#Me? get them for drawing refs? it's more likely than you think XD

[triaelf9]

They're here, the trio is complete, sob sob!

[jayietheriverwarrior]

Well. Here's a piece that I meant to have done during Pride Month, that I finished at the end of July, and then didn't actually post online until August. Oops. XD Ah well. Anyway, here's some of my pride headcanons for Warriors, with each cat holding/wearing something with the colors of their relevant Pride flag.

Up first are the aroace queens, Drizzle of RiverClan and Mousefur! Drizzle's from Riverstar's Home if you don't remember her, she got super cranky/uncomfortable about Riverstar's relationship with Finch Song. A lot of it was probably just her being young and not wanting to see her old leader and his wife kissing in front of her, and her overall annoyance at how Riverstar's love for Finch Song kept them from going home on time, but to me she just gave off so much "ew allo romance is gross, I'm too aroace to deal with this" vibes, I love it. :D We need more ace queens in this world. Mousefur I won't get into as much, as I think viewing her as aroace is pretty standard. As a RiverClan warrior, Drizzle's of course carrying a fish she caught, while Mousefur caught a bird.

Up next we've got gay Tallstar and bi Jake. :D Tallstar gets a pretty gay butterfly (I drew the butterfly in this piece before the butterfly wings in the Hake drawing if you can't tell, this one looks a lot more awkward XD) on his head, and Jake as a kittypet gets a non-wild accessory, a bi bandana - a bidana, if you will. XD I don't think Jake was actually in love with either of his mates after Tallstar, I think that was more just friends who wanted kits together (though Quince was definitely more in love with Jake than she let on), but he's attracted to both toms and she-cats.

Then we've got best gay farm boys, Ravenpaw and Barley. :D For Barley I cheated a bit and let him have a non-wild accessory since he's a farm cat even though we never see him interact that closely with the twolegs, I figured a little kerchief thing worked well enough for a farm cat. I was pretty stumped what to do for Ravenpaw's accesory until I remembered, oh yeah, he's Ravenpaw - give him an adder! XD Reffed their pose from a really cute photo of two cats cuddling.

Up next is pan Sasha! Pan always seemed to fit her really well, there's so many cats of various genders she's shipped with. For once she actually looks happy. :D Just taking a moment to enjoy a bit of Pride in a pan-colored collar.

And now for all the various demisexual headcanons. :D Up first are two she-cats Sasha is shipped with a lot, demibisexual Leopardstar and demilesbian Russetfur. Leopardstar gets a damselfly as her accessory, they hang out near water and have shimmery wings that flash different colors in the light so I figure that works, and Russetfur has berries behind her ear as a nod to her one biggest moment that makes me dislike her character despite loving her portrayal in the Tigerstar and Sasha books - the scene where she watches Berrykit struggle in a fox trap and does nothing to save him. Still not sure how to reconcile that scene with her portrayal in the other books. Anyway, Leopard liked both Frog and I like to think Sasha as well, but only those two and doesn't tend to find anyone attractive until she forms that strong bond, and Russetfur only ever liked Sasha as far as I'm concerned and was too focused on her role as deputy to care much about romance besides that one time.

The last two are our demibi boys, Riverstar and Jayfeather! For Riverstar, he does feel attraction a bit more easily than the rest of our demi cats, he likes looking at a pretty face, but he doesn't really feel a deep attraction until those deeper feelings form, like with Flutter and Finch Song - but there was definitely something there for Gray Wing, even if it never fully developed into love. For Jayfeather, he hardly ever feels attraction, though he could for toms or she-cats equally - the only time anything developed far enough for that was Half Moon. Riverstar is wearing a flower crown 'cause he strikes me as a flower crown kind of guy, and Jayfeather is carrying herbs.

[factual-fantasy]

26 ASKS! :}} FANK U! 🎃

Its partially becuase I know personally how much it sucks to have people draw fanart or take your templates without asking..

But part of it I feel is just.. basic manners? Right? Its heartbreaking to me that just asking to do that stuff beforehand is not the norm. I wouldn't want people do draw/use my stuff without asking, so why should I do that to others?

Even if I see on their blog someone surprised them with fanart and they were over the moon about it. I'd still ask. Its their stuff, I should ask. The answer could be no, you never know! Just be decent and ask first.

@neo-metalscottic

AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! :DDDD

I can say that the only animatronics that had the bug wiped from their systems are the ones that are in service. But sadly I cannot elaborate much further becuase of spoilers.. 💔💔😔😔😔😔

I DID NOT REMEMBER ELECTROBAB ACTUALLY- Thank you for the reminder! I'll have to add that one in someway, hmm...

Thank you very much! But sorry,, no can do! The ref sheets are only for my eyes to see.. 👀

AAAAA THANK YOU SO MCUH!!! 😭😭💖💖💖💖

A dragonfly! :00

@chloe24603

I got Lolbit! But handunit.. hmmm.. I might have to do something with him-

I KNOW!! 😭😭💔💔💔 Its okay though I immediately turned around and added her to the AU so we're good 👍

AAAAA THANK YOUUU!!!! :DDDDD

@pinkbomb08

AAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :DDD

XD I'll be sure to draw more of him soon!

@bunny-coffee (Post in question)

AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!! And yes! They do! (Also it doesn't show it here but Nikki's nickname is Melon XDD)

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AAA THANK YOU!! :DD I wasn't so sure about that drawing so I'm glad you liked it! :}}

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XD Sooner than you think-

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EXACTLY XD

I LOVE the amazing world of Gumball. But I don't take drawing requests! <XD

@fablegate

Thank you so much!! :DD I'm glad you like what you see! :}}} 💖💖

Well Tangle is a rather obscure animatronic.. I had to google her actually-

And I don't have much of an interest in the book series, <:( so no twisted wolf. 💔

I was thinking that a monsters magic and body are very intertwined. Like if a monster is physically wounded that effects their ability to use their magic in a way..?

