#not me drawing them before I make the refs 😭

[duckdodger]

this may be too much to ask but do you have a tut on how to draw turtles in the mm style?? (or just at all my ass is suffering. i need to draw tmnt but my brain doesnt know how :c)

Sure ! I’ll try my best to explain (I made one after the first tottmnt trailer came out it’s outdated so I’m remaking it)

If you’re talking abt mm movie style , I don’t think I’m skillful on them enough to make an art tutorial 😭💔they’re hard for me to draw too

Info on keep reading :D !!

- I take hundreds of screenshots + download promo art and a create collage of it , use it as a ref sheet. I study on the shapes , proportions , and style of each character.

- Then I pick an image from the pile to see if it’s a good pose (if not, I find poses from other resources to draw) or expression I want to use as reference for my drawing

- then I start sketching , adding the sharp details . Clean up on lineart and color later

Other Notes :

- Tales of the TMNT artstyle uses sharp sketchy lines to give it that sketchbook artstyle

- In some frames from the show, Their eyes are pentagon shaped & pupils are not fully colored in. Mask tails have different styles too

- Each turtle not only have different headshapes , they have different plastron shapes too (these are fugly examples I accidentally deleted the OG layer of this and had to redo it LMAO)

- Looking at Tales crew art also rlly helps! (There’s a lot of them on the #/talesofthetmnt tag on insta & twitter)

the Tales of the TMNT artstyle is easy to nail imo , it’s like more of a simpler version of the rise of the TMNT artstyle if that make sense ?? That’s how I personally feel lololol

If you never drawn TMNT before , just go slow on your art process , look at references, & take your time . Draw the characters in your own style first if you want :] just to feel more comfortable and less stress trying to replicate the iteration’s style . overall , have fun <3

I usually suckkk at these art tutorial stuff but hope this helps :D !!

[eybefioro]

Happy Valentines, u/catartkd!

My gift for the @goodomensafterdark valentines exchange 💛

(Timelapse and ramblings under the cut as usual :P)

OKAY SO CATARTKD DID SOME AMAZING ARTWORK INSPIRED BY MUCHA A WHILE BACK AND I COULDN'T TAKE THEM FROM MY MIND. That's it 😂 you can find them here:

I really like Art Nouveau. Everything is just so delicate, light and also complex. The curves and the symmetry, it's all so pleasing... and that also extends to the architecture. And one of the things that I find the the prettiest in that architectural style are the stained glass panels and metal work. I mean-

LOOK AT THAT. anyways.

You know what also has a shitton of stained glass?? CHURCHS. Catholic imagery and stuffs like that, and we are talking about an angel and a demon... it just felt appropriate to take inspiration from that too!

(Highly recommend visiting r/StainedGlassHeaven and r/StainedGlass if you fuck with this shit. Humans are fascinating, and the glass work is INSANELY beautiful.)

So I tried to mix all of that - Catartkd's art, Mucha's work, stained glass and religious imagery. This was my brain lol

Did it work? I'm not really sure, but it was fun. Really fun. I loved it and I was able to include a lot of little details that talk about Crowley and Aziraphale, and also ✨️symmetry ✨️. Man. My Brain was so fucking happy with the symmetry. Everything is balanced and has pairs or is mirrored. It scratched my brain sooooo good.

I'm really tempted to point out all the little details that I put there, but what's the fun in that?? The only thing I will say is about Crowley’s hair. I have no real explanation for this but everytime that I saw this type of hair piece/hairstyle in paintings and historical movies I could only think of snakes. I have no idea why. But my brain immediately screams SNAKE everytime I see this shape. So I had to use this shape for naga!crowley's hair.

In my very very basic research for refs I discovered that this thing is apparently French?? So you know, it fits with Art nouveau too in my mind. Same place yk. (Shhhh I know it doesn't make that much sense but as I said, I needed to include it. This is the snake hair after all, the voices in my head said so).

I also played a bit with the composition which was a very good study, but there was two things that I loved the most to learn in this one. The first, was this video I stumbled upon while I searched about Mucha's work:

LINE WEIGHTS. OMG. This is soooo cool. I already use this on a daily basis in my work (we have norms and patterns for line weight we must follow in technical architecture drawings) but for some reason it never occurred to me that I could use it in art??? And that my favorite art works use this very well??? I see this applied constantly in the cartoons I love, in videogames (I'm looking at you point&clicks!!), in classic artworks (like Mucha's)... Idk why I never clocked that, but now that I did I will practice and use that more. I don't think I used line weights in the best possible way in this art work. I feel it could be waaaay better, but I really LOVE how the effect turned out.

The second thing is ✨️body proportion✨️. I was asking for advice and @gribouli as always came to my rescue and pointed out it to me... I didn't know about the head rule-

(This thing)

-and they helped me adjust my drawing and gave me tips and all 😭😭😭 I will never be able to thank them enough. Their support means the world to me and I honestly feel so privileged 😭😭 (I also used Elenthya's wings here again, obv because ever since she explained them to me my life changed)

Just so you can understand this was the sketch before Li's help:

BIG HEADS LOL I know disproportional bodies can be used very effectively (we see them everywhere, especially in cartoons!) But the point is those design choices are intentional. They're choices. These big big heads weren't. I just never studied anatomy and stuff, I'm learning the very basics now, so this was an accident (not a happy one lol).

