#and the middle two redraws are not wips no

[polar-equinoxx]

Pov: Iceman leaves his hair ✨unbleached✨

(And goes into a room of very purple lighting)

Please click it for the details ahaha

[unclewarwick]

i am making this an art blog now, so i thought i should actually start posting my art here. i finished this drawing today and the rest of the art in this post is from newest to oldest. this post is most of my batman-related art since the last time i posted a big amount of batman art (which was december 2022).

i have a heavy preference for drawing batjokes but am trying to draw more and more of the rogues gallery. i have my own vague storyline ideas that include both batman and the joker being trans men, but in my story he is called bruceman/bat wayne.

2024-07-10 -- i do an annual redraw of this meme. this was the fifth version. the first time i drew it (in 2021) was the first time i had tried to properly draw either of them, despite having a deep batman interest for a long long time, and drawing for even longer.

2024-06-28 -- i spent 41 and a half hours on this one. my first big attempt at pixel art. it was from a bad chronic illness week so it was meant as a purposely ugly and simple drawing but it spiralled out of control.

2024-07-05 and 2024-05-11 -- my concept art for the scarecrow.

2024-04-22 and 2024-03-21 and 2024-02-11 -- the joker taunting bat wayne, an argument with alfred, a community meme redraw that i didn't like the end result of but was unwell while drawing so i give myself a break.

2024-02-08 and 2024-02-06 -- the riddler being desperate for attention on social media, my two-face concept art

2024-01-27 -- my take on the oft-parodied the amazing spider-man #601 cover art.

2024-01-18 -- joker thinks he's being sneaky but doesn't know he's with the same person twice.

2024-01-11 and 2024-01-10 -- catwoman being fun and sillie (from before i redesigned her weird mask and goggles that i originally tried to give her)

art from 1 and 8 december of 2023 that i posted on here

both from 2023-09-10 -- a couple of quick low effort drawings from when i was feeling funky

2023-08-06 and 2023-08-13 and 2023-08-18 -- mini comic where you can see the comic formatting skill developing in each part.. just a small story idea i had revolving around a double joke about bat wayne's Identity. and still figuring out how to draw the riddler.

2023-08-02 -- my first depiction of riddler & first drawing of har-lee (my name for harley quinn) out of costume.

2023-06-18 and 2023-06-15 -- my first drawings ever of har-lee; i did not stick with this costume design for her because i fixed it and made it actually look good and make sense at all a whole year later (character design is my weakness), and also just a simple meme.

2023-06-15 -- i don't have an animation program, so making this was a real struggle.

2023-04-28 and 2023-04-23 -- bruceman picking up tampons in the middle of a fight, bruceman and joker "fighting".

2023-04-04 and 2023-03-21 -- Earring Magic J, joker being the autistic, gay, trans dad of autistic, gay, trans pee-wee herman (including muffin the cat from batman: legends of the dark knight #50)

all from 2022-11-14 -- a comic Not about being trans, no, not at all...

2022-11-27 -- a fully rendered version of the last panel.

there's more that's not included here because of the 30 image limitation, but those are mostly further concept drawings of har-lee that i didn't like, and lower quality joke drawings. one bigger thing i've left out are stills from an animatic/animation project i started quite a while back (it's not even my only WIP of that kind) and haven't continued progress on for a while. i would prefer to share that all at once whenever it's finished.

[chacusha]

Summer Quodo event poll

Because I have a "running events" problem (namely, that I like brainstorming events that would be neat, and then once I brainstorm an event, I get attached to it and want to run it), I am planning on running a Quodo event for the middle of the year.

So, please help me pick which event I should run this summer by telling me which one you'd be most interested in!

Explanations on each of these below the cut:

Option #1: Ship week

Here, the event would be a Quodo ship week most likely in early/mid August. Basically, the way a ship week works is that there is a designated week for posting fanworks for a ship, where each day in the week is associated with a prompt (or maybe two prompts, to give people choice). The last day in the week is usually a free choice day. Basically, it's a way to have a concentrated burst of fanworks for a pairing, and you can see the different ways people interpreted each prompt, and it's also kind of a team effort? Or you can treat it as a challenge to try to post one thing each day -- it's completely up to you how many days/prompts you fill.

The event will start by me collecting some prompt suggestions, holding a vote on them, and selecting a week's worth of prompts and publishing the list of prompts for each day. Then people make as many fanworks as they would like for the themes and post their work on the appropriate day.

Proposed timeline: April: Collect prompts May: Vote on prompts and release prompt list Jun-Aug: Creation period August: The ship week

Option #2: Collab event

For this event, basically, you would get paired with another Quodo fan and the goal would be to collaborate in order to produce a fanwork or a pair of fanworks. What a "fanwork collaboration" means can vary a lot and depends on what the members of the group are interested in (basically, when signing up, you would specify your preferences for the type of collab you would be interested in, and these preferences will be taken into account when I do the matching).

