#and you can do it too. do it. draw stuff and video-ify them. have fun

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I made something....

The drawings:

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My Friend has been Falsely Accused of Tracing So I Will Defend Him

Okay I accidentally deleted the blog I posted this one because I’m a dumbass, so I’ll just repost it here even though I don’t use this blog anymore, but apparently I still have followers. Bless caches because I was able to get this back from google caches so I don’t have to retype everything. I added further evidence and refutes to claims that were not in my original post btw.

Anyways, I am making this post to help out my good friend @5ru9 aka Falco who has been recently accused of tracing/copy pasting other people’s / official art!

I’ve known Falco for over 3 years, and we’ve grown as artists together. Once in a while we give each other advice on art (thanks for the mech and armor advice and teaching me how you line and color!), but most of the time we just meme each other.

Anyways, a lot of people have pointed out that they’ve seen him livestream before, and he’s already posted some of his block outs and other wips as proof that he does not trace in his post here:

http://5ru9.tumblr.com/post/168277137427/hello-i-have-been-informed-about-a-callout-post

To further prove his claim with solid evidence, I shall present to you!

Times he’s asked for advice on his art, or I randomly decided to mention things I notice in his WIPs!

Exhibit A-1:

A Tenkai Knight he made up! I pointed out a few things I thought were awkward about the perspective in his WIP.

Exhibit A-2:

He started working on this way back in July and didn’t finish it until much later because he was working on several other pieces at the same time. I suggested lowering the eyebrows and drawing the eyes a bit narrower to get more of the playful expression he was aiming for. In his final piece here, you can see that Falco continued to refine the piece.

By the way! The reason he sometimes posts a lot of detailed artworks one shortly after the other is because he sometimes works on multiple pieces at once! And then finishes coloring them around the same time.

Exhibit A-3

Falco and I spent good time trying to figure out why he felt like something was wrong with his sketch! I thought maybe it was the trapezius and I decided to red line (or blue line i guess) it so it’d be easier for him to see approximately where i thought the line should go to fix it.

Exhibit A-4:

The gif-ing process turned white bg into blue… anyways! Falco showed me an early version of his Tenkai Knights OC that he eventually used in an April Fool’s joke to pass off as a new character in the series. He mastered the tenkai style enough that at first glance, people really did believe it was official! Like you had to get a good look to realize Shiyu was not really a real new character! Btw I had to go into my old twitter acc to find this…. (Edit: the gif wasn’t working bc it was too big so i had to make it smaller… and choppier and stuff to fit the mb max)

Well now that brings us into!!!

Exhibit B

Some of his old art!! (I’m so sorry falco i’ll be exposing your ancient art to ppl now)

Here you can see his progress from 2014 Tenkai fan art to early 2015! It starts looking more and more like the official art, which is what he was going for.

For reference, here’s what the character Ceylan Jones/Washizaki looks like:

I blocked out fan art by everyone except falco (which i marked) that shows up in this google search. Everything else is official art. The two fan arts by falco you see here are more recent, the angel one being from 2016 and the chicken one from 2017 (i think he also made a version with sonic instead of the chicken? lol). They’re both on his dA accounts btw! The 2017 one really looks like official art, doesn’t it? But it’s his artwork! He practiced a LOT to reach that point, and I hope the earlier arts I showed above this one are enough to convince you in his art progression! Side note: i only used images w/ceylan because 1. i’m biased because ceylan is my favorite character and 2. he drew ceylan a lot because ceylan is his favorite character Also you can see his handle change from s3iwashi to burningbraven. 5ru9 is is a pretty recent handle.

ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE TENKAI FANDOM FOR A WHILE CAN VOUCH FOR HIM!!!!!

And now for the last one,

Exhibit C

WHAT? WHO IS THIS???

This is my favorite character from a Chinese series called AOTU World! His name is Grey, or 格瑞。I commissioned Falco to draw Grey for me, and let me tell you it would be IMPOSSIBLE for him to have copied any of this. Why? Because the donghua is 3D and the manhua’s art is very inconsistent!

Let me show you the reference pictures I gave him to work with!

They’re all in my gdrive folder here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CqwH5KS-pHX0ZqLHQpoIZBi6W-gsU_Tz

This is all official art from the manhua, except the 3D model is from the donghua. Look at how inconsistent the references are! There’s no way he could have copy and pasted or traced this! Grey doesn’t even do this particular pose anywhere. lol. I told Falco “give him a cool sword pose”. (I’m sorry for being so vague, Falco! But it turned out great!!) The style he ended up drawing in was a mixture of all of them.

