I was thinking of doing this for quite a while and I finally got around to it. Her name Is Pinky (I'm the Brain), by the way. the shading is the hardest part of the whole thing. I spent a hot minute on the shading and it still looks a little off...It's finally good enough to post though so here you go!
Artfight attack for birdsqke on Instagram or https://artfight.net/~birdsqke (you should totally check them out, they're awesome)
My first traditional attack everrrr, had a ton of fun with it :D
Finally getting one done that is actually on my listtt. branching out a little with more color on this one, I was looking at a Caiman lizard for the coloring and I think it turned out really well :D the next one up on my list is Yunnanosaurus but I might actually just to a yutyrannus because I lowkey had a lot of fun with the T-rex and I wanna do another theropod... After that I was thinking Lystrosaurus because damn those things are kinda cute in an ugly way you know?
Anyway, hope you like it so far...I'm prob gonna post more about my spec bio project from now on because I'm lowkey getting more interested in that now but I'll come back to this every time I get inspired which is somewhat often hopefully
I was thinking of doing this for quite a while and I finally got around to it. Her name Is Pinky (I'm the Brain), by the way. the shading is the hardest part of the whole thing. I spent a hot minute on the shading and it still looks a little off...It's finally good enough to post though so here you go!
Slowly chipping away at the development of my solar system for my spec bio project. Astronomy is actually kinda interesting when there’s not math involved lol, having fun with it. Cupid is a dwarf planet but I’m qualifying it as an actual planet because it’s more fun that way, plus it’s basically just a mini mars. Cupid is called Cupid because it’s pink and red and it was the first name I thought of for any of the planets so I’m keeping it despite the Hindi naming conventions of the Blue Flumen.
You might be wondering why it’s named the Blue Flumen system, it’s named because of its blue hue because it is moving towards earth and the wavelengths of light are being squished, making them blue, this effect is the blueshift or the Doppler Effect . ‘Flumen’ means river in Latin, its river because of the way its angled in from the point of view of earth. if you look at the Blue Flumen from earth it looks like a blue line basically lol.
Bad drawing, but this is basically what it would look like from earth
I also spent like an hour coming up with the planets orbits in a little simulator, have a look!
There’s a picture up there with all the planets names but if you want some more clearer one:
1. Big yellow (sun): Surya
2. Red: Tapati
3. Orange: Shani
4. Little yellow: Bhadra
5. Green: Cupid
6. Blue: Indra
7. Purple: Yama
8: Pink: Manu
The colors of them in the simulation don’t reflect their actual colors or appearance, the colors are only there so you can see them better as they orbit. :P
Bhadra is most definitely going to be the main focus of the spec bio project because it’s earth sized and in the habitable zone and I also started developing it before I made the Blue Flumen (scroll down on my page a little to see some flora!!)
I’ll be back with more paleoart in a bit, I promise guys 🫰I’m just taking a little break because I’m getting into this again and I have been world building this thang since like December lol 😛😛
this is a t-rex because idk that's what I felt like. Experimenting with a new style and I'm having a ton of fun so far :P
Do yall have any dinos or prehistoric beasts you think would be cool? I'm thinking I might do some type of ceratopsian next? I'm trying to draw all the dinosaurs that are atleast in Ark survival evolved just so I know my options instead of the infinite options if I had just 'prehistoric' as a prompt in general.
Kinda just doodling and I started thinking about Weird Birds and I mightttt just make like something inspired off of it like the last of us but instead of cordyceps it’s man eating reptiles. idk tho lol.
This is an Albertasaurus that got in a fight with another, but got out. This is still a wip but I’m very happy with it so far so I’m just posting it with some random colours as the background because I’m really struggling to think of the background, let alone draw it so if you have any ideas or tips for background, really please let me know because I’m am genuinely struggling.
I might do edmontasaurus next because that’s my favourite dinosaur but realistic hadrosaurs are tripping me up…But anyways hope you enjoy this piece, I think it’s pretty sweet so far.
lil parasaur study... I have been playing tons of Ark lately and just wanted to try drawing something from it. I tried some foreshortening in the one with the saddle but I'm really bad at it so it just looks like she has no spine 💔. tried to make them look accurate, the muscles I am frankly proud of.
the art in the game is so awesome, just look at it.
Some plants from my spec biology project… one is definitely more developed than the other if you can’t tell lol. Plants are a lot harder to make because it turns out a lot of them look alike, but I’m very slowly getting through them. Any ideas on some plants I should add?
