#I might tweak the design someday

[inu-arts]

Watcher!Grian is finally done :) I had a lot of fun with this one, and I'm really happy with it <3

I made it into a speedpaint on youtube!

Progress shots beneath the cut!

Here's a few progress and detail shots for viewing pleasure :D

Thumbnail > working > zoom in

Looking back on the thumbnail verses the final is always so fun, haha.

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

genuinely love the way the demo print came out, can't wait to put these up for order

[eggieeggman]

DannyMay part two!

A wanted sign is nailed to the wall in Amity Park. When will they stop using that dumb name?

Tweaked the prompt a little. You'd cry too if you were stuck at 14 forever.

A new color enters the chat. Danny fights tirelessly against mind control.

Style challenge! My glass-eye babydoll style is one I usually reserve for fashion design but it felt fittingly creepy to use it for Danny's weezer blues. (Whaaat? This one isn't black and white!? Wild.)

Hungry baby Ellie! Don't mind the little Batman in the corner; I think I might write an accompanying fic for this one someday.

A resting place for Danny. Ghostly fires stay lit for all eternity in the Ghost King's Mausoleum.

10 days down, 21 to go! This is very very fun

[mememachine132]

@syndrossi

So, I made some Jon and Rhaegar designs, for future fanart purposes. As a prerequisite I'm going to need everyone here to agree that these look like 8 year olds. We're making this an AU where this is what 8 year olds look like. An AU where I can draw 8 year olds, even. Look I tried my best, they look youngish. Tweens, teens, close enough yeah? How does one draw a child. help

Give a big props to Costumes/Seven Kingdoms | Wiki of Westeros | Fandom for helping me give them region accurate clothes.

Some notes:

Neither of them being in their favorite colors because they pretty much just got given hand me downs.

Jon gets more bird motif - wing shaped cloak, bird embroidery - since Rhea saw more of her house in him/he looks more vale like. Rhaegar gets some, with the long flowy cloak, but it's half-assed. There is not a single way to pretend that boy is not a Targaryen.

Jon still dresses like its winter - you will not see him in shorts ever. No human alive has ever seen his legs. Rhaegar on the other hand wears lighter stuff, since he grew up in Kingslanding and that would be what he's used to.

I was going to do the dragon headed tunics for this, but then I realized that would require drawing tiny little Targaryen emblems and I thought I wouldn't survive that.

Jon looking very knightly + everything but the cloak would be very easy to fight in. Easy to rip that off and get to killin for his brother.

Rhaegar having the open sleeves of the vale still, like how he still feels Raymar in there/is still grieving while Jon has moved entirely on with no more vale fashion.

Long hair!! Whipee!!

Both of them wearing a more modern Targ style - based off of Viserys (Dany's viserys not old man viserys) in s1 to reflect some of their modern sensibilities.

Jon wears a lot, and I mean a lot of leather. The vest? Leather. The undershirt? Leather. Cloak is heavy wool. He wouldn't feel like himself if he wasn't lugging around a mountain of heavy, winter worthy fabrics. Rhaegar on the other hand has much lighter clothes, more flowy. Some jewelry too. So pretty much Jon is roasting in Kingslanding heat and Rhaegar is living his very best ventilated silk life.

(Rhaegar's outfit is probably gonna get tweaked as it feels too simple. Not nearly enough pizzaz thrusted upon him by Daemon trying to make up for the years spent in the 'simple' clothing of the vale.)

I'll probably make some more outfits for them eventually - definitely if they go other places! I really enjoyed analyzing different regional styles and incorporating that. Someday I might even make those dreaded dragon headed tunics.

[sageourplanetmeow]

Tweak Redesign from Octonauts :>

Ahem, I headcannon her as trans and neptunic (attraction to women, feminine non-binary ppl, neutral non-binary people or attraction to all ppl except men/and or man-aligned/masculine-aligned non-binary people)

Also imma do another design for her pyjamas cus I drew them in my booklets at school- HA, it’s not like I have Octonauts drawings all over my schoolwork- r-right? First Hazbin, now octonauts, next my teachers finding out someday and being incredibly confused as to why I have furries that look vaguely like that one cartoon they barely remember. I mean there’s also Owl House and She-Ra stuff but I can’t draw them AS well/easily, and I would be drawing Scarlamagne but alas he again is too hard to draw, AND Donatello AND now I’m rambling.

But nonetheless I got Octonauts on my Pinterest feed and remembered and looked for every piece of fanart I could find, there’s a lot— it’s not a new obsession, and no I did not spend at least 1 hour reading some headcannon thing for them all… r-right?