This is it. I'm really loving learning more about art in practice. Drawing and painting has been kind of therapeutic lately XD and registering the process and the things I've learned in each piece has been especially nice. Being able to look back at my progress is helping me continue!

I'm thinking doing a Steven Universe one next 👀

[fraternum-momentum]

yayyy tomorrow is valentine's day and I wanted to do something cute so I'm doing thiss

all you need to do is send me an ask with a ref of your character and the name of whichever character of mine you would like to make out with sloppy style and i'll draw them on stream tomorrow d(⌒_⌒)

important !

> i'll try do draw as much as i can ! but no promises :'] i'll choose at random, so please don't be mad if i didnt pick yours. this is purely just for fun :'''''']

> it has to be a character of mine + any character (personal oc or otherwise, and it doesnt have to be from dol either, it can even be sans from undertale LMFAO). so this means, no your oc x your oc / no your oc x canon / canon x canon / etc. bc that would just be requests at that point 😭😭 and it kind of defeats the purpose of the kissing booth thing, sorry 😭

characters allowed: all my ocs (except for Sadie and Macy bc it's a personal thing whops), any dol character I've drawn before (NPC's, Li's - both f! and m! versions, my pc Aimee), vampsona if you want ????? 😭

> you can be as specific in what you want but but no NSFW since its not allowed in the yt guidelines. suggestive is ok ! and it can be wholesome too if u want like go wild

> i will be streaming tomorrow, feb 14 on Youtube at 11 pm CEST yayy i'll try and see if i can multistream since theres some people who like twitch too (i personally like twitch better bc of ui) but yk

[psilliguykai]

Boy why you [all] so white

Anyways! Uhhhh yeah William’s Wanton Weary Wiles designs. Or Something. I debated giving them each their own post but none of them deserve it. I couldn’t figure out how to make it Not A Total Mess lol soooo here we are! Individuals with some more info under the cut.

Ooohhh they gross me out so bad. Both in the /aff way but also in the “oooohh I really don’t like how this turned out” way lmao- but! I finished the lineart before I started disliking it and promised myself I wouldn’t keep waffling on the sketch so they’re. They’re DONE alright they’re DONE [<- still trying to convince himself]

All the colors [especially the skin tones because oof I really. Don’t know how to handle that apparently. I mean like they’re meant to be white but I’m not sure if they should be That white lol ANYWAYS] aren’t too strict and I’ll probably fuck around w them depending on the mood of the post, etc. just a loose guide ig :]

If their designs ever get updated, this post will be updated as well ^^ i was gonna hyperlink the master doc but tumblr is kinda hating me rn and Not Letting Me Do That so uhhh . Look up wwww au in my blog and scroll to the bottom for background I guess [I’m so sorry] 😭😭😭

Ok ok here they are

Jimmy

- you can tell I take this very seriously /silly

- The shortest/smallest, but arguably the strongest of the trio [just by a little].

- Patterns and striped parts are based on the EIAL cover + the tapeworm.

Al

- what it says in the ref tbh. Just kinda a normal guy [in appearance anyways] who dresses way too formally and doesn’t get enough sunlight or sleep. :]

- I feel like he’s kind of very fucking ugly but I’ve given up on trying to fix it 😭

- Tallest by a little and best posture by a lot.

- essentially just the outfit from the TNA cover if it was blue lol

- sorryyy no automaton freak :((( big fan of robot Mind designs, but Al is just. Different to me

Mr. Capgras

- He gets scissors in place of a trident because I thought that could be neat :] when he pulls them out of the halo they get noteably larger and sharper. Tbh it mostly just uses them for normal scissor stuff + violent threats sometimes.

- Patterns depicted here are based on the body paint from the Self-ish album cover. In this ref they’re the hmsw colors, but could technically kinda be anything. They’re super inconsistent, both in canon and also because. Trying to keep up the same patterns every time I draw him would be torture :’]

- Most intimidating/strongest-looking. Middle in height, and worst in posture. Sleep deprived, somewhat empty and bitter but still hopeful and surprisingly optimistic.

- I’d like to think if his socks are ever shown, they’d have the same patterns as his gloves n stuff :3

- This isn’t a design thing at all but I’ll probably be referring to him more as Cotard as I feel it fits best. However, he’s formally known as Mr. Capgras since it would make the official acronym for these three “JAM”, which I think is a neat and completely accidental reference to Jamface :)) completely arbitrary yeahhh but it’s my AU and I’ll include all the obscure references I want in it >:3

- dw about the oversized Cotard’s Solution doodle it’s just there as another ref for how the scissors work lol

Fanart is super duper appreciated but absolutely not needed !! Asks either directly to [<- in this case I’d respond in character{s} depending on the ask] or about these characters/this AU are also always very welcome ^^

William Racheal McSprout Himself will be getting his own post when he’s completed :]

[onelastskip]

oh joyous day, my our life now and forever mc, Rena Michou!

