#digi hates art

[slasher-killer]

chuuya if he had big naturals (this is not transfem or gender bend art i am killing you with knives)

(maybe he’s a trans guy or maybe he just has big tits. idk)

[marionette-j2x]

✋ HALT! SPOILER DISTRACTION! ✋ Have a Willow- ❤️

(Also, avoid AND STOP POSTING SPOILERS!!!. I know it was prematurely showned on iTunes on another country but for God's sake! If u wanna go see it immediately then go. But don't post ANYTHING about them around soc med so carelessly without a second thought. Get ahold of yourselves and RESPECT Dana and her crew. Be responsible! Geez some people don't listen anymore when others say to stop posting them anyways- hayst... 🙄)

[tunapesto]

cyno based off the heat stroke photoshoot I cba to finish this ..

[bluffspirit]

vii. luna diver

[kuuu-rage]

GAVIS BETTEL 3D YOOOO 💕

TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO 🍅🍅🍅

[kideternity]

[Image ID: Inked digital drawing of Digimon character Justimon. Justimon is a humanoid with a heavily Tokusatsu superhero inspired design- wearing a bodysuit with multiple different armoured parts particularly around their left shoulder, elbow and wrist, ankles, knees and chest and abdomen area as well as rivets dotted around their body. They have a belt with a large circular belt buckle spiked at four corners in the middle, as well as a very long scarf. They have a metal helmet on with no facial features, and four metal antenna- two longer ones that are sticking up and two shorter ones sticking down at each ear area respectively. Their right arm- a redesign of the accel arm- is much longer and bigger, with sharp claws at the end of it. It is very mechanical looking, with tubing and more rivet and gear motifs, their right shoulderpad having a blunt spike coming up from the middle. They are in a mid action pose, as if they were jumping or running, looking to the side with their head slightly lowered, their left arm bent closer towards their body whilst the right arm is fully outstretched. There are dark patches of shadow around certain parts of their body and scarf as well as small action lines. /End Image ID]

His strange fighting pose

[digirainebow]

i didn't think jacob would be arguing with olivia, wanting it almost as much as her. what the hell. i expected the self defeated, taking one for the team attitude but actively needing it like her? when he had been trying to stop her all night? i feel like i've been blasted by a buckshot

[beginningobserver]

♾ Change your Destiny!! ♾

I'M LATE I KNOW.

Happy (belated) meta-birthday to Wallace and the digi- twins Gummymon and Chocomon! It has been 24 years since Hurricane Touchdown/Golden Digimentals were released in Japan!

I love this movie, I love its soundtrack (especially the one track they rearranged and used for Arukenimon's theme in the TV series), I love Wallace and his digi-twins, and more importantly, the art in this movie is so gorgeous and colorful..

And I'm glad that director Taguchi loves this movie enough to just give us happy cameos from the three of them. I'm glad 02TB let us see him in a good scene having a happy life with his double-partners! Oh, I wish one day Toei and the Digimon higher-ups to release a novel where Wallace meets the 02 kids again, and then witness Wallace, Ken and Rui meet for the first time.

I want to know if Ken will just hate him because Wallace was flirting with Miyako in HT lmao. And if you know, you know. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

(Also, Rui is basically a reinvention of Wallace, imo. It's a concept that just seems to get a fresh new angle and I think they'd get along okay?!)

I had no idea if I should just use the adult Rui holding the egg, but I didn't like the idea in the end and went with kid Rui. And i added the eyepatch because I need to draw more eyepatched child Rui for my own fanworks, like this interquel AU thing here.

[seventeenlovesthree]

Digi Dynamic Shipping Game

Send me two names among the following 12 and I’ll write a short analysis post about them:

Taichi Yagami | Yamato Ishida | Sora Takenouchi | Koushirou Izumi | Mimi Tachikawa | Jyou Kidou | Takeru Takaishi | Hikari Yagami | Daisuke Motomiya | Miyako Inoue | Iori Hida | Ken Ichijouji

Whether canon provides input on them or not.

Jyou and Koushirou, mostly thanks to their connection to Iori, often get paired together as "left-overs" in official art portrayals; this also happens when "the main fighters" (Taichi & Yamato), "the girls" (Sora & Mimi) and "the angel siblings" (Takeru & Hikari) get paired off as well. At first glance, there isn't much more to it than that (especially because there are also variations of them being paired off with Sora and Mimi respectively too), especially because their roles in the series actually aren't as "tropey" as they appear to be at first glance. But their relationship is still interesting to look at regardless:

The creators of Digimon intended to "throw you off the usual, conventional track" by the way they depict their main characters. Kakudou himself refers back to Jyou and Koushirou to make this clear: "The oldest one would be the most unreliable, and the smartest one would be one of the third youngest." Reading that, you would assume that our studious Jyou, being as keen to become a doctor as he is while dealing with occasional self-esteem issues, would feel rather intimidated by Koushirou. Koushirou, who is depicted as naturally smart and, during one of their first interactions in the Digital World, easily solves a math problem that Jyou struggles with.

