#guys the proportions are WACK

[boomposhpow]

MAGMA DOODLES WITH @starzarer !!!!!!!!

[maskedchip]

ryuu doodle dump :]

[buwheal]

alright gang what we thinkin Ive been doing this without a reference this entire damn time and its KILLING my consistency.... sigh... me when i have to follow the properties of a character to draw them correctly.... (bwomp)... /j

is he fucked up enough

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

big fan of the various species of Guards in adventure time. they all look exactly the same and theyll hit u with sticks man, watch out

[squidsqwag]

IM JUST SAYIN

heresa alt with a motion blur !! it wasn’t as “ sharp “ with the blur so i prefer the other one but yknow

[storfulsten]

some guy idk

[cerbreus]

new guy i guess?

[purpldawne]

for an akifuyu stan i sure do struggle to draw autumn and winter troupe

[cherries-or-peaches]

I FINISHED ALL 3 OF THE DRAWINGS

[cryptocism]

AAAHHHAHAHA DUDE (GIRL, THEY THEM) YOUR IWTV IS AMAZING!!!! Your art style is like a characterization of them but much more realistic. It's like you took a photo of them and applied a filter. This is amazing, I love your DC Tim art but this is definitely making love your work more!

thanks!!! tbh applying a filter would probably be an easier route to go if it didnt sit wrong in my like... idk creative instincts. instead i use a very time consuming method called "drawing a face over and over and over again until i kinda get how it works"

actually im gonna use this ask as an excuse to post some studies here is the process:

basically step 1 i trace a photo so i can kinda get an idea of how shit works, then i try to draw the photo using what i learned from the tracing. 1st round is always wack so step 3 is comparing my proportions to the photo again. with armand i consistently drew his face too long lmao u can see it in the corrected sketches. then i do a second round of sketches, corrections, and usually a final sketch that i use as a light/shadow study. sometimes i end up doing more sketch passes if i really cant get the hang of it.

then repeat:

the goal is proportions and consistency, so hopefully when i draw a face with different expressions and angles - even if I dont have a reference that precisely lines up - i can still end up in the ballpark of recognizability.

funnily older daniel is much easier for me to draw than younger daniel tbh. theyve got similar faces but the actor for older daniel just has more distinctive features i can center stuff around, whereas young daniel eludes me a lil bit.... i gotta do more studies of those guys if i can shake the armand fixation for like 10 minutes

[hyenagurl]

There’s no way someone actually thinks your art is professional. Line work/weight is wonky, paper looks thrashed and like it’s about to rip from all the erasing , limbs look noodley and proportions are wack. I find it hard to believe anyone that has a smidge of artistic appreciation would be foolish enough to think that your art is on the professional level. Only an ignorant person or dishonest person would think you’re an animator. Also can’t believe you’re still not over that other guy.. get a grip girly.

anyways heres my updated raven

god i love the shading on her faceeee

[here-i-am-again-god]

Most Popular*** Descendants Ships

I love me some statistics so I did some number crunching so I could add an update to OP's July post for 12/22/2024 :D My apologies in advance for the wack-ass colors. I'm a statistician, not a graphic designer.

*** "Most Popular" is a label that's difficult to claim for data collection reasons. More on that below.

Total fics at time of study: 9421

Anyway, no changes too drastic from OP's July data except for the notable rise in the Chloe/Red pairing (for obvi reasons).

*I did not include any platonic ships in the charts, but they were in the top relationships. I also did not filter them out in my searches so as not to confound the results by filtering out side friendships also tagged. 

For anyone who isn't familiar with the ao3 filter system, filtering out a ship will remove all fics with that ship--including something tagged in the background. For example, say you've got a Harry/Uma fic that also tags Ben/Mal in the background though they're not the focus of the story. By filtering out Ben/Mal, that fic gets taken out too.

Now, with this in mind, I also ran the same numbers minus Ben/Mal, just to see how the rankings shifted.

Total fics at time of study: 7817

As you can see, excluding Ben/Mal doesn't just affect Ben/Mal, but also changes the proportion for other pairings that often include/tag Ben/Mal in their fics and vice versa.

The side pairings filter process I explained above is my guess as to why Doug/Evie is 5 overall but drops down to 8th place (with Ben/Mal as the invisible #1 in the second chart) and Jane/Carlos disappears entirely from the top contenders: because they're often tagged as a background pairing for Ben/Mal. Certain ships that move together will always be most heavily affected by my taking out their "anchor." When I removed Evie/Mal AND Ben/Mal, Jay/Carlos dropped significantly too because it's often paired with Evie/Mal.

With this ALSO in mind (and if I haven't bored you already), I pulled the data on fics with only one pairing tagged for the fic.

Total fics at time of study: 3767

When I looked at the fics with only one relationship listed, these were the results. Yet I have another caveat--this also does not reflect the true number of fics centered on these pairings, because there are plenty of fics that center on one of the pairings from the original list but also list side pairings that won't be reflected here. 

Once again, I'll emphasize that Ben/Mal, Doug/Evie, and Jane/Carlos are more likely to be listed together, as are Evie/Mal and Jay/Carlos, so they will be disadvantaged here. Chloe/Red will be disproportionately high in this chart because (as I understand it) there aren't many prominent side pairings from the new franchise compared to the originals (though someone who has seen the new series or involved in the fandom is welcome to contradict me, I really know next to nothing about it). 

