#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).

[kelocitta]

this might be a bit of a weird question, but i promise it's genuine and in good faith!

since your artwork is used for the official remix options for rain world, how do you feel about other people imitating your art style?

when DP first released i thought it was fun to see people uploading mods using lineless artwork as the thumbnail, but i was curious to know how you felt about it

(i'm making a mock thumbnail for a character, and didn't want to proceed if this was something that bothered you!)

This is actually something I thought about a bit, and while I've always been open to people taking inspiration from me- contending with the idea of someone actually trying to imitate me directly did give me a pause. But like you said- with my work and style used for official stuff, many people will see my art without seeing/knowing me, and many people will likely want to try and copy it. Not out of any malicious or drive to like, steal my style, or whatever- but simply because they are trying to match an element of something they like. I think its fine. I absolutely encourage people who like my style to take elements from it, but I also encourage them to find their own footing and build out their own style. As for direct attempts to match it, well, its official! People want to try and match the official work, especially with things like mod uploads which is where it gets used. Its understandable it happens and as long as people aren't actually attempting to pass themselves off as me in any way shape or form I think I'm fine with it. That can be covered very naturally by just having your own stylistic flare that's clearly not in line with the mod menu art (something I would file under 'inspired' rather than 'imitating') or by making it clear that something is a study/attempt at imitation/done by yourself/referencing etc.

(I think I would also like to ask that such attempts to look 'official' don't extend to NSFW work, although I imagine that isn't something many are considering doing. No shade to NSFW artists in general, but I don't think you should be trying to look like someone else's work for that medium. I've seen it before though.)

[meirimerens]

how do i get into drawing more? i've enjoyed drawing since i was a child but i never really practiced it that much and as such most of my stuff is pretty rudimentary from a technique standpoint. i only have physical supplies and i cannot afford an ipad or a drawing pad any time soon

there is no need for an ipad or a tablet if you don't already draw something expansive you don't even have to worry about that. I (and i imagine many/most artists who began drawing young) got my start on normal paper sheets the one they call "printer paper" because it's thin and textureless. Actually that might be a lie because I think that even before that I was drawing on walls so truly full circle of a thing.

The only stuff you need to draw are something To Draw With, whether it be a pencil or a pen; if it is a pencil also have an eraser, a no-bullshit rectangular eraser, I've literally never understood what the good was in the pink & blue ones beyond making holes & stamps in them, just get a normal good eraser, slightly squishy so it doesn't pull at the paper like a maniac when you use; And paper to draw in. I'd say get a sketchbook for the convenience + the chill of it all. Doesn't even have to be thicker "drawing paper" it can just be a random, lineless notebook. I like mine to have a spiral spine so I can take full advantage of the page but don't even need that. Genuinely for years this was my drawing material (+ whatever paper I found, including my school supplies)

(Staedtler eraser very good actually I've been using it for 10yrs among the better I've used if you find it get yourself one. This shit was like 1.50€ at my local papeteries and then again they mightve inflated the price)

Now I'm gonna tell you about my life because I think it colors the way I approach drawing and as such the advice I'll give you: I started drawing really young (like pre-dates knowing how to read or write) and never stopped. That means I, technically, have some 20+ years of drawing, but I still struggle with what are kinda "fundamentals". I only quite late, technically speaking, gotten into trying my hand as perspective & naturalistic anatomy. That's because I had, at the start, nothing but passion.

And that's gonna be the one piece of advice I have for you:

Get really, really into something, and start trying like the devil to get good at drawing it.

When I was a wee lad I loved horses so much (and I still do.) and all I wanted to do was get good at drawing horses so I could draw stories with horses, so I practiced drawing horses from the horse magazines i had. Around 11, I got really into manga and all I wanted to do was get good at drawing manga so I could draw my own (a lot of my actually like Formative Years of drawing was manga, and I think it's still visible especially when I draw cartoony faces these days), so I practiced drawing manga from the how-to books their were at the library (and we had actually good ones, including Japanese mangaka's translated into french). Around 14, I got really into Video Game, and all I wanted to do was get real good at drawing the characters, so i practiced from youtube tutorials & other internet finds. Nowadays I'm into art history & archeology, and go out of my way to see and grasp and understand #whateverthiswas and try to pepper it (or sometimes dump the whole bag) in my images.

