#i got artblock but then i remembered i had this

[dewritoz]

wwhat a bunch of losers

(draft from nov 19 wildd)

[jebbliink]

Hey- I'm back from the void so here's some monkeys in hammocks

++ comic thingy ? (they can't have nice things)

[lynaferns]

FNAF Steampunk AU

That I never finished because I couldn't figure out what was going to be the story and character dynamics, and the role of each character, and yeah… I also spend many days writing, rewriting and changing thing, I didn't even get to finish the first draft and I got artblock.

I think my problem in the first place was that I wanted to make this AU stick to canon. A mistake, I know lmao. Later I thought of just making up most of the things but having to rewrite what I had already done dismotivated me.

So I thought of at least showing this character height chart I made a year ago. And maybe, idk, some of the wips that I never finished.

Maybe some notes and interactions I wrote under a cut.

If you ever want to ask me about what I had planned for this AU go ahead! Some main things about this story are:

All of the events of the story happens in a week (or so).

Gregory acts a little more scared than what is shown in the game.

DCAs arms can stretch up to 100 ft (30 m). He bends them to write or make shapes in the air.

Sun has some nowlege in animatronic repairs and maintenance due to being abandonent, having to repair himself.

Vanessa/Vanny have a biger role than in the game.

Burntrap also apeared more.

All animatronics are equiped with dart guns (for safety!). There are some places that require to leave the dart guns behind to continu.

Pizza is scuare (this is not important, I just felt like adding it).

Also, first idea and some doodles.

Edit: Now Cassie is in the AU

Gregory gets to escape to the locker rooms leaving Chica behind him. While searching for an exit Gregory gets surprised by Sun who was searching for him, and out of fright takes out the camera and flashes his bad eye damaging him for a few seconds.

Sun- "you were carring an object capable of blinding animatronics with you and you didn't use it against Chica to escape?!"

Gregory- "I didn't remember! I was more focused on running than taking a camera out of my pocket!"

Sun-pointing at himself with his hands- "And you had to remember when you saw ME?!"

Monty grabs Moon by the neck and throws him like a stick doing a spinning motion on the air, Roxy chases after him. She comes back carrying Moon with her mouth.

Freddy has an existential crisis by seeing endos. Moon is there awkwardly watching him. He gives him a pat on the back.

The auxiliary arm of the protective cylinder is broken, Gregory has to repair Sun manually. Trying to put his face plate back the nose falls off and Gregory nervously catches it juggling. They look between each others and the nose.

Sun-"..." "Gregory"

Gregory-"..."

Sun-"come on, say it"

Gregory-"..." "Got your nose~"

Vanessa is explaining something to the group. Moon is behind her copying her movements. The others are trying not to laugh. She notices and throws a flashlight at Moon.

They divide in groups. Moon gets on Monty's backs like a gremlin.

Moon-"go gator boy"

Monty-"I hate you"

One last, this is a whole scene that needs a bit of context. The current team members are Gregory, Freddy, Sun/Moon. They have figured out that the safe mode prevents animatronics from acting weird/hostile (found out the hard way in an encounter with moon and a fuse box). Though Moon seems not to attack Gregory anymore they wanted to test it with the rest of the band and found Chica, some things happened, they left her in her room in sleep mode and went to roxy raceway. This begins when they head to the west arcade to repair the service bot's head and on their way they encounter Chica out of the sleep mode but more normal.

(Forgive my poor writing, this was more of a script)

The four of them stare at each other until one decides to react.

Sun–”HELLLLO” Chica– holding her left arm–”A- Hiii, umm” Freddy– “He-hello Chica! What got you here??” Chica– “I-uh…patrol? I- think?? There… There is a child lost in the pizzaplex and we were, like- told to go find him, remember?” “Actually, wait, why are you out of your room? I thought maintenance put you on lock down- And what is the Daycare attendant doing out of the Daycare? it’s not the end of the hour yet- Oh!”–she just saw Gregory behind Freedys legs–”hey! you got the kid-”–flashback of the garbage compactor–”GET HIM”–she points at him with a dart gun– Sun–gets in the way–”WOAH WOAH WOW easy there!” Freddy–”Chica- wait! It’s ok he’s with us” Chica–”T-that-that kid is a menace! He- we should-HAVE to take him to the officer Vanessa–” Gregory–*gasp * Freddy & Sun– “NO!” Chica–”????wha-?

