Tony Jhonson

I do art, animation and cosplay

[owlyhouse]

CALEB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[witchbugs]

screaming crying throwing up have the obligatory netflix trip edit

[astraskylark]

I love that they did this

[tony-jhonson]

You just know that they did it for us...incredible

[tony-jhonson]

Just finished watching the episode and i had to pause every few seconds on the post credit scene. Sometimes ending of these cartoons make you feel sadness, bit of emptiness and incompleteness. I know i felt that with the finale of SU and Amphibia, like it didnt feel as a real finale. Owl House series went through hell in production with Disneymen cosplaying the Belos himself, and trying to ruin the cartoon as much as they could. And you would expect in this situation for a finale to feel rushed and unfinished like how I felt with cartoons I mentioned before. But amazingly not at all! It feels fully wraped and finished and I really loved it. Seeing the gang grown and happy really settles down the feelings about the series and does work of letting them go i guess. Which again, didnt feel watching other series's finales, although they did the same trick. Here its somehow different. It's great. Everything that could seem off in the season 3 just doesnt matter, because you are keeping in mind the fact that producers were forced to sum up the story and this is how they managed to do it. Actually, seing that TOH plot ist flawless, following social media's of voice actors, knowing all the wrongs behind the production somehow makes you feel like you personally know the artists and writers as if you all are animation students from one big school. Or perhaps one magic school. When I was little I was inspired to dive into arts thanks to ATLA because of its amazing perfectly builded story. Now that I am older and I want to work in the industry someday, Dana and her crue inspires me in a whole new way - by not giving up and pushing though and still making a great product no matter all odds. If it was me I would probably give up but Dana showed all creative people out there that no matter what happens, you can still make a project work out. A great lesson to learn. A big inspiration and a role model. I think I will take this as a final kick to go start writing my own plot. And also should probably finally do some fan-art, was thinking of making a King-inspired mug, and after watching the finale I am now certain that I wanna make one.

P.C. Actually I just remembered when was the last time I personally felt that finale was completed, talking about the ongoing tv series, and it was Gravity Falls.

[tony-jhonson]

Reupload of some WIP I posted in this blog before. Felt like they deserved a сompilation. Now these serve as sweet memories with how they managed to capture exact dates of the work.

[tony-jhonson]

These are the only good photos I was able to take during the festival, as unfortunately, I couldn’t make it in time to the official photobooth at the con to get proper pictures of my cosplay* You can kinda see that the costume is already falling apart on them (they were taken near the end of the con) - the beard’s peeling off, knee-pad missing and paint’s coming off of the glove. But I think it’s actually a good post to show that it’s quite common and overall ok, for costumes to fall apart after convention👌  (So dont forget to bring tape and glue with you) You can see the full look of this costume in pictures taken on stage in a post below. Despite everything, I am still very happy with this work, and believe that for my first cosplay, it was a very good job!

*After some self-reflection I decided to do some justice for my old-self by fixing up some of my old posts describtion. At the time, due to my self-worth complex,  I couldnt see the problem. But now I view it as an important part of my artistic journey and a good lesson that I’ve learned from an unpleasant experience. My first few cosplays were done entirely for my cosplay friend-group. And it taught me well to never make art-projects just for somebody else (not refering to work, of course) do it for yourself, first and last, period. In this case, due to my team’s poor behavior I didnt’ make it to the official photobooth at the con. It’s not crucial, just unfortunate, as it was a great chance for the first costume work that I’ve done. Problem was less in the photosession itself and more in the circumstances. We agreed on a TF2-group photoshoot, but they refused to proceed on the agreement by continuously delaying the time of photosession until the festival was over. Only later I realised that it was an intentional action as they planed to do their own photos anyway. This, and many others situations could’ve been avoided if my team was honest with me from the begining, and if I was a little less naive and a bit more braive to call them out. I couldn’t do the photoshoot on my own not only because my costume fell apart after the stage performance but mainly because I was a foreighner, and spend most of my money and the only free time from my studies that I had, on a trip to their country. It was done with a hope for a great group cosplay experience which was falsely promised to me. I ended up spending most of the time at the convention either alone or with strangers.

