#ash tones

[lemonisntreal]

Some sketches because it's been months since I drew these idiots oops☝️🥰

HI THERE. It's been a minute, sorry about that lol. I took a tiny out-of-nowhere and sorta involuntary break from the fandom because I lost interest for a second, but I'm slowlyyyy making my way back. With art, and some news about Tone Deaf for the people who are still wondering about that.

Also I see there's some asks in my box, I'll get to that eventually, I see you ;-; dw

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As stated, I momentarily lost a bit of interest with this movie- partially because I've recently been ensnared in a new fixation that will not be named right now, but yeah. I'm digging my heels in rn, because the last thing I wanna do is abandon this project. But, also, I've clearly bitten off more than I can chew with this being a comic lmao. In over my head and going through all 5 stages of grief and currently on acceptance.

The story got bigger. Like, a LOT bigger. Too big to capture every thought in a drawing and panel it and put it out as a perfectly polished comic without seriously burning myself out. It really doesn't help that my art style evolves by the second too apparently, so I've reached a middle-ground:

Tone Deaf is going to be a fic with some comic-like segments in it. An illustrated fanfic bc I still love showing and not telling a little too much.

This'll help me not only get stuff out faster, but also to help me fill in the gaps I didn't know how to draw with just text. So I can focus on just drawing the juicy shit. This also means it'll all be collected over on Ao3 in a neat little package, and I honestly prefer that over having a bunch of posts of pages that might be hard to find. So yeah, that's the plan.

Another bonus is that the frames can now be a lot more polished and nice looking [in glorious color] rather than hastily mashed together due to my bad habit of going overboard on singular frames without realizing it.

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Tldr; Tone Deaf is technically still gonna be a comic, it's just now gonna be supplemented with word-based fic mixed in because I made the project way too fucking big [the first Act has like 20 chapters I'm going to literally die]. Also it's gonna be on Ao3 and I'll probably be posting all the art here alongside any updates I make so huzzah! Help me :>

[zoetheneko]

Now that the new Avatar movie has been announced and that concept arts were dropped along with it, i will now throw on how these artwork on the new Na'vi tribe we'll be seeing may have confirmed my assumtions skin tone wise.

I took a sample of that one Fire Na'vi woman's skin tone (on the first image) as well as the Omaticaya and Metkayina clans' for comparision (i could be incorrect on the first two and if yes my bad i tried to pick up midtone colours).

I theorised to myself, with the little help of outside opinions, that the blue skin tone of these Na'vi would be a ashy/desaturated shade of blue. The sample i took resemble a dark blue gray (or it might be lighter because there's a bit of shadow on where i picked the colour), so this theory could be most likely be true.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[honkceasar]

Drew these loser teens for the first time, they’re so silly

[ashe-hallows]

im curious so im gonna make a poll about it!

reblog for farther reach please!

[chimsartblog]

Aro kab and ashswag concept

[lucapizzelles]

i fear that i unironically think modern alberto would have a low taper fade. im not kidding. send tweet

[moonscape]

kanto fucking sucks

[bardicindignation]

Fearne, in tones of deep derision: "Which one is abs. 🙄"

[em-cosplay42]

Started as joke I made @flowers-all-around-me​ back in summer I think? And then yea. F it I made update with Tim

And then I was like why not. Let´s make Brian babysit them all! On MJE and all nice, keeping the rest from murdering out planet before concert. And so I present you my work of last few weeks (done in laboratory in between experiments). The Brian babysitting other Mechanisms!

And Aurora of course, but she is far away. Don´t worry, all ropes are long enough to let them have their preferred entertainment reached! And bit thanks to Flowers (already mentioned) and to @brittleskyblue​ because motivation to do this was required. OWO

[murderoticwoman]

Daniel Ash

[intertexts]

also this may be controversial but i think the red & greyish &desaturated purple trickster colors look so ass. that's the greatest atrocity that thang ever committed.

[estranhossonhos]

From Bauhaus to sukekiyo

Don't hate me but someone had to do it*:

I just got online, and was immediately reminded that the ICONIC Daniel Ash (BAUHAUS) completed 67 years - Happy Birthday!

Then suddently my neurodivergent-dumbdumb had to immediatly google him because I haven't heard anything from him in a while (and I was afraid that... you know 🤡).

The bad news is that my ADHD is still holding hostage my cognitive function - that's why I don't remember seing anything new from him.

And the good news is that not only he is alive (and I don't have to mourn another hero from my childhood) but he is still kicking ass on stage!! I've just read «Tones on Tail’s First Performance in 40 Years at Cruel World Fest 2024» and this dude has the audacity of looking and sounding the same!!

He's not only the guitarist for the iconic goth band Bauhaus, he also leads two other bands (Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets), is listed as inspiration for many other lengendary guitarists (for example: Hide from X JAPAN, John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and so on) but what schoked me knowing was:

HE REMIXED SUKEKIYO'S MANIERA? HOW DIDN'T I NOTICE THIS BEFORE? (my adhd strikes again) Obviously I had to check sukekiyo's website and, indeed that info is correct. But then I ended up on their own wikipedia page, and - what a sad small «history» they have.

So, if anyone is a big sukekiyo fan, wants to take some time and learn how to do a proper biography on wikipedia (always with references/links, otherwise your changes will be deleted) and knows more than this, please contribute. I've already did my part * and I had to add the Daniel Ash reference 😎

It's such a cool connection, and I think it deserves to be more visible.

[kindahoping4forever]

Ash via IG and Ai FM

[clawed-gauntlet]

Nightrider Ethel, a member of the Night's Cavalry and formerly in service of Morgott.

After the omen king got slain, she was found and recruited by Sir Ansbach to serve Lord Mohg and his Dynasty instead. She became a knight under Ansbach's command and helps him investigate the strange disappearance of Mohg's body...

She is a very morose woman, though loyal and steadfast.

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….