#but in this style doing lineart is fun somehow

[viioledea]

[greatgoddyke]

some bobbles (+ two unfinished things)

[captorcorp]

i'm trying to get back into digital art (last time using my tablet was 2 years ago OTL) so i lined/colored/shaded a mago sketch yesterday and then did a sketchpage today to figure out brushes and styles and such... does anyone have any tips/suggestions :0 using firealpaca btw

[taylor-titmouse]

Old Dog, New Trick by R/L Monroe @petitemortality is out! This one's for the big hairy bear lovers, the leather likers, the transmasc tops, and the fags. It's really good and sweet and all about falling in love with your own body again. You can check out the first three pages and a list of what it features on its shop page, and it's only $3!

but this means it's time once again for a process poooost~ you can read about how we designed the cover below!

THUMBNAILS!

this one might have been the most straightforward yet. lee essentially told me 'dad bod in a chest harness' and that is what he got. the two on the bottom left were me thinking he hadn't Literally meant that, somehow, and trying other things. even rereading the chat log i'm not sure how i came to that conclusion because he very clearly asked for a dad bod in a harness. (i also had not read the story yet, so i didn't have an impression of charlie. do not be fooled by my slinky little twink in the bottom middle. he is a big boy too)

the bottom right is when i was like 'no wait he definitely just said dad bod with harness' and had the thought of putting the author and title on the harness itself. we went with that one!

color passes, had to involve the rainbow somehow for pride. dom painting himself seemed the obvious choice for me, very dad at a football game. but lee was like "wait. put it in the background." and it Is the obvious choice. and then

what did he mean by this

honestly there wasn't much more to it from there, just workshopping where the 18+ should be on his body and how much space it should take up. this is probably the most straightforwardly representative cover i've done for him so far! oh my god there's lineart.

also please appreciate the itchio thumbnail. making the itchio thumbnails is actually the most fun part. you should look at lee's shop page and see how nice and clean those look all together. i wish i'd kept a consistent style guide when i started out with my own books ; ;

tits

[clerk427]

An open love letter to the entire Faith the unholy trinity fandom off sorts. I present to you.....

John in the style of 9 different artist!

(Keep in mind this is a style study. And although the whole thing was drawn by me, please please PLEASE check out the artists whose style I tried out. Thank you!)

This was SUCH a fun experience! I honestly love our fandom, and I adore how unique everyone's style and perception of John is. Says a lot about society or smth.

And even though I probably didn't do justice to all the art styles, I really hope they are recognizable.

Also, you might've noticed an empty spot in the end. Well, it's for you! Naturally, I wasn't able to include every artist, but I hope you will be interested in taking a spin at this yourself. Thank you and good luck!!!

A closer look, links and notes under the cut

@trashprinceward

I adore how soft this version of John looks, he seems so trustworthy and kind, gah. The shading style is surprisingly difficult, but I hope I managed to pull it off:) I also adore Prince's AUs hehehe

@rokiro99

A very unique colouring style!! I've seen a few versions of how this artist draws John, but decided to stop on this one. His face is so adorableeeee. I also LOVE the use of liturgical clothing and themes!!

@karamielo

Eeeeep I love how they use colours in their works and how well they use composition??? Like omg. Such such pretty works, I hope they create even more art

@justcommander

I lovvve how game-adjacent this artist's style is. I also love the way they (I'm so sorry, I'm not sure about the pronouns) draw hands and use body language. Also, the father and children AU??? Muah.

@shu-bullshit

I'm not even pretending I managed to pull this one off, I bit so much more than I could chew. But I couldn't not try, I almost every time I see their use of coloured pencils and watercolours, I just can't. Love love love

@zzoupz

So. As far as I can tell, Zoup doesn't use this style TOO often, but it wasn't leaving my head, I had to try. The artist did so much for the fandom, the Gary ask blog is such a treat. Yum

@genesissaturna

Hee hee he's so shapes. The legs. Beautiful. I wasn't sure about the colouring style since I only saw lineart done by this artist, so I decided to use the in-game ones. I hope they do more art, it's so unique and makes me happy!:)

@hammy-art

Wet cat John. Silly. A little pathetic, but in a nice way. I feel like I didn't make the lineart the way he does, it is usually more gentle, but I still hope it will suffice. Also my God he does amazing backgrounds, which I sadly can't portray here. (A personal thank you for giving me the courage for doing self-inserts)

