Ruby Does A Draw

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[rubyophidian]

Last post for now, Captain Bill Cipher that I had to get out of my system after reading At The Water's Edge by @darkdagers . I know this fic is old, but it was still a delight to read and has low-key been living rent free in my brain for a couple weeks now.

I'm not super active on Tumblr anymore, but my Instagram, Twitter and Twitch all have the same handle as on here, and I've been streaming about twice a week recently if anyone wants to come hang out!

[rubyophidian]

Here's another one for a Labyrinth AU I want to work on. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how perfect the dynamic is.

If I develop this AU any more or people actually take interest in it, I'll make a reference post for it.

I'm not super active on Tumblr anymore, but my Instagram, Twitter and Twitch all have the same handle as on here, and I've been streaming about twice a week recently if anyone wants to come hang out!

[rubyophidian]

So apparently I draw BillDip now. I have a couple pieces I'm going to post, and depending on if this fandom is still active enough to slam me with hate, I will likely be posting more.

I'm not super active on Tumblr anymore, but my Instagram, Twitter and Twitch all have the same handle as on here, and I've been streaming about twice a week recently if anyone wants to come hang out!

[rubyophidian]

Testing out a new fountain pen.

Hopefully soon your local AntiChrist will have his plus one bc the Martin I tried to draw to go with him did NOT go well.

[rubyophidian]

H'okay, second time is a charm. Sorry if this posts twice, still trying to figure out this tablet.

Anyways, long story short @pitviperofdoom dragged me into podcast hell and Gerry Keay does not hurt less on the second round.

Design is from @everchased . I tried to come up with my own, but tbh, I like theirs more.

I'm also very open to sketch requests rn to get me drawing more, especially this good boi. Plz give me soft Gerry.

[rubyophidian]

Lol, I still draw? ...sometimes.

This is Nicolette (Morgues? I think is her last name?). She belongs to @tbdoll-art and honestly, it’s like, oh, 6-7 years overdue I drew something for her?

Lemme explain.

I first found her when I was a freshman(HS), from a ref sheet for one of her Muse characters, Melpomene. I very quickly fell in love with her art style and digital prowess. I also made an absolute ass of myself to her (as 14-15 year olds on the internet do), with self-deprecating comments galore. I’ve hidden most of them now, since those were also the good old days when DeviantArt wasn’t quite the clusterfuck it is now.

BUT.

She is also, to date, probably the biggest reason I’m at the artistic point I am. She’s why I pushed myself to learn how to actually use digital art tools. She’d why I pushed myself in general to grow as an artist. I won’t lie, for a very long time, it was because “I wanna draw just like her”, which, I’ll admit, a lot of my art style now DOES reflect that, since that’s how I was teaching myself for a couple years. But I like to think I’ve grown a little since then.

I’m don’t draw just like her. I’m not as good her her. I don’t have to be, because I’m not her. She’s a few years older than me, probably tried and failed at a lot of things more than I’ve ever tried at all. She’s an incredible artist, who inspired me for several years to get better. I maybe started for the wrong reasons, but I figured it out, and I’m grateful for that.

I do hope you see this, Tera. I’m so grateful to you, for inspiring me to become the artist I am. Sometimes, I draw things and hate them. It happens to all of us. But I’m so proud of where I’ve gotten myself, and most of my foundation for that came from you, without you even trying to do so. I think it’s important for any artist to know that they inspire people. You inspired me to want to grow.

Thank you.

[rubyophidian]

More or less a doodle, my backgrounds as a whole are an area I need to work on. I was going for a style @elentori-art tends to use for her concept art. I didn’t actually have any plan or direction for this when I started it, so I’m not totally happy with it. BUT for walking in with no idea what I was doing, I don’t think it’s too bad.

Thoughts?

[rubyophidian]

This is so long overdue. This is my fire ho, Salem Coventry, or Pyra to her friends.

I have a bit of a story for her. In the beginning, she actually wasn’t mine. A friend of mine my sophomore year created 3 characters based off herself, another friend of ours, and me for a zombie apocalypse comic, which later she lost inspiration for. Each character became owned by the person they were based off of.

