Skape Moment

AroAce bird || She/her I draw stuff sometimes, but mostly sketch :] Multifandom stuff for now I’m also on Instagram by the same user (@5kape)

[5kape]

Hallo! I have no idea what I’m doing, but at least I’m trying! :]

Also if anyone is reading, I am very inactive 👍

I also reblog stuff here, so use the art tag to see my art!

I also have an instagram by the same name lol. There’s some more of my art there.

You can also find me in Art fight as Skape! Without the 5. Here’s a link for that too. Still working on some characters and their descriptions!

Also I’m in team Mystery :D

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[copepods]

apprentice(s)

[5kape]

Artfight has been going very well! I’ve done a lot of art, I’ve got a lot of art, and now I make more goofy art for cool fanfic A Future Without Them by @star-pup01!

This is of one of the first scenes of chapter 40, Asriel is flabbergasted that only the angel can say the truth lol. Also the angel is taking a small nap lol

[redraven393]

Angel Doodle 04/50

the AFWT! Dreemurr Family + @star-pup01 's Angel is going on a family therapy session!

wait why is Sera and @5kape 's Angel here in this mess as well??

this is dumb btw why do i make Chara look like that????

[star-pup01]

LMAOOOO NOT THE THERAPY. Sera I am so so sorry you are not qualified for this bullshit at all and should probably run.

I'm loving every single expression on all of the characters. The Angel and Asriel especially make me cackle. Asriel's head tilt is so funny to me for some reason.

ALSO YIPPEE YAY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT 5KAPE VERY GOOD!!! SILLY CREATURE!!! You WILL bear witness to the therapy and you WILL like it.

No one survives god's worst therapy session. Everyone is dying.

Thanks for the fanart!!

[deadbird42o]

ARTFIGHT ATTACKS DAYS 4-7!!!

From left to right

1- eepy_catt on artfight

2- Ottoplier on artfight

3- @5kape

4- DragoStar on artfight

5- @viktorsaintclaire

6- MonarchButterfly on artfight

7- @scratchgeist

8- KiwifeatherEvilCat on artfight

9- Jackrabbitts on artfight

[5kape]

I COME BACK ONCE MORE!! This time I have thrown my psyche into the digital circus to suffer with the other members!!! She is based on a Bakugan lol.

Before, she planned to become a ornithologist to learn and work with birds, however now she has to deal with being a planting toy that turns into a triangle if she stops breathing for too long (about 5 seconds).

She’s a big fan of Caine, idk about the other yet tho maybe I’ll post more of her once Artfight is over!!

Door portrait too!!!

[5kape]

Honestly? Good for them to be proud of their big fluffy fat tails. I stayed on the dialogue box a few seconds to laugh. It took me by surprise lol.

Im thinking of drawing some other enemies cause they’re all so cool but free time shall tell.

[5kape]

Im with you in the dark

HEY HEY HEY

UM. So I wasn’t planing to do anything before the release of Deltarune chapter 5, but I saw a bunch of people doing cool art and also @star-pup01’s really cool retrospective about their experience with Deltarune, and I?????? Felt inspired to do something??????

I HAD TO DO SOMETHING?????

I mean I could simply wait for tomorrow to play and leave it at that, but I’ve been playing Deltarune since it was a shady website link. AND this few month of meeting people and sharing art for a fanfic I find deeply important have been amazing!! I’ll forever cherish A World Without You for introducing me to the player as an important character in Deltarune fics.

So I made this (admittedly) quick drawing with my soulsona and The Angel! As a small bit of my appreciation to the people I’ve met and also this awesome game before my heart is beaten to a pulp probably. I didn’t check how much time I put in tho. My guess is 45min~1hr maybe.

Whatever happens after this upcoming chapter, whether the prophecy continues onward or some hint of its possible change is hinted at…

I will be with you [The Angel, Starpup, and everyone] in the dark.

That sound really sappy oops

To compensate here it is but full on cyan because why not. It looks a bit like a prophecy panel.

[star-pup01]

I will always be thankful for all of you who came out to show your support of this fic. I could never ask for anything more. But, over and over again, you all continue to do more and prove me wrong. It is a reminder that this community does share the same hopes that I do.

It has meant the world to me during the wait. It has given me motivation to... quite frankly write an obscene amount of this one topic. It has given me the motivation to look back at my past self and decide that we're going to make something truly amazing.

It's not over yet. It's far from over. I had a good time learning, but I think the rules are about to change.

