The Art of Everything

Xander, 23, he/xe. Please have a little grace with the way I word things, I’m autistic

[theartofeverything]

Hey y’all! I’m opening up commissions!

Give me a reference photo and I can draw anything. Characters, pets, robots, comics, backgrounds, even basic animations. I’m pretty much open to anything, including nsfw. (I may decline if I find something too disturbing to work on, but I don’t scare easy) I also do character design and would love to hear all about your blorbos so I can bring them to life for you.

I’m proficient in a wide range of styles and can imitate most anything you can show me some examples of.

I’ll be charging based on level of detail and complexity of design. Simple things like sketches and basic line work will be cheaper. Fully rendered scenes in highly polished art styles will be more expensive. Let me know what you’ve got in mind and I can give you an estimate 😁

Examples of my work and roughly what I’d charge for similar things:

~$10

~$15

~$20

~$25-30

~$35

~$45-50

~$55

*not all characters depicted here are originally mine. This is just for style reference

Oh, and also for my fellow artists, I really really love rendering. It’s my absolute favorite thing. Have a flat drawing you want rendered? Send it on over and I’ll do it for $10.

(And yes, this does include your own commission work. If somebody wants something rendered and you hate rendering, outsource that part of the process! I get paid. You get paid. The client gets a piece of art they love. It’s a win win win!)

[theartofeverything]

Attaching my updated master post so I can have both of these at the top.

🐢✨In This Together✨🐢

Fic

Prelude, Kendra x Shredder, The Grafitist

Comic

1, 2

Characters

Leon; Don; Angelo (sunrise) (mask); Raph; Venus; Bishop (designed with care); Karai; April (radio); Purple Dragons

Setting

Postapocalyptic New York; Lair

Charts

Height; Loving life/ Whose problem am I?

Turtles in their Twentysomethings

Leoraisagi; Comrads in Arms; Leosagi; Red Carpet Venus

Miscelanious

Turtle Tots; Leo & Donnie; Leo & Karai

You should be able to find anything else In This Together related be searching #in this together on my blog

[theartofeverything]

I think I’m a lot more visibly autistic now than I was as a kid. I stim a lot more. I shake my hands when I get happy or excited. My friend had to explain I had autism and that this was a happy behavior when we went out for food with some other friends of his and I started shaking my hands and rocking back and forth in my seat because I really enjoyed the taste of the food. I have lots of other stims that I do just because it feels very nice. I like rubbing things to feel the textures and making loud noises to feel the vibrations.

From an outside perspective it probably looks like I mysteriously developed much more severe autism in my early twenties.

As I was running my hands along some fabric this morning I thought about how it felt so much more lovely than anything I touched as a kid. It’s an experience I’ve had a lot over the past couple years. Sure, I could tell when a blanket was soft as opposed to course, but rolling around in one didn’t feel like heaven like it does now. And it’s not just that I somehow have much better blankets, simple basic things just feel better than they used to.

It reminds me of when I started seeing colors.

One day in ninth grade, I looked out my front window and saw a whole host of colors I had never seen before. The greens were so much greener and the blues were so much bluer. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, like everything before that point was only at half saturation. From that day on I saw the colors more and more often. It completely changed my experience of the world.

I found out after the fact that depression alters your ability to process color. When someone says the world seems cold and grey, it’s not just an expression. When you’re severely depressed your perception of colors gets greyer. I had been depressed for as long as I had visual memories of. I couldn’t remember a time when the world wasn’t mostly grey.

As my life has gotten better as I get older (I no longer live in an abusive household and have left behind a religion that gave ne extreme self loathing and anxiety), it seems like more of my senses have come back to full capacity. Things feel better and taste better than they used to, and it’s so exciting! I want to experience everything! My friends call me constantly stimulous seeking, but can you blame me? If you’d never tasted anything with sugar in it before now, you’d want to try any desert you could get your hands on.

So yeah, I rock back and for and flap my hands around because it feels nice in a way I wasn’t capable of feeling before. All that sensory input was getting dulled. I also get overstimulated a lot more easily now, but all in all, I’m much happier to have a wider range of sensations, even if some of it isn’t peasant. It’s worth it to me.

No, I was not ‘less autistic’ as a kid. I was just too depressed to experience autistic joy.

[fashion-runways]

ZULEYHA KURU Bridal Collection pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[azrael-corvidae]

IM DONE. IM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS DUMB BIRDS AFTER TWO MONTHS. KINDA MID BUT IDCCCC

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Not to be that guy but that's not a photo, folks. Painting.

