#screenshot redraw bc i liked that one pose

[superbellsubways]

red flags

[justladders]

[To the tune of 'Gaston:']

"Killing Children I find quite exhilarating"

"Why won't he die, that Af-ton!"

HAAHHAHAAAAA IM FINE

Me giving myself an excuse to comb through old Disney movies: villain pose doodles ✨

[ikimaru]

speaking of artblock in the last ask, do you have anything you do that you find helps when you have art block? im struggling a lot with that currently and was wondering if you have any tips!

ohh ok so the most obvious one "browse around to see if you find some style, pose, palettes that inspire you" however to me this is a bit tricky bc it can have the opposite effect where I just get in my head even more;;

also for me personally it really helps if I find a song for the first time that it's highly loop-able like "listen to it on loop for hours" 💀 especially if it's a song that inspires the pic you're working on in some way

try a different brush! I've been sketching around with another brush the past days because I was feeling so stuck with my usual ones

draw something you find easy to draw for a bit or something you have a pose reference for like a screenshot redraw so you can get back in the flow of things

these are the first ones that come to mind!

[bitchin-tubs]

Very insignificant complaint

[clothed nsfw & petty bitching ahead]

I’m so sorry but this keychain BOTHERS me so much ever since I found it for the Sallie Mae pin-up post

First glance I was aw cute & fun but then I saw it properly and it just makes me mad and not because of the content itself

It’s the posing and design that’s got me heated

It’s like they gave the artist a 480p screenshot of her design to work with and then they drew the posing as they liked but someone told them to have her crotch facing forwards with no regards of anatomy whatsoever

Like y’all see that right? How her hips are forward but her stomach facing down? That’s not very… anatomy…

Also something about the head was bothering me the others also have a giant head but the way it’s posed really pronounces the “no neck” artstyle and it looks odd in my opinion (and the side bang taking 80% of the space in her face)

So that’s been bothering me ever since and I decided to redraw it

First one I made was this one because I thought her upper body was leading more than her legs and this position is pretty cute I think but notice how if her chest is leading forwards, anatomically speaking, her crotch would be covered by the skirt since it’s OVER her front

Then I thought ok what if we came back to the original idea? Chest and crotch for a pin-up after all. First I repositioned the head because the previous one bothered me, I fixed most of her design flaws and lastly but most importantly, pushed the right leg forward and the left back so she has room to show her crotch with her left hand supporting her body since it’s still leaning forwards and with no support she’d look as if she was magically floating

Then I completed it bc I liked it and want it to see it clean

I KNOW this is a really unimportant redraw [it’s literally just a pin up keychain] but hey this blog wouldn’t be called bitching-tubs if I find bitch and moan once in a while

[konaiiro]

★ Art Tag ★

thanks for tagging me to play @doshiart @spookygingerr @michellemisfit

Have you always been interested in creating art? Kinda? No? Not sure. I think I've always been interested in art in the 'wow, thats cool' way, not really creating though.

What's your favourite medium to use? If digital, what programs do you like? I taught myself to draw on digital (wacom intus medium i still use) and have the free program firealpaca - im too lazy to change now. I've owned sketchbooks to take with me and it's good but I don't think I'll ever really get over not having the command + z tool.

Do you create outside of fandom? A little, I've got ocs who I draw occasionally.

Share something you haven't finished and/or never got around to posting OH so many, its not funny. But here's a more recent piece which was initially for AFTG pride zine. It was so good, I just couldn't make it work for WEEKS. I ended up switching up and doing something else.

Favourite piece you've made? OH well, i've got a few but this would be my pick for 'konaiiro wrapped'.

Draw your icon in a minute or less - pass!! :,)

An underrated piece you've made in your opinion

you lads slept on this one (forced to screenshot from instagram bc its old and i can't find the file and, as established, im lazy). So much wrong with it and yet i fuck with the vibes and texture and expression and pose- UGH

Do you do art in a professional setting? No, not really. I've done comms in the past and I was going to go do animation in uni, but found that i like to keep my creating up to me. I would be open to run comms again, but under a different structure I think.

A piece you don't like but did really well on social media

yall flocked over these two idk. i like them enough just,, i'm so aware about all the mistakes lmao.

Post an old piece and compare it to your most recent, what are the similarites? I've done some redraws so NOW is a perfect time.

Ian and Mandy (March 2022 vs September 2024)

i think from a creation perspective, i know my base lineart is much cleaner and rendered.

Background is,, actually there lmao. It kicked my ass to draw but it happened.

Style has changed a tonne to more realistic (?), proportions are less all over the place.

effects are just better

I can actually draw hands huzzah!

They actually have a skin tone (+freckless!!)

Have you ever collaborated with another artist/s?

Yeah! A tonne; for events, challenges, zines, charity art calendars (hint hint aftg 2025 calender sales end 31st of Oct, all profits go to help those access gender affirming care.)

