#it’s still a sketch but yknow it’s a sketch in color

[usagiismh]

i was serious abt the guyliner—I mean it could be eyeshadow

i think veggie should keep his tail and wear more pink

[larabar]

colored an old sketch 🎉

alts under read more

[lucksea]

yeah remember that darkrai i made well forget it. erase that from your mind. lucky had other plans

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[skitskatdacat63]

Painting 🖼

[kyurochurro]

only now ive lost the main piece;

where might it be?

(redraw of the MV art for puzzle by kuwagata-p ft. hatsune miku, originally illustrated by ryono ♡ )

[rosecreates]

1/3 of the BG3 Unholy Trio Finalized Designs

[detectiveships]

[snow-system-wol]

A very loose attempt at sketch-rendering what his scars may look like whenever we have the mod frameworks stable enough to mess about with putting his throat scars back

[h00f]

T4TM (Theseus4TheMinotaur)

lost wax cast bronze, patina & paste wax

2023

(process photos & info under cut <3)

my minotaur boy!! pls click on the photos for higher res! my thesis is focusing on trans men and creatures (how original ik) and this was last semester's final. i spent a lot of time looking at sculptures of the theseus/minotaur story, and yknow? a LOT of them are erotic! i'm pretty sure i saw some of them on tumblr a decade ago, and that's led to this now!

as you'll notice, the minotaur has a big t-dick! i wanted to give him breasts and an enlarged clitoris to present a very masculine trans figure. the boy on the bottom is also trans because i say so . the piece is about looking up to older, bigger, hairier trans men and seeing something awe-inspiring and beautiful. the minotaur was locked up by a cruel father for being different, and i think modern adaptations tend towards a sympathetic asterion (his name in one version)

making this piece was. so much effort. it took me about 3 months to get it all together - from clay model (plasticine) to 3D print to silicone mold to wax cast, and finally bronze pour into the shell mold. and then a TON of filing, sanding, dremel-ing, and various other metalworking techniques that probably took years off my life.

i started with sketches and made theeeeeee ugliest model ever:

then used a 3D scanner to get it digital, then spent a goooood month or two making him pretty in blender! then i spent an agonizing few weeks trying to get it print-ready, and fiiiiiinally did

^^^ an early resin printed draft of the model - you can see in the final that i added lots to theseus after some feedback, but sadly the nosering broke off every time i cast it so i just. let that be <3

then came the moldmaking, and then the wax dipping!! the yellow stuff is shell mold (ground up ceramic bits and algae soup, sticks to the wax, then silica sand in varying sizes on top) which gets the wax melted out, and bronze poured in!

then it's all metalworking, cutting stuff off, and working with hot metal. they don't tell you about all the bronze dust and how annoying it gets wearing a respirator AND goggles. but it is for me health, me boy. here's him all cleaned up before the patina:

and then i spray him down with various chemicals to make it "patina" (aka rust) in pretty colors. wait a few days, then apply paste wax to seal it and give it that shine!

then we get what you see above!!! the blue was actually unintentional, and i'm still not super sure why it looks that way.. but it's pretty so idc <3

thanks for reading!! if you ever have any bronze/casting questions, don't hesitate to message me! <3

[usagiismh]

Lmao trying and failing to design these mfs

don’t be surprised if you see this again but a bit different—the colors just don’t fuckin work…

crackheaded au where they’re roommates but like dangerous space alien roommates…

[mx-paisley]

My updated John Doe design (he now has a cool cloak pattern how cool is that)

Close up shots

Read below bc i have so much to yap about

While swirls and curves are prominent in my John's design, spike shapes are still also present. spikes & triangles are generally associated with malice and evil in character design

This John has no consistent horns shape. So if ever youre gonna draw my john go crazy with it aha. The only thing you need to take note is his horns protrudes backwards and is never symmetrical

I looked back at my first sketches of john (below) Theres some elements in it that i really liked so i brought them back to my current design.

Still debating whether i want to implement these two in his design

sun trapped inside moon symbol as pins maybe??? I still havent decided

OH OH what if his hair sorta floats gets all stiff, spikey and all that whenever he feels angry or any negative emotion

Ive had this idea for a while now. his cloak color would sorta like. shift from a singular hue of icky yellow to a warmer yellow with sublte hues of green and pink like

Yknow to show his character development through cloak color?? please tell me you understand

I think thats all. Go see my designs for Arthur🌙 and Oscar ⭐️ if you havent yet

[the-amazing-digital-guardians-au]

TADC: Guardian AU - Kinger

Kinger’s character sheet and some sketches!

Picking the colors for his design was very difficult, because I couldn’t see what I wanted in my head. I ended up going for a golden brown color for his robes because the casino he runs is called The Queen’s Hive…so yknow, honey! He’s more serious and a lot more miserable than canon Kinger, but he still has his moments of silliness.