Freddy– “We must not take him to her.” Chica- “You guys kidding?” “These are literal-plain-instructions that you are- just-” “That kid threw me through the garbage compactor!” Gregory–”You tried to kill me!” Chica–”what?! No! I couldn’t do that, that’s against my programming!” Sun–”Uuumm, about that miss-” Chica–”YOU”–points at Sun with the gun– Sun–”?!” Chica–”You were there too!” “You have been with this kid all this time!” Sun–hands up-”Iwastryingtostophim” Freddy–”Chica, calm down, I know what this looks like but-” Sun–”OHMYGOSHWAITGUYS, she’s not hostile!” Chica–”wha-?” Freddy–”what…?” Gregory–”what??” “She’s literally pointing at us with a gun” Sun–standing next to Chica, pointing at her while looking at Freddy and Gregory–”I just noticed! her behavior changed-!” Chica–redirects the gun to re-target him–”you’re getting too close” Sun–ignores that–”She’s back to normal! That means the safe mode worked, we can use this!”

Chica–”What are you talking about?” Freddy–”You’re right! That’s a relief” “right Gregory?” Gregory–”...Yyyyyeah? I guess, yeah” Chica–”seriously, what do you all mean?” Freddy–”Well, It’s a little long story-” Sun–”And we will explain it to you!” “BUT not now, we are in a rush!” “To repair this bot-head so Gregory can ride the racecar” Chica–”...” “‘you serious?” Sun–”yep!” “Say, Gregory! You still want to ride?” Gregory–”uh-yeah” Sun–”Then let’s go!” “TO THE WEST ARCADE!”–grabs Freddy and Gregory and takes them there–”You can come if you want~!” Chica–”...” “OH- GOLLY, WELL” “I guess I’ll just go with you even though I don’t understand what is happening! And no one is going to give me an explanation!” Freddy–”-I promise that I’ll give you a wide explanation once we are done with all this… But in a more private place”

There are actually a couple more of scenes before this one (and after) but I'm not very confident of showing those (or any actually but I don't want this to be buried in my documents and forgoten because I really want to at least make a decent story)

Also, I know that the canon heights for the animatronics are like 6 ft but I prefered my height variety headcanons. Maaaaaybe they are a little too tall looking at it now that I look at it again but, eh.

[anoddlystoatishhyena]

Guess who got bored and forced themselves to draw despite artblock

I randomly decided to draw Great Tiger from Punch Out because Ive been unmotivated to draw as shit but hyperfixating on buff men

I was originally gonna show the sketch I had done on paper but it's not working-

So here's the sketch I did of trying to draw his face on ipad

I then remembered with a chat I had with a PO bot on character ai that mentioned him having four eyes and I sketched that as well

It's not much but then again I drew these at 11pm

And I also want to know if I drew his turban incorrectly or anything like that this is my first time drawing him

and now I need sleep goodnight

[froggybrainz]

I'm still currently fighting artblock rn, so HEAD CANON TIME!

Jacky

When Jack was kicked out of the Garden, his box was found by Isaac's father, who then brought it home (we all know the story from there).

Isaac became Jack's new owner/brother when opening the box. I think it'd be cool that for anyone opening Jack's box, he then gets their memories to help create a bond.

Jack has a hard time remembering his past before Isaac. For as much as he knows, his purpose was to be Isaac's friend.

Jack is well a Jack of all trades, lol. He's an old man with too much time on his hands while being blessed with talent from a certain red character:)

Jack is old old. He only thinks he was created around the 1800s, but boi doesn't know it was more like 1566 or 1600. ( I made an entire timeline to keep track of my nonsense).

Jack is one of the few who are able to shape-shift into a human with the only defect being his eyes. Glowing blue/silver eyes aren't exactly human, you know.