If you're starting "from nothing", I feel like practicing anatomy for the sake of anatomy (for example) will just piss you off. When you get more into the groove of things, and actually want to Get Serious, you'll sit down to Actually Practice, but I personally have always found that Learning for the Passionate Goal makes the whole thing more interesting than Learning To Learn To Then Attempt The Passionate Goal.

It's gonna suck for a while. It truly will. You'll see every improvement so drastic you'll be like ewww what was that 2 months ago. But you will HAVE HAD FUN DOING IT!!!

Tldr

1) get into something. Whatever it is.

2) collect tools and tutorial to serve whatever it is you're into, and not try to get into the tools: that will come later, once you're already in the habit of drawing.

3) you don't need fancy material

4) never underestimate the power of the humble ballpoint pen and clicky pencil

5) train your brain, the muscle of your brain, to conjure up images until there is nothing you can do BUT exteriorize them lest they poison you

6) you don't have to post anything online btw. In fact, I attribute the fact that I have always loved art so much to the fact that for the first 15yrs of my life I could truly just enjoy the process and vibe. I still do, don't take me wrong, and truly I draw for myself and you're all trapped in here with me. Looking at the slop i feed you. But there is an inherent, new dimension added with Being The Blogger. So have fun and vibe.

7) the heart is the horse, the hands are the rider

[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.

[prismatoxic]

talking about my art journey as of late, or more specifically how relying on 3d models actually worked out in my favor

so back in 2023, i started relying on 3d models for poses and proportions. i hated how my art looked and i was frustrated with trying to put something together, taking forever on it, and having it just turn out like ass in the end. the 3d models removed a ton of guesswork from the process and helped me focus on the things i was good at while gently training skills i was less capable of. i'd already been using 3d models sporadically before then, but it was around when i started drawing nate and ken together that i switched to using them all the time.

it's hard to find comparisons around the right timeframe... but here's a nate drawing (with a friend's oc) i did just before i made the switch, when art was so frustrating for me that i wasn't fully lining or rendering anymore, and then the first nateken i ever did, which was when i started using the models in earnest.

it gave me my confidence back. i drew nateken CONSTANTLY, and they overtook my present fandom interest (mgs) before too long.

i did lose some things, though... fluidity, namely. and i've spent a lot of time trying to make my art feel dynamic, make it flow even with the models underneath, but even when other people can't tell, i can. it's been bothering me for a long time. my art is better now, yes, but cursory attempts to not use 3d models were all the more devastating for it. i was scared. i'd grown too reliant.

i tried a handful of times to sketch simple things without models and every time i hated it so bad that i didn't finish it. the past year, time and time again, i've found the prospect of drawing freehand far too daunting to attempt.

some jokey sketches of animal characters came out recently-ish that read fine, and that was good, but... i knew the humans and humanoids i draw all the time were still beyond me.

this anniversary drawing for me and devot back in the summer made me think... maybe... just maybe... i might actually have some skill in conveying what i want in simple shapes while freehanding. not what i'd like to do in full, but i love these little doodles. it was a start. (the main part was in fact based on models.)

more recently, this joke comic i did based on something max said gave me a similar feeling. like yeah it's a sketchy mess, but it does the job. it's silly. you know what you're looking at.

a few weeks ago, i had a silly malix idea that i didn't want to bust out the models for. so i made a loose freehand sketch. and... it seemed okay. so i refined it. and honestly? i really like how it came out.

it has that fluid charm i always wanted my doodles to have. i started to wonder... has this year+ of using the models actually helped me improve my sense of anatomy and proportions? did i actually get something out of this?

the answer might be yes. here's all the things i freehanded recently:

aside from the lineless one, these were all just quick silly things, and ultimately i still intend to use the 3d models for "serious" work or things i just want to make sure have a certain refined quality to them.

idk, i'm just... excited? happy? i thought my skill to just sketch something and refine it all by myself had surely atrophied. i thought my reliance on 3d models had ruined my art potential. turns out it's just been training wheels and i'm actually doing kind of okay taking them off sometimes.

i'll keep making silly simple things this way for a while. the lineless damien one was me having a bad night and needing a major distraction, and it served its purpose alright. i'm just happy i was able to actually finish it. i don't even hate it!

i guess this is me saying, yeah, it's fine to use tools and shortcuts. i know the fear of "cheating" but here i am, having done this for ages, and i'm doing better for it. i will say i think a lot of my ability to learn has been my willingness to compensate for what the 3d models can't do (like joints and muscles) and tweak things once those layers are hidden, but i've still been relying heavily on these shortcuts. it's just nice to realize it wasn't all a waste, in a skill sense.

