#i think my bg pic is silly :3

[bananiies]

finally.

i have the holy trinity of project diva. f, x, and f2nd.

[maximumeffort69]

HIHI MOOTIE!! Lemme show u how i make my stamps :33

For the 2trenchcoat one, I used Pixilart (to make the Sparkle Gif), a gif creator (app, not online/site) and Ibispaint :33

First I made my own stamp cuz I Felt silly :3 (u can use It too!! Just credit me)

Then I picked Derick and Tord's pics and I removed the bg

I put the stamp template on a layer and the guys pics in the lower layers. For a bg, I made a gradient with the colors I think It fits them and added some details

For the 2trenchcoat text, I used a online site that makes glitter text. If u search for "glitter text generator" u will find it! :3

For the Sparkles, u can use from Google (with credits ofc) or do your own. I used Pixilart but I couldn't make it transparent background so I suggest u use a 32x32 canvas on IbisPaint with the pixel brush in case u wanna do your own! Then save each pic as png (not in animation mode! In drawing mode) and add it to the Gif creator and make a transparent background Sparkle gif (u can adjust the speed to stay the way you want)

And to make the stamp in GIF, save two pics of the stamp with the guys and no text. And then put in the Gif creator as "images→GIF". U can decorate the GIF with other stuff, so u add the sparkle Gif and the glitter text, adjust It and then save It if u think It's done!

And then tadaaa!! U get a stamp in Cherry's style :P

(also i just realized I could have made a post teaching this goddamnit)

THANK UUUUU.. I'LL TAG IT 4 U

[newluvrs]

get 2 know me! bb note: just for fun, interview style :] (I also included one of my favorite scenes from one of my fav movies for the header pic.. hurts so good)

basics!

my name is bb (not actually but my real name shall remain a mystery... im so mysterious....), I reside in the u. s., and I am turning 23 next month! I'm in my final year of college and I'm completing a double degree, one is business & the other is design & production :p

kpop!

my journey w/ Kpop is a silly one bc I have been into it for abt 8 ish years now? it was whenever fire by bts had just dropped lol ..

main groups I listen to areeee: NCT (been a czennie for ages <3.. I remember when we didn't have a name yet) & loona! (ofc riize, txt, p1h) I listen to so so many others but these r like the only ones I make an active effort to keep up with.. I've been cultivating my playlist for years so if I were to write everyone I listened to we would b here a lifetime, but I listen to most groups especially in the 2nd-3rd gen range, 4th and 5th gen I still do it's just less likely I'll know a group, I also tend to heavily listen to gg music more often than bg

groups I've seen live: NCT Dream & Loona! I am also seeing Dream and ARTMS live again later this year aaaaaaaa :v

biases: mr. Jonathan Suh has been my ult for literal YEARSSSSSS you cannot pry me off this man I remember waiting 4 his debut... crazy, Sungchan (of course), Soobin (txt), Jiung (p1h), I also biased chuu for soooo long! that is My Girl

music! (non-kpop)

genuinely I listen to so much, I think kpop makes up like 10%?.. and there is absolutely no correlation between genres like at all 😭😭 artists I frequent these days r: mitski, fka twigs, dpr (all of them but mostly Live), daft punk, yeule, the marias, deftones, smashing pumpkins, lamp, pixies, the cure, Japanese breakfast, Magdalena bay, ichiko aoba, etc....

I grew up w/ extremely music loving parents so I have just acquired alot and I'm always adding 2 my collection.. when I was like 7 circa 2008 I had this little mp3 player and I remember my dad putting artists like deftones, my chemical romance, the cure, anthony green, smashing pumpkins, Paramore, etc. onto it and it was my favorite thing ever.. of course he put some Miley Cyrus on it too lol

hobbies + interests!

anything w/ art! I draw, sing, dance, write, play music, sew, etc.! I also really love cinema!! I enjoy fashion & making my own clothes.. my gma taught me to sew so it is near & dear 2 my heart. I play Nintendo! Ocarina of Time is my favorite game ever. I'm not much of a gamer but I have played really random ones like the entirety of silent hill as well as death stranding! Pls talk abt movies w/ me bc I am always down 🧎🏻‍♀️ I also tattoo occasionally, I have given myself a few..

favorites!

shows: derry girls, bob's burgers, fleabag movies: pan's labyrinth, fantastic mr. fox, scream songs: lovers rock - tv girl, I will - mitski, don't be so hard on your own beauty - yeule gg songs: stylish - loona, lp - red velvet, night rather than day - exid bg songs: life is still going on - nct dream, bills - enhypen, 0x1=lovesong - txt

[volfoss]

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im so curioussss

Hi! I assign u...

