#but i have some better illusts

[cyellolemon]

Meet my new ocs!! :>

Lore and info below the cut!

The pink hair guy with the silly creatures in his torso is Emilien (Emi for short) (he/it pronouns) some times after his top surgery he had these cute mouth entities that woke up in his scars (he's not really enjoying their presence)

That tall long green hair man is Sohan (he/him) he's a cashier who is gonna find out about Emi's creatures and be fascinated by them. Could be a good thing for Emi since it had a crush on Sohan since some time (despite the fact that they never really talked) but actually Sohan is like. an unsympathetic and unfriendly asshole. He doesn't care about Emi as a person at all

Because of Emi's mixed feelings about Sohan, the creatures will be very hostile toward him, so he won't be able to study them. And because he really wants to, Sohan will try to force himself to fall in love with Emi

[moe-broey]

Fellas can you take this somewhere else. Maybe. Just not in the fucking halls. Thanks 🫡

I couldn't resist drawing out these tags I wrote on a dif post LMFAO

Moe just has...... SO many problems.......

Close-ups of my fave shots!

The elusive Líf...

[ternterntern0]

art trade (character belongs to SannoChann on toyhouse)

[chamiryokuroi]

Gonna take a moment to talk about one of the things I have noticed artist sometimes do not take into consideration when doing illustrations.

Values.

Because it is something I too had issues with at first but I am slowly getting better at and I feel like sharing this knowledge with you all.

Let’s take this WIP I am currently working on. This is the very first sketch, is messy, is nowhere the final product, but it is the final composition of the piece so I started thinking about the colors.

Very basic idea, Green/Red opposite colors on the color wheel make a very visually appealing color palette, and yet it doesn’t look right to me.

So I screen shot it, and edited it to mono colors, aka black and white, since it allows you to see values easily. FYI Value is nothing more than how light or dark a color appears.

And I can immediately see the issue. Tim and Bernard are in the foreground, yet their values are too similar to the background, so they get lost. And even tho Darla is the main focal point of the piece, I do not want Tim and Bern to just be lost, how do we fix it? Simple, we can either darken them or the background to ensure the difference between both is obvious.

So in this next pass I have darken them considerably, and it does looks better, but we can push it a bit further to ensure nothing get lost anywhere.

Ah rim light, my favorite tool to ensure something pops against the background. Now this? This looks great. Darla is still the center, being the lighter part of the composition, but Tim and Bernard are still visible and do not get lost in the background. Your eyes will first fall on Darla and then move into the other part of the illust, as I want it to do.

If we compare it side to side you can see how with just a few changes it looks way better, and it takes just a few minutes and some screen shots for you to achieve better values for your pieces.

This was a very short art advice from me to you, I am in no way a professional artist but hey any help is good right? 🫡

[fudanshidoublevision]

Happy Birthday Ray!!!!!!!!!!! ヾ(〃^∇^)ﾉ

I feel so silly and happy to celebrate a fictional character birthday, lol. It's so funny! I love Binary Star Hero and every single character from this game, silly things like these are the best.

Irrelevant yapping down this road ➷

I made some 「プリクラ」 (purikura) for his birthday because I had another ideas I can't and wouldn't be able to finish for this time being, I hope you like it because I kind of hate it. It's not what I envisioned... It's been YEARS since I've ever tried to make some purikura. I've done my best but i know I can do better. This one seemed easy and I had lots of fun, i have the feeling that he would find this type of stuff concerning and at the same time....amusing. Nonetheless, i think he'll like.

The Molcar Binary Star was made by my dear and beloved friend @/blood-and-mud. (Sorry bestie, I'll take this down if you want me to 😌.) Also, my PFP was made by her too!!!! Since it's Ray Day, I'll have this PFP on until the end of the day.

Ah, I hate that the quality of the picture, it looks terrible now. I had to make a whole ass account on “act illust” to download the image for the background for it to not be seen.......... At all.

NONE of the art is mine except the MII Ray, I made that one.

