The Art of Blue-And-Dog

The art of tumblr user blue-and-dog.

[blue-and-art]

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, BLUE IS OPENING COMMISSIONS!

That’s right, folks, I’m now going to attempt to draw pictures for money! This is my first time doing it, ever, so please bear with me!

I will have a limited number of slots open at a time (THREE SLOTS)—anyone else will be wait-listed (if by any chance I get more than what I think I’ll get).

Please let me know if you are okay with me taking small creative liberties (extra accessories, etc) with characters to jazz them up—especially for the Art Nouveau pieces.

PLEASE CREDIT ME IF YOU REPOST YOUR COMMISSION ANYWHERE.

Payment is through PayPal.

Drop me a DM if interested!

My work may not be used for NFTs.

10/2024: COMMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.

[blue-and-art]

Made a new pokemon OC after playing Legends Z-A, meet Ciel. She gives up two very well-paying but super stressful jobs to realize her newfound dream of running a patisserie in Lumiose city. I’m working on her story now. It’s very slice-of-life but also kind of a drama as she has to overcome her people-pleasing ways and realize what she actually wants out of life.

She’s become friends with locals who frequent her shop, including the likes of Corbeau (a lot of the Rust Syndicate grunts like her cookies).

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Pokeshaming a slurpuff.

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Self-portrait as if I was in an anime opening.

The song I have in mind is “Song Rider” by Royal Gal. I heard it in a store while I was in Japan and fell in love with the band immediately. I just WISH THE SONG WAS LONGER!

My anime would be a twelve-episode slice of life about a socially awkward nerd and history lover who goes on her first trip to Japan with her much more well-traveled friend. The soundtrack would be a lot of ambient rock much in the vein of FLCL, and a mix of both Japanese and western music (mainly from the 90s).

(I am also making a separate version for my friend that isn’t gonna be posted here)

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The amount of people that have started following me solely because of my Cure Taboo design is astounding; do you all really like the design or are y’all just Mewtwo fans or….

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Cure Taboo was intended to be the “mid-season” for PMPC before I cancelled it. For those who didn’t read the original story, Dr. Alice Pierce was a mentor for the main team, a doctor specializing in Pokémon medicine. She was planned to be a one-time cure in the vein of Cure Infini or Cure Connect from the canon Precure franchise, as after receiving her pact it loses its power immediately since Mewtwo is not a “natural” (read: they’re man-made) legendary.

(She would have gotten it back for one more use during the finale though)

Her accent color is green, as a reference to shiny Mewtwo.

She is so far one of only two Cures whose names make no reference to their legendary/the legendary’s Pokémon typing (the other being Sedona Willis/Cure Lyric)

So far the only consistent character design detail that’s stayed since I first began conceptualizing her YEEEEARS ago was the little pillbox hat. That never went away.

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So I did two more pieces to hype up for the Japan trip I went on and only now realize after RETURNING from my trip I never posted them whoops.

The first pic has some pics of my friends’ OCs as ads in the background of the store uwu

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If you DM me and say “can I talk to you about something,” just fucking say the thing or I’m gonna automatically assume you’re a bot/AI and start fucking with you. The only reason I didn’t do it with my last scam DM is because I had to go to work and had more important things to do than fuck with an obvious AI scam bot.

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Hey guess who’s been playing ZA

Whoooosh, Zygarde cure! Elodie is high-strung, offbeat and quirky, often the first to resort to climbing or otherwise wandering into trouble for the sake of fun and thrills. It’s her dream to be an electric-type gym leader with Jolteon as her ace, despite many people claiming Jolteons just aren’t effective in battle.

Jolteon gets accessories too. As a treat.

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A quick concept for a full rework of my Saigo-no-Tsubone (also known as Oai), historically Tokugawa Ieyasu’s favorite concubine (or as i call her his Best Friend With Benefits). I took the appearance of my long-since-retired/abandoned Chiyome Mochizuki as a basis for the hair/bun and that’s it.

I’ve decided after some thinking to give her a bit of an engineer vibe, as like a foil to the fully robot Tadakatsu. So much like Nana she has a bit of a steampunk note to her, and she has an orange ombré and black color scheme. Historically she was terribly nearsighted, so FASHIONABLE GLASSES TIME, complete with magnifying lenses she can flip down as she needs them.

