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[ma91c]

TRIPLE FB IN TOP 3!

[stfdatingsimupdates]

I NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!

My art is really really bad so I'm gonna need a few volunteers...i unfortunately cannot pay because i am unemployed and cannot make the game monitized because that's illegal and Disney will shut all of it down so imma need volunteers...YOU WILL BE CREDITED AND STUFF AND LISTED ON THE TUMBLR!! but i cannot pay 😔

I need:

- Artist to draw the sprites and CGs (ask me for more info about how much because I have a system for how to draw the sprites, you'll only really be making about 3 poses per sprite and then a couple of seperate face parts to mix and match on the sprite in game. The CGs are a little different, I'll need to finish writing the game in order to know what I need)

- Artist for backgrounds (just as it sounds, I'll need bgs of various places in the Enchancian castle, Dunwiddie, and a few extra originally designed bgs. I'll sketch out the original designs but i really suck with bgs so)

- Designer for textboxes, gui and menu screens (idk what i want with this one, i was actually going to try one speech bubble for everyone)

I could draw this all on my own because it's very demanding, but I'm terrified of not getting the style quite right. If I draw it, I'm kinda worried it'll be a little too obvious that i made it. Volunteer if you want, the Discord should be up soon after I finish tweaking the bot.

[jam-campasta]

Hopping on the bandwagon that everyone else seems to be doing :V

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[edelblau]

this is kind of a messy attempt at making this while freaking out a bit internally so forgive me, but after a lot of continued financial security im making a commissions post on tumblr even though i generally keep them on twitter (you can see the even messier twitter version of this post here)

ill try to keep this short since i said way too much on twitter-- i am in an unhappy living arrangement that is sucking me dry. i would like to move, and have been trying to save to that end. many of the items i currently own are at the end of their rope, though, resulting in unexpected expenses-- i am constantly having to re-consider how much i put in savings in a month due to things breaking (inevitably) due to the fact its been 5-10 years for a lot of them-- and the things i havent replaced yet like my mattress are broken but ‘salvageably’ so (bc who needs to sleep right?)

anyways! im taking commissions to try and raise a little bit extra and hopefully a. be able to afford just like. anything. and b. put stuff into savings, if possible.

EMOTES: 6 CAD per emote. intended for use on discord, as im not sure about other sites

SKETCHES: Estimated at 21 CAD (uncoloured). Depending on detail/colour this can go up, so let me know what you want and we can talk!

‘FULL’ IMAGES: idk the right word, but estimated at 42 CAD for a single character (no bg). +21 CAD for a discount on a second character, continuing for any extra characters beyond that point. background prices will depend on complexity of bg

tumblr message requests should be open, if that fails you can contact me on twitter @staroftumblr . you can also just send money without wanting a comm if you really want, idk im not a cop. even if you cant buy comms, id appreciate any rbs

things i wont do: mechs (idk how to draw them), hard nsfw (idk how to draw it), anything morally repugnant (any form of hate speech or pedophilia/incest). i can also refuse anything else for any reason

things i will do: furries, ocs, canon characters, oc/canon. if its not listed, ask

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[prisonhannibal]

hey, there is no right or wrong way to take commissions as long as it works for you. opening commissions whenever you feel like it with any amount of slots you can take can work just fine. you have a wide audience who interacts with you and loves your art, honestly I don’t think you would need to be a supra productive artist always open to get business. I mean you don’t even really do commissions, right, yet you get semi frequent asks about it, that’s worth something. if you only want to take on the odd project that’s fine, if you wanna have like 2 places open a months thats also fine, you could do only sketches, only painting, anything you want, you do you, there are no rules.

for pricing idk I suck at math head empty only lead, but theres probably some sort of formula out there based on like how long it takes you to do the art and how much your costumers are willing to pay n stuff. imo I think you art compares to online digital artists who sell like ~ 75$ for a full body no bg flat colours maybe, and definitely up 100$ for a painted scene depending on the complexity etc. but like I eat paint I don’t do money and I don’t like to judge art based on it’s perceived market value etc etc so don’t read too much into it. but for what it’s worth I would absolutely pay 100$ for one of your piece + tip.

