#or maybe they didn’t like my art style

[karlyboyyy]

I was 27 when I actually made some new friends, which I hadn’t really done since middle school. Those friends are now like my second family.

I was 28 when I started watching more anime and reading manga and webcomics. These weren’t activities I ever got into as a kid or teen, but as an adult I find great joy in them. I then started writing and drawing again, which I hadn’t done in a long time, having found inspiration from these shows and stories. These hobbies are now how I spend most, if not all, of my free time.

I was 29 when I came out as bisexual, and within a few months realized I was also nonbinary. These are things I had never really thought of 15, 10, or even 5 years ago, but now are a huge part of my identity.

I was 30 when I started publishing my own webcomic. I had always been called artsy, and even started college pursuing an art degree, but I gave up on that years ago and hardly ever actually saw a creative project through til the end. Now I feel determined and excited to see this through and improve along the way.

My point is, sometimes you discover things about yourself later in life (if you even wanna call late twenties / early thirties “later in life”…). And that’s OKAY. I thought I had all my shit figured out by the time I was 25. Hell, I was living my normal adult life doing all the normal adult things and thinking “welp guess this is it”. I was wrong. And thank goodness for that.

So next time you see someone and think “isn’t that person a bit too old to be doing that..?” Maybe ask yourself - why shouldn’t that person be doing that thing? What exactly is wrong with it? Is there really an age limit for the thing they’re doing? Just… be kind and let people enjoy things, man.

[ki1ldeer]

Me when I get on a kick of drawing my ocs I hardly draw, only to then never draw them again after maybe a week of this lol

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

Sun and Moon lesbians again for I am ill

[myokk]

my angel…

[giulzart]

Infamous sketch dump

Seven and amazing story belongs to @infamous-if //Violet is my MC I play with ✨

[sableeira]

always wanted to arrange my artworks in a gradient and since I started drawing again over a year ago, I was finally able to put this together 🫶

[dlandofdreams]

リンリンシグナル⚡️

[ropes3amthoughts]

Thinking about these two…

Roleswap Rin AU by @tangeringe

[lemonthepotato]

I diagnose her with tism.

will do nontism pink icons too. wanted to add the infinity symbol somewhere but uh… I couldn’t get it to look fine so w/e.

[bugisbonkerz]

ME‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[siphisket]

Skirt Toge made a special appearance while drawing online with friends!

I ended up really liking how it turned out so I cleaned it up a bit, keeping on theme with the funky colors my friend drew behind him lol

[hahskeleton]

This is my Kill the Lights AU y/n!! I’ve had the au for months now and I’ve been posting chapters and I never thought to draw design pages/concept art of them ;v;

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

help I wanna draw either otto or mj or both but ive been scrolling so long and i cant find any refs ughh please post them /gen /nf /neu

:D awww thanks for considering to draw my characters ‼️💥🐟

🐟Refs under cut🐟

⭐️ Otto ⭐️

🚬 M.J 🚬

The fish net is supposed to be on the left hand while the arm warmer is on the right. I just messed it up in the standing on

[astraltravelerjayden]

Art I’m never gonna finish

I imagine this would be somewhat after Jayden joined. So Tomura is still immature, and they don’t like each other yet. They joined like a year before Toga, and the others. Eventually before the other members join they will become close friends :)

The last panel was going to be him saying this anyway. If I redraw this might do it with Dabi instead. But that will be in the future

[koifrog]

My family’s craft sale is finished and I’ve got like $250 to pick up from my stepmom!! ALSO got money in the mail from a sales rep as thanks for helping with the account!!! ALSO ALSO got a promotion today!!! 🥹🥹🥹

[cuteniaarts]

Here *throws random and actually much more important than I realised at first OC redesign at you after two and a half years since the OG*

Meifeng, Ming-Hua’s cousin! I just randomly remembered that she exists while putting together my OC family tree and since the only art I have of her is… nearly 3 years old and mediocre at best, and Kat and I have recently spent so much time focusing on Red Lotus siblings, I thought “Hey, why not redraw her? Just because she’s a cousin and not a sister doesn’t make her any less special than Lien-Hua, Summiya, Aiza or Haya!” (On that note… Nia give someone a brother challenge. The only one that counts is Aiza and she’s only a brother half the time)