Just a bunch of doodles for now I'll do a full body ref and make it purettyy later, maybe… ahh side note i need to learn how to draw tam and qiu qwq something just doesn't look quite right.

and now time to ramble about her: (warning very long)

EDIT: WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT SAYS 8W3??? she's supposed to be a 8w7 😭😭😭

She was pretty stand-offish and cold to Tam and Qiu when she first met them, she did not like Qiu at all, from her perspective her Ma's moved her to this town in the middle of nowhere, she accidentally goes into someone's backyard (clearly no way for her to know smh) but she's being the better person and apologising only for him to make fun of her??? Terrible manners. Not only that but he's a show off and has an insufferably smug grin. Not to mention he acts like he knows everything (it's okay when she does it, she's not from a random town in the middle of nowhere).

She still lets him tag along when she goes to find the mystery air plane sender because she's nice like that (how hard was that jeez!) And while Tamarack is loud, she looks a hell of a lot better in comparison to Qiu. Anyway this goes on for a bit with her being annoyed at basically everything he does and tolerating his presence because she's nice (it's because of Tamarack and her Ma). She is however very startled when Qiu gives her the welcome note, she definitely thinks it's a prank or disingenuous, but gosh dang it, he looks so happy she's polite so she'll say thank you.

She starts liking him after the park where they race and she wins, and opposite to all her expectations - because this is something he's been most proud of, he doesn't get upset or annoyed he's even more happy somehow… And that's when she has to accept everything she thought about this guy was wrong.

Some more random stuff about her personality and yeah:

She doesn't get most jokes, and she can't tell teasing apart from being genuinely cruel which is- yeah mostly why she doesn't get along with Qiu at first.

She thrives on the challenge, she's always down to do the riskiest thing for the greatest reward, she likes beating the odds (and proving people wrong).

She places a lot of value on following rules and being polite, two things that have been repeated to her basically her whole life (because she struggled with that growing up), so now she's very opinionated/black and white about it.

She likes listening to rock/alternative music mostly, probably tries picking up the guitar in the future- she'd be bad at it.

She likes strategy and puzzle videogames, absolutely terrible at racing, fighting, and rhythm games.

She's got no problem telling someone no respectfully and doesn't like to compromise at all - but even more she hates other people doing her favours, so she takes the path of least inconvenience.

She really wants to be independent and prove she's responsible and can take care of herself, however she still really respects her Ma

She values getting good grades a lot and she's pretty advanced however her Ma didn't want her to move up grades because of her social development. She is not a big fan of this, probably one of their biggest arguments.

She wasn't exactly bullied persay- but she didn't have any friends before Tam, which is probably in part due to her prickly personality but yeah, not a big fan of people her age.

bonus ms paint scribble because she's so cool !

[mysteryanimator]

Here ye here ye, another breaking down processes post from yours truly!

For this animation, my plan was to make something I'm proud of AND also something to force me to take my time since with all previous animation works they were all rushed. I normally tend to speed through work as someone whose illustrations are painterly and I like to keep them rough. Also lets be totally honest my other plan for this animation was to animate Mizrox being so sickeningly sweet.

Fun fact, this animation was going to be longer. I had tried to plan out Olrox climbing on top of Mizrak during the kiss to lay on his chest. There was an attempt trying to rough that out and several ref videos It was scrapped because for the life of me I could not figure it out. Also hypothetically if I was going to keep it, I would cut to another angle (perhaps Mizrak's face close up) and then cut to another angle that would make it easier to see that climbing over the top. OR, consider Olrox already sleeping on his chest (im just rambling now but this is basically 'if you were able to do this again' section).

I wish I actually went through a more proper tie-down process because the jump from going from my rough straight to clean was rough (badum tsk) for the first few seconds. Defintely learnt my lesson ALSO Olrox is surprisingly really fun to draw from behind.

I challenged myself to see if I could get the idea of "bigger movements, less in-betweens, smaller/slower movements, more in-betweens." Though the effect of Olrox rubbing his face against his arm may be a little too jarring and I steered quite a bit away from my rough and self-reference video in hopes of making the face rubbing more apparent because I thought the character acting was too subtle and wanted a contrast to the other half of the scene. I reconfigured my CSP animation workspace for this too so it definitely made the process less tedious when cleaning up the animation.

(Which by the way I do record a lot of self-references depending on the section! For things I can't do/uncomfortable doing, I'll end up looking up videos. It's the easiest for me to catch subtle things in body language and also get a feels for the motion.)

Also I'm really satisfied with Olrox's anticipation before his smooch and the shoulder roll at the end even though technically the arc doesn't complete itself. MIZRAK THOUGH, when cleaning up I realised my rough wouldn't make sense because he's already looking at him so there's no need for a turn, and then the lack of a shoulder movement felt jarring, so all of that was done without any thought, wish I did think about it more though.

