a prompt request I made in 2020! I think it's a neat concept and it was a simple to do and I kinda didn't have huge drawing energy today lol

Daily Dragon #110 - Field Dragon

These incredibly tiny dragons are just slightly larger than berries. They use their spikes to collect various pieces of food while out and about, as well as breaking open seeds and nuts to eat!

Daily Dragon #111 - Fumedradon

Odd fume spewing dragons that are always found laughing and moving oddly as their nests are filled with the strange smoke the billow out. If you're going to deal with one, wear a gas mask

is... is this the first holiday dragon so far??? of course i ended up only doing that on THIS holiday and not any other.... Also 4/20 landed on day 111 isn't that neat :)

#dragon #dragons #character design #creature design #kobold #scalie #anthro #pokemon #garchomp #super mario world #fanart #my stuff #oc

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tgmsunmontue · 2 days

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Where do I know you from? 2/?

Hangster crackfic. There are too many Jakes and Bradleys for Jake and Bradley to be dealing with. Or the Universe is just as fed up with them being blind.

PART ONE

PART TWO

Answers do not miraculously present themselves and he decides to switch to water so that he can at least try and track what’s going on, wants to hear the answers to whatever Rooster Three is asking Rooster Four, who is apparently a tattoo artist. Okay then. At least that will be easy enough to remember.

Then Rooster number five walks in and Jake thought Rooster was tall, but this Rooster is taller, several inches taller and Jake looks around helplessly. He’s not strong enough to resist looking at this many Roosters, everywhere he turns there is at least one in his line of sight and his brain is noting that they’re all unfairly attractive, while another part is wondering whether an orgy with versions of the same person is really an orgy.

“I wonder why you ended up so tall,” Rooster Three is saying, head tilted as he studies Rooster Five and Jake wonders if everything remained proportional.

“I ate all my vegetables. What’s going on? Where are we?”

“This is a Navy bar. I’m guessing parallel universes, but we’re all being pulled here for a reason.”

“Wow. This is fascinating. What have you discovered so far?”

“Well, none of us are in the Navy.”

“What?” Jake interrupts, looking at Rooster Three.

“Florist, forensic accountant, tattoo artist…” Rooster Three says, pointing at Rooster One, Two and Four.

“And you?” Rooster Five asks Rooster Three.

Jake’s head is starting to hurt.

“I’m an engineer, but I’m also a professor.”

“Huh. Cool. I got my PhD in physics, but only so I could figure out how to jump out of planes better.”

“And your Jake? What does he do?”

“He’s a naval aviator.”

“Same as mine. Interesting.”

“Why? Why is that interesting?” Jake interrupts, trying to follow the volley of words back and forth.

“What does your Bradley do here?”

“He’s a naval aviator. Why?”

“Oh shit… a universe where he went to boat school.”

“No. No he enlisted.”

“What?” Rooster Three and Five say simultaneously and Jake draws back a little.

“Uh. He enlisted?”

“Why did he need to enlist?”

Jake shifts in his seat, because he only knows about all of this because he saw Bradshaw and Maverick’s fractured relationship and then saw how it has slowly been getting stitched back together, slowly and painfully.

“Uh. Maverick pulled his papers from USNA.”

“And Ice let him?”

“Ice?” Jake asks.

“Iceman. Tom Kazansky?”

“Uh… he’s dead?”

Both Roosters go pale, shaking their heads in denial and Jake wonders if he needs to remind them that this isn’t apparently their universe anyway, so no harm no foul.

“This is fucked up,” Rooster Five mutters, looking close to tears.

“But you know who he is,” Rooster Three says to Jake. “I need a bigger piece of paper.”

Jake needs a drink.

Screw drinking water so he can deal with the situation better.

Maybe it will make more sense if he’s drunk.

Yet another Rooster has walked in, raised an eyebrow and then just politely asked Penny if she needs a hand behind the bar. She’s accepted and told him that he could deal with all his own people, and now Rooster Six is mixing cocktails, clearly knows his way around behind a bar. He slides one across to Jake and nods his head, lips twitching in amusement.

“You look like you need this.”

