#Twitch SMP

[ace1diots]

"You've always been the new you. You want this to be true."

NO TEXT VERSION UNDER THE CUT!!!!!!

[mallowbees]

'I have become enthralled with the watercolor brushes in firealpaca' pt. 2

[thoughtsofananon]

Points. Navigator Pilot

[autisticlalna]

🎶 stop the clocks, i'm killing time! i don't ever want this to end, and you say "that makes two of us"

⏯ NOW PLAYING: Stop the Clocks by Enter Shikari

for @mcyt-jukebox-bonanza, featuring Rubyco and VikingPilot from Twitch SMP!

ramblings under cut:

FINAL JUKEBOX!

i was talking to Viking about Enter Shikari (i'd gotten him to start listening to them via the PMV preview) and he mentioned this song in specific as one he's been listening to lately. and, like, i've mentioned before that Radiate is my favorite from this band, but Stop The Clocks was up there for a while. so... yeah! obviously i had to draw something.

this went through a LOT of revision. after my last jukebox i fell into an art slump and was struggling with ideas and what i felt capable of. i knew the main thing i wanted was to include TwitchCon SMP-- the entire thing is that they were only supposed to exist for three days. initially the middle panel was going to be another angle of the same scene, with Viking and Ruby looking out over the beet fields in the sunset, but i didn't feel like i'd have the time or energy for a detailed background.

after that idea got scrapped, i had the idea to lean into the contrast of where they started vs where they are now. this is the version i showed Viking:

..with the middle panel being a redraw of the first thing i drew for Twitch SMP, of Viking dangling Ruby over the cliff. when i started looping the song to start lining and coloring, though, it didn't really match the tone of the song so i scrapped it again, shuffled element positions, and returned to the first idea but with it being TSMP Viking and Ruby instead. still ended up being a bit of a redraw, but this time it's of the scene where Viking talks about his dreams and how they need to embrace whatever's happening to both of them.

and yet despite all of that, the parts i like best are the tiny panels of TCSMP Ruby and Viking. i like the rim lighting, i like the expressions, i like the palette i used for the background. it's just so nice. i wanted to capture a bittersweet fondness, because neither of them expected to continue past this. yknow?

while i'm here, i wanna talk a little bit about tcViking:

he has tViking's palette (hence his goggles being brown instead of black), and he has the scar next to his eye that i draw tViking with. the other scars he got after being lost in time, but i figured having some kind of identifying characteristic would help with Ruby seeing him as her Viking, and then that coming into doubt as she saw how different he was physically and mentally.

this was really fun to do <3 it feels poetic that my first and last pieces are tRuby-- TSMP got me through what otherwise would've been a rough start to the year, and Rubyco especially has been incredibly cool and making me feel more confident and comfortable with being very vocally active in fandom again :,)

back to work on the PMV!

[patchdotexe]

oh my god i nearly forgot to post this. here's my art summary for 2024! customary brick of text (including links to individual pieces) under cut.

i drew.. a lot of mcyt this year! as in "everything but April is mcyt". this is awkward because that means i dont think any of this actually ended up on this blog. i dont think i posted my pngtubers either. um. hm

pushing that aside, im really happy with how my art has evolved. ive gotten very comfortable with lineless art, and have been playing around a lot with shading, colors in general, and new brushes. (most of the brush testing didnt make it on here.) more than that, i feel like im getting better at anatomy and proportions and drawing people in general. sameface syndrome is always going to be a problem for me, but i like to think i can at least pull off different body types and thats something im going to continue messing with.

ive also been doing a lot of style switching. obv theres lined vs lineless, but also level of detail vs simplicity. i kinda do it based off mood so its not very consistent, but im fine with that rn.

the thing im most proud of is that i have a finished stand-out piece for every month (and some of them were actually hard picks). ive gotten down on myself before about whenever we hit an art slump, but even in months where we didnt draw as much we still had something that was cool we could show off.

im sorry we havent been as active on here-- again, we've been on mcyt lockdown-- but im looking forward to whatever happens next year. Rescue is still coming together, even if slowly, and we'll hopefully be able to post character design concepts. we're also considering maybe doing adoptables? we'll see.

thank you everybody for sticking with us this year, and thank you to everybody that fueled our art with their amazing stories. you're the best.

JANUARY: The Dark Descent FEBRUARY: SLEEPWALK MARCH: warning: this escalates quickly APRIL: P▽TCHtuber (no link, sorry!) MAY: right on time JUNE: bare your teeth JULY: Goldfish (and doctor lore is here to start crying) AUGUST: JAILBREAK SEPTEMBER: THE CONTRACT OCTOBER: and the walls are closing in NOVEMBER: Crossing the Rubicon PMV DECEMBER: Accelerate

[moxijunk]

CHAPTER THREE OF CRIM COAG IS FINALLY FINISHED!!! WOO

[jaydraws-blog]

SNAILS??? WHA???

[betweenlands]

Okay this is probably predictable by now but 13 with Viking? (Or really any character you want I just like seeing people’s Vikings +)

--of never-ending revenge and this time it's primal, it's tribal

love tViking. love to watch him grasp desperately for any semblance of control over his situation.

[rainy-daze1]

夢見てる？　なにも見てない？

Is what I'm seeing a dream? Or am I seeing nothing at all?

my first @mcyt-jukebox-bonanza piece! ignore the fact that it's the second to last day of the posting period and my second one isn't quite done yet (it'll be fiiiiiiine)

anyway shout-out Bad Apple!! absolutely one of the songs of all time and also one of the tsmp sapphire songs of all time

[thaummakesart]

So I fell down a beetroot filled rabbit hole and came out the other end with two new blorbos!

I have so many theories and ideas, and am very attached to these two time loop siblings

(also Ruby's hair being Land of the Lustrous inspired was stolen from @autisticlalna but my rendering is not as good lol)

[madkat-stuff-has-moved]

Last night I was thinking “hey what if Viking had darker hair?” Which then turned into “hey do we know what Navigator ACTUALLY looks like?”

[ace1diots]

“In Night Springs! Caught in the endless on loop!”

Night Springs (feat. Keira) - Alan Wake 2 Chapter Songs

MCYT JUKEBOX : 8/9

@mcyt-jukebox-bonanza

[fallow-foot]

Best part is Viking absolutely bought two pairs of light up skeatchers. He swaps which is which when your not looking

Incorrect quote under cut

[rubycowashere]

@vintageapples has BIRTHDAY so I draw for birthday! HAPPY DAY OF BECOMING HUMAN my darling! AND HERE IS TO MANY MORE!!!

[autisticlalna]

🎶 I'm falling through the hourglass, and I don't think I'll ever make it back!

⏯ NOW PLAYING: Hourglass by Set It Off

for @mcyt-jukebox-bonanza, featuring Rubyco from Twitch SMP!

ramblings under cut:

RUBYCO MY BELUBYCO.

ive had this idea for a tRuby art since first hearing the song earlier this year, when Ruby played it on stream and mentioned it being a tRuby song. the event was a perfect opportunity to finally make it a reality! out of all the jukeboxes i did this one might be my favorite because it came out exactly as i imagined :D

there's a lot of details i want to talk about but dont know if i shoujld because i want to see if anybody notices them! and i'll be posting the other jukeboxes throughout the day. WOO

[another-random-goose]

OH MY GOD HOLD ON I NEVER POSTED THESE

Danger Days AU t!ruby and t!viking, and doodles for Danger Days!Blue and Yellow

This is what happens when you get new minecraft blorbos in the middle of a multiple months long Danger Days hyperfixation. :P