Hey! I took part in this years @bumblebybigbang! My partner for this, Arrancaria, wrote this lovely fic about a couple bees on skates and sharing things with the people you love! I made this piece to accompany it! Go read it!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Yay it's posting day! This is my piece for the bumbleby big bang 2023! I had the pleasure of working with @kayleen756894, who wrote a lovely fairytale-inspired au for our favorite bees. Her fic is full of emotion and evocative imagery, check it out at the link below!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
My first ever @bumblebybigbang!! I got to work with the wonderful @marilliaarts and the amazing @/AriThrashVA (on twt) to create art for Ari's fic, 'Shoot for the Stars!' it was a great experience, please check out their works too! You can see Marillia's art here and Ari's fic here!
I participated in this years @bumblebybigbang and had the pleasure to work with @bugsbiann for @/AriThrashVA Story (on twitter) „Shoot for the Stars“. 💛🖤 It was lovely to work with you two. 🥹
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
It's here! The work I've spent the last six months on has been finished and uploaded!
Blake and Weiss move to Patch, a small town in the middle of nowhere but also on the way to everywhere, to take over a bookstore. They meet a couple of friendly faces, and romance soon blossoms. However, there is a storm on the horizon, will it break the romance or strengthen it?
I was paired with the amazing @riinkun-art-stuff who has made an astounding piece of work for this fic that is just beautiful:
Howdy ho! I'm very excited to finally be able to share this illustration I worked on as part of this year's @bumblebybigbang for @tahnex's l
So please give their work a look and a like and reblog because it is just gorgeous!! Then go check out everyone else's fics and artwork from the @bumblebybigbang as there's been so much talent this year!
Howdy ho! I'm very excited to finally be able to share this illustration I worked on as part of this year's @bumblebybigbang for @tahnex's lovely and super fun fic (with no pain attached whatsoever), "Of Dragons and Panthers," which you can read here! As soon as I read the original notes on it this scene captured me so much I had to do something dramatic for it. It's been such a pleasure watching the whole collab come together, tysm for having me!
First time joining an event like this, and I'd love to again if the opportunity comes around hehe. Still a few postings to go on this one, the pieces before us this year have knocked it out of the park and I'm super excited to see the rest once they come around!
Made a few process cuts just for fun, which I left under the cut!
I did do a few sketches roughly before I started out, especially based on other parts of the chapter, but this particular composition was so fixed in my mind that I ended up just sticking with it. In retrospect, I would've loved to go back and do some more thorough exploration for it. Here are a few of the sketches I managed to fish back up:
I also was thinking of trying a few other doodles/another big piece, but ended up not really having the time between other obligations :')
And the sketch I finally settled on:
Inking was SUCH a fun process on this piece in particular. I'm a huge fan of how dragon!Yang's mane turned out, especially, and all the detailing on the head and around Blake's fur and such. Feel like I'm really satisfied w the particular way the line weight variations came out, and it's where the piece shines the most imo.
Panther!Blake, too. Oh gosh. I feel like it took me a lot of reworking to get her structure to a point where she felt very leopard-like, rather than any other type of big cat- especially around the head.
Colours were such a challenging part. There was a big feeling I had for that glow coming off dragon!Yang in the middle of the heavy rain- I love seeing that sort of effect in real life so that's something I'm really hoping to work to capture better as I practice. Trying to get dragon!Yang's slight iridescence in there and to balance out the lighting on panther!Blake's fur each took a long time, too- I'm only a pinch sad that a good chunk of it is covered by other lighting effects XD
Blake's rosettes were SO fun. Augguhugg.
In terms of backgrounds. HOO boy I was going through a strange patch in life while working on the background and final polish for this piece, which is why (at least I feel like) it looks kinda rushed. I have been practicing natural landscapes and doing some observational studies but still struggling to get those rock shapes quite right, which I think is a big make or break point of something like this. I did really enjoy toying around with inking on the foliage and foreground layers of the ground, though! And in the end, lighting and effects ended up masking a lot of the big weak spots :D
I think natural effects like smoke/steam, and rain, are big things that I got to practice more of in this piece, but also really would like to get better at in future. Esp since I feel like it's been a great opportunity to mess around with different colours and brushes that I use way less, which I'm always grateful for w painting. I think just layering the rain on its own ended up being about 10 odd layers?
