EdDeeArts

A blog for sharing my art; including but not limited to, drawing+, writing, and occasional photography | https://linktr.ee/eddee_orzodea

[eddeearts]

Hey I’m Eddee, I like to do art, be it digital drawing/painting, writing, or occasionally other things.

I like anime and manga, and have been reading more lately. I enjoy webcomics and cartoons as well. My favorite genre is by far fantasy, but I also enjoy some sci fi and especially superhero stuff. I’d like to read more books but haven’t found a good free source yet (I’m broke af and unincorporated in my area so library cards aren’t included in taxes)

I love comics and want to make my own someday.

Unfortunately I suffer from chronic fatigue, so I don’t do art as often as I’d like to, and often struggle to finish what I actually start. It’s a pain.

I do primarily oc and other original content, but I have made fanart and might do more.

Asking me about my projects and or leaving nice comments on them has a decent chance of spurring me to work on them more/again

Feel free to send asks about anything I post here, art, writing, ocs, etc!

Tagging Guide

Projects I’ve started:

The Jaehden saga, a spur of the moment very silly close your own adventure game/story (master post/list will be made when there are more posts of it.) (hiatus, lack of engagement)

@pickles-with-teeth an “epistolary” cryptid/paranormal story (hiatus, indefinite, I’ve lost interest)

@hyuld-story a choose your own adventure fantasy exploration game/story (hiatus, lack of engagement)

@dee-rottmnt my rottmnt fandom blog.

World-building: fantasy world AWDI/Aluyerudi, High fantasy world Hyuld, Superhero world Suradane (All three have tags), and a few others are touched less often but technically in progress

And ofc my almost constant creation of new characters and story ideas every few months, as well as intermittent work on both older and newer ones.

[eddeearts]

I do a LOT of Worldbuilding and Character Creation, so I've been working on some Character Profile Templates for my personal use as a writer, and I don't require myself to fill out everything for every character, only the important bits. but I do want them to be versatile and need little editing to match a large array of characters.

I have 3 Main Templates: Human, Humanoid, and Non-Human.

Would anybody be willing to give them a look and see if they think I'm missing anything?

Man, I'm still gonna need custom Character sheets for Eldritch god OC's like Leopold, but these'll work for most of my characters

[eddeearts]

Prev tagged this with “reference”, (which is such an Honor, Thank You,) so I want to say clearly;

Feel free to reference or even straight up use these! I’d appreciate credit, like, at the top or bottom say “template by EddeeArts” or such. But honestly the thought of my work helping other writers is just so cool!

And of course you can add or remove from them to better fit your needs. Happy Writing!

[eddeearts]

Idea:

Stereotypical looking isekai en media res first episode.

In a fancy throne room, people, arguing about succession or some other important likely complex matter of state. The throne room is aquatic themed.

Weapons are drawn as the situation gets heated. There’s an aquarium in the background.

The situation resolves into chaos, fighting, a magic user pulls the water from the aquarium to hit somebody-

Pause, record scratch, voiceover “yeah, that’s me, the shrimp from the aquarium. You’re probably wondering how I got here” insert typical isekai protag backstory

The anime is royal drama from the perspective of their aquarium where the isekai shrimp lives.

[eddeearts]

Ok so, the country has issues such as financial strain due to the old king (who’s on his death bed) spending so much on aquariums and water features and shit bc he loves fish and was getting old and a bit senile and not thinking things through completely.

This is why there are so many aquariums in the castle. And while the king still lives they are mostly well kept.

Isekai shrimp girl has the typical “you can understand the language” type abilities, but her only special ability is to teleport. Of course, she can’t survive long outside water, so she mostly teleports between aquariums to follow conversations and peep the royal drama. What else is she supposed to do? She’s a shrimp smaller than a child’s finger.

I love this idea but probably couldn’t do it justice. Also the first scene really only works in image form, bc the aquariums have to be in view, but mentioning them in writing would likely be difficult to do without drawing too much attention to them before the shrimp reveal.

Ok maybe I could have the characters arguing about the finances and somebody angrily talks about the stupid expensive aquariums everywhere before getting back on topic. But. I think it would be cooler drawn or animated and have them strangely in the background, shrimp even visible sometimes, of every shot until the reveal.

Anyway. Yeah. I love you my shrimp Isekai that I’ll probably never write

[eddeearts]

She gets one 4th wall break per 20min episode. In that there probably isn't one in every episode, but each episode has a maximum of one (1) 4th wall break.

There's a mixture of regular fantasy anime style shots and shots from inside the fish tank, the world blurred by the water and glass.

