#My brain demands I doodle it

[hyperfixatedperson]

Adventure Time AU, because why not.

HEY, LOOK AT THESE MEDIOCRE SKETCHES!

*Throws Litch!Finn in your face and skitters away*

[cozylittleartblog]

gooseworx in the glitchx livestream: i want to see people draw jax in a suit. people should draw him crying

me: sure thing, boss o7

[webonchin]

Good night fellow sandman fans 🌌💤

Still waiting (im)patiently for season 2...

[chuwush]

This outfit gives off Divorced Dad vibes lmao.

Also yes that's a Hawaiian shirt with Tim's on it. He's on brand.

[dragonsdendoodles]

How do you think book Horace would feel about movie Enoch, hypothetically?

And the other way around. Book Enoch and movie Horace. Would they be insulted do you think? Confused?? I'm so curious and it's something I think about a lot because the difference between movie Enoch and book Enoch is really really funny

I think he’d be insanely confused as to why Enoch is now taller than him and also a lot scarier than he used to be. And also Scottish now, apparently. Enoch doesn’t really have an opinion on this because movie Enoch does not have opinions on Horace

Vice versa, movie Horace has been staring at him. For ten minutes now. And it’s really starting to creep Enoch out. Horace has no feelings on this because movie Horace has less emotion than a cardboard cutout would have

[wispurring-moss]

this is now the third (3rd!) time i have drawn this very same StressedTM Husk—which apparently means he gets to be in color this time for whatever reason, go figure... x'D

still vibing Massively with the non-fully-colored product too tho; idk if these are gonna be the Actual colors in the end yet so i just want them documented for posterity just in case hghsdjvgk

[yardsards]

earlier today in class the dude in front of me had his laptop open on split screen mode, one screen playing videos (with headphones) and the other side playing browser games. and he wouldn't stay on the same video or game for more than a couple minutes. and would periodically pull out his phone to check instagram.

and i have no clue if this person has adhd or not but nonetheless it is one of the biggest adhd moods i have ever encountered

[galaxies-and-gore]

Thankfully Ibis Paint was able to restore the file when my tablet crashed so I didn't lose my progress.

Oc? Sona? Idk.

I used to hate trying to draw chibis because I could never figure out the proportions, but I think I need to do this more often. This was very experimental and I'm not exactly happy with it, but I'm proud because this is the first drawing that I've actually finished in a year. I have very mixed feelings about the brush I used. It looked very nice for the line art, but I also used it for the colors too and that sure was a process. I wanted to try something new so I just put the colors under the line art layer and erased the extra instead of trying to stay in the lines.

Overall this was very good practice because I need to learn to stop demanding perfection from myself and let my art be more messy than I normally allow it to be.

Extra version without the line art because it looked surprisingly cute instead of horrific:

[junkmailmusubi]

you know what that means! Fish

[bulletbilltime]

Max Caulfield finds a very special kind of Flutter Slime while exploring the Rainbow Island with Beatrix Lebeau... and it brings back sad memories :(

[juice-boxy]

Can you doodle a crossover/merge between blue diamond (SU) and bluestar (WC) thanks 👍

Not going to lie I screamed when I got this ask because it was such a cool idea

Click for better quality!

[fallenrain40]

me when my glucose meter gives me an error for the 100000000th time (for not enough blood on the test strip smh I SWEAR IT JUST WANTS TO STAB ME OR SMTH😭)

[sillaycircuitry]

incredibly sloppy v2 doodle but like its so late and the evil little thing i called my brain demanded i draw her like immediatly

[junkworldusa]

HI I love my copy of Junkworld btw!! Thank you!!

Idk I might have asked you this before or someone else may have but I was wondering if you would talk some about your art practice like. Routine and the like? I think I remember you doing Lynda Barry exercises?

Well either way thank you!!!!

Oliver!!! Yes!!! I'm so glad!

I have to preface this by saying that I don't even work on art every day, much less comics. Last October I picked up knitting on a whim and spent all my free time making hats while listening to an audiobook of Moby-Dick. I made a lino print for the first time while sending out JW #1, fell in love with it, and have spent the last month or so carving and printing and experimenting. I go on painting jags, collage jags, writing jags, and I have two (2) guitars that are sitting in the corner patiently waiting for asteroid Kiana to circle back to them. I've been this way my whole life, and I am trying to work with it and not against it. HOWEVER. There is a hardcore Type A perfectionist inside me that wants nothing but consistency. This part of me abhors the flightiness, the mutations, the bouts of melancholy -- if there must be a Quest, it cries, let it be towards a singular Goal!!!!

For recovering perfectionists there really is no better teacher than Lynda Barry. She has a list of materials, she has dozens of exercises, she has you set time limits. According to her books she is quite a strict teacher in-class, demanding a lot of time, effort, care, and attention. All of this is wonderful. She boxes you in and sets you free.

"Making Comics" is the essential text. My favorite exercise is Monster Jam.

Here are a few of mine, all done left-handed to minimize the influence of the Type A chatter who lives in my brain. I have dozens and dozens of pages of these monsters. Barry recommends this specific process a lot: lay down the lines under pressure before your brain can catch up, then add color/patterns/details, under no pressure at all, while watching/listening to something you like.

There are several iterations after this - you draw their parents, an older sibling, a lover. Then you go back to the beginning and draw, in 6 panels, the story of their life. It somehow always presents itself.

