#used a different drawing program this time

[kishdoodles]

Treebark Week 2024 - A Post-Mortem

Hi! If you haven’t seen, I have released seven (7!) videos for Treebark Week 2024! This wall of text is my behind the scenes and also post-mortem thoughts on the project, which I found worth documenting.

Even if you don’t end up reading the text, I appreciate every comment, tag, and view my videos get. I did it for the fun of it and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t do it for the attention. I did, because I think these videos are the funniest things I’ve ever released. Shoutout to @thefluxqueen for being my partner in crime and confidant for these. You saw my vision.

I wanted to do something for Treebark week but admittedly I had noooo idea. So this whole gimmick was a fun set up for me to stretch my creativity in. What started as “I’m just going to do everything in mspaint with a mouse” spiraled to “I think it’s going to get boring if everything’s in the same style, so I’m going to have to do something different everyday.”

The important factor to me throughout all of this is earnesty.

Even if its life started as a joke, this project is a love letter in every respect. This is what I grew up on, this is the YouTube that is precious to me. Capturing this era of time in 7 videos is all at once easy, yet surprisingly laborious.

First I planned the songs. Fitting the songs with the prompts was a brain scratcher, but once we (me and Spain) had a few in the rest slotted in pretty easily. Common thread was, of course, any popular song from the mid-late 2000s.

The first confirmed song was Sugar, Sugar for Sweet (Day 2) courtesy of Spain, given the Eddsworld video. We had a few songs for Burn (Day 3) or Infernal (Day 4) which we threw out (Elli Goulding’s Burn, 2NE1’s Fire, Steam Powered Giraffe’s Fire Fire, etc.) I ended up digging through my old playlist and listened to 20% Cooler, which after a realization I immediately slotted it for Frost (Day 1). Spain brought up the Heat Waves parody (Cold Spells) for Frost too, to which I realized I could just do regular Heat Waves, so that became what I did for Burn.

Bring Me To Life was brought to my attention (I forgot how, maybe Youtube recommendations?) and with the lyrics, it became the song for Blood (Day 7). The all time classic, Angel with a Shotgun, fit in nicely with the prompt of Divine (Day 4), so there was no contest. Another classic, Everytime We Touch, was harder to fit but I eventually reasoned through the prompts enough to fit it with Lips (Day 5) (the everytime we kiss part).

At this point, nothing I’ve found fit Day 6 (picnic/garden/strawberry) at ALL. So I decided the only way I knew how. RANDOM CHOICE!

Mad World won but that was a trap, for I have biased myself toward Animal I’ve Become at that point and it almost won, so I went with that instead. This is a lawless land. 

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The actual video ideas really came to me in piecemeal, so I’ll explain how I got each idea as I cover each day in order of when I completed them. 

20% Cooler (Day 1) was the most straightforward of the days. It was done in 1 hour and 30 minutes and I was purposefully being extremely literal about the lyrics. I already had the vision for what I want, and I didn’t want to care about quality all that much, so it came together really fast. 

For my process, I lined with mspaint brush and then bucket tooled with default colours. I took advantage of the new layer system mspaint added for some scenes, but otherwise it was as simple as just drawing. (Pictured, 3 layers for 2 scenes.)

It was really easy to just quickly edit in Windows Movie Maker 6 too, I just dragged the pictures in, slapped effects, roughly timed everything and it’s done.

Programs used: mspaint, Windows Movie Maker 6

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Sugar, Sugar (Day 2) was an honest effort at avoiding any complicated animations. I initially thought of doing an animation similar to the original video that inspired the song choice, but eventually scaled back because. I don’t want to animate. 

Thus came the decision of subject matter. I ended up settling on the demon roleplay because I thought it was the campiest thing in the world. And it was a sweet reunion, no? The lyrics just fit the vibe, and in a moment of brilliance (hitting the showers) I thought to make a visual novel. One reflective of old flash games and like the visual novels of cultural zeitgeist at the time.

I’ve known about Ren’py for quite some time now, but I’ve never properly learned how to use it. For this my task was simple. Find out how to change sprites, backgrounds, and move people into the scene.