the wrong way to do it would be going way too low with the prices which I can imagine myself doing for sure. this message is really nice and encouraging and it made me happy thank you 💚 tbh I think i’d enjoy having lower prices for something that’s technically more work more, just so I can do things I think is fun instead of people going for something more basic because it’s cheaper. I just draw for fun I WANT to do big projects I think i’d be bored doing flat color drawings of characters

tbh the idea of someone wanting to pay more than 50 for my drawings when it’s not even for like a professional project or to be printed on a shirt is soooo wild to me. could I really get away with getting 60-70 for one of my drawings with a full background…..thinking 🤔

[maviacomic]

2021 Year In Review - State of the Art.

I did this last year to help un-fuck my sense of time, and it was helpful so I figured I’d do it again!

Here are my progress updates and reflections for this year.

Comics and Mavia

Back in March I bit the bullet and announced that my webcomic is on hold indefinitely. I don’t know how or when I’ll come back to it, but I can never fully abandon it - it’s my url after all. All the gory details are in that announcement if you want to read further.

I’ve considered doing other comics, maybe a short story, or something like a newspaper strip with low commitment - could be posted any time, and fully non-sequitor. That way I can practice becoming an adequate writer.

This requires committing to one of my vague half-formed ideas, but it’s simmering.

Storyboarding and Classes

Speaking of half-formed ideas! After ~2 years of classes, I now have like 7 half-finished storyboards.

In 2021, I took Intro to Perspective and Storyboarding for TV Animation. I’ve got a lot of homework assignments under my belt that I could finish and slap up on my portfolio. I went and got Storyboard Pro so I’ve got all the fancy software now. 

Goal for 2022: Finish those boards and get them on my portfolio!

The Perspective class was really frickin difficult and I need to practice perspective more, which leads neatly into...

Illustration

Another goal for 2022: Backgrounds.

As you can see from the above art, BG’s are nonexistent or sparse. Maybe I should make a rule for myself of no posting art unless there’s a background? (I currently have several WIP’s that will ignore this rule, oh no). 

I very much like drawing characters floating in space or on a blank BG, but lord I did NOT suffer through hours of learning how a box would cast a shadow on another box, and in a mirror to waste it! More backgrounds in 2022!

I also kind of struggled with a bit of perfectionism in digital drawing recently? Because I have the option to zoom in on my lines and mess with them, and then they’re a different thickness than the other lines, and then it’s overwhelming to think of fixing *all* the lines, and then I run away. I don’t have this problem with traditional! Just procreate! There are several WIP’s I’d like to just finish. Idk what to do about that.

Other

I am Vaccinated and Boosted, but 2021 sure did suck! Stay safe and healthy, y’all!

[skunkes]

do you have any advice on picking nice colors for art? you always choose pretty ones

at this point i thnk im kind of developing an eye for it (at least only when i draw white backgrounds, as soon as i try to color backgrounds it throws a wrench into everything because to this day i SUCK at values and contrast). i also sometimes cheat using photoshop adjustments, which is fine but when i cheat i go in with the eyedropper and color picker and see the relationship between all the colors and what it is that makes them work

before, id do this with art i really liked! i used to color pick this artist’s work and try and figure out how the colors fit together! doing this with art i enjoyed actually gave me a sense on color EDIT: in this case, by colorpick i mean opening photoshop’s foreground color picker and seeing the relationship between all the colors, and NOT using their colors as my own!

