#Lanky Proportions

[assassin-artist]

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[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital illustration of a fluffy, lanky dog frolicking, facing to the left. It’s tongue is out. It is white with brown spots, and runs on a stylized background with blue hills and a bright yellow and orange sun. There is a a blue border with stars at the corners. End.]

The life I’ve always longed for.

[synthaphone]

Finished the Royal Centibytes, in both pre- and post-conversion flavors!

I thought court jesters would be a fun change of pace from king/queen or prince/princess- there's a precedent for royals to occasionally be things like heralds and war(?)horses, and I wanted to make a royalgirl who isn't a princess, noblewoman, or queen. I got to learn a little about some historical female court jesters while looking for references, which was cool!

I agonized for a while over whether I should put eyelashes on the one that I arbitrarily assigned 'Royalgirl', but ended up deciding that they look cute.

[titanofthedepths]

I was talking about this on a call the other day but one of my favorite things about Sea of Thieves is that the characters are allowed to be ugly and so wildly diverse. Even the skeletons are diverse and have compelling and fun designs.

Note that when I say ugly I don’t mean that as a bad thing - I’m a firm believer that ugly doesn’t have to be a bad word, just the same as fat doesn’t have to be. Nobody’s perfect and that’s beautiful etc etc, when I say ugly I mean “not conventionally attractive” and it’s something I wholeheartedly appreciate

Like. Player pirates are randomly generated, which can be frustrating but at the end of the day it’s refreshing to not be able to sit and put together the perfect pirate. There will always be little scars or nicks or features you didn’t choose to place there, but they’re your pirates’ features. Just a couple days ago I realized my pirate has a snake bite on her cheek, and I LOVE that it’s there, though I never would have considered it for her had I been given the option to build her from scratch.

The NPCs, too, are diverse, and allowed to be flawed, and ugly. With their crooked or missing teeth and imperfect proportions and scars and asymmetrical faces - Rare could have very easily chosen to make every last NPC a perfectly pretty face fit for a magazine, and they chose not to. It makes the characters feel a little more real, more like they’re people - I can’t tell you how often I sit and examine the models of NPCs to look at every little detail and just appreciate how imperfect they are.

And like previously stated - and perhaps the thing I appreciate the most - even the skeleton characters are widely varied. Rathbone moves with a hunched posture that hides the fact his frame is fairly small, Grimm is tall and wide in that way that Sea of Thieves builds their fat characters, one of Chi’s horns is growing from her eye socket and she’s lankier than Ruth’s sturdy frame, Horatio has arms that are just a little too long, so on and so forth.

Just… Sure, I don’t by any means love Rare as a company, but the character design we see in Sea of Thieves is some of the best I’ve ever seen. I have a lot of love for this pirate game and the amount of love the design team put into every single character they offer us

[dreamerdrop]

Still working out the kinks on my whole Magical Boy Julian Bashir bullshit.

[yanderespamton78]

Pinup!!!!! the baby!!!! the guy!!!!

sorry if this looks kinda iffy the majority of this was drawn between 11pm and 2:30am so i was very tired loll

also yes that is a totoro bag i dont care if totoro doesnt exist in cyber city he has a totoro bag come at me

Pinup belongs to @turntableart

[hiraunia]

Krys, I think your blorbos are gonna kill me.

[puhpandas]

anyone who makes Gregory taller than Evan is wrong sorry

[astragatwo]

Compilation of binary pen doodles - I'm sure you can tell who the favorites are lol. Various close-ups under the cut!

[flame-cat]

inspirations for how i draw eiffel, in no particular order:

shaggy. like scooby doo

my roommate

zack valenti

one particular artist's version of reigen arataka (it's @sandflakedraws )

myself

[improved-twink]

new ref sheet!

[idliketochill]

Another late night Oberon doodle

[slimey985]

Pre-transformation Turmoil is so funny. WHY IS SHE SO SMALL

[mikelogan]

Paul Robinette & Ben Stone

Law & Order 2x04 Asylum

[tambourineophelia]

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[flygonscales]

Ok so this song is great, it took a little to warm up for me but now I can’t get it out of my head. Great animation too!

BUT. That DJ character feels so tumblr-sexyman coded. It’s giving me Tony the talking clock, humanised Bill Cypher vibes. I get the feeling if this song released in the early 2010s they’d be so much fanart. Granted I wasn’t there on tumblr when this was happening but it has a certain feeling you know?