Benimaru Nikaido! Now if u know jojo he um. might look familiar (to Jean Pierre Polnareff!) but he does like let his hair down occasionally.

^win pose from kof 2002!

ALRIGHT. blorbo lore. benimaru is like well. very.... a guy for sure (affectionate, i love him. horrible lil guy). SO. hes a model and like. the most flirty lil guy. hes very suave and like confident! its played for laughs sometimes bc like. this man will flirt w any woman. hes very like! idk the funnyman trope where hes very loud and outspoken but like ough. know i think about him deeper than that. hes part of the main group for a lot of the sagas (kof is split up into sagas of normally 3 games per saga!) and ALSO. he has lightning power. its how he keeps his hair up. one of his win sprites shows it but oh my god i cannot find it on the wiki. BUT. hes like the most loyal guy and hes so just like kind and silly. ALSO. in the latest arc in kof xv, hes literally part of the main team to look after the heroes. hes so cool. FUN FACT TIME. hes good at cooking! he also has piloted a helicopter before (rich bc of the modeling stuff id assume!) his fave foods r sashimi, pasta, and coffee!! ALSO. some of his end lines r so funny like in kof 96 he just will do a little turn and say I LOVE YOU. this guy is like. so so so flirty.

OK. image time:

^ win portrait from kof xii! let me also like. take u on the tour of benimaru hair down pictures:

^NAIL POLISH MOMENT. also his outfits shift nearly every game so like. be aware of that! hes been in the games since the beginning and is like i think in every single one?

and last but not least lemme show u him hanging out w his friends!!

^ one of my fave kof pictures bc they literally just slapped these characters in a real life bg. so! from L to R: Yuki (kyo's girlfriend), Kyo, Benimaru, and Daimon! everyone but Yuki is on the same team like most of the time and really close! i particularly like how the kof destiny anime showed their friendship (its on Youtube for free its rly cool!)

^ kyo birthday art! the guy in the back is shingo but everyone else is the same as the pic above!

[stephdrawsjohnlock]

SHERLOCK - :Halloween 2017: Wacom Intuos Pro in PS CC (new window for hi-res)

AAAAAHHHHH kay I’ve literally been working on this for over a year, HAH. I actually drew this pic as one of three last year, and since I got NONE of them done, on time, I just kind of put it aside, and decided I would try my hand at at least trying to finish ONE of them.

So here we are, my versions of Vampire!Sherlock and Were!John. I overdid it with the BG, I know. I was trying to be cool and creative, and I failed, meh. I’m happy with it otherwise, but it took ASININELY long because I did all the individual hairs on John’s body, and I added silly things no one will see like pores on Sherlock’s skin. Ugh, my perfectionism knows no bounds, and it’s why I can’t finish anything in less than a month, honestly. I started colouring this back in mid-September, LOL so YAY at least it’s done on time! :D

Anyway, I LOVE MY JOHN. SO MUCH. I love his face so much. Just I love my design for him. My Sherlock wasn’t turning out at all no matter how I drew him. This one on here is actually a second version of him. He’s okay. 

I need to get better with my shadows and lights. Digital art is hard, LOL. Also kept with the black lineart... thinking maybe I should have not. I dunno.

I had fun with this one. I hope you guys like it <3

Have a safe and Happy Halloween, everyone <3

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[tristikovart]

A Retrospective of Role

Or “It really took 15 years to get from that, to this?”

If you’d like to share in my cringe have a look at my progress as an artist, then grab a beverage and a snack, because this is gonna be a looooooooong post.