“Thanks,” Jake says, and he doesn’t normally drink cocktails, but this is fresh and sweet, hints of pineapple and he takes another sip, salutes Rooster Six with it and gets a wink back.

He is so fucked.

Nope. No. He was wrong. Now he’s fucked. A new Rooster has arrived, wearing scrubs, and that shouldn’t be as hot as it is. Doctor Bradshaw? Nurse Bradshaw? God. Regardless he looks good. Rooster Three and Five have acquired paper and tape, sticking multiple pieces together to make one large sheet. There are columns. And different colored pens. They’re asking questions in the name of science and Jake learns that Rooster Seven is in fact a vet and has no idea what has happened.

Well that makes two of them.

Although he knows that all the other Roosters also have no idea, with the exception of Three and Five.

Weirdos.

The door to the Hard Deck slams open then, and his breath catches. It’s Rooster in uniform, the first Rooster to walk in and be a naval aviator and he hopes like hell this is his Rooster. Rooster waves his hand, looking annoyed.

“Why does the weird shit always happen to me?”

Rooster Three and Five both seem to perk up, turning towards Rooster Eight who looks like he just wants to turn around and walk out.

“For fucks sake… start from the top of the list again I guess.”

“What?” Jake asks, but then Rooster Eight is kissing him and Jake doesn’t have time to even begin kissing back before Rooster Eight is pulling back and frowning.

“Huh. That’s didn’t work.”

“Did you expect it to?” Rooster Three asks, leaning forward with interest.

“Well, no. But I hoped. We don’t even know what made us swap bodies…”

“Wait, you’ve swapped bodies? With who?”

“Jake.”

Jake is shaking his head, mouthing no no no, hands held up in supplication but both Rooster Three and Five look fascinated.

“Not you!” Rooster Eight states. “Although, you do look pretty much exactly like my Jake. But you don’t know ASL.”

“Uh. No?”

“Hmm. I greeted you in ASL when I arrived and you just blanked me. It’s how I knew.”

Jake looks confused.

“I know ASL in your universe huh?”

“Yeah, you’ve been teaching me so I can communicate with Ice better.”

“Ice is deaf?”

“No, the cancer.”

“The what now? Cancer? He got cancer? Is that what he died of here?”

“Wait. Ice is dead here?” Rooster Eight asks, looking just a upset as Three and Five had earlier. Jake is so confused.

“Uh. Admiral Kazansky? Yeah… about a year ago. Why?”

That seems to cause a flurry of conversation and questions and Rooster Three and Five are adding a column.

“So eight of us so far and only one has become a naval aviator. And I’m guessing your universe and this one are… maybe similar? No USNA and papers pulled? But your Ice is alive,” Rooster Three says, pointing at Rooster Eight, who nods.

Jake doesn’t understand why the late Admiral Kazansky is so important to this many Roosters.

“Uh… do you have a column for no-one being dead and no-one in the navy?” Rooster Six asks.

“Pivot points. There have to be pivot points –” Rooster Five is muttering.

“Or timeline splitting points right? My dad dying, my mom dying, then Maverick pulling my papers and then Ice’s cancer and then the mission…”

“Jesus that sounds like an awful universe…” the Rooster behind the bar says, his eyes wide and multiple pairs of eyes swing his way.

“What?”

“What’s it like in your Universe then?”

“Uh. Well. For a start my parents are both alive. And I have… a big family I guess? And Pete and Tom are also both alive and together.”

“Maverick and Admiral Kazansky? Together?” Jake asks.

“They’re together in my universe as well,” Rooster Three states, and Rooster Five is nodding in agreement and Jake bites his lip, wonders how badly Iceman’s death hurt Rooster or Maverick in this universe if he was so important in all these other ones.

#Hangster #Sereshaw #Top Gun Maverick fanfic #where do I know you from?#this got a little sadder then I thought but it's still fine

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secondarily-firstly · 3 days

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Requested by @arrloww (Hehe yay! First request!)

