CallmeRed

Author, illustrator, animator, artist, cat person

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Hello Tumblr!

I’m Red, an artist/writer who dabbles in animation. I’m happy to finally create an account. I don’t know what all I will be posting but I cannot wait to see where it goes! :D

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Found a challenge to draw your Genshin team over this drawing base so… ta-dah!

Figured it would help me in my ‘plan to murder my art block ™️’ They vibing. Also YES I run my Tighnari on burn, screw meta (working on a hyper bloom team I swear but my f2p account be suffering)

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I think people don’t talk enough about how being given a little free time whilst in burn out is the worst torture you can give an artist.

Why is that? Simple, you have nothing to do and the thing you would normally do you can’t, and even then if you try it comes out mid as heck or you can’t even finish. So you get in this endless cycle of doing the same thing for hours on end but not finishing anything so nothing feels worth it until you give up and crash and the burnout gets worse. So today I forced myself to do some fire(which for context is very much something I enjoy doing and pride myself in) and “finish” it, and I’m putting it on here because if I do I can’t say it isn’t and therefore can feel a minor amount of accomplishment. Though I do wish it was better I’d say it’s decent for burnout and an hours worth of effort.

I had the unfortunate displeasure recently of staying up for 26 hours due to travel via plane so I’m hoping the burnout is just jet lag but eh.

bonus lil doodle of me being tired because I can.

The hoodie is blue. I know. I’ve just been wearing my blue on more recently since it’s thinner and I don’t die as much in it. Screw consistency. Atleast I remembered the ears.

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Life is reason, and life came from Adrien. I thought PHM was Amaze Amaze Amaze ✨

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I fistfighted my art block today

So I’m alive, I’ve had the worst art block recently but I’ve been desperately wanting to make fanart so yesterday and today I sat down and just kinda forced myself, and take that art block I succeeded! This is to no one’s surprise more Shrouded Sky fanart (tmnt 2012 au by @kc-anderson) so yay? Anyways this is my take on the two “Oroku” siblings:

I think this might be the first or second full body drawing I’ve put on here with my proper art style, lot of pain but I’d say it was worth it. I am STILL crying over the newest chapter but I think I’m coping well enough anyways here is the drawing and other things of note are that: I now have a temporary vendetta against Karai because she was hard to transfer into my style and I had to practice a lot before doing this one.

…Kaito be looking a bit stiff in this drawing. 😅 Maybe it’s cuz he just took a shoulder cannon to the chest? (Legit rip his ability to live life without pain)

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Little rant about a dumb thing…

Does it kill anyone else that the “ask question” button is the same shape/color AND right next to the “follow/unfollow” button? Because I swear every time I go to ask I question somewhere I accidentally unfollow and then have to refollow a person and it gets so annoying 🥲 please tell me I’m not the only one who’s experienced this????

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Art Block

All this creature wanted to do was make silly lil fanarts and draw her silly lil characters but NOOooooo. Thankfully the writers block got the message yesterday … but it seems she’s going to have to try a different strategy for the others.

Crimes ✨

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Write. 🔪

I know it seems hard, daunting, and scary. Just do it. Open the doc. Write 5 words, see where it takes you! (Also spooky vibes just cuz 🖤🧡🎃)

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Some silly lil stuff to say(tmnt related)

Okay so I have noticed something after getting on tumblr that has brought me so much joy. PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT LEO IS A DORK. One of my favorite aspects about the character Leonardo (especially in tmnt 2012) is that he’s just a goofy guy with way too much responsibility. That’s one of the reasons why I absolutely adore rottmnt Leo because that’s just Leo without the older sibling title who got to do his own thing. This character is a tragedy 🫡 but we love him for it. Also even dumber thing he is very fun to bully so I’m always torn on whether to want to hurt him or give him a hug… and he’s not even my favorite. (To be fair Raph angst is other people getting hurt and him having to deal with it.)

Also dumb extra thing that I noticed on re-watching, though it’s not what you expect Donnie and Leo actually bicker/argue on small scale the most. Almost every interaction they have is just one of them losing it and that makes me happy.

I adore sibling dynamics and I feel like tmnt is just very good at doing them. (The joy that Mikey rage baiting Raph brings me is far to relatable)

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Some traditional art/rough sketches for a digital project I’m working on :3

I feel like I should probably share some stuff that isn’t just Shrouded Sky fanart so… big project I’m working on ✨ (aka wings are a pain but seraphims are cool) introducing my son✨:

Honestly I don’t quite feel like I’m exactly where I want to be with it yet. But we gettin there! Besides I’ve never actually shared any of my traumatized lil’muffins (characters from my books/ my OCs) so Ta-dah! Also another lil silly doodle of another one of my characters:

…she a lil silly. Also the origin of what got me into drawing dumb huge ears that I would eventually stick onto my dumb lil sona ❤️

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I am 100% sane… So more Shrouded Sky

I have made more, and my brain is not done. 🥲 This hyper fixation will not go away. I think ima stay in the pattern of sharing 2+ at a time so I don’t have a ridiculous amount of posts that I need to come up with different titles for… anyways fanart! (Shrouded Sky, tmnt au by @kc-anderson)

This kid needs a hug, someone give this problem child a hug. Bully this kid into the ground. Someone slap him. I am conflicted.

