Hey there folks so I wrote for a bit about AMC’s IwtV and lost half of it but now we are 10 pm, so first sorry for those getting it because they followed me the art hasn’t been arting this year much but have this rant instead. Now this isn’t a negative one, mostly because I doubt I could run a good critic and I mostly have good things to say about the show and how well thought it is and how Malloy might be my favorite protagonist of the year even if Harry Dubois hit me like a truck last January. I don’t have any plans to read the books and haven’t but the cast is great the costumes amazing and it’s artfully made but there’s this slippery worm called Armand that I honestly thought I wouldn’t care about mostly because he didn’t appeal to me much more than the others but after a call with my partner that ended with a crack fic idea, here I am picturing him like a small bug were I inspect with a microscope because my guy confused me at first. He’s the oldest we’ve seen so far at a whopping 500 a fourth of recorded history post BC, he’s been through it and we don’t seem half of it unlike the others and this troubles me because the little we see is the trails of a complicated man and to write him within crack being treated seriously is to understand him and this sucks because no matter the conclusions I go to it will never be accurate enough. If I trace a line an example can show itself and tell me about how he can be caculating and we rarely get a confirmation of his rawest nature.
The guy was just there until I had to know him for a fic idea, fandom culture is crazy man.
For all the artist (this includes writers, photographers, ect.) who display him as only his more frequent attitudes, observing of a situation, silent and obsessive, meticulous even, simple even than I love you and the work you do never give up but when I see those who share his many face than TAKE MY LIFE AND TEACH ME YOUR WAYS because holy shit the face that had curiosity and a will to destroy Malloy as he was in the 70’s and the guy who interacted with them a few hours prior is DIFFERENT AND I’M CRAZY FOR IT. Guy will manipulate do all he can with what he has to come into his desired results and they can be wild. I’ve seen people take the trial as a way for him to eliminate Louis’ relationships and knowing that vampire loneliness is extreme than yes his goal up to meeting Louis in Paris might have grown up into the deepest disire for a complete companion we’ve seen (so far). No doubt that was interplayed with other goals and desires that shifted and changed but because of that fucking ending I can’t be sure of what exactly motivates that man, why did he keep the theatre after Lestat left? He mentioned a love for ritual and after the lost of the former and I assume a few of the prior orginisation what happened? He likes ritual and order (I assume the laws was brought up with him if not he kept them a staple unlike Les) and a coven keeps away the fact that he is alone but why organise theatre acts, many in fact! Because of a long lost love? Because it kept him busy? Whatever it is I fear I will never get to him because I refuse to see him with a single conclusion for he his purposeful and he will protect whatever he has, even if he kills his own kin who keep him company (though Claudia and Madelaine hardly were his, but I don’t doubt he could of with his own coven) yet like any creature damned or not he does not intend to bid with malice we only saw a fracture of his life, some even narrated by himself and the show made it clear that perspective matters even so with the new season! So even if what we see next is Lestats show I will go crazy and have been crazy seeing peeks of Armand. With the fic I posed the question, what’s next? Where does he go after his last shot because past Louis, we don’t know what’s his motivation and passion? Will we get bum modern Armand? I know part of this could be resolved with reading the books but I doubt that’ll happen. Anyways I’m planning to make a painting despite the topic of choice here it’ll mostly be s1 related might share it here when it’s done but due to my track record might not happen. Sorry for those who followed for a specific fandom, I swear I don’t jump around as much I just mostly stay off platforms for myself as I am not built for social media but Tumblr is the fandom space so for once I do not mind screaming, hopefully like my other post it’ll stay in the digital void :)
Also Louis hallucination fic in the works because unsurprisingly I have other obsessions in occurences with season 2, I’m keeping it in the back burner but might be a short first fic with a concept I might be able to master once I achieve better skill.
