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friendlies-af · 4 months

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Broken phone p3

Did you miss this section? Today my sister Angel (@littleangelblogstuff) and I decided to draw together again. Today's topic suddenly became Mike (and we didn't discuss what we were going to draw in advance!). We drew within the New World!AU.

Jeremy picked out a dress for Puppet, but he's not sure if she'll like it. Mike thinks everything will be fine.

AI: 1boy, 1girl, :3, beanie, blue eyes, brown hair, crossed arms, crossover, dark-skinned male, dark skin, dress, english text, gradient, gradient background, green eyes, hat, jeans, open mouth, orange background, pants, pikachu, pokemon (creature), shirt, short hair, smile, turtleneck.

AI thinks Jeremy is a girl (does it knows something about the 2019 Rebornica's reboot??). Okay, I decided to stick to the “dress” and draw something from the past. I used the fan game "Five Nights of Flirting" as inspiration for Mike's childhood friend. I really liked Ellie, so I wanted to take her into my AU.

AI: 1boy, 1girl, :3, beanie, brown hair, fang, hat, holding, holding animal, holding pokemon, long hair, open mouth, pikachu, pokemon (creature), ponytail, purple shirt, shirt, smile, sunglasses, sweater, vest, yellow background.

Oh no, the sunglasses are missing! 😭 Okay, Ange decided to try the near-lineless style + Rebornica art style. Mike looks happy to have received the rare card.

AI: 1boy, bandaged arm, bandages, blue background, blue shirt, cellphone, closed eyes, crown, gradient, gradient background, hand on hip, holding, holding phone, male focus, phone, pikachu, pokemon (creature), shirt, short sleeves, smartphone, smile, solo, upper body.

“Bandaged Hands” immediately transported me to the present. No, Mike doesn't harm himself (on purpose)! One of my drawings showed Mike playing a game on his phone. I wanted to expand on this topic. "Mike, how often do you donate to this game?", "This is the first time!"

That's where Angie's part ends. I definitely liked it~

I wanted to draw Mike with Ellie's ghost. Due to his head injury, Mike has frequent headaches, and Ellie's presence almost always makes things worse.

AI: 1boy, 1girl, beanie, blue eyes, dark skin, ghost, hat, silhouette, sweatdrop, sweater, transparent background.

I like that the AI was able to see the ghost in the picture. But what I like even more was how Ange was able to draw something completely new! And then there is Ellie in life too!

AI: 1boy, 1girl, bandana, brown hair, closed eyes, covering mouth, flashlight, grin, hand over own mouth, holding, long hair, long sleeves, open mouth, purple shirt, red shirt, shirt, short sleeves, smile, teeth.

I liked the experience of drawing Michael Afton, so I decided to draw something dark again. The 1999 incident, also known as "the bite of '99". Someone had reprogrammed an animatronic dog to attack a boy who stood in his way to perform a ritual (and no, it's not Vincent!). Mike miraculously survived, but Ellie…

AI: 1boy, 1girl, bandana, blood, blood on face, brown hair, knife, red shirt, shirt, short hair, silhouette, weapon.

Back to the present, back to Ellie protecting Mike. She only does this in particularly stressful situations, because she understands that she is harming her friend.

Each time such drawing brings a new experience. I'm glad that so much attention was paid to Mike this time. This section doesn't end, and someday we will bring something more interesting! (Also, I think it's worth leaving the FnoF tag just in case)

#fnaf #fnaf au #friendliesart #new world fnaf au #phone guy #rebornica #jeremy fitzgerald #mike schmidt #fnof #five nights of flirting

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bcdrawsandwrites · 1 year

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[ID: A cropped section of a Psychonauts fancomic. The first two panels show Mr. Bun on the left and young Oleander on the right (as they appear in the Big Top memory vault) facing each other with slightly confused smiles. They are drawn in the simple-shaded, grayscale style of the memory vaults. Oleander is saying, "For some reason... I thought something happened to you..."

The third panel shows Oleander kneeling on the grass, petting Mr. Bun, and smiling while saying "But I sure am glad you're okay!" However, Mr. Bun's ears are drooped, and his eyes are wide in horror as a shadow descends over them.

In the fourth panel, the shadow engulfs them completely. Oly is looking back in fear, the propellers on his cap drooping like Mr. Bun's ears, while Mr. Bun looks up at something outside of the panel. The rabbit says (in a gray dialogue bubble to indicate animal speech) "...Oly?" as he looks up at something beyond the panel.

Butch Oleander is standing outside the panel, so tall that only his leg is visible as it stands over the panel, casting the shadow over Oly and Mr. Bun and even beyond the panel. He is depicted in a lineless style with more complex shading. /end ID]

I... haven't posted anything in a while, but I'm still alive and still writing and drawing Psychonauts stuff! Been struggling with writer's block but I think I'm starting to work my way out of it.

I don't really have anything complete to share at the moment, so here's a cropped section of this Oleander comic I've been chipping away at every so often for the past... while. It's going to get done, because I need it to be done, and this is the last preview you're going to see of it. Next time you see this, it'll be the comic in full.

#morceau oleander #psychonauts #my art #wip #it's like 2 AM but I'm working on the third page of this comic #it keeps getting longer #it'll probably be... 4 pages though I think?

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peachie-cottage · 9 months

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C O M M I S S I O N S

《hello !! If you could, PLEASE REBLOG. Reblogging helps very small artists like me, and I would appreciate it so much》 i'm finally making an advertisement for commissions !! These commissions can be considered "emergency commissions" since i am trying to get funds for a puppy that my mom wants to buy I also need money, like did you know ot costs money to eat food? RULES: • i only take cashapp payments at the moment • i refuse to make any sort of commissions featuring hardcore fetishes/kinks (vore, bondage, pregnancy, ect.) • i will determine whether something is appropriate or not to do • i refuse to do any art that has children in it in a sexual or suggestive pose or outfit • i can't do feral, but i can do anthro • I do draw tickles, but i refuse to draw any sort of tickle kink • Please don't come to me and say "instead of money, i can give you exposure!" because i don't care about exposure. exposure doesn't pay my ver bills. • DO NOT DM ME UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY SURE THAT YOU WANT A COMMISSION AND YOU'VE READ ALL OF THIS.. DO NOT WASTE MY TIME OR GET MY HOPES UP, ALL JUST TO TAKE EVERYTHING BACK. PRICES: Uncolored (basic lineart): • Headshot/Bust: $5.00 • Half-body: $10.00 • Full body: $15.00 this is what my basic lineart essentially looks like:

This would be an example of a $15.00 full body commission Flat-color (no shading): • Headshot/Bust: $10.00 • Half-body: $15.00 • Full-body: $20.00 this is what my flat-color looks like:

This would be an example of a $10.00 headshot/bust commission Fully colored (completely shaded): • Headshot: $15.00 • Half-body: $25.00 • Full-body: $30.00 This is what my fully colored art looks like:

This would be an example of a $15.00 headshot/bust ADDITIONAL CHARGES INFO:

i do tickle commissions as well...

