#it didnt help that so many artists drew it very vague

[justasmolweebean]

I actually thought it was a tiny little elf boot for an embarrassingly long time in DAI...

I just noticed on the mural where solas killed flemeth/mythal in datv his necklace is shaped wrong. it's a basic shape sure, but it's shaped like a boot instead of a canine jaw. kind of a silly oversight from the artist but the idea solas wear a tiny little boot around is neck is sending me.

its extra funny when he literally refuses to wear shoes on his feet

[starmakerphantom]

OCs! Woo

Hi im Phantom and my hyperfixation is making ocs. These are my ensemble stars ones i have drawn already and some infos about them!

Akio Nijihara

-Part of a unit whose theme was that they are RPG charackters. Hes the healer

-His whole gimmik is that hes a nurse. Modeled after my sister who is very low empathy

-I gave him sister related trauma

-i need to make his other unit members.

-his glasses are fake, he wears them for aestatic

he will get a drawing with a plague goctor outfit and he will get a drawing with a labcoat where just....candy drops out. Im just bad at art

Kihiro

-insecure little bitch, copes via means of fashion and being not nice

-mainly sensitive about his looks and being small (basically "if people want to stare at least give them a goo reason)

-blooms on stage, his worksona is very pleasant to work with

-will always choose the sluttiest costume available

-actually used in an rp!! Gay gay homosexuall gay

-His unit is named Chronostasis, their theme is Gay Lasertag

-he wears a facemask and froggy hat. Used to wear a hoodie but the hat was a gift from his units leader

Secret Garden

Oh damn a whole unit but i dont have their costumes

Leader- Sai Himawari

A poet, an artist. If words fail, sing. If singing fails, dance

-Logical conclusion? Become idol

-(obv. a valkyrie mega fan. He would never admit that. We know its true)

A romantic soul

dense fucker, Aji could be stabing someone in the background and hes like "what did we say about using our words"

Hes a wip

Aji Kengai

-oh boy

-a gardener

-"yeah thats safe to eat, trust me bro"

-is an idol because hes BIG GAY for Sei, and with big gay i mean hes a yandere because im cringe

-bad at words

-i loaded all my body image issues into him

-if he smiles with his eyes closed, run

If you put their names together (Ajisei) supposed to spell the japanese word for hydragena :,)

Kokoro Cafe

WHAAAT, Another Unit? YES! Main boys. Their gimmik is that they cute cafe staff/ a host club

Leader- Gekko Amina

-looks and talks a bit sus, but actually a good boy

-got scouted, formerly know as the karaoke king

-loooots of confidence, a bit cringe

-shark teef, has to wear braces.

His jacket is so big it has room for another guy

-ironically, he has stae frigth

I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN HIS NAME AAAA ITS ON THE OTHER REF

-movie fan, but like only old hollywood stuff because he likes the divas so much

-has adapted the personality....is aware he currently lacks the talent to justify it

-friends with Gekko so thats how he ended up here

-has trouble taking no for an answer

-i just think hes cute

Hayato Mikimura

-"Haha great plan guys, anyways wheres my paycheck"

-In need of money. Does this for the money

-scam artist. And not ashamed to rope the other 3 in

-has a twin sister who used to medel

-gets cold fast

-at least he provides brains

Yani Hanabe

-"Wait this is an idol school?" Didnt you go trough the entrance and performance exams? "yeah-" AND THAT DIDNT RAISE QUESTIONS??

-Anxiety on legs

-needs a haircut

-and better clothes

-actually the one who had the idea of the cafe theme after a job brougth them all together

-he is their SON but they also bully him the most

All 4 of them have crossdress designs. Take a guess why

The one i havent drawn yet but is the worst/ best idea

-he has (animu)amnesia

-but is convinced becomming an idol will help that

-im working on it once my hand is doing better, i work better AFTER i drew a vague concept

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I can make a shuffle with that many boy. Theres already a temporary unit in story

I love ocs so much. I want more

I want to use them more

Im just very shy about showing my writting

If ur lucky i manage to do more idol costimes

[beaten-upfox]

ii had a post about that almost 30yo person who mocked “shitty vent” artists, pilling up vent comics with cringe-culture (as thats still a thing by now) and guilt-tripping others intentionally and i wanted to add my two cents on it since it targeted me(? not specifically, just “people like me”) but my computer force restarted on me so i lost everything coherent i wrote in it; so here’s some things i wrote in using just a few broad sentences

-they said it themselves that that post wasnt supposed to be so popular, ironically, “criticizing” something so specific, and kinda popular, is going to easily get traction

-giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming they criticized JUST the people who do it to publicly to vague someone and guilt trip them when they see the post; not only that that petty attitude existed way before vent comics existed, it can also be easily ignored. 

Person doesnt know u and vagues about u to seem like a victim? they dont know u, just ignore them, theyre doing just that, playing the victim. You don’t need other strangers opinions of you. Theyre strangers.

