#the muns

[brimstoneandstardust]

 My brain is running on the slow side today luvs. Only a few more days until kids are done with school, and just coming off a busy weekend. The desire to write is there, but the focus is all over the place. 

GOOD NEWS THOUGH!! I’m taking a much needed vacation this week, so after tomorrow I will be much more free to work on things and hopefully get back to posting a little more regularly! There’s so much I need to catch up on! Thank you as always for your patience!

[ask-miraculous-norway]

Why does everyone like Fen so much?

Serious answer: Because he's smart and knows how to get his way and he's not afraid to do what he needs to get it)

Discord answer:

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[adolins-heart]

I'm not fluent in Riley-ese help????

[asktheslashercouples]

Duda(mun): welp, we promised to show ourselves, so... yeah, obviously these are my best photos because they didn’t show my skin allergy and all, but.. yep! That’s me :)

[ask-the-badgod]

Will we see another bad god dub video? It's been a long time since we got one

(Possibly! We would need more posts that are fitting to be dubbed over. We’re trying right now to mostly focus on getting things back on a stable consistent basis first!)

[ask-the-glitter-goops]

What's your progress on drawing Time and Space? They look so nice ~

((1: Panic2: Art3: ????4: PROFIT!!!

Ok, but seriously though. MunZ here! And I’m more than happy to tell you about our process owo

Before anything though, I should say that there is no one way we draw for this blog. We both have different styles and preferred methods of drawing and finishing things, and thanks to our schedules, answers get done how and when they get done. So, sometimes we’ll individually sketch and line/render an answer, sometimes one of us will sketch and the other lines/renders, sometimes MunO will send me a traditional sketch/lineart and I’ll finish it digitally. It varies a lot.

That said, here’s a gif I made of my process, doing it digitally from the ground up! If you’d like to read a little more about each step, I’ve put a more detailed explanation under the cut, as well as the still version of the finished piece.))

((1: Sketch

This is pretty self explanatory. I will note though that Time is a bit of a challenge for me as he’s a lot more animated than Space is. Still, his body is easier for me to work with.

2: Refined sketch

…I’m fussy and also a bit of a perfectionist. So a lot of the time I do my initial sketch with a big pencil, then go over it again with a thinner pencil to be certain of my line placements.

3: Lineart

The longest part of the process! I love doing linework, though it can be a challenge with the goops as they have very round heads and hands. Also what are heart shapes.

4: Colors

Thankfully this takes no time at all, so long as I’m doing it digitally. Thick outlines that are meticulously drawn and redrawn so that there are no gaps means I can just use the bucket tool, and since we have a set pallete, no time is spent choosing colors. I also add a gray background to color check. I have a set color I use for that in all my art. I should also note that I put every different color on a different layer for the goops. The reason is for the next few steps…

5: Shading

Their shading is pretty simple. Since I’ve put their colors on separate layers, I simply make a layer above and set it to be a clipping group. Then anything I draw that isn’t over top of where the color is filled in isn’t shown. I can easily throw a quick stroke of the shading color on them, then use the watercolor brush to blend out a bit of it, and it’s done.The shadows below them are just a bit of the watercolor brush, nothing special there.

6: Glitter!

This is the fun part. We have brushes meant for stars/glitter and that sort of thing, so it’s a simple matter to make another clipping group over any areas that need glitter, take a big brush, and go over them a few times! The glitter will even be divided up by color areas if you kept them separate, which I personally prefer. Each of the goops has a slightly different way I do their glitter. With Space, I’ll see where the most obvious paths are after a few random strokes, then bring those out a little with a smaller brush. For Time, I’ll give him a light background of gold glitter, add his swirls with another brush(the one I use for the blushes, actually) on a layer below that, then add extra glitter around the swirls with a smaller glitter brush. For the pendants and Space’s eye, it’s just a small version of the glitter brush.

7: Details

A bit of gold airbrush set to luminosity on Time’s gold areas(as well as the lockets), some light silver streaks on Space following the main trails of glitter, and some tinkering with his eye… and they’re done! All that’s left is to pick a gray for the background, and add any text if necessary.

All in all, to draw this image with both of them (with fairly neutral poses/expressions) it took me a little over an hour, without distractions.

Anyways, that’s it! Hope this answered your question, and thanks for asking! I love talking about this sort of thing. ^^ ~MunZ))

[ask-the-badgod]

(We’re moved in now properly and we have stable internet, yay!! And we were sent a Bad God game for us to play!! Double yay!!!

Here’s part 1 of our playthrough of it! New posts will be coming in the next few days!!)