#i think this drawing looks better cropped but 😭

[mikuhats]

What if the most annoying men you could conceive of had a gay thing going on

[all444miles]

can you do miles with and earthy black girl! Like I can see him wanting her nose rings, and accessories but don’t get me started on how he SIMPS for her waist beads. He loves seeing her at school with her hair wrap and locs and her lavender and coco sent, she’s a calm person to!

thank you so much for your AMAZING work God bless❤️❤️❤️❤️

— DOWN TO EARTH

— pairing: both miles' x black!earthy!fem!reader — genre: fluff — summary: what its like for both miles' to date an earthy girl ‹3 — a/n: quick note, the reader calls 1610 miles "bambi" as a nickname becuase he reminds her of a baby deer ‹3 (credits to my pookie for that !!) — a/n 2: I didn't know which miles you meant, so i just did both 😭 also pretend that brooklyn visions academy doesnt have a uniform.. i was tired writing this so im rlly rlly RLLLY sorry if this is bad but, i hope you like this, and enjoy !! ‹3

E-42 MILES

Miles loves being in your room. the smell of burning coconut incense, the look of your fairy lights, the small plants, it felt so chill, so peaceful. he liked that.

he always knows which incense you've used, and will pick up if you've changed them. He'll buy you some if you need any more.

"You got rid of the coconut incense? Mami, that one was my favorite." "Baby, I only have one pack left." "Oh? Aight, i'll buy you some tomorrow."

he'll never tell you, but if he misses you, he'll listen to your favorite songs that you'd always hum to yourself when you two are alone.

does he like Erykah Badu? Yes, yes he does. he'll listen to Green Eyes on his missions with his uncle whenever he gets the chance.

his uncle caught him once; one of the most embarrassing moments of his life.

"Kid, you listenin' Erykah Badu? Ian know you into allat." "Yo chill, it's only cuz my girl like her." "Mhm. You sure you my nephew or am I trippin?" "Tio, let's just roll."

he's loves to cuddle with you, especially cause you always smell like lavender. he won't let you go either.

"Miles, I gotta get some food." "Nuh, in a minute." "Hun, you done said that 2 minutes ago." "Exactly, in a minute. I like being here."

absolutely in love with your waist beads. he loves the jewllery you were (you both have matching necklaces), but your waist beads? goes absolutely crazy whenever you wearing a crop top and you have them on.

one time you two were at a beach and you wore them with your bikini, he might as well have fell in love with you all over again. bro has his hands on your waist the whoooleee time.

"Princesa, never take off your waist beads." "Why? You like 'em?" "¿Gustarme? Chica, Dios mío, estoy enamorada de ellos." (Like them? Girl, my god, i'm in love with them.) "Miles!" "What? I'm just appreciating my queen n her style, ion see no problem."

E-1610 MILES

Miles is obsessed, like, obsessed, with your style.

if you two live close, he'll style your locs and do your head wrap for you before school.

if not, he'll come to school excited to see your ootd. that is, as if you don't send them to him everyday before school.

"You look gorgeous in your outfit, amor." "Thank you Miles. You do know i already showed you it before school, right?" "So? It's always better to see my wife's outfits in person." "Bambi, you so corny."

he draws you, all the time. look through his sketchbook and you'll find drawings of his friends from the spider society, his uncle, and thousands of you.

Instead of doing what his twin does, when he misses you, he'll draw you. He misses you a lot.

"Baby, can I see your sketchbook?" "..Uhm, yeah! Sure." "You draw me? Awwe, that's so cute."

he loves how calm you are, he actually thinks of you as an angel the way you're so peaceful.

he thinks your nose rings are so gorgeous. if you let him pick which nose ring, he'll be so honored.

adores the fact you smell like lavender. he'll always lay his head into the crook of your neck because he loves your scent sm.

like his counterpart, he's so fascinated to your waist beads. like, he just thinks you look so beautiful with em. One time, you put his hands on your waist, he honestly didn't know what to do with himself.

"Mami, did you know I love your waist beads?" "Yes, bambi, i know." "Nah, but I loooovvveeeee them!" "Baby, i know!" "Like, I looooooooooooovvvvvvvveeeeee them!" "Love, please."

© all444miles 2023. do not plagerize, copy, or repost my work in any way shape or form, without my permission.

likes, reblogs, comments and asks are always appreciated !

[number-onekidqueen]

Hey!!!

Could you please do Luke x Goth!fem!reader where they are dating secretly, and Luke finds out she’s getting bullied for how she dresses he decides to confront the bullies and put them in their place 

𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞

Luke Castellan x goth!Hades!reader

apologies for the awkward spacing, my laptop is going through some glitch 😭

angsty fluff

warnings: bullying, verbal abuse ig, a few swear words, necrophilia mentioned (NOT A THEME), Stacey is a cliche warning, mentions sexual themes

summary: even if goth isn't his style, luke is happy to put a few haters in their place, if it means making you feel better.

"You don’t like it, do you?”

He shook his head insistently. You laughed.

“No, I think it’s cool, I just don’t listen to this kind of stuff. It’s new to me.”

You and Luke were sat on your bed in Hades cabin, listening to a cassette you had snuck in this summer.

It was actually how your mum had bonded with Hades. She always told the story of how she had been walking home from a shift, listening to her favourite album on her Walkman, completely lost in the bass and cacophony of drums, unaware of her surroundings. Too late she had noticed a drunk driver swerving towards her. And then a man had come out of the gloom, drawing her safely away by clutching her cassette tape and headphone wires. She’d been at a loss for words, and he’d simply walked away.

He’d met her the next night, returning her Walkman with praise for her music choice. And every night later he’d appear somewhere along their journey, and they’d converse about music and fall in love.

That very album was what you were listening to at the moment. And from the look in his face, it certainly wouldn’t be making its way onto Luke's playlist very soon.

“I know it’s loud, I get it,” you reassured, “I guess I just love the…. Passion.” You didn’t see while you were rambling, but the look Luke gave you then could only be described as adoring. He loved when you ranted like this. “These artists, they’re pouring their heart and soul into everything. Every word they scream, and string they play, they’re giving their best performance to do so. I find it so amazing.”

The sad thing was, not many people shared your view on that, which led to the predicament you were in.

Well, it wasn’t just the music. It was probably the way you dressed too.

Regardless of your explanations, people were always going to stare at your black shorts, choker and smoky eyes. They would always whisper ‘goth girl’ as if it was a swear word.

But you never thought they would be quite so mean. Come on, you were one of them, right?

Wrong, apparently.

"Hey, emo, anyone die lately, or just your style sense?"

This particular jab came from Stacey, an Aphrodite girl who just seemed to loathe you, and was your polar opposite with her glowy make up, tight camp tee and cropped shorts.

Usually you ignored them. Sure, some of their comments were mean, and sometimes you could hear them when you looked in the mirror, when you applied your mascara, when you lay in bed in the darkness. But today, you were done. You were so sick of Stacey sniping and sneering at you. You were going to bite back.

"I didn't realise dressing for men was considered style, but if so, then sure."

There was silence as she gasped at your comment, looking at her friends in shock and for support. She scowled then, and chewed her gum obnoxiously in what you guessed to be an excuse to think of a comeback.

"I'm sorry I get a reaction from men. Kinda sad that black and death doesn't turn anyone on, huh y/n? But I'm sure you don't care. Probably have some relationship with a dead body, right?"

There were muffled giggles as all the Aphrodite girls covered their mouths at her retort. She began to smirk at you as you blinked at her in shock, genuinely hurt.

"I don't get you, Stacey. Why would my style have anything to do with that? How do smoky eyes have anything to do with-with necrophilia or whatever you're suggesting? What the fuck?" You spat, and you walked away from her, hating that you had been defeated, that that stupid girl's words made your eyes feel heavy with tears.

Because to her, you'd always be weird. That one goth girl who always wore black no matter the occasion. Who barely got a first glance from boys.

It was then you wanted to scream to them how much you knew Luke cared about you. You wondered how much their opinions would change, if they knew camp's golden boy was sweet about you. But you never did, because you knew they wouldn't believe you, and so it led to tears and frustration, locking yourself inside your cabin and crying until your face was a runny, smudged mess.

You'd settled yourself against the wall for around half an hour, your hands in your hair as you bathed in misery and insecurity when you heard the first round of insistent knocks and urgent calling of your name. It was him.

Sniffling and wiping your eyes, you got to your feet and let him in, praying you looked better than you felt. His face fell as the door opened and he spotted your saddened features, so you guessed you didn't. Luke stepped in, shutting the door behind him, and immediately brushing the tears from your face with his thumbs, his eyes sad.

"Who did this to you?" he demanded, as he drew you into a hug.

"It was just some-some girls, don't worry, they always do it, I'm just-y'know, being dramatic," you let out a broken laugh into his shoulder and more tears fell, "I guess I should expect it."