Raph is so done with Kaito. Also the dumpster thing was way better than my original plan…

These both started out as meme bases and then got adjusted to fit the vibes but honestly they are pretty good for low quality sillies. At this point I’ve been drawing this more than my own book characters, also Rip Kaito’s hair that is currently falling victim to the StoryWorker/Red fluffy hair curse. I should not be trusted with free time. 🥲😅

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Sooooooo, Shrouded Sky?

I’m not dead, and I have more Shrouded Sky fanart(very surprising I know *not*). (Tmnt 2012 fanfic by @kc-anderson) I have a crap ton of these either rough drafted or in different stages of being completed but I have two done so I might as well share them with small captions for both because I’m currently dying over this fic, STILL we live and we very hyped for future.

…I could see this happening 😂😅 Mikey is waiting, very patiently.

Kaito: King of rage bait. …at his own expense.

Could be better but eh, Anyways hope y’all enjoy! Legit still crying over the most recent chapter.

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I’ve found my new favorite brush

It’s very good for paint splatters and stars :3

(trying to post some of my non-fanart are more because I’ve had a very large amount of my recent art be just fanart and I figure I can post some of this until I have enough to do an art dump :3)

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…more Shrouded Sky fanart

okay so I might be losing it because not only am I posting two things is one day(for different things) but I’m also sharing fanart for a fanfic two days in a row 😅 I may have issues and it’s not even the only one, my sketchbook is FULL of stuff like this but oh well. Shrouded Sky(tmnt 2012 fanfic by @kc-anderson) has taken over my mind and ima lose it. I didn’t have the intention of posting this for a while till my sister saw it and was like, “just post it ya idiot” so here it is.

Okay lemme explain myself here. We know due to answered questions that Kaito hasn’t really had very much exposure to western food stuffs which therefore equals he probably hasn’t really gotten to heavily experience pizza yet. So my brain said: but wouldn’t this make Mikey lose his mind? So fanart ✨ also YES I know the hight gap isn’t actually this big but it looked better with Mikey giving the puppy eyes. Anyways idk what the heck I’m doing the newest chapter is still WAY to fresh on my mind and something tells me my sketchbook will be primed and ready for the next chapter. ANYWAYS this is a lot of words. Yay :,D

(Does anyone else have the problem that is the thing you like doesn’t have enough fanart so you end up basically just making a ton to cope with it because you want to see more?) 😅😂

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Project Hail Mary fanart

this unfortunately like many of my other pieces on here is subject to the “low quality” curse that is my art. I tried to make this actually look good but then I rough sketched it for the heck of it and somehow it was better?!? So yeah :3

Rocky is the most adorable little guy! Grace struck gold with a bestie, though we gonna talk about the Rocky trauma…

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dying over hear

So basically I’m coping with the fact that I have to wait another month for the next chapter of shrouded sky(tmnt 2012 fanfic by @kc-anderson) so, low quality fanart ✨

I know it’s not really the vibe but I’m doing it silly/cartoony to ignore how actually dark this story is once you actually think about it😅🥲

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A lil’note from someone who writes.

I feel like every writer knows procrastination and every writer knows burnout. Every writer hates to write yet they do it. But the thing that not enough people talk about is: those stories in your head? The millions of little worlds with dozens of full fledged characters and plot lines, or heck even the small vague ones you never truly think are going somewhere before they do. They might seem real to you, but to a reader they’re not yet, a reader doesn’t care yet that your character exists because they’ve never experienced that characters world.

I’ve followed fan-fictions and webcomics for several years, and I’ve always loved the joy of when another chapter emerges every month: but then I realize, if I only managed to write a singular chapter every month. It would take up to three years for me to finish a singular story, and I’m not even doing that. These stories, these dozens of multi book series, these characters that I’ve poured my soul into. They don’t exist, and sometimes i wonder if they will ever exist to anyone else. WRITERS: it doesn’t matter how slow or long it feels like it’s taking, you’re creating and what you are creating shouldn’t be thrown in a corner because it’s not progressing fast enough because it will never go that fast. You have to make it that fast. because one day that work will inspire someone, you’ll never know who but it will still inspire atleast one person: and isn’t that enough to convince you to finish?