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Day 7
"I wanna ruin our friendshiiipp~!" (I think you can get the song im referencing to here teehee)
#paper_guitar#daily art#daily ship art#song reference#It's Jenny by Studio Killers btw lol#I had shaded this but it's too god awful to share so flat colors it'll be lol#TW self harm scars#scars#Tw sh scars#I just spent a few hours drawing this#stars please pretend I drew the other side im too tired for a full artwork today lmao#I'll redraw this in the future one day#Paperguitar Redraw box#Most tags ill prolly ever tag on this blog lmao
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sorry guys they finally showed me peak fiction . Its called “phantom of the paradise”
#phantom of the paradise#potp#winslow leach#swan potp#nightmaretheater#these were all done on the same canvas and i spent over 20 hours on it. Its just that good you know#Sorry this movie is making me VICIOUSLY IRREGULAR. its just that good. You have to watch it Now#i hope you dont mind the billion belts i have gifted winslow. she deserves them#lalalalal i love redesigning characters a little teeny weeny bit#Honestly. I want to draw swan more. I hate him so much but hes like really interesting. Im going to put him in situations#I miiight have changed a few details . giggle#…:i just had to give him a cool mark & blonde eyelashes Giggles#anyways i love ur shiny metal teeth winslow *thinks about the metaphorical implications and dehumanization for 10 hours*#So hard to draw her helmet sometimes… But i will willingly struggle . It is Okay!#anyways. Watch this movie now or suffer my curse
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made a lil comic based on your nature au hope that’s cool lol
After a lot of careful thought I have decided that he in fact can! It uh, might not be quite what he was hoping for though.
#fop nature au#fop#fairly oddparents#fop dev#fop peri#I had to think really hard about this#I spent the first few hours walking around being like 'no thats to horrifying to draw for my au'#You know its bad when I think its too fucked up#and then I was like wait no they probably incinerate it#Not pictures but this is followed by like a 2000s fashion montage except its Dev trying out different increasingly fucked up legs#ending with Dev being like 'cant you just flip copy-paste my other leg'#and Peri in tears like 'IM NOT A DOCTOR DEV I DIDNT GO TO LEG SURGERY SCHOOL'
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I spent. Too lomg. On this. And. Bleh.
I just. Wanted to render stuff LOL.
(Full image below the cut, warning for like. Theres no clothes but like the worst u can see is jasons butt. Idk. but like not in a sexual way i promise i was just lazy and really didn't wanna do clothes, ive spent like. 7 hours on this without realizing it. Yesah. )
Idk i really do not mean for this to be seen as sexual in any way i just kidna drew what was in my head which was ppl cuddling PLEASE keep that in mind when interacting i would really aprriacte if you didnt saY like, stuff like that. Thanks. )
#valgrace#leo valdez#jason grace#idk#amas art#im SO FUCKING DONW#I HATEEEE pillows#My tummy hurts#i really liekd doing the burn scars tho they were really fun to draw…#And jasons hand looks good#I like to draw noses also those were fun#But god does my hand hurt#I checked the timelpase i spent EIGHT hours on this. What.#I literally thought i spent like. 3 maybe.#Okay like.#God#i really didnt see that it could be seen as like. A thing. I just wanted to draw them cuddling.#But my friend pointed it out. And. Yeah now i feel akward.#Anyway#!!!!#Im gonan draw a few meme things now.
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I have lost my mind, he hijacked it and lives there now
#crowley#good omens fanart#anthony j crowley#crowley fanart#good omens crowley#greyscale#genuinely kinda funny going from rarely ever doing fanart to... drawing these guys more frequently than some of my characters LOL#he's Mine Now#just keep using him as face studies fulfilling the gay art urge 'warmup' before working on big difficult commission and a cooloff afterward#like I spent more than ten hours on a complex commission the past few weeks; and then relaxed right after doing this in under 2 haha#just gotta draw. ambiguously gendered tiddies sometimes. in a very fun easy style. you know how it is#top scar crowley my beloved
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Immortal! Merlin Merwaine AU
They've known for a very long time that Merlin would outlive Gwaine, as soon as they realized he wasn't aging. Merlin put an aging spell on himself and for awhile they could pretend they were growing old together. In his last moments, all Gwaine wants is to remember Merlin as he truly was.
Whoever said immortality was a gift had clearly never experienced it.
