#minus the colours and details and background

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

That Baldur's Gate 3 cover art with Astarion. But it's Sebille.

[lebedame-wegelagerin]

And here, as promised to the dear @vinceaddams come a lot of extant Garments from my recent Visit at the German National Museum in Nuremberg. I am trying to give as much Information about each Picture as I can though unfortunately not all of the Pictures were taken by me and I could take Pictures as extensively (including Info Signs) as I would have wanted, lest I be abandoned in the Clothing Section. Also the whole Section was awfully dim, which made it rather difficult to read some of the Signs. The last three Pictures were taken in a different Section, thus the more pleasant Lighting.

Servant Livery, bavarian Court, mid 19th Century (left); Servant of the Count of Cannotreadhisname, first half 19th Century (right)

Woman's Folkdress, Lötschental/Wallis (Switzerland), Museum dates it 1830/1905 which is an awfully broad Range, but maybe it was altered later; shows wonderfully how late 18th Century Styles were preserved in european Folkdress that came to be in the 19th Century proper

Various Men's Garments throughout the 18th Century, as there are Closeups of each, the respective Detailinformation will be provided further down.

Men's Spencer, c. 1810s-1820s, Linen and Cotton, the Sign didn't say it explicitely but due to it's Placement in the Exhibition and comparable other Pieces I have seen, I think this is more of a common Man's Piece of Clothing.

Three Men's Shirts, various Shoebuckles, a cocked Hat, a Periwig and what I assume to be a Hair Bag. This Display Case had a rather badly illuminated Sign, so sadly I have no further Details about the Pieces.

Justeaucorps, c. 1695, Wool, Silk, Metal Trim.

Waistcoat, c. 1695, Silk, according to the Museum it was worn together with the Justeaucorps, which seems to be a nice Colour-Combination.

Breeches, 1790-1800, Silk. Very pretty Pair, but the bad Lighting doesn't really let it show.

Habit à la francaise, c. 1790, Wool, Silk, Embroidery (What a Material Specification...). I really like the Combination of those subtle dark on dark Stripes and the Embroidery.

Tailcoat, c. 1790/1795, Cotton, Silk, Linen, really peak 1790s Look honestly.

Very wide Court Panniers, with Pocket Hoops and Crinoline in the Background. Alas no Detail Information for this and the next two Pictures.

Frontal View of the Pannier. I suppose I have to get one of those at some Point, if only for how extra they are.

Three Pairs of Stays, two from the Front, one from the Back. Sadly I don't feel confident enough to Date those and I have no Pictures showing the Info Signs well enough.

Lots of pretty Dresses that were exhibited in another Section of the Museum. The right one is a Robe à l'Anglaise, but that's all I can tell.

Another beautiful Anglaise, notable for being preserved in its Entirety with original Ruffles.

More pretty Dresses. Unfortunately due to Time Reasons I have no Pictures of the Suits displayed across the Dresses in the U-shaped Display, though I have to say one of them had a very much not authentic Lacebib hanging from the Neck...

That's all the cool Clothing Pics I have, at some Point I will return and take loooots more Pictures from all the Angles too. Also at some Point I might write to the Museum about the Lighting, there surely is a better Solution when having your Objects barely visible with unreadable Signs while still protecting them from UV-Rays.

Bonus-Pic 1:

Me, in historical Dress, c. 1750 (minus the Shoes), standing in a historical Kitchen.

Bonus-Pic 2, for the Boat-Crowd:

Beautifully detailed Modell Sailing Ship, early to mid 17th Century if I remember correctly. Interestingly enough all the little Sailor Figurines on it were very much early 19th Century in Style, so I assume the previous owner had those added at some Point, before the Museum acquired the Model in the late 19th Century. (The Incongruence sadly wasn't addressed on the Info Sign, so I might contact them about this too.)

[daisy-daze17]

Omori Manga Thoughts cause it was uhhh

OK so like. The thing is I only got into the omori fandom in February of this year so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

1. I'm mostly a fan of the art style-- a lot of people said that Sunny always seems to have a panicked expression so it's hard to read into him, plus the characters look a lot younger than they're supposed to (Which I find odd). But other than that, I think it does a really good job representing the scarier parts with very abstract drawings of Mari/Something. They coloured it well and thank god did Kel's skintone right. There is one particular panel that I especially love:

So much detail and it captures the feeling of seeing faraway for the first time really well ^^

Some nitpicky positive thoughts:

Sunny could have looked more distinct from Omori because the only difference I see are their outfits. Maybe make Sunny's features softer and have less contrasting values so we can see an immediate difference.

I like how they did everyone's eyes-- Sunny/Omori's are just dull and black, and everyone else with dark eyes are shown to have a light in them. (Just a nice detail i appreciated)

I like how Omori is clearly less expressive compared to sunny, but I think Sunny could have benefitted from having more emotions than surprised/blushing.

2. The pacing was weird. like really fucking weird. The basic structure of the game Omori is: Omori is in whitespace -> Omori plus the gang (Hero, Aubrey and Kel) meet up with Basil and Mari in headspace -> everyone minus Mari goes to Basil's house and learn all the combat stuff along the way -> after fixing the photo album it suddenly shifts to basil in a panicked state before glitching you back into white space again. The moment when basil shifts the mood from calm to terrifying is REALLY important.

