#still trying to actually do backgrounds

[heartorbit]

i would advise against sneaking a bunch of silly billies into your castle

#project sekai #emu otori #nene kusanagi #tsukasa tenma #rui kamishiro #pjsk #proseka #prsk #polysho week 2023 #there that wasnt so bad #i hate taaaagging #Saki chortling her ass off btw. Do They Know #snailing towards drawing backgrounds properly... its helpful for my comms but im still so bad.... #My emu favoritism shines theough again in that its obvious i drew her first. Im sorry. kind of. #i dont have insane tags to put this time i have to get up for class in like 7 hours. i have a midterm. farewell.... #actually how could you put polysho week during my midterms. SICK. (ignored that i couldve used the time prompts r given in advance to draw) #ive always done this for fanweeks i try to draw on the day of like a sicko. INEED TO GONTOSLPEY #please stop following me if i check and i hit a milestone im going to feel bad. i dont look at it often enogub to cstch them when they happ #en. stop being niceys to me. #i was thinking of doing simple rqs or something... bc im grateful and it would be fun..... waugh.... #why didi stay up finishing this. my wrist hurts and im sleepy. Lord.

[bigkickguy]

daanmarcoh doodle - they're sleeping in shifts and keeping watch

#daanmarcoh #daarcoh #kickdraw #funger #i just wanted to draw them and try to punch through artblock ! #as soon as i have the energy to actually render something and draw a background its so over #the eternal struggle of 'do i use daan's portrait or map sprite for hair color' #really just wanted to draw daan with marcoh's jacket #thought to myself yesterday - 'idk why they aren't as popular' so figured i'd throw some art into the mix again #such good fanfiction coming out for them too #I really want to get back into a drawing stride for them :') #the shirt grab is to make sure he's still there watching - if marcoh turns around or leaves daan would feel it #i feel like they're walking a weird line in my mind #they just met and in some cases all they have is each other - but they dont really know each other in any way #they just have to trust the stranger who didn't kill them immediately won't be worse than the fucked up monsters around them

[necessarymeanstoanend]

spade represents the tip of a pike; an implement for killing

alex’s

white void of doom

sketch and background element/scribble that isn’t really visible but i’m sharing just in case anybody did notice it.

other details

#now i have to draw one for alex *sobs* #how tf do you guys come up with backgrounds for EVERY DRAWING?! oh my god. i’m not creative enough for this bullshit #two things i discovered with this drawing: 1) birds are hard af to draw. 2) wet black hair is hard af to draw #you guys have no idea how many purple hues are actually in this art piece #this is like if dream and jessamy happened to have met under way worse circumstances #anyway let me know if you guys have any ideas for alex’s (i have no idea when exactly i’ll actually get around to it but still) #bones and shit #a majority of this one was inspired by The Locked Tomb fanart and symbolism #6 hours and 34 minutes but i’m gonna guess that roughly an hour and a half of that was me trying to figure out a background #tom sturridge #like minds #murderous intent #like minds 2006 #nigel colbie #art #fanart #drawing #digital art #nigel colbie fanart #artist of tumblr #like minds art #nigel colby #<- including the old tag bc why not #somebody get this movie out of my brain #scoop it out along with all the other useless shit i keep in there #i was thinking maybe alex’s should be the complete opposite of this #like instead of his head being turned down it would be turned upwards #maybe he should be wearing the clothes he did when we first saw him with sally rowe (or maybe his school uniform) #i ​definitely want both of them to be side profiles and the theme is going to have to be somewhat consistent as well #<<‹ these tags are mostly so i remember my own thought process but feel free to leave your two cents

