#But good pointers

[xx-sketchy-xx]

*Audible plop of me dropping this in front of you*

so uh, ya, idk what to think of it (by @Henneyyy on tic toc)

[b4kuch1n]

podcast people in my phone

[krazieka2]

Here's a big old Fire Emblem Search & Find I did for the FE3H Masquerade Zine! Find the Golden Deer, but see if you can't find the rest of the students as well! For the ultimate challenge, see if you can't name every character! (Disclaimer two characters are NPCs with no names)

[umblrspectrum]

go read Memento Nori and Like the Stars and What Friends Are For and just generally all of Ad Astra Per Aspera by LadyDaybreaker on ao3

[aibouart]

hi i have a bunch more of those funny lil F2U cursors i've been making! there's also pokeball move/resizes but they're not on this post as it's already long enough smhhh

purple vaporeon is based on its GSC shiny~

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As always, you can see the full listing that's also being updated w new ones not shown here (when i do more) along w the .gif and .ani files: https://toyhou.se/22802456.assorted-pokemon-cursors

[insertsomthinawesome]

@priellan COME GET THE BOY!!! ✨

Some different ideas for how that could go down >:D And me picking something personally self indulgent again asdlfjsdLJSDGLDSJG I wanna see him with a Tangled rapunzel length hair braid... it would be so pretty...

[baconplasm]

drawing for myself and idk 2 other fans

[skibasyndrome]

Simon felt like the floor was being pulled from under him.

Simon feels like the floor is being pulled from under him. He barely manages to hit the button on the machine, slowing down his treadmill before he can trip and land on his ass.

Cause, damn, that would be a fucking great first impression, right? You catch a hot guy walking past you, in a distractingly tight polo (leaving nothing up to the imagination) and distractingly loose shorts (leaving everything up to the imagination, and if there's one thing Simon has it's a strong imagination, alright) and you forget how to use your legs? A+ game.

Simon swears he isn't gonna look again, because this isn't appropriate and he's only here for training and he's pretty sure that imagining what those silky looking strands of hair would feel like between his fingers does not count as training. But when he reaches for his water bottle, hoping that this will help him calm down and think straight (or at least a little less gay for the time being), he almost chokes on his first sip.

Because right there, across the room, the stranger is sitting on the bench press, legs spread in a way that is not helping that straight thinking at all, and looking right at him, gaze intense in a way that should be illegal and lips curled into a slight smile. Maybe Simon is dreaming, maybe he did actually fall and hit his head after all, because it's only once he knows Simon is watching that the stranger lies down and reaches for the bar.

Simon is definitely fucked.

sjsjdjdjd thank you so much for this prompt!!! 💜💜💜 at this point... let's just not count the sentences.... also sorry for the tense change

Send me "Wilmon" + a sentence and I'll write the next five

[yowyowyaoi]

*Itachi, Konan and Tobi standing outside of Deidara’s bedroom door*

Konan: Tobi, you’re his partner, right? Get in there and tell him!

Tobi: No way, Konan-chan! Tobi doesn’t want to get blown up! Itachi-san should do it; Senpai already doesn’t like him, so it won’t matter if he gets mad or not …

Itachi: I still don’t see the issue.

Konan: With those eyes, of course you don’t see an issue, Itachi! Fine, I guess this falls on me —

*Konan raises her hand to knock when the door is suddenly pulled open by Deidara, looking annoyed*

Deidara: I have ears, you know. I can hear you guys out here talking. What do you want, hm?!

Konan: It’s … well …

Itachi, bluntly: These two have an issue with your wearing that makeup.

Deidara: Seriously? I thought that our organization was a little more progressive than this, hm! Show me a written law that says that men can’t wear makeup!! You can’t, because one doesn’t exist! I have the right to —

Tobi: Senpai, that’s not the issue. We don’t care that you wear makeup!

Konan: We care that you’re wearing it wrong.

Deidara: … Wrong?