Ma boi Entity

Entity is an agent of chaos doing whatever whenever they please.

They are the first and only anomaly/demon that can successfully shape shift into a human form without defects. Only the most powerful can perform such a task without too much strain to their original forms. Anomalies created after the 2nd or 3rd generation are lesser than the ones before.

Originally, I had it where they didn't actually talk it was more telepathic, but after some thinking, I think they would have the voice of a broken radio. Like it hurts to listen to them talk, so preferably, they take on more comforting voices, whether it be a parent or cartoon character. Personally, I hear them with the voice of either Will Wood or the singer from Mindless Self Indulgence.

I don't like creating one-sided characters, so the idea of them acting like a white girl holding a Starbucks coffee with the song Barbie Girl playing in the back ground while also being the most powerful and destructive being in this known universe is funny to me.

Willie boi

Will plays an old Yamanha guitar he got from his Pa (granddaddy). Well, most of what Will owns is his Pa's. His house and everything in it were given to him when he passed away. You can find him playing it on the front porch.

His Pa later died in the hospital due to severe injury caused by fighting off some feral monsters off his property. (Living in more rural areas is more dangerous due to law enforcement and the GOC being further out from reach). Will blames himself for his death, saying if he wasn't so far away, he would have been there in a heartbeat.

Will carries a firearm while putting up cams around the property to keep an eye out for and to track the ferals around the area to hopefully take revenge on em.

[00lari00]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! ^^ ✨

I really wanted to draw something special for this but I'm in artblock and I don't really know what I can draw. But I wanted to say a few things that really made this year worth it.

First I wanted to show an Oc that I've had for a long time, it's literally me but as a wizard, I really like magic XDD Just so you can see a little of what I'm like

This year was VERY difficult for me... Because of problems at school and problems with my family. But a little story I wanted to tell you. Why I created this Tumblr and started making stories about my favorite game THSC.

This happened in May of this year... I had lost my best friend after 5 years of friendship. He said he didn't want to be my friend anymore because he wanted to focus more on his life, he had found better people than me... I was happy for him, but I didn't expect it to end so suddenly, I spent the whole year thinking about him and how I missed him, This friend of mine definitely wouldn't leave my head, I had a toxic relationship with him but I missed it, I don't know why... And to make everything worse, in the middle of May I got sick and had to go to the hospital and I had to have surgery because of internal bleeding (I won't go into details of why this happened) I felt lost and alone... My parents always blamed me, saying that it was my fault for being sad, they said I was being ungrateful... After I left the hospital I didn't go to school for 2 months and my grades dropped drastically... And that made my parents even more angry, they said "I wasn't being enough" (I have learning problems but they don't care) I was in so much pain after the surgery that I couldn't walk for weeks.

In the meantime I was at home trying to recover... I went researching THSC again (I'm a fan of the game since 2020 but I stopped after a while) and after I saw some videos I remembered why I really like the game and its characters... It made me happy again. And I opened Tumblr to see more things, and I saw that there were still people who were fans of the game here, and I thought a little... And I decided to make a story of my own about this game that made me so happy and made me forget my real situation... I'm so happy that the fandom received me very well. I saw that people really liked my drawings and stories about the toppat leaders that I've been hyperfixated on since 2020. I can literally spend hours just talking about THSC and saying how cool and interesting this game is XD. Showing my drawings and stories here has really changed me a lot and I always have a lot of fun with my mutuals @capturecharlesau @smoresthehalloweenqueen @bluetorchsky @strangedreams02 and a few more that I don't talk to much about but are still very important to me!!! Thank you so much for being with me this year and making me feel better, I really hope to tell more stories with you guys!! I love you!!! ^^❤️🌹

[saintforan]

Hello, happy day…

One question, or two questions

What year did you start drawing? And finally…Tell me something you know about Ecuador or there is a plomo :D

Hai anon pookie happy day for ya too!

