#reusing old illustration

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

We are all clowns on Valentine's day

[arinmoss]

Alistair :3 (he/him)

[radioactivepeasant]

The context of this one:

Jak: "No trust me, it'll be really funny."

Mar, holding his first lost tooth: "Yeah!"

(Jak is many things. A bad influence is occasionally one of those things.)

Mar: "Mama, Baba, one of my bones just came out!"

Melinöe: "Hm, I wonder where he learned that?"

(Recycled my oldest concept art of Captain Phobos to make Melinöe, a Jak Mom for a different universe.)

Daxter: "Did you know that feelings of impending doom are a symptom of anxiety? Not yours, though. That's some very real doom."

Narrator: "And it was at that moment that Jak discovered that Mar's parents knew precisely who he was, precisely who he had been, and could, in fact, send him to his room."

[pwhale6]

— people cannot win against their loneliness

[itseghost]

i havent been drawing a ton of fan art bc ive been locked in writing for a dnd character im making (im so slow at writing). and also designing him :] he's a shifter echo knight, but im still figuring out his gear and how i want his echoes to look i was also very intelligent and also decided to paint a disco elysium style portrait before i finalized his design or even decided on colors so now i think i have to commit to that lmao

[pistagio]

maka albarn sticker ver

[gr3yart]

Au where whispy instead of taking the shape of Nb took their own form.

[dudukbazaar]

Stellar herigault Value ●●●○○ ; Size ●●○○○ The fabric is soft, embroidered with purple and blue shiny stones. Userul for apprentice sorcerers, it offers protection against evil spells.

[edgepunk]

I literally cannot look at the Venom War SM comics I fucking hate Greg Land's art everyone looks like they have a weird face filter going on besides the traced p0rn faces on women

[juminhandfs]

I think Rika fans could say the same too...

Apology Regarding the Repost Image Issue

Hello, this is Cheritz.

 We sincerely apologize for the confusion caused by the images used in our repost events. An unexpected issue arose while collaborating with an external artist.

Due to the long holiday period, we did not have staff available to verify the artist’s work, which led to this mistake. We deeply acknowledge this oversight and once again extend our heartfelt apologies.

After concerns were raised, we reached out to the external artist to confirm whether AI was used. At the time, we received confirmation that AI was not involved, and based on this, we posted an announcement. However, after conducting an internal review, we discovered that AI had indeed been used. Following this, the artist also admitted that AI was partially used for the eyes and hair within their team. 

(The following image is a conversation script inquiring about the use of AI with an external artist (personal information removed).)

 As a result, we are immediately discontinuing the two repost events that involved AI-generated images. We sincerely apologize once again to those who were surprised by this sudden news. (We also deeply regret any confusion caused by our hasty post!)

The 707 illustration that was taken down today will be presented again with improved quality, so we kindly ask for your patience.

Moving forward, we will conduct more thorough reviews to prevent such incidents from happening again. We deeply regret this situation and appreciate your understanding. (_ _ ) (_ _ ) 

 Sincerely,

Cheritz

[mooztoonz]

“Earth Day ‘24” 🌎♻️🌳

I've done a redraw of an old drawing I've made back in 2020. You can tell I've improve over the years!

(PowerGirl ©️ me)

[ayv-art]

Some practice I did for drawing in an anime style

[ponett]

Aside from some of the basic premise and the space elevator (I think I see that in the concept art), were there any other elements from Maretropolis you were planning to incorporate in Andromi? (Sorry if you've already answered something like this elsewhere.)

Boy this is a blast from the past lmao. I can't even remember the last time someone brought up Maretropolis.

For context for anyone who doesn't know, Maretropolis was an MLP fancomic I started working on aaaaallllllllll the way back in 2012, set in a sci-fi AU. It starred a Rainbow Dash who had gotten into a bad flying accident and had several of her limbs replaced with cybernetic prosthetics by Twilight, who's a roboticist in this universe. It sounds a little grimdark when I describe a My Little Pony character losing multiple limbs in a horrific accident, but the heart of the story was just that Rainbow Dash had lost her wings, so she would have to try and figure out her place in the world now that she could no longer fly.

I had brainstormed a TON of ideas for this, thinking it'd be like my magnum opus as an MLP fanartist. I channeled my love of sci-fi into all sorts of fun little ideas for how a version of FiM set in a giant sci-fi city would work. Sweet Apple Acres would be a vertical farm in a high-rise greenhouse. Fluttershy would take care of stray animals found around the city. There were these giant spaceport towers visible in the city, and I'm pretty sure I wanted to eventually depict a city on the moon that Luna ruled over. A lot of stuff like that. Surprising no one, there was also going to be a yuri element to it with a romantic arc for Rainbow Dash... though, believe it or not, she was going to fall in love with Pinkie, not Fluttershy, in this story. (I was already exploring FlutterDash over on Fluttershy Replies and wanted to mix things up with another ship I liked, rather than running two blogs about the same ship.) Rainbow would be unable to fly up to her cloudtop apartment after the accident, so Pinkie would let her stay at her place, and then one thing would lead to another.