"No you shouldn't. They shouldn't torment you regularly just because you dress different to them." He pulled away, his eyes furious now, the cocoa centres dangerously dark, "What the hell is wrong with them?! Tell me their names, y/n, their names."

"No, it's fine, you-you don't need to talk to them, it's-"

"Well, I'm going to either way, so you can tell me, or I'll just find it out."

"I-I-" you stuttered, your body shuddering as a wave of tears swept through you once again, "it was that group of Aphrodite girls, with like Stacey and-"

You buried yourself in his arms, and he squeezed you tight, fingers brushing gently through your hair. "You know you're so much better than them, right?" he murmured warmly, "you're smarter, you're prettier-"

"No, I'm not-"

"Yes, you are, and you should know it, because you are, y/n. You're worth a million of them." Luke's words were firm, and the way he looked at you then, resolute and as if he believed his phrase with every particle of his being made you soften. Made you almost believe him.

"I'm gonna come back with some soda, and we can chill out and listen to your tape, yeah? How's that sound?"

"Amazing," you said, with a watery smile.

"Great, well I'll go now, so I can be back soon," and he sent you a faint-inducing grin as he inched out of your arms that made you lose track of a few sentences.

"Luke," you protested, when you finally got your tongue under control, "no, you-you don't have to this, right? You realise you don't have to do this? It's ok, it's-"

"Yeah, of course," he responded calmly, that same grin on his face as he reached for the door, "I don't know where you think I'm going. I'm just off to get some soda."

And do some other things along the way.

He stormed over to the Aphrodite cabin, knocking rapidly before throwing the door open. Stacey was there, sat on the bed humming a pop song and fixing her hair in her hand mirror, frozen in place as she watched him barge in and shut the door. Her surprise smoothly transitioned into seduction, as was typical with a lot of Aphrodite girls.

"Someone wanted to see me," she cooed, sending him a flirty smile.

Oh yes he did indeed.

"So, I heard about some things with you and y/n,"

"Oh, yeah, that," Stacey waved the words away as if they were a pesky fly, resting on her elbows as she looked up at him with doe eyes, "she looked like a horror movie, Luke. Like, you know how much I care about the kids! They might get scared."

"Yeah, yeah sure, Stacey, I'm sure those were your intentions."

She frowned at that, her glossy lips and thin brows crinkled.

"Why are you even standing up for her anyway? It's not like she's nice, and she's so weird, like she's probably not even straight, like I've heard she has relationships with bats and graves and shit."

"And where did you hear that, Stacey?" He asked coldly, anger rising through him.

She quickly noted the negative emotions surfacing in his tone, and cocked her head. "I don't know, like just around the place. Look, I don't know why you care about this so much? I doubt she has a soul."

"Oh, she does, Stacey. And her soul is much more beautiful and amazing than yours will ever be," he sucked a breath in, trying to restrain his utter rage, "and I want you to never talk to my girlfriend like that again."

"Y-your-your girlfriend?" She spluttered, absolutely shell-shocked.

"Yeah, my girlfriend."

"But-what-?"

"She's the best girl at camp, so I don't know why you say all that stupid stuff about her. Anyway, I need to go now, Stacey, but I think you got the message, yeah?"

She nodded dumbly, her eyes still wide, and Luke smirked as he left the suffocatingly rose-smelling cabin and went into the open air.

With that done, he needed two ice-cold cans of soda.

[cattocavo]

So I’ve been tagged in six sentence sunday!

I’ve never done these before and I’m not very active on here so i wouldnt know who to tag in response (although if any of you are fine with being tagged, please write to me! Id love to hear what everyone’s doing, and make some new friends!!

Since I last posted on tumblr I’ve finished all the inktober drawings I planned to draw. They’re all posted on my instagram, but I’m severely behind on posting here😅 tumblr is great but I cannot for the life of me shake off the awkwardness that comes with posting on another media that isn’t my preferred one. But if anyone who doesnt have instagram wants to see the rest just lmk and I’ll post them!

Other than inktober I haven’t really done anything.. i wanted to draw something for valentines, and got an idea a day before which is obviously WAY too little time to finish anything. And well, then valentines day passed and I no longer had a deadline.. so I didn’t finish it. I cannot for the life of me finish anything without a deadline. (Literally realized like 4 days ago that ive basically never finished a high-effort illustration without a deadline or someone relying on me😵‍💫 which kinda sucks ngl)

But since six sentence sundays are for wips, I guess I can show it to y’all what i drew for valentines!

So heres the concept (which is almost better than the finished result will be. I didn’t manage sultry Simon’s facial expression very well in the actual drawing😭 he just looks annoyed instead of ‘sexy’)

Aaannnd this is a wip of the actual drawing:

I really might end up redoing sultry Simon’s face, cuz it just isn’t working. I wanted the “expectation” side to like be the baz vision equivalent of some sexy male models slicked in oil and faces all squinty and lip-bitey. I didn’t want there to be a trace of an actual person, only the vision of “hot” so an annoyed simon with a bow will not do :/

Sidenote about simons shirt: eat the rich more like swallow the rich amirite?

I have this dumbass obsession with putting simon in ugly T shirts where theres printed the most ridiculous quotes on. I have a whole pinterest board on it. I tastefully called it “simons questionable taste in fashion”

(It’s all dumbass crop tops and tiny shirts with big chunky shoes. Idk I just love that on him)

But uhh I think that’s all for now! Thank you for tagging me @thewholelemon and @j-nipper-95 for tagging me a lot of previous times where i didn’t do anything bc i was shy😅

See you all next time!

Also idk if people put tags on SSS but I’m just gonna do that bc its what I’m used to

[fuckyeahpedropascal]

Hi, I hope you're doing well! Just wondering if you're able to do a post/poll/comparison/analysis - let's call it a scientific study - of Pedro's broad shoulder in proportion to his tiny waist? (and maybe also his cute, um, bottom?)

As always, thank you so much for all you do for the Pedro fandom! 💖

This ask is literally 8 months old, I’m so sorry sweet anon 😭 I kept putting it off because I felt like I couldn’t do your ask justice. I still think I can do a much better job than this, but since it’s Boxing Day, I thought I’d leave this naked man under all of your trees.

Please forgive the half-assed analysis because my mind doesn’t work in the face of such broadness 🫠 And of course, we can only use half-naked pics because we need clear references for science.

Let's talk overall broadness first. This man majorly beefed up in between Nikita (2013) and the first season of Narcos (2015). I was going to use 3:5 cropping for both gifs, but I literally couldn't fit all of Javier in that frame. That's how bloody broad this man had gotten.

Can we admire the corded muscles running down Javier's side for a second? Look at the lines. Look at them. He is significantly thicker and more sculpted compared to Liam, he definitely put his hours in the gym in those couple of years.

Skipping forward to the next time we see this man half-naked on screen in TUWOMT in 2022, he has clearly gotten even broader horizontally and also filled out in thickness. The shoulders are bigger, and look at those tiddies pecs practically leaping off the screen, and that soft belly. They knew what they were doing not giving us a full frontal shot of Javi G - he's a danger to ovaries everywhere.

Now let's move on to shoulder-to-waist ratio. Compared to Liam, Javier has a more pronounced dip in the waist thanks to the broader shoulders and the tiny little waist that stayed tiny. If you draw lines connecting shoulders to waist, Liam is more boxy and Javier is more of a trapezium.

While we don't see Javi G stand up fully, that shoulder-to-waist ratio is clearly still there, even if he is broader on both ends overall. That slutty nip in the waist is still very much present.

Ok that's all the analysis my turkey-fogged brain is capable of right now. This is such a broad topic (tehehe), consider this a prelude of sorts. I'm sure I'll be doing more of a deep dive one day, because we haven't even gotten to that little tush yet.

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[shibusawaz]

So, your Madoka Kaname drawing looks amazing, and as a traditional artist, I was trying to observe to see if I could learn from your drawing.

One thing that stuck out to me was the shading and outlines.

