My Imagination Central

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. I am imperfect but I love art, I enjoy nerding out and I STILL have a dream to do more with my art. I LOVE Transformers Prime, I love My Little Pony and I enjoy tinkering with fan art and fan fictions. Have TONS of products I want to complete but RL sometimes gets in the way. Still, feel free to stop in and say and enjoy the occasional art drop.

[coolladyshae]

A recent design I have completed. I am in the process of creating a Tee Spring store but the designs are not showing up. Waiting to hear from a rep there to see what needs to be done to get my designs visible. So far there are only two, technically three but the third is a Halloween design. I will leave that up for a few more days, maybe a week or two as the store wasn't as 'live' as I hoped.

I enjoyed painting this, though at times I did get frustrated with it. I had moments where I couldn't get the mane to look right and I struggled with liking it the way it was. I ended up liking the way it looked and kept it. It's kinda realistic but still mostly stylized.

I hope it does well. I'm rather proud of it.

[coolladyshae]

Colored Optimus Sketch Birthday Card by equigoyle on DeviantArt

Colored Optimus Sketch Birthday Card by equigoyle

[coolladyshae]

This was supposed to be done two weeks ago.  And I'm quite frustrated.   I was almost finished with this the day of Halloween when Photoshop glitched. Bad.  All the brushes I had downloaded disappeared.  70% of the work I'd done just disappeared.  I don't know if it was something I had done by accident, like hitting a button that ... I don't. know.   Then, the last couple of weeks, I've had the same problem.  A glitch where the program just freezes and won't let me do ANYTHING.  Not even log out.  I literally had to restart the computer just to get the program to close.  Only once this time did I lose some of the work I did. In this case it was the pumpkins. I decided not to do the eyes and mouths on the pumpkins.  I couldn't get them to look right.  The glow, color and everything just felt off.  In the end, I just left the pumpkins as they are and I kinda like it as is.  The pony remains the central focus...and its not a My Little Pony.  She's my own character...just not named.  Kinda random.  Just wanted some purple and green colors to fit the theme.  I was considering other colors but I like this better mainly because it keeps her looking gentle and friendly, even when her dark cape and hate give her a mysterious air.  

[coolladyshae]

Frank Welker coming to Salt Lake Fan X!!  Repeat; Frank Welker coming to Salt Lake Fan X!  Get out the red carpets!  Get him some martinellis!  And PLEASE pray that Peter Cullen comes too!  It gonna be a party!!!!!!

[coolladyshae]

If I were the devil | remastered audio | Paul Harvey

[coolladyshae]

Transformers Prime: Legacy of Primus, Act One, Chapter One - Transformers Prime: Legacy of Primus Act 1 Chapter 1 (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/MDoaOUwXV2 Cybertron has a long and deep history. Myth and legend blend into reality, and one of the most iconic heroes in Cybertron's recent history may be able to help blur the lines. Who were the 13 Primes? How and why did the War for Cybertron start? Optimus Prime will tell the tale.

[coolladyshae]

Interstellar Race Wip 8 by equigoyle

Onyx is complete....mostly.  Haven’t put much up here...

Anybody remember how to group certain layers together?  I’m having to thin out Onyx’s legs but I’ve used three to four layers for each of them.  Will have to scale down the flame too...hmmm...

[coolladyshae]

Interstellar Race WIP 2 by equigoyle

My second WIP.  View the page for the full commentary.  :)

[thesovietlisp-deactivated202504]

If Optimus wanted to adopt me, I wouldn’t stop him.

Reblog if you think our OP would be a great dad.

[coolladyshae]

Totally!

He’s a cutie patootie!  :D

[coolladyshae]

Interstellar Race WIP by equigoyle

A commission in the works.  Yay!

[coolladyshae]

A print I am working on.  This is just a wip and I will post a finished image soon.  About time, I do say so!  I keep forgetting I have this stupid thing.

Either way, I stayed home from work after tummy issues landed me back in bed.  I’m feeling coherent enough right now to work on something.  And I am enjoying the process.  Takes my mind off the occasional tummy rumble.

Comments and critiques are welcome.  :)  

[nekkyousagi]

Beauty’s luster is the greatest weapon of war! PART 2!!!!!

Transformers Prime - Digital sketch comic by Nekkyo Usagi © 2019

~ please do not repost ~

—> PART 1 <—

[coolladyshae]

This is good!  Give it a read and hit up the original author and artist.

[xhartbigx]

Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

[vera80]

Yes!! 😅

[coolladyshae]

Eeeeyup!  A good hobby for winding down, enjoying a fandom and, hopefully, getting inspired or spreading it.

[coolladyshae]

A WIP of something I am working on.  I doodle when I have time lately...which is less and less frequently.  Not a lot of energy sadly.  Even so I am pleased with how this is looking so far.  Much better than I expected.  These guys are HARD to draw slaggit!

[sibylance]

some random oriuntus/13th prime doodle i never posted

[coolladyshae]

This is AWESOME!  I think it is supposed to be Optimus when he was the 13th Prime...but the artist uses a different name, and I am not familiar with it.  I think it is their interpretation of the 13th PRime from a different portion of the ‘multiverse’ idea of the Aligned Continuity.  NOt sure.  Still a cool design though.... Hats off to the artist!  

[coolladyshae]

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[dimensionhoppingrose]

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

[coolladyshae]

This is fantastic.  For folks wanting to start writing professionally, sometimes writing fanfictions are a way to practice, to get their foot in the door.  Fanfictions help writers by letting them focus on a familiar idea and expand beyond what was canonically presented.  Professional writers may have to get reviews in other ways, such as fan mail or maybe posts on social media.  But for fan fiction writers a review can make or break us.  The review itself does not have to be long or detailed, even just a simple comment.  In fact, it doesn’t even need to be after every chapter though I think a lot of writers out there would prefer that. 

Even so, I have been writing and reading fan fictions for a LOOOONG time.  I will not say exactly how long.  I’m a giant adult nerd but sometimes the real world doesn’t have what I am looking for.  Sometimes the book stores don’t have the stories or the genres I want to invest in.  Fan fictions can fill that niche sometimes.  I am still working out the bugs on a Transformers Prime fan fiction.  It has taken me over a year to finalize the outline because of work, school and the fact a fellow writer is taking time out HER school and work schedule to give me some of the most valuable feedback I could ever ask for.  She is able to break it down piece by piece and help me see a better way to write things.

That is another awesome thing about some of the communities in the fan fiction world.  A lot of us are intelligent, good-sparked people who just want to succeed and are eager to see someone else succeed.  When we are willing to take time out to do that for someone else, it makes the communities we write in that much more enjoyable.  Imagine if as readers we take that same time to leave a review.  Who know how bad a day the original writer is having.  Sometimes that little comment, that note of excitement and encouragement, can keep a writer’s spark of imagination going.  

Whenever I read a fan fiction I try very hard to leave a review.  It’s what I would look forward to as a writer myself.