I know that I already had a pinned post previous to this one, but I feel like I should have one that states slightly more information around boundaries and stuff.
First things first.
Hi there! I’m Skiou!
My pronouns are she/her
I’m aro ace
I’m an artist and a fandom enjoyer.
I’m currently very invested in the game Look Outside, but my interests may fluctuate from time to time.
I also have a lot of original worlds and characters that I may sometimes post about. I’ll like make hashtags for my original works at some point
I am a minor!!! I don’t want to state my exact age, but I will say that I am above 13, so I’m not concerningly young. I’m not necessarily uncomfortable with interacting with adults, but I do feel like it is important to state just for the sake of boundaries.
I am not doing commotions at the moment, that may change in the future, but I’m mostly just here to have fun.
DNI if you are just here to be bitter and spread hate. This is a safe space.
I do fancy myself as a bit of a horror artist, so tread carefully if you are easily disturbed
Boundaries for Asks
NO NSFW!!! I will block you if you send me something inappropriate
I might not answer every question I receive, I apologize in advance 🥲
No personal questions please! I value my privacy a lot when I’m on the internet
I might not be taking drawing requests because I usually tend to make art for myself. I’ll let people know if I ever want drawing suggestions tho.
I might add more stuff to this in the future. But for now, this is the basic run down.
She tried to kill him because she doesn't like fighting creatures that are stronger than her, and Kelly prefers to attack by surprise, but don't worry, Sam, he's okay.
I’m thinking about holding a sort of art competition! This post is more just to see how many people are into the idea. The thing I had in mind is that you would get to pick your favourite scene from my Shifter Sam fic and draw it. I’m still working out the details and I’m also waiting for school to go out, so this isn’t a right now thing.
without further ado, here’s the pole
Would you be interested in a Shifter au fanart competition?
LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS
STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL.
DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE!
AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN.
IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER.
“Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!”
WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK
CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU.
AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE.
I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!
Poison control may advise diluting the toxin somehow like with water or milk, otherwise do not give them something to drink and take the empty pill bottle/ blister pack with you to the hospital.
Brother. I might have to reference the Shadow Man design for my monster Simon because OH MY GOD.
LOOK AT THIS. Whoever designed this understood the assignment. He looks a lot more like Simon than I initially thought.
there’s just like, so much I wanna learn from the body horror in this movie and I just in general have been feeling a bit unsatisfied with my Simon design especially after seeing some of the concept art from the film. I just feel like I didn’t push it as much as I could have. SBM Simon just feels a bit too clean and not as grotesque as I wanted him to be. Granted tho, I think I am going to pull a few artistic liberties with his design, seeing as the basic concept is that the tree basically took his mangled , half- mutated body and turned it into something he could actually live with. So it’s not going to be horrifically grotesque but he sure as hell has a lot of scarring. I kinda wanna go for the vibes of something that looks largely alien on the outside, but something about his face just feels so undeniably human.
I know I’m yappin about this, but one of the big things about the SBM au is that it’s ment to build off of the movie and explore things that we might’ve not been able to see in the film. I want my stuff for it to actually feel like it could have been from the movie.
if any of you guys wanna give me suggestions for design elements I could include, that would be very much appreciated.
Does shifter sam ever get mistaken as a mad animal by other survivors?
Not sure if I would have this happen in the actual fanfic but it’s definitely fun to think about. Maybe I might do a one shot about this at some point.
probably because Im bored but what fun interactions can you think of between shifter and weresam
gonna type all this out cuz I’m too lazy to do art
WereSam and Shifter Sam cross over shenanigans! LETS GO!!!!💥💥
It’s the middle of the night. WereSam, currently in control of his body, is chilling in the living room, not quite being able to sleep. (Extra note, I imagine that WereSam’s in the house because Shifter insisted that he sleep inside instead of out in the halls). Then suddenly, Shifter bursts out of his bedroom wrapped in his cloak. He stumbles over to the bathroom, not even fully closing it behind himself. WereSam just stays there for a moment, confused, when he hears Shifter puking his guts out. He obviously goes to check it out and he finds Shifter practically crumpled over the toilet in the early stages of his transformation. He looks awful, his face is covered in tears and drool, his body is stretched out and bloated and he has an underdeveloped third pair of arms dangling at his sides. It’s clear he’s in a lot of pain, he’s experiencing one of his bad episodes. Shifter tries to assure WereSam that he’s okay, but he’s very clearly out of it and fighting for his life to stay conscious. He can’t even form a proper sentence because of how badly he’s slurring over his words. WereSam just stares at him, not really knowing what to do. He can’t talk as a monster, so he can’t act as moral support. And he can’t exactly fit through the door either to properly assist him. He’s snapped out of his thoughts as he notices Shifter beginning another growth spurt. He doesn’t want his buddy to be stuck in the bathroom in full monster mode so he just gently grabs him and pulls him out of the bathroom. Shifter is too out of it to resist and just curls up on the floor once he’s finally set back down. WereSam just tries to be there for him, curling around him and doing a sort of compression therapy adjacent thing that helps to keep Shifter calm during his transformations. The night is chaotic but quiet to say the least.
