"Angelic Possession"
I had this idea for angelic character designs in urban fantasy story so decided to sketch and render it.

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"Angelic Possession"
I had this idea for angelic character designs in urban fantasy story so decided to sketch and render it.
"2023 Doodle Dump"
Around 2023 or so, I got a portable tablet to force myself to draw wherever I went. I've yet to post most of my completed material, but here's a dump of doodles and sketches.
"There. Now, get back to work."
I had an idea for a cybernetic arm for drilling and sketched it out a while back, in the summer of 2025. Then, I thought of a simple sentence to best explain it. Still have to work on my lighting and anatomy...
We're all sinners here
redrew the art meme that was going round a few weeks ago because “make it good later” has never been that aspiration to me, it’s even been enough to just not make the thing I really want to make in the past.
make it now. Make it however. Maybe it’ll work out maybe it won’t Make it or it won’t exist.
"Why is ContraPoints saying [advocating for Palestine] is totally futile? Because ContraPoints doesn't want to do anything about it... She feels that the only reasonable way to live is to accept that things are bad and not going to change. Even though that is actually unreasonable. Even though it is actually also morally quite bankrupt. You are the one who is experiencing doom. That is the thing that you feel. That does not mean other people are supporting a doomed cause. It means that you feel doom about their cause. Examine why you might feel that way. They thought Vietnam was a doomed cause, too. Cuban revolution was a doomed cause. Chinese revolution was a doomed cause... "Zero Palestinian lives were saved"... I don't think this is true. For instance, think about the vast amount of fundraising campaigns that have tangibly helped, even as aid is blockaded in Israel, that has tangibly helped Palestinians. They have gained support as a result of this activism. So saying "zero Palestinian lives were saved" again, this is not true. This is not true. But second of all, even if it was true, you're going to blame people for speaking out against things that are actually wrong because it wasn't effective enough instead of just like offering better ways to do it? Does something have to be done or not? Does something have to be done or not?"
-elliot sang again, "BreadTube is over"
I wanted to share these quotes from Sang's video because I think he is really getting at something central I notice all the time on tumblr.
So many people from the global north on this website (including the ones who quickly distanced themselves from liberals like ContraPoints), still cling to this unfounded belief in their own supposed powerlessness.
You are not powerless. Your decisions matter and have tangible impact on other people. You are in this world with the rest of us. Whether you want to accept responsibility for your behavior or not, it still meaningfully influences other people's lives.
Take stock of your actual, current impact. What are you already spending your days doing? How can you use your daily life to oppose genocide in Palestine?
If you're reading this you probably spend some of your time on tumblr. So use that to help people in Gaza to get food and medicine.
Last week after writing a post encouraging others to donate to my friend @fadel-dani's campaign (vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost) a lot of you actually did send funds.
Do you realize how much that tangibly improved his life last week?
He told me that he was able to buy flour and eat bread after previously having none for over a week. He was able to get painkillers and experience some small relief from his constant pain.
Your decision whether or not to donate (or whether or not to encourage other people to donate) is power. You are actually very powerful, and your decisions have a big influence on his family's life. You are deciding how to use that power right now.
My name is Fadel Al-Dany, a 23-year-old third-year IT student. My life hasn't … Fadel Aldany needs your support for Help the injured Fadel a
It is a blessing that we have the ability to relieve others' pain.
Send some money to Fadel and know you are using what power you have to help someone. You are a lifeline.
You are inextricably connected to other people. Your presence can be felt as a comfort by other people. Please embrace this.
I have told you time and time and time again.!!! that my family and I are in dire need of your help, and everyone is ignoring us and bypassing us. I hope that you will help me so that I can buy my medicine as soon as possible, and so that we can buy some food so that we do not die of hunger or be killed when we go for help. Please have mercy on us and help us by donating so that I can buy my medicine and some food. Please donate. Stand by us. Please help us by donating.
The donations make annimmediate tangible difference to Fadel, as closet-keys said, so please continue to share and give what you can! It will help Fadel afford medicine and other necesities
Please, friends, don't ignore me and leave us alone. Don't forget what we are going through. Please don't ignore what we are going through and what we are suffering from. Please donate to us so that I can buy my medication and buy some food as soon as possible. Please don't leave us alone. Please help us, Please donate.
"Lucifer Wielding Lucifer"
Yeah, I got nothing elaborate to say about this one. I wanted to make this in 2023 simply for the joke and I'm throwing this one out there for the sake of completing some WIPs.
Finally watched K-Pop Demon Hunters and my one and only CinemaSins-style nitpick is that I refuse to believe that Rumi was the first half-demon hybrid (out of the 5 or so incarnations of the huntresses we see).
Some storyboards posted by creative team members hint that her parents might've had a nice and loving relationship so I refuse to believe there weren't at least several huntresses who looked at all those humanoid monsters with fangs and claws without considering some things at least once.