another thing i used was this video. i never like linking tutorials like this because i know that for some people, they think they always have to do it exactly like the video says, which stuns creativity :/. i havent actually watched it since i first saw it, so i dont follow it exactly, but when im picking colors and they dont make sense, i 1. check values and 2. think back to the Ideas talked about in the video, and consider if im maybe making em all too saturated when some colors should be more muted. keeping this in mind, i still mix it up

here the warm colors in the bg are bright, so the cool colors in the clothes are less saturated. green was exempt because its closer to yellow. the red hue’d purple of the hair is also exempt but here comes in the “idk why, i just thought it’d work” and it did…it wouldn’t felt the same if it was brighter, or if it was more blue tinted. that’s where the “””instinct””” comes in i guess

this one doesnt follow the rules of the video (frm what i remember) as much, but there’s a pattern in where the desaturated pink of the skin, the blue of the hair, and the teal of the highlights in the hair all form a triangle on the color picker

so that’s another “pattern where colors look good” that i store in my brain for another color pickin’ time…yeah! that’s all ive got. no hard and fast rules just guesswork, crying and cheating

[this-is-fox-speaking]

unrelated and spoilery of no straight roads. so. its on a read more. its just about random stuff about it, so I'm not rlly tagging it either.

I really like how the game basically has Zuke as that secondhand character for backup stuff but?? he's still involved a lot in the game!! he's got real personality, as well as him having Eve/Nadia as an ex, having a whole background with her. like Mayday seems to be the main guy but they both come together equally?? if that makes a little bit of sense.

did eve just publically go under a different name than nadia just cause it sounded more.... whatever her vibe is??

I didnt rlly think about how odd it was that DK mostly only speaks English when hes rapping but?? now I just hc that he raps in english because maybe that's how he can reach more fans. with how seemingly all the rest of the characters speak english.

I LOST MY SHIT AT HOW YINU LOOKS AND I STILL DO DONT LOOK AT ME WITH THEM BIG OL EYES

even tho her bug eyes bother me thinking about her story more is.... rlly sad. like she just has a fit at the end understandably because maybe playing music was just for her and her mother, the last thing with the piano being the only thing they can have left of her dad. and when two grown ups came to beat her up and her music became so stressfully necessary, with how her music got her into so much trouble and a near death experience.... god thats gotta suck ass.

also neon's bg!!! with the idea he was a toymaker for the children after everything that happened and he became an nsrtist, making the roboys less soldier and more boy band to the design we have today possibly to just bring more joy to everyone after what happened.

I just,,, rlly like his autotune singing. I hope he got his own spotlight in the future :)

eve and tatiana together real???

eve painting her chair like her skin, if they were regular humans, would NOT have the same effect... it'd just be regular wood....

"Its okay! Shes done this before!" Zuke? Zuke??? How many times has she done this too you???

Eve being aromantic and being convinced she just needs to find the right person but basically got told by Zuke she's fine all alone? mayhaps?? idk I think its a neat idea

fandom pls draw more of like. Sayu's creators. I like her being an ai and all but shes.... really not. yet shes in incorrect quotes and drawings like she is. talk about the kids more you cowards, they're her actual personality. shes just a giant robo suit.

[werewolfwilds]

i redid an ask meme that i had originally done ~3 years ago to see the comparison so for archiving purposes im putting it in a lil journal entry here ! i wanna start doing small journal entries again it was fun when i did that

new answers bolded

1) what images do you have set for your desktop/cell phone wallpapers?

my desktop bg is literally just…. a collage of kageyama manga screencaps a h a,,,, and my cellphone bg are drawings some gay drew me like 74724 years ago :v // my desktop rn is actually a background from one of the dmmd routes LMFAO..... idk which one it is but i’ve always liked those bg pics!! my cell lock screen is p5 art and my bg is leopika

2) have you ever had a crush on a teacher?

nooooope // nah

3) what was your last text message?

my phone is dead so i wouldnt be able to tell you lmfao i dont even remember // it was a gif from kelly lol

4) what do you see yourself doing in 10 years?

hopefully working a job i enjoy and making costumes and being happy!! // god i have no idea and it freaks me out... hopefully working,,

5) if you could be anywhere else right now, where would you be?

hoommee ((or at katsucon tbh)) // at the beach with friends maybe

6) what was your coolest halloween costume?

a white cat probably lmao // i dont think ive ever had a particularly exciting halloween costume but one year i was sharpay from high school musical and i think i peaked then tbh

7) what was your favorite 90s show?

uhhhh….. i didnt really… start watching tv until like… the 2000′s so i really cant tell you man lol // spongebob started in 1999 does that coUNT,

8) who was your last kiss?

