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pick your battles
#my art#my stuff#art#comic#original art#pride 2024#pride month#trans allegory..... or not even allegory. just trans .... ^_^#i technically cannot come out yet but i don't think the people who i need to not see this stalk my tumblr#i know they stalk everything else like my twitter and my instagram but this might be safe#so fuck it we yap. this is a comic about picking your battles#this is a comic about how for almost a year now everyone at home in singapore has been crying about my sore throat#my terrible fucked up voice. my you know. etc#i came out as not cis and using they/them pronouns in 2015 when i was 14#but no one ever used my pronouns. none of my classmates or friends even up until i left for college in 2020#from 2020 onwards every year i wrote an angry vulnreable essay about how much it hurts that they dont remember#and people would dm me apologizing on their hands and knees and commending my bravery#and then forget about it all over again. id ont mean 'they misgender me and then catch it and apologize and correct themselves'#i mean they dont even get that far#and so you might ask yourself: why have you kept them around all this time?#and i would have to explain that by pure bad luck i grew up in the most conservative close minded community#that all of my ex classmates that stayed in singapore are cishet and upper middle class and chinese singaporean#that i Am the trans person. that they were able to ignore me for a decade partially because there was no one else#so this is a comic about how there is dignity and grace in staying in the closet sometimes#about how not everyone deserves to see you at your happiest. about how some people can go fuck themselves#you know your truth and THATS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!!! YEAH!!! i love you
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simon going after very single baby moms cuz he wants some of that breastmilk 🥴
might even step into a crumbling relationship and simply take over all for the sake of having some of it spurt onto his chest hair.
#don't get me started on the post partum body#and how he'd be on his knees for it#then asks if it's too soon for you to give him another cuz that babe in the crib is his now sorry#at first this was simon#now i see homelander#anyway sniffing after the girl at work who just came back from maternity leave#prefers straight from the tap if you don't mind
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The moon will cry too
Alt bg plus the original colours (✿◕‿◕✿)
#art#Persona 3#persona 3 reload#minato arisato#makoto yuki#Ryomina#<<<< Implied....#my art#Leel's art#I told myself to do a quick piece and he appeared :]#This was fun! I hated working on it.#I do like how he came out though I just hate the process of doing lineless art#Don't ask me about the caption whenever I think of P3 I think of Nyx only so. she's everywhere.#I do love minmin though shout out to my favourite persona protag#Also.#If you notice the hair highlight. It's like a heart monitor. because.
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I'm doomed by BATLANTERN.
I don't know how it happened they are one thing swear, I came to stay. I'm not afraid, the ring chose me!!!!
#batlantern#sorry for the bad lantern ring joke#I rarely ship Batman/Bruce with someone for like Talia and Selina though I just sigh and bear with it whatever canon it is#Don't ask me how else I came to stay#batman#green lantern#hal jordan#bruce wayne#i have a vision#i love this ship sm#ao3#doomed yaoi#dc comics#dc ships#bruhal#batman x green lantern#shipping#heroes#batfamily#DC#friend to lovers
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In honor of many people getting their Sifplushes, can we have a little Loopplush? Plushloop? Loop plushie?
DAY 86: the visage of the beast
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#siffrin isat#loopplush returns#god you can carbon date this ask by the fact i got it when the wave of sifplush came out#anyways if you've forgotten about. the creature#why dont you click the link#don't step at me for it beingdrawn different than the picture i've since fixed the spikes#well i say that. but currently loopplush is laying in a bowl filled with their beads in a pile of fabric#i must resew the beast once more#i had to look up a picture of sif plushie for this. i forgot how mopey he looks. sad wet creature. craves milk#oh edit the falling from the sky part is in direct reference to the twitter qna#hashtag deep cut
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I'm not sure if anyone else has made this connection, but I've never seen it mentioned before. I think, similar to Lolita, RS was also inspired by the art of Trevor Brown. His work has a lot of young girls and medical fetish themes (to put it lightly) in a style reminiscent of RS's earlier stuff.