I think the only other thing I would have loved to improve is to just help the piece feel more Bumbleby™ in the final look. I think I like the cool colours of the lighting for this particular outcome, but I also would have probably tried to have made things much clearer (ahem at the very least switch to yellow/purple) in the long run in terms of representation and resemblance. Ik that at least for me it is fairly easy to associate the two characters with dragons and panthers since I'm more familiar w the fandom lingo around these two, but esp for outsiders I feel like it's probably not great at conveying who they are, and why they are potentially in this situation.
I'd also love to try and find a shading style that still has a painterly quality but compliments the inking a bit better, rather than overpowering it.
I think that, on the whole, I am pretty satisfied with the piece and had a great time working with Tahnex on the whole collab! And I've also has a fun time reading his work and notes in return, and thank you so much for being so so patient with me even as my updates were slow n rocky at points :'D
That's about all I got, have a great day y'all! Still a few big bang postings to go, so very excited for those once they come around!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
The Ever After was good at making Blake and Yang look inward, both at themselves and at their relationship. Now, the hard part begins: returning to a world that’s moved on without them.
And still reeling from the revelations that they had and the steps forward they took, a war plays its role in them finding their footing in this new phase of their relationship, together.
introducing my entry for this year’s @bumblebybigbang!! physical health struggles have kept me from making this as big of a project as i would’ve liked, but i hope you still enjoy what i did manage to put together!!
the biggest of thank yous to my partner, @im-sorin-thru-the-sky!! they brought my vision to life in a truly beautiful way, please go check out the accompanying art on their page!!
Hiii, I'm happy to present my piece for Bumbleby Big Bang 2023, the collaboration I had with extremely talented @sunny-little-yang and the so so so sooooo amazing fanfic she wrote, it's so god damn good
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
the scene I draw is from chapter 3 so definitely keep an eye out on that cuz its a very cute one ;)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
After breaking up with Adam Blake needs to put some distance between them. She books a ticket on the first ship leaving her hometown, not bothering to check where it’s headed. When Yang agreed to go on a cruise with Ruby, she expected a relaxing summer trip. She did not agree to participate in Ruby’s matchmaking schemes.
Trapped on a singles cruise with no intention of finding “the one,” both find love where they least expect it…with each other.
Hello all, this is my contribution to the 2023 Bumbleby Big Bang! As always, it has been a blast working with this community and my amazing partner! Definitely check out their art for this at blueinkjpeg!
Guess who’s participating in the Bumbleby big bang this year? I had the pleasure to with with @thecarlonethatalsowrites and it was a blast! Now go read the fic this artwork is based off of!!!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
"It's been years since Blake has been free from abusive ex, but wanting to makeup for lost time only resulted in her overworking herself until exhaustion, culminating in her collapsing at work.
Forced onto sick leave, Blake struggles to relax and find something to make her time productive. When Yang, the Goddess of the Sun, falls from the stars, Blake finds herself intermingled with millennia old grudges and a budding romance that she was sure she'd never experience again."
Hey y'all!! I'm excited to finally share what I've been working on for these past 2 months!!! This has been experience and iI'm pretty happy with what Turnip and I have been able to come up with!
Speaking of, thank you Turnip for being such a lovely partner these couple of months! I apologize for the lack of communication concerning my progress and am forever grateful of the trust you had in me getting my stuff done! Literally thank you for not giving up on me when I decided to restart 2 months away from posting (by then we didn't even know our posting dates so I got extremely lucky with the extra time 😭😭🙏)
Also a thank you for the mods at @bumblebybigbang! There were a bunch of people who joined this year and I can't imagine what things look like behind the curtain.
Now! I have some extras which include some visual concepts and a little doodle of a scene from chapter 2! :D
Watching Turnip bring this fic to life was an honor, and I hope y'all enjoy the fruits of her labor! :DDD
Have fun! *Dissapears into thin air* ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ᕦ( ᐕ )ᕡ
For this years Bumbleby Big Bang I got to partner with the amazing @nonbinarychaoticstupid !!! Please go read their fic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/51753499)! it’s so good and i’m so glad i was partnered with them!! I worked hard on my piece and hope everyone likes it! @bumblebybigbang
“yang,” blake echoes.
yang’s face splits into a wild smile. “at your service. and you are?” she asks politely.
blake sticks her hand out over the counter. “blake belladonna.”
yang takes her hand and shakes it firmly, eyes wide with something indescribably familiar. “pleasure to meet you, blake.”
or, the one where yang works at a coffee shop instead of attending beacon. they find each other anyway; they always do.
read it here!! featuring incredible art by @karatewolf27, written for @bumblebybigbang!!
rating: T
pairings: blake/yang, very minor ruby/weiss
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