What piece has the most notes? Are you surprised?

I've been active on tumblr from around the start of the year, but I think its this one?

Who/What is your favourite subject matter?

honestly i think my blog name summarises better than I ever could.

Show us something not from fandom you've made

old oc art

Where do you like to create?

Desk in my bedroom! I like facing my window so I can look out like some tortured artist when my eyes need a break.

Give yourself a shoutout, where can we commission/buy/follow you for more pieces?

I'm on twitter, tumblr, instagram all are @konaiiro !!

Any mutuals, if you've made it this far, this is me tagging you lmao

[einsatzzz]

ok! webcomic update! previously, i said that i'm considering on making two chapters before i release it - im scratching that idea off. tho i keep jumping back to do some linearts and a few coloring for parts that i'm sure i won't change, i finally also finished the sketch/mapping as a whole for the whole script draft i wrote for chapter 1.

as i kept on mapping and sketching everything out, especially near the end, i realized that the chapter length is easily at least two times the size of what i initially expected of a standard chapter length??? LMAO so i'm technically already working on two chapters worth of story length all along, it's just that since it's chapter 1 that its longer. if i stack these long pages together, the canvas height would at least be around 115K pixels 🤣😭🤣😭

im so extra for this shit, bc this chapter is just me essentially setting everything up (=planting seeds) and getting a grasp on the webcomic creation workflow & most of the canon characters. but i love being extra for my ocs! ueueueue you will understand when you read it.

this will also be the most i've drawn tsuna and reborn(butter this one's for you 🫵), ever. so besides oc withdrawal, i am also having cute girls withdrawal, the only one keeping me alive in these trying times is my girlie kyoko-chan. if you notice her panels are extra well-done...umm...uhhhh....i love cute girls 🫶🥰✨

my alternative is to just add another segment in the end, as some form of preview on what to expect next chapter. it should be no more than another 7K pixels, it's alr so long, this is nothing at this point 🤣

in terms of art improvement, i must say that they really are not kidding when they say if you keep drawing comics your art will improve. i keep noticing things idk how to draw (=i'll need to study how to) and i'm also being forced to draw characters in angles/poses i was too much of a coward to draw before and also! things i didn't give too many shits about to draw before, including mob characters and backgrounds (that i can't 3d my way out of).

honestly, at some point in the future, i should make a custom brush for namichuu student mobs, because goddamn! it's a pain!

it's also nice that i get to also technically do manga panel redraws by doing this! i find that doing redraws of anime screenshots/manga panels is good practice for how effectively im able to eyeball & figure out poses from references.

lastly for the updated estimate of the release! the latest i could finish it if i really take my time would be by christmas (this would be my og deadline if i had planned to release two standard-length chapters). though, i'd release it earlier if I finish earlier, of course.

and im not rlly beating myself up for not making my own personal deadline, i'll just think about it like this "deadlines are a social construct, its not like i'll lose my irl job for not finishing my personal webcomic 🤣🤣🤣" lmaoosjdfhjsf pls im already so depressed the past few days & im isolating, i don't want to add more to it. and having tunnel vision on the grind to make this is actually a good distraction from nasty thoughts. also took a break today from making it, that's why im able to drop by a few ppl's notifs 🫶

[theramusen]

EVIL DOUBLED (FNAF AU)

This was sorta just for fun while I do school and what not! AU idea where Henry and William are BOTH evil and work together!

This screenshot redraw is what started it all!

Thats William’s remnant in there btw hes sorta michael-mode rn but theyre gonna put it back in him once theyre done posing all cool- He JUST survived being springlocked for the first time

Now lets get into ref sheets! (There will be a page break after and all lore/info about the au will be down there!)

OK SO!!! The au def is similar to canon a lot and so

The MAJOR plot changes would be:

-Will and Henry BOTH get springlocked

•this fucks over Cassidy and CC being in Fredbear already though, so to solve this issue Cassidy, CC, and Charlie, will all share the puppet.

-Henry now occupies Fredbear instead, and so we now get Springtrap and Beartrap.

-William does NOT have time for the wife murder subplot, so Mrs. Afton (Clara) gets to live fully, she replaces Henry now. Diving into the duo’s blueprints and creations so she can one day stop them. She works with Michael.

-Henry’s wife is ALIVE! Her name is Dorothy and she returns to Hurricane after receiving a call from Clara. She also becomes a Henry replacement.

-Because of Clara and Dorothy’s new role, the pizza sim speach is now WAY more female rage style. This is the wrath of scorn mothers. UCN will be 100000x worse.

-Oh and no disks- William tries to push them but Henry 100% shuts them down and thinks theyre dumb.

-So fnaf 4 is JUST cc’s dying nightmare and eventually michael DOES get gas drugged and sees the nightmares but thats NOT fnaf 4 thats just a bad trip!