Here are some types of collaboration, roughly in order from least amount of coordination/cooperation to most amount of coordination:

1) Writing/creating to the same prompt/idea: Basically, the coordination happens at the beginning of the project with the two members agreeing on a general idea/prompt to work with, and then both members go off and create and share what they made at the end. This way you get two unique takes on the same idea. Very little coordination involved.

2) One person creates work inspired by/complementary to the other's: Here, the creators collaborate in order to produce a pair of related works -- first, one work is produced and then the second work is made in relation to that work. This could be the second creator's take on the same idea -- a remix/retelling/redraw of the original work, or an illustration for a fic or a fic inspired by art, etc. (It's also possible for both people to each create an original work and then swap, although this is more time-consuming and may not work with people's time.) This requires a bit more coordination, maybe sharing early drafts or handing work off by a deadline.

3) Collaborating on the same fanwork: This option involves two people working together to produce a single work. You can choose to do this however you like -- for example, with fic, maybe you swap the writer every few paragraphs, or do it roleplay style with each person writing one character. With art, maybe one artist does lineart and then hands it off to the other person to color (or both artists each do lineart and then send to the other to do the coloring). Hard mode!

You can treat this event like a bang or reverse bang if you like by using option (2). A bang is where someone writes a (long) fic (doesn't have to be long for this event) and they get an artist who illustrates it or provides some other kind of art or complementary fanwork (could be headers/graphics for the fic, podfic, etc.). A reverse bang is the opposite -- an artist comes up with a piece of art (maybe a sketch) and a fic writer crafts a fic around that piece of art.

There would be periodic check-ins just to see if there are any members/groups that have gone inactive and which might require reassignment to a new group.

The sign-up form would collect things like: - What fanwork medium you would prefer or are planning to work in. - What type of collabs you're open to. - What type of fanworker (fic writer, artist, etc.) you would prefer to work or not work with. - How often you would like to check in.

Proposed timeline: Apr/May: Sign-ups and matching Jun-Aug: Creation period August: Work reveals (in pairs)

Option #3: WIP-finishing/motivation event

The purpose of this event would be to provide motivation/company/social pressure to finish a longer/more ambitious sort of project. People can sign up with a new or existing project they would like to complete by the deadline, and then they would use the work period to see if they can finish the work, in the company of others doing the same. It's called a WIP-finishing event, but really, any project is allowed even if it's brand new. That said, this event might be useful for projects you've been meaning to get around to for a long time and haven't, or intimidating projects a bit beyond your skill level so far. Any media is allowed -- fic, art, comics, podfic, vids, meta, crafts, etc.

I am still figuring out the timeline and due dates -- below is what I have so far, but I would be happy to adjust the deadlines and format in order to accommodate what would work best and be the most motivating for the participants. So far, I am thinking that there is a date at which the project must be finished, and then there is a long posting period for people who would like to post their work in smaller increments. I would also pick 1-2 dates for each finished project to spotlight/advertise it -- one would be toward the beginning of the posting period for works that are fully finished and posted, or for works that have started posting (have posted the first installment); the second one would be shortly after the last installment of the work has been posted (if applicable).

The sign-up form would collect things like: - Your name and name/description of project - (Optional) Progress so far and projected length/time commitment of project. - (Optional) Goals you would like to have hit by certain check-ins.

It would be fine to drop projects at any time.

Proposed timeline: Apr/May: Sign-ups. May-Jul: Creation/posting period, most likely with optional check-ins at the beginning of Jun/Jul/Aug. Mid-August: Work completion deadline. Work posting and promos begin shortly afterward. November: Work posting deadline. Final wrap-up/celebration and masterlist.

Which one would you be most interested in? Let me know!

[wilsons-journey]

Pew,.... this Comic will definitely break me. But so far it’s the fun breaking.

I’m in a constant: I need to make more Reference // Nah lets redraw this // Nah draw this different  // How should I even draw this?! // HOW DO THIS EVEN WORK - or just AAAAAHHHH - and then again: Ah yes this is good. 

And I only “refined” the first act. I didn’t started the real action scenes yet,... This,... this will be a interesting ride. But I’m looking forward it! 

Do you want me to keep you updated with WIPs / rambeling of the progress?

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New WIP of the first bit under the cut: Caution! Blood / Death / Still a mess of sketches

But I’m a little proud of the idea, that came to me with the middle section - Valefors Weapons crossing the faces of the two Charr, that are about to die :X In the middle Panel will be Kying.

It’s the small things, right? Right?! (Someone send help - time for a little break)

[joyfuladorable]

for fanfic writer asks!!

5, 13, 15, and 18

✨Fanfic Writer Asks✨

HANNAH YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE GEM 🫂🫂🫂

*INHALE* Okay, these are going under a cut, cuz it’s time to RAMBLE

5. What’s a fic idea you���ve had that you will never write?

I’ll give y’all a two-fer! One new-ish and the other old as balls

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So last year, I had the idea to do a Parent Trap AU with the Rise turtles: Estranged Baronjitsu separating right after the tots were mutated, with Splinter taking Raph and Leo and living on a fancy movie star estate on the West Coast and Draxum taking Don and Mikey and staying in the Hidden City. Yokai would be revealed at some point; so by the time all the kiddos are middle school aged, society is just getting used to the integration of these two different worlds. The setting would, of course, start at summer camp, a prestigious camp smack dab in the middle of the US for budding mystic users regardless of if they’re yokai, human, mutant, or otherwise.