This year I have something brewing for Double's birthday. 😈

[pompomtheprincess05]

Popular Yuzuki Yukari illustration from an obscure song

So if you have happened to listen a bunch of song with Yuzuki Yukari on youtube or just looked at a bunch of fanart of her on google or zerochan, you probably have seen this particular illustration at least once, but what is special about it? (besides being beautifully dawn)

Did you know this was actually for a vocaloid song and not just fanart? That's right, this actually from a song called 'Noiz' by multiple producers, トマト煮 (Tomato Ni), 牡丹 (Botan), Syan, and the illustator for this art, Gino0808.

So when I first found this illustration on Zerochan (I actually originally found it on youtube for a Yuzuki Yukari cover of Circus Monster), right there was also this:

The backround instead of just being static teal and dark grey, it's a bunch of images from what looks like animation, and next to Yukari, it says 'Noiz', this is what made me think that this is from a song called Noiz.

So I went on VocaDB to look it up, to see if this was from an actual song, and as it turns out, it is!

Well actually there were two uploads of it on NicoNico and one on Youtube, one on トマト煮's channel and one on Gino0808's channel on NiciNico, but the one from トマト煮's channel got removed for some reason, it was uploaded originally on April 6th 2012 (2 days before my 7th birthday) by トマト煮, and then in June 7th 2012 by Gino0808, I'm not sure if the original upload got taken down before or after the second upload, but before seem possible. But now about the Youtube upload, it was posted by a vocaloid song reprint channel called KariiHatsune in April 8th 2012 (my 7th birthday), so it obviously from トマト煮, as the link to it says it isn't available.

I watched both versions to see if they were any different, but the only difference was that Gino0808's NicoNico one has better sound quality, which well, most NicoNico reprints especially back then were usually lower quality than the originals so yeah.

In case you guys wanna listen to the song, here you go:

Now the song isn't really a huge masterpiece in my opinion at least but I think it's pretty good and very unique, I think the mixing could be better, the PV is very good though, it's very beautiful and cool, and I think this song had a lot of potential. What are your thoughts?

[trisockatops]

Okay I lied, one more post about the blatant antisemitism that isn't getting as much as attention as the creator's cissexism.

Thread from Unsidhe, Artist&Vtuber|Illust/Live2D OPEN on Twitter:

cw: antisemitism 1 of the 'goblin artifacts' you can find in That Wizard Game is literally just a shofar, a Jewish musical instrument, described as being 'used to annoy witches and wizards'. In it's description is the year 1612, which was when the Fettmilch uprising took place.

This uprising was followed by an outright massacre of Jewish people. If you STILL think it's just "a coincidence based on unfortunate folklore about goblins" and not literally an antisemitism propaganda simulator, fucking BLOCK ME. I want nothing to do with you.

People are trying to tell me "but it's not a shofar because it's painted" like, you're grasping at straws for excuses at this point.

Learning that they wrote 'stuffed with gorgonzola to silence it' about the horn, and finding out that gorgonzola specifically is not a kosher cheese... when they could have just written 'stuffed with cheese' for the Haha Funney Points really says a lot someone had to think.

/end thread

Thread from Yonah Gerber on twitter:

For those saying Hogwarts Legacy isn’t antisemitic, the game devs made it canon that goblins use shofar

“Generally annoy witches & wizards” literally the text in the game is that Jewish practices are just an annoyance like what the fuck

To address the dumbassery in my responses: assume good intentions must be earned. If this was the first time a Rowling property has been antisemitic, that's a woopsie. But it's not.

Here's the facts as they exist: - The object is a war horn - The artifact in the game is located at a place named after a pig & stuffed with dairy products to stop its music - The year of its most famous use is also the year major antisemitic pogroms happened in Germany

If ONE of these things were true, but Rowling & the franchise otherwise hadn't made any major missteps, that's when we give the benefit of the doubt. But I'm not willing to give said benefit when considering all the in-game context AND ALSO prior antisemitism in the franchise.

At a certain point, "benefit of the doubt" becomes "any plausible deniability is sufficient to ignore all context to the contrary" & to me, & to many Jewish folks, we are way past that point.

Hogwarts Legacy is not the first time the Harry Potter franchise has been accused of antisemitism. If the franchise & its creators wanted to avoid further accusations, they could've done some basic historical research to make sure these alleged coincidences were not included.