Annnd that's it! I thank you for everything and I hope this whole thing will somehow inspire you. Keep doing art, let the world see your vision! Also go draw a pathetic blue priest /j

[lixenn]

OCtober 2024 day 31: costume

May I present Vlasta as a vampire nurse! @childe-of-saulot my liege you were a wonderful model though I don't know if I fully captured your glory.

reference

I kinda simplified and left out some of the tattoos and left out the piercings completely which yeah OTL please forgive me for I don't know how to draw all these details in perspective (and the piercings kinda just came out wonky when I tried). The bat was difficult because I don't really know how to draw animals but the eyes were alright, I know how to draw eyes.

Tbh this entire piece fought me a lot. At first I wanted to try out the new art style again with colour palette and all but it really didn't work out so I just went back to my usual one with exception of the hair because drawing these kind of bangs with my usual art style is honestly a nightmare for me. Could I just have changed the hair? Yes. Yes, I could have but I also couldn't be bothered to figure that out so I just winged it. And ngl I'm not super satisfied with the end result because it clashes for me... Ugh once again we are back to the drawing board of: How to fucking draw hair.

After I figured out my lineart (which wasn't super difficult cause reference) and drew the hair it was colouring and rendering time and by god. The rendering... Lowkey killed me. It was a pain but I survived somehow. Also I have added bloodstains to the outfit on a whim because why not.

Anyways, it's done now and out in the wild. It's also the last post of OCtober and I just wanted to thank everyone who interacted with my silly posts for this event, you guys are all awesome! I had a lot of fun creating and sharing things this month and if irl allows me to I would love to do it again next year!

[village-for-rambles]

WOW. WEE. Okay. Hi everybody.

Anyone remember that little piece I did for [majickth's] hermits hollow au??? Well. A. I'm working on ANOTHER project and B. Amidst PROCRASTINATING on that project I have somehow dedicated 16 hours of my time to the do this in your style challenge that was posted I belive quite a little while ago. They said there was no time limit and I said. Well. You wanna bet.

Anyway.... Gonna be a little cringe about this are you ready

"Well. You're not meant to be here at all." He hears Scar mutter.

"Careful, Grian. Don't let curiosity get the best of you. After all,"

...

Can you find the rest of Scar's message?

Thought that since majick's au doubles as an arg I could throw a puzzle in there so I'm gonna throw you a couple hints because this one's a little weird.

A. It iz in morse code and I did not have a lot of space to count units so it may be a little rough but I believe in you

B. The eyes will help you shed some light on the situation. :]

Anyway this waz fun but also ENTIRELY too much effort. Phew. Alternates annnd lineart stuff under the cut.

........thought I'd include the background lineart because I spent wayyy too much time on this wood panelling just HOHGH. God.

[laithraihan]

Hey I really love your art - I wanted to ask if you use references from anywhere specific.

Also, have you considered the idea of Reigan becoming Minori's Guardian Ad Litem? I agree that Reigans not exactly the kind of person to make the most responsible father (at least where we leave him in the show) but I could totally imagine him becoming her guardian for some legal reason.

He's really the only adult she'd know to trust outside her father.

I can imagine they're put a whole court case together with Reigan as her guardian just for legal reasons and they win, and then Minori's like. "Oh shit where do I go? Guess your my guardian for real now." And Reigan is like.

What?

Thank you 🫶💜 hmm well for pose references including clothing etc I just get them from google stock images, I generally try to avoid making the pose too similar to the images I see so I sometimes draw in different angles (honestly most of the time I struggle looking up references because I cant find a picture in a specific angle I want, so I go with my intuition even if it's wrong), honestly google is probably the place I rely on the most for this. Like if I forget what a shoe looks like then I'll just google it.