It forces the new tone on you very suddenly and also sets up a lot of mystery surrounding Mari when Basil can't finish what he was going to say about her. By now we know that something is very wrong and it has to do with Mari, but we don't know what.

The manga is kind of all over the place the whole time. First we see the christmas scene when Sunny gets his violin. But then Mari does her whole nightmare thing and we know somethings up from the first few pages. Next we wake up at night as Sunny in the real world... yet it shows the little "THREE DAYS LEFT" as well? At this point I was super confused because basically the entire nighttime sequence is shown through a sort of montage with Sunny's mom's voice message in the background before transitioning into the day when Kel first knocks on the door. A cool thing they did was parallel Kel's knocking with the creepy knocking we get from Mari Something. HOWEVER for reasons unknown they just completely cut out the fight against something on the stairs??

Something I was really excited about was seeing how they would integrate the combat into the manga. And they do it later with the Aubrey fight (more on that later), but not now? So now I'm wondering if they'll include Sunny's three fears that he has to overcome.

So next we find our boy (KEL!!!!!) and he is asking Sunny if he wants to come to Hobbies. I did find the dialogue here pretty awkward as Kel bounced back and forth in demeanor, but that's to be expected since Sunny isn't talking. (And I appreciate how he shows some kind of reaction to seeing one of his best friends after 4 years lol)

I mean compared to this when he just jumps straight into his hobbez idea without much reaction to actually seeing Sunny lol.

The most notable thing after this is the Aubrey confrontation with Basil and the other hooligans. I DONT KNOW WHY but they chose to not show the hooligans in that scene!! The hooligans are aubrey's little gang/posse who she hangs around with all the time and the people we always see when she's bullying Basil.

It's very important to note that Basil is talking to KIM here. He starts the conversation begging for her to tell Aubrey to give the photo album back. Aubrey is actively ignoring his attempts to get it back, with basil claiming "She won't listen to me."

In the manga she appears out of seemingly no where and proceeds to beat Basil directly with her bat. Prior to this we get no setup or explanation as to why Aubrey's attacking him or what the situation is. WORST OF ALL, It's only Aubrey alone attacking him and NOT her gang of the Hooligans. The hooligans are important in showing us just how isolated and ostracized from society Basil really is after Aubrey began bullying him. He literally has a whole gang of kids who call him a creep and attack him regularly. Here it seems like Aubrey is insane and is just beating him selfless for kicks. (not that I'm justifying Aubrey's behavior in the game, but the lack of context makes this situation even worse.)

I think It's also important to bring up how they switched around the order of events because in this situation, it's not working. We're supposed to first be introduced to younger Aubrey and Basil in headspace-- their younger counterparts. Aubrey is strong-willed and excitable and Basil is calm and kind. And most importantly-- they're VERY GOOD FRIENDS. So seeing Aubrey revealed to have been bullying him these past 4 years shocks the player and makes them understand how much things have really changed. Doing it the other way around will automatically villainize DW Aubrey since we already know what goes on in real life.

And then something interesting happens-- Sunny blacks out during the fight and returns to Headspace. This is SUPER weird as we've only ever seen Sunny go into headspace while sleeping, because it's an escape mechanism he uses to avoid The Truth. Does this mean he isn't aware he goes into headspace unwillingly sometimes? And what does this mean for the continuation of the real world story? Are we going to go through the entire Space Boy quest just to get back to that scene?

Anyway, I'm interested to see how they take it from here. Maybe they'll do a continuous switchover to the real world where they jump between it more frequently. But I question what that would mean for the timeline because the events of headspace happen in between the three days while Sunny is sleeping-- so he can't be in two places at the same time. Maybe they'll write more and more random ways for Sunny to black out to do this?? They defiantly are trying to take a step back from following the game exactly. I can't say I don't like it because I don't know how it'll turn out, so I'm excited for chapter 2!

[maddcactus-art]

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[eyenaku]

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These are sketch commissions, and as such are cheaper, but have no revisions (except for one minor revision for the $25 tier), no line art, and no backgrounds (2 bg styles available, as well as colours of your choice). You get to pick bust, half-body, or full-body though!

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[bosskie]

Molluck Watches

Welp, I just said that I don't feel like doing any bigger projects but this didn't really feel like one since I painted this in grayscale minus that pink as a highlight colour. This is still kinda a sketch and I just don't feel like painting this anymore. But well, at least I have at least one drawing now that is suitable for the banner.

I don't know what else to really say than that yeah, Molluck is watching his huge TV wall in the dark here. There was no intention to do actual background since I wanted to keep this as simple and I just don't feel like doing anything detailed in digital right now. I have had an idea like this for a while but I would like to do something more proper related to this one day. I feel like I don't know about this but I tried my best. The main thing is just that I got a banner now.

Man, at the same time, I hate drawing but also love it and cannot stop creating stuff... I was going to say something more positive here but last night I felt so awful... Recently, I have just noticed like for the first time how happy Molluck actually makes me, how he is able to give me peace/serenity like no one else... I feel like I just keep loving this Gluk more and more. I don't really mind anymore if I'm seeing him as sweeter than he truly is since it just keeps me living in the middle of my mental health issues, he keeps me being able to feel good when barely anything else feels like anything.

