#but overall I'm happy with how it turned out.

[crappyblue]

this week i made (with the help of @mitsame, who honed my design ideas and whose sketch i traced for my sprite) a fighting game character based on myself. she's a moon worshiper possessed by the spirit of a recently-killed moon god, and she spends the game's events wandering the earth in only a cloak of moonlight, searching for a worthy vessel for said god's reincarnation.

i conceptualized this as "the overt fanservice character" and ended up giving her a bunch of alt palettes that are overall an ode to other fanservice characters in games. well, y'know, ones i like and not ones i don't like :P

before i list them all, i wanna note the bottom right one that i have highlighted in 2x on the left: it's based on my friend @aqueousablution's character SorXa! i'm really happy with how it turned out :)

in order left-to-right top-to-bottom:

me

felicia (darkstalkers)

felicia alt (darkstalkers)

arieta (cyberbots: fullmetal madness)

midler (jojo's bizarre adventure: heritage for the future)

shermie (the king of fighters)

zero suit samus

erasure (zeroranger)

despair (zeroranger)

mona lisa (teenage mutant ninja turtles: shredder's revenge)

aphrodite (hades)

tiara boobowski (sonic the hedgehog)

gold the tenrec (archie sonic the hedgehog comics)

birdy cephon altera (birdy the mighty)

lucia (lunar: eternal blue)

cordelia (panel de pon)

ranni the witch (elden ring)

world (magical drop)

diana hellebore (@platinumtulip's character)

sorXa (@aqueousablution's character)

[dont-offend-the-bees]

I would love for Ponyo AU to hear more about a) the seaside town where Edwin lives or b) how the Night Nurse and Kashi met (something which is never addressed in the Ponyo film actually, I think) - apologies if this constitutes a spoiler for future chapters!

Thank you, my friend! Apologies for the delay in answering, life sure keeps life-ing all over me 😑

I did think about choosing an actual British seaside town to set the story in -- we do have plenty of them to choose from -- but ultimately I decided that in the name of the sort of, dreamy imprecise magical whimsy of the piece, that having an exact town you can point to on a map wasn't really what was needed or wanted.

Edwin lives in a Pushing Daisies-esque small beach town named something whimsical like Bottleby-Upon-Tweed or West Wombling or some such achingly British nonsense, and it's all brightness and noise and candy striped colours in the summer and a desaturated frame of salt-roughened old celluloid in the winter. Those two mirroring states are sort of reflective of our POV characters. The POV of the overall fic is a little muddled, there may be parts where it leans more heavily into Edwin or Charles (the growing up sequence ended up almost entirely Edwin, which I regret a bit now!) but there will often be asides to both in the same section because in my mind they're sort of learning to see the world not just through their own eyes but through each other's; Edwin, who's tired of this grey old place and these grey, miserable people, and Charles, who sees the world on the shore as this big exciting adventure. It's an odd balance and one I defo didn't nail in chapter one because I was still sort of percolating ideas, but there's a tribute to both of their viewpoints in the way I'm trying to build this fictional town around them out of drab and dour things like cold cliffs and beach litter and panopticon-esque family homes that watch you with their beady window-eyes, and out of larger-than-life adventure set pieces like killer seagulls and travelling circuses (woops chapter 2 spoiler!) and the same house again but as a castle on the hill, a stronghold. Essentially, the town is a Frankensteined scrapbook of your quintessential English beachside town, cobbled together by two children with very different memories of how the summer holiday went!

And as for Night Nurse and Kashi, well, I won't go into what the later chapters hold for them, but I have no idea how much of their backstory will make it into the fic, so. In the interest of anyone who wants to keep that part of the fic a complete surprise I'll pop it under a cut!

N.N. and Kashi aren't the focus of the fic, so I wouldn't say I've thought through every aspect of their relationship/backstory, however as soon as their role in this fic revealed itself to me I did get way more invested in them than I planned! In this fic, N.N tends to be referred to as either the sea witch, or the witch of the waves (slight Howl's Moving Castle nod, there!), but she has another name, and a relatively well-known role in ancient Greek mythology. What her history is exactly has been somewhat lost to time, oral histories and retellings being what they are, but she was once a powerful sorceress with a gift for transforming people who crossed her into animals. She's had various romantic entanglements and a number of children, all lost to her now.

She'd always lived by the sea and done a number of dealings with some famous -- or infamous -- sea-dwellers, so it was a happy coincidence that one day she happened across a strange and friendly man on the docks. He was an odd man, seemingly totally unbothered by the pain and strife in the world; and she, being a woman who'd lived through a great deal of tiresome human loss and pettiness (of literally mythic proportions), found herself drawn to him. He turned out to be a minor god of the sea and a self-described inveterate wonderer, always swimming from ocean to ocean, never having had enough of all the world can show him, but his kindness and his refreshingly direct manner of speaking seduced her, and she gave up on the world of men for good to live on the bottom of the sea -- and grew to adore it so much that she's now quite sure that the world could do perfectly well without the land or the humans in the picture, actually. They love each other very dearly, in their strange way, they're honest with each other; and she's never begrudged him his lifestyle, or his adventures, or his infrequent and unpredictable visits.

...She does take SLIGHT issue when that ridiculous overgrown seahorse of a man blows back into her neck of the woods with a winsome smile and a fresh batch of magical immortal fish-children smuggled under his arm like souvenirs from abroad, but. Fortunately for him she's been a mother before and even finds herself missing it on occasion; although the sort of broods this man produces are FAR larger than any she's had to deal with in her human years. No wonder she's just a tad stressed.

[zylphiacrowley]

18. A kiss while laughing!

Kiss ask game

But, Oh God, it's beautiful. Insatiable. The way our chemicals collide.

[akantorrr]

Built with care.

[gojostan-doodles]

🩷 *Talks a lot*

💜 *Likes to listen*

[cloudinal]

Day 2 - Touch My Heartstrings

[bluecatwriter]

I'd been wanting to draw this for ages, and finally got around to it today.

[ID in Alt]

[theusernameiwantisntavailable]

Baby it's cold outside

[its-a-me-mango]

Damn, I have her for 3 days and she transitions, that's just what happens when you come into my house, good for her I guess.

[muzzlemouths]

wanted to try redrawing the very first fanart i made for this guy

[lemongrad]

Wedding quilt for a dear friend!

Norwegian Star pattern, pieced entirely on a 120 year old treadle machine and quilted by hand. 5.5' x 5.5'

Embroidered with their names and wedding date.

[television-overload]

girl who hasn't done art since middle school art class attempts to paint fox mulder with watercolors that she has no idea how to use. yes this is a form of procrastination. no my suitcase is not packed for thanksgiving

[starlightseq]

🧡💙

[wilsons-journey]

Lethurga Teensyclaw

From digital Artwork (can be found here) to Papercraft. Belongs to @tinkerclaw

[laugtherhyena]

Here's a whole batch of characters, i wanna draw survivors in their groups rather than doing them individually. I have more fun this way

Also make sure to check the infection/zombie au og post because i went back and updated a bunch of descriptions on what the characters are doing, may change some more stuff as i draw more people.

[hualian]

had a work team building event recently and of course I had to paint something inspired by TGCF/Hualian 🦋🦋🦋