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Mao walking her 5 dollars Mao
If tumblr turns into a pale Twitter copy, I'm unsure what I'll do. probably abandon the site in terms of posting art, but this isn't guaranteed. I do think about holding a blog on a barren different site would be nice for myself. Tho I'll miss how nice people were here if I do end up going that route
I made a Twitter once in 2021, just to kill it not long after, because tumblr was always more pleasant anyways. And less socials was always the better option for me. It's honestly maddening to see higher up thinks making it into a copy is what's going to save their sinking ship of a site. Maybe it's on purpose so they can shut it down faster I guess.
Something you should all know is that maanul would find balding patterness in humans to be attractive / cute because it makes them think of their own feather crown patterns on their faces
baby's first spec bio is "they do this just like x animal!" and then refining it into stranger ideas or things that feel more creative. Me with Altuyur, where most things were "they're just like birds for this regard" and how my life is now about modifying those older ideas into a picture I'm more content with.
My unmedicated ADHD makes everything 10x harder. I somehow made a full 3d model with textures at 17 years old, then completely forgot how I did so after i have up on riging. Especially since I can't sit through tutorial videos. I haven't found how to do this again or what method of learning blender works best for me. UGH!
I need pills!!!!
What do you do with artworks that can't be finished, would take too much effort to correct everything?
(For example, you became aware of a mistake in the anatomy but has been shading for hours.)
Just let them go and maybe start over? Or wait a few weeks and then finish cleaning it up?
I'm asking because "species builders" usually have a clear idea of their creatures and tend to be attentive to the correctness. At least for the main images of their characters.
2026 - I draw on a single layer, even in programs that let me have more than one ( like rebelle, paint tol SAI). It has become automatic to just not bother with layers unless I really really should, but even then, I'll merge it so it's only one. If I see an anatomical issue, I'll paint over it. Which usually works. I've become okay with the act of painting over and changing it drastically if i need to. I don't have the issue of line work with all the color under to change if It's all one layer and doing actual line art pisses me off too much. If its something that isn't really fixable, I just try to finish the piece anyways. I've posted pieces where I realized, as time go on duringthe process, that it looked off. It's true that sometimes, yeah, I do need to stop looking at it for a day or longer before I go back and fix it. I know whats wrong with it but i'll learn from it next time i draw. If do not finish, then i'll just keep in my files. I don't delete any of my art, I've got everything from sketch canvases saved, with so many nothing doodles, to full pieces, all that go back to years ago stored. it's good to be able to look back. It's nice to see what has changed, to point at my work and see where I improved and where I've been stagnating. I like it. I'll say this as someone who posts online, but you don't even have to share everything you make anyway. Some things, even if they didn't look off, or if they looked super off, can stay with you and not be thrown into the public eye.
I'm not 100% sure what you're asking in the second part, but "Species builder" is kind of a funny name What I notice in the spec bio community, including myself, is that yes, we have a clear idea of what the species looks like in our mind, and we try to pay attention to it in every drawing. But it is a whole other skill to learn to draw your own sophonts correctly. There are many sophonts I've seen, where the design did not change ever, but what has is the better understanding of how they should be built, more muscle, more fat getting added, and proportions changed. Getting a grip at your own aliens is not easy. Of course, people get new ideas on how they work too, maanuls and kyhuines design didn't really change, aside from posture, what did is how their body works and moves. Thus art style changed too. Examples!:
Shout out to all of my friends who went through the skinny twig alien to more fat and muscle evolution
Just wanted to say your interpretations of the ss14 species are so awesome and swag if there was a station/server that used them it would be sick as hell
Thank you so much! I used to think I was going too off track until I realized people who play the game do enjoy seeing it. My friends and I sometimes think about it for fun, how our sophont interpretation, or how our own original aliens would work if they were in-game.
Tho that would never happen since I don't have the mental strength to battle with spaghetti code, and I'm not very skilled in pixel art either. But it's entertaining to think about anyways
You people will call anything a dog like its the only thing that exist on earth