hello hello!!! i wanna get more active in the community so i thought i'd make a little intro post! i made a tumblr specifically to look at bttf stuff so i'm new to the platform as well!! still learning as i go :)
my name is bubble (she/her + all honorifics/gendered nicknames) , your local wasian girl from the future!
if you couldn't tell, i like marty mcfly an extremely normal amount! he is my muse. to me he is like the mona lisa. a face carved by the gods i fear. i've been into bttf for a while but only recently allowed myself the freedom to be cringe and free about it :3
tag navigation below the cut!! <3
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okay!!! hello!!! i draw sometimes.... mostly marty....
my art is tagged as #bubarts !! this has all my art no matter if its a doodle or a fully rendered piece!
AU: #martymania i sneezed and now there are 3 marties and they all hate eachother (#martymaniaOTHERSAMAZINGARTIMFREAKINGOUT) for any other art for the au that isn't my own!
#bubasnwers is where you can find all the art/yapping i do in response to asks!!!! :3 thank you so much to everyone that sends me something! <3
though it is rare, any big spiels i post are tagged as #bubrants!! these are typically just thoughts i have about aus/the films + the game I am So Normal about the game.
(this list may update as i become more normal about things)
feel free to send me doodle rqs anytime! i'm really glad bttf is like. real. i love it so much. i'll try and find time to do them!!! sorry if they take a while i am very slow.......
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(this was intentionally meant to be my main blog, but i think i've solidified my place as a bttf-only truther here hahahaha!! if you wanna see more variety in fandoms/oc works, check out my sideblog at @bubblegum1301! i'm probably not gonna be vv active there considering how deep i am into the bttf rabbit hole but oh well!)
Yer art is so amazing! Is there a possibility of doing a guide on how to draw humans?? I’m usually not a human drawer (see Mercury) and am trying to figure it out? I love your style and your humans just look so dynamic and I’m trying to get mine to not look so…flat and stiff. Thx!💚💚💚
(Also maybe see Marty on a horse???? Plz??? I love pt.3)
HIHIHIHIHIHIHI THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
i'm not completely sure how useful a guide from me would be, i barely know what i'm doing either HAHAHAHAHA but i'm more than happy to kind of explain my study regimien(?) how i personally tackle human anatomy and whatnot :)
another long wall of text/images under the cut :)
the key to anatomy imo is to find a way YOU find it easy to draw!!! a lot of tutorials never really stuck for me and i had to kind of develop my own way of constructing things, and even then, i'm sort of ONLY on construction, i really struggle with going more in-depth with muscle placement and whatnot
it took me a really long time to get comfy with where i am and even then my lines arent as comfortable as i'd like them to be but you know i'm always learning!! that's the fun part :) anything to draw michael j fox better ykwim
1 gesture drawings - I LOVE GESTURE DRAWING its definitely what's helped me the most! you can get references off of pinterest but if you want timed exercises i 1 billion percent recommend GESDRAWPARTY , they have such a wide library of videos that you can just put on and follow! having a timer forces you to simplify the body and focus on what makes the movement/figure clear! line of action is another great resource! the key is to study ur fundamentals/realistic proportions and then take those rules and completely break them
^^^^^ along with this i also reccomend taking dance videos (or any video where people are doing physical activity) and pausing them when in motion! this again kinda forces your brain to focus on what to emphasise! all of these are done between 30 seconds - 3 minutes, except for the michael j fox set which were all 5 minutes cause i was dealing with clothes, something im really struggling with atm
don't mind the clothing i'm wokring on it HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ALSO i recommend doing these on pen and paper from time to time as it forces you to be okay with what ypu've put down, you can't erase it!!! obvi you can go in with maybe a diff colour and try and study where you're struggling (that's what i do) but having the pen there makes it permanent which helps with line confidence!
*** also in this same vein if you're asking abt facial construction along with anatomy, this is another thing where it REALLYYYY depends on style, but my recommendation is to start with realistic portraits (or as realistic as you can, i really struggle with proper realism) but for me what helped the most was studying the asaro head i believe it's called and figuring out the planes of the face, and using that in my facial construction work!
also also i recommend live drawing! i'll just go out and camp at a cafe for like an hour or two and just do pen sketches of people i see out! there's no better reference than real life after all :) i draw really slow so its helped me capture movement/figure faster since you typically have to fight against the chance of people moving at any given moment
2 study your favourite artists!!! - every artist does anatomy a little differently!!! my advice is to go and find your favourite artists, look at their pieces, FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS YOU LIKE (this is the most important part!!!!!!) and then study that!!
for example, my favourite artist is hidari, who people might recognize for their work on fire emblem: shadows of valentia! i personally enjoy their proportions + facial/hair style, so i've done like 7 billion studies of their work! (they're the right image)
and of course this wouldn't be a bubble post without appreciating my fellow bttf artists! i save so much art onto my phone and then analyze what i want to take from their style and try and apply it in my own work! especially when it comes to drawing marty HAHAHAHAHAHA i try and figure out what makes everyone's art so appealing and then study it in my own time :) you'll typically see in my tags what i am planning to steal/study from someone's artstyle /pos
3 HAVE FUN! (apply your studies) - don't make my mistake and jsut study a bunch of references and do nothing else! for a very long time i got really good at copying pictures but struggled to apply what i had learnt into my personal artwork! ironically enough, getting back into bttf is what made me want to draw personal art and finally begin to apply things into what i draw! and also in my experience if you're not enjoying the study at least a little bit you're not gonna learn anything
uh yeah i think thats about it? again i don't. really . know what i'm doing either? i'm fortunate enough to have a very talented best friend who shares all her wisdom with me so 99% of this is stuff i've learnt off her :3 ily wife!
marty on horse for you :3 i cannot draw horses
good luck! <3 i'm so honored you'd ask me for something like this hahaha i really don't feel like ik what i'm doing but if any of thise help i'll be happy :)
As usual, the main character. Sometimes, we call him pincushion. Everything Needles says about him, be it true or not (often, the latter), is like a pin being stuck into his skin, and it'll stay there for a while. He's much more prone to flying off the handle, especially if you question his bravery. And that's how Needles gets him. At 14, Needles always got the upper hand on Marty, often getting him covered in bruises and scrapes, as he was much skinnier then.