How do you shade so well? How do you know which colors to use, and where to use them? Same question goes for outlines, too.

hihihihiii!! first of all thank u so much, im rlly flattered that u were so impressed 🫶🫶 im honestly really surprised how much attention my drawing got gyuh

anyways!! the picture i referenced was from the crash fever x pmmm crossover, so it’s by no means completely original. here’s the side by side comparison of the (cropped) og image vs in my sketchbook!!

so, most of the actual shading decisions and placements are from the original work. however, i had to change up the colors a bit because of the selection i had. (please note that my version is also darker because of lighting and iphone picture quality 😭😭)

also, for most of my drawings i follow the call of the wind (make guesses) and fufill the prophecies (keep adding more colors until it looks okay)

that being said, below the cut is a full coloring walkthrough if you’re still interested!!

please note that this is much smaller scale and done in less time (took an hour instead of two days 😨) so the quality will be a bit less!!

alright. so let’s say we wanna draw this image, but we tweaked it a bit because drawing BOTH eyes was too much of a hassle.

after you clean your sketch, the best thing to do is open with an outline that’s not QUITE black but close to it.

now, i have a rule. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember this rule: you can use ANY color. for your outline, shading, whatever. it doesn’t have to match the reference.

if you are using this as a genuine tutorial, please know that i change colors every fucking time i draw. i change mediums too. this is only the process i used for my madoka drawing (as best as i can remember)

cuz, like my art teacher said, you have this thing called artistic license, which means you have the right to change whatever the FUCK you want if you think it makes your drawing better. make her purple, give her one ponytail, whatever. as long as you can make it work, have fun!!

anyways. next, go over that outline with other dark colors of different hues. there’s no rhyme or reason, it’s just fun.

after, place your highlights on the hair. i used cream instead of the pastel pink in the original because i like cream better and it adds more hues.

usually, i start with the darkest value instead for shading as it’s more vibrant, but madoka doesn’t have any really standout dark tones. it’s okay though i love her

then, you gotta go in with base colors. simple pink and peach yada yada

listen, quick reminder: YOUR BASE COLORS DON’T MATTER AS LONG AS YOU CAN STILL ADD ONTO THEM!!!

just pick a light base close to the original. don’t agonize over it. apply lightly and gently in circular motions, and you’ll be okay!!

next, we adjust the tone of the hair. i wanted a cooler toned pink, so i added amethyst. i also added a bit to the stray eye.

after, adjust your tone more as needed. again, any color goes. the means justify the ends, and if you end up adding some blue or yellow or whatever then good!! go bonkers with it. i used vermillion.

next, add shading blocks (referenced from the original image!) in a color that’s light enough to blend in more but dark enough to see (amethyst is my favorite for this, and i use it a lot!!) you can also add extra shading in some areas to give it some personality.

after THAT, blend in your shading a bit more with your base colors. by this point you should be pressing down a lot to get the pigment you want. i think for her skin i added beige instead of peach in this step, but that’s also what i did for the above drawing.

the purpose of this is to mute your colors a bit so they fit together more. however, if you want it to pop, you don’t have to add another base color!!

i also went over the outlines with the base color to lighten them and even out the drawing. i do that with almost every step, as needed. follow your heart on that one

also, i gave her a little bit of blush in that step. just because.

ok, so now is the fun part. for the hair and any accessories/clothes/things of the same texture, add random streaks of random colors.

yeah, go ahead, add orange, blue, yellow, whatever. it’s best if it’s of the same value (aka darkness) so it fits in with the base color, but it can be anything!!

you don’t have to do this, but it’s fun.

also, i shaded the eye too offscreen. same process, because pmmm’s style has a very flat texture on characters. thus, it’s okay to use the same shading technique.

now, we can do the same with accessories!! these are simpler and i honestly got too lazy to even reference for the scarf because the hair was the main focus.

finally, add little details, clean up anything you don’t like, and do whatever you want with it!!

that’s all i do for shading, and i hope it helped a bit. i mainly work with pen and paint markers, but the process is the same aside from tweaking parts.

just remember:

its your art do whatever the fuck you want

LAYER LAYER LAYER fix anything by adding new things

it doesnt have to be perfect yada yada

fun color = fun drawing

it doesnt have to look like the picture because thats boring and you wont learn if you try and carbon copy everything you see

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[kryptiq-kreachur]

Do you have tips on uploading trad art to tumblr and not having it look scuffed as all hell 😭😭😭 your art looks great pls share your secrets

Aaaa, thank you! I actually decided to shift my focus back to traditional art very recently and it means a lot to hear that ;; I hope this helps you and anyone else with similar questions!!

So I have two methods that I usually rely on when capturing my traditional art. The first one is kind of limited, but it is faster and more accessible. For these demonstrations, I'm going to use a colored sketch of my OC, Brinley. Step One: Taking Your Photo! All you'll need for the first method is your phone. What you want to do first is to find an area with nice, even lighting- the less warm, the less you'll have to correct later, so the closer to daylight, the better. In fact, using the light outside is a great way to capture your art! Note: If you are in a place with very cool lighting you will also have to correct the colors, but in my experience, cooler light is easier to work with. Position your artwork so it's illuminated with the light source directly in front of you. If it is behind you, it will be harder to get your shadow out of the shot. The spot I was in had my light source behind me, so my arm covered it a bit.

I repositioned myself to a spot with the light source in front of me instead, and I was able to get a nicer shot.

Keep your phone as level as possible over your drawing, and as close as possible without your phone going out of focus.

And now the first step is done! Step Two: Editing Your Photo! This is where everything starts to come together! Firstly, crop your drawing to your preference. I try to keep the negative space around my art as even as possible. IPhones have a handy feature where you can choose an even aspect ratio, so that will help keep things simpler if you want. Next, all you have to do is mess with the settings until you get it how you want it to look. Filters can help it to look more cohesive. I like to keep the art close by me to reference so I can get it to look as close to real life as possible. Note: black and white art is the easiest to edit due to the high contrast. Finished! Congrats! Your art is ready to post! Here's what my sketch looked like after I added a vivid filter and then messed with the settings.

The second method can be a bit more difficult, but the results always look better than just taking a photo. What you'll need is a computer (I think you can also use an ipad- any device will work as long as it can connect to the scanner), a scanner and any art/photo editing software. Step One: Scanning! The scanner I use is technically used for office work, but can be used to scan photos, therefore the quality is very much in the middle. There are scanners that are used purely for scanning high quality images of art and photography that will produce much better results on the initial scan, but this works just fine! There are also stores and other places where you can scan your work even if you don't own a scanner. First, make sure your art is as flat as possible and in the middle of the scanning bed. It doesn't have to be perfectly straight as it can be edited later, but if it isn't flat or it's on the edge of the bed, it will end up blurry in some areas or completely cut off. After that, go to your device and set the resolution to at least 300 dpi to guarantee a high quality scan, and then begin. This is what my sketch looked like after the initial scan.

Now we can move onto the next step! Step Two: Editing! You may have noticed that the colors are very washed out- scanners that aren't optimized for art and photos tend to do this, but with some editing, it'll look great! After opening it in CSP and selecting a canvas size, it's ready to edit! Note: Opening the image directly will automatically set the document's dpi to 72. Idk if that's a constant for other programs, but this means the overall image quality will be very low, so the picture has to be imported into a higher quality document with dpi set to 300 manually. I usually just copy and paste it into another document. Level correction is your friend! That's the correction layer I use the most when editing and it does the most heavy lifting, usually. After that, I sometimes edit the saturation. Since this is a digital method, you can edit your drawing however you want! You can fix some mistakes this way, or completely change things. There were notes and a sketch next to this drawing that i didn't want, so i painted over them with white- since i edited the level correction to up the exposure, the painted areas are indistinguishable from the background. Finally, I add either a gradient map for cohesion or fiddle with the tone curve until I'm happy with the final product. Once again, I like to keep the original art next to me while I'm editing for reference. (And then after that I might add a noise filter or some other effect, LMAO) Finished!! And now you have your scanned art!

These are all the editing layers I used!

Like with anything, trial and error are very important! You'll get better at editing art over time, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't look like you wanted it to the first time. Thank you for the ask, bye!!!!!!!

[pope-neuro]

Question i know you use sfm to make your comics but may I ask what the process is like? I’m thinking about making a tf2 comic which I’ve already made a few panels for but I wasn’t happy with the plot so I’m starting over from scratch, and drawing with a mouse Isn’t the most efficient way of making comics, would you recommend sfm for making tf2 comics?

How I Make My Comics

Omg yes I’ve been wanting to make a post like this! I definitely recommend SFM for making comics, I think it’s a lot faster than drawing would be, especially if you plan on including backgrounds. (Also, drawing tf2 characters is Hard😭)

Here’s how I made page 22!

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First in SFM I set up the scene with a map from the workshop I liked. I also used the workshop for a bunch of props and character models and stuff.

(I did a decent amount of model hacking for this scene too. The model for Prison Uniform Cap is literally just her head shoved onto the recolored body of the open fortress mercenary from the workshop after I messed with his proportions to match Cap’s body shape better.)

Here’s what the scene setup for one of the panels looks like:

After I set the scene up, I make each of the panels as it’s own shot in the Clip Editor.

Here’s what each of the unedited panels for this page look like in sfm:

After those are done, I export them as posters in 4K, then upload them to Google Drive so I can access them on my iPad.

After I download the pictures onto my iPad, I open Procreate and start with a black 4x6 background:

Then I import the images:

After this, I crop and resize them, and then arrange them on the page how I want:

Then, I use a special brush for making speech bubbles (brushes like this can be downloaded for free):

Then I add the text in a font that looks similar to the one the official tf2 comics use:

After that, I add effects using text as well. I have a few different fonts downloaded depending on what kind of effect I want:

And effects like motion lines I draw in myself

Finally, I add my watermark on there

The page is now finished and ready to be exported as a PNG!

Lmk if there’s anything I should clarify or go more in-depth with, like model hacking, posing, or text/visual effects!

