#idunno just fun

[blu3b3rryj4mp1r3]

rarity n chocolate chipper cuz drawing g3 ponies is really fun! ^_^

[weisscoldglare]

[mewnia]

I’ve designed a Pascal! She was suuuper tricky in terms of color scheme. Her original design/description cannot settle on a single color, so I went based on personality! She’s bubbly and optimistic, with some strings attaching her to Sophie. So I thought yellow would be perfect :3

This is a personal exercise I’m doing for myself where I’m redesigning the Tales of Graces characters to see what parts of my own style shine. And it’s fun! Why Graces? Ehh I wasn’t always too attached to their designs so it’s easier for me to separate their original looks than, say, Vesperia. THESE ARE NOT FIXES!!

Asbel Sophie Cheria

[namelessprince]

drew my ocs as riptide characters :3

[narcsmelly]

have never ... in my memory ... been This Into a show that is currently airing . i realized it's going to come out over Months of next year and got kind of scared like ... how am i gonna get anything done

[toss-for-me-boy]

curing my boredom one very poorly drawn stepswitcher at a time

[this-should-do]

man i love ezuprising, but ngl, the traitor rebels spiel to get bec to rebel is so fuckjng cringe, its not written well and it goes on for sooooo long, it reads like a shower argument to me genuinely

[maverickflare]

thoughts on the current economic state of the world (give me some oh so yummy scrummy luxu thoughts)

(checks notes)

well idk if its tht interesting but the main thing ive been writing w luxu specifically deals w the idea that they were Chosen from the group of six initial foretellers and that at one point they had an animal mask of their own (the scorpion) and were under the impression they were also going to get a union and be made a keyblade master (neither of these things happened). as a result of this they are made to relinquish their own identity in service of their mothers prophecies and continue to do so for generations.

some of this has to do with luxu being the masters firstborn child, as any apparent favoritism causes a rift between the six siblings that seeps into the union conflicts too. ava and luxu probably have it the worst by the end of things and ive thought abt their dynamic a lot in the context of being half siblings + the bio children of the master of masters and growing up surrounded by people who spoke of their mother in such reverence tht they felt this weight on their shoulders.

i just want their dynamic to be that luxu is avas big sibling and ava love them but at the same time hate them for the distance between the two of them and knows luxu resents her for being born and all they ever wanted was to be good enough for luxu to love her but they Cant so it has to end in fighting because its all they were raised to know. and ava is luxus little sibling and they hate her for making them Lesser but love her and cant do anything to protect her and as such will let themselves be killed over and over in every generation by whatever vessel ava takes because it means they dont have to live like this. hope this helps.

[realjem-art]

yuup its kitty time!!!!!!!!

messin with this one's design a bit again :3 still figuring out the clothes and colors and whatnot

[realjem]

me circa early 2021: yeah so i made some characters but im not gonna make em tragic or anything! i dont get why everyone talks about torturing their ocs all the time lol

me now: ouuh... i thuink i gave her depression

[jadenvargen]

If I want to study someone's art or style, how do I do that? Like where do you even start when looking at an illustration that they made 😭thank you!!!

Here’s stuff i think about. i don’t do that many style studies, so idunno how helpful it is! pls sound in tha comments if anyone has tips:) 

Pinpoint what stuff you like, and focus on that. Focus on technique rather than exact replication, for example ( just first thing comes to mind) if you like rostov’s disco elysium cover art and want to study it, don’t just repaint the image, find what’s key in the style. looseness, maybe? then, instead of copying the image with your technique, try to apply the same looseness. (feat. shitty 5 min sketch plz dont judge example of how i normally approax paintings, versus a study. ALSO not to say u CANT do this it's just how i would study, myself. )

That being said, don’t force yourself to make art decisions that feel unnatural to you. a lot of the time artists make decisions based on their weaknesses as well as strengths. I do very shaky, hatchy lineart because my hands are very shaky. I focus on painting what I* feel is important and fun. 

Instead of copying a style from a picture, look at a variety of pictures and find technique. For example a lot of people redrawing a screenshot in “sailor moon style” or “ghibli style” will draw… let’s say, an old man, looking like a usagi because that’s the screenshot they looked at, instead of watching what stylistic choices for example takeuchi made when stylizing an old man. So the “studies” end up homogenous. I personally find it unproductive to replicate a painting for purposes of study, but like focusing on individual elements. say you like egon schiele, replicating whole paintings at a time IMO isn't gonna do much, but maybe you can set out on a series where you sketch copy his hands or feet from different paintings, and then try stylizing your own hands the same way? Or maybe your fave artist draws moonlight like a blue stream, or a red one? Try applying only that light to your paintings.

You could also color pick or look at the colors they make and paint whatever you want with those same colors, to understand how they work together and what can be done with them.

Also, if you can, look at their influences! Everyone learns art by seeing others art. Chances are they saw art they liked and picked from there what elements they enjoyed. Looking at the inspiration can help make some of the techniques more obvious.

Basically focus less on copying(not that copying is bad- but not always helpful for studying), and more on what you like. If you find what you like, you can work from there and try to think about your own art from the same perspective.

IDK if this helps as i said, feel free to add onto^_^

[sol-rambles]

Okay its really late but I wanna say words about zam with bacon today.

First off, taking bacon up to the closet to tell him about "the demon in his closet." Which one he has each time called the demon in his closet or his evil self, yet as we know.. Its joker zam. Since well, that's why he made it a closet.

