#i have so many art styles im sorry .

[clickety-clacker]

Been seeing so many cool Clickies on my dashboard since getting into GGG, I just had to take the time to draw a few of them- plus, it was a bit of a challenge to try new styles. A lot of these guys were also super influential to how I draw and even think about Click Clack on my own time, so you should definitely check them out! Names below the cut cus it got long heehoo

Top left: @malartsorte

Top middle (holding papers): @scribblelimbo

Top right: @wishgraanted

Leftmost middle: @beastwhimsy

Middle (peace sign!): @sootnuki

Rightmost middle: @molabuddy

Bottom left: @pespillo

Bottom middle: @artuurle

Bottom right: @modmad

I know I said it already, but all of yall are super cool and I had a lot of fun challenging myself to make this! Keep on being awesome 👍

[w2nv]

Hi

[beatcroc]

what, didn't you know most amphibians shed and eat their skin? what did you think was going on there, peppino? this is normal frog stuff. come on now.

many more sketches bc i had way too many thoughts about this to try and illustrate all in a comic. horrid beast fp agenda ❤

[shroommush]

So i drew some fanart of @pompadorbz sorry boys "still wakes the deep" au ! I had fun with the more action filled drawings, and definetly wanna do more >:P

While drawing, i got to brainstorming about what character roles the boys might take in the story. Like, charlies probably caz, and maybe phil is caz's friend whos a cook (i forgot his name) but then i thought about if characters like Rennick had a coresponding cc, and i immediately thought about schlatt. So, i have ideas about what expanding the au might look like, but this isnt MY au, so for now ill hold off on yapping my ideas and just share what ive drawn for now

But either way, i REALLY enjoy this au and love all the ansgt potential it has. Like i was thinking, who out of the boys would end up being the last one? (Aka, taking caz's place at the end of the story with the lighter) and thought that, out of the boys, it would just make the most sense to be tommy. And thats HORRIBLE, AUGH ITS SO SAD but i LOVE IT

Anyways, sorry for the rambling, i hope you guys enjoy the art :] i still have to draw that other scene with charlie on the elevator, tho, so i might come back with more later

[stiffyck]

i actually like hate people who refuse to watch animated movies just because theyre animated. im so sorry your taste in movies sucks.

[moonlightflower-queen]

I wouldn't be able to draw this man consistently if you put a gun to my head

[daily-basil]

Don't be rude.

The sketch looked so much better........

[clownhonkbonk]

hi rqg people i am once again late to the party

[killjoy-prince]

A kiss from Death

[fraternum-momentum]

GIRL WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT !! that rendering looks so goddamn good!!

THANK YOU,,, but its just ik every artist goes thru this period a lot of times but rn i feel like my art isnt at a level that i want it to be and its so FRUSTRATINGG like grating my teeth pulling my hair biting my fist levels of frustrating

[unreal-sundogs]

Alastor reads fan mail

Hes traumatized

[polysucks]

hii!!! i just wanted to ask if it's okay to draw the starks as indigenous, as a non native myself? I wanted to draw lyanna in atla katara's animated style, and I understand that the water nation is heavily inspired by Inuit culture.

Oh my god, Hi!

I'm genuinely very sorry to turn your question into a whole thing but I think you have opened a door for a conversation that needs to be had and I am so so so excited you asked!!!!! I also have fatal yapping disease!!

I am so honored that you came to me to ask if it was okay for you, someone who self identifies as not a descendant from the land's first peoples to make art that depicts the culture of the land's first peoples.

I am not an authority on what is respectful, or disrespectful when depicting any culture.

No one truly is.

tl;dr at the bottom of this I prommy.

This post includes links to references and educations that go to websites outside tumblr, and are best viewed on desktop devices and with adblockers. Nothing malicious, I just linked everything from my desktop with a variety of adblockers in play lmfao

When it comes to the design of the Northern and Southern Water Tribes of ATLA, there's alot of mixed opinions! But the consensus, from what I've seen, seems to be that any representation that goes beyond the surface zeitgeist caricature and doesn't feed into harmful stereotypes is positive representation. Everything boils down to the roots of representation.

Now, as far as representation goes, I am NOT a good person to ask--I am white passing. So much so that I have red hair. I can throw a stone and hit five pieces of media where I feel I can see myself (I mean, why do you think I latched so hard onto Sansa?) But I'm someone who exists severely intersectionally and that is what representation means.

"...positive representation can build self-confidence in individuals. It offers them role models to look up to and people and characters to be inspired by ... They can be the superhero, the doctor, the actor or whoever they want to be...We all benefit from learning about different experiences and expanding our notion of what is “normal”" - What Exactly Is Media Representation, Anyway? By Yasmina Tawil for the Arab Film Institute blog

When depicting any culture you are not rooted in, or have any personal experience with, the ultimate question is: what are your intentions?

because, baby-- the fact that you even asked in the first place means you already have respect in your heart.

Okay, sure, you may have asked because you're an artist and you don't wanna get cancelled. It's easy to get cancelled as an artist, today's society hates artists (that's fascism for you, but like, not gonna touch that one rn lmfao)

I'm not assigning that mentality to you. I'm not assuming anything about your intentions.