-Also, with William not being able to run rampant with random robot murder (Henry keeps him in check) we DO see the base finale in pizza sim.

-When we get into help wanted, ar, security breach, and ruin that follows a SECOND plot line fully separate from the first, where we see a surge of copy-cat killers (this is where we get characters like Vanessa and Jeremy, and Gregory will also be a part of this, being the main villain in Ruin now bc the Mimic was never made)

-William and Henry are a good team here, mutual bond and gain.

-William is far more explosive and emotional, his drive coming from CC’s death sorta setting off a domino effect of underlying mental health issues. He just kinda loses it. This team gives him the delusion that he may one day see CC again.

-Henry is in it bc hes a capitalist. And hey, turns out unlike electricity, theres NO remnant bill. So making all his robots run on human souls is cheaper! He doesnt really care much about charlie after like 3 months of her being dead. He knows it was William. He doesn’t care.

GENETICS?!

yeah theres genetics-

not gonna draw out the punnet squares but the colors of the characters ARE genetic traits!

Henry’s grey is a rare recessive trait. So it was EXTREMELY unlikely to pass onto Charlie. Which it didnt.

Dorothy’s green is a common dominant trait, Charlie ended up green like her!

William and Clara are BOTH purples. William is a more blue-purple, Clara is a more red-purple (commonly mistaken for pink!)

Both purples are dominant traits, so it is a 50/50 with their offspring to produce a blue-purple or red-purple.

Michael and Elizabeth both ended up red-purple!

Michael is VERY red-purple, very much almost mistaken for pink like his mom.

Elizabeth is closer to true purple than michael, but still red-purple!

CC is the only afton child to end up blue-purple! If he hadnt died he wouldve ended up being Williams favorite child!

[toughbunnyforever]

So I came from your insta and saw that you improved quite a lot over two years. I’m in an art rut right now and was wondering your tactics for learning to draw different positions and poses? And fabric? I’m just curious since you don’t have speed draws on YT.

oh thank you!

in the past two years, i think what's helped me improve the most is learning the balance of keeping consistency without taking myself too seriously. i find that when i'm in a rut or i feel like i've stagnated, it's bc i'm too in my head and i'm forgetting to have fun. bc yes, technical skill is good to acquire, but creativity is, in my opinion, more important of a priority because that's where the art comes from. the technical skill is just the tool to help the art get made, so hone it, but don't treat it like it's everything. it's no good being able to draw a bunch of cool stuff if you don't have the spoons to draw any of it or if you're so burned out, you can't even come up with ideas.

on the more technical side though, for me, study and practice time are when i focus on repetition so i can build muscle memory. if i'm studying from references (and not feeling lazy lol) i'll draw each ref at least 2 or 3 times to get those reps in, drawing fast and sketchy, just doing as many as i can. this really helps with things you'll draw over and over again like clothing folds. my hand will start to just have a better intuitive sense for the shapes instead of agonizing over each one cuz i've drawn it enough times. when i'm sketching, it helps me to fall back on that muscle memory so i can put more focus to other aspects of whatever it is i'm drawing.

it's about finding a balance really.. if i study too much, i never actually implement the things i learn but if i study too little, then my work stagnates and all looks the same. finding that balance for yourself will go alone way! when i'm in an art block, what i need just really goes back to remembering to enjoy the process and finding that spark again. if i'm not enjoying my art, then i gotta switch something up.

here are some other things i like to do for practice:

redraw screenshots/stills from my fav shows or manga (good way to study poses, anatomy, and scene composition w/o it feeling too serious.)

or pick a show/movie/comic and choose a character i like. draw them 3-5 times, copying the art style to a T then draw them again in my own style to see what elements i wanna take away from it. (again, a good way to study without Studying. i end up leaving the experience with new staples for my art style)

find fashion photo references and draw my ocs in the outfits.

switch up what i'm drawing with. like if i'm mostly draw in pencil, switch to only pen. if i'm doing digital, i put my go-to brushes in a new folder, don't touch them, then sketch with a brush i never reach for. just change one little thing and see how it affects the process. usually i discover something new.

i wrote a list of things i like to draw on the front page of my sketchbook (just stream of consciousness, wrote down like 100 things i like to draw. ex: oranges, apples, snails, leaves.) and when i don't know what to draw, i close my eyes and point to something then draw whatever i comes up.

hope this helps!!

[ridl]

Ahh, i missed the last one!

How ‘bout 12, 13, 21, 24, and 28 for the artist ask meme?

lol, no worries. thanks for the ask velvet!! answers under the cut

12. describe your process while drawing

I put music/background noise on (very important), gather a bunch of references (half ends up being just emotional support tbh lol, especially when i reuse a file), and... just start drawing lineart ig? I don't really sketch? 😭 so i just adjust the lineart as i go. Usually the whole figure of a character first, then clothes on a new layer. Once lineart is done i cry internally and go thru the agonizing process of coloring (which feels like blindly trying to find my way thru dense fog), thinking it absolutely sucks until i'm finally done and suddenly decide "eh. it looks fine" or "actually, this is pretty good!" lol.