(And I can’t wait to see the comic you make pls lmk when you post it so I can go see a a)

[sainteda]

hey, i seriously love your writing. that’s why i wanted to ask you how you plan your stories (outline, plotting), and write, as well as writing characters that are not your own (for example tom riddle) to stay as close to canon as you can get. maybe you could give me some tips. thanks so much in advance <3

thank you so much!! <3

honestly i’m the worst outliner/plotter there is 😭 for the most part, i’ll have one idea that sparks from a song or a dream or another piece of media which over time splits off into new tines and a plot grows but it seriously takes me YEARS to get there. i’m working on being more efficient because it’s obviously not sustainable if i want to write professionally. i’m very very lucky that paper confines evolved in a natural way and that i think the heart of the story (the horcrux plot) was vast enough that it allowed for a lot of new ideas to crop up in the years i’ve been writing it. i guess the takeaway from that is to find the heart of your story and expand based on what enriches it? if i ever figure out how to get better at plotting while i struggle with Every other wip i have, i will let you know! i’m sorry that’s not very helpful </3

as for writing preexisting characters, tom is a bit of an anomaly as he’s my special interest and he exists like. in his own section of my brain. BUT as i was getting to know him, i do remember paying attention to what i was most critical of in the characterizations i’d seen versus the canon material presented. i enjoy fanon that’s an expansion or interrogation of traits already present in the text or aspects of the character that i wish were explored more — what i knew i disliked about tom fanon from the start was the bad boy archetype whose only flaw in relationships is sexualized abuse and generic villainy. i tend to write from a place of spite in that way LOL. those tropes frustrate me, so i liked the idea of a fic that forced proximity but not intimacy, what traits would actually draw someone as inscrutable as tom into a romance and how he might respond (what interests him, what are his limits/triggers, what does he do with reciprocation, and where does the line blur between manipulation and actual feelings [because i think it does blur], etc), and then the why. gaps in childhood. wars in both of his worlds. his ancestry. his external perception, rise to glory, and subsequent fall. the whole concept of his inability to love.

pretty much when it comes to canon, i just ask myself what my personal pull is to writing those characters at all, and write them from there. i try to be educated in the source material without letting it rule over my interpretation of the in-betweens (or criticisms i have and want to change!). on one hand, it’s an interrogation of the aspects that draw me to the character in the first place, and on the other, it’s exploring the things i don’t know and wish i did. it might not be the greatest answer, but as an example, i don’t think i could ever write the golden trio or most of the characters of that era because they already exist so distinctly in my mind and i don’t feel compelled to. tom is different. i guess that’s the allure of the marauders era for a lot of people as well.

i do think as a general rule, dialogue is one of the biggest things to look at for preexisting characters. when you’re writing your own characters from scratch, you might not notice the patterns that cross over in the way they talk and engage with the environments you crafted. when you’re working with characters who were written by someone else, i think it becomes more glaring that you actually have to change things up to keep that character… in character. otherwise, i guess the biggest piece of advice i’d give is not to rewrite canon. respecting it is great (depends on how much you respect the original or its author though, this may vary lmao) but probably the most helpful thing i’ve ever been told is that everything, in some way, has already been written, but it hasn’t been written by you. that’s your strength. write it how you would write it. no one else will.

[fluffallamaful]

Put c!Dream in this 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

He'd look so badass!! So cool and majestic and super intimidating!!!!! (no other reason to put him in this obviously)

-emmadoodlewrites

AHHHHHHHHW WHSHHXUSHWJXUCYSUDUCUDE

TJI YHIS THIS THIS THIS

ok yes first off; he would look incredible in this. absolutely. like with the cargo pants everyone draws him in? and possibly cropped green hoodie?? he’d look absolutely incredible 🙌🏼

buttttt ohhhhh the tickle potential is insaneeeeeee 😵‍💫🫠😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😮😵‍💫🫠 omgggg. i need to go through it step by step;

tummy: we’ll start obvious because HELLOOO!!?!! the lower belly just being thErE?? the centred belly button?? it’s just BEGGing for raspberries holy crap. like imagine raspberries and nibbles?? and finger skitters and compliments about how cute his tummy blush is?? and comments about how his tummy is so exposed and how it can’t escape and how it’s jumping for joy and that they can practically see his butterflies wuth how much his tummy is quivering whahHHHHHHHHH

back: yes we’re going to talk about the lower sides of the beck. you’ve done this to yourself. you’ve given dream a glitch spot there and it is exposed and there ready to be tickled. again,,, raspberries and nibbles are a must. like if someone has him pinned down on his belly? the idea of him sinking into some soft grass and pounding weakly at the ground coz he’s getting raspberries on his bare back and he “cahahant mohohohove!!”

sides: skitters and prods and squeezes. particularly if his arms are held out of the way and they’re all taut. they’re just THERE. they’re their and READY. gosh just imagine him being caught in a behind hug during a manhunt 🥺

armpits: AHHHHHHHH AND ITS LIKE a bit of the chest as well?????? like the absolute perfect spot for a poke attack??? like rapid fire pokes that make him all giggly?? the armpits are also just out. and would be even more so if someone were holding his arms up 🙌🏼

collarbones: NIBBLES. NIBBLES AND PRODS AND RASPBERRIES. also feathers?? i think feathers could work for literally all of these spots. the new minecraft brush as well 🤤

neck: NIBBLES. sO MaNY. nibbles and raspberrries while the ler kneads into his stomach and sides >>>>

ohhh gosh i couldn’t have asked for a better clothing article to work withhh 😭

[steady-star]

argopro has my FUCKING number i'll tell you what. i was nervous about them getting new outfits but i am always a fool for not trusting them to do epsi right and more. this is my insanity post so i don't get rate limited on twitter

starting with this bastard. i cannot BELIEVE they went this route. the more i look at it the more there is. he's only got one leg out which is a shame, but i think the covered leg is a nice compromise to convey his slightly matured vibe without taking away the original appeal of shu's character design (leg).

the cropped tank top is insane to me, like i don't think it was ever confirmed that shu's og black shirt was a tank top (ppl started drawing it that way because yuki's live outfit was a tank top, though that's a fairly practical choice considering how sweaty the performers get) but now they've just gone all in and shrank the hell out of it and made sure we know from the get-go that he's got little slivers of shoulder there and a big enough opening in the jacket to expose them entirely if it were to be pulled aside. god bless. and the midriff?????? i just checked and i'm fairly certain the ONLY navel we have ever seen before this was futa's dbes initial 4 star where his shirt is just barely floating up enough to see it. and now it's a permanent fixture in this creature's outfit. insane. insane. i'm not even going to talk about the fucking harness and its positioning

the jacket is immensely perfect; it keeps the key appeal of his old jacket (big chunky sleeves) while trimming up all the unnecessary parts and adding a lot of stylish flair. the holo parts being slightly transparent is super cool!!! and, i'm sure, serves to highlight shu's figure even more 😭 it's crazy how he went from such a loose, bulky, covered top half design to this insane array of bare skin and contours. he's gained confidence!!! and it's hard to tell but i wonder if this jacket still has a hood on it... and my favorite aspect of his old jacket was the "CHECK" text on the sleeves, since i liked to change the word for narrative art purposes, so i wonder if this new jacket's sleeves will still have any words or if it's just the epsi logo that you can see part of on his left sleeve.

his top half is really so perfectly tailored to the way i've liked to exploit/alter shu's original outfit in my art that it's almost suspicious lol. argopro staff secretly follows me!?!? i'm glad they have the same taste at any rate

misc items:

i'm a big fan of the new choker; the dangling epsi logo charm is super cute and cool, i hope they make official merch out of it

i also LOVE those gloves. don't know how to explain how it fits the energy of the new epsi and shu specifically so perfectly

i'll miss his old boots but i won't miss how hard they were to draw LOL, these new shoes look fun!!

thank you for keeping the garters. it's part of his dna. the "reverse" white garter on his right thigh is extremely funny

all the details around and on his shorts are needlessly complex. see the pink lines on his shorts that lead up to the white belt and wrap around it? it becomes black on one side. for whatever reason. just the number of things overlapping the white belt infuriates me lol. the striped belt has the only yellow in his outfit on its inner side and i wish he had more elsewhere. the holo belt... structure(?) with the epsi logo plastered all over is going to be hell and a half to draw. i am probably going to simplify this whole area when i draw it myself lol

the way his shorts are blue-black while the rest are neutral-black kinda bothers me 😭 maybe if they were more of a dark blue (a lighter shade than his other blacks) it might be better.... they're really going for the jrpg chara style of blacks-on-blacks and a million belts huh

THAT WAS A LOT OF COMPLAINTS BUT it all balances out

overall: very cute, very cool, surprisingly handsome, kind of slutty. i support him

skipping to reiji because i have priorities and he is the second member of epsi to ME. and to the dbes file data.