UUUh thats a hard question but i think like around 2017? I just remember I was still in elementary school when my big brained otaku child ass was like "I want to make my own anime characters!" and picked up a wikihow tutorial on how to draw and then everything went downhill from there (in a good way) so yea I think it was 2017! but it was just a hobby i had fun with sometimes during that time, I started picking it up more seriously a few years later lmao

Although I will say that since then until now there was a whole year where I didn't draw anything because I got an awful artblock and just forgot about it LOL so idk if that counts? It's up to you to count it or not ig, although i wouldn't-

And about Ecuador the most recent thing i know about it is Politics gone extremely wrong but uhh to NOT say something negative, i will say that i know this ecuadorian yt channel called EnchufeTv and i like their content a lot! been watching them since i was in elementary too LOL

[glitchpirate]

It's 2023 and I'm still using the same template now 7 years in a row! Yippeee!

This year I decided to ramble about each artwork presented so uh. Storytime! Under the cut.

(Also usual reminder that now I have a GW2 side blog so that's where I'll upload GW2 artworks from now on -> @glitchgw2 (except the zine piece because I entered the zine with this blog))

January: I was going through a bit of an artblock, most of the things I drew this month were traced. One of the only things not traced was this Anassy! "Ah, etto... bleh!" I said after tracing the 5th drawing I saw on the internet.

February: a commission! Long overdue, but I finally finished it. Sylvaries are always tough to render. >.< The other things I drew this month were art party doodles and personal stuff.

March: one of the two months where the featured piece is the only thing I "finished" that month. And last minute, too! Made for trans visibility day which was on the very last day of March.

April: due to several things, Tyria Pride 2022's art commission giveaways got delayed to 2023. This was my piece for the person I was assigned to! ^_^ This was fun, I found out some new ways to render sylvari hair...

May: I vividly remember seeing a Diavolo art with this same reference and I was like hey. I could do this too but with Lucien. How haven't I done this before. P.S.: he's actually nothing like Bateman but it's a sick cover anyway lol. Mmm knife...

June: it was a sick (as in like epic) month for me. I reworked Dawn and Incendere (my Ghost OC), welcomed my unhinged self and drew a lot of nsfw. But not good nor holy enough to share. :P But it was a nice practice anyway. I chose one drawing of Dawn because out of everything I drew it looks the most "clean" and finished.

July: I remembered My Life as a Teenage Robot as I do tri-monthly and almost made an AU for Lucien. Almost. So instead I just made whatever this is. This was one of the most fun pieces I've ever did, I finally feel comfortable lining in CSP and just in general this was super shapey and smooth to work on. <3

August: Tyria Pride giveaway commission but this time, in time! I got to work on a lovely charr which I don't do often! My other choices would have been a cropped nsfw commission but I lowkey like this one better.

September: the other month where I didn't draw anything but this. Had a banger idea for Gliaster's future which is them becoming a lich but also being corrupted by malignant powers so they're now even more evil and also driven by vengeance towards the Commander and Aurene. Tried to come up with a design for them, alas this piece. It's... very in progress. But I like said progress so far.

October: the opportunity for an art related full-time job came up which meant I had to up my portfolio and draw some realistic/semi-realistic studies. I was surprised by myself lmao but ngl it was also a big pain in the ass. Art is suffering. <3

November: the continuation of October but now with an original piece! Felt like drawing one of my best friend's GW2 characters. <3 Haven't uploaded this one yet as I might rework the background sometime.

December: and finally, my piece for Commander Of Your Heart GW2 zine! Which wasn't actually restricted to only Commander characters, but any other OCs/player characters too, so of course I chose Gliaster. :D And we can apparently show teasers, so I can include this little bit! But what is Gliaster up to? Find out in February, for free!

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Aaand that's it. It was actually super fun to look back to the year not only in pictures but some words too. :D If you read this all, I appreciate you, thank you so much. <3

[kaksparkz]

for the artist askgame, idk how many youve answered already but 3,4,10,12,21,24 and 35!

hello helloo!! sorry im just answering this now, been pretty busy^^ (also, using this chance to thank u for your support!! i always see u interacting with my stuff here hbasfcyhdb you're a sweetheart😭💕)

Your fav piece/s?