Now compositing was a monster in its own right and basically me jumping back and forth between turning on and off different layers, but here are all the new things I did; I duplicated and blurred the lines of the lineart, beveled the shadows so it was lighter on the inside, and added a rim of blur so the focus drew towards the couple. Also will absolutely admit that my fanboy ass went "... be crazy and try to mimic the show." The final did not go that route because I thought it was more important to emphasize the mood/atmosphere (Also Olrox is intentionally stylized differently because i wanted him to be softer here and I had to give him eye highlights for plot HELP). THOUGH to say I did not try to mimic the style, the #2 lighting test was my 'attempt' LOL 😭 I can never consume media normally.

Here are the lighting tests I went through. I definitely knew I wanted to go with a morning vibe, though I tested out a night ver for fun and did some edge lighting which led to mixing both version #2 and #3 to make #4.

Fun fact, I almost went with #2 due to fear of getting too heavy-handed with compositing and therefore losing the animation (even though I really liked #4 at the time). Thanks to a friend, they also shared the sentiment of liking #4, though pointed out it felt like midday and encouraged me to make the colours warmer and deepen the shadows. It is a really tough balance but I think for a softer scene like this, the more additional layers of comp worked out in the end.

The edge light was a last minute thing because someone told me to add sound and to have light stream in. Also at this point I deadass forgot that you know, Olrox, is a vampire, but hey rule of cute overrules. We can pretend its light not from the sun LOL

Also yay I got to show off my own style a tad, I love paintingggg. It's not as completely fully rendered coz I knew that it would get covered up but I still made sure it was quite clean regardless. I didn't realise how much of it would be covered up even though I did make sure they would fit/make sense for bg LOL

Now we are done!

If you've gotten this far thank you! There's gonna be less frequency of these animations due to the semester starting back up soon and I don't get many opportunities to actually 2D animate (despite it being an animation degree RAH). Also I remembering cringing and laughing a lot when I immediately started putting colour down going "oh i can see the end of the horizon, i have too much power as an artist, people will see this i cant let them see me be crazy"

[Here's some memes I drew over while my friend was reviewing my work]

[nugzzzzzzz]

Gee golly I've never asked on this site before 💀

Can I request a sketch/doodle of our Master Shakes interacting/in the same piece? [Refs should still be on my page]

(Love your art style and content btw, keep up the great work❗🤍💛🩷)

Thank you so much!! Drawing them interacting was so fun and hilarious for me 😭😭 I feel they would accept they are both shake, but who the master is will cause a fight 🔥🔥 also I'm giving my shake scars now because I have to make him more ickyyy

[symptomsofdeceit]

Hello! I wanted to ask who does more exercise? Do the LIs got any chest?. I was drawing Nalis from memory and  made him  jacked(it was an accident, sorry) then I looked at the ref. And realized that he is skinny and flat as a light pole 😭 I had to remove them booba 🫷😞🫸 lol i will love them either ways 💕 (Sorry if english is off, i learned through memes)

I’m honestly just inexperienced with drawing muscles 😅 I have a scene planned later that requires shirtless Nalis and I am both terrified of drawing it (I’ve never drawn anyone shirtless before) and determined to show his muscles more properly 💪😤 the turtleneck definitely hides them.

Nalis is more muscular out of the two LIs! He’s not crazy jacked but he does have some booba. Also please don’t be sorry if you ever draw them slightly different from the references - art styles can make them look different too and I’m always happy to see other interpretations of them! The 🫷😞🫸 emoji combination for revoking Nalis’s booba rights is killing me 😭😭

Nalis can have his booba rights back if you think he deserves it. Also your english is great and I really appreciate you taking the time to draw Nalis and send in an ask!! 💕

[williceunleashed]

Even if Nach isn't really part of the canon, how would the fruitsalad kids react to him ?

Uwaaah you all make me want to make Nach canon 😭 I think I'm going to make him canon at this point??? Because his character is actually a great source of conflict??? Like Weed Kid has so much potential..... I'll give Nach a ref sheet soon with a quick redesign for his clothes ! :)

Nach and the fruitsalad kids pretty much have a cousin-like relationship, and Nach is clearly the "cool slightly older cousin" with a cool shiny snivy

Nach & Appoline

I think Nach and Appoline are in constant competition because they just are competitive in nature (Ghetsis curse). The two of them already started training their pokémons despite their young age, so they battle everytime they meet. They keep it rather friendly, but I think their parents (Dardanne and Melony mainly) take their battles super seriously and cheer for them lol. When the battle is over Nach and Appoline politely say "GG" to each other while Dar and Mel fistfight each other on the ground (N and Ghetsis are too scared to intervene at this point)

Appoline 100% forces Nach to join her galarian tea parties. Almost everyone already participated in her galarian tea parties (N, Dar, Rood, Calixte, Scoot, Alder, Bianca, Gray, Cheren, somehow professor Juniper...), so Nach will have to join too. I think there's a constant fight over who's royalty or not during the galarian tea parties, because N is always crowned King N at the start of the game (N himself is a main element of the game. He keeps behaving in the most un-kingly way and all the children keep scolding him) and Nach feels like he also has to be the king because they share the same father (Nach is an entitled little brat (Ghetsis curse 2))

