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hey, welcome back to the early 2000s! ₊⊹♡ you can call me grem. ₊⊹♡ 𓆩❤︎𓆪 i am 25 ♡ ♀. ♡ . ♏︎. ♡ bisexual ♡ she/her 𓆩❤︎𓆪 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･ °❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･°❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･ °❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･°❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･ °❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･°❀⋆.ೃ࿔:･

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˙⋆✮ please note that all triggering content will often be uncategorized but labeled with tags. i try to label appropriately. my art and reblogs can involve mental fitness topics or depict depressive feelings/vent which can be triggering. however, my goal is always to offer hope, showcase silver linings such as growth, and validate/honor resilience. my older posts are not sorted by tags. ˙⋆✮ #tw (trigger warning) ˙⋆✮ #cw (content warning) ˙⋆✮ ˙⋆✮ (e.g. #tw blood , #cw suggestive) ˙⋆✮

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a thing about me, i once was struggling with a deep sadness , a sense of futility in life , i once believed there was "something wrong with me." i considered and took comfort in s*icidal ideation largely between 2019-2024 or so. i hope you will please believe me , at least entertain the thought , that there is nothing "wrong with you." you are beautiful , i do not care what you look like. if you would do me this kindness today of humoring the possibility that you are more strong than you give yourself credit for because you have persisted amidst seemingly insurmountable odds in your little lifetime, i think you would make future you very happy. because you'll still be here. this is a good thing. i will share with you what i learned.

i learned. i am here to inspire others by sticking around and being living proof that it is possible to choose love, choose kindness, choose curiosity, choose attentiveness, over and over again, even when it's inconvenient or i feel drained. and so are you. don't go. we have a small life here. it's worth living. it's worth living courageously and fiercely. but you have to find out your own reason why for yourself. you cannot fight yourself, you cannot hide, you cannot act like you don't need others in your life. you can't run away from the truth that you don't really want to die. you are here to create yourself and to prevent others from leaving; to save lives by inspiring others through your presence, your words, your creations. nobody really wants to die, they just want suffering to end, which is admirable, honorable. s*icide is a problem-solving attempt, not a desire.

you must stay to inspire. you must stay because you are needed. life does not get easier most occasions, we all know this, yes. but i hope you will believe me when i say just try and the rest will follow. you will develop your own strong mental fortitude in your own special color, as long as you keep on trying, and then you will share what you found with everyone in your life.

every day, i smile. life has never been so challenging. but, i do love a challenge, and i do love an adventure! remember, don't take life too seriously x

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my old toontown art from somewhere around 2008-2011 :)

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the mouse having a smoke at the end of the day

soft pastel and graphite, 11x14

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bruh i just tried to log into my old deviantart account to check my stash for old art i made and because eclipse is dogshit it just sent a verification check email to my homophobic moms email because i needed her approval to have deviantart when i was 12 now i have to get to her email before she does to delete the verification check or else shes gonna find out im a gay furry happy pride month

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my favorite pmd moments p3

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my favorite pmd moments p2

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my favorite pmd moments p1

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looks very cool

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heavenly image

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♡svs doodle dump♡ might polish some of these

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uhh... @colonel-mira ? i found Archie in one of my paperbacks...

♡ HAPPY VERY LATE BIRTHDAY!!! ♡

alt. versions and messy art process notes:

♡♡♡ alt versions (1: color, 2: spine added, 3: spine + warp)♡♡♡

ART PROCESS (PART 1):

special note: i drew archie traditionally on sketch paper first. THEN, i defined the sketch using blue colored lines over the imported traditional sketch (minding to keep the details to an absolute minimum and save the details for the lineart phase). THEN i inked it/made the finalized lineart. this simulated the traditional tracing process for me when i ink cartoons. i would rather do all the sketching on paper. plus, it builds my reflexes and discipline by not relying on using transformations with lasso tools. it builds grit.