Probably this vergil one! i still love how it looks djddgnds my art peaked here im afraid,,,,,

Piece you wish got more love?

hmm, this is an interesting one!! tbh i dont mind it much but this johnny fanart got waaaaay more attention on instagram!! i mean,,, i have a lot of mk moots there so it makes sense lol (and also just got to 1k followers on IG!! crazy stuff💌)

How do you deal with artblock?

to be honest, once i realize i have artblock i stop drawing for a couple of days. if i keep insisting on drawing i just get more and more frustrated and it makes it worse imo. so i like to spend some time doing my other hobbies!!! (´▽｀)

usually i just come back to drawing once i regain motivation or i get a cool idea that i need to sketch so i wont forget. and when that happens, my artblock is usually gone!! so,, i guess i just wait for it to go away? lol not much advice i can give on that sadly :/

Describe your process while drawing!

CHAOTIC. to say the least.

i spend like. half an hour on pinterest beforehand getting inspo & searching for refs and ONLY THEN i can start drawing. i start on SAI1, do the sketch and if i like how it looks, i just clean it up. if it dont, i do 'proper' lineart. after that i start coloring and shading!! this is my fav part tbh. once im done shading i color the lineart so its not completely black. then i open up SAI2 and start doing more rendering, adding overlays & effects. that part is also SO FUN cause it makes everything come together so nicelyy. my art process is a pretty big 'trust the process' till that part lol.

there's ALWAYS music or yt videos playing in the bg, and me taking A LOT of 15 minutes breaks cause that one song is so good and i have to stop drawing and start singing while looking at the spotify lyrics like im hypnotized LMAO

What do you thin you artstyle woukd taste like?

people always say my art looks so tasty and. i kind of agree!! like. smth very sweet. it really depends on the colors i use on the piece but,,, either hard candy, gummies, marshmallows or even syrup i think!!!

What's a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

i get super giddy with every compliment i get so i dont think i can remember one in particular??? but istg people always say the funniest, most sweet things ever and it's so nice to hear :3 but if i had to say smth,,, i once had the chance to talk with this one incredibly talented illustrator, and he kept telling me how he thought my stuff looked amazing. and i was like!!! wow!!! you actually like my stuff?? what!!!!

Piece of advice for my younger artist self

i would sit this little girl down and talk to her for hours tbh poor thing was STRUGGLING 😭😭😭

i guess my best advice for her (and for anyone who reads this, too!) is to not be so hard on yourself. art is a skill, and it takes a lot of time to build it up!!!

i used to get SO extremely upset when my stuff didnt look the way i wanted it to and ughhh. took me literal years to find my artstyle too and that didn´t help AT ALL with how frustrated i was feeling. i felt,,, stuck??

but now i look back at my art journey and. wow have i improved!! maybe if that little girl saw the stuff i do today she wouldn´t be so sad about her art :´] not to say i don´t struggle today, i still feel stuck and frustrated often!! but i guess i learned to be kinder to myself. but i still have lots of things to improve about my art!! i wonder when i´ll take another look back and see how much i´ve progressed since today,,,

thank you for the ask!! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

[circus-clownn]

2. most popular piece?

3. your favorite piece(s)?

4. piece you wish got more love?

5. how would you describe your art style?

10. how do you deal with artblock?

14. whats your favorite thing about drawing?

19. where do you find inspiration?

22. do you have a favorite color palette to work with?

35. if you had one piece of advice to give your younger artist self, what would it be?

:]]

2. more than likely one of my ride the cyclone drawings. those got so many notes compared to others I've drawn.

3. uhhh let's say

there's DEFINITELY things that could be improved (it's a few months old) but im just happy i was able to actually get my idea for it drawn, AND IN TIME!!!! YAYYY!!!! so I'm picking this one (even though if i think hard it's probably not)

4. bare with me. a while back i made a comic strip for my ocs, it took quite awhile (duhh it's a comic with fully colored characters) and it go NO attention, and then i gave up. so that one

5. uhhhh I'm not very good with words. I'm gonna say it's like if you took a really pretty (/ cute???) drawing, traced it a bunch of times, then tried drawing it from memory.