Secondly, talking to bacon about how joker zam gets closer to taking over him with every death (explosion) , when he gets super annoyed/frustrated (shulker farm) , someone infuriates him (pangi singing) or just sleeping in the bed. The last one he points out every time he goes asleep in that bedroom. But right after that, he fucking goes up to the room and sleeps in the bed.

Afterwards zam tells bacon about how he was after seeing joker zam in his dreams and he had a conversation with him, before asking if bacon heard him screaming 'Cause he was 'screaming really loudly', which, well he didn't make a sound until he woke up. Literally not one throughout the whole sleep time.

But now, the interesting part... When zam comes back downstairs to the villager room with bacon, he keeps being ontop of bacon and is speaking a little stranger than before. He's seemingly much more for killing people and is now soley held back by his oath (to himself) not to kill people. He begins asking bacon, each time coming right up to his face, or right behind him if he would mind/liked if he killed someone.

Okay finally why I made this post. He LITERALLY does a joker zam thing. Talking about a peice of his skin, and taking off all his armour. Specifically the metal arm, which btw used to be the bloodied one. Something I noticed like day one and for some reason was like, "I dont need to point that out!"

as shown, right after speaking about the metal arm, armourless. (He does quickly put his armour back on, hes not 20hearts or invincible.) But goes right back into bacon's space to ask him if he should kill people. A question bacon has continuously said yes to, aslong as its not him.

-=-

Also, this is kinda separate and may be unrelated but he seems rather against bringing up any other seasons other than s6 if its not an incredibly vague reference.

BACON: "I feel like you've made oaths to yourself and broken them before."

ZAM: "like what, name one."

BACON: "Idunno, I'm just saying probably happened."

ZAM: "I can name one, I wont."

I feel like this is pointing towards s4 exploits and zam is saying he broke an 'oath' with himself to not exploit. And how he broke it by joining spoke in the end of the season.

Another time in this conversation with a s4 mention, someone in bacon's chat says that all zam's valuables are in his echest. To which zam replies "cause the best vault is an enderchest, right?" Which was quite commonly said in s4 in regards to where people (mainly spoke) kept their exploited goods. Or where alot of the duped goods from team awesome were stored.

Okay I'm not done analysing yet but I need to sleep its really fucking late expect more in the morning. This was alot of fun to do.

[weisscoldglare]

Taste

Optionally

[albihypnostuff]

Guys fun fact about me I actually have a USB port, yeah you can just like... idunno maybe plug in a USB drive! Make sure its only safe stuff like music for me to listen to my anti-virus isnt very good and we dont want any...manipulative code injected in me

[autismonauta]

A Nauters essay: Gender, in my introspections???

Let’s just say a recent video focusing on the gender binary in video games has lead me to thinking about my own relationship to the gender business prior to the self discovery. Idunno, every game with a character creator I picked, even with my prior status as “some g-guy…” none were ever really that in depth. I value a solid creation system that actually lets you free style the mark of your character, ya know?

Conceptualizing the self through these games felt weird, in a way. Even odder still is way early on I’d just make my character white, despite myself being brown, I don’t exactly remember nor know why I did all that beforehand. Tho ever since I’ve imbibed that gender business I’ve actively gone back to older titles and remade my player character into a gal. Still, the options don’t really overlap in a satisfying fashion you know? Even in more current titles that are actually “trans-inclusive” ultimately still feel pretty rigid in their binary selections

So, as an enby girl thing, it’s left me pondering. Pondering very hard. I never felt like I truly represented myself in a way—disconnected from the character I controlled. I thought the girl types were always rad and while I don’t recall being made fun of for my choices I always did wonder why that was cause for ridicule. Like what’s the deal here, that sinking feeling? Back during like the 20s I wanna say is when I truly let go off what I thought I know about the self and went by “he/they” followed by switching to my current “she/they” style a year or so later, maybe a few months later? My prized primary and secondary slots, yes!

So really, at the end of the day, can we feel truly represented in the video games we play? Being more femme aligning has really given me a lot to think about here. It’s rare I really feel “seen”, not even getting started in my ethnicity cuz like fuck all acknowledged El Salvador or Honduras which still steams me something quite fruity, know what I’m saying? Just…I wanna feel seen, damn—is that truly too much to ask?

Still tryna get a hold on my sense of self but I stand proud in who I am irregardless of any potential consequences. To live is the finest beauty one can do. Much love y’all. May more Nauta essays come in the future; assuming I can think of stuff to write about.

[alan-in-the-outernet]

The Raffle is Over!

And this has been really hard to type up because my cat keeps nuzzling my hands and arms... thank you kitty

And... we have our winners ;3 for I have spun the wheel- it was very fun to spin. I've never actually made one of those myself so- was fun to do ;3

In third place is... @thesecondlight-luna !

In second place is... @nkgrimmie !

And in first is...

Drum roll please...

Cat a nuzzle is not a drum roll but thank you

@violetsquare111 :D

Now, just a reminder! The prizes are

3rd Place - A sketch or snippet of writing from me

2nd Place - A full drawing or one-shot from me

1st Place - A fully rendered drawing or a gif from me!

And also a reminder- for both first place and secondplace- IF, and again this is if YOU want, something from a lower tier for one reason or another- let me know! Because I can do that ;3

But anywho... for now, this lil raffle is over ;3 but who knows! Maybe I'll make this a thing every once in awhile, idunno!

And thank you cat for costaring you lil weirdo, I love you