i'm okay at art

xey/xem/xyr (used like they/them/their) Artist (?) I try.

[ravenandraven]

Hello.

My name is Raven, my pronouns are xey/xem/xyrs (used like they/them/theirs)!

I use the tag #ravenandraven

Please don't take my art without credit! (Although I don't see why you would take my art...) I do not consent to my art being reposted onto any other online spaces. And if you use my art to train an AI know that I hope your computer explodes in a ball of fire (so don't do it).

Yeah, that's it. Bye!

[ravenandraven]

suffered a heck ton of artist's block and then finally got around to finishing this mini piece for @usopp-art-collab!! this is spiral-usopp, a combination of usopp and the spiral/the distortion from the magnus archives :D

[ravenandraven]

actually wanted to yap about this a bit more so i'm back

my friend is a really big fan of tma. at some point we started merging our interests together in a project to combine every straw hat with a tma entity. because the spiral deals in deception and lies, we thought it was a perfect fit for usopp.

while i was coming up with the design, i looked at a lot of tma fanart (since the magnus archives is a podcast with no official art, as far as i'm aware). i based my design mostly off of fan-made designs of michael shelley. i noticed a lot of art depicted him with long hair, long fingers, bright clothes, and of course, spiral imagery.

because yellow is usopp's official color, i wanted to include it in this piece. i added purple because it's the opposite of yellow, which i thought would add a fun contrast.

my initial concept art had him wearing overalls, since usopp wears overalls often. i ultimately decided to change it to a more formal outfit because 1. i love drawing formal-wear and 2. a lot of my personal favorite art of michael shelley as the spiral showed him in formal clothes. i switched the overalls out for suspenders, which i felt were the formal equivalent of overalls.

the background is meant to be a nod to the spiral's connection to doors and patterns.

at some point i might draw the rest of the straw hats (i do have some ideas going on in the back of my mind...) but the usopp art collab gave me the motivation to lock in and finish this one. thanks usopp art collab i love you and i had a lot of fun participating in this event :D

[ravenandraven]

suffered a heck ton of artist's block and then finally got around to finishing this mini piece for @usopp-art-collab!! this is spiral-usopp, a combination of usopp and the spiral/the distortion from the magnus archives :D

[ravenandraven]

friend just told me the most sanji-coded story so obviously i had to draw it

(if you can't read my handwriting i wrote an image ID in the alt)

[ravenandraven]

he's green

[ravenandraven]

Stares at you

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

[ravenandraven]

hey :D i'm not longer help-i-lost-my-gender and am now ravenandraven! i wanted an art name that felt more personal rather than just "raven" since that's pretty generic and also other people tag their own art with that since it's an actual name. my art is now tagged under #ravenandraven

[ravenandraven]

[ravenandraven]

i got new pencils so obviously the first thing i had to draw with them was these two

[ravenandraven]

yeah, exactly like that, chopper

[ravenandraven]

birthday comic (click to see the whole thing)

plus some doodles

[ravenandraven]

first usopp for @usopp-art-collab!!!

(matching my zoro duck for zoro art collab)

[ravenandraven]

aha! figured out if i turned the photo to the side it bypasses the automatic community label

anyways silly :3 face (it’s meant to be a three but with the hole punches it makes a face :3 )

[ravenandraven]

I was gonna share a cute little :3 face I drew by accident while making something but Tumblr has flagged it as Mature :P so hopefully it passes the content label review and I get to post it for everyone but we'll see

[ravenandraven]

How do I be one of you?

[ravenandraven]

they have so much in common they should be best friends

[ravenandraven]

[insert caption here]