ZaCloud's Undertale/Deltarune Art

A blog just for ZaCloud's Undertale & Deltarune comics, fanfiction, & fanart. (Main Blog: https://xzacloudx.tumblr.com Pillowfort Account: https://pillowfort.social/zacloud

[zc-undertale]

I just drew for the first time in ages, made The Roaring Knight (I'll probably make them look more horrifying & organic in the future, this was just practice to get their basic form figured out).

Image description in ALT text.

[zc-undertale]

THE RODEO IS CANCELLED

Since the "Friend Inside Me" meme was randomly trending on Xtter, it inspired me to put together a creepy edit of the Susie & Kris cowboy sprites from https://bluebubble.rodeo, instead of just the typical Woody.

The text is from the Maniac or Truck Freak level of the Spring 2023 Toby Fox Newsletter.

(There's a copy here: https://luiz-zeroxis.appspot.com/undertale-newsletter/2023-03-31.html )

And of course Toby Fox's tumblr post featuring the infamous audio.

https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/187904005186/friend-inside-me

[zc-undertale]

I just HAD to do the Barbie & Ken mugshot meme with these two Gaster'd Bastards! X333

(Source below)

Click the "Read More" for a link to a creepy outtake.

I did the initial sketch layer over the original image for reference, then hid that layer when planning was finished. When I later got to the coloring phase, I left Spamton's glasses transparent so I could insert static behind them. Then, while I shuffled layers around, I accidentally re-activated the reference layer & got THIS creepy funny sad thing going on, where Barbie's pitiful, real eyes show through Spamton's glasses! XDDD (MAJOR Scopophobia warning!)

[zc-undertale]

Whoops, the player wouldn't have the Justice gear in Hotland in the G-Route, so I've changed the background (earlier featured in THIS little image collection) to The Core. Thank goodness there's plenty of areas there that let me keep the backlighting. (I also fixed a few details on The Kid.)

No Thoughts, Gun Empty

-------------------------------------------------

(Image Description in Alt Text.)

[zc-undertale]

(WIP Project Spoiler)

Me, working on an angsty Undertale animatic: "I have to draw SO many pictures, so I'll just sketch sloppily & use flat grayscale coloring so I can churn these out quickly."

Also me:

…Dang it!

(Now I HAVE to make the surrounding frames detailed too aaaaAAAAAFfHKJSH this'll take FOREVER....)

(Images described in alt text)

[zc-undertale]

Here, have a REALLY world-worn Spamton, who has no time for anyone else's shenanigans. 😼

I'm REALLY proud of how this turned out! 😁 There's a few nitpicks I itch to fix, but I need to learn how to just FINISH something without it being "perfect" (ADHD be damned!).

I mixed realism & cartoonism, to reflect Spamton's chaotic mental state, along with synthetic & organic textures (even paradoxically mixing brittle with soft) to emphasize the horror of being a living puppet.

The details tell stories, if you stop & look at each one, & think about what might have caused this or that type of mark... 😶

Textless version below:

[zc-undertale]

So on Twitter, I tried to give tips on how to draw long-nosed Addisons kissing, but realized I'd need a visual aid, so after SUCH a long time not drawing, I started scribbling in MS Paint. Then realized I'd need layers, so I moved to my other computer to use Clip Studio Paint (I'm still kind of migrating slowly between my old Windows 8.1 laptop & my new Windows 10 tower PC).

But well, the hardcore aro-ace I am, I've never drawn lip-kissing humanoids, EVER! Soooo talk about starting on Hard Mode, LOL! 😅 (But these random Addison OCs smooching turned out kinda cute. :3 I think I'll call them Lily I. Pad & Ivy N. Droid [both they/she]. Yeah, cross-platform mobile device romance. 😚)

Advice on using these as references under the Read More.

The first two are performed by having the chins close together & foreheads further apart, letting the noses slide by each other, up each others' foreheads. Variants showing how they can remain close to center, or slide a bit to the side.

Then two more variants. The left ones are the intended viewing side, & the right ones are layer-swaps to show that no major facial deformity has to happen, even on a character more towards the background, for these poses to work without poking any eyes, even with less extreme nose-bending (& of course, implying that their noses flex to the side. It doesn't have to impact the aesthetic of the art work).

Once again, tipping their foreheads closer together lets you have their noses go under each others' eyes, while tipping their chins toward each other can give room for their noses to flex upward (above the eyes).

With 2D, you can take some liberties. Don't worry about it too hard, & just make 'em kith~! 😘

[zc-undertale]

Spamton's [Anger Management Service] (image described in Alt Text)

If you beat Spamton (normal form) with violence instead of taking the deal, he implies that he lets people pay to beat him up... 😰

This Werewerewire takes out his anger on Spamton monthly to avoid lashing out at his family. He overdid it a bit this time, so he added extra pay to cover Spamton's medical bills (plus a bit more, out of guilt).

