I'm glad my post is making people feel more open to trying artfight but i still feel like people overthink artfight in general, like i suppose i'm not exempt from it since i also worry about making my attacks perfectly polished and perfectly accurate to the design. but it IS just glorified art trading. here's some pointers and what it's like if you wanna try but are nervous: it's ok to only do revenges (drawings in retaliation to an attack you got) if you're too shy to attack first, but there's no guarantee people WILL be attacking you first constantly so keep that in mind and set your expectations at a reasonable level. Nobody on there is expecting perfection, just bare minimum effort, so don't half-ass it everytime and people will still appreciate what you can give. The fancy stuff people do like making borders for their attack icons and fully decked out bios and refs are optional, not mandatory. its fine to draw attacks for rando strangers if you like their oc, just focus on drawing whatever catches your eye thats the fun part of it for me. If you wanna practice do what I did my first year and attack/revenge just your friends to start.
more creatures :3 this time in pencil! i like making them in oil pastel but i can really add little details in pencil which i enjoy! hope u like them <3
Designs for a fic I'm planning :D I finally made a blog for it! @to-headmare-twilight :]
I really dislike how only Canon Twilight became a princess; the irony of the Princess of Friendship becoming an alicorn, but not the friends that got her in that spot in the first place, really doesn't amuse me that much... So I wanted to give all the Mane Six their own arcs in order to earn their Ascensions !!
The idea is that, in order to ascend, one needs to push their Element and their Cutie Mark Talent to its absolute limit.
• Twilight: by casting an entirely new spell, on the Elements of Harmony, and completing it after rediscovering the "spark" of Friendship
• Applejack: by defying the Princesses', the Nobles', and the commonfolk's beliefs, to dig out the truth about a friend accused of a crime he did not commit
• Rainbow Dash: by refusing to stand down against a cursed blizzard, despite risk of losing her own wings, because giving up would mean risking losing her friends
• Fluttershy: by doing the kindest thing she could do: apologize to King Sombra and the Umbrum... Them destroy them with the Crystal Heart. The tragedy of the Umbrum is something I'll explain another day (in short: shadows of ponies who were oppressed, tortured, and hurt; coalesced into physical forms (Umbrum) and led by a king (Sombra) to get them the revenge they long for). Fluttershy knew they were made of hate and pain, so they couldn't be nursed to health nor redeemed; meaning that the kindest thing she could do was euthanize them, to release them of their lives of agony, and to protect the living ponies of the present)
• Pinkie Pie: by refusing to give up on a friend who sought to destroy himself (indeed; Discord had been willing to cause harm to everypony around him, intent on making them destroy him. It was a complicated situation. Pinkie Pie earned her wings and horn by essentially talking down a suicidal draconequus from,,, well.)
• Rarity: by being willing to sacrifice her career, her magic, and her freedom to save her friends (through luck and plot armor did she narrowly avoid losing her horn!)
★ ★ ★
Now, onto the designs: I actually put a lot of effort into giving each one of them unique traits !!
• Twilight: she's square. Heh. I specifically made Twilight as "rectangle" shaped as I possibly could, because it's supposed to reflect her personality. She's more serious than Canon Twilight, a bit more of a stickler, and has the vibes of a Headmare or Teacher, somepony used to wrangling rebellious students and keeping authority; but she is just as compassionate and strong as Canon.
• Applejack: my personal favorite, Applejack has the most earth-toned color palette of the Six, the bulkier build, and the most subtle of the Alicorn traits; I wanted her most eye-catching traits to be her mane and tail, her hooves or her cutie mark, because those are the Earth Pony parts of her. In fact, you'd need to squint to catch a glimpse of her horn...
• Rainbow Dash: of course, her wings should be the most eye-catching alicorn trait of hers, though her horn IS quite visible in its lighting shape. Fun fact! Her mane, tail and wings were so vibrant that I couldn't bring myself to give her any additional accessories. Methinks her mane and tail alone give her enough of a "pop", haha.
• Fluttershy: the daintiest of the Six, I wanted Fluttershy to look delicate as a flower, amping up the Disney Princess vibes. Not much to say about her. She's pleasing to look at.