13. talk about a wip you like!

It's keqing the adepti's favorite with ganyu, morax and cloud retainer in the background. It's supposed to be a little dramatic lol, showing her as a passionate and skilled mortal right at the front, supported by some of the most powerful beings of liyue. So yknow, a cool pose and hopefully good enough composition (how do i fit all those creatures in there? we will see!). I put it on hold for gq birthday art bc it has a deadline, but i'm excited to go back to it later. I got more ideas i'm excited abt, but they don't count as wips yet ig lol, only existing as notes in my word doc for now.

21. what do you think your artstyle would taste like?

Hmm, i thought of halva. Sweet but a little weird strong taste ig (bc it's made of sesame, it has nuts too), pretty dense, kinda crunchy and crumbly, and with coarse texture. Feels niche among the sweets here tbh lol, not exactly everyone's favorite or first choice of sweets.

24. whats a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

I think one of them has to be this:

because that's exactly how i'm trying to draw ganqing, even tho my artstyle is obviously pretty simplistic 😅 So idk how they even managed to see it in my art, but i'm glad!

I'm also glad when someone says my art is "unique" or they like the shapes!

28. whats a piece you would like to redraw at some point?

I think there's 2 big ones rn, and i actually already started redrawing both of them. Not sure when i'll finish, that's currently 4 wips. The difference in how i drew the faces back then vs those new wips is pretty funny, especially in the iceskating drawing. I'm... excited to draw them better now lol!

(small screenshots bc i'm too embarrassed to post full size rn)

[vhvrs]

how did you get so good at drawing people i need your wisdom

thank u bashfully even tho my advice is so mundane: try to always find pose references if u can manage. frankenstein references together. break pose refs into traced skeletons and draw based off that. do screenshot redraws. theres a reason i do a lot of meme redraws n its partially bc im lazy and partially bc its generally good anatomy practice. PLAY SIMS BASE GAME IS FREE NOW sims has a really good camera n theres literally hundreds of free poses u can download for drawing practice (i do this a LOT its like the main reason i play sims lol)

eventually it becomes easier to break stuff down for different styles + just draw from memory so u can not totally rely on trying to dig thru google images for a pose u need (i still do this but i do it less!!!) but that's my tldr advice. trying to learn like. basic anatomy helps too but i am saying this as someone who frequently has to be reminded how exactly specific body parts work bc ill draw them broken for a pose (learning when to break anatomy to make a pose work is helpful) n then. forgot how to do it normally. lol. nude figure drawing helps w this tho and seeing how other artists do anatomy breakdowns.

being aware of the line of motion in ur poses the ones u draw AND the ones ur using is also most important imo!! my saving grace

also do thumbnails. make quick sketches of ur poses before doing them. helps u see what doesnt actually work n stops u from getting overly attached to something that isnt going to make u happy to draw later

[palalances]

how i’ve never said this before literally baffles me, but: your art style is so incredibly pretty! especially your klance art is always so pretty too look at :D

you’re an incredible artist!

also: do you perhaps have any general drawing tips for newbies like me? :’))

Hello, thank you so much!!!!! i appreciate it :)

hmmmm let me think, im not great at talking nor am i great at giving advice so im just going to say some things that worked for me:

I'd say the main thing is to draw things you enjoy, things that will make you happy. it’s really important to practice and draw a lot if you want to improve, so if you’re drawing things you enjoy you’ll want to draw more often. 

Try to understand anatomy. You can do this by looking up references for the poses you want to draw. Don’t trace them, rather try to understand them and use logic. The width of the shoulders, where the neck connects and how long it should be, how big the head should be in relation to the body... Pay attention to yourself in the mirror also. how much space is there between your eye and your ear, how it varies with the angle of your face, how much space between your mouth and chin and your mouth and nose, where your eyebrows begin and where they end, etc.

Very important especially at the beginning, even when you’re just doing screenshot redraws, is not to just draw what you see, first draw what’s underneath and then lightly erase it/use a different layer so you can add the clothes and hair on top. So basically draw them naked first lol.

Use guidelines for the face and the body. Maybe you don’t know how to use them at first, but you don’t have to follow them strictly. i mainly use them to make sure the eyes are leveled, the nose is in the middle of the face, the shoulders are the same width and the torso is centered. follow them in a way that’s useful to you.

Lastly, do not focus on developing an artstyle. i wish someone had told me this bc i was trying soo hard to find my artstyle, i thought i wouldn’t be a real artist until i had one, but the thing is it’ll come naturally. it just happens. so don’t focus on always trying to do things the same way bc you feel like that’s your style, and just do them in a way that feels fun. don’t be scared to try new things.