Also I have a feeling that sometimes she might get bioluminescence stains cus for the lights she uses bioluminescence and so in the dark she glows sort of :>

[thisonelikesaliens]

found the correct lyrics (why are they so different from the subs?) anyway just went with viki's subs for the most part with some tweaks

Spiraling out of control How do these things all unfold I just need someone to hold on 怎麽逃離這黑洞 (How do I escape from this black hole) 每天沒什麼不同 (There's not much different from day to day) I know you might feel the same too

Everybody wants status 這世界到底什麼才是真的 (What's real in this world anyway?) 何必過得那麼忐忑 (Why live with so much anxiety?) 我們應該有的真心�� (What about the sincerity we should have?) 不想失去了溫度 (Don't want to lose the warmth) 不會再盲目 (No more blind faith) Cause I won’t leave you 一個人徬惶無助 (alone and helpless)

Daylight It’s by design 爲你填滿色彩 (filling you with color) Landslide Imma hold you tight 陪你釋懷 (release tension with you)* 就算偶爾會墜落 (Even if we fall sometimes) 我都會在這讓你依賴 (I'll be here for you to rely on) 在未來 (In the future) I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart

It’s always people passing by They’re talking, acting like a child 無所謂 有一天他們會明白 (Doesn't matter, one day they will understand) Raindrops flowing down the windows Flowers don’t grow in the shadows Someday 雨過天晴花總會開 (the sky will clear after the rain and flowers will bloom)

Everybody wants status 這世界到底什麼才是真的 (What's real in this world anyway?) 何必過得那麼忐忑 (Why live with so much anxiety?) 我們應該有的真心呢 (What about the sincerity we should have?) 不想失去了溫度 (Don't want to lose the warmth) 不會再盲目 (No more blind faith) Cause I won’t leave you 一個人徬惶無助 (alone and helpless)

Daylight It’s by design 爲你填滿色彩 (filling you with color) Landslide Imma hold you tight 陪你釋懷 (release tension with you)* 就算偶爾會墜落 (Even if we fall sometimes) 我都會在這讓你依賴 (I'll be here for you to rely on) 在未來 (In the future) I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart I’ll be standing by and heal your broken heart

*no innuendo in original but seriously blanking out on a more appropriate translation

[aqua-dan]

What are your thoughts on preboot Garth vs reboot Garth? You seem to be one of the only people who like reboot Garth. What is appealiong about him?

Well, "like" might be a strong word.

It's really no surprise that I'm saying this, but Reboot Garth has NOTHING on Preboot Garth. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that Preboot Garth isn't superior in literally every conceivable way.

Preboot Garth is such an incredible character. He is kind, gentle, smart, and powerful. He is emotionally impactful and occupies a space that is so specifically Him that no other character could fill it. He is so compelling, so relatable, and frankly he's downright adorable too! When I have been at some of my lowest points in life, he's been a character that I've grown up alongside and used as an example of emotional strength to help me stand back up and carry on despite the anxiety and sadness and pressure. Truly, he is one of my comfort characters of all time. His story and the things he can do are also extremely interesting!

Physically strong ✔️

Control over water ✔️

Magic ✔️

Eye blasts ✔️

Diplomacy ✔️

Like 50 other things that he forgot to mention that he can do, but totally can ✔️

So you may be wondering then, why I still like Reboot Garth who is… hardly at all like what I just described. And my answer to that is: I don't know.

You would certainly be right to say that for the most part*, Rebirth Garth is nothing like his pre-n52 counterpart. (*World's Finest: Teen Titans was the closest we've gotten. It was kind of nice in regards to Garth, with the exception of a few gripes I have here and there.) And you'd be right to be upset about it. I know I am. Quite often, to be honest.

But for some reason I just can't bring myself to fully condemn Rebirth Garth. At the end of the day, I'm in fandom to have fun, you know? And if I spend all my time hating something that's out of my control… well what good does that do me? At this point, I feel like I've resigned myself to the knowledge that I simply will not be getting what I want in regards to Garth, and so I've turned to becoming a bemused spectator at the things happening in current comics. I can still become excited about it when I DO manage to find a bit that I like. There was a post a while back that went something like,

"N52 and Rebirth suck except the parts that I like. And those bits I'll toss into a blender, puree, and mix in with preboot canon."

