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Thinking abt my boy I love him

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have you heard of updog

As a matter of fact I have, it happens sometimes around here

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also ❤️ LOVE BLAST

[Prompts]

❤️ Love - Draw your OC with their romantic partner(s)

PBnShep surprise from-behind hug !! Feels like its been way to long since I drew just the two of them :3

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Hold Your Breath a Little Longer, Let's Go Dancing Underwater!

My 150th Art Fight attack!! I wanted to make a mass attack that included a bunch of my friends, and I'm really happy with how it came out!!

The title is a line from Dancing Underwater by Brave Shores, which is a song I absolutely love <33 And each pairing is a pair of OCs from some of my friends! I've also never really done an underwater setting before so this was kind of a wild swing at it but again I really like how it ended up!!

The characters here are, not necessarily drawn to scale other than the individual height/size differences in their respective pairings lol. If they were, the pokemon OCs would be teeny in comparison to like, 6ft tall human/anthro OCs lmao. I would've loved to include more of my friends in here with their character pairings, but I just genuinely didn't have the time or the space on the canvas lmao

So included here, we've got (going clockwise from the top right):

Juno [right - he/him] and Skai [left - he/they/aer] for @macaronichewtoyz

Jewelbug [left- she/it] and Boots [right - she/her] for @clear-valley

Connall [right - he/they] and Drystan [left - he/him] for @lesbianluxray

Cyrus [left - he/him] and Hellebore [right - she/they] for @faaarawayyy

And then my boys PB and Shep in the middle :3

This was such a fun piece to work on and I'm really happy it turned out as well as it did! I'm glad all of you who are included in it liked it as well hehe :3

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Touch Stars

A very special drawing to commemorate 3 years of PB and Shep being paired together as bfs <33 Their anniversary was this past Friday, the 5th, I just didn't get the chance to make this until yesterday.

Their pairing holds a lot of significance to me, not just because they're some of my main sonas and among my favorite OCs, but I decided to pair them together at the same time that I came out as biromantic, so they'll always be connected with that for me <33

I've had this particular idea of the two of them stargazing in mind for a long time now and I'm really happy with how this turned out

I also made this drawing into a speedpaint for the first time in over a year! If you wanna check it out, it's here!

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should i send my friends random fun oc questions every day? maybe i will im starting with you. Which of your ocs would hide under the bed and who would they drag under the bed with them

A) Yes you absolutely should

And B) I think when they were friends as kids, PB would hide under the bed and would drag Shep under there with him like this

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Happy Bi Day!!

Since I broke my drawing tablet's USB yesterday and my new cable's not getting here til Monday, I can't draw anything for today unfortunately (I might make a belated piece if I can find the time). So instead, here's a selection of some of my fav Bi-centric pieces from over the last two years or so :]

Dates drawn: 1. June 3, 2023 2. January 7, 2022 3. September 23, 2022 4. May 5, 2021

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Decided I want to post this big project I did back in late May/early June! This was made to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the release of Owl City's album Cinematic, on June 1st! It'll be a long post, so just be aware of that lmao

Since I started listening to Owl City again earlier this year, Cinematic has become my favorite album of his and one of my all time favs in general alongside Abandoned Pools’ Humanistic and Beat Crusaders’ EPop Making!

So with that, I wanted to draw something based around each song! With 15 songs on the album (not counting alt versions), they all translated nicely into pieces for this project! I also included a film border around each piece to tie them together, as well as due to the fact that on the album itself, each song is about a different experience or memory Adam Young has had throughout his life. He's said that he felt like writing these songs was like watching scenes from a movie, hence the name Cinematic!

As a sidenote, 4 of my characters (Shep, PBnJ, Rye and Pumpernickel) are in a cover band together called Let's Get Back!, and in addition to just celebrating Cinematic, this would also sort of be a cover album by them, hence why it says "Let's Get Back! presents" on the banner :] I'll post more abt Let's Get Back! down the line, but if you'd like to read about them now, you can check out their info hub! These pieces are almost all just Shep, despite Let’s Get Back! being a 4 member group. But since Owl City is just Adam Young, having most of these just be Shep made more sense haha

Piece by piece/song by song breakdown below the cut :]

Track 1: Fiji Water!

A song about jumping into something new and going wherever the ride takes you, since it was about Adam’s experience with signing onto a record label. The water slide vibe just felt rlly fitting here and was really fun to work with!