As valuable as they are, I don't use these exercises to actually make comics nowadays. I use them to loosen up and activate that aforementioned feeling. Most of my comics come from doodles or notes scribbled down in a tiny notebook I carry everywhere. The process of making a longform comic is something I have bashed my head against for YEARS, and now involves divination, random image generation, a deck of Nancy cards, a lightbox, and a ton of panels chopped up and spread out on the floor so I can move them around. This is why I still only work in grids!

[klausinamarink]

The Only Sounds Are His Heart and Music

rating: T | cw: mentions of Vecna nightmares and near-death experience | wc: 893 | tags: established relationship, canon divergence, hurt/comfort | prompt: Love is the perfect mixtape/Love is the heartbeat I can feel when I hug him

written for @steddielovemonth

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Heavy silence filled the trailer, not even the barking of the neighbours' dogs or the rattling winds dared to break inside. It was as if all sounds from the outside world had been snuffed out, putting the residents into a solitary confinement room. It would've been unnerving if the Steve wasn't pressing his ear against Eddie's chest where his heart thudded loudly.

Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

Eddie was still alive.

Steve swallowed another lump down his throat, wincing slightly as he did. When Eddie had gone white-eyed and later floated in the air, Steve screamed so loud out he nearly shredded his throat. He had no idea how much it hurt to speak until after the music worked and Wayne Munson demanded an explanation for his nephew's apparent possession that when Steve had tried to explain, barely a wheezing sob came out. Dustin and the other kids had taken over as storytellers of the Upside Down while Steve held a heaving Eddie in his hold.

Eddie was breathing normally now as if he was sleeping. But Steve knew from his tense body that Eddie was still wide awake. His fingers kept twitching from squeezing Steve's biceps to twisting the wires of his headphones where Dio's Hungry For Heaven blared out to gripping the blankets around them. It was close to his usual manic energy but more subdued. Terrified as if everything he touched was even real.

Whoever the hell this Vecna guy was, Steve was ready bash his brains out with his nail bat.

Ba-bump. Ba-bump. Ba-babump.

Eddie's heartbeat stayed the same but Steve caught the moment it started to quicken. Steve squeezed his arms around Eddie's torso and nuzzled his face against the chest. He wanted to kiss his boyfriend so badly but Steve couldn't bare to let go and let the sound of his heart vanish from his functional ear.

He felt Eddie shuddering out a breath before his arms began to wrap around Steve's shoulders. Eddie sniffed and pressed his face on the top of Steve's head.

Nestled between them, Hungry For Heaven faded away but the Walkman kept whirring. And then, very clearly, Eddie My Love by The Chordettes started playing.

Steve blinked down at the Walkman with a mix of confusion and bubbling fear. He knew that Lucas was the one who managed to snagged the right tape to save Eddie during the panic, but for a terrifying moment, he wondered if Lucas made a mistake. "What the-"

He looked up when he heard Eddie snorting. For the first time since he had safely fell back to the ground, Eddie was cracking a smile. "I thought Vecna was going to snatch me again when that played after Dio. Turns out that it's my second favourite song." He lifted the Walkman up to the streams of the moonlight so Steve could peer closely at the cassette's label. His heart leapt up to his throat when he recognized the tiny heart doodles over his own handwriting.

Eddie's VERY METAL Mixtape

The whoosh of air escaping Steve's lips might've been a sigh or some poor attempt of a laugh. Either way, relief flowed from him, top to bottom. He dropped his head onto Eddie's chest again, almost headbutting the chin. "Jesus" he murmurs soft enough that it doesn't agitate his throat, "we should give Sinclair a fruit basket."

"A truck full of them. Freshly produced from sweet Alabama." Eddie adds cheekily.

They chuckle together before falling back to silence, barely accompanied by the faint vocals.

Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

Steve waits for another minute before he breaks it with a quiet question, "Are you okay, Eds?"

It's a stupid question, but Steve just wanted to hear his honesty. No person can handle the massive guilt of letting Chrissy Cunningham go home after a little freakout over the drug she wanted, only for her body to be broken beyond recognition by an unseen force in front of her parents, or be tormented alone by painful headaches and nightmares before nearly dying, or the sudden revelation that your secret boyfriend and his little gaggle of kids have been fighting monsters of an alternate dimension for years.

Eddie gave out a drawn-out sigh before he answers, "Not really. Feeling like shit but I can't sleep."

The Chordettes come to a sweet end before being inappropriately followed up by Black Sabbath's Die Young. It made Steve shrivel on the inside. He wished he could pummel his past self for including that song in the tape. But if Eddie was bothered, he didn't show it. Still-

"You're going to fine." Steve whispers harshly. His face is close up to Eddie now, his hand pressing against the other man's heart. "As long as you keep listening to our tape, we're gonna figure out to kick Vecna's ass. You will live."

Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

Eddie's eyes glistened. Steve flipped the both of them over, careful not to crush the Walkman, allowing Eddie much more room to crawl further up and bury himself into Steve's tight embrace. Eddie's face pressed into Steve's neck, already soaking his skin with tears. It doesn't bother Steve at all. His hands rubbed his boyfriend's back in smoothing circles. Steve brought his mouth to Eddie's temple first before moving to his ear, quietly repeating "you will live" over and over.

Steve prayed for it to be true.

Ba-bump. Ba-bump.

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

🌼🌼🌼

wanted to make an usopp post because it's his birthday and he's one of my two favorite characters!!

bonus usopp (and kaya) doodles

i actually have a lot more but for some reason my brain refuses to work on making posts

feel free to guide me and demand art lol