Kyle Garrick x genderfluid!insecure!Reader

unedited | sfw | “Monster in the Closet” | Masterlist

Themed around Reader’s discomfort with their body, so I’m counting it as a warning

Might make a part 2 at some point with actual comfort but here’s something for now (I gotta relearn how to write fluff tbh :/)

It’s not very good — I haven’t written in a WHILE

Standing before the long mirror in your room, which had long ago been hidden behind the door to conceal it, the breath in your lungs just felt…stale.

A shirt too baggy to fit your figure. The folds of the cloth extending in a halfway decent crumble around hips far too shaped for displeasure. An uncomfortable feeling of suffocation around your neck from the collar, and you tug on it twice to try and loosen it. Eyes drifting down to the way the shirt also draped over your chest…

You let out a soft groan as you tucked the mirror back behind the door, eyes catching yourself one last time. Wearing a face, and a body, that just…didn’t feel your own.

The evening was supposed to go well. You’d been chiding yourself to live up to its expectations all week, knowing full well that you likely still would let both yourself, as well as your boyfriend, down.

He had gotten back this morning, and of course the first thing he’d done upon walking through that door, was to bring you into his arms. Holding you tight against his chest, one arm around your waist to draw soft shapes into your back, the other raised over your shoulder to gently hold the back of your head against his cheek. In that moment, his warmth, as well as his love, had bathed you in familiarity you’d so rarely feel when he was deployed. He loved you. Oh, how he loved you.

The glitter of the exchange melted away into a comfortable setting, by the time he’d kissed you. Smiling against your lips as he always did, with each little kiss across your lips, cheeks, and forehead. With one final kiss to the tip of your nose (“because it’s such a cute nose, sweet’art!”) and a stroke of his thumb across your cheek, he disappeared into the bedroom to shower and dress down to his casuals.

Which was how you got to where you are now, standing hiding from the mirror as though it were the monster in your closet, dressed in a shirt that felt too big, pants too long, fighting your hair without a mirror to prepare for a night in with your boyfriend.

You smile when he emerges from his shower, a towel held around his waist with a sheepish grin, walking past you to grab a set of clothes from his closet. You only watch, giving him a soft look. Eyes he’d fallen in love with long ago.

You loved him. He loved you. But oh, how you sometimes wished you could love yourself. The way he so shyly ducked back into the bathroom upon emerging in such undress…as though he had something to hide. He was beautiful, you thought. A beautiful man. With a warm smile and eyes that always seemed to carry with them a sense of ease. Soldier or not, sergeant or not…he was your Kyle. Your beautiful Kyle.

You look down at yourself again, bottom lip between your teeth. Pulling uselessly at the hem of your shirt, and tugging up the waistband of your pants. Awkwardly shuffling your feet as you glance up at the bathroom door. You hear shuffling, and the sound of the sink running so he could wash up his face. A routine you could recite with ease. You wondered how he could face that mirror so easily every time, sometimes just watching him get ready for his days, or for dates. In awe of how easy it seemed to him. An ease you wished you could possess as well.

The bathroom door opens, and your smile returns to your face. Hands at your sides, as though they weren’t just tugging at your clothes, or pushing around skin you’d grown to hate. Marks of old pain or old habits which had long since grown numb to your abrasive touch. A body you wished could just go numb with them sometimes.

You meet his eyes, and he meets yours. That smile on his lips lighting up the room, and he opens his arms for you again.

The glitter in his eyes just makes it so hard to tell him no.

#Unedited #call of duty #kyle gaz garrick #cod gaz #kyle garrick x reader #Genderfluid reader #x genderfluid reader #reader insert #If I’m missing tags pls let me know #Seconds writes

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hitrone · 5 months

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i’m gonna be insane guys

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #st ds9 #ds9 #elim garak #julian bashir #odo #quark #i FINALLY actually started watching ds9 #i’m so happy #i’m soooooo in love with everyone this is crazy #so far trying to figure out how to draw them

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creatureesque · 3 months

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many doodles. and bilbo with big cape

#still trying to figure out how i want to draw them. kind of want to lean into stylisation more but so far im just doodling #especially gandalf...hes a delight to draw #gandalf #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #the hobbit #woop.jpg