1 I sampled this high quality photograph. enlarged it :( I wanted the texture to be fine but........ and used the content move tool in photoshop to remove the surrounding lineart. Id like to do a whole nother tutorial for my process of simulating paperback texture in photoshop but thats a whole nother post for now.

2 traced a reference for perspective. use straight line to simulate ruler in real life. for each drawn line to represent a shelf, duplicated and mirrored it, saving each set of 2 lines to its own layer.

3 got some amazing art advice/critiques! learned to avoid tangents, create multiple shapes of boxes and add character to each box to create a more interesting scenery like making the boxes various sizes and having files and scrolls poking out.

4 tweaked the placement as well to make the shelves loom over Archie. this totally elevated the art and brought it to life, contributing to the oppressive mood. I also added a lamp for dramatic lighting.

special note: adding the vertical lines that hold up the shelves towards the middle of the shelves helped check my alignment and make sure my perspective is accurate. I might be missing something but it looks passable to me.

special note: you can barely tell, but on the 3rd image above I add special little imperfections like overshooting the lineart or leaving accidental mini ink blots to replicate traditional "mistakes" or "misprinting." it adds so much charm

5 I was almost going to just draw boring boxes and trace the reference, but I was advised to have variety with the boxes and I just got creative from there, and gave each box a personality and even added some scrolls and lone papers, who says it has to be organized and uniform.

6 oh my god drawing the boxes was.... an experience. I liked giving each box/piece of the archive its own personality but it took patience. in the age of go go now now instant gratification this was a challenge for me. im trying to undo all that, and appreciate the time it takes to craft a scene, this experience definitely gave me a newfound respect and appreciation for the craft. it doesnt look like much, but for me it took at least 2 hours, probably because its my first time really trying to make a background look nice and true to perspective. I trust it will get easier and become instinctive over time with more practice and studying.

7 after I duplicated, mirrored, and lowered the opacity of the lineart of the boxes I decided to ink the subject before I ink the other side. so like I said I discovered my own unique little process for creating vintage paperback texture effect over lineart as shown above but ill cover that in a tutorial post when I get better at it

8 once again the paperbacks/comics have references for just about everything so I referenced the stylization for how to draw the AAAAAAA

9 keeping in mind that I have a messy traditional sketch thats very defined I imported, I made a very simplified blue defined sketch over that, NOT TOO DETAILED because detail will be added during the lineart phase not the sketching phase. sketching is for capturing the most essential details only.

10 now that I had my sketch planned out, it was finally time to ink. thank fucking god. but the inking process isn't just the end, I wanted to add a shit ton of textures like a special texture for solid black (ink has texture), more speckles, and gray halftones, and shading under the lamp). I thought id take like a 15 minute break. but then I was like no honey pace yourself its okay if art takes days. I was so set on finishing the art in one sitting but instead I decided it was best to take a break and watch an episode of blue period. then I was like: its midnight and I have to get up early. I should really go to bed. so I did the smart thing to do and went to bed so I could have a fresh mind for next time I approach the art instead of creating unnecessary frustration for myself and hate working on the project because im frustrated I can't squeeze 5 hours of work I want to dedicate into 1 hour. this is all part of building patience, which is very important. with patience comes more enjoyment.

special note: when i start getting the hang of how to apply vintage paperback texture to digital art, i should challenge myself to make an art piece in 5 hours or under. THE DEADLINE IS PART OF THE CHALLENGE! deadlines help me capture the most important details of a piece and other benefits

11 received advice to align the ceiling lamps with perspective with visual example. really helpful, elevated the art. I also got creative and dramatized the lighting by adjusting the perspective

12 next, to ink (day 3), I finally lowered the opacity of the base image (image #1 of these notes) and placed a solid white background under it. so I'm not inking over hard textures and have more clarity. this is my favorite part.

13 but actually, I felt afraid to ink it. even though I was excited to. the background and the composition was so great and I was proud of myself I was afraid the character art might not live up to my expectations. but I just shook it off and tried to be brave and just express myself through the lineart instead of focusing on trying to make it perfect. then I hit command z a bunch of times and by that time it was time to go to work, so I chose to see that as a good thing so I could come back with fresh eyes again later.