Sprites and backgrounds were easy, so those were the first things I did. Ren’s sprites were inspired in design by Demon Hunters in the Warcraft world, mostly because I was playing a lot of Hearthstone and liked the idea. Martyn’s sprite style was inspired by early 2000s anime visual novels, like Higurashi (though I’ve personally never consumed it nor do I actually recommend consuming this piece of media (neutral) its ripple throughout the anime community was felt. Notably, parodies of the anime’s opening were very popular.) I toned back the stylizations, but trust me when I say that Martyn’s hands were purposefully big to be yaoi hands. It didn’t end up that big, and I did not give him the dorito chin here so, immense self control on my part (or cowardice?). False and Joel were just my regular style. For all this I used my tablet instead of my mouse.

The programming part was a little troublesome, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t google, so it got done pretty fast. There’s other small bits, like how I mismatched the background sizes, the sprite sizes (with each other)(minorly) but for the most part it came together pretty quick. Once the VN was done, it was just about recording it. So I put on the song, and danced along.

[You can download the VN here]

Programs used: Ren’Py, OBS, mspaint, After Effects (just to move the scene over at the beginning)

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So I knew I wanted a classic style AMV, so that eventually became Everytime We Touch (Day 5). 

The pictures mostly come from a discord server I’m in (hi [redacted]!!!!) and I thought of it like a nice homage to the insanity we had in there. Bless all of you guys, you guys were the ones I wanted this series to be made for the most.

Not much to say beyond that, besides me just editing it all on movie maker as usual.

Programs used: Windows Movie Maker 6

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Angel With a Shotgun (Day 4) was the last to be planned for. I predicted it was going to be the easiest to make on the fly (it was) and just kind of winged it. I wanted a unique style still for it though, and the idea of drawing their cubitos came pretty late. 

I was not exempt from this trend in my youth (my art in mspaint, age 11, me and my sister)

The rest was history. Just kidding, I really wanted something to do with the shotgun thing so I literally searched “shotgun” in Curseforge and got MrCrayfish’s gun mod just for the shotgun. I loaded up the 3rd Life world I had from my Broken Lives animatic (it’s a custom made world using the seed) and just got to work with FreeCam and OBS (it’s my first time with FreeCam too!)

A rejected clip I didn’t use because of skin consistency / continuity.

Programs used: Minecraft, mspaint, Windows Movie Maker 6

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Heat Waves (Day 3) acquired a pixel art style as an homage to its original lyric video. People have said it reminded them of Homestuck, which I honestly don’t mind. It fits the era and I did grow up with it. It kinda looped back in on itself that way.

I blame this frame, here's it as a gif which lies unused.

For the video, the more I rewatched bits of Last Life for it (it’s been a while!) I realized it had a lot more potential than I initially thought. Though I doubt most of it didn’t come through in the final product (I limit these videos to a minute or less, if possible, excepting credits and allowing few more seconds over the minute mark so long as it felt warranted), I tried to cram in what I thought fitting to the prompt the whole time.

The watch tower burning was an easy pick, a classic Treebark moment you might say. For the rest of it, the nuance laid a lot in how Martyn presented the Shadow Alliance. “The Dog, The Shadow, The Roots. We make this place burn.” Under the eyes of the moon, it witnessed this pact form, and its resolution for the server. The moon is included in multiple frames because of this, as a stand-in for the eye of the Watcher(s) I included at the start, watching Martyn through the series.

In a lot of ways, how Lizzie and BigB turned red I also found fascinating. Lava and explosions you could argue are an extension of burning and fire, and an explosion was also how Martyn left the series. Ren, from the start of this alliance, inexplicably committed to and saw through what ultimately rips the people he was loyal to away from him. 

Martyn on the other hand, I drew in the later portions quite aware of the position he’s in, hence only his eye in the frame with the last 4 folks. This to me starts a path for him toward where he goes in the later serieses (notably in Limited Life). This is all very “vibes” and instinctual kind of “trust me on this” sort of read on c!Martyn honestly.

On missed opportunities, I’m almost upset at how I never brought up the moment Martyn buys a love crystal from Scar (never used, it got blown up) which I (and a lot of other) may have delusionally thought it was for Ren. Besides that, I never had a chance to desaturate the colours in the video leaving only red (which Ren did upon the encounter of the establishment of the Moon Cult)(it really emphasized Martyn’s lips!), I tried just plain desaturating, but ended up ditching it since it never felt like it jived well with the rest of the video.