#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin emrys#gwaine#merlin gwaine#merwaine#i swear i do draw things other than Merwaine#they just have a choke hold on me#also everyone be so proud of me#i was so brave here#i drew HANDS?#and for the first time in awhile attempted to age a character???#like not WELL but I did it#AND i spent literally two weeks on this#which is a lot for me#because im a weakling that uses to quick sketches that just take a few hours#also#fuck backgrounds#who needs em right?#anyway#i have more information about this if you want it#I have a lot of time to think of angst on my long drive to and from work#is it an AU if Merlin is actually immortal in canon?#idk
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What could have been
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I spent soo long on this line art T.T
#my art#artists on tumblr#arcane#digital art#jinx art#jinx fanart#jinx arcane#jinx#lol#league of legends#fan art#digital drawing#fish bones#hiiiii this has actually been done for a week but then i went to visit my parents and didnt have time to post so here i am v v late and now#my computer doesnt wanna work properly lol or its just tumblr being dumb#but anwyas pleaseeeeeeee reblog this it helps so much i know dont derive motivaiton from the internet but i stg i spent 7 hours lining this#and thats just the line art and its so disheartening to see things get only a few notes when i sepnt hours working on it#and this goes for all artists srsly please reblog art!!!!!!
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Not gonna lie, the "It looks like a Divine Circle but is actually just hundreds of years of superstition & propaganda"-Concept is the coolest fucking thing I didn't know I needed until ten minutes ago. It's a super cool inversion of the classic trope, opens up a million possibilities for stories and arcs and on top of that, in game, you would obviously not know about it form the beginning but slowly have to collect clues and hints that things are not quite as everyone tells you.
So yeah, very cool concept!
Not directly related, but it's probably no surprise that my favorite Ganondorf line is the "I coveted that Wind"-line from the finale of Wind Waker. He doesn't even go into detail, cause he doesn't have to, this line alone instantly humanizes him. Like, its the end of the game, we are about to fight him, there is no way this will not end in a fight, and yet, at that point, that line, just goes so fucking hard. Because you instantly know what he's talking about, that he simply wanted a future for his people, which, you know, is a very human thing to do. It wont stop us from fighting him here and now, way too much has happened for that, but it reminds us, the audience, that he has motives and reasons and thoughts and is an actual character.
So yeah, in case it's not obvious yet, I too despise the extremely flat "I'm evil because evil, waaaaaaaaagh!" Ganondorf from TOTK. Why even include him if you cant be arsed to actually write him?
Anyways, last thing, I'll have to somewhat disagree on the Gameplay vs Story thing, at least partially because I work in the field and have had experiences with this problem myself. Not saying its impossible to have both, but its a lot more difficult than one would expect.
Towards your point, yes a good story can pull people through a game, but so can strong gameplay. Take the Doom games, I dont really care about their story, but the gameplay is great. On the other hand, the gameplay of the average Telltale game would be incredibly boring without the story behind it. There are hybrids, but even they tend to lean one way or the other: The Assassins Creed or Uncharted Series have solid and fun gameplay, but would probably get repetitive or boring if we didn't have strong characters and stories that keep us interested. And all of that is before you consider that there are different player types that gravitate to one or the other and it gets even more complicated. (There's more to this but I my thoughts on the topic could easily be a full bachelors Thesis, so I'll stop here.)
I should add that I dont think that the gameplay over story (or vice versa) argument can or should be used to defend games or design choices. Yes, Nintendo does prefer to focus on Gameplay over Story. Does that mean we shouldn't expect a good story, or are not allowed to criticize a bad one in their games? Hell no! (And if my previous ask sounded like I was doing that, I apologize, that was NOT what I meant to say! I'll happily critique all of TOTKs flaws, both in gameplay & story, otherwise how can we learn from it?)
This argument can be used to understand and analyze or interpret design decisions but it shouldn't ever be used to defend them. Just like the "just for kids" argument, by using such arguments, the person in question basically admits that they are aware of the weaknesses and faults in their story/game/whatever but didn't fix or improve them. So yeah, I do agree with you on that front 100%, hiding behind such arguments is a problem.
Anyway, sorry for leaving another wall of text in your inbox, hope you're having a nice day!