If you're talking about where I got inspiration for my art style (or what I look to get ideas for my art etc) I'd say the major ones for me are ONE's sketches on twitter (especially his shaky lineart and how he draws eyes), early episodes of Detective Conan (clothing folds, color choices sometimes, body proportions like the chest being pointed etc), Revolutionary Girl Utena (also clothing and body proportions), FLCL (I have no idea what parts of it influenced my art but I feel like it's an obligation to list it here)

Uhh for the fun drawings that require more effort I'd say music is inevitably the most important part of it. 99% of the time my drawings that arent plain sketches are modeled after a specific song I listen to (primarily from ZARD but other artists too although not as often) even then I think my sketches are still influenced by ZARD somehow. Wait I completely forgot to mention I also look up images of ZARD on Pinterest for poses or just... to draw anything honestly. Theres a good number of pictures of her in various angles (I remember one of her photographers said she was very photogenic so most of her pictures are very casual as if a camera wasn't present) I think it's good to look at them if you are looking for something natural. Just looking up "Izumi Sakai" there will give you results.

For text placement/colors/vibe/whatever I like to look at old media I grew up with like MADs, shitty websites made in the 90s/2000s, old anime subtitled in Arabic (I have plenty of DVDs with anime dubbed/subbed in Arabic that I have no idea where we got them from, I assume it's all pirated. Anime openings/endings in Arabic also have very poor aesthetics when it comes to logo placement/text color/text animation/etc but that's exactly why I like them) I also have a Pinterest board with outdated ZARD edits that I look at often while drawing. For image textures or backgrounds I use this website. If I struggle with art block or don't know how to draw a specific thing I also look at everything I previously listed and reference from there. Anyways I talked a Lot but hopefully I could help with that.

As for Reigen being a guardian .... I never considered it seriously but I think he could pull it off. He'll definitely make mistakes but he could succeed if he had a daughter. I just have to kill off Minori's real dad or something and it'll work. The only problem would be that Minori has to live with the fact that her new father is broke and unable to spend thousands of dollars for her every week.

[jade-everstone]

The yearly tradition returns: 2022's Summary of Art!

And hey, I did something a little more design-y than my past ones! Will admit it was a bit tricky to fit each month's pics into the frames this time but I'm glad I tried a different look than usual 

thoughts on each pic + reflection on the web + how I want to handle art going into the new year below:

January - Iri Intro!

From a somewhat short-lived thing I wanted to try out: Doing sketches of OCs just to serve as an introduction reguardless of quality. The good thing is, because quality's not a factor I can do these whenever in whatever format or polish. I just prefered doing larger pics this year

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Febuary - A 'Cereal' Debate (comic short)

Ok, but she's got a point when you think about it.

From a comics class I took spring this year. The only prompt was "conversation"... well, heated debate in this case.

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March - The School Mystery (comic short)

Another one from that Comics class and goddamn I think the panel featured here alone is one of the hardest things I drew that semester. That's pen and ink with minimal digital edits and damn hoping one day I could somehow make a longer comic with a similar style bc it was really fun to ink honestly.

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April - The Fish Project

JADE WITH THE FRESH SALMON???? REAL!

Ok but for the real context, this was an April fools project I had in the works since 2021. I turned all my active art accounts at the time into an OC Fishing irony page and sent Jade, Iri, Risa, Jpeg, and both Prisma's on a fishing trip. Not sure how I'll top that in the future... I'm not revealing until April >:)

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May - MOONROT

May was when I redesigned & revealed Io to the public! They got a bunch of art this month, but the CN challenge art is my favorite of all of them.

Huh. Suprised I didn't immediately burn out because that semester was extreme in terms of work. I guess wanting to draw Io was that strong.

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June - Life, After Wither

A pre-Artfight 2022 pic: I was Team Wither! I like doing splash pics for my own page for Artfight and this stayed my main banner for just about most of the year.

The mini-story I made up for this is these three teamed up across dimentions or something to visit this forest.

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July - In the Studio, fr

I don't normally do post-Artfight related pics, but Moog ended up getting the most attacks this year and I wanted to give her an extra pic based on it.

Seems she kept a souviner from the forest in the last pic.

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August - B-Hold! The Portal King!

For Clockday on Newgrounds, Strawberry clock the portal King himself!

Kept getting swept up with other things to jump on Newgrounds events, I wasn't gonna miss one of the bigger ones!

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September - //  DIRECTION //

(outside of being gay for the robot-) I just wanted to draw Alia tbh. With a similar energy she had in her older art too.

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October - HELLSPAWN

ABSOLUTELY NEFARIOUS HALLOWEEN PIC!!!

