#I attempted... Lineless... I don't know if I like it

[seaweedraindraws]

Because... He's stupid with everyone here!

[kozachenko]

Don't really have much to post again aside from some more sketching that I've done recently, this time of Reimu and Marisa, mainly because I just need a starting point as to how I would go about drawing them in my style (which is why the poses are so boring lol).

Artist's Notes;

So I mentioned in the last post how I've been wanting to experiment with how I wanted to draw Reimu, and I then got an idea for Marisa. So I wanted to try and contrast the two of them with each other via their shape language and body types. For scale I also put some numbers on the side just as a visualizing aid so I can imagine them easier. I wanted to make Reimu very tall and lanky and Marisa to be short and rounder. Also, this provides some interesting contrast in their shape language, and Marisa ends up being more round and Reimu ends up feeling more sharp.

I think what I'm most worried about is mainly that I don't 100% know if these two drawings still...feel like Reimu and Marisa. MMaybe because I made so many changes to both of them, but I feel like it's mostly in their faces. I kept the little personal touches that would add when I would draw them in the past (i.e. Reimu's tiny eyebrows and Marisa's freckles) but I dunno, maybe it's in the eyes? Like, Marisa's bigger eyes and eyebrows are definitley ideas that I want to play with in the future, but Reimu.... I dunno, I like the idea of her face shape in this drawing specifically, and I defnitely feel like I got closer to the monilid eye look I was trying to achieve in my previous attempt at drawing her eyes, but something still feels off with her.

When I drew Marisa, I really wanted to explore some other ideas for her body type, mainly in contrast to Reimu, so I wanted to give her a fuller figure and make her shorter than Reimu. I do feel like her eyes could be a bit sharper as eyes look maybe a little too innocent for Marisa, but I do still want to use these eyes I drew for her as a springboard for later attempts. I made some adjustments to her dress so that they would look good on the body type I gave her. I also need to draw shoes more because those boots....I just, I don't even know, I probably just need to draw that specific body type more wearing those types of boots or find references because I am not happy with how they turned out. Out of the two of them, Marisa was definitely my favourite to draw. I really enjoying drawing different body types when I get the chance to, and I feel like it's important to try your best to expand your variety when it comes to drawing the human body, I'm glad that I'm comfortable with drawing different body types. I do still have a long ways to go with this as I just need to do it more often and still need to do this but with different body shapes and weights and how to combine those two aspects to create unique body types and silhouettes. Also, please feel free to give me any critiques to how these two designs turned out, I remember that I drew Reimu when it was late at night and spent the entire day on Marisa so I defnitely feel like there's some things to critque here.

I'll be honest... I don't really like how Reimu turned out too much. Not to say it's a bad drawing, but I dunno. I think I just need to draw Reimu more, but she's honestly the hardest character to translate into my style. The thing is, I have an idea for her in my head but I just have a hard time putting it to paper. It's not like I've never drawn her before, in fact, aside from the height I really like how she looked in this piece of fanart (why tf did I make her so short in that piece) I did a while back despite the fact that I've imrpoved on my faces a lot since then (again, I do want to try my lineless style again, I just need to find the chance to do so), maybe because that was the drawing that provided me with some of my ideas on how to draw Reimu in my style? I do think I'm definitely in the rut of the "not knowing how to draw a character's face in your style" phase that I'm sure many fan-artists go through, so with enough drawings I'll get through it eventually, just gotta suffer through several more hours of trial and error though so yipeeeeeeee... As for things I do like, Reimu's hair turned out nicely. I did my usual technique for drawing Reimu's hair and then pasted the lineart layer underneath the main lineart layer and changed the colour to give it some extra pizzaz, and I do like how Reimu and Marisa contrast each other a lot. I just need to find a way to make them feel more like themselves while still taking liberties with their designs in my style.

Even if these are just sketches and me laying the groundwork for how I want to draw these two in the future, I still want to improve how I draw them a lot (also I don't like how much these two look like teenagers, I see both of them as being in their late 20s-early 30s and it just doesn't read like that and I definitely need to do more studies in the future to get them right in my style).

[flying-fangirls]

Going back through Malevolent right now, and I noticed a detail in Part 8 that I missed before but really caught my attention this time around.

Back at the end of Part 7, when John and Arthur first find the portrait of the widow in her house, John comments about how "grotesque" she looks: she has "hollow" and "sagging" eyes, skin that "hangs in loose strands." And on my first listen, this seemed like a horror-typical "creepy old woman" description (eugh), and I didn't think much else of it.