[moomeecore]

i found a book abt the anti lawn movement at the library & decided to sit out in my yard & read it. but ironically there was a neverending barage of power tool noises making it difficult to focus. so i walked to a nature park near me in order to escape the dreaded sounds. almost stopped at the mowed picnic table area bc i hate walking but fortunately pushed forward and made myself walk up an annoying hill to an area that is a preservation of a native oak savanna & sat down against a tree near the edge of the path & did my reading there. and honest to god that was a 100/10 experience. there was something so powerful abt being in a preserve for a locally native habitat while reading abt the impacts homeowners can have on native plant preservation! it powered up my energy towards my life mission (evangelize abt enviormentally sustainable gardening to every single person who comes within a 10 ft radius of me) by like. 15 points. also a deer walked up to me and that was super cool

#i was there for like 3 hours and i wanted to stay longer #but the sun was setting and i was hungry and had to pee super bad #gonna try to do this tommorow as well. bc ik winter is gonna hit soon #and then its not gonna be plausibe #i still heard Industrial Noises up there but i used my noise cancelling headphones #& that blocked most of it out #ive finallt started progressing on writing persuasive essay on this subject #previously id focoused my efforts mostly on reaserching the practical side of like. how to covert ur yard #+ what plants to use. etc #but now im looping background writing abt the actual reasoning behind it #which like. i feel like i needed zero actual persuasion to get on board w this. which is why i didnt #dedicate to much time to reaserching the 'why' #but i do a whole lot of promoting this subject to people i meet so i might as well read up & #try & create a more comprehensive & detailed resource to send to ppl #after i give them my Rip Up Your Lawn talk #i mean i give them the gardening advice resources. but i think some ppl need extra convincing & thats what this is for #LAWN LAWN RIP UP UR LAWN. KILL UR LAWN PLANT REAL PLANTS <3

[ante--meridiem]

Got an assessment back from one of my applications and while I still don't know if they'll actually pick me or not it is a relief to have formal confirmation that my applications aren't considered embarrassingly bad.

#I am 'qualified with a relevant background and good grades' :D #(the latter part I can only take to mean they didn't look at/care about my undergrad grades which. good. whole point of my masters #grade-wise is proving I can do better than that when I'm not incredibly burnt out/having a mild mental breakdown) #I mean I assumed my supervisor would have warned me if I were submitting embarrassingly bad applications #but I did have that dream about a selection committee viciously tearing it apart & have been low-key worried ever since #....particularly good timing to get this on the day that I yet again failed to attend a careers fair I signed up to #which. sigh. I know. but. woke up late and tired and overstimulated and decided my time would be better spent trying to actually get some #progress on the thesis than hearing about how I could work for. checks notes. a sports betting company. #I still have time to make it to some of the less soul-sucky presentations though #liveblogging my masters

[nocek]

well hello there, please don't mind me using valentines as motivator to at least finish this lineart (but hey, it worked!)

now time for colors and trying to pull of complicated shadows.... yeah. that's going to not be as fun as this part >.<

#buckynat #winterwidow #bucky barnes #natasha romanoff #winter soldier #black widow #liho the cat #alpine the cat #lineart #wip #the drop in quality of likeness and cat anatomy is because I was lazy this time around to go look for references and fix the sketch #which you can see flipping between sketch and lineart #which is stupid because why put hella hours into doing it on weak fundation #but well you can also be impatient with doing time consuming things i guess #also being a lazy dumbass #but still had a blast linearting it :3 #but for now i actually have basic flat colors for characters #(because i did them before doing background which is also technically a bad idea but whatever) #but I have plan to try to pull off bisexual lighting on them #which i know is a bad idea because busy coloring with busy lineart is going to be a desaster #but that actually alleviates some of the stress #it's just experiment :D

[northern-passage]

Lea :-)

#forcing myself to post this so i stop messing with it lmfao #after the roach one i wanted to try something less stylized #still kinda stylized. failed step 1 #hrm cant decide if i actually like this but it was fun #i love drawing my little guys facing 3/4ths to the right on a white background #tho i do wish i could draw my own characters consistently.. would be nice for them to be recognizable </3 #but i am proud of my art progress this past year... i usually do a portrait of my hawke every year to see the difference #but i havent done that since 2020 i think... #lea chen #tnp art

