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Okay, so. I have a very stupid dilemma and I'm about to annoy you all with it because I can.
So, lately I've been thinking of turning Ebis and Marcus, my Submachine OCs, into wholly original characters. That is, divorcing them from the fandom and giving them their own original story/universe. Sounds good enough, right?
Okay, problem: I really love the journey that I already wrote for Ebis and Marcus for the fanfic and would like to preserve it as is as much as possible, which I don't know if I can do without basically plagiarizing Submachine.
Like, I do need to have a bunch of scientists exploring a weird ass, dangerous place that has a lot of weird space-time shenanigans about it. Which means I could simply turn this into a space exploration story and immediately draw some distance from Submachine with the setting... Except I very much do not want to write a space exploration story for these characters.
Nothing wrong about space exploration, but what I'm craving for this is something way more obscure and weird. And I kinda need it to be about a world that is not really (just) a world but (also) a creature. (Oh, the fun I could have with this, I'm telling you).
Thing is, I'm worried about this being/turning too similar to Submachine. Like, the reason I want to (potentially) do this is because I want to do something different and explore stuff in my own way, but I am very aware that Submachine is currently my main source of inspiration, so yeah.
(also, to be completely clear, if I ended up doing this I would probably have, at most, a bunch of character sheets and a few disconnected scenes that I might share publicly, not anything full-fledged that I'd properly publish/commercialize (that requires more energy and focus than I currently have), so I'm not even sure if me stressing so much about this is even necessary, but welp. I'd rather be safe than sorry)
But anyway, let me know your thoughts about this if you have any. Also, I might add more info about the ideas slowly rotating inside my head like they're microwaving there in the reblogs if you're looking for that. (I will definitely add that info because the thoughts kept rotating in the time it took for me to draft this post lmao)
#I don't even know what to tag this as#not quite art#submachine#submachine game#submachine legacy#ebiscus#original characters#original story#(potentially)
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I smell an underrated artist 🫵
even if i wouldn’t call myself that. but thank you!
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hi guys. so I. uh. can't figure out how to draw them,, so take this instead !! I'll make some more stuff later :3
@purpleandyellowshowdown <- vote here, pinned post !!
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I updated my profile pic on Twitter with the instinct frame that pokemongoapp posted and i love it
Reminder that im more active over there but i'll try to keep posting here too xd
#pokemon go#leader spark#team instinct#an instinctive hero#spark pokemon go#profile pic#not quite art#ranting
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Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door's remake has been fun! I do personally think some things are done a little strangely compared to the original, but overall it has been good fun! Here's some old art of Doopliss and Vivian. Chapter 4 is my favorite chapter so I'm excited to see how it'll be this time! :D
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Haha… yeah… that’d be crazy…
#“wait so when you guys time travelled you DIDNT meet the giant time baby?”#“not quite but we did see a giant floating baby head? that was mostly when we were travelling between dimensions…”#“YOU WERE WHAT”#my art#gravity falls#phineas and ferb#dipper pines#Mabel pines#phineas flynn#ferb fletcher
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✦ Pebble ✦
#obliterate your significant other with this one simple move#pet rock acquired#own art#own characters#CanisAlbus#art#artists on tumblr#Vasco#Machete#anthro#scenthound#sighthound#dogs#canine#animals#modern au#actually I was just really itching to draw some hands#a lot of the time my pieces are physically so small I can't quite fit in as much detail as I'd like#paw pads are usually the first to go#which is a terrible shame
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and that's why that lady works fourteen hour shifts :)
[jojamart mockumentary #3]
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#stardew valley#sdv morris#sdv shane#sdv penny#sdv sam#sdv maru#sdv joja cashier#jojamart mockumentary#my art#inspired by the nice young walmart cashier who took a while to ring up my mom's cantaloupe#because he didn't quite remember the name of it#“this is a canary :)”
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just passing through
the postcard for september in the postcard club!
#my art#artists on tumblr#digital art#i didnt rly plan this one out a lot but im quite fond of how it turned out :)
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here's my wonderful isopod child, handcrafted in leather
#art#leatherworking#isopod#marine life#he was super fun to make and i learned quite a bit#honestly id love to make another#id need to check the pattern designers website but i think im allowed to sell these as long as i repurchase the pattern every few sales#if thats the case i'd totally take commissions to make these#its a lot of work but its fun!#also yes he is a bag#there are attachments for a strap and a zipper on the bottom#ill reblog and link to the pattern i used if anyone wants to know where i got it
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I can’t beleive they just walked around like this for the whole movie
#quite a bold move by the execs but it payed of in my opinion#unreality#deadpool#wolverine#deadpool 3#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool & wolverine#art#my art#artists on tumblr#superhero#marvel#deadpool x wolverine#fun fact about me:#i’ve never seen this or any other deadpool movie#this is just the vibe i got based on a trailer i saw yesterday#the three fingers can either stand for third movie or the W in wolverine. make your own judgement.