Thank you, 5kape, for the last art of this chapter. I'm definitely feeling the dread on both of the soulsona faces, but that's just how it is. We always knew it was coming. Just didn't expect it so fast. It's one thing to speculate and believe, but it's another thing for that belief to finally be put to the test.

Thank you for all of the time and effort you've poured into all of the art you've given for this fic. I cannot ever begin to describe how much it means to me, which is funny since I'm supposed to be a writer. It just means that someone out there cared so deeply, and chose to create alongside what I made to enter the conversation. And you did leave a permanent mark! The Angel's new design is because I liked yours so much.

All of you tend to leave those marks. The story has already been set, but sometimes it weaves and bends based on the thoughts of the reader. It has just been so much fun to have a conversation.

I hope, when the smoke clears, I'll see you all on the other side.

[5kape]

Im with you in the dark

HEY HEY HEY

UM. So I wasn’t planing to do anything before the release of Deltarune chapter 5, but I saw a bunch of people doing cool art and also @star-pup01’s really cool retrospective about their experience with Deltarune, and I?????? Felt inspired to do something??????

I HAD TO DO SOMETHING?????

I mean I could simply wait for tomorrow to play and leave it at that, but I’ve been playing Deltarune since it was a shady website link. AND this few month of meeting people and sharing art for a fanfic I find deeply important have been amazing!! I’ll forever cherish A World Without You for introducing me to the player as an important character in Deltarune fics.

So I made this (admittedly) quick drawing with my soulsona and The Angel! As a small bit of my appreciation to the people I’ve met and also this awesome game before my heart is beaten to a pulp probably. I didn’t check how much time I put in tho. My guess is 45min~1hr maybe.

Whatever happens after this upcoming chapter, whether the prophecy continues onward or some hint of its possible change is hinted at…

I will be with you [The Angel, Starpup, and everyone] in the dark.

That sound really sappy oops

To compensate here it is but full on cyan because why not. It looks a bit like a prophecy panel.

[star-pup01]

Before the Sun Goes Down

As we head into Chapter 5, I guess I wanted to get my thoughts down before the landscape of the fanbase and my brain chemistry gets altered, for better or for worse.

Deltarune can go a myriad of directions from this point. I have no way of knowing what Toby will decide to write, or if he sees the things that I do in the game's themes and parallels. I can trust my analysis of the text. I can try to hope. But, ultimately, it can all come crashing down if Toby just says the word.

So, I'd like to talk about why I started writing all of these fics. I'd like to talk about what I saw before I inevitably get questions about it when the landscape changes.

I have to go back a while though.

I played Undertale a few months after it first came out. I spent quite a lot of time in the fanfiction sphere, unsatisfied with how some of the main characters were resolved. A tragic ending can exist, yes, but my younger self really wasn't happy about what happened with Asriel. There were so many questions I still wanted to ask, but Undertale was a short experience that wasn't designed to answer those questions. The mysteries would have to be speculated about on our own.

Within the fanfic sphere, I spent time around a lot of authors who tended to try to consider player-involvement in UT and how it intertwines with the narrative. How deep any of us went into that was varied, but I tried to full send it. I came away with the conclusion in that fic long ago that you really cannot do anything good for UT's world, and the best course of action is to sever yourself from it.

Quite bleak, right?

This mentality continued all the way up through Deltarune Chapter 2's release. When the chapter ended, I firmly believed it would be more of the same. I will not debate the validity of Deltarune's metanarrative on this post, because I have already done so countless times. This post isn't about that. However, when ch2 ended, I believed that this game utterly hates your existence within it. The game was setting up every character to defy your existence and to take back their own personhood as something more than game characters.

And you know what?

I started to hate the game.

I started to loathe this one-trick writing that could not do anything more than be antagonistic towards the very person choosing to engage with it. Because really, what were we doing wrong in Deltarune's narrative? At the time, the answer was that you were controlling Kris against their will, because all we really had about our dynamic was Kris resisting us and Spamton NEO. The fanbase was filled with post after post about characters you love despising you specifically.

It made it feel hostile to engage with a piece of art that I loved, so I didn't. I pulled back. I did other things instead.

Then Chapters 3 and 4 released.

We learned new information. We learned that there is a subsection of characters aligned with the Roaring Knight who specifically refer to the soul during planning. We now have someone with motive who could have discarded our vessel. We now see Kris beginning to be recontextualized as a cage rather than a hapless puppet. They have far more agency and control than we ever realized, and constantly use that to keep you in check. Their actions end up harming their friends.

And, when you die against the Knight for a second time, a voice reaches out to you to encourage you to keep going, to fight again.

I think that's the moment I started to realize that this game was doing something more.