So to go back to the beginning, I have always liked to draw; in particular I’ve always liked animals, so it isn’t much of a surprise that some of my earliest “original characters” were based on my team in Pokemon Yellow. However, it was another Game Boy game called Dragon Warrior Monsters which provided what turned out to be a lasting inspiration. It also only allowed for 4 letter names.

- 2002 -

If I recall correctly, I was on vacation at a lake in New Hampshire with CerebralZero, when I drew my first ever pic of Role:

She also apparently had scaly forearms and a distinct beak here too; those didn’t stay, but she did keep the wings for some time. 

Given the context of DWM (monster battling), Role didn’t have a lot of background at the time... Though I did have some running gags with my friend Alex who also played the crap out of DWM, I only drew some of our monsters later on in a single rough sketch.

The first continuity I had after Pokemon. [shudder] This shit is really going back in time for me. Note that Role’s outfit makes no fucking sense; but surprisingly, while Sela at the far right looks like some DeviantArt sparkle-bird abomination, she actually is about as ridiculous as the Rain Hawk DWM monster she was based on (I think in-game she actually ended up in part of Role’s lineage because Rain Hawks learn the MEGA MAGIC skill, and thus she would pass it on to Role through monster husbandry.)

- 2003 - 

For a while I gave her some kind of SWAT uniform thing. I’m pretty sure I intended her pistol to be the Enforcer from Unreal / UT Classic. She also went blonde for a while.

Using my sick dial-up internet connection at the time I found out that digital coloring was a thing, and I asked my folks to get me Photoshop Elements 1.0 at our local Staples. I also got a scanner, which ushered in an exciting new world of not being aware of the multiply setting, layers, or cleaning up line-art.

However, Role proved pretty good at rocking out in front of crappy jpegs BGs

- 2004 -.

During this time, I went through a bunch of character designs and continuities (itself amusing to look at; perhaps I’ll make a future post for the truly bored.)

All things considered, when I stuck to pens and prismarkers, I don’t think the result was too terrible. Note the blonde again.

IIRC her outfit above is based off of a pinup wallpaper of Jo from Altermeta gen 1. HOW’S THAT FOR DATED?

ARRGG back to the horrendous digital coloring. I actually did much worse coloring a little bit earlier, if you can believe it. Some basic digital art tips would have a gone a long way back then. Anyway, it was about this time that Role transitioned to a new continuity with one of the several iterations of Gyr, who was my go-to character for a few years. Note Role’s design stabilized around this time with the garish fuchsia eyeshadow, t-shirt, and brown “hair”.

BONUS ROUND: Ryhs Rhys (took me a while to get it straight) is also really fucking old! However, she disappeared for a time, while I kept drawing Role. This cast of characters stuck around for a while, and I drew quite a bit of them, including a number of silly comics, frequently involving my friend’s avatar, Raze, inducing mischief by being a self-important douche.

I certainly drew a lot of pinup art of Role; this habit hasn’t really changed… 2004 had a particularly productive stretch due to me going on vacation to Vermont, again at a lake (similar to where I drew her first pic) and having ample free time to occupy.

This trip was also officially commemorated with a 5 page comic about just that.

- 2005 -

I think this pic was actually late 2004, but either way I still think it stands out as pretty cool for the time. Note Role’s “hair” has transitioned to actual hair from its previous feathery styling. Note the lack of wings too. Also, IIRC the only time she was drawn with closed-toe shoes.

Otherwise 2005 is kinda light on dated pics of Role; probably because I had started drawing Ress more often (another good topic for a retrospective) and had also developed Maru and other equine characters.

- 2006 -

Check it out! Some signs of progress at last! The 2006 iteration of this cast focused on these three (and ditched the wings across the board), as well as folded in the other equine characters to some kind of mid-2000s city life continuity. Role’s shirt also gained a big 01, and might have been her old softball jersey or something.

Around this time, CowBunny, a fellow artist on DeviantArt, also drew me some really cool fanart! CB, if you’re out there, I hope you’re doing well!

I also drew the first (and a little slim) Oktoberfest Role picture, replete with god-awful shift-clicked mouse lines. Note the braids here.