i was initially very surprised with this long coat thing with the segmented coattails(? if they should be called that), as i'm too used to seeing him in his trimmed and slender suit or school uniform... but he does wear long coats/other draping things in his dbes oufits (in the rain and yume no ato come to mind), so it's not out of character! the bright yellow on the inside and the squared sections seemed really familiar to me, and when i asked my brother he was like "isn't it like zhongli?" AND HE'S RIGHT... and it just so happens that zhongli is my favorite genshin character design, largely because of his cool coat, so argopro really did reach into my brain and made something nice for me. it also makes me think of penguins somehow.

most insane piece of this design is easily the chest harness made to look like a tie. whose fucking idea was that. it's so clever and ridiculous at the same time. most importantly it's still just as if not more yankable than his original tie, so shu will have an easier time than ever pulling reiji down to his eye level 🥰 i also like to pretend reiji has nice tits and this harness will help accentuate that if i shorten it up a little.

love the whore gloves. i used to hate these when they started showing up in a million character designs in other franchises but i understand their appeal now and i wholly approve of inflicting them upon reiji. black gloves in general really suit him, they're very cool and have an air of danger. i've also just read a tweet wondering if reiji's got black nail polish under his gloves like tadaomi and i'm super fine & normal with that thought. notably, shu and reiji are the only ones with gloves in this new set!

this is the most insane thing to be insane about but we have once again been denied the skin of reiji's left elbow. listen. we've never seen it. his sakura 3 star trained has his right elbow out. "the 3d outfit," you say. THE SLEEVES GOT ROLLED DOWN IN THE 3D OUTFIT! one time in puchi he rolled up his sleeve past the elbow.... only on the right arm. there's been a number of reiji chibi merch with tshirts but that elbow is always angled away. again and again his left elbow has never been seen in its full extent and this new outfit is the most hilarious iteration of hiding it because his right sleeve has the semi-translucent holo material, giving us screened access to his right elbow, BUT NOT HIS LEFT! regular dark opaque imprisoning fabric there. when i first noticed this phenomenon i joked he might have a scar or something that he prefers not to expose and the evidence only grows that he's hiding something there. just know that if we ever see that stupid elbow in full (and it's surely just a normal elbow) i'm going to get a little crazy on twitter for a bit

misc items:

his eyebrows have a steeper slant than they used to, especially for a fairly neutral expression! it makes him look a bit more like his support drummer, kitamura-san.

i like the coat lapels to preserve some of his suit aesthetic, and the white borders call to mind his handsome uniform blazer. so glad they're standard lapels and not notched or something, i'm not a huge fan of those

he's still got his stupid white dress shirt. good for him. it's going to get ruined but good for him

i am perplexed and very interested by the torn knee. this might be the first time we've even seen reiji's knee (do you like how i keep track of which swaths of reiji's skin we have been privy to) but i'm mostly surprised he'd wear something like that, considering he usually keeps such a refined image. guess he's loosening up a bit and embracing his cooler/rougher side!? thanks to shu i assume... :)

i'll miss his formal shoes but i think the style of these boots are a fairly good compromise in preserving his vibe while also fitting the new epsi aesthetic. they feel fantasy-like somehow. i am in fact dabbling with a medieval fantasy au so i'm glad some of the work's been done for me LOL

the holo-material bracelet on his raised hand is floating of its own accord. it must be minecraft enchanted.... the color even matches

one again reiji's terrible color palette bites him again because he looks incredibly clunky next to his more cohesively colored bandmates. it's the fact that he's got his very dark hair (compared to the rest of epsi) in a unique hue, then his cherry red eyes, then the purpleish holo material and epsi-pink accents, THEN the brightass yellow of his coattails. it's a lot of colors in one design relative to his bandmates. still questioning why he has the worst image color in argopro

there's a lot of miscellaneous detailing on his outfit that i don't really care for and were probably added just to make sure his design had the same density as the others, which is a shame since the others' designs more effortlessly include detail as part of the structure of their outfits (e.g. shu's shirt, harness, and jacket layering together) whereas reiji just has a bunch of accessories tacked on. i wonder if i can fix him

only shu and reiji have matching purplish holo material. what's up with that huh!!!!

overall: good enough! his harness, gloves, and coattails are the highlights for me. the potential of those alone make the drawbacks more negligible

ok back to band order

jacket is Cool As Fuck. great collar and overall silhouette, especially with his pose. i could do without the holo sleeve though, i wish it at least had a wide cuff. would be a nice callback to his og jacket

i want to know everything about his black top. there are clearly cuts at the shoulders but he still has sleeves. are they shoulder cutouts. are the sleeves arm warmers. are they attached to the inside of the jacket. all i can conclude is that the cuts combined with the high fitted collar and his visible collarbones is incredibly sexy. bonus points for that X-shaped thing and the belt, just to accentuate that area even more

he accessorizes yellow much better than the previous two, and the white gradients are a curious touch. gives the yellow less of the "⚠ caution" feeling of his old outfit and leans more towards it just being an eye-catching secondary color

his bottom half feels like a different design LOL. the shoes are kind of an eyesore with how much patterning and detail they have

his guitar is still so hideous and its proportions look even worse somehow. AND IT DOESN'T EVEN MATCH HIS OUTFIT

overall: ok! i think i am looking almost exclusively at his collar area down to his pick hand

CUTE. CUTE CUTE CUTE. this might be the strongest design of the bunch. everything actually matches.

bigass collar: GOOD. his jacket's sleeve situation is a mirror image of haruka's: GOOD. the green perfectly matches his bass's pickguard: GOOD. very successful jacket. again don't like the holo sleeve but i think with both him and haruka i'd like it more if they were a) the same purple holo as shu and reiji or b) just rendered differently. maybe i'll like it better in card art or something

love the wide-necked shirt, that was always his thing. i think the stripes on the lower half are odd somehow, i feel like they should be diagonal instead of horizontal... maybe it's because of it being right next to his spotted bass

his pants are an absolute success in matching his outfit and calling back to his original design

very good yellow accessorizing and i think he pulls it off best because of his pants + his green matching it very well

unfortunate shoe situation again but it's slightly less bad here. also both haruka and kanata have their instrument role + their names printed on the shoes which is funny

overall: chef's kiss. an excellent composition of his old aesthetic with new epsi

somehow manages to fit within the aesthetic perfectly fine while also looking out of place. as expected of tadaomi

all around very solid jacket! i like the holo sleeve windows; you can see where his shirt's sleeves end on his biceps. kinda cute + hot. curiously he's got more sleeve on his left arm so there's another haruka situation here

HIS PAINTED NAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! his og design's rings and this design's nails do a good show of highlighting his pianist hands, especially in the absence of his instrument in the visual

the holo strip thing coming off his collar is kinda like a tie lol? so he gets that little splash of formality, or perhaps something vaguely reminiscent of his "prince" image....

i'm curious about those white belts forming a V.... where do they go.... they look nice tho

i wish his shirt was slim fitting like haruka and shu 😔😔😔

his pants and shoes are very pleasing in their detail distribution. nijos take notes

i really like the diagonal striped pattern on the cuffs of his boots; this pattern also appears on other epsi members and brings back that sort of "⚠ caution" feeling i mentioned earlier, since it's like yellow warning tape/signs/etc

it's a shame the beautiful french grey of his hair sticks out so much with epsi's unnatural color palette

very notably, tadaomi doesn't have an ounce of yellow in his outfit. which should mean something or other. probably

i'm really trying to find something to elaborate on and i think that in itself makes a point about how oddly inconspicuous his outfit is

overall: enigmatic but attractive. exactly as he should be

so that's everything for now!! i didn't say everything i could have said but i have said Enough. in the end i'm pretty pleased with these designs even though the original ones will always hold an immutable place in my heart. i hope we get to see more angles of them for drawing reference soon

[jinkicake]