All that aside, I finished this one really late (for me, which was past midnight on the day it was going to be posted), so I’m glad it was out on time. It’s the one I put in the most effort for, and I’m glad to see people enjoy it.

The eye on its own, which reveals the Watcher symbol I accidentally did in the wrong orientation. Oops!

Programs used: Aseprite, After Effects

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Animal I Have Become (Day 6) was thought on for a while. Eventually I have my eureka moment and I thought it was a nice shout out to the Bannedstory community who I’ve followed in my early days, where I’d watch animations of people’s custom OCs (original characters) made with Maplestory sprites animated to audio clips that I really wasn’t supposed to be listening to at the time lol. That, and all the online games and the like I grew up with on the early internet. I personally didn’t partake in it, but roleplaying on those was a common sight, and I found it endearing. 

My partner in crime for this day in particular was @thefluxqueen, because I really can’t be bothered with character customization for a lot of these games (I respect the craft but I lack the patience), but I knew who LOVED doing that. He really knocked it out of the park, helping me do the Gachalife, Club Penguin, and the characters for Animal Jam and Ponytown. For the latter, they handed me the account information and we just went to town.

A Treebark stream in a just world.

I can’t tell you exactly how I assigned the lyrics, but I definitely assigned the animal sections during the chorus so it was a surprise (and so it also fit the lyrics). I did have fun recording and we had a fun time in Ponytown. We were shown where other mcyt fans are by a Grian pony (Hermit Hill) and then we hung out there sitting down while we workshopped the Bannedstory segments with both our sonas together. All in all a great time.

It took a few takes.

Programs used: Bannedstory 3 (I would’ve loved to use 4, I grew up with that!), Gachalife, Club Penguin, Animal Jam, Ponytown, Windows Movie Maker 6, OBS

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For Bring Me to Life (Day 7)... I ended up getting more attached to the thought of it the longer this project went on. 

I wanted it to be the end all be all, go out with a bang and everything. I kept thinking and thinking, how do I end Treebark week? After a week of homages, how do I make the last one?

What’s beyond my childhood? It was just growing up. But it’s not like I had to let anything go. My artistic endeavors are influenced by all of my experiences. I saw good reason to bring it all home, do a callback to the styles of the entire week, it’s my victory lap.

And why not call back every instance of Treebark through the entire series then? This evolved into me learning more about Martyn’s lore because I want to be informed! I want to make this as someone who earnestly loves the narrative of these characters, and the stories they’ve told.

From a story perspective, it felt like Martyn was always doomed to tragedy. Suppose the life series always does end tragically, but Martyn’s Vtuber in relation to all this has its own inherent tragedy to it. In my eyes, this roamer of cyberspace constantly has to live through different lives with familiar people. The people he loved and cared for in one world will always be ripped from him, and he knows that.

Amongst everything the Unguided Hand gets me the most. In the video I drew the Ren he chases as a shadow. He’ll never get the Ren he knew then, back. Even if he meets another Ren in another world, it's never going to be The Red King. To me, Limited Life is the snapping point, a point of selfishness above all else in the comfortable knowledge that he wins, without ever needing to experience the same closeness and loyalty he had in lives past. The realization that this is what the game was about. Winning at all costs. I wanted the progression to reflect that.

Deep down, maybe he yearns to be saved from all that. The song echoes that sentiment. I tried to match the lyrics to how I saw the timeline of events as close as possible for that to hit. In this, Ren is his anchor, someone that he gets drawn to no matter the incarnation. The tragedy is that Ren, even if he knows about what Martyn’s going through, can’t join him in this journey. Martyn will always be alone in this experience, and Ren can only be a short comfort before the cycle starts anew. 

I quite liked the pixel art I did for LimLife!Martyn

From a meta perspective, this video (and by extension, the whole series) is about art and creating. I have been obsessed with art for 14 years now, and as time goes on I’ve grown fond of every way that we, as people, have evolved our storytelling. The multitudes of mediums that we have developed to express ourselves and share narratives will continue to fascinate me endlessly. Cringe be damned, there is a universal desire to create and enjoy stories of all folds. From the smallest story told from painstakingly typing chat boxes for little custom-made characters to say, to the highest production play put on for multiple hours in a game of Minecraft. 