Once you have harmed a marginalized demographic, it's on your as a creator to prevent *further harm*. If you're using an IP that another creator once used to harm others, then I'm sorry, you do have the responsibility to undue that harm where you can in your own work.

EVEN IF these are coincidences, had the development team made a point to avoid antisemitic caricatures & educated themselves on that history, this wouldn't have happened. They chose not to care. And that's not much better, really.

Obviously I don't know what the team at Avalanche thinks or believes & frankly that's not my business. What matters to me is the end product & that end product either is purposefully antisemitic or was made by folks who don't care if they're accidentally antisemitic.

However you twist this, there's a tremendous lack of care going on here, & a choice to perpetuate cruelty that didn't need to happen.

Don't yell at folks in my mentions who genuinely don't understand the layers of context here. This is a great education opportunity. Block the obvious trolls, I sure am, but some folks have only seen a piece of the whole, & education is the best solution to ignorance.

Deleting my last tweet because I saw the point on Mastodon, but I can no longer find the post. I don't want to share what I can't currently verify.

To add, though: - The shofar is located at the Hog's Head (aka pig) Inn - The music of the shofar is prevented because a wedge of gorgonzola was used to stop the music, & while many cheeses are kosher, that one is not Take from that what you will.

/end thread

Thread from moby dickgirl on Twitter:

// CW: antisemitism; discussion of Islamophobia Concerning Gorgonzola (expanding on a comment in Yonah's thread) N.B. Once again, I am speaking as a gentile

It's a really common trope in right-wing propagandistic fiction for the "heroes" to desecrate the graves of religious enemies by putting profane items in them. The example I'm most familiar with is endless post-9/11 masturbation about putting pig products in Muslims' graves

I understand that there's a prohibition, deriving from a law given by Moses at Sinai, on seething a kid in its mother's milk, and that this is generally interpreted pretty broadly as meaning having meat and dairy in the same meal, or otherwise combining them, is unkosher

Some cheeses are kosher. Traditionally, Gorgonzola is not. This is because the production of Gorgonzola requires the use of a complex of enzymes called rennet. Using animal-derived rennet to make cheese is unkosher because of the prohibition mentioned above.

Now, this doesn't always apply to Gorgonzola today; you can get Gorgonzola made with non-animal-derived rennet which I understand may be kosher. However, this was unequivocally not the case in 1612. Gorgonzola made then would have been made with animal-derived rennet.

It's also been noted that the year of that goblin rebellion is 1612, the first year of the antisemitic purge called the Fettmilch Rising in Frankfurt. Both the real Fettmilch Rising and the fictional rebellions may have been based partly on allegations of financial misconduct.

There is, however, a shorter path. A distinctive quality of Gorgonzola — unique to it as far as I can tell — is that it's made with unskimmed milk, that is, milk with the milkfat still in it. The German word for "milkfat" is "Milchfett" — "Fettmilch" with the syllables reversed.

(I've heard that "Fettmilch" is literally a dialect German word for "unskimmed milk," which would make the link even more direct, but I don't have a sufficiently comprehensive German–English dictionary on hand to confirm this. German speakers are welcome to chime in.)

/end thread

Not to mention that the basic plot of the game is suppressing the rebellion of a canonically oppressed race that has always been an antisemitic caricature (hooked nose, beady eyes, hoard money, apparently control the wealth, manipulative, sneaky, greedy). We didn't need to look far to find the antisemitism, and yet here it is, ratcheted up times ten.

[rolotouto]

"Jiman no Otouto" translated lines

(Some lines are missing from this video because they aren't included in the in-game voice gallery despite appearing when you have him at Home. I will collect and post them some other time)

When you get him from gacha: This is my own will! I will protect Brother. For that purpose, something like my life is…!

Home lines: The inside of the Ikaruga is too quiet… I have a bad feeling. Brother!

Sayoko was [caught/killed] by FLEIJA, Jeremiah is searching for Nunnally… I’m the only one who can be by Brother’s side… And yet…

Should I do something for Brother…? But even if I do that, won’t he dislike it…? (<-He's probably thinking this when he's alone, after Lelouch told him to leave) No… I want to protect Brother. Even if he hates me for it, I’m the one who knows that I want to!

