#might redraw this tbh 😭

[an0ma1y-th3d0ma1y]

they are very dear to me,,,

tag this as ship and you’ll be seeing your execution date💋

[astralisstar]

scene redraw 😈

[catocappuccino]

It's been a year since I redrew that one Snorkmimi render...

So yeah I did it again ofc I would, why oh why wouldn't I? Tee hee silly meee

Attaching the 2023 redraw and og cause- uh- I donno, because yes, why not!!!

[yuamin]

ORORUN REDRAW GUIDE !

i think we’ve all seen the atrocity that is genshin’s unreleased character, ororun. the entirety of natlan is a mess really, but as a yoruba person myself i CANNOT keep quiet about ororun specifically.

outside yoruba mythology, in yoruba, ‘Olorun’ (the name ororun is based on, pronounced o-law-roon , with o pronounced as in orange and the ‘roon’ pronounced shortly, not dragged on at all) is actually the same word we often use to refer to God in Christianity. Christianity is the primary religion among us yorubas so honestly, i was kinda glad they misspelled his name. it would feel SO disrespectful referring to whatever that thing is with the same word we use to refer to God who we actually worship. religion aside, genshin’s depiction of Olorun (cultural god, not Christian one) is downright disgusting. i’d never paid too much attention to genshin and its poor representation, but now that my culture has fallen victim to it, i completely understand all the outrage.

edit: please note that while we use ‘Olorun’ to refer to the Christian God, Olorun is just a general word for ‘god’ itself ! for example if i say “God in heaven” and “god of thunder” we know i’m referring to two different beings, in yoruba it’s the kind of the same—the same word is used to refer to both the Christian and other gods, but we know it’s different, even though olorun can be capitalized regardless of what god we’re talking about (unlike english where the Christian God is capitalized and other gods aren’t) at the end of the day though, when we say “olorun” even without context, we are usually referring to the christian God !

1. PLEASE DO NOT DRAW HIM WITH ANIMAL EARS !

i’ve noticed that hoyoverse has this nasty habit of portraying every dark skinned character as wild or animal-esque. kaeya seems to be the only exception to this. even xinyan, though lacking any animal features, has this wild energy to her. some might call it a stretch, but i feel like her features are pretty feline in comparison to other liyue characters.

Olorun in our culture is the supreme god of the heavens. In my opinion, it is disrespectful to liken him to something akin to an animal. normally i wouldn’t even mind that much, but with how hoyo makes its few dark characters more and more like animals, i can’t help but feel weird about it. its really off putting.

2. HIS HAIR WOULD NOT BE CURLY !

majority of nigerians have 4C HAIR. not wavy hair or loose curls. some have 4B, but 4C is the usual here, that is, kinky or coily hair. Olorun is often portrayed as bald in traditional art, but trust me if he had hair his hair would resemble his people’s, not Tyla’s.

DREADLOCKS ARE A YES ! outside nigeria, locking hair is pretty common, but in nigeria a lot of people have locks naturally. our hair sometimes just grows out that way, no treatment no nothing. dreads are 100% an appropriate style, they look good asf too.

3. PLEASE USE CULTURAL FABRICS IN YOUR DESIGNS !

when i saw ororun’s outfit, i almost started crying. they couldn’t even bother to dress him up a little. they really dressed my brother in a scarf and cape and called it a day 😭 upon how fashionable we nigerians are know to be, hoyoverse still made it their mission to embarrass us stylistically. God knows my people have suffered man 😭

ankara is a traditional nigerian fabric that features bright colors and lots of patterned designs. see below:

here in 9ja, we love our ankara. it’s a big part of our fashion here and trust me it would look excellent in your designs. it’s perfectly fine to draw ororun in normal fabrics since he’s a deity and it’s not like ankara existed back then, but if you really want to represent nigeria, ankara is a must 🙏

i’m going to address another fashion piece because if you search up nigerian fashion you’ll see it a lot: beads.

these orange beads are igbo (another tribe here in nigeria) NOT yoruba. does this mean you can’t use it in olorun’s design ? no ! let me explain. tbh, here in nigeria there’s a bit of...tension between clans. it’s not that common, but older people are definitely a lot more tribalist. as a yoruba i love my igbo brothers and sisters, i truly believe they’re the most fashionable clan and i adore their festivities, they always go over the top. please, just look at them:

(only one image because of image caps, ugh)

anyway, we yorubas wear beads too. but the specific way the beads are worn around the head and in multiple layers round the neck is igbo, not yoruba. though i personally wouldn’t care too much if i saw olorun with igbo beads since all i want is for him to at least look nigerian, at the end of the day he is a yoruba deity. it might be disrespectful to dress the god of one clan as if he belongs to another, especially since there is so much historical ( and very slight but uncommon present ) day tension between both clans.

here’s a more yoruba outfit. sorry yall, it might be hard for you to distinguish if you’re not yoruba or igbo, but a lot of nigerians can tell the difference at a glance. ( actually nowadays, there is so much overlap between yoruba and igbo fashion, but there are many specific styles that may be associated with one tribe and not the other, for example how beads are worn in the above paragraph ) please do your research, he’s not only a nigerian god, but a yoruba one.