You can check out this tag. There are also great content creators on youtube that give art tips sometimes, like drawingwiffwaffles and samdoesarts, so i suggest you look them up if you haven’t already!

Hope these were somewhat useful :)

[foxssonicdoodles]

my art summary for this year! first time I’ve ever done one of these, and holy shit the improvement is a crazy looking at it like this

(more yapping (fucking. ESSAY) under the cut)

man. it’s been over a year since the sonic brainworms got me (started October of last year with the snapcube fandubs -> snapcube frontiers playthrough -> listening to the frontiers ost and falling in love with it) and. Man has it been fun!! I’ve found so much good new music, art, artists, writers, stories, etc., and becoming a fan right when all kinds of stuff was lined up for the year probably helped too.

I do think taking the plunge and trying to draw sonic characters has aided my love for the series too, since in previous fandoms I’ve been in I would be excited about them, but being able to create for it brings a whole new level to my enjoyment I think. and, of course, this brought me to making my OCs, my most beloved little guys who I’ve grown very attached to over the course of the year.

now, not to yap too much, but, about the art I chose for the summary!

January and February were actually kind of hard to pick for, since my program (sketchbook) doesn’t include dates for when you create a new drawing, so I mostly relied on dates in discord servers and on tumblr for when I posted things. Technically the January drawing was made in December of last year (bc I genuinely don’t remember what I drew in January), and the February one I can’t be sure when it was made, since it was never posted anywhere. I mostly just estimated, and ohhh god looking through my old art was an experience. seeing how I used to draw shadow was interesting (I used to give him what I referred to as ‘prime eyes’, or, the eyes on his sonic prime model, rather than his game model). I guess I had seen more sonic prime clips/screenshots then game ones, and that worked its way into how I drew shadow. I do still kinda like the drawing though, I still think it kinda holds up. Maybe I redraw it sometime. I don’t have much to say about the blaze doodle though, I think I’m just proud of myself for trying with the hands (as flat as they look).

march! That one was drawn for a friend, who I had gotten into the snapcube fandubs, of one of my favorite moments in the shadow ‘05 dub. I added more to it here, but this was the original, and again, it’s certainly not bad! For most of this year, when I drew, I hardly used references, but this was one of the times I did, and I certainly worked in my favor (you can tell I was too lazy to do the emeralds though).

April’s piece comes from a doodle page I did where I doodled while referencing screenshots from the unleashed opening cutscene (UNLEASHED OPENING MY BELOVED <3 <3) and that was my favorite of the poses I guess, so I added to it and made that little drawing! I vaguely tried at a background, but it doesn’t look like much.

while I still see lots of problems with May’s piece, it’s not bad. Perhaps even a step in the right direction /j. I found I showcase of a blender model and instantly downloaded blender and the model to play with it, and I took some screenshots of some of the poses I made and used one as a reference for this drawing. Proportions could definitely be better, as well as some small perspective things I notice now, but hey! I lined, colored, and shaded something, which isn’t something I do often, even now, despite what the last half of the year might make you believe.

Speaking of which, June’s piece is the only one of the refs I made for artfight this year of my OCs and fankids that I think still holds up! It’s not great, at least by my standards now, but the best of the bunch for sure. I rushed to make these late in June before artfight started, and while I had more OCs lined up (early concepts of characters like hooke, joule, and peten) I only had time for four (team Starfall + axel). Borealis has since gotten a cleaner redesign, but I don’t mind his old design either.

Then comes July, the month of artfight itself! out of the attacks I made, I figure the piece I made of emthimofnight’s stellar was the best of the bunch. I looked for refs of ice skaters to find a base to create this specific pose, and while the perspectives are okay, I like how I did the shoes the most. Normally shoes are tough for me, especially perspective-wise, so I’m glad with how I did here. Actually looking back at this piece is reminding me of my thick lineart era, in which I much preferred using thick lineart and couldn’t possibly see myself doing thin lineart (though my comparison in my head was mostly like. Anime-thin lineart so uh. Yeah). I’ve slowly gotten to do thinner lineart over time, but not crazy thin, and you can even see later in the year, with the art trades that I went back to thick lineart, just a little bit differently than before.

I drew a lot in august, perhaps some of the most I’ve drawn this year aside from in November (most of it hasn’t been posted online tho, only in discord servers). and I made much nicer stuff in November too, but I specifically chose this doodle because of what it means for my journey. This doodle was a pivotal point, in which I tried something new and fucking loved it. I loved the sketchy style, the rectangular eyes, the minimal outline on the muzzle. Idk why, it just stood out to me and I’ve been drawing sonic characters like that since.