Recently, I have also realized that it seems like I have actually learned to draw Molluck like only two weeks ago... But I still need more practicing but he is finally starting to look like himself or more like how I wish to draw him. But well, recently I have also thought that I should just give up with art, again, since it still feels like I know nothing about art or how 'professional art' is done... Like I have said many times, I have hard time with standing my own creations but I'm still posting them because I just like to create stuff.

Recently, when I felt like I cannot truly draw, should just quit it, it felt like my mind told me that Molluck would love my drawings about him and it just made me feel much better, even loved which is such a feeling I do like never feel. It has felt like that like for the first time ever, I was able to feel loved. I only know that I'm loved but I just cannot feel it. Maybe, even it has felt like my mind just keeps getting worse, there is still slow healing happening. It's still so difficult for me to think that I'm someone to love... I just felt like a mere human trash last night... I'm not having any professional help right now and I don't have resources to really get it more for now but I at least have Molluck. I basically am only able to draw because I just love this Gluk so much and that's why I only feel like drawing him.

[cosmic-navel-gazin]

@razielim this started out as an ask and got outta hand x)

I remember once you talking about movement in videogames gabe. About how satisfying and important just the act of moving can be (which arghhhh yess I couldn't agree more!), and compared it with movement in dreams. And I remember you mentioning Asscreed II as an example and I was thinking (as I was listening to some asscreed ambience on youtube), do you think the visuals and music also contribute to that dreamlike feel too?

I've noticed more recently how like, in spite of the attempt at capturing all the historical places realistically and faithfully, they don't feel like that, or, perhaps I should say, they feel as realistic as a dream of Florence or Venice can be?

The colours are all somewhat muted (like if everything has the opacity not quite at 100%, contrast and vibrancy is way down too). Just a more muted colour palette in general (big emphasis on white with light pinks and oranges and browns, greyish blues and greens with just the occasional sharp bright red of clothes or flowers);

Just so much white! The white interface of the animus and the animus loading effects of the towns being reconstructed on these white digital canvases. And the draw distance (Silent Hill taught me that if you want that dreamlike atmosphere you play with that draw distance son, obscure details, don't let players see everything, imply don't just show)! The skies! I can't remember a vibrant blue sky in this game, it's always a greyish blue or white or pink.

I dunno tell me if I'm talking outta my ass, I think it helps evoke this dreamlike/nostalgic feel. And this extends to Jesper Kyd's music too, how it's oddly experimental honestly? It's not authentic Italian Renaissance-era compositions or something that sounds close enough. Minus the chase and combat ones, the town ones (Home in Florence, Dreams of Venice, Leonardo's Inventions, etc) have this ethereal feel and tranquility to them. It's like the visuals: somewhat muted, somewhat vague, they don't draw too much attention to themselves, listening to them it's like walking through that same white haze the visuals have.

It's this, AssCreed II's movement, visuals and music are dreams of the Renaissance in white laminated glass to me:

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EDIT:

I

JUST

realized

that whoever did the box art for the game MADE MY POINT FOR ME BY HAVING THE DEFINING IMAGE THAT ENCAPSULATES ASSCREED II BE:

White-ass laminated glass-looking background with the contrasting vibrant red and the blurred hazy characters.

[zzcorpserosezz]

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[vyvy4n]

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(If you’d prefer discord my user is the same as here)

Heyyo! I’m James and I’m saving up for driving lessons (and something to drive) to finish school stuffs. I’m chronically ill so can’t get a job meaning I only have my art to support myself with.

Examples of recent work

Haven’t posted a lot here yet but my art tag is on this post too

Prices n stuff

Base price (full body sketch) — £5

+ Colour — +£5

+ Line art & rendering & shading — +£10

+ Another character in image — £5

+ Simple background — +£5

+ Detailed background — +£10

Possible questions

How do you accept payment?

At the moment I only accept payment through PayPal, once I have sketched out your drawing I’ll send it to you with a watermark, ask if everything is how you like it, and then give you my PayPal.

Will you draw ____?

Nonhumans (furries, robots, animals etc.), yes.

Create designs/redesigns, yes.*

(*all characters in the examples minus Wolverine are my own designs)

YCH/redraw of a reference, yes.

In a different style, yes.*

(*My regular style is very comics inspired, but I am in good practice of trying different art styles)

Gore/injury or NSFW, yes but depending on how complex it is I may ask for a slightly higher price.

Anything else you’re not sure about we can discuss but I can’t think of anything I’d flat out say no to.

How long will it take?

As previously stated, I am chronically ill and so have a lot of time to draw. Sketches should take no longer than a day, and detailed drawings should take no longer than a week (as an estimation)

However, once I’ve started your drawing I’ll have a good idea of how long it’ll take and will message you beforehand :)

If you need the art before a certain time, let me know

Where can I use the art?

Anywhere! I’ll draw profile pictures if that’s how you’re specifically planning to use it, and if you’re going to post it anywhere please don’t crop my @ off. Anything else for personal use is completely fine!