So Jevil having his horns cut would throw off his vibe basically--

@thesweetishfish

I cant really remember any specific headcannons for Shellington or the others off the top of my head... <:/

<XD No no its not Jello. Its blood! :D And yes my hands are fiiiine, they're just artist hands 👍

@beryl-shade

I have! Well sorta- its mostly Minecraft ocs. I have this post, this one and a bonus post! :0

I'm not familiar with that game so I have no idea, sorry! <:0

@danman22ful

I haven't finished Marks play through, but the sass we get from sun is pretty funny XDD

[dhabitahpunk-art]

Hi! Your art is absolutely gorgeous and I loved that Paint With Me video!

I'm also a digital artist and have also gotten an anon ask like that saying they were convinced I was an AI :/ Even though I've literally made a long post about my process which included ugly WIP pics but oh well

Anyway, my point with sending this was mainly to just send you good vibes, and say I hope you don't let comments like that bother you too much, and tell you, as a fellow artist with a very similar style and process, how beautiful and inspirational your art is ;u;

Seriously the colors, the rough brush strokes, the mood, it's all I always want my own art to be like but only sometimes succeed at... I think one thing that makes a big difference, which I've been trying to be more conscious of lately, is the choice of references. Sometimes I just choose pics because I wanna draw the subject in them but don't think so much about the harmony of the colors involved or the lighting or the compositon etc etc and then it's only when I'm like 70% through the drawing that I start noticing how underwhelming it is compared to what it could have been like but at that point it's too late to make such drastic changes so I just end up frustrated and disappointed.

And that's all stuff that could have been avoided by choosing a better ref in the first place and I think you always nail that you know? Like I never have any pre established interest in the subjects you draw but the art is so beautiful on its own if that makes sense, I really love it. And I also love how loose you're able to keep your brushstrokes by having a lower res ref so you can't see too much detail. I struggle with that sometimes.. either I work with a low quality pic to keep the drawing rough or I have a better quality ref so I can draw some nice details in the features, but then I overdo it by adding too much detail anyway. So having the multiple versions of the ref for different purposes makes a lot of sense and I was actually just thinking about that today XD

Anyway uh this got a lot longer than I meant it to, sorry for the rambling, but yeah really love your art and your style and your process!!

Aw, thanks so much for writing in, dear anon!!! My blood is always boiling whenever someone accuses me of using AI. 🤣 I get those comments a lot on Instagram especially.

I get that issue sometimes too when the piece just feels underwhelming. But I usually just push thru and it's all about the experience. Sometimes we get to learn new things during the process even tho the end result isn't what we expected.

You should totally try to have a lower resolution version of your reference. It's helped me a lot and also stopped me from over-rendering which I am sometimes guilty of. 😆

Also, I bet your art is really cool and you're so kind. If you don't mind, you could private message me your account so I can give you a follow!!😇 No pressure, of course!

[cacodaemonia]

Hi! I juts recently discovered your amazing work. I am very impressed at your creativity and skills drawing! Like I said I just very recently started to check out all your works, I spent my whole free time today enjoying your beautiful Waxer and Boil spicy sketches and other drawings.

There’s so much I’d like to ask you to get to know you better, I am not sure if you’re ok with too many questions and all.

I will only ask one thing for the moment, as I was scrolling on your sketches I stumbled with more than one which I could swear I saw before almost exactly the same except with different characters, instead of W+B I have seen the same drawing with Obi Wan and Cody.

I am guessing people would ask you if they can use it to modify and turn them into Codywans?

I am delighted to have found your work.

Thank you for sharing so much. Another little q: have you ever taken commissions?

Thanks again for your time reading my message.

Hello!

Ah, thank you so much for the kind words. 🥺🧡 Coming up with new ideas is often like pulling teeth for me, so I'm glad you're enjoying my stuff! <333

As for questions, I don't post about personal/irl stuff on here, but I'm always happy to scream about the blorbos. 😂

I have had plenty of my art stolen before—everything from people sharing it in Discord servers or on Pinterest without credit to selling items with my images printed on them on eBay, lolcry. However, I suspect this is probably a case of 'there are only so many nice gay porn photos on the internet.' XD I've come across a lot of other images in fandom and said to myself, "Oh I've used that ref, too!" And truthfully, it's not just limited to spicy stuff, but also images of guys cuddling; after a while, you start to run low on good quality shots of people with roughly the right builds, etc.

Also, I saw your second ask about having seen my pinned post, where it says I don't do commissions. So no worries!

Thank you again for taking the time to let me know what you think of my silly art! 🧡

[messedupessy]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

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DU DUNN (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ❤

Working on a little project, and then this happened because I couldn’t stop thinking about it haha, enjoy!

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Happy belated birthday @thomsternugget ❤❤ Love you man, have a frog!

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My #1 post of 2022

FUCK YEAH ARSON (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ❤

I know I know, let papyrus say fuck day was 2 days ago on the 16th, but better late than never and I just really badly wanted to draw something for it, so have this messy thing haha xD

It’s messy but I had allot of fun with it, drew it in like one go and it was just really nice haha!

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Okay, so I'm someone who has always been very interested in the different clone hair styles.

So, out of you clone ocs, who do you think has the most unique one?

I love this question so much! I really think a lot when drawing my clones without their helmet, because for the most part I want them to look distinctive from one another, even without the helmets.

Armor designs are one thing, but the facial and hairstyle differences are another big aspect for me.

But as for the question, so far I've only drawn 3/4 of my clones helmetless so far.

And 2 of them stand out more than the others at this point. And I'd have to say that's Ryder and Bolt.

Snatcher has a kind of unique one, but not on the level that these 2 do.

I absolutely love Ryder's, and Bolt's kinda contributes to his name.

So for Bolt, most of his hair is kept, very short. A little longer than a buzz, but still short. And the rest is cut away near a scar of his. It goes back on his head, and through his eye. (So he has a blind eye like some clones, on his right side) it's shaped like a lighting Bolt, which is why I named him Bolt. (It's not very creative, but I love it)

Here's a ref

For Ryder, I literally had to search for a good reference to get the point across because when I drew him, it didn't do him justice.

But I do love his hair.