Person is a good bud/friend of yours? Ask them about it, no relationship is worth feeling like youre hurting someone you care for, if youre truly certain theyre talking about you, they probably just dont trust you as much as you’d like. Comfort them and reassure them that you want them to be open to you and they shouldnt be afraid when theyre upset

but they werent referring to that, they specifically targeted “shitty vent furries”. This happens with any fad that gains traction. They included it into cringe culture, because its not something high effort, its something (not always!) that is just feeling, intensity, scribbles; theyre just like “lol look at these weirdos theyre trying so hard to be relatable! lol its unhealthy to be this way! I pretend im caring when i really dont give a crap! I have a superiority complex lol! im a good person!” This “type” of art, of just blunt feelings or imagery is used in therapy to help the patient more often than not. And if people don’t hurt themselves or others, it’s really completely not harmful.  And guess what! There are a lot of kids! That draw stuff like this, trying to figure out their emotions. Their art might not be the best or not even make any sense. Maybe to you it feels like super mundane, but for them it feels really really bad. There are a lot of mentally ill people, kids, adults!, using it as just, like i do, a way to express the “obsessive thoughts”. In the end its not the artist’s responsibility to take care of the “kids” on the internet. (aside of tagging things appropriately, it’s not their fault some just look up for this stuff? they dont want to feel alone, even if it can be toxic, but really we werent talking about this were we?)

Why did you feel the need to just categorize something into cringe culture when its something that has traction to teens and the mentally ill?  (just my complete personal experience with this type of art under the readmore feel free to ignore)

in my personal experience, vent art has helped me stop so many of my worse coping mechanisms, self harm, usage of (unprescribed) drugs, smoking, drinking, not eating, just to name a few. Sure some of i still do, like smoking, not eating (unintentionally!) but ive gotten better

I’m trying to remain anonymous, i try to only talk about myself, and my experiences, i want people to know theyre not alone, but what happens with me does not mean it happens with everyone, so please dont say that im talking about everyone else’s experience ever, because im not. I’m talking about how fishy I think it is about someone talking about a petty act and targeting it towards people who most of the time use it as a coping mechanism. Dont assume the worst in people, but dont assume the best intent either.

of course it took more than just a few scribbles on a computer screen or paper, more initiative, like proper sleep and diets, people helping me. But for a huge portion of my life i didnt have anyone to help me, art has helped me get started into getting better. I wasnt shunned when i just scribbled things on paper, drew blood (as in painting not.. yknow), seeing people freely expressing themselves, no matter their skill, helped me know im not actually as alone as i thought.

I am very sleepy, this is completely out of the ordinary, but i want you to know, you who are reading this right now, when uve gotten so far into my blabberings, thank you for looking, or even listening. You don’t have to agree with me but it is what it is. People are different, and have different experiences. All im saying is that, it feels youre out of control, and when people just insult something, even if you may consider it cringey, theyre insulting a person, and youre just calling their emotions cringe. Imagine that. People are not exempt from criticism. Any type of art isnt exempt from it. But this type of “Criticism” is very specific and its really unnecessary/vague. Irony!

[propalitetz]

@hattoririma omg hi, im really flattered you asked (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠) So the thing is... I live somewhere like this! That is to say, with these shapes, and these vaguely-brutalist areas that are overgrown with grass from lack of maintenance (which just adds to the aesthetic, in my opinion), so to me this is familiar!! and i wanted to draw something familiar and challenge myself to draw some kind of background, which i usually avoid haha. and i wanted to add the cats to make it feel more lived in, and less empty i also knew that to many this would be unfamiliar, that they wouldnt get the same immediate recognition that my brain did, and i wanted to play with that i guess? because to me this is a common type of building and a common level of uhhhhh deterioration i guess, but to people who havent lived somewhere with this architecture its almost abandoned, which contrasts with the cute kitties. i thought it would be neat to experiment with that! if you drew your surroundings, what would people who grew up elsewhere think about it? in trying to draw comics, i got into the habit of taking photos of buildings and landscapes i want to use as drawing reference ....which i dont use like 80% of the time but the 20% i do i have fun, so step one is use a reference if you can. sure you dont have to but it helps you a lot AND it helps you build an image library in your brain of what things actually look like! more indepth under the cut haha obligatory disclaimer that im a beginner self taught artist please dont take ANY of this as gospel (except for using reference)

for this one i really wanted to capture vibes and values. i really struggle with values, and making the drawing cohesive - i really recommend learning about values and occasionally, if you work digital, put your drawing in greyscale see what pops, and what blends into the rest of the image, and see if thats what you actually want to happen. see how here everything is clear even without color, and the focus is entirely on the cats? its because theres a good value range:

so actually i colourdropped from an altered photo of my reference...which i will not post because i dont want to doxx myself on tumblr. but ill show you on an example image from google. i like using the posterization layer setting on CSP to make it grittier, btw i focused more on conveying like the midtone values than accuracy to anything that exists IRL. like, things IRL arent this brown and purple and green, and thats fine because i just wanted to play around. this is very experimental with me! i actually added another cat that didnt work out in the composition but i posted it separately

obviously i didnt stick to the palette. which is fine, because that wasnt my intention, i just wanted some colors to start with! and after i drew it, i put a posterization layer on again, just to make it grittier. this is what it looks like without the posterization layer! i used a bunch of really textured brushstrokes because i knew that posterization makes them pop

hope this is what you asked bc it would be awkward if not

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