Tobi, taking off his mask and leaning close, in Obito voice: Look at my face. You see how my foundation is blended so well that you can’t hardly tell I have it on? Thats how it’s supposed to look, not all splotchy and erratic like yours.

Konan: And you need a better mascara. Your lashes should be lifted and separated, not all clumpy.

Itachi: Your eyeliner is nearly perfect in application, BUT you should consider switching to a waterproof brand. When you sweat your eyes start to look like raccoon eyes.

Konan: C’mon guys, let’s go to our rooms and get our gear. It’s more than time we gave our youngest member a good tutorial!

*Konan and the two boys run off*

Deidara:

Deidara: … I don’t know whether to be offended or excited, hm …

[spiderziege]

some progress pics of my last drawing! sketch, lineart, flat colours and then the finished drawing. ive been trying to keep my sketches as simple as possible, so its kind of a funny jump from sketch to lineart lol

[spaceratprodigy]

💋🔪 Poppy and KJ 🔪💋

@ghoulghostly — [ palette prompts ]

they're the baddest bitches in nuka-world and they are making out!!

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[lucabyte]

ppl saying they look to my comics for inspiration and pointers on how to format things is WILDDDD to me (and delightful don't get me wrong!! i am overjoyed) because like. none of you are privvy to the absolute WAHHH I DONT WANNNAAA bitchfits i was *CONSISTANTLY* throwing every time i forced myself to make a comic before i got into isat. like no joke. i considered comics such a fucking difficult medium they always drained my drawing energy so hard because they always felt like they took sooo long and had so many moving parts and were so much harder than storyboards (WHICH I ALREADY STRUGGLED WITH) because you had to account for panel shape and speech bubbles and-- like you get it. but genuinely for real. the sheer amount that i complained whenever i clawed my way through drawing a comic (which thus! was not very fucking much!!) compounded by the fact that i *genuinely have trouble reading comics*. as in, i really struggle to parse the flow of contiguous movement or action between panels (possibly connected to the fact ive got mad aphantasia?) of even really well done best-of-the-best professional comics...

... BUT. basically. what im trying to get at is. if you wanna learn to draw comics, evidently you super can?! I genuinely *didnt* draw comics before drawing isat fanart! I have no idea what it was about ISAT fanart that made it finally click for me? (I think it was... not having to think about colour? Removing a step from the process really helped. Plus, it being fanwork meant I could just start en-medias-res and not have to think about setup... Trying to cram too much explanation and setup into my oc stuff was always a big hurdle too...)

I find them fast to do now! and damn if i dont value speed in art (<- impatient little fucker). its still going slowly on my oc comics.. mostly due to the colour again, i think. but it's not extremely, ecruciatingly difficult anymore. is what im saying. and im genuinely baffled by it every time i put pen to page. its fucked up. did you guys know that practice makes things easier? . fucking perverted if you ask me.

As for looking at other people's things for inspiration. if you want to know where I was looking when I was piecing together the first couple fancomics I did for ISAT i want to specifically point at . well besides everything rebecca sugar has ever done (for hands and facial expressions *especially*), the main person i really dug into the work of was Leo Fox (Website link). I feel like i wanna point people to the source of a lot of the inspiration for my more off-kilter panel choices so you all can get the full experience rather than through my regurgitated mimesis. I'm now at the point where i can wing panel layout so i wasn't in there for longgg but. everyone go add it to your knowledge banks as for SUBJECT MATTER aka why i am i so deranged. those are squarely the 2019 postcanon homestuck golden era bleeding through my CLENCHED BITTEN DOWN JAW. A BULL TERRIER ON YOUR BRACHIAL ARTERY. namely that @/floralmarsupial and @/tomatograter's works (no i am not tagging them . im shy) are things i go back to frequently and floralmarsupials pure black/white inktober comics were *especially* an inspiration. if you've been following me a few months you may remember me reblogging a bunch of their stuff from 2019~2021 for seemingly no reason. this was why. The narratively divorced reality of jade strider & Liminal Space are big in my mind here. I balk to call myself anywhere near as good as these but these are what i'm aiming for, tonally and quality-ways with it. also detective pony but ive mentioned that already and thats farrrr too inside baseball for this post.