It's not exactly practical, but I'm letting it slide. His is basically a half shaved hairstyle. Same color as Jango's/most clones

The reference below is something I found here on Tumblr

This is basically all that goes into his.

Ryder's hair is kinda on the line of too much, but I love it so I'm keeping it. Besides Hunter technically has longer- so if he's getting away with it.. (Not me grasping at straws here) xD

But yeah, these are my most unique clone styles

[monsterfloofs]

I don’t think I have ever drawn these three together!! But I really should have ahhhhh!! Lou and Nicky are two of my most precious special comfort characters ;O; )

And whoever remembers Quincey gets to see them again with a bit of a spruced up redesign<3<3<3

I have written so many unfinished snippets of Nicky and Lou, and they even have a short appearence in the beginning of Quin’s story! One day, I want to get around to making a proper piece with them, these two silly shadowy brothers have helped me through a lot of emotional episodes, I love them more than I think I could ever describe.

Lou is a silly goofball who tends to talk before he thinks and tends to run head first into trouble, while Nicky is his older sibling who is a kind of grumpy P.I — Smart and level headed and gets poked fun at a lot by his younger brother. He likes the quite things in life and wishes his younger brother wasn’t such a dunce sometimes ahaha

And Quincey, as some might remember, runs a modest hole in the wall bookshop. A suave, calm and collected boyo. Though, he wants to keep his past buried, and long forgotten 👀

And a bonus little ref sheet just for fun! Trying to figure out how to draw four arms is a such a challenge I tell you what! xD

[dragonshoard]

Shdhf here’s most of the other drawins! M gonna be workin on sm digital ones tmrw probably but these are the traditional ones i did in my free times :>

(Btw these were all done yesterday morning/afternoon, so more visible/harsh scarring than i’d now draw with the new info u gave me)

Honestly, since u havent posted a ref/in depth description i jus went with whatever i thought might be likely(shoeless because grew out of them+couldnt get any in the pits, tho im guessing she likely has shoes in the au shfg- also scarring on the chin cause i thought ‘damn what if she smacked her face into the floor while trying to get away’) tho obv i’d draw it differently with any new info. The ‘Jinx’ carving into the collar was also jus me being like ‘damn dont they smtms do that to dogs in fighting rings?? Thatd be fucked up lol’ so like,, feel free to ignore it shdhf

Anyway! Away from the doodles! I am jus,, fuckin burstin with questions mate- ur au’s so cool!! U dont have to answer any of em tho dw sjdjf

So does vi show up well post!pits or do her n cait investigate the pits n see jinx? Im assuming its post based on ur comment of them takin a while to show up since things happen differently, but i felt like askin anyway :p

Does fighter!jinx still tinker/build stuff?? Ik u said she would never touch bombs n such(which, understandable. That sounds like jus askin to be triggered tbh)- but if/when she meets up with ekko does she maybe help with buildin them stuff? Makin/repairin hoverboards, makin guns- or maybe knives n such? Idk what skills u’re givin her dhdgdb

Oh, and with ur first post on this au, im assuming jinx escapes at 15? Can i ask how old she was when silco first gets her? Does she spend a lot of time after escaping just hiding out and ekko happens upon her by accident? Does she gain any injuries while escaping? Does she stay with the firelights when she meets them or does she only visit so as to not draw silco towards them too much? Does silco have specific people hunting jinx down(say, her handlers from the pits, or sevika?) or is it jus like,, everyone in his empire is on high alert for her n everyones to go after her if they see her?

And speaking of sevika- whats her opinion of all this? I mean, obv im guessing shes in favor of whatever silco wants, but do u think she ever felt guilt/regret over tossing vander n his kids to the wolves(literally, in powders case) or does she jus,, not care??

And a final thought(im so sorry i jus realized how many questions this is dhdhdhv)- with jinx’s seeming penchant/willingness to bite anyone n everyone(jus based off the mention of biting the animal-turned-shimmer!monster she fought + her desire to bite silcos hand) does she ever get muzzled?? Or nah??

kjnkdjfnkj i love the pics!! Nah any creative liberties you took are cool to see! I’m still having a hard time drawing Jinx so I was practicing before I could actually post any art refs. 

“Jinx” would be inscribed in the collar if Silco was a pure asshole, but as cruel as he seems in this AU, he doesn’t actually see her as a dog or a pet despite what everyone thinks. He wants her by his side eventually and sees everything that he’s done (towards the last year or two) as a means of “freeing” her. Oh and she does have shoes. They’re falling apart, but they exist xD Not the best idea to fight barefoot on metal. 

And I can totally see the logic behind the scarring. It doesn’t help that she is malnourished, especially in those first few years, so her healing wasn’t very efficient. But, surprisingly, her face is not as marked up as you think it would be after 5-6 years. It’s the rest of her body that’s got an impressive collection. 

(He visits her pretty often towards the end, talking to her and braiding her hair, and it sucks because Jinx naturally wants to not be alone, but also hates the bastard with everything in her. She’d have Stockholm syndrome in this au if it wasn’t for the voices)

Vi is gonna have a straight up heart attack the minute she’s close enough to see the scarring. It’s pretty extensive on her upper body, despite how most of it is pretty faint (barring a few bigger scars) and it’s enough to tell Vi that Jinx has had a rough couple of years. 

I’ll be honest, when I first posted about this AU I thought Powder was 10 in Act 1 and 16 in Act 2-3. Apparently she was 11-12 and 17-18, respectively, so that ruins things a bit xD 

So for sake of keeping it mostly canon, she is roughly 11 when she’s captured by Silco and 17 when she gets free. It won’t be Vi and/or Cait who comes to save her though (I’m actually writing her escape right now so I think I’ll keep quiet on the ‘how’. It’s gonna be appropriately tragic xD). But she does get about a year of freedom before Vi and Cait go into to the undercity. And they show up because she’s messing with Silco’s stuff and leaving a very noticeable trail of destruction behind her. The firelights may or may not be getting caught in the crossfires of her crusade. Ekko is desperately trying to find her (take her in), but for a long while she is absolutely convinced that he’s working with Silco so avoids him like the plague (but doesn’t seriously hurt him or his out of respect for who he used to be to her). 

