#drawing storytime

[craftyandy]

Color Sky Background Bedtime Story w Last Airbender Video

https://youtu.be/8SpiZEEOmKg Any Future Hope For The Live Action Avatar The Last Airbender by Netflix? #lastairbender #avatarthelastairbender #netflixavatar #nickelodeon #craftyarts #craftyandy #craftythoughts #animation #cartoons

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[sushiisiu]

What song is he serenading apollo with (wrong answers only)

[elizabeths-storytime]

What a fine evening to go swim in the Bass Pro Shop Aquarium

[anniebass]

high spice tolerance, my ass

(old man smut)

[its-not-a-pen]

[餘知傳] The 2nd Century Warlord (Part 1)

based on the story by @romanceyourdemons

art by @its-not-a-pen

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

second day as a second century warlord i bribe a bunch of kids to start singing a nursery rhyme i carefully crafted to spread misinformation and further my strategic ends but they change the lyrics to be about poop and the enemy isn’t misdirected at all

third day as a second century warlord i lure my enemy into a narrow valley and send a team of archers to shoot them from the high ground but there was a feral hog napping on the trail up to the overlook and they couldn’t decide whether to try and shoot it or just go around and by the time the hog woke up and left on its own the enemy had already passed safely below

fourth day as a second century warlord we attempt to join a battle on the side of the guy we want to ally with but he and the guy he’s fighting have really similar names and it’s finally dusty and i misread the standards and attack the wrong guy. so now we’re stuck with this total loser of a liege lord, because how the fuck do you explain that after a battle?

fifth day as a second century warlord and some sort of wizard wanders into camp, my loser liege lord wants to execute him for being a wizard but i convince him to let the wizard stay, because i want to do more weather-based strategies and i’m pretty sure having a camp wizard can help with that. after the welcome to the team banquet the wizard steals half the treasury and my liege lord’s wife and leaves

sixth day as a second century warlord my loser liege lord sends me to reinforce a city he’s taken, but in the confusion of leaving i forgot to take the token that would have gotten us into the city, so my men have to wait outside the city walls for like eight hours while i ride back to get it

seventh day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord finally joins me in the city, it turns out he’s actually a pretty cool guy, and he isn’t even that mad at me for letting the wizard steal his wife. i decide to shoot my shot but i’m really nervous and keep on stalling because what if i mess up our relationship and by extension jeopardize the security of my men, and eventually he just says goodnight and goes back to his room, where an assassin is in the process of setting up to kill him

eighth day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord tells me to fake defect to his rival warlord, the one i originally wanted to ally with, to find out if he was the one who sent the assassin and why. but my whole way over to the rival warlord i’m worried that this has something to do with the wizard thing or how awkward i made it last night

End of Part 1

part 2

This comic was made independently from the creator, I'm just a fan and these are my own interpretations.

Notes under the cut:

the title 餘知傳 [the Story of Yu Zhi], is the styled name of the Second Century Warlord. I translated 餘知 as [plentiful knowledge] since he's defined by a surplus of knowledge but a deficit in luck. It's also great for fish-based puns since it's a homophone. As a nice parallel, Loser Liege Lord's banner is a carp ;))). the art style was inspired by vintage Chinese comics.

The story is set during the Three Kingdoms period, (220 to 280 AD) natural disasters, infighting and civil unrest had dissolved the previous Han Dynasty, leading to a violent free-for-all. I based the clothes on the previous Eastern Han styles, mainly because there just weren't a lot of contemporary references from the 3K period (and it only lasted like, 60 years). I always strive for historical accuracy, however, the Han Dynasty was over 400 years long and some sources don't do a great job separating out the different fashions, so I apologise for any mistakes that occur.

2. there aren't a ton of drawings on what Han children looked like, but in general ancient kids hairstyles are pretty consistent. 9-15 yo boys had shaved heads with two little top knots, girls had natural hair in braids/buns.

3. the crossbow (back left) makes a cameo, it was associated with Zhuge Liang, famous real-life strategist from the 3K era.

4. the LLL and his wife thank the Warlord, (a noblewoman on a battlefield??? scandalous!). it shows the LLL enjoys the unconventional and the wife is not as timid as she appears. I thought it would be funny to make them look as Background Character (tm) as possible.

5. I based the wizard's design on sages from mythology. (Hey, he's not a total fraud, he invented gunpowder 800 years before the Tang dynasty!) Nice little character moment for the LLL who is shielding his wife.

6. What do soldiers do while they're waiting for 8 hours? (<-from the right) playing knucklebones with pebbles, whittling a little horse, feeding sparrows, gossiping with neighbour, drinking from his gourd, napping. A minor warlord can't afford to keep a professional army so they're most likely conscripted farmers who've had to buy their own weapons and armour, hence why they look so unimpressive.

7. LLL offers the Warlord a bitten peach. Inspired by the legend of Mizi Xia who bit into a delicious peach and gave it to the Emperor so he could taste it was well. "Bitten peach" was a byword for homosexuality in ancient China. I thought it would be SO funny if the LLL was actually smooth af and the Warlord was a like a teenaged girl crushing for the first time. He's desperate to taste that peach but is too timid to reach out >;))) man has zero game. negative game, even. truely the PS4 of homosexuals. RIP to the assassin in the back corner who was forced to watch the most awkward, cringe-fail attempt at flirting in the history of china play out.

