#ok last polygon one for real now lol

[rocketbirdie]

party in the front party in the back babie!!!

[beatcroc]

a year!!! as of today i have now been drawing these funny little pizza freaks, to the exclusion of almost everything else, for!!! an entire year!!! i wanted to do a nice group shot/lineup of everybody to compare to when i first started trying to draw them because oh boy were they bad. i never even posted most of them anywhere because they were so bad. but im posting them here, now, to see how everything's changed/evolved.

this is probably the hardest time i've ever had trying to figure out how to work with a style, but we got there eventually; i'm pretty happy with the handle i've got on everybody now...dont let ur memes be dreams. lots of unimportant journaling and idle thoughts abt it below.

older pics

the first one is the VERY first time i drew them, before i thought i was going to actually have any interest in drawing them [lmao]; it was just the one isolated image, for my friendserver, to illustrate the funney message, so there was no attempt to make it Good or actually understand anything going on w/ the designs or style.

second is the original run of practices sketches to start trying to figure them out for real; done after i started having ideas for the comics and such and realized oh god maybe i am actually gonna draw fanart for this. [again, lol, and lmao.]

third one is the first pt art thing i posted on here. there were a couple weeks of sprite studies between this one and the previous image. the one on the top right wasn't part of that post i just threw it on as space filler; i'd intended to shift to doing Sprite Redraws But Stylized to explore tings more, but that was the only one i did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

individual characters

peppino: by far the hardest dear god. bro what ARE your shapes how DOES your face work. jesus christ. everything i have trouble with this style for, peppino has it in excess. i draw in polygons! i need consistency! and that is the last thing this kind of style is concerned with. they are made of squarshy clay and i do not understand how to mold them. i was really hoping trying to learn this game's style would GIVE me that kind of flexibility for fun exaggerated facial expression but i don't think much came of it in the end 😔. anyway on the bright side all this means once i got peppino figured out a little bit everybody else clicked way easier.

fake peppino: honestly i never did anything with him on purpose except for how his eyes work + the perma-smile thing. i figured ok hes supposed to look weird and off model so whatever happens with him happens. and it did. and it kept happening. it is still, in fact, happening.

noise/ette: somehow, for every bit that peppino was the least natural thing i've ever tried, these two worked pretty much right off the bat. i still don't understand it, seeing as pretty much all the things at play for peppino are also at work for them. i think the new sketches are actually a little worse than older ones but not enough that i care.

gustavo: really funny bc i drew him on model twice and just went 'okay, cool nice, easy, um. he doesn't have any fucking legs?' fortunately he was the only one i had a strong idea for how to stylize him [square] and it worked exactly as i was hoping so wahoo.

brick: is an animal and therefore 5000x easier and more natural for me to draw/stylize than anything else in the cast. that is Just a rat bro. i can draw a rat.

gerome: i think the funniest one here. the most drastic and least necessary change imo. i was gonna have him be really small at first, like smaller than the noises, but then i just... didn't. he's just peppino-sized now. also i gave him like. actual human facial structure, which is funny bc in most cases i'd do anything to avoid, but it works well for his being A Rock to give him some angles and definition like that+ to differentiate his vibe from the rest of the cast who are all very squishy. also since he is essentially Just A Head it's good to emphasize that too ig.

john: i only drew john a couple times but he gets to be here because i like him. and because most of the stuff i applied to gerome was readily applicable to john, though i did try to keep him a little more uncanny because he is a Huge And Lanky Freak. i hate that he is barefoot btw but idk how to make his color balance look right with shoes.

pizzahead: i did not want to put him on here honestly but i Have drawn him a handful of times and more importantly i didn't know what i was gonna do with john's pose if i didn't have him there to be glared at. the only thing that's different with him is giving him wider-bottomed pants, which i got from when i tried to draw these guys in clone high style [i never posted that one either][i will eventually]

snick: he gets to be here because 1. he's like 6 lines 2. i like him and 3. ive scribbled him a few times offhand and it went pretty well

misc

there are some guys missing because those are guys i didn't draw enough [or at all] to have gotten comfortable with them. sorry

i would have Liked to shade these but for the time being i have accepted that my grasp of light/shadow has decayed to the point im not going to be happy with anything i try there, so For Now i am working on my presentation with flats i guess. gerome has a shadow only because he's shaded like that ingame and looks naked without it

anyway if you are still reading [hi?] i get to shamelessly plug now. i'm over the hill of my pizza run now, and while i still have plenty of things i want to make here, most of the bigger more in-depth ones have passed. pizza tower was the first thing in THREE YEARS to get me out of my oc groove to doing fanart, and once i am done with my ideas here i will be going right back to it. if you like my art or how i write characters/interactions you should check out my oc/webcomic blog @jamverse . i can't promise people who like pizza stuff will be terribly into my designs, but i can guarantee i treat my guys with the exact same sort of tone i handle the pt guys with. and hell, i've mentioned it a few times before, but like 70% of my characterization for fake pep is just copied off one of my characters, so if u are going to miss him... he will still be there in spirit >;p

and if you dont care about any of that and are still reading thank you anyway. actually making these comics + seeing how shockingly well-received they've been has done a lot for my confidence, and for seeing that my kind of stuff IS something people enjoy :')

[vivisols]

digital circus 👀👀 any theories?