This is what my tickle art looks like:

This would be an example of a tickle commission half body, completely shaded and lineless. ***any additional characters are $15.00 ***based on if you want shaded lineart/lineless style along with the fully shaded art or flated-colored art, it will be an additional charge: ***if you want lineless art, it's an additional $15.00 charge ***fully created background, i.e. a bedroom, livingroom, dining room, area outside, ect. costs between $10.00-$25.00, depending on the amount of detail and difficulty of said background. USAGE: • If you are to use your commission i made you as a profile picture, background on tumblr, or on any other site, you MUST credit me, linking my account on another site, or putting my @ on tumblr. • If I want to post your commission on another site, i will ask for your permission first. I will never post your art on any other sites without your permission. • You are not allowed to use said commission in any sort of copying way, i.e. tracing, claiming ownership, ect.

Refunding policy:

If you are to ask for a refund while i am sketching, i am required to reture 80% of your profit

If you ask for a refund while i am working on the digital line art, i am required to return 60% of your profits

If you ask for a refund while i am completing the flat color, i will return 40%/you will not get a refund, it's based on your commission you choose

Once i begin to shade the flat colored art, a refund will not be available

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doodle17 · 1 year

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The Brainiacs DTIYS

Ladies and Gents, we have reached a whopping 200+ followers! 🥳🥳🥳🥳Can you believe it? I sure can't! I just quickly want to thank everyone for the follows and getting me here. I never knew people would enjoy my silly little scribbles this much!

Before I get on to the big thing, I'm going to quickly say that NO I have not forgotten comic requests. In fact, I'm almost done with the first one! Just adding the finishing touches :)

Now, on to the thing I'm sure you've heard about - or not - either way, this is something I've been planning for a good while, and that thing is...

DOODLE88'S 200 FOLLOWERS PSYCHONAUTS FUTURE DTIYS!

I'm assuming you may know what the rules are, but in case you don't, I'll leave some answers to questions you may have...

For this DTYIS (draw this in your style), you don't have to have it shaded or lined exactly like the original. You can make it lineless, painted, traditional, or just a sketch with color! (This is a draw this in YOUR STYLE, after all)

- Try to keep the outfits and designs as close to the original as possible. Don't outright change their designs.By designs, I mean hair and other accessories. You can change proportions like head shape and size to fit your style.

- You can slightly alter poses and facial expressions if you want.

-The special # to be used will be "the braniacs 200 follower DTIYS"

-@ me in the post!! I want to be able to see it!!!

-PLEASE REBLOG THE CRAP OUT OF THIS! I want as many people to see this and participate as possible!

- Please, don't be weird.

This'll be going on for 3 months! Deadline will be July (14) 11:59 Mountain time, and winners and whatnot will be announced 4 days to a week afterward. If you are unable to complete the illustration before the deadline, but want to submit it, its perfectly fine to just enter an unfinished illustration or sketch. It's highly unlikely it will get a winning spot, but it might get an honarable mention! :) Speaking of which...

There will be 3 winners and a few "Honorable Mentions"! 3rd place gets a traditional sketch, 2nd place gets a digital sketch with color, and 1st place is a full and complete illustration! Honarable mentions get shoutouts with an @ and a link to their illustration. When winners are announced, said winners can send an ask or DM me a request of what they want. You can read some of the rules I have when it comes to requests and most things in general on my pinned post. Request can be anything*!

I can't wait! This is so exciting! Good luck to everyone participating, I'm excited to see what you'll do with this!

*It doesn't have to be Psychonauts' themed unless that's what you want. It can be of an oc, a character you really like, etc. It can really be anything as long as it follows my rules

!!PLEASE REBLOG THIS!!

#Doodle88 #Psychonauts #Psychonauts 2 #rhombus of ruin #Psychonauts au #razputin aquato #lili zanotto #psychonauts razputin #psychonauts lili #dogen boole #Psychonauts dogen #the brainiacs 200 follower dtiys #psychonauts fanart #Psychonauts future

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wolfhertz · 10 months

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Yep, finally opening up commissions for the first time in....idk how long, but hey, better late than never!

This is gonna be first come, first serve, and they'll be completed in the order they are requested. I'll be keeping them open until September and I'll have 5 slots available at a time! (I'll have a pinned post on my page showing availability) Once the slots are filled, I will complete those comms, and 5 slots will be open again.

All fandoms/characters/etc. are welcome!

Text version of the info + prices under the cut!

COMMISSIONS by Wolfhertz!

IMPORTANT: All prices below are calculated in Canadian Dollars (CAD)

Option 1: Character w/ Solid Colour Background

Bust Base Price: $10 Per Additional Character: $6 Shading: $2

Half-Body Base Price: $16 Per Additional Character: $9 Shading: $5

Full-Body Base Price: $22 Per Additional Character: $12 Shading: $8

Note: Shading applies to entire commission; additional characters are shaded for no extra cost

Option 2: Fully-Rendered Drawing (includes background, shading, lighting effects)

Full Base Price: $35-55 (price will vary depending on complexity) Per Additional Character: $18 Shading: included

Alternate Requests: Commissions are not limited to these options! If you have something else in mind (e.g. character/outfit design, reference sheets, etc.), please message me and we can work out prices! Different styles (e.g. simplified, chibi, lineless, etc.) are also available upon request (prices may vary). All fandoms/characters/etc. are welcome!

Payment Method:

I will create a sketch based on your request. When you approve it, you will pay the FULL amount and only then will I complete your commission

All commissions are sold via Paypal

Payment in CAD (Canadian dollars) is preferable to avoid incorrect payment amounts

Payment is sent to: [email protected]

Terms:

I have the right to refuse any commission for any reason

All commissions will be digital - you will not be sent a physical copy of the artwork, just a digital picture

Clear reference materials are preferable (characters, poses, backgrounds, etc.)

You may post the commission on your page, blog, etc. but credit MUST be given and the signature cannot be removed

Commissions are for personal use ONLY; no commercial use allowed

I will NOT draw:

NSFW (does not include bare chests)

Extreme Gore

Fetish Art

Inappropriate relationships (adult/underage, incest, etc.)

#commission info #commission prices #art commissions #artists on tumblr

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lydiaskyeleaf · 1 year

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Wally Darling from Welcome Home ARG.

This was just something that spawn in my head when I was working on the speedpaint reel of my Wally and Yellow Guy drawing on my instagram. I was going to use 'Rainbow Connection' for that reel until an idea came in my head for a new drawing. I felt that song was so inlined with this upcoming drawing that I've decided to use a different song for my last drawing and use 'Rainbow Connection' for this speedpaint.

It was even supposed to have lineart with it but it become lineless art along the way. Either way, for a quick random idea, I'm quite proud of this.

Also, check out my speedpaint reel on instagram if you want to see the art process.

Now that's outta of the way. I wanna talk about Wally and my thoughts on what's his role is going to be in the story.

While there are a lot of things still a mystery, I feel there are some things established about Wally's character and the role he will play in the overarching story.

1.) Wally is fully aware he's a puppet and that he was part of the TV show: Welcome Home.

2.) All of his friends besides himself and Home are either missing or dead.

3.) He is somehow influencing the restoration project and can communicate through the website.

While I have no doubt Wally is going to be antagonist in the arg, I do wonder how he going to be portrayed as it goes on. Will he be pure evil? A victim? Or will be a decoy as the real big bad is lurking in the shadows? We don’t know Wally’s motives for starting the restoration project or why the show was canceled in the first place but I do have a theory.

