Listen, lovers to enemies is great but that VERY SPECIFIC kind where it's "We were best friends and I was in love with you, but I never told you, and now it's too late to say all of the words I wanted to say. I hate you, yet you're still all I think about, and if given the chance where everything could be okay, I'd still choose you to be by your side", IS JUST *PERFECT*
WEDDING TIME!!! THEY ARE FINALLY HOUSBANDOSSSS!!!!!
wdym they were already engaged this whole time?? Poor Wukong he wont staying a SECOND more without marrying to his monkey. I think 2000+ years of engagement are more than enough for them.
Also finally it’s Wukong’s turn to break the door!
Shadowpeach Bio Parents AU - The End Credits (PREV/ FIRST / NEXT)
Final part is coming on March 25th, 1PM ET
So yeah basically the night before the whole fiasco with the brotherhood, these 2 idiots might have drunk a little too much and Las Vegased during the night by exchanging their scarfs as an engagement gift (which then used to make the handfasting robes in the last slide) after Mac shared his worried with wukong about their plan. He was too dumb of ass for Mac to say no to that face.
Hello! Im glad you enjoy swindle. And that's nice of you to ask, thank you!
There was a death in my immediate family back in May which has drastically impacted my everyday life. It's been almost two months now and I'm still not even remotely used to this new version of normal, but I'm remaining as positive as I can. I'm trying to keep things structured and not slip into anything bad and have been consistent with taking antidepressants. (I've never been good at taking them in the past but I've been very determined this time.)
I've been trying to focus all of my free time and energy into things that make me happy and avoiding making myself angry or irritated on purpose. I'm not the best at it but I think I'm making progress in that regard.
Writing has been very hard since the year began when I really started worrying about my Dad and my ability to write has really taken a nose dive since then. It feels like having to learn how to do it all over again. I'm struggling with it but I've been working on something simple and low effort. It's been around a month since I started and it's only 3k words but I think that's okay. I think I'll feel better when I finish it. Even if it's bad, at least I'll know I can still create things sometimes.
Overall I'm doing okay. Quite good I think. I don't usually bring up the big relevant life details and instead focus on the little things to talk about. I've been very chatty on this blog lately. It's a result of wanting to talk about every tiny unimportant thing that I get happy about during a very rough time.
I don't need help with anything. I'm doing quite well at helping myself. But still, very nice of you to ask.
Saw u were asking for asks so i was wondering what was the process in designing Tys character :)
Tagging @fox-faced as they had sent a fairly similar ask to @swindle-comic and I felt it would be more effective to kill two birds with one stone.
I am honestly so sorry for taking so long to answer this. This is going to be a fairly long post!
So, as far as designing Ty goes, it was mostly a process of learning how to draw bears. Specifically Disney bears.
When it came time to design Ty, I was definitely not practiced in the art of drawing cartoon bears. In fact, I was mostly doing Moomin fanart at this point, and was still trying to figure out how I wanted to draw DT17 characters in a way that wasn't just the style of the show. Ty's design hasn't changed much, conceptually, but instead has been heavily tweaked and refined as I simply got better and more used to drawing bears.
As Ty was, at the time of his creation, so derivative of Kit, my plan of attack was pretty much just "figure out how to draw a bear cub in the DT17 style" using Kit's design as a reference for drawing a Disney bear cub to begin with. Lolly had been the one to choose which species of bear Ty was, so I was trying to focus instead on his general aesthetic while translating the proper features over. Once again, I used Kit as a reference - or rather, his athleticism - and pushed it to the point where Ty looked very jock-ish (though you can blame my love for letterman jackets on that).
You can tell in a lot of my older drawings of Ty that I really hadn't actually gotten used to or properly figured this bear thing out, yet. His face, especially, looks extra blocky and awkward. However, these early drawings were where I quickly decided to make Ty fairly large and thick as a teenager. This was before I had really considered the idea that he grew up underfed, it was more just "I want to play around with this body-type".
Among these earliest drawings was also one of Ty and Louie as adults, where, again, you can tell that I hadn't quite gotten the hang of drawing bears, but you can see that from the very beginning I had wanted him to be a more top-heavy adult (mostly just to allow for some variety between him, Kit, and Baloo. As much as I do love Kit's adult design, Disney has a bad habit of copypasting character designs from parents to their children, and I really wasn't interested on continuing that trend).
I wasn't super confident on how I was going to properly refine this design, so his adult design ended up taking a back-seat for a while as I instead focused on getting better at drawing his teen design.
This was pretty much accomplished simply by drawing him more, and lord knows I was hyperfixated as FUCK on this funky little bear cub, so drawing him a ton was not hard to do. I think what really helped me figure him out were these drawings, here, where I had to really think about what angles I had him posed at, and how his features would properly look in a more 3D or dynamic space. This was also where I started looking at any details I wanted to add to his design (the stripes on his collar were introduced to his design at this point, for instance).
At a point, I felt as though I had gotten good enough to at least create some proper "stock" images of the boy to properly solidify his desgin and all the little tweaks I made. I think the differences between this and his very first drawings are more subtle, but you can DEFINITELY tell the difference between these drawings and my other early Ty drawings.