[theartofeverything]

@iobsesswaytoomuch1 photorealistic but NOT photo of burbs for you

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Hey @candlecoo, I really love your comic 😄

[theartofeverything]

This week was my first time being a vendor at an art market. It was so much fun!! I’ve got so much inventory left over though, it’s craaaazy

Anywho, come and get some My Hero Acadamia art! Stickers are $3, prints are $15, and originals are $30

And yes, I can make more prints and stickers, so if ya like one of the originals that doesn’t have one of those, I’ve got ya covered ;)

(And I may be able to make you a deal if you’d like to get more than one thing, so if ya like something, let me know and I’ll see what I can do for ya)

[theartofeverything]

Big ol TodoBaku headcannon rant below the cut 😉

(Other finished illustrations here btw)

Bakugo is both Todoroki’s bisexual awakening, and aromantic awakening.

They get together as kind of a friends with benefits (or enemies with benefits, depends on who you ask) type thing. Both of them are kinda awkward about it, Todoroki because his only model of a ‘relationship’ is whatever the fuck was going on with his parents, and Bakugo because he just has… zero communication skills… besides yelling, but both of them do end up having a good time, getting to know eachother, and figuring things out about themselves.

The thing is, Bakugo cannot stop talking about Deku. He’s always complaining about “that damned nerd.” They’ll get done having sex and Katsuki’s already talking about the training he’s gonna do the next day to ‘leave that loser in the dust.’ And it takes Shoto a while to figure it out, cuz he’s not great at reading between the lines, but eventually even he can see pretty clearly that Bakugo is head over heals for Midoriya.

And once Shoto knows that, it’s pretty obvious how hard Katsuki is trying to flirt with Izuku. He’s doing all the same things he did to get with Shoto, it’s just not working, at all. He keeps finding excuses to be around him, sitting directly in front of him in class, striking up arguments over stupid things, challenging him to fights at every opportunity (Katsuki and Shoto made out for the first time after a sparing match), but Izuku just panics and runs off.

Katsuki of course takes this as a personal insult “Nerd thinks he’s too good to fight me?!?!” and cannot for the life of him understand that the poor boy is just genuinely scared shitless of him because Katsuki’s inferiority complex is IMMENSE and he sees Izuku as the more powerful fighter he’s gotta prove himself to.

And Shoto is just sitting over here, alternating between having casual sex with the guy and listening to him rant about the twink he’s actually in love with, and wondering if he’s supposed to feel jealous about it. Because he doesn’t. At all. Like, he thinks of Katsuki as a great friend and all and he enjoys what they get up to, but he doesn’t really have feelings like that for him, certainly nothing like whatever Kacchan’s got going on for Deku. In fact, he doesn’t think he’s ever felt like that about anybody.

Anyways, Todoroki’s very happy for the two of them when Bakugo and Midoriya finally get together. The three of them are good friends. Shoto and Katsuki still fuck every now and then as a precursor to catching up about life. Shoto WILL tell this story at Katsuki and Izuku’s wedding and the entirety of class 1A in the audience will DIE laughing. Kacchan will just regular die 😂

[theartofeverything]

I fricken love black and white y’all, I could do it all day long

(Other finished mha illustrations here 😁)

[theartofeverything]

Behold, the world’s most beautiful man

(Other finished illustrations here 😁)

[iobsesswaytoomuch1]

I missed a couple jams for a while but I finally got to participate in @weeklymagmas again! This week’s theme was dnd. I’m genuinely pretty happy with this one, even though the coloring was rushed and I barely got to shading/lighting (honestly it doesn’t look half-bad though…. hmmmmmm I might start doing that on purpose)

Anyway. Bard Leo :]

Thank you so much for hosting this every week!!!

[theartofeverything]

Boi

This is fucking amazing

Dude!!!!!!!! Oughhhhh, the flow of the composition?!?!!?!??! Those little golden gleams??? I can fucking feel the wind looking at this piece. I can hear it going through the leaves, and the flow and gurgle of the water.

My guy, I would put this on my wall and look at it whenever I wanted to feel happy and zen

Fucking amazing job

[theartofeverything]

Friends, I may be insane.

You ever read one of those crack fics where they shove two characters together that have absolutely no business interracting?

Well, apparently I’m doing this irl, for an all day road trip, tomorrow.

My 20 year old transexual genderfluid pothead witch buddy needs to rehome its pet rats with a friend on the other side of the state.

My 50 something year old Muslim professional chef neighbor from Tunisia needs to pick up some parts for his car, also on the same other side of the state.