Finally finished!! The plesio is definitely not accurate but I was too deep into it by the time it really started bothering me sooo brown plesiosaur, yay. The ammonites took me like 10 minutes each just to make their shells and it was certainly tedious... Yeah, they took up most of the drawing process. But is was really fun!! this is my first try at paleo art and not to pat myself on the back too hard but I think it turned out pretty well 😏. What do you think? anything I could do to improve?
think I might try to re create this scene from prehistoric planet. I think I'm going to stick to water lizards before I move on to land dinosaurs because land scenes are a lot more complicated.
Let me just quickly say, cross-overs can sometimes get REALLY difficult to map out and write in a cohesive way but you have absolutely NAILED IT!! I absolutely ADORE LoF!!! I usually don’t even bother reading fics with the ‘Richard Grayson is Richard Parker’ premise cause I felt like they were super confusing and overcomplicated but this fic?? SUPERB. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. OH MY GOD I ADORE IT. Everyone’s characterizations are so nice and wonderful aaaaaaah!!!! <33333
Ok ok I did actually have a question as well: would you be willing to share what your writing process looks like in terms of a chapter you’ve already posted? I was just wondering since I’m also currently working on my own fic (it’s been a few years but I managed to get fixated on an idea and it grew legs lol) and I’m currently fighting the organization of it haha.
How do you keep track of the plot points and/or foreshadowing you want to get a ‘lightbulb!’ moment for later? Do you have any tips?
Thank you so much! I absolutely adore your writing AND your art is so gorgeous omg it adds so much to the incredible story :DDD I hope you have a good day!!
I have a secret: I actually didn't like "Richard Grayson is Richard Parker' tag for a while for the same reason. Sometimes they felt like they missed the mark or it's just. A thing that's there? I almost didn't include it for LoF, but I'm glad I did because it changed the direction in such a big way.
Another secret: this made me incredibly happy because I have read so many wikis and scoured the internet to make sure that I had enough info on both fandoms so LoF could make sense to anyone who's reading it, whether they know Spider-Man, Batfam, or neither at all. Sometimes I worry a lot before I post that I'll miss a mark and will confuse people.
As for the question: I definitely am willing to share what my writing process looks like!
Be prepared for under the cut, I love to yap. It's in my blood to yap. And that's why it took a minute to get to this ask haha
(Spoilers for Leap of Faith!! Everything mentioned has already been published ((Chapters 1-11))
I had to go and find out which chapter I wanted to use as an example and I think we're gonna go with Chapter 5 for the most part :)
My writing process is, as described by alighterwood:
I think the description fits because while I'm all over the place, I have to be very detail oriented and I store everything in one spot.
Starting with the overall process, what I find is most helpful for me, when organizing, is having a notebook rather than doing it all digitally. I've been using a 70 sheet notebook that I had lying around waiting to be used, and as of yesterday, I officially filled the entire thing front to back. It's been an incredible help, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because it's a lot easier to remember something I physically wrote down than it is to remember something I typed. I'm now on to my second notebook for LoF, and I might even have to get a third.
In another ask, startupkat asked me this:
And I shared a little about my outline process there, but I'll try to go into a little more depth here. Emphasis on little because this is so long.
I write a truly insane amount of outlines in this notebook.
This is just what I can show you, but a good chunk of the notebook is just outlines. Over and over and over again. That's because they're always changing/adapting based on so many different factors. Sometimes I get to a chapter I thought I had fully planned out and then realize it just doesn't work anymore. Other times, I get to the chapter and realize I don't want to write that anymore/isn't as interesting as I thought it would be. A few times I got halfway through a POV of a scene I was struggling on and decided to switch POV's, which will change up the outline for a chapter every now and then.
Which is why I don't write incredibly detailed outlines and try to keep it vague until I actually get to that chapter. It's a lot less daunting to rewrite a chapter outline than it is to rewrite the entire outline.
Fic outlines and Chapter outlines look a lot alike.
This is what I said in the other ask, but I didn't elaborate on it all the way.
I make a list just like that, and then I try to put it in chronological order/in an order that makes sense. I keep the Fic outline vague by writing down "Goals" for a chapter rather than scenes. But I also keep notes to myself if I really think something is important. The more important I think a scene needs to be, the more details I write down to make sure my future self recalls what I had in mind when I thought it up.
Really simple example:
Chap 1 Goal: Peter gets to Gotham and meets Babs while running around. Meet Nightwing too? Get shelter.