Featuring Io's true/original form + their 'powered-up' state

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November - The Fowl Pest (Mock-Cover)

The last two are for my Digital Illustration class. This one is a mock-book cover based on a worldbuilding project of mine (still need to organize it before sharing).

Though tbh if I do want to do more art for said project I might go tra-digital or use a grittier style. During crit I was told this looked "middle-grade"... when the world is "older-YA/Adult"... still like the pic, but damn.

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December - Lan Party!

*Sigh* Always wanted to go to one of these! But alas, me and my irls are all busy these days. This is based off a different project I'm working on.

I ended up debuting some different designs for my OCs for said project (notably; Iri, Risa, and Human!Midi) but separate pics for them will have to come next year. In terms of digital lineart, this was the most intense I did this year (traditional lineart comes easier to me than digital).

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So... 2022. Jesus Christ

This year was rough for me on things personal, and things non-personal. I mean jesus christ every other week something came out that was hostile to artists one way or another on top of some rough patches in my life. I don't want to jinx 2023 or leave things on this note though...

I think my biggest takeaway from this year is I need to rethink a lot of things. How I want to do art, where I want to go, or even my 'digital wellbeing'. This year, I realized keeping art a Hobby or staying "part-time" (as in small gigs & private comms only) might be healthier for me in the long run. I've already had my doubts with a lot of "professional" practices when I was shooting for it (a tl:dr it felt like "no fun allowed" half the time). But realizing how horribly i've treated myself and my art with this chase? That was another thing.

I think i've done a lot of strong pics compared to past years. Especially in terms of backgrounds and not being afraid to draw them (though I could always use more practice, lol). But I've also come to terms with I've been affected by social media without realizing it and how it hurt how I do art. Basically, for the past two years I've been working under the fear of being boxed into doing one thing. Be it fanart, genres, etc. To the point I stopped doing things to force a "brand". Specifically, I stopped doing fanart unless it's oc-centric. I hid straight-up fanart, and started getting irrationally upset over the metrics fanart gets over my original works.

And I hate it. I hate how I let myself judge the value of my work over "numbers and engagement". I hate how I boxed myself in trying to avoid being boxed, because of chasing this corporate measurement of worth. And most importantly, I hate that I nearly forgot that I enjoyed making fanart, because of some dumb culture caused by social media numbers and algorithms. I'm exhausted. So for 2023, I think I want my main resolution to do better with my online life & how I treat myself and my art. I want to pull away from social media a bit more (ironic considered i just came back here heh), spend more time on the slower web & offline if possible, and break that cycle of letting numbers judge my self-worth. And maybe help others do the same. It's much easier said than done, but I don't want to do nothing about this toxic hellscape that is how art is treated online, I want to do something even if the only person I directly help is myself.

And for what it's worth, focusing on my site so far has been cathartic. It's somewhere I can set up my art, projects, weird shit, etc. on my own terms, how I like it. It's quieter over there. And I'm glad I kept working on it beyond just a "portfolio site".

But I guess I have all of 2023 (and what's left of 2022) to process that. For now, I could use some extra time to pretty-up my website some more and take a few more naps before the year ends.

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extra note: this post is a (slightly modified) mirror of a post over on the everlogs:

Website Version Here!

[tubercloset]

3,8,19!!!

Somehow I saved this to my drafts instead of posting...so sorry! Here it is

3. what's your least favorite thing about your style

How...undetailed it is. Headshots always look weird because I don't make the hair or face or clothes interesting enough, which is why I tend to draw half or full bodies

8. what's the most fun and the least fun parts about your process

Most fun: brainstorming what to draw -- not even the sketch, just how I want things to look

Least fun: shading/lineart

19. How often do you draw

This ranges from once a month to around 10 times a month depending on my level of inspiration. In July I drew more than 10 times because of artfight (still not that much because I am slow)

[gpuzzle]

There's two anime I wanna bring up that I could compare to Bocchi - FLCL and 3-gatsu no Lion.

3-gatsu on the manga deals with the same trick of rapid transition, not necessarily between art style - it's all in Chika Umino, the author's, quasi-Chibi style that allows her to both create characters that are "real" and also can dip into very sudden "cutesy" things, but she inflects that with an eye for emotion, realism and drama. The manga does this through really, really clever art: it's mostly bright and light with very few deep blacks during most days, but when Rei feels depressed, it plunges the entire thing into pitch black.

