trying my best

[Icon ID: A digital drawing of Niko, a fat white being with short brown hair and red glasses. /End ID]• [Header ID: A pixel drawing of Scott, sitting cross-legged with one hand on his lap and the other in the air as if gesturing. He seems frostbitten, and the illustration has a snowy theme, with dull cold colors. /End ID]

[solidwater-arts]

[carrd]

Welcome to my art blog! My name is Niko (he/paw/void). I like Minecraft. My main is @solidwater05, where I mostly reblog more Minecraft

Requests are currently closed!

All my art is free to use as header/pfp/etc with credit!

Tags:

Art: #ice draws

Work in progress: #wipposting

Art of myself/my sona: #self art

Requests: #request

Talking: #ice speaks

Not art: #not art

TWs: #tw [thing], #implied [thing]

If I participate in any Inktober-style art challenges, I always make a tag for them! Here's all the ones I've done:

#inktober 2024

#hadm 2025

Discontinued tags:

Daily art: #daily doodles

[solidwater-arts]

[ID: A digital drawing of Null making a peace sign and looking to the side with a happy expression. He has three pins with the agender, aroace and intersex flags. /End ID]

My Null headcanons for pride month! I saw a post of him over the agender and aroace flags and that's been true for me ever since

[solidwater-arts]

[ID: An ibisapaint screenshot showing part of a canvas. There's a low opacity photo of a ballpoint pen sketch, overlayed with a digitally made sketch in bright red and blue, also with somewhat low opacity. /End ID]

I can never share my digital sketches because they all look like this. It hurts to look at

[solidwater-arts]

[ID: Five doodles made with a black ballpoint pen. The first one is of Null with a hand in his pocket, looking to the side with an annoyed or tired expression. The second one is of Faraway looking up, with the text "I hired this Faraway to stare at you". The third and Fourth ones are of The Broken End's 2.0 design, with the first doodle being smaller and less detailed than the second. The fifth one is of Integrity extending an arm to the side, he looks very lanky and doesn't have many wires. /End ID]

My new phone's camera is good enough to share my traditional art wow. TBE hurt my hand to draw

[ID: A picture showing the whole page /End ID]

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[ID: A doodle page of Circuit from TBS. Clockwise starting from the top left, it's: drawn from the waist up just standing there; on all fours walking in a mischievous sort of way; drawn as a very small stick figure playing with TBE's tentacles like a cat (TBE is huge in comparison, but still a tiny doodle); drawn from the legs up standing menacingly; curled into a circle like a cat and labeled "circle"; drawn with simple cat ears; crawling out of a monitor; standing cutely with a pink bow on its head; and drawn with the lasso tool. /End ID]

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Oh right, I'm supposed to post art on my art blog

[ID: An icon of Niko, a fat white being with short brown hair swept to the side, red rounded glasses, and a cyan hoodie. They have a hand in their hoodie pocket, and theyre looking up with a silly curious expression. Void is framed by a shooting star-like circle. /End ID]

The icon I made for my Carrd :3

[ID: The same drawing but without the frame. The second image has all the colors used as circles around the drawing. /End ID]

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[ID: A digital drawing of Andre, holding its hand up to a hole in its chest with a neutral expression. The background is dark blue and full of staticky swirls, and it can be seen through the hole in Andre's chest. The drawing is framed by black bars on the sides, which contain the lyrics "remember the human heart/began as a vessel hallowed out to be imparted". /End ID]

Arise and then break out! Denote my place within humanity!

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[ID: A ballpoint pen drawing of Zac nervously pulling on his sleeve. /End ID]

Little doodle I thought was cute

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Love loses!!!!!

[ID: An icon of of Zac holding up his hands like paws with a cute curious expression. The background is the aromantic flag. /End ID]

My contribution to making the tag trending o7 free to use with credit!

[ID: The same drawing but with a transparent background. /End ID]

[juneebugs]

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

[Text transcription: "Got a really crazy fanart coming up in the next 7-8 years. Stay tuned."

The word "fanart" is obviously edited in, probably via an Instagram story. End transcription.]

[solidwater-arts]

[ID: A doodle page of AveryTheMayo. She's drawn as a fat slime with short locs, some of them tied into a tiny ponytail with a scrunchie. The left side of his face is paralyzed, and he wears kandi bracelets. The rest of the design is canon accurate. /End ID. Full ID under the cut.]

Averyyy the slime ever. I chipped away at this in a span of like a month, I changed my style slightly halfway through and I had to redraw bits of it a few times. But it's done now! Be free, Avery!

[ID: A doodle page of AveryTheMayo. She's drawn as a fat slime with short locs, some of them tied into a tiny ponytail with a scrunchie. The left side of his face is paralyzed, and he wears kandi bracelets. The rest of the design is canon accurate.