Going into September, school started, so I had a lot less time to draw, but it’s been more towards the last couple of months where I’ve gotten really invested in my OCs and their stories, so I drew them a lot around this time. at one point, I drew this doodle of axel (which I actually can’t remember if I drew it that month or not, I think I might have though??), and looked at him for a moment. and around this same time I had been looking at the idw art book, and been reminded of surge’s concept designs, one of which had a similar quill style to axel, and a stripe running down the face. which got me thinking, “how would axel look with a stripe?” So i quickly made a couple of versions, and consulted one of the discord servers im in about it. Eventually it got down to a version with yellow stripes (my personal favorite) and one with blue stripes. Both looked good, but one person suggested using both, and either the same person or someone else suggested a fade, and so I made a couple versions of the fade using this same drawing as my base, and eventually found the one I liked, which is his current design. To date, I think this is one of my favorite drawings I’ve done of axel, idk why. It’s not the most polished, but I love it, that’s literally my guy right there. yknow?

October! octobers piece is an art trade I did with st4rrzyy (just never posted it) of their character Hannah the bat! it’s not the only art trade I did that month, but I think it’s my favorite of the two. I chose to make the cloak all flowy, and give the character a dynamic pose, which isn’t something I do often. I actually referenced some sonic channel art for this specific pose, one of cream! It’s nothing too crazy overall, but there were definitely some new things for me, especially in that I got the courage to show interest in an art trade, and did something fully finished.

November piece, November piece I love you (I have not posted it). This was from an art trade i did with m3tr0n0m333, of their character Charr the hedgehog! This time around, I opened art trades in one of the discord servers I’m in, since I was on break for thanksgiving, and want even sure I’d get any interest tbh, since I’m not a big artist whose stuff is amazing or smth. But! Talking about the art itself, I referenced another sonic channel art piece, the January calendar illustration of shadow and infinite as singers, and yoinked shadow’s pose to give to charr, I felt like it fit well with them. Once my sketch was done, I stopped for a moment, and wasn’t sure how I would do my lineart, before deciding fuck it we ball and trying out something new. And I ended up loving it. It feels like I’ve gone full circle, coming back to do thick lineart, just this time it was with a different brush instead of my usual pencil, and I loooove how it looks. I also went ahead and colored in some of the lineart too, not with the most rhyme or reason at first, but eventually following my lighting/shading, putting harsh white highlights in places I lit up, and using the same color of a given area on a hard light clipping layer in some shadowed parts. Definitely my best artwork of the year, for sure.

and then for December (which also hasn’t been posted), I don’t actually have much to say about, it’s very similar to November’s piece. I opened up art trades and traded with someone in one of the discord servers I’m in (I don’t know if they’re one tumblr so I don’t know their user/the character’s name, sorry). I referenced a screenshot I had saved of blaze from one of the Winter Olympics games, and decided I wanted to go the same route as the November piece for the lineart. There is one new thing, though, that I implemented. I tried something new with the inhibitors, as I haven’t really been the best with making things look shiny up until I did some doodles of shade and tried with with just a pencil, and really liked the results and decided to give it a go here. It’s a step in the right direction, I think, but there’s absolutely more work that could be done to improve this skill.

Oh god that was more rambling than I thought I’d do. shit. uhhhhh if somehow you’ve spent time reading all of this thank you! thank you for listening to my wild ramblings, I uh. I like yapping about how I make things. Happy new year, and here’s to hoping next year goes well!

[pumpkinsouppe]

I have complete aphantasia and I’ve been drawing my entire life!! Honestly I still kinda think people are lying when they say they can project images and see things with their minds eye bc it sounds so fake fjlsdk

And from what I know about aphantasia, you can’t train yourself to visualize. You can have stronger memories in certain aspects, I’m much better at remembering floor plans than I am faces, but it depends on the person. Also apologies this is gonna be long so I’ll hide under read more jfskdfj

So due to not being able to hold any visual images within your brain, you instead need to rely on other methods and adapt. Similar to if you break your dominant hand and need to adapt to using your non dominant hand. It’ll be hard to figure out at first but there are many things you can do to see what works for you, I’ll detail my process which includes many steps and hopefully it helps!

When I draw, I first determine what I’m in the mood to draw. Since we’re both cotl fans I’ll use cotl as an example! And let’s assume I want to do a unique pose/illustration instead of redrawing a screenshot. I’ve been wanting to draw a piece themed around knuckle bones so let’s start there.

Now that I have a general theme, ask the who what when where why and hows. Who? Well I want at the very least The Lamb and Ratau, but I might also try to include the other knuckle bones players as well. What? The lamb and ratau playing against each other, maybe if I want to make this piece more dynamic one of them could be throwing the dice waiting for the number. When? Well since knuckle bones is played indoors, this doesn’t matter as much but the time of day and lighting could affect the mood of the piece. If your piece was outdoors, what kind of emotion do you want your piece to evoke? What time of day do you personally associate with that emotion? (There’s no one right answer! It depends on how the artist depicts it). Where? Ratau’s house! More specifically if I want to think about this piece focusing on knuckle bones, I’ll want to frame the piece so the knuckle bones table is in most of the drawing. Why? Are you drawing this for fun? For an art shop? For a zine? Why are you making this piece? Your why can determine how much effort and time you spend on your piece. How? How are you making this drawing? Traditional? Digital? With what tools or brushes?