The anime, of course, adds to it by being an Akiyuki Shinbo production. So you get these internal dialogues that otherwise feature pitch black darkness and just Rei walking by getting abstract with it.

Otherwise, it's beautifully lit and retains the majority of Umino's style, which is a key part of it:

Which is where its most chibified moments work:

Which is great because it adds to the mood swings! Sangatsu thrives on the sudden mood swings for realism; emotions are rarely telegraphed - moments of extreme depression and grief alternate moments of extreme "slice-of-life" cutesyness, with all the whiplash that comes with it, because that's how it tracks life as real; that emotional shifts come hard and fast.

And then there's FLCL. There's only so much you can talk about the tour de force that FLCL is because it's that impactful out west due to its repeat syndication on Adult Swim, and being a direct inroad to what the dawn of adolescence feels like, as functionally scored by an alternative band that had just had a damn successful run over the past 4 years in the middle half of their career after a really intense transition period (seriously, check the pillows' career, there's a really wild pivot that they absolutely nailed) - with some of the most breakneck shifts in animation constantly. You barely get to rest. Even when it takes a step back and does something more normal, it will fuck with the perspective somehow.

Moments just by silhouette contrast high speed animation with thick lines contrast moments of thin lineart and the interior sadness contrast highly detailed and oddly framed movement contrast bizarre diversions into other styles of animation entirely such as the famous South Park bit or the manga sequences. It is everything, all at once, in all directions.

Which is what makes Bocchi kinda interesting. It mixes and matches both. The inner thoughts are abstract, allowing it to ground everything in an otherwise normal story - in 3-gatsu's style rather than FLCL's - but rather than 3-gatsu's long melancholia and extreme textural animation artsiness, Bocchi has to lean into comedy stylings, so it borrows FLCL's rapid pace and extreme abandon. The end result is rapid shifts in animation to communicate Bocchi's anxieties and insecurities, even if largely comedic the same way certain scenes in Flapjack feel.

Which is why the fact that the song scenes that just emulate God Knows off Haruhi Suzumiya the weakest part of the show by a mile. DO SOMETHING COOL, CUT LOOSE, YOU ARE RIGHT THERE; do an entire sequence where the background is a recording of a psychedelic light show, or one which thrusts Kessoku Band into a music clip! DO SOMETHING FUN!

I love how rapid Bocchi can go on the animation style transitions; stacking them has impact beyond each in isolation. It goes from chibi cute:

To Kon-flecked realism fisheye’d for drama:

To claymation live footage board game-of-lfie:

And settling on full marker-sloppy glitch fest before looping back to normality:

All of this in…under two minutes. Its effective as opposed to just random because almost all of these have been used before, in comparative isolation - the claymation has been used to express ‘future worries’ I believe twice, and ‘glitch panic’ bocchi is a well established trope by now. The adult-realism style is new but not much of a jump, conceptually, paired with the rest. It is the pacing of the creativity - on top of the creativity itself - that Bocchi nails so well.

[snellymain]

who are your art inspirations?

Oh gosh, a lot of people. All of my artist friends and mutuals inspire me pretty much every day, but I can't list em all, so ,,, here's some less obvious answers!

I'd say it's mainly comic artists who can consistently do super loose and fun sequential art that feels fresh everytime, with the occasional illustrative piece. Artists with fun interesting shading styles or somehow no shading at all, yet still managing to make absolutely captivating pieces that feel rendered in comic form, while not looking like "too much" or too polished.

^^ First artist that comes to mind when I'm asked about inspirations is the visual mastermind behind Saga, Fiona Staples, her stuff just itches my brain SO right because it feels really… real? Despite the stuff she draws being absolutely crazy shit, the expressions and looseness of it and just the raw feelings is so cool… I appreciate how her illustrations still look like her sequential stuff, it's always very "in the moment" ykno. It's hard for me to read Saga in a single focused sitting because I just end up distracted with art inspo the whole time HAHA-

^^ As far as art styles go, I'm well aware of how much I've taken and learned from IncaseArt, which is kinda.. Funny. Don't look him up if you're a minor lol. If you recognize this No You Don't. Regardless I absolutely love how he draws diverse people and faces, the way he renders skin, hair, backgrounds,,EVERYTHING,,,, There's a lot of nuance to his style that I've subconsciously started using in my own the past few years. I don't know how he does it man x.x He understands colors SO well ahghghghg

