#attempted lineart for once

[monaluppo]

Them 🩷

(some closeups under the cut)

[ahogettena]

some supernatural creature and their emotional support bug

[mikeystrawberry]

Today is Dungeons & Daddies’s 5th Anniversary!

I haven’t been listening for nearly that long but the podcast and all its characters means a lot to me. Happy Anniversary!!!

Throwing the cropped sections under the cut because there’s a lot of stuff going on and I know Tumblr likes to throw half the pixel quality out the window. And also so I can ramble a bit about this piece!!!

This piece has been months in the making, possibly an entire year. And by that I mean I’ve had a sketch of the comp scribbled on my whiteboard for ages because I wanted to save this specifically for 5th anni art. Now onto design stuff!

(First off a random thought: I really love how the garlic knot came out, I kind of want it as an enamel pin.)

I knew I wanted to make this a stained glass piece since the beginning, but I was also going to add flowers at one point but quickly dropped the idea. It felt like too much and I also didn’t want to fuss over flower language assignments for everyone. I was also going to add Doodler tentacles, but also dropped that idea pretty early. Kind of on accident, right at the end, I figured out how to make it even more stained glass-like but taking a duplicated lineart underneath the regular layer and turning the brightness all the way down, then setting it to overlay and adding a guassian blur. It’s very subtle but it adds that tiny bit of depth that makes it look more real. As for shading on the lineart/gold, I tried adding more highlight on the characters who died but once I evened everything out it wasn’t as noticeable anymore so I’m throwing that thought here so the attempt at least known lol.

The order of characters only changed a little bit from my original comp, I flipped the Wilsons and the Oaks so the rainbow could work. As for the anchors, specifically in season 2, I lined them up to the teens since the season 1 anchors lined up with each dad:

Tony —> Scary: his death was the beginning of Scary’s betrayal arc and also Willy killed him.

Guitar Pick —> Taylor: it’s not really aligned with Taylor at all, but the anchor was with Glenn so I put it next to his blunt.

Scroll —> Normal: was only because it was the last left to give him, but there’s the whole scene of him and Hermie in the Green Room so it still works!

Garlic Knot —> Link: one of two that he broke, but the more significant of the two with him telling Grant he never wants to see him again.

Small notes on the season 1 anchors: I put the layer of mold in the overnight oats but you can’t really tell with the overlay. And to make the supper bowl more interesting I added the fantasy sodas mix they dumped into it. The lure of actually drawn before so I just traced my own art lol.

As for the other smaller triangles, it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to put there. I didn’t even think of adding the vehicles until two days ago but I’m so glad I did. I don’t really have my own take on the mascot version of the Doodler (yet?) so I borrowed the design from one of the stickers in their merch shop. Teeny was terrifying as just a front facing head so I made him cute again.

In the outer circles, I put what I felt was the most significant quotes for each family. I really wanted to use “It’s okay to be angry, it’s not okay to be cruel” but it was just a little too long.

That’s all I can think of! If you read all the way through, thank you for indulging me in my excitement to gush over this piece.

[numptypylon]

Trying a different style to my usual, for once liking an attempt at cleaner lineart.

[yume-esmeray]

How long did it take for you to master the LMK style? I really wanna learn how to do this style for my own future art, and I’ve followed that reference body sheet you posted a hill we back, but I never seem to be able to get it the way I want (Especially the hands). How did you do it?

Like 4 years, it was mostly just taking a whole bunch of references with literally everything. The width of the lineart, how they draw the head shapes, how the body is built and etc.

But like yeah it took a while to figure out, even my first attempts on the lmk style did look like the pilot lol My 2021 LMK art

But eventually you will get a hang of it once you've understood and studied their artstyle. My 2023 LMK art

and yes I drew all these backgrounds (except the celestial realm one- I had to redraw the entire thing for the drawing 😭)

[sarshles-cheescake-li]

Why's Lu Guang's hair white?

It has occurred to me that a lot of people on the English side of the fandom aren't aware of the Lu Guang white hair theory.

It's a very popular theory/headcanon on the Chinese side (I'd say maybe 30% of people believe in it?) of the situation. I have no idea who in the English fandom have talked about it and who haven't, so I'll just provide what I know of it. Full disclaimer that I wasn't the first one to make this observation.

