MFloras

Fiona.M | 19 | Indonesia | A Hobbyist digital artist

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Mxls Comic Shorts Ep. 1 - Love Story by MFloras on DeviantArt

While waiting for the series update, here's a shorts featuring my OC!

Mxls Comic Shorts Ep. 1 - Love Story by MFloras

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Cuphead - The Last Deal by MFloras

What an awesome game! Cuphead gameplay gamer rage compilation are the best entertainment watch right now, lol~ Poor keyboards and controllers BTW :’ Cuphead © MDHR Studio Art by MFloras

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Glitchtale : The Soul Of Fear by MFloras

NGAAAAAAAAAH!!! After a few weeks recovery from the gasp and I finally make a fanart of it! Since the last holiday of month is near and I still at home. I'm making this fanart with my family wide monitor computer. Ah good time....~ (except, with the hair because it's impossible for a mouse user like me ^^; ) And this is also my first time making an AU Fanart! So fun and maybe, I'm gonna make more of it! The animation is sooooo good! Keep up the good work and stay determined, Cami! :D (There's a 3 character in this fanart.) Glitchtale © @camilaart Undertale © Toby Fox

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Mxls: Reach My Hand N Come With Us, Please by MFloras

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You bored, or feeling artsy but don’t have any inspiration...? *updated!*

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

create pixel art

Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!

Totally free transparent textures

make a cute chibi

draw some cool generative art

be a graffiti creator

create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)

paint online

another awsome site to create pixel art on

and another one

create your own mandala

or color one

create an avatar

or you can try creating your own superhero

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here

Want to build your own planet

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)

create next hit comic

make a city which looks like something from 90′s games

draw a mandala like design

jig saw puzzles

more jig saw puzzles to solve

create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!

make a movie

create and dress up dolls

play a piano

you can also play a guitar

create sounds

another sound creator

create a logo

design your dream home

sketch rooms

explore fashion trends and create your own sets

build a website

try this app for building a website

Or maybe start learning how to code!

design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them

design your own phone case

pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool

Make your own Glitch art

Here’s another glitch art maker

And another!

Holy hell, here’s a third!

make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64

freaking cool text generator!

Easy to use word processor

Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)

Write an essay on anything with no hassle

Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?

Make pictures out of text

ASCII word generator

Need an idea for some fanart-here :D

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

watch a documentary

learn to code

do something yourself

workout with the help of this great youtube channels

learn things

play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games

waste your time on miniclip

play games at additing games

or try games at agame

calm your thoughts

the quiet place

it will be okay

vent or listen to someone

pour out your soul

explore the sky

look at art from around the world

virtually visit museum of iraq

explore world with arounder

create a music playlist

list through rare books

scroll useful science website

create sand art

brain games

try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book

interactive 3D anatomy

random street view

post a secret

create a family tree

find our what’s the difference between x and y

help scientists and become volunteer researcher

create your own font

read a classic short story

In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?

scribble on maps

listen to letters

play with acrobots

listen to podcasts

make a bucket list

Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?

Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!

Zone out watching the colors drip down

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Need an Appearance idea?

Humanoid generator? check

Here’s another one

and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work

Need Monsterpeople?

Well, then here ya’ go

Maybe you need Cats?

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

Clothing generator

Another clothing generator

More clothing generator

Aaaand even more

Steam punk clothing

Char Style preference

Dress Generator

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

Oh shit someone died

Backgrounds and stuff? yep

Quirks

Personality. you need that shit

Need something fandom related?

City generator hell yeah

location? got ya

World-building?

make your own god damn laws

Landscape.

Need Item names?

Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names

Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.

Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators

How did your characters meet?

Fanfic plots. you bet your ass.

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DUDES

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YES THANK U KIND PERSON OMG

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MORE YAY

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@mariesjaenne JAY LOOK SAND ARTTTT

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Alright!

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Camillot: Low Angle view by MFloras

Camillot, The future leader of Madivals

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Series 8 has names!

A big thanks to CM4Sci from Eurobricks for finding this info!

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Medix....?

That sounds neato!

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Series 9 has names!

Trashoz 41572 Gobbol

41573 Sweepz 

41574 Compax

Nindjas 

41575 Cobrax 

41576 Spinza

41577 Mysto

Newzers 41578 Screeno 

41579 Camsta 

41580 Myke

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Nindjaaaaaas....MAX! XD

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Spugg Playing Fetch by MFloras

I would love to play fetch with this lovely dog-like Mixel all day X3

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Mixels : It's Raining These Days by MFloras

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Get Dunked On! by MFloras

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Frosticons Celebrate Christmas by MFloras

Check out my other arts at DeviantArt: http://mfloras.deviantart.com/

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Glowkies's Show Promo Poster by MFloras

Check out my other fanart of Mixels! http://mfloras.deviantart.com

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Nurp's Teddy Butterfly by MFloras

Check out my other arts at DeviantArt: http://mfloras.deviantart.com/

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Ask an Artist #2 

Name: Miranda Dressler

Website: mirandadressler.com

Current: Character Designer at Cartoon Network

Past Work: Over the Garden Wall at Cartoon Network, Raskullz, Kick Buttowski at Disney

Where are you from, and where do you work now?

I’m from Philadelphia, PA, and I currently work at Cartoon Network.

Describe your current job. What are your daily responsibilities?