She’s a hard worker with an eye for details who completely zones out when she’s focused on a task. Professional, serious, straitlaced, but with a deep sense of compassion, especially for the disabled (and sometimes she’s so serious it teeters on comical). When she’s not working on maintenance for the Tokugawa artillery or in the war room with Ieyasu and his generals, she can be found at the Buddhist temple Ryusen-ji. As a matter of fact, during my OC Kotoko’s solo wandering days the miko actually took shelter at the temple and met Saigo. Despite her serious professionalism Saigo can also be very easy to talk to once she loosens up. I need to flesh out her character more, so I’m working on a story outline right now.

Her main weapon is a modified naginata with the barrel of an arquebus attached to it—bro she’s got a gunlance. This also makes it a bit more top-heavy than other polearms, and Saigo is the only one capable of effectively wielding it as her natural sense of rhythm allows her to properly time her swings and adjust in a split second. She also experiments with fireworks both for entertainment and as a weapon. Her element is fire.

Aaaand I already have an alternate costume idea…

[luke-shywalker]

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

[dnealians-nemesis]

It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

[yeahwrite]

also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD

[headspace-hotel]

y'all I used to mess with generative AI all the time back in like 2020-2021 before chatgpt was a thing and it generated entertaining nonsense

i had a paid subscription to inferkit for my amusement. it was a whole thing

Thing is. Since I played with LLM's back when they were in their early stages. I know how they work. specifically i am intimately aware of why they aren't, and can't be, "intelligent," and why there's no way they could possibly work well for the tasks they are being used for

you see, the earlier models offered sliders to manipulate the amount of "randomness" in the result and how the "randomness" was applied. Set the sliders low, you get endless loops of repeating words and sentences; set the sliders high, and you get nonsense gobbledeygook

furthermore, chatGPT has a sort of framing device where all the outputs are formatted in "person talking to another person" form; earlier models didn't use this and they just generated "more" of whatever you input

it made it very hard to miss that it is a statistically likely sentence assembling machine

[headspace-hotel]

i tried chatgpt when it first came out and i was like wow. i can't do anything to manipulate the result? this is stupid.

of course that was on purpose because if you give users any insight into how the responses are being assembled, the illusion of it being like, intelligent and able to talk to you falls apart.

[hier-und-dar]

I played around with AI personally and for work (mostly for work) and let me just say: I tried (in 2025) to use Adobe's built-in generative fill tool to get rid of a port-a-potty in a photo background, and most results just filled in a different port-a-potty. AI has very very very limited usefulness. It is severely overhyped.

[headspace-hotel]

I'm sorry getting rid of a port a potty in a photo by replacing it with a different port a potty is hilarious

[kjscottwrites]

[consolecadet]

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[ursulaklegay]

daily reminder that if you like something someone made tell! them! tell them tell them tell them TELL THEM

[blue-and-art]

Well I figure it’s about time to actually post these on tumblr. It’s only been… (checks watch) almost two years.

This is the result of geeking out with @nexu101 and making a 1930’s “Murder on the Orient Express” Sengoku Basara AU. This isn’t the FULL cast, but it’s the designs I finished. Also some OCs are in there and if you have a problem with that I…..don’t care?

Umeko and Matsunaga Hisamichi (“The Runaways”) belong to Nexu.

Nana (The Siren), Megohime (The Diplomat), Ayane/Myokyu (The Princess), Kotoko (The Humanitarian), and Nagisa (The Fledgling) belong to me

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I’m back on my Sengoku Basara bullshit and decided to redesign my Akihime, whom I had scrapped and tossed aside long ago. I’m currently reworking her story through her developing a friendship with my OC Kotoko and how that affects both of them and makes them grow as people, despite the fact that Akihime lives in isolation and refuses to let people see her face for a long time.

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The girlfriends are transforming!

Cure Crescent and Cure Nocturne

[bimstown]

Omg omg I just found your blog and the amazing 3D models of quagsire and clodsire (and wooper) you made!!!!!! Would it be possible to get a rotating ping version? For me to look at lovingly forever…. 🥺👉👈

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