[every-sanji]

#one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #everysanji #thriller bark #ch462 #theres been someone whose been slowly reblogging some of my like. really old posts #and doing some absolutely fantastic character analysis in the tags #but oh my god you're reminding me of the cringe captions i used to leave on every post #i did that FOR LIKE. IM PRETTY SURE OVER A YEAR. #IF IT WASNT SO LONG I'D GO BACK AND EDIT ALL OF THEM BUT EUGH #all but one i think the birthday post was funny okay that one was funny and i had to consolidate so much to get it to post on the right day #god. i cant believe this will probably post after the blog anniversary #4 years of every sanji. how do we feel guys #as of queuing this i have uh. 2302 followers and i'll probably have a few more by the time you actually see this #absolutely insane that people still follow this silly gimmick blog i've been running since i was 19 #ik i have said it before but this little project got so big and i dont even particularly care for op anymore #i just keep this blog running for the bit of finding every sanji and watching people be amazed at the really really small ones #that i manage to find in the background. its a special skill you gain by running a blog like this #anyway no more tag rambles i want to try and finish this volume tonight if i can

[spkyart]

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you love tanjiro? I love him so much

1000000000

My son, he is my fav character in the whole kny universe

#i DEEPLY APOLOGIZE FOR NOT REPLAYING EVERY Q I GOT IN THE MAILBOX I AM GONNA DO IT VERY SOON i am busy with the animals #and actually on vacation :> #good thing i am working on a comic but i am trying to put some real effort in it so its gonna take a bunch of time #i did two pages out of four #only lineart and i still haveto do two whole backgrounds #and ITS VERY CLEAN #stay tuned uhuh

[flowerflamestars]

Abbattoir snippet

“Lady Hunger does not ask or accept worship,” the woman raised her brows, more disdainful than offended. “Illyria was once a friend to her, and so she is a friend to us.” Hunger. Cassian recognized the marks on the other, soaring, well-lit walls if nothing else. The facets of Illyrian worship that he’d never gotten to see well-tended, much less grouped together: wind, water, sky. Storm Maiden, Once-drowned Warrior, Grandmother Starlight. What had been taken for so long, Cassian knew nothing else. Lost before he’d ever been born. The niche with what was nearly Feyre’s face- rendered beautiful, awing, familiar but utterly wrong- was much, much smaller. Darker. Littered in writing, names tracing up the wall behind her. Cassian shook his head. “That’s Feyre Archeron.” He tipped back his head, staring at lights so high above they glittered, this stronghold he’d never even heard of. “You- you don’t follow the clans. That’s why you’re here?” She flashed her teeth at him, wings wide as a sky flickering fuller in rage. “The little coward that pretended to be one of us?” A teenager, sitting before a vast stature wielding hammer and tongs, turned all the way around to hiss Cassian’s direction. “That child, ruling in the memory of a man who despised us? We are Illyrian, unlike you. We answer to no one.” “But”- “But nothing,” It was a snarl, and all Cassian could do was look, look at that impossibly perfect, impossibly familiar face. Cassian scrambled forward, after her quick retreating form. “Please. What- the names?” She rounded, robe flaring, showing a paler color up around the edges. “She is old,” the priestess intoned, like Cassian was very small, very stupid, ill-behaving child. Pitiable. “She pays her debt.”

