#I’m trying my best

[ravioliet]

saw this version of the meme and thought of them immediately

[crunchkind]

[raz0rvampire]

Do we fuck heavy w my sketch designs

[art-by-micket]

pov early season 1

a little doodle based on a draw the squad by @artisticmaniacwithapen!

[vreetea]

I made these like last month buy forgot to post them

[criminalamnesia]

Believe it or not but I moved up another grade before part 8 could be posted❤️

I’m not sure if this was your intent, but this comes off as passive aggressive to me.

I understand that many of you are disappointed in the lack of an update for traitor— I am, too. I have frequently apologized and I know recently I did say that I would have part 8 up within the past week. Obviously, that did not happen.

Let me say this again: I am a college student that writes for fun. I also work, and I’m getting ready to graduate in December, so I’ve been busy trying to figure out life post-graduation.

On a personal note, I also struggle with depression. There have been many days within the past months where I have struggled to do anything but lay in bed, let alone write for this blog.

Do I feel awful? Yes. I am so so sorry that I’ve continuously pushed this back, and that I’ve repeatedly addressed the issue and have done nothing to fulfill my promises. But please remember: I have a life, too.

I take full accountability for my absence here. I know I could do better. But I also do have my reasons. Going forward, I’m not promising any posting dates regarding my works. It’s not fair to me or to you guys to set deadlines that I may or may not meet. I write when I feel inspired, and trying to push myself to write when I don’t feel up to it makes everything worse.

Please understand that I do feel awful about this. Please understand that I am trying my best. Myself, my schooling, and my job come first. As much as I love to write and post my ideas for you guys— it’s a hobby.

Thank you to those who have given me grace and understanding. I appreciate your kindness and again, I apologize for the month-long disappearance. I hope to get back to writing soon, but I can’t make any promises on when the final part of traitor will be up.

I hope everyone has a great night❤️

[astrayartist]

FIRST DESIGN! Leo (short for leopard) danio, of district 4 and the winner of the 78th annual HUNGER GAMMMEESSSS.

(Most of the art is traced, aka, not entirely mine. I was simply lazy and didn’t want to draw anatomy today. :,) )

@notjustdragonspages @3v0ny @ghostbroccoli @c4psaic1n

[quibble-auk]

Yk what no one asked for? My art process.

At least when it comes to drawing transformers... I don't put a lot of my other stuff up here haha. This guide probably won’t help with drawing TFP stuff tho. I like sticking to my cubes.

Who knows. Maybe this can help someone. Or provide amusement cause I have no idea what I'm doing. Just thought l'd share some stuff lol. And an unpopular art opinion.

So yeah, my secrets. Which like.... my art isn’t incredibly impressive or anything but... you get the point.

If you ever really wanted to try out whatever my style is called, here’s your guide. Along with a tutorial on how I draw Sunstreaker, but it’s like 5 steps lol.

I apologize in advance for the sheer amount of yapping I’m about to do. I’m just trying to makes sense

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This is the part where I share my tips and tricks yippee! Small disclaimer, I just kinda do half of this stuff as a go. There is no real order to this. I’m basically just explaining how my style works (despite how much my style varies tbh)

There’s a general build for the body that I’m pretty sure most people have figured out. The head, chest, torso, and weird hip thingy. Then the legs are broken into two main segments, the arms are broken into three, shoulder, upper arm, lower arm.

Here we go, unpopular art opinion rant.

When I make my base I usually work from the head down. Don’t be afraid to use the lasso tool to readjust the sizes of different components. If the head you started with has the right angle but is too small, lasso it and make it bigger. If ur doing traditional, sorry, you’re just gonna have to redraw it.

I’ll usually try and clean up overlapping lines, but I wanted yall to see the shapes before I did that.

Then we can start adding details. I look at other artist’s designs and the source material and pick out reoccurring traits that will help make the character easily identifiable.