The leftmost drawing is a fully rendered full body of him in a cutesy energetic pose, sticking his tongue out. Goop wears a light grey tank top, an open black button up with yellow flowers, khaki shorts, and pink flip-flops. The scrunchie he wears is lime green.

The top middle shows glows bracelets. Clockwise, they are:

An orange bracelet with green text reading "skywars god". A trans flag themed bracelet with mixed pink, blue and purple text reading "he/she/neos". A bigender flag themed bracelet with alternating blue and pink text reading "boygirl (pink heart)". A cluttered bracelet in pink, green and yellow with sparse red accents. It has star, heart and flower shaped beads, beads in different sizes, and mainly star charms, although there is a sword and a heart charm as well. It has text that reads "Avery", the A is pink while the rest is green. Finally, a cyan bracelet with pink and black accents and cyan-on-black text reading "Miku".

The top right shows blooms skywars look: bloom is orange instead of green, blooms hair is down (a note reads "no ponytail so he doesn't lose more hair ties to the void </3 [broken heart emoticon]"), and bloom wears a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and black overalls. Slime's leaning on a sword, a note reads "doesn't take care of weapons because they're temporary". There's two uncolored doodles: one of her wearing a Miku binder, and another of her blushing bright green and bringing her hands up to her chest. /End ID]

[solidwater05]

I made my design for the King SO self indulgent and pretty. Oh my god

[solidwater05]

Gaze upon It

[ID: A ballpoint pen drawing of the King in Yellow. It has three pairs of black antlers of varying size and a simple five pointed crown. Black light flares behind Its head as if the King Itself was an eclipse. Its face resembles a featureless porcelain mask, and it's covered by a see through veil. It wears many layers of robes, all frayed at the edges. Some of them resemble wings, some resemble tentacles. /End ID]

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[ID: doodles of the sfawtde cast suffering from the intense summer heat. Avery is sitting on the floor wearing only a binder and shorts, fanning himself. She's melting a little bit. D3r is wearing full armor and doing the family guy death pose. The King is eating ice cream. /End ID]

I finished this at 11:58 pm on new year's eve. The last few days of the year were really hot so I made them feel my pain <3

[solidwater05]

[ID: Seven pictures of a miniature of D3rlord3's book to Avery, as a Christmas ornament. The first three show it closed: it's bound in leather and has yellowed pages, and a dark red ribbon to be hung. The rest of the pictures show the inside; the writing becomes more and more panicked and frantic until it's entirely illegible. The second to last page, which contains the code, is legible but shaky, as if the writer was trying to keep it together for long enough to finish writing. /End ID]

My friend convinced me (read: vaguely suggested) to make D3r's book for this year's ornament so I did. I've never made a book before. This is the power of hyperfixiation.

There's golden paper at the start and finish and also the writing shines gold bc I went over it with a gel pen, but tumblr hates me so I can't show you the shinies 😔

[solidwater-arts]

Woe, Celine be upon ye!

[ID: Four pictures of a Minecraft skin of Celine, an android with dark blue skin, a grey navel piercing, a USB cord tail, and a grey TV head with simple teal eyes. She wears a grey crop top, a cyan leather jacket, dark blue jeans and black and silver boots with purple laces. Her jacket and pants are embroidered with purple thread. She also wears a purple belt and a purple over the shoulder carrier case for her AAC tablet.

In the first image she's posed to wave at the camera. In the second image she's standing in the default position, seen at an angle. Third image has two pictures: a front view and a back view. In the fourth image she's T-posing, seen at an angle that shows her tablet. /End ID]

I may or may not have spent all day working on this... I did the base colors yesterday and everything else today. Shoutout to TomiiStorm_ and BitShepherd, whose skins I referenced for the head!

[ID: The skin texture. /End ID]

There's a few pixels of difference between this and the renders because I realized too late that the buttons near the end of her sleeves would look better one pixel higher

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Lost where the forest would grow

[ID: A digital drawing of Kris and Dess, colored in roughly as if it was made with colored pencils. They are standing eerily still and far apart, drawn over a page completely covered in overlapping graphite drawings. There's so many drawings in the background, it's impossible to distinguish anything. There is a bright pink tree between Kris and Dess, painted over the overlapping drawings, and covering Dess' face. /End ID]

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[ID: The "go in the dark" meme, with drawings of Dess and FRIEND indicating that they're the ones speaking.

Dess: what are u trying to say

FRIEND: [sends a picture of its tail pointing into the darkness] go here

Dess: in the dark?

FRIEND: go in the dark /End ID]

Lost where the forest would grow etcetera