BUT YEAH TL;DR: I DIDNT DRAW LIKE ANY COMICS UNTIL UHHHH LIKE, WHAT, LIKE 8 MONTHS AGO? JESUS. ANYWAY. THIS MEANS YOU 🫵🫵🫵 CAN DO IT TOO. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. DATTEBAYO!!!!

[yumenosakiacademy]

i know what u r, Tsundere.

[wildflowercryptid]

art by catherine unger

losing it over the fact that fitz's room was originally gonna have a small shrine dedicated to penny in it, he was so freaking head over heels in love with her oh my god???? 😭😭😭

[hzdtrees]

Traces of the Old Ones

[thefirstknife]

I think it was really fitting that Calus, who has been obsessed with chasing grandeur (or at least the illusion of it) should have such an inglorious death, and yet in death he was somehow more impressive than in life.

Absolutely same. Calus is a fascinating character who was really an utter loser his whole life, but due to extraordinary circumstances, achieved such power and status. Deeply recommending Caiatl's portion of the Lightfall Collector's Edition book, as that really goes in depth about Calus before he became the guy we know now. And if you can stomach it, The Chronicon, which details a sharp shift in Calus' behaviour after he met the Black Fleet and the Witness, which worried even his closest advisors.

Now that we have his end, the full scope of his life is incredibly fascinating. A guy who kept chasing pleasure, easy life, hedonism and luxury ended being a tool to a higher being he pledged himself to, thinking that this higher power would see him as an equal and grant him everything he seeks.

One of my favourite visual cues in Lightfall's cinematics with Calus is the focus on his empty chalice. The first thing he does as he emerges from the Disicplenator cube, is take an object and turn it into a chalice. He walks forward, looking at the chalice and then at Tormentors by his side, trying to arouse some sort of celebration or cheering. But he is met with silence and an empty chalice.

He keeps looking at the chalice as if expecting it to be filled. Expecting his newfound power to give him all the pleasure and hedonism he sought, so he could party and celebrate until the end of the universe when he would become the last thing alive, as per his wishes expressed in the Chronicon.

But it stays empty. No matter how many times he looks and waits, it's empty. His throne is lavish and gold, he controls an army in service of the most powerful being in the universe, he has everything at his disposal, but the throne room is silent and his cup empty. No celebrations, no cheering, no party, no lavish dinners, no friends, no advisors, no servants.

There is nothing in service to the Witness. You are nothing to the Witness. You are an empty shell with no choices or wishes or belongings or friends. It's an empty life, devoid of meaning and joy. Calus' chalice would never have been filled as long as he served. He would never have a celebration or cheers or friends ever again.

You can see how he gets mad when the Witness suggests that he failed. How can he fail when he is doing everything required of him and has been doing so for untold centuries? And never gets anything in return? After the Witness beats him into submission again, the first thing he does is crush the empty chalice he's been gripping so tightly and throws it away. The illusion of grandeur shattered. He realises it won't fill and that he will not have anything and he dedicates himself fully to the Witness. Anything else and he will be destroyed.

And even at the end, he still swears on the Witness for power and importance. In the final fight, he still yells at us "I am a disciple!" as if he's trying to convince himself more than us. And he dies alone, hated and despised by everyone that ever knew him and abandoned by the Witness he swore his life to long before Lightfall and long before our fight at the end of Haunted and long before the Leviathan raid.

He swore himself to the Witness at the Black Edge, at the end of the universe, where he was sent to die in exile. Everything he did from that point onward was for the Witness. And it abandoned him in the blink of an eye. He died with his chalice empty, chasing the promise that it would be full forever. He could've had that had he been a better person, a better father, a better husband, a better emperor. But instead he chose a path that led to emptiness and nothingness and he has no one to blame but himself. A fitting end for one such as he.