I feel when Wally became sentient, he became disillusion with the world he was in and tried to escaped it. Whether he took the Doki Doki Route or his friends were caught in the crossfire is unclear but in the end, his actions caused his friends to be no more and the show to be canceled. So years later after everything, he manages to find a way to somewhat influence the real world through unknown means. He is now trying to bring back the show but his reasons for doing so can be two things.

The first reason is that he is still trying to escape into the real world but the other reason I think he isn’t just trying to restored his show itself but his friends. We have no idea why they are gone, just that they have disappeared. So, the restoration project may be part of a way to bring back his friends. To Wally, he can have everything when the restoration project is completed: His connection to real world, his friends, the show… everything would go back to the way it was… except it won’t. Wally is not the same puppet before everything started to go downhill. He aware what he is and know he basically in a cage. Not only that, he’s been mostly alone for years now before the start of the project. So, he basically a bit unhinged right now. If his friends do come back, whether they are still the same or become a dark version of themselves, it will not be the same as it once was before.

There is also Home as well. From we what we seen, Wally kinda fears Home as in a audio clip shows him sounding a bit scared of if Home like his song or not. Wally has also been seen worshiping Home. There’s definitely hints of a toxic relationship going on here and I have wonder if Home is the source of all dark stuff that’s been happening. There’s an instance where he was telling us to be quiet. Like if we make a noise, something might catch us. If it’s Home he is talking about, than we have to wonder what exactly is Home that making Wally scared of him.

Either way, I can't wait for more from this project and for the creator, Clown to take all the time he needs for himself and the project. This really blew up quick and it can be really overwhelming but I wish the best of luck for Clown.

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inkwellfire · 1 year

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Inkwell’s Commission Information

An updated commission page now that I’ve gotten my art degree!!

All Prices are in USD. Payments can be made through Pay Pal (my paypal.me link), or Square through my Website InkwellArtist.com and in the Commission Me! tab! Make sure to check with me before paying.

I ask that payments be made before Lineart is drawn, or if you’ve chosen a sketch work, before the art is started. Price ranges subject to complexity of expressions/pose.

If you’re interested in commissioning me, please email me at [email protected], or send me a direct message through Tumblr!

Basic Digital Drawing Commission Details:

Sketch (cleaned): 10-20, Lineart- Bust: 30-35, Half Body: 40-50, Full Body: 60-70, Full Color +30 added to Lineart price

Other Coloring Methods (added on lineart price): Base Flats +20, Cel Shade Flats +25, Dynamic Lighting +40

Full Background: 60-100, Lined (automatic), Lineless +5 to “Lineart” base price

Other Background Styles: Lineart: 20-30, Gradient/Simple: 10-15, Flats: 40-50, Pattern: 10-40

More examples, art styles, comic pricing, animation pricing, and further explanations of the process under the cut

Realism: +50 to base price, Chibi & Toon styles: +10, Detailed Linework: +5, Other artstyles can be developed with discussion

Pixel Art: 20+ (increases with number of pixels) Pixel Animation: Base Pixel Art price + 10 per frame (ie: a small, 12 frame animation would cost $140)

Hand-drawn key frame Animations: Base Art Pricing per keyframe + 20 per frame (ie: a 12 frame animation with 3 keyframes (each $40 as individual works) would cost $300)

Comics: Use Base Pricing per panel, + 5-10 (for paneling and dialogue organization) Background Pricing per Setting, not panel

Edits after the relevant stage (ie: if a pose is being changed after drawing lineart, or a color is changed after shading) are an additional 5 to 10 per edit.

Feel free to ask about things such as physical/traditional media, prints, sculpture, maps, logo designs, prop design, photo manipulation and more!

How it Works:

After I get your message I’ll respond as soon as possible asking you to describe your commission to the best of your ability- make sure you note if you’d like bust/half/full body lineart, your color preference, and the other important details about what you’d like.

After that I’ll be able to lead you through any additional questions I need in order to get an idea of how complex it is and I’ll be able to do the math to get a preliminary price out there!

After that’s discussed, I’ll be able to provide you with a series of sketches to choose from and work out adjustments if needed! After a sketch is selected and worked with to get a better concept of what you need, I’ll get started on line art! This usually takes me about a day or two for most pieces. Please note you will need to pay for the commission before I get started on the first stage! I will not begin drawing line art until I have received the payment for the artwork.

After that, it’s mostly a matter of sending you my progress and asking if anything needs adjustment. Feel free to add anything you want! If you find this would change the price of the artwork, I will be very open to discuss it further with you. I’m always hoping to make something *you* want, so never feel bad for asking me to change something.

Everything’s first come- first serve. I’ll try to inform you of how many people are ahead of you and an estimated time-frame of how long it may take me to get to you and/or complete your project.

Thank you! Feel free to ask any and all questions that come to mind, and I’ll do my best to answer them! There are no bad questions!

- Further Notes/Disclaimers

I may raise the prices upon further discussion should the piece be particularly complex or challenging enough to increase estimated time spent on the project. It is very unlikely I will increase prices above the high-end bracket stated here for any particular project. It’s why I included the ranges in the first place. I want to make this something that is fair to both your budget and my time, energy, and supplies, I’m very willing to help you figure out how I can make something you want within your budget! Low-end bracket non-negotiable. Any price increase above the high-end bracket would be due to a general pricing increase overall.

If you would like to pull out of any projects you must do so before completion. I will provide you with the initial sketch(es) as soon as I complete it. Please inform me then or beforehand if you no longer wish to commission me! For both your own and my sake!

If you wish to pull out of a colored project, and I’ve already completed line art, I ask that you pay for the line art (same with a project with backgrounds or additional characters)

I ask that you only use these commissions for Personal Use unless you talk to me first! If you would like to use my art/designs for Commercial Purposes, you must get my explicit permission. I sign all artwork! If you don’t wish for it to be signed, or would like it to be signed in a particular place/way, please discuss that with me. It is very likely I will post the complete commission to one of tumblr blogs (and/or possibly other social media accounts/website/portfolio). If you would prefer I didn’t, or did so in a particular way, please discuss that with me!

That’s it! If you got though this all, I applaud your determination and appreciate your interest! If you still have questions, again, please ask!

#commision info #digital art #art #artists on tumblr #animation #gifs #animation commission #commissions #art commisions #commission info 2023 #inkwell art

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canmom · 2 years

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Animation Notes: evolution of the anime girl, part 1

So last week we investigated ways of drawing the human head in a realistic way. Armed with this knowledge, let’s see how to stylise it...

Nowadays, when people speak about ‘anime style’, or an ‘anime girl’, they probably mean a moe design like this:

(That’s Aoi Miyamori from Shirobako, designed by Ponkan8.)

Animators learn to draw this type of design, and various standardised symbolic expressions, in books like キャラの気持ちの描き方 (kyara no kimochi no egaki kata, How to Draw the Feelings of the Characters).