Track 2: The 5th of July!

Considering I was born in January rather than July like Adam was, I wanted to make this one as young Shep enjoying the fireworks, as they’ve always been something that’s fascinated me :]

Track 3: All My Friends!

My second favorite song on the album!! It’s so joyous and fun I love it so much! Of course, had to draw Shep with all his friends! This piece by far took me the longest out of all of these at more than two days lmao. It features (from left to right): Starburst, Rye, Luau, Shep, PBnJ, Pumpernickel and Wilkołak!

Track 4: House Wren!

Another joyous song about looking for a new house and having a song to sing while doing so. Just Shep listening to the house wren sing it’s happy song, simple yet effective :]

Track 5: Not All Heroes Wear Capes!

A really sweet song Adam wrote about his dad. To capture that sort of innocent admiration, I drew something Shep would have drawn for his dad at 8 years old and I think it came out super sweet <33

Track 6: Montana

I love the feeling of grandeur in this song, with lyrics about how enchanting and spectacular the landscape of Montana is! I’ve never been there myself, but I’ve seen pictures and yeah, it’s definitely amazing! So Shep is out there enjoying the amazing scenery

Track 7: Lucid Dream!

A much more abstract song to balance out the others, I wanted to capture the very, floaty starry vibe of this song for lack of a better term haha. I really like the simplicity of it! I also love the line in the song about being a light sleeper, but a heavy dreamer

Track 8: Always!

This is the one song on the album that doesn’t quite hit the mark for me, and that’s because it’s a song centered around faith. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, I’m just not a religious person. So I decided to interpret the meaning as always having a person you can love and count on to always be by your side, hence why I did it with Shep and PB, who in addition to being bandmates, are also bfs hehe :]

Track 9: Cloud Nine!

Another one of my favs, this is such a PBnShep song <3 What I went for here was a look like they’re outside stargazing and Shep is telling PB how much he cares about him while pointing out some of the amazing things in space

Track 10: Winners Never Quit!

A nice and cheerful song about never giving up and keeping on! I love the message of this one and it’s sort of retro chiptune vibe. Pretty straightforward here, just Shep with a big checkered flag for reaching your personal finish lines!

Track 11: Madeline Island!

My personal favorite out of the three travel related songs on the album (this, Montana and New York City), this one has the same feeling of grandeur that Montana does, but even more so! I also love the story of a camping trip to this island in Lake Superior, so I decided to do that! I also stylized it a bit with colored lineart for the landscape and I rlly like how that came out! Another piece that's up there as one of my favs from this project hehe

Track 12: Be Brave!

A song about the night Adam met his girlfriend at the movie theater, this is another very sweet song with a message about believing in yourself and well, being brave! Shep tends to get flustered and nervous sometimes when meeting up with PB, especially early on, so this song fits him well

Track 13: New York City!

The boys take a trip to NYC and look up at the spectacular Empire State Building! Having grown up about an hour outside of NYC my whole life, I don’t quite have the same ethereal view about it that others might, but I won’t deny it’s impressive! The Empire State Building especially is one of my all time favorite buildings :]

Track 14: Firebird!

A song about growing up, this is another one I really love. I feel like a staple of childhood is sitting with your friends outside at a wall or something similar and just talking abt life and enjoying each other’s company, so that’s what I went for. It’s another simple piece that I really enjoyed making as well as the final result!

Track 15: Cinematic!

And the grand finale!! Cinematic is my favorite song from the album and my second favorite Owl City song overall, just behind Rainbow Veins!! After all of these songs that Adam wrote from his experiences, this song feels like a magnificent culmination of that and a passing of the torch to us to go and be the stars of our own movies and lives! It’s such an amazing song with a fantastic message and I can’t get enough of it! I also used some new brushes to make the film strip and I’m actually super happy with it!

So all in all, Cinematic is my favorite Owl City album and one of my all time favorites in general. Every song is unique and brings a great message and story. This project, although very time consuming, was an absolute blast to work on and brainstorm around. This album means so much to me and I really hope I was able to showcase some of that here. Please go give it a listen if you’ve never heard it before, or even if you have and it’s been awhile! I know there’s a lot of people who don’t like Owl City’s newer stuff, but give this one a fair shake! (Coco Moon is a fantastic follow up too btw hehe) So overall, thank you Adam for making such fantastic music for so long now and I can’t wait to see the show in Indianapolis later this year!!