After that I proceeded to make the same mistake for 2 more times, like a head-clown. Unfortunately at the time I still couldn’t see that I was in a toxic friendship. I was overblown by the bright impressions of cosplay comunity at their town and an idea of belonging to a group, which seemed like the right people, whom I’ve been looking for. Later learning about the concept of toxic relationships, I found out that it’s common for people who never experienced it before, to refuse the idea that something that they see in a beautiful wrap, could potentially be harmful on the inside. You live, you learn. Back then I didn’t validate my own time and feelings and blamed myself for allowing that situation to happen. The fact that I’m now comfortable with sharing that experience online is a step forward, as it means I’m not ashamed of that part of my past anymore.

  [Describtion edited and added on 16/03/23]

[tony-jhonson]

Changed this old post’s describtion. That happened at the beginning of my cosplay journey and was the reason why I stopped pursuing that hobby and didn’t make any new costumes. It wasn't intentional, but rather some sort of a psychological block, where my mind would associate the arts with an unpleasant experience. This post is not intended to adress anyone. As you can see, it’s quite anonymous. I’m speaking up about it in order to let it go.

[tony-jhonson]

Looked back at all the art I’ve made in the past. I really grew and learned to fully apreciate my own works and validate my experiences, even bad ones. Went through old posts here and changed few describtions. Somewhere fixing the grammar, as my english has improved, and somewhere fixing the entire texts. I gotta say, I really like the art I used to make. Artblock turned out to be a good thing that happened to me. Now I see what artistic sides of me were stronger and what mistakes I’ve made that affected my overall artist-journey. It's also important to mention that it has been a whole year since my country started the war and of course it affected me. I was already knocked down at the point when the february began, and it knock-outed me even harder. I am updating this blog rarely and it will probably stay this way. But want to start re-uploading or just rebloging some of my old works for the sake their validation.

[lotso-toons]

[pyrotechnic-tote-pyro]

Sealing and painting phase one

PT1 PT2 PT3 PT4 PT5 PT6

[tony-jhonson]

 I always thought, that in the ATLA universe, I’d be a wind nomad or a water bender. But all these years I didnt notice how I was already born in the fire nation. Artblock seems to slowly getting off. I feel like I am falling in love with art once again. And now I also have two cats! Actually had for a while. And which is more importantly - my Ukranian friends are in safety. That’s all for now.

[tony-jhonson]

more HeavyMedic stuff enjoy ;3

[nezclaw]

op i need you to understand that there is a discord rp that i am participating in where… [checks notes] 14 additional medics were summoned from additional universes, and also a (greek) god version of heavy. and that first pic is LITERALLY what happened when the medics caught sight of God Heavy.

[tony-jhonson]

What can I say? I guess geniuses think alike btw.. I imagined that scene you described, god,its hillarious Are you guys doing a full on medic-versus over there? Anyway consider this old scetch an illustration for your rp from now on XD

[tony-jhonson]

Here some concepts i made for my unfinished clip

made back in march of 2021

[tony-jhonson]

"Not Ok" - Third (and still not final) version

2 years ago I made the best animatic yet, for practise in university of desing I went to. Unfortunately, and quite honest..I dont really know what happened b...

This animatic was firstly made 2 years ago and 1 year ago i cleaned it up and got this version. There’s not really much of a difference between this and a previous version, but i decided to upload it for the record anyway.

[tony-jhonson]

I love answering comments under my cosplay video on YT

[tony-jhonson]

Reupload of my unfinished animation

[tony-jhonson]

Made back in february. I really loved that movie

[tony-jhonson]

spies in disguise comics i made back in winter/spring and forgot to post here