I’ll ask if I can use it on my own page and if you’d like to be @ on the post before I do anything with it myself

If you are going to use my art on an item you’re going to sell somewhere, please inform me before you do so; as I helped make the product I’d ask for a 15% cut. Any of my art used in a shop without my permission will have action taken against it.

Thank you for listening to an independent artist, I know that’s thrown around a lot but I am struggling.

If you can’t or don’t want to commission me, spreading my posts around to people who might helps me just as much :) <3

[roundboard]

Brutal Orchestra Art Hitlist

Just a list talking about each of the characters that I’ll have to go through drawing in Brutal Orchestra. Will detail plans and thoughts on ones I haven’t done, and reflect on the ones I have :)

Nowak/Bosch

I’m coming for you (two)...

Boyle

Done! Clean and simple inclusion of lore elements with a more interesting pose than I normally go for, really happy with how this one came out!

Hans

Done and dusted, I really did try to see if I could include SOME element of her items and such, but no luck... it cluttered the drawing far too much and there were too many conflicting themes. I tried my best to just elevate a lot of the simpler elements of Hans, and used one of her main abilities as a base for the concept.

Also included the fact her arms look kind of like spindly nerves as that’s how they seemed to be imagined by a lot of the community in canon! I think I made her look really nice and I’m still happy with it.

Burnout

Finished :) Probably my rawest piece yet, mega happy with how visceral I depicted him, as he deserves to be!!

Fennec

Fairly happy with how he turned out! I was trying to vary my angles since I have a habit of drawing characters facing right so I wanted to make sure to introduce some variety to the portraits. Plus, it’ll look even nicer by the end when they’re all lined up next to each other. 

He definitely seems a lot more jungle-y than he would let on but... A lot of his abilities seemed that way so I couldn’t help it. Not like it’s a bad thing, green + blue is a pretty good colour combo

Anton

I was definitely happy with him for a first attempt at this project, especially with how I shaded the mask, but I’m almost definitely going to go back to redo him. In hindsight there isn’t enough Anton swagger going on (minus the finger guns) and I think some element of his rude/skittish/gamble-orientated nature has to be shown off somehow.

Splig

Possibly my strongest work concept wise so far, or it’s tied with Kleiver. I’m really proud of myself for composing it in a way that shows off the Tao symbol they have in one of their attacks, and also demonstrate their syringe attack. It all looks pretty fluid as well. 

Only nitpick I’d have with this one is that it’s much more rough and simple(?) compared to my other works. Though, to be fair, this piece was the shortest to draw out of everything so far (about 2 hours or so)

Pearl

donezo... massive maw angle was definitely a good idea

Thype

My second drawing. Still really happy with the more oil paint-like thing going on for him, but similar to Anton, I feel like I could've shown off more from their lore/attacks. 

I’m less likely to try and to a complete redo like I am for Anton on this one, but I may make some adjustments? We can call it a remaster. Remaster sounds good and professional (which I am)

Griffin

I think I stuffed in as much lore as I could in the drawing (minus the fire, but I feel it would’ve oversaturated it.) My progress on lighting and shadows seems to be improving a good amount!! Excited to translate this skill into future drawings

Arnold

went with a more abstract and rough approach to convey arnold having a bit of a breakdown.. I think it worked really well and definitely a style I’d like to experiment with more in the future

Dmitri

Finally done... mega happy with the fire effects and I’m glad I could up the quality of the background more than just a standard black one or textured one! 

Mung

Mung

LongLiver

Finally managed to unlock him, and despite my initial worry that I wouldn’t be able to do something that creative, I managed it! I’m starting to get more comfortable with simple concepts done with more artistic flair if I can’t figure out a way to include their lore or attacks too much within the drawing itself. I also think this drawing shows off a bit more of my Disco Elysium style roots :) very proud of it!

Clive

Resident badass completed!! There was a point where he looked super bland and his head look way too long (like an egg) so thank god for the glow that was added later on... and the shortening of the skull

Kleiver

Even with the limited colour palette, I’m super super super happy with this one. This piece could’ve been kind of boring with just Kleiver shushing but my inspiration basically screamed out of nowhere that I could have bloodied music trails emanating from the stain on his hammer... Head. It doesn’t really show off his attacks but it shows off his brutality and lore enough that I’m absolutely satisfied with how he turned out. I nailed that hand pretty well too.

Cranes

Incredibly with the more simple and clean approach I took!! my first time trying out rain and such so I was really satisfied with how it turned out

Agon

My spookiest work yet, probably... I still really like this one :) depicted his yelling the best way I knew how! Super abstract but fits him well

Rags

Really really happy with her, I think the shading and colours came out excellent. Managed to fit some good stuff about her concept and item wise as well :) I think my only gripe might be that it’s a little less coherent than it could’ve been, with some of the parts of the drawing being quite dark.

However, I’m still really happy with it!!

SmokeStacks

Did this because some guy on reddit asked for it really nicely, even though SmokeStacks wasn’t even on my radar at the time... But they seemed to like it! I did too. I was initially trying to position SmokeStacks like every other portrait up close, but I realized I really wanted to show off the smoke more than the stacks part so I went ham on making the smoke look spooky and ominous.

He’s meant to be sitting on a pile of trash which is kinda hard to tell but I’m pretty happy with this one too.