Brainrot yet again 😔and this time it’s aether but because nobody on this site can write for him, they don’t know him like I do!!😤like not EVERY aether fic and hc can be super uwu subby crybaby boy SOME OF YALL ARE LYING!! I fully stress myself out by going back and back to the aether tag😭 like I have a handful of artists who draw him normal even Venti isn’t that elusive😭 like aether is a fully grown man with a 9-5! he will not start blushing from me holding his hand!! Like I had an epiphany the other day this man is LITERALLY-like Giorno just longer hair and minus all the trauma; like hear me out!! Blonde pretty boy who looks too pretty to be real,unreasonably strong,showing skin for no reason!!(gio got his chest out for what? Aether wearing a crop top why🤨) have powers that people can’t comprehend,mysterious origins, and they’re both very playful and mischievous; they’re literally like cousins😭(see how my problem is falling for any giorno adjacent characters?💀)you’re traveling w aether getting into all kinds of shenanigans bc trouble follows him like a magnet 🙄and he’s quietly thinking “I am going to absolutely destroy you” like he’s the type so oh so subtly use anemo to blow your clothes,Geo to trip over rocks that were not there before, shocking you w electro 😭 he’s literally a menace bc who’s gone beat his ass?? He’s the honorary knight what would they even say if they caught him Fucking your throat on the roof of the favonious HQ? He’s saved Liyue from Osial and his wife! What they don do if they see him balls deep in you in some tucked away some corner of the Jade palace, LITERALLY FOUGHT GOD AND WON IF THEY KNEW WHATS FOOD FOR THEM THEY WOULD MIND THEIR BUSINESS IF THEY HEARD HIM BLOWING YOUR BACK OUT IN THE TEAHOUSE!! Ayato is a messy ass bitch he would recommend a bathhouse that’s on the outskirts of Inazuma city that has wonderful acoustics just in case he wanted to hear you moans echo🥰 like aether isn’t from this world so his dick would be out if this world as well. Literally the 😏 emoji like he gets up early to finish his daily commissions and get paimon breakfast so he can come back and sweet talk you into letting him cum inside you at like 9am he’s nothing if not clever! Pissing him off to get him to use that god destroying >>> using electro on his dick to overstimulate you, seeing you get a little too friendly with childe or zhongli (bc me too lmao) so he has to remind you he’s better than them🥰 bc he has a cute face but he can be mean asf when he wants to be; sitting and looking at you with a blank face save for the glare burning holes into your head as he makes you bounce on his cock and does absolutely no work as punishment 😔 watching your legs tire out and thrusting up when you stop for even a second rolling his eyes LIKE ITS SOME KIND OF INCONVENIENCE TO HIM “You know, I could always get you off right here,shame you don’t know how to behave” and lazily rubs your clit w his thumb. He loves edging bc he’s a little shit😒 will wait until you admit defeat and put you in a mating press bc he will make sure you can’t move an inch and that you take everything he’s giving you💕 is willing to be tied up and used like the good boy he is🥰

ive never been able to get behind the subby uwu characterization of aether like even when he's shipped w childe and others... idk to me he's strong and puts UP a fight regardles of who he is with!!! so i get you i really do

HAHAHAHA no hes a grown ass man who is over 500 years old... he's seen shit and has been with people before! affection and intimacy is not something new to him!! so why do people act like he's never dealt w romance before in his life!

now..... comparing him with giorno,,,, you do understand you're setting aether up my dear? like this is DON GIORNO we are talking about but with your reasoning i can say that i now understand. and its not your fault for falling for giorno or giorno substitutes like he's the best yandere there is, you cant be blamed!

i love aethers crop top he's so cute i just have to say that

WAHHHHHHHH THE PERV HEADCANNONS W AETHER ARE GONNA MAKE MY MIND EXPLODE... that is TOO good, how do you come up w this stuff im literally in shock like that got me good. also... to add... he could use dendro to create an aphrodisiac right? like a natural dust- idk!

no bc aether can get away w anything on the planet now and no one can stop him like he has four nations under his belt backing him up- no one stands a chance! (except my ice wifey archon!!!)

now see aether getting jealous would lose me bc bae,,, why don't we all just share! like he's mad over childe and alhaitham... BRING THEM IN THE ROOM TOO! there's enough room in his teapot for all of us and we all got enough holes too!

we need more abyss prince!aether i like when they have no life in their eyes... thinking abt that! he wants to get rid of the archons i say DO IT (raiden and venti hide under my bed),,, i'll advocate w him!

[moondrop04]

RWBY VOLUME 10 VACUO OUTFIT DESIGN: RUBY ROSE

So…….I suck at drawing…..my shame is bottomless…..but I have ideas in my head that requires to be brought out on pen and paper 😓.

So to compensate for what I lack……I’ll try my best to explain how I picture these designs in my head…..with literal…..Pictures….

Ah s***…….I hope this works out well 😭

Alright first on the roster….RUBY ROSE 🌹

(SPOILERS: This will be a long post down below, so be warned and happy reading lol.)

So when thinking about Ruby’s design I wanted to go into the thought of Ruby wanting to move on from her “admiration” of her mother, that she has had for the majority of the series, and change some aspects of her clothing that she took some inspiration from Summer’s clothing.

So with that thought process I choose these aspects from Ruby’s older designs to either be removed and/or change for her new Vacuo outfit…

Shoes/boots

Combat skirt/Corset

Stockings

Hood and cape

So to start out for the basis of the outfit I want to begin with the Combat Skirt and Stockings….

WAIST and LEGS:

For the majority of the series the combat skirt and stockings has been a main aesthetic for Ruby’s design in all her outfits and I think it would be safe to say that the main contributor for those clothing choices had to be related to her admiration of her mother, Summer Rose.

After learning the truth that her mother wasn’t as perfect as she thought she was, I have a strong feeling Ruby would want to make a personal change to her current clothing style and make some changes to stop imitating her mothers clothing style.

With that in mind I believe now would be the appropriate time for Ruby to start growing out of wearing combat skirts and stockings and remove them from future designs, until it felt right to bring them back for future volumes.

So with the combat skirt and stockings removed there needs to be a fundamental change for Ruby’s bottom portion of her outfit. Considering we are now in a heat infested territory, such as Vacuo, I had initially thought of giving her combat shorts for her bottom and legs…..but after much thought I felt “shorts” didn’t really fit into Ruby’s aesthetic and of the changes I’m invisioning her to have.

So after considering other options I came to the conclusion of changing Ruby’s bottom portion of her outfit, from the combat skirt and stockings, to combat pants/leggings as shown below…

The reason I choose the combat pants/leggings is because in all of Ruby’s animation models, in every outfit, her legs look too much like cylinders and not enough like….well legs 😓.

I felt that since Ruby is the fastest of the group it should be more appropriate to have her legs more slender, toned and rendered to have proportions and design the same as Weiss’s legs in her Volume’s 4 - 6 outfit and Blake’s legs in her Volume’s 7 - 9 outfit.

The leggings also provide better breathability for Ruby in the hot climate and provides better flexibility and maneuverability for her combat style and semblance.

Now looking upon the pants I feel like there should be some more changes into the design to better fit into Ruby’s goth/punk aesthetic and to fit even more into Vacuo’s hot climate that she would be experiencing. So I thought…what if we cut off one of the pant’s legs and make it look similar to this…

So looking back to the pants/leggings, here are the following design choices I want to add on down below:

LEGS -

The color of the fabric for the pants will be entirely black, but riding down the pants legs will be a highlight change from black to red.

Cutting and cropping off the left side of the pants’s legs, exposing Ruby’s entire leg openly.

On the right leg will be an added ammo pouch strapped to Ruby’s thigh.

Lastly two red, tactical knee pads will be equipped on both legs.

Now for the waist is the following down below:

WAIST -

Around Ruby’s waist will be her signature ammo belt, completed with two smaller pouches on her left side, opposite from the bullet casings strapped on the right side.

Much like her Beacon outfit and Atlas outfit, her mother’s and Ruby’s emblem will be placed on the front.

And as shown above would be my choices for Ruby’s WAIST and LEGS for her Vacuo outfit.

BOOTS and SHOES:

For Ruby’s footwear I am expecting for her to continue to wear combat boots like she has been throughout the series. So to go along with her pants, that I mentioned above, I imagined a pair of boots similar to the picture down below….

For these pair it doesn’t fit much into Ruby’s goth aesthetic but it does go along well enough with her allusion as “Red Riding Hood” or at the very least as a female warrior wandering through a fairy tale. Here are my design choices down below:

BOOTS -

The boots material is made from the hides of the local wildlife surrounding Vacuo’s desert.

The colorization of the leather is mainly black, with small shades of dark brown mixed in and at the bottom soles is colored red, much like her boots in her Atlas outfit.

The metal used for the buckles are made of entirely of silver.

On the front are custom shell plates, stitched together with red leather, to give an added layer of protection.

Lastly on the outer side of the boots are a custom rose design stitched into the leather.

But if she does end up wanting to change her footwear from combat boots to combat shoes instead, to better incorporate her status as a speedster, then I feel these pair of shoes would fit as well…

Here are the design choices for the shoes down below:

SHOES -

The shoes are installed with custom steel plating within the toe box, but is also made from softer and comfortable material for better tractability and flexibility.

The colorization is mainly black, with the laces and bottom soles colored red, to match with her Atlas outfit’s boots.

An extra layer of steel plating will be on the outside of the toes, as well as behind the heels.

On the sides will be a custom red stitching for a design of a rose.

And as shown above those are my choices for Ruby’s BOOTS and SHOES for her Vacuo outfit.

TORSO, ARMS and HANDS:

When looking back on all of Ruby’s previous outfits, her torso and arms have always incorporated long-sleeved dresses and shirts to balance out along side her combat skirts.