Certain features you expect to see here:

the basic structure is resembles the Loomis head: spherical cranium, jaw coming down.

the cheek/jaw contour is simplifed and comes to a point (or close to it), with an outwards curve along the cheek. There is no major sharp indentation around the eye socket, but there may be a gentle concave curve.

the eyes are very large, with a lot of detail put into the shading of the pupil, specular highlights, and the shape of the eyelashes; the face is balanced around these large eyes so it doesn’t look alien.

the nose by contrast is massively deemphasised to the point of just being a dot in many cases.

the face has almost no structure or shading, so that it’s almost always a completely flat colour.

the mouth is also drawn very small, with no shading or structure applied to the lips; a small shadow under the mouth might be applied.

the neck is very narrow, and meets the head in the centre, so the cranium goes back about as far as the face goes forwards in side view.

the hair is broken up into roughly triangular locks. (the number and position of these locks of hair is actually part of the settei and the animators are expected to keep it consistent.)

the hair has typically three layers of shading: midtone, shadow, and specular highlight. the shape of the specular highlight is part of the design and won’t usually be changed based on lighting conditions. the skin rarely has a specular highlight. the eye could easily have four or more layers of shading.

lines are very thin and even, and may sometimes be broken inside the form - particularly on a closed mouth. the contours of major forms are typically outlined, while shadows and highlights are usually lineless

generally speaking, characters’ heads are much bigger than they are on real humans relative to the rest of the body.

At some point I made a little turnaround based on that book of my best attempt at the time of a moe anime head. here,

Looking back at this I can see some issues, e.g. with inbetweening the upper contour of the head, but overall this still works pretty well. Maybe soon I’ll try and do a more complex head turn with acting and like... actual hair lmao.

Anyway, this approach to stylisation could be considered something of a ‘default’ in the anime industry, but of course 1. it has evolved considerably over time, and 2. ‘anime’ encompasses a huge range of styles.

We could focus on a number of threads, but in this case, I’m going to zero in on drawings of main character girls in 3/4 view - chosen because these are some of the least diverse not the most, since, male characters tend to be more varied in general, either with more ‘realistic’ proportions or more exaggerated and stylised.

Actually, to comment a little further on that. The ‘large eyes’ stylisation is typically applied to characters intended to have a certain amount of cuteness, so in addition to the familiar genus of anime girl, it is also commonly applied to young boys. We can see this in the wildly popular ufotable adaptation of Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer), which in classic shōnen fashion has a young hot-headed boy as its protagonist:

(Tanjiro, designed by Akira Matsushima)

However, as your anime boy grows up into an anime man, his eyes will tend to get smaller, closer to a real size. It’s hard to find another example in Demon Slayer (I couldn’t find anyone scanning the first few episodes) so let’s turn to another anime.

A much stronger of dimorphism example comes in Production I.G.’s anime Psycho-Pass. Here is protagonist Akane Tsunemori, designed by Akira Amano and Kyoji Asano, who has huge eyes with a distinctive shape:

Starring alongside her is Shinya Kōgami, who’s 28 years old, and has much smaller eyes:

and for even stronger contrast, the older Nobuchika Ginoza:

You can see therefore that as a character gets older, their design often (not always) shifts further towards realism: their eyes get smaller, and a lot more lines and wrinkles are added to the face. (The strong shadow under the cheekbone is incidentally a Production I.G. staple.)

Something similar also applies to women; smaller eyes and more structure tends to indicate maturity. Let’s take a different Production I.G. work, Seirei no Moribito; here is 30-year-old Balsa designed by Gatou Asou:

and returning to Psycho-Pass, here is Jōshū Kasei, the director of the police unit, an older woman:

Although the amount of extra face detail isn’t quite so extreme as Ginoza above, we see the addition of lines to indicate the nasolabial fold, and more complex shading around the eye socket.

(Of course, not every anime takes this exact approach. In particular, there are ways of stylising old people which push into exaggeration; Hayao Miyazaki loves doing this.)

Now, this ‘look’ to anime has only been the standard for a couple of decades at most. The styles used in anime of the 1980s tended to look very differen, as you can see comparing Gunbuster (1988-9), with characters designed by Haruhiko Mikimoto...

to its sequel Diebuster (2004-6) a decade later, with characters designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto:

This particular shot animated by Ayumi Shiraishi might be a bit looser, simplifying shapes for comedic effect, but one of the differences is precisely the greater willingness to go off-model like this.

Part of the difference is surely the transition from physical, painted cels to digital colouring and compositing, but as you can see looking at the settei above, there is a real difference in feel from the 80s design to the 2000s one. This comes in places like: the shape of the chin, the use of hatching, the general feeling of the shapes (more rounded in the 80s), the bulk of the hair.

So, where did the ‘anime style’ come from? Let’s trace its evolution across the entire duration of anime, in a manner similar to Kimi Rito’s ‘expressionist’ approach in The History of Hentai Manga. Of course, it would be impossible to comment on every anime ever made, but I’d like to find representative examples of most of the major styles used in the industry in their respective eras.

The Very Dawn of Anime

Japanese animation (whether or not we yet consider it ‘anime’) is pretty much as old as animation itself, i.e., started in the beginning of the 20th century.

Famously, Osamu Tezuka got the ball rolling on TV anime with Astro Boy, but prior to him there was a reasonable amount of film animation, and prior to that, short film animation. I believe the oldest known Japanese animated film is Namakura Gatana (1917) by Jun’ichi Kōuichi, a short film about a samurai with a blunt sword, in a cutout animation style looked like this:

Naturally this has little resemblance to any of the future styles that became known as ‘anime style’. To me it calls to mind a little ukiyo-e artists such as Sharaku, but also presumably shows the influence of international animators like Émile Cohl. We’ll skim over those first few experiments though - please read about them here if you’re interested!

In contrast to later styles of anime we’re going to cover, here the balance of features is essentially opposite with a large jaw and mouth, reduced cranium, exaggerated forehead. I’m not going to draw a study of this one.

1930s

Unfortunately many of the films of the 1920s are lost, so it’s difficult to comment on them. So rolling the clock forward a bit, we can observe one interesting example in Benkei tai Ushiwaka (1939), a fantasy/mythological film that came in a period when animators were largely required to make propaganda films for the nationalist government.

So here’s Ushiwaka (Minamoto no Yoshitsune); there’s no credited character designer but presumably the design is due to Kenzo Masaoka, the director of the four-person team. (He and his wife also did the voice acting.)

What influences this design? It’s hard to say without a much deeper familiarity with Japanese art history at the time. We might see the influence of Fleischer; at the time Japanese animators were competing with foreign productions by working cheaply (la plus change...), but American animations were widely shown, so no doubt Fleischer and their contemporaries would prove an influence - particularly in the animation itself which uses a lot of loops in the same way as Fleischer. And, indeed, in this film, Masaoka was experimenting with pre-recorded sound to follow the American method. Regardless, we’re here to study faces.

So here’s an attempt to copy Ushiwaka; no tracing, etc. I picked this character because he seems the most similar to future anime designs.

The way I broke this down is a kind of wedge shaped head (like a Loomis head), which I indicated with dashed lines, and then cheek chub added on to make a rounder head shape overall. The overall contour has a slightly thicker line weight. The forehead seems very large here, and the eyebrows faced very high, bc he’s a historical monk etc. etc. The big difference is that the eyes are simple and haven’t been drawn very big, and the way the nose is drawn.