And at the beginning of my journey lay paper and pencil. Bring Me To Life is an elaborate pun on my end, yes, but also a reflection of my roots. I started my journey as an artist endlessly doodling the adventures of tiny magical girls fighting demons, drawing fanart of costumes in MMO games I found cool, and sharing them with my friends at school. I find myself still drawing, still creating, for hundreds, if not thousands of eyes to see. Still I get inspired by the stories others tell, and I create in turn. In appreciation, in love. 

Bring Me To Life as a song, is a slate that, to me, reflected what I saw in the relationship of Treebark. Bring Me To Life is also a demand, of a piece of art that I had a vision for, that I wanted to bring to life. I struggled at how to end it for a while. Closing the book became very straightforward. It’s the end of this video, this saga, and another way that me, as a Watcher myself (as what they’re originally meant to represent) exercises control over stories in my own unique way. Creation is never limited to a select few. I think everyone should keep getting inspired by the things around them, and keep making art in turn.

To the people who’ve made it til the end here, make art, keep creating. Do shitty doodles, write whatever you want, make sounds and crafts and keep living. That’s all I really want, and this was what this whole series was about.

Programs used: mspaint, Aseprite, Blockbench, Bannedstory 3, Pencil and paper, After Effects

#art #writing #mcyt #treebark #treebarkweek #treebarkweek2024 #inthelittlewood #rendog #itlw #kishdrabbles

[dramarising-replacement]

Most of you have no idea how making a living with art actually works Your experience begins and ends with watching a generic popfur smut artists get 10k a month in passive income via patreon subs and cashapp donations and it shows In the professional art world if you take 40 hours a week to produce 1 digital piece you will be replaced laughably fast. Being expected to yield something after a 40 hour work week is not crunch culture, that's an average full time job. People I've worked with who make an income exclusively through art are capable of producing 6 12x12 water color landscapes a week and that's on the slower end. Hobby commissions =/= art as a full time job It's unreasonable to expect fully lined and painted art from a commissioner online to be done quickly. That's a completely different standard for completion time since most people who do commissions are only doing it on the side and aren't looking to enter professional spheres The site credits almost 20 artists. A significant few being "contributors" im not sure if they were hired on a one-off contractual basis to do one or two drawings and no more than that, but nearly all of them address themselves as active members of the art team so Im counting them as well. A lot of the apparel is copypasted, rotated and flipped. There is nothing wrong with this but it's a simple fact and it's efficient. I'm not sure why users get so angry about acknowledging this but I'm not arguing this point because it's obvious with the barest amount of looking. Undel sketched and lined a dragon in 5 hours in a stream where she was heavily distracted by chat and kept forgetting how to use her tablet. They dont' color by hand, they run it through a coloring program. All of this adds up to a system that should be more efficient than it is If this site can't manage to get a modern done more frequently than 1 every 5+ years then it's a sign of either gross mismanagement or they need to hire more productive artists "the artists are already bogged down/there's too much apparel" yet they release a new ancient every couple of months which increases their gene bloat and errors and decided it was a good idea to add 2 genes a month to the festival items. Those are not the choices of a struggling team. Nobody adds a few gallons to the tub when they're already drowning.

It's fine to think that the pace that they produce art is acceptable. If your standards and opinions line up with their output then you're entitled to feel that way. At least try to admit it's based on your personal preferences and opinions rather than a professional standard you clearly don't know anything about

#Flight Rising #Art #Long post

[kiteou]

They’re cute

Original image

#dickkory #dickgrayson #koriand'r #dick grayson fanart #dick grayson #nightwing #nightwing fanart #starfire #starfire fanart #Koriand’r fanart #dc #dcu art #dc comics #teen titans #fanart #artwork #sketch #used a different drawing program this time #art