But I am mentioning it because alot of us do think that way, because the fact is that this type of thinking is extremely common and way more widespread in our current environment than we would like to say. This mindset is detrimental to our human way of thinking, our sense of community, and prevents art from being made long before the idea is even formed. There are too many artists that are too afraid to ask. That are too afraid to post their work. Because of Woke.

Okay, jokes aside-- we're afraid of being cancelled.

We're afraid of being disrespectful.

We're afraid of stepping on toes.

And the easiest way to combat this-- both, the overwhelming fear and shame, and the possibility of doing a disservice to a culture-- is to have an open heart and mind.

Cultural Inspiration

Lyanna Stark in similar garb to Katara is (personally) SOOOOOOO on-brand bro. Not even joking.

and there's soooo many parallels I could write a whole essay-- man i just might holy fuck dude what a concept

I base alot of my personal headcanons for Northmen and First Men fashion off of native Athabascan cultures, which are adjacent and/or descendant of ancient Mongolian cultures via the Bering Land Bridge. but I also get jiggy w it as far as man, this is fantasy. If you can mix pirate culture w viking culture for the Ironborn, you can mix european medieval fashion with indigenous talent and taste.

And at first glance (Idk I gotta do more research into this one tbh) this seems to be where the artists for ATLA also got their vision for the water tribes!

Thanks to Meemawdean's amazinggggggg requests, I drew a series of NDN Stark Depictions (Lyanna) (Sansa) and a couple of other scragglers that spawned a FUCKTON of questions pertaining to indigenous culture and how I depict it in my art that alot of people were too embarrassed or afraid to ask publicly. But I will give you the answer I give everyone. Online, and IRL:

It's not that serious.

Get jiggy with it.

Like for example I was getting my hair did back in october. and I was talking to the [white] stylist about being native and how my hair is sacred.

She got so upset about touching it, about how I asked her to cut it and style it. She was so scared to fuck it up.

I told her that if I didn't want her services--whether she "fucked it up" or not-- I wouldn't have come here. That just because something is sacred, doesn't mean you can't use it.

Even if she did give me a bad haircut (which she didn't!!! My hair looked amazing) I wouldn't be upset because it was with good intentions. Hair is temporary. It will always come back.

I honor my hair as sacred. That doesn't mean I can't cut it, dye it, burn it, style it, lose it, or play with it.

I do all of that out of love for myself, love for my body, love for my hair, love for my ancestors, love for my culture.

Some can argue that I'm doing my body, my culture, my ancestors a disservice, that I'm being disrespectful.

But any expression of love for your fellow man, no matter how misguided, uneducated, or rooted in opinion or ignorance it is, as long as it's with the pure intention of love, is sacred. and should be regarded as such.

So make art!

Have ideas!

Cut your hair!

Tattoo your body!

Ask questions you're afraid of being called stupid or insensitive for!

whats the worst thing that happens? Your feelings get hurt?

Feelings are temporary. They will always come back.

tl;dr

yeah man draw indigenous people. we don't really give a fuck, for the most part, as long as you do a little research and show some respect and love and like. give a fuck about what you're contributing to the image of these cultures :3

[thedrotter]

re:kinder goofy (for the most part) doodle dump !!! last two are from. five months ago when i was barely starting to draw these characters but i found them amusing 😊 enjoy snacks

[whispering-brushes]

hi edgar! same anon who wanted to eat your hair but we don't talk about that haha... ^_^ seeing as you look a little down by your recent response, i hope you don't mind a small distraction ask... or so i hope it would help a little bit! since you really like painting, do you have an artist that you look up to or at least adore their work a lot? mine is claude monet!

"...Correct. We don't talk about that." He pauses, staring at the paper. "I have no desire to ask how you crammed so many images of crying in there."

An artist he looks up to... Edgar furrows his brow at the question. "Hm. My years of study did not feature nearly enough of looking at those before me, but from the things I have seen and learned recently... I have an admiration for Michelangelo and Courbet, and like you, I cannot help but enjoy Monet's work. Impressionism is a form I work within as well, in the sense that while sometimes it is best to portray reality as it is, sometimes heightening it and knowing what choices to make to take it into something more than what the world could physically be, while knowing and painting in such a way that emphasizes the medium, is the direction I find most important. It is not a matter of one or the other at all times. I am not a daguerreotype and I do not seek to pretend to be one, I may as well lean into the way my brushes leave their marks."

[morbid9142]

OFFICIAL ANTI-CJ AND ANTI-EARTH DESIGNS

btw i use the 🌎 emoji for a!earths reference ;D i decided to make this post because i wanted to edit the original timeline post about them but last minute i decided not to.

i had previously posted their official designs but they were buried beneath a trigger warning and i dont like them anymore. + this gives me anti-earths overlay color and lets me color pick with accuracy to their real designs

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i can draw rime so nicely when its just like 15 minute sketches god forbid i sit down to draw her seriously & she just becomes completely uncooperative. why must u be difficult tenshi wouldnt do this to me.