Hey there folks so I wrote for a bit about AMC’s IwtV and lost half of it but now we are 10 pm, so first sorry for those getting it because they followed me the art hasn’t been arting this year much but have this rant instead. Now this isn’t a negative one, mostly because I doubt I could run a good critic and I mostly have good things to say about the show and how well thought it is and how Malloy might be my favorite protagonist of the year even if Harry Dubois hit me like a truck last January. I don’t have any plans to read the books and haven’t but the cast is great the costumes amazing and it’s artfully made but there’s this slippery worm called Armand that I honestly thought I wouldn’t care about mostly because he didn’t appeal to me much more than the others but after a call with my partner that ended with a crack fic idea, here I am picturing him like a small bug were I inspect with a microscope because my guy confused me at first. He’s the oldest we’ve seen so far at a whopping 500 a fourth of recorded history post BC, he’s been through it and we don’t seem half of it unlike the others and this troubles me because the little we see is the trails of a complicated man and to write him within crack being treated seriously is to understand him and this sucks because no matter the conclusions I go to it will never be accurate enough. If I trace a line an example can show itself and tell me about how he can be caculating and we rarely get a confirmation of his rawest nature.
The guy was just there until I had to know him for a fic idea, fandom culture is crazy man.
Hello!!! In the regards of art fight coming in less than a week, I will be participating there!!! I will be attacking nonstop in art fight since I've been looking up to it since the previous art fight ended! (stardust won SUCK ITTT)
An art gifting game
For the past few days, I've been renovating my profile page, re-decorating my OCs that have been posted before, and adding new OCs!!! The profile page is still work in the progress, but I feel confident now to share it!!! If you have an art fight account, chances are, I will attack YOU! yes you! no matter how much I will face the challenges, I will still draw your OCs.
Because of art fight, theres a big chance I wont be posting much art in whole July, in which I do apologize! I will try to somehow balance participating in art fight and post art in tumblr at the same time.
Speaking of Art fight, PLEASE FOLLOW MY FRIENDS!!! All of them r rlly cool and all of them have rlly cool and unique OCs, I say you should give it a try!!!!!! They deserve it.
Dont know where to find them? Go to my profile page in artfight, scroll down a bit and there should be that one section where it has 3 characters with sparkles around them! By clicking one of them, it will lead you to their page.
All 3 of them also have their own tumblr acc!!! Its located in their profile page in art fight. Please support them!
.....Or I can just give you links that leads to their acc:
Now that we reached the end of this post, bye!!!!!! I wish you all good luck to art fight and hopefully we attack each other!!!!!
(TL:DR: I have an Art fight account, I wont be much active in my tumblr acc, go follow my friends since they also participate in art fight, hopefully we can attack each other.)
I should of put this in the same ask, but I see a new Sona design, got any character refs/sheet for them :D (if they are at the point of having one of those)
Honestly there is ref (similiar like this) but that one was a bit outdated and shit so I have to redo this
Im always too lazy to make ref of my characters lmao but I already planned to make a lot of refs for my artfight (including redo-ing those 4 oc refs I have in artfight) and I planned to add my sona into artfight so thanks for motivating me to do my job for once LOL
I’m loving the look of thin sketchy lineart with a clean rendered look, might do a full illustration with that in the near future. But yeah him and Kim have been hanging around in my sketchbook like bugs./pos
(Forgot to share my value painting, he was purple for a long while.)
Here is the final version of the Professor Layton collab I, and my lovely friend @archiewantsheetmetal hosted!!!! (You were a big help I could not have done this alone)
All of you are very very talented, it was a pleasure to work with you
You can find all the talents artists accounts under the cut as well as the original image :)
Glad I could participate in this! It’s been a hot minute since I finished anything Layton related but I love how this ended up :) (on an other note sorry again for the delay in my contribution-)
And for anyone interested here’s how the full version of Grosky ended up!
Was it too much? Probably. Would I change a few things if I gave myself more time to work on it? More than a few but it ended up decently well :)
Again thank you to the organizers, y’all were super kind throughout all of it, hope we get the chance to do something again in the future when we can.