Nach & Square Root

Scoot is pretty much non-verbal with strangers, so it would take a while before he'd even start talking to Nach. Scoot is a pretty quiet and awkward kid, so I don't think Nach and him would be very close. When Scoot is home from school, usually he is around Dardanne taking care of the pokémons. I think Nach would quickly find Scoot "boring"

They could draw together or help cooking though. Like they'd help making crêpes or muffins and socialize through that

Scoot is also super knowledgeable on pokémons in general, like the kid is a walking Pokédex. So I think they can also bond over that

Nach & Calixte

Calixte is pretty young compared to Nach, when Nach is around 8-10 years old, Calixte is around 5 ? I don't think they'd have much of a relationship at this stage. Nach woud naturally gravitate more around Appoline as she is closer to his age.

Calixte is very interested in pokémons though, so he might want to see Nach's snivy ? Even more so because Nach's snivy is shiny ? Calixte pulling a "your pokémon... it talked to me" on Nach

[achillean-knight]

Thought it'd be fun to kinda repost the original sorta mini-comic that launched my FNAF Mask Bot AU :D your honour, does this count as a belated FNAF anniversary thing lol

I figured I'd share them because admittedly, these were laying in my wips folder collecting dust. I need the storage space on me laptop, y'know :'D

I also wanted to take this chance to make a Masterlist of my Mask Bot AU's posts, to keep up to date with the story for myself incase I want to revisit it and actually finished the story bc I DO, I'm just not motivated rn 😭

MASK BOT AU - MASTERLIST

Story related posts in Chronological Order :>

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738841793691533312/summer-of-87?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737765171475398656?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738460951928520704/said-i-wanted-to-do-this-sooooo?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738585518805270528/desperately-need-michael-angst-pretty?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/743066171261239296?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738999175133413376/ill-protect-them-ill-keep-them-with-me-its?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/741099221494677504?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737466599824556032/part-2?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737677329894162432/can-you-please-please-please-continue-your-bonnie?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737919190069100544/part-1-part-2-here-you-go-the-final-part-this?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/739828472350949376/im-sorry-this-took-me-longer-than-anticipated?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738760289983610880/safe-haven?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738485575236124672?source=share

Bunch of extra lore scattered in posts

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/740743021601095680/horror-blood-warning-these-were-initially?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/741482538087907328/oh-yeah-i-gave-up-on-this-but-i-wanna-post-it?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/743268044516786176/sorry-the-brainrot-is-severe-for-rn-lmao-i-have?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/745887772682911744/good-lord-i-finally-finished-this-not-happy-with?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/745979873317863424/wr0wn?source=share

Random doodles and art of the AU :>

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/758333678614183936/your-puppet-gives-me-life?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/741835136588546048/before-i-crash-for-the-evening-have-these?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/745876636423110656?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/741820428447809536/oh-yeah-have-this-small-little-random-ass-doodle?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/741191656259338240/wooo-rough-henry-design-lmao-bonus-mini-comic?source=share

Character Designs

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737389538368012288/just-for-the-fun-of-it-playing-around-with-a-brush?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737396273936793600/you-know-what-woe-post-scooped-michael-be-upon?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737930424197824512/guess-whos-in-a-drawing-mood-again-anyways-i?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737559186927419392/uhhhh-well-after-the-small-comic-i-did-i-was?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738187073870348288/as-stated-cant-draw-kids-lmfao-but-i?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/742731278199177216/wooooo-finished-a-proper-ref-cant-be-bothered?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/738293268410974208/while-my-tumblrs-still-working-on-my-laptop-it?source=share

OH and shout out to this doodle I just uncovered

https://www.tumblr.com/achillean-knight/737762958423326721/i-have-an-idea-for-my-au-i-guess-the-same-au?source=share

Once I also find the lore ask post, I'll add it here!

[inky-ash]

The way you draw Caz and Suze is just phenomenal. What sort of thoughts cross your mind when drawing characters that have little observable appearance in game?

Well, the first that that usually crosses my mind is how I'm going to make them accurate to the game. I personally like to try and get characters I draw as close to cannot as I can using what I can gather about them before adding my own little head cannon details! Suze is definitely the one I've struggled with most over all, since there's barely any references I could find online, and I usually have trouble sending the screens shots to myself since I played it on Xbox 😭

My collage of Caz suze refs, complete with notes

Some closeups of some, I try and collect as many as I can, and I still barely have any, so like if you know where I can find more please let me know you'll be a literal god send

Some bonus sketches/reference doodles cause I occassional put what I learned in art class to use

[the-silly-superstar]

Alright it is time. Boredom has got the best of me and I decided it’s time for a

⭐️INTRODUCTION!!!!⭐️

you heard it right! Now I’m finally gonna have a shred of an idea of what the hell to do here!!! Anywho, let’s start :D

ABOUT ME!

⭐️ I usually just go by Uni/Unique online

⭐️ I use any pronouns, but prefer they/she!