Looking at the designs in this film, it doesn’t look exactly like any Disney/Fleischer characters, but I do think it shares a bit of a design sensibility with Disney of this era (notably Snow White).

Beyond animation, the other major cultural presence of illustration would be kamishibai paper theatre, where performers would show illustrated cards to a accompany oral storytelling. It’s a little difficult to find examples of kamishibai boards dating back to the 1930s, but here’s one I found in this article from a kamishibai called Cry of the Andes (アンデスの叫び Andesu no Sakebi) originally sourced from Manga Kamishibai by Eric P Nash.

This has a painted style that resembles American commercial illustration in the same period, though notably the face is quite flat and without much shading away from the eyes, or the use of line weight under the nose.

1940s

After Snow White proved that an animated feature film was in fact possible, other countries jumped on in. So the first feature-length Japanese animated film - a propaganda film - came during the second world war.

(In fact, as an aside, Japan’s animators were beaten to the feature film punch by the Wan brothers in Shanghai who completed Princess Iron Fan under Japanese bombs! Animation Night 29 - that film may be watched here on the Internet Archive, though sadly it’s quite a rough print.)

In this period, the fascist government was exerting severe control on art, but also throwing a lot of money at those animators willing to play along and make propaganda films. That takes us to Momotaro: Sacred Sailors (1945), the sequel to the 37 minute Momotaro’s Sea Eagles (1943). It centres on the folk character Momotarō who had been increasingly appropriated as a nationalist symbol, portrayed as a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army/Navy, since the First Sino-Japanese War.

This one uses mostly anthro animal characters, and features for its time extremely sophisticated animation of war machines, and generally a high drawing count. Shōchiku made a 4K print of it (complete with big disclaimer at the beginning) which can be viewed on Youtube here.

The actual character designs are very simple - perhaps even more so than Ushiwaka above. Very rounded cutesy shapes - an early instance of cuteness being used to promote imperialism and war I suppose. This character is a monkey, but we can look at them a bit like a human still. The face is very flattened: the overall head shape is two curves connected by straights. It’s kind of like a lego head.

Momotarō is mostly relevant because of the influence it had on later animation. Notably, a young Osamu Tezuka saw the film in 1945; WP unsourced writes:

He later said that he was moved to tears by the movie's hints of dreams and hopes, hidden under the appearance of war propaganda.

The staff on the film included Kenzo Masaoka, director of the above discussed Benkei tai Ushiwaka; most of its staff (quite a small list!) had a limited career in subsequent anime.

Kamishibai also took on a militaristic tone during this period, such as Kintaro the Paratrooper seen here:

I don’t have the evidence to really document whether the difference in style from the previous example represents a general trend, but these illustrations are a lot simpler and more graphical.

In 1945 of course Japan lost the war and the country came under American occupation. US comics, films and TV flooded into Japan, and this kicked off an explosion of manga creation - indeed, the definition of manga as an art form. So this is where our history really begins.

Next time: early manga, Toei’s films, the styles of Osamu Tezuka and Go Nagai, and the first steps towards more complex designs...

#animation notes #anime #history #illustration

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dragonwysper · 10 months

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FLIGHT RISING COMMISSION OFFER !!

ONE SLOT¹

¹ time sensitive offer. Closes in like half an hour or so. Claim first and elaborate second !!!

Status: AVAILABLE²

²probably won't begin right now, but gimme a commission for later!

I will draw ONE (1) dragon or character of your choice (outfits, skincents, and any extra details included).

I WILL DRAW³ ANYTHING⁴ !!!!

³ read: attempt, for complex details.

⁴ exceptions: hateful shit, shit that would get me in legal or moral trouble, obvious fetish content, straight up porn, excessive architecture/vehicles. I will however attempt mechs, accept fandom stuff or other people's characters (with permission from the creator to do this kind of stuff)⁵, do some reasonable nudity, and draw as much gore as you want.

⁵ for fandom art: you get a discount if I know and like the character/fandom.

Details can be hashed out in DMs 😎

Art examples with time/price estimates as reference:

Hyper-realism. This specific piece took me somewhere between 8 and 12 hours, and would be both the most expensive and the most limiting option. I'd probably charge you around 1,000G/kT or so for something like this and also be super picky about which dragon/character I do.

Lines and flat color. These are highly variable. For this first piece, it took me about an hour to an hour and a half to do each character, and then the height chart/layout took another couple hours since I had to do it almost from scratch. For the second, it took me probably 12 hours to complete the whole thing. Depending on the complexity of your dragon and how much of the body you want me to draw, I'll charge you anywhere from 200G/kT to 400G/kT.

Lines, color, and cel shading. Also highly variable. The bust took me about 4 or 5 hours to do, the little fullbody is incomplete, but has taken me probably 9 or 10 hours so far, and the Zim portrait (my current PfP) took maybe 6 or 7 hours. Depending on the details, I'll probably charge you somewhere in the realm of 400G/kT to 750G/kT.

Lineless (more or less). This piece took me I think like 6 or 7 hours. Depending on details, I can crank 'em out faster though. I'll charge you something around 200G/kT to 400G/kT.

Discord-style emoji. These take me just a couple hours to do. I need a reference image of the emoji you want me to draw your dragon as, and I may need to do some pre-planning, but these are usually fairly quick and easy. 175G/kT would work nicely.

Experimental. Give me a program to use (I use Clip Studio Paint as the default, but I can also use MSpaint for crisp pixelly art and Toon Boom for animations) and/or a style/vibe to embody, or just tell me to go batshit, and I'll do it. These can be worked out individually. MSpaint drawing is incomplete and has taken probably 5 hours so far (though I can do these faster), and other piece took like 7 hours. Animations, depending on length and complexity, can take me anywhere from 4 hours to several weeks. Price is too variable to really put something helpful, but for reference, an MSpaint drawing would probably be about 150G/kT to 250G/kT, something super stylized could be anywhere from 300G/kT to 500G/kT, and an animation would be 1,000G/kT or above.

If you're unsure on what you want, point out a piece you like and I'll give you a price/time estimate based on that and your character, or give me a price/time limit and I'll give you some options.

#flight rising #commissions open #commission me #art #buy my art #flight rising art #art commissions #animation commission #my art

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serendipitous-mage · 7 months

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Commissions~

*Hello! I'm currently between jobs and actively looking, but no luck yet. The household is pretty hard up on funds right now and any additional income would be so very very helpful, especially with student loan repayments kicking in this month ;w;

*Regardless of the type of commission, I will gladly work with you throughout it and give updates/the opportunity to make adjustments if you would like!

Drawn

*The examples below range from about $4-$40 USD, ordered most to least expensive, all are based on complexity and time to complete. Prices are open to negotiate prior commitment, and can be made in multiple payments if needed! (some examples are a bit old)

*Anything that’s a meme or I highly enjoy the concept of doing is up for a potential discount :3

*If you’re interested, feel free to message me here or send me an email at [email protected] (anon asks are also enabled)

*Trigger Warning: One example has light gore/blood

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TRADITIONAL

~approx $35-$40 USD

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DIGITAL

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*NOTES -

*I can do lineless digital, but I’m not as practiced with it

*Traditional commissions will be scanned(or potentially sent in actual mail) for optimal quality. More colours/subjects will cost more

*Digital drawing is all around easier for me, and in general will be cheaper than an ‘identical’ traditional version would be

*As mentioned above, anything that’s a meme or I highly enjoy the concept of doing is up for a potential discount, more fun means its less taxing which means i can drop the price a little <3

*Will Draw:

-OCs

-AU characters

-Animals/fursonas/anthro

-Mecha

-NSFW

-Rough/simple animations and gifs (we can talk..)