Though I’ve developed her a lot more over the years, and she holds a high rank amongst my tides of OCs, she’s the one who still has the biggest question mark as far as her backstory goes. I could tell you her likes and dislikes, favorite foods, music, and how many languages she can fluently swear in. But I do know, her real name isn’t Salem. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know where she came from. She has no family, but I don’t know why. I don’t know if she ever had any siblings. I don’t know if even she remembers her real name.

Salem quickly became very near and dear to my heart, and a lot of people who have OCs know, they have lives of their own and they tell you about themselves on their own terms. Salem likes to hold her past close, but I still love her dearly. Frankly, it’s a gODDAMN crime it’s taken me this long to give her a fully rendered drawing. As far as art goes, she actually does come out to play fairly often, but generally not to the end of the piece. I have a ton of WIPs for her, but this is the first one I’ve ever finished and been proud enough of to post.

Salem Coventry, y’all. I have footage for a speedpaint, but it’s gon need a lot of editing, so we’ll see when I get around to it.

[rubyophidian]

Crazy Jerry | Art Trade for Dark Cr0w

This is my long overdue half of an art trade for my good dude Cr0w. She also made a video of her half featuring my character Hysterium, which you can find he...

Here be dat speedpaint.

@darkcrowart

[rubyophidian]

After actual months, I sat down and powered out my half of an art trade for @darkcrowart, featuring One Crazy Boi, ie, Jerry Cunningham.

I had the idea for the neon skull almost right away, it was just a matter of finding the motivation to sit down and do the thing.

I also have a speedpaint for it, which is gonna be the next post bc Tumblr is still stupid and will hide this post if I stick a link in it.

[ashleytart]

Hey @silvergoddess666, when I said that Star was going to adopt Alice? This is what I meant lol

(Left art by @tham-draws, right by @darkcrowart)

[rubyophidian]

GUYS I'M DYING

[rubyophidian]

Something that @darkcrowart asked me for(sorta). We were talking about one my my characters when I was streaming, and she asked if I had any art of her, and I didn’t, so I fixed that.

Meet Alice Redgraves! Sweet little cinnamon roll, she’s a guitar player/singer who does corner performances and lived with her adopted mother/sister Julia Day. Julie is only 11 years older than Alice, so they tend to refer to one another as sisters.

Alice’s parents aren’t dead, but her mother was a drug addict and her father worked so much to compensate he was never home, and they surrendered her to child protective services when she was 2-3. She keeps in occasional contact with her father and is on relatively good terms with him, but has no idea what’s become of her mother, and isn’t inclined to find out. She know why they (read, he) gave her up, and though she used to, she doesn’t hold a grudge over it anymore. She’s happy with Julie, and the two of them have a strong bond and a good relationship.

All in all, she’s very friendly and optimistic, always trying the good in both people and situations. She knows she wasn’t dealt the best hand in life, but also knows she got about the best outcome someone in her position could, and it keeps her humble.

She is a good child, and I love her dearly.

[rubyophidian]

Idk what happened here. I was just gonna be a sketch, then ended up like some bishie anime shit, but I love it and ended up making it my desktop background.

[rubyophidian]

For those who’ve read the story, this is right before Kateri leaves and has a lowkey mental breakdown in the middle of the night.

[rubyophidian]

Chief Blackfeather

Kateri’s canonically Navajo, so I though it would be fun to draw her like an ACTUAL Native American. Couldn’t really find any face paint refs for Navajo specifically, and this is slightly altered bc I only realized later that the full paint would cover basically all the shading/detail in her eyes(the eyes are supposed to have a thick black stripe over them). Also, the headband is 100% bullshitted. This was for fun, so I made it up as I went along.

But yeah! Finally making art again!

[rubyophidian]

Guess who’s finally opening commissions!

I’m in a bit of a tight spot money-wise, as in, I’m not gonna be homeless, but food’s pretty tight rn. So yeah, commissions.

All marked prices are non-negotiable. Extras may fluctuate depending on what you want. Bundle prices MAY be negotiated.

Will draw

-people/OCs

-fanart

-concept design

-scenes from fanfics

-ask about anything else

Will Not Draw

-Porn(tbh, I’m just bad at the anatomy)

-Furries(purely bc I don’t know how)

-real people(in the sense, I won’t draw two people as a ship/you with a celebrity crush)

I own the rights to anything I draw. My commissions are currently non-commercial. Everything must be paid up front. I currently only take PayPal in USD.