Leo and Raph would go with their buddies Casey and Junior (two foster kids who may or may not actually be related). Don and Mikey would go with April and Sunita. Shenanigans would ensue, with Leo and Don being mistaken for each other multiple times (mostly by Camp Counselor Todd who has poor eyesight in this AU for funsies). Then one thing would lead to another, and the turtles would realize that they are In Fact related and Obviously this means they have to secretly get their dads back together by using makeshift cloaking brooches to switch Leo and Don (the only viable ones to switch since they’re the same height) and eventually force their parents to reunite to switch the two back.

But who cares about THAT??? The idea actually spawned cuz I redrew caprisun in that one scene where Hallie goes “now that’s My kinda Woman!” when the tie dye girl manages to pull her duffel out from under a big pile without breaking a sweat. I really wanted to write tween Casey, April, and Sunita forming a close knit bond during the summer while the boys are off doing shenanigans and then continuing that when the switch happens with long distance phone calls and stuff. But alas, the other more urgent wips are a-calling, so I’ll settle for doing scene redraws whenever I feel like it lol

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Okay, now the Old One was for a visual novel/dating sim called Hustle Cat, the first game I ever played that gave me they/them as an option for the protagonist’s pronouns. The different routes all followed the same pattern: a down on their luck young adult decides to apply for a job at a cat cafe and then finds out that all the cats are actually the employees who have been cursed in one way or another so that they can only be human while Inside of the cafe, and each route/romance option has the protag bonding with the chosen person and helping them with their problems and stumbling on a cure for the curse by said person discovering their unique magic.

The fic idea I had was basically a Special Route, where the protagonist in each timeline/route is Cursed and Dying, and the only way to save them is to send them back to the Beginning. So the protag, Avery, wakes up at the beginning of the game with all the knowledge from all these other routes. So, out of love for all the cafe people they dated in each route, they decide to play matchmaker for their friends while also trying to help them figure out their magic. Two of the three matches go well (Hayes/Landry & Mason/Finley), but the last match isn’t working that well. Avery Knows one of them (Reese) has a crush on the other (Graves), but it doesn’t seem like it’ll be reciprocated. At the same time, Reese is suspicious of this new coworker who seems to know everyone wayyy more than they should.

In the end, the curse would be revealed to have followed Avery through time and is still killing them, albeit very slowly through the story. Reese would eventually pressure Avery into revealing the truth, and the entire cafe would band together and figure out how to save Avery. Didn’t have much else planned out other than Avery/Reese being endgame cuz I Personally didn’t really like Graves’ route (what with him being significantly older and also the protag’s boss for a majority of any route). Anyways, happy ending! Everyone Gay with Magic and now able to be cat whenever they want!!

13. How much planning do you do before writing?

Usually, I let an idea kinda roll around in my head for a while (which can be as little as a few hours and as long as a few weeks) before I write anything. And then, when I do, I tend to start writing the beginning until I run out of steam, followed by writing notes of where I want the story to go. A note can be as simple as [characters fight] or as complex as [emotions and gestures and staging during a specific moment with possible dialogue]. Honestly, I tend to plan a lot because I struggle with actually writing, lol. Grasping the motivation to write is like trying to hold water in my hands! I really envy folks who are able to just go for it and keep going without needing significant breaks in between.

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?

Depends on the fic! If it’s a fic based on art, like I’ll Be Ok! or Keep Your Eyes Open, then I’m directly pulling the dialogue from said art. If the fic has a specific vibe or references a moment in canon, then I’ll pull from those, too. A Light that Never Goes Out is a Kingdom Hearts reference cuz the canon material/cast heavily reference the games. “That’s My Mom!” is word for word what Casey Jr says at the end of the Rise movie and is also the exact moment I started to write and build off of in the fic. And if I’m doing neither of these things, then I usually try to keep the titles short and relevant to what I’m writing (like Training or Struck Match), sometimes changing them several times during the process if I ever think of something better.

Oh! And for chapter titles, I tend to do the same. I like for them to be relevant to the chapter while also building off the previous chapters. So like how I’ll be Ok! has “Promises Made” and “Promises Kept” and A Light that Never Goes Out has “The Heart May be Weak” and “Without a Doubt” (more KH quotes). Naming Ramifications’ chapters is Easy cuz they’re just the title of the relevant episode/movie, lol

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

Oh man, I’ve really enjoyed writing banter, lately, like Mikey and Raph’s whole exchange at the beginning of Keep Your Eyes Open. But! I think a few lines I’m immensely proud of are what Professor Honeycutt says to Mikey in Scrambled after being asked about giving up his memories during Season 3:

“Well, Michelangelo, to be completely honest, I did not give myself much of a choice.  I saved what was absolutely essential at the time: understanding my mission and who I could trust to help me.  The rest of my memories, whether they carried over or not, were left up to chance.  I believed, at the time, that I could not spare a moment to weigh their worth.”