Let me take you on a little trip back to Roman times. A beautiful summers day in the Mediterranean, lying lazily in the shade by the pool, savouring grapes, figs and wine while listening to the soft buzz of bees flying around the wisteria overhead
So, I've spent the last three weeks on this, my most ambitious and detailed painting so far. I had a lot of fun mapping out the composition and drawing every single grape, flower and tree in the background - my laptop not so much. Noted, 180 layers is about the maximum photoshop can take. But we need to find a way around that cause I've tasted blood now
This needs more love, I repeat, THIS NEEDS MORE LOVE AHHHHHHH
All of your paintings, from the fun ones to the big ones that you’ve made these past few months are incredible, much love from me and the rest of the DDonkeys!
A few months ago, fellow fandom dweller and fic writer @silvernightwalker decided to organize a fan book project with the hopes of giving it to DT at a local con, but due to certain circumstances, the panel and meetup got canceled. But that project was still such a blast to contribute in, heck I even got the chance to help make a simple portrait artwork for the cover!
(This is a rather long post so I’ll cut it here, but the full version contains quick rundown of my process and trials, as well as full credits for those who helped make this thing real!)
So what exactly did we do? Well a portrait is simple enough, seeing the tight deadline we had if we wanted the book to arrive in time for the con. Since the book itself contains so much wonderful art by so many artists, having something that shows many illustrated variations of the actor himself made sense, and again seeing as we were a couple of artists working on this assured we wouldn’t surpass the deadline. So after a bit of rummaging in the GO Reference Library we managed to Frankenstein an image that fitted our theme and then we could actually start making our portraits.
I started by thinking I should do a normal digital painting, but seeing how most of our team was doing that, I thought, "Why not do it traditionally instead? It's been a while since I've painted with acrylics."
I immediately regretted that, as I there was only a few days left and I hadn't even started my final submission. So plan C it was.
Finally seeing as everyone was drawing the reference picture in their unique style, I decide I would invoke my learnings from doing way too many Professor Layton crossover art and draw DT in a fun stylized way, with nice chunky lineart and include nods to some of his roles that really stuck with me (A.J. Crowley, the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor and a seemingly well hidden Scrooge McDuck from Ducktails, since that's probably the first role of his I've got to see in action). And then I let the colours really take the show by at first limiting my palette to then painting it a little in greyscale.
(Here’s what the lineart, and rough sketch and colour composition look like!)
And the taa-da! The end results!
Links to everyone who helped make this cover!
Go check out the other artist who worked on the cover and their wonderful rendition of DT!
It’s been a minute!
I went on vacation mid June, then haven’t quite recovered since coming back lol!! Then the Fourth of July hit; which is
A piece of contribution to the cover of the Art of Love book which we put together artwork fro everyone to send to DT. Unfortunately, it was
I made this on a deadline for @carnival-of-vanity. I'll be happy to never see that jacket ever again!
And make sure to check out our fantastic event organizers, we wouldn’t be able to do all of this without them!
Project organizer and book giving aficionado: https://www.tumblr.com/silvernightwalker
Layout designs and cover design as well as second but not least event organizer:
https://www.tumblr.com/carnival-of-vanity
Give them lots of love to them for me, will ya?
(Also for those who are eagle eyed, yes I did only just refer to David Tennant as DT in the whole post and yes that is because I botched his last name in the book, I’m an artist not a writer)
I went on vacation mid June, then haven’t quite recovered since coming back lol!! Then the Fourth of July hit; which is also my birthday.
So fair to say, I have not fully recovered 🤣
Anyway I thought I’d share on tumblr as well…I did a portrait piece of David Tennant with a few of my Dirty Donkey Good Omens gang. We crazily finished in 3 days time. The beads have given us PTSD lol!!
To those who celebrated, I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July! 💗
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