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artkaninchenbau · 9 months

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An AWS comic

#My art #For the record I am not a medical professional and as far as I know AWS isn't even something you can be diagnosed with???#It's so hard to describe what the two sensory hallucinations really *FEEL* like #Like the time one... You know how a dramatic slow motion scene looks like in an anime?#It's like that but if you made it a 60 fps interpolated version of it #It is an absolutely bizarre feeling #Meanwhile the hyper awareness and everything feeling intense feels like how a fisheye lens shot in an anime feels #No I could not be bothered to try to figure out how to draw that for this comic #For the record I haven't actually had those visual hallucinations since I was a small small child #Hell I don't even think I had any hallucinations in my teens at all like #The sensory ones just kinda started happening again in the past 7 years or so?#Also the swelling sensation I've only had once so far. Usually I get the hyper awareness sensation #(Also sometimes I get this intense feeling of swaying when I go to bed but that might not be an AWS thing??)#(Like there's other things that could make you feel like you're rocking on a boat when laying down so I didn't include that)#No I have never talked to anyone about these hallucinations because for the longest time I didn't know what they were #And they are like. Harmless. Like I'm 100% aware they're just strange sensations but not real at all #They last max 15 minutes if even that long and they happen like super rarely #Only once have I had the hyper awareness be SO INTENSE it made me feel distressed #So like. It doesn't really affect my life at all? So why bother with it?#Also IDK if I could even go to a doctor and ask about AWS and have them know what that even is #And even if I could as far as I know there is no treatment for it so like. Whatever #As long as I don't start having distressing hallucinations or visual hallucination's I'll be fiiiiiine

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sleepysheepytea · 1 year

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...i wanted to draw some kitties

#i sat there for like 30 mins trying to figure out how to draw his legs #i didnt know how they'd bend #i spent far too long trying to find a ref of his legs bent #so that was funny #tickle art #puss in boots tickle #lee!puss #ler!kitty #im love them

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cryptid-muffin · 2 months

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simple scavenger and mixmaster doodles as i fist fight art block

#mixmaster #scavenger #transformers scavenger #constructicons #transformers #maccadam #don’t think to hard about the proportions #im to sick to care #and also have been spending months trying to figure out how to draw them #it’s been more difficult than I anticipated🥲#this is the closest ive gotten so far

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attaboy-art · 2 years

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Your art is really cool!!! Also your pin post says requests are open so if it’s ok 👉👈 Luke with littol Kat? Or Luke with Flora? They are fambly

thank you!!! AND THEY ARE FAMILY INDEED!

ty for this request... i loved every moment of it i love the puzzle kids so much

[Image ID: A collection of digital drawings of Flora Reinhold and Luke Triton. On the left is a large, fully colored, full-body portrait of Luke and Flora wearing detailed and fancy outfits and admiring them in the mirror. Flora, who is drawn black in every drawing, is standing straight up, facing the viewer, and is in awe at her outfit. She has her hair in a set of parted twists, with her signature curl in front of her forehead, with a large red bow at the back. She's wearing a short-sleeved white button down shirt with a red and green striped tie with a brown icon of an apple at the end, as well as a long, poofy, burgundy skirt with thin gold double stripes at the hem and gold leaves embroidered across the skirt, with multiple white frilled petticoats beneath. She's wearing calf-high pink and green argyle socks and white platform shoes with brown soles and accents. Luke is beside her, also facing the viewer, is wearing a blue beret with a dark blue paw print on it, a long light blue overcoat with a dark blue bird embroidered on the right lapel, a white button down, a red bowtie with thin gold stripes, white tights, and white and brown saddle shoes. The top right drawing is a digital painting made with a chalk-like textured brush of Flora, in yellow shorts and a red bowtie with her hair half up and half down, and Luke, in his usual outfit, on a large grassy hill. Flora is leaning back against the wind and flying an orange kite with a rainbow tail. Luke is semi-obscured by the hill, smiling and holding onto his hat with one hand and waving with the other. There is a large white cloud behind them. Below this painting is a simple drawing of Luke and Flora, drawn monotone in blue and orange, respectively, lying down on a rug and staring at a puzzle. Luke is defeated and Flora is deep in thought. A caption, pointing to the puzzle, says that the puzzle is worth 70 picarats. Finally, there is a small drawing of Luke and Flora, in their regular outfits, pointing to the screen together in the same form as the "Correct" screen one gets when solving a puzzle in the Professor Layton games. There is a gold shine around their joined pointing hands. /.End ID.]