one more thing, because i know it will start discourse : skin tone.

nigerians have a very diverse range of skin tones. some of us are so pale, if not for our afrocentric features we could maybe pass for another race. however, ororun is yoruba.

light skinned nigerians are usually igbo. not to say that yorubas can’t be light skin, but here in nigeria if you saw a light skinned person, we’d automatically assume they were igbo. igbo people usually have lighter skin tones. majority of yorubas fall on the more milk to dark chocolate end of the skin tone spectrum. i’m saying this now because i know a lot of people are going to start arguments over ororun being redrawn as ‘too light’ or ‘too dark.’ i don’t really care about complexion, but i thought i’d help you all get your facts right.

that’s it ! if you read all this i’m super thankful. i don’t usually post about this kind of stuff but i honestly love my country and could go on about it for days. nigeria is such a beautiful place with a diverse range of cultures— from hausas to fulanis to so many more. natlan was supposed to be Africa’s time to shine, as well as latin americans, but hoyoverse said fuck you and your people. they did this to an extent with sumeru but natlan was done straight up dirty—not a single melanated character in sight, and the only one who does have melanin, iansan, looks so desaturated you might as well call her grey. i saw someone on tiktok call mualani a dark skinned character—it was at that point that i knew genshin was done for.

please REBLOG this post so it reaches more people and artists in the fandom !! this is literally the third time i’m making this post because tumblr refuses to show it in the tags for some reason 😭 i encourage other cultures who feel misrepresented to make posts like this too. it’s a perfect opportunity to educate and inform people about the diverse cultures genshin has once again failed to represent properly.

Hoyo has never been one to make customer satisfaction their top priority, but we’ve been able to call them out before and i truly believe we can do it again. Natlan is not poor design choice. it is blatant racism, a nation based on POC ethnicities with not a single colored character insight. Hoyoverse has been able to escape racism accusations for as long as i can remember, but natlan is the icing on the cake. we CANNOT allow hoyo to proceed as planned without giving them the appropriate backlash.

Also, if you redraw ororun using this guide, make sure to tag me here or on my main blog, @heartkaji !! i’d love to see all your redesigns. once again, thank you all for reading and have an amazing day !!

[carnabybeat]

ADDITIONALLY: 2016 Bottom fanart

Oh my god guess who just found her Young Ones fanart from 2016

[choccy-milky]

When are you making the next chapterrrr? I love ur book so much!! 🥰

aw TYY!! itll definitely be up by this weekend at the latest! im already 18k words in and im not done yet tho, so its gonna be a chonker/might be like 30k LMAO. i dont mind tho, since its the second last chap. I WILL NOT LIMIT MY POWER LEVEL😤

GOOD!!! tbh the name of my fic is the thing i regret most, i gave it absolutely 0 thought when i first published chapter 1 at like 3 in the morning before immediately going to bed LMFAOO. raven and the snek is the new official name

BAHAHAHA UNFORTUNATELY THERE'LL BE NO MORE SMUT since theres only 2 chaps left..... but i DO want to draw that eventually, rest assured🤭 and TYSM!!💖💖💖im glad u like my fic so much and im honoured its your fav🧎‍♀️😭

@loving-him-was-red13 LMFAO GOOD....you're turning into the 'everywhere i go, i see his face' meme, just as planned😈😈 (also i have totally considered redrawing that one on the right as clora and seb....u get me🤝🤝

BAHAHA @fitzs-trained-monkey YOU TOO, WE LOVE TO SEE IT. omg ur so right tho, these can be clora and sebs fursonas!!!😻😻😻😻

@multi-fandom-imagine aw tysm!!😭💖im glad you like my content💖💖💖

@romilimon "when i found that artist for the first time" TOTALLY TRANSLATED THAT MYSELF AND DIDNT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE, ARENT I AMAZING💃😍 (but aww TYYY...im glad i could make your laptop glow with the light of the heavens🥹💖)

@lovesicklovermia I dont, considering seb is already realistic looking in the game and i just base my drawings on him but aged up. i do think it would be cool to find an actor that looked like how i draw him, tho, so that i could use him as a ref as well LOL. if anyone knows any actors, lmk👀

LMFAO TY FOR THE INFORMATION UR DOING GODS WORK🫡🫡you COULD have read it all the day before your flight, though.... just do your best to cram 38 hours of reading into one night!!!easy!!🥰 IM GLAD U COULD DOWNLOAD IT THO and that it gave u something to do during ur flight!! i get you though, i myself also dont like reading fics as theyre coming out bc im too impatient LOL and i like to binge read. BUT HOPE YOU LIKED IT!!💖

[rhapsoddity]

Do you know when the next vigilante sheriff AU chapter comes out???

It’s okay if you don’t know it’s just such a good story and I think your doing great

It's only been 2 weeks-ish since the last pages were posted, so ngl it's gonna be a while!