14 about a day later, came back to ink it finally. went back to the base texture layer and upped the opacity to 100 again to determine what values of grey to add for the clothing.

15 uunnghghhhghhghh i forgot the negative space againnnnnnnnnnn I was thinking I would be fine but. unghghgh thinking about how to fix it

16 Archie is pink now. got the bright idea to duplicate the lineart layer, then lock the lineart layer, erase the negative space bits, and turn the pink to solid black.... NO. THEN I REMEMBERED NO, BAD. you have to erase the lineart itself. oh my god. so I did that..

17 but then I was like "sike." here's what seemed to work best: making two duplicates of lineart layer. color one lineart copy a light color like yellow to give a preview of how the negative space ("white lines") will look, and instead of making Archie pink, gave them back the very dark black clothes.

18 had to remember to create gaps and little folds... the removal of lineart is a lineart process in itself.

19 when it was time for me to erase the lineart portions that I wanted to use to convey white space, I also added the clipping mask adjustment layer to the black color layer.

20 SPECIAL NOTE: oh my god I did something. I did something I did something. oh my god. oh my god. okay okay ok ok ok ok ok

ummmm CAUSE I DONT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT I DID BUT IT WORKED!!!

I think what I did was I... merged that yellow lines layer (which is a duplicated lineart layer) with the black robe color layer (which I hand colored in). then once those two layers were merged.. I selected the yellow bits that I wanted to erase (to make negative space) and hit command x, and POOF IT LOOKED PERFECT!!! YES THAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED!!! I FINALLY DID I FINALLY FOUND A WAY!!!!! INSTEAD OF GOING BACK TO ERASE LINEART (AND THEN THE COLOR LAYER AFTER, WHICH IS A PAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNN), I found a smarter shortcut. oh my god

because I was really struggling at the idea of inking SUPER DETAILED and having to ALWAYS be looking out for negative space, thats just counterproductive.

21 SPECIAL NOTE: THE ONLY CATCH IS.... I have to go back to the solid black color layers and add ink to where I see pixels. but its a great trade.

22 by that point I just decided to clean up my lineart on the same layer as the solid black color layer since I didn't see myself adding anymore adjustments really.

23 oohhhhh my god dude this was actually fucking euphoria its so satisfying to see the artwork come together it actually looks so fucking fire I knew I could do it. but my god that was a tough safe to crack holy shit but I did it and all without a tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im very proud of myself

24 I took a break, then it was finally time to add the grey and other values, the easy part. BUT THEN I GOT EXCITED AND I WAS LIKE AHHHHHH I DID IT AHHGJGSGKGG I FEEL DRUNKKKK WITH POWERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN MAKE AS MUCH DETAILED SPY VS SPY ART AS I WANT FKGJKDJGSJOGKJGGKSD!!!!!!!!!!!! I TOTALLY DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE THE NEGATIVE SPACE LINEART EFFECT I WANTED ON ACCIDENT I WAS LIKE THIS MIGHT NOT WORK BUT LETS TRY ANYWAY AND IT FUCKING WORKED JKGKJGJK

25 I adjusted the levels and saturation because.. I had the texture layer above all layers set to linear burn and it was making the AAAA and the ceiling look brown and the rest look black. so I desaturated it and played with it and wow, it looks like I could have photographed this right from a paper back. honestly, I got tired and I got pretty confused along my own process even with notes. so I decided to finally finish adding the grey values, the boxes, the halftones, and the lighting from the lamp tomorrow, and that would be that.

