One Sketchy a day

A sketchy a day keeps the depression at bay! (Most of the time.) Hello everyone! You probably know me from another blog where I do whatever. Some know me for my writing, some like my art. But I also make a bunch of drawings I never show because they are unfinished or don't fit on my other blog. So here ya go, a blog entirely dedicated to all the sketches and doodles I make, 'finished' or not.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

You mentioned that having their powers sucked out turns the girls back into humans, so what happens to Anne in "True Colors"? Does she turn back into a bird, or some bizarre half-bird half-girl hybrid?

She doesn't completely turn back into a heron until she regains all of her power, but her powers project themselves into a glowing heron shape around her. In 'True Colors' the light is so bright she looks like a heron-shaped phoenix made of pure blue fire, while on Earth it looks more like firey feathers around her arms and back, and a beak-like mask over her face.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

I have an idea for your Apex Calamity AU. Were when the Planters and Anne arrive on earth. Anne is still a heron but she is now the size of a real life one. The Planters even get shrunken down to real life frogs. So now its up the Anne’s parents to help out, their daughter who is now a heron, but also help out her frog family.

Head canons

-The Planters are really scared because they are seeing giants that are dwarfing Anne. Because my head canon is that Anne never told the Planters she was a human or even what a human is.

-So Anne grabs the Planters and flies to her house. When they get there, Anne reveals that she was a human. Although it was a bit hard due to not having the ability to talk. So she had to point at the pictures of her human appearance.

-When Mr and Ms Boonchuy saw a heron in their backyard. They were gonna just shrug it off and go back to what they were doing. Except the heron was acting strange and its behavior felt too familiar.

-When the two even went outside, the heron didn’t fly away or even moved at all.

-Before they could even say anything. Three frogs hopped in front of them. Although these frogs were no ordinary trio of frogs. They stood on two legs, wore clothes, and even have hair. Except the most shocking and most predictable thing they did… was that they talked.

-The orange frog who called himself Hoppidia Planter said this.

Hop Pop, with a calm and blunt voice: Hi I’m Hoppidia Planter and these are my grandchilderen Sprig and Polly Planter. We a from an alternate universe were we live in a medieval or sci-fi society, I think, I’m not really sure now. Also this is your daughter she is a heron now.

Sprig with a calm, blunt, and oblivious : We’ve had two seasons worth of character development and trauma. Were like a family, except one of those family members are a dangerous species of predator to us.

Polly with a blunt voice, while looking at the 4th wall: She can go super saiyan.

-Anne is now in a worried look, regretting this.

-But due to seeing and hearing... THAT. Their eyes were widen and bulging out to a point where it looked like they’ll will fall out. Their jaws were hanging down the breaking point of logic. Even though no scream came out… their souls did.

-Then they turned around to go inside, when they reached the door they turned around but with different faces. Faces of the purest of joy and innocent's. With their eyes now closed but in a calm and delightful manner. Their smiles were in so perfect that it was better than even the gods themselves, and teeth so clean that a vampire could see their own reflection on it.

-Anne’s parents responded with only these worlds.

Ms Boonchuy in a calmingly disguised voice: Anne sweetie please wait here we’ll be right back.

Mr Boonchuy in a calmingly disguised voice: You too Planters.

-When Anne’s parents went inside. It goes back to Anne and the Planters. With Anne having a beyond worried expression and widen eyes. Although the Planters each have oblivious and calm smiles as is nothing bad happened.

Hop Pop with a calm and normal voice: That went extremely well.

Sprig with a calm and normal voice: yeah they were so calm, nice, and have unique facial expressions.

Polly with a calm and normal voice: Yeah I thought they would blow up or something.

-Anne is hiding her head in her wings.

-Meanwhile inside the house Anne’s mom ran to the kitchen quietly, and started rummaging through the all the food for expiration dates HOPING she found something that cause talking fairy frogs to appear saying that their daughter got turned into a bird.

-Meanwhile Anne’s father was literally screaming at a DVD copy of The Boy and the Heron, because they watched that movie last night.

Anne’s Father: WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME.

-After sadly finding out that this is not dream or even an allusion. Anne’s parents calmed down and accepted this.

-Things go way differently in this scenario than in canon.

One: Due to the Planters being the size of actual frogs. Anne’s parents got a tank for them to live. Because Domino will try to eat them and it helps them blend in.

Two: Anne and Domino are sadly not on good terms. Because Domino doesn’t recognize her. It broke Anne’s heart.

Three: Agent X (sorry if I butchered the name) is an animal protectionist instead. Because Anne is an endangered or rare species of heron. Also I’m pretty sure it's illegal to own a heron. Even the Planters aren't safe because even though they pretend to be ones. X only wants them because they’re actually endangered species of frogs that exist.

Three: I like this idea that in this AU, that Amphibia is way smaller. Because all the animals are in their accurate size of their real life counterparts, like the amphibians. The Frobots are basically action figures to humans. So the Core and Andrias have to double their Frobots size.

