Ahero Dogs

Weird Dog and Streamer/Artist, They/Them Very Gay twitch.tv/aherodogs

[aherodogs]

My buddy Peach made me a Tomodachi Harrow the Ninth book and I simply had to compete to be as good because it sparked so much joy TAT (My version incoming)

[aherodogs]

I spent almost an hour on this shit but finally Harrow can read her own insane ass book! I still love Peach's version so much, thanks to her for spurring me into actually trying to go hard on making the cover it was a really fun challenge Now I get to show off my obsession with this series on stream even harder

[aherodogs]

My buddy Peach made me a Tomodachi Harrow the Ninth book and I simply had to compete to be as good because it sparked so much joy TAT (My version incoming)

[aherodogs]

And of course the Bouncer (Nikei Satsuma again)

[aherodogs]

I love testing vtubers by way of shitpost- This is old from back when I was working on Nikei Satsuma

[lazzarella]

"Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point. Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point."

Simon Pegg in the Criterion Closet

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[goodappleboy]

happy valentine's day!

[tsunderrated]

Oh you thought I would be your golden retriever boyfriend? Sorry I’m your husky boyfriend. AWOWOOOOOROTOTOOOOOOAUAUAUAUAUAUAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAWAWAEAEAEAEAWAWAWAWAWAAAAAAAAA

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Tiktok post by @ _urlovelyboyaurwen_ (he/him).

[donutdrawsthings]

my most sick and twisted fantasy

[ashtreelane]

[shaking you violently] stop trying to "find your style" just draw just draw just draw just draw THE WAY YOU DRAW IS YOUR STYLE. YOU CAN'T FIND IT . IT IS INHERENT TO YOU . YOUR "STYLE" IS THE WAY THAT YOU DRAW . JUST DRAW WHATS FUN TO YOU

[aherodogs]

I will say to add- you can make your style. You can sit down and forge that thang. Some of it will just come to you naturally over time but you can speed that up- there’s a bunch of exercises I found helped with that.

Style studies were something I did in college, and I still do them today. Take styles you like- trace them, then try to draw existing images in that style without tracing, then try to come up with new images. These are just practice, don’t post em or if you do be clear what you traced/copied/etc. What do you like about this style? What about it speaks to you? What about it doesn’t? Why do they draw things that way? Keep parts, throw out the rest. Try again- the more styles the better. Play with it, use them like Lego blocks. I like these hands, and those noses, these eyes, this line quality, this way of shading.

Another technique I use is to just fuck around. What if I drew this like that- does that read? Do I like that? Do I hate that? What shapes can I use to make this simpler, how do I emphasize this feature. What if lighting did that? Ooo no I hate that, how about this? If you look around there’s a million ways to stylize hands, sporky adventure time hands, more complex Disney hands, realistic painterly hands with an eye for lighting and thick brush strokes, blocky cartoon hands made of French fries- there’s an unknown number of ways to draw hands with strengths and weaknesses and you gotta decide what works with you. If I gave you all my art you’d see five different styles of hand- and that’s just one feature in a style. Eyes, teeth, furniture, plants, animals- you get to stylize it all.

Sometimes I just draw fast. If you need to do a scene before a timer runs out the shortcuts will come- that’s why a lot of iconic styles are in animation. Those things need to be drawn often and quickly! Shortcuts are needed, so you make them. If you can nail out a photorealistic painting in ten minutes maybe you should be doing that, that’s amazing but if not your gonna figure out how to get as good as you can by Zoomin. Much of my style came from drawing in ink a comic page or more a day and those comics aren’t great but they get to the punchline and are good enough.

So the way to get that style your after is like the post above says, not something you find, it’s something you do. Like things, ask yourself questions about what you like, take those things into you and figure out what the you-est parts are. Rinse, repeat, forever.

You will probably stumble into style if you just draw what you love, but I like to steer my ship more pointedly. Study. Practice is the mantra of artists but study is how you learn to practice, look good and close at the art you love and figure out what they did right.

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[molluskmagus]

[seshrat]

so the cah pride pack has options for buying it “with glitter" and “without glitter” and knowing cards against humanity they just tip like 3 tablespoons of fucking glitter into the pack of cards and send it out

[seshrat]

this is absolutely what they’ve done

[uristmcdorf]

I did it to myself so you don’t have to

send help

[seshrat]

thank you for your sacrifice

[totally-cis-offical]

I love cards against humanity

[gaytanic-panic]

[corvidcurse]

finally got my vtuber model fully feature complete with the addition of wings!

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

there’s this guy on tiktok who has like a giant fucking contraption that concentrates sunlight onto one spot and he just posts videos of him vaporizing shit in his yard with it but the kicker is that he sounds exactly like butthead

[low-polly]

how is he audibly saying weiner in a different font

[were--ralph]

If you have body image issues I genuinely advise you to get a fursona it will help so much

[were--ralph]

I'm not shitposting or trolling or joking but genuinely having a sona modeled after me myself as I am has made me go from "I hate this body im ugly" to "im kinda hot now, I see it."

Like a lot of furries have started working out or gaining weight because they want to mirror their sona more, me included. It's not instant and not even noticeable when it happens bit gradually the more In tune with your sona you get the .ore you model yourself after them and the more you accept yourself.

[vixivulpixel]

This really goes for gender dysphoria too. Having a fursona that's majorly fem-presenting has likely saved me years of grief with gender dysphoria. Even today, where hrt is out of reach both because of financial reasons and [gestures at the state of American transphobia], my fursonas are d doing loads of heavy lifting to keep my mental health in this regard above water. I'm not fem-presenting at all irl, unfortunately, but it hurts considerably less when I have p pictures of a really pretty anthropomorphic Vulpix/fox to look at and say "That's me!"