And interesting fact was that I hadn't been drawing early Llewerius art with the idea that Ty had gone through a growth spurt before they started dating, so you end up with sketches like this:
PART 1 OF 2 BECAUSE TUMBLR SUCKS AND WON'T LET ME UPLOAD MORE THAT 10 PICTURES EVEN THOUGH THIS TECHNICALLY QUALIFIES AS A TEXT POST (as it, for whatever reason, decided to switch to mobile mode even though I'm literally on a desktop computer, I hate this broken-ass website)
But the idea to make him bigger at this age ended up being made pretty quickly. That's why, shortly after, Llewerius sketches would look more like this:
And that's ultimately where all this visual development lead to - a clean timeline of designs that (hopefully) blend in well with the source material and (hopefully) look unique enough to have Ty stand out as a proper character.
(Fun fact! When Lolly was choosing what Ty's signature color should be, she had said "either orange or yellow" to help give him a unique place among the main six kids. I had thought that orange went the best with his already-established color palette, but ended up incorporating yellow into his adult designs!)
Some other tidbits about Ty's design are more to do with the bouts where he deviates from this model sheet. For instance, when he's in college, Lolly had decided that he would grow his hair out. I loved how his already long bangs played into this look!
Other instances include how Ty tends to dress on adventures. Naturally he has to look reasonably professional for his job as a psychiatrist, but this isn't necessarily his "casual-slash-adventuring" look.
I hope you enjoyed reading this! If you have more specific questions I'd be happy to answer them, I tried keeping things more general because character desgin and visual development is just such a long process of intention and accidents and refinement.
been wanting to draw the aftermath of Louie meeting @lollytea ‘s OC, Ty (click his name for more about him nwn)
technically Goldie wasn’t supposed to be in this scene but I liked making the direct parallels to Scroldie as well as compare Goldie’s reaction to the whole ordeal to Scrooge’s lol
domestic llewerius domestic llewerius domestic llewerius!!!! do you have any blessed content to share :-)
Sure!
So, I hc that Louie likes to cook cos I like to think that it helps with his anxiety. Meanwhile, Ty can't even use a microwave correctly.
Sometimes, when Louie hangs out at Ty's house, he'll make some food for the both of them to eat. Ty likes to watch him! As they get older, like college age, Louie becomes more open to actually teaching Ty how to cook because they're basically living in a dorm with just themselves and Dewey, making Louie the only one there that can cook and he's not even there all the time, so SOMETHING'S gotta change lol
@lollytea wrote this super inspiring dialogue between Ty and Louie and I absolutely had to get it illustrated! PLEASE check out her blog for more Ty Cloudkicker, he’s an absolute gift and I love him <3
Sorry this took so long to finish, but I’m pretty proud of how it turned out!
What’s your favorite thing about ty and louie’s relationship?
Disclaimer that I’m not always the best with words, but I’ll try to do my best to describe it.
I love the way they compliment one another.
Maybe a few days before Ty was brought into existence, I was thinking to myself about the kind of person Louie would end up with, given the way he parallels Scrooge. Scrooge has Goldie, and the two of them essentially understand and accept the flaws they share, but they also enable one another. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it works for them (especially given that their current counterparts are rather... immortal. It keeps the ball rolling for them, so to speak)
With Louie, who, fresh off the season 2 finale, was set up to learn from Scrooge’s mistakes, I thought that it would be fitting if Louie had a partner that understood, accepted, and shared some flaws with Louie, but also checked him rather than enabling him.
When Ty was thought up a few days later, I brought up just as much, how excited I was that Lolly also wanted to create a partner for Louie that paid homage to Scrooge and Goldie’s relationship, but fell in line with the idea of learning from their mistakes.
I do think that the two of them end up checking one another. Ty is there to keep Louie tethered to the ground when he starts getting outlandish (and “questionably” ethical) with his scheming and greed. Louie is there to remind Ty that the traits they share aren’t “inherently evil” no matter how often said traits are painted as such, that Ty isn’t a bad person even though he sometimes feels that way, because, to him, Louie is a “good evil person”.
And, ah, that’s another thing, the security they provide for one another. Louie is scared of most things, Ty isn’t. Ty can provide a lot of security to someone who’s so anxious by being so calm. At the same time, Louie is more used to processing and working through his fear because he experiences fear so often. Ty, who only experiences it rarely, has a lot of trouble dealing with it when it does rear its ugly head. Louie helps Ty by showing him how to help himself.
There’s so much more I could write but I could end up in spoiler territory and this post is already long enough. I love that they make each other better people and that they make each other feel safe nwn
Tumblr remains tumblr. Ah, well, I hope you don’t mind me answering like this, @tarrow-arrowwithat
I’ll try sharing stuff for their established relationship, since that won’t risk spoiling the events of Swindle (and I’ll make it Ty-centric, too ;) )
So Ty is not really used to being in a relationship, especially not a long-term relationship, when he and Louie get together. He’s also very much not used to being doted on by any of his peers, he’s a big, strong bear and all his friends are birds he can pick up (and throw) with ease. So when Louie treats him gently, cups his cheeks in his hands as if Ty’s jaw could break if he touched him the wrong way, calls him terms like “pretty” or “cute”, looks at him gently during a quiet moment - it all makes Ty’s brain short-circuit and he never knows what to do with himself. He doesn’t get dysfunctionally flustered or anything, but he might go a bit red, cover his face, and won’t know how to focus well.
[ID: A redraw of the Turning Red meme with Louie from the DuckTales 2017 fancomic Swindle. Louie stares with wide eyes at his notebook, where he’s drawn the comic OC Ty. He glares at the image while blushing. End ID.]
@swindle-comic Louie in the rest of his classes post-chapter 2
Louie’s Swindle design is so fun to draw although I can’t comprehend his lil hair tufts lol
I did a few things different than my normal duck style to make it look more like the comic just for funsies ig, and for clarity I DID straight up trace the Ty doodle from chapter 3
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