Just from starting with the premise I was able to think of a piece just by answering these questions. But my work doesn’t stop there. Since I have a lot of trouble visualizing, I’m going to need a lot of references to help me draw this piece accurately. This is where I utilize Pinterest, Google images, artists I love, etc. I do have a background in art history so I am able to think of paintings I’ve seen before that could help me with this piece, but if you are blanking on specific inspiration you can always search up things like ‘gamblers playing dice’ or ‘playing at a poker table’ or similar phrases that evoke the same sense of knucklebones (since you probably won’t be able to find much for knucklebones stock photos lolol). With the right phrasing and patience, you could find a reference picture for anything.

You can use these references images to block out your composition. Where do you want the lamb and ratau? Side by side facing the viewer or opposing each other on the left and right side of the table? Or something different? How much of the table do you want to see? Does your illustration fit the other players? How much of the background do you want to see? You can answer a lot of this just by looking at reference images and seeing what compositions you like. There’s no harm in taking inspiration from another’s composition so long as you’re not tracing their art and claiming it as your own

I also like to use sketchbooks. There I’ll write down all my inspirations, what I want in the piece, and make quick thumbnails. The thumbnails help a lot for quick small drawings to see if they fit the type of illustration I want to make. If it doesn’t work then no harm done as it took me like 30 seconds.

From there I start actually drawing, blocking out big shapes first then refining and refining until my sketch layer is ready to lineart… and from there I’m mostly done as I’m no longer using tons of my brain thinking about how I want to layout my piece. It does take a lot of thinking and searching online but it gets a lot faster the more you work. I’ve even gotten to the point where I can draw without needing to find specific reference pics, I’ll just use the character image and see what kind of sketches I can make.

It’s just a lot about training your brain and your muscle memory! The more you do it the easier it’ll be, but it’s hard to get in the habit especially when it seems like you’re at a disadvantage. I didn’t even know I was at a disadvantage until like 4 years ago! I just thought it was normal to think like this and I just adapted to what works for me. I’m also no expert but if you ever have any other questions I can do my best to answer them!! I believe in you and don’t let your aphantasia stop you from making the art you want to make!!!

Is there anyone else who has near complete aphantasia who knows how to draw because how the fuck do I do this I'm dying squirtle

How do I draw without being able to know what the image I'm trying to draw looks like until it's already on the paper/screen lmao

IM GONNA GET BETTER I am gonna Do Hard Things and Succeed but until very recently (and thanks to art) I did not know that not being able to visualize things in your mind wasnt a normal thing. Like if I have an idea of a piece of bread I can't imagine what the bread LOOKS like or "picture" it. Or like, those spatial puzzles where it gives you an image and it tells you "ok choose the image that represents this figure from x angle!" ???????? Motherfucker that feels like telepathy. I swear I thought this was a euphemism and I guess I never noticed because I never tried to use it for something . Anyhow I WANNA MAKE ART ANYWAY EVEN IF ITS HARD

Or wait. Is there a way you can train yourself to be able to imagine how things look like?

[ninjasmudge]

credit to @spotsupstuff for the screenshot comp, who jokingly said ‘art challenge: redraw these’ and i was like “haha yeah.

-wait. i actually do really want to redraw these.”

SO HERES THE BITCH HIMSELF! im pretty sure i got the poses right, but they are pretty small in the screenshot and also very dark. i drew my fave one bigger bc LOOK AT HIM hes so bouncy

[tenjokisamaaaaaaa]

One Kaito A Day (OKAD) project weekly update:

Thank you all so much for your support! I made a collage of everything I've done this week. Below are the notes on how that particular day went.

10/1: Posted this separately. I guess I like the concept but not the execution. I think it'd be cool to redraw this at the end of October to see what's different.

10/2: Had this idea. I liked it! Was saving this for the weekend to finish.

10/3: Busy day so just a screenshot redraw. I learned how to use vector layer and MY WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME. No more Sketchy Sketch from me! I stand a corrected man!

10/4: I did not stand a corrected man. Tried tracing by hand and it.. it's not as bad as I thought it'd be. Could do this for a quick manga strip and what not I guess...

10/5: Actually, doing line art itself was just.. painful. It felt so much more natural for me to just paint over my sketches. Does it take longer? Yeah. Do I know what I'm doing? Of course NOT. Does it make me happy? You bet it does.

10/6: Tried drawing Kaito's different expressions from memory. Went malding over this for a good hour because of how inconsistent everything looked. I guess I shouldn't expect myself to be able to draw consistently bc 1) I don't know anatomy; 2) I don't know my style. But still... damn....