- 2007 -

I had started school at this point, and IIRC I drew this sketch during my first semester, while riding the D-line from Brookline Village to Riverside, on my way back to my school’s temporary dorms at Regis College.

- 2008 -

Doodles of Role (and Maru and Ress in the upper middle) done in various notebooks from school. Note during this time she also developed a bit of a cleft beak for some reason. You know, I still don’t know why despite having one in the original drawing, I always drew her without a defined bill since then (until 2017.) Inspiration from depictions of Chocobos, perhaps?

- 2009 -

Beergirl Role is back! And dammit if this doesn’t hold up pretty well (which I should be glad of, given that I purposely designed this pic to have tattooed on my side!)

- 2010 - 

At this time I was preoccupied with graduating college, and then involved in my first job, so while I have a nice picture of Ress from this time, I didn’t get to Role until the following year.

- 2011 -

But hey, she looked pretty good, so I’d say the wait was worth it. Note that I finally got rid of that fucking eyeshadow. Like, it finally occurred to me that I could use other colors. Or Kelly might have just told me it looked like shit.

- 2012, 2013 -

Didn’t draw Role much (if at all?) during this time, as I started another job, started collecting firearms, and chiefly: Started the modern period of Avania! (The history of how Avania came to be is yet another retrospective topic I could go into detail on, if there are interested persons out there.)

- 2014 -

Well, 2013-14 sucked because the start-up I worked for had gone belly-up and money was tight, but never the less I brought Role into the “present” with the third beergirl drawing. Her hair is lighter in this version, but she kept the braids even when not in fraulein-mode, and apparently I liked the way she looked with glasses in that old sketch. 

Otherwise I spent most of this time making 3D models of most of the Avania characters to play in Unreal Tournament 3. I even made a model of Role, though I didn’t iron out all the rigging issues, and she was rather out of place among all the other characters I had modeled.

- 2015, 2016 -

I started a new job late in 2014 and I’m still there, so things are looking pretty good. However, I had been working on the Avania comic, and any side art had pretty much been exclusively with those characters. Several times I had thought about adding Role into this now all-consuming continuity, but with one of my design choices being limiting the setting to three sentient races, it meant Role as she was wouldn’t fit neatly into the setting, and so I held off on incorporating her.

- 2017 -

However, early this year I decided that it was high time I found a place for my oldest, continuously drawn character in a setting that I have set out to make a fancy, published (at least digitally) comic out of.

I’ve already been posting sketches of her new design, but say goodbye to the old, and hello to the new Role!

Her old design will always be with me (and I mean literally, given the tattoo) but I’m very happy to actually give her something to do now besides get drawn looking pretty. I’ll probably do some finished art of her new design at some point, and maybe even remake her model for my next Avania UT3 release (though it might end up being UT4 at this point--another project somewhere on the distant horizon.)

2018 UPDATE: Role’s latest incarnation now has a fully rendered pinup! This is her design for the Avania comic (launching summer 2018) so be sure to stay tuned if you’re a fan!

Though her previous designs haven’t had much in the way of military themes, I wanted to keep her overall look recognizable. As such color color scheme has remained the same, and I figured her braids would continue to be appropriate in the new context. As she no longer has a lion’s tail, I decided to braid that as well so as to keep the tufted and ribboned look. One other thing that has evolved is her personality; though she past wasn’t ever particularly defined, Role always seemed fairly happy, friendly, hard-working, and a little flirty. In light of her new history growing up in dire times and serving during the final days of her country, her old personality has matured to one of responsibility and self-sacrifice, but has not been entirely overwhelmed!

I’ve really enjoyed Role’s evolution over the years, and I’ve especially enjoyed her recent iterations and the depth that I’ve finally got around to developing for her character and backstory.

If you actually read this incredibly long-winded exploration of my artwork, then I hope you enjoyed it too! If that’s the case, let me know if you’re interested in seeing more posts like this exploring some other long-running characters, or all the early concepts that went into making Avania.

It has been a pleasure sharing my drawings with the internet at large, and I look forward to continuing the habit; cheers!