10. a bad way, by either not drawing for a while or forcing myself to draw 💋 (i don't remember last time it happened so im guessing)

14. the fact i LITERALLY just created something, that's so cool. creation <33

19. vintage stuff or uhhhh, i don't know (I'm not sure if that's what this one meant)

22. warm colors!!!! but like,,cool colors that you force to look warm. or monochrome, that's really fun to work with actually

35. don't draw hands like that,,,it's not worth it and you're gonna keep doing it for years STOPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's how you answer questions silly creature style 🦌

[looz-y]

remembering when in middle school, we had to draw illustrations on a book we were reading and the teachers were expecting me, The Artist ™, to draw. but i was super tired with artblock and just drew shitty stick figures. when i did turn it in, my teachers told me to do it again cuz i could do better and made me draw again more seriously despite doing the assignment. i just said no and accepted the shitty grade they gave me since i just wanted to be done with work, i think i got a C on it all because of the illustrations being a down grade from my usual style.

there's not really a moral here, just thinking back on being a teenager and the parts that sucked about it.

[leggyre]

You got any adivce for someone who's considering dropping drawing completely since they don't like what they're making at all?

honestly i've been in the same struggle recently bc it just hasn't been a good year for me. i haven't been drawing a lot bc most of the time i'm either sick or i just.. can't. I've been picking myself up as of late and it's a really difficult grind, but honestly the fact i've been able to actually start this grind is already good for now. I guess that counts as advice; be patient with yourself. Self-esteem doesn't come easy and the little steps are worth so much more than you think.

ok so uh,

-if you just started, don't think about it too much. we all start with the weird scribbles. if you stop now you might never get back to it -if you've been trying to doodle often and always end up hating the result, just take a break. art block is seasoning for burnout and you might just be tired. a lot of times i've felt bad about my art i kinda "gave up" for a while and when i came back to it it was like "wtf this easy what was my issue (it was burnout)". so take a break, play some videogames or hang out with your friends for a week. idk write essays about the media you like? it feels like you're being unproductive but resting IS part of productive because just pushing yourself will just result in nothing being done at the end of the day. -look at your favorite work! im not quite out of my latest artblock yet because its a tough one(it's been teaming up with depression caused by health problems it suuuuucks :/), but when i went long enough without being able to draw I kinda started feeling like I can't do shit and can't call myself an illustrator at all specially bc what i do isnt that big of a deal compared to others(<- comparison also big mistake remember youre the only one who can make YOUR art), going through my folders and seeing the stuff I like the most gave me a LOT of motivation to keep going, even if I was still unable to start drawing right away. not giving up is so important. -so yeah love your art. focus on drawing things you like because it's a gift from you to you, and you should treat it as such. i know it's really hard to be positive about it all the time but it can be really good to go through all your artwork at the end of a day and look at the things you like about it, even if it isn't much. -on that note, find something you really like drawing!!! back in high school i had massive periods of depression that kept me from drawing but i occasionally found sort of a 'life hack' for myself which were things i was always able to work with even during the worst times. one of them was just.. bees. i just doodled random characters as these bees and made og designs too and it was fun. the other one was using colored pencils instead of a regular one bc i just like colors and it made me happy :] it didnt matter that they always had the same overall shape or if i couldnt erase when i messed up, i was just feeling good being able to draw something that i liked. -experiment more!! expand your palettes and download some new brushes. i even change from my newest to my old busted tablet that still sorta works occasionally because using a tool that feels different is.. refreshing somehow? idk -when you need to get yourself back up, do the little steps at your own pace. do a little doodle every day. it's okay if it's always the same thing. the same character. the exact same idea. it's okay if it sucks or if it's unfinished because you struggled. Just give it little pushes. What matters is to try. and it's okay if you can't do it every day. maybe every other day if you need a slower pace. -and remember. engagement doesn't measure your skill. art is subjective anyways!!!!! i spent YEARS doodling and posting only my ocs and getting little to no notes. i think one of my favorite artworks from the time i had ~100 followers had like 0 notes for the longest time. to be honest i don't even know if it has any likes at all nowadays i'd have to look it up bc it's a bit buried

