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I draw Characters™ way too much Website TAGS: MAP Parts // Behind the Scenes // ArtFight

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 320th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is the one running the show.

UPDATES

I wrote up some sort of informal pitch bible for the world of ARTIFICE and inadvertently accomplished a ton of worldbuilding for it, so look forward to me finally cleaning up some outdated info for that. I'm trying to hold myself back from uploading a billion characters right before ArtFight however, so most of this will be kept behind the curtain for now.

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I'll be completely honest, I didn't have anything prepared for this post so I delved into my crap to do folder and pulled something out.

Rectrix Pronghorn of the Red Army didn't have a proper icon until now, just a crop of the first headshot I ever made of him. That rendered him the only character on my ArtFight profile that lacked a proper icon (and is of a reasonable degree of finalised). Turns out I couldn't come up with a better icon for him so I just retrofitted that original headshot that has become just so quintessentially Pronghorn. This is more of the icon than one will ever see, and it came out kinda weird looking in a way I struggle to describe, but it does its job just fine.

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It's that time of year for me to begin obsessing over ArtFight CSS again, so I did some goofiness to the permissions boxes on character pages. As always I must stress if something looks weird I do NOT know about it and you should tell me so I can fix it!!!

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PROGRESS

B2 - thought bout it some more :]

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[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 319th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that speaks in fives.

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Expect a pretty slow couple weeks from me, especially leading up to ArtFight!

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XJ-0461 'Devo' has been in need of an actual refined fullbody for eons. Now he has one! I'm hoping I can construct a full ref sheet before July, but if all else fails at least there's this now lol

Devo is an android intelligence made to replace an existing lifeform with perfect accuracy, and subsequently serve as a spy for the unit's creators. A malfunction made him aware of this, so he sought out a way to sever himself from his superiors. This character actually turned five years old recently!

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CHANGES

Fixed some code in places, when is this not a change lol

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PROGRESS

zilch lol

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Ten years ago today, the best single hour of television aired.

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 318th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that brought the nether rapture to your house.

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How has it already been a week since last week bruh it sure don't feel that way lo

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This is one half of two posts featuring some new-old characters I finally put up last week: Red Leader's first two recruits.

This is Agitatrix Platinum of the Red Army (page also very much a WIP). His design is a repurposed older design, chosen for the red, but it also pulls from Giratina a tad (get it? ya get it?). He's a metallurgist and not as much of a fighter like his partner in crime. They sound like your typical brains and brawn trope, but I assure you they subvert it in some pretty funny ways I hope to elaborate on.

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CHANGES

The ARTIFICE world has been quite neglected but is now ever so slightly less neglected. Maybe I'll have a more official release for that sometime soon.

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PROGRESS

I did not want to draw at all this week lol

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[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 317th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that eats astrophage.

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Another week of falling way too deep in the coding rabbit holes for my own good! I've revamped a lot on my coding storage profile and I'm not even done yet, so watch this space.

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This is one half of two posts featuring some new-old characters I finally put up this week: Red Leader's first two recruits.

This is Agitatrix Pollution of the Red Army (page very much a WIP). This guy's design was real difficult to nail down, particularly in terms of palette. I wanted something rather gross (to befit the name) that used blue in a more unconventional way, without making him too gross. Did I succeed? I can't even tell, I redid it twice already while drawing this lol. Yes his eye patch is meant to be reminiscent of Red Leader's - Pollution's actually came first chronologically and prompted RL to do what he did with his :]

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Among the various developments, most notably, my own ArtFight HTML/CSS is nearly complete. I might overhaul it sometime soonish since I don't 100% like it and how divergent it is from my other pages (this used to be a restriction of AF, but not anymore), but for now at least the info is correct. It also renders that promo webpage thing I've done in the past totally obsolete! so that won't be reappearing again.

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PROGRESS

look man I needed a break

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[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 316th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is electrically neutral.

