Saw people doing their own Straysona/Companion Bots, so figured I'd give it a shot! Help cure a bit of artblock, and also give something to this incredible game cause rn it's got me in a chokehold of emotions hhhHHHH-

Info/Backstory 'bout this guy below, cause, again, this game gave me a bit of, some would say, motivation-

Well, he originally was a security bot from Midtown (where Clementine is), but basically he's the one behind all the security cameras! He originally was pretty mindless and followed orders and stuff, like the other security bots there, but over the many years...he began to adapt and grow interst to how the other robots acted, starting to slowly imitate it himself, and at first he tried to deny it and just be mindless...soon he easily gave in and yerned to be like the other sentient robots there. Unfortunately, due to the strict conditions there and the threat of getting arrested, he couldn't leave his job, so he remained behind the cameras just watching. ...But he still tried to help. When he sees a "criminal on the run", aka a robot for the resistance or not guilty at all, he'd point the cameras the wrong way, making it harder for them to be tracked. He does however record lots of things, whether it be robots playing games/music, or just simply talking to one another, fascinated with their stories. But never apart of them. ...But then, of course, cat happens- I'm thinking the Cat just easily walks into his room (the door's unlocked, always have been lol), and he's surprised but also giddy to see them, having spotting them many times on the cams and helping it not to be spotted, so for them to come to him felt pretty special to him. I was thinking maybe he'd help them find a specific place or person or something like that, but afterwards as the Cat leaves, despite seeing the door now open for him (again, always has been-), he stays behind for now to try and still help the Cat, not wanting them to be caught. So at the end of the game and when the roof opens and all the securities disabled (he's an acception because he has a consciousness), he finally leaves his room and hesitantly/awkwardly introduces himself to this society which he has watched for years. The robots not minding at all that they haven't even known of his existence before that and that he was watching them. They're just glad more could see the Outside and finally be free.

.......why did i think so much for this most likely one-time thing hhhhhHHHHHH-

Happy day one of Chatember, starting it off with strong with the Thunderclan (Jin) leader, Jin Guangshan (Lionstar)

(Name and AU credits to @clintbeefwoods!)

Jenny animation! (With a pink version just for fun)

I made this over the span of like two days overall and I spent an entire day doing almost nothing else except working on it to the point I gave myself a headache lmao. However, I am happy with how it came out! It's a bit janky in some places but I just... Not enough for me to want to fix it rn I'm done with this lol

I've toyed with animation here and there over the years but rarely do I make anything substantial, so I am happy this turned out as good as it did. Though I also just find Jenny fun to draw, so that probably helped

something something jock and book nerd

no i won't elaborate

I can't believe Stampy's Lovely World is almost over what the heck guys

Who do you really call your "friends" ?

caved and finally decided to do a mix of digisona and tamersona art lol

pardon the strange artifacting, glaze was very much not meant to deal with a lot of solid colors, but i hope you can still appreciate the work i put into all this!

cringe is dead and i'm not into necromancy so when my brain said "digisona time" i said "this weekend, for sure"

first pic is art from like two years ago though, we just were not using tumblr at the time so we never ended up posting it here

second is also from like last year when i fronted for the first time in a while. played around with some fun brushes and tbh? might have to play with 'em some more because trying to get digital effects beyond glitchy stuff is a Goal of mine.

I've connected the dots

Headcanon that Fl4k's internal systems automatically update every day light savings and this confuses their pets.

FINALLY got to this batch of cat requests from September!!!

Eaglefur belongs to @sunshadesfrozensky , Amberspark belongs to @purplegr33n , Loonswoop belongs to @climbingrachis , and Ginsengflight belongs to @spottyissleepy !

PSA announcement:

hi I'm still alive, just getting absolutely fucking obliterated by uni thesis writing

I drew (a part of) the dream I had yesterday

does anyone else hate drawing human/people half the time?

This is a long shot but, link me to/share your favourite artists that specialize in middle-aged men, or manga with middle-aged characters as the protags. I’m talking like 40-60. Can be freelancers/fanartists too! Just wanna see everyone’s approaches! 

Examples- Don’t Call Me Daddy (Gorou Kanbe),  A Man and His Cat (Umi Sakurai)

some important calvin and hobbes facts in case you haven't read the original comic strip in a long time or only absorbed stuff on it from memes and out of context bits on here:

Calvin's last name has never been given, and neither has any of his parent's names. This was actually why his uncle Max only showed up for a brief storyline; the creator of the comic, Bill Watterson, ultimately felt that while it was fine to have him as someone for his parents to talk to, it felt far too awkward to never have Max refer to them by name and he never made a return appearance.

The general tone of the comic is fairly light-hearted, with a big emphasis on goofy slapstick comedy contrasted by clever wordplay and often surprising adult-centered jokes that'll hit you like a slap. A big part of the comedy is, as Watterson put it (paraphrased) "It's really funny to me when people express deeply stupid ideas with really fancy terminology." One notable example you might have seen is that one bit where Calvin asks his mom for money to buy a Satan-worshiping rock album and his mom replies that there's nothing genuine about them and they're just putting on the attitude for shock value, and comisserates with Calvin as he deplores that mainstream nihilism can't be trusted. He concludes that childhood is disillusioning.

There is a LOT of criticism of the extreme materialism and selfish mentality of the late 80s, when the comic was initially written. This may go a long way to explain how its aged so well; much of what it criticizes resonates well with people today.

Bill Watterson views comic strips a legitimate form of artwork, and repeatedly fought to have more space to draw more beautiful and artistic backgrounds, which was a very hard fight and unpopular even with other comic strip artists. He eventually did win some compromises and a lot of Calvin And Hobbes' artwork shows it, with the use of space to indicate time as well as a sharp contrast between the often plain environments of mundane life contrasted by the wildly beautiful imagery of Calvin's imagination (which often sports realistic depictions in an art shift of sorts).

Hobbes is explicitly not an imaginary friend, by word of Watterson himself. We don't know WHAT he is exactly, and Hobbes is apparently unaware of the strange nature of his reality; people look at him and only see an ordinary stuffed tiger plushie, but he has a tangible effect on the world that would be physically impossible for Calvin to do on his own. He's apparently been around for a while, and was apparently around when Calvin was a young baby.

On that note; Hobbes has implicitly killed (notably treated as both a gag and also with the vibe of 'he's a tiger, duh') and while he doesn't do it again on-screen, he doesn't have any moral issues about it. Calvin claims that he's never had trouble bringing Hobbes to school because the last time he did, Hobbes killed and ate a bully named Tommy Chestnut and simply comments that it was gross and he needed a bath. Calvin's tried to repeat this again, but Hobbes was grossed out at the thought having to eat a kid raw and not being allowed to use an oven first, or complaining that children are too fattening.

Hobbes became gradually less human-like in body language and more like an actual cat in both body language and behavior; this was due to Watterson drawing more inspiration from his cat, who also inspired a lot of Hobbes' running gags, such as pouncing on Calvin when he got home. Several years into the syndication of the strip, Watterson's cat passed away, and he did a tribute to her with a comic strip of the two of them agreeing to try to dream together so they can keep playing when they have to sleep; Watterson's commentary (if I recall right), remarks on his cat: "We can see each other again in dreams."

life was so much easier three days ago when i was detaching myself from reality and spending all of my free time shiny hunting