Yeah, that. Basically, when it comes to Reboot Garth, (in my own head) I ignore the reboot and then blend up the little bits I enjoy to create the utopian world of Canon+. And from my little imaginary perch, I can choose to still enjoy this character who has taken my blorbo's name, but sadly isn't really him.

With how changeable comics are as a medium though, I do also believe that there will be a writer someday who is willing to do the legwork necessary to bring Garth back around to being the blorbo I once knew. Some currently canon things will definitely have to be tossed out, but hey, that's the nature of comics!

That said tho, I think another one of the things that prevents me from disliking him is (surprisingly) the design. It's a controversial take amongst Garth fans for sure, but I honestly like it for the most part. There are a few things I'd tweak to make him look like more of an extension of Preboot Garth (CURLY HAIR, PLEASE), but there are a lot of elements that I just so happen to find aesthetically appealing and thus don't really mind. That isn't to say that Garth didn't already look fucking incredible, because he ABSOLUTELY did. I'm just not that bothered, I guess haha!

[googlyowo]

and finally, my slight design tweaks of Persephone, Hades, Hera, and Minthe. i would have done more of them but i ran out of steam. might wanna revisit these again someday anyway

February 2022

[gamebunny-advance]

Overlays + Logo Experiments 2023 (Kuneho sa Kahon)

This is some old work that I did last year.

I'm not gonna call this stuff "scrapped," because I may still use them someday, it's just that I don't know if or when I'm gonna start streaming again.

I forgot how long ago I actually made these, but I do know that it was during a time when I actually sucked it up and sat down with Inkscape for a while. I've probably forgotten everything I learned since then, but I remember it not being as difficult as I thought it was going to be, so picking it back up again probably won't take too long.

Anyway, the actual notes...

I made 2 versions of the "Game" overlay, 16:9 and 4:3 to accommodate more gaming eras (the games shown are just placeholders). I'd like to have a dual screen overlay too, but it might have to be less "showy" to give the game enough room to actually be seen.~

It's mostly inspired by things like the Windows XP music player, just pinkified to match Kun3h0's aesthetic.

The message box is of course lightly tamagotchi inspired and is supposed to match with Kun3h0's GAB. (Well actually, I designed these overlays first, so it's the GAB that takes after the overlay, even using the same background image for her tummy screen).

There isn't a proper overlay for art streams yet. I'm always accidentally grabbing the edges of my workspace and resizing it, so I don't think a boxed overlay would work that well for it. Maybe just a border and a place to put the alerts would be fine, but I don't really have any ideas for it~

They aren't quite "finished" yet. There are supposed to be icons in the trio of hot pink buttons, but my placeholder ideas for them didn't look great.

(Icons originally from Icons8)

The idea was to bring in some more of that tamagotchi influence by having "care icons" that would allude to some of the features of Kun3h0's game, but I just don't think the icons I chose really work. Plus, I think they're just busy. I should probably just throw some hearts in there and call it a day~

Next are the logos. I actually really like the first one, but it's a little hard to work with.

All the empty space above the title next to the ears creates, well, an empty space when the logo is at the top edge of anything. It's just very ugly to me, but there's not much I could think to do about it.

So, I made the next iteration. It's a lot more rectangular, so it's easier to place in scenes, but I think the layering of the letters is a little off. I love the idea for it, but it's just short of being great. With a few more tweaks, I think it could really work.

But you know, I feel like the problem that almost all my logos have is that they're all bulky. There are just a lot of words in there since I include the English translation, but I figure that maybe I might be able to just condense everything into a single icon: like maybe the GAB Micro is enough of a symbol on its own to work? Maybe throw a couple of K's onto the screen, but otherwise I don't think I actually need much more than that. So, maybe I'll work on something like that soon.

The last thing is just some vector art tests I did. I tried remaking this faux vector art from a while ago. It was just a way to try and get used to the program. I also tried to remake my pictogram 1010s, to varying success.

[asexual-spongebob]

WOW I CAME UP WITH ANOTHER AU-

I present:

✨Invader Kwazii✨

so I’ve been watching invader zim and I was like “omg what if I made a octonauts x invader zim AU” so here it is-

Kwazii’s zim (cuz I just thought it’d be funny)

Tominnow’s gir (for funnzies, + i don’t see much Tominnow content so I thought this would be a fun opportunity.

shellington’s dib (idk it just made sense to me)

Pearl’s gaz (cuz Shell’s dib)

Paani’s just a friend of kwazii (and later on, lover.) (I couldn’t really think of a canon character equivalent for him lmao)

peso’s keef. Idk it just made sense to me.

barna and inkling = Almighty Tallest. mostly because I thought it’d be funny. Dashi’s tak maybe?

and Tweak’s skoodge maybe? still trying to decide who gets who’s role.

the first image is the first design I made for him but I changed it a little (I added more green + gave him an extra tail to look more like an alien)

I drew the first two images yesterday but just finished the third one.