The theory is based on this scene right here, episode 12 of season 2. Here, Qiao Ling has a singular white hair after receiving Xixi’s powers (and seemingly activating them for the first time). This can be either interpreted as her spontaneously gaining a white hair, or as just an effect of the lighting.

Lu Guang has (presumably) received and activated Cheng Xiaoshi’s powers before.

Lu Guang’s hair is white.

Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

It doesn’t help that his eyebrows are a different colour. In pretty much every piece of official media, they’re a grey a bit lighter than his eyes. Except for in the phone ad for OPPO (I think that’s what that was…?) where his eyebrows are largely black, except for one shot where they’re their normal grey, so I’m fairly certain that’s just a mistake in animation. I could’ve sworn to God there was one piece of media where his eyebrows were white, but I can’t find said piece, so I guess that was a fever dream.

Quite a few people have wondered how a naturally white-haired person would have darker-coloured eyebrows. Based on that, the argument is that Lu Guang’s natural hair colour is darker, and his hair turned white later in life. Of course, from an artistic standpoint, this evidence is… hard to work with. Characters with a light hair colour paired with a light skin colour often are drawn with their eyelashes and eyebrows being a darker colour for the purpose of contrast. It’s not rare for a white-haired character with fair skin to end up with grey eyebrows, since it makes their eyebrows more easily visible while still looking lighter. The problem?

Ouyang Bubai (how does the English fandom refer to him…? Do I use pinyin for him? Jyutping? Cantonese Yale? Is his Chinese name written in simplified or traditional???) has almost the exact same hair colour as Lu Guang. His eyebrows are white.

Paint tool sai version 2 colour picker (and visual examination) tells me his eyebrows are a slightly different colour than his hair, being a bit warmer and a smidgeon darker, but the point stands. Compared to Lu Guang’s eyebrows, you can definitely tell they’re drawn differently.

Other light haired characters like the Li siblings receive the same treatment as Ouyang Bubai, having pink eyebrows. It’s just Lu Guang who has his situation.

And no, it’s not a matter of convenience. Link Click’s eyebrows are always drawn with black lineart and a solid fill, usually one matching the character’s hair colour. Lu Guang’s eyebrows match neither his eyes nor his hair, something that would theoretically make drawing him more inconvenient because now you’ve got one extra colour in the pallet.

But if the point was that Lu Guang’s hair isn’t supposed to be white, then why make his eyebrows so light? Because now, what is potentially foreshadowing looks like artistic liberty. Was it for the sake of visual cohesion? To throw theorists off? Is it something about the character design process and Inplick?

Anyway, a few possibilities emerging from this theory.

How many times has Lu Guang went back in time for Cheng Xiaoshi if all his hair is white? Or does the process speed up the more you use another person’s powers?

Does his hair turn white all at once whenever he goes back in time, or is it gradual? Like, was there ever an attempt where Cheng Xiaoshi went to bed, woke up, and went “woah Lu Guang that was one mean mental breakdown you had last night if you bleached half your hair”

Does using another person’s powers affect you negatively in other ways? Is that why Lu Guang has limited attempts – not because he’s running out of photos, but because he’s running out of time himself? And, my personal favourite:

The white hair isn’t because of power usage. It’s because of stress. Lu Guang is just a lot more stressed than Qiao Ling is.

[charbies]

linktober 31 - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I thought for the last day I'd write a little retrospective on what this whole thing was like and what I learned. I'm too tired to draw literally anything else I'm due for a break lol

So this was my second time ever attempting a linktober/october drawing challenge, but my first time managing to complete all the days and prompts. I feel super proud of myself and accomplished for pulling it off.

There were a number of things that were surprising and that were challenging for me that I wasn't expecting this month. If anything, I think this challenge really highlighted my flaws and mental blindspots with how I approach making art.

For one thing, I came away from this not liking everything I made. I think I only like about 9 or 10 of the 30 pieces I put out there. When I don't like my art, I tend to get stuck in this mental stalemate of refusing to finish a piece until I like it, but also refusing to retrace my steps and erase/rework what I have so far for fear of losing progress or not being able to replicate the line/angle/color/etc that I liked.