(reblogs > likes!)

#literally. thank you so much anon #ive had a rough september so far n drawing flora and luke be happy together has been a mood lifter for sure :') theyre so siblings...#i love them so much you dont understand. flora deserves to have fun goddamnit #also sorry ive been so slow with these but auuugh. homework 😭#i hope u guys enjoy per usual #art #fanart #illustration #painting #professor layton #flora reinhold #luke triton #also. gonna maybe try to figure out how to be more concise with my ids because idk if its like. Proper or not for them to be this long #ive read that the more detail the better though? so we'll see #i just want my work 2 be accessibke #accessibile. fuck

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waywardsalt · 4 months

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Have you ever thought about how Linebeck describes Jolene as "crazier than a rabid squid"- only to then be possessed by a literal rabid squid later in the game?

Cause I sure have- especially after seeing a lot of your BellumxLinebeck stuff

mmmmghmm im gonna be honest i haven't thought about it much at all

linking it to my bellum x linebeck thoughts, im not too sure what to make of it in context with my other linebeck notes and w/e

there's also my idea that linebeck has a special interested in shellfish and by extension squids, and the idea of him having a weird thing for bellum, and just... enjoying sealife, and it's kinda of...

he compares her to a rabid squid to link in order to i think... offer a shorthand explanation of what she's like, and i think it (with some other stuff) is kinda just another little peek into how he might feel abt her?

i mean he also compares link to a dog in that one letter? i'm not sure where im going with that one. i dont think linebeck particularly likes dogs

i'm not sure abt the link between that and him getting possessed, jolene is kind of just... there a lot of the time and doesn't really do anything except 1) show that linebeck has enemies and 2) show that people know about link's quest by the end, linebeck generally references sea creatures a few times in ph

relating to bellum x linebeck, i dont see him comparing jolene to a squid an indicator of anything in relation to that, with linebeck having a thing for bellum its more of like. there's a lot of complicated ideas i have with what goes on between them during bellumbeck and bellum being a squid thing is more linebeck having a bit of a monsterfucker streak and having a bit of a thing for like. being tied up. as for literal squids he kinda just likes them as food and to dissect and learn about

like i think 'rabid squid' is more like linebeck just tossing out some derogatory shorthand to explain how he thinks of jolene as some fucking. violent annoyance he has to deal with that he doesn't fully understand

tbh i see the comparison but imo it comes down to a difference in characters and interactions and histories, there is the rabid squid thing (and i think in the manga too theres a vague parallel drawn ig) but im not. sure. what there is there just beyond. linebeck talks about sea creatures and wants to get the fuck away from jolene

i'm not entirely certain what you've been thinking about with that comparison, but i haven't been thinking much about it and it's kinda. eh ig???? its something