[sudsnduds]

i forgot to say this, but...

i have a Sprunki OC!!

yep, you heard me; it's a Sprunki OC! this is my first attempt at making an OC for Sprunki.

meet Hirwein! he's chill, sweet, literally angelic, and also loves to meditate and hum to himself using his violin voice.

i don't have Phase 2 artwork for him because i don't know how to do lineless art with gradients... :,(

but anyways, hope you like it!

(p.s i'm a multi-fandom guy, so... expect some different characters from different fandoms show up here from time to time... if i can post. :))

[phanbeats]

🦉Positivity owl reporting for duty! This was sent by a friend who wants you to smile as much as your posts make them smile. Please list five things that make you unique, four things you are super passionate about and why, OR three of your favorite memories. Feel free to send the owl to those who you feel deserve to smile🦉

four things that I'm passionate about -

1. dan and phil

so i got into them in November of the worst year of my life: 2015. They were the first people older than me who'd ever seemed really alive? like, phil especially seemed genuinely happy, and they were weird in a way i thought grown ups weren't allowed to be, and I spent years clinging to my childhood because I was terrified of losing that spark of whimsy that made life feel worth living sometimes, so that was incredibly important to me. and I'd just lost three family members within a three month span and graduated from high school (therefore I'd lost my sole reason to get out of bed in the mornings) and i was trying to come to terms with being aro ace while a "friend" who was very well aware of my sexuality wouldn't stop coming on to me, and so by that November I was just waiting for the last straw; i wasn't planning to live much longer. but that's when I found d&p, and they quite literally saved my life. They gave me a reason to keep going when I really, really needed that, and i love my life now. I've met so many friends and had so many experiences i would have missed out on if not for them. So how can I not love them? they're everything to me.

This picture, by the way, was taken at tit Vancouver, shortly after i got down on one knee with a blue raspberry ring pop and asked Phil to marry me. He said yes!

2. sewing

i got into sewing (and other fiber crafts) several years ago because i wanted to make myself a corset, which was. an ambitious goal, for someone who had at the time only really done any sewing once several years earlier in home ec class. Since then I've made about a dozen skirts, four capes, three sets of pants, a few blouses, and right now I'm making my sixth corset, which is going to be made from silk and coutil and is heavily embroidered:

the lesson here is don't give up on doing things you want to do just because there's a learning curve; one day, with enough practice, you can become good at anything.

3. art

I've always been creative, and art is one of the easiest ways to express yourself creatively. I've been drawing and painting regularly for most of my life, and the career path I've chosen is animation. I have a diploma in 2D, but I'm actually planning on going back to school for 3D animation as well. Right now, I'm working on a realistic digital painting of d&p asleep on the couch in their tour bus as a bit of a challenge for myself. Here's a wip:

The final piece will be lineless, but I've included a lined version just so you can see the parts I haven't painted yet lmao.

4. writing/poetry

I distinctly remember being six years old and sitting down to write a book. Writing has been a part of me just as long as I've been able to read, and while the book six-year-old me attempted to produce was perhaps not very inspiring, I've written quite a lot since then. I got into writing fanfiction when I was 12, and it was my main hobby until I was about 16, at which point i got too depressed to continue with it. I have written fanfic since then, though, mostly in the past few years. I don't post everything I write only because I mostly just write down a scene here or there when I can't get them out of my head, but I have posted a few complete works which can be found here (for my teenage writing) and here (for my more recent stuff). I also write poetry, and one day I'd like to compile it into a book perhaps. Here are a few of my pieces:

I don't really have a favourite type of poem, although I do enjoy rhyming couplets lmao.