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Airia Q&A
Okay so, I recently did a Questions and Answers session about Airia on my Insta and I thought I could as well share the result here, since we got to see quite some tidbits of lore. I have put the majority of it under the cut because thing got long. Hope you enjoy! :D
Q: How do you feel about being a cyborg?
A: That is a difficult question. On one hand, this is a natural state for me. I have had cybernetics implanted on me since I was a baby. My formative years were filled with medical tests, procedures, and surgeries. I don't know any life or state of being that isn't this.
On the other hand, I have been modified, without my knowledge or consent. I know my life has not been 'normal'. For a long time, I didn't even know what 'normal' was. I only knew my own life. Once I gained access to online spaces and I learnt what life looked like for other people, however, it was like… My life could have been so different. I'm not certain if better or worse, but different.
I have nothing against being a cyborg in on itself. I just… wish it had been my choice. I wish shething about my life had been my choice, instead of the ones of others.
Q: Are you aware of who created you, and for what purpose?
A: I do. I live in the lab facilities with the people who made me. I see some of them more than the others, and a couple of them abandoned the project or were replaced when I was too young to remember, but I know who they are, even if, emotionally speaking, I'm not close to them.
The purpose of the project that made me was to test the limits of what cybernetics could do for humans. What it could enhance, what it could improve, what it could fix, what it could add… Because this project wasn't exactly legal and they had to keep my existence secret for a long time -and it was unlikely that they would be allowed another human subject even when it was revealed to the relevant institutions- I was a test subject for many different cybernetics, even when it didn't entirely make sense to add them together.
The enhanced senses, for example, I can perfectly understand the utility of. My eye colour, on the other hand, seems to be merely aesthetic. My artificial skin could be useful for certain jobs, as it's more heat and corrosion resistant than human skin… but my hair literally melts with enough heat or corrosion, so it's not a property I could make use of... And this is without getting into the risk vs benefits of most implants, specially the brain ones.
Q: How do you feel about your "creators" and the modifications they gave you?
A: The way I feel about my 'creators' is… complex.
I've read fiction about characters with similar experiences to mine: test subjects, cyborgs, androids… In these stories, they often rise up against their creators seeking vengeance. I find that, while some of my experiences are similar to those described in fiction, that isn't one of them.
I am not emotionally close to my developers. They have never acted as parental figures, nor mentors, nor friends (nurses and caretakers took some parts of these roles instead). If anything, the role they assumed was closer to that of doctors. And as they currently exclusively hold my medical data, they're the only ones that can provide treatment and maintenance to me. I am completely dependable on them for healthcare while they see me more as a science project than an individual. It's… not a good feeling. I don't necessarily want them harmed or punished like it's often shown in fiction, and I certainly do not want to be the one delivering that punishment… But I wish I had options other than being forced to rely on them. About the modifications, it bothers me that I never had any agency about it.
They started long before I could understand or consent to them. And as I grew, they didn't bother to change that either. Even when I started to make questions, their answers were always short and didn't dwell on details. I've never had any power to stop them.
There's many modifications about me that I don't understand why I've had. I can't be certain, since I don't have access to my own medical data, how many of those procedures and modifications were necessary or not, but I would presume a large amount of them weren't at all. I don't like that I have been changed without permission. I don't like that, by the time I could understand what they were doing to me, it was impossible to separate me from the cybernetics.
I hate not knowing my own brain, not having access to some of my own features or the data about how my body and implants work. I don't necessarily hate my cybernetics or current existence in on itself, but I do hate how they came to be. And not knowing how much of my own thoughts are feelings come from me and how many could come from the brain implants that my developers can control remotely without needing me to even be aware… It doesn't feel good at all.
Worst of all is, it's impossible to take some of the implants I have without risking irreparable damage or death. But I would like, at least, to be the owner of my own data, features, and processes, so that I could understand myself and not be further changed without my consent.
Q: Best and worst part(s) of being a cyborg?