(answer redacted) // :/ someone should kiss me so i can change this answer lmao

9) have you ever been stood up?

nope //  nah

10) favorite ice cream flavor?

vanilla w/ vanilla oreos ok u need to underst a n d // this hasn’t changed i haven’t had this particular ice cream in a long time but i still stand by it

11) have you been to las vegas?

nahh // nope

12) your favorite pair of shoes?

idk i have these black ones i wear everywhere lol // i have a pair of white sneakers that i refuse to stop wearing now

13) honestly, have you ever cheated on your significant other?

i wouldnt even consider it. // no bc i’m not a piece of shit lmao?

14) what is your favorite fruit?

hmmm…. pineapple orrr…. strawberries but only if they’re the really good kind like they have to be perfect // pineapple!!

15) have you talked to anyone on tumblr that you could see yourself  dating/having sex with? if possible?

….. ye s… yes. // in the past apparently so but thinking about it now nah lol

16) are you into hookups? short or long term relationships?

hookups arent my thing eh i prefer long term relationships altho i cant really say ive been in a “long” term relationship pffff // i don’t think hookups will ever be my thing, emotionally long term relationships are what i’m here for but i’m also a Very Impulsive Person so i cant tell you if this will stay a fact :’)

17) do you smoke? if so, what?

nope dont wanna // no thanks

18) what do you do to get over your anger?

usually talk to people or shout into word // i have to vent about it to someone probably a thousand times even months or years after it happens tbh

19) do you believe in god?

nahh // nah

20) does the person you’re in love with know it?

i aint in love with anyone rn so no? // i’m not in love with anyone.

21) favorite position?

………….. for w hat………. // oh honey lmfao... N/A

22) what’s your horoscope sign?

virgo/ox ovob // Virgo/sun, Aries/moon, Libra/rising and Cancer/midheaven

23) your fears?

literally everything i already named a few so ill name some others… ghh anything in… the ocean or lakes and stuff frightens me and i really dont know why bu tlike…. fish and crabs and jellyfish and seaweed cuz it’s evil and stu f f basically anything that’s not a mammal or turtles or penguins…. lo l im a baby // uncertainty is a big fear of mine and also people being mad at me lmao... as far as physical fears though i have debilitating fears of almost all insects/arachnids and lobsters/shrimp/crawfish :^)))))

24) how many pets do you have? what kind?

two cats and a dog!! // one cat one dog

25) what never fails to turn you on?

i dunno,,/////// // lol neck biting/kissing oof

26) your idea of a perfect first date?

im okay with mostly anything i just really like spending time with the person ; v ; // i’ve never really had an answer for this? thinking about dates has always made me so anxious for whatever reason but i’ll be happy to just spend time with them doing whatever honestly, i’m a super indecisive person aha

27) what is something most people don’t know about you?

i dont really know tbh lmfao // i’ve considered in the past looking into mental conditions (anxiety/bpd/etc) to see if i might have one or two but i never want to say anything about it because i don’t want to self-diagnose anything.

28) what makes you feel the happiest?

nice weather and nice conversations w/ best people u//v//u // nice weather and hanging out with people who are fun and easy to talk to

29) what store do you shop at most often?

does….. arda wigs count or… // does arda wigs still count bc mood lmao but truthfully now it’s probably target

30) how do you feel about oral? giving and/or receiving?

kkdkjsfkjkjfj??fsfj/// go for i t??? i have no problems with i t??? i dont think ill ever be willing to put a dick in my mouth though // these random sexual questions thrown in here are something aren’t they lmao. not going to disclose much but i will stand by the fact that i will not put a dick in my mouth lo l

31) do you believe in karma?

sometimes ye // i believe that people will eventually get what’s coming to them but i don’t believe in karma as a solid concept if that makes sense? like i don’t think it’s guaranteed

32) are you single?

yup yup // yeah it’s been wild lmao

33) do you think flowers or candy are a better way to apologize?

i think being sincere is the best way to apologize– if you truly mean it the person will know. you dont need to buy your forgiveness. // the best way to apologize is just to apologize sincerely and change your behavior if it’s applicable.