So what's the most popular ship then???

The (perhaps disappointing) answer is there's no way of knowing the true proportion of fics dedicated to which pairing, since pulling that data would require reading every fic (or at the very least, its summary) to ascertain which pairing it centers on and, guys, I have a real job and this is for funsies. 

That being said, if you have any questions about this or other data you're curious about or just generally feel that all statistics are made up and I'm full of shit, feel free to lmk :D

Happy writing and happy reading <3

[ratatatastic]

you dont think mikksy shenanigans can get funnier until you see this guy stiffarm a cane because he did not appreciate getting shoved out of the crease. he will exit the crease at his own time! do not rush him! he is stubborn.

his proportions? wack.

carolina hurricanes @ florida panthers | 9.28.24

[wanghedi]

Another thing about jiwons love interest that makes him look borderline comedic is how long his suit jackets are?? Like is it a bad fit or does he have a crazy long torso. a male lead can be tall but most of the height has to go to their legs otherwise they look ridiculous. Now that im noticing this im realizing all of this guys proportions are wack

[preciouslittletoonette]

I... have been very irritated lately by the sudden discourse or debate (depends on how amicable these sort of discussions ended) over the Ink Demon design in both Batim and Batdr.

Now on a usual day, I'd say "They're both great and everyone's entitled to their own opinion" but today is not such a day. What triggered this you may be thinking?

The whole notion of one demon being scarier than the other.

That..... hmmmm.... that got me.

So I have decided... to do a thing. I would like to say beforehand I really do like the Ink Demon the character. Both Batim and Batdr (Even if I'm more biased to DR). But all this talk of who is better is really irritating. And it repeats over and over and in such a medium-small, relaxed fandom on its way to sleep mode rn: that's something akin to a broken record.

And I hate being told the same things over and over and over again.

So I'm gonna, perhaps quite harshly but at best, just criticise and at very worst completely trash both the BATIM and BATDR Ink Demon's designs and mechanics because as much as I love this character and his flaws, I'm two bad takes of "one is scarier than the other" away from just never interacting with anyone in the Fandom again.

If you haven't caught the vibe already, I don't take anyone seriously who says one Ink Demon is scarier than the other.

Are you seriously trying to convince me that Batim's Ink Demon is scary? BATIM? The guy whose head looks like a crescent-shaped stress ball smacked onto a malnourished human body? The guy who can get stuck to a crate during a chase? BATIM? Ink Bendy?? Gtfoh

BATDR Ink Demon ain't very scary either. Grotesque, maybe, certainly more than stress ball. But the gross does not scare me very much

Almost like horror is pretty subjective and its not worth fighting over what's scarier

BATDR: The hunchback ain't it chief. Why couldn't we see him in full size, back straight in places where his height wouldn't be restricted. Your posture sucks babe.

BATIM: The legs. The fucking legssss. Need I say more

BATDR's thighs are stick thin and honestly no way will his lower body be able to support his gigantic upper body. I'm not willing to "cartoon logic" reason him out of this.

You cannot tell me that between DCLT and the first cycle of Henry's newborn hell that the Ink Demon is still limping from the injury Buddy gave him. What happened to invulnerability

Ways to incapacitate/kill the Ink Demon (Guarenteed to work): Go for the Legs Apparently (on both of them).

Look: getting chased by a monster is scary and slightly distressing in certain situations, but if the monster constantly gets stuck/glitched in the stairwell and amongst the crate and debris while you're trying to run away from him, he loses intimidation and a lot of it.

Also does not help if a good amount of his chases are scripted. Also does not help if his story presence is next to nothing in the most lore heaviest chapters.

Speaking of glitch: The glitch of the Ink Demon being able to get you in the vent. Makes my eye twitch.

"But Precious these are game glitches that's not fai-" I know

Honestly the nature of being chased by the Ink Demon on both games is relatively the same. It all ends with you hiding from him. Why does it matter that he chases you vs appears in front of you after a certain amount of time. You're still experiencing the same anxiety of trying to find a place to hide before he can kill you.

BATDR's claw length is annoyingly long. Honestly a lot of his body proportions are annoying. If he insists on walking on his hind legs holding his hands like a Jurassic Park Velociraptor, he best prepare to fall flat on his face. His balance must be so off holy fuck.

I still find BATIM's zombie walk wack, I'm not sorry.

BATIM's design just isn't all that visually interesting imo, this I am sorry for.

BATDR's design is interesting but it's both too little and too much. I'd list what I like but this is meant to be a negative post. I'll keep my positives in different post perhaps. I think Dark Revival's would benefit from some cartooniness but not as much as BATIM's ugly stress ball head.

This felt good to get out.

[aajjks]

Cant nobody send in shit without everyone blowing it up out of proportion! Shits wack.

Hi, I just want to see that I didn’t blow anything out of proportion. I just said that he’s not gonna get her back because he’s heartbroken that she left without asking him for any explanation over something that someone else said.. that’s all and then some of you guys got mad.