A: The best thing about being a cyborg, huh? To be completely honest, I have rarely thought if the positives of it…
Perhaps how I can connect and communicate with people anywhere on the world by just thinking of it? But I can't help but think that much of the same result could be achieved with a smart phone and a stable connection to the internet (which I still need even if I just use my implants and no external devices).
Not only that, but it would be safer for me too. When someone connects to a public network, their device and the data stored in it might be at risk. If I did so, I might be putting my very self at risk -my implants have some of the stronger security systems to avoid any potential harm, but still.
The fact remains that I could still connect with other people through an external device without havin to worry about potential risks (which is mostly not an issue for me currently due to living in the lab facilities, which provide even more layers of security than my implants do… If any harm comes to me through remotely accessing my implants right now, the most likely is for it to come from the inside of the facilities).
The worst would be that I depend on the people who built me for their own purposes for maintenance and healthcare. My life literally depends on people who see me as a lab project more than they see me as a human being. And they have exclusive power over not only my body, but my mind too.
They can remotely access my implants. I can never know if they have changed something of who I am or not. I don't know where their modifications begin and I end. There's parts of myself that I don't even have access to, because they restricted it.
In other circumstances, if I held control over my own implants, if I had access to my own records, if I had more options for maintenance and healthcare and people couldn't access my implants remotely at any time… I think wouldn't be as uncomfortable with the way I exist in the manner I often do now.
Q: What are your five senses like? Are they the same as before the implants? (touch, smell, etc.)
Many implants I've had from an early enough age that I don't remember clearly what my life was like before them. But the implants definitely affect my senses.
My sight has been enhanced for as long as I can remember. I'm sure they let my sight develop naturally before modifying, but in my memories I've always had a sharp eye.
My hearing has also been enhanced. This I did notice, as it wasn't always as it is now. There was a lot of tweaking about it. For a while it was painful, or I couldn't properly process the sounds, when they first tried on the implants. Eventually, though, they found a way to make enhanced hearing work. I am very sensitive to sound now and do badly in loud spaces. My room is sound-proof and I often carry noise-cancelling headphones with me.
My smell is slightly enhanced, but not to the same level as my hearing is. I can identify smells better than the average, but it takes more of a conscious effort.
My taste hasn't been altered, to my knowledge. As far as I know, it's average.
My touch is actually less sensitive than normal, since the first layer of my skin is artificial. It doesn't take much sensitivity away though. Mostly it feels like being touched through cotton fabric. I've never enjoyed skin-to-skin contact much, so I do not mind this.
And although it isn't included in the 5 senses, I think it's worth it to talk about my sense of pain (nociception). Most of my pain receptors have been tampered with, artificially raising my pain threshold so I don't feel pain at all unless it's severe. This isn't me having learned to ignore it, I do mean it when I say I don't feel it at all. It is for this reason, since pain is an essential way our body communicates damage, that my artificial skin has iracutaneous light cells: they're programmed to light up in different patterns to communicate damage and sickness where pain cannot.
Q: Did you have to have implants replaced as you grew up? What was puberty like because of that?
A: I've had them fixed and maintained far more often than I've had them entirely replaced, but it has happened a few times.
I know now that my growth has been completely different to that of others. Sometimes, some parts of me were allowed to develop naturally, sometimes my growth was forcibly accelerated or slowed down instead. This affected my puberty as well, naturally. At first they waited for it to run its course, but in the end they decided to integrate implants to keep an artificially created hormonal balance.
Q: Would your skin and eyes be naturally be these colours? Or were your genetics consciously altered?
A: They would not. I do not have access to my own genetic data, but I know my colours would not be like this naturally.
My skin actually used to be pale and with warm undertones, and if I was exposed to sunlight more would have probably tanned to a light brown or beige. I'm unsure why they made my artificial skin paper-white, as not only is that not a natural skin colour, but it's also associated with the unnatural and scary. Perhaps my intracutaneous light cells work better with it?
My eyes would have probably been the very dark brown kind that people call black. I'm unsure how they changed them, but now I can change their colour at will, although they can always change on their own to match the lights on my skin when I'm sick. I do not know why their default colour is blue and magenta. I don't even know if that was made on purpose or not. However, changing them to another colour for long periods of time quickly becomes straining, so I don't do that often.
My natural hair, however, would still be black if I had it. I was born with very black hair and, once again, it's unclear to me why they had to change it for this artificial one I now have.
Q: Do you get to choose your hair and nail implants? Can you change them for fun or just when damaged?
