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Deep Blue Sea

I decided to attempt mermay since I didn’t do it for past few years and I actually had a blast painting this. I hope that I’ll be able to paint a few mermay themed pieces, but I’ll see how will that go :’D Like usually, done in Photoshop CC with Wacom Cintiq 27QHD. Enjoy!

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∆rtist: "mochy"

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superdames

Re-posting this because I finally got to scan it in high-res.

Betty Bates is a goddamn hero.

—“Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law” in Hit Comics #47 (1947)

aqueerkettleofish

I… gotta admit, I was waiting for the story to turn on her and make her out to be unreasonable, but damn.

jesuisloupseul

It would be interesting to discover the history of this. Anyone care to wager it was quashed by some macho editor?

aqueerkettleofish

Shockingly…. no. I looked it up, and apparently she had her own title for like a decade, and got lost in the shuffle when DC bought Quality comics so they could get Plastic Man. Apparently, she was also a consistent badass.

…and may have been played by a time travelling Drew Barrymore.

I am going to have to look up her creator– Bob Powell, also responsible for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle– because Damn, this is not something I would expect to see from the Golden Age.

littlemissonewhoisall

Apparently she’s public domain now, so if any of y’all want to write a revival series of her, you can!

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The Undead Soldier

#drawing #art #digital art #artwork #character design #concept art #illustration #military #soldier #undead #copyrighted

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Part study of flower symbolism in su, part expression of where prickly pear left me… I had it titled “generational pain” in my files. Originally I had words woven in to the image to communicate the conversation I was having as I drew this, but I think it’s fine/better(?) without them.

i went about coloring this so chaotically, and it took me forever to finish cuz merely looking at it felt like a scream. GROWTH!

thanks for looking ♥ ♥

#princess-of-peachtrees

memeseverdie

So I made a thing.

memeseverdie

damn look at the notes on this bad boi

sophiaslittleblog

ITS TRUE

prinnay

foggy day

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New artstyle is on fire!

glossynympheteyes

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

dumpster-king

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

porcelainandgold

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

whatpunkin

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

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Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

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feyariel

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

neil-gaiman

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

art-of-a-vegetable

I’m opening up commissions!

3 slots open for busts (any kind), 1 slot open for a flat color fullbody! Please contact me through Discord DMs, be ready to send your character ref please! ^w^

1/3 slots filled for the busts.

0/1 slot filled for the fullbody.

My Discord usertag is Chrys#1338 ! Dm me if interested, or to ask for more examples!

(Third and final example is a character named Core, belonging to @aether-dutchie on Instagram! All art shown made by me.)

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this is my custom furby baby, nectarine!! i always wanted this particular color of furby baby as a kid, so i didn’t want to change her fur. i gave her a bath, sewed her new ears (i’m not fond of the fabric they use on furby ears since it gets pilly and isn’t soft, replaced it with minky), painted her beak+faceplate+eyelashes, and made her new eyechips <3 i love her so much! for a first time custom, i’m really happy with her. i’ve got one more (an adult furby) that’s in the pipeline who’s getting a full makeover complete with new fur, so … WE’LL SEE HOW THAT GOES

papabay

solnecco

a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.