⭐️ My bday is 6/29!!! :D

⭐️ Speaking of birthdays, I am also a minor, so please don’t be inappropriate or gross :3

⭐️If you guys can’t tell I draw A LOT, but nowhere near as much as I’d like to cause artblocks an asshole >:(

[Most of these user tags I found are free, did Rb one, if anyone else who made these wants credit lmk!!!!]

ALSOOOO here’s my SelfSona! Her name is Uni (short for Unique) Also I’ll usually draw her in Fit 1, fit 2 is for sillies (also the pink on fit 1 is too dark, supposed to be like fit 2)

WHAT YOULL FIND

⭐️ like I said before, Art, but I’ll also post Oc stuff, comics and animatics!

if it’s art I’ll usually tag with ‘my art’ and art related tags, y’know?

also for art, I don’t do commissions, but i do enjoy ideas!!!!

⭐️Also for my ocs, I’ll add the tags ‘Oc’ or the character(s) name(s) and ‘the Trinkety Toyland’ which is what the silly group is called :D I’ll make a post about them soon enough. If I ever finish their ref sheets

⭐️ I’m also in a quite few fandoms soooo here’s a few I’ll name!

The Amazing Digital Circus

Murder Drones

My Little Pony

Splatoon

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Mouthwashing

sailor moon

death note

I’ll probably add more later cause I can’t think of anymore, I’m really tired rn 😭

ASKS

⭐️ decided to do a bit on this, because why not!

⭐️ Feel free to be silly!!!!! I like having fun on here!1!1!1!1!1!

⭐️ Like I said, I’m a minor so PLEASE don’t send inappropriate asks

⭐️ Also forget to respond a lot, so sorry if it takes a while for me to answer

⭐️ For people sending asks for help with the war or money or anything, I’m very sorry, I’m a minor and can’t help, I also feel really sad and uncomfortable reading about it, it just feels awkward so I usually don’t respond to them :( (I feel like such an ass but I might as well mention that)

DNI (DO NOT INTERACT)

⭐️ not a lot for this, no nsfw, pedos, pro ships, no transphobia racism or homophobia. Then again I can’t stop you from interacting, so like if I’m not comfy with you I’ll block you, easy to understand

WHERE ELSE AM I?

I have a YouTube Channel, Silly Superstar Edits

Also CapCut, where I’ll occasionally post?

My Wattpad where I post writing

I also have a discord acc, but idk if I’ll put that here quite yet.

WHERE ELSE ON HERE?

set up a few rp blogs, say hi!

@tulpars-nurse-anya

@dandysworld-mansionau

and a writing blog

@sillystarwrites

I believe that’s it! Soooo, finally got that done, so see ya!1!1!1!1!

[mintmint2]

helllloooo is there perhaps perchance a Sanu reference sheet I could eat draw (the link in pinned post leads to nowhere :(

also lore? what is the lore?

OH MY A GASP—I’m so sorry I never got around to do the ref sheets I almost even forgot about them 😭😭, DONT WORRY IM HOPPING STRAIGHT ON THEM!! And wait the link lead to nowhere!?! WHAT!?! I DIDNT KNOW THAT??

The base premise of ContagionTale is in the pinned, like mainly about the corruption things, as for the crew, sanu, magical!tale and more they’re currently being developed!! I reallllyyy wanna nail down their story before I ever make some sort of masterpost about them just so there won’t be another incident of me suddenly redesigning a character 😓😓

Don’t eat sanu, you’ll consume the things inside him and probably die 💔💔(unless you go on a soul hunting spree)

Update: I think it didn’t lead to anything because I may or may not had set it on private….. I publicized it now! I hope you can see it now :))!!

[theywhoshantbenamed]

do you mind headcannon dumping everything you have onto me

idc if I’ve already heard it from you before, give me all your silly ideas about ships and characters and literally any aus you’ve come up with

California and Alaska bleed gold also they have nicknames for each other Big Bear and Little Bear after the Ursa Major and Minor constellations

New York is a pigeon fancier and has six pet rats

Original 13 + Rhode Island have large canines and claw-like nails

Not really a headcanon but I feel like I flip flop between New Jersey actually having horns and a tail or them just being accessories

Massachusetts has a prosthetic leg that he definitely has used to bonk his fellow states from time to time

Florida has serious shark teeth no one can take that from me

Alabama and Florida siblings btw. If you even care

TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO BEING COUSINS IS IMMENSELY FUNNY TO ME “hey New Mex isn’t that guy your cousin” “I don’t know him”

Georgia is the actual epitome of having fat ass and mental issues also his hypersomnia is special to me

Kentucky and Indiana as a duo are dangerous because they’re both incredibly sweet individuals with the best intentions. It’s prolly because of Ben’s portrayal but they’re the same font to me

Texas is closeted as hell but the closet is made of cling wrap. Could be making out with a guy and think “but I’m not gay I just like kissing this guy”

Btw New Jersey is ftm no one can take that from me

Actually speaking of which my California is intersex

Maryland is also ftm and uses she/her pronouns

Some rarepairs that I think are neat:

Satanic Temple/Gov - friends with benefits

Satanic Temple/IDC - “dam Gov that’s your ex!?”