I might turn this into a fanfic someday so keep ur peepers peeled >:3

just know there’s gonna be Kwazini + shellso (later on, I’ve got some shit planned in my head for how shellso happens) oh yeah and pearlanca is also a thing here . and twashi as well for funnizes.

I’m gonna start thinking of stuff + plotting the outline :) it’s probably gonna a decently long fic if I get around to writing it someday.

[blushroom20]

BluShroom20 rambles about her Left 4 Dead 2 modding, since the game is still being pulped by exploits

Technically this could be Modded L4D2 Team doodles 2.5

The Left 4 Dead 1 Survivors don't get much of my attention in my L4D2 modding shenanigans for a few reasons. The character choices changing around a lot more being one of them.

Zoey is Inkling Girl because I'm a longtime Bowser Jr./Inkling shipper and that goes along with the Zoey/Ellis dynamic. Long ago I brainstormed a fanfic idea and everything, but it never went anywhere. She doesn't have a proper portrait though, which is one of the big reasons I want to make my own portrait mod someday.

AkiRen's spot was based on the fact I originally used a full Persona 5 survivor pack to get Akechi over Nick, and that's the spot he was in. This is noticeable in old videos/screenshots of the group, where you can still see the portraits of the other Persona 5 characters.

Eventually he was moved from Bill to Louis in order to make room for Peppino. Prior to the move, I had the TF2 Medic over Louis. I do miss having the TF2 Medic; the modmaker going out of the way to give each mercenary specific cosmetics to better match the survivors they went over was a nice touch.

Francis was a tricky one. For a decent chunk of time I had Black Frost over him, as a reference to it being one of RTGame's signature Personas in his playthrough of P5R. Eventually I wanted to add a bit of "realism" to the cast and landed on the idea of Lance from Epic Battle Fantasy. He fits the "hating nearly everything role" so why not.

Just like how I don't exactly have a model or modding expertise to insert myself over Rochelle and use Alyx Vance instead, Lance's stand in is currently a Lethal Company employee. Lance from Pokémon would have been a similar "same name, vaguely similar appearance" moment but he's not there last I checked.

Before Lethal Company, I did temporarily replace Francis with Sho Minazuki from Persona 4 Arena. Fun Fact: He shares English voice actors with Teruteru Hanamura (Todd Haberkorn)! I found this out while working on my Teru voice modding and thought having two characters voiced by the same person would be funny.

Outside the game, I have made drawings that attempt to blend some personal tweaks mixed with the survivors they replace. These range from simple things like Akechi having his gloves and striped tie, to giving other custom designs to the outfits (mainly done with Bowser Jr.). The L4D1 cast didn't get as much thought put into theirs.

I felt weird drawing Lance sleeveless since he doesn't exactly have arms full of tattoos like Francis, so I gave him the red jacket he wears in EBF5's epilogues (which is likely just the Casual Shirt/what he wore in Brawl Royale but redesigned).

I've yet to dress up Lance as a Lethal Company employee to match how I sometimes drew myself as Alyx Vance, but that might come someday.

Also shout out to @candymagnolia drawing Bill Peppino

Oct 13 2024: Updated post with a bit more detail and more mod links :)

[1nknet]

this might be a long post im sorry im really rambling here

i truly think my favorite ocs have potential. not to boast like “oh theyre so cool i made the best characters” or anything like that its just that i want to make something im proud of with them. i just dont have the skills to make that into a reality yet haha.

ive had these two for a long time but only within the last year have they become something im extremely passionate about and my ocs with the most developed story.

i dont know why im so obsessed with them as of late lol but i just tweaked their original designs (after years and years of it remaining the same) + added a real backstory and my imagination exploded. i dont even have a title for it yet

im an artist but mostly just an illustrator id say. im not great with much else. i want to animate them SOO BAD just dont have the money for good tools yet!! and lack of experience like i said

but mark my words when i Do. these bitches r gonna be movin n groovin

ah well. ill grow tired of them someday i think.