“If you’d had that time, what would you have kept?”

“Everything,” The Professor answers without hesitation. “I feel, even now, after having several associates - friends - recount to me what I had forgotten, that I am… fragmented.  There are pieces of me that I had to give up forever; and while I do not regret their sacrifice, I miss them.  I mourn them as I do for the life I had before my fugitive status.  If I had been allowed the means, I would have saved Everything.”

It’s dialogue I came up with while at work, sudden inspiration that rocked me with how perfectly it fits with and aids the narrative. It’s also insight into Honeycutt that I’d never really thought about before. Like, here’s a wholeheartedly good individual who sacrificed parts of himself over and over again, whether intentionally or not. How would that feel over time? How much has he mourned these losses? The loss of his real body, the loss of sensation of a real body, the loss of agency, and the loss of memories, the only parts of him that are solely and wholly his own. I finished writing Scrambled and came out the other side a MUCH bigger fan of Professor Honeycutt, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

[ardate]

4, 8, 9, 30 :]

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

Honestly? Humans as a whole, still. I started art a long time ago, originally mostly focusing on animals and creatures, til I started drawing humans sometime in middle school - and I never stopped drawing them since! But yet, somehow, even though by now I probably have drawn more humans and human-adjacent characters than not with all those years, beasts are still much easier and come more naturally to me. Maybe those very early years wired my brain this way hbghb

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

Oh holy fukc so many of those uuuuuuuh,, right now the one that comes to mind is this old story I had made up in middle/highschool - something about a kind of death land, a sort of limbo, and the ghost lords that 'ran' it; and the main character having to go through it to bring his love back from the dead (orpheus and eurydice inspired). And though even then I wasn't particularly optimistic about my chances of going through with it, I really wanted to make a comic of it! Obviously, never happened. I should redraw those old OCs one of these days hgbghb

Have a sneak peek of what my art (and one of my ghost lords) looked like back then. Not the full pic cuz even just sharing this lil tidbit is hurting my ego

9. What are your file name conventions

I've been meaning to change it cuz it's no longer organized enough for my taste! My file themselves don't have any fancy names, they're usually just named after their subject (like 'demoman_sketch' or 'pernelle_portrait' or 'morribel_reference' etc). Of course, no accent in the file names since that renders them unstable and makes it easier for them to get corrupted, same (to a lesser extent) with spaces, so I always use an underscore instead.

So rather than by name, my organization goes by folders: • First off I have a folder per art program (one for Photoshop, After Effects, Corel Painter, Krita, etc), each of which have two folders, 'Unfinished' and 'Finished'. The latter usually only has the PNG renders, while the Unfinished folder houses the PSD (or other) files. Sometimes I'll have a 'Done' subfolder there for the files of pieces that i've finished, but most of the time they'll hang in there in the middle of WIP files forever • And in those Un/Finished folders, I have subfolders for the subject of the art piece (one folder per fandom (like TF2, Rayman, etc), a folder for commissions, one folder per original story, etc) so I can easily find what I'm looking for.

I plan on changing my naming conventions though, keep my folders but name my files with dates at the beginning (year/month/day), then theme (fandom/story/commission, etc), and then the piece's name.

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

I'm... Not sure? 🤔 To be honest I post my art to share it but I don't really have expectations regarding its reception from the public... I used to! Back when I was on deviantArt. And honestly it sucked, getting legitimately upset when an art piece didn't get enough digital attention, not enough internet points. But I've grown past it years ago, so I don't really have many feelings if a piece does badly anymore. I've had OC pics get like 2 likes and nothing else and I felt fine with it ghbgh

Don't get me wrong I still want them to do well, I still want people to reblog my art, and nothing brings me more joy than comments in the tags because that's a direct reaction to my art, which always feels very personal and legitimately touches me. But not having expectations means I don't really feel disappointed as much

The last time I've had the thought 'oh i expected this to do better' was for my HLVRAI zine piece, but that's about it!

[senkuplushie]

2 5 and 11 for artist asks :3

YAYYYYYY YAY

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

side profiles in general are far easier for me to draw than any other angle, and I don't necessarily find one direction easier than the other? unless I'm drawing a character who has far more detail on one side or something, but i don't think I've done that yet.

though I do tend to naturally draw people facing left more often unless I'm referencing / redrawing a picture where they're facing right

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

it's probably about 40/60? if you count wip pics anyway. I almost always post finished results online, but I rarely finish anything, so.

tbh it's probably been more like 15/85 in the past two months or so, since I'm trying to take more time to practice specific stuff [anatomy, clothing etc] without the intention of finishing / posting it, rather than waiting until I'm in the middle of a usual "full" drawing and having to very anxiously try my best to figure it out then [as i typically did before - it's very noticeable in the characters' limbs + Tsukasa's hair in the dcst redraw i did recently]

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

hell yeah!!! usually just the music I'd listen to any other time tbh. I once made a playlist specifically for drawing but I always forget it exists