I tend to add the most detail to the head simply because that’s what is commonly used to identify characters. Usually when designing my version of a character I allow myself to kinda make up details for this part.

But do feel free to add your own details to make sure people can tell it’s “your” design!

These are still very simple shapes and not detailed whatsoever. We are keeping it basic on purpose.

Very loose shapes, extremely vague idea. Just putting down the most identifiable parts that are important in building it, if that makes sense. I put down the bare minimum for this.

You really don't want to over complicate things. It makes it difficult for the viewer to figure out what's going on. A crowded design is distracting and unappealing. The simpler the better.

So now we have our sketch layer done. Because I'm impatient, it's line art time baby!

I end up just kind of feeling it out with line art. There will be some changes between the sketch and the line art. I’ll also use line weight to just general shading stuff sometimes. In this one it’s not very consistent but I was kinda losing motivation cause… adhd my beloved.

This is pretty self explanatory. Use your sketch to outline what you want, adding details as you go. I'll still leave my lines pretty loose and messy for most of these, just because it adds a bit more... character? Makes it feel more authentic? But feel free to clean it up as much as your little heart desires.

Smth im really passionate about is not overcomplicating the designs and crowding it. I know I already mentioned it once but… yeah.

While adding a bunch of detail can be cool, if not executed right, it can become overwhelming and difficult to understand visually. Keep it simple, you don't need to add every crease or seam. Just the important ones that can help a character stand out or fill in an awkward large space.

Usually after that l'll just put flat color down. Nothing fancy. I like to just do greyscale but you can go crazy. I'm not stopping you.

But adding a flat color under your line art helps pull together the sketch. It makes it easier for people to understand what is and isn't a character and makes it simpler to understand the character’s shape.

If I have several characters in one picture l'll usually make them separate colors to help make sure you can easily identify them as different people. I usually try to keep in mind the characters actual color when doing this. People with darker colors get a darker gray.

I’ll also try and give a different color to an object they are interacting with so it doesn’t get confused with the character themselves.

The entire reason I gave Sunstreaker a gun was to show this. I hate drawing guns.

These are also rarely perfect. As long as it's not extremely obvious that you're out of the lines, no one will notice. At least that’s been my experience.

I usually do this on separate layers

There's a lot of personalization when it comes to drawing and I don't know if I explained all of this very well. Ironically I don't really think much about how I'm doing it, I just... do it.

If you need any further explaining, I'll try my best to help. And if you made it this far ive got mad respect for you. I’m pretty sure I’m just rambling for half of this lol.

Have fun creating!!!!

[schwarzengold]

okay, this isn’t that Big Beautiful Art that I wanted (and still want!) to do, but… I love her…

[spacegay-archetype]

Me putting literally all of my money and energy into repairing Caed Nua:

Everyone in my party every five seconds: this place looks like shit

[uniquethingtastemaker]

So there’s a really, really good Rollo Flamme x Reader/MC/Yuu fanfic by @cheesus-doodles called Letters that I can’t get over. Like it’s too good. So good. I keep coming back to check on it every once in awhile, waiting for part two. However, I’m impatient and I fucking love the idea of Rollo deciding to steal MC away to like get back at Malleus.

Like that concept is so good!!

Now, I don’t mind writing my own fanfic of this concept…

However, I’m ashamed to say I haven’t actually played/seen the Glorious Masquerade event, so… that’s what I’ll be doing now

[beearcheops]

“I used this shield to Obscure the picture Unable to undo All that was injured”

Sometimes I think I’m getting somewhat normal about Shuichi and then I remember the whatever the fuck happened here and I start to go insane again

bonus non-stripes ver under cut (totally not because I forgot until I was finished with it, totally not)

[larkspur69]

When someone tells you to smile but ur autistic

[artofdansan]

2/3 of my cccc art dump B)

[fae-whispers]

please stop i can’t like all these wormbark posts

[blitzy-blitzwing]

I’m trying.