[sanversandfriends]

From epic interactive fics to stunning poster illustrations and intricate LEGO dioramas, @thelxiope1 has long been delighting Sanvers fans and fic writers alike. Today, she'll share some insights into her past and current creations as well as what she'd like to work on down the road. A Sanvers LEGO movie? Yes, please!

Tell us a little about yourself. How long have you been creating fan art? What were some of your first subjects and what ships/characters in the SG universe have you illustrated?

Forever. I used to practice drawing with the faces of the celebrities (e.g. old movie stars, the angels of Charlie) that I liked, particularly if I found photos or portraits that I thought were interesting and wanted to reproduce or use as examples. And back then, that meant propping open a library book in front of my paper sketch pad. These days I'm doing mostly Sanvers fan art, or more precisely, fic art -- sometimes inspired by my love of a fic and sometimes as part of the events, sometimes both. These have been posters mostly, and mostly some variety of photo manips with extra design elements. I've also done some LEGO dioramas.

What are your favorite mediums to work with?

These days it's 'toy photography' and particularly LEGOs: doing a build, snapping pics, and then often tweaking with a photo editor if there is something that needs to fit a specific character or setting. It's really pretty silly, but the challenge of manipulating these little plastic people (with little frozen expressions) to convey an event or an emotion is fun to figure out. Someday, when I'm retired, I might fool around with some stop-motion animation which is another thing I've always wanted to do.

What kinds of scenes do you enjoy illustrating? Do you have any favorite tropes or themes? Imagery that you like to work with?

Pretty much anything. I'm up for a challenge.

Any advice for aspiring fan artists?

Do what makes you happy.

Do you have a gallery of online work you’d like to post a link to?

Not really. I've previously posted some Sanvers LEGOs on Twitter and Ao3. Posters are on Ao3 too, but this one is my favorite: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35278147/chapters/87918796 .

[magicbench]

hey there!!! i loved fujiwara so much and can’t wait to see what comes next for it!! i wanted to as about aya if thats okay!!

when i first played, my understanding of aya was that she was meant to be like a player stand in, just not a blank slate (which is something i’ve seen in other games i’ve enjoyed before), but when i found your tumblr i remember seeing you mention somewhere that aya is less of a player stand in and more like her own character/an oc now

i just wanted to what your thoughts on players having their own versions of aya? like, an aya with a different design, name, personality and/or backstory? or even an aya that stays mostly the same with little design tweaks to fit what that player wants to envision for the story?

i guess the best way to describe it is a canon divergent aya?

thank you!!

Hello hello ~ You aren't the first person to ask me this question and I've thought long about it, but in the end it felt a bit "off" for me to be able to have a customizable MC, at least for the current Fujiwara (and the remake in progress as well) since I wrote the whole story with my own OCs in mind. BUT ! I actually plan to let the players customize Akane for Fujiwara 2, though it will just be her hair style and clothing since she, too, has her own personality and back story in current Fujiwara. And as for future non-Fujiwara projects, I planning to entirely let the players customize there MCs appearence. I also want the player to have the choices of body shapes, but...it might be a bit complicated with my still not so strong coding skills when it comes to representing the custmizations during CGs. I thought of an alternative for that and it would be to not show the player's on the CGs when it comes to it...I'll try to find the best solutions with the competences I will have at the time ✦ Until then, I'll try my best to learn new skills and who knows, maybe someday customization won't be as complicated as it is for me right now and will be able to deliver more options for the players ~ Thank you for asking me ! I hope it answered your question and dont hesitate to ask anytime ! Take care ✿

[jediknightjameslunagazer23]

"Respectfully speaking, Dr. Chase, While I do appreciate being your student... could you and Ms. Sears perhaps, oh, I don't know, lay off with the kid treatment for once!? I'm 19, ya know! Which practically makes me an adult!"

"Sorry, kid! But after Adel, you're practically the little brother of our family in Caduceus, so the universe has practically decreed that I'd be the demon of messing with you! Besides, surely I can't be THAT bad, right?

"... Oh, suuuuuure, when you're not being a mega moron trying to play matchmaker with me and Ms. Ross or Dr. Stiles and Nurse Thompson, that is!"

"My, My! For someone so quiet most of the time, you really can be a sassy little monster! Who knows, you might be even more of a demon than me someday, my young apprentice!"

"Humph! The day that will happen is when I decide to grow a carpet on my chin like yours!" (NOT.)

So yeah, that's James and Tyler's mentor and student relationship in a nutshell. Don't get me wrong, he and Dr. Chase are very close, but sometimes the Demon Doctor's antics can often test his patience and thus bring out the sassy nature within!