thank you! that 'cycle' concept is also what destiny (zelda comic) is based on, since it takes place before skyward sword you get to see the set up for it, and, in this story, the gods have been trying to achieve it countless times, throughout the story of it its supposed to slowly be revealed- like demise already knowing some parts since hes yet another 'failed' version of that plan (im reusing that concept for the totk rewrite as well bc i am very original wahoo)
oh you work in that field! thats cool!! yeah my opinion on this sort of thing is very much a thing i formed bc i play games, though i still dream of gamedev, i guess i understood your mention of it a little too much into the dismissive argument way (though not as an attack) and its been repeated so so many times i cant help but get a little >_> at it; the point i was trying to make was more like ... they need to find a balance with it, like you can make it all about gameplay, but then dont pretend you have the most epicest story that ever storied, maybe even do it less or more subtle, like the fromsoft game i feel like are very well balanced in that regard, bc their lore and story is very neat and intertwined, but you have to look and think to get it, and the gameplay is strong on its own so much so that it kinda ends up being both soemthing for people that dont care about lore and those that do, more than about the gameplay
zelda feels like it doesnt quite know what to do (even moreso modern zelda), bc they prioritize the gameplay but then still put in a story that they want understood .. so its like, babiefied? like there is a "simple" story and its few points are repeated into your face over and over and over so the people that dont care to read into soemthing GET IT but also annoy them, bc they dont care anyway, and the people who care about lore/story above gameplay are bored bc the narrative isnt engaging enough and they dont care as much about the gameplay
especially so with totk i think, its so weird, botw wasnt like that imo, it wasnt overly complicated either but at least it left you wondering, and let you think, the more you thought about the more interesting it was (at least to me) totk feels like the opposite, it doesnt want you to think, bc the more you think about it the more it falls apart and makes less sense
like theres types of games that focus HARD on one or the other (like slay the princess for example, its like an interactive audio book, there isnt much gameplay but it goes hard on narrative), so obviously the balance of gameplay and story isnt applicable to every game, but for zelda in particular they say they are one but then still want the other part just as much? like the lore in skyward sword isnt great, the characters are strong though, the gameplay isnt that engaging (to me, since that needs to be said) i got through it mostly just bc i wanted to see what comes next and liked the characters, in botw the freedom and world and gameplay were like nothign i ever experienced, exploring was addictive and the story took a bit of a backseat, but it was fitting for the game and lend itself so well to theorize, in totk they .. idk what the focus was, the .. glue? the toys to glue together? nothing fits together there and each part works against another instead of together, somehow, its so weird to me
the thing is, if you do gameplay over story, you need to roll with it? if thats what it is then let the story take a backseat, make it subtle and in the background or vague, dont stuff the game full of unskippable cutscenes where a character you dont care about explains you a thing you already figured out through the gameplay; like the zelda dragon point, let the design of the dragon and its music, what its carrying speak for itself, the way the deku tree is weirded out by the sword moving, maybe a quick subtle voice line once you get the sword fading away like the last parts of her soul being whispered away- but dont mention it in one of the first cutscenes, fail to bury it in 'thats illegal though and irreversible so nono dont you do it' (why mention it then huh) allude to it multiple times, and then just straight up show it (i get people like the scene but man, it would have been way cooler to figure it out yourself)
same goes for the fake zelda thing, the weird way she said the bloodmoon text already alluded to it, have her show up here and there but vanish before you (no "omg thats zelda omg what is she dooooing") , or go even harder and make her an NPC standing around the world interacting with you all nromally but animals react weirldy to her- make the midfight against her (maybe even that she isnt talking so you are unsure if its actually her but controlled by sth else, or talk all normally while literally going for your throat) and then have her dissolve into goop and woa the bloodmoon thing is without her now the zelda you have been talking to has been fake the whole time, its creepy!! leave out the stupid cutscenes of showing it multiple times!! stop monologing at me!!
ppl that dont care about it can go and do a fight and i can think about it! everyone wins yahoo!
(actually ... if you leave out all the cutscenes in totk i feel like it improves the game by alot ...)
(what my point in the previous thing was in the end that you can repeat the same old trope only so many times without changing anything before it gets boring as hell, like what you said here, and the series seems to really be setting itself on fire bc it just wants to do the trope of old so badly and at some point its gonna drag down even the best of gameplays like gameplay over story means (to me) gameplay is prioritized so whatever narrative there is is in the background, subtle and not overtly in your face with big cutscenes etc- but what i feel like its often supposed to mean is "its fine if theres a shitty story that makes no sense pasted on top bc they prioritize gameplay so stop complaining" like to me what it should mean is more gameplay, less story, a measure of quantity not of quality, but what i feel like it often means is better gameplay, bad story, a measure of quality, not quantity )
maybe my problem lies elsewhere and im just projecting it on gameplay > story, that could very much be the case, i could have a fundamental missunderstanding about this here, im still just a guy with opinions in the end and got no knowledge about anything other than i play games sometimes and these are the things i like and dislike and would do differently *puts my head in my hands*
idk if im making sense, im usually not very good at explaining how i feel or think :/ (or i THINK im bad at it, autism be damned)
(sorry this got so long again ......................)