#CARNASSIAL SEQUEL BABES #Archeron sisters reborn wrong au #the one where I answer the question #actually #DOES CASSIAN REMEMBER THE WORLD BEFORE ELAIN BROKE IT? #also #Cassian's guide to avoiding divorce: trying to bait a god into EATING HIM #(Nesta's guide to semi moral chomping: still not taking what isn't OFFERED unless very specific terms are met) #Cas/Mor failmarriage #Luzriel background love affair #we love to see a man FLAILING FAILING HAVING A SHOTGUN GRIEF WEDDING #that teenager: she's a cool lady! she saved my dad during the war! what were YOU doing during the war general fuckface? #somewhere Elain is gently chuckling and drinking alcoholic hot chocolate

[sysig]

Lost my mind thinking about the Vyer Estate (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #Max Vyer #Dexter Favin #So while I'm not usually one to draw backgrounds I am actually Really into architecture and a little into decor and room design haha #Do I know much more than the basics? Nope! But I'm still fascinated by it :) #Some of these rooms have a very strong image in my head and some are fuzzier - it's been a bit since I reread #And I also haven't read with the layout in mind I don't think so there's that as well haha #I'll also freely admit to being very influenced by The Sims 2's build limitations when working these lol - spacing and density of items #Trying to map all these pieces of scenes into a continuous singular building is difficult! There are windows that butt up into other rooms! #It's a fun exercise tho :3 #Update: I have now reread with the layout in mind lol #My mental ears pricked every time there was a mention of furniture or layout lol #Like Max's couch! And a carpet in the foyer >:3c #And Dex's room also being upstairs :0 To think I almost made my first floorplan a single-story! #Silly me #I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've doodled Max's mom also :0 From memory - again - oops lol #I have always imagined that final scene with her as having this large-room/small in the frame kind of energy to it #All natural lighting and kind of dim and hazy - coming down from the high vibes #Actually pinning down a back wall is a whole other thing lol - sometimes the stairs are right there and sometimes they're in an alcove #It's always those tricky windows! And then actually populating a mansion with rooms that are useful lol #Dexter mentions that Max could've asked the cook but Max says he's asleep - how many people live on-site I wonder! #I'm also deeply enamoured with Max padding around in the middle of the night - a house he grew up in and feels safe wandering around in <3 #In his element ♥ Comfortable ♪♫

[evilvvithin]

hello and welcome to one of my doodles from my journey of improving drawing skills

#john x oc that currently only lives in my head #im proud on this one but still insecure about anything i draw so im here to get validation from people on the internet that is all bye #spent so long trying to do actual background yet still prefer the simple first version but incl. both cuz why not #john seed #far cry 5 #fc5 #far cry #*johnny #fanart #john seed fanart #far cry 5 fanart #oil brushes btw i love them too much <33 #any tips callouts are appreciated! #mari's doodles

[crookedlyinnernightmare]

surprised kuusuke’s hair hasn’t gone gray from his lifestyle choices

#tried to conceptualize his regular schedule and what in the goddamn #he should be aging early #hmm actually that's thematically appropriate too #gold = first place and silver = second place #kusuke realizes his hair's going gray an dimmediately thinks it's kusuo's fault for changing peoples' hair via mind control #but no. it's his own fault. if he just stopped and paid attention to the way he treats himself.. but nooo this guy doesn't self reflect #so obvi he immediately starts dyeing his hair blond. still eats him up inside tho #ooh wait what if grandma kumi helps him dye it #she's kinda obssessed with youth so i do think she'd be the type to try and hide gray hairs #she's very sympathetic. doesn't know the real reason this is happening (she assumes kuniharu has terrible genes) #it's very wholesome family bonding as long as you ignore the complexes worsening in the background #.............why are my tags longer than the actual post................. #saiki kuusuke #saiki k

[pine-arten]

i genuinely kept forgetting to post these

i'm pretty burnt out on drawing, so i decided to end the cringetober challenge. as much as i would like to complete it, i would die

day 16 (objecthead) day 15/18 (song lyrics/old art redraw)

i got through halfway the month, which is honestly still a win for me.