*Won’t Draw anything:

-Explicit underage

-Discriminatory

-Taking place in hospitals/based around illness

*You can view more of my drawings at my DA Gallery or, for less polished but more religiously updated posts, here

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Written

*I always read a lot in school, and over the years that turned into writing stories. I have a few fanfics running currently, but any commissions would be given priority

*Thinking $5 per 500 words? May adjust depending on complexity/any needed research/longer pieces

*I’ve found I write best with fantasy genres, but you can absolutely commission something else! Some things you may want to consider:

-Is it original or fandom based?

-What point of view do you want? First, second(reader inserts), or third person?

-Past or present tense?

-Old timey speech or modern feel?

-Fluff, feels, something in between?

-Where are you in the spectrum of “can you relay enough information about what you want that I won’t need to overly interpret/fill in gaps myself” and “do you have an end goal or outline, and want me to make the rest happen” ? In other words, how much of this do you already know you want, and what if anything are you willing to let me interpret as the writer?

*Some excerpts:

First person

The brambles and lower branches suddenly appeared much denser than when we’d come from the other direction, and I kept as much distance from the two of them as I could. Their incessant arguing was still discernible, but not overly so.

We took our new torches–which seemed a little brighter than they should have been–and set off continuing our search for tracks, holding the fire as close as we dared to any brush and leaves that were near the forest floor. The quiet pulsing of the place at night was almost unnerving, and much different from our campout the evening before. Unseen critters chirped to a rhythm we outsiders weren’t aware of, falling silent if we at any point passed too close to them.

The eerie limbo was broken when I suddenly noticed a light coming toward us, followed quickly by Dagger who swooped low and squawked into my ear.

I batted him away and asked Dex if the light was Sara, but felt I already knew the answer.

“No,” he confirmed, squinting at it in suspicion.

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“Clariiisaaaaaa!” Sara shouted again, her voice tumbling across the vague grassy mounds that just barely made the classification of ‘hills’. “Clarissa!“

“Quiet down,” I finally warned her. “There’s more on the prowl after nightfall.”

She spun around to glare at me. “You say that like I don’t know. It doesn’t matter we have to find them.”

“We’re not going to find anyone if we’re dead.” I countered.

“Well what if they’re dead!?” she shouted.

I was a little taken aback at the sudden outburst, almost snapping at her in turn but pausing at what looked like a faint shimmer in her eye.

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It began to rain soon after we entered the wood. Drops fell in a constant, distant thrum on the leaves above, and it wasn’t long before a chill settled in around the trees. Heavy dampness filled the air as the rain increased, making its way below the canopy to turn patches of the ground to a sticky mush. I’d hastened my pace twice already, and the rain still continued to thicken. Mini waterfalls poured down here and there where the foliage had positioned itself just so, and the aftermath was sent streaming between roots and stone along my path. I gave up trying to keep my boots dry and went as quickly as I dared, careful with my step to avoid sprawling in the dirt.

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Reader Insert

There’s a soft *ping* and your body is suddenly overwhelmingly heavy, but luckily something else is holding your weight. You feel yourself rise a little into the air before being pulled forward, through the screen, through the words, through the space between, through the Barrier…

Into the Underground.

You notice you’re staring the ceiling. But not just any ceiling, New Home’s. And there are two faces looking down at you.

"ARE THEY OKAY??”

"they’ll be fine. just–“

"SANS,” he warns.

"a little down.“

"NNNNGH!! SANS YO–! HUH?” Papyrus turns to look back at you, as you’re practically dying of laughter on the floor.

You’re here! Actually here! They are talking and joking and breathing right in front of you…the skelebros, in the flesh heheh.

You tilt your head so you can Sans, tears in your eyes as you have a little difficulty breathing. He raises an eyeridge and grins a bit more than usual.

"it wasn’t that good of a joke…i like ‘em.“ he says lastly to Papyrus.

The younger brother mumbles something and reaches down to help you to your feet. Though they always seemed small, especially when younger, the monsters are around the same height as you. You wonder aloud how tall the king and queen must be.

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You freeze at the deep, rumbling voice approaching. Solid footfalls sound closer and closer still, and you find your gaze drawn to the large figure coming down the hall. You’re overwhelmed with the details. The apparent thick softness of fur, curved smooth horns threatening to reach the ceiling, and impossibly violet robe that drifted behind his gait.

"Oh, Howdy! Boys you should have told us you had, a…guest,” he stops, sudden distress plainly visible in his expression.

Your blood runs cold as you realize, you must remind him of them. He thinks you’re–

Chara?“ he falls heavily to his knees, tears streaming around his muzzle. His eyes search you over, filled with guilt, hope, disbelief, so many different emotions almost simultaneously. Papyrus runs up and tries to comfort him.

You lower your eyes and faintly shake your head, saying you’re sorry but, you’re not them.

The haze that you and the skeletons hadn’t noticed before returns to his expression. He squeezes his eyes closed and inhales deeply before looking back at you again.

"I, forgive me … what is your name?”

You find it a little difficult to speak, but manage to give him your name.

He smiles. “It is very nice to meet you.“

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Third Person

“Oh, oh dear.” Alphys was staring at the base of the chalkboard with a frown. “Has anyone seen the chalk?” She held up the stub end of one. It had an odd jaggedness on one side. “This is all that’s here…I’m certain there was still have a box left,”

No one answered, and Frisk certainly didn’t know, so they kept quiet as well.

The class crawled by about how one would expect it to. No one seemed particular enthralled by Alphys’ teaching, except for the girl in the front row. The bird Frisk was behind was ‘too smart’ to pay much attention, unless there was a point he wanted to argue. MK had a bit of a short attention span, and Temmie as well, but she seemed to be trying very hard. Probably wanted to get into a good college.

At some point in the lecture, Frisk stopped taking notes and looked through the pad of paper that had been in their desk. It had haphazard quotes and diagrams, some dated and some not, with some days considerably more organized and thoughtful than others. Frisk turned to the back and flipped the book around, making a new beginning to it. They started penning all their observations. Differences and similarities, people that they’d recognized, and every explanation they could think of that might be true of whatever had happened to them.

There wasn’t much in that column.

Before long a semi distant bell sounded, and Alphys released everyone for lunch.

“Is ours broken?” Frisk wondered aloud.

"Yo, you don’t remember?“ MK asked. “Susie totally busted the speakers last week! They still haven’t been able to fix it yet.” MK cocked their head. “Yo, Kris, you okay dude?”

“Fine,” Frisk answered briskly. “I um, I gotta talk to Alphy.”

MK raised an eyebrow and gave a tiny nod. “Uh, OK, sure…see ya.” They trotted off after the others to what Frisk assumed would be the cafeteria somewhere.

