Just an artist

[23] Just an artist who like video games and gets ideas. Twitter is Cheery Wanderer and Instagram is cheerywanderer.

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Ok so just in case:

Here's my socials:

Instagram: @/cheerywanderer

Bluesky: @/cheerywanderero-o.bsky.social

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I had a mentally unwell revelation that I can just brand a candle with characters that I like.

You guys have no idea how unwell Zane ninjago makes me, there's a reason I took part in a separate lego account

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For those moments when your roommate has eaten all of the deli meat. Bleu version cause it looks nice.

Ever get pissed when someone eats all the food that you wanted in the fridge? Worry no more as Zane can provide for you (in spirit, do not eat) with this silly squishy key chain.

Got 3 color options in my shop if blue doesn't suit you.

First product ever designed in my ACG store, and now I get to out myself as a lego fan. Hope you guys like it!

[acggoods]

Attention every artists!!

ACGGOODS is here!!

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I participated in artfight this year! I'm really glad I pushed myself to draw since I've been struggling with art block. I'm grateful that the osc has been a great source of inspiration. From top to bottom: Fishbone from P0ffpunk on Toyhouse with Reely! Looseleaf from @/rosewebp here on Tumblr with Letty! Lovey Letter from @/meowm4il on Tumblr! I hope to draw more fellas next year!

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Somnia Recovery Program

Pg 1

Comic is a continuation of this video

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Got a pattern for glisten down! still need to test it but I'm super happy! Can't wait to put it together and see how it goes. I still have to properly break down the pattern into a printable file but ill worry about that when i know the pattern works. Gotta also worry about his accessories but we're getting there!

More details under the cut!

decided to make glisten's foot in 3d to make a better pattern piece out of it, then sent it to adobe illustrator and traced it and adjusted it to make sure the pieces fit correctly. Gotta make sure it works though cause i only used plushify for 3d models, im worried it wont come out right

the rest is merely a matter of breaking down the pattern into front and back pieces so its pretty self explanatory.

besides that my main concern is making the joints functional but stable. theres also the thickness of the head compared to the body (since the body is only a front and back piece. but i imagine its an easy fix cause i can trim the side head piece. also the seam allowance might be too big but trimming should fix that.

already have the fabric ready for it too. I was gonna prototype it but im kinda impatient plus i imagine the adjustments ill need to do are minor so we ball.

im looking forward to finishing this project. Glisten is a huge comfort character to me and i wanted to make something that i can share with other fans and encourage sewing as a hobby. the pattern still needs some work i think but i look forward to sharing it with yall for free.

that said, please dont spread this around (yet) or try to profit off it. if you want to try out this pattern as it is right now, just be sure to credit me and let people know that pattern isnt finished and redirect them to this post (or some of my other ones) if they're curious. thanks yall

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Still trying to figure out parts of the plush, namely the hair and feet rn.

while he's going to be jointed, i still want to keep this plush as simple as possible, so a lot of parts are two pieces (the arms, legs, and body) but im not sure how the feet will come out if its two pieces. So i may try to make something out of clay and get a pattern from that.

Wrists were originally supposed to be jointed but nah i dont want to complicate things, so ignore the line there.

the mirror with the face embroidery is gonna be a separate part sewed onto the rim (pray for me)

Hair is giving me the most headaches cause i abandoned the intial idea which you can see in the previous post. I was thinking about sewing on a back piece to the hair and stuffing it kinda like how you would do paw pads on a fursuit might actually make the back piece into the front piece instead so that the hair sticks out more and use embroidery to define the swirl. idk if that makes sense. Besides that I might give the bottom of the head a slightly flatter base so it stays on the body better.

Right now the plush is looking to be 15 inches so that some parts aren't too small to sew.

If y'all have any thoughts about it let me know.

[jv]

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

[jv]

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

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And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @[email protected] from any fediverse platform 🤷

[plaidos]

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

[butchlinkle]

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

download and install python

create an application on tumblr to get an api key

create a folder where you would like to save your backups and right click to open it in the terminal/command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar from inside that folder

now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type pip install tumblr-backup, and then when it is installed type tumblr-backup --set-api-key [your oauth consumer key], and then finally tumblr-backup [your options] [your blog name], like so:

Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

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We got zippers! Now all that's left is finishing the inner lining and custom pillow to stuff him with!

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Welp, to cope with stress I have gone ahead and started designing a plush pattern for Glisten. He's kinda designed to work like a fashion doll where I can make him clothes and accessories. Think I'll make him jointed too.

Right now im using adobe illustrator to plan out the pattern since vector graphic make it easier to edit things and adobe lets you measure the length of lines in inches which helps with scale. (If yall know an alternative that can do the same thing please let me know).

Figured id keep yall updated on the plush making progress, right now glistens hair is stressing me out, im planning on using a technique similar to The-Crafty-Kaiju's method on Deviantart wish me luck, definitely gonna test it when i can.

Finished Liam's zippers btw, ill post a pic or video when i can.

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Eyyyy Teagan my third favorte character! She's just a such a beautiful character and she has a super useful ability (got me to a high floor on a solo run). Anyway, watch her do a kickflip.

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Wanted to design a sleepy skin for Glisten cause i love seeing the toons in their jammys (I doubt it would look like this is the game but let me dream.

Then there's a quick Twisted Glisten doodle, hes my favorite twisted in the game too. And finally had a silly little idea of a rescued Twisted Glisten putting on his sleeping gown as a treat. Side note if anyone has any good Rescued Twisted Glisten content lmk.

Fun fact, so far I've drawn two out of three of my favorite toons (Glisten, Looey, and ???) Can you guess who the third is?

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Guess who just got into Dandy's World.... Anyway i like to think these two are friends.

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@hiraethminds I love your sona, ive been wanting to draw them for awhile hope you like it

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I finished the main parts of the patterns! All thats left now is to add some fake zippers since the real ones are too small to show up, finish the lining inside, and make a cushion to stuff him with when not being used as a backpack. I would make some process notes but im pretty tired and its all a blur by now, lemme know if you genuinely want some thoughts I can scrounge something.

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I live, here's some rough pikmin stuff (I lost the file for the ship one though so im not sure if im ever gonna finish that)