look here for a cropped version of the redraw, and the original picture

#pinemartart #cringetober 2023 #oc: freak #wc oc #i've not gotten this far in month challenges like this so . still a win #i've lost motivation to continue it though. but i like a lot of the art that has come out of it! #not sure what else to say tbh #i put a lot of detail into the redraw #and it's like. one of the only times i've actually drawn a background semi recently #i want to get better at backgrounds tbh #i also went off with the shading. but tbh something about it seems weird #maybe it's just because i've looked at it way too long #i want to learn how to do more uhh. painterly rendering #where it's more all on one layer .... and stuff like that #but idk where to start or anything #if i find a way to painterly render sketches then it's over. my shading skills + good rendering would kill everyone #while drawing i tend to seperate stuff in different layers a lot. it just makes it easier for me #but that works for more uuhhh. sharp cell shading and toony styles #or where there is clear distinction between things #which i like . but i also want to try painterly stuff #i'm still not sure how to go about it

[ailinu]

preserve us from edgelords. good lord.

#i'm not naming any system names. #to each their own and all that. i'm sure it's doing fine at what it's designed for. #(and similarly jack if you're reading this i have full faith in your ability to get this to work to your own tonal ends. #and i know we've at least partially discussed where they differ from the material presented.) #but sometimes you look at a thing. and it goes 'yeah what if your blood is living maggots' #and you sigh heavily and make jerk-off motions. say 'okay. call your mom' in the way you do if you see a real intentionally edgy metal band #you know how it is #again i'm just being a bitch on main. don't take this too seriously. #it's interesting trying to figure out the boundaries of games i'm interested in. because i know i have a fairly wide range to start with. #like to be clear i'm not against tragedy or horror! i'm not against consequences or characters dying! #but every so often i do come across something that simply falls outside what i'm interested in. #and start saying things like 'they should make twee illegal' or. you know. 'okay. call your mom.' which are on vastly different ends of thi #fun to see when that happens. #anyway if things get too edgy i reserve the right to make jerk-off motions in the background. #that's all thanks for listening. #actually wait no maybe that's not all. #if pressed i think i'm pinpointing my response here to. like. the apparent reliance on a sort of 'gross-out horror' (among other things) #which tends not to work for me in that i usually find it exhausting and at times immature. hence the 'call your mom.' #and despite the system's partial fascination with it i've not encountered it in the prospective dm's work thus far (albeit in other systems #so this'll probably work out fine. #(as always. again. full faith in you jack.) #okay. at least partially figured it out. #jerk-off motion rights still reserved though.

[fingertipsmp3]

Should I get up at 6 in the morning to go for a run or is that an insane decision that I will hate myself for

#the background is i’ve been running on and off since december but i’m finally getting pretty good at it i think #(the secret is doing lots of other stuff like hula hooping and exercise bike and pilates to gain aerobic ability and strength) #and i feel like i want to try running outside #up to now i’ve been using a slow treadmill with a top speed that’s a pretty decent jogging pace for me #but i definitely want to be able to go faster and i also need to be able to change up my strides #ya girl is 6’1 my strides are definitely longer than this treadmill is #however. i’m very aware that i look goofy as fuck when i run. i’m clumsy and top heavy and i have a bad case of rbf #NONE OF THIS MATTERS. but i still would rather run at a time when there’s not that many people around #so i was thinking why not 6am. but then i was like. ellen are you actually out of your fucking mind #right now i usually run in the late afternoon because it makes me hungry and that motivates me to start prepping dinner #so switching up the timing is already going to mess me up. literally switching from evening to morning pilates made me feel like the world #was ending. it’s bad #if i want to run outside i am going to have to change what time i do it regardless because the streets are full of school run people #and dog walkers at my usual time. i see them walking past my house #so it’s like why not do it at 6am #or. i Could try like 10pm. i do live in a small town; it’s pretty safe #what i could do is wear a hat with a light on it. men hate those. and carry a metal water bottle #i am like 80% sure i could incapacitate someone with a hydroflask i’m ngl. not that i’ll probably need to. but a girl’s gotta be prepared #personal