[lunarharp]

pretty & cute witch men

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i'm not drawing as much or as well as i'd like to be doing. i'm trying to get through a comic i've been really wanting to do #but i'm just finding it so hard. disheartening. btw the 2nd one relates to some official art of qif wearing a dress like the girls #and the 4th one relates to how i've been drawing EXTREMELY SMALL for years. idk how to explain it but i always clicked 'fit to screen' #and so all my art EVER has looked bad when you zoom in bc it's already like size 1 zoomed in to the MAX pfhgguguhfpfhGHAHHHHH #i was so confused allll this time why brushes always look different for me than what they're supposed to #'wow this brush is so jaggedy..really rather jaggedy...calling it the Jagged Cai Special..bringing it out for those jaggedy moments.. #really quite jaggedy i must say...' and it's literally not jaggedy #but now i have to get used to how all those brushes that i'd gotten used to indeed look how they're supposed to finally. Alarming #I have simply been working out absolutely everything by myself for years and that's why my technical progress is slow #ppl say my progress is fast and i certainly have improved much since i began doing all this but #like..it took me a year and half to start using a program where i could Colour In The Lines aka the..whatever it's called. whatever.. #just on my lonely confused solemn journey to express gay love better than yesterday.. -_- *picks up my pack n continues through the snow* #btw thank you sm for people's kind words enjoying my narumitsu art & fic over the christmas & new year period <3

[3amsnek]

she’s going to break something

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reblogs >> likes

#night in the woods #nitw #nitw fanart #night in the woods fanart #mae borowski #nitw mae #mae nitw #night in the wood mae #my art? #ive wanted to make n.itw fanart for years and every time ive tried it has been Weirdly Impossible this is by far the furthest ive gotten #i did 57 different color versions of this and just ended up eyeballing colors from one of my dream sequence screencaps #yes there are layers that should be under other layers on top of them instead. no I don’t know how to fix this. yes ive used this program #for almost 6 years #it happens man #i just fuck around n try to make it work out in the end #havent posted fanart of any sort in. Long Time damn #n now ive got 3 posts in the drafts #i had. forgotten the stress element ngl #dang #the things suddenly rly wanting to draw cats again will lead you to do ig panik be damned #mmmmm I think this is one of the things that every time I look at it. i like it less im just gonna post it i think then #to be fair. i Did Not Sleep #anyways. this game is beautiful i want to draw so many things the colors. augh. eats them

[dizzybizz]

a wuhwuh that took way too long bc i decided to try krita and i was so lost the entire time

#i feel like i spent more time trying to find my way around than actually drawing and thats probably correct. #couldnt be arsed to fully render this one RIP #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun fanart #my art #me throughout the entire process: wuh??? wuh.......?? WUH??!???????? #krita is so confusing...... why is it like that.... didnt help that i switched language in the middle of it bc english was different than #what im used to for art programs but then everything was different and i could barely locate the blending modes i wanted and #it was a whole mess #i like some of the brushes a lot tho #i feel so exhausted after that #i could sleep for 24h #im like sluggishly working my way through the manga atm #started it AND the 98 series AND stampede on the same day bc apparently i hate myself like that #i havent been keeping up with stampede since?? ep9??? i think???

[acenestuff]

redraw of an old piece of omori fanart :-P

old (2021) version and the moments that inspired it under the cut

#acenestuff #omori #omori sunny #omori something #to be honest i like the hand texture better in the old version #but i used a different drawing program at that time #and i think the more saturated + less realistic look #makes it look more like nightmarish #more like it came out of the head space #idk #i really like the color on this one #redraw #omori redraw

[mushroom-for-art]

Gonna give this another go, preferably one of mine and somebody else's but like I'll do two from others as well

#Crackship meme #Requests open #You can either reblog this with who you want (please provide refs) #Or send me an ask with who you want (please provide refs of the other character that isn't mine or both if they're not mine) #Cause I'm not going running looking for references XD #If the reference is out of date and they look a little different in modern time let me know plz #If you want me to be real spicy about it you could provide refs of other characters in the chosen characters family #So I can like compare and try to find common traits/genes like oh a lot of these characters have x what not #Or you can just tell me like they have gene for x but it's just not shown on them ect so I can use that genetic dna info for the fusion #I did something similar with the Rue May kids as Rue has a tail stripe gene and while dormant in May she has the same so Beta has stripes #Pokemon crack ship meme #Also like only offer your own characters but that's a given I think #I'm gonna try to do these using a different art program and like different drawing medium entirely #So responses to these may be slow and may look a bit wack it's practice baby you'll be helping me

[kelocitta]

I love your RW art month tiles. What art program do you use and how do you get those really clean textures and shapes?