It was surprisingly hard to accept when I didn't like a piece but had to move on for the sake of time and post it anyway. But once I did it a few times, it got easier. I realized prioritizing my standards over my available energy is not gonna promote progress. If I kept sinking myself into one piece and not moving on until it was optimal, I never would have finished anything-- that was the pitfall that ultimately made me bail out 10 days in last year.

I also realized my sunk cost fallacy/"what if I erase this and can never redraw it good again" stems from some real lack of confidence in my knowledge and techniques with art. I'm self-taught, and I think I tend to believe that everything I make is a dumb happy accident, even though I have mental rules when I draw, use tons of references, and have a process lol. There are a few pieces I started over 2-3 times before I got them right, and that's starting to feel liberating instead of like failing to me now, which I never expected to come out of this experience so that's cool.

Another place I had to learn to let go of control in this was with allowing for style variation. I really wanted each and every piece to be coherent and painterly, like they all came from the same book or something. But then I couldn't decide whether I wanted to do all/no lineart, all/no detailed background, all/no heavy rendering, etc. At the end I settled on just keeping the same canvas dimensions and just prioritizing filling up the space. Glad I ended up doing this, because I really would benefit from continuing to chill out and scale back how much I default to making dramatic, high-render pieces. I gotta break out of my comfort zone and make more sketchy little guys!

Sometimes my attachment to the prompts fluctuated; some prompts I thought I would love and then just wanted to get them over with. Some prompts I thought I would hate and subsequently half-ass, then I ended up redoing them and putting more effort & time into and loved the end result!

It was funny to also see how some pieces that I loved straight up did not get a whole lot of notes or attention. Some pieces I was "meh" about did crazy numbers lol. I'm used to posting maybe 5-6 times a year on here, so I'm usually indifferent to getting notes (by which I mean, I'm super grateful for likes & reblogs and the super sweet & funny messages in y'alls tags, but I'm not butthurt when I don't get notes because whatever happens, happens). Churning out 30 pieces in 30 days made me sometimes get bewildered by what did and didn't get notes, but frankly in the end I think it helps reaffirm that I should continue putting whatever I want out there because it! is! not! graded!!!

So would I do Linktober again? Probably not, sorry! it was a lot of time & effort and took me away from fall festivities more than I would have liked. I kinda only managed to pull this off because I was transitioning between jobs this month and had a week off to just draw. But I also completely see the value in taking on a challenge like this and finishing what I started, I'm super glad I did this, I think my art improved from it. I would definitely do future drawing challenges/prompt things that are quicker or have less prompts!

My advice to prospective future linktoberers: pace yourself and be gentle; this is a great chance to do something exciting and new with your art, but above all it's about you having fun. There are no prizes at the end except for what you've learned and how you feel about it, and that's for the best!!

One thing's for sure, I am zelda'd out lmao so I'll be branching out towards some little projects I have lined up for personal art and other fandoms I'm into right now

So anyway thanks to all of you who read this or who gassed me up this whole month, I appreciate you!!!!!!!! ヾ(＾∇＾)

[edgarallanpoestan]

happy valentines day!!!!!

this is my @qsmp-secretvalentine gift for @mesothulass!!! a bagina webweave with an attempt to stick to the theme of loyalty. im still kind of learning as i go, but i did have fun making this, so i hope it is what you were wanting!

tumblr is once again WRECKING the quality but we persevere. i love this website it functions so well

(credit below cut)

Both Parts

Bagi/Tina "reaching out" art: @brujasyranitas || "Oh the earth was made for lovers" poem: Emily Dickinson (from "the poetry of Emily Dickinson")

Part One

Bagi/Tina "almost-kissing" art: @routeriver || Hand-holding lineart: metisartprints || Shield/sword art: @fairyarmour || Teabag and teapot art: @ladiegreyart || "And the moon can keep our secrets": Bagi stream "É ELA"

Part Two

Bagi/Tina "leaning" art: @artisticcatlily || Sword art: @kaliune || "how many choices" poll: @/hoodie-sys (deactivated) || Teabag art: @ladiegreyart || "May the moon keep our secrets": Tina stream "Late night QSMP :D"

the heart lollipop and all the hearts are just little doodles from me. some images are cut off a little bit in certain ways, so i highly recommend checking out all of these fantastic artists!

i also have permission from all artists included!!!!! always remember to get permission before transforming someones art :]

[lixenn]

OCtober 2024 day 21: community

The colour palette challenge tickled the brain worms and motivated me to experiment some more with the different art style.