😭 Although I get feedback from my friends, I work on the comic and AU for the most part alone. I haven't really started on the next pages yet, I've been working on an old comic redraw to have some fun before returning to actually working on main comic progress

Tbh I might just say that it'll come out next year? I can't commit do getting it out super quickly so 🤷‍♂️

[gamerbearmira]

Boo

I got the last two days 🤧🤧 the first one was mostly because I was thinking of that au at the time. Plus I just like slightly unstable Alma (or any Madrigal tbh) <3

and then the second is technically a redraw??? Idk if I ever posted it though, I might not have 😭😭 anyway, just vampire Alma. Going crazy <333 Hopefully I’ll be able to do a drawing today (it’s 2 am 💀💀), I’m not too busy other than work but like. I’ll push 🌚🌝

[your-ne1ghbor]

Art dump...part 2

you think I was done? OFC NOT.

First off we'll go with-

I mean....This one <3

Why is it upside down?

Whym...

Just

Why.... 😢😢😢

Anyways I got that sketch book when I was on vacation with my dad over the summer and 90% of the pages are...Just wish filled.

Im not going to show you all of it tbh, since in all honesty a lot of them were kinda wonky and weird and me going insane....

Like the other one above..

....

💀

Anyways

Part 1

I CANT FIND MY HADEUS DRAWING WTFFFF 😭😭

oh I guess u guys see a draft of my Flazino ermmmm 👀

Yeah he's fine! He just drank smth weird nothing bad or wrong about that <3333 (also the flazino drawings was exploring a concept but it kinda didn't sit right with me tbh minus just Agatha killing him <3)

God there was so much Star x Asha stuff in here but I can't show most of them bc the DRAWINGS ARE SO UGLY. And also bc of Tumblr's 30 picture limit

Also this one had a bit of my friends ocs, so that's nice :3

Also the one with Asha thanking Star was after star just transformed into like a Manta Ray I think and just flew her around as some sort of stress relief for her I guess. And it was a small comic, but the other frames felt out of character, so I redraw it in a different sketch book 👀

And you guys might be curious about the Harry Potter Sketch Book and...

It has the most lore filled information in there and a lot of it isn't really cannon? Not only that, but it literally looks like I'm spiraling soo 😭😭

@signed-sapphire @sewerpalette @pennysucks @oh-shtars @chillwildwave @spectator-zee @rascalentertainments @tumblingdownthefoxden

[lyxjade]

I decided to draw Dazai and Chuuya! I went for a style closer to my own. But I switched it up again. I used the 15 manga as reference, so they are 15 :))

Can y'all tell that I struggled with Chuuya's hair? Because I really did!! 😭😭 Imo, Dazai turned out way better :') I might redraw Chuuya, tbh

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[ptolema3a]

i’ve been trying to get better at this style of art so here’s a drawing of @mothercain (i was too lazy to draw the hand 😭) i might redraw it digitally tbh

[tashjio]

I'm redrawing a part for my friend's Ashfur MAP i did around half a year ago and i think i kinda improved?? At least he actually looks like a cat now 😭😭

Btw he's in the middle of standing up here that's why he's only half-standing okay

I dont draw cats too often so the anatomy might look kinda off but who cares honestly!!!

I also have trouble drawing cats' expressions so i made him look more accusing than mad but maybe that's better?

Real Ash, real

+ some random car and a ball of anger from my english book

I finally got the last hope!!! Idk why i stopped reading tbh

Yep that's all i guess

[clownishstarfish]

pariging 4C and hisoillu B2!!! (they're all awful)

for the kiss chart :)

I hate the Pariging one tbh 😭😭 might redraw it in the future

Kissing art chart thingyy

[itz-k1m1k0]

Somewhat artdump?

I'm in this object camp discord server and,,,I miiiiight have a favorite contestant,,,idk guys

Some of these are months ago,,,

Beanie doesn't belong to me!! He belongs to Kentaro_Boi!!! (BRO DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A TUMBLR HELP 😭)

Tbh i might redraw this one

[luvuwite]

SPEEDPAINTS R NEVER LAME!! speedpaints were personally apart of my childhood and somehow i learned to draw from them, they taught me better than any art tutorial could 😭 i think speedpaints might be significant to a GOOD CHUNK of artists tbh, that’s just what i think though

i think other ppl would love love LOVE to see more speedpaints from you, plus it’s another way to show off your characters, story, and your art skills!! ppl will go like “WOW THIS PERSON IS TALENTED” or “WOAH THIS OC IS SO INTERESTING I WANNA KNOW MORE”, etc.

HAHAHA NO BECAUSE SAME!!! DUDE i was OBSESSED with those MLP creepypasta speedpaints on MS Paint 😭😭😭

ALSO!!! VERY GOOD POINT UGH UR SO SMART. I think actually I could do a speedpaint tomorrow morning!!! I was plannin on redrawwing a certain somethin 👀

[str33tydr1ft]

| Random Doodles |

I havent made my own post here in a long time, so I'm just ginna take a break from reblogging shit unless its important or whatever idfk km tired 😭😭😭, hell I might make a sideblog for reblogging tbh,

Anyway,

Heres some shit im working on

Im redrawing a couple of screenshots from Thomas goes to breakfast so ye

And this is smt from my art class

So yeah, enjoy <3