But! On this second listen-through, this line from the next episode stood out:

Here, Arthur and John find the widow's sketchbook and realize that the painting upstairs is actually a self-portrait. It's a just quick line and then they move on to looking at other drawings and getting on with the plot. But I can not stop thinking about it.

The widow painted herself, meaning she chose to depict herself like that: hollow eyes, loose skin, literally slowly rotting and falling apart.

Who was the widow? A woman who lost the closest person to her, following his corpse and working to try and find some comfort in her grief. A woman trapped, manipulated by a man who took advantage of her in her most vulnerable moment. A woman abandoned in this dark place with no one to come and save her, to remember her love and passion and strength, to know she ever even existed. A woman finally with a chance to see another person, only to be brutally killed without hesitation or mercy.

And we don't even know when this self-portrait was made! Maybe it was during the first weeks of her mourning, maybe it was after meeting Antoine, maybe it was years after his departure-- maybe it was before any of that. What finally drove her to depict her sorrow, her desperation, her frustration as the deathly decay of a living woman?

She hardly shows up for more than a couple lineless minutes and all we otherwise get is a few people's recounts/assumptions about her life, but I am deeply compelled by her character concept. There's so much more to her story, so much we will never get to see of this woman who was pulled around by so many different forces, who was entrenched in loss and loneliness, who desperately attempted to change that and find her voice and self in all this mess-- who was always stopped before she could ever heal, who died alone and hated and confused, who never got to find herself in the shadows of those around her.

[cyber-corp]

Recap? Nah. The Huss had my back all along.

God bless Andrew for doing the recap, I could not keep up the entire time. I now know that it's an entire solar system planet thing, with a sky world named Skaia at the center, and two moons (Prospit and Derse) orbiting it. Prospit is the "dream world" we saw Jade in, and Derse is the place that future Rose escapes to to avoid being wiped from the timeline.

There's a war between two sides: Light and Dark, and this is a war that Light is "destined to lose". On Page 1801, we see someone (implied to be the Wayward Vagabond) rise up, stop the fighting between the Light/Dark soldiers, and turn the Light/Dark kings(?) to their normal form.

Jack Noir swoops in, slices the Dark King's head clean off, and the staff he has goes flying off into a nearby waterfall.

The Land of Wind and Shade is where John is, the Land of Light and Rain is where Rose, Dave is set to go to the Land of Heat and Clockwork, and we don't know where Jade is yet to go to.

Apparently the trolls have a separate session of SBURB happening and are attempting to help the main gang not fuck it up. The ones guiding them from the future were the Midnight Crew (meaning Spades Slick is Jack Noir's doppelganger?) Because of the destruction of their home planet, they're living on the massive asteroid belt, The Veil.

Also there's a new guy, twinArmageddons. He's got some slick 3D glasses and types like an actual lunatic (you could say that for all them, him especially though).

Rose just misses making contact with John irl, as he steals her cat and jetpacks away. I wonder if them just missing each other will be a running thing.

The PM sets out to the battlefield to see the White King, but gets pickpocketed by the Courtyard Droll, (who is just Clubs Deuce but sillier). He steals the Queen's Ring.

Luckily, Jade saves the day by using a sick-ass flying kick and changing the art-style.

I'm beginning to notice that HS seems to change artstyles when a character needs to show more dynamic emotions/posing/flying kick moves. I don't mind it especially considering the sorta "lineless" art is really cool and the fact that HS's default artstyle is already hodgepodge to begin with.

I don't what the fuck will happen later but for now...

❄︎☟︎☜︎💧︎☜︎ ☠︎☜︎✠︎❄︎ 👍︎☟︎✌︎🏱︎❄︎☜︎☼︎💧︎ 🕈︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ 👌︎☜︎

✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎

✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎

✋︎☠︎❄︎☜︎☼︎☜︎💧︎❄︎✋︎☠︎☝︎

(Also there's TWELVE trolls?????????)

[shifty-boy-inc]

Hey guys, lets talk about smthm real quick. I got into mcyt in august of 2021, and two months later I started drawing fanart.

This was my very first piece, and it's heavily influenced by the fact that I was just leaving the jse and markiplier egos fandom. I didn't like it very much, but I was happy to begin experimenting with lighting (something I still shy away from today.)

I drew this one very shortly after (it's Tango, don't ask me what my design idea was) amd I loved it! And I'm still glad I drew it, I can see the things it began to teach me, but the pride in it isn't there anymore.