So @tangomagnolija I borrowed Lamette for a bit 🫡I never finished that one goofy WIP and I don't know if I ever will but I still wanted to draw him properly at least once so I hope you like him 👉👈🥺

Once again more ramblings under the cut.

This piece was mostly to see if I could replicate previous results (yes very sciency of me I know). I used the colour palette number four from the bweirdOCtober prompts because when I tried using a different one the colours came out muddy so I scrapped my first attempt. I would say the end result turned out alright even if it's not what I orginally wanted it to look like. Thanks to @unwrathful for letting me scream at you and giving me feedback on the lighting because I was this close 🤏to just letting it rot in my gallery without posting (the vibes were so off before I messed with the lighting OTL).

In the end I would say that I succeded in replicating the art style but it's still not the final style I want. Once again I really like drawing hair this way but the facial features are a mayor pain. I might need to mix the two styles some more and do at least some proper lineart in the future.

Btw I'm not sure if this is clear but the pink is supposed to be blood, I kind of needed to improvise since I wanted to stick to the colour palette and there was no red in it lmao.

[oceanbluedevil]

Hi!

I've decided to do a style study of an artist I like.

First of all, here's the character I've decided to draw:

This is Umbra, an OC of mine. He's a spirit, so he can float and dissolve into gas.

Once I start posting about my OCs more, you'll notice he's one of my favourites.

The artist I've chosen to imitate is @0kame-san.

They're an amazing artist whom you should definitely check out.

Here's my attempt at drawing Umbra in their artstyle:

I really enjoyed doing the lineart for this one. The straight edges were incredibly fun to do, and incorporating the shadows into the lines is something I think is really cool.

I struggled the most with the face, as I usually keep my faces pretty realistic, so drawing in a more stylized way was difficult.

The colour palette was also a fun challenge, as Umbra mostly wears green and purple.

Thank you to @0kame-san for allowing me to try this, I had a lot of fun trying to imitate your style!

[eisenartworks]

自慢

Does it look bad???.... Kinda yeah. Alas, all that mattered to me when I was drawing this is that it's finished, not perfect

I'm actually not 100% sure abt the japanese, but it's supposed to be "Pride". Not much guessing required after that on what these two... Represent.

Initially, it was in a diff art style, w couple more characters, but agh the lineart really put me off bc of how difficult it was and this redraw was an attempt to make the process more enjoyable and easier for me.

It wasn't, as July comes to a close I realized it, I just went "screw it, we ball." Hence. These imperfect illustrations.

It's always frustrated me how I can't really celebrate June-July openly, so I was really hoping to draw something discreet. For at least once.

[cagedcats]

Ok actual last one for a while- @redux-iterum

Thought I’d actually get an idea for The Three

Suriin gets the black pelt and many eyes description. Aaaand Rohkar I simply had face away so I didn’t have to worry about eyes.

Horoa is interesting because I completely forgot his face is covered with smoke, so had to cover him up.

Also as a treat I’ll share my first ever attempts at these three years ago- feast your eyes in some old Cagedcats work

Not sure how old this piece is exactly, but god. It was for sure around the first redux, just not sure em when exactly. I think prior to the third book, but not sure.

I think it was when I really wanted to make a fangame for redux, but learning coding is hard Y’know (and the rpg maker I downloaded I accidentally deleted the cat file and couldn’t figure out how to get it back so rip)

Oh but ideas for lineart/styles for the spirits in future: The Three will be done similar to the No Mercy picture Semi-realistic, Thlraina’s lines will be jagged and thicker then others, Theful will be patched, aaand Mernantha (Petalfall) will be normalish because of the whole she was a normal cat once thing.

[kathegoose]

mimic nation how are we doing tonight

i made some coolio art again and it made my laptop bluescreen💞💞😻

oh yeah funny fun fact: the mspaint mimics i posted earlier were my desperate attempts to avoid drawing this one because i hate lineart!!! lineart beat me up on a dark stormy night back in '72 and i have not gotten over it (that's why i rarely do lineart)

without the CRUSTY effects:

i got a tad evil again and changed up his colours slightly once more, should be a little more clean!