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CW: medical fetish art often depicting children / child-like characters and medical equipment such as needles, gas masks, etc. seriously don't hit the jump if medical equipment or young girls in nurse's outfits or with open wounds makes you squeamish, I will not blame you for turning around now LOL
OP I was about to just... dismiss this. Wave it away as a funny coincidence that is indeed funny, but doesn't have any real evidence to back it up. I had a post typed up in response already declaring this, after which posting I was gonna move on with my day, work on Rekindled, play some XIV.
Because sure, there are a lot of resemblances between Trevor Brown's work and Rachel's old art, but nothing that can't be dismissed in good faith as a simple coincidence of being within the same genre of fetish art (first three are Trevor's, last three are Rachel's).
But then that little voice in the back of my head whispered in my ear, "Puff. You should double check. Just to be sure. Do your due diligence." And I once again found myself on the precipice of the rabbithole that somehow becomes deeper every time I jump. This time though, I knew it couldn't be that bad, I mean, I had enough confidence in knowing that there's no fucking way she listed Trevor Brown as one of her favorite artists-
God fucking dammit. How in the world did I miss this? I mean, I suppose I missed it simply because I'm not familiar with the works of Trevor Brown, but you can bet your ass I became familiar with it in my digging. Yeah, this guy is a supreme creep.
Again, I am not going to accuse Rachel of being a pedophile because that's just not an accusation that should be thrown around without undeniable evidence. What I will say, which has largely remained the same - though even more confidently now than ever before - is that she's clearly someone who took a lot of inspiration and influence from very problematic artists when she was young (I'm talking in her late teens which has me wondering if she started making medical fetish art when she was still a minor-) and then, BEST guess, she started to drop the medical fetish stuff around the time she went to college (which was also the same time she dropped The Doctor Pepper Show, which later got reworked into The Doctor Foxglove Show which was a lot less reminiscent of her medical fetish style from the early 2000's, but still had some of her usual preferences at play) and that's led up to today where she's drawing comics that look like they're for kids but tackle heavy adult subject matter in the worst way possible that straight up perpetuates grooming.
No matter how much experience I have with this already, no matter how much I think I've already seen, I always find more, and this time was no different. In fact - though unrelated to the original topic - thanks to this one fucking ask, I even found the full Mads Mikkelson comic with the completed caption. You know, that one.
And apparently Mads Mikkelson did very much replace her crush on Jeremy Irons.
Who's Jeremy Irons?
Oh yeah.
I just... y'all I can't. This is un-fucking-real. I'm gonna go take a shower, I need to scrub myself off of this 😭
#ask me anything#ama#anon ama#anon ask me anything#lore olympus critical#anti lore olympus#lo critical#the timeline of rachel's art career and how it came to be in the form that it exists now is starting to become a lot more clear#my eyes are burning#i've mentioned before that i don't like scrutinizing rachel over her past stuff because being a cringy teen on the internet isn't a crime#but there really is something to be said about how much of her past influences have bled into LO#as well as her outlook on the heavier topics that she's tried to “tackle” through LO and failed miserably at
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me when my beloved tumblr friends exist
#rox rambles#I AM SQUISH#SQUISH#don't ask how long this took me#i just really love you all okay#also my tablet came with a pen and a basic art program#i am taking full advantage#i need multiple mediums to express my love#interpretive dance is next
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Liberio Festival the Diptych
#my art#gallirei#reiner braun#porco galliard#attack on titan#that's how you stare at your disassociating boyfriend#a woman came up to me while i was drawing this and she liked it so much she asked for my social media to see the result#for a second i was like “....no i dont think she wants to see my yaoi soldiers”#so i said i don't have any lmaoooo#shingeki no kyojin#marleyan warriors#marleyans#liberio#these pictures are a year apart uuuhhhh
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there are a lot of things i like about early established buddie but the one i love the most is buck will be able to spiral about eddie to eddie. like i do not think even for a second my good friend buck buckley is gonna be less crazy insane — in fact i bet hes gonna be even more crazy insane because he's dating EDDIE. who is his partner but also his best friend of 7 years who he throws popcorn at. they will go on a call and it will inspire the latest Buck Crisis™ and he will go "do you think me buying a motorcycle will make you love me more" and eddie will answer with "it would make it difficult because you'd die in a car crash in 5 seconds flat" and buck will not buy the motorcycle actually because he does everything eddie says forever the end
#don't ask me how i came up with the scenario#maybe a centaur flirts with eddie once#maybe a frat boy tries to impress his girlfriend with motocross and breaks his back#whatever#the point is buck will be forced out fo the torture nexus#by sheer virtue of eddie being deadass honest and having zero tact#love that for them#buddie#911 on abc
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Pallette nr 2 + your favorite childhood cartoon character!
thank you alex! i finally got the motivation to go back and finish this one up!