I imagine that when they first meet, Shifter doesn’t tell WereSam about his condition at first. The time that they meet is after Shifter’s condition is out in the open, so he’s not actively trying to hide it. But you see, Shifter is a little bit of a dumbass and just doesn’t tell people about his condition until it happens right in front of them. He just kinda takes any opportunity to pretend that he’s just a normal human being. Anyways, the two of them get into a fight. After they win, WereSam is taking a moment to calm down from all of the excitement. Then he turns around, only to see that his strange looking doppelgänger had not only grown claws but an entire second pare of arms. The two of them just stare at each other for a stunned moment, Shifter looking completely mortified. He quickly explains his situation before WereSam can have a chance to start freaking out.
I imagine a time where both of the dudes start experiencing their transformations at the same time. WereSam’s out in the halls, clearly in mass amounts of pain and being very vocal about it. Shifter is just lying on the floor half transformed and listening to WereSam’s screams. I imagine that at this point, the whole incident with WereSam attacking Shifter has already happened, so he knows better than to go out there to keep him company. Shifter is very out of it. He’s in pain, he’s tired, he’s scared, and he can’t do much about it. A part of him wants nothing more than to just open the door and crawl out into the halls, just so that neither of them have to deal with it alone. But he has common sense and knows that will just aggravate WereSam and end in disaster. So, trying to seek some form of comfort in his delirious state, he just drags himself over to the door and leans against it, pretending that it could somehow help to ease his friend’s pain.
as a follow up to the previous story. WereSam wakes up in the halls the next morning, and after getting ready for the day, he tries to open the door only to find a few tones of full Monster Sam leaning against it, snoring away. He probably finds a way to wake him up from the other side, probably knocks on the door very loudly. Shifter apologizes profusely to WereSam once he’s inside.
anyways. I think that’s gonna be all for now. Hope you found some of these ideas fun!
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.
Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.
“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”
Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
I’m gonna second the rec for Black Girl Sunscreen, it’s affordable, Black owned, and immediately melts into the skin without leaving any gross white cast.
Because Sam’s transformations tend to vary in terms of how severe it is, sometimes he’ll have days the transformation is just uncomfortable at best, and the there are his bad days. This is one of such bad days.
Drew @skiourose’s shifter Sam!! Big, big fan of this guy and all the sketches I see of him, he’s been a bit of an inspiration for some of my work I don’t really show. Love this AU! Can’t wait to see more!! <3
How do you get so comfortable drawing characters transforming? I have a lot of OCs that do so since it’s a favorite gimmick of mine, but I can just never get myself to fully draw it or write it out. It just feels kinda awkward
Honestly, this kind of stuff does kind of just come naturally to me since I like playing around with body horror. But I’ll try to provide a few tips that might help.
I think it can help a lot to draw out a transformation sequence. I’m talking from start to finish. Split the transformation up into phases, maybe jot down a few of the symptoms in each stage if you’re feeling crazy. Doing this can help you decide on which stage of the transformation they’re in and how they’ll be reacting to it. It’s also just in general a good visual guide.
When I’m coming up with ideas for a transforming character (at least for a lot of my more angsty ones) I tend to approach their transformations like a sort of medical condition if that makes sense? If the transformations happen unwillingly, then a lot of the times, it can make a person feel like their body is betraying them. I love to lean into that and detail just how the transformations affect their body. Obviously it’s not exactly like writing an actual disability, but if you want the transforming character to be extra sad, make the transformations uncomfortable. You know, if you’re into that.
in terms of writing, I think one mistake you could make would be accidentally getting caught up in describing the visual changes and kind of going outside of the POV of the character. Think about how all of the changes are making the character feel, both physically and emotionally. Are they hurting? Are they even able to process it? Can they actively feel everything happening? Or are they so out of it that everything seems to go by in a blear? (Last question could be a little bit lack lustre tho IMO) but most importantly, TRY NOT TO DESCRIBE ALL THE CHANGES IN FULL DETAIL. I find that if you tell the reader exactly what is happening to the character’s body before they find out about it, then it pulls away that shock from the character finally discovering it. Wait until your character has a moment to finally look at themselves OR have them be described from another person’s perspective if you like to switch POVs.
Something that I find really fun is remembering that the bones are a thing. If the transformation is extremely drastic, then their bone structure will have to literally rearrange itself. If you’re writing, describe the bones popping out of place as the spine lengthens. The more solid structures like the hip bones and ribcage breaking apart and reforming around the growing body. Literally, I encourage you to get gross with the descriptions. It is really fun.
and finally, just in terms of how I detail Shifter Sam’s transformations, I like to base the growth of extra limbs off of lizard regeneration. Like, most of the times, the arm doesn’t pop out fully formed. It starts as just a bump, then lengthens and grows in the additional stuff like the elbows and fingers. Fingers are usually formed last. You don’t have to do this, I just think it’s fun.
