#I don’t know where I was going with this one. I’ve had major artblock + heavy workload for the past week and it’s starting to eat at me ig

[hrokkall]

Okay hear me out. We don’t know what Carla looks like but what if Carla and Amanda look similar because Sado used Carla as her main point of reference for looking human

[fenkko]

it’s been a while but here’s another batch of asks!! thank you for sending them in

photoshop and a wacom cintiq! i’ve had it since 2016 and i love it very much

thank you!!! hmm i’m not sure if i have any tricks to it, but i think that getting in the bnha fandom has been the best thing for my art and motivation in a long time. having a passion for something helps a lot! i kind of have a problem on the opposite end where i get too excited about drawing and draw hours into the night, which isn’t good for my health;; 

something that works for my art process is gathering all my drawing ideas and cool reference pics on my phone and then sketching whatever i feel like sketching! it helps so that i always have different things to draw and i don’t feel obligated to force myself into finishing a piece if it’s just not working, but it also means i have a bunch of months old wips lying around ahaha

i still get artblocked though, i think that’s goes for everyone. when it feels like nothing’s coming out right in a drawing i’ll go work on a different wip, doodle silly things i’m not going to post anywhere, or go take a walk/watch some videos/read a webcomic and return when i’m feeling up for it

for your other question i don’t think i’ve ever had trouble with confidence posting things, even at the beginning where i wasn’t very good haha. it could be helpful to think of it as just posting for yourself to document all your artwork, and think of positive feedback as a bonus!

usually i’ll get stuff from google images, but sometimes i take my own! nothing fancy, just setting up my phone camera on a timer and taking a pic if i need a pose reference

i look really weird doing it jgfdsf but it’s very helpful

i think people think of it different ways but i use it to describe the clean up stage! like in this post for example –– first i start with a rough sketch, color it with flat colors and sometimes a bit of shading, and then merge the layers and start defining areas, redrawing lines, adding filters. it’s easier for me to start with different layers so that i can fix stuff quickly, and then begin rendering with the final touches on a single layer when different layers become more troublesome than useful

ahh i’m probably not the best person to ask because i focus a lot more on deku :’) i think bakugou’s still very immature but he’s getting there? maybe? i’d have to reread

i’m glad his classmates at UA aren’t totally accepting of his behavior like his middle school lackeys, hopefully that helps him grow up a bit. i haven’t watched all of naruto but something that bothered me was how everyone took sasuke seriously even when he was being ridiculous. someone please make fun of this dude and his terrible judgment,,

for me bakugou’s in this weird grey area where his actions are too exaggerated to really think of him as a real person and seriously analyze his character (which sounds silly because they’re all cartoon characters, i hope this makes sense haha) so the way i depict bakugou and his relationship with midoriya + his classmates is more jokingly, or maybe idealized? idk i think this is a complicated way for me to say that i like to draw comics that make fun of bakugou HGFJH (which is probably why i like bakusquad stuff the most out of all bakugou content)

i’d really like a scene where bakugou apologizes or directly faces the consequences of how he treated midoriya but i have the feeling we’re not going to see that;; he’s probably going to stay a bit of a turd for the rest of bnha

also since i think it’s relevant to my thoughts about their dynamic, here are the tags from my last drawing of them! #edit: i got a few messages asking me if i ship bakudeku and i dont. sorry to mislead!! #i drew them more friendly than usual which is probably the closest i’ll get to actual ship content #to be honest i don’t draw even the few pairings i do like more explicitly romantic than them standing next to each other bhfjgh #drawing romance is usually less fun than drawing people doing friend stuff #or in this case #bakugou getting bullied by a pomeranian

ahh i’m actually wondering that myself :’) i think the big question is whether to go for a company that handles most of the work themselves and gives you a bit of profit, or open a store yourself and have to spend time packaging your own things. i’d really love to do the latter since i want to be able to control the quality, but i’m not sure if i have the time to manage it the way i’d like

not currently but i finished the ones i already had, so possibly in the near future! the last time i opened them was just on instagram, so i’ll remember to let you guys know here as well :D

@madeline-makes-stuff i’m not super active on discord but i’m in this bnha art server!

ahh i feel kind of weird talking about follower counts so probably no raffles or events like that, sorry;; 

i’m currently attending carnegie mellon university in their school of art!! northeastern is pretty close to my home though so i’m familiar with it –– i was actually accepted there as a game design major and they sent me some valentines candy in a husky box, it was really sweet :’)

aw i haven’t listened to any episodes in a while but it’s still very dear to me! i’m planning to draw some taz this month B) i love all the stuff the mcelroys make, especially monster factory!

and that’s it for now!! also wanted to say thank you so much everyone for your kind asks, they’re all really appreciated HFJGHF;; i keep them all in my inbox and in my heart

[b-leikur]

[W101] Dragonspyre Thaumaturges

I promised @kataba-artblock that I would tell him more about Lionheart by expanding his backstory. And I know that @appuru-pi and I spoke about it before, but it would be nice to share through a post, like I’ve done previously with Garrett’s story!~ <3

During the earliest times of Dragonspyre, back when it used to be a triumphant land permeated with currents of lava and the husked breaths of imposing drakes, there lived two adult Pyromancers. They originally came from Mooshu, but they decided to settle down in neighboring Dragonspyre, due to a terrible disease speading through Emperor Yoshihito’s land of purity by the elephant demons and their minions.