I'm cheating a little bit because I was fully in high school when this came out, but none of my other ideas were sparking joy so I went with it. Carmen Sandiego from the 2019 netflix reboot :) The palette ended up working great for her!
I really liked the show, my brother and I watched it together and we enjoyed how complex the story was (even though it was still going for the educational geography angle). And the style it's animated in was really pretty! I love the stylized way they always animate her coat blowing in the wind.
(prompt from this color palette challenge)
#stars art#ask game answers#color palette challenge#carmen sandiego#carmen sandiego netflix#fun fact i did dress up as her for halloween one year#as i got older my halloween costumes leaned more and more towards baby's first cosplay lol#i got a red hat and trench coat which i think i still have altho im sure neither of them fit me#i don't know if/when i will get to the other color palette asks but here's hoping!#im glad i got unstuck on this one i really like how it came out
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🎂🧡 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACE @kellystar321 I HOPE YOU HAVE A LOVELY DAY TODAY <3
#artz#birthday giftz#scheduled <3#aaron informed me that you liked the new emu card when i asked so that's the outfit i drew her in <3#i just drew some of the characters that first came to mind that i connect with you;#don't ask how i literally forgot reader fjdsnj you're THE reader person enfjkdnj PRETEND I FIT THEM IN SOMEWHERE...#absolutely ZERO need to reblog this or anything i know you've been off your blog for a while so don't feel pressured whatsoever okay!!!! <3#i just hope you have a good day & that you're doing okay okok <3 happy birthday icarus :> <33
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girl idc how long it takes to get Laura high ass hell, she needs that cannabis.
Get this poor bitch some weed omg
#she hates smoke but she needs it so so badly#laura chastel#hellsing oc#my oc#my art#ask response#fun fact the reason she hates smoke is bc my dad used to tell me how he was taught to repel wolves with smoke/fire if they came too close#and one where he did run into a small pack but had an oil lantern so he scared them off with a stick and fire#this was 70s rural Serbia. everything was game#Integra laces her meat with thc to calm her down a bit#like feeding your dog medicine they don't want#cw weed#cw drugs
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Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?
Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...
When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.
(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)
The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.
For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.
In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.
I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)
I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.
The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.
This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.
I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...
These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.
What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.
The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.
And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.
It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.
This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!
Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part
But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...
There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.
I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.
I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.
#asks#somewhereinasgard#anatomy#art tips#anatomy tips#don't like... take my word as gospel OF COURSE#I am sure there's like one thing or more in here that's like. genuinely wrong#but whatever#anyways. I love steve LMFAO#I was thinking about zagan a lot too in this one tbh LMAOOOO cause he's got a similar body type#and when I just did that action animation of him#and people were like how the fuck did you do this so fast#I sort of have been realizing all this knowledge I have about anatomy#and how much easier it makes my life pretty much every single step of the way.#those action poses did not need reference.#I almost never need reference for drawing people#unless its like... realism. but I mean in my comics or animations#when the arm is coming towards the camera I know what's going on in the arm and what the form of it ACTUALLY is so I can properly draw it#there's no guesswork. I know what I'm doing.#which makes it so that when I'm depicting someone like flipping all around or whatever#I just know what the body looks like. how it moves. how it balances. etc.#I would say it comes naturally to me but it doesnt.#it is subconscious at this point#but it is very extremely studied#not a damn bit of this came out of nowhere LOL#ok anyways this was a really fun ask#I got extremely carried away I am so sorry#this is like my biggest artistic passion I LOVE anatomy SO much#I love drawing muscles#I love the technical feelings that happens in my brain when I draw an arm moving and figure out how the muscles are engaged
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God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. For example: I have an online community of intelligent, thoughtful, deeply nerdy Catholics and Protestants who want their Christianity to inform their approach to art NOT because it ever occurred to me to go looking, but because at one point before I even made a Tumblr account I was scouring the internet for decent Psmith content.