Leviat

I like how dynamic and “pop-y” I made this one :) experimented with a style I didn’t do too often and was worried about how I’d handle the mass of flesh/teeth and masks thing but it turned out really nice

Bimini

Put as much for the character as I could into it! I think probably the most “packed” in terms of references so far... I do wish I could’ve done something a bit more with the background though

Gospel

so spacey... so gospel... it’s perfect

Mordrake

Mega happy with this one concept and execution wise :) holds a special place in my heart!

[lethal--omen]

[Id: Two digital redraws of Gym Trainer Elesa's friendship snapshot from the game Pokemon Masters. In it she is seen holding out on hand with her middle and ring fingers bent closed, as she leans towards the camera with an open mouth and her other harm flung behind her. In both images, she has been drawn with brown eyes rather than blue. Both of the drawings have a border. In picture 1, there is simple black lineart and a dark purple border, whilst in picture 2 the border has some light blue details added to it, and the lineart is now coloured. There are pink sparkles in the background of both images. /End id]

Decided to do some composition practice by redrawing one of my favorite Friendship Snapshots from Pokemas!!! (The background is taken from the game minus the sparkles, will add it in a reblog)

[tarot-tea-cafe]

All About Tarot: The Major Arcana

The Wheel Of Fortune

The Wheel Of Fortune, also known as La Roue De Fortune, is associated with the element fire, with chance, destiny, fate and what have you, and is the 10th in the majour arcana, the 11th to be pulled in a fresh deck.

Upright, this card talked about (good) fortune, an unexpected windfall, karma, destiny, cycles, life being in a state of constant change, things working in your favour, chance, turning points and more.

Reversed, this card mentions bad or "lousy" luck, a lack of control, the past, misery, disappointment, upheaval, unwelcomed changes, setbacks/drawbacks, external forces at work, oncoming challenges and more.

In general this card of course talks about luck and possibilities, maybe talking about what your influences are to help you understand why youre having a streak of "good/bad luck". this card seems to be here to help point out things you might not notice or say what you know but noo to hear it confirmed for you. that doesnt always mean its going to be good or bad, just like gambling theres always a 50/50. (minus any possibility of cheating, these cards see right through you)

Common depictions may include of course a wheel, similar to a prize wheel from a game show or something with multiple points to show multiple possibilities or directions, a compas perhaps. its very common to see a map and compass or a ship's wheel and someone at the helm ahold of it. all this to show that with so many directions to go life has many options and potentialities just waiting for you and choosing the path you take is life's game of chance.

white and blue as well as a shade of gold, yellow, orange or brown are very common within this card's colour scheme, often a blue background with white clouds. red is a common accent colour among the art for this card.

another common thing to see is some flying creature or person, commonly four in each corner or few circling the "wheel of fortune" in the centre.

However on the rare occasion the wheel of fortune isnt an actual wheel you may see a lone person with more than the regular amount of limps in place of the many points that signify the different directions.

If you have any more details you'd like me to adress or questions you have you'd like me to answer please let me know!

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[ashmcfarlane]

Illustrator Skills Show & Tell

Started off by drawing a simple skull using a mix of curved and angular lines. Then had to mark where I believe the anchor points would be. The bigger the curve, the bigger the handle would be.

I then scanned in the drawing and used the pen tool to outline the base shape of the skull (cranium and jaw). I used a mix of different anchor point types to show contrast between shapes while creating this skull, and to overall understand them better.

Here are my examples:

Then worked on the details within the skull using curve points:

Used curved points for the eyes and the nose. I made the eye sockets by using the shape ellipse tool, then using the direct selection tool to change the handle size to have more of a defined shape. I also used the same shape we learned in 'week 2 curves' for the nose, holding shift while placing the anchor points to keep them at the same horizontal angle.

Creating the teeth was fun as i got to be loose with them, just creating rough, oval, lop-sided shapes with various sized handles. The imperfections are what makes it look natural and less corporate. Wasn't really tracing my original drawing for this as I felt I didn't need to.

The end result of my vector outlines. Next I had to turn it into proper shapes. First i gave the base shape of the skull a white fill with no border.

Using the path finder tool I could use the 'minus front' option while having the top layers selected (skull details e.g eye sockets, nose, indents) and the bottom layers (skull base shape e.g cranium and jaw). This pathfinder option will then stamp the top later paths through the bottom layer. Creates a good positive and negative space contrast, with the background colour being the skull's details.

I decided to have the skulls teeth to be purple as I thought it made the image a bit more unique, as skull drawings/images are often overused on platforms. I then decided to give the skull an all seeing eye to add more appeal to the illustration, using the same purple on the eye to match the teeth.

I made an oval shape and then layered 3 ellipse shapes inside the oval, changing the colour and handle size of each circle. This made the eye look a lot more hand made.

Overall very happy with the design.

On the original sketch drawing I was able to understand and pin out all 4 types of anchor points: corner, curved, hybrid and broken. Although, a lot of my handles are pretty off. Definitely something I could have done better on. While make the skull shape in illustrator I found it had the best effect by making the top anchor point have excessively long handles. There were also a couple misplaced anchor points through out my illustration compared to my original sketch. But I feel the more I use the pen and anchor point tools, the more I understand it's theory. I also faced a lot of trial and error trying to remember how to create a broken anchor point (for where the jaw meets the skull). I managed to get there in the end.