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The ArtFight HTML update has been keeping me real busy! I've been trying to not let it consume my life - I would be wise to keep my scope focused on CSS only - but I can't help it that I love to teach sometimes. Maybe next week I'll work on something other than that lmao

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It has occurred to me numerous times that I don't have proper ref imagery for Red Leader's left side, so I finally took the time to make just that. This is Red Leader's cybernetics design stripped of style. Now you don't have to guess anymore! (sorry it took this long)

When I started this i wanted it to be an interactive 3D model because I felt like that was more effective to see it at any angle you need as opposed to an orthographic view, but I fell victim to scope creep. Maybe that'll manifest some other time since it is already mostly done, but it needs more time in the oven..

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As previously mentioned the ArtFight HTML update is out and I've been chipping away at the multitude of things I need to do for it. Most of my characters are all set and done, but my profile needs work and I plan to add new corresponding HTML templates to add to each of my CSS templates, but I expect that to take quite some time.

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PROGRESS

mmmng. nada :]

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[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 315th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is a concerned third party.

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Surprise upload this week with the Garn47 anniversary MAP part! I had tons of fun making it even though it only took a couple hours of noodling in Moho. Check out the complete MAP too!

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More Finchwhistleposting! I noticed my dog turns gray during the wintertime and wanted to carry that over into my character that has so far been portrayed with inconsistent gray. This is his summer and winter designs.

Additionally, when cats go gray, any scars they have become visible in the fur since they go gray first; I wanted to use this too. Essentially this gives Finchwhistle two designs based on seasons and I just think it's neat

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CHANGES

I've finished up my Connections on ArtFight, those take SO long to do and I am happily done with them and will not be touching them again lol

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PROGRESS

Garn47 Anniversary MAP 8 - Complete

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handful of funny image redraws my Evil watch party demanded of me

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 314th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is feeling the pressure.

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BUSY! doing really long drawings doesn't help that much lmao

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My friends told me not to post this but I didn't listen. I love the game this is based on and it sucks that it's currently entrenched in drama.

This is a traditional pen + marker drawing except for the half where my markers all died at once which subsequently ruined the paper, leading me to finish it digitally. It came out fine, it's got an assortment of flaws that I could correct in post, but I wanted to keep the traditional vibe and not correct it too hard. Quite the learning experience: I still hate traditional lmao

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CHANGES

I haven't fixed my status page and portfolio in many a week, immediately after I post this I'm rectifying that

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PROGRESS

mmng cookin.

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My tribute to Michael Emerson. Digital painting, 30+ hours

[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 313th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that can't have shit in Detroit.

UPDATES

On second thought perhaps don't expect any animations from me anytime soon, life is calling and I am not presently working on anything ahah

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I joined a team to collaborate on a super short experimental film (which will never be publicised) with a game jam style of production model, so I coughed up a basic Yamero rig for it in three hours.

It's not a very good recreation of the design - it's missing details like the wing ribs and tail feathers - but the important thing is it converted straight into Unreal Engine with no problems or tweaking required whatsoever so I consider it a win. I also tend to suck majorly at rigging so it's quite monumental that I cooked here too lol

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CHANGES

Noticed some horrendous line height issues on ToyHouse when viewed on mobile, easy fix lmao mbad

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PROGRESS

Lost in Data 23/24 - Advanced to another degree of done but it's basically gonna be shelved for a long time now until I want to dig in and redo some bits

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[battaliaart]

It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 312th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that engages with the AD.ON Synthetic Breakout cult.

UPDATES

The content promised last week is done-ish but not in the way that I'm ready to post it lmao. Give me a bit longer to cook

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Introducing Finchwhistle, my MirageClan insert. Guess my many year streak of not having a Warriors OC is over. My friends who comprise MirageClan more or less forced this upon me but it's okay because I love this character.