Speaking of Silco, he absolutely is having multiple people hunting her down. Everyone in his circle has a “report if found, do not engage” order while a select few lead capture attempts. He’s very aware that, as her target, she will eventually come at him so he fortifies himself the best he can. He’s ALSO very aware that she is much stronger than most of his lackies, so knows not to attempt a “capture on sight” order.

As for Sevika... I’ll be honest, I don’t think she gives a damn what happens to the girls. She was perfectly fine with a bunch of kids dying for the undercity, so I don’t see why she would care about Powder being put into the Pits.  Personally, I think Sevika is in favor of getting rid of her and makes her opinion to Silco very known. Jinx was a danger to them if she ever escaped and Sevika was well aware. She also knew that Silco was soft enough for the kid that he would give her leniencies that might lead to said escape (she’s not wrong). 

On another note, Jinx does eventually learn to love building things again. She’ll start building at first out of necessity (her guns aren’t gonna come from thin air, ya know), then because she remembers her passion for it. She is going to be very scared for a while, but eventually learns to get that part of her back. No explosives, but there are plenty of other things to make. In the future, she does spend a lot of time with Heimerdinger once he comes to the undercity/Zaun and he sort of takes both her and Ekko under his wing. He understands she’s been hurt for a very long time and there used to be a part of her that loved to invent, so he does his best to support her interest and catch her up on what she’s missed over the years. 

Personally, I think he’ll encourage her to go back to the basics and start her off on small things like those butterflies/animals before moving onto bigger things, but Jinx would probably try to jump right into the deep end (she would be building guns at this point, it couldn’t be that difficult - said Jinx). Not sure if that works out for her yet. This post is a bit long, so I’ll talk about her skill a bit later (but it does change over time). 

Ekko... I’m on the fence with him. There’s going to be so much guilt and anger there for a long time. Once she realizes he’s not with Silco, Jinx just wants him to forget about everything that’s happened and go back to the way they used to be (desperate to re-claim the very few good things she has left in this world), but that just can’t happen. 

I’m a timebomb shipper. I want them to be together if Jinx is shipped with anyone in this AU, but I don’t know if I’ll actually put her with anyone. She’s got a lot to work on personally (not even looking at her mental health issues) and I’m not sure if pairing her with Ekko is what’s best for the both of them. 

-- oh no you’re giving me ideas with the muzzle ahh. But really, I could see it happening the first year or two before she’s permanently fitted with a shock collar. By that point, I think she’s learned when to bite and when to punch or kick. 

[penname-artist]

¿ Would you do a tutorial on how to draw airplanes and helicopters? I need help and you are the only one I know who draws them (╥﹏╥)

Note: I took forever on this because I needed time to, and lucky me I got a snow day to get all this done without work in the way! :D

Here are some random tips and tricks to learning how to draw planes and helis, just from my personal experiences!

1. Reference, reference, REFERENCE!

Having references is a KEY component to drawing ANYTHING, especially things that you've never drawn before or want to improve on. Having a reference is great to see what stuff you got right and what you need to get better, and it's also a great way to snatch good poses and angles of characters. (P.S. Yes!!! it's alright to trace things! If you're like me and you have a very unsteady hand that depends on a stabilizer to draw a straight line most of the time, having a guidline on a layer underneath you is SO NICE! Just...don't let people know that you traced from a ref, cuz some people are meanies. It's our little secret ;)

2: However long you think the lines are...they're usually longer.

Purely from personal experiences, planes are very BIG and their wingspan is also very BIG. Unless the model of plane you're drawing is meant to have noticably short wings (say, El Chu) then their wings are most likely gonna be longer than you initially predict them to be. When in doubt, make em a bit longer! (ESPECIALLY if you're drawing Ripslinger, from my experiences...)

3. Think 3-Dimensionally!

So, this tip is not entirely plane/heli relevant on its own, but bare with me, knowing how this works is a MASSIVE step in the right direction to drawing good planes and helicopters! See, planes have weird wonky banana-ish shapes, and sometimes their angles make them look really weird (just look at a front view of Dusty, have you ever noticed how paper thin his body is??). Because of that, it's extremely important that you know how to recreate something as though it is inside of a three-dimensional space.

As an excercise to try, in order to learn this, try drawing the little bean-shaped thing on the bottom there, and other wonky unnamable shapes with it, and just start drawing lines on it, make it look like it's 3D! This is how you teach your brain how angles and curves work, and with it you can learn how the shape of a plane or helicopter piece works at the angle that it's sitting in. Remember you can (and should!) always make very rough first sketches to get down your proportions and your shapes. The foundation is key!!!

4. Redraw often!

Redrawing something is a great way to see several things, like how much you've improved since the last time you drew a character, how your style has adapted or changed, and what things you know about now that you didn't before! The more you do a character, the more familiar they become to you, until it is like second nature to draw them. (Honestly I think I do this with Blade, I'm to the point where I need fairly minimal references) Just keep drawing and redrawing, and when you look back after a while you'll see all the progress you've made!

5. When in doubt...bullshit it.

I can not tell you how many times I have looked at landing gear, gone "what the fuuuuck...?" and then just made my own thing and called it a day. Because I do that a LOT.

This isn't 100% just for landing gear, but I do consider landing gear to be the most "I can get away with some BSing" thing there is, aside from maybe the helicopter hub. Just remember, as long as it looks vaguely like what the character's gear is, no one will fault you if it's a little inaccurate! And the snazzier the shapes you put on it, the more people will believe "oh, wow! This artist clearly knows what they're doing!" (Even though we sometimes don't and that's okay XD)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE QUESTION!!! This gave me a wonderful opportunity to teach my strangely specific tips and tricks for aircraft drawing, and I hope they help! In the future I might do more tutorial-y type things, but we'll see how it goes! :D

[baebeyza]

Kingdom thoughts - Bae edition

Not gonna make individual posts this time, I watched the show at 1-3 am after sitting in a tight space for 30 hours with almost no sleep.