I HAVE SO MANY...

specifically about this shot... this shot has a lot to me!

we get this shot of the spinning objects during the "day after day" part of the intro

theres a teapot, old record player/gramophone/whatEVER its called, flower pot (which we see start clipping through the stage), an eye, a pure white sphere and a pyramid!

maybe im reaching but i think these items represent each of the cast.. how so you may ask? WELL! (under the cut)

the eye is clearly caines since hes the ONLY guy in the show to have green eyes. also he has hundreds of all seeing eyes (as he himself said) so thats obvious. and yeah the other objects representing the other cast seems a little far fetched but it makes sense to MEE….

as for the teapot... we see those EXACT teapots during the trip both to and back from the funny dev room. now tech wise the teapot actually has a bit of history LMAO.. the teapot model is known as the utah teapot and is one of the first ever models created using bezier curves! it was made in 1975 and is typically considered a test model for rendering/testing how lighting reacts to complex curved models the only character we EVER see interact with the teapots/get tied to the teapots is pomni. so i think its safe to say the utah teapot is representing pomni! ALSO. CAINES EYE IS INTENTLY FOCUSED ON IT. could be because she's causing a whole bunch of glitches in the system…

the gramophone is interesting especially to me. i mean its REALLY detailed. like that would be polygons GALORE. unlike the utah teapot. all the promo for the vinyl record they sell has caine using a normal record player and NOT a gramophone so… its not caines! now whose would it be? im gonna go out on a limb and say its kingers. IT MAKES SENSE TO ME OK. kinger has been in the circus the longest and the other items in the circle are a LOT simpler. like a LOT a lot. it makes me think that as time goes on the computers strength/power is deteriorating which is evident by all the glitches/collision issues in both the pilot/episode 2.

ALSO IN THE TEASER WE SAW FOR THE EPISODE WHERE KINGER HAS A SHOTGUN HE'S IN A DARK ROOM WITH DIM GREEN LIGHTING

WHICH WE ONLY SEE AGAIN FOR THE TAPE RECORDER THING

AND IT KIND OF HAS A CONNECTION WITH RETRO TECHNOLOGY??? man idk LMAO this is probably the most straw grasping ive ever done. like theyre probably not in the same episode if im being realistic….

the gramophone could also be gangles object bc gangle is like. comedy and tragedy mask. and something something theater music gramophone i DONT KNOW ☠️

the flower pot is probably ragathas. she has the most blue on her after all + shes pretty sweet. now thats a very surface level connection BUT WE HAVENT EXACTLY SEEN IT AGAIN YET so… nothing else i can add really…. im trying ok LOL

now the pyramid is obviously representing zooble. i mean. they have triangle head… and pyramid is triangle….. IN THEIR ROOM TEASER WITH THEIR PIN THEY LITERALLY HAVE ONE...

ALSO THE PYRAMID IS ONLY OTHER GREEN THING BESIDES LEAVES OF THE FLOWER POT AND CAINES EYE. AND ZOOBLE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER TO HAVE ANY SORT OF GREEN ON THEM. even if it's more cyan/teal…. listen i can hope 😭😭😭😭

now the white ball is ESPECIALLY INTERESTING TO ME. BECAUSE ITS SO NONDESCRIPT. it could be gangle OR jax or even kinger if i misattributed the gramophone…. personally i think its gangles because her masks are #fffff white like the ball is…

and what if i went feral and said this was fuel for the "one of them is an NPC" theory…. BC LIKE. WHOEVER THE WHITE SPHERE IS. WOULD BE A REAL PERSON. WHILE WHOEVER DOESNT HAVE AN OBJECT IS THE NPC. NOT TO MENTION THE LAST SUPPER IMAGERY AT THE END OF THE PILOT.

and yeah nothing here really represents jax that i can think of though maybe it will more obvious in later episodes... soooo YEAH shoutout to the "jax is an NPC" theorists.

honestly whats most likely is that everyone has an object except for pomni because she just got there LMAO 🤕 i mean caine doesnt acknowledge her arrival until AFTER she fucks up the intro….

not to mention that kaufmo had been abstracted presumably the WHOLE day and wasnt in the intro so maybe his object wasnt there because he wasnt there… yeah this whole shot probably means nothing and im just yapping about nothing xDDD

[cali]

how much of urself do u put in ur art? How do u like to represent urself usually & is this how u think of ur form in ur head

well if u mean by urself my mind, then all my pics are as much me as i can manage. i try to not make as many compromises when drawing (unless i get paid loel) and draw what is fun for me as any artist should.. sometimes in the busier pics i hide things that have been on my mind around the time im making it. like phrases or forms. so thats a form of me that im putting in there.