Rhode Island/Hawaii - one of those ships where you throw darts at a wall and it just sticks

California/Kentucky -they should’ve gone on a date to hillbilly festival :(

Kentucky/Maine - i really really need to draw and write them more often 😭

Connecticut/Nevada - bougie ass couple fr

Georgia/Florida/Louisiana - floui is common but Georgia makes it rare. Georgia is the mellow to their chaos duo

Washington/New York - apple wars, what can I say /ref

New York/Rhode Island - does anyone else think this would be so funny?? 😐 someone get them away from each other

Alaska/Minnesota - bear for bear ship

California/Illinois/New York - this ship rocks actually

Therianthrope AU:

Ohio is a white tailed deer who loves to set fire to the ranger station Michigan is often in

He definitely does not do it for attention at all no sir

The Dakotas in this AU are coyotes who left their mothers pack but have a sort of close bond to Minnesota, who’s also a park ranger in this AU

The national park in this AU leans toward made up generic national park but is kinda sorta based off of Cuyahoga Valley NP

California is a ground squirrel in this one cause I think it’s funny

I think I drew Indiana as a cardinal and an otter at one point but these days I kinda feel weasel. Either way, mustelid

That’s about everything I could think of for now I’ll add more if I think of them

[laugtherhyena]

Talk to me Abt your pokemon ocs....

This reminds me how i never even posted the ref i had for one of them here because i legit forgot to do so and it had ben too long since when i realized it 😭

I'm gonna use this to loredrop the whole fan region tho so bear with me for a minute.

So me and some close friends mad up this fan pokemon region called Liros a couple years back when we were all fixated on the franchise for a while and the lore of this region is that 3000 years ago the ultimate weapon AZ build in Kalos fired against a region that was enemies with them back then and when faced with impending doom the two legendaries of Liros (one representing dreams and another reality) rose towars the laser beam to lessen the damage and protect their land, the pokemon of the region did something similar with shielding their trainers during the chaos.

The legendaries weren't able to stop the lader from reaching Liros, but they lessened the damage significantly with their own bodies (otherwise the whole place would have just been nuked out of existence) which left them in a state where they're forever weakened and can never recover to full health due the long lasting aftereffects of the laser's power known as "The Wither". So after saving the region these two went onto rest in secluded regions of Liros deep underground and they reside there till this day, they're alive, can still interact and send out attacks, but forever in this state where they're at very low health in a sense. But through the centures they've spend resting they wished for their land to recover and from said wishes was born the mythical of the region, which is an entity that watched over the inhabitants of Liros, basically doing what the legendaries can no longer do in a sense.

The Wither also affected the fauna and pokemon of the region, especially those that actively tried to shield others from the laser's impact (which was A LOT). This borderline incurable disease led to the extinction of all pokemon native to the Liros region and till this day there are large areas of land that are completely devastated by the Wither (it doesn't spread, but it's incredibly hard to recover what was lost). A restoration movement was created after the surviours began to group and try to figure out what to do, the leader of this indicative being later known as The great hero of Liros and both this man and his family + descendants dedicated their life to rebuilding the region for centuries to come until things were brought to a sense of normalicy again (which still hapened at least 700+ years before current time)

Nowadays Liros has been repopulated both by a large number of immigrants and their descendants over the years and also pokemon native from other regions that were either brought over by humans or naturally made their way to the Liros region, some of which assumed Lirosian forms that somewhat resemble extinct pokemons that were once native to Liros.

In addition, there's a recent project that works on trying to bring back extinct pokemon through their fossils and careful DNA reconstruction. The protagonist's mother is the lead researcher and the starters of the region are extinct moms she was able to bring back and enthused her kid to train and document their growth and behavior :]

Lastly, the evil team of this fan region is known as The Ameliorate project and their goal is to finds and harness the lasting power of the dream legendary with this machine their creater to essentially break to the fabric of time and rewite reality to make it so that the Ultimate weapon didn't hit Liros all those years ago.

OKAY!!! ONTO THE ACTUAL CHARACTERS I HAVE

Since i forgot to post her ages back I'll start with her this time around! (I'll probably redesign her if i draw these gals again tho)

Morgan and her brother, Laurent, have kinda of a weird relationship. She loves him and always wants to be there to support/help him but it's hard to tell if Laurent feels the same way towards her, they were very close as kids, but nowadays he tends to treat her more like a coworker than actual family and constantly piles her with work wether it is from the pokemon league or in reconstruction/revival projects their family funds.

Laurent has always been better at pokemon battling than her, which paired with his natural charisma led to him getting to live the dream of being a famous pokemon trainer and longtime champion of the Liros pokemon league, even tho Morgan herseld enjoyed battleling a lot too. But alas, she was essentially resigned as the one that keeps everything up and running from behind the scenes while Laurent is the lovable public figure.

She's.. Glad to help? Things do tend to get very taxing on her at times tho.

Keeping around the pokemon league, he's my elite four member.