And yes, James does have a second nickname after Lunagazer, being Little Monster due to his once hyperactive nature during his childhood, which Kira being the mischievous little sister she is, blabbed about it to Tyler and Leslie when James told her about it, much to his dismay.

Also decided to give James' design some changes, that being his scrubs are now more muted in colour, reflecting his emotional state, and he has his necklace for his Soothing Choir powers like Derek for his Healing Touch but he choses instead to tuck it under his shirt for reasons, and his hair is tweaked again.

I even decided to give Tyler's UTK bear pin to James instead of the blue one I gave him for the Operation start animation I did, as I'd like to imagine Tyler would give it to him after he becomes his student in the Caduceus Training Program as an intern, sorta to show he's part of the family as Tyler puts it, and you know it acts as a metaphor for the old generation passing the torch onto the new.

As for Tyler and why he looks different, well, I kinda chose to do a headcanon of "What he could have looked like 3 years later in UTK 2, if Atlus didn't decide to only update Derek and Angie's looks."

Tyler mostly keeps the same personality and design as inspired by Aileen's manga, except for the fact his hair is a bit more wavy as well as noticeable differences being he now has a goatee and stubble, as I'd like to think he did that to play up his demon personality, (And not just because he thinks it looks handsome or anything!)

He also gets a new bear pin influenced by his Second Opinion design. Since Tyler's old bear pin started to wear out and feel out of fashion for him, I'd like to think the new one he has was a birthday gift his little sister Amy gave to him as a thank you for being a good doctor, and so when he wears it, he feels as if Amy is always there for him in spirit.

And that's mostly it. I might decide to eventually do some stories revolving around these two when I get to it or feel confident in doing so one day and when I've got it figured out, as Tyler will be important as James' guide during UTK 2 from his and Adel's points of view, but that's for another day.

[webcxre]

ok like i said in tags. character design hell!!!!!!

they actually started as a snail

which i ENJOY but it just didnt??? vibe in my head. especially being yellow. they already had a whole backstory in mind n shit but they just visually didnt...strike me right. i'll probably reuse this design for something bc i do enjoy it

sometime between this and the next concept i started working on the au design of kinito where he's got the toony eyes, that sort of. 90s marketable. i was SUPPOSED to use this to distinguish the au from my other art but i kinda like it a lot so sometimes it slips into my normal art. oops.

the mudpuppy arc begins!

one day i realized mudpuppies exist and i think they're adorable

i kept. repeatedly struggling with balancing: - keeping the markings simple - making their colors within the same range to match kinito/sam/jade - making their shape distinguishable from kinito so they didnt look like siblings - making them recognizable as a mudpuppy

expanding to other neotenic salamanders to figure out how'd they look next to kinito in this au. mudpuppy still very much is shaped like kinito and this bugged me to no end

fun fact! axolotls arent even in the same genus as waterdogs/mudpuppies! they evolved entirely separate. something something two entirely different life experiences ending up relating

unlike axolotls they're...soooorta metamorphosed? like they have teeth but kept their gills. axolotls are like the kinda guy who never grew past their habits while mudpuppies tried to but got held back. like sure it helped you in the moment evolutionarily but in the end you're still an awkward guy in their 20s sucking up worms help where did this metaphor go

anyways this hell happened at some point

i was SO stuck on colors like???? how do i keep it to 2-3 colors and within the same range AND accurate to life. mudpuppies range from brown to reddish to a bluish grey so thats where these colors came from

AND HERE'S ME LEARNING TO DRAW A WHEELCHAIR BC I HAD A DREAM THEY USED ONE SOMETIMES

its hard to make a wheelchair that works for a character with a stubby body and a big ass tail but we make do. theyre digital so i imagine they just summon the wheelchair as needed and their tail just magically fits under the head cushion. also relearned that not all wheelchairs need push handles that'll be super helpful for when i inevitably need one someday

also this doodle page where their gills got more detailed! i was hesitant but its still simple enough. based on how mudpuppies look like they just have these 2 frilly fins on the sides of their head

and finally!!! (after a dream where i saw the scene at the top of the post and immediately rushed to draw it)

i made them a temp ref + anthro (although the au doesnt have anthros) since people are exchanging ocs in the discord rn and i wanted to join :] slightly worried they'll be passed over due to being fat + disabled but its a risk im willing to take bc :points: theyre like me!!

pretty happy with them rn, might tweak their colors slightly but for now i like how they turned out :] ty for coming to my ted talk