Just gonna share my bingo card and my thoughts under the cut! ~

No spoiler thoughts: show overall gets a 8/10 from me!

A little loose with the definition of personality for Unicron, but I did like the few scenes he had :D

Thoughts:

1. BW Megatron

Honestly? He worked. Good character, understandable motivations, nice use of references, you could really feel his affections for the Silver Megatron and how desperate he was about winning the future he fought for.

10/10, good german voice work, epic design, nice shows of the fact that he is still kind of an ass, he was STRONG, showed that he can be boss when needed, nothing to complain about, also YES, T-REX HEADPAT! xD

2. Dinobot

My brain-deprived head had trouble making sense of his actions, but overall it was fine, they could have needed more time for him though. And unlike most other BW references, I didn't like them with his character - the refs they used from "Code of Hero"...ike, that BW episode has a lot of build-up plot-wise and character-wise. The quotes matter a lot in that episode.

It just doesn't fit or have the same amount of weight as they thought they would in Kingdom. The honour quote didn't even make much sense context-wise.

But overall, nice enough. 8/10

3. Primal

10/10, loved him so much. Every scene with him was epic, the way he was written was great - Snarky, sarcastic at times, far less patient and calm than Prime, still a great leader who cares and doesn't take any shit! <3

4. Prime

I do love his story of WFC overall - he made one mistake that he admits to, goes through a lot to fix it and he did fix it and came out with a better future for it. Loved his last moment with Elita, loved the moments with the Allspark, and I loved his dynamic with Primal! 8/10

5. Megatron

He went unhinged as fuck, was still regal and sweet, loved a lot about him! As always, the angst he has about doing what he does was great! I especially loved the scene in the forest when the disk told him that he got lost, tried to go back to look a the road he took from another angle, but he refused to do it.

He went his way until he got defeated, and Starscream being the one who finally got him out of his one-way route was so sweet! 15/10

6. Goddamn disappointments

So, coming back to Megatron...I think I explained my problem well on discord:

7. Mainly comes to my problem with MAGNUS...yall know I am a MagsMegs shipper, but they could have fixed the problem with Megatron's angst coming to a closure with having him have a last moment with Magnus, just like Prime had with Elita.

It is clear that he feels guilty and horrible for the Death of Magnus, similar to how Prime felt responsible for everything else.

And Prime got closure at the end, while Megatron did not.

He should have had a moment of choosing to fight Galvs and Nemesis because he realised that his past deeds were wrong, and doing that with Magnus would have been a good representation of it all.

Like, I get that he might have gotten over his pride and selfishness which is representated by him choosing to save Cybertron over saving his own future, but still...!

They gave him such amazing angst, but just didn't end it in a satisfying way! Let him have peace with it in some way!

Oof.

7. Six episodes are not enough

I've been saying this since Siege - plot is good, characters are good, but in neither season have six episodes been enough to really flesh it out real good.

WFC is plot upon plot with no filler, and filler is usually needed to show give the characters more personality and show-case them in some way. Show us what makes them the character they are, what makes them unique.

WFC didn't have that, and you are left with having to draw the characterisations out of their plot relevance. And if you aint plot-relevant, you almost got no personality at all.

As far as I know, this isn't a WFC-specific problem though, as many shows have decided that 5-8 episodes are enough and we don't need more.

And I guess some stories manage with that limited time - WFC did not.

I still loved it, but they could have made it much better if they had more time.

Anyway, expect some art and stupid comics in the future - I will defend this show's and my own honour by contributing to it with content! <3

[alyssalenko]

Get to Know the Blogger

I was tagged by my precious @starsandskies and @briarfox13 thank you so much!

I will tag @shretl @charlatron @slothssassin @bardofheartdive @foofyschmoofer @hunnybadgerv @a-shakespearean-in-paris @liaorban @randomlygeneratedstring @natsora @ooachilliaoo @gugle1980   @illusivesoul @seigephoenix @spaced0lphin @citadelsushi @soldiermom1973 @kenshi-vakarian7 @darth-salem-emperor-of-earth @samfishers @badwolf626 @thefrostyshepard and anyone else who wants to play!

1: Why did you choose your url?

When I read Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars I loved that he spelled Alice 'A-L-Y-S-S' and so when I created my first Shepard without my sister her name was Alyss. I fell in love with Kaidan and dreamed up their happy ending--they got married and she became Alyss Alenko. XD

2: Any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

I have 2 RP blogs my sister made for me but I never really got into them because they were her characters based off me rather than my own.

3: How long have you been on tumblr?

Since December 2012, but I really started using it in February 2013 when my sister and I were upset about the refs during the Superbowl.

4: Do you have a queue tag?

Nope. I don't queue my posts. If I am here there may be posts, my blog is dead if I am not.

5: Why did you start your blog in the first place?

My sister actually made it for me because she was here and wanted to have an easier time sending me funny posts.

6: Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Oh, it’s my commission from the amazingly talented @soddingcloudgazer of my Mirialan Jedi Knight and her LI Doc. I honestly just love the way she draws Doc and I like seeing those two so happy and in love--and you can just feel the sexual tension of him trying to keep her with him instead of letting her run off and do something dangerous.

7: Why did you choose your header?

Because my darling @starsandskies did an amazing job bringing a soft and sexy moment between Alyss and Kaidan to life and I love it too damn much?

8: What’s your post with the most notes?

I have two because I didn't think it was fair for me to count one as my own when it is @mrnicholas's art of my Thanemancer Taye Shepard. The other is an edit/photo manip of Cullen Rutherford

9: How many mutuals do you have?

I don’t know 😅

10: How many followers do you have?

929. I block every suspicious blog so I like to think they’re real people... but who knows?

11: How many people do you follow?

604 but I am slowly trimming it down.

12: Have you ever made a shitposts?

I don't think they count as shitposts? So no?

13: How often do you use tumblr each day?

I check it once or twice per day. Sometimes more, depending on my mood or if I have a new fic or edit to share.

14: Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

Nope. I make it a habit to be as nice as possible because we all come here to escape.

15: How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

They make me irrationally angry? I put what I want on my blog when I want. It's a mess but it's my happy place.