At some point, this was one of my favorite drawings I did. And I still really like the sketch! However, I still would grow and see the critiques others had from here. I don't remember much from this time, so I don't have much else to say.

At some point I got to this (the steps now are a bit all over the place, long gaps, back and forths between art styles) and then I refined this sketch style! It was low energy but it worked! This is a begginning example but, there were some better ones too.

Such as this! And this is about when I started getting more consistent designs, too, and took on a different style of shading that ended up staying! Very shortly after, I begin studying different body types and aging and the like.

Then there was the conscious descision to go lineless. This here was the first attempt, and it has room for improvement. This style, still has adapted, but let's look at a favorite piece from this (that isn't super complex)

Now the pen i used for this is a bit different in all honesty because I switched devices now, as up until this point every single one of these had been drawn on a phone that was cracked to all hell, but the general rules to it are the same, same kind of shading, and such. This piece also showcases a bit of my experimentation with body types. I'd also go as far as to say this is my last drawing in that style.

And most recently, we have this. While it's still a variation and a similar style, there are notable differences. It, while still holding true to anatomy on a level, has a cartoonish aspect that wasn't there before, with differences in the shading. I enjoy this style immensly and I thought just my journey in this fandom was interesting. I'd take you through my entire art journey, but most of those are signed with legal names.

If there's anything to take away from this, it's that if you aren't happy with it now, keep going, it does work. And if you are happy, keep going amyways, who knows, maybe you'll improve drastically too. Just keep going, and one day you'll pause and be blown away by what you can do now.

[armadillomania]

Sona stuff. The basic quirk of Armie-the-sona is that Armie's fictionality must in some way be tangible. I chose to impose color scheme rules instead of a fixed color scheme to illustrate that fact - Armie's drawn design is beholden to rules imposed on the medium. [Though I also added the brown as a fallback option - you can see I used it in the slime variant, because I didn't like either of the adjacent color options when I tried them.]

This is also why I included several variant Armies, because since Armie is tangibly fictional, Armie is not moored to any one form. Armie can be whatever suits Armie [or whatever suits the artist]. Additionally, the "no pronouns" rule imposes on Armie's appearance in the written and spoken word.

I don't have solid rules for other mediums, since they've never come up. I also don't know if I know enough about some mediums, such as music, for example, to confidently attempt to design a ruleset.

It seems like there is nowhere to start for lineless styles, but one could feasibly pick a color for the head fur and start there. The rules are not especially strict; they're for fun.

<( ((((( )^.>

[phantomknights]

feel free to cherry pick bc i know this is a lot :0

for the art asks: 2, 4, 7, 9, 19, 21, 25, 27, 30

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

i used to only draw facing left but i feel like ive gotten better at doing other angles too.. the straight ahead is still most comfortable though

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

insert any hoyoverse character. im also not very good at like frilly clothes T-T or designing clothes. sigh

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

i don't use markers enough tbh. theyre so cool and i have some decent ones but i hardly touch them

9. What are your file name conventions

kinda all over the place LOL

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

sleeves are very nice to draw so satisfying

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

GOD pretty much everything i see im like oo that style is so cool.... mostly just cause i feel like mine is. Boring. yk. has no flavor

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

genuinely i cannot remember anything my art has been compared to that isnt just "anime"

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

no but i should T-T

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

immediate thoughts are genshin ruri and duel links debut shun ... OH BUT ONE I'M REALLY LIKE "man this shouldve gotten more notes :/" IS FOR SURE THIS ONE it was my first attempt at lineless but it turned out so good imo. although it was posted on 9/11 one year ago so that myabe contributed to its lack of traction

[liskobot]

bwuh

[bonsiii-art]

Hey, I have a question for you! I want to be a fan artist in the cookie run fandom but I dont know how to draw in the style very well, the line art and shading part are what confuse me- do you have any tips?

(Also any insight from being a fanartist in the cr fandom? I'm a little scared of the fandom to be honest but I love the games and the designs from the games)

First tip - don't. ...

...Just kidding, I'd say I've had a decent time in the fandom for the 3, pushing 4, years I've been in it!

I'll go with my insight first: the fandom since I've been in it has exploded in popularity with Kingdom's success so now there's a ton of new people. And that means a whole lot of craziness. How I've survived is basically getting the basic info of any new or pre-existing cookies like pronouns, familial relationships, stuff like that. And if there's anything pressing you need to know, the fandom would prolly have already made a big fuss about it, so you don't need to worry much about missing anything. I've messed up a few times myself and the best way to deal with it is just brushing myself off and learning to be smarter next time. Much better than completely giving up over a mistake or making a huge fuss over it.

