Diversity win, your tapeworm can draw! 🐛

MAGS • 26 • They

[magutts]

My name is Mags! 🐛 All of my art and stories take place within my paracosm, Zyterra.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ZYTERRIUM

A comprehensive introduction to the world of Zyterra

Tag List

#my art - All art

#🩸bloodhaven - The outside world isn't the only thing to fear, sometimes the worst festers from within.

#🐛heaven&helminths - Power, control, and parasites.

#🦋sunkcost - It will be different, and that's ok. Not like there's a choice.

#zyterra - General worldbuiding posts and site updates

#worm noise - Misc text posts

◈ Other places to support me ◈

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As a reminder my new comic Pretend Play along with all my other comics can be accessed through the Zyterra website and most have additional commentary that will remain exclusive there.

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Pretend Play

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Pretend Play

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Comic tomorrow!

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commissions finished so far... characters belong to puddtoast, usbarkservice and magutts (in order)

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Hello Sunk Cost nation how are we doing today.

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This is the year of Freak4Freak. I will be doing my part 🫡

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Ride or Die!

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New year has me thinking about how I've been approaching my blog and I want to change my posting philosophy. Expect a bunch of whatever art I feel like posting...basically I want to assert that this is my blog for me, and I can't keep catering what I do to an imagined audience anymore. I am freeing myself.

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Before graduating with my Bachelors degree in history in Spring of this year, one of the last classes I took was on the modern history of the Middle East. I didn't want all that knowledge to go to waste right after learning it though, so I delved deep into studying more about the region after that class had finished, and I ended up repurposing my references sideblog @scarlet-autumn over the course of many months towards the goal of reblogging a visual library of posts on this website that are about the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

Feel free to explore it and search up the names of any of these places on there! ^^

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My reach isn't great, but my best friend worked hard on this and I wanted to try and get it in front of some other people. Really great resource for any other artists too!

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Surprise tiny update for my site right before the new year!!! I compiled all of the Zytarot drawings I did into a little gallery + added some new entries that have never been seen before to complete the major arcana...CHECK IT OUT!!!!!

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Sure, I'll post this here. This was very spur of the moment so I probably won't do the other volumes sorry...

To do these I eyeballed a reference + anthropomorphized the features as I went...hopefully that makes sense. If I was ONLY doing serious studies or ONLY doing cartooning, I would have had different approaches for each and each would have turned out different- for example, these are way too detailed for comics, but also much too "clean" for studies. My studies are much looser and focused on breaking animals down into simpler forms. Similar to this:

Anyways, this was a good way to get acquainted with guys I don't get to draw enough- at least not publicly.

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Also I haven't forgotten about my website or anything, far from it. Just been a lot going on behind the scenes and it's been hard to find motivation to gather my thoughts or really be social here. Hope I can have your patience a bit longer.

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Sure, I'll post this here. This was very spur of the moment so I probably won't do the other volumes sorry...

To do these I eyeballed a reference + anthropomorphized the features as I went...hopefully that makes sense. If I was ONLY doing serious studies or ONLY doing cartooning, I would have had different approaches for each and each would have turned out different- for example, these are way too detailed for comics, but also much too "clean" for studies. My studies are much looser and focused on breaking animals down into simpler forms. Similar to this:

Anyways, this was a good way to get acquainted with guys I don't get to draw enough- at least not publicly.

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HI, I gave everyone an extra 5 days out of the kindness of my heart and NOT because I lost track of time.......Anyways, thank you to those who took the time to explore Zyterra, and ANOTHER thanks to the few who let me know your thoughts!

I'm still preparing the topics I want to talk about in more depth, but I can at least post more casually about the site in the meantime- FOR EXAMPLE! One of my favorite parts of the story section was working on character relations!! I will use Ms. Ophie as an example because she pretty much has a full spectrum of Thoughts on others LOL.

The ability to color coordinate the labels made for a bit of fun storytelling in itself, as I could show how a character felt about another without directly saying it- As you can see it's established pretty early on that pink represents romantic feelings. So whenever you see pink again-

You can assume the selected character goes home to draw the pink labeled character's name in their notebook while giggling and kicking their paws.

Maybe obvious, but still something I felt like sharing. Here is a full key for the colors!

Green - Positive / Platonic

Yellow - Conflicted

Red - Negative

Blue - Sore Subject

Pink - Romantic

Purple - Somehow all of these things and none of them. Some secret 6th thing.

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Trying to give it a week at least before I start talking about the site and "spoiling" things. So you should look at it ok? I worked really hard and it would make my day to hear your feedback!!! And don't you want to meet her?

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It's Come And Meet Her MWednesday!!! Last day to come and meet her and others before I start talking more candidly about the site from this point!