Using illustrator I found the various shapes quite easy to make, I did use a descent amount of "command z's" while making this but the shapes were fairly simple overall. The teeth were surprisingly easy to do as I wasn't worried about imperfections, I feel if I was that task would have been a lot harder.

If I were to do this again, I would try challenge myself more by creating more gritty edges in parts of the skull, rather that it being just smooth lines. That would mean i'd be using more anchor points for little details but I think it would have a much better effect. On the design brief it did say to use as few anchor points as possible. I'd like to work on my understanding of anchors and their point handles, just to know exactly how to put them without any trial and error, as it would make design processes a lot quicker.

[ragnarockz]

After YEARS of trying to find the perfect TMNT tattoo...

I was cleaning up my room a couple weeks back and I stumbled upon the TMNT: The Ultimate Visual History book my family had gotten for me a few birthdays ago. 

There’s always this like, turn-around I do of “getting back into” TMNT (not that I ever truly leave it, it’s so ingrained in who I am as a person that it’s always in the background of my life). I was just flipping through it and came upon this sketch of Raphael drawn by Peter Laird that made it into the book.

My mind just clicked and went, “Yep. That’s the one.”

So I’m getting him done Tuesday. Everything will be the same minus the signature and the addition of his mask being in colour (I HAVE to...the color red means so much to me and there would be no way for me to leave that detail out).

Pics to come when I’m all tatted! 

[teabaaags]

rating most of king dedede’s appearances in kirby media part 1 (1992-2010)

disclaimer: this is my opinion, i would love to know everyone elses opinion too

1. kirby’s dreamland and kirby’s adventure

I love kirby’s dreamland sprites. They are just all so perfect and small. A really good usage of the limited pixels the GB sprite team was given 8/10

I don’t know if this is because it was a scan or what but. where are his trousers. 4/10 got that early games manual look

yet again, dick out, ugly ass line on his shoes. his mouth??? the lack of gloves is just really obvious here + im just not a fan of the ahegao face. 2/10 i hate it.

I know they had limited colours but he just looks so muddy. 6/10 because they’re the same as kirby’s dreamland

2. kirby’s pinball land

YES. they are similar to kirby’s dreamland but MORE. 8/10

3. kirby’s dream course

much better with the colours but yet again no trousers. he also looks like he’s offering kirby a syringe 4/10

4. kirby’s block ball

same/similar sprites to pinball land but something about them feels wrong. 5/10

judging the dedede at the top here. he looks like he’s trying his best. for the friendly smile and thumbs up he gets 6/10

5. kirby’s avalanche

i just... i dont know how to feel about this one. he feels like hes been drawn in a different artstyle to kirby and the yellow is bad and his shading is bad. what’s with the arm placement. why is his chest yellow. 2/10

an absolute embarassment -1/10

5. kirby’s dreamland 2

wonderful. he looks so sleepy. 9/10

still no trousers and weirdly detailed hands. but. there’s a certain je ne sais quoi to his face and posture. it just works. 7/10

6. kirby super star

there’s just something lovely about these sprites that i can’t put my finger on. maybe its the :D. 8/10. points reduced for the colours

teehee teehee 6.5/10

7. kirby’s dreamland 3

i have a love hate relationship with kirbys dreamland 3. the sprites? exquisite. the backgrounds and stage design? hatred. looks muddled. however, i am here to rate dedede appearances, and in kd3? incredible. what a kind, soft and wonderful design. 10/10 tuck me in to bed

they were just so absolutely correct with these that the lack of trousers doesnt even register. 10/10 i just am in love with his face.

8. kirby 64: the crystal shards

this right here? peak. absolute peak. he didn’t need trousers. he didnt need gloves. he didnt need shit. the perfect amount of rotundness paired with a little buff, not to mention the face? exquisite. 100/10

just when you thought it couldn’t get any better the renders show up. there are no words. 101/10

9. kirby tilt n tumble

club penguin

club penguin / 10

10. kirby right back at ya (i am so biased)

i just love him in the show. his characterisation though not canon now worked so well. i would love to see a reboot where we see him go from bbeg to adoptive father funnyman. that said. 9/10 for the drawn portions of the show, 5/10 for the model. it looked like shit but it was 2001.

i take great joy in how expressive he can be. 9/10

11. kirby nightmare in dreamland/squeek squad/amazing mirror

a perfect middle ground. perfect balance of colour and shading. nightmare in dreamland is a wonderful remake of kirby’s adventure and i enjoyed the sprites just as much too. 8/10 he also has trousers, undershirt and gloves now.

what a kind, polite gentleman. i want to squish him, his flesh looks really malleable. perfectly rotund. he lacks the dedede edge and for that i’ll have to minus a point, but i adore this graphic with all my heart. 9/10

i dont like this one. bad proportions. 4/10

12. kirby air ride

the wiki was really lacking kirby air ride model images, which is a shame because i adore this model. just angry enough to have that dedede feel. excellent eye placement (you’ll see what i mean with later models). overall good design. I do feel like the colours are a little dull, but honestly a really nice job 8/10

13. kirby canvas curse

orb/10

go girl give us nothing. reminds me of shitty flash animation. 4/10

14. kirby super star ultra aka one of the best kirby games

MAGNIFIQUE. all the visuals in kirby super star ultra were on point. my absolute favourite of the 2000s kirby games 10/10

does anyone remember the cutscenes. i love the cutscenes.