16: Do you like tag games?

I am totally happy to do them as I get to learn more about my followers/my mutual and even get to flush out my OCs

17: Do you like ask games?

Of course! I tend to get the best prompts from them!

19: Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Nope. I love them though, they are amazing!

[kaypeace21]

i’m a survivor too, and i found that certain scenes/stuff will said just really struck me as ‘csa-survivor’-like? i felt a bit uncomfortable about headcanoning it happening to someone else, especially for a fandom as wild as this one, but your metas have really been a comfort to me because they’ve been able to pick out and explain things that i couldn’t necessarily find the words for myself.

and yeah, i would love to have a character like me that is powerful and who finds love and who gets a happy ending. the people who call the theory disgusting always kinda hit wrong with me because although csa is a difficult subject, we shouldn’t be ashamed about sharing it. they sound like they’re trying to say that it’s a bad topic to talk about and implying that it can’t happen to kids, which uhhhhh-

(i’m sure that’s not what they mean, precisely, but it’s still what they sound like, and i wish that they would stop implying that we can’t exist, especially in popular media. we do, and i’m not gonna pretend we don’t, and if they feel uncomfortable with the topic they can just use the block button. we deserve to have some well written representation just as much as anyone else. also, i really really hope that will gets a happy ending.)

anywayyyy i love your theories and i can see your post in the tag so i think you’re fine?? have a good day ❤️❤️❤️

SORRY, this ask took so long to respond to. It always warms my heart to hear other survivors speak and say they found comfort in my theory.

Yes, I think I and a lot of c*a/r*pe victims (subconscious or otherwise) were triggered by some of the symbolism/visuals in s1-3. And s3 made it hard for most of us to ignore the past imagery- since s3 wasn’t as subtle.

I get why people have reservations about the theory. But the debates to the contrary are usually just plain offensive. Or people trying to be respectful but being the opposite. There’s the obvious bad-apples . I got many anons after part 1 of my DID theory saying it “ruined/tainted byler”, and “if that happened to Will i’ll stop shipping byler” , or that it  “ruins the best gay character” ,  and to “remove the post immediately”. And this was when I was open about being a gay c*a victim. I obviously blocked them. Many survivors don’t come forward because they’re afraid people will see them as “tainted”, “ruined”, “ just their trauma”, or blame them for what happened. So yeah, it pisses me off when people say similar stuff about Will (and thus other c*a victims). Not even diving into the messed up psychology about byler/mileven shippers (knowing i was a lesbian c*a victim) but purposely spreading bs rumors about me being a p*do that was into Will/Noah-all because of the theory. -_-

Then there’s the people who try to be “respectful” but literally do the opposite.

I’ve heard numerous times it’s somehow “less offensive” to just use r*pe imagery to make monsters scary. Rather than have  the monsters have that imagery cause Will created the monsters from his memory/imagination-and st is a story of Will healing from that trauma. SORRY- I disagree. Using the worst experiences of peoples’ lives (and triggering their trauma) for no real purpose- except to make their monsters scarier to the normal/general audience who haven’t gone through it so won’t be triggered like us - is MORE OFFENSIVE to victims! NOT LESS! At least to me.

Then there’s the people who say “c*a should never be talked about (in stories).” Which I disagree with. V*ctims have already been told by ab*ser’s  and enablers of the ab*ser- to never talk about what happened to us  . So it rubs A LOT of us the wrong way when people say this.  Because (subconscious or not) you remind some of us of the people who used to hurt/silence us. People say this -simply for their convenience (like ab*sers) and cause deep down they’re uncomfortable with our existence and equate the despicable act to us the innocent v*ctim ...or just want to deny the horrible reality of the situation (like many enablers who deny the truth and hurt us because they don’t want to accept reality) . And 1) It brings us back to a time where they told us to NEVER talk about it- and makes us feel like we did something wrong when we didn’t! 2) Every psych professional says with-holding/keeping the ab*se a secret is detrimental to our mental health.

Plus, there’s a HUGE difference between sugarcoating/minimizing trauma or WORSE glamorizing, condoning, or romanticizing C*A in stories (ex: pretty little liars) VS showing how the action is wrong, causes trauma, but showing recovery and happiness is still possible for v*ctims.  if the story shows how accurately traumatizing it is (instead of minimizing/glamorizing it)- it’s incredibly rare for that character to get a happy ending. Having a story about recovering from that type of trauma and finding happiness despite such hardships would be amazing for US survivors! We rarely get stories with a happy ending-  it’s more harmful to us survivors to never see ourselves get happy endings in tv/film/books. How can some survivors (in a dark place) think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel- if it’s never shown?Also if Will has DID too- it’s good mental health rep, along with queer rep (and survivor’s rep.) All 3 groups rarely are treated well or get happy endings in media. A lot of people may feel more heard, seen, and a bit more hopeful for the future - If Will (and other characters) get a happy ending.

And even though st has many themes- like say homophobia. To try and hand-wave all the disturbing  r*pe imagery away  as ‘Will is just gay so the monsters are like that”. IS SOOOOOO offensive. Trigger warning for examples. I’m sorry what part of Max saying when Billy had c*nsensual s*x it’s “good screams” but when possessed by the mf he causes Heather to do “bad screams” read as gay???! Having the possessed ch*ke/dr*g people before throwing them in trunks (like it’s implied Lonnie did to Will -since Jonathan checked Lonnie’s trunk for Will in s1)?Tying their arms and legs up/ g*ging  them and  getting on top of them and saying “stay VERY still it’ll all be over soon”-before a monster shoves it’s tentacle into someone’s mouth and inserts a goo - just gay??? Similar to the sentient vine/shadow monster forcing itself down Will’s throat. Let alone Will saying things like “he made me do it”, “i felt it everywhere”, or being tied to a bed and screaming “help! stop! it hurts! let me go!” While Jonathan is the only one who’s visibly triggered by this and has to literally turn away and hug someone . Or barb, billy, and El spiting up a white liquid from their mouth (similar to will spitting up a slug and lying to his mother about it ).El/billy touching a suspicious looking slime with their hand and looking at the substance confused . El drawing Papa with 3 legs (the middle one being shorter) ,  trying to undress in front of the boys , and Benny saying “I think she’s been ab*sed or something”.The theme of ab*sive dads- brenner , Lonnie, and Neil . Even when the demogorgan (called in d&d the “deep father”/ in the show “a man without a face”) attacked Barb it’s chopped up with scenes of Nancy having c*nsensual sex (the monsters are doing the opposite symbolically). There’s way more examples but NO- to try and hand wave /equate ALL OF THIS to just “gay imagery” or an “a*ds metaphor” is WAY more problematic. And just offensive (specifically to gay people) than just admitting what it may actually represent. R*pe imagery and gay imagery is NOT THE SAME THING!