Big buff autistic woman that's hyperfixated on machines and engineering since forever, so naturally eletric type pokemon gravitated towards her and she took training and battling with them as a hobby that ended up granting her more attention than she originally thought it would.

She was found in a local tournament and hand-picked by Laurent to enter the pokemon league, which Sammy considers to be her biggest accomplishment not because it's a renowned position to have but because it was through it that she met Dian, another elite four member that later became her husband :]

Desc mentions he's the steel type especialist but let it be known he is also a cyborg! (+ My friend @/kiruvry's oc)

Dian wound up in a strange accident several years ago and had a good portion of his body heavily injured, hence why the need for robotic replacements. When Samantha first met him she got super super excited to see someone like him and started asking a bunch of questions which were odd and overwhelming to Dian so.. Yeah, not a great start. But she really didn't mean to come off like that to him, she just got too excited and ended up giving a bad first impression. (which isn't something new to her at all)

She apologized for that and overtime they grew closer and closer together to the point they've been married for a few years by current time and Sammy is the one to repair and do maintenance on his mechanical parts.

Overall she's a very very enthusiastic and loud person that often comes off too strong to people👍 she can also be rather naive and overly trusting at times.

Last but not least (she wa actually the first one i made!) is lil scaredy cat Veronica!

Basically, fire type gym leaders are always very loud and outgoing people so i wanted to make one that was just. The total opposite of that-

So Veronica is a very very shy and anxious young woman that really isnt fit for the gym leader position, especially in a region like Liros which only loses to Galar in terms of how big and popular the gym challenge is. Ever since she's come to Liros there's always people wanting to talk and interview her and endless league events she's set ti attent alongside other gym leaders she doesn't even know how to talk to. Which led to her avoiding her duties a a gym leader during this first go of hers as one, since Laurent didn't allow her to step down from inheriting her father's position.

It's been a very stressfully couple months for her, she misses the quietness of the alolan town she was born in, but at least the beach hidden behind a rocky formation where she currently resides offers a similar feeling.

[skarloeyspa]

dunky and rust! took me forever but details below

Rusty:

*clutches fists at overalls costing $1.29 in the 50s

ANYWAY uhm Rusty came to the SR in 1957 so I took some inspiration from both 50s and 60s clothing but mostly 50s

But yeah like all the other freethinkers🤖 in this community i subscribe to Rusty being nonbiney (altho they're mostly masc presenting)

I want to say that Rusty's jumpsuit is based off women's workwear but like. women's workwear in the 50's was based off men's workwear so what difference does it make😭

Ripped their boots straight from the bottom right of the catalog here so hehe

Their nameplate is specifically very simple and non-glossy to designate them as a maintenance worker as opposed to for passenger service

I don't. um. intend for Rusty to be that much taller than overhaul 2 loey. they're probably around the same height at best and Rusty is def a bit shorter than overhaul 3 loey

also they're wearing a flat cap. i don't like drawing them but it made the most sense so,

i don't know if they had binders in the 50s? If they didn't then um. I'm sure there was some kind of equivalent shapewear-

Duncan:

this guy was such a damn pain to design for oml

i really need to find a way to save my ref pics when i make my pencil sketches so i can add them to these posts when im done djfdjbfk

i gave duncan beeeaaauuuttifull lushious long blonde locks💅because he's got a long ass funnel HAHAHAH

he's tall. but he's also lanky. he's like a very tall twink sorta. like i get that he's strong cuz he worked at a factory but bro cannot retain muscle like. he's sticks.

oh and also blue eyes because of douglas. yyyyeah

anyway you might be wondering. capy what the hell is that ugly ass band of pattern across his chest

well that was my BIG BRAIN moment.

starting around like the 19th century people would take the fabric used to make sacks for shipping dried goods like animal feed and flour, and turn that fabric into clothing

this originated in more rural communities but became more widespread during world war I and especially world war II with rationing and whatnot. basically when companies noticed people wearing their sacks they began printing patterns onto their sacks for this explicit purpose (cuz you know. marketing)

before arriving to Sodor, duncan worked in a factory. you know who else produces dried goods?? factories!!!

around the time he arrived to sodor was also when American rock and roll was really influencing British youth, particularly with the rise of teddy boys and then the rockers (which is from my understanding, greasers but British). So around the time Duncan was heading to Sodor there was already an air of rebellion among the UK's youth

I took particular inspiration from Rockabilly based on its noted influence on British popular culture, which from what I've seen, adopts some more flashy elements to their clothing in contrast to the traditional suit and dress. I was this close to making duncan wear a bowling shirt

the kerchief is also because of this hehe

so in a moment of genius/delusion, i thought. what if while working at the factory, duncan saw the trends of people using their feed sacks as clothing fabric, and stole a bag or two for himself so he could sew on a strip of the fabric onto his work shirts because he's, ya know, mr. rock n roll

yes i did all that just for a stripe of fabric on his chest i am VERY happy with this choice

btw here's the exact pattern i used (i just ripped it off the internet)

ok that's it thank you for reading through my rambling once again!! lowkey i want to post lil western next but also. i talked abt making rws/formal uniforms for the SR crew so. we'll see what happens next lol