Btw!! here’s the blockout and the sketch he sent me before I sent my payment for the commission!! You can see his construction in the block out!! The arm construction and leg construction is light, but it’s there. You can also see the block out below the sketch. Notice he actually fixed the leg length from block out -> sketch?

ARGUMENTS AGAINST SPECIFIC ACCUSATIONS

LOOK, thte actual drawing doesn’t even match the sprites that closely. Pay attention to the collar especially. The whole frankensteining the image and then painting over it thing is just way more effort than drawing it himself. They don’t even match that well in the overlays. Like wow it’s such a crime to try and stay on model.

WHO WOULD EVEN NEED TO TRACE A MOUTH LIKE THAT? IT’S SO EASY TO DRAW. I CAN DRAW IT PERFECTLY JUST BY LOOKING AT IT. (well i AM an animator so I also do style mimicking)

Doesn’t the fact that you have to edit the sprites to match his artwork prove that you’re just a tryhard in making up fake evidence and not a tryhard enough at art since you think it’s so impossible for people to draw characters on model?

Yes he referenced the broom and possibly the heels from this image, but your overlays for the leg and arms are disingenuous and you know it. The leg positions are different, and the overlay doesn’t even match up. Face tracing also makes no sense. You literally stretched the mouth to try and make it fit but it still doesn’t fit. Do you really think it’s that hard to draw mouths and eyes in the DR style? DR faces are really simple to emulate. Also you fool, if you follow Falco’s artwork enough, you’d realize the way he draws bodies is actually rather consistent even as he does different styles. Especially when it comes to hands. His way of drawing hands is how I recognize his art and know right away it’s his art and not official art or a trace (also his coloring style). The heels he drew are also reminiscient of how he typically draws shoes/feet. he draws them bulkier. The other art has dainty heels. At most he referenced how backside works because he’s used to drawing sneakers.

Also come on, if all you referenced from an image was a broom because you liked the style (his is also clearly drawn by himself since you can’t overlay it on the other one. like i said he mostly used the style as a reference for how-to-broom) and you referenced pieces from many other images, are you going to list every single thing you referenced? While yeah it’d be nice to, it’s a little ridiculous to expect all 5-20 references whenever they post the image. It’s a thing where, if someone asks, you’d tell them, but it’s too much to list all of it. This isn’t a 20 page thesis.

If it’s such a crime, then holy shit sue all those people who parody other people’s comics and sue everyone who dares!!! to ever draw something remotely similar to someone else. Dang.

Art doesn’t live in a vacuum.

Okay, this one is just plain stupid. You distorted the sprite to match it up with his, but what would be the point for him to distort it just to trace? Also if he traced, can you explain the rest of the fingers that are drawn nicely but clearly different from the sprite? Also the thumbs don’t even match up. His faces more downward while the sprite is facing more forward. Also explain the turned body in Falco’s sketch, then!! And the hair! OH WAIT YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT BY ANY OTHER WAY THAN HE DREW IT HIMSELF!!! BECAUSE NO SPRITES MATCH IT AND YOU CAN’T FIND ANY SPRITES TO DISTORT ENOUGH TO EVEN GET CLOSE TO MAKING FAKE EVIDENCE FOR IT.

By the way, the style he drew it in is closer to the drv3 than this sprite. while it’s pretty much the same style as the older games, drv3′s art is more refined than the older games. Falco’s art is also more refined as you can see. (wow not only did falco’s art improved from back when we first met; even professional artists improve. shocker. /s)

Dude what the hell? The overlays don’t even match up even ifi you tried to frankenstein them. And these are really common poses at really common angles, and once again, must every single thing we reference from be listed in the description of every place we post an image? Let me just list all 30 videos and 50 images i used as reference for one of my prints. jfc.

As for the saihara animation based on the digimon opening animation? It was pretty clear to everyone that it’s some kind of parody. Many people when making parody animations don’t mention the original video either?? It’s a fun thing for fans of the franchise to recognize the reference themselves. Yes he could have said it was the digimon opening on the description, but at least he didn’t say he thought of the idea himself? And if you talk to him about the animation, he will openly tell you it’s from digimon. And the fact that you think it’s a trace despite how much the overlays do NOT work out is practically proof that you’re just doing this maliciously and hoping that saying he traces enough with shoddy evidence will make people believe you.