[peachyninjago]

WIP'S. WIP'S Everywhere

Tagged by both @manjirian and @fabrowrites. tyvm!!!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs. I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!  

mm local crytpid is only posting the titles/v short descriptions <3<3

Reality, A Memory (Aka Dreamweaver Chapter 2)

The (Un)Common Cold

Wu And Morro (Angsty) Mini-Comic

Scars Don't Heal, But They Do Give Us Bittersweet Memories

Kai And Nya Screenshot Redraw

Disaster Cousins Ft. Goth Makeover

That One Vine Of Two Guys Dragging Their Sleeping Friend On A Mattress Into The Middle Of A Lake But Make It Disaster Cousins

Lloyd And Garmadon (Angsty) Mini-Comic

(Young) Wu And (Young) Garmadon Shenanigans

UH. i think that's everything. damn i have sm to do eariatiars. everyone I know has already been tagged (Again 😔😔✊) so uh. i tag the person reading this <3<3

[ohyka]

rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.  

 got tagged by @pangzi and @phantomhydeoftheopera (why???? 😭😭😭)

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do it!

So, the thing you have to know is all my files (drawings, writing, whatever) have no proper titles. Not a single one. It’s just keysmash after keysmash after stuff like 134548.doc or hzzz!pllw. Don’t ask me why, it’s just how my brain works. I’m not renaming them. Fuck it.

Another thing is, I don’t have a WIP folder. I have a desktop full of files that scream “fucking finish me im begging you” at me every time I open my laptop.

  So, behold, my WIPs (oh god)!

02 - wu xie gets eaten out while playing some video games or whatever. Idk.

V - heixie - and they were both bottoms meme redraw. And for some reason there is one more layer with a kansang redraw of some tumblr post? I have no idea what happened here.

rom - wang meng doing nothing. Seriously, he just lays there on the couch with his phone while  everyone is away being gay/dying/eaten by zombies. He probably writes some filth.

i?passki - tlt2 era pangxie

Od - multiple sketches of kanjian hugging/groping faceless others

Ani0mala - bear!panzi, kitty!xiaogea and weasel!wu xie getting ready for the next adventure. Important detail: Pangzi is wearing leather jacket and a fanny pack. One day I’m going to learn how to draw animals and finish it.

Bo - heixie. Hxz is not wearing a shirt?

Xiaoe xz - there are some notes here but i have no idea what that’s about, can’t read my own handwriting. Also, tons of 80’s fashion refs. Hxz and xiaoge are going to suffer, I guess.

Y - i think it was supposed to be kansang? It’s basically two stick figures and a photos of different libraries???

00 - liu sang with his ass in the air

baa - erjing in leather booty shorts

Atiuiuiu - more Xiuxiu and A-tou

HDF - tons of hdf doodles in different embarrassing outfits because i can’t get over this awful man

Hdfass - another one, there is a note on the side that says “3 fingers”

VN - kansang, liu sang is not wearing a shirt, kanjian has a nipple piercing for some reason

Bbbbb - bad buddy, ink/paa

HhhhX - hxz/xiaoge, i think they’re sleeping, not sure, once again, stick figures and a photo of some cool combat boots

Tweet - heixie  by the fire in the middle of a desert

Browed eed? - pangzi in the garden

b- tentacles 🤷‍♂️ (i think i should combine it with the one above)

And then there is a folder where the WIPs go to die slow painful death and then get deleted.

[mappinglasirena]

Mappening is Happening

I thought I’d give you all a little (hah!) update of what has been going on in the background of the mapping blog recently. I haven’t finished anything in a long while and I always feel a little weird throwing WIPs on here without the commentary I feel they deserve (that’s what twitter is for 🙈). But I’m trying to get better about that.

So, here is a ton of my work literally in progress. I hope you enjoy looking at a whole lot of very similar deck plans 😋

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I have an idea for a new mapping project for periods when I don’t have the time or energy to write long things. But it requires me having a usable map of the upper and lower deck of La Sirena.

My first idea was “eh, I’m going to take the set plans we got from the blu-rays and just clean them up a little, make sure all the markings are in the right place, add a few things that are missing, and re-do the labels. That won’t take too long, surely?”

“Yeah, that’s serviceable!”

But then I started working on the lower deck. Looking at the original plans, the first one is too warped and out of focus to use as a basis, but there’s a bunch of stuff missing in the second one (most obviously, the front of the mess with the stairs to the bridge).

“So. If I want to have a map of the lower deck in its entirety, I need to add the front of the ship and a bunch of stairs, make adjustments to the glass-plates - not to mention clean up the graininess from rescaling it to fit with the upper deck...... Okay, fine, I’m just going to retrace the entire lower deck, make it as clean, and as screen-accurate as I can get it, and add all the missing stairs and things.”

It helped that I already had a redrawn version of sickbay, because I’ve been adding furniture to that, too:

(Still missing a few things, like the shelves on the support beams, not to mention labels for the furniture. But it’s getting there!)