[kelocitta]

Wanna tell how you felt when you got the message you could work on downpour? (I remember I was fucking screaming)

No joke I think when I first saw a message from Videocult I think it actually gave me heart palpitations for a bit haha. I remember i had to walk around my room for like an hour just to unwind and settle down cause tension-wise I was coiled like a spring. In school I was pretty bad about checking emails but for this I was checking daily and it always kinda felt like i was looking into a handgun (For clarity so no one gets the wrong idea, not because of them as clients they were lovely- I just have anxiety and this was obviously a big thing lmao) Funny enough I was deep in artblock at the time and dealing with some outside stressors but when that showed up it was just "NEVERMIND IM GOOD! ALL HANDS ON DECK I CAN DO THIS"

[fleouriarts]

who are your biggest artistic influences my furry friend? we had art classes together for years but i still feel like i don’t know 😭

😭😭😭 honestly thats probably cus a lot of my artistic influences are specifically internet artists that ive been following for several years and not things i couldve brought up in art class. you know that lame ass mr smith wouldve hated me if i said 'yeah i draw like this cus of some bts fanart girlie on twitter'. thankfully i have the Archivist's Temperament and save like literally everything thats had an effect on my style... so below is a journey thru my artistic influences (and various insp folders on my computer) as far as i can remember

of course the most basal Dorian Influence is disney movies. you are my brother in arms in the lion king fandom so you know this. whenever i am feeling extremely artistically bankrupt i try to revitalize myself by rewatching the lion king, atlantis, and treasure planet. and also the prince of egypt but thats dreamworks LOL

in 2016 i found the first "online" artists i distinctly remember wanting to imitate, which were sara kipin and celia lowenthal because i was obsessed with how they used color to block out their illustrations. ive also been following dimetrodone(/dimetrodrawn/deinocheirus) on here since 2016 and love all the shapes and colors in her work

in 2017 i started doing more detailed shading because i saw bts fanart by the artist tyu_naxx on twitter and loved how they did it (below is like THE piece that made me change my whole shit up)

around then is also when i started trending towards using limited palettes and that was mostly inspired by various national parks promo artworks that would only have like 5 colors in them. wish i remembered who made these but heres ancient scans of some postcards i got at sequoia national park that changed me

in early 2019 i started wanting my style to be more cartoony so i would constantly peruse the backlogs of kiwi, officialspec, skunkes and mimiadraws to get whatever inspiration i could from them

in late 2019 i completely pivoted for some reason and started doing lineless rendered semirealistic stuff instead. i think that was mostly cus i hated doing lineart. one of my biggest inspirations in that era was atissi

in 2020 i remember i went crazy stupid on using glow effects and chromatic aberration on stuff and i genuinely think all of it can be traced to this ONE piece of bts fanart by lordizxy on twitter like i was fully obsessed (putting it below also in case it gets deleted somehow)

mid 2021 was when i got tired of semirealism and thought it was too amorphous and restricting so i went back to cartoony shit. i was still looking at the artists i listed for early 2019 but i also added artists like iplidl, catmunches, and chunkysoup22 to the mix

2022 was an inspirationless nightmare i have no clue what i was doing for that entire year. the artblock was BAD. i mostly just looked at art from all the artists i mentioned before while artistically wandering in circles. a lot of this was me trying and failing to figure out whether i wanted to do more dynamic yet less rendered art or... the opposite of that

thankfully in 2023 i finally FIGURED THAT SHIT OUT. i would say the current dorian art era started with this silly drawing of graydon and riley hivemind as a dogboy and a catboy ⬇️

you can kinda see the influences of all the cartoonists i listed above but a lot of the way i draw now is just. me trying to not make myself hate doing art. ive always hated redoing a line 30000000 times for clean lineart so now its sketchy. rendering my art was making my drawings feel super stiff so now thats all messy too. etc etc

i think Right Now the artists i go to for inspiration the most are still kiwi and skunkes, but i also found the artist robottoast recently who makes RIDICULOUSLY good furry art, its so full of life and personality and i definitely need to commission them someday. the most recent singular piece thats changed my whole shit up is this scott pilgrim fanart by benadieshekiel (also below) because i really liked how the clothes were fully rendered while the skin and hair are less detailed with clear lineart. so sometimes i do that too

ok i think that is as full of a chronicle of Dorian Influences that i can give you rn. i was not lying when i said i wanted to yap. hope you enjoy <3