26 I also wanted to slightly blur the texture so it isn't so sharp and add a crease shadow and warp the overall image slightly so its sort of curved at an angle to make it look like youre taking a picture from a paperback book in the duplicated PSD compositing phase.

special note: it's hard duplicating base image layers used for effects when there are a ton of clipped adjustments attached to it, so I found it useful to click above the clipped adjustment layers in photoshop, duplicate the base texture layer to ANOTHER psd, then duplicate that layer BACK to the original psd. also, later, (FRUSTRATED ABOUT HOW THE AAAA LOOKS TOO BROWN NOT BLACK ENOUGH COMPARED TO THE LIGHTING), I got the bright idea to flip the base image horizontally, vertically, play with it, maybe expand it. that changed the lighting effects noticeably.

fuck I hit the image limit for this post, but I got most of my notes out of the way.

DOODLES + ART PROCESS PART 2 REBLOGGED FROM THIS

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MESSY ART PROCESS NOTES PART 2 + warmup doodles/concept art

CONTINUED FROM PART 1:

I cant believe I had to make a part 2 lmao. I wanted this to be really amazing and I genuinely tried my best to make this look as close to a replica of an svs paperback as possible

27 whats noteworthy is that, to add the greys, I duplicated the clipped adjustment layer (for lineart, for black color) to another psd document. then I clicked on the grey color layer in the original psd. then I duplicated the clipped adjustment from the temporary other psd file back to the original psd file and that worked like a charm, now the paperback texture is applied to my coloring layer. also, I would merge the black color and the lineart layers once I'm completely done making changes to the lineart/composition is coming together.

28 I was almost going to get excited and merge everything, but I'm glad I didn't because I remembered I needed to add highlights from the lamp above Archie.

29 not forgetting to add the halftones over the shades of grey and adding halftones to the background. as I shaded, I also noted a lot of the shading (which also creates highlights in the process) is linear/very angular and sharp.

30 I felt like I shaded too much and added too many values, so I minimized some details.

31 ugh fuck I made a mistake, I've been adding black and more lineart corrections on the GREY ONLY LAYER. so now adding halftone texture to the grey only layer isn't going to work because it'll add onto the black.

SPECIAL NOTE: NEVER ADD BLACK OR LINEART CORRECTIONS TO THE GREY VALUES LAYER!!!!

31 to get the halftones effect, I samples a high quality halftones square from another photo of a paperback comic, copy and pasted it into a huge rectangle in photoshop. it actually wasn't that much of a disaster selecting that huge halftone rectangle and layering it on "overlay" setting over the gray coloring, EXCLUDING (NOT ADDING) the same clipped adjustment for all colors onto that layer as well. instead, adding a unique clipped adjustment layer for the halftones adjusting the saturation and darkness. after making the halftones a very dark color, I could just erase the portions that dont need halftones. do NOT add the paperback texture over halftones because it's too much. also, lowered the opacity of the halftones layer to see where I needed to reveal the highlights.

32 I decided to add the halftones for the background a separate layer from Archie's halftones (wanted it darker)

special note: to keep the halftones sizing consistent, I just copied and pasted/built the rectangle from the other psd I was using to create the halftone copy-paste. do not enlarge the halftones because it's convenient. repeat clipped adjustment hue/saturation process from Archie's halftone layer. make it a darker color. again, lower the opacity of the halftones and erase the bits of the halftones aren't supposed to be showing. I used the multiply layer effect for the background halftones themselves.

33 don't forget the signature! multiply effect looks amazing. now to finally do the lineart of the other box shelf. im getting excited and I dont really give a shit how that side comes out cause the AAAA is blocking it. but I take a break and get back to it. home stretch!

34 making a mental note to upload a separate version where the grey tones layer is invisible and visible because it looks nice with just one grey shade of halftones.