I've been struggling to draw cats a lot recently so I haven't been doing Finchwhistle justice, but as soon as I get my mojo back I'll be dumping art and doodles of him. He's the clan strategist, very observant, quite paranoid, and somewhat weird in a boomerish way. You'll see :]

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CHANGES

Most of my ArtFight CSS templates have been revised or confirmed work with the new Connections update. Some still have some work to do, but I'll get around to it.

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PROGRESS

Lost in Data 23/24 - Done but in a super rough kind of way that needs more time in the oven before it's presentable

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 311th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that praises the Starmie on high.

UPDATES

Life is demanding me to lock in and actually get stuff done so there might be some actual real content coming soon, how bout that

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I've had this photo saved in my to do folder for quite some time, so today I decided to pull it out after noticing I haven't drawn these three in any meaningful capacity for over a year. It's a rather simple drawing technically speaking but it's crazy how every other drawing of them is various degrees of garbage because they're so old lmao

Deo, Asthma and Haku aka Lupe Maxia. Photoshoot with the famous magician? Nah we gon goof off lol. To be fair they're practically siblings so let them be insane together. One of these days I'll rewrite their profiles to be less horrible trust

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CHANGES

ArtFight released their Connections / character links function so of course I went overboard with them and of course it's another silly reference but it really does help me understand which body of text comes from which perspective. It was worth it, right? Right?

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PROGRESS

Lost in Data 23/24 - Shot two of three rigging started

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chat I'm sorry for april fooling y'all. this is a thing I've done on YT for years and it spilled onto tumblr without any warning. lmao. have a pathetic ben linus doodle I did while trying to sleep as an apology.

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 310th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is never gonna give you up.

UPDATES

The Seeing Red MAP is COMPLETE! Check it out!

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Seeing Red needed a thumbnail so we get another Red Leader

He's basically become the de facto face of the MAP what with the literal seeing red imagery so of course he's going to be the thumbnail on everything. This image is a lot busier than the MAP call's but I think it still works, it's just chaotic enough to be cool yet still readable. Check out the full version on the video linked above!

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CHANGES

I noticed on my laptop a lot of my ToyHouse pages were spawning an x-scrollbar despite this not happening on my tower, so I implemented a hotfix that certainly eliminates those but might cause the top of character pages to be spaced a bit weird. I'll pick at it over time.

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PROGRESS

Lost in Data 23/24 - Shot one of three animation complete

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It's Wednesday my dudes Welcome to the 309th Weekly Wednesday, the only post series that is just lookin for somethin (now).

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First time posting a GIF on these posts, hopefully Tumblr doesn't eat it and neither does email providers? We'll see how it goes, but a vital part of these posts is including animation every so often so I sure hope it works lmao

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This is an ENTIRELY self indulgent glorified doodle of a character literally no one but the most gifted will know of: the Prefiler, Martin Manning. Aka the guest star on a single episode of a show so niche it got cancelled before its first season finished airing and absolutely no streaming services either upright nor o'er the high seas have on offer. You wanna see this guy? Watch the 480p YouTube uploads of The Inside episode 3 / episode 4 "Pre-Filer", it's just one episode but they got aired out of order so no one numbers them right. The multi part uploads have the best quality. Or just ask and I'll send you the video file I constructed out of them

I literally just noodled out a couple techniques I've wanted to do for a while, don't look at it too long lmao it's not that good. I specifically tried to encapsulate the grungy disgusting super contrasty blue/green style and colour grading The Inside and many other 2000s shows have cause while it's disgusting and awful it's also super nostalgic lmao

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CHANGES

Fixed up the tag system on this blog a bit so things should be a bit more intuitive now. Regular reminder to check the blog page if you want to navigate my Tumblrs since my HTML has sorting links galore.

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PROGRESS

Lost in Data 23/24 - Rigging started

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[battaliaart]

We all know Reese is smarter than your average action guy, but we also know there were definitely moments like this on occasion because Finch is smarter than your average tech guy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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