"Using that and the old plans, it won’t be too hard getting the entire lower deck redrawn, right?”

“Yeah, that’s good. That’s a good update!”

But to get there, I had to do a ton of work on the two sets of stairs to the upper deck to get them accurate. And it’s silly to only do half the stairs, so obviously I did the top half as well. But that, in turn, necessitated getting the railing around the stairs in the back and around the drop to the lower deck in the front right, so I knew how and where the stairs attached. “And while I’m at it, might as well do the railing around the panorama windows as well.”

“Also, I got some things wrong about the holodeck in my first redraw. For one, I’m fairly sure there aren’t actually any support beams sticking up straight through the middle of it, so those need to go. And I can get it cleaner, too.

“Also also: I already have outlines of the captain’s quarters and Raffi’s quarters, because I did versions of those with furniture!”

(Rios’s quarters)

(Raffi’s quarters with a marker for the skylight.)

“And I started on doing the same with the bridge. Didn’t get super far, but I have the floor structures down. So might as well add all that to the upper deck as well!”

“Yeah, okay, that’s kinda neat.”

Then there was a brief interlude where my brain got completely obsessed with the floor plates. I don’t really know what kicked me down that particular rabbit hole. Maybe it was just that the next step for the upper deck would have been deciding whether to do a full retrace, or whether to keep the cleaned-up version of the original plans, add the new things I had drawn, and leave it at that. It was probably also something about the set plan not being 100% symmetrical (it’s off by one pixel if you use a 1 pixel wide centre line) and the width of the beams and spaces between them not being 100% accurate. So I was curios whether I could get the floor plans to fit (and whether my estimation about their size was off, perhaps).

Either way, I spent two days completely obsessing over floor plates, and ended up with this:

(I was kinda tired when I did this and there are some very glaring mistakes that a very kind person on twitter pointed out to me. But it’s part of this odyssey, so I felt I should include it 😋)

“Okay. So I have an idea for the floor plates. Nice. But now I need to figure out a way to make the walls of the upper deck be above the floor plates, without getting interference from the markings on the floor and.... I’m gonna do a full retrace of all the walls and beams on the upper deck after all, aren’t I? WELP!”

And because my deck plan file already consists of 94 layers and I love it being so modular and able to show and explain a bunch of different things around the ship, might as well make the underlying structure of the upper deck as bare-bones as possible. That way, I can add and move things much more freely.

So, here is the skeleton of the upper deck. Maybe this is an approximation of what the ship looked like at its inception/before Rios added the Starfleet containers with quarters, holodeck, etc.

(I still need to decide what to do with the back of the ship and access to the engine room, since those sets don’t actually exist and nothing official has been said about it yet...)

After getting to the point pictured above, I spent the second half of my Saturday fixing my floor plate mix ups and adding in some new information. Unless I’ve overlooked something, any plates that still look flipped at this point are screen-accurate.

Clearly, there were some incidents near the bridge and at the back of the captain’s quarters that required floor plates to be switched out at some point - and it had to be done quickly, so there was no time to get them all perfect. Or possibly Rios was drunk and/or one of the holos was having a laugh. Any explanations are welcome ;)

(The plan above is not set-accurate, btw. If you look closely, you’ll notice that this is the extended version of the upper deck, with Rios’s cabin the size we see on screen, not the size built on the set.)

I’m going to have to do a massive write-up of this when the plans are done. Explain things like “screen-accurate but not set-accurate” (check the pinned masterpost for info about the captain’s quarters if you’re interested), point out all the things I’ve done to these plans to get them where they are, note all my observations and measurements, and provide evidence for some of my decisions regarding floor plate placement etc.

But for now, here is what I’ve been up to the last three-ish weeks, in case anyone was wondering ;)

[mctwilight-mcd]

BOOM! I did art in 2021! I didn’t just watch TV for a year!

Happy new year! 

Template by AsterianMonarch on DeviantArt.

Full versions and descriptions for art below the cut.

January: Human version of my Agent 3, Laura. There’s a little something else going on too, but that’s a secret, for now 😉.

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February: A piece I did called “Trapped”. It depicts an octarian soldier in their non-sanitized and sanitized forms. The text on the left reads “Trapped in a body”, with the right continuing the sentence with, “You can’t control”. The layering on this was HARD. (yes I am aware I spelled ‘trapped’ wrong)

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March: It’s my pfp! I posted this on here too. Search on my ‘#my art’ tag and scroll to the bottom. 

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April: Agent 4 Day art! My 4′s name is Sophie. She’s over 20 in this photo so she’s wearing her wedding ring and her mask has it’s colouring. It’s also my own design for the armor. I also have this one up here.

Here’s the link to the post.

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May: Bun Buddies!!! Made this after I changed the design for Ahato in my au.

Here’s the link to the post.

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June: Pride art of my Agent 3, Laura, and my Agent 4, Sophie. Drew the original in Jan but redrew it since my style got better.

Here’s the link to the post.

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July: Yang’s Birthday drawing. I love Bumbleby. I am obsessed. Anywaysssssssss...