^^ Feel obligated, but reluctant, to say SarahDraws, she's had some crazy bad controversies !!!!WHICH I AM BRINGING ATTENTION TO HERE SO DON'T GET MAD AT ME!!!! but I'm still absolutely enamored with her art. Gotta give credit where credit is due, man u.u But, seriously, even though lineart is my favorite part of the process, I envy how amazing she can make any piece look with her insane sketchy lines, I genuinely don't even know if she does a sketch beforehand or just cleans it up--it looks so beautiful either way. Love her dark goth imagery paired with a super bright accent color WAAAGHG

^^ Growing up I know I was inspired by a lot of...erhm ... Traumacore and guro artists DollieGuts and ReinaGoth, but how much their style ended up sticking to mine,,,I dunno! You can kinda see it I guess? I was pretty innocently into artists of this scene but ultimately shied away due to a phobia of mine LMAO. Still love their work though! I know DollieGuts is the reason I line with such a crunchy brush, considering I used their brushes on Sai for a few years straight 🥴 (also love how much they've been playing around with their style lately...mwah. love to see an artist breaking out of their comfort zone)

^^ It goes without saying I get inspiration from a lot of fandom artists, too, Wilddaggers and Nenanugget definitely come to mind,, I feel like they both use super satisfying colors and a lot going on despite not having full shading, which I hope to achieve so badly.

Thank you so much for the ask, and sorry the late reply ❣❣

[toonformers]

One thousand posts ago, I was but a humble Toon who drew humanformers, then robots, then robot OCs. Now, my dear friends, it is time I participate in what is a rite of passage in the modern drawing era! Welcome to my very first Draw This In Your Style Challange!

Everyone and their mother knows what a DTIYS is, but if you somehow don’t, I basically give you guys a piece of my art, and YOU try to recreate it in your own unique style! Be it anime, realism, be it digital or watercolor, whatever as long as it’s your style. For MY challange, I will be giving you two pieces to chose from! And your muse this time will be my dear cuddly scrunkly oc, HORIZON PRIME!

Ain’t he adorable? Now see why I put two- he’s got two forms, my little shapeshifter~! And this way people can have two designs to chose from. Now, let’s go over the rules:

1. You can only choose one of the two drawings I have put on this post. As much as I’d like to see both, the point of the two options is if you struggle with one design, there’s a backup option.

2. The drawings here aren’t a fixed idea you need to go for! If you want to change up the pose, add a background or do something else, you can! As long as:-

Horizon is the main focus of the drawing

It’s kid-friendly (SFW)

There’s no romantic shipping between Horizon and another character (He already has a mate, and they’re a mutual’s oc. Platonic ships allowed eg; friends, family.)

No violence or gore (look at my child- he’s not very violent XD)

Doesn’t convey a message of hate in any form

3. All submissions must be tagged #toons1000th and/or #toonsdtiys so I can keep track of them all, and tag my account as well so I can see them as they’re posted (1 submission per person). I’ll also reblog the submissions on my main!

4. I will accept submissions until August 8th with ONE extra day for last minute submissions. That’s it! No more submissions after that!

5. Have fun with it :D

Finally, let’s go over the prizes bc yes there are prizes for whomever’s drawing I like the most

1st place: A drawing of whichever transformers oc or canon characters with a complex background! Fully colored and rendered! (Can be anything except valveplug. Max characters 3)

2nd place: Full drawing of their favorite canon character or oc. Completed Lineart and coloring, simple gradient background. (Again, anything but valveplug. Only one character)

3rd place: Bust Lineart of favorite canon character or oc. White background (you know what I’m gonna say about the valveplug lol. Only one character)

4th place: Chaotic doodle of a meme with oc or canon character of their choosing. Only lines colored, white background. (Only one character)

Well, that’s it everyone! Get arting! Ya got until August 8th! Can’t wait to see what ya got :D

(For those of you who may want to get very detailed, below the cut is a full body reference of Horizon, as well as a color pallate for him. You’ll need to play around with the blending options in certain areas like the glow in his optics, but this will give at least a base to start from!)

