#march update

[ratanslily]

dino in his reputation era??

[storybookhawke]

I beg artists and creators not to abandon Tumblr yet. I understand wanting to throw it all away, but I think this can genuinely be overturned with enough feedback.

Jumping ship splinters fandom each time it happens, and I think it's worth holding on just a bit longer to see what happens.

[omaano]

SW Hades AU March-April Update

Some links and previous updates: May - June - July - August - September - October/November - December - January - February - everything else in this AU

I'm here with another two-month joint update because at the end of April I can hardly call it a March update, and truth be told I don't think I did much for this AU in the first month of spring anyway.

I started playing Hades 2 again, and made some progress with the Omega and Boba redraw of the Warsong update wallpaper :3 The more time that passes between posting and writing this the happier I am with this piece. Who could find all the gear that Omega wears from the Batch? 👀

Which cannot exactly be said about Sabine and Ezra as well, but I finally have something to show for them!!

Next up is Satine (now that I can show a small illustration in my skethcbook for her, it should go easy - I hope), and maybe Fennec or the Armorer. And lining Axe and laying down flat colors for him and Koska as well. I'm trying to get a drawing for all the missing characters and get them to the part where only detailed shading is missing. If my hand doesn't hurt too much at least ^^;

I'm also gearing up to drawing a new Ares!Boba too, but I'm still in denial about that ^^;

I did not have a particulrly good time with these drawings, I will be very honest upfront. I had to redraw Omega two times because I tried to line that piece in CSP and for some reason faces are just not happening for me there; It hadn't go well with Echo either months ago. I don't know what's up. The tilt of my tablet or that I don't have o zoom un until all I can see are pixels?? OTL

...and then the colours fought me something awful too. Between Boba and Omega they had red, yellow, green and blue covered, and all that with Boba's white flightsuit was not fun ^^; I don't know, I just cannot deal with that many colours - so figuring out what and how I should desaturate was quite an experiment in patience for me until they looked somewhat cohesive. Thankfully the added moonlight turned out to be distracting enough that I'm pretty much warming up to it all now.

I'm afraid I will have to use actual Multiply layers for the full shading.

And Sabine. Oh Sabine.

I've struggled here, big time, and I'm still deeply unhappy with her. I experimeted a lot in my sketchbook with her pose, but any time I thought I was finally on to something as soon as I went in to fix some minor anatomy issues digitally and add some details things just fell apart.

It was the tooka that messed everything up, I'm sure of it D: ^^; I wanted something to visually tie Sabine and Ezra together, and my decision fell on the little white tooka that was in Sabine's mural too at the end of Rebels. But now Sabine's shoulder had to stand in a way that the little critter can perch on and judge from...

Honest to god I almost cried with relief when I came across Eurydice in Asphodel when I switched back to playing Hades for a bit, and realized that she has the lean and attitude in her pose that I was looking for with Sabine. So it was either the coward's way out, or to throw the entire project out the window and become a hermit in the mountains or something.

You can see which option I picked XD

I am deeply, deeply fond of Ezra however Q^Q He was so cooperative after a few initial testing sketches, his hair is perfect, I didn't forget his scars, and I will find it in me to forgive his weird not-really-chainmail shirt, because that one I did to myself XD

I also finally got around to drawing a quick sketch for Fennec - for a hot minute I was very very tempted to pick for her a pose that's a lot closer to Widowmaker from Overwatch, but the vibes just didn't quite match. That was a very sad realization :'(

(Yes, I took the picture after Satine bled through the page in all her alcohol marker glory, yes, I regret it, and no, I cannot relably draw faces on paper. It is a real tragey. I'm in mourning.)

And just so that I cannot really sigh in relief, Leia is my next struggle. I still don't know how to make her work, and it's been months. Terrible. Horrible. Really really bad. Why am I even trying...TT^TT

So that's it for this month. It's both less and more than how it feels, and I'm also kinda losing a bit of steam - my mind is at re-drawing the entire background section for the House of Hades, so on the backburner i'm trying to cook up various background elements to fill the halls up with. Hades is such a beautifully designed game with such amazing shapes and colours, and Star Wars is such a different style especially when it comes to decorations... So there is a lot of cooking that will have to happen here. But I spent a not insignificant part of my last week (I'd been sick, I could get away with it) watching Drawfee speedpaints (they are so fun and so educational sometimes) and Jacob really popped off in one video creating a pixel art game of some sort? And ever since all I could think about is how and IF I could make my pocket Din move through my version of the Hades AU. Just a section of it. I'm itching to draw the backgrounds, but goddamn I am tired, so I just keep distracting myself from the important character art stuff with these daydreams X"D

I also very badly and incredibly distractingly want to re-draw Boba - I've drawn him so long ago, and it feels deeply unfair that I tried to puzzle out the style on him - and while Din got his upgrades bit by bit Boba just didn't. Also. Ares. Ares looks so good in his character art just sitting around like that - all casual-like - and Boba also has his trademark sprawl and... Look. I'm back to Boba being my most favourite clone, okay? I miss him. I miss drawing him. There.