ALSO PEOPLE LITERALLY TRACE ANIMATIONS TO MAKE PARODIES OF, DOWN THE STYLE WHERE ALL THEY CHANGE IS THE HAIR AND OUTFIT, AND YET SOMETHING WITH DIFFERENCES EVEN DOWN TO THE STYLE LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING YOU THINK IS A TRACE? Do you need a new pair of glasses?

I was gonna ignore this one because it was the same as a lot of the others, but you literally erased Falco’s face line so it would match the sprite, and you covered the bigger boobs Falco gave her, and totally ignored that the angle doesn’t even match properly. Like you covered parts of his sketch in your overlay just to make it look more like it matches, but if you actually fucking overlayed it correctly, even with squashing it, it won’t fit. (Also sorry to point this out Falco, but the circles on your goggle lenses are too small compared to the sprite; Maybe if you actually traced like this person claims you’re doing, they’d be perfectly like the sprite. OH BUT WAIT YOU DREW IT YOURSELF SO OF COURSE THERE’S SOME DIFFERENCES. JUST LIKE HOW EVEN THOUGH ALL YOUR OTHER WORKS ARE REALLY CLOSE TO THE STYLE AND PRETTY MUCH ON MODEL, THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THE SPRITES! SHOCKER...!)

HOLY FUCK. I already pointed out and gave evidence that Falco started on the Nier Automata drawing waaaaaaay before he posted the actual picture. The 2 sketches are sketches! They don’t take a super long time. I busted out 10 inktobers in 1 day. (thumbnails of my artwork below)

Look I even even lined and colored 5 fairly detailed chibis in 1 day (i did the sketches earlier though. btw i hand drew the plaid on ray. it was annoying)

At the moment I have 5 wips. They’ll likely all be done around the same time. I know Falco often has multiple wips as well, and sometimes he also finishes some of them close to each other. Some artists (like my friend Fish) can pump out extremely detailed paintings in less than a day. WOW some artists can draw at a fairly fast rate. WHO KNEW? (manga artists in weekly magazines pump out 15-20 pages of manga in a week)

He’s still developing a style; he’s mostly doing style mimics of series he likes in the mean time.

At the moment he’s mostly experimenting with the drv3 style, but he was practicing p5 earlier. By the way, he DESIGNED a phantom outfit for mishima. Who the heck would he copy that from? He made it up because he loved mishima and wanted to make him part of the gang in some AU fan art. Mishima doesn’t have artwork like this for him to trace, so it should be obvious it’s his own work.

And the pokemon and crash bandicoot ones are actually not that close. The pokemon one looks like a good attempt at imitating the pokemon style, but since he hasn’t practiced it enough, you can tell it’s a little off model because, well, he drew it himself and doesn’t practice the pokemon style a lot. Same with the crash one. Had it been a trace, with his level of control over his lines (which you can’t refute), it would have been much closer.

And you act like it’s a crime to imitate others’ art style. It’s really not. What is wrong with you? Do you want to slow down animation production by only letting the character designer draw everything? Or do you want animation where the art has 0 semblance of consistency because all the artists draw in vastly different styles? lol. What do you have against artists that try to stay on model?

LOL THIS IS ONE IS SO STUPID WHERE DO I EVEN START?

Oh, I KNOW. Why don’t I do that same pose with my own hands?

IT’S A MIDDLE FINGER, YOU IDIOT.

Just because YOU don’t know basic anatomy and can’t tell a middle finger from a pinky, doesn’t mean everyone else is as incompetent as you. He wasn’t doing the rock-on hand pose (sry idk if that pose actually has a name lol), and he’s drawn the rock-on hand pose properly before.

Closing statement

I believe I covered a lot of things and provided a lot of evidence here that Falco and his other friends did not cover in his defense against the false accusations.

I even added more counter arguments in this repost because apparently my original post wasn’t enough to convince people.

Perhaps the person calling him out meant well (no, I doubt it because they made a new side blog just to diss him because they knew if they did it on their actual blog, they’d be called out for being a jerk), but they did not do enough digging to find out if their claims were true or not (and they probably know well enough that they MADE UP THEIR EVIDENCE).

If you’re going to make a call out post, please make triple sure sure of everything before you accuse people. Talk to them first. Talk to those who know them too.

Many jobs require you to be able to draw characters exactly in the style given. Animators for example! There are multiple animators working on one series, and they all need the skill to draw consistently! Some games also have teams that need to be able to draw in the same style so they don’t have to leave everything up to one person. Comic artists often have assistants that help them draw background characters, but those background characters can’t be too different from the main style either.

