#whosplayerthree

[persnickety-doodles]

One of your works that is just korrasami cuddling was marked mature im trying to figure out if there is a way to fight this claim as someone who didn't post the art but just letting you know it happened in case you want to file a dispute because what the fuck

Thanks! I’ve tried to appeal it when I first noticed it. it’s been under review since 🫠

[chriskotiesen]

How do you think of your wonderful beasts?

Usually I start with really vague ideas for shapes or colour schemes and just make the creatures up as I go along. Most of the time I'm aiming to make something that has personality but isn't too easy to compare to any existing animal. If it's too boring then I'll weird it up a bit by rearranging parts or throwing on extra shapes. If it's too abstract then I'll swap in some more realistic animal features.

I saved some in-progress pics of yesterday's creature to step through the process:

I started by giving myself the very open-ended task of drawing a creature with a mouth in an unusual place. When sketching digitally I often like to forgo lineart and just play with blocks of colour.

Why is it crescent shaped? Why is it orange? I dunno. But I think that I can turn this into a body with the mouth at the centre of the mass. There are certainly weirder and more interesting places to put a mouth then in the belly, but I don't really know how this sketch is going to go from here. Maybe I'll put more mouths on the feet or something. Finding out is part of the fun.

Let's start simple. I figure that it should have arms to pick up food, as well as eyes and a nose to clearly define a 'head' somewhere away from the mouth. Okay now it looks like a creature, but not one that I particularly like. Also there's nothing between the nose and the mouth so it looks less like it has a mouth in its stomach and more like it just has a really big, weirdly-shaped head. I can fix that if I move the arms above the mouth. And I'll give it a tail and another bend in the torso to balance it out and make it less front-heavy.

Now we're getting somewhere. I'm starting to like this for reasons entirely unrelated to the mouth, so I'll just remove it completely. It's getting in the way of the rest of the anatomy. There's no client or art director dictating what I need to make here. The initial premise is just a jumping-off point and I can ditch it entirely if the design works better without it. I like this bug-eyed, cobra-hooded aardvark-centaur-dragon-thing. That seems like enough of a creature without throwing on extra features.

I try to keep my palette organized and only add more colours when they feel necessary. The countershading here helps to define the creature's shape a bit better and break up all of that orange, as well as just making it a little more realistic. I made the tail bigger just because I like what that does for the 2d composition of the picture.

Cleaning up the shadows also helps to make the volume read a bit better. The stripes help too, but I mostly added them to break up the orange some more and make the creature more interesting. I also started laying in some blobs of colour for a background. Now that all of the basics are in place it's just a matter of adjusting colours and polishing out details until I'm either happy with it or just sick of looking at it!

Done!

[peeledpokemon]

Can you please peel a Golem? I figure there's not much you can do with Geodude and Graveler, but I've always wondered what rockless Golem would look like...

for both you and @whosplayerthree , the Golem weirdos

they were all difficult for... different reasons. for golems it was figuring out a body. for the geodudes, it was a "what do i even peel?" i settled on rock. graveler came naturally after that.

[whosplayerthree]

Test

[slyandthefamilybook]

"#I'd say we're about a week or two away from “antisemitism doesn't matter anymore #and maybe a month out from “antisemitism is good actually” being bog standard for online leftists" I mean I've been seeing both of these admitted outright by some leftest tumblrs awhile ago so I fear that time has already passed.

sigh. yeah, I can't say I'm all that surprised

[vaspider]

I'm Jewish and so tired of trying to be strong and not "act like a victim" like I've been accused of. Do you have any suggestions how to turn your brain off even for a bit? The weight that even goyim who claim they care about Jewish people actually don't and would never come to our defense and we're alone is too much to carry constantly. Just, EVEN IF we do survive things, how many new holidays celebrating us surviving another calamity must be added to the Jewish calender before goyim care?

I mean I turn my brain off by watching shows I’ve seen a hundred times, playing Hearthstone, or painting new designs. I feel what you’re saying, though, and I’m sorry you feel that way. 

[beatcroc]

I never flung my wii remote but I sure did smack myself in the head with it at least once every play session back in the day.

HOW DID YOU HIT YOURSELF..IN THE HEAD...

i definitely whacked my arms and legs with it several times, but that was because i was wearing the strap

[ariel-s-awesome]

Concept: Lucio skin where he's just wearing a warm Hannukah sweater.