However - this is literally NEVER an issue between them. There are exactly two occasions where it's played for laughs: First, in the stageplay, as Koushirou is overall blissfully unaware of Jyou's despair over his grades. Second, in the reboot, but even there, it only happens during their introduction and is never brought up again.

Overall, the series is mostly subtle about their stance towards each other. But Adventure and 02 also make sure that, when they do interact with each other - as rarely as it happens -, you KNOW they are on good terms with each other. It's when Jyou trustfully follows Koushirou through the crowd of Tokyo while they wonder where the others have vanished to; it's when Koushirou tries to protect Jyou from being assaulted by a literal adult and ends up getting thrown down a bridge because of it; it's when Koushirou cries because Jyou willingly sacrifices himself to get him to safety, even if it happens in vain; it's when they call each other for arrangements through the course of 02 because they know they can rely on each other; heck, it's when the English dub makes Jyou shout out things like "DON'T START WITHOUT ME, I WANNA HEAR IZZY'S THEORIES, I LOVE IZZY'S THEORIES."

So you can tell, they are generally valuing and supportive of each other. Tri is, unfortunately, a little bit more divisive in this regard; as mentioned here, the topic of romance is a touchy one for our resident "nerds". Which is, unfortunately, a trope they both have to deal with, as Jyou is involved with a girlfriend we never see and know if she's real - but he still gets kinda boastful about it, so his "advice" towards Koushirou ("At least take a shower or the ladies will hate you") is... Not exactly taken well by him, quite the contrary. Koushirou is stuck trying to save the world while fighting with the girl he has complicated feelings for - thus he seems to be feeling belittled by Jyou and shuts down.

But fear not, the stageplay and Kizuna are here to save the day! The former in particular is excellent at showing us the extent of how much they simply value and adore each other: All comic relief aside, Koushirou straight up voices his delight over Jyou being with them on their camping trip and while he tries to maintain a harsh demeanour towards Jyou being potentially "fake", you can tell that the possibility gets to him. Jyou on the other hand kinda seems to enjoy the little bickering between them to an extent, it's all pretty lighthearted after all - and, most importantly, he is the one who manages to reassure Koushirou during his lowest moment. Telling him that, even if he doesn't believe in himself, Jyou DOES believe in him - and judging by the screenshot above, you can tell that this does something to Koushirou. Overall, it may not be the MOST VISIBLE friendship in the series, but their bond is definitely there - and persists, as Koushirou still seems to manage to stay in touch with Jyou during Kizuna.

Whether I think why and how they’d work.

I'll be real, I am incredibly torn when it comes to the romantic potential between these two. It is fascinating to see them bounce off of each other the way they do - especially if you consider their age difference and that even the little instances of bickering between them still don't feel like either of them feels really inferior or superior to the other in the long run. The potential to have them fight over "intelligence" and "girls" in a typical "nerd fashion" had been there - and I'll give kudos to the writers for not succumbing to that, but instead making their bond incredibly valuing and supportive.

And I'll be real again... The fact that Koushirou's bitter reaction to Jyou telling him to "shower or the ladies will hate you" does have the potential for subtext... Because personally, I still believe Tri in itself is a metaphor for Koushirou trying to figure out his preferences in more than one sense. So despite everything, what if it weren't the "ladies" he wanted to impress - and the reason why he got mad at that statement wasn't so much that Jyou was right, but that he didn't even think about that...

Thinking of Jyou and Koushirou through a romantic lense is both difficult and interesting, because on one hand, their Tri portrayals give off very blatant "bickering bro vibes" while simultaneously trying very hard to push them both in a "strictly straight" direction. And yet - the gentle, fond subtext that Adventure, 02 and the stageplay offered at least gives room for an entirely different set of feelings towards each other. It could be a story of them masking their preferences, being heavily in denial and learning how to overcome their comp-het phases - together!

I have no doubt that they will stay in touch way into adulthood, since both their careers are intertwined with the Digital World and they may ask each other for information and advice a lot. So the opportunity to bond and get closer through that is definitely there. One might argue that they both need more contrasting forces in their lives to pull them out of their comfort zones (such as Mimi, Yamato or Taichi), since we saw Jyou wasn't exactly capable of doing that for Koushirou (yet)... But if they manage to actually listen to each other and get over themselves, they may be able to make it work. Slowly but steadily.

Whether I’d prefer them as platonic or romantic ship.

Not gonna lie, I love to imagine these two as adults going on Digital World strolls with Taichi, moping over adulting and their respective jobs giving them headaches - even though they all love what they're doing and are probably closer than ever. I usually do think of them as complementing friends who trust each other without a shred of a doubt and call each other when something urgent is up - including the moping. While I do believe that Taichi would be Koushirou's and Yamato Jyou's gay awakening respectively, I feel like they could be a solid fit for each other - but like with many other ships, they're more likely to find each other when a lot of other people are "out of the picture". So I mostly prefer them to be platonic, absolutely do not deny the subtle romantic potential though!