Every character is struggling with what choices they want to make and who they will become. Every character is wrapped up in this question of who they are, and each character has a different answer. Until now, I thought it was just an isolated "find yourself" story, but no. You're equally a part of that narrative now, stripped of your only means to express yourself and trying to be friends despite only being seen as someone else. You're a part of this narrative now.

It was refreshing. It got me excited. I was happy that the game decided to try something different than Undertale. The Old Man practically spelled it out. Stories are to be celebrated. They are to be retold and rewritten. Continuing to write when ink washes over the pages is required.

...and then the fandom didn't change.

The art. The theories. The speculation. It all stayed the same. Kris was still a hapless puppet. You were still evil for being a part of the narrative. Some people even denied that you, the player, are an active participant in this plot.

You can't shake your fist at the sky and expect that to change.

It really did feel like there was nowhere to go in the fanbase to talk about what really changed. Everyone was so stuck in Chapter 2 eras of thinking that we couldn't re-contextualize what we've seen with new information. I couldn't just go to other people's posts and shake my fist. That doesn't do anything. That's just going into someone else's house and telling them how to arrange their furniture.

So, I dusted off the pen, and I wrote.

It started with "Who Are You". Originally, it wasn't even our situation as the player that I felt indignation for. It was Ralsei's depiction. In Chapter 2, I bought into everything that he was the prophecy's little messenger, the rule-follower who would make sure it occurred no matter what happened or who it hurt. Chapter 4 shattered that, and you can see him earnestly trying to break it as early as Chapter 1. And yet, I still saw him being depicted as cruel and resigned to the prophecy's designs.

But he's one of the few characters who dared to have hope for a second.

And I think that's where it all started, and where all of my depictions came from: Hope.

Deltarune as a story can take many routes, It can take the worst possible interpretation of every single character and run with it.

However, I choose to have hope that Ralsei did earnestly want to break the prophecy. He still does. I don't believe in the needlessly cruel depiction of him that knows everything Kris is doing. I choose to have hope that his breakdowns meant something. I choose to have hope that he cares for everyone around him. I choose to have hope that that'll more outwardly extend to us. I choose to have hope that he will not be left behind, that Asriel's exact fate will not repeat for him.

It's hope. Believing in the best version of someone, and seeing that they are earnestly trying.

And you know what? Suddenly, people cropped up who felt the same way. I didn't think that the story would do well at all. I pushed it out into the ether, expecting to move back into my little corner of the internet. Instead, I got an outpouring of people who hadn't seen it that way before, who hadn't SEEN the hope in the story yet, who just needed one extra PUSH to yearn for something more.

A World Without You happened soon after.

This fic was after I fully realized the position we and Kris are in. It's when I saw a dynamic so rich with questions of duty and crushing someone else's autonomy. It was also the fic where I first struck back against the idea that you are not needed in the narrative of Deltarune. The world would be better off without you.

And it simply isn't true.

It was a fic where I fought against that narrative, where I showed just how dire things could get, where I showed a more hopeful outlook on each and every character.

Gaster? He's not an evil boogeyman. What has he done except reach out to us when he sees us trying to do better? What has he done except rejoice in our return? You can make up 5 BILLION ideas as to why he's the grand villain of the story, but I chose to see the hope in what we DO have! I chose to see a version of him that earnestly loves and is fascinated by the being he has called to this world.

Ralsei? He's just trying his best to break a prophecy and is terrified when his own inaction to reach out to the Angel come crumbling down. I chose to see hope in him trying to reach out a little more strongly, to finally abandon a little bit more of his fear and bridge the gap.

Kris? The fic was more uncharitable to them than many Kris depictions, but it was far more hopeful towards what they could be than most fics that acknowledge their wrongs. They are torn between a promise and the people who they love. They are torn between thinking of this soul as anything more than a tool and acknowledging what they have done as the cage. Even at the end of the fic, they are torn, but there's hope that they can take an outstretched hand.

Susie? She's the most hopeful of them all. She's a character who has been shown time and time again to forgive those who betray her. She's a character who reaches out to foes, who reaches out for UNDERSTANDING after she nearly killed one of her best friends at the bottom of a jail cell. Susie, out of everyone in the cast, would care the most to finally meet you, and it's so sad how terrified I am that Deltarune could treat you different because of your nature. She treats Darkners no differently in object form. She treats Ralsei no differently when she learns his nature. She just loves. She just hopes for a future. Why would that change with us?

It was all hope. It was always hope.

And I guess I just see CONNECTIONS with every single character.