With the new changes, as shown above, added into her next outfit I envisioned an appropriate change to her torso area, that took in consideration of both the hot climate of Vacuo and as well keep a similar semblance of her previous outfits with the long sleeves…

Introducing….and I hope I’m describing this right…a Custom Sleeveless Corset Romper suit, similar to the picture down below:

Much like the pants/leggings shown above, this romper suit will give Ruby extra flexibility for her combat style and much more breathability between the fabric, compared to wearing her regular corsets. The exposed arms also provide more maneuverability for Ruby’s arms, when wielding crescent rose, and gives better relief from excess heat she’ll be experiencing if she were to wear her regular long sleeved shirts.

Here are my design choices for the romper suit down below:

TORSO -

The Corset Romper suit is custom made with lighter materials and leathers to add extra maneuverability and flexibility for intense combat situations.

The colorization is entirely black but on the sides, underneath the arms, will be saturated with the color red.

Under the breast area, surrounding the entire lower back and abdomen, will be a custom silver stitching of vines and thorns, giving off the imagery of Ruby wearing a corset made entirely of silver thorns.

Now as I stated before above I wanted to give a semblance of similarity with her previous outfits, when it came to involving with the sleeves on her arms, and I think adding these compression sleeves, as shown on the image down below, on her arms/forearms would match really well with the romper suit shown above:

Here are my design choices for the sleeves down below:

ARMS -

Much like in real-life the fabric of these compression sleeves will help Ruby’s arm muscles move more efficiently and grant better handling when wielding crescent rose.

Just like the leggings described above, the color of the sleeves will be black but would gradually turn red downwards until it ends at the wrists.

Now for the hands I would want for Ruby to keep the fingerless gloves she had previously on her volumes 7 - 9 outfit, but update it just enough where you’ll notice enough of a difference. See the image down below:

Here are my design choices for the gloves down below:

HANDS -

The gloves will be shortened down to have a more tactical feel, similar to Nora’s gloves on her Atlas outfit.

On the knuckles will be small, silver metal platings on each knuckle, to have a comparison to Penny’s gloves from her Atlas outfit, when she was still in a robot body.

Underneath the stitching of the palms will be an added layer of leather, to give Ruby a better grip while holding crescent rose, increasing her weapon handling.

The reason why I also added the metal platings to the knuckles is because I feel that after her experiences in the Ever-After, and her loss against Neo, Ruby will take hand to hand combat training more seriously from now on and begin throwing more punches and kicks into her combat style, along side her usual style of fighting with crescent rose.

And as shown above those are my choices for Ruby’s TORSO, ARMS and HANDS for her Vacuo Outfit.

HOOD and CLOAK:

Now for the most essential piece to any of Ruby’s outfits…..her Hood and Cloak. As I have described above I felt that in volume 10 Ruby would want move away from styling choices that imitated her mother’s clothing style and begin making new changes to her own style.

I think we can all agree that Ruby took a big inspiration from her mother, when deciding to wear a hood and cloak into her outfits the same as Summer’s. So initially when I began imagining Ruby’s Vacuo outfit I had wanted to discard the cloak from the clothing design, but keep the hood portion so as to keep up with her allusion as “Red Riding Hood.

But after much deliberation I am finding it difficult to want to discard the cloak from the outfit, because despite the glaring comparison to Summer’s hood and cloak, Ruby has made that clothing choice her own and it’s too incorporated into her identity in the series to ditch away now.

So I had been left with a conundrum…..how could I change Ruby’s hood and cloak, without sacrificing a piece of its identity as a hood and cloak?

Then it hit me…..there was a concept shown to us early on in the series that would be perfect to reintroduce back into the story and fit well into any new changes Ruby, and the team RWBY, when it involves their outfits….

DUST INFUSED CLOTHING!!!

So here are my design choices for the hood and cloak down below:

HOOD and CLOAK -

The design of the hood and cloak will reminiscent of her Beacon era cloak, but in non-combative situations the cloak will compact itself back into the base of the hood, where the shoulder blades are, and look similar to the image down below…

However when in combat mode Ruby will have the option to stretch the cloak back out to normal length when she is in jeopardy, and give her opposition a stunning surprise….

Inside the fabric of the cloak is woven “Hard-Light” dust, and when attacked Ruby will be able to grab onto the cloak and use it as a unique high-resistant shield that blocks most type of attacks, including elemental attacks such as Fire….

And as shown above those are my design choices for Ruby’s HOOD and CLOAK for her Vacuo outfit.

Now if you look back on each of my choices for the HOOD, CLOAK, TORSO, ARMS, HANDS, WAIST, LEGS, BOOTS, SHOES and combine them into one frame…..you will now have my complete design for Ruby’s Volume 10/Vacuo Outfit that I envisioned.

If you made it to the end of this post i appreciate you taking your time looking upon my chaotic ideas and give you a thumbs up 👍🏻.

So if you have the time, patience and imagination……what do you think of the outfit🥺?

[primaphomet]

Are YOU 🫵 a fan of seeing how other people's characters change over time due to style and design evolution? Well, you're in luck! I happen to be sitting on four (4) redraws AND redesigns of old TMNT characters that were created around 2014 and never saw the light of day ever since! Below are the images and my general thoughts!

For each redraw I tried to reference the general shapes of the original drawings while still using my current artstyle. For the redesigns I gave myself full creative control with the goal of still maintaining the original concept/soul of the characters. I basically wanted them to look better in every way but still recognizable :D

First up is Cynthia!

- I'm 90% sure she was a blue-lined skink. As far as I know none of these characters were ever colored, I couldn't find any old drawings of them that weren't anything but pencil, but I somehow have their general color palettes engraved into my brain?? I remembered her being blue with blonde hair and stripes, so I rolled with that.

- Going into this I had the idea of making them a DnD-esque team, each with specific roles. I later decided to lean into a steampunk aesthetic, so Cynthia got to be a mechanic! She would provide support to the main fighters, while also providing items through crafting. She could also, like, throw a wrench or something idk

- Her design may or may not have been inspired by Helga from the Atlantis movie 😳

Next is Kaida!

- How did I even come up with these names? I must have scrolled through a baby name database until something jumped out because there's NO cohesion 😭

- Also wow a green snake how original 😑 We're just gonna go with the smooth green snake for simplicity's sake. I hung onto Kaida a bit longer than the others so she might have made it to digital art, but I sadly have nothing from before 2016 saved. I kept the redraw color bright because what teenager didn't go crazy with the saturation? For the redesign, however, I desaturated the green to make it go better with the brown. I also turned the hair into gorgon-like locs, as well as giving them light green "eyes" and "underbellies" to mimic gorgon hair

- Now I love snake people as much as the next person, but the biologist in my heart always hated that they just have. arms. You know what fixes that? SICK ASS BIONIC ARMS!!! ALSO, since snakes are know to be very stealthy and good at getting in and out of tight places, Kaida would excel at sneaking around, possibly to set traps or plant poisons? 👀So she obviously needed a wicked gas mask to pair.

Next is Sage!

- Idk why but she was the only one to have a mask?? Anyways she's a horned lizard that I distinctly remember having red hair. Overall her design changed the least because it honestly looked the best out of the four of them.

- If this were a fantasy universe Sage would have been the team magic user, but since this isn't that I leaned towards a researcher/archivist. She would be the one in the academic trenches, digging up clues and utilizing information in dungeons. I'm debating whether to have overt or even subtle "mysticism" in this universe (like ROTTMNT), so maybe she'll pull a Luz Noceda and use scrolls to channel powers.

- For her outfit I was getting big "mid 1900s academic craze" vibes, so I went with Fallout-esque active wear. Look out men, a woman is wearing pants!

Last is Asya!

- Asya went through the most drastic change by far. Not only did she have a fuck-ass hairstyle, but I genuinely could not remember her species or color scheme. Like wow a lizard with spots? What a marvel! I only remember her having grey-brown hair 😔 Looking at her pupils and round fingers/toes I THINK she might have been a tokay gecko? But I heard the call of the leopard gecko and I answered it willingly... So she got a cute crop, a chunky tail, and actual leopard marks instead of uniform dots.

- Having a long-range hitter would complete the team balance, so I went with a gunslinger to keep up the steampunk vibes. I was most inspired by fantasy western fashion and also maybe Ada Wong 😳 My brother actually helped me design the guns because I know fuckall about them. My original design referenced Bayonetta's guns because double barrels sound sick as hell, then he pointed me towards Nero's gun from DMC to make it look actually functional.

Aaand that's it! I hope you enjoyed this little analysis; I think it's useful and also a little fun to justify my choices made when designing a character, sort of like an art critique without the stress! Let me know your thoughts!

[1-lightofjustice]

Heyyoo! Saw that you answered an ask regarding of Ground Zero, and I am very impressed of how you explained each chapters 👀

With curiosity, I want to know if you have any hcs regarding of backstories of some certain Kings, mainly Habari and Kagutsu?

Heya! Glad you enjoyed my incohorent ramble haha

Headcanon time? *rubs hands* You asked for it Anon.

