Van

Animator! Prev: Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Unicorn Warriors Eternal, Jellystone, JaidenAnimations. 29, they/them, QLD Australia. I love devils, robots, monsters, space, dragons, and MOST of all, my OCs!!! :)

[xertias]

first draft of Az walkies

[xertias]

so i forgot i have to renew my driver’s license this year and i have my three dog’s annual vaccinations this month too at the same time

work has been giving me only 5 hours per week for the last month and a half, and looks like that isn’t gonna change for the rest of June at least. i’ve been applying to other jobs but haven’t had any good news yet. i’m gonna be opening commissions very soon but i’m unsure what people might be interested in!

Commission type you’d most be interested in?

Looped animation commissions

Adoptables (pokemon, MLP, furry/cult of the lamb adopts)

Regular coloured drawing commissions

Full sketch page drawing comms (uncoloured)

Coloured chibi illustration comms

Remaining time: 18 hours 45 minutes

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[kingsillysmilez]

Non binary ? No problem !

[nondelphic]

you don’t have to write something good. you just have to write something unhinged enough to edit later

[spooky-pop]

Some art of the gang ahead of the finale dropping in theaters tomorrow. I can't believe this is the last time we are all waiting for a new episode together, I feel quite sentimental. What a ride it's been. If you're seeing it tomorrow, godspeed. And remember, be good to yourself and be good to others <3

[xertias]

im supposed to go see the TADC finale at the cinema today but like….then i have to deal with parking…….and people…………and my bed is very comfy and warm so……………………hmm

[demilypyro]

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

[xertias]

putting the pan in pansexual

[xertias]

imp and Zeph have been watching TikTok dances again

[xertias]

maybe this year i will finally finish my Pride Month OC group pic that i started like.....4 years ago LOL

so many of them have had redesigns or overhauls though O_O

[xertias]

i had 2 toxel cards. today i went to a card event. i now have a small gaggle of toxels

[xertias]

i plan to do a canine pokemon card collection! i am obsessed with dog-like pokemon; furfrou, granbull, stoutland, and boltund being among my top favourites. (AND SOON-TO-BE POMBON!!!)

if i had to make a full team of them, it’d be the above four plus houndoom and grievard :)

for the purposes of my own interests (and my love of foxes), foxes are included amongst the canines lol

[xertias]

its definitely quite possible that i like boltund a lot ⚡️🐕

[xertias]

my teeny shinx line collection begins…….. the 2007 black star promo shinx (and 2007 luxio) is one i desperately traded for on the playground in the same year and it was one of my fave cards to carry with me EVERYWHERE so theyre both pretty beaten up

super happy to have finally evolved my baby into a luxray this week <3 (aka i pulled my first luxray cards lol)

[ohcorny]

today's comic advice posting from the big boy published graphic novelist: stop thoughtlessly shading your comics. stop it. i see you reaching for the multiply layer, i see you selecting that slightly purple, slightly blue color to add shadows to the edges of your characters. oh my god get your hand away from the airbrush.

comics is a storytelling medium, which means that it's also a medium for conveying information. you are conveying information about the scene to me.

what information is your shading conveying, and what does that contribute to the scene? i mean, ideally you're telling me where the light is coming from, but...do i actually have to care about that? if the lighting isn't key to the mood of the scene...does it need to be there?

we're outside. things would have shadows, because there's a light source (The Sun) but don't you understand that just from the fact the characters are clearly drawn outside? does putting soft shadows under their arms and at the bottoms of their shirts convey that better? or is it already clear without that?

we're inside. there's probably some light coming in from the window, or maybe from a bulb in the ceiling. is there a mood you want to convey with the scene? is the light source contributing to the mood? is the light only coming in from the window, to remind us the room is dark? is there a spotlight on someone? is the lighting significant? if it's not, what is the shading telling me that i couldn't otherwise guess?

and in the same realm of that previous comic example i just used, and this one i will be explicitly prescriptivist about--if you MUST include shading, please don't put it on the panels where the characters are doing the big cartoonish expressions. it doesn't look good. it Just doesn't look good. you're turning a 2 dimensional shape into a 3 dimensional object for no reason other than 'well i did it to the rest of the comic' and it looks bad. it draws attention to itself, it makes everything stiff and constructed, you lose the animation inherent to the gesture. you are doing disney vhs cover shit to me.

but this all isn't to say that you should never ever involve shading in your comics. but it's more that you need to use it intelligently, not just because you think it 'would' be there. there 'would' be one million more wrinkles in everybody's shirts than we ever want to draw and nobody's advising you to do that in comics. but if there should be one million wrinkles in a shirt, to draw attention to the fact that it's wrinkled, that's a different story.

and comics are about telling a story.

if you found this advice useful, or liked the look of the examples i was using, you should read my comic.

[xertias]

i love drawing blush