I use PaintToolSai, both 1 and 2- but most of the drawing gets done in SAI1 since I couldn't get my brushes to import right for 2. Its an extremely bare bones program all things considered (Sai2 less so, it has a bit more tool-wise, but I only draw in it if i *have* too or for minor stuff) so its nothing really fancy being employed, everything geometric I do just by using a self made grid to measure out shapes like you would a piece of paper.

Literally its just a measured out grid of like... 50 by 50 px squares with cross sections? I just paste it as needed and draw the lines around it and since the measurements are consistent it just works.

my default pen is already "crunchy" so being perfectly matched isnt a huge deal, and you can general paste and rotate to make it look a little cleaner. Honestly I've used this same grid for forever (and it was off by like one pixel at one point lol) its just really useful for quick matching things for a program that doesn't have stuff built in for lining things up As for the textures, those are all default to SAI (I think?). The brush I use lightly uses of fabri (which mostly just makes the edges of the brush grainier) and then I usually also put some various level of a layer texture overlay thats just one of SAI's default 'watercolor' textures. It mostly just adds a little bit of a noise/grain effect. Heres that on max

For ArtMonth itself I just draw out a tile canvas using the grid with all the layers broken up- then I just reuse it over and over as needed. There's probably smarter ways to do it, but eh it works

And yeah, theres just two borders. One for the bottom and one for the top, makes it easy to make something that goes 'in and out' of the tiles without having to think to much. Just snip as needed

#ask #i feel so bad trying to explain how i draw because not only do i suck at explaining it everything is SO sloppy compared to like #fancier artists. Idk man im basically out here with a pair of scissors a ruler and some paper. I can make a new layer and nothing else #i guess i should also note that i draw on fairly tiny canvases most of the time which means texture stuff can get a little more... strong? #than what i tend to see with huge canvases. Like most of my brush sizes run anywhere from like size 6 to 16 at max and that can be a decent #difference in look. I wouldn't say ones better or worse than the other just that there is a little bit of a different in feel there #artmonth canvases are sub 900 so that twitter keeps them transparent #in particular #ALSO SORRY IF THIS IS LIKE BADLY WRITTEN ITS 4AM #OH YEAH EXTRA NOTE: i have been playing with clip studio. not for like #serious use because i think it has too many things (lol) but i had to grab it for conversion stuff. I have played with a couple of layer #stuff there (the lizards i did recently. not the last one) i have no clue how to use that program or what any of the buttons do but i guess #if you wanna do what ive did with the lizards thats 'hitting random buttons in clip studio' and not SAI

[sea-jello]

uhh hi morro enjoyers i finally finishing crystalized and started dragons rising specifically euphrasias episode and morrotober is soon so i’m coming back. do you remember me

no color idk just in case the colors clash horrendously

#i’m getting DRAGGED right back #i know anon remembers me whoever you are. shoutout to you #most if not all my morro mutuals moved on to something else like i did but the general people in the morro tag seem to be the same #if not some new people #new program goes crazy my artstyle looks completely different #this is IMPROVEMENT #i hope #i didn’t spend too much time on this #right looks younger left looks older for some reason #maybe it’s the face shape #y’all sat through my first ever digital art era you guys get a medal tbh #i might participate in morrotober i joined tumblr literally end of september last year #bmc people i’m so serious block the morro tag right now #yes i used to exclusively post about this guy. what about it #this is gonna be the only thing i tweet about for the next week #i’ve wanted this for years fuck #what the fuck #ignore the colors i’m in the dark and i have eye protection mode on so i cba #i want to hype myself up for morrotober gimme things to draw #off topic but i recently got into epic the musical it’s SO GOOD #i’m so excited for the coming sagas #especially calypso and scylla #and the LAST ONE god the reunion song made me cry lowkey #ninjago #lego ninjago #morro wu #ninjago morro #morro ninjago #god i used to have these tags in my quick access #jellos scribbles