All in all, it's not that different of an experience from being in any other popular fandom. And the best way I find to enjoy my time here is to have my own corner of the fandom with friends bc you can have fun with people with trust over having to contend with strangers on the internet XD. So uhhh, being a cr fanartist has its ups and downs but rest assured you will not come out unscathed. :D

Now the style tips! ↓↓↓

Overall, you don't need to emulate the style to a T to be a cr fanartist; you can bring your own style in, and it would work just as well! I would say, when attempting to copy the look with your own drawings, study the game character sprites and practice. I wasn't perfect right off the bat when I started drawing cookies:

I experimented with a lineless style as well as a very simple style and from there, I just practiced till it became my own blend of the cr look. ( the way I draw the eyes now came from my dislike for drawing the white outlines of the irises! :D they just didn't work for me and that's okay!)

So dw about mastering the style and instead try and put your own spin on it!

[spotlightstudios]

I love looking back at old art of mine. I tried do hard to make it just right and took an obnoxiously long time for every drawing. However, I'm much happier with my art now, with a simpler style and more opportunity for me to actually enjoy it rather than staring at it for so long that I hate it by the time I'm done. (aka art rant time, since I can do that here!!)

These four drawings are from within a span of at least two years. To explain, the top two are drawings of Catacombtale!Grillby (or Chance). The one on the left was my first version (an entry to a contest to draw Grillbys), the one on the right I redrew later on. The bottom left is something I drew for a crossover contest last year sometime, involving Dream and Nightmare (Jokublog). Lastly, bottom right is another contest drawing for the concept of an X-Tale oc (I used Ec-4o.Nightmare).

The first drawing of Chance is easily a good example of an attempt to make the drawing look fun and inviting. I've got a decently fund pose, the colors are warm, and there's a simple background. However, I did this Lineless. Why? I don't know, but I don't like it. Plain and simple, this is my least favorite of the drawings pictured because I took so long to meticulously shade and color and it still wasn't worth it. Served it's purpose for the time, but that's it.

The second one of Chance is overall better. I used cooler colors, and by now I kinda understood how to put deoth into backgrounds. The style I used for him is fine too. Here, I hate the posing. His composition in comparison to everything else makes him look like he's about to fall off his stool. His second set of arms look stupid too, since I recall I either forgot them or didn't want to draw more hands, so I just folded them unnaturally. Better, but not my favorite.

The Fnaf/UTAU crossover drawing is my favorite in concept. It's not the best drawing style, not the worst. I'd redo the designs slightly if given the chance. However, the composition and background I'd keep almost identical. I really liked how the background came out for this one (minus the doorway) because I started to paint my backgrounds around this time. The character poses, I like Night's more, but Dream's is good enough for it's purpose. The execution of using two characters with brand new designs works well enough here, but as I said, I took too much time with minimal effort for this to be too good. (Also completely skipped shading in favor of darker colored gaussian blur.)

The bottom right, X-Night, is my favorite of these specific four. The body proportions are clearly more rounded and small, the style of lineart and colors are very simple and bold, and most of the real charm cones from the lighting and after affects rather than meticulous shading or complex backgrounds. There were still things I'd change if given the chance, but this is a perfect example of my mindset at the time too. The other three drawings here were fun, but I drew them with other people's expectations in mind. For this piece? I drew what I wanted to, since it was my (relatively speaking) design and my art. I'm not as active or social on the app I drew these for anymore. So, I'm much less inclined to please the overlords that might've gotten it more popular had I drawn it in a more realistic or engaging style.

Don't get me wrong, I loved being on that site and drawing so much. I like all of the pieces I posted on too. However, this is a good chance to reflect on what exactly I've been doing all this time in the UT Fandom and how it helped me improve my art over the course of just barely 3 or 4 years.

More looks back on this, a continuation, will be coming soon. This is gonna be a long rant I'll probably revisit often just to catalog ideas for redraws, as well as notes for myself. (Not all of it is degrading, because I plan my next one to be about what things I have enjoyed drawing and why, followed by a completely redraw-cebtric post!

[justlovekarma]

So. I attempted a lineless art style... it's not so good also I don't know how to start with a painted style... like what brush works best? And how do I change my simple mind to "keep all the details!" ?

Anyway I love wind. Also I needed to simplify his shirt, so I wouldn't go insane. Also expect a meme with the lu boys once I get the courage.