Around the same time when Malistaire joined with Sylvia in marriage, the two Pyromancers had a son - one which was named after Dragonspyrean customs and traditions; Alexander. (Although they called him Alexandros and/or Aleksandr) He was one who happened to possess the magic element that’s naturally and actively opposing Pyromancy: Thaumaturgy.

For wizards of Fire to have an offspring that’s the opposite element is a case that’s awfully rare within the Spiral - it is said that once or even twice in one hundred years, it would happen for two Pyromancers to have a Thaumaturge child. Alexander was not an only child, for he would be gifted with three more siblings - each named after how their mother first percieved their features or personalities as infants. The second son and the second eldest was named Angel. The Pyromancer mother chose this name because she percieved the infant Thaumaturge’s smiles to be akin to that of an angel.

Alexander proved to be a caring older brother while he was still young - Angel sought him as an example of a brother he could learn a lot from. As the two Ice children continued to bond and get to know each other better, they would soon sat hello to their third brother, Karic. For a Thaumaturge, Karic certainly had the energy of a Storm child, he would always try to tackle his brothers to have them play with him any games that were part of any little wizard's childhood; such as tag or hide and go seek. Unlike his older brothers, who were already getting used to their power over Ice magic, Karic wished he could be like his parents, a Pyromancer - he regularly dressed in red, and politely asked his mother to teach him fire spells.

“No, I’m sorry, sweetie. You were born to yield the power of the Ice, exactly like your brothers. Once you’re a big boy, one day you’ll get to the fire spells that I could teach you as your secondary magic element.”

“Yes, momma.”

The fourth brother to Alexander, Angel and Karic was Ethan. He stood mostly by his eldest brother’s side - clinging onto him. He would always try to hug his brothers, he was quite the attention seeker, as their father would confess amused. It was his way to tell them how much he loves his siblings, as he is the youngest.

As the four Thaumaturge boys continued to grow in strength and power, the glorious days of Dragonspyre came to an end. Alexander was the only one to fully witness the violent, slow-paced destruction of the world’s major districts and lanes.

He was still too juvenile to fully fathom this tragic turn of event; the Dragon Titan, the ancestor of all Pyromancers - had awakened with a loathsome hunger for conquering the volcanic realm of Dragonspyre that it once reigned over.

The tears of horror and the wails of despair which permanently tainted his brother’s figures simply had their eldest brother’s heart split in half - the ordeal of wizards being sacrificed in order for a tyrannical drake to reclaim its territory only brought the fright of death upon Dragonspyrean warriors as well as settlers from other parts of the Spiral - such as Alexander’s parents.

As a result of the Dragon Titan’s wrath against the people of Dragonspyre, many of the residences of the mercenaries or ordinary wizards were severely ravaged, leaving them with no place to stay. Alexander, his brothers and their parents were lucky, for their homstead sustained minor damage. A week after the drake’s rampage, grave words had spread amongst the now heedful locals: “Sylvia Drake, wife of the highly-acclaimed Necromaster Malistaire Drake passes away in the thick of the Dragon Titan’s charge.”

Neither Alexander nor his brothers understood at their age that time how devastating the death of Sylvia was for most of Dragonspyre - she was the Captain of the Dragonspyrean Army, ready to serve attentively. Fellow mercenaries and wizards respected her for the high rank she held.

The four children of ice would be awfully oblivious of the fact that they would eventually have to confront Malistaire himself - a broken man who wished to bring his wife back to life by awakening the Dragon Titan from its slumber.

Around his teenage years, Alexander had gone through a swingeing change in his personality - he was incredibly irascible, and horribly impatient. He also grew to loathe his given name, believing it wasn’t as ‘regal’ as his parents originally thought it sounded - so he dubbed himself ‘Lionheart’; therefore he hard-heartedly told his brethren to only refer to him by that name, and not ‘Alexander’ anymore.

His brothers did not take his militant behaviour too well - fearful of Lionheart’s agressive words, they ran away from Dragonspyre, and hid away in Wintertusk, where they would vow to never see their “so-called brother” no more, unless he would have a change of heart and reconcile with his grief-stricken siblings.

“Y-You!”

“Why are you here...?”

“Angel, don’t! Stay away from him!”

Lionheart’s genuine reaction to the trepidation in his brothers’ eyes and voices, and the way they would embrace each other tightly, and sniffle in shock - they may not see through his rough exterior, but Lionheart felt emotionally ruined, but he didn’t express it openly, as he believed it to be nothing but a weakness. Raw emotion was meaningless to him. Once he left his brothers’ hideout, his mind would fall into conflicting thoughts, that would only fuel his bitterness.

“...They still think I’m a monster...”

Yet the painful distance between the four brothers didn’t last an eternity.

When faced with the challenge of dethroning the Shadow Queen, and to tear apart the Song of Creation, Lionheart would’ve never thought to hear the voices of his second and fourth brothers; Angel and Ethan, now proud 18 year old and 17 year old Thamaturges. They both confessed to their eldest brother that it was a mistake of them to run away, and to judge Lionheart’s behaviour so harshly, and that it was all but a misunderstanding between brothers that were different in personality. They eventually make up by welcoming him as “Big brother Lionheart”, a name he was only called by in his childhood.