[mocury-moto]

wow my artistic confidence just skyrocketed okay good to know

#amicus.txt #for a really long time now ive felt really low abt my art bc ive been dealing with a lot of wrist pain when i draw traditionally #which has p much been the only medium i draw in #but since using a mouse is much less intensive for me than a pencil and paper i figured i could probably do somethiing with that right #i had gotten the idea to just use the polygon tool on my art program since thats what i would do to digitalize my trad art #at least for the colors and stuff #i was like 'its gonna require pretty much learning how to draw again from scratch since its entirely different #but if i put in the practice and the time and be patient i might be able to do it' #but i was putting that off for SO long. really difficult to get started on practice like that yknow #until like 10 minutes ago. where i was just like 'ok whatever its gonna look like shit but lets just try to get a feel for it' #so i just use the polygon tool thing and try and make one of my ocs #and then i took a step back and like. #holy shit that looks adorable? wait thats really good? #like yeah theres a ton of room for improvement obviously but like. holy shit this might actually be possible way sooner than i thought #“this” being. making my webcomic

[inkonssstantgeissst]

original manga panel:

tracings of the panel with different brushes:

#yoshida shouyou #gintama manga #my fanart #except it's just tracings of an official manga panel #but using different brushes #i am new to using this painting program i wanted to see how all the different brushes work #yes i literally traced this panel 28 times fjdksljklk #i got a lot quicker at it as i went on haha #i still don't understand how a lot of these brushes work lol #but this was still interesting to see #a lot of these brushes aren't intended to be used for outlining lmao #i know this and i did this anyway #i never changed the color i was drawing in btw #these are all drawn with the same color selected #haha the image upload limit is 30 and this 29 #gintama utsuro #lol i called him shouyou but i think he's still an utsuro at this point

[itheume]

like yall are seeing this right yall see why he had to be redesigned right

#which art program do i like using this month #kam.txt #( going back in time & shaking myself by the shoulders like what was up w that #the hair Stays bc he has anime character genes n has two toned hair naturally but like ?? past kam his shirt #crop top nata ur all i have in this cruel world #this is also the difference between me drawing in sai ( left ) & krita ( right ) lmao #krita is now the program i cant stand drawing in for some reason instead of ps like it used to be but it'll probably change soon ) #( constant game of :) )

[gyahyahyahayhahayahyahyahyahyaha]

mayber i can finish this first frame before the year ends hopefully

#its like 5ish days? given the pace im going at that might not be too bad #but i wish i could work faster on this. not so i can churn out stuff faster but so i have something... to show for all this time spent on a #single frame loal #i draw slow enough as is loal #ive just been taking an incredibly long time to get a single frame done cuz ive made so many revisions that i ended up just closing the prog #program without saving cuz none of the revisions i thought were worth keeping #aoufouuffffguuuuuuuuuuu its just annoying.b..... but i cant give up or else it will never get done cuz thats what always happens. i just #stop working on it cuz i get tired of the lack of progress #and lookin gat the same thing for so long.... uuurururur.r.r.r.rurur.ru.urur.rur.urruru.rurur #i have to get used to this process or come up witha better workflow or whatever the fucign word is #i spent a better portioni of today working on this isngle frame but.... i wouldnt say there was NO progress whatsoever. there is definite p #progress from before. and i know this. but... ururururururr i want to ......... #wait maybe ican skip ahead a few frames and just draw a different part.... ig....

[arcaneyouth]

What kind of art supplies do you use?

I do exclusively digital art with the exception of doodling with these random glitter pens I found in my old purse! I use mainly Paint Tool SAI as my art program, but also do some things in Clip Studio Paint. CSP is big and scary tho and has a lot of buttons that confuse me so much, so I prefer working with SAI since I actually know how to use it. I use a Huion H610 Pro tablet and have been ever since I got into digital art. Other than the occasional glitch out that I've learned how to fix really fast, it's been a super reliable tablet and I'd hate to have to switch to another one. I also sometimes use paint . net because SAI doesn't have a shape tool, and if CSP does I haven't found it yet. Paint . net also just has cooler filters than CSP