#ganondoodles answers#ganondoodles talks#zelda#long post#sorry :/#i can talk and talk and talk and never get to the point#or get to the end only to realize i might have been thinking about it wrong lmao#sorry sorry sorry for the spam of long ass asks#talking like this can be a good distraction and typing is easier on my hands than drawing or playing games#it took me multiple rereads of all the text i wrote until i got into words that waht i really mean#all this text wasnt necessary at aaaaaaaaaaaaalllll aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah#in the end it just boils down to#what i think gameplay over story should mean is as a measure of how much of which and not of the quality of it#....... im leaving all that text in there thoguh bc otherwise i spent another few hours typing this only to delete it
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"likes don't do anything" they do
"there's no algorithm" there is
"well nobody uses the for you tab" I do
"reblog all art and fics you see" there's no thought put into that. if this does work on people, then it's just pity engagement borne out of guilt rather than genuine interest, which is arguably worse than having none, because it's totally hollow.
#if I make art of my ocs who I'm personally fond of and spent a few days drawing just right and it gets 3 reblogs then it gets 3 reblogs#it's rational to feel a little disappointed sure. but I can't do anything about that. it's just luck#and I got Very lucky accumulating a few thousand followers on my main-turned-art-only blog off the back of when m.oomin was very popular#(tho realistically many of those users are probably inactive/passive followers now)#and having this number of people tuned into my posts Still only gets me a couple dozen notes on original stuff.#every 3 years or so something might blow up. like that bugs bunny comic lol. and I did Not expect it to#especially bc it happened about a year after I shared it as well.#it can happen any time. so don't feel discouraged when your art doesn't get noticed right away#the one advantage this website has is that there's far less of a fomo culture compared to other socials where trends come and go in a week#and people will still interact with older posts. especially bc it's easier to find what you want through the tagging system. sort of.#there's really no way to predict this or aim for large engagement! oh unless you're specifically catering to the current hot topic#like d.unmeshi is wiiiildly popular right now. I've seen comics get 5-digit notes in under 48 hours 'cause more eyes are on it.#but if it's not something you personally like and you're only creating things for the attention then you're gonna be unhappy#and people will inevitably move on.#I'd much rather swing my art back around every few months or so until it finds someone it resonates with#than make people who were never planning to engage with it feel bad for no reason
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I have such a CUNTYYYY idea for phanart but I haven't really picked up a pencil since I was in high school and it's making me feel like
Like it's just shapes. It's literally just shapes girl why is this so hard 😭 I just wanted to draw dan with long hair and now I'm knee deep in anatomy tutorials and my vision is starting to get blurry
#dan and phil#phan#that's not entirely true i had to take a few sketching classes in college#but i haven't tried to draw people since like. 2015 lmao#the need to draw dan with long hair in a way that doesn't look like shit is so overwhelming#I've literally spent 6 consecutive hours figuring out how to draw human faces. i forgot to eat today#i will prevail however!! it just might take a bit longer than id hoped lmao
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The two Suns I drew during @daycarefriendpickup's Magma this past weekend. This was my first time doing an event like this and it would not have been possible without the encouragement of the faz-errific @littlechinaaru and @lil-lemon-snails. The second picture is my part of the collaboration I did with the two on Sunday (you can see the hands they drew on the left and right respectively). Check out the official posts by the dfpu tumblr to see both drawings in full.
