Stressed Out Chilled Out

I'm Jess! I'm a Northern Irish animation student with a fondness for dragons and sugary tea. This is my stressed out chilled out reblog and inspiration blog.

[jessanight]

new icon, experimenting with style and texture and magic ✨✨✨

[more art tag]

[jessanight]

A snapchatted insight into my mental and emotional process as I work, aided by convenient floating books

[More Poppy and Alec in my original characters tag]

[the-long-dog]

Can we please have more Peach? ♡♡

Okay! 

Here is Peach doing her very best rectangle. 

[mysteryhack]

[newestvegas]

there’s nothing wrong with overly self-indulgent shit like honestly

make that fuckin beauty and the beast au with your otp

draw your favorite character broken and bloody for no reason

make a self-insert that’s super important and powerful

write porn of that obscure ship centered entirely around your personal kinks

headcanon your faves as your sexuality, gender, etc

have fun man

i mean in the past i’ve made fun of all these things but i’ve grown up and chilled out and honestly? fiction is your platform to go nuts. have a great time. do what you want to

just respect other people’s boundaries and don’t go forcing your headcanons down other people’s throats, because they deserve to have a good time too

enjoy fiction however you want to and don’t let other people tell you how it’s supposed to be enjoyed

[newestvegas]

to all the people reblogging this and saying “except for this type of ship i don’t like”: get bent

[jessanight]

Spent an evening or two skitching up some references for Poppy and Alec, though it was honestly just an excuse to draw this, based on a drabble;

(Poppy in Alec’s clothes) Some of this was a struggle, i had to learn how to draw dude legs and,, other anatomy,,

[More Poppy and Alec in my original characters tag] !!

[jessanight]

There’s a lil bit of a story to my SO’s valentines day card this year,,,sorry for posting essentially the same picture 5 times but I like both versions ehee

Triss is the love of my life, Ryan is the love of my life, so this only made sense dammit!

Happy belated love day/discount chocolate day!!!

[taluns]

Perpetually redesigning my sona since 2016  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jessanight]

Jess took a breath and walked a little closer to the bank. “Hello?” she called. “Is anyone there?”

Fabian’s steps were a lot more confident than Michael’s, but he followed him and Jess anyway. He really wasn’t sure what to expect.

There was a commotion inside the building, a clanking of metal and the scraping of chairs and stools. No-one came out of the building, but a voice travelled from the doorway. “Depends. Who’s there?”

Having a go at storyboards based on prose by myself and my friend Michael (as in, they wrote the italics bit up there c; )! Gotta get more practice at all kinds of sequential stuff,,

My characters (in the foreground!) are Alec and ,,, ,well ,, Jess (or Iris, for actual story context) and those in the background are Michael’s characters, Michael and Fabian!!

This is part 1, there’s more comin!!

[jessanight]

practice practice practice!!

drawn from this parkour video on youtube, played at half speed and paused when i liked a key pose!

[jessanight]

been playing a lot of the witcher 3 lately since i got it for christmas! its 2015 baby!

[jessanight]

My Game Grumps Animated went up aa!! Animated by me, with beautiful backgrounds by @terriblebeastie  !!!

Here are the original character designs, as well as some of my favourite frames!

I hope you liked it if u saw it!!!

[jessanight]

hey look its more poppy and alec sketches, of wildly varying quality,,

the latter to accompany a piece of writing where I was testing tone, pacing and readability of character interaction, it was really fun!!

the anatomy’s a little lost in the detail of that last one, so here’s some WIP screenshots so u can see whats goin on under all them clothes;

c;

[scarletandgreyexotics]

Vega, 2015 Red-Tailed Green Ratsnake (Gonyosoma oxycephalum)

[mayalaen]

I’ve been asked many times what someone should look for when trying to find a good artist. The best way you can do this is to look at their portfolio, whether it’s in a book at their shop or online. If they don’t have good work in their portfolio, they’re probably not good artists.

The shop may be clean, the people there might be nice, and the design they draw up for you might be exactly what you want, but if your artist doesn’t stand up to the points listed above, then you’re going to get a bad tattoo.

It’s okay to walk into a shop, talk with an artist for a while, and decide you don’t want a tattoo from them. Even if the artist has a bad attitude about it or tries to convince you to just let them do it, remember this is going to be on your body for the rest of your life.

[unforth-ninawaters-deactivated2]

This is fucking fantastic thank you!!

[supervillainny]

So important. I had an apprentice tattoo me once without any supervision - wound up with a blurry tattoo, and a messed up tendon for a while after >:(

[taluns]

All I do is doddle monsters and never finish em

[jessanight]

peaky blinders inspired fashion choices, mostly drawn for practice but also because my friend Michael told me not to :3c 

Some excerpts from various conversations about it;

Michael of 1920s - ur. the wo r st Michael of 1920s - relaly nice art Michael of 1920s - but get out of my ho  use ✨Jeralt of Rivia✨ - is there a problem officer Michael of 1920s - M ANY PORBLEM 

✨Jeralt of Rivia ✨ - i was running with the narrative that poppy and alec are scary gangsters where shes the brains and hes the brawn but the matching outfits ruins the scariness ✨Jeralt of Rivia ✨ - they look like theyre having a goofy couples photoshoot ITman496 - now its just cute trick o treating ✨ Jeralt of Rivia ✨ - HAHAH i like that one

also hey did you know how hard it was to find good reference of large muscly men in suits? cause it was quite

[yennefer-fan]

Yennefer. I remember that I really enjoy working on her. These are early sketches –  Bartlomiej Gawel Principal Concept Artist Cd Projekt Red