Some headcanons about her, both new and old (the old copy-pasted over and slightly edited to save everyone the second hand embarrassment of going to look at my old art), which will go under the cut because this has gotten LONG:

Old:

Older than Ming-Hua by around 10 years

Her dad is the older half-brother of Ming-Hua's mom who’s… not the most fond of their side of the family

Has never left her home in the Foggy Swamp Water Tribe

Master healer, specialises in children. Can't have any of her own because of the high pollution levels in the swamp which is why she puts all those motherly instincts into teaching and caring for kids

Got a scar on her leg while saving Ming-Hua from some wild swamp creature when the latter was a child who was absolutely convinced she could handle everything herself and never listened to anyone. Ming-Hua still insists she had everything under control that day

She tried to understand Ming-Hua's perspective on things, she really did, but ultimately tribe mentality and fear for her cousin’s safety, believing her not to be nearly as capable as she claims to be, won over

Attempted to stop Ming-Hua from running away but was, obviously, unsuccessful

Was the one consoling Nuying after Ming-Hua left

Helped Suiren learn waterbending and held genuine affection for the girl, although she ultimately refused when Suiren begged for the chance for her and Midori to escape from Haya and live with the tribe. She thought that while Suiren would most likely adjust well, Midori was simply too Gaoling to survive in a place as dark, damp and isolated as the Swamp. She regrets that decision every day since she found out Suiren became an assassin

Mourned Ming-Hua more than anyone else in the tribe when informed of her death

New:

Was the one who babysat Ming-Hua a lot when Nuying was going through one of her depressive episodes after Cadeo left, and Ming-Hua actually enjoyed spending time with her because she was a lot less overbearing and protective than her mother. Was the first person to start calling her Ming. Sometimes Ming-Ming, but Ming-Hua had a tendency to deliver a very hard kick to the shins every time she tried that

Never left Nuying’s side when she got sick in the years following Ming-Hua’s disappearance, no matter how much everyone, including her own father, told her to stay away, there’s nothing she can do to help her. In her final moments, Nuying was delirious with fever and called out for Ming-Hua. Meifeng didn’t have the heart to remind her that her daughter left so instead let her hair down, covered her own hand in water and told Nuying that she was “right here, mom. I’m right here” and stayed like that until Nuying passed

When Ming-Hua returned, Meifeng was the one to break the news to her. Later, when Ming-Hua asked how and when it happened, she couldn’t quite stop herself from snapping at her because she should have been there, Meifeng shouldn’t have had to pretend to be her so her mother could die without worrying about where her daughter was. Their relationship never really fully recovered after that fight

Still, she had met Suiren when she was little on the rare occasions when the Red Lotus passed through the Swamp and Ming-Hua chose to take her daughter to visit the tribe. She never met Midori, but she did see Ming-Hua pregnant with her once

Didn’t know about Ming-Hua’s imprisonment until an 11-year-old Suiren told her because world news don’t reach into the heart of the Swamp. She just thought they had decided to stop visiting. The news crushed her but… a part of her couldn’t help but go “you should have fucking listened to me when I told you to stay, then this wouldn’t have happened”

Her teaching Suiren waterbending involved mostly the basics of combat (she herself doesn’t know much of it since she’s a healer), plantbending and healing. Suiren reached her level of mastery and proficiency as well as figured out icebending on her own through sheer determination and spite (she’s so much like her mama 🥹🥹🥹)

Is the only one from the tribe Suiren had ever confessed to about being an assassin. That knowledge broke her heart and she spent all those years absolutely terrified that Suiren would meet Ming-Hua’s fate. When Suiren stopped visiting at one point (when she left for her mission to kill Kuvira, got injured, recovered at ATI, reunited with her parents, broke Kuvira out and started living with her, etc etc) she had assumed that it really did happen, until Suiren randomly showed up one day with Kuvira in tow (Meifeng did not approve bc of the whole spirit vine thing 😅)

Absolutely reunited with Ming-Hua at some point and it was an extremely emotional moment

Ripped Cadeo a new one when he suddenly appeared looking for his daughter after 45+ years after it became common knowledge that the RL are all alive and no longer wanted by the law

All in all… quite an interesting character that I really should do something with at some point, bc how come Ming-Hua’s family is the only one to get 0 attention in our discussions?? #justiceformeifeng2024