Chapter 2 Goal: Bats are like "???" about Peter. Batfam dynamic important... Peter stalking Batfam back? Peter meet Batman >:)
When I get to a chapter, that's when I make a far more detailed list of wants/needs/goals. It's the Step 2 from the Step 1. Here are some examples from Chapter 5:
Needed to have:
More POV's from universe 1299 (Peter's home universe)
Tony's POV more specifically, how he's doing/feeling, what he's figured out
What they've figured out on 1299 side vs what's going on in 1300 (Gotham)
Explaining more about Peter's trauma/his past
Dick learning more about Peter, and vise versa
Wanted to have:
Ned being a more central character
Natasha :)
Loki being a little shit
Tony and Cap bickering
Peter talking to Nightwing again
The last name Grayson
Gymnastics!!
(This is the shortened list, because the chapters are so long)
When I looked at this list before writing my outline, I had to figure out how I could incorporate everything. If I needed more 1299 POV's, and I wanted Ned, Natasha, and Loki, there's one scene accounted for. I had to get their side of things and wanted that trio together. I needed a Tony POV, and I wanted Tony and Cap bickering, so those went together, plus I got 1299's POV of Ohnn and his plans explained.
I needed to have Peter explaining more about his trauma, and Dick and Peter to talk/get closer. I wanted a Nightwing POV, to have Peter say his last name, and them doing gymnastics. I knew Peter wouldn't willingly talk about that, so I had him have a nightmare. Not only did it give readers perspective but it made Peter more susceptible to talking to Nightwing because he was more emotionally vulnerable/lonely, and that's how that scene came together.
That's when I would write down the chronological order of these events by writing out "Scene Blocks." (This is what I wrote down but my handwriting was so bad I can't subject y'all to it):
scene 1- Ned talking to Loki. Natasha should be nearby and observing Loki's behavior. They are not on friendly terms. Ned is more worried about Peter than he is as to what Loki could be up to, so Natasha takes on that role.
scene 2- Tony is freaking out about Peter being in an alt dimension. He should attack Ohnn when he's not prepared for it. Beat his ass? Beat his ass. Cap there too.
scene 3- Peter's nightmare. "Ben, where do you go when you die?" "Where do you think?" "With you. Where you went."
scene 4- Nightwing and Peter.
Of course, things come to attention when writing. Like originally, Tony and Cap were arguing in the Tower. But it was a little too much like his and Natasha's argument, and I kept in mind that Tony is smart. Sometimes I forget that the characters are smarter than I am, so I have to account for what they would figure out. So Tony would have picked up the puzzle pieces and come to more conclusions than I originally thought about, and I figured he'd be way more proactive about it than just. Being in the Tower and waiting.
Which means that that scene ended up being as listed above: having a squabble with Cap, learning more about Peter's dynamic with the Avengers in this universe, and seeing how Tony is reacting to it by throwing himself head first into trying to capture Ohnn.
I'll realize I need something else to be mentioned or put in and I'll have to shimmy things around, but that's basically how it goes.
As for other forms of organization:
Keeping a timeline is so important because it tells you a lot about the environment your characters are in. It's also important to remember what a character has on them, what money they've spent, who they've met/who you have mentioned, every alias that is being used, to read your work and write down edits you want to make before you make them, to write down ideas beforehand of situations you can use, and, most importantly: MAKE A MAP!! This has saved me so many times. Sometimes your brain WILL trick you or make it harder on you to envision a scene. Make a map of where your characters are physically!! It will save you too!!
As for foreshadowing and plot points, I'll let you in on yet another secret:
Your subconscious is doing a lot more than you think it is.
Sometimes when I foreshadow something, I didn't even know I was until I got to it. I very often go back to read chapters that came before this to see what I've mentioned and what I haven't, and when I do, I'll see something and go "I have to bring this back" or "I almost forgot about that!"
Other times, I am very aware of what I'm foreshadowing, and that's because I follow a mystery plot formula. You have to keep in mind everyone's intentions, all the time. How are they feeling? What are their motivations? And: what are they doing right now, while this character is doing this?
Like Beck and Ohnn. From the very beginning, I knew I had to make sure that it was obvious Ohnn wasn't working alone. From there, I had to weave through the story and slowly build him up as someone who's working behind the scenes. Even from Ned's first POV, I made sure to mention that this person knows Tony and is tech savvy.
My biggest tip is to make sure you reread your work or at least skip through it, because sometimes you don't even know that you placed something there.
And sometimes, it's very purposeful. :)
I hope this helped! I really tried to keep it short but I am insane and the process is sooooo long. It sounds complicated but it really is simple when you're actually doing it I swear
