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Moving Blogs (2022)

So I’ve been thinking of moving this blog over to @digitaldesignation (no -art) sometime early next year.

Idk how obvious it has been, but currently this blog is a side-blog to my personal account that I made forever ago. As it stands this makes it kinda hard to reply to anyone who comments on a post of mine here without mentioning every time that it’s me, just on my main. I’d also like for my likes to show up as coming from digitaldesignation instead of my main in general. Reblogs take care of that, but I’d still rather it came from the one place. Plus of course I’ve done the “oops wrong blog” thing and had to delete and redo a post, so heck yeah I’d like to cut that step out.

One thing I will be doing differently is reblogging more tf oc and transformers art stuff onto my blog. Anyone who’s stuck around on my main account has probably seen me randomly start reblogging pics en-masse, occasionally at 3am XD I love seeing others’ ocs, it legitimately gives me so much serotonin, and I’d like to centralize being able to share cool babs I’ve found (maybe gush abt them a little in the tags) and focus on my own blog stuff in the same space. Since I’ve figured out a tagging system for my characters and (I think) how to create different pages for that stuff, it should be pretty easy to navigate once it’s all set up.

I will post an update when all that is ready, and also when I’ll be moving over for good. For now, feel free to go ahead and follow me @digitaldesignation! I will be starting to move all my oc refs and other art from the last year or so over eventually. This blog will be staying up once I fully switch over, it’ll just be inactive.

TL;DR

I’m moving to @digitaldesignation next year because this blog is a side blog and thus doesn’t do all I need it to! Go follow me there!!!!!

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Finished the storyboarding phase of the animation yesterday night! We’re on to the clean up phase!!!! There are a few areas I have picked out that I want to go back to and iron out, and I've figured out what I want to do differently/how I want to make those changes with most of them. So I will be working on clean up until I post the WIP. :D But as a recap, now that the rough sketches are in I’m prioritizing character details, environment details and clarification, and filling in some of the scenes I left pretty loose. Getting nit-picky with the sketches was something I struggled with, but counter-motivating myself with knocking out key/fun scenes like I’ve seen recommended in writing and leaving a “breadcrumb” trail of poses between really helped minimize the urge to hyperfixate on one thing. It left a whole bunch of sudden jumps to a static image series style, which I’ve seen some folks use to really cool effect and wouldn’t mind trying out in later projects, but if you’re like me and need help sometimes to keep momentum instead of going perfectionist mode this can really help. (I thought of it like I were doing a page of timed gesture sketches like in school, but if setting a short timer isn’t right for you doing a mini-checkpoint and reward system like a game might also work. Plus it’s fun to be a gremlin and yes I think putting on a Link hat and elf ears or whatever to really get in the zone is a valid part of this strategy. Thanks for coming to my TED talk lol)

The date for when the WIP will be going up is December 31st.

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Hullo

Quick post just so something's here lol

I'm AJ, aka digitaldesignation! I've had an art blog for Transformers and other fandom content on Tumblr already for a while as a side blog, but I'm finally moving over to a separate account. If you like art, robots, animation, or ocs feel free to stick around! :D I'll be steadily moving stuff over and setting everything up. Full move-in will be sometime in early 2022.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/digitaldesignation

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Went through all my posts today and tagged all of my OCs names in the things they’re in. Been wanting to do that for a while, so I’m stoked that it’s finally done. Next order of business is to make a tag list and just in general to remember to tag everyone’s names.

Progress!!! :D

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Just would like to note that ya boi has his autism evaluation scheduled for September! >:D

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Quick update:

So my area got hit by Hurricane Laura (two months ago, and we're still out of internet) and there's a category 2 hurricane heading this way :P

It looks like it'll hit Friday, not too much damage predicted since it's a low one.

My school passed out mobile hotspots today, so I'm hoping to just keep working.

The goal is to have some more non-school pictures up in the next month, but if I can't get to them this is why.

I hope you guys are doing well and keeping safe.

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Finals Are Coming...

My current to do list of assignments as Finals week approacheth:

French Ch 7/short recap (next week)

two circular letters (by May 7)

French letter essay, no specific length (by May 1) - letter translated, writing essay

French final (???)

Resume project - one page max (May 1)

revised assignments (???) - 1/8

Figure drawing final (April 30) - sketching

Figure drawing peer review (May 4)

363 part 4 (May 1) - 3 things left

363 final (May 1) - 25 min image recognition test

421 4/27 & 4/30 forum

421 test (May 7)

If I appear deceased after this week, you now know why. X’]

I have a whole bunch of scene work (mostly of transformers ocs) that I’ll be tackling after. Next to that will be my official Toa designs for that comic I’ve been procrastinating on LttM. I’m hoping to get a few adopts out soon, and commissions will also be opened. So ye, good things on the way!

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Art Trades (3/4 open)

Huzzah! Finals are done and I've got about three months of pent up art energy to blow, so I'm opening art trades!

This is open to any skill level, any species. I'll do cannon characters or ocs. NO NSFW. Suggestive/flirty is fine, injuries are fine, but no extreme gore or 18+ content. You may post several characters, but this is a one character trade!

I do like for like (shaded headshot for shaded headshot) so as long as I see some effort, I'll return it. I would prefer not to do fullbody stuff.

Please DM me if you’re interested and include the following!

Species: (transformers/anthro/demon/etc)

Character: (link to toyhouse/refs/etc)

Examples of previous art trades/commissions: (if you have a tag I can search please let me know)

Trade size: (headshot/halfbody/chibi)

Slots:

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