As for the people who believed the call out post before, it’s perfectly understandable. I am also guilty of falling for similar posts in the past. Due to that, I decided it was best to double check before retweeting (i say retweet because i use twitter far more than tumblr these days. heck i almost never post anything on this blog) things, and if i wasn’t sure, I would just leave it be.

I hope my post was able to convince you on Falco’s innocence and all his hard work. And if you already believed him but checked out this post anyways… Thanks! ObligatoryPleaseWatchAotuWorld.

And again:

Art does NOT exist in a vacuum. All artists are influenced by each other and MANY artists, especially professionals, use a lot of references, whether it be from photographers, their own pictures, others’ artwork, life, or whatever. We all use many different resources. If you’re going to say that’s wrong, you just dismissed millions of artists in the world.

[cafephan]

dan and phil play faceapp: a summary

HELLO NEW FLAT "any cardboard box can be turned into something beautiful" how long before dan promos the merch this definitely wasn't scheduled beforehand they stole the dvp board even though it technically belongs to their old landlord discussing furnishings if they still have cardboard boxes in the background in ten weeks time we can shout at them or let them know if you're into that kind of thing "i give this channel one week before we get evicted" danandphilgamesFACES appropriate but weak phil i'll let you off because you've been moving and you're tired and cute that helps I JUST NOTICED THE STUBBLE HELLO this is a video that phil basically said 'dan can we do this' and it's proven dan is still wrapped around his little finger "we have to do it while it's still relevant" mate you're not exactly plummeting in views bloody hell i like the insight into his camera roll why is the danieldreamx liveshow thumbnail there throwback to the ladybird jumper selfie dan stop dragging him that attractive chin angle "apparently phil can't take a selfie" i fucking relate apparently phil is slightly scared and startled all the time and the first scream of the new dapg era is upon us rip headphone users someone needs to put that as a jumpscare in the comments phil speaking about having straight teeth made me sadder than it should've the old filter aka "six months into the future" according to dan the fond look from phil "it's seven months into the future at least" every old!phil trope needs to be rewritten "if you keep your current hair you will be the coolest old guy" dan still rolling in the compliments "let's not be ageists" shoutout to the over 65s watching phil looks like his grandad apparently "i look like me but younger but that's not what i looked like when i was younger" just got a full close up of dans crusty ass lips that's another one to add to the jumpscare list dan doesn't like female phil "it's like a horrible alternate universe" someone's gonna be scouring the au tag, have fun dan "i'm a bit scarlett johannson-y" "clearly your hairstyle is ready to go for the female app" celestial glowing earrings "i would avoid him in a dark alley" says phil about himself as a... man "that is the phil that never got a myspace account and became a builder" now there's an au dan is either going to write himself or search for "normy phil" "you look so average" dan pls we know you think he's beautiful but we're only five minutes into the video control yourself dan's turn on the weird app 'neutral face' 'dan with a soul': "i look like a mouse person" // "you look like a rabbit person!" phil the savage my one true love "i like it. i wanna be friends with him instead of you" wow phil you absolute savage drag him more "it's like you put a hoover against your ear and sucked out your soul" phil looks legitimately scared i'm "old dan! old danny! old danny slice" phil chants whilst looking over fondly dan's impersonation of his old self: "i'm old but you still would" "derek has imploded" "you're like an anime child" "let's meet danielle!" phil is way too into this "i look like louise! that is a picture of louise!" // "it is louise... or is it a bit of zoe as well?" phil doesn't know zoe and louise's ship name come on phil they had a shop back in the day where even were you in the old days they both watched your videos "do you even lesbian on wattpad?" dan revealing more of his plans for that night okay he got the ship name in the end nice one philly "i like to think that if i, as a female or just as dan now, embraced eye makeup, it would be a bit cooler than that, that's a bit normal" he'd do a smoky eye, phil was more than happy to help him draw that conclusion calling all fic writers; this is your chance "am i already the hunky dan i wish i was?" phil looks so excited to see 'male' dan "you look... very angry" i wonder if that's code for if phil's into it or not "it's really square-ified my face like let's give this lad a chin that he doesn't have" oh nice dan would fuck himself calling all fic writers; i'm begging you please please don't now the camera roll pictures make sense okay here we go phil's aesthetic twitter icon has a creepy ass filtered smile "that's phol. p-h-o-l. that's your doot there" alright dan calm yourself lad dans twitter icon's turn "i hate that profile picture... because i have curly hair now, i need to get a new icon that embraces the curls" finally he's saying stuff i can get onboard with phil stop trying to stop him from changing it make it your lockscreen if you want to see it everyday but let the man change his damn icon "rabbit dan is back" pastel dan as an old guy: "he's so cute!" says phil phil's selfie with the hair dye on okay dude "i literally think that's what i'd look like as a girl" why does he only have one set of eyelashes tho "that is amazingphillipa" "ah your really cringe selfie!" // "it wasn't cringe!" dan is getting his revenge drags in he nailed the caption according to dan also contact i am all over that i definitely haven't rewound it four times the first american names they think of are kyle (phil) and cody (dan) i ship it what the fuck is this last picture sideways dan he has like three teeth i'm laughing so much what the pirate!dan, he said so himself what the fuck is the smile filter....... add it to the jumpscare list also in case you're curious we do say stuff like that in the north, philly ain't lying to you aaaaaaand here's the merch promo i feel sad that my moon head doesn't suit hats rip "good luck sleeping" i don't think you'll be sleeping dan sounds like you have a fic filled night ahead of you oh god the photoshop make it stop right now i hate this endscreen why am i still here i wonder what faces they're pulling behind the photoshop "don't swap faces with people because it's really demonic bye" danielleisnotonfire AmazingPhillipa