Ralsei is doomed to be forgotten one day. His nature as an object means that, even if the prophecy passes and he and those he loves remain alive, he will be forgotten when they move on to other things. They cannot keep visiting a high school supply closet forever in a small town. One day, they'll forget about him and make some real friends. These friends were never his. They were someone else's. He never should've connected with them, because he was something "other". He knew this would happen.

Just like in Undertale, we are doomed to be forgotten in a similar way, because our connection must eventually end. A game must eventually end. You can read into that as Player!Angel if you want to or not, but because of our nature, we feel like we shouldn't connect with them. We feel as though we should be cast aside so Susie can meet the "real Kris". We feel as though we are above it all, so how could we connect? And yet we yearn to be friends with them. We knew our fate. We knew what would happen. But we still tried.

Susie? She's constantly abandoned when she thinks she has something going. As soon as she gets her footing, she's forced to move away. She eventually gives up trying, and it is a painful process for her to try again with these new people only for a prophecy to doom all of them. Heck, that whole plotline where she never got to play the piano because "someone better" should play it is super interesting.

Again, what happened at the end of Undertale? We were abandoned. All of the friends that we thought we made left us to stare at a sunset alone before staring at an empty screen with both options having the power to hurt them. We tried again with Deltarune, and now it's beginning to happen again. We also match Susie's piano parallel with Kris denying us the ability for any expression on it until the church organ. Kris is that "someone better".

Kris. Our positions in the plot mirror each other. Who are their friends really meeting? Who are our friends really seeing? When the soul is gone, will Kris' friends still recognize them? If Kris is gone, will our friends even recognize us? When Kris' designs are revealed, will they get to see the hurt on everyone's faces? When we're revealed for all we are, will they hate us for not being what was expected?

Who are they really befriending? Are these friends even yours? Are you even you?

It is a question that continuously exists, but Kris is the cage. We could've been separate. But we were required for a plan, and we could never enter our vessel.

It's all fascinating. There's so many more parallels that I cannot tap into here lest I be here all night. There's so much rich connection with every character. We can share their fears. We can encourage them to become more of themselves (like Ralsei's constant dialogue options about it). We can defend them while the world attempts to destroy them (Hallway of Swords and various soul related shenanigans).

So I have to believe that there's hope in our involvement, that the game will not take all of our help, love, and care, and simply turn it against us at the end to call you "One last threat."

I want to believe it can change.

That there isn't just one outcome.

Maybe my hope is naive. Maybe Toby will turn around and draw a line in the sand between player and game. Maybe none of it will have been for me.

And I don't know how I'll continue after that.

"A Future Without Them" was created as a redux of the fanfiction I mentioned all the way back at the start of this spiel.

It is all of that hope from Undertale and Deltarune jammed into one. It is all of that despair and hope cycling over and over again to hope that maybe, just maybe, you can be something more. Maybe, the things you were told weren't right. Maybe, you were more than just a threat. Maybe, anyone can be a little better, even if they don't think so. Maybe, your care is what can make something truly special happen.

And the answer is not that you are a disease to the world anymore.

The answer is that someone out there thinks you belong. Someone out there wants to see you again. Someone out there remembers you fondly. Someone out there would be sad if you were gone.

I don't know what I'll do if all of that hope is proven wrong.

I really don't.

It's not just about my red string theories being proven false anymore. It's about hope being proven false. It's about hope being crushed. It's about all of that craving for connection being ground to a pulp and plunged into the dark.

I'll keep writing no matter what. That's how this all started, after all.

But I can't say I'm not worried.

Regardless,

For those of you who have joined me through all of these fanfics, who have joined me in choosing to have hope, I thank you for at least coming this far. You all have made the wait much more bearable, and it is nice to know that it's not really so lonely out there. There's a lot of you there who really do want to see something more. There's a lot of you who earnestly do care and want to be more than just a guiding hand.

I pray that all of us are right.

And if not, I thank you for all that you have done. You have read my works. You have shared the things you liked. You have joined the conversation. Artists have come together and drawn so much fanart that I cannot ever begin to describe how happy it makes me. People have come together to discuss things I've made with a level of analysis that I never thought I'd have.

It's nice to know.

It's nice to know that there's people out there.

The ramble has gone on long enough. I've been typing relentlessly and rambling about a lot without much of an end point. I just hope... I earnestly hope that it doesn't all get crushed in an instant.

Good luck tomorrow.

[darinaethelaianprophet]

Modeling Log 3

THE GOOBER IS DONE

Well okay, not done done. I still need to paint the textures using aseprite bonded to blender (I found a nice tutorial for it) and of course rig the creature properly.

Get ready, riging might kill the Crab so I better brace myself.

