#sorry about the lil sparkle effect in the b&w one

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Cone of Shame

Day 9 is done! A lil angsty but I hope I make up for it in the end ;). I hope everyone's weekend is going well :D! Mine is haha. I haven't done much except rewatch Criminal Minds and the Vampire Diaries lololol. What have you guys been doing? Lemme know <3

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A small thump on her balcony signaled a certain superhero arriving. Narrowing her eyes, Marinette instantly ran up to her bed, grabbing the item she had just created and hid it behind her back. She flipped the trapdoor open and greeted the cat before he even had the chance to knock. Planting a wide smile on her face, she spoke cheerfully, “Chat! What are you doing here?”

“Just came to visit my favorite purrincess,” he purred before falling into her room, “You sound pawsitively chipper. Did something good happen today?”

Marinette placed a hand over her heart and spoke breathily, “Oh, yes actually. You see, I actually managed to...,” quick as a flash she brought out the cone she had just made and planted it over his head with a glare, “Get this cone over your head!”

“Marinette... I... what,” Chat reached up with panic, scratching at the cone on his head, “W-why can’t I get this off?”

“Huh, you know you’re just like a cat,” her hip cocked to the side and she planted one of her hands on it. She patted his shoulder briefly with her free hand, “Don’t worry, Chaton, I don’t think a kitten would know how to get it off either.”

“B-but why...?” his hands stopped scrambling for purchase on the plastic cone and he pouted at her.

Marinette growled at that, removing her hand quickly from his shoulder, “I saw the news today! What were you thinking, diving headfirst into danger like that?!”

“Oh, is that what this is about?” he smirked at her, causing her glare to deepen, “Mari, please, I was just trying to take care of m’lady.”

“Ladybug can take care of herself!” she snapped without even thinking about it, “She doesn’t need you jumping into shots meant for her like that!”

Chat’s hands came down to rest on her shoulders gently but she swatted them aside and instead slid down her ladder. Stomping over to her chair, Marinette sat down with a grumble, crossing her arms across her chest. The chair swiveled with the force of her ire. Determinedly avoiding Chat’s gaze she flipped open her sketchbook and began sketching with a harrumph.

“Mari, please,” his voice came from behind her shoulder, his hot breath blowing in her ear slightly. She practically whirled around at that and aimed her pencil threateningly at him. The superhero gulped before backing up some, his arms up in surrender, “Sorry, sorry! I-I didn’t realize you’d be so upset!”

“I-I’m not upset,” Marinette choked back a sob, “I was worried! Do you have any idea how terrifying it was to see you jump in front of a blast that we didn’t even know the effects of yet!” 

The terrible thing was she couldn’t even mention that she saw it in person. The memory of Chat diving in front of a blast from an akuma that was meant for her was playing on repeat in her brain. She didn’t even have enough time to scream his name before he was frozen in place in front of her.

“Marinette, I’m alright. Ladybug saved me,” Chat tried to console her.

“But what if she hadn’t!?” she shrieked, “She can’t do this without you, you know!!”

Immediately she was wrapped up in his arms as he hugged her tightly, “It’s okay. I’m okay. I trust her completely, Marinette. She wouldn’t let us, let Paris down.”

Sniffling in his chest, Marinette shook her head slowly. Muttering quietly into his leather suit, she clenched her eyes shut, “You put too much faith in her.”

“Hey, hey,” one of his hands came down to lift her chin up and soon she was looking into his soft, sparkling emerald eyes, “She hasn’t let us down yet. And if you knew her, saw her like I did, you’d trust her just as much.”

The butterflies that erupted in her chest then were instantaneous. Marinette’s mouth fell open as she blinked up at him. Slowly, her cheeks turned a bright shade of pink and she scrambled backwards, away from his arms. In her haste to get away, she landed harshly on the floor. Wincing, she rubbed at her sore back before realizing that Chat had leaned down to give her a hand up.

“You alright, Marinette?” his brow had furrowed in concern as he gazed at her.

“Y-yeah, I-I fine I am. I-I mean, I’m fine,” she shook her head quickly, trying to get rid of the fluttering in her chest. Gulping quietly, she avoided his gaze and hand. Pushing herself up from the ground, the designer nibbled on her lower lip. 

“If you’re sure,” Chat’s head tilted at her before he put his hand back down by his side.

“I-I am,” Marinette blurted quickly. Her blush deepened and one of her hands lifted to touch her flushed cheeks. 

W-what’s wrong with me? I only act this way around... oh. Oh no. I-it can’t be...