I hc Habari to be a social butterfly in any stage of his life. He’s a cutest baby, charming toddler, playful kid, attractive teen, charismatic King. Like Munakata, I can imagine him having a normal family, was genius and over archiever too, but he doesn’t have Munakata’s awkwardness at human interaction. He was totally being animal and kids’ magnet, while Munakata’s aura draws them away (poor my King 😭). I know that makes Habari looks like a Gary Stu, but to be fair his narrative foil is literal human nuclear. Also, he was an only child, judging by his interaction with Shiotsu and Minato twins, I can’t see him having a sibling before. Zenjou was kinda.. his pet? Like serious their backstory is him finding Zenjou in a mountain and like “You’re mine now” and Zenjou dutifully followed him. He also has Blue King’s classic cryptic tendencies, but weirdly only Shiotsu and some people outside Blue clan that got annoyed with him, while others like Zenjou and Minato couple are happily don’t know and don’t care what he was talking about. He would adore Kusuhara and Kusuhara would ADORE him.

Blue clan in general have sparkly hair disease but Habari washed his fabulous locks 4 times a day with Scepter 4 special blend of shampoo. Minato twins skipped this ritual and always refused to bathe, that’s why their hairs are suck.  Remember Habari’s crop top uniform? Shiotsu persuaded him to change it, with painstaking effort. And we all should be grateful for him, because that outfit is honestly horrible. Well, at least for me. Habari loves minimalistic clothes and would hate cloak, that’s for sure.

I don’t think Habari’s sword’s name is ever mentioned (cmiiw) but Chainsaw Squad is a RAD name so Habari is also gifted with Blue King’s great sense at naming.  

For Kagutsu, as I said before, it's hard for me to even see him as a person, so I can't quite imagine him as toddler, kid, or any other stage of human life except "adult and ready to erupt". But looking at how Purgatory activity and members so far weirdly attentive to women problem for a criminal organization, like freeing human trafficking women, speaking about Akio’s death highly, even one of Purgatory clansmen willingly marry a pregnant woman to help her, I kinda hc Kagutsu to have a woman he loved in the past. In this I am talking about love in broad sense, either romantic or platonic, so like mother, sister, girlfriend or else.

This segment in particular intrigued me :

Kagutsu that day was in a good mood. He took two women with him when he returned from outside, but of course, that was not the reason he was in a good mood. It always happens that Kagutsu likes women. There are a certain number of women who like dangerous men, but if it is too dangerous, some survival instinct will cause a mistake. They are happily hugged by Kagutsu and turn into corpses of joy.

LIMITED KINGSHIP, WAR STORIES: CHAPTER 5: DRUNK WITH THE KING

Yeah technically he murdered those women, but the segment clearly shows that they CONSENTED to embrace Kagutsu, Dunno if those women know that they will die in the process, but hey, Icarus amirite? It’s in their desire to like dangerous man. Also, probably just language disparities, but “hugged” is quite a weirdly innocent word to portray the last collision between a man and women? 

This is so interesting for me because, actually, the writer didn’t have to do that. Kagutsu was portrayed and designed to be Pure Evil Villain who is better died, so not very jarring if they wrote Kagutsu to forcefully drag women and kill them for his own amusement. Heck, they wrote a poor clansman was purely in terror on Kagutsu’s presence in the same chapter! Yet Gora put emphasis that those women were HAPPY on the short moments they spent with Kagutsu. So, at the very least, Kagutsu is not a rapist. Also he was totally down to raid gangs that trafficked women. This trivia pushes my headcanon button but also frustrate me because so far we never get a proper interaction between any characters with Kagutsu without the said character noting how inhuman he is and how they completely don’t understand him. Like if no one inside the story can understand him, how can I? My hands are tied here 😰

[znitsamluv]

Hi hi! Can I get a matchup?

for hobbies I like to draw but I’m sorta shy to show people my drawings since it’s like all anime fanart lol but I do have a relatively successful art insta. I also play volleyball at school and I’m a libero! I also like listening to music and I can play the drums and xylophone too! The music I listen too is mostly love songs and 2000s stuff like old Justin Bieber and Britney spears.

I always think of myself as a pretty bubbly and extroverted person! I’m an Entp too. I’m pretty popular at school and most people know who I am (and I’m PRETTY SURE most people like me but idrk 😭). I always order for my shy friends since they don’t want to and I work as a waitress at a little cafe and most people seem to like me since I’m bubbly and talkative. I also enjoy being the center of attention (but I’d never steal any spotlight away from anyone! That’s super rude!) like for my birthday I carried around chocolates (my birthday is on Valentine’s Day so I get a lot of those) and I wore a birthday sash and a princess crown for the whole day.

I also care about how I look a lot and ngl I kinda have an ego about it 😭. I like wearing a lot of pink and I LOVE hello kitty. I like wearing accessories a lot too so I always have cute dangling earrings when I go out and I wear a lot of lipgloss too. If you’ve ever seen mean girls that’s how I dress haha! I love wearing crop tops and short skirts a lot and I have a lot of shoes. So basically I always look really girly haha.

For just general info: I’m 16, 5’4, I’m Asian so I have black eyes and hair, I’m pretty pale (I just don’t really like being outside too much) I’m really skinny but my thighs are sorta thick for some reason(if that matters lol). And I have a few moles on my face like one right above my like (kinda like marylyn Monroe’s lol). My pronouns are She/He/They and I identify as Girlflux! I’m also Bi (irl I like girls much much more but I really like the Tokyo revengers boys haha!)

For a partner I’m bisexual so I’ll take just about anyone! But if it helps my irl partners are usually someone that can tolerate me lol! Like I’m very talkative and I like people that I can have conversations with and never run out of things to talk about. It also helps cause sometimes I’m scared that I might be annoying to people because of how much I talk :P, and I text like all my friends at least once everyday. Also it’s probably a given but someone who is ok with the way I like to dress/look! Cause Ik theres ppl who don’t like dating girls who show too much or are too flashy T-T but I’m a flashy girl at heart and I liked being looked at and complimented so I don’t think I could ever change that haha!

Idk if you’re really into kinning but some characters I relate to are, Bokuto (haikyuu), Aoi (Tbhk), Mitsuba (Tbhk), tamaki suoh (Ohshc), and Oikawa (Haikyuu)

This might be too much info but too much is always better than too little!

Your match is ready !

your match is

izana kurokawa!

• How you met .

°You were doing your job at the cashier like you normally do everyday but this time a certain unfamiliar boy walked in .

° He looked so mighty and full of himself and held eye contact with you so confidently while ordering but that act all went to the drain when you simply said " you have pretty eyes "

° Izana forgot to function for a second before He scoffed and left the cashier area to get his drink without saying anything.

° But from that day on he would come and get his usual drink and usually doesn't talk but there was this one time where you had got a new haircut he said " nice haircut " then you both talked for a few minutes before you had to get back to work .

° Izana has big ego so he is afraid of rejection so he doesn't ask you out directly he just got information from kakucho that you finish your shift at 6 pm so he waited outside and tried so hard to act surprised to see you .

° Then he insisted on walking you home because it was ' late ' and that was his way of getting to talk to you for a few minutes without seeming suspicious.

° iT Became normal that he walk you home every day after your shift while stopping In the middle of the journey to get you ice cream or some candy .

° Izana is harsh and blunt sometimes without any filter so kakucho was shocked to see how gentle Izana was treating you .

° At the end of one day he finally asked you out to go to the beach together because it is going to be 'hot tomorrow 'as he said .

•How is your dating life.

° POWER COUPLE ALERT !

° you both fit with each other so much and you both have the same level of confidence and just makes the relationship 100% better.

° Izana loves your style and how you always wear cute outfit like there is not a single day where you didn't slay with your outfit.

° izana has the " Wear whatever you want I can fight" vibe.

° Wouldn't hesitate to snap someone's neck for staring at you but don't worry you always pull him away before he commits murder.

° izana would 100 % show you off like and would brag about you .

° During your shifts he usually comes and acts like a normal customer while flirting here and there and you play along as well .

° you both normally text each other so be ready for morning texts when you wake up .

° Izana would teach you to fight so he doesn't have to be worried about you all the time but it always ends with you cuddling instead.

° POOL AND BEACH DATES WITH IZANA IS A MUST . ( Be careful he is the type to pull your leg underwater) .

° izana knows you are bubbly and popular at school but he didn't know that you are THAT POPULAR!

° At valentine's day he wanted to be romantic and give you some chocolate because it is your favorite and also because it is your birthday but he was horrified when he saw the amount of chocolate you had been gifted and sulked all day saying people have no respect to people in relationships and he was jealous but you had to explain they got you chocolate because it is your favorite gift .

° You both would get matching dangling earrings.

° Izana just loves you with whole heart and you filled his empty cold heart so he feels grateful and would do anything to keep you around .

° His favorite moments is usually in winter where you both make snow angels and snowmen he loves seeing your childish grin after you put a carrot as a nose for the snow man .

° He would take a picture of you while you make a snowman and have it as his lockscreen and no matter what you tell him he won't change it .