if ur talking about a more literal depiction of my full human body then well i can just directly tell u which ones kind of have that:

-this one is some type of me. i ritualize a lot of stuff in my life and i got raised with a like for anything pagan or beastial so a face smeared priestgirlbeastgirl is one thing id like to be. that pic was also from a lsd trip where i was crying hardcore lol so i wanted it to look as messy and scared as i felt

-this one is my ffxiv character. i think it counts as a way of how i represent myself cuz its a literal avatar. regarding ur last question of if these are how i think of myself in my head: no, theyre all idealized and muchly fantasy of real aspects of me but this pic for one is fully about that. about how hyperidealized every avatar is in ffxiv. everyone is a marble statue but if u ran ur finger over their skin u would cut urself on the infinitely sharp polygon edges...

-this one probably most literally answers how i represent myself. i made it cuz i saw one too many meet the artist posts that week and got pissed at how stupid they all are. mine is kind of stupid now too by extension but its Ok. its a classic Starheadhair style. and that one is kind of how i dress. pirate pants and a lot of black yahaha

i think every single thing i draw that looks cool or pretty or awesome or whatever all draws from a well that is both what i like and what i want to be though. so all the dragons too. i always wanted to be lugia when i was little.

thank u for the ask!!

[valleanenowe-dreams]

dreams I had uhhh less than a week ago but on different nights by now. they were all really dense I’ll just try to remember what I can

cuddling with & kissing a person I used to know, in my room except the foot of my bed faces the north side of the room instead of south I will just bluntly state this in the dream description. ok cool lol! in real life I did have a crush on them. it was unusually protracted it lasted many years after our friendship just sort of fell off uneventfully it has pretty much been gone for a few years though it was not sparked by very much I think it was just that, when I was about 14, they may have been the 1st person to ever show me actual affection okay. what happens in the next vignette?

an RPG maker game by a person I knew in high school & now semi-know on Facebook still it incorporates a long recording of a conversation between me & them they recorded it in secret & put it in the game part of the conversation involves us talking about social media popularity or clout or something

I wake up in the back seat of a van at night my parents are sitting in the front seats we are driving somewhere that is identifiably a bit far from home like it we went half an hour in a direction I’d never left town from before

in the van I have a vision of a man from Omegle ... talking at me about how we were gonna meet up & play Uno or something how I still should, or how we didn’t, idk

we arrive at some kind of huge multi-story car dealership my mom heard about a good deal on a car or something & wants to look for it

suddenly we’re in the middle of a crowded shopping mall. I unexpectedly encounter a Garfield Eats location & reflexively scream in disbelief in the middle of the crowded shopping mall.

I ask my mom if she can give me the van keys so I can run out to the van & get my phone so I can take a picture of the Garfield Eats she gives me the keys & I race out of the mall I exit a small unassuming single door to ... what can’t even really be called an alleyway It’s bordered on both sides by forest & is just cut grass It doesn’t lead anywhere sort of a strip of grass bordered by a U shape of the tall brick walls of the mall Imagine the left arm of the U has a dent in it; our van is parked up a little hill around that corner, just on some grass the space is only lit by an orange fluorescent light over the door

as I head for the van, a man with instant kidnapper vibes comes out of the door behind me & goes HELLO YOUNG LADY, possibly says more, indistinct I think he might’ve been wearing the same big fur coat as me I grip my canister of pepper spray. I forget how this part resolves maybe I pepper spray him. I think he ran away into the forest

I get in the van & start digging around in lots of trash everywhere for my phone & some other vague objects I was suddenly trying to find maybe an ... alien lightbulb? this part is kind of hazy & feels like it lasts a long time, like a stress dream. there’s a constant feeling of having too many objects for my 2 hand having to juggle them around setting stuff down & picking it back up I am constantly scared the guy might be watching me from the woods or might run up to the van & try to get into it

- another night -

a concept I came up w/ on my own a few days ago showed up in my dreams ... an imaginary polygon covering a city, where the vertexes are trained on all the people who disperse from a classroom session or similar gathering I don’t remember precisely how it manifested I was walking down a sidewalk with someone I saw some people at the far end & visualized nodes over them like I was trying to reconstruct what the polygon might be

the node disappears me & the person turn right at an intersection & keep walking east toward main street I suddenly have an empty pan that I’m able to play like an instrument slapping the bottom to make very strange beautiful sounds some of them sound like voices none of them seem like the pan should be able to produce them

rowing in a little boat to an island covered in geese hoping that I’ll turn into a goose when I get there I get there. I turn into a goose. there were lots of other strange geese one turned into a pile of disconnected masses of flesh that seemed to take up more space than the original goose this was part of its mating ritual or process, apparently I remember a goose ... zipping up a hoodie it was wearing?

I enter a big building, a big library near the entrance is the exact floor space, with some walls, that my 1st grade teacher had us sit cross-legged in on a foam floor with the smartboard