#so im just posting this sketchy version

[dremiruu]

yasammy sketch!! my favourite dino lesbians

[itslilacmoon]

coolest kid on the block

[mordremrose]

Bite sized lore dumps for my 3 thieves, 3/5 necromancers and one (1) elementalist to fill out the “human in game but not in lore” page! Blorbos go brrrr

Transcriptions of their blurbs under the cut bc I know what my handwriting is like i promise

Dyraoi: She/her, Nightmare Courtier— Lady of Decay, minion-mancer

Briefly left her duties with the Court to study Orr

Her most beloved pet is a recreation of Zhaitan’s dragon champions, based on Tequatl and Blightgast

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Rhialora: she/her, spector— “The Viscount”, Order of Whispers agent in the Nightmare Court, while undercover in the Court she grew attached to those loyal to her.

Post HoT, she welcomes [both] Mordrem and Courtiers to her side to heal and recover

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Jian Cain: he/him, Soundless Deadeye

Makes a living helping [around] a small fishing village, though he spends almost all his time either in or on the water

Vaikeres: she/they, Dreamer (sorta), Harbinger

An incredibly skilled and reckless alchemist, Vaikeres once created a potion that reversed a death. She has not been able to recreate it

Joint: seaweed/kelp twins— Since Jian cut himself off from their shared dream, the twins have steadily drifted further and further from the Grove

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Countess Andreas: she/her, scourge— A powerful and respected Orrian necromancer who avoided the same fate as the rest of her people by trapping her own soul in an amulet… or so she claims

Niawah: catalyst, he/they — A young Largos in self-imposed exile on the surface after the death of his older sister on a hunt

Luca Anatole: she/her, daredevil — A young Shrine Guardian who bound herself to a sickly human girl to save her life. The lines between them have blurred into one mischievous mind

[bugbuoyx]

i hate adhd i cant focus on shit right now but you know what i AM thinking of? a shitty obscure korean anime movie. i wrote like a whole fucking novel in discord about this fucking movie.

[my-beloved-lakes]

My little sister just said I have a very distinctive way of drawing shoulder muscles😂

[be-good-to-bugs]

hehehe

[velnna]

What brushes do you use in csp?? Ive been trying to find a good lineart brush thats gives me similar results to yours and im just having no luck

Imma be real with you boss I don't even know how to answer that question anymore LMAO

There's a post on my patreon (which, my bad, I thought was public but is locked for $1 apologies) called "brushes masterpost" where I list a bunch of brushes I tend to circle back to BUT that post is already outdated. I switch lineart brushes so often that ANY information about what brush I'm using becomes obsolete real quick so I hate answering this question 🫠

I can say that even if I linked the brushes I'm using, the chances of them looking the same to you are slim since my brush effects depend not just on the original brush, but on a bunch of edits to its settings, system pressure settings (the same brushes look different to me on a laptop and an iPad for instance) and resolution (a lot of the brushes I use look crispy because I work on low resolutions, but would look completely different if instead of using them at 3px size I used them at 10px like a normal person).

I can also maybe just advise that if you're struggling with finding a brush you like, don't be afraid to download a bunch of different ones (assuming you've got something like the CSP asset store) and spend some time redrawing the same things to see which one tickles your brain! And also don't be afraid to mess around with the settings to see what they do - while of course saving duplicates if you don't want to lose the original one. I find that really understanding what the main settings do is a lot better in the long run to customise your ideal brush than just trying out stuff other artists use directly.

My current lineart brush is a customised version of the brush "sketchy pen" from this pack

[enevera]

300 follower dtiys

hey yall!!! to celebrate hitting 300 followers on here i decided to do a dtiys challenge!!

the above drawings are both part of the challenge, so feel free to draw either one or both if you feel like it! the one on the left is an oc of mine, kehtje, and the one on the right is chuuya from bungou stray dogs

rules

dont trace my original versions

@ me if you post :D i wanna see them all!!

get it done by the end of august but its no big deal if you miss that, you just wont be eligible for the prizes

prizes (since thats like. a part of these things i believe)

first place gets a fully rendered bust by me

second and third place get sketchies

these will follow my comm guidelines

im going to post the art as a separate post after the challenge time ends just in case any of yall wanna rb that without the rules attached lol

[ashes-onthewind]

PINNED POST ALERT ! ✨

I like green, shush

Hiya! My name is Ash! Please use exclusively he/him

my ask games are under # ask game (tagged on this post as well)

go reblog this if you would :3 or this

my note post for creative accountability

"famous" posts i have: baikal seals, trahearne appreciation,

context for my blog title

my pfp is a commission from @honeybyte !!

