#guessitslick

[dottie-n-stripes]

Stripes: Hey Dottie, are you doing alright? You look like you need rest. | Dottie: After having a dream where Sherry was engaged to my mom and another one where you said the fuck word I've decided that it's best if I just,, don't,, sleep at all.

sleep? i dont know her

[habitat-two-point-oh]

Hey Dallas! Do you remember the graffiti that used to decorate the walls in the original habitat? I know that most of them were just pictures of Habit, but it might be nice to paint some new murals around the place with different artworks!

[b4kuch1n]

hi your art style is amazing??!?!?! like holy shit??!!??!??!?!?! Your usage of sharp angular lines and pencil shading is fantastic!!! If you don't mind me asking, do you have any tips for art and sketching? (Also I'm sorry if I used too many ?'s and !'s but I'm just,, really excited rn)

!! thank you very much!! I’m really glad you like the way I do lineart haha,, 

about tips; honestly I’m. not incredibly mindful of how my art comes to be, so I usually have nothing for questions like this one,, I have some speedpaints up on my Youtube channel (that I will hopefully update soon if I remember to actually record the stuff I do) if you wanna check out my process!! otherwise I just did like. a few small sketches separately while actively look at them djskh and here’s what I got out of that:

- at least in your own time, it’s better to get it done than to get it perfect. I literally just tell myself repeatedly “leave it to when you do lineart” while I sketch, and then when lineart comes I have literally forgotten about all of my expectations. that might just be my brain at work but also like. in general I think your art will outlive your first idea of it. tldr Just Do It™

- if you want a small ink piece to look pro you just gotta be mindful of where the light source it, be vaguely aware of the shapes that make up your figure, and black the shit out of the side opposite to the light source. I genuinely did that so many times, like sketching the general shape, doing a quick outline, then paint bucketing the whole thing. nobody knows whether you have a specific plan for that black mass or not. sometimes not even you. magic

- you know why I do a lot of straight lines and angular shapes now? it’s because I got tired of drawing the same curve over and over trying to get it correct to the sketch. you can’t fuck up a curve if it’s made of smaller straight lines. and it has the bonus of making curves pop when you do use them! so fuck it why not

- the way I’ve been breaking down the blackout ink side of the recent pieces, or the transition space between, is honestly purely decided by instinct. but I guess that means that I go with the things I find interesting or fun to look at? I love triangles/fragment-like shapes in art, so I just put a lot of them in. if you like something small that you’ve seen someone do in their art, I think you should put that in your art too. 

- flipping your canvas definitely helps. blacking out the whole shape you have going on also helps. especially if you want a gesture your character does to be clear. 

- if there’s a shape you have a hard time drawing, the best way to do it is to develop a mildly unhealthy obsession with it and never stop focusing a bit too hard on it in every piece you do. thats me with shoes. every time I watch gokaiger I spend the whole opening staring at their boots. you just gotta condition yourself into practicing. even better if you can skip the conditioning part

- before you start a piece you have the intention to finish, it’s good to open a small canvas and just do squiggles and parallel lines and quick circles. like just expel all the shaky hand juice outta you before you start. I’ve been doing warmup like that before commissions recently and it definitely helps immensely

and that’s it for the time being I think!! I hope any of that is of help to you at all,, and thank you again for the really nice ask!!

[habitat-two-point-oh]

What a lovely flower pin!! Who gave that to you?

[dottie-n-stripes]

Dottie: "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to splat my classmate! I was just... getting into the sporty spirit, y'know? Like the turf war matches after school" | PE Coach: "𝘋𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭"

i think imagining her saying this during say, a yoga unit would be even funnier

[dottie-n-stripes]

I am LIVING for that pink/orange/blue color scheme in the work doodles oh my gOSH THAT pALETTE IS SO PRETTY

thank u! the color combination light blue and yellow always gives me great joy now probably no doubt a result of these two. also ive been in love w pink on stripes...

[dottie-n-stripes]

Ok the cakebrush and the recent cakeslosher just makes me wonder how the other main weapons in splatoon can be repurposed into cakes,,,

the world is our oyster................

[dottie-n-stripes]

fun OC ask time: What do you think each of your OCs' functions would be if they were integrated into the Transistor, and how would the functions work? I started playing Transistor again last night and this thought popped into my head djsgkhskdjghs

YYYEET GOOD TASTE MY GUY since ive been bumming around on vacation ive had a lot of time to just think about and make up shite so i even wrote out whole trace profiles for each function and then that led to me making a whole dumb transistor au thing that i’ll probably jump on when im back home LMAO anyways;

dottie: zip() - several rapid low-power blows followed by user jumping backward away from enemy

stripes: HONESTLY i think he’d have something very similar if not identical to the already existing help() function……. ive tried thinking hard for somethin special for him but he really would prob make enemies fight for u/heal u up somehow…

linus: scan() - replicates an enemy’s move back at them

sherry: faze() - causes enemy to become confused and attack indiscriminately for an amount of time 

darius: skip() - attacks random distant enemy through a portal (think how the spine attacks with its tail thru portals sometimes…)