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Origami Around
Show & Tell
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
noise dept.
Misplaced Lens Cap
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
trying on a metaphor
oozey mess
#extradirty
Jules of Nature
occasionally subtle
wallacepolsom
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Cosmic Funnies
hello vonnie
pixel skylines
Kaledo Art
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I do my best doodles on lined paper...
This drawing is inspired by the fight in the first chapter of Sharp Edges by ChillinVillin. I like the idea of a slightly unhinged Sesshoumaru in this situation.
Maybe I’ll scan this later for clean up.
Spooky season is starting...
and I'm streamin!
Streamin~!
Going live on Twitch!
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.
Question for artists with a shop:
If you were going to launch your first online shop (sticker and prints) in 2024, what platform would you start with?
Etsy
Ko-Fi
Bigcartel
Shopify
SquareSpace
Other (state in tags/notes)
What if I told you...
I was live on Twitch? Getting my sea legs back. Come hang out.
Bending: Part 1 (zutara)
AU where Katara finds unknown man on the shore, not far from the Northern Water tribe village. No one is speaking truth, bending is forbidden and Katara questions many things that seemed certain.
[pls ignore zuko's scar on the wrong side in the first panel, I'm just stupid and forgot to flip back the image, as always]
Your art is lovely.
Also Zutara for life ❤️
Soooo I’m planning to start streaming on Twitch again but I’ll likely be streaming original design work (skate-themed designs for stickers/shirts etc) versus my typical Sesshoumaru-centric streams.
Would you be interested in seeing me stream work on original designs?
Sure
Sesshoumaru or I ain’t interested
Maybe
Me too, man 😞
Soo did y'all know you can get a soldering iron for 8 bucks? I didn’t. I do now. I’m about to burn the shit out of myself.
it’s fun to run it’s fun to play, it’s fun to make things out of clay it’s fun to fill your car with gas
it’s fun to break things made of glassss
now the burning will commence
horsey
first time doing stained glass first time using a soldering iron. It looks like shit and i could not love it more
Also i think it might be permanently attached to that table, but y'all know how it is you win some and you lose some .
the horse has been unstuck from the table and i think I’m getting better at this ^^
this post is from may 3rd so i thought I’d update it a bit.
I ended up using the glass not used in the horse to make this as my first Real stained glass thing, finished may 17th:
May 19th:
and now this is what I’ve been picking at on and off when i have the time to do so since:
i think… there might be a theme here.
(this was finished in March 2023,)
Anyways happy birthday to me having a mania fueled sleep deprivation and pots episode in the craft store.
and some more i can’t be fucked to figure out when they were made:
There’s this one scene in this one fanfiction…. Chapter 7.
I’m sorry that I’m all over the place with my art.
This deserves a redraw
WIP
This is mesmerizing to watch.
actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this
Holy………..shmokes…….
Oh?? My god??
I’ll try my best to describe this. It’s a video with a mash-up of a bunch of different Disney movies, set to a song that’s a mash-up of a bunch of other songs. That in and of itself wouldn’t make it praiseworthy, but this is DONE SO WELL that just, holy cow.
HOLY SHIT
Every time I see this, I HAVE to watch.
It is Law.
One of my favourites, for sure!
me when i meet the person who created webp files
It was google by the way, they thought it would be such a good file type it would replace the need for all other image files, that's why anything they own or partner with tries to force it on us though no art programs can even work with it.
THANK YOU FOR THIS!
What's the "best" simple machine?
wheel and axle
lever
inclined plane
pulley
screw
wedge
Now THIS is a poll!!
(source)
Unsplash - photography, illustration, & art
Pixabay - same as unsplash
Pexels - stock photos and videos
Getty Images - photography & illustration
Veceezy - vectors and clipart
Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
StockSnap.io - stock photos
Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
NASA - you guessed it
Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
Even Adobe has some free images
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3
recently found out about openverse which i think aggregates a bunch of creative commons images from flickr, wikimedia, nasa etc… pretty handy
I’m shocked so many people don’t know about my go to – Morgue File.
It’s full of searchable, rights free images uploaded by photographers.
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Homie gonna share this
