#i have been...trying very hard to update at least a COUPLE profiles for art fight

[arcadechan]

ok. SHE.

Fern lives in a country with a giant magical forest. The people live alongside this forest in relative harmony, thanks to the efforts of the Lumberjacks. The forest has a tendency to spread, and overgrown parts spawn monsters. Fern is in charge of the Westside; cutting down lumber, hunting monters, clearing trails, and so on. She loves her job.

[childofthesmoke]

Hi! Dimi here. Long time no see 😅

I know I’ve been away for a long time (my last 2 posts were from the beginning of 2019 and the one before that is from August 2018...), so it’s very likely that almost none of 300+ of you remembers me, but tumblr still stays the only site where I’ve managed to get over 100 followers and actually socialize with people. And post things and be really active and share my thoughts and stuff...

So my blog feels like the only place I’ve truly tried to “be myself” and actually let people “see” me. I usually just observe when I’m online and feel too shy to bring attention to myself, but a couple of years ago I did it for a few years on here and it was fun.

I had my reasons for leaving and I still don’t feel like getting sucked back in like I was before (nor do I think it’s possible anyway), but I want to use this place to at least advertize my current activities/projects. This is the only place online where I feel like I have actually connected with people who have become my supporters and viewers in a way... So it feels logical to reach out to those people when I’m trying to find people who might like my work and be interested in becoming my viewer/subscriber/follower.

I’m planning to update this place (my blog description, make life update posts etc. possibly changing the profile picture as well, idk). But for now I just wanted to drop by to say hi and also inform you that I started an art channel on youtube.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwin5tljpzS8Fu1r4WErJ5w

I’m trying to get out of my comfort zone and draw more as well as generally put myself out there more. I’ve had an interest in running a youtube channel for about 10 years now and during the years I’ve made a few attepts, but quickly gave up. (but this is my first art one)

This time I’m trying hard to learn to be braver and fight my fears and insecurities, by facing them and doing the things “I would do if I wasn’t scared”. It’s going well so far 😅

Anyways, I guess I’ll probably write again soon, so... See you later? :) 

[polygon-streams]

4/20 (nice) - Pat + Faith stream Donk Souls!

Pat plays Dark Souls III set to the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack with a character designed to resemble a Kong. Faith draws her interpretations of Dark Souls characters. A bullet point summary of what you missed:

The stream starts with Faith drawing a nice little crystal lizard!

Pat welcomes chat to the stream and reads off the names of people who have just subbed/resubbed.

Pat decides not to turn on CC for the stream because it would not pick up on Faith.

Pat and Faith briefly talk about Warped Tour. Faith mentions that her brother attended the 2007 Warped Tour and Pat asks her if she can ask her brother who was on the line-up. She says she can try but we never hear back. We will never know if the bands were bad.

Pat tries to plug Badvertising, the podcast he guested on recently, but he misspeaks and calls it Sadvertising. He explains that this is the name of his spinoff of Badvertising.

Faith can’t hear the music on-stream so Pat tells her where to find the playlist, and mentions that it was posted by someone with the username familyguy10. Chat thanks Family Guy.

Someone plays “Ahhh the French!” from the soundboard and Pat recites it word-for-word.

“There is a California champagne by Magnum Kong.” -Pat

Pat mentions visiting California recently and talks about the food he enjoyed there.

Pat and Faith start creating the new Kong in the Dark Souls character creator.

Pat decides to set the characters class to “commoner” and Faith calls him a “Kongmoner”. It’s a good joke.

The Kong looks like a Waluigi at first. Pat and Faith remark that Waluigi is the base form from which all characters are crafted. 

Pat and Faith consider giving the Kong chest hair, but chat determines that all Kongs shave their chests.

Pat struggles with the Kongs nose, as he cannot make the tip look flat enough in profile.

“Is there a way to just turn the nose off?” -Faith

Pat finally manages to set nose to “no”, but it still looks bad.

They decide to accept the nose and move on to the mouth.

“Oh man, I’ve just like not been drawing for two minutes because I’ve just been looking on in horror” -Faith

Pat protrudes the mouth to balance the absence of a nose.

Our character finally starts to look like a Kong.

“He wants revenge on whoever took away his good nose.” -Faith

“How come ‘feminine’ turns the face green?!” -Pat

“Oh, well that’s like- you know how all girls wear a lot of foundation and stuff- it’s because we’re all green under there.” -Faith

Faith suggests that maybe this Kong’s mission is to find his son. Pat chooses a face option that makes the Kong look friendly, and Faith clarifies that the Kong is only on his way to pick his son up from soccer practice.