And I don't even mean the conventionally attractive ones either.
A new vision for the void…
Not really though. I made a draft of this one back in early 2024 and only completed it around January 2025 in order to replace my old profile picture with some sprinkles of Lovecraftian vibes I've been drowning myself in.
"Airhead"
Yet another 2023 drawing! I drew one of the many childhood characters I imagined freerunning over the scenery during long car journeys, after watching a lot of parkour videos that year.
“Yet Another Reference Study”
Made this way back in 2023. Things have been harsh lately, but I’m still trying to do the things I love in amidst the deluge.
Pick a bottle any bottle lol
I recently read an article about a therapy group for depressed people who had all attempted suicide at some point. The breakthrough question for them was, “If your goal was to be just as miserable as possible, what would you do?” Most of them listed things like not getting enough sleep, or isolating themselves from everyone… the list goes on, but the point is, they listed things they already do. But now they saw those “coping mechanisms” for what they really were: things that were actively making their condition worse.
I read that article at 2:00 AM, asked myself, am I TRYING to be miserable tomorrow? And it was easier than usual to put my phone down and fall asleep. Even my intrusive “lying down” thoughts about meaninglessness and existential dread were easier to suppress when I framed them as things I’d think about to purposefully make myself feel as awful as possible.
Fuck that is helpful
as requested on my stream, a simple water tutorial!
What’s your thoughts on Delicious in Dungeons Character Designs?
Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.
To expand on this a little bit: Ryoko Kui takes the tools of character design seriously, and uses them with forethought and consideration to set her characters apart, give them personality and specificity, and thinks very carefully about what each piece of design communicates and how it interacts with all the other design in her story.
Body shape, face shape, noses, eyes, brows, hair, proportion, fashion, ears, posture, roundness and angularity, broadness and slenderness, posture... Kui clearly thinks about ALL of it, and incorporates all of it.
And this is part of what gives her story such a profound sense of taking place within a world, a whole world inhabited by thousands of people each of whom are as full and unique and distinct as every other one. You look at a group of her characters and none of them feel like Copy Pasted NPC Placeholder #3457, they each feel as though there is a life there, an individuality, even if they are never actually deeply explored in the story.
Compare and contrast with something like Genshin Impact's style of character design:
Now, I don't bring this up just to sh** on Genshin - its character design style is adapted very effectively to the kind of story and world it is trying to build, which is to say a gacha story where every part of a character is formulated towards the singular goal of appeal. It's a world inhabited by nothing but main characters, essentially, and it is a laser-focused power fantasy structured around constantly pursuing the high of maximum damage numbers pumped out by maximally cool and badass battle moves executed with maximal grace by physically perfect avatars who provide the player with maximal aesthetic pleasure.
But because of that, its character design style is under severe pressure to regress to the mean - i.e. skinny bodies, young bodies, beauty ideals, and a minimal amount of physical difference. This style of character design tends to focus all of its effort in colorful, detailed and attention-grabbing fashion and hair styles, and generally avoids "alienating" design features like, well, literally anything that could be conceptualized by anyone as "ugly." Big strong noses, for example, or larger ears, or wrinkles, scarring, skin folds and so on. Fatness functionally does not exist in Genshin Impact's character roster for this reason, and it's part of the reason why the franchise struggles so notably to design characters of color - the concept of "beauty" is deeply bound up in systemic biases of class, race, gender and nationalism, and since Genshin's character design ethos is "make every character as broadly beautiful as possible" it has to keep hitting the same limited set of beats over and over and over again, and it reinforces the biases it inherits with its inability to step outside of them.
So Genshin Impact characters have a tendency, for me at least, to all kinda blur together into a brightly colored cavalcade of lowest-common-denominator ambulatory clothing racks, characters whose bodies exist for the primary purpose of transporting a highly elaborate costume around.
Kui by contrast very very actively seeks out elements of physical difference, and incorporates them into her design process - she seems to delight in inventing as many nose shapes as possible, as many different kinds of eyes as she can think of, and the result is that she has a character roster which is recognizable even if you change or remove very important parts of their basic design.
Where Genshin Impact (and that style of character design) would severely struggle to make characters recognizable without their costumes, because the characters in large part are their costumes, Kui's design style makes characters extremely recognizable not only in and out of costume, but even if the fundamental nature of their bodies change across species, and it makes her characters of the same race and species eminently recognizable from one another, even while sharing many physical traits and aesthetic features.
anyway tl;dr Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.
Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???
For those who can’t go to the ocean….
…I can bring an ocean to you.
thank you
Adding My Ocean:
have some more
adding my ocean as well
Not my ocean but my brother’s:
adding my ocean
A sunset from my ocean (when I used to live in Hawaii)
Do you like the colors of the ocean
Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.
The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.
These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.
(all credit to my physiotherapist)
And I’m stronger than you!