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thank you for sending me this ask!! I know it's been a week or so but I've enjoyed answering it.

[still-bejeweled-and-shining]

"Omar, put on your clothes" GIRL, HE'S DRESSED??? DO YOU NEED GLASSES?????

the censoring- they censor the box of condoms, the cigarette and FL's neckline bc it showed cleavage?????? let's see how many things I can spot that are censored

ALSO, I JUST REMEMBERED ML HAD LINELESS LANDS

"we're just fuckbuddies right?" HE WAS CALLING YOU HIS GIRLFRIEND IN PUBLIC! TO THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE! GIRL WDYM JUST FUCKBUDDIES???

gisela my best girl. she's just there, living the life, trying to keep her bestie away from man-related drama, then screwing up royally, but always involved in the beef. I love her.

"SHE HAS NO POWER! SHE'S NOT FROM OUR CLASS" hate to break this out to you but...

jesus christ these people don't know the meaning of boundaries

Middle schoolers have longer relationships, I swear these two broke up like five minutes ago

HE WANTS TO MARRY HER??? HASN'T IT BEEN LIKE TWO WEEKS SINCE THEY STARTED DATING, MAYBE LESS???

"I know I shouldn't have attempted suicide and I shouldn't have thrown your phone to the water but THIS PROVES I LOVE YOU" nO IT DOESN'T-

still waiting for the whole Biological Family thing to blow up and I still have like 35min left of this mess

"Carlos also wants Amanda to be happy!" WELL IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT, DOES IT?

this feels like assault...........I don't like this at all

I hate everyone here

is this medically possible? part 29

episode 93 out of 100 or so, they still haven't uncovered the FUCKING FAMILY TIES SUBPLOT

I'm starting to really hate them all intensely, they're all fucking idiots who don't know neither healthy relationships nor how to behave after breakups nor how to deal with jealousy nor how to BE NORMAL???

EPISODE 96! FINALLY THEY BRING UP THE FAMILY TIES

and of course they give them to...Anita

say goodbye to the documents Amanda, you're screwed

"he got his left hand hurt saving you" wasn't it the LEG?

what

what

what

"I'll explain later" (THE END)

This was bonkers. I love the first half & hate the second half.

@fake-married-my-dead-fiance I'd like to know your reaction to this thing I found

I'm currently binge watching"abogado Ramos, acaríciame" (i can explain); which is a chinese soap-opera dubbed into spanish for some reason. some slight spoilers (very minor spoilers I promise)

SOOOO many plotholes. like a shit ton amount of plotholes

what happened with the kidnappers????? didn't the Ramos family take LEGAL ACTION for, y'know, KIDNAPPING MAFRESA????? like, the brother is the best lawyer ever, WHY DON'T THEY TAKE LEGAL ACTION

they fuck with their clothes on

the court looks UNIRONICALLY like a church. AND THEY SAID "I OBJECT"

I love the logic. "oh, it's fine, she only got a big concussion- she'll have to spend 2 days at the hospital, yk, just in case" "he (a pianist) BROKE HIS LEG and he can't play ANYMORE!"

how does ML have so much time and money and influence and TIME???? bitch you're a LAWYER you shouldn't have so much time to do unrelated stuff

this is the craziest thing I've watched, and it's very weird that they make a HUGE deal out of the main character being a virgin, which I find slightly unconfortable-

for context, I'm watching a (horribly made) Spanish dub of this:

and they translated the names to SPANISH and it's set in VALENCIA for some reason (??????).

Also, I genuinelly don't know how much of this (the dub, the text) was made with AI. Like...the subtitles don't exactly follow what's being said, the thumbnail ("after a drunk accident, she went in the executive director's bed (HE'S A LAWYER), which became an addiction that he couldn't abandon") doesn't fit the description, some of the names are changed (Cecilia/Celia), and a long etc.

There are too many things deeply wrong with this. I'm pretty sure most of the legal stuff isn't actually legal??? or possible, to begin with. or morally correct.

but ohh boy, I'm enjoying this fever dream (while making the ugliest blanket in the world <3)

also, this is an anti-carlos blog now. screw that bitch. get your greedy-ass hands out of my GIRL

[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?????????)

[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!

[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.

[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.