By 16, Marty had evened out the playing field somewhat, though not completely, having gotten a lot stronger, and he often forgets his own strength. At that same age, Marty got the scar on his right cheek, inflicted by Needles. This is also why he got the undercut. The asshole had chopped off some of his hair. When he got home, Linda evened it out to an undercut. Nobody expected he'd keep it. When he woke up the next morning and removed the dressing Doc had placed onto his injury, he could see the scrapes were rather deep.
By 1985, Marty's typical clothes consisted of this: A red t-shirt he'd ripped up himself, torn up jeans, a denim jacket that had a few spikes attached onto it, a belt with straps hanging off the side (not too long, otherwise Needles would be grabbing onto them), fingerless leather gloves (they give him better grip), and combat boots with steel toes (he'd asked Doc to but them on).
But, usually, before he left for the day, he'd switch out the torn up t-shirt for a white t-shirt and purple button-up, with the long sleeves rolled up. The latter has a pattern on it (think the same one on main timeline Marty's shirt but turned to make diamond shapes instead of squares). And the belt switched out for suspenders. This is what he wore instead of his ripped up t-shirt when he traveled to 1955. Regardless of whichever outfit he wore, he often wore his sunglasses and practically never took them off.
Marty believes in not directly punching/kicking Needles. Instead, he'll use Needles' moves against him. At worst, he'll back up into a wall or elbow him in the stomach while Needles tries to hold him down. He's learned to read the rather unpredictable Needles like a book, becoming unpredictable himself. He tends to be rather smug, even prideful.
He very much prides himself on being better than Needles in his behavior, attitude, so on so forth.
This, however, stems from his low-self esteem and his desire to not stoop to his bully's level, not sheer arrogance. He's been a "better person" (for lack of better words) than Needles the whole time, and that's how he befriended Doc (he let the mask slip almost immediately) and why Jenn loves him. He's not much different to the original Marty in his personality (and the same goes for his interests). He's very much cynical, but his stoicism is a switch that flips whenever he's not comfortable being vulnerable (so, when not around Jenn or Doc). He's been talking the way the original Marty does in Part 2 and 3, with a deeper tone and a more rough sound to it.
He got bit by the cynicism bug a lot sooner.
He's also not very great at hiding his anger, something Needles revels in. The word "fuck" is very present in his vocabulary. But he tries not to cuss around adults, though he's gotten less controlled around Doc.
Marty's haircut proved to be a frequent source of embarrassment in 1955 alongside his "life preserver" vest. '55 Doc using the Vaseline Hair Tonic to help him blend in ended up putting the idea in his older self's head of using hair gel to help Marty stick out less when Part 2 kicks off.
Marty is also very agile, much more than his original counterpart. Having to run from and outsmart Needles on a daily basis has made him much better, almost perfect. He almost never finds himself almost stumbling after quickly turning on a skateboard (or hoverboard). He's always landing on his feet and keeping balance. His reflexes are also extremely well trained, often being able to block and counter Needles's punches or even grab his fist before he can even try and make contact.
Outside of confrontation, though, he's no less clumsy than the original. Maybe even a little more.
There's one other person Marty hates as much as Needles; Biff Tannen. Marty has to stop himself from socking that bastard in the face often. And when he goes to 1955? He's not holding back any longer. The fact Biff actually shows concern towards him regarding Needles when he returns home shocks him to the core. Even before he left, he still regarded Biff as less bad than Needles.
It's not uncommon that people are scared by him, especially with the sunglasses on.
Needles also often makes fun of him for the black nail polish (Jenn's idea), and the eyeliner. That's the one thing he doesn't care about because that's low, even for him. He's rather adept at applying the later in a very subtle manner. He's also rather good at styling his hair to make his undercut more subtle, of which he's done frequently on his journey through the flow of time.
art by oomf @bubbiegummie (cept for mister purple shirt that's from IDW)
sure hopin' you’re considerin’ the future, mr. eastwood
happy birthday part 3 this took me way too long LMFAO rendering got hands….. anyways this is for project i’m working on shshshshhhhhhhh but i wanted to share the piece for it! yay
closeups under cut 🏜️
whoever designed his poncho has it out for me specifically ☹️☹️
sure hopin' you’re considerin’ the future, mr. eastwood
happy birthday part 3 this took me way too long LMFAO rendering got hands….. anyways this is for project i’m working on shshshshhhhhhhh but i wanted to share the piece for it! yay
closeups under cut 🏜️
whoever designed his poncho has it out for me specifically ☹️☹️
so @bubbiegummie posted a translated version of some pages from a bttf light novel?? which is a thing that exists?? and i literally have not stopped thinking about it since i saw it and recently it occurred to me that i had free will and i could draw my own furry au versions of the characters into the introductory page. so here we are 13 hours of work later
if you go back and look at the original i've changed and moved some stuff around to fit my EVIL purposes, including the rewritten versions of marty's parents and excluding biff (i Dojt Like Him)
anyway follow for more of my au self titled "back to the future if it was Awesome". thank you.
