#good thing I'm not an art student

[strikeslip]

Anyway, Graul.

[egophiliac]

happy new year Ego!!! Just wanted to let you know that I absolutely adore your twst fanart and the tags are just an absolute pleasure to read! You are my greatest inspiration for my personal twst art and I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful masterpieces <333 if possible, may I ask what are some of your headcanons for the diasomnia family? If not for diasomnia then any other characters are fine as well!

thank you, and happy new year! 💚💜💚 that is amazing to hear; it's always a little bewildering but super flattering that other people like my silly little doodles so much!

I don't think I really have any really solid headcanons and also canon keeps validating me left and right (FLUFFY DOMESTIC DIAFAM IS REAL). mostly just kind of...impressions and general thoughts, if that makes sense! lately though I've been kind of obsessed with thinking about Lilia's hair, and specifically when/why he ended up cutting it. (l-look, we're bouncing around the timeline and I gotta make decisions about these things when I draw, it's relevant) (I mean I would probably be weirdly fixated on this anyway, but.)

I think I've settled on the idea that he kept it long until he went to NRC, partly because 1) I like drawing The Ponytail, and 2) I think he thought of NRC as a chance to reinvent himself a bit! he gets to go and be a wacky carefree teenager for a few years and have fun! (officially he's there to keep an eye on Son #1, but how much trouble could he get into, really.) so he gave himself a Cool Teen Haircut to go with his fresh new Cool Teen Persona!

also maybe he had some reflection on his hair's troubled past with three kids...

...and had to weigh his vanity versus the fact that he was going off to be around hundreds of kids on a daily basis, and. the choice suddenly seemed obvious.

[carouselunique]

Cinch had three charges in her care once, Celestia entrusted her with the day-to-day care of Prince Blueblood, the new Princess Cadence and her student Sunset Shimmer - running a kingdom is difficult enough alone without three young ponies to look after - so when Celestia is absent (often) that means Cinch was in charge of these three ponies. And while the matron of the castle was always rigid about rules and wanted her three charges to uphold her reputation and to build their own budding reputations high, she cared about them very much. You'd have to, spending your time with the same three young ponies for so long, guiding and teaching them to be their best...

By the time Ditzy came into the picture, Cinch was down to two charges. She refused to fail them the way she failed...

Well, with one down, there were two left and she cared so much she wouldn't let anyone ruin them, especially not themselves. Surely they would come to realize Cinch was only helping.

[sadrockandwaltzes]

Just some crappy Mikage drawings based on images from the show cause I need practice... I feel like I'm really getting the devianart experience tryna draw him😅😭

He looks much better in the show I assure you...

[writing on top left says 'Mikage Death Pose' since it looks very simpson death esque; writing for glasses (he looks so cool in his prof outfit) says 'stylish professor turned stylish librarian after pick-up attempt' (cause I accidentally gave him lipstick😅); middle left writing says 'shading fail' and 'dude being shady- not blushy; and bottom writing says 'Gah... She kept me waiting again!']

Favorite's definitely the bottom one

[happy10thousandyears]

Honestly to me look back (manga) is more about how connections u made thru are can sustain you but people can leave your life, and no matter what you can always come back to pouring your heart into creating. And kyomoto is more of a metaphor of the people who you loved and lost along the journey instead of being a secondary protagonist. Reading it alone made me cry so many times because it resonated with my experience being ultimately alone but finding strength in drawing

But watching it in theaters with friends among people made me feel the focus of look back (movie) focuses more on connections that people made along the way and the loss of those was way more emphasized than in the manga, which doesn't really resonate with me because I'm used to losing connections, and I think one day most of my school friends and I will drift apart because I feel different towards them regarding creating art, and I'm ready to accept that it's okay and I will move on with art no matter what? On top of that the pacing was too fast and I felt that I needed a lot more time to linger on some emotional scenes... 7.5/10 movie, the art is stunning but I wish it was slower...

[beastsovrevelation]

Lady Crowley, inspired by Aphrodite of Knidos.

She might as well have been the one who posed for Praxiteles.

[alliluyevas]

pretty much all my friends from high school or college are either in political science/government or STEM. the token non-stem friend.

[spoopy-cactus]

Me: *studying*

My brain: ur art sucks

Me: *still studying but sad now*

[averlym]

a word to the wise sometimes the only true rest is looking beyond what you thought was success

so true! adamandi is full of wise advice such as this, including: "and you'll never feel better if you - fucking die- you stupid ass!"

[mayordeas-clone]

the character ensemble art is gonna get goofy when i make a page in my notes app that looks like this

[strikeslip]

Dunked in several thousand tons of powdered solid despair.

On a battlefield, while under attack by berserkers.

You kill some two or three hundred of the enemy while your battalion's sorcerers figure out what to do about the despair.

Over half the soldiers reporting to you are dead, which means you're going to need to bring their ghosts home and explain that.

And the whole time you've had this battalion, there's been this mystery as to why your soldiers don't entirely trust you.

The best theory is that they think you're some kind of demon.

You're actually just a species created by a sorcerer to do things like kill two or three hundred of the enemy at a time.

You'd think this would be obvious to them as your soldiers are also a species created by a sorcerer, but no.

It's at this moment, as you're washing the blood off that you finally figure out why they didn't think you could be the particular sorcerer-made species famous for its fighting ability.

...

...

It's because you're short.

[inky-tries-her-best]

Trying photoshop for the first time

[rubberbandballqueen]

i just think that as a chemistry major i shouldn't be forced to take biology classes that expect me to memorize the everything to pass. i need some kind of "biology for chemistry majors" where they emphasize the techniques a living thing has at its disposal to remain at homeostasis and then look at how all these parts come together to form a complex living organism undergoing constant holistic processes to remain at equilibrium. i don't need to know what a golgi apparatus is called i just need to know how it serves its function in the complex process of transforming A into B

[ngtskynebula]

Just saw someone say they reblog AI "art" because they find it beautiful and that's it, and I'm like. ...Okay,

If you say so... 🤨

[supercantaloupe]

looking back at some of the art i did in high school. i am still so proud of what i made back then some of it was genuinely really good. i'm also a leetle bit pissed thinking abt the fact that i have yet to actually successfully monetize a single one of my creative endeavors