#asks #musicncomics #like im gonna be real jolene is a character i do everything i can to avoid half of the time #im not too sure what your thoughts on this are but i can tell you like jolene leagues more than i do so like. idk #idk i have a hard time talking abt jolene bc i Do Not like her so im not really sure beyond this stuff its just. idk #bellum also isnt a literal squid like looking at actual squids the most comparisons are surface level and dont work too deeply #he kinda just looks like one at first glance but 1) doesnt line up well enough and 2) we dont have enough info on him anyways #hes more a reference to a squid than an actual squid bc there is the reference to sperm whales and giant squids fucking hating each other #but while oshus is literal whale bellum is like. some thing in the shape of a squid #im not sure what parallels oyu can draw between the jolene thing and bellum thing. if anything theyre opposites?#w/ jolene its like things got so bad (or w/e) that he just robbed her n fucked off and she decided that was enough to warrant murder #while with bellum things get so good (w/ link and co) that he risks his life for em and is turned against them for it?#tbh this kinda comes down to me having a pretty negative bias against jolene and. that ship. so yeah sorry #im not gonna give this any main tags or anything this is way too far off the beaten path and kinda negative #idk i hc linebeck as gay and a lot of other linebeck hcs just kinda. suggest that he kinda had a really shit time w/ jolene #i dont like her im trying to figure that shit out so i can be like. fair at least in how i write her but i dont like her #salty talks #sorry that i keep tearing away from the rabid squid thing but its like a minefield when i try to talk abt anything w/ jolene #theres not a ton of parallels or like shared themes or w/e and its just too dissimilar in little ways that its just. a thing #ill add this in a few hours later idk if youll see jt but like. i can go in depth and discuss stuff #in dms like im fine with that its just weird in posts bc like tagging and my thoughts are a mess #like if you wanna elaborate on your thoughts thats fine

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jabberwockprince · 6 months

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gotta crawl outta bed..... to draw more re1999 characters..............

#im trying to like. doodle them all first #so i can figure out how i wanna draw them #so far i have medicine pocket and dikke #IRONICALLY #PAVIA KEEPS RESISTING ME. GRRR BARK I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DRAW YOU

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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years

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Bestie your art is absolutely incredible, so good in fact that it's given me creative energy.

Anyway, I feel like you're someone who would put a lot of thought in your layout, so if you have any thoughts behind it I would love to hear them.

!! That is such a huge compliment thank you so much. I hope you enjoy whatever you decide to do with that creative energy! I have reread the tags you left on that piece about five times because they are so so sweet and you took the time to point out specific parts and as an artist that is always!! such a fun part to read. had to stim out the happy!

Now to answer your question, yep there was a fair amount of thought put into everything! The one exception is the clothes--Sophie, Dex, and Keefe had specific outfits attributed to their characters throughout the series and I based Linh's on her Nightfall cover outfit, but otherwise it was just "what can I easily do with how I've drawn their bodies already?

I wanted to have 1-2 characters per color (3 seemed crowded), and I used the meanings of the colors to decide most of where I put everyone...the explanations of which got very long so!! under a cut!

up first is pink, which represents sex and noticeably doesn't have a character. as this is a middle grade series and I was working with the main characters, there isn't really anyone who I feel fits that. The closest I could think was Ro, but I didn't want to include bodyguards for this piece. So I considered doing a landscape, but there are so many places that I couldn't pick one, so then I turned to quotes. I wanted one related to love and life that could fit the spirit of the message I wanted, and that's how I ended up picking the Mr. Forkle dying speech quote. Because it's about living your life, continuing on, and being happy. And I think that's a essential message for pride, to be happy and to live your life. Love people if you want, take risks, fight when you can. the flowers were more to fill space than anything, but I think they're nice either way

Red is supposedly Sophie's color, but it also represents life and that's something she's been denied the chance to fully experience due to standing out everywhere she goes, so I wanted to give her a chance to be alone and asked "what would she do if she had an afternoon to herself?" and remembered the books she had in her human room and how she brought her ipod to the lost cities and hasn't really used it, so I figured I'd draw her having a chance to live her life by herself for once! then I also pointed out recently that she wears a very specific white outfit on a lot of covers, hence the clothes. and i wanted to represent different aspects of her life, which brought in ella (a human aspect) and iggy (the elven) and the book (a tie)

Orange is healing, which I thought fit with Keefe and Dex best (I considered Marella as well but ended up putting her in yellow). Keefe's been trying to heal from the broken family he was raised in and the trauma he's endured, and while he's not there quite yet it's going to be an instrumental part of who he is. Then Dex has had an arc of coming to terms with a lot of grudges he's had against the world and letting them go, healing from the hurt and moving past it to live a life he enjoys without anger--and the Dex/Keefe pairing works well together, so that was a plus as well. For their background I tried to make a blend of the description of Dex's own lab and the drawings we have of Slurps and Burps, so it's predominantly Dex's stuff and knick-knacks and experiments, but you'll notice on the middle of the shelf is a certain Mrs. Stinkbottom to represent keefe!!