But otherwise it was a very fun proces, I finaly got to put all that stored up know how to use, which came in handy for making the hands.

Not the worst, basic four claws. I know most low poly models dont bother with hands but I wanted some good articulation with this one. You know. For reasons.

The sleeves are very blocky with some seams added to make them easier to move and bend

And of course the head of the goober. I really like how the snout turned out, even though I might be pushing the definition of low poly a bit. Oh well.

Annyhow

Full solid model

And one with some placeholder textures. Dont worry, once I have the time they will get a full pixel treatment.

For now though, that is all. I got work tomorow as well as infecting some of my friends with Deltarot. Goodnight yall.

Character and fic by @star-pup01

Character design by @5kape

[5kape]

What is Up With Them. Stop frowning so much you’ll get wrinkly dude.

It’s been a bit since I’ve added miis, so it’s time to add the deltarune gang to my fandom island chat. They look a little cursed without the long snout, but they’re close enough.

This is the Angel, from @star-pup01’s fanfic A Futue Without Them!!

[darinaethelaianprophet]

Modeling Log 1

Decided to monitor my progress through these logs. Anyhow, day one, legs are done I think ? The knees and fingers are separate from the feet and ankle so that the model doesnt deform too much during the riging proces. The fur on the forelegs is modeled because I liked it that way, but Im not sure if its the right way to do it.

Triangles or polygons are are not good is what I heard but surely it cant be that bad.

Also mirror symetry is messing up the fourth finger so that one is getting left for later.

Pants were pretty simple though.

Overall going good so far, but if anyone has any blender advice dont be afraid to correct me.

Character by @star-pup01

Character design by @5kape

[darinaethelaianprophet]

Low poly hoodie ref done, hopefully it transfers well enough into a low poly model!

Angel belongs to @star-pup01 and design belongs to @5kape

wish me luck yall!

[5kape]

Cupid’s arrows will never take me

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE!!!!

I SKETCHED THIS AND FORGOT ABOUT IT!!!! It’s not the first time nor will it be the last time I forget a drawing lol.

BUT LATE IS BETTER THAN NEVER!!! And it’s still June!!!! So I should be in the good. This is for us AroAces, as well as the asexuals and aromantics!!! We’re awesome!!

[star-pup01]

Can the furry artists in your audience help me with HOW TO DRAW THIS DAMNED SNOUT??? I'm going to rip my hair out

I scream for I do not know but I will post this lmfao

[5kape]

This turned out like a ramble with too much text lol. Not sure it even makes sense. Hope it helps but it might not oops.

Tldr: Look at references and how other artists sketch out snouts to find what works best for you and your style. You can also ‘cheat’ perspectives and anatomy really as long as its done intentionally.

The Angel’s snout is way wider than it should really be, but it works well enough me thinks to show the emotion.

Also you don’t need to draw every line. Softer lines (like the nose ridge in front views) Aren’t usually needed all the time. A sharp line might read as a wrinkle or a extremely sharp angle change (like for sunken cheeps).

If you wanna se my ramble it’s below. There’s also some sketches of mine, in case it helps to see how I plan stuff.

First of all, I recommend looking at references of real life animals as well as how other artists go about drawing snouts. It doesn’t need to be a goat specifically (my take’s snout looks nothing like a goat lol).

A big part of drawing comes down to simplifying things into… well… simple forms that work as good foundation to build upon the details. (Circles, squares, pipes, etc).

What shapes to use and for what body parts to use them for can vary a lot, and ultimately is decided by the artist and what works best for themselves.

In my case, I always start with circular heads and often ovals for the chest cavity. Sometimes I do a hip circle, but others times I don’t.

Example of how I usually sketch stuff.

Now as for snouts, when I was younger I learned to sketch them by using boxes for the full snout. Nowadays I sometimes skip drawing the box due to muscle memory, but while sketching I still imagine that box.

The box works well because it makes you thing of the flat-ish front of the snout. Do keep in mind however that more often than not you probably will need to add a bit of curvature to the edge that connects to the face.

Usually I place the top of the box aligned with the middle of the eyes. To remind myself to not make the snout too angular I also sketch a circle over the head were the box/snout is going to be. This is a reminder to myself that near the mouth it should be wider than the nose ridge.

This one has the mouth circle in the head shape, and the outer edges of the box.

A bunch of my sketchy art lol

Not sure how well I’ll explain it so take it with a grain of salt (it’s also how I’ve learned to do them, so it might not be the best way to sketch them).

[5kape]

Artfight card herheher

Some characters are done others aren’t, but there’s still time!