[sobredunia]

Art style challenge featuring @obsidianlxgend and @milosdumb

I shall now proceed to give you little mental notes I made during production:

Kai: the hair was somehow the most fun and the most frustrating to make. I spent like 15 minutes going through your drawings tryng to see how the fuck you shade stuff I was in scrolling hell going through the same 5 drawings deciding on a style

Just went with flat shading because I refuse going on full render for a drawing that’s caused me so much mental torment. Eyes and pose were fun tho. Also now I see why people just put a color over it and lower the opacity for shading, that part was easy

Milo: this one was kinda easier because of that drawing you made me but I still didnt want to copy it but I wanted to replicate your style. The thing I struggled with was the lines you have like 28 drawings with completely different lineart what the fuck am I supposed to do with that. I adore how some parts came out but I want to beat up other. The thicker outline looks cool

Just gave myself a Henry Morris hairstyle bc I refuse to think after making Kai’s shading. Ad yet I still spent 20 minutes going thru every art piece trying to figure out how tf you draw legs

The reason why I have a white streak in only one drawing is bc I straight up forgot to put it in Milo’s drawing lmao

[zosonils-art]

👀 may we know more about rhythm man?

we sure may!!!!! rhythm dump under the cut as always

rhythm man was made to do a variety of tasks relating to sound! mostly he either does sound checks for important devices like hydrophones, sonar, seti listening devices, stuff like that, or he analyses the audio that they pick up in greater detail than any human or almost any computer can. someone [probably dr light, who created him] showed him a rhythm game pretty early in his life, and he instantly fell in love with the game genre and, more significantly, the concept of music itself. he's still doing the job he was designed for, but his real passion and arguably what he's better known for in-universe is creating music, which he uses his intricate understanding of audio to excel at

he makes a point of being a cool guy to be around! he's nice, fun-loving, and always has a joke ready. he's very encouraging of others, and thinks everyone should get to chase their dreams and do what makes them happy. when there's no bright side for him to look on, though, he doesn't really know how to act, and as such he feels uncomfortable confronting serious emotional situations and has a bad habit of repressing any negative feelings he doesn't know how to deal with and just letting them get worse. he might be developing some resentment towards his work for how much of his time it takes up that he'd rather be spending pursuing his interests, but oops that's not a fun feeling! better bottle it up and not think about it

all robots are neurodivergent but rhythm in particular has SO much undiagnosed adhd. he [probably] doesn't mind his job, but he can't pretend to be nearly as enthusiastic about it as he is his music, and tends to come off as distracted and spacey when he's at work. he's also capable of entering a hyperfocus-like state that temporarily re-allocates computing power usually dedicated to spatial awareness and sensory processing to focus on something else, which was designed to let him analyse audio with even more precision. rhythm occasionally uses this feature as intended, but more often finds himself turning it on while he's making music or playing a game to get into the groove more

he'll gladly enjoy any genre of music, but anything under the electronic umbrella is his favourite to listen to and create, especially bass music and all its subgenres! outside of genre preferences he likes songs with a lot of tiny bits and pieces and intricate details to notice - i think he'd really enjoy bill wurtz's music, for instance, due to just how much is going on in almost every song. he posts the music he makes online, and has a pretty sizeable following for both the novelty of a robot that makes music and the fact that everything he makes genuinely slaps super hard. being a robot, his criteria for 'good' music is all very simple and objective stuff like whether it's in key or has a time signature that makes sense or follows a pattern rather than just being random sounds, so he's able to appreciate almost any music for what it is and can name the number of songs he actively dislikes on one hand, although despite his best efforts to be forgiving he's a bit of an audio quality snob

the only sound he genuinely doesn't like is white noise, because the total lack of a discernable pattern or anything notable freaks him out. it's hard-coded into him to try and find meaningful noise in very fuzzy sound, and even if he analyses it back and forth on every level and concludes that it's just random aural static he's still left with a feeling of unease about it. his headphones have a sort of noise-cancelling mode that completely blocks out most background noise so he can maintain a conversation without constantly pausing to overanalyse everything he hears - without the noise cancelling he's got the world's worst case of auditory processing disorder. he's weak to psychic cry because it's just a really violent blast of white noise, and is one of the only bosses susceptible to its stunning effect because the sound freaks him out so badly he has to stop for a moment to force himself to ignore it