15. kirby’s epic yarn

i feel like this might be controversial, and i hate saying it because epic yarn is one of my absolute favourite kirby games, but i just dont like his design that much. 5/10

HOWEVER. this is excellent 20/10

HI IF YOU READ THIS FAR! you deserve a potat- *gets shot and died*

please give me your dedede design opinions, i just love talking about blorbo from my games

[superman86to99]

Superman #85 (January 1994)

Cat Grant in... "DARK RETRIBUTION"! Which is like normal retribution, but somehow darker. On the receiving end of Cat's darktribution is Winslow Schott, the Toyman, who suddenly changed his MO from "pestering Superman with wacky robots" to "murdering children" back on Superman #84, with one of his victims being Cat's young son Adam. Now Cat has a gun and intends to sneak it into prison to use it on Toyman. She's also pretty pissed at Superman for taking so long to find Toyman after Adam’s death (to be fair, Superman did lose several days being frozen in time by an S&M demon, as seen in Man of Steel #29).

So how did Superman find Toyman anyway? Basically, by spying on like 25% of Metropolis. After finding out from Inspector Turpin that the kids were killed near the docks, Superman goes there and focuses all of his super-senses to get "a quick glimpse of every person" until he sees a bald, robed man sitting on a giant crib, and goes "hmmm, yeah, that looks like someone who murders children." At first, Superman doesn't understand why Toyman would do such a horrible thing, but then Schott starts talking to his mommy in his head and the answer becomes clear: he watched Psycho too many times (or Dan Jurgens did, anyway).

Immediately after wondering why no one buys his toys, Toyman makes some machine guns spring out of his giant crib. I don't know, man, maybe it's because they're all full of explosives and stuff? Anyway, Toyman throws a bunch of exploding toys at Superman, including a robot duplicate of himself, but of course they do nothing. Superman takes him to jail so he can get the help he needs -- which, according to Cat, is a bullet to the face. Or so it seems, until she gets in front of him, pulls the trigger, and...

PSYCHE! It was one of those classic joke guns I’ve only ever seen in comics! Cat says she DID plan to bring a real gun, but then she saw one of these at a toy store and just couldn't resist. Superman, who was watching the whole thing, tells Cat she could get in trouble for this stunt, but he won't tell anyone because she's already been through enough. Then he asks her if she needs help getting home and she says no, because she wants to be more self-sufficient.

I think that's supposed to be an inspiring ending, but I don't know... Adam's eerie face floating in the background there makes me think she's gonna shave her head and climb into a giant crib any day, too. THE END!

Character-Watch:

Cat did become more self-sufficient after this, though. Up to now, all of her storylines seemed to revolve around other people: her ex-husband, Morgan Edge, José Delgado, Vinnie Edge, and finally Toyman. After this, I feel like there was a clear effort to turn her into a character that works by herself. I actually like what they did with Cat in the coming years, though I still don’t think they had to kill her poor kid to do that -- they could have sent him off to boarding school, or maybe to live with his dad. Or with José Delgado, over at Power of Shazam! I bet Jerry Ordway would have taken good care of him.

Plotline-Watch:

Wait, so can Superman just find anyone in Metropolis any time he wants? Not really: this is part of the ongoing storyline about his powers getting boosted after he came back from the dead, which sounds pretty useful now but is about to get very inconvenient.

Don Sparrow points out: "It is interesting that as Superman tries to capture Schott, he at one point instead captures a robot decoy, particularly knowing what Geoff Johns will retroactively do to this storyline in years to come, in Action Comics #865, as we mentioned in our review of Superman #84." Johns also explained that the robot thought he was hearing his mother's voice due to the real Toyman trying to contact him via radio, which I prefer to the "psycho talks to his dead mom" cliche.

Superman says "I never thought he'd get to the point where he'd KILL anyone -- especially children!" Agreed about the children part but, uh, did Superman already forget that Toyman murdered a whole bunch people on his very first appearance, in Superman #13? Or does Superman not count greedy toy company owners as people? Understandable, I guess.

There's a sequence about Cat starting a fire in a paper basket at the prison to sneak past the metal detector, but why do that if she had a toy gun all long? Other than to prevent smartass readers like us from saying "How did she get the gun into the prison?!" before the plot twist, that is.

Patreon-Watch:

Shout out to our patient Patreon patrons, Aaron, Murray Qualie, Chris “Ace” Hendrix, britneyspearsatemyshorts, Patrick D. Ryall, Bheki Latha, Mark Syp, Ryan Bush, Raphael Fischer, Dave Shevlin, and Kit! The latest Patreon-only article was about another episode of the 1988 Superman cartoon written by Marv Wolfman, this one co-starring Wonder Woman (to Lois' frustration).