[error403hrd]

LU Discord Pride Week (LGBT+LU, Pride Palette)

[Image Description: In the center, Four is standing in the center, and five sections separate at his head. Four is drawn in the colors of the aroace flag with the genderqueer flag as his background, he is waving the genderqueer and aroace flags. At his feet, a chibi Shadow is drawn in the colors of the neutrois flag and is waving the neutrois, alicoromantic, and asexual flags. In the top right corner, Red is drawn in the colors of the Bellusromantic flag, with the Asexual flag as his background, he's waving the bellusromantic, asexual, and demiboy flags. Beneath Red, Blue is drawn in the transgender flag colors, her background is the aroace flag, and she is waving the aroace and transgender flags. In the top left corner, Vio is drawn in the colors of the Quoiromantic flag, the demigirl flag as their background. They are waving the demigirl, Quoiromantic, and apothisexual flags. Below them, Green is drawn in the colors of the apothisexual flag, with the demiromantic flag as his background, he is waving the demiromantic and apothisexual flags.

Four is dressed in a tunic dress, only Shadow's head and hands are shown, Blue is wearing a spaghetti-strap dress, Red is wearing a button up shirt with a suit-jacket on top, Vio is wearing an over-sized turtleneck, and Green is wearing a polo.]

Woohoo! Alright, first ever attempt at lineless art! And also having to abide by a palette was a little harder than I anticipated, uh...so.

Anyway, I'll break it down.

Four is Genderqueer and Aroace

Genderqueer-Someone who doesn't subscribe to conventional gender distinctions, but still identifies with neither, both or a combination of male and female genders (in Four's case, they identify with both, because they are literally made up of a boy, demiboy, demigirl, and a girl.)

Aroace-Someone who does not feel romantic or sexual attraction (this doesn't mean they can't be in a sexual or romantic relationship, just that they don't feel those types of attraction)

Shadow is Neutrois, Alicoromantic, and Asexual

Neutrois-Someone who is "neutral", who has no preference towards male or female (however, they do have a gender, unlike agender people. That is the main difference.)

Alicoromantic-Someone who knows they're on the Aromantic spectrum, but doesn't identify with a specific label

Asexual-Someone who feels no sexual attraction.

Green is Demiromantic and Apothisexual

Demiromantic-Someone who doesn't feel romantic attraction until they've formed a deep connection. (Meaning that Demiromantic people can't form crushes, and are essentially aromantic until they suddenly form a crush on a close friend, if ever.)

Apothisexual-Someone who doesn't feel sexual attraction, but is also repulsed by it. (The degree of repulsion differs. One person may want to gag when seeing a sexual act, and another may feel utter revulsion at the mere thought of sex) (Green is disgusted by seeing sexual acts at all, and only feels discomfort when thinking about it. He never wants to have sex.)

Vio is a Demigirl, Quoiromantic, and Apothisexual

Demigirl-Someone who identifies as part girl. (They may or may not feel another gender in addition) (Vio is female and neutrois, preferring they/them pronouns, but fine with she/her as well)

Quoiromantic-Not understanding or not identifying with romantic attraction (There are a few types of people who use this label: Those who don't know if they experience romantic attraction, those who don't understand romantic attraction as a concept or feeling, those who find the concept of romantic attraction nonsensical, those who can't pin down precisely what romantic attraction is, those who have trouble distinguishing romantic attraction and other types of attraction, those who questioned their romantic orientation for so long that the question itself became their identity, those who find romantic attraction too complicated, and those who don't find any other label appropriate. It's quite a mixed bag, but it's still legitimate.) (Vio in particular finds the idea of romantic attraction nonsensical in relation to themself, and also don't feel it even if they knew what it was.)

Vio is on the more extreme end of Apothisexual and is revolted by the mere thought of any sexual contact.

Red is a Demiboy, Bellusromantic, and Asexual

Demiboy-Someone who identifies as part boy. (They may or may not feel another gender in addition) (Red is neutrois and male, preferring he/him pronouns, but also accepting they/them.)

Bellusromantic-An aromantic person who enjoys traditionally romantic things, like cuddling and kissing, but not in the context of a romantic relationship.

And finally, Blue is a Trans Girl, and Aroace

Trans girl-An individual who is female, however they were mistaken for and assigned a different gender at birth. (They may or may not medically transition.) (Blue has undergone vocal training, but can't do much more without screwing with Four as a whole. She's doing her best.)

I had a lot of fun with this, really. Lineless art is just so different from what I'm used to!

[tignya]

I...’m needing to change my avatar again.

No idea what to though.