I don’t want Brother to be in pain. I will protect Brother! This… is my will!

Lines that are unlocked together with Trust levels: Brother hates me. He merely used me to get Nunnally back… When Brother said I’m an imposter, he wasn’t lying. Yes… I can tell. When it comes to brother. Anything. (<-In case there was any doubt that he did lie to Lelouch when telling him he knew he was lying. He definitely knew Lelouch wasn’t lying… 😢) I was a tool. Just a being to be used by someone. But if someone like that (lit. “such me”) could turn human, it was thanks to Brother. During the time I spent with Brother, Brother truly looked at me. That time at least is real! At last, even the life of someone like me has found a meaning! … That’s right. For Brother, who was the first to treat me like a human, I will use this life! (<-No, Rolo, your evil brother HAD promised you a happy, normal life which was going to be better than having to kill yourself… But it doesn’t even occur to Rolo to lament or resent that he didn’t get that… like he never really was hopeful that he could deserve such a thing… 😭)

Battle lines: Because this is… my own will! I will protect Brother. If it’s for Brother’s sake… I’m going out. (<- into the battlefield) Not yet! If there’s anything I can do… … I don’t care about my life! (<-this line comes after the previous one, so he's not saying he doesn’t care about his life on its own.) Result S: Complete victory. Not as a tool, this is the result that I have obtained as a human! Result A: Will Brother be happy about this result…? Hehe, Brother would have done better, so he won’t be satisfied, right? My Brother is so incredible, as expected! Result B: Winning alone isn’t enough. I want to better live up to Brother’s expectations!

When his Trust levels go up:

TRUST 1->2) I’m sure the fact that Brother hated me is true. And the fact he thought of me as a tool, too…

TRUST 2->3) Even so, I like Brother. Because being by Brother’s side, I turned human for the first time.

TRUST 3->4) Even if Brother thinks I’m a fake little brother, the memories he gave me are real, so I want to protect him.

TRUST 4->5) Brother… to me is a sibling that I’m proud of and care about!

--- What do you think? I liked the other two previous Rolos' lines better in the sense that these are a bit... too similar to what he already says during the episode? I mean, "I became human" works once, but if he's going to say it 3 times or so, it would have been nice if he was more specific and recalled a moment when Lelouch was kind to him or a memory where he made a new observation. Lost Stories has previously referenced the Illust Dramas, so referencing Turn 19.02 would have worked too.

What I hope for is that now that Rolo has "redeemed himself", he can actually show up a bit more during extra events, and maybe receive another alt? Getting to know how he felt about Lelouch buying clothes for him was so cute and also showed us a side of him we hadn't seen before! I believe Lost Stories is much more successful than Genesic Re;Code and that the app still has years before it closes down, so sooner or later he should be included somewhere again. Euphy got at least one alt during an event which took place after she'd died in the story, so it's not like he can't be used anymore.

[acheronist]

how did you start learning tattooing? what made you want to try it?

ohh... hm. Well. Okay to be so honest and short and easy with you I was really depressed and having my quarter life crisis and so I picked it up as a way to try and get myself back on track with like. being alive + doing something semi-meaningful with my life lol

here's the longer detail stuff that I fear is a bit too tenderhearted to just have out in the open