I hate longass pinned posts so! The rest is under the cut, motherfuckers

I write and draw sometimes over at @kickintheleaves! I reblog emotes I want to use on @ashess-inthewind, and my contribution to the gimmickverse is @irate-art, which is currently inactive while I get my shit together :( I've got stuff to queue on it when I have time but yeah feel free to tag me on any of these!

My tags are as follows: (never consistent)

# ash asks <- for when I send other people asks

# ash answers <- for when I answer asks

# ash draws <- for finished art pieces

# ash scribbles <- for every art, including sketchy little doodles!

# ash rambles <- for my original posts and long comments

# tumblr heritage <- for classic posts I've gotten on my blog!

# not my art <- might tag it sometimes when I remember, usually I fast-reblog though

# might just write this <- things I want to write

# might just draw this <- you'll never guess. things I want to draw. waow

# into the archives <- something I want to come back to later, usually a reference

# art stuff <- art resources

#writing prompts <- no way...

# ask game <- yeah

# radar <- my dog !!

My friend tags are, in no order and not a full list:

# my silly <3 <- @/retsameki, my girlfriend <3

# potato stick <- @/irishfry

# sir morphy <- @/mrmorphea

# bee juice <- @/honeybyte

# cactiddies <- @/cactus-with-boobs

# the rats <- @/fivemillionrats

# bardbucks <- @/v3ntissecrets now @/banhamm3r-r3al

#lunarsys <- @/thelunarsystemshares / @/thelunarsystemwrites

@/stars-etc

If you want a friend tag u gotta ask im not gonna do them much anymore

Enjoy the chaos!

I'll make this pretty eventually I promise lol

Miscellaneous Links

paperwork

Secret Dashboards

Adobe analog

Art references here, here, and here

What to cook when you have no food at home

hampter

dunkin lesbians

Heritage posts I managed to get on my blog

The guy who forgot to turn on anon to send himself hate mail

ice pack or pee, the endless question

list of tumblr folklore + a longer version

while you studied the blade

Important information

Esk*mo is a slur

How to adult

Be careful before donating

colour calibrate your monitor!

[ghostyclay]

Here, have an ethoslab sketch :D

@homestuckfan2000 (tumblr lagged and i couldn't answer the ask for some reason?? So i just tagged u)

Oml its v messy, bc ORIGINALLY i was just gona make a lil doddle, but then i added colors and then a background and then i HAD to at least do some sketchy rendering-

Idk if it still counts as a 'messy sketch' but it sure is messy... Im trying to fight my perfectionism BUT GOD DAMNIT ITS HARDDDD

!reminder that art requests r still open! (although its gona take me a while to draw em so be patient)

EDIT: Lmfao i just realized i accidentally posted the wrong version of the pic w/o the foreground- I FIXED IT NOW

[freebooter4ever]

the nice thing about rote 3D work is its mindless - it kind of like doing the dishes. there's room to think, or call friends, or listen to music or movies or hockey cause your brain is just kind of running on auto pilot. an its relaxing because at the end there will be this output that's technically pristine. the other funny thing is since i downloaded a 'trial' version of maya im finding myself missing features from z*modeler. which is totally backwards from when i started in z*modeler and was missing features from ma*ya. i wish i could combine the two, lol.

Anyway, sculpting...sculpting is different. It's more emotional and about translating what my brain is observing. There's no perfectly 'correct' answer, and thats often what stresses me out so much. But the lack of 'correct' answer is also what i love about it.

I need both in my life because the mindless work clears the busy clutter in my brain and gives me a break from the sculpting work while still exercising the same technical skills.

Drawing is similar - the daily doodles i usually post that are fast and sketchy are mindless work. And ive been so focused on trying to find a job and get this portfolio piece done fast...that i have not creatively drawn anything in literal months. Not since december. I had ideas, and i went and forgot about them until i was looking at old sketches the other day and suddenly remembered - hey i never actually did that thing i wanted to draw. When i have a job and a stable income my weekends are reserved for drawing, and i havent been able to do THAT since last june.