8. this is what zero peach does to a mf. UnU

[barnlarn]

Owning a horse in the northern midwest be like

[flickering-nightfall]

ubemaster (they are ube colored to me)

[incognetomisquito]

The Crackle of Your Voice [Art Post]

MY MAGNUM OPUS

Hullo hullo all, i emerge for yet another year of TS Sides Big Bang!

Collaborated with the wonderful @katelynn-a-fan to illustrate their fic, The Crackle of Your Voice

(@tss-storytime btw)

Depicting the first, and last times Patton sees Roman in the arena

Ok, mandatory rant under the cut (and process pics!)

I had so much fun trying to nail the vibes, which is on par with all my illustrations lmao. I wanted a before and after, with the two Romans being mirror versions of the other. Despite being two different moments in time, its virtually the same pose! But with a shoulder shift and vastly different context.

The design stayed simple, I’m never one for overly detailed clothing or backgrounds, but I conveyed my point. And I’m not too strong on color yet, so keeping everything simple let me really explore the shading, lighting, and hell overall composition

My sketch to lineart process was pretty straightforward (tho still fun) but the coloring is where it got interesting

I wasnt really sure where to go? I knew i wanted something dramatic, and im a sucker for lighting, so i started with that. Ive been sketching with this specific blue so i started the lighting mockup in that, and got something really nice.

And then i kinda just. Incorporated that into everything. Roman himself is a palette of red and gold, and then the lineart evolved to be a more red hue of that blue sketch color. The background went purple, again to bridge the gap between that blue sketch and the red Roman.

Then I got stuck again, bc I loved that lighting mockup, but didn’t know how to re-make it with an actual color palette. The glory of overlay tho, meant i didnt have to! After that, it was playing around with shadows and highlights, and some good filters to get the electricity to pop. Plus one last layer of the light beams.

Im really proud of myself with the lighting tho! The way the shadows really let you know where the light source is, it looks really nice. And the way the colors all stayed in harmony, although i think the overlay did a lot of the heavy lifting

And fun fact! They’re phone background size :D

[shukruut]

if you're someone who draws fanart you can't let spoilers get ya because sometimes you're casually looking for references of a neat background-maybe-eventually-major character and then oops they die. and you did that to yourself.

[bravenewwor1d]

I constantly think about how the same artist for Halloween Timerra did Fogado's artwork in the new FEH banner 😭

[craftyandy]

InkFinal Bedtime Story w Making Video (Last Airbender Netflix)

https://youtu.be/8SpiZEEOmKg Any Future Hope For The Live Action Avatar The Last Airbender by Netflix? #lastairbender #avatarthelastairbender #netflixavatar #nickelodeon #craftyarts #craftyandy #craftythoughts #animation #cartoons

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[bitemarx]

my piece for @simple-seranade’s ship of theseus au, as part of the @tss-storytime big bang!

read the fic here!

[radjerda]

Elflings don’t need to know about balrogs, Glorfindel

             Continuous version of the comic is under the cut:

[jacketlovingfox]

Just remembered how awful most of my 8th grade classes were. The problem was that the entire class was made up of friends and popular kids who knew each other, thus causing a literal war whenever the teachers left the class for 0.0001 seconds. I'd have to sit there and watch the chaos unfold beneath my quiet kid eyes (I was fresh out of quarantine at the time, not wanting to go back into public school).

[dragonsarecats]

@tss-storytime One of my pieces for the Storytime 2024 Big Bang! I've been in fandom for ten years, and yet this is the first time I've actually participated in an event like this!

Go check out @greenninjagal-blog 's corresponding story, Smoke and Mirrors!

“Office of Destruction, Remus Regal speaking,” Remus says, answering between mouthfuls of something that crunches horribly into the speaker. “Remus. It’s me.” “Roman? You’re starting to act like an obsessed fan,” Remus answers. “Really, it’s not a good look on you, Ro. I’m only into clingy girlfriends when they’re yandere. Did you lose your phone, too? I can’t believe I’m—was that a siren?” “Yeah, hey,” Roman says, checking behind him to make sure no one is following. He’s far enough away that no one would think he’s from the scene, if they noticed him at all. Most of the pedestrians had noticed the billowing smoke peaking over the other buildings and everyone was sharing shocked conversations and pointing while Roman rushed by. But of course another firetruck chose that moment to come barrelling down the road, sirens blaring and direction set towards the street Roman had been on minutes ago. “Hey, uh…. Don’t turn on the news.” *** aka, Roman and Remus don't have and never have had reflections. Logan has been betrayed by someone, but he’s not sure who. Patton's been dead for sixteen years and counting. Somehow, all of these things are related.

[puffpastrycrimewatch]

Let me start by saying this did not happen it is NOT real, this was an example they used for sexual harassment in the work place!! (°ロ°)

Now, imma read you a little scary story where I'm weird asf

One day Mac's coworker Puff approaches him during his lunch break. They talk for a couple minutes, and Puff slowly closes the distance between them,backing Mac into a corner and leaning in for a kiss. Mac puts his hands out to stop her and quickly backs away. Mac looks uncomfortable: He has his hands out in front of him, and he appears to be looking for a way out.

Just then, puff noticed another coworker approaching. She quickly steps away and greets the other coworker as they pass. Before puff walks off, she grabs Mac's butt and says, "I'll get you next time."

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That's crazy right, like what!? Diabolical!!!! That is WORD FOR WORD what was written 😭☠️

Real evil puff be like 😭

I hate how close up this gif is