Also ST has never been a kid show- maybe rewatch the show and see the rating of tv-14 . Goodness sake- s1 has a st*ged su*icde, k*dnappings, m*rder, discussions of physics, h*mophobia, and s*x (with stancy in s1 & jancy in s2-s3). S2/3 discuss at their finalies recovering from tra*ma . S2 had gra*ic de*ths,  a man causing a women br*in damage/ and faking her m*scarriage, and a gang of vigalantes k*lling criminals. s3 had critiques on capitalism /media/s*xism, many d*eaths, and questionable imagery like the prior seasons. The Duffers constantly reference  movies & events from the 80s (capitalizing on 80s nostalgia /subverting 80s motifs that middle age people  from that time remember)! Those people were their intended age demographic . Most 80s centric refs go over most kids’ heads (heck a lot went over my head too since I wasn’t alive in the 80s XD).The Duffers even said in the book “worlds turned upsidedown”  “it’s not a kid’s show despite having kids”. And maybe it’s a coincidence but when Lucas in s3 hands Will the “devil’s baby” firework (a hint about Lonnie) he says “18 and over only.” Which idk is a weird/random af line unless it’s foreshadowing that the show will get darker about various themes- and maybe even change ratings.

I get people wishing nothing bad ever happened to Will or Jonathan. And being apprehensive and not trusting the Duffers to do such a story justice (cause it’s difficult to do). But personally i trust them to do so tastefully with tact and not be exp*itative, (overly gr*fic) or offensive to v*ctims. You can disagree and think the show is about something else (or not trust the Duffers)- but it’d be great if people could stop using these other messed up talking points. While trying to appear ‘(fake) woke’ and like they care for victims- cause we see through it that you really don’t.

Have a lovely day anon ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Update- I just really agreed with and appreciate the tags in this reblog

[riisinaakka-draws]

Part 4 of my old Black Sails scraps and doodles from 2016–2021. Not in any particular order.

And of course, please do not steal and repost elsewhere. But if you do get inspired, feel free to make your own interpretations! :D

This post contains chicken on Walrus doodles, lots of touching faces, mustache shenanigans and grooming, inktober plans, surprisingly many parental moments (?) etc.

Under the cut, because this is another very long post!

Old plans for the “chickens on the Walrus” serie (2016) inspired by [THIS]  @balloonstand​​’s post (s4 ideas) where The Walrus crew aquires lots of chickens and here are some scenes I imagined could further happen, lol.

The fluffy chicken and those rubber ones were a hot thing at the time, so I tried to incorporate them somehow xD Also I think only one person “got” my joke of “c*ck between his legs” but I guess it was also because I didn’t really draw a proper rooster... Here the chicken have occupied the cabin and are looking at maps:

Max trying to console Anne while Jack looks, snuggled in a hammock. This was right after the episode 7 of season 4 and I had no idea how things would go - but I wanted them to make amends :) I like this sketch more because the end result (2017) became quite murky and blurry :/ (I think my screen wasn’t calibrated properly, lol)

I drew this in 2016 and I remember how paranoid I was after the series ended (in 2017) because I was so afraid that some anti-silver people would be mad if they stumbled on this and didn’t read the caption properly and somehow took this like I was trying to replace Thomas (yeah I know I was overthinking things wayyy too much but things were quite heated after the finale).

But anyway, the sad hidden truth is that the ref for this was the moment when Flint is grieving Mr Gates in s1 and holding his body... and I drew this because I was just wishing there would be at least a hug in season 4 (because who else would be there to hug Flint now that Miranda was gone too? Well now we know!). Still wish there had been also a silverflint hug...

Now moving on!

“That’s my wee lad, Gimli.” (2017) This is one of the early drafts for Woodes Rogers and captain Berringer. Idk why, but I laughed when he was looking at that locket in the show and it reminded me of the Hobbit movie scene with Legolas and Glóin... Woodes regrets asking about the locket, lol. This was around the same time as the MaxAnneJack+hammock, because the lantern is very similar here. And I was drawing these right after the episodes.

Next, the grooming shop at the Nassau’s market (2019):

as you can see, the original sketch was mirrored. Another one, thinking about the values and adding Anne:

There were other versions too. One where Flint is twirling Thomas’ (?) new mustache and one where Flint is playing with Silver’s hair/mustache while they are in bed, one with Jack and his mustache and one where the Brothel Blackbeard, Silver (still clean faced bb) and Max have fun after the orgy with fake mustaches made of their long dark curly hair and Jack stumbles on them (shocked, when he wasn’t asked to join) - but the timelines were all over the place and one art was enough, lol. Although this idea grew into another piece with Flint, Thomas and Silver but I have not finished it yet.

This is original plan I had for the Abigail and Miranda piece (2018):

The ref was from the show but for some reason I ended up changing quite a lot. Although I like the colours and the ship in this one a bit more than the final result.

I just realised that this post has a lot of touching people’s faces! xD

As does this one too, lol. (finally posted the finished art in 2021)

The original working title was “PinkyChair” because the idea was that Flint was tied to the chair and Silver was teasing him, but Flint still managed to touch with his pinky, lol.

The parallels, lol ~ This is just a sketch with no further development. It had something to do with the funny pose when 1) Flint is fighting Teach on the beach and falls on his back, leg kicked straight up 2) and what if Silver used his peg leg as an extra blade when he and Flint were training.