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Hi all. I seem to have a couple of asks in my inbox disappear, so if you’ve sent something in and haven’t had a response, I promise I’m not ignoring you! I do also have a large delay at the moment, as I’m receiving several requests a day, so it may be that I just haven’t gotten round to it yet, but if you’ve waited over a week, feel free to message and check whether I got it. I don’t remember who sent in the ones that have gone missing, but one of them was about horses if that helps?

Also, @artblock-insomniac, I’m afraid the link you submitted isn’t working! Direct messaging from this blog is still disabled (still no response from tumblr), and I’ve heard from some people that they aren’t being notified when I tag them, so I hope you get this message! <3

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Votes have been decided time to explain the au that has been trapped in my brain for almost a week also maybe some of the sketches I have made for the au as well.

I also kinda had a pretty long day, so don't flood the notes please, but like wait 30 seconds if possible.

This might be a really long post since I can trail off at times when explaining.

I am known to ramble so I wanted to add a few more things. I wanted to say thank you to those who have supported me so far even if it is as small as a like. Even some of you inspired me. I can be nervous when talking with people so it's kinda helped me a bit.

So I will now introduce the au.

What started as a small little idea turned in an au.

What is the au about?

Well the au is a crossover of Viva Piñata and Submas.

For those who don't know what it is let me explain.

Viva Piñata is a garden simulation game Created by Microsoft GameStudios and Rare (Those who made Banjo n' Kazooie)

It is also a fandom of a small size from as much as I know.

The first game starts with you getting a deed for a garden on piñata island, that had previously belonged to one of the most amazing gardeners on the island but then his age crept up on him weakening him, so he had his daughter try to fix the garden but couldn't.

We meet her and she gives us the journal and a shovel being held together by basically a ribbon and a wish.

We are then instructed with basics and such and then we are able to break up the junk and renew the soil, and then you get you first piñata, called a Whirlm.

A screenshot of the game cover, from google on my phone.

Viva Piñata, the original game is what I explained there are quite a few pieces of media the do exist. There existed a tv show that ran on 4kids, where the main 3 where of the Piñatas above,

Paulie Pretzeltail, Hudson Horstachio, and Fergy Fudgehog. But I will explain about the TV show another time.

Then there was trouble in paradise, which added more plants, piñatas, piñata varieties, and characters.

Oh yeah this here below is a whirlm

Okay enough about that for now if you don't fully understand it I also do recommend checking out the wiki. Sometimes I can talk about a topic for hours but I must restrain myself.

Okay so it basically starts like legends arceus kinda, but there is no arc phone this time, but the brothers do have their own phones but the phones aren't functioning.

The twins find themselves separated on opposite ends of piñata island.

Most of they're memories are still intact but not for how they got there, so yes they still remember each other.

Both then search for any life or people on this strange island.

Ingo ends up finding a town, because it seems every seems to wear colorful clothes and masks, some kids and people stare at him, it was kinda rare to see someone from the main land.

(In viva pinata all human characters, okay most human characters have masks, or costumes, sometimes faces are viewable at times)

Emmet isn't as fortunate as his brother. Finding himself being followed by a flock of strange paper birds, when he eventually falls in to a mineshaft. The whole place is covered with webs, when suddenly he is swarmed by arocknid, but not in a hostile way but more curious to why this human had fallen into their home.

Here is an arocknid.

I have a few other things like random scenarios or little sketches.

You can also ask me questions about the au.

Alright that's all I have for now also please don't blow up the notes please.

As said in the start of the post I did kinda have a long day and artblock has kinda got a hold of me. So I may need a mental break for the weekend.