34) are you a good swimmer?

ehh??? im ok i guess– i took swimming lessons as a kid but i havent done legit swimming ever since then lmao,, ive always been best at the backstroke tho yea // i mean i have the ability to swim but i’m not olympic-worthy or anything lmao

35) coffee or tea?

ehhh im not big on either tbh // chocolate milk and you can fight me

36) online shopping or shopping in person?

depends what your shopping for i guess?? online is more relaxed i guess // online probably because shopping in person Gives Me Anxiety

37) would you rather be older or younger than your current age?

ehhh im happy where i am tbh // older

38) cats or dogs?

do not make me choose // cats and dogs* there i fixed it for you

39) are you a competitive person?

ahaa,,,,, oh god yeah,, // OOF yeah

40) do you believe in aliens?

i believe there’s life on other planets somewhere?? so i guess?? // i believe in aliens in the sense that there’s no way we are the only living life forms in the universe but not in the science-fiction way you feel me

41) do you like dancing?

i do but i suck at it lmao // i do but i: A- suck, and B- have no stamina

42) what kind of music to you listen to?

nearly everything tbh // i’m not picky when it comes to music but imma be real w u. almost all of the music on my phone is kpop. seventeen is my favorite group along with astro, and i also enjoy super junior, shinee, red velvet, etc among so many others,,, im pretty wide spread !

43) what is your favorite cartoon character?

i will never be able to pick just one // i’ll literally never be able to answer this

44) where are you from?

philadelphia uvu // philly!

45) eat at home or eat out?

hmmm at home. // at home

46) how much more social are you when you’re drunk?

i never plan on being drunk tyvm // i’ve never consumed alcohol in my life and to be Quite Fucking Honest i want nothing to do with it

47) what was the last thing you bought for yourself?

bracelets ! ; u ; // uh... excluding food and music... earrings i think

48) why do you think your followers follow you?

uhhhhhhh lmfao i have no idea i think… a good amount are for my cosplays at least?? or id like to think so lmfao but i really dont know pfft // my followers have just accumulated and hung around over the years... i know i gained a good amount from my snk days as arlert-the-troops and then through my haikyuu phase, whether it was for my cosplay or other posts that i made... whenever someone follows me now im not entirely sure what its for but i appreciate everyone who’s stuck around!

49) how many hours do you sleep at night?

it’s never regular man // 6-9 (lol) hours is pretty normal for me

50) what worries you most about the future?

everything tbh // the future as a concept worries me lol

[sparrows-trashcan]

Oh man, @jeusus​ tagged me to list my .... current/future projects. 😂😂😂  In no particular order whatsoever:

BACKGROUNDS AND SHIT

Honestly, I’m kind of tired of filling everything with a gradient (digital) or adding random shapes or leaving the bg white (traditional) in every single piece. :c I really need to step up my game there.

Short Comics *v*

I suck at writing but I like developing stories and how do you combine that with art if not in comics? One page things already work out for me and I sure want to do more of that in the future. (Combine that with BGs please, ahaha.)

MORE FUN STUFF

This is honestly my fave thing about anything art related ever: when someone has an idea that makes me laugh and I feel like I can maybe draw it. I want to continue doing that and maybe, uh, do more of that? It’s a spontaneous thing!

INK HELL

Working with ink is fascinating but can also be quite hard since correcting things on paper is hardly possible. I still love it a lot and I definitely want to do more things with ink washes. I also own inks in other colours than black so there’s that too. Because of Inktober I learned not to fear doing outlines in ink anymore. It was quite the process. :’) NOT SURE WHO TO TAG! How aboooout @general-and-knight, @heart-chan-artblog, @stardestroyervigilance, @chrisdoof (yay for random friendo tagging xD) and of course whoever wants to do this? Idk ahahah