His backstory is later updated from dad-finding-son to son-finding-dad. This new Kong is Magnum Kong Jr., son of the Magnum Kong from Pat’s playthrough of Dark Souls I.

It is established that Jr.’s mother is the senator’s wife that Magnum Kong fucked in Dark Souls I.  

“He looks just like his mother” -Pat

“He’s got her powdered lips” -Faith

Pat and Faith give Jr. a small tattoo of a horse on his cheekbone.

It is established that Jr. is a soundcloud rapper who goes by the name of “Lil’ Nano”, short for banana.

Pat and Faith move into the hair options.

“This is not your daddy’s Kong” -Pat

They settle on a swept back mullet dyed bleach blond.

They play with facial hair but decide against it, as they prefer a youthful look.

Art update: Faith has drawn a very cool Dancer of the Boreal Valley!

Pat and Faith play with the brows and forehead before finally feeling satisfied with the new Kong.

Stream loses Faith for a couple minutes. Pat focuses on bringing her back.

They finally move into gameplay.

Pat realizes that Dark Souls III will not allow him to remove Jr.’s pants. He is distressed by this and starts looking for armor that will override this.

Pat and Faith talk about 4/20 plans while Pat fights a crystal lizard. Neither have plans.

Binchofthewilds – one of our admin – gets a shoutout for a good username!!!!

Pat and Faith talk about hanging out while Pat was in California. They talk about food again.

Faith mentions that LA weather forecast currently has a high of 69 fahrenheit, so it’s a double nice day.

Pat moves on to the first boss fight after failing to kill the crystal lizard. The boss kills him.

Art update: Faith has drawn a bone wheel chasing a little dude this time. Very cool!

Faith convinces Pat to lower the price on the sound titled “Faith’s Cowboy Button”, which plays the sound of the cowboy yell from the song “Big Enough”.

Pat relents and chat immediately spams the button, resulting in the sound of multiple cowboy yells overlayed on top of each other. Pat raises the price again.

Pat talks about his upcoming projects at Polygon, including more videos like the recent one with Marcus Scribner, as well as Unraveled season 2!

Faith mentions that she just recently watched the Unraveled Pokerap presentation. Pat says it was great to watch live and remarks that it was very cool that Polygon allowed Brian to take a month off of everything else to focus primarily on the Pokerap.

Faith talks about designing a teenage girl’s bedroom at an old job and says that she filled it with katanas, because she believed the girl would collect them. She says that she ultimately had to remove the katanas but was glad to have worked in a place where she felt comfortable being creative.

Pat mentions having a katana saved in his amazon wishlist, but he has been unable to buy it as it has not been available for months.

Faith talks about her rock and mineral collection. She remarks that it is a conveniently aesthetically pleasing hobby.

“All of my hobbies involve piles of cables” -Pat

Pat mentions trying raw beef (steak tartare) at a tapas place during a work dinner.

Faith talks about being vegetarian. She says she only started in high school, but giving up beef wasn’t hard as she rarely ate it due to the mad cow disease scare.

Art update: Faith has drawn a really cool jailer. She remarks that the character fits her personal aesthetic perfectly.

Pat asks Faith which part of the human body is her least favorite to draw. She says that she always gets frustrated while trying to draw foreheads going into noses. Pat says he always has trouble drawing feet.

“I would never draw a toe.” -Pat

Faith talks about the graphic novel she is working on. She is writing it as well as drawing it. It is about a girl who turns into a ball of lightning and it sounds very cool. Pat is excited about it.

Someone in chat dropped ice cream on the FLOOR. Pat starts talking about vegan ice cream. Faith mentions not knowing about liquid nitrogen ice cream until she ordered it in a restaurant and they started pouring “fog” on the counter.

Pat and Faith start talking about Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. All of the characters are apparently named after bands, including a character just named “Cars”? There is a self-insert character in Jojo’s with way too big of a role. Someone in chat says that Jojo’s sounds like Riverdale, somehow. The admins did not understand this part of the stream.

Final art update: Faith has drawn a very good Winged Knight. He is a Big Boy and we love him.

Pat talks briefly about trying to get back into art. He says that Faith’s art is encouraging because it shows that you can draw anything.

End of stream!

Link to all of Faith’s good Dark Souls art: [x]