[squirreltastic]

[PHOTO ID: A digital and full colored art of a redesign of Venusmon. Using official art as the pose, one arm is lifted holding up Olive a white blue bird with gold pearls. The other arm holds up a blue and gold Scallop. She is a pale white Digimon with golden blonde hair, she has grown out bangs and long hair in a drill curl pony tail ending in a tie with a bow of white ribbon. She is facing the viewer but her eyes are covered in white ribbon and she has feathered ears, she is posed en pointe. Her hair has pearls. She wears a clam shell bodice with water motif and has white feathers as a tutu, it has pearls as well. She has her canon leg and forearm armor on. She has a necklace of pearls ending in a red gem, she has a choker with a red oval gem. The background is foamy water from above. END ID]

I wanted to do a Venusmon redesign that played up Venus mythos a bit more. My original design was with a water and foam dress but I ended up playing around with feathers and she ended up as a ballerina! Reusing motifs was also key, the feathers of Olive and shells of her scallop for her outfit/bodice. I did hate the way her hair was 'ended' so this tie allows the ribbon motif to be used again.

@digi-egg

[slasher-killer]

burnout moodboard

[marionette-j2x]

//TOH S3 SPOILERS!!!!!

"Time to go home, Flap..."

(still in pain and agony and PAIN-! 😫😭😭😭)

[bisexualrobotz]

i want to take comms but im in a hating my art era and i cant do digi so idk but id benefit from extra cash plus i want to get paid in dollar so i can donate.

[centrally-unplanned]

Don't care about SAO but adore learning about internet drama so - what's the Great Digibro Divergence?

Sword Art Online's anime was released in 2012, and it was a huge success amoung mainstream audiences. Mainstream audiences don't typically post on Tumblr or Reddit though, that is a fandom thing, and in the West fandom reception was also positive - the reddit threads were hype, reviews were good, and since this was 2012 when the peak of the first "AniTuber" wave was cresting, the YouTuber reviews were positive. People like Glass Reflections, Gigguk, etc, all made positive reviews through 2013. But all the reviews had this note of like, "yeah there are big issues but what it does right, it does right."

Then in 2014 MyLittlePony-Analyst-Turned-Anime-Youtuber-Critic (glorious sentence) Digibro released his "Sword Art Oline - An Analytical Diatribe", a Red Letter Media-inspired long-form takedown of the series. It was one of the first and most influential of that genre of rage-fueled, edgy, but fundamentally analysis-focused videos in the anime space (a genre which was very big in the mid-2010's and lives on through YouTubers like MauLer). It essentially took all the 'it has flaws but' perspectives and flipped them on their head, to say the flaws are overwhelming and erase the good.

Through a combination of the video itself being so successful due to its style & format, to the fact that there was always a large undercurrent of people who didn't like SAO but were always drowned out by fans and so didn't bother, the tide turned. And certainly another factor is the inherent life cycle of a fandom, people love to hate, they love to hate the most popular things the most, and you just need a 'tipping point' to make that hating go from cringe to cool. Digi's video was that tipping point, and by 2015 every Youtuber was posting imitation SAO hate-fests and every reddit thread that wasn't an episode recap or something was bashing it. It was Hamilton or Homestuck on Tumblr all over again, essentially.

THere are other structural reasons around SAO itself, and of course this is a 'straw breaking the camels back' moment not the entire cause, but I think that is a key divergence between west & japan on how SAO is percieved - hating SAO was critical to the birth of an entire subgenre of Anime Fandom so it became way more entrenched than in Japan.

(And I am not linking the review because Digi now goes by Trixie, hates all of her old videos essentially, deleted most of them, and has quit anitubing. But Pendantic Romantic has a video on the fandom around SAO describing this phenomenon, can link that for the insane who are curious)

[wulfums]

🔥furry fandom + furry art + fursuits

Furry fandom: to be honest i have no idea whats going on in the furry fandom like. Ever. Ive found that doing my own thing is the best way to have fun. I also hate the cult of personality goin on w big name furs esp when said furrys dont do anything artistic they just own expensive fursuits

Furry art: the insane variety of styles you can find in this fanbase is so fun. I do love that the fanbase’s money is used towards indie artists instead of corps, too.

Fursuits: the fact people get popular and get a huge army of defenders just for owning an expensive fursuit is weird to me. Also the obvious bias for full digi suits. Like. When hellfur was a partial he didnr get much attention. Now that hes a fullsuit (and…my thighs are thick enough to trick ppl into thinking hes digi hehe) he gets a lot of attention at cons. The fursuiting community in specific is very very classist like to an insane degree

[verm1c1de]

head in paws. i want to do digi art but drawing on my tablet Literally tires me out i hate how digi art feels with efurry fiber of my being honestly