I just really really miss having time to myself that doesnt feel like if i am not being productive in a specific direction i am wasting it

[rawrtriesagain]

LOOK HOW CUTE THIS IS AAAAAAAAAAADHJSAHDJSADKWFUAS genuinely sobbing i wish i didnt color it fully lmaooo main post

full body under the cut

and now you're wondering: "but why didnt you just post these in your main if you liked them so much" and that my dear child is because i popped my whole pussy coloring it and im not abouta throw it away lol. I only noticed this version while I was doing last minute cleanup :(

also i know im a sucker for simplicity black/white sketchy blah blah aesthetic so this is my personal pref and im sure more people would like the colored one more (im sure? 😭😭😭😭😭)

[jennilah]

jenna gone got high and started rambling about nothing again

the amount of times ive drawn something that i thought i would be appealing or even only make sense to an audience of me and maybe 2 other people, only for it to get blown out of the water with response is shockingly often

like hoffman and strahm from the Saw franchise getting high together, yeah

but also my nonsense comics about Michael Myers from specifically the Thorn trilogy, the RZ remake, and the Green sequel hanging out like weird brothers

or every time I draw a weird AU like slashers as fish. or mini characters that live in the pockets of either someone else or the normal versions of themselves

any self indulgent crossover ive ever made like Jason hanging out with Godzilla and Mothra

and i do it for every fandom. if anyone remembers my old spn comics and AUs, some of those were off the wall cryptic and nonsensical. to the likes of which i havent come close to recreating

many of these get hundreds to thousands of notes/likes/whatever on various websites. so many people just see my nonsense and let me take their hand, no questions asked

thats it i just think its funny

jk im not done that reminds me,. the results of my dumb little poll came in where i asked what people sort of ideally want from me and im kind of surprised

i think i rambled this already but deleted it bc it felt too dumb but actually i dont think its dumb. i think its really interesting and relieving that people actually want my sketches and doodles and dumb things.

& yea i enjoy occasionally making a fully rendered piece but i mean. its not easy, and im never totally happy with the end result most of the time. but if im only posting sketches and doodles and sketchy doodly comics i feel bad like i feel like im just holding people over until the next piece where i actually put in effort.

but it turns out people are totally ok with stuff that i dont kick my own ass trying to polish. people arent settling for it, people voted- they want it.

and i dont know where this attitude against myself came from because i was never unhappy seeing sketches from artists i like

maybe its the part inside of me, which im pretty sure is inside every artist who has ever experienced self doubt, which makes me feel like i should be putting my best effort into everything. like, if i could only just muster up the courage to fully render some of these comics I do, then they would be even better...

but i wouldnt have as much fun. thats too much work, i get overwhelmed

so, they stay sketches. with varying degrees of refinement and shading.

so idk im glad ppl like them

anyway rambling done i think ive made my non-points

[honey-tragedy]

this is nova, nova is my proto type spidersona based on the salmon pink bird eating spider. nova is what happens if you tell a broke 18 year old you'll give them 5000 bucks and a full ride scholarship if they agree to be part of your sketchy bio engineering drug trial. 

per usual, click for better resolution cause tumblr just eats image quality. 

long post below

their universe, number 244598, is a semi technologically advanced world, but its advancements are mostly in military applications. time line wise their running in the year 2040.

based on the what if situation of oscorp realizing that their radioactive spider could be used to make the newest batch of super soldiers , and the military funding the project. currently their are only two surviving from the original pool of applicants, both of which got spider powers, nova as the feet on the ground half and a yet to be named other half as the guy in the chair. 

both of them weren't to keen on being the newest attack dogs for the military, but oscorp doesn't exactly agree with that. oscorp don't know whos under the spider mask but they do know Spiderman has got to be using their experimental supersoldier serum and if they can capture them the compony would have a working version of the serum.  consequently both “spiderman” and “ that other smaller spiderman” have warrants out for their arrest.

nova, during a attempt to transfer them to larger tank, “dealt with” the researchers in the lad at the time, in a sort of spider-sense fueled blind rage. destroying the lab and wiping as much evidenced of the project as they could.  they destroyed the tanks and the rest of the deceased trial candidates, threw the only other survivor over their shoulder and bolted.

after setting the place on fire of course. they've got a Deadpool style “I'm too changed and monstrous to go back to the people i love but ill keep them safe in the meantime” thing going on.

they went into the trial 5′2 and with the normal two arms and two eyes.

 their now about 7′1 and around 700 pounds, even if they don't look it, two extra arms, six extra mini eyes and a whole lot of muscle and joint issues on their left side.  due to them growing far larger then expected their containment tank was too small, as such their left side was pressed into the glass and its growth stunted.

their suit compensates for most of it with braces and extra support on that side. outside of costume they use a Cain. 

im playing with the idea of their like, unique power being some sort of weight/ density shifting, their basically like a brick wall with other various spider powers. but because their so heavy they got to  be super carful with where they swing and land. many billboards have been dented and bent due to them. 

they were in new York for collage when they joined the spider experiment. now seeing as they essentially faked their death, collage’s not exactly in the cards.  they work day shift at a strip club bar and nights as the one and only goliath.

im basically planning on throwing them into their universes team red cause i think dp and dd would do very well with a big big friend.