💌

near the end of last year (november-ish) I was yapping with a friend of mine from art school who ended up getting into tattooing after we had graduated, and explaining that i didn't like how publishing illustration was treating me and i felt like i was spinning my wheels and going nowhere. so she really encouraged me to give tattooing a shot? because I needed to do something different and she thought my art style could be really well suited for tattooing... and ofc i've been tangentially aware of tattoo culture but i was always kind of too scared that I wasn't like........ GOOD OR COOL ENOUGH? FOR IT? it seemed very intense and like there wasn't going to be room for me yknow. but anyways after talking with my friend i started doing a lot of research about like.. the history of tattoo culture and how techniques developed over the centuries and what are the popular styles now and what modern health/safety expectations of tat artists are now etc. just kind of taking it all in. following a lot of artists on social media etc and talking to my friend about what her apprenticeship entailed... but I bought myself a shitty cheap tattoo kit online in december and spent most of december-february just trying to teach myself how to handle a rotary pen machine and get a feel for it? and basically spent all of my time either playing around with my machine and fake practice skins or drawing or researching about tattoo history. and then in february/march I redid my whole portfolio with some neo trad designs + my other illust work and started visiting some local shops and basically just begging for 15 minutes to talk to someone in the industry and figure out if I was hopeless or not lmaooo. I went to about five shops and got soundly rejected / turned down from all of them, so I was really taking it as a sign that I should give up? but then the last shop I was going to try was like. idk it felt different and way more optimistic than everywhere else I'd tried at.... the artists on break at the time all took a chance to look thru my portfolio and talk to me, the shop owner is an angel, and so we went from "can I just ask for your professional opinion on if I suck at this or not" to getting introduced to everyone as they were working like "this is isabel she's gonna be our new apprentice!😊" which was!!!!!! CRAZY.

and so it took about two weeks after that before one of the more experienced artists in the shop was like 🙄 Fine I will teach another fucking apprentice I guess. Whatever. and I was like oh no he hates me. (turns out there's some shop lore about how awful the last apprentice was and everyone was kind of waiting to see if I'd turn out the same way) so I've just been working really hard ever since to prove I'm serious and now I'm everyone's favorite little idiot in my shop eheheh

but yeah! so I've been apprenticing officially in my shop since the end of march!!! just learning and trying to be helpful for my artists and trying to take it on the chin that I'm brand new and still learning and have a long way to go yet without getting miserable about it... but I feel very optimistic and way better now than I did in december, and everyone in my shop is soooo so kind and encouraging of my progress it really does feel like... Oh there is hope for me after all!

but yeah anyways. I just wanted to have an archive of my work as I progress and improve? so now everyone who follows my stupid ass blog has to bear witness to me being slightly bad at tattooing for months yet xoxoxo

[synapsid-taxonomy]

Hello fellow synapsid! φ(゜▽゜*)♪

For an Easter joke, I was going to do a cartoon-esque illustration of Kollikodon. It's a Cenomanian (~99-96 MYA) monotreme with "bun like molars". There isn't much material, so I was going to go with a "well, if NO ONE ELSE was going to suggest this common ecological and phylogenetic attributes" approach.

Thing is, I haven't done an independent paleo reconstruction before, and all the material that's known is the right maxillary. Also, as committed to the joke as I am at this point, mammals aren't really my strongest of interest.

I'm worried that, since it's an obscure genus with few illustrations, my depiction might give people the wrong impression of what the animal was like... But I don't like being TOO conservative, especially when a gut feeling is telling me that certain approaches in speculation are viable, but unexplored.

Do you have any advice? Common mistakes, pitfalls I should avoid, how many pages a day should I speed read Witton's paleoartist's handbook, other folks to asks for advice? Things that'll help me be a better paleoartist.

I also know you don't specialise in paleoart, but since this is a case for a synapsid, you were the first person I thought of to ask for advice.

First step is starting with what we know. Thing with Kollikodon is that all we have is this:

It seems to be a stem-monotreme, decently close to the monotreme crown. Based on all other monotremes (including the extinct Kryoryctes and Steropodon), we can guess that its body was relatively stocky and short-limbed. It's outside the clade that we know had the beaks present in platypi and echidna, though we don't have enough to say for certain that it didn't have one. Should also be noted, though, that its teeth imply a different ecology from either of them. Its molars are bunodont (flat, quadrangular, multicusped), and bunodont molars are common in generalist omnivores (humans have somewhat bunodont molars), but the unusual morphology of Kollikodon's molars implies that it might have been doing more crushing than the average generalist.