[wasyago]

Hi yago! I read your tags! And I just wanted to take a moment to say: it is good that you're drawing things you both like and don't like! I know it's a bit discouraging, especially when you want to make weirder or more cartoony things, but part of building your art style is finding out what you dislike, just as much as finding out what you do like.

I love seeing your experiments. I love seeing how other artists think, and grapple with shapes and expressions and points of view. I realized recently I don't sketch very often? I don't draw a lot just for the sake of playing around. I normally draw as a means to a larger piece, and watching your sketches always makes me want to try to sketch more often myself.

Goodness, this turned into a ramble. Whoops.

In short: I'm sorry you're struggling with your art style! But I love seeing your thoughts, and I think your thoughts are stepping stones to something greater. I hope you continue having fun experimenting, and playing around with your art.

Stay awesome Yago 💜

AUGH THANK YOU 🥺

and i very much agree with everything you said. it's not a bad thing if you like some drawings less than the other, every one of them still helps to move you forward in way. even though it sucks when a drawing is not as cool as you hoped it would be x) we learn from our mistakes and stuff! not that a bad drawing is a mistake, but you know what i mean. every experience is a learning opportunity! sometimes it just takes a bit of time to realize that you're moving in a different direction. and it takes time to change course as well.

i dont think it's bad that im drawing things more "realistically" or at least with more uhm, normal proportions idk. generally it's a norm for artists to have many different styles they can switch between, and both realistic and cartoony styles are part of me and my skill pool. i just sometimes forget that i can do more than one thing and get hang up on stuff, and it feels like im trapped in one style even though I really am not.

about the sketches actually! yknow i noticed some time ago that i developed a habit of coloring every sketch i do? and it's not a bad thing, but it's certainly odd, and it used to upset me if i couldn't color something, it felt unfinished and not good enough. and I've been slowly trying to break out of this habit and sketch more and try to... loosen up? i guess? maybe to lower my standards or expectations for myself, something like that. it's very hard still but i can say im definitely enjoying drawing a lot more right now!

and im really happy that my sketches make you want to sketch too, i definitely know the feeling of seeing a drawing and just wanting to draw something yourself, so its very flattering :3

we should hang out in magma or something like that some time, just to sketch together! ive seen a lot of artists organizing those but they're always in the middle of the night for me hdhjdhs

thanks for the message Silver, you're super cool >:D

[im-smart-i-swear]

survivor

^heres a slight alt version cause i couldnt decide whichever i liked best lol!!!

overall im really quite proud of this, i started this out as just a loose sketch not rlly knowing if ill even finish it bc of how complex the thing is, but i somehow did it???? yay?????????? the perspective/sizing of objects is a liiiittle wack n i kinda lost steam when doing the dead clones n it SHOWS lol but whatever, this is still the most complex piece ive dont in FOREVER, and also i am really patting myself on the back for the fucking ship. like JESUS first of all i had to rewatch the black paladins n take a fuck ton of screenshots to decide what parts of the cloning facitlity or whatever it is to include, n then i had to DRAW IT and it was SUCH A PAIN but! after i laid down the sketch n blocked in the colors it went surprisingly well?? and also this whole piece was done with almost no multiply layers for shading, i did most of it '''''by hand''''', so thats just yknow. another thing i put much more effort into than usual but i think it payed off, theres only so much u can do w multiply, sometimes you just gotta go in and draw the fucking shadows yourself!!!!

(i suppose this could thechnically be funky guys related, i can def see it fitting into that aus world, it can absolutely be interpreted as buddy right after the events of the episode, but i do kinda like to imagine it as an entirely seperate thing? like a bleaker timeline where no other clones survive the crash and kuron slowly dies from untreated wounds, malnutrition, dehydration and exposure<33333 yay!)

[r-aindr0p]

Uhhh very messy sketch dump of my magical boys with various levels of cleaned up (but still very scratchy overall)

Wanted to scribble them a bit more in their everyday look/university uniforms ! each year has a different uniform color and they follow each other in a rainbow gradient order until year 8, year 9 and 10 students wearing all white and all black uniforms. (yknow like black belts and white whistles are for highest grades in martial arts/ made in abyss) Also added my main boy's rival ! He's really mad that Gloire gets to go on missions already and not him despite being as good as him at fencing ! Musketeers help the hearts in distress, an both may be good at swordfighting and dumb but Az is emotionally dumb which is why he cannot go on missions. (and usually very few to no first years can already go on official missions, which is quite normal, and there are emotional intelligence classes alongside fencing)

And relationships chart ofc ! I've always wanted to draw one with my own characters hehe. These are how it is between them in the beginning of the story. Idk if I should write their names or nah everytime, I'll add a link to the magical boys art specifically on my pinned post though ! (I'll do clean caracter sheets when I get the time to)