I’m working as the main designer on Lego Mixels: a series of half hour specials for Cartoon Network. The shorts are all about the Mixels, a bunch of mixed up colorful monsters and their adventures.  I design all the characters, as well as special effects and props as needed. It’s a toy based show, so there is a lot of collaborating with Lego on the designs, and its really cool to see how the characters look in toy form and animated.  The look of the show is super colorful and graphic, and it’s a fun style to work in.

How long have you been drawing and what inspired you to become an artist?

I’ve been drawing ever since I can remember, and my favorite things to draw have always been animals and weird creatures. I loved the TV animation I watched growing up, the Disney Afternoon and the weird, gross 90’s Nickelodeon cartoons. I always wanted to work in TV animation so its really been a dream come true to have worked at Disney TV and Cartoon Network.

Did you go to college or are you self taught? A mixture of both?

I went to college at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where I majored in illustration. I really liked illustration as a major because the instructors encouraged you to always tell a story in your drawings, even if its just a single character standing on the page. Its always been important to me to keep drawing from life all the time, and I hit up gesture drawing classes whenever they’re available. I feel like I learned the most about what it takes to work as a production artist on the job, I’ve had some really great opportunities to learn from some really talented coworkers, and its been so awesome to see how people in the animation community encourage younger artists on their way.

If you did go to college, what are some of the most important things that you learned?

A lot of emphasis is put on drawing in a specific signature style in school, to set yourself apart from the crowd. I see a lot of people wrack their brains over their style, how much they look like someone else or comparing their work constantly. All you need to do is keep striving to learn and improve and work on pieces that you like that show your opinion, your eye and your voice: and you’ll have a style of your own.

What are your go-to tools to create your art?

My illustrations are all finished digitally, and at my day job, all my production art is done in Photoshop and cleaned up in Illustrator, but I always start with at least a thumbnail on paper. I love post-its, red pencils and sharpies for quick sketches, then I scan those super rough scribbles into the computer and finish up the sketch and color in Photoshop.

Any favorite past times?

California! Growing up I always knew I wanted to leave behind the snow and ice, and I am really in love with exploring the golden state, especially all the food! LA is such an amazing food city, so I love checking out new foods around town, but my favorite thing to do to de-stress is bake a big batch of some kind of huge cookies. I also love doing illustrations, and have the chance to do a number of pop-culture themed gallery shows, its so fun to get to nerd out and make art at the same time.

How long have you been working, and have there been any challenges during your career?

I’ve been working in animation since moving to LA in 2006. My first job out of school was as the production assistant (PA) on Mickey’s Clubhouse. There are a lot of jobs on an animated show that aren’t artist jobs, those are the support staff production team. There is seriously no better place to learn the ins-and-outs of running a show than starting out in production. 

I think a lot of art school graduates feel like they aren’t ‘making it’ if they don’t get an art job right out of the gate, but getting your foot in the door in any way and being on the ball is the best way to do it. I worked my way up from production into the art track by showing my work to my colleagues, challenging myself to improve my art, learning new software, and always trying to do my best. 

My first art job was as a cleanup artist on Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil at Disney TV, and it was an awesome experience! I was really fortunate to have a great director and producer who believed in me, and you really learn a lot about design as a cleanup artist. I learned skills that helped me go to my next job as a toy designer for Raskullz, before coming back to animation work in 2013 for Over the Garden Wall at Cartoon Network.

Was it difficult entering the animation industry, and what do you think are some of or the most important factors that determines success?

Getting a job as an animation artist can seem tough: but I think the factors that determine success are being willing to challenge yourself, be a team player, and to always be nice to people. Its not such a huge community of people, and you will totally work with that person again, so help em out. Be willing to challenge yourself, don’t think, but I’ve never used that program before! I don’t ‘do’ that style, etc. 

You’re going to have to figure out how to draw something you’ve never thought of before, and you’ve only got 4 hours before the show ships, so maybe you better figure out how a upside down steampunk donut airplane on fire would look like.

What has been your favorite production to work on thus far?

Every one of them has been totally different, there’s no way to choose! I really like the team work from working on a show together, its so great to see it on air and see how it all pulls together in the end, kinda magic.

Have you ever been the only woman in the room or production; if so, what was that like for you?

I have never been the only woman on a production, but I have been the only woman artist. Since I started out in the animation world 8 years ago, I have been seeing more and more female artists and creators working in the business, which is awesome!

Who are some of your favorite female animated characters? What is it about them that you particularly enjoy?

Hmmm, I would say Gadget Hackwrench from Rescue Rangers and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time for being mad lady inventors.

Any personal projects that you’re working on now? 

I have been participating in gallery shows with Gallery1988 and Hero Complex gallery here in LA, and I’m getting ready for several more shows with them before the end of the year. Its fun to have the shows to look forward to and to draw illustrations based on stuff I love like Goosebumps, Wes Anderson films, Cult Movies, monsters and even cute puppies. I’m especially excited about the upcoming More Than A Cone show, which benefits animal rescue charities.

And finally, any words of wisdom to students aspiring to enter your line of work?

Don’t stop! Don’t give up! You can be a lifelong learner, no matter what place you’re at with your art, keep drawing and improving. There’s so many more ways to share your work these days, tumblr is full of inspiration and behance is full of connections. Make stuff, put it out there, and have something to say about it!

Thank you Miranda! As always, if interested, check out our other interviews!

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BIG THANKS TO COINSCP!

We have a (low quality) grab of the Mixamajig special!

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Can wait for the next sunday XD

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I’ve been took the comment for 13 hours until she rude me in last 2 weeks ago. So I have to decided with my first ocs Spot.. Oh! I almost forgot to say, this is my first transparent I’ve made it

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This art are so COOL!