Frisk stayed in their seat a moment, wondering if this was really the best idea. Alphys didn’t seem to recognize Frisk as themselves either. And if they told her everything…they carefully closed the notebook and flipped it back the other way, then made their way to Alphys’ desk.

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The boy’s dark, messy hair completely shrouded his face from view at his stance. He stood behind one of the chairs, his head slightly bowed, gripping the back of the furniture as though it were his only lifeline to reality. The elder prince closed the gap between them with a few strides and put a hand on the boy’s shoulder.

“I…“ he trailed off, suddenly realizing he had no idea how he could begin to comfort him. “I am not sure, what to say–”

“There is nothing to be said.” the boy interrupted, his words strained. He didn’t look up. “If I had not been born, you would all have rest now, to live normally upon the morn. Mother would really smile again. No one wou–”

“It is not your fault, brother.” The eldest countered firmly. “You know the rules…If not you, then someone else, it has naught to do with you yourself. We all were chanced to be a part of it as equally as any other. This was none of your doing.”

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A certain heavy, comforting quiet hung in the air. Stillness that was enhanced by the soft hum and crackle of the flames. Sans and Papyrus had both fallen asleep before the fireplace amid the excitement, much like the first day they had arrived. Toriel had woken early, along with her husband, and was now reading in her armchair.

There was a knock at the door.

Papyrus sat up quickly, eyesockets half closed. “WH-HUH..?” he looked up at Tori, who’s eyes were crinkled in quiet laughter, and suddenly realized who the knock must be. A tiny gasp escaped him and vaulted off Sans, to mild protest, running down the hall toward the door. He tried stopping but had too much speed and slid past his mark, scrambling to get back to where he’d tried for. Papy gave a little jump and pulled the handle down, staring up in awe.

“Ho ho howdy little one!” Santa laughed heartily, fully dressed in his red and white outfit and with an old sturdy sack over one shoulder.

Papyrus’ eyesockets were practically sparkling. “S-SANTA! SANS!! SANTA HERE!!” he ran forward and grabbed Santa’s large leg, hugging him tight.

“wow. sure has a presents.” Sans offered, coming around the corner. He gave a stretch popped a few bones. “snow real surprise, though.”

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Thank you for considering and looking over the page this far! Feel free to contact with any questions, and stay determined <3

#just me #commission #commissions #support #i been outa work for 6 months now and currently relying on friends to support me ;w;#prices can totally be open to negotiation i just had to put something on them lol #sorry for long posttttt #job searches are a fucking joke rn #undertale #eddie munson #stranger things #atlantis #grillby #fullmetal alchemist #hollow knight #if youre unsure feel free to message anyway! i dont bite i promise #i appreciate everyone who wants to but doesnt have the funds<3 #ive been in that same boat for years there are so many artists way more talented than me that i wana support so bad ;w;#anyway baiiiii ly

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inbetweenhours · 2 years

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@trulymightypotato I was your gifter for the @mcytblraufest exchange this gave me so much trouble I just hope at least one of these pieces are enough for what you hoped. There was a lot of characters proposed to work with and a lot of ideas I had. I got so caught up in the au portion of the event I didn’t realize for a while that by definition the dad!Sparkles by itself is enough canon divergence/crossover to absolutely caught as minor au at least asdfghjkl. So for that reason I have have a couple ideas, both different aus with dad!Sparkles as the core concept :) I’ll leave them below the cut since its a lot of text PLUS bonus concept au and sketch I didn’t use or finish ;)

First is ender dragon Captain and his kid Tubbo, they travel a lot and end up moving around for various reasons. But they’re together and have a good time. The ambience oft he first piece is a kinda creepy forest but neither of them mind because they’re travelling together and having a good time.

The next two aus feature the Mianite universe, since you listed it and i was so genuinely excited to work with it I completely blindsided a lot of other stuff I could have utilized (sorry, i hope the Mianite stuff was a nice call tho I saw you liked some oft he crossover art others have done :) ) So second pic is new father Sparkles in the armour of Ianite introducing his son to his goddess. Ianite’s happy to see her champion happy and to meet Tubbo.

Third is of a slightly older Tubbo hanging out with the Mianite champions Lots of nostalgia for me to get to draw the crew. Don’t mind the style shift i didn’t want to line a third piece I was losing steam story. SO lineless it is!

I had more ideas. I wanted to do some within the dsmp canon universe more and one within the origins universe but I as so burnt out after these 3 pieces I decided to just call my loss and submit what I have.

Below though is a 5th, most complicated idea I had started with that I couldn’t follow through with because of complexity. It has more world building and ideas. I am not a writer sadly though, not enough for a gift exchange so it is not a coherent story, just an idea and an unfinished sketch.

The idea for the au was a weird mix of origin smp and Mianite lore, wherein the Captain is the prince of the starborne. The starborn as a people are created by Ianite who watches over their nation. The royal family are direct descendants of Ianite. There is also unofficial legend that each heir of the kingdom undergoes some manner of divine mission or journey to become who they are for succession. Fore example Spark, Ianite’s husband, was the founder of the nation. That was his journey. Next his daughter Martha who cured her kingdom of a blight/plague called The Taint. Jordan as her son in this retrieved The Heart of Ianite after it was stolen by Dianite’s followers.

What I wanted to do if I had the time and energy was a mini comic explaining this lore, Sparkles explaining that as Tubbo is older he would likely soon see himself on his own journey. The idea was that this journey would consist of Ianitee!Tubbo meeting Dianitee!Tommy and Mianitee! Ranboo and travelling with them to solve a conspiracy between the three peoples. Along the way they would question their own faiths and would all switch their paths, with Ranboo feeling connected with Ianite, Tommy finding himself surprised by how comforted he is by Mianite, and Tubbo finding freedom in Dianite.

There was some probably disconnected thoughts such as tying Watcher lore into the Ianitee court, with Grian and Pearl as Ianitee’s under that idea, with Grian defecting to Dianite at some point but it had no place in this plot just stray ideas. Anyways if you read this far I just hope something in here was appealing and lived up to what you wanted from this exchange :] Have a good day!

#dsmp #dsmp mianite au #mianite #tubbo #captainsparklez #captainsparkles #ianite #synhd #omgitsfirefox #iijerichoii #mcytblr AU fest #hourspost #hoursart #tags are difficult

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farlynthordens · 2 years

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2 7 and 21!!!

2. 5 favorite works

oh boy HERE WE GO

skb volume 1 ending scene - this was my first time trying something completely lineless and i still think it's pretty cute

bisco and milo on a cliff - i didn't spend like 20 minutes coloring that snack bag for nothing

gen in the water - it was fun learning how to do water and i like the bright colors in these

"magic and lies" gen - i mean just look at it it's sick af

WAMEN - they are just so cute 🥺

but seriously i have like 2935 other things that i also could have possibly put as my favorite im pretty proud of a lot of stuff

7. favorite works of all time (excluding my own)

i am a #fake art fan and despite taking multiple art history courses i can never fucking remember anything i particularly like. i'm usually drawn to paintings of flowers or very large, rolling landscapes but i do remember i liked caravaggio for how he did dramatic lighting of figures.