[etiennebrule]

I lost my copy of good omens years ago, which wasn't a huge loss because it was pretty aggressively destroyed anyways. always thought this was sorta funny, cause I remember a bit in the back where Neil and Terry talked about having to sign someone's book at an event that looked like it was dropped in the bath. I hope I didn't do something like that on purpose.

I collect a mix of covers, but most of pterry's books that I own are all black and minimalist because that's what was in print, and my good omens one looked like part of the set. It was this one:

So today my hold finally comes due at the library (well, on libby), and I start reading it and it...feels like a different book? It's so american? They use Fahrenheit?? Things are spelled wrong and everything just feels like it was reflected into a mirror and tilted a degree off? There's footnotes in the text specifically written "to americans". It's not a bad thing, but it gave me such a feeling of vertigo to really feel the americanization of it, it felt like I was reading a bootlegged version of the book lol. I live in America right now, but I never have before, and it's interesting how much this small thing really made me kind of miss home.

Anyways, I think I just managed to buy a UK paperback version of Good Omens online with the above 2011 cover from an only slightly sketchy source. Normally I'd want to get it at the bookstore, but I don't live near any large ones and sourcing UK novels in the US has proven to be difficult indeed (I was on a passive hunt for Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee for months before I found it in a gigantic bookstore in a city far from anywhere I've called home, and bought it immediately even though I've read it already just in case I never see it again. and also so that I can show it to people if they ever have the urge to read vaguely weird depressing sapphic post-apocalyptic british eco fiction (not necessarily a recommendation, read at your own risk)).

Anyways, guess I better go finish reading all my boring old adult books for now while my questionably sketchy copy of this 30 year old book traverses its way across the country to me (im sorry earth)

[a-wild-things-rambles]

[click for better quality and full size]

so, this collection of pieces are all heavily inspired by @finalgirljasontodd 's amazing fic red shift abut the cosmic mistakes trio. these pieces are most heavily inspired by the third paragraph:

"In the bathroom, Kyle is hunched over the sink. A red line of saliva is drawn between his lip and the porcelain. He spits. Blood splats into the basin. He cups his hand under the faucet and drinks until he can't taste metal anymore."

under the cut are non yellow versions and some notes as well as a bonus drawing

so i understand the yellow is off putting and was artistic license on my part, i used the yellow as i wanted to show how kyle is still haunted by the after math of his time as paralax, but he is turned away from it [he is always facing away from the yellow light] he is also tuned towards the green [the dark green shadows] but he is still in the middle [gray/white for ion] affected by both. his linework is sketchy- especially compared to the water, sink, tap or tiles- he is unsure of himself. but he is a green lantern at core- the neon green linework.

also bonus from the line "His notebook’s still on the kitchen counter—as he collects a pair of bowls and opens up the cereal box, he notices the broken pencil’s still sitting on top of it. Only now someone has taken a knife and shaved the splintered edge to a gentle, neat point."

yes i sharpened one of my pencils w a knife to a nice point to use for a reference in a piece that you cant really tell if its knife sharpened.

my tags which i think are important- its strange to be on the other side of analysis, with the ability to know what the intentions of the piece were, so when using my analysts eye i can pick up on meanings i dint mean to happen, whether they go against or with the intentions. also how different perspectives can read different ideas- leading to different conclusions. idk this shit is cool and i love hearing ppls interpretations of my work so leave it in the tags! [you win my undying gratitude]

#i have just realized i could have don the highlights red. cause red-shift#and it would contrast better w the green#but it would make the blood stand out less#the blood is an important part#especially with it contrasting the gods not bleeding idea#something something expression of mortality#also the yellow green are ajasent not contrasting#so it shows how it can be easy to slip between the two#especialy given the amount of gl who have become yl and vice versa#not especially happy with the fact i colured the water yellow#it makes sense- yellow lighting#but makes it look like hes accepting the yellow[parallax]#i feel it gives of the wrong connotations#but you could say the worry he has about god/his place means he is feeling fear#but it can be hard to have prefect ideas#we are human and our minds will always find patterns that were not intended#some of wich may go against the original idea#but are valid and interesting interpretations that are not wrong#just different from intended

ok i swaer im gonna stop adding to this but i went in more depth[and sense] in a post i just wrote here