So me, as the only person with a functional car out of all the people I know, had the rather insane idea of rolling these two quests into one. So now the three of us are going on a road trip.

Dear god, what is my life 😂😅

[theartofeverything]

What if I just drew them in fun outfits for the rest of eternity. What then?

[theartofeverything]

Picking up where this post left off talking about my new favorite character, that only exists inside my head 😭

Without even really realizing it at first, June ends up seeking Rhiannon out and trying to pick fights with her. Whatever drama Rhi’s causing, June finds a way to get in the middle of it. She justifies it to herself as standing up for her friends against the bully, but honestly, at this point, she’s having way more fun playing stupid games with the bully than hanging out with her friends (it’s a chess master versing off against a Rottweiler that keeps eating the pieces. Rhi may be a middle school politics master manipulator, but June gives absolutely zero shits about social rules R: “there’s no polite way for you to avoid admitting defeat now” J: “bold of you to assume I ever intended to be polite in the first place” *does a kick flip*)

Eventually, they are gonna have to work together on something, temporary truce style. Then they’re gonna get trapped in a room together, and after a battle of insults that ends with them both breaking out laughing, they’re gonna talk. And it’s gonna be the first real talk either of them have had in ages. And theyre spilling things they’d never tell a soul because they both know the other would rather die than admit this conversation ever happened. And June may be shit at picking up social ques, but she wants to kiss her so bad and she’s so close to believing that maybe, just maybe, the other girl wants the same thing.

And just as she finally works up the courage to lean in for it, Rhi puts a hand to June’s chest and says

“Wait, before you do that, there’s something you should know… I’m not a girl.”

And June just stares for a second in shock. But before Rhi has the chance to backtrack or explain, he responds

“Wait, really??? Cuz neither am I.”

[iobsesswaytoomuch1]

Anyone else feel like the future is too big to fit inside your head and it’s like you’re driving at 100 miles an hour with no brakes and no way to turn around and you just kinda have to blindly barrel along and hope you’re not shooting yourself in the foot and slashing your own tires? Like trying to fit a giant square block through a tiny triangle hole? Or is it just me.

[theartofeverything]

Hey there buddy, this is word for word (including the tags) exactly how I felt my senior year. It’s gonna be alright. You will NOT feel like this indefinitely. This seems to be a senior year specific issue. You’re almost though it. Hang on a bit longer and don’t be too hard on yourself. Things will get better very soon.

[theartofeverything]

Messing around with lighting, having more fun than should be allowed

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Yo, ya’ll wanna hear about a character I’m workin on? (Major spoilers for The Flipside, but it’s gonna take me years to get to it, if I ever do, so take it or leave it)

I’ve come up with a love interest for June, and he wears high heels.

So, June’s gonna accidentally end up signing herself up for the cheerleading team at her new school. (She lied about having a scholarship to impress some new friends, then panicked and chose the first thing she could think of to back up the lie) This is hilarious, and terrible for her, because she is the complete antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s grunge and antisocial and hates girly stuff with a burning passion totally not cuz he’s actually transmasc and it gives him excruciating gender dysphoria

A group of girls on the team are gonna try to take her under their wing and do the whole glow up makeover thing (which he’s gonna have a lot of conflicting emotions about) But just like any good tween girl squad needs, they’ve got a villain they need to warn her against, and that villain is Queen Rhi, captain of the cheerleading team.

Rhiannon’s 100% the whole mean girl package. She’s blond, pretty, and a total bitch. She’s bossy, power hungry, and sadistic. All the guys think she’s a bombshell but are low key scared of her. All the girls hate her guts but know better than to get in her way.

June of course, has no fear, no filter, and no respect for hierarchy, so these two are gonna have MASSIVE problems. June hates everything about this girl: her stuck up entitled attitude, the way she knows she can get away with anything because her daddy’s a major doner to the school, her infuriating habit of phrasing all her insults in a way that gives her opponent no way to respond without sounding pathetic. She even hates the clack of her stupid high heals.

Then they finally get into an actual fight and Rhi lands a punch squarely in June’s face and June… short circuits. Because how the hell can that dainty manicured hand hit so hard? And why the hell is she blushing because of it??

(Part two of the introduction to the character that has a death grip on my brain 😉😆)

[theartofeverything]

Painted this one cuz #1: I’m insane and #2: these two deserve a renaissance painting

First time trying to incorporate reflected light. Could be better, but I’m pretty happy for a first go at it 😊

(More MHA illustrations here 😉)