#Rebekah was one of the first people I followed on here even though I came for mob#and that led me to fictionadventurer and allieinarden which led me to LB and to Nellie#and I think that's been the core of my Tumblr experience#--an experience which I take wildly for granted sometimes until I get hit with 'oh right this kind of culture is really hard to find'#was telling irl friends about Doxacon and they were saying how rare it is to find other people who are openly nerdy AND openly religious#one of my (very Catholic) brothers was asking what viewing fiction through a Christian lens MEANS and what the purpose is#so yeah. Christian Tumblr communities in general + all my friends here in particular are an unasked-for gift I don't appreciate enough
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These have been sitting in my sketchbook(and mind) for a while. Also I definitely DID not forget after the accident Curly doesn't have hands. Definitely not.
#Don't ask me how I even forgot something like that even I don't know#I drew these when the game came out#honestly I have so many things I can say about this game. So many things you can talk about and analyze#mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#captain curly#anya mouthwashing#nurse anya
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*gently pokes you with a stick til you write this*
Is there a plot, or just vibes... like what is going on in this universe... okay... *rolls sleeves up* lemme try to headcanon it a little:
Oscar is a rising star in product engineering, and was hired based on a prototype he was developing in his Imperial College dorm room. Barely settled into his new office gig, he is told to present a demo of said product on the mainstage of his tech company employer's next big conference, where they announce their latest product rollouts for the year.
Oscar really hates public speaking, and has never been very good at it. Enter Lando - deputy head of marketing and charmboy extraordinnaire - who is assigned to get him up to scratch.
Other universe details that probably only I care about: Adam Norris is the new CFO who brings his son into the picture. There are definitely two overworked interns on both their teams who have to manage all their weird quirks and Lando's idiosyncratic JIRA board hygiene. Surely there must be an ugly conference t-shirt. No wait– Oscar sleeps with Lando at the conference rehearsal, but the first time is kinda unexpected, and also Oscar spilled red wine on himself the previous night which necessitated him going up to Lando's hotel room for Plot Convenient Reasons (sex). Morning after, Oscar has to borrow one of Lando's t shirts and it ends up being a neon prototype that was manufactured as an error. And Oscar's like "you cannot expect me to walk out like this", and it's like. "Well either that or you walk around the city shirtless sorry mate." (Oscar takes the L, but he really hates green highlighters from that point on and nobody really knows why. Lando thinks it's hilarious and buys him copious amounts of hot chocolate to make up for it even though it was never his fault. He just likes buying hot chocolate for Oscar.)
There is also definitely an icebreaking joint activity that they both do, like indoor rock climbing, in order to get to know each other. Except Lando is like, spectacularly good at it, and Oscar (a) lies about his competency in rock climbing (b) is deathly afraid of heights. But Oscar refuses to be a wimp so doesn't say a single thing until he reaches the top of a really challenging wall and Lando is like: woah you did so amazing! Now let go and come down! and Oscar is like: I can't! Lando: wdym?? Oscar: I hate heights. Like "my sisters used to lure me to the roof with a ladder and then take the ladder away", hate heights. Lando: BRO.....your PRIDE.... (but he's also secretly going insane because Oscar clearly just wanted an excuse to spend the morning with him.)
Their first kiss is after Lando belays Oscar safely to the ground, obviously. Adrenalin, and stuff.
#landoscar#in a tech bro au#don't ask me how i came up with this#wiz.HCs#it just fell out of me#you think my ideas fall out of a coconut tree??#well i exist in the context of all the yaoi in which i live and all the yaoi which came before me !!#<- if you understand this reference you definitely qualify as a member of Chronically Online Anonymous#bless y’all too there were at least a dozen typos in here when I posted it and probably a dozen more#and y’all rolled with it anyway
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