Guys, I have this WIP that I undoubtedly will not finish and I want to share it

Pharma and Ratchet in that one MTMTE frame 💀

I just randomly recalled my old headcanon, that Soundwave once installed vocaloid voice bank and was replaying others' phrases in Hatsune Miku's voice💀

TIS IS REALLY OLD

Sometimes it's just hard to draw his bucket of a helmet..

K I want to join Cookie Run fd ( I've actually been here for a couple of years, but now I want to draw fan art>)

I cooked Red Velvet and I am willing to take a request for a next cookie to draw!

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Happy April Fools

HUH?? THANKS!

the whole dark choco & dark cacao storyline is one of the lowkey best storylines in crk, which is why it’s kind of infuriating to try and find genuine analysis about it, because it either suffers from dumbass racism, black and white thinking, or a complete woobification of both parties involved while also simultaneously erasing what makes the moral and general plot behind them both so great and gut-wrenching

Cacao is, by design, someone who has seen more people die than any of his friends. he’s headed a kingdom for basically his entire life and seen entire generations come and go, live and die, and he engraves their names on an altar not just for honor, but for remembrance. But all of this death is implied to have sanded away much of his sense of humor and innocence, which isn’t helped by the fact he lives in a hostile, blizzard riddled land that has very little food and is filled with wild beasts. He doesn’t have time to play games, he doesn’t have time to show his soft side, because if he does, someone might die. Someone relying on him might fall. There’s probably a hundred or more names on the Altar of the Fallen that come from something he may have messed up but never admitted, because his kingdom trusts in him absolutely and that trust slowly turned into him a one man island, an Atlas holding up the world that was simultaneously crushed by its weight in the same vein, a fact he’d rather die than admit, and eventually could not figure out how to admit until the end of chapter 14, when his soldiers reassure him.

There’s not a lot of concrete implications behind the way Cacao raised Dark Choco as a child, but it’s clear from these lines of his that there was definitely emotional neglect going on between them, which isn’t something I think many people fully grasp and understand, because not only are we not shown the full extend of DC’s childhood, but by nature the dysfunctional relationship between a parent like this and their child is messy, gray, and often something that causes people to fight because of their own personal circumstances and lack of empathy towards people in Cacao’s situation.

Cacao very clearly has PTSD. He has extreme PTSD from the war, and it most likely caused him to neglect his own son because he was afraid of losing him the same way he lost so many others. Cacao loved DC more than beloved anyone else in his entire life, and unfortunately that love is why Cacao most likely did not pass down that necessity to him. Love requires someone to be vulnerable, love involves loss, and love often can break people in ways beyond repair. From his perspective of seeing so many die, the harsh conditions of his kingdom and the Dark Flour War (of which he lost a good friend btw! White Lily!) it’s clear and understandable why he’d treat his son so horribly and why DC would inevitably grow up to hate him and see him as someone stifling. Someone who does not understand what the good of the future is. A stick-in-the-mud, if you will.

The reason I mention all of this is because Cacao’s story very much parallels Dark Choco’s own story. Cacao acted terribly, awfully, and was a neglectful father but he had a reason to. He had lots of reasons to. The cycle of child neglect is called a cycle for a reason, many parents who treat their children in unsavory ways often do so because they are scared or do not know any better. None of this absolves them from their actions or even requires their child to have a relationship with them once things change, but the reason I mention this is because empathy and compassion for those in terrible situations doing terrible things but growing above them and learning to be better is the message of both Dark Cacao and Dark Choco’s stories. It’s a plea to the audience to put themselves in the shoes of someone who so desperately wants to be better, who wants to do better and atone for their sins, accepting the consequences along the way.

It’s an especially importance message with regards to generational trauma. Generational trauma is a sticky and painful experience to unpack because it requires your own breaking of the cycle while figuring out how much sympathy, empathy, grace, and mercy to have for the generation before you who perpetrated it but also suffered from it. It’s one of the worst kinds of things to work through simply because being human means that the cognitive dissonance of knowing you should have love and understanding for someone who hurt you in ways that cannot be repaired had an understandable reason to do so, but not a justifiable one.

And that’s where the both of their stories tie into each other. Cacao was not a good father by his own words (what father raises a child without love) but he had a reason to do so and it was because he was afraid of losing the one he loved the most. Love hurt him, love gave him grief and made his heart ache in ways he could not handle. Dark Choco, by comparison, was also someone who did bad things for an understandable reason because he did not see himself worthy of love: he was raised without it, and thus gave himself over to a dark power and committed atrocities because he did not see himself worthy of love. He did not see himself as anything more than the darkness, did not see himself worth anything more than being a minion to someone who abused and manipulated him into being a tool, and he continued to be that way until…

It was the final realization of his father’s love that gave him the strength to fight back.

whenever i see your art my jaw DROPS BECAUSE OF HOW DYNAMIC THE LIGHTING IS…. i can tell how well you understand lighting and its honestly BEAUTIFUL how well you execute the colors. i love ur art sm!!!

Thank you so much!! It's always asks like this that make my day!♥️♥️♥️

Sg Windblade unfinalized

I've been cooking this for a while and it was TOTALLY worth it

Like gosh he's so beautiful!

Love your art, it’s just very… I see it and immediately know it’s yours. And your color work… chef’s kiss

Your ask made my day! Really

I'm so happy to know that my art and colour work is so unique, that people can almost immediately recognise it

Hope you have a great day bud!

I can't seem to find the one way to draw Overlord

That's kinda fun to draw him differently each time, but man

Sum helm designs!!

I can't decide over nickel she looks cute regardless...

They're always watching... O_O

Y'all seem to love D-16 a lot so I decided to make a solo piece with him :)

(the guys in the back are the mine bosses btw)

Live Fortress Maximus reaction

[Image ID: A digital painting of Overlord from the Transformers 2005 IDW comics over a bright red background. He is shown from the shoulders up facing the viewer. The lens of his right eye has been shattered. /.End ID]

Messing with Rebelle! I've been dying to try it out for ages to see how the oil brushes in particular feel. Lots to learn, but I think it'll be fun to use in conjunction with CSP :D

I genuinely miss drawing creepy criptid man. I might even draw Feral Soundwave again, sooner or later

Proud of the colours and the result!