Okay, rant over. Maybe this way I will be able to concentrate again XD Here's to hoping 🤞 I hope you guys are doing better with your creative projects! ❤️ See you all in May! Hopefully with something a bit more substantive and some proper links, not just wips like these ^^;

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[asmeesh]

March Ko-fi Supporter / Crow Bro perks are up!

https://ko-fi.com/Post/Crow-BroSupporter-Perks%c2%a0%c2%a0March-2026-N4N01V4MQK

Includes: Exclusive Thylacine phone wallpaper • Otter pin exclusive sneak peek • Board game publication isights • Skateboard design process • And more :)

[theburnedoutnerd]

March - Week 1

Accomplishments

Read Black Girls Don't Cry by Alex Travis (March 1 - 2)

Read Omega's Lust by Beatrix Arden (March 2)

Started Strange Buildings by Uketsu (March 4)

Walked 12 miles. (March 1 - 7)

Goals

Walk 10 miles

Finish Strange Buildings

Watch a documentary (currently undecided)

Go to the museum

[reddeadrarepair]

March Interest Check Update!

Hi all! I am happy to announce that The Interest Form for a potential Red Dead Redemption Rarepair Event has officially been live for one month!

In light of this arbitrary milestone, I thought I would share with you all a little post about all of the wonderful responses I've received so far, because there's been quite a bit more hum-drum about it than I had truly anticipated!

Three Small Updates:

I think I am going to keep this form open until May 1, with a monthly update like this on the first of April and May to keep everyone in the loop! That way, there is enough time for everyone who may reasonably see this form to get their two cents in, but a limit so I'm not just keeping it open indefinitely instead of actually formulating the event itself lol.

I have made a Dreamwidth Account for the Event! Check it out Here. This will mostly be for announcements that I have on Tumblr as well, but if you prefer DW for updates/fielding questions, it's here for you! There is an Intro Post on the page that you can send questions to!

On a related note, my Tumblr DMs haven't been processing for some reason, so if you want to reach me directly with questions/suggestions/chitchat/etc., please do email me at [email protected] or use the Dreamwidth intro post. If you'd like an anonymous option, my askbox here is always open, and works as it should!

Now for the Fun Stuff: The Ships and Stats! (Below Cut for Brevity)

Some Preliminary Stats:

Current # of Responses: 25

Responses Denoting Some Interest in the Event: 25 (100% of responders!!)

Most-Voted Event Format(s): TIED with 19 votes each are Fandom Exchange & Event Week! But tbh all of the options have 15+ votes so far: the margin is pretty narrow so I will have to consider this question a bit futher :)

The Ships!!

For context, the interest form has a for-fun question at the end, asking the responders which their favorite rarepairs are! Here's what people have said (it's really an amazing variety of pairs, I am beyond thrilled to see them!)

So far, we've got (in very loose order by mentions & character):

John/Charles (in 4 responses)

Arthur/Albert (in 4 responses)

Arthur/Kieran (in 3 responses)

Sadie/Charlotte B. (in 2 responses)

Molly/Karen (in 2 responses)

John/Javier (in 2 responses)

John/ Bonnie M.

John/Mary-Beth

Arthur/Micah

Arthur/Molly

Arthur/Mary

Arthur/Annabelle

Arthur/Trelawney

Arthur/Sadie

Arthur/Abigail

Arthur/Karen

Arthur/Mary-Beth

Arthur/Hosea

Arthur/Dutch

Kieran/Molly

Kieran/Bill

Hosea/Bessie

Jack/ Francis S. (OMG the AU potentials for this!!)

Tilly/Mary-Beth

Tilly/Javier

Tilly/Sean

Sadie/Mary (same ToT)

Dutch/Micah

Dutch/Colm

Hosea/Dutch/Trelawney (OT3!! Woo!!)

Dutch/Saint Denis Police Chief (Okay unnamed NPC drop! I'm here for it!)

Molly/ FGM (Female Gang Members)

Micah/Various Fem. Characters

Colm/Various Fem. Characters

That's SO MANY RAREPAIRS 🎉!!! I am definitely going to be looking into a few of these!!!! There's a few that I recognize and expected like Bill/Kieran, John/Charles, Kierthur, VanderMorgan, or Arthur/Albert, but honestly a lot of these were new to me, or ships I had only previously looked up out of curiosity (like my current fave Sadie/Mary). I loved to see an OT3 in there, and an unnamed NPC with the Saint Denis Police Chief! And of course, I have to shout out the five femslash responses on Femslash Febraury! So much Molly love here, it's a beautiful thing to see ✨ Also love seeing some RDR1 represented in here with John/Bonnie and (implicitly I guess) Jack/Francis, and some pre-canon ships with Hosea/Bessie and Arthur/Annabelle! Exploring the great potential for ships in this fandom is what I'm all about! A whole lot of Arthur ships, but I guess that makes sense XD

[topgunwipclub]

hate to say it but it IS the 🚨🚨 last full week of March 🚨🚨 which means –

it's time to floor it and get those WIPs posted/completed/updated! or face Slider's judgment :(

If you signed up for a brand new WIP (as opposed to signing up with an ao3 link), please make sure you let us know when it's been posted so that we don't accidentally miss it! We'll be checking ao3 accounts but just in case the summary doesn't match the submitted description right away--you can send us the ao3 link via tumblr or discord!

love ya lets get writing,

JpEG