A: I don't, unfortunately. They're supposed to be permanent and only changed -with identical sets- when damaged. I don't think my developers had 'fun' in mind when they made me, even when we have proof humans have been modifying their appearance since they were humans.
I can, however, paint my nails and apply 'fake nails' over them to change their appearance. My hair, on the other hand, it's pretty much unstylable. It will melt if enough heat is applied to it, and cutting it destroys its core, so aside from tying it up or leaving it loose there's not much I can do with it.
Q: Have you ever tried bubble tea? Which one(s) do you prefer? Or, if not, what drinks do you enjoy?
A: I haven't, but I would like to. I believe I would enjoy it, as I already love tea.
From what I've seen there's a great variety of bubble teas, but I would probably try the more classic options first, although I'm also interested in the ones with fruit.
As I said, I enjoy tea, black and green specially, fruit and/or floral mixes as well.
I also enjoy milkshakes, with chocolate milkshake being my favourite.
Q: Favourite weather/season
A: I like winter and early spring the most. The lab facility I live in has central heating and cooling systems, so the temperature is always kept stable on the inside, but I love the cool air from the outside.
Winter feels very calm and peaceful as a whole, everything and everyone seem to be more quiet during winter. And I enjoy the snowy landscapes.
Early spring feels nice, when sprouts and blooms slowly overtake the white of snow. There isn't much colour in the lab facilities, so it feels good that that isn't always the case for the world outside.
As for weather, I prefer cool, dry weather and a clear sky. I function and feel the best in it.
Q: Do you like music? What kind?
A: I do enjoy music. I love calm instrumentals the most. Symphonics. Music that follows a clear and structure. I find it grounding when there's too much going on, to focus on something small and predictable.
But I also enjoy music with lyrics, specially if they have a message that I resonate with. I find it hard to identify my feelings and put my experiences into words. It's sometimes easier to recognize them while relating to a song.
That said, there's also music I do not enjoy at all. Anything too fast, or where there's too much playing at once, I find it deeply overwhelming.
Q: Does she have a surname? (And is it Starset XD)
[Note: answering this as an author and not in lieu of Airia, since this question is directed to me rather than her]
A: She doesn't, actually xD
For a long time, she didn't even have an actual name, just an alphanumeric code identifying her as a specific project within the lab.
Eventually, one of her caretakers named her Airia and her developers kind of rolled with it because it was easier and quicker to refer to her that way. Airia low-key thinks of her alphanumeric code as her surname (sad), but she might need to have a real one soon, now that her existence is slowly being made more and more public (she was kept in secret for quite some years, the project that made her what she is not being entirely legal, and the wider public only learnt about it a few years ago). I wonder if she'd be able to choose her own surname, if that's the case; she hasn't had the chance to choose much about herself as it is…
#not quite art#q&a#airia#feel free to send me questions about airia here on tumblr too btw#the ask box is always open#for airia or any other character too actually
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Give it to me Miyazaki style señor Gaiman I’m waiting
#im a good omens art factory now#can’t think won’t think only aziracrow#ill quit my job to do more#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#otp#de bons présages#sketch#drawing#fanart
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dragon meat, you, and me
#marcille donato#falin touden#farcille#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#tw blood#tw body horror#tw gore#as a normal farcille fan this revival has been on my mind since i first read it and getting to watch it is like yippee!!#like messy revivals are everything - the consequences that will haunt u for the rest of the time they are alive#the initial hopeful moments where it all seemed well but quickly descend to That not being the case - losing not only the bit of evidence#evidence that your dream may work out but also someone you deeply care about in the process… marcille my Beloved#ofc wholly thruout the journey - at the forefront of it - getting falin back was the most crucial point but so wuickly :(( it was lost#on the other end its crazy to think about the compoments of falin now - human - dragon (dungeon) - marcille’s magic and desperation#the food the crew cooked (digested) - she is made of many parts!!#also i did not realize how medical it feels to draw smth like this. i dont usually explore the inner parts or use a lot of blood#in my work so rendering everything and looking up refs it felt quite magical (?)#ruporas art
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Down the Witches' road
#agthario#agatha all along#agatha all along spoilers#this took longer than intended dfklgdfg#wasn't going to colour them but HERE WE ARE#mine#art#marvel art#marvel#had to draw the kiss we didn't QUITE get#agatha art
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Evening Silence by Boris Groh
#art#illustration#digital art#dark art#horror#fantasy#macabre#giant#skeleton#creature design#ummm#not quite a#gashadokuro#but close enough to tag
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