The thing about something as fragmentary and enigmatic as this is that lots of speculation is necessary to portray it at all. But the flipside is, there are many ways to do it that aren't wrong. So a lot of it's up to you. If you want to avoid giving people the wrong impression of what it's like, then try to avoid features that are "out of left field" so to speak. Things that we don't see in monotremes or that we wouldn't expect in a generalist omnivore are less likely to be present in Kollikodon based on the data we have. For example, all known monotremes have relatively short limbs, and you don't necessarily need particularly long legs if you're a generalist, so it's safest to give it relatively short limbs. So keep in mind what it's related to and what life it was probably living, and have fun with it from there, is what I'd say.

And if you want some more paleoart-focused advice, there are a whole bunch of paleoartists on Tumblr! @i-draws-dinosaurs, @knuppitalism-with-ue, @aberrantologist, @ppaleoartistgallery, @alphynix, @dinodanicus, and @usik-paleo-illust are just a few, and you can find many more are in the #paleoart tag. I'm not an artist, so I recommend reaching out to some of them if you want some more experienced tips!

[diadoescomics]

Hello again!

I've been thinking for a while about better ways to manage between working on comms (so i can pay bills etc) and working on comics/personal illustrations.

You might have noticed I've been dishing out mostly commissioned work lately and that's mostly because well...a girl and her several cats gotta eat.

I would however like to explore other ways of maybe making some cash money that would allow for more time to focus on working on things to show everyone like comics and illusts.

So I'd like to ask for people's opinion on subscriptions.

These would just be a 1-3 euro monthly sub, possibly with a higher tier for those who are comfortable donating bigger sums.

I have to stress that right now because of health issues I cannot offer exclusive rewards outside of early bird access and possibly process videos, these will mostly be a way to throw some support my way if people would like to.

I do currently have a patreon that I use exactly like this (@/Diardri), however I want to see if people would rather use a different site, or if it's still people's go-to.

[yappinggggg]

Wanted to share my thoughts on who everything did stuff wrong and why :>

(I havent finished the novel just yet so there might be some errors)

Also: Spoiler warning

The count and countness:

Their intentions were right but what they did wasn't really right. I mean- i understand completely that they didnt want harm Deon and all... but come on- Deon didnt even know about any of that. They could have sat him down- or written him a letter- and explain why they treated him differently than Cruel. Or maybe shown that they cared in a bit more obvious way? Of course no parent is perfect but i think they really messed it up while they could have still saved Deon somewhat

Duke Illuster:

This man is unfixable. What he did was so- idk how to put it into words. His greed alone was the reason Deon even got involved with the demon king, emperor and the war. Dude could have done something else but he seems to desperately want some powers fast. He should be tortured the same way Deon was - he should feel what its like to be in Deons position. (He wouldnt feel it exactly like Deon but somehow grasp it)

Next on to Nemeseus:

I really dislike him and ill explain why.

First of all: he simply blamed poor Deon for giving himself a split personality- like dude? He was a CHILD- what did u expect? He wanted to live and that was the only way he managed to survive!

Second: he only tried stepping in to check up on Deon when it was too late- u saw him the whole time. U witnessed what he saw and did on the battlefield- and u feel that u have the right to judge Deon?

Third: he called a broken child a monster(i mean Deon here)- what did this man expect Deon to do? He wanted to live- can u blame him for choosing this?

Emperor:

I think what showed the most how f***ed up this man is is that he killed all his siblings because of something he didnt even verify if that was true. He had the ability to do that- even if he was mad and blinded by emotions at the time- there was a better way.

Theres also the part where he actively manipulates Deon and gaslights him but i dont think i need to say much to this- we all saw what he did :>

The princess and prince:(yes,they get included)

The fact that they decided to just accept what their uncle did and forgive him is pretty messed up, if u ask me. Sure- family is family, but come on guys. He killed ur parents even when he didnt know if he was right fully killing them.

And they decided to just- help him with his plans? Support the things he did to Deon?

Not only support: they actively tried hard themselves to manipulate Deon

Of course: they are still young and so on but i think they could certainly have made a better decsion.

But i cant really blame them for choosing to stay and support their uncle- afterall they only had him and themselves. They also probably wouldnt have lasted long either if they hadnt accepted their uncles offer. Their chances of living a good life would literally drop down so much

Demon king (cant leave our toxic king out of this):

This man is a demon so he obviously is known to be cruel and so on.