You don’t have to use these idea and sorry if the writing is bad. I really like this AU, so I hope you like some of these ideas. I’m fine if you use these and I will respect that. Work hard and take your time.👍

Love the enthousiasm! But I regret to say I already have a rough idea for how I want the story to play out. And the girls get turned back into humans (everyone is canon sized) the moment they recharge their gems.

Still, it could be a fun thought to share and play with. Love me some frog-sized Plantars AUs.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

Surprise! It's Apex Calamity Anne using the power of all 3 stones.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

And finally, Apex Calamity Marcy is done!

[a-sketchy-a-day]

And here's Sasha! I wonder how long it'll take before Marcy is done?

[a-sketchy-a-day]

There we go, made the first one digital.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

The lengths to which we go to procrastinate, I swear! I did this to avoid working on another project that is practically the exact same task!

Oh well, now you know Anne's normal heron colors.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

Made some Calamity versions of the girls in the Apex Calamity AU. I tried to combine their armour with something that would be practical to their animal forms. Anne has a normal heron tail, but there's branches and vines growing from between the feathers that make her look like a phoenix. When I saw Sasha's ponytail in the finale I was like 'yep, perfect for her snake tail. And Marcy's tail trails behind her in the sky like northern lights.

[bowelflies]

sea butterflies, Limacina helicina (Gastropoda: Limacinidae)

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[hunter-rodrigez]

It's hard to see here... but sea butterflies are a kind of snail

[theyoungwaldschrat]

It is literally impossible to come up with a fantasy worldbuilding concept that is more outlandishly weird, wonderous and magical than something that already exists in the real world

[a-sketchy-a-day]

[medicated-au]

Kind of a weird art request, but do you think we could see some art of what a human would look like from the eyes of an Amphibian (especially those who have never seen one before and might find them intimidating)?

Happy Halloween, enjoy the discomfort! So we actually sat together with the team to brainstorm on the differences between Amphibians and humans (and even looked at other animals in the Amphibians' environment and how humans are different from even most common animals), and how to exaggerate them even more so it would have the same effect on a human. The end result made even DLG6 (the artist) uncomfortable to a point. And now she's too nervous to add even more detail because she doesn't have enough skill for realism.

Now imagine this, with any type of hair, 11'2" (3,40m) tall, long thin limbs, six fingers, sandpaper-like greyscale skin with large patches of ichthyosis, with that being a common example of facial features. Intimidating, ugly and uncomfortable to look at, but not a face you can't get used to.

[a-sketchy-a-day]

Can we see Hop Hop with his grandkids?

[medicated-au]

Art request: The medicated! trio when they accidentally swapped potions, and if they swapped potions again with Marcy as a frog, Sasha as a newt, and Anne as a toad.

Heh, both of the artists who draw for this blog decided to tackle this one! Hence why it took quite a while! But here's the first one, by @a-sketchy-a-day

3 local blorbos drank the wrong potions! so yeah, this one is the three in that exact moment that you requested! Now, for the second one, this was done by @ntf-03

This one has them rotating around. The middle is their normal forms and each one to either side has them in different positions and situations. Although none of those situations actually happened in Medicated, that was mostly done just to have some excuses for them to be wearing different clothes. Ya know, for variety! We hope that this makes up for how long it took to get to this request!

[a-sketchy-a-day]

Hello do you only take art requests in this blog or also fanfiction requests? Just curious. I also follow your other page

No, don't do fic requests/commissions, sorry

[medicated-au]

Promotional Image for Chapter 39

We want to put this image at the end of the actual chapter, but we need to upload it somewhere else first because that’s how Ao3 works. So yes, this means that it’s going to be up and ready to read in just a few minutes! Art by @a-sketchy-a-day​, but under the “read more” thingy because you might be the kind of person who’d rather see it in the actual chapter first.

[medicated-au]

Hey can you guys do a drawing of Anne in her cool size-changeable cloak?

Or maybe one of her mid-transformation, as disturbing as that might look.

Just gonna tag @ntf-03 because one of those requests came from them.

Wow, ya'll really wanted this one! It just took us a while because it's so complicated! I mean, just LOOK at that embroidery! But now we've done it! So we're gonna give you guys two pictures of the finished drawing. The only difference is the lighting, so you guys get to pick which one you like best! So here, we have both forms so that you guys can see how it folds up. But Anne's hedgehog pelt was added to her human form because it's just awesome like that! Art by @a-sketchy-a-day

We hope you like this! And please let us know which lighting setting you like more. That'd be a really fun statistic to know!

[a-sketchy-a-day]

This took waaaay longer than it had to. I mean I procrastinated the heck out of this one!

But anyways, remember how I said those 'first encounters' were a lot more stressful than their eventual 'meetings'? Well Anne realized a little late that these frogs could talk (luckily not too late), Sasha caused a 'teleporting pink snakes' panic, and Newtopia isn't really used to predators in the heart of their city, sweet as Marcy might be.

Slightly more detailed pictures under the cut.

[medicated-au]

"Jenny, girl, I don't think there's enough ice cream to make this any better."

A very late addition to chapter 32! Mr. X is based on an Amazonian poison dart frog, but with a slightly different color scheme