Another Patreon perk is getting to read Don Sparrow's section early, because he usually finishes his side of these posts long before I do (he ALREADY finished the next one, for instance). But now this one can be posted in public! Take it away, Don:

Art-Watch (by @donsparrow​):

We begin with the cover, and it’s a good one— an ultra tight close up for Cat Grant firing a .38 calibre gun, with the titular Superman soaring in, perhaps too late.  An interesting thing to notice in this issue (and especially on the cover) is that the paper stock that DC used for their comics changed, so slightly more realistic shading was possible.  While it’s nowhere near the sophistication or gloss of the Image Comics stock of the time, there is an attempt at more realistic, airbrushy type shading in the colour.  It works well in places, like the muzzle flash, on on Cat Grant’s cheeks and knuckles, but less so in her hair, where the shadow looks a browny green on my copy.

The interior pages open with a pretty good bit of near-silent storytelling.  We are deftly shown, and not told the story—there are condolence cards and headlines, and the looming presence of a liquor bottle, until we are shown on the next page splash the real heart of the story, a revolver held aloft by Catherine Grant, bereaved mother, with her targeting in her mind the grim visage of the Toyman.

While their first few issues together meshed pretty well, it’s around  this issue that the pencil/inks team of Jurgens and Rubinstein starts to look a little rushed in places.  A few inkers who worked with Jurgens that I’ve spoken to have hinted that his pencils can vary in their level of detail, from very finished  to pretty loose, and in the latter case, it’s up to the inker to embellish where there’s a lack of detail.  Some inkers, like Brett Breeding, really lay down a heavier hand, where there’s quite a bit of actual drawing work in addition to adding value and weight to the lines.  I suspect some of the looseness in the figures, as well as empty  backgrounds reveals that these pencils were less detailed than we often  see from Jurgens.

There’s some weird body language in the tense exchange between Superman and Cat as she angrily confronts him about his lack of progress in capturing her son’s killer—Superman  looks a little too dynamic and pleased with himself for someone ostensibly apologizing. Superman taking flight to hunt down Toyman is classic Jurgens, though.

Another example of art weirdness comes on page 7, where Superman gets filled in on the progress of the Adam Morgan investigation.  Apparently Suicide Slum has some San Francisco-like hills, as that is one very steep sidewalk separating Superman and Turpin from some central-casting looking punks.

The  sequence of Superman concentrating his sight and hearing on the  waterfront area is well-drawn, and it’s always nice to see novel uses of his powers.  Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman does a similar trick quite often on the excellent first season of Superman & Lois.  The full-bleed splash of Superman breaking through the wall to capture Toyman is definitely panel-of-the-week material, as we really feel Superman’s rage and desperation to catch this child-killer.

Pretty much all the pages with Cat Grant confronting Winslow Schott are  well-done and tensely paced.  While sometimes I think the pupil-less  flare of the eye-glasses is a cop-out, it does lend an opaqueness and mystery to what Toyman is thinking.  Speaking of cop-outs, the gag gun twist ending really didn’t work for me.  I was glad that Cat didn’t lower herself to Schott’s level and become a killer, even for revenge, but the prank gun just felt too silly of a tonal shift for a storyline with this much gravitas.  The breakneck denouement that Cat is now depending only on herself didn’t get quite enough breathing room either.

While I appreciated that the ending of this issue avoided an overly simplistic, Death Wish style of justice, this issue extends this troubling but brief era of Superman comics. The casual chalk outlines of  yet two more dead children continues the high body count of the  previous handful of issues, and the tone remains jarring to me.  The issue is also self-aware enough to point out, again, that Schott is  generally an ally of children, and not someone who historically wishes  them harm, but that doesn’t stop the story from going there, in the most  violent of terms. In addition to being a radical change to the Toyman  character, it’s handled in a fashion more glib than we’re used to seeing  in these pages.  The mental health cliché of a matriarchal obsession, a la Norman Bates doesn’t elevate it either.  So, another rare misstep  from Jurgens the writer, in my opinion.   STRAY OBSERVATIONS:

I  had thought for sure that Romanove Vodka was a sly reference to a certain Russian Spy turned Marvel superhero, but it turns out there  actually is a Russian Vodka called that, minus the “E”, produced not in Russia, as one might think from the Czarist name, but rather, India.

While it made for an awkward exchange, I was glad that Cat pointed out how  her tragedy more or less sat on the shelf while Superman dealt with the "Spilled Blood" storyline.  A lesser book might not have acknowledged any  time had passed. Though I did find it odd for Superman to opine that he  wanted to find her son’s murderer even more than she wanted him to.  Huh?  How so?

I love the detail that Toyman hears the noise of Superman soaring to capture him, likening it to a train coming.

I  quibble, but there’s so much I don’t understand about the “new” Toyman.  If he’s truly regressing mentally, to an infant-like state, why does he wear this phantom of the opera style long cloak while he sits in his baby crib?  Why not go all the way, and wear footie pajamas, like the lost souls on TLC specials about “adult babies”?

I get that Cat Grant is in steely determination mode, but it seemed a little out of place that she had almost no reaction to the taunting she faced from her child’s killer.  She doesn’t shed a single tear in the entire issue, and no matter how focused she is on vengeance, that doesn’t seem realistic to me. [Max: That's because this is not just retribution, Don. It's dark retribution. We’ve been over this!]