#asks #i cannot give my opinions on if my huion is a better tablet than any other tablet because it's the only one i've ever used #as for sai vs csp tho #sai is so fucking good with user interface. it's really easy to use and gives you a lot of customization options for each brush #and they're easy to understand and figure out #however it is really limited in features. if you've ever seen me do something cool with like... filters or effects then #i either did those in a different program or i drew them myself (drawing them myself is more likely) #csp has WAY more to it. i've found tons of brushes that i fucking love. it's way more professional and allows for animation and that fucks #but i'm so fucking scared. i don't understand any button. you need a fucking manual to learn how to use this thing #it also doesn't function the same as sai and drawing just Feels better on sai for me #if you start with csp i'm sure you'll get used to a lot of features n shit and you'll have an easier time than i did but #it's definitely. meant for professionals #hope these rambles help you at all ALSIDUHASLIUDHAS

[axvwriter]

ramblings

I'm nearly done with a comic I'm drawing. Just one panel left to do but of course I've decided I want to at least full color the character in it so that's slowing me down. If I didn't choose to do that, it would have been done by now.

I've used my chibi style for a good amount of it. My chibi style is supposed to be a simplified version of a character, but I can't help but still try to get a majority of details down. I also can't decide how I want to draw belts for my chibi style. I'd prefer not to draw them at all but my perfectionism doesn't like me doing that.

I usually don't draw ears at all but some of the characters have uniquely-enough shaped ears for me to feel like I should draw them. I can't even try to tell myself it's because they have earrings as I've ignored the other character who also wears earrings. I may or may not have also forgotten to draw earrings in one panel, but the ear angle has me confused so I don't even want to try to figure it out.

Been sharing my progress with a discord pal just to have extra pair of eyes to catch if anything looks real odd and to have a second opinion on some stuff. They told me I'm getting better at drawing humans which makes me real happy! I get so caught up trying to get the anatomy right that I don't feel like I'm doing a good job at trying to do different body types. Though maybe getting one body style right will act as a good foundation to build onto different body types.

I could have had this comic done way sooner if I hadn't let it sit untouched for a few days. I blame my slight annoyances with my current setup. I'm thinking of looking into regular tablets and downloading an art program onto one since fancy wireless art tablets are super expensive and some reviews have stated them to be real fragile too. Like I'm getting a potential life expectancy of a year or maybe just a month. I think those were the low-star reviews for the wired screen art tablets too.

I want to be able to do digital art on a couch instead of trying to find a comfy sitting position at a computer that doesn't put my legs to sleep. So I'm hoping a tablet with a stylus will be the way to go. One discord pal did suggest using my phone, but I've realized that with how often I use refs to make sure I'm never forgetting a detail, there wouldn't be much screen room for me to actually draw. Anyone use regular tablets for art? What tablet brand is it? I'm going to look into this type of stuff myself, but I wouldn't mind hearing from anyone who actually has experience using a regular tablet for art.

Oh does anyone know of any visually simple art programs such as Artrage? Other programs tend to overwhelm me with all the options and what not on the screen. Artrage is rather simple at first glance so that's nice, but I'm not sure if its price is really worth it. Like I don't use much of its unique(?) features so I don't feel like I'm using it to its full value? So a cheaper option would be nice as I rather not spend so much money on something I use like... two of the tools? pencils? what is it even called...

#random #rambling #all the little annoyances are enough at times for me to not want to draw #which is frustrating in itself as theres a lot of things i want to draw #digital art is much nicer than drawing on paper since its easier to fix little mistakes made #like i want to update Riddles refs as ive realized the colors arent quite right when i fixed the color of my monitor #i also want to draw bobo at different stages of her life as a bit of an extra ref #i want to draw something that i wont describe as i think it counts as body horror #its a shame that i wont get to share it on discord because peeps ignore my spoiler and dont read my warning before clicking on it #hopefully peeps on tumblr will actually read a warning before clicking on read more #i have a list of stuff in my art program to finish as i dont like seeing there being a slightly long list #i also want to look up yakshas at some point but im worried that goolge will just give me genshin impact results #used to be able to look up draconiquis before but now it just shows discord from mlp #pretty sure i didnt typ e that correctly #theyre half horse-half dragon creatures #discord is more like a chimera