Shrimp girl offers commentary to herself outside the 4th wall breaks to keep herself entertained, commentating like its sports or reality tv. She doesn't really know she's in an anime but definitely does address the real actual audience of the anime instead of her pretend viewers of her commentary in her 4th wall breaks.

She's not commentating constantly, sometimes just listening, or she's eating, or running from the fish in that one tank that always tries to eat the shrimp. She daydreams of being human, either back on earth or here in the fantasy world, but also enjoys the lack of responsibilities of being a shrimp.

[eddeearts]

Idea:

Stereotypical looking isekai en media res first episode.

In a fancy throne room, people, arguing about succession or some other important likely complex matter of state. The throne room is aquatic themed.

Weapons are drawn as the situation gets heated. There’s an aquarium in the background.

The situation resolves into chaos, fighting, a magic user pulls the water from the aquarium to hit somebody-

Pause, record scratch, voiceover “yeah, that’s me, the shrimp from the aquarium. You’re probably wondering how I got here” insert typical isekai protag backstory

The anime is royal drama from the perspective of their aquarium where the isekai shrimp lives.

[eddeearts]

Ok so, the country has issues such as financial strain due to the old king (who’s on his death bed) spending so much on aquariums and water features and shit bc he loves fish and was getting old and a bit senile and not thinking things through completely.

This is why there are so many aquariums in the castle. And while the king still lives they are mostly well kept.

Isekai shrimp girl has the typical “you can understand the language” type abilities, but her only special ability is to teleport. Of course, she can’t survive long outside water, so she mostly teleports between aquariums to follow conversations and peep the royal drama. What else is she supposed to do? She’s a shrimp smaller than a child’s finger.

I love this idea but probably couldn’t do it justice. Also the first scene really only works in image form, bc the aquariums have to be in view, but mentioning them in writing would likely be difficult to do without drawing too much attention to them before the shrimp reveal.

Ok maybe I could have the characters arguing about the finances and somebody angrily talks about the stupid expensive aquariums everywhere before getting back on topic. But. I think it would be cooler drawn or animated and have them strangely in the background, shrimp even visible sometimes, of every shot until the reveal.

Anyway. Yeah. I love you my shrimp Isekai that I’ll probably never write

[eddeearts]

Idea:

Stereotypical looking isekai en media res first episode.

In a fancy throne room, people, arguing about succession or some other important likely complex matter of state. The throne room is aquatic themed.

Weapons are drawn as the situation gets heated. There’s an aquarium in the background.

The situation resolves into chaos, fighting, a magic user pulls the water from the aquarium to hit somebody-

Pause, record scratch, voiceover “yeah, that’s me, the shrimp from the aquarium. You’re probably wondering how I got here” insert typical isekai protag backstory

The anime is royal drama from the perspective of their aquarium where the isekai shrimp lives.

[eddeearts]

I’m drawing again, yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!

Not happy that it’s at 10pm, or that I only have an ancient surface 3 to work with, but hey, I’m did a checking art

First my warmup doodle, did a buncha lines and stuff in orange, thought it looked cool, spruced it up with blue and then did the green and pink bg too.

And then the thing I’m actually working on, a new* creature design!!!

*new as in I’ve never tried to draw it, but the creature idea is quite old actually, several years and iterations to its original name

[eddeearts]

Sometimes new you write a few sentences, reworking them a few times, only to step back and the wording is still bad.

It’s like five sentences but this shit is ass.

I do this for fun? I do this for fun. I do, don’t I.

[patricia-taxxon]

the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese

[patricia-taxxon]

oops, in your attempt to martyr yourself out of respect for your victims you accidentally sabotaged your own ability to conceptualize yourself as anything but a perpetual evildoer who is always one bad day away from hurting everyone you love, all but guaranteeing history to repeat itself. rookie mistake

[patricia-taxxon]

im gonna try explaining myself, cus im a gambling addict and im waiting for the day that it actually works.

"forgiveness" is personal, that's why I said in the post that you might inflict harm on people for which they can never forgive you, but that's their quest. if you abuse someone, you can't go no-contact with yourself. you actually keep living in your own head indefinitely, and ultimately you need to learn to live with yourself in order to continue living a full life without further harm. this is not necessarily an anti-carceral thought, although i am generally anti-carceral myself. I simply want people to like, fix their heart and atone for real with measured accountability & self love instead of dissociating, self-marking themselves forever and guaranteeing their recidivism.

You and a remorseful abuser would both think I'm giving the easy, coddling path. It's actually the tough pragmatic path in disguise.