Here’s the link 

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August: Rwby oc/Bumbleby fan child. Her name is Bee (I know, ironic right? don’t worry it’s a nickname.) Didn’t do much that month so have a bee. The colouring on this was hardddddddddddddd.

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September: It’s my birthday jig. I was born in the evening on September 21st. This song was made for me. Lil’ b-day gift to myself.

Post. Here. This is it.

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October: This is a wip. I’m redrawing a scene from the Rwby ep. Strings (S8E3) with my own characters. You will recognise Bee, the other one is named Marigold. The full version has Petal in the middle. The other two haven’t been drawn yet.

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November: Say hello to Marigold. A very sweet lady who is 6ft tall without heels. She and Bee are dating and are on the same team. Petal, Marigold, Chiara (Bee’s real name) and Noel. Team PMCN! (Pumpkin). But here’s Mari in full colour. This was also a pain.

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December: My piece for the Hypnothesis Discord’s Holliday Art Collab. I can’t show the full thing, but here’s my part. It’s blurry because Tumblr can’t deal with the super high resolution. 

ALRIGHT!!! WE’RE DONE!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

[anke-creates]

I posted 48 times in 2021

34 posts created (71%)

14 posts reblogged (29%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.4 posts.

I added 40 tags in 2021

#fae - 6 posts

#birds - 5 posts

#art - 5 posts

#digital art - 4 posts

#throwback thursday - 4 posts

#wip wednesday - 4 posts

#fairies - 3 posts

#mushrooms - 3 posts

#blue - 3 posts

#strange magic - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 27 characters

#species:erinaceus europaeus

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

[ID: Rough sketches of  handful of mushroom people: a fairy with wings based on a slit gill fungus; two mushrooms with little faces at the top of their stems, their "hats" tilted back, with the gills a bit like rays in a halo; a mushroom with a nearly egg-shaped cap and its stem split into noodly arms and legs; a mushroom with a fluted/folded stem and a tired old face under a cap, based on an elfin saddle mushroom]

I’m considering trying faepril this year, and doodled some mushroom-based ideas as preparation.

16 notes • Posted 2021-03-21 19:42:29 GMT

#4

WIP Wednesday, art edition

I haven't done much art lately, but there are two things I started I'd like to get back to at some point...

The fairy is Dawn from Strange Magic, a digital redraw of a little marker quickie I drew back in 2006

Right is, well, I sent a link to a collection of JJ Sneed gifs  to @aldersprig and she said "What a handsome outlaw. Someone oughta put a collar on him". So yeah. I worked from a screenshot from Once Upon A Time, so I need to find a different reference for his hair.

16 notes • Posted 2021-02-10 19:36:21 GMT

#3

Finally continued work on the shelf mushroom fairy.

Pose reference photo by Adorkastock (formerly Senshistock) used.

17 notes • Posted 2021-04-13 18:59:18 GMT

#2

Happy birthday @wyntereyez!

19 notes • Posted 2021-10-04 04:52:10 GMT

#1

A little Caturday drawing

[ID: A black, very thin cat with one big eye in the middle of her face, looking at a small mouse right in front of her. The mouse is looking back her, and there is a little ghost flame hovering above its head. End ID ]

Why do we even have an option for image descriptions if the character limit is so low?

28 notes • Posted 2021-09-25 13:32:14 GMT

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[hitodama89]

I’m this close to just flipping the freaking table with this pixel animation I’ve been working with literally for this whole year! First I doodled it lazily as I usually do, then I realized I want to actually put effort into it, and since then it’s been redrawing after redrawing so. Many. Things. So. Many. Times. Now the thing would technically be finished, but after looking at it for a while I think it would work much better with two more frames of animation. And one does not simply add two more frames into a loop without once again redrawing a thousand things! =)))

Ugh, gotta see how I feel about it tomorrow. In the meanwhile have this wip snippet of the part when I was in the middle of redrawing the treeline. I saved it because I thought the difference was amusingly huge!

[disgruntleddemon]

so here’s a redraw of a wip i made and gave up on a year or 2 ago.

i think I've improved a lot in art and character design since the original and its fun to compare the two

anyway

 top row from left to right: Crowly and Aziraphale

middle row left to right: war, famine, pollution, and death

bottom row: Adam 

[cryptidclaw]

Fire and Ice: Rise of Change edition (aka. my redraw of the Fire and Ice cover) is complete! 

This took me FOR EVER, the complete opposite of the Into the Wild cover, that one I completed in 1 night, this one has been a WIP for possibly a month??? Could be more and I wouldn't be surprised. 

This is probably one of the most complicated covers in the first arc, there are so many characters and such a big background! I am not used to illustrating backgrounds like this so at least it was a good push to get me out of my comfort zone! 

Now info about my changes to the cover! The cats in the frame are Bracken(paw) and Cinder(paw), they are both important characters in this book and they are Fire and Gray’s first apprentices (Bracken is more Fire’s apprentice too honestly) so I thought they should get a spot light! Also I want to change a lot of the frames in future covers bec I like the idea of other important characters getting the cover spot light! 

