talking fish heads

digital illustrator | rus/eng | credit me if you use my artworks | my hipolink - https://hipolink.me/wettbewerberrr

[wettbewerberrr]

honestly i really enjoy looking at beginners art, because it’s really interesting to deconstruct the pieces to see the thought process that is different from mine (because later people tend to adopt similar pipelines)

[wettbewerberrr]

just made an atrocious discovery that i don't like reading stuff in russian. it's too snappy and doesn't have the right flow for the things i enjoy reading :(

[timetravelkoolaid]

my bad

[wettbewerberrr]

yeah motherfucker you played your role in this

[wettbewerberrr]

just made an atrocious discovery that i don't like reading stuff in russian. it's too snappy and doesn't have the right flow for the things i enjoy reading :(

[wettbewerberrr]

i fixed him chat you didn't see anything else

[wettbewerberrr]

very important fix he is now clutching the rosary

[wettbewerberrr]

you can see that his brains became an omelette because he's jerking off to normal things

[maskandasmile]

Drew @wettbewerberrr 's c!dream

perfect guy 10/10 design very fun to draw

Pose reference under cut

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[monsoonrays]

Rivals Duo petting cats please

Loved drawing this sm. My cuties <3

Thank you for the idea and thank you for voting rivals!

[wettbewerberrr]

i fixed him chat you didn't see anything else

[pinegren]

in response to a popular demand

[whiskome]

❄️Arctic

[whiskome]

❄️Arctic

[timetravelkoolaid]

Dream's Thing about Brains and Punz's Thing about Consuming are carefully thought out in ways you wouldn't imagine.

Dream wants to study you. How does your brain work? What makes you do the things you do? How is your brain structured? How can he guide you to the right decisions? How can he adjust the folds of your brain to convince you to set down your weapons and become one big happy family?

Punz is a mercenary. He takes. He lives life constantly moving where the money is flowing. He takes lives. He takes important targets. He takes payment. He takes and consumes with greed and what is yours left vulnerable and undefended will become his.

[wettbewerberrr]

I DIDNT REALIZE THATS WHAT HE WASNDOING

dw i’m fixing it as well give me like a day.

[timetravelkoolaid]

In comparison to cDream's Thing with brains, cPunz has a Thing about consuming. I like very religious cPunz. The circle of life in Minecraft is represented by EXP. If you kill something, its EXP becomes yours. If something kills you, your EXP becomes its. Something that was once different is now a piece of you. (A piece of flesh was once cut from Dream's body, now consumed, it's EXP molecules are now a part of Punz until he too is eventually consumed.)

[wettbewerberrr]

i’ll need you guys to pretend my latest drawing doesn’t exist

[timetravelkoolaid]

I think cDream has a very weird thing about people's brains. I mean when you think about it, a human is a brain operating a skeleton and meat suit. There is no life without the brain- the brain is what holds the consciousness and the thoughts. A body is not truly alive if the brain is not functioning.

Dream loves to inspect people's brains in revival. Peel back the muscle and carefully drill open the skull and look at the fat folds and run his finger along the neurons. Here's the frontal cortex. It's responsible for Punz's dry personality he loves so much. Here's the tiny optical lobe at the back of the brain- that controls the movement of Punz's beautiful blue eyes and processes what he sees. Here's the amygdala and the cerebellum. This is Punz's survival reflexes and skills. He holds Punz's brain in his hands and technically- technically. This is all of who he is. Ten pounds of marbled fat, the size of a small table, but carefully folded up in on itself to take up as little space as possible.

Dream wants to carefully crack open the skulls of his other allies and friends to see how they differ, how they look the same. He's too afraid to ask but- perhaps, how does Techno's cerebellum- in charge of movement, balance, coordination- compare with that of Punz's, since their fighting styles are so different?