Yellow is sunlight, so it seemed only natural to draw on two of the characters who are most related to light--Wylie and Marella. I also consider Biana to be a light character, but found her better suited for violet. And even if they might also relate to healing or life or spirit, one of the things they bring to the story is shining light on different things. They both bring attention to different issues and bring them to the forefront, shining the light on them. On the consequences of the world they live in, so it was like a bonus double alongside having abilities that can literally create light!! And then the way they're posed to be using their abilities in tandem was a nice instant of the two of them having visible abilities that are similar to each other, and I wanted to make the way they stood unique. Everyone is positioned slightly different for variety, so I thought it would be fun to have them reaching for each other and the rays of light and sparkles came from that

Green is nature, which originally gave me a pause because there aren't any nature related main characters--there's the gnomes, but I was specifically focusing on the kotlcrew here and the closest is Linh, who I'd already decided would be indigo. So then i decided to go a little deeper and remembered that Stina works with unicorns at Sterling Gables, which seemed like a perfect fit. Her empathy plays a huge part in her unicorn work, so it seemed only natural for them to be super close and for it to be a soft moment, so no huge grin. Just her in the moment--then to amplify the nature sense I added the foliage around. She's also frequently alone and not as integrated into the group, so it seemed more appropriate for her to be alone

then there's teal!! which is magic/art. I will admit a big part of why Fitz is there is because of the teal eyes, but I also drew a little on the "magic is just what humans call what they don't understand" (paraphrased) line from book one where Fitz laughed at the idea...while also showing Sophie a world she didn't understand, effectively showing her magic. I thought it was a fun little contradiction. And then Maruca was like this magic solution to everyone else with Sophie's "This changes everything!!" though she tried to reason through. She's the wild card, the game changer, the shift. I think there's a certain amount of magic in that--also she distinctly didn't feel like any of the others except maybe violet. Also just happened to work out to make one of her locs the teal :). Their background is less detail than everyone else because their abilities are hard to represent and they don't have a specific Thing in common or in contradiction that's as recognizable, so I ended up just trying to represent who they are in the lines. Fitz with clean, straight lines representing his straightfoward approach to things, and Maruca with lightning because her ability is like energy and because she's unpredictable and powerful.

And then the indigo, which is serenity, I simply had to give to Linh. She is so wise beyond her years and has this approach of kindness when possible while unafraid to be brunt and forceful when needed, and I think that kind of understanding of herself gives her the attitude we recognize. It's the kind of thing that leads to peace with yourself, to serenity. It also doesn't hurt that she's a water character and indigo is very blue. So to work with both the water and the serenity i posed her with the calm expression and flowing hair, body open because she's trusting and in control of herself. I tried to keep her background as simple as I could to really hammer home that idea of calmness compared to some of the chaotic lines and scattered details in other backgrounds.

And finally, the violet!! representing spirit, I found both the vibe of the color and it's meaning to fit Biana and Tam. They both have such strong convictions and feelings about so much--not that others don't--that they're like...the spirit of the group. The confidence of Biana and the reservations of Tam and his stark hatred for the world. They represent perspectives and mindsets in ways others don't. Tam also works with shadows and the unseen and the quiet, and if you interpret spirit in the sort of soul/creature/unseen inhumanity then I think he matches. Plus i've always associated Biana with purple. Their background was kind of a surprise because I was just brainstorming and then went...wait a minute light and dark. sun and moon. optimism and pessimism. they're compliments to each other. Biana's ability revolves around light and she's a positive person and Tam's revolves around darkness and doubt. they're like night and day, and from there the background was born--though that reasoning is also part of why they're back to back. it was a new pose and also represented how they're close but still so different, which i thought was fun

so that was kinda my thought process behind the choices I made for who went where and why they were drawn the way they were!! I also made the choice to have them all smiling with their eyes closed--smiling, because the drawing is about being proud and happy in who you are, and eyes closed because of the vibes. Seriously I tries to draw like 3 different people with their eyes open and it just felt wrong. It didn't help that I was doing everything on such a small scale. literally some things I did pixel by pixel because everything was so small to fit in all in the proportions I wanted.

that got long but hopefully gave some insight!!