Not a healthy dynamic, but going by his canon nature, Spamton would rather take advantage of a harmful situation than try to fix it, if he can benefit from it. He desperately needs the money, & having regular "customers" would give him at least SOME bit of stability in his stressful, uncertain life.

He's already suffering, so hey, a little more that he can actually get paid for is no [Big Deal], right? 😢

(I just GOTTA finish my WIPs, so I'm gonna try to content myself with rough sketches rather than only clean crisp lines. No more unattainable perfectionism! Phew!)

---

((Theory reference: Video clip of violently defeating Spamton. He lists very specific violent acts that Kris didn't do, which seems like his usual traumatic projection. Included is "yanking their noses," likely having been done to him since he has such a long nose. Yet he's mostly upset from not getting PAID for this particular beating. 😞))

Video clip description under the cut.

Video description: In-game clip from Deltarune Chapter 2. Kris lands the final blow with the FIGHT command, violently ending the regular Spamton battle. Spamton berates Kris with the following monologue:

HEY!!! DIDN'T YOU EVER HEAR THE PHRASE, Make Money, Not War?

HOW'S AN INNOCENT GUY LIKE ME SUPPOSED TO Rip People Off

WHEN KIDS LIKE YOU ARE Beating People Up,

Spitting IN THEIR EYES, THROWING SAND IN THEIR Face,

Stomping ON THEIR TOES, YANKING THEIR Noses,

AND NOT EVEN GIVING THEM A SINGLE CENT FOR IT!?

YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE ALL THAT EARLIER!

AND BEEN THE FIRST TO OWN MY Commemorative Ring.

TOO BAD! SEE YOU KID!"

Spamton walks away.

End of video description.

(Note: If your screen reader has issues with all those capital letters, like spelling the words instead of saying them, please tell me, and I'll edit my post. I recently got rid of the brackets in case they might cause issues.)

[zc-undertale]

Recently, Toby Fox has graced us with Spamton (and other Deltarune characters) sketches on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474745191777337347 & https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474747245597982721 Notably, in one sketch, he’s wearing a tie. :D The thing is… I couldn’t tell if it was a bow tie or an apron tie. So, I figured… What if he wears BOTH?! XD (……I have SO MANY serious & high-quality Spamton WIP sketches lying around for months, yet the first two I ever finish & release are joke posts? XD) #2ties

[zc-undertale]

aadfajsdhfsja, Edited original post, NOW INCLUDES HIS CHEEK SPOTS!!!! I KNEW I was forgetting SOMETHING!!! Fixed now! 😂 (Along with shading the text on his coffee cup, & fixing the capitalization on the last bracketed text to fit the more usual pattern.)

[zc-undertale]

Recently, Toby Fox has graced us with Spamton (and other Deltarune characters) sketches on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474745191777337347 & https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474747245597982721 Notably, in one sketch, he's wearing a tie. :D The thing is... I couldn't tell if it was a bow tie or an apron tie. So, I figured... What if he wears BOTH?! XD (......I have SO MANY serious & high-quality Spamton WIP sketches lying around for months, yet the first two I ever finish & release are joke posts? XD) #2ties

EDIT: aadfajsdhfsja, NOW INCLUDES HIS CHEEK SPOTS!!!! I KNEW I was forgetting SOMETHING!!! Fixed now!  (Along with shading the text on his coffee cup, & fixing the capitalization on the last bracketed text to fit the more usual pattern.)

[zarla-s]

[Previous]

NOW THINGS CAN REALLY GET STARTED

There’s this headcanon that Addisons glow like lamps and it changes depending on their mood and I love it unsurprisingly, haha. Finally found a place to use it! Pink left him in a dark room so when he started glowing again he’d be able to tell.

[patreon]

[zc-undertale]

Heh... Ahh man, I'm just.... in SUCH suspense!

There are SO many different ways Spamton could react... such as blank, rage, cry, happy-rage-cry-laugh-glitch... or pipis.

.......Wait what?

...And why did I then feel the need to draw that??? XDDDD

Uhhhh, here you go! At least I think it's safe to say it's the only guess that's NOT a possible spoiler???? XD

[zc-undertale]

I have... NO IDEA why I started drawing this... I guess it dawned on me that Spamton's upper outfit is very similar to Gaster's, so I wanted to see what a mix would look like. And it's kind of funny that fusing their names comes up with GASTON. 😅 I spent... DAYS trying to do a background that would work well enough with it, agonized over gray levels due to everyone having such different monitors & I wanted to make sure his body & hair would be visible... Ended up just going with a plain black background and (hopefully) safe shade of gray. The code strings took a lot of work because I couldn't find a custom paintbrush to do the effect for me, had to improvise. This looks so simple, but ended up with so much invisible effort... Oh well, I STILL finished it, so yay! Oh well... Enjoy this strange, sad abomination. (Included both glasses versions: Black, & Code)

[zc-undertale]

I'm making a Deltarune comic & realized I need to figure out how to draw Swatchlings. So, I experimented a bit. I'm opting for simpler-is-better, still a bit different than these ones, but I kinda liked a few of them.