Also since he had lived for for a thousand years so he is obviously bored to death- and he doesnt care about life anyway so why would he start caring for Deon? And why would he care about the fact that he ruined Deons life?(at least took part in it)

Edit: adding to the dk

So i found out that he actually cared for Deon....

Like what :D THATS NOT HOW U TREAT THE PERSON U LIKE but he was nice to Deon most of the time so he may get forgiven (lmao)

[Sorry,i dont know much about the demon king right now so i cant say much about him ):>]

[moe-broey]

Supplemental Moes. For Morale (it lasts maybe three weeks in Askr before This)

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 Sen's .dsd/V Scans: Part 1

Sen's Scans and Edits

.dsd/V Sidu MV Material Works 2011 - 2018 (WHITE ver.) - Outer Science: Kuroha/Saeru

.dsd/V Sidu MV Material Works 2011 - 2018 (WHITE ver.) - Yuukei Yesterday: Takane & Haruka

For future reference:

Please credit me if you use my scans! Scanning and editing are very time consuming for me. Don't repost my merch photos or scans.

I will generally allow my photos or scans to be used for personal use (PFPs, edits, etc.) and fandom wikis.

You don't have to ask me for permission if you're using them for personal use (PFPs), but credit me if you're using them for edits. Ask me for permission first if you want to repost it on another site.

...

Ok I just got home so I can try scanning Sidu's .dsd/V artbook for the Kuroha illust but I can't guarantee how the scan's gonna turn out.

I'm probably gonna have to edit the scan and such after I scan it. Gonna do a few test scans of the cover first to see the colours and such first

I'm just gonna disable reblogs on this post cuz this is more of a WIP progress update from me. My scans aren't ready to be posted yet on main, cuz I still have to re-scan and edit them.

I'll repost this on main eventually (once I have the more finalized and edited versions of the scans)

I'll post pics I took of Sidu's .dsd/V artbook on my main blog @/stepswordsen eventually! I just haven't written the post yet.

I tried making the Kuroha scan look more passable with my own edits of my scans

...

I tried scanning a bit of Sidu's .dsd/V artbook and a couple things from it. Ok so I scanned the cover of Sidu's .dsd/V (White Version) artbook, the back cover, and attempted to scan the Outer Science and Yuukei Yesterday art.

I'll have to edit Kuroha's scan, and I still need to redo the scans on the HaruTaka art. I'm definitely gonna have to edit these later.

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.dsd/V: Kuroha/Saeru Outer Science Can Badge Merch (Upscaled Version)

Merch that uses this art brightens the colours to make it more clear.

This is my best attempt at upscaling a low quality merch preview image. Though the details get lost in it.

Even though I have the physical book in person, you can hardly make out any of the details of Sidu's Kuroha/Saeru Outer Science illust in her .dsd/V artbook cuz the colours are so dark. It makes it SO hard to scan properly.

It's an artistic choice from Sidu, but it makes both seeing the art and scanning it so hard…

Was talking to mutuals about this and they were like "That must be a nightmare for any scanner 💀💀💀"

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I really wish we had her artbooks available digitally to be able to archive the arts properly, but they're only available physically, so I'll have to make do.

I think having some kind of scan will at least be better than none, so I'll try my best to scan the arts and archive them

The book is bigger than my scanner glass area, so I have to scan a single page multiple times to be able to get the scan at different parts of the page.

It's really hard to scan parts that are closer to the book binding cuz it casts a shadow. Due to the book binding, the book can't be laid completely flat.

Scanning has been VERY time consuming for me because I have to scan a single page multiple times and often redo the scan to get rid of dust, re-scan to get the parts where the pages crop off, etc.

I'll be scanning things slowly at my own pace whenever I have free time.

I think I have some ideas on how to remove the print texture, especially on the Kuroha one, so I'll probably ask a mutual for scanlation help later.

Due to me constantly handling the book, my finger prints still got on the book's pages, unfortunately.

I have to scan the book at a REALLY awkward angle.