#quil's queries #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #rainbow-frog-earrings #quil's queridos #there were also several parts of this drawing that gave me particular trouble #sophie's shirt. dex's arm. wylie's hand and face. marella's clothes before I switched them up. tam's face. biana's head #I made her head too big and that made tam weird but I didn't wanna change him because I'd just gotten him to look okay #so I had to make her smaller #oh and also writing the quote was tricky #trying to figure out how to make the loops natural but still legible #but everyone has seemed to like it so far so!! sucess!!#*success!!#thank you for asking I love to talk

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chisatowo · 2 years

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Wowzie the gang is all here! Only two of them have names, but it's ok Ill figure smth out

#keese draws #oc art #ocs #oc posting #pls prepare for me to be a lil annoying with the self rbs on this one </3 #anyways I can FINALLY actually talk abt this story a lil bit now!!#Im still refining things but basically the main pov is the middle kid who used to be a tree and the son of an old powerful being #but one day his mom's forest got burned down and he died :(#but its ok he got better but only thousands of years later in an new body and hes trying to figure out what happened to him and his mom #pretty early on he ran into stanley and quartez who were two half siblings from the kingdom that most the other stories take place in #they had to leave and are mostly just wanderinf and trying to survive and stanley decides to help this odd lil fella out #the guy to the far right was found next in the region that the main kids mom used to control #they were being possesed by a magic user after being infected with this tree parasite but they managed to break the wizard's staff and #pacify the parasite mostly because of quartez getting possesed tbh but they found them too #they were here because they read of an anchient artifact and tried to find it and got possesed in tge process #now they have no idea where they are or how long theyve been possesed so party member aquired woo 🎉#but theyre more interested in whatever is going on with these losers anyways so they sugguest that they try seeking out an old god that #lives deep in the dangerous waters of the seemingly endless ocean with the help of some of their magic #so they go down there main kid gets dragged away buy the kid to the far left but the big ocean lady manages to catch them both and is like #hi little ones whats up have my blessing #and the main kid is like can u bless my friends too?#and shes like ya hold on and summons the other three there #and meanwhile the eel girl is quietly freaking the fuck out because shes been raised with the goal of killing this lady #long story short she brings them home to subtly ask her parents what to do with them because thered been rumors that one of them has a #super powerful magic item that holds the power of another old god that might give them the strength to kill the ocean lady #and theyre like ok ok. lets not shed blood that we dont need to since the ocean god has her eyes on these guys and we dont want her #suspecting anything so just like tag along with them and gain their trust and then either steal it or have them give it to you #so then she joined the gang too yippee #and then ~stuff~ happens or whatever #thats the basic run down of the squad but I have more I just do not have the energy to go through everything rn dydkgdjsy

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raliasnox · 1 year

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Twilight Sparkle?!

#noxs_art #mlp #my little pony #fan art #twilight sparkle #Been trying to figure out how to draw them again #liking this style so far #I just think Twilight would use protective styles horses often have so that they wont worry about dealing with messy hair while they work #bonus it looks cute

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inkskinned · 9 months

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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

#warm up #this isn't good #writeblr #this is complicated by the fact i can't stand up too long or i fuckken pass out and <3 hit my damn head <3 #but i did take a deep breath and buy myself the stupid rice cooker #and!!! a very cheap sushi kit!!! i have been wanting to try making sushi for literally YEARS #the kit was only like 15 dollars!!!! and i haven't purchased it bc?!!??!?!?!?!!?#..... i didn't get the mixer tho that felt. like a lot. like too much.#on my list is a kitchenaid. one day when i get a check and i have paid off my student debt #and medical debt #i will put that first little bit of cash #into a kitchenaid 5qt stand mixer (with attachments)#i really do just go into their refurbished section and stare lustily at each option #but yeah i feel guilty about the rice cooker even tho i know for a fact this damn thing is gonna be a lifesaver #oh shit also fuck i forgot to mention . poached eggs

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