10/7: The program was interrupted by Mizael. Who am I without dramatic lighting!

10/8: Tried turning the pose I was working on into Kaito. Still don't understand how his coat works so he's not gonna be wearing it for a while...

Sunday will be going over everything I've done and maybe produce some finished drawings. We will see.

My goal for this week has been to familiarize myself with the painting software and to establish a habit of drawing. I think so far I've been managing alright. Next week I will try to do more half/full bodied exercises. I will keep you posted!

[boitanosbitch]

Index/Tags

(making this so I can link it in my pinned post)

*NOTE - I tag pretty much every character’s name but i didn’t put everyone here bc there’s not a lot of (for example) gerald art. i also only tag ship names for the ships i like lol)

PAIRING + GROUP TAGS

stan + kyle

kenny + wendy

craig + tweek

also a special tag for Youth Pastor Craig and Imp Tweek

Bus Stop (line-ups of the main four)

The Other Bus Stop (i.e. Craig and those guys. i’m petty and i don’t tag this if it doesn’t include jimmy)

The Goth Kids (together or separate, but they also each have their own individual tag too)

SIBLINGS TAGS

Broflovski Bros (Kyle and Ike)

Marsh Kids (Stan and Shelly)

McCormick Kids (Kenny, Karen, Kevin, or any combination of two)

Tucker Kids (Craig and Tricia)

In a similar vein, I added a tag for posts that feature other Family Members as well.

COSTUME  / EPISODE TAGS

The Fractured But Whole + Superhero

Phone Destroyer

Stick of Truth + Fantasy

Anime/”Good Times With Weapons”

“I Should Never Have Gone Ziplining” “Free Willzyx” (or just Kyle and orcas) “Pandemic” / Pan Flute Outfits “Follow that Egg!” “Lil Crime Stoppers” “The Losing Edge” / Baseball Outfits Stan with Snowball the Rabbit

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (all BLU-related content)

Satanic Stan / “Freemium Isn’t Free”

“South Park is Gay” / The metrosexual outfits “W.T.F.” / Wrestling Outfits (includes “Tweek vs. Craig” tbh) Goth Stan Jersey Kyle Canadian Mountie Ike! Just make sure you don’t end up naked and jacking it in San Diego... Fingerbang!

....mike gainor? “You Got F’d int he A” / The Dance Movie Episode The girls as cheerleaders Am I Just an AirBnB in Santa Clarita? (+ “i don’t even have a machine to play fallen order on...”)

SEASONAL / HOLIDAY TAGS

Halloween! (both references to Halloween episodes and general Halloween-themed posts)

Winter and Winter Holidays! (also includes snowmen and similarly holiday-ish winter scenes)

Birthdays! (Whether referencing an in-show Birthday scene or just a birthday post for one of the characters)

ART STYLE TAGS

Comic

Gifs

Animation (original and some show animation)

Redraw / Reanimate (includes not-quite-redraw art that’s based directly on scenes or poses from the show)

Poster-style Art

TROPE TAGS + AUs + OTHER FUN STUFF

Grave: Kenny Standing at His Grave

Angel Kenny: Kenny with Angel Wings

Guitar Hero: Stan and Kyle playing guitar hero!

Cheesing: Kenny Cheesing

You’re Getting Old: Sad and/or drunk Stan (includes all references to “You’re Getting Old” and “Assburgers”)

Whale Wars: Stan being an animal-lover

Crossovers: includes crossovers w/ other media and AUs

Freaky Friday: Reversals/Age-Swaps/Costume Swaps, etc.

Kids Being Kids: exactly what the tag says

Precious Moments ™: someone getting their ass kicked

BLU Goodbye: Various takes on Kenny’s “Goodbye, You Guys” scene from the South Park Movie

Skaters: The kids with skateboards

PSP: Kenny with his PSP

Behind-the-Scenes and Making-of (and some screenshots/gifs from the show)

text posts / discourse / etc

memes and jokes

PERSONAL FAVORITES

faves (design)

faves (composition / dynamic / vibe)

CHARACTER TAGS

bebe ⌁ butters ⌁ cartman ⌁ carol mccormick ⌁ craig

clyde ⌁ ike ⌁ jimmy ⌁ karen ⌁ kenny ⌁ kenny’s rats

kevin (mccormick) ⌁ kyle ⌁  mr. possy ⌁ nichole

randy ⌁ sharon ⌁ sheila ⌁ sparky ⌁ stan ⌁ stripe

stuart  ⌁ terrance and phillip ⌁ timmy ⌁ token ⌁ towelie

tweek  ⌁ wendy  

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trigger/content warning tags i use: death, gun, blood, gore, suicide, death mention, suicide mention (feel free to ask if there’s something you’d like me to add!)