On pages where the rest of the pages (book's weight) holds it up, it's fine, but otherwise I have to get my yoga mats to prop up the book while it's being scanned (cuz it's bigger than the scanner area), it's just ADKLSDKLKLDSKL

I've been handling the book sm and trying to be as careful as possible.

I noticed I accidentally bent the bottom right corner of the page with Kuroha's illust, thankfully the crease isn't on anything important

I'm the type that gets really concerned over stuff like that, cuz I try to be very careful with my artbooks and art prints, but thankfully it's very minimal.

I bought two copies of Sidu's artbook for this reason. I figured that just in case one gets damaged while scanning, then I'll still have the other one.

The HaruTaka art is going MUCH better in terms of scanning, just as expected.

As for Saeru, he's making me go through the horrors /lh

I've never had this much trouble with scanning something before this illust...

[dragonfruuit]

Guys guess what

Arcaea x Geometry Dash Collaboration

This was fun to put together ! Hardest bit was probably the Power Trip Remix Illust. Background is really just some scaled and lower opacity Geometry Dash assets and a stretched Arcaea track. All of the songs either premiered during the GD10 Anniversary video, and/or were commissioned for official in-game use. The boxes all of the illustrations, names, and artists are in were all handmade. The big triangle, which I didn't even know every Arcaea background had until making this, is just a scaled-up half spike from Geometry Dash with layer style changes and opacity lowered.

There're things I definitely could have done better with more skill (the background) but I'm proud of how this came out !!

This took almost 6 hours to complete. Pls reblog

[alicenpai]

Have you answered Q21 and 30 yet? Would love to hear your thoughts on those :o

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

hi chiko!

I think I tried so many different styles over the years, and bc of art school I can probably draw in cartoony or anime styles pretty alright, so I won't pick any kind of animation adjacent styles for this one!

Edward Gorey, Ronald Searle

Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker

Dean Cornwall, Mead Schaeffer

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

this one is tough! as I haven't been drawing a lot of full pieces/posting very very sporadically this year.

like what is considered "underrated"? is it notes? funny enough I think before the pandemic my art used to get more notes, so, would someone consider my recent works "underrated" in that sense? it's tricky. 🤔 I know it's easy to blame the algorithm but there are so many factors at play that we cannot qualitatively control for. being on the right platform at the right time, drawing for the right fandom at the right time, catering to a suitable audience, how you format the post (like do you show closeups or just post the full illust or crop your art? do you just post a video instead??), and a suitable caption (e.g. something witty, relatable, funny, or just something basic like emojis or just 1 word)

for me I consider a work "underrated" or underperforming (I think is a better word for it), is if the drawing is not interesting enough that nothing is said about it. either about either subject matter or artistic techniques. for me connecting to others through art is so integral to the artist experience. if a post gets 1000 notes but it gets 0 comments, then i consider it a failure. if something gets 100 notes but it gets many comments, i would consider it the opposite of "underrated'.

like would original drawings be more underrated than fanart? 🤔 people have trouble connecting to ocs since they don't know the source material, so often those kinds of posts would get less notes or less comments. just interesting things to think about.

it's easy to go into the archive and look at the older stuff that possibly didn't get seen around as much, but i'll try to pull some more recent pieces.

I think this 6 fanarts did badly in comparison to other works because the trend appeared in 2020 but I wasn't able to complete this that year ^__T and the trend didn't come back in 2021... guess I'm not a trend setter..................... sighs 😔 haha

I do want to try this kind of fanart compilation again though! I'm bad at drawing under pressure though so I would have to come up with my own prompts...

this Kekkai Sensen x Trigun piece! I think the crossover alienated fans of both series bc you had to enjoy both T__T and I also didn't draw characters from either series interacting so I don't think it ended up that interesting? bc I wanted to make this a diptych (it's clear that there's a middle divide now that I mention it) but the triptych didn't end up happening!

besides both being created by Yasuhiro Nightow, I haven't come across that many fans who are fans of both, actually...? it's not in the case where the author's work is more or less similar in tone (or same universe), like Baccano x Durarara, Pandora Hearts x Vanitas no Carte, Higurashi x Umineko. I think something like trigun x cowboy bebop would have worked better because people are always unfortunately comparing the two hahahaha.