Next, some plans for inktober 2017. I was planning to draw Anne and was trying to figure out which prompt would fit. I brainstormed almost all the prompts so I wouldn’t have to spend time thinking about them daily during the month, but never really got into it after all.

Some ideas I did use later, tho, like the De Groot and “SCREECH”:

Same batch, prompt “TRAIL” (Dooley and Flint carrying the treasure chest and Silver, Israel and company going after them). 

The next sketch is quite old (and never continued) and had something to do with the interview where Toby talked about eating his kids candies secretly or something? and how hard he found lying to his mom about things? I don’t quite remember anymore. But of course here’s a combination of Captain Flint and his mom, the dowager from Downton Abbey, heh.

Thank you for checking this out and I hope you had fun! <3

[parkissat]

My Art Process (sort of, for painterly portraits)

So a long time ago @iartsometimes asked me if I could make a post about my art process and here it is finally! I'm not really sure how to explain it in an accurate or interesting way since a) I didn't save as many progress pics as I should have and b) my process isn't always exactly the same every time, but I'll do my best to describe the main ways in which I make this sort of art most of the time. And I'm using the process for this drawing as example.

This was a relatively very quick one so it's not as detailed as some others but the basic principles still apply. For practically all my art on this blog I was using at least a couple of different brushes but nowadays I'm only using one of those, set at 50% oppacity. I always start by just filling in the background with the main color that stands out to me from the bg of the ref itself, and then I lay down some more basic big blotches of color here and there to get a sense of the overall colors and values (light and dark areas).

It doesn't have to be totally accurate to the ref but I just take my cues from there so it fits well in the end and also because I don't like to start drawing on a blank/white canvass.

Then on a separate layer I just start blocking a general shape of whatever part of the subject grabs my attention the most, so sometimes I might actually start with the clothes if it's a bigger area of solid color, or the hair, but in this case it was the face. And again I just pick a main color to start blocking and then keep blocking dark areas to start getting the shapes before eventually moving on to highlights and other colors (like warm and cold tones).

I never sketch with this kind of drawing where I'm using a ref and find it easier to just paint and slowly make out the shapes and build the details, and I prefer doing it on one layer or as few layers as possible that I'll end up combining into one.

Sometimes I block out the whole overall shape before starting to add the inner shapes and details but in this case for some reason I just felt more like doing it part by part so I did a lot of work on just the head for a while, and then the shirt, and then the jacket, and then the cigarette, but kept going back and forth to all those parts to add and adjust more little details. While I'm doing this I'll often also resize the drawing at least once or twice and move it to where I want.

I usually make colors by just changing them however I need from some color I already put down in the bg or some other part of the painting. Something I really like is color contrast so I often like exaggerating little blocks of warm and cold tones, and I also love just leaving things looking a bit rough around the edges with visible brushstrokes.

So after these one I didn't save any more progress pics I think. I just finished some details everywhere like the top hair, the print on his shirt, some stuff on the jacket and probably his face too. I'm never really completely done with any particular part of a drawing until I decide I'm done with the whole thing.

And then another thing I always do, sometimes during the process of the rest of the painting but other times, like in this case, after I finish the subject, is that I add more detail to the background. I do this on a separate layer and usually it's just adding more colors to make it all flow better with the rest of the drawing, fix anything with the values, and just add some random spots of contrasting colors to make it more interesting by making some big brustrokes and then partially erasing them (though I didn't add the smaller spots so much in this case and left it at bigger adjustments).

After that the only thing left is that I almost always adjust the final colors in all the layers (I usually end up with about 3-5 layers) to make them a bit more intense. Usually I like to make the midtones warmer by increasing the reds or magentas, I make the shadows more blueish, and the highlights more yellow.

Not sure if I mentioned everything I do or if it was cohesive and interesting but yeah I think these are the main "steps" or elements about my portrait painting process. In general, I prefer painting without sketching, focusing on the bigger picture rather than details, leaving things kinda rough and having visible brushstrokes, and play around with bright colors and exaggerated color contrast. And finally here's a little progress gif of all the images above plus the final drawing where you can kinda see it coming together.

Thanks for reading! And thanks Tanya for asking about this!! Hope it was the sort of thing you had in mind XD

[luffyrose]

luffy. sweetie.i cannot believe you named Ghost Tommy GHOMMY. JAKLJDKDSJKJAD. [for some reason this shocked me to the core because it was so different from the other possible names i had heard, lol]. ANYWAY: what does Ghommy remember and why the friendship emerald of all things??? and do he and ghostbur have fun ghost times together??? thank youuuuu

Okay, I’m living in the Ghommy vibes rn! I genuinely don’t remember how I came up with Ghommy but I’m thriving off it XD

As for what he remembers, it’s not that much. He remembers his past so he remembers his family, but after the Van is all gets jumbled and messed up.

I made a list similar to Ghostbur’s list but it’s not fully complete yet. I shall list some of the things though, the rest shall be revealed later uvu

These are possibly not in order/have things in between them uvu

A van

water

lanterns

a big wall

lots more water

falling...I think...

And that’s all I’m giving y’all uvu

For that at least.

Now! About fun ghosty bro interactions:

Ghostbur actually isn’t the one to find him, Techno is, which makes sense with the plot I have planned so far-

Anyway, he and Ghostbur do have fun when they can but Ghommy has two main reactions to things he doesn’t remember:

Very childish and excited

Confused and unsure of what is happening at the time

There’s also a chance he will panic when seeing something or someone that brings up bad memories, which he sadly has a lot of, hence his fewer memories of everything that happened than Ghostbur even.

Now about the friendship emerald, this is very closely related to the cause of Tommy becoming Ghommy so I won’t say much, but it was the only thing he had on him and he was holding it above where it is now embedded in Ghommy.

I want to attempt to draw a ref for Ghommy but I’m very slow at making refs so it may take a while QwQ

Also, part of my brain wants to make like comics instead of a fic but I cannot draw that much that fast or well so who knows what this will turn into in the end XD