35 making a mental note that next time I should've just completed the entire background lineart process first because this kinda sucks a little. but all I have to do is remember to apply the paperback texture as a clipped adjustment to the last of the lineart (the right shelf of boxes). actually, repeating the process before inking the last boxes of adding the clipped adjustment (the paperback texture sample; which is opacity 90% and fill 66% by the way.). adding an empty layer above the lineart layer, clicking the lineart layer. duplicating the clipped adjustment into the other psd, then duplicating that layer back into the original psd. it forms a clipped adjustment to my desired lineart layer without releasing the clipping mask for any other layers. after I ink this, that will be that.. haha I really thought

36 image 1: notice that black spy has special texture on his black clothes (from ink, I imagine), so.. I lasso tooled that triangle shape and copy-pasted it and merged all those copy-pastes on my separate psd to make a large version. DO NOT ENLARGE to keep the texture fine.

image 2 is a sample of black's triangle body with the paperback texture as a clipped adjustment applied to the lassoed copy-paste of his body. already, oh my god I love it it looks amazing on normal mode. im so in love with how it makes the black look. I HAVE to use that as a background in the future for my angst fan art. I'm so fucking excited but by god I'll have to use less detail in the background and minimize composition, then when I get the hang of replicating paperback style, I can try more detailed backgrounds like prohias did again like I did here.

image 3 shows me trying to make the fine texture bigger; I didn't like how unnatural copy and pasting the triangle all over again looked, so I took a rectangle selection from the triangle selection and copied and pasted that and it came out much nicer. time to use this on Archie's black robe.

37 god it looks so fucking amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now from here with it full opacity I can erase the bits that aren't black and lower opacity for making sure im erasing everything that isn't so obviously black (image 1)

38 mk so problem, the.. negative space isn't showing. lets see.... (image 2)

first of all, this "black" is a grey, so play with Curves as a clipped adjustment. changed the black ink texture to overlay setting, fixed. (image 3)

39 by this time, I was almost ready to call it a day, but I wanted to do one final push and magic wand select some grain and the shadow of the crease from the book spine, and try warping the art to make it curved, as if you're viewing it as a photograph from a paper back book. because im fucking extra and I love torturing myself I guess!!!

^ this is the effect I am after, to make my spy vs spy art look as identical as possible. ahahhehheheheheheheehehehehehehehhehehehehhehe

my printer is really shitty, so maybe at the library is where I can try and print in high quality and take measurements from the paperback book and size my canvas accordingly, everything like that. not forgetting the black comic border.

40 can't lie, this process was a bit tedious but I did enjoy lovingly choosing each speckle and placing them somewhere thoughtful on the canvas. it goes miles for sure. I used the magic wand tool, inverse, and command x. a layer underneath a light pink. lasso the speckles, copy paste. flip horizontally and vertically and vary in sizing, its ok to expand the speckles just dont let them get pixelated.

41 already it looks amazing with the speckles!!!!!!! its worth it to add!!!!!! and I found another image I realize I could've sampled for Archie's black robe.

42 I nearly forgot the final last step. I duplicated my art psd for merging all lineart and final compositing. I wanted to make a shadow effect with the lineart. I also rectangle selected the book spine to see if I could make the book spine crease effect.

43 I followed my earlier guide for myself, and I did not merge all the lineart just in case any clipped adjustments might be messed up. so I duplicated every lineart layer, lowered that duplicate layer opacity to 25%, transform moved it only down two keyboard clicks, and applied a gaussian blue (3.2% on accident for the background), and 2% for Archies lineart. I wish I made it all 2% gaussian blur. THEN, I realized instead of command z-ing and doing the gaussian blur on 2%, I just lowered the opacity of the duplicate lineart layers to 15% and that worked. 44 as for the book spine... I set it to luminosity, tweaked the saturation, and .. it wasn't really working. I figured I did enough for now. I added gaussian blur to it to go with the gaussian blurred-lineart.

45 the very very last step, I unlocked every visible layer, merged them, and warped it to make it look like you're opening a book! but I didnt like how it came out. I converted it to a smart object to do perspective warp, warped it as a rasterized object, don't like it. maybe ill figure out a way in the future, like using a blank page of a spy vs spy paperback as an overlay and a guide.

anyway, overall, really proud of my grit for this experience it definitely came out amazing and im proud of this artwork.

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Feral Lucario doodle, couple sticker commission for a friend, and some bani concept art!