• Pinkie Pie: I LOVE PINKIE PIE. Her mane is up in what I believe is an 80s look, she's got streamers on it (like Canon!), the cutest hooves (minor nod to her Earth Pony birth) and the most unique horn between the Six, meant to resemble her cutie mark.
• Rarity: My magnum opus. God, I love my Rarity design. I swear I tried to give her her normal hair swirls, but as soon as I grasped the tight, sharp angles of her curls, I couldn't help but imagine those in an afro-like style, in something resembling an amethyst geode. I can tell you with certainty that she pulls off this look better than Cozy Glow, and I LIKE Cozy Glow!
When can it truly be said
that you are no longer really here?
Is it when
the last breath leaves your lungs
and hangs in the morning air
in a silver cloud
that turns to frost on your muzzle?
Is it when
your eyes have stared
unblinking
for so long
that they no longer reflect
the sky you once danced under?
Is it when
the proud branches of your antlers
have been gnawed back to buds
by the mice
who once wove through the leaf litter
beneath your hooves?
Is it when
the first hole is torn in your hide
by winter-hungry jaws
and the crows descend
and settle on the frozen earth
to wait their turn?
Is it when
the boundaries of your body
begin to soften and blur
in the melting snow
as the birds tug free your hair
to line their nests?
Is it when
your heart is pulled from its home in your chest
and gulped down a grateful gullet
to find its new place
within the body of another?
Is it when
the last nourishing fragment of your flesh
has been swallowed
and your empty ribcage
arches against the sky
like the roof of a cathedral?
Is it when
the last scrap of your hide
is taken from your bones,
and they lie gleaming and polished,
bleaching in the summer sun?
Is it when
a coyote pup carries the last of your vertebrae
from the place where you lay
and frolicks away in the moonlight,
leaving nothing but the memory of your weight
upon the grass?
Is it when
the descendants of the generations of insects
who hatched and writhed and thrived
in the haven of your corpse
have forgotten that your body
was the only home their ancestors ever knew?
Is it when
the earth where you once lay,
made rich by your blood,
springs lush with blooms and leaves and sprouts
that live and die and live again?
Is it when
the last creature that fed upon your body
closes its eyes for the last time,
and gives itself back to the earth
that brought it life?
Is it when
I am finally able to look at your place upon the ground
without calling to mind
the vision of your body?
When could it ever truly be said
that you are no longer really here?
One thing I've been doing for Girl Frame (my mechspoitation/lesbian mech pilot ttrpg) is basically trying to make rules for the characters that get in their way more than they help them
I've been reading Jay Dragon's Expressionist Manifesto, which talks about tension between what the player might want to do and the rules of the game. Rules not so much as an aid but as a restriction that has to be fought against or worked around to achieve your player goals
That led me to the special play for the Mockingbird Girl Playbook:
oh also heres a labelled version. i wanted to reference more pre-SV songs but i found a lot of the ones i could remember off the top of my head just used tetos basic utau design (rip)
you can now buy my texture overlays!! ! These are textures I use in my own work, and the listing includes a detailed instruction on how to use them! :) So if you've ever wondered how I get that grainy look, HERE'S THE ANSWER HEHE.
SHE'S A FUCKING XYLOPHONE SHE'S A XYLOPHONE SAMPLE THAT WAS EDITED IN FUCKING AUDACITY TO MIMIC HUMAN SPEECH (and another program i think but I can't remember right now and I don't want to just reword the vocaloid wiki page). SHE'S A FUCKING XYLOPHONE AND SHE SOUNDS LIKE THIS
She also has a text to speech bank now??? Also her creator is making a fucking robot for her. And like she isn't even the first Utau that's made out of a sample that isn't made from a human!
Doa Tobiraka is a voice bank I admittedly know significantly less about but she IS made using a sample of a door closing and I love her design a lot so I wanted to mention her
The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!
comicsdevices.com
An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet.
This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics?
I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals.
The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition!
* The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page.
Have fun everyone!!
(Now time for me to melt x_x)
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