[ship-of-fools]

[eddeearts]

Got an oc who’s fallen into the self hatred hole after having an epiphany and waking up to the systemic and generational abuse of his family that he’s participated in

And then he got out into the world and strangers who knew nothing of him treated him with common decency and he discovers the world is much kinder than he had believed

And so he hated himself even more for the evils he perpetuated

But he gets friends who understand him and help him learn and grow and become a better person and fight back against his family’s abuse “without fighting”, and help him learn to forgive himself

And I could get into it more but I need to go eat

[thinkingabout-girls]

if i may propose an ask game. send me one of my ocs (or a blorbo if you want ig) and i will tell you how i imagine them in a pokemon au (assuming they are not already a pokemon oc/character). i think it’s unironically a fun character work exercise. maybe i’ll even spare a doodle if i feel so inclined

[sirswooshnoodles]

The summer heat is sucking the life out of me and I feel more depressed. Like existing is just pain and one more tiring task after another and I’m exhausted through my bones yet have to carry on…

But at least there’s Hyperfixations!!! Shout out to Jujutsu Kaisen (and its Author Gege Akutami for writing it), I’m getting so much mileage outta this series

Even writing my first ever whumplist!! You can find the manga pages I’m posting as I do my 3rd full read of the manga on my whump side blog @/whumpeddee , the whumplist will be there too with hyperlinks to my manga posts once I finish!

Wow his started as a combo vent and humor post but JJK literally rules my brain rn so it took over, happy accidental hyperfixation post and shoutout to my project!

The whumplist is going slowly but it is going!

No but like really, most of my “hyperfixations” last maybe 6 weeks, but it’s been MONTHS and JJK on the brain has Not subsided at all, this shots going nowhere. It’s got me in a chokehold. Tattooing itself on my brain. And I don’t mind at all!

I have so many ocs and AU shit and cursed techniques I came up with. Hooray!

[eddeearts]

Slightly more positive vent+joke that my hyperfixation took over from my main blog (eddeearts is my art side blog)

[eddeearts]

Personal update, warning for a general downer and some complaining and stuff

I’m not dead I’m just, disabled

My brain doesn’t work (executive dysfunction) so I can’t do thing I want to or as much or often as I want to etc.

But I’m still working in my head on my writing, occasionally writing stuff down, or even drawing, but not often,

unfortunately summer is upon me and my body hates anything above 74f (23.3c), so I’m likely not going to make much progress for a few months

Also, my housemate uses her iPad more frequently now than last year so I have less opportunity to draw, which is fair, it’s Hers, she bought it and owns it. Sadly my surface 3 is too old and can’t handle the drawing programs I’ve tried, I might try putting Linux on it and see if then I could draw on it. But really I’d like to get my own iPad, except I don’t have money (see: disabled) and without consistent access to working drawing tools, I can’t really even try to do some comms to get the money (assuming I would even be up for that, which is unlikely given I’ve been meaning to try it for like, 3 years and have made only the tiniest bit of progress towards it.)

And I’m tired all the time (have been for years, it doesn’t get easier because:) all the things I have to do to not get worse mentally or physically tired me out even more. I get ok sleep on average and still wake up ready to go back to bed bc I’m tired.

But rotting in bed would be a quick ticket to getting worse, so I gotta get up and not bedrot.

Have I mention that I’m tired? Exhausted? Because I am, so. Tired.

Sorry for complaining? I’m tired

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[eddeearts]

Omg omg omg

I have a Black woman oc and an Indian immigrant oc who are into fiber arts/crafts and fashion respectively, and hoo baby is this a golden muse!

Just, suddenly I’m filled with awe and wonder about all the fun and beautiful ways they can incorporate their heritage into their hobbies!!! And that that means o get to learn about that stuff to be able to write and draw about it!!

The world is so wonderful!!!

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[mixelation]

"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"

link to the article

[eddeearts]

Creature design is fun but man it can be tedious figuring out the shapes, bc, technically, any shape or proportion could be the right one because it’s all made up, but also none are right. Got me feeling like Franz Kafka in this doodle of his

[softest-punk]

While I understand the desire to make Big Art entirely and viscerally I think it's worth considering that small art often leaves an outsized impact on its audience. Short stories, teensy indie games, short films, sketches on scrap paper, carved or sculpted figures that would fit in the palm of your hand, etc. etc. are all things that, when they hit your psyche at just the right angle, can stay lodged in there forever specifically because they are small. It is not necessary for a thing to be sprawling for it to have impact.

[eddeearts]

Some pretty flowers, and last nights uninvited guest who was photogenic during their release

The fence is that of a local arboretum, into which I release the mouse bc there’s lots of wildlife there, so it should find food and stuff just fine in the forest.

Unfortunately most of my flower photos were out of focus bc it was too bright to see if my phone was focused until I got back inside, so it’s just the two best ones

[eddeearts]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!!