[kpopgerapitico]

EOYR 2017: More Live Stuff

To help lighten my load, I have combined two smaller categories into one post! So, here are some really impressive live performances by impressive artists, and some hilarious (or just impressive) shorter covers (in videos that are just as long) from Yoo Huiyeol’s Sketchbook.

Let’s start with the fun part . . . with a sad off. Because what else do you do when you have Gilgu Bonggu and Homme, why not see how fast they can be incredibly sad. Also, when the songs they sad-ify include both Unnies tracks, as well as a foray into BTS and EXO, you can’t help but grin. That and a second clip also has the part where they battle it out over the 2 seasons of Produce 101, with Pick Me and Nayana.

Then let’s go straight for nostalgia, with Sweet Sorrow and John Park going in on N’SYNC. John Park gets to live out his dreams of both being a part of an acapella group, as well as pretty much everyone’s dream of being Justin Timberlake. It also sounds amazing, so that’s a highlight.

We all know that Lee Hongki is an amazing vocalist (and I almost included FT Island’s live of Wind in the second half of this), but who knew that Jaejin was so good too? They proved on Sketchbook that none of them are 1 trick ponies as all the members switched parts on Severely. I especially like how calm they all for the most part seem. And being able to hold a candle to Hongki is damn impressive of Jaejin. Makes it seem like a waste that he doesn’t sing for the group more often.

Now to the normal lives:

Let’s start with the most recent one in the number 5 spot. Sweden Laundry manages to put so much emotion into their song Wish, which I think is actually better live than prerecorded for that reason. The chorus has such a lovely vibe to it, with some really impressive vocal choices, even if most of those choices follow the KISS rule. Sometimes simple is the best way to go, and it definitely is in the case of this song.

In 4th is a great vocalist who is quietly proving that year after year. Yang Da Il is incredibly talented and that is fully for display in his Sero Live of You. It is the warmest I have ever heard his voice, and I love how it goes full coffee shop at the end. Sometimes you just want a song that you relax to, and this is a great choice for it, since it stays just interesting enough to be listened to without distractions, but is innocuous enough to be background music too.

In 3rd, let’s switch it up for some more fun. His label mates earlier switched parts, but Yong hwa decided to do away with his band mates for a solo effort this year. That in of itself is enough to draw me in to watch. But his repeated proclamations of how he is going to dance is what kept me watching. Also he raps Loco’s rap and it isn’t the worst rapping ever, instead being almost endearing. He gives up on the dancing pretty quickly, but I’m not going to complain when he seems like he is having so much fun.

In 2nd is a singer and song that I adored this year. It is emotional as all get out, and will be mentioned later when I talk about MVs. For now though, go listen to Boni’s Episode, which is already impressive recorded, but even more impressive live as she hits all of her runs. All of them, without fail. Also the falsetto high notes never fail to make me shiver.

In 1st is a band that came out of nowhere. And for the most part I didn’t like their songs. But they have exactly one that I adore. That is Little Fighters from Movning. In almost all their live performances, the lead vocal drops down on his high notes in the final hook. In this one, he absolutely hits the insane high notes that are in the final belt of the song. Don’t even watch this whole video, just watch the last 30 seconds. And you will understand. Also, here is a little bit cleaner one, where he doesn’t do the high modulation, but does the rest of the high notes.