For the moment, I’m only opening up 5 slots to test the waters. I do have a full-time job, so wait time may bee a week or two, I’ll be able to give a better estimate when you tell me what you want.

If you’re interested or have any questions, please email me at [email protected]

[qbalchemist]

Scammer Targeting Tumblr Artists

The title says it all really. So if nothing else, please share and reblog this post to raise awareness for those that might be caught out - both artists and followers. For a TL:DR, please look at the bottom of the post

What is happening?

Right now, there is at least one person actively impersonating multiple artists across tumblr in an effort to scam their followers into paying for fake ‘cheap commissions’. The scammer will clone a tumblr, usually using a slight change to the url/account name to look like the real deal. They will then message people directly through Tumblr with messages along the lines of “Hey, i’m doing cheap commissions right now. DM me to get one”. Naturally, this is ends up just being a way to take their money without giving anything back in return.

Who does this affect?

Everyone. Simple as that. As long as the scammer in question works unopposed, they are free to spread their influence and continue to scam more people. Even if you haven’t been targeted yet, it does not mean you are safe or immune. Several artists have already fallen victim to this scammer, and I encourage any artists that have to reblog this post with the details of their affected account(s) and the ones the scammer has set up.

How can we stop this?

Tumblr, like many other social media platforms, seems to care very little about ‘minor’ occurences like this one, and despite reaching out directly to them over a week ago through multiple avenues of contact - they have refused to comment on the situation, provide a recommended response for users, or take action on behalf of those already affected. Despite this, there are still tools at our disposal that we can use to make this scam more difficult, and to increase its visibility to those within Tumblr staff that are required by policy to take action. Tumblr has the following to say on the topic of impersonation: Confusion or Impersonation. Don’t do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don’t impersonate anyone. While you’re free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can’t pretend to actually be Benedict Cumberbatch. They then provide a link to this online form that you can fill out if you suspect someone’s identity is being confused. Unfortunately, this can only be filled out if you are the victim of impersonation. In other words, only the artists can fill this out legitimately. So, what about the followers and users of tumblr whom aren’t being impersonated? Our most valuable tool in this online platform is the platform itself. It enables us to spread our word near-virally across all the many sub-communities on Tumblr with remarkable efficiency for a user-driven system. We can take advantage of that effect to increase awareness of the situation. Even if you - the one reading this right now - aren’t an artist or don’t know an artist, the act of reblogging this post or sharing it directly with friends improves it’s ‘ranking’ in popularity increasing its chances to be seen by more people. We don’t need everyone on Tumblr to see the post for it to be effective, just like we don’t need the entirety of the human population of the world to be immune to a disease for that disease to be rendered ineffective or eradicated. If enough people are aware, the likelihood of pulling off a successful scam increases dramatically reducing efficiency to a point that it no longer becomes profitable to continue.

Why should I care?

It disheartens me to say this, but of the many artists I contacted directly over the past week to warn about this issue many of them refused to listen or dodged the responsibility with lines like;

“I’m not being impersonated, so it doesn’t affect me”

“I’m just one person. I can’t make an impact”

“I need to take care of my community. Other people can look after theirs”

This is honestly disappointing that so many artists or art-rebloggers care so little as to intentionally wave the responsibility of keeping their followers and fellow artists safe from this, that they cannot spare 10 seconds of their time to share an informative post. I’m not here to bash artists, but it is time that everyone takes responsibility for their own communities, and of those around them. Artists: You have a responsibility to ensure that your followers and fans aren’t being abused by someone who may impersonate you. If they succeed, your reputation will be damaged, and your followers will resent you. Your followers are also almost guaranteed to be following other artists meaning your efforts can spread beyond your own circle of influence, so don’t be naive when you think you have little effect. Followers: You have just as much responsibility to be aware of those that might try to scam you or your fellow followers. Don’t just sit in silence when you see something wrong: Ignoring the issue only makes it more resilient to our efforts to stop it. You are the vocal majority if you just use your voices to be heard!

TL:DR

A scammer is impersonating artists and scamming money from their followers under the guise of 'cheap commissions’. If we ignore the issue, it will get worse. Every single person that reads this can afford to spend just 10 seconds to reblog and share this post. Those 10 seconds can save others from being scammed for hundreds of dollars. Reblog & Share