#loaf art#fnaf daycare attendant#fnaf sun#sundrop#dca fandom#that first Sun is tiny and was a pain to draw#biblically accurate dca's are not meant to be depicted on such a small scale and I would not recommend you try it#I can't believe I spent 12 HOURS on the collab-slow drawing strikes again ;_; I started working on it and just kept going nonstop all night#ngl it got kinda dicey those last few hours but hey it got finished in time to get posted to the dfpu tumblr#thanks Snails and Fire for spending your free time drawing with me instead of sleeping you're both swell and I had a great time#also thanks to the server in general you folks are all very supportive#edit: fughhhgh I just noticed I forgot to draw in several details why didn't I notice this sooner
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#delete later#another journal entry 📝 for the void#i have not been sleeping well for the past 2 wks 😵💫 i always wake up like clockwork after 5-6 hrs which feels like not nearly enough#i feel like i've done everything there is to do (consistent exercise + consistent sleep times + earplugs + weighted blanket + no caffeine)#last night i took melatonin too but no... same problem staying asleep 😭#ahh whatever. i'm just frustrated that it has to be this way :(#anyways in an act of spite i reread like the 4 wips that have been sitting in my drafts from the past few weeks#i think something that will never cease to surprise me about writing is that more effort/time doesn't necessarily translate to better#results; i suppose that's the case with all kinds of art but#it does feel somewhat unintuitive. one of my fav professors in uni said to not dismiss those 'lightning in a bottle' moments (in art) as#blind luck... but to instead analyze the circumstances and iterate on recreating them. and i think one of my artist friends who i deeply#respect said something similar (wrt artistic rituals/setup). i have too many thoughts on writing and on my own creative processes and#weaknesses to fit into any number of tags here. :') that said...#*shakes ch2 draft* after everything i did and all the hours i spent WHY are you still so bad?!!! D: i am baffled and frustrated.#and why do i prefer this other [redacted] draft which i hammered out with utterly no regard towards the quality??#anyways. back to the drawing board i guess T.T
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been wondering about people’s takes on the outfits lately bc they’re so much fun :] lemme know what you’re voting + why in the tags!! pt2 posted very soon with everything s8 and on (ran out of answer options)
#poll✨#ninjago#it’s the ZX suit nostalgia for me :] but i VERY much want to know what people think i think it’s so cool that there’s so much variety#very few shows give you that and they’re all fun as hell to draw. incredibly complicated but fun#(just spent hours squinting at the jungle gi for the dimensions joke comic)
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next up in my revamped kj designs: jet star!! 💫
she is so important to me… the space puppy tattoo is partially because of @eggbagelz’ headcanon which i saw and thought “oh definitely jet would LOVE laika” and the design is (with permission) one of my lovely friend @andpierres’ tattoo flash designs and tattoo tickets are available on his kofi if YOU would like to have a space puppy tattoo on your own skin! :)
as with the last two posts, untextured version under the cut for cleaner details and accurate colors!
#danger days#jet star#ttlotfk#killjoys california#jetty jetty jetty#jet has the most updated design technically because i went from headcanoning them as transmasc to transfem!#i have birthday and therefore astrology hcs for ALL the fab four btw if you’re interested#ghoul also has his sign’s constellation tattooed on him i think maybe jet and ghoul got those done to be loosely matching :) family#THANK YOU NICO FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR DESIGN!!#felt appropriate for jet not only because of the space theming but also because i know you like jet a lot :) and i like how you draw them#so. i kind of associate jet with you#and again: no jacket because i wanted y’all to see her tatts but unlike kobra’s jacket#i would probably make at least a FEW tweaks jet’s jacket makes the least sense to me. leather AND denim? i THINK? and there’s a weird symbol#on it? and an epaulette? idk man it’s interesting but i would probably do it differently#god fucking damn it the gun is a little too short probably. to make sense from a top angle. OH WELL. i’m not going back and changing that#too much work#also i spent literally five or six hours just on her hair please clap#if i’ve said anything about jet’s tattoos in the past ignore that i don’t remember any of what i said if that’s the case#NEW hcs now.
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Oopsies my hand slipped and I drew this
#FINALLY gave into the urges and drew them. sorry guys the mental illness won this time#tbf i’ve been deranged about this pairing for almost a year now i think i have a right to indulge myself after so long#GOD this is embarrassing to post. my sense of shame is too strong to be posting cringe art of my godawful ships even on here#if you hate me for drawing this don’t worry i’ll go die in a hole after posting this!!!#just kidding i’ll actually probably draw more even though i find it embarrassing#death note#death note fanart#mello#mihael keehl#soichiro yagami#soichiro x mello#mello x soichiro#soichello#<— some of you may want to filter those last three tags considering that i post about them semi regularly#if you don’t know how i’m pretty sure you just go settings —> account —> filtered tags and put in whatever tag you want to filter#chara’s art#first time drawing soichiro and i draw him at the most difficult angle possible. why did i do that to myself#i mean it’s not bad for my first attempt but he looks. thinner?? then i intended???#mello’s face looks off here but i had fun drawing him#anyways happy new years. i spent the last few days of last year and the first few hours of this year drawing this#what an amazing and productive way of spending that time#new years resolution is to go outside and touch grass#i can’t stop writing in the tags. i think it’s because i’m hesitating to post this lmao#oh my god whatever just shut up and hit post
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my sorrow turns to salt
#artists on tumblr#art#iyowa#vocaloid#sndfjsn i dont know what else to tag this. anygays#HEYYYYY. LOOK WHO FINALLY FINISHED A DRAWING#IT FEELS SOOO SO GREAT SO INSANE#i made a few other versions of this that ill probably show on my main#and by other versions i mean like. lineart and stuff#actually just the lineart smdkfs#really happy with how this turned out :3c#i spent like 3 hours making a background rn just to scrap it but. whatever it looks nice#inedible art
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