21. weirdest thing i've ever drawn

when i was in middle school i spent like a year drawing a whole ass comic series that was basically a ripoff of winx club but all the characters were replaced with my OCs. except i added more random kidnappings and also mixed in elements of other things such as ben 10 and the mmo i liked playing at the time. some people turned into poorly drawn animals. definitely the most ambitious crossover of our time but wow it was weird and made little sense

Artist asks

#ask veronica

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spotlightstudios · 2 years

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I love looking back at old art of mine. I tried do hard to make it just right and took an obnoxiously long time for every drawing. However, I'm much happier with my art now, with a simpler style and more opportunity for me to actually enjoy it rather than staring at it for so long that I hate it by the time I'm done. (aka art rant time, since I can do that here!!)

These four drawings are from within a span of at least two years. To explain, the top two are drawings of Catacombtale!Grillby (or Chance). The one on the left was my first version (an entry to a contest to draw Grillbys), the one on the right I redrew later on. The bottom left is something I drew for a crossover contest last year sometime, involving Dream and Nightmare (Jokublog). Lastly, bottom right is another contest drawing for the concept of an X-Tale oc (I used Ec-4o.Nightmare).

The first drawing of Chance is easily a good example of an attempt to make the drawing look fun and inviting. I've got a decently fund pose, the colors are warm, and there's a simple background. However, I did this Lineless. Why? I don't know, but I don't like it. Plain and simple, this is my least favorite of the drawings pictured because I took so long to meticulously shade and color and it still wasn't worth it. Served it's purpose for the time, but that's it.

The second one of Chance is overall better. I used cooler colors, and by now I kinda understood how to put deoth into backgrounds. The style I used for him is fine too. Here, I hate the posing. His composition in comparison to everything else makes him look like he's about to fall off his stool. His second set of arms look stupid too, since I recall I either forgot them or didn't want to draw more hands, so I just folded them unnaturally. Better, but not my favorite.

The Fnaf/UTAU crossover drawing is my favorite in concept. It's not the best drawing style, not the worst. I'd redo the designs slightly if given the chance. However, the composition and background I'd keep almost identical. I really liked how the background came out for this one (minus the doorway) because I started to paint my backgrounds around this time. The character poses, I like Night's more, but Dream's is good enough for it's purpose. The execution of using two characters with brand new designs works well enough here, but as I said, I took too much time with minimal effort for this to be too good. (Also completely skipped shading in favor of darker colored gaussian blur.)

The bottom right, X-Night, is my favorite of these specific four. The body proportions are clearly more rounded and small, the style of lineart and colors are very simple and bold, and most of the real charm cones from the lighting and after affects rather than meticulous shading or complex backgrounds. There were still things I'd change if given the chance, but this is a perfect example of my mindset at the time too. The other three drawings here were fun, but I drew them with other people's expectations in mind. For this piece? I drew what I wanted to, since it was my (relatively speaking) design and my art. I'm not as active or social on the app I drew these for anymore. So, I'm much less inclined to please the overlords that might've gotten it more popular had I drawn it in a more realistic or engaging style.

Don't get me wrong, I loved being on that site and drawing so much. I like all of the pieces I posted on too. However, this is a good chance to reflect on what exactly I've been doing all this time in the UT Fandom and how it helped me improve my art over the course of just barely 3 or 4 years.

More looks back on this, a continuation, will be coming soon. This is gonna be a long rant I'll probably revisit often just to catalog ideas for redraws, as well as notes for myself. (Not all of it is degrading, because I plan my next one to be about what things I have enjoyed drawing and why, followed by a completely redraw-cebtric post!

#Spotlight's Box of Rambles

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sunnetrolls · 2 years

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1, 2, 6, 8, 12, and 22!

im doing urs first. just for fun

my god holy moly this got so long readmore time

1. Show your most recent wip

pspspspps [waves the prospect of ship art in front of you] if you do artfight i'll draw concordia ex machina next

2. 5 favourites of your own work?

FIVE? i don't draw that much!!! hold on i'll go browse

In no particular order! Veylin's bust painting is my fav ive done of any of those, i'm still rlly proud of nohope and planhz's sprites, i reaaaaaally love how i did the color and overlays on that abby headshot, and the dogy is an artfight attack from last year that is everything i love about my older lineless art style!!!

6. Which artists inspire you right now?

Alright buckle up folks this is a longer one

So I'm gonna answer this in two parts basically. The first part is artists that inspired me to start drawing what I like, especially fantrolls-- so a lot of my friends really!! Wanting to be in this community is what made me start actually doing art as something I was passionate about!!!!! The second part is actually twitter artists that inspired me to actually renovate my art style, try new things, and actually grow as an artist in ways that I really just never did here before.

I know I'm gonna forget a lot of people but the ones that come to mind right away for people who had an Impact on me back in the day are !!U!! gabriel 8bit-mau5, newt indig0trolls, my friend max who's no longer in the community, my friend lumiet who doesn't even do fantrolls but is really cool, and god a lot of old blogs whos muns are just gone now..................... wistful sigh :(

BUUUUUT as for artists who made me want to actually grow again in my. Wait hold on

[sets out a sign that says CRINGE WARNING -- I LIKED DSMP IN LATE 2020-EARLY TO MID 2021]

Okay now that that's out of the way! Some of the artists who made me actually want to learn and change and GROW again are giraffeleggos, mielzy_png, and WolfyTheWitch on twt :3 Mielzy especially is an art streamer who has a huge focus on being introspective and taking criticism and wanting to grow and always be improving in a direction they want. Hella cool to see someone be like, never satisfied in a "i love art and drawing so i want to grow and do it as well as i can as a respect for the craft" type of way. I don't think any of these guys except for Wolfy are actually into dsmp anymore but when I got into their content they were all dsmp fanartists so.

Okay this is really long actually so I'll quit there. Wait no actually here's a list of a handful of folks whose art inspires me to keep learning nowadays (also mostly all my friends)-- nero ramgodd, roe roetrolls, dami ask-the-troll-boys, greg lordtonic, and an extra special shoutout to chase sasster for making me want to write again. I just wanna do the cool art stuff like my really awesome friends so bad yall

8. What do you like most about your own work?

Hrmmmmmmmmmmm okay this one is tough bc both I wanna say "nothing bc I have a lot of strengths" and "nothing bc there's always room for me to grow and improve so even my best strengths aren't as good as they could and will eventually be"

But like. I really like how I paint actually

12. Show your favourite drawing from this year

FROM THIS YEAR.... ok let's comb thru my art tag

Oh wait easy simple. The whole fuckin aliquid ex nihilo comic. That took me so goddamn long but it was a labor of love and I desperately want to do more 1-page song comics like that but unfortunately they take me like 2 weeks if I do full lineart and that shit sucks

There are a lot of things I want to redo on it that are also things I redid in the process of making this comic but as is the nature of being so used to drawing sprites I forget how to draw people in actual poses and also interacting with things. I still think overall just because also of how funky I got with the coloring, framing, the fact that this is the first comic ive ever planned and fully completed ever, etc. that this one's my fav thing I've drawn in 2022 thus far

22. When is your prime time to work on your art?

Nighttime and also whenever I'm medicated LMAO I can NEVER focus on drawing if I'm off my meds idk how I did it before

#sunne speaks #this is so fucking loooooooooooong my bad

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