The problem I quickly ran into, though, was that I just wasn't built to be a comic artist. I'm not that confident as an illustrator to begin with, and I work very slowly, so doing entire comic pages was an ordeal. I'd bitten off more than I could chew, especially with the elaborate city setting that would've really challenged my meager art skills at the time. Before long I switched my focus to making games, since that was my main career goal in the first place. I considered turning Maretropolis into an RPG Maker game or something, but the project just sorta quietly died as my interest shifted. (Especially after I got my C&D from Hasbro that ensured I would never make an MLP fangame again lmao)

Fast forward to 2014, and I started working on an original sci-fi game, Andromi. (Anyone not familiar with that project can read about it here.) And, yes, you're definitely right in noticing some similarities. It was never intended to be a direct retool of the story of Maretropolis or anything, but since Maretropolis was basically just me throwing a bunch of my favorite sci-fi stuff at the wall it was inevitable that I'd revisit some things from that earlier project. Naomi being a cyborg is the obvious one. But I had realized over time that my fun cyborg Rainbow Dash AU was really a story about physical disability, and in hindsight I wasn't sure if 18-year-old Bobby was gonna be able to tell a story like that well. So Naomi has basically nothing in common with Maretropolis Rainbow Dash's planned arc, aside from the fact that they both have cybernetic limbs. (And also, y'know, they'd both be sapphic love stories. But, again, it's me, so that goes without saying.)

And, yes, you're 100% right that I reused some visual elements from Maretropolis in the city in the background of this piece of Andromi art, mainly the giant spaceport towers. Though Andromi was intended to be primarily a small town sci-fi story, so I'm unsure how much of that city we would've actually seen.

There ARE some other story ideas that originated in Maretropolis before evolving into ideas for Andromi. But, well... I'd still like to do something with Andromeda and Naomi someday, so I'm keeping those ideas to myself for now.

[kyouka-supremacy]

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HARUKAWA'S ARTBOOK AVAILABLE DIGITALLY LET'S GO!!!!!

[blueiscoool]

Three Roman Graves Uncovered in Portugal

Three burials dating to the 5th or 6th century AD have been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Ossónoba in Faro, southern Portugal.

The Ossónoba’s first archaeological evidence dates back to the 4th century B.C., when the Phoenicians settled in the Western Mediterranean. The city was then called Ossónoba From the 2nd century B.C. until the 8th A.D. the city was under Roman and Visigoth dominance being afterwards conquered by the Muslims in 713.

A team of archaeologists from ERA Arqueologia discovered ancient Roman structures and the remains of a man, woman, and child while conducting excavations over a 5,000 square meter area that will eventually house a real estate development.

The excavations, which took place before a construction project, revealed the grave of a man whose skeleton was complete and who would have been between 39 and 45 years old, as well as a young woman under the age of 25, and a baby who would have been no more than six months old, according to archaeologist Francisco Correa.

Francisco Correia, the project’s head archaeologist, said in a statement that the discoveries were made in an old truck repair workshop and are believed to date from the 5th or 6th century.

The tombs appear to have been looted in the past to steal “small bracelets, necklaces, and rings,” according to anthropologist Cláudia Maio. The tombs indicate that the people may have had “some economic status” as they were not simply placed in open graves but instead buried in carefully built graves.

The proximity of the three people’s graves seems to indicate that they were family members, though the team cannot be certain of that. “But we cannot say anything for sure,” the anthropologist said.

To learn more, the researchers hope to be able to provide more precise answers through DNA tests and isotopic analysis techniques used to determine population movements and dietary habits from chemical traces in ancient human remains.

This latest archaeological discovery did not come as a surprise to archaeologists, who had already led similar works which resulted in the discovery of a Roman game artifact believed to date back to the first century AD in 2020.

“We know that we are in an area with archaeological potential where there is a 17th-century convent (of Santo António dos Capuchos) to the west, and to the east lies the area where the mosaic of the Ocean God (Deus Oceano), now a national treasure, was found,” he said.

What did come as a surprise to archaeologists was the location of the tombs.

“Based on previous studies, this would have been an area that was possibly residential or more linked to industrial activities. There are many traces of salterns. Largo da Madalena would have been the entrance to the urban area of the city of Ossónoba. The identified graves are in the Figuras area, near Teatro Lethes, close to the Ermida de São Sebastião and the Pavilion of Escola D. Afonso III. This area is almost within the urban fabric,” the archaeologist explained, adding that this illustrates both the “growth and decline of Ossónoba.”

The graves of the man and the woman “were sealed with limestone slabs,” believed to be reused parts from “some of the most emblematic buildings that would have been here in the area,” he believes.

According to the project manager of ERA Arqueologia, who was co-responsible for the work, in addition to the graves, hundreds of small pieces were also discovered which suggest that there may also have been a mosaic there.

The researchers also recovered Roman artifacts in the area, including ceramics, bone dice, nails, pins, a spoon, possible evidence of a dye factory, and coins minted during the reign of Constantine the Great, between A.D. 306 and 337.

Cover Photo: Roman mosaic of the god Oceanus, part of the ancient city of Ossónoba, the modern town of Faro, in Portugal.

By Leman Altuntaş.

[tamsywindsup]

GACHIAKUTA chapter 141 spoilers!

Rudo x Amo chapter near the end I'm crying tears of joy thank you Urana-sensei 🥺

Mymo is such a keyboard warrior lmao, I can't wait for Riyou and gang to rip that barrier to shreds let's see if he'd still be grinning.

"Ito" finally makes an appearance in Gachi?? I think it's her! She's from an old illustration of Kei Urana-sensei's OC which also includes Hyou and Yuri, whose design Urana-sensei reused for Remlin.