almost everything about rhythm came from the idea i had for his stage! i imagine it functioning as a sort of rhythm platformer where almost every moving part is timed to the beat of the stage music. it's the obligatory yoku block-spamming stage of the game, but in theory if you follow the music and jump across in time with the beat you'll make it through without much trouble [and maybe even have fun! in a stage with *yoku blocks!!*]. other stuff like constantly-spawning enemies and the attack patterns of rhythm himself would also be on that same beat cycle! as for theming, his stage is a mostly-vertical climb up a radio tower - wily's reprogramming takes his repressed frustration over not always getting to focus on his passion and upgrades it to outright spite, and he decides that actually you WILL listen to his mixtape whether you want to or not and proceeds to hijack the biggest radio tower in mosteropolis and override every single station with lofi beats to take over the world to

rhythm is the first robot master idea i ever had that wasn't a reference to something else, although for a pretty long time he was only a stage idea and a name. maybe that's why his design changed more throughout his development than any of the other guys [even between the sketch and the final lineart for this art i refined his look like 3 times]. initially he had a more 'tough'/punk-ish look, with spikes on his helmet and around his wrists and ankles, but i ended up phasing most of those elements out in favour of the led lights and generally less intimidating look. i briefly considered having his design reference rhythm heaven somehow, since it's my favourite rhythm game and the only one i'm any good at lmao, but nothing came of that - perhaps his stage enemies could have some rh references in their ranks instead, chuck some screwbots up there or something. he also had massive anime sunglasses at some point but it's better for that design to never see the light of day

he also likes dancing! hence his funky moves in the art. his body shape isn't compatible with every dance style what with the clunky robot limbs and having a stereo for a chest, and he definitely wasn't built for physical agility, but with a little practice he can pick up most dance moves no problem. he's definitely a dance battler, and i think he would love rhythm games that trick you into exercising like dance dance revolution or just dance. rhythm man does a frame perfect ddr tas in real-time on an actual cabinet

that about wraps it up for the rhythm infodump, thank you for asking about him!! as always here's the unfiltered and transparent versions of his artwork

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Art Updates Pt. 1 ☆

In my last post, I talked abt early bday presents I had gotten and mentioned making an art update post. So here we are!!

I didn't intend for this to be split into parts, but due to tumblr's photo limit, I think I'm gonna make another update next week 🤔 (We'll see!)

As u may know, I recently made an art blog (@dreampollens) and have been creating phone bgs 💗 I've been focusing on Sanrio lately, but I'm also working on a sketch to start FFIX ones!

Along with that, I've been working on some OC stuff.

The first two don't have names yet (if you have suggestions pls let me know 💕), but the second two are OCs that are very near and dear to me named Allison and Bunni 💖 As you might have guessed, both pairs are gfs lol 💘

I've been sketching Alli & Bunni frequently lately 🤔

What can I say, they're my top OTP 😆❤💕

Bunni (wearing bows and frilly style) has a colder personality and finds dealing with people to be obnoxious, while Allison (the buff one) has a sly personality and likes to be obnoxious 😂💕 (Can you guess who pursues whom? 🤔😆) For Allison, it's always love at first sight 💓 Bunni, on the other hand, usually finds Allison to be as obnoxious as the rest of them (maybe even more so), but eventually warms up to her due to her strong sense of compassion 💕 (Plus she's a buff woman, hello 😩💘💘💘)

As you can see, I've been doing a water color style with them, but I want to do smth more detailed eventually!! (Maybe with one of the other two sketches 🤔)

Along with these, I've been trying a new way of painting! Usually I do sketch > lineart > color. This one, I've been doing coloring then lineart! 😮 I'm liking it for this type of style so far. I also like that I get to paint the faces first, it makes me feel better somehow 😂💕

I have a fun/tropical color palette picked out for them, I hope I can incorporate it well 😅 Wish me luck 😆💪💖

Lastly, I finally started lining a sketch I did months ago ❤

I'm hoping to try a more flat coloring style for this one (with pastel colors), but I suck at that, so we'll see how it goes 😩💨

If you made it this far, thanks for reading!! ❤💕 I hope all of your art turns out amazing this week 💖

♡ lala