And for some reason stayed up way late coloring the orange one all fancy. ^^;;

[zc-undertale]

Wow uh HI I'm ALIVE (sort of, sometimes). Lots of hard times... but also, lots of progress in my life. I've recently been struck down again by misfortune, but even then, I'm suddenly finding myself with creative drive again! :O

I had to work like crazy to get my Wacom pen to work properly, and invested a long time into getting it to feel more natural than its regular settings allow. And it paid off. It feels much better to use. So I milked that for all it's worth in one evening!

Sooooo, have these sketchy scribbles of some bone bros! Except mostly Papyrus. Sans turned out kinda bad, lol, but that was my first attempt and a pen test. Plus I'm experimenting with some different styles. I like a few of these. Think I'll try these back and forth, see how that goes.

Despite not practicing all this time, I analyzed the heck out of my art, so I apparently can still improve in that manner, huh... And my, like... artistic vision came back for the first time in decades. To where I have an exact idea of what I'm going for, instead of flying blind and going "ok good enough I guess". Now I know what I want, AND apparently can get pretty darn close to it, without a zillion do-overs! I'm relieved that I'm still capable of that after all. Thought it was gone forever. ^^;;

And at the same time, I'm learning NOT to be held back by attempting unachievable perfection. From now on, I'll be OK WITH MISTAKES, as long as I can get the piece finished, and it evokes the emotions I'm going for! And boy does that mindset help! AND still turn out good! :D

So yay! I don't know how much I'll be able to do, but I'll certainly do what I can, whenever I can, and we'll wait and see.

(And by the way, DELTARUNE OMG!!!! I'm gonna double this blog to also include Deltarune art, don't mind me, they're cousins. ;D I have SO MANY Spamton sketches and concepts, hope I can finish them soon! ...........In fact I wrecked my hard-earned sleep schedule last night due to drawing one of them so much GAH!!!! I can't keep doing that though, lol...)

[zc-undertale]

99.9% of the time... *too pained/sick/tired/busy trying to pull my life together to feel like drawing. Plus emotions not working = no inspiration or chemical reward for putting in the effort.*

0.01% of the time... *FINALLY feels JUST decent enough to want to draw, has enough energy, AND enough spare time!!!! ........Then THIS happens........*

(At least editing this went ok. Lemons, lemonade, etc. ^^;;)

[zc-undertale]

When listening to a great cover of "Decision" by Ayumi Hamasaki (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjZMq3D_ioI ), I felt inspired enough to want to supply lyric translations, paired with an image of Edge (Underfell Papyrus), due to how well they fit with mine and @kaptinkate ‘s RP story (still being converted to fanfic format... I'm actually making good progress on that!). But oh jeez, technology hated me, making what should've been a super quick project into 4 days of hellish frustration. But without getting way into that, it's finally completed. This is the image I used for the background of the video, with some nifty scarf-waving animation thrown in, located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1S40zdaxLs

(Also, here's three alternate versions: https://sta.sh/21rcupbf3jfa ). Far from perfect, but I'm trying very hard NOT to be a perfectionist; it's one of many things that have held me back from creating art all this time. I'm learning to be ok with flaws. It'll likely still be a long time before I finish more art though; this put me through the wringer due to the art programs and video editor all effing things up, making me fix things over and over and over. It was downright traumatizing to my delicate inspiration for daring try to create again. It's gun-shy yet again. I hope it can overcome that and let me continue stories I've left untold.

Note: I don’t take credit for the translation; I know a little Japanese, but not enough to do it myself. I instead combined four I found online, and tried to adapt them, since two were done by people who also weren’t fully fluent in Japanese... and the other two were by Japanese people who weren’t fully fluent in English. ^^;; So I wanted to just grammatically fix it so it’d flow decently, without changing the meaning. Hopefully I did ok with that.

[xzacloudx]

Yo, Back From My Trip

Just letting folks know I'm back safely. The trip was nice. The cabin want the best for how much Mom paid for it; largely due to horrible beds causing my younger bro Coyote to be unable to sleep well, so we left a day early for his sake. And the woods were tiny in our area, and very close to another person's property.

I still didn't feel much. Didn't get the moid reboot I was hoping would happen. But it was pleasant enough to just relax and not worry about my massive to-do list for a week. The hammock was nice.

And I learned through a big hike that my core stamina has actually grown a lot more than I thought over the past year of going to town with Mom several times a week. Though my leg muscles were shaking badly due to being unadjusted to such strain, I had plenty of inner energy. I didn't "crash" in that damaging mega-exhaustion that can happen to us fi-bros. (Heh, let's make that a term)

So, that helped me learn that it's now safe for me to really commit to working out and building my muscles. It's at least a good thing to have made progress, and have a health-improving goal to work towards.

I still may not post much for a while; I got used to not computer-camping, and I really need to clean this room to a further point than I've kept doing, so it won't end up getting messed up over and over again as has been the case. Time to make this sustainable.