The other characters in the scene behind the frame are Sedgecreek (upper right), Graystripe (upper left), Troutclaw aka. Whiteclaw (below Graystripe), Voleclaw (farthest bottom left), Leopardfur (Next to Voleclaw), Fireheart (bottom middle), and Sand(paw) (bottom right). All of these cats were in the border skirmish between River and Thunder when Fire and Gray were traveling back from bringing back Wind Order! 

Image IDs v

[Image ID: A digital illustration, which is a redraw of the original Warriors: Fire and Ice cover.  At the top of the cover is the Warriors title written in dark purple, and below it is written Fire and Ice which is yellow and lined in the same dark purple. Below the title is a portrait style frame centered in the middle of the cover, this frame depicts Bracken(paw) and Cinder(paw) centered in the frame, sitting next to each other with mirrored blank, wide eyed expressions. They are in a dark night scene and are mostly in shadow with their eyes glowing a bright white. In front of them are black silhouettes of grass, and in the background in a dark blue night sky and a huge bright blue moon lined with white. Behind this frame, filling up the rest of the cover, is a illustration of a battle taking place in a sunset scene of a river surrounded by grass that is mostly lit in yellows and oranges. In the foreground at the bottom of the illustration are 4 cats, there are two on the left of the page, we can only see their angry seemingly yelling faces peaking over a log, the cat farther from the left has her arm raised with her claws unsheathed, the other two cats are faced away from the camera and are looking towards the first two. from left to right the first cat is grey with blue eyes, the second in gold with brown spots and amber eyes, the third is round, chubby and orange, and the forth is a cream and back tortie. In the mid ground are two cats by the river bank, one is standing with their left side showing and they are crouched low to the ground and screeching at something off screen, the other is behind this cat, and is getting ready to pounce on the first cat while screeching. the First cat is a brown and white cat with orange eyes and the second is a big gray tabby with glowing yellow eyes. On the other side of the river is a single cat looking over to the other side, this cat is a brown tabby with green eyes. At the bottom of the cover where the author is usually listed, is written “Rise of Change” in yellow text./End ID]

[immergladsss]

A Rant on Backgrounds, its Personal

So here I am, a newbie at this whole “tablet” drawing. I’m optimistic. I know the learning curve is steep, but I think I can do it. All I gotta do is try. And, as a first timer, I am so worried about drawing the characters-- transferring my limited skills from paper to the screen, and getting those curves, the small details that really bring the characters to life. I’m worried about coloring, about getting them right and figuring out how in the world you shade. I didn’t think about the background. I didnt think about the setting. Worst noob/scrub fail ever. 

Background came at me from side! It blindsided me! It punched me in the face and refused to hold back. 

It was just supposed to be a Marichat fan art. 

A simple, two person, romantic, drawing where Chat Noir takes Marinette to watch the sunset atop of Notre Dame (Eiffel Tower’s LadyNoir’s afterall).

I was so wrong. 

(Warning: Long Post ahead filled with my crappy WIP and sruggles) 

In the beginning, I couldn’t find good reference pictures for the Towers of Notre Dame, so I decided to improvise. Its fanart after all, who cares right? SoI decided to finish with what I thought it would be: 

Exhibit A) 

Well it was just my luck that I found a reference picture (Exhibit B below)..........AFTER I “finished” the above. With coloring and shading. The whole thing. UGH.

Exhibit B) 

So I’m like, alright, alright. I see how it is. Fine. FINE! and I redraw it: 

Exhibit C)

And it looks better... I even change the background. But something just doesn’t seem right. Almost like my perspective is off... and the glass pyramid thingy... it also seemed off. So I put it on Snapchat, and my friends like “yo. the little I remember from middle school art (-yes, MIDDLE SCHOOL ART class) is that you’re supposed to draw a dot in the horizon and form your perspective around it.” 

And I’m like No. Noooo. NOOO. Thats basic drawing stuff (Middle School Level). My skills are limited, but not THAT limited. Like come on! Pffft.... of course I took perspective into account... thats basic stuff.... I did that... I know I did. ...

Right?

So I dial back my pride, and do a basic perspective drawing, and guess what, that was my problem!! See Exhibit D below. I face palmed soooooo hard. UGH. UGGGGGHHHHHH. 

Exhibit D)  

God I’m so stupid. 

So I go back, and redo it. I’m fuming. I’m so mad at myself. I was so cocky I didn’t even try to perspective. 

Exhibit E)

And look at it now. Its almost as if that was the whole problem. 

And now I have this! 

Exhibit F) 

Its sooooooooomuch more better! Like a hundred times. I am so happy with it!! And after a lot of erasing, crying, forcing myself not to toss my tablet, I can color it and finish this stupid drawing!!!  

*Deeeeeeep Breath* So this rant was mostly against myself. For the simple reason of NOT going back to my basics. Of being lazy and trying to take shortcuts, I shot myself in the foot and made this drawing so much more difficult. 

Did I learn my lesson? Of course! 

I am never drawing backgrounds again.