[martyrbat]

batman: son of the demon

[ID: three panels of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul being in love (and horny) for each other. In the first one, Bruce is in their luxurious bedroom for the first time and is awkwardly standing in his costume as Talia is behind a dressing screen and is changing into a white, satin négligée with lace detailing on it. She reminds him that they technically are married (and that she consented readily to it) but Bruce confesses, “I remember. But it's hard for me to consider that marriage real.” Talia emerges from behind the screen, looking as beautiful as ever as she walks up to him and eases his cowl off. She tells him, “Beloved, you give too much thought to what is ‘real,’ and what is not, to what is ‘true,’ and what is ‘false...’ I realize that is your way, but just this once, accept things as they are...” He strips himself of his clothes as they move to the bed—Talia laying on her back as he's between her legs. She continues to speak, “Forego your control, your discipline... just once, let yourself go... and take me with you.” Her arms slip around his neck as they kiss passionately.

The second panel is lineart of them against a white background. They look at each other lovingly, her hands reaching up to be on his shoulders as he holds her waist. The narration boxes read: ‘While still finding time to be a newlywed, a role in which he is quite unskilled... but—to his delight—quickly learns.’

In the third panel, several weeks have past. Bruce and Ra's al Ghul are walking before Talia interrupts and asks her beloved for a word. Bruce starts to ask if it can wait, due to him and Ra's discussing an important mission but she tells him it cannot. Ra's reassures, “Go, detective, we shall speak of this later.” Bruce and Talia pull away to talk in private, the background a beautiful, bright ombré of red and yellows. She has her arms up on his shoulders as he holds her waist and starts to ask, “Now, Talia, what's so impor—” but she quickly shares, “Beloved, I am with child.” Bruce starts to repeat her but Talia already confirms again, “I am pregnant.” She continues to look up at him, patiently waiting for his response as Bruce stares straight ahead, obviously in shock. He slowly repeats the words back to her in an attempt to register them, “You're... pregnant?” Before he suddenly beams! He pulls her into a tight, close embrace as he excitedly announces, “That's wonderful!” Talia smiles at him and says, “Isn't it?” Before her father can shake Bruce's hand with his own warm smile. Bruce still holds Talia's hand as Ra's tells him, “Detective, Dr. Weltmann could not keep this from me. My congratulations.” END ID]

[anotherwhyday]

More art! I attempted going straight to doing lineart and not just cleaning up sketches like I have been doing. It was something new and I feared the whole 'Lineart looks nothing like sketch'meme. Mae of Mateus! I still have several Free Company members to draw. I want to try and draw everyone at least once.

[blye-flower]

Hello, all, I’m opening commissions ^^

Extra info under read more! Please have a look:

Feel free to DM me here or on discord @blymi if you are interested ^^ because I’m only opening eight slots, it is first come, first serve.

Upfront payment please! I’m only accepting commission payments through PayPal (USD).

I will not start your commission until I receive payment. However, please do not attempt to pay me if I haven’t confirmed your commission. If you do just want to support me, feel free to buy me a ko-fi here, but otherwise, I would like to confirm that I can do your commission before being paid.

For all the types of art except sketch, I will send a WIP before beginning the lineart process just to check in with you. At this point, if you look at the art want to change anything, I will. However, once I get your okay and begin the lineart process, any change you want to make to the actual artwork will be charged about 5%.

For OCs without references, I am willing to help design (at least) a starter design for your OC, however there will be an up charge of 20%-25% of the price depending on how much detail you provide me.

My turnaround time once your commission is started will be between one (1) and four (4) weeks. Depending on the type of artwork you chose, this time will vary, but please do not pressure me for your commission before this time frame. I will attempt to stay in consistent communication about your commission, so if you have questions anytime before receiving your commission, message me.

It’s already stated but I’m very firm about this: my art is NOT to be fed to any AI. While you did pay for and own your commission after I give it to you, it is still my art style and I do not condone the use of AI art in replicating my art style.

I reserve the right to not take certain commissions for any reasons, but especially if you talk down/badly to me during any conversation we have. I will always attempt to be civil with you, I ask you extend the same curtesy.

Once I am done with your commission, I will send it to you through whatever means you contacted me. However, if there’s another way you would like to receive your commission, please tell me at the time of commissioning me. I will also post the commissions to my socials

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