Her eyes widened to the size of saucers and she scrambled back once again. She had feelings for Chat. Her partner. The guy who’s been flirting with her from the beginning. No, no, no! This cannot be happening! Quickly, Marinette yanked her chair over to her and stood up on it, reaching up and yanked the cone on Chat’s head off. She ignored his startled yelp and instead began pushing him up the bed, “There we go! All fixed now! Y-you can go!”

“But Mari, I never got to tell you the reason I came here,” he pouted at her as she pushed open her trapdoor.

“Whoops, sorry. Lots to do! Places to do, homework to go!” she stumbled.

“You mean places to go, homework to do,” Chat smirked at her.

“Yep!” Marinette practically screeched before shoving him up onto her balcony, “Tell me whatever it was later! I’ve gotta go!”

With those parting words, she slammed the hatch back down. Ignoring the shocked expression on her friend’s face, she practically crumpled when she was finally alone. Just what on earth was she going to do?!

[memedokies]

(almost) every anon ask since fall 2016

if u havent noticed i am BAD at answering asks so here’s a Big Dump of most of the asks i’ve gotten in the past few months

ps; i’ve excluded pokemon suggestions bc i plan on getting to them at some point

Hihihi!!! What brushes do you use in fire alpaca??  i dont do much in firealpaca (esp not lately lol) but when i did use it a lot i just used the fill bucket and the standard/default brush to fill in gaps n such lol! i dont really draw in it, i used flash/adobe animate for the lineart and just fill in color in firealpaca :3

when did you start animating?   uhh when i was around 11 or 12 when i started digital art i guess? i just used photoshop for the longest time then got flash when i was like 15 or so

 How did you get flash?  i got the creative cloud dealie, its technically required for my school :—-0 

 hello!! what are you majoring in in vcu?? im thinking about going there for college  im in communication arts! omg cool lmk if u come here ill tell u where to get the best bubble tea

 how many fps do you use for your wiggly animations? i work at 24 fps in flash on twos but just end up using photoshop’s 0 second frame delay/ “no delay”?

 Hey love your animations! What do you animate with?  adobe animate 2017! (previously flash) 

You mentioned a YouTube channel but I can’t seem to find a link to it? Do you post processes on there? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovvoZxlQjFaIA7A3w_94Zw theres not much atm but i plan on posting a lot more, including process/speedpaints! 

i really like your art style gosh darn!!! everythings so fluid and stylized and nice aaa (also ur animations are goals) do u have any tips for someone still developing their artstyle????  WAH TYSM!!!!! compile art you already like and incorporate aspects from their styles into yours, BUT dont limit urself to one style! if u like something then try it out! do straight up copies (as PRACTICE, DONT CLAIM IT as your own ofc) of stuff you like to see how they work and what you’re clicking with. spending time on fundamentals is MEGA helpful so keep going back to that too! USE REFERENCES!!! draw …from ur soul…what makes u ..FEEL good

 how do you make that burn effect on your lineart? it makes it your pieces look sharper and even more interesting, it’s super cool!!  when i used to use flash for lineart and firealpaca for coloring a lot, setting the lineart layer on BURN with the coloring layer seeping a lil past the lineart would get this effect automatically 

(like on the whiskers. u can see it gets a brighter brown(?) and the warmer yellow on the ears)

but since then i’ve been using sai+photoshop more so i just do it manually! i’ll use this funny pic of me and my cat as an example lol

^i select the lineart/everything i want the funky color around

^slam that INCREMENT button a couple times

^make a new layer under the lineart

^fill that puppo with ur preferred color! something brighter works best, or even straight up white

that’ll give you something like this

then i open it in photoshop

and i mess with the pink line layer’s blending mode..color burn usually does the trick but depending on the Look you’re going for, saturation, multiply and overlay have some similar effects that look cool. 

i also usually get rid of the outermost edge of pink line that’s visible around the lineart, just so it looks a little cleaner? to do that you just select around your lineart, increment/expand selection, and delete/erase in the selection of the pink line layer

uhh yeah! lmk if anyone needs clarification on this, i have some other #TIPS on makin ur art look crusty and funky so…lemme know if you’re interested :—3

What do you use to animate? And, a more specific question, how do you make transparent animated gifs? adobe animate 2017! (previously flash) i export my animation from flash as a png sequence then open it in photoshop, where the background will be transparent and save it as a gif from there nyaaa

if anyone needs more clarification lmk and i’ll make a proper walkthrough :-0

 Hello!! Ur art is rlly pretty and so inspirational and nice to look at!! 💗💗 I was wonderin’ if ya had any tips on choosing shapes for characters? Like, when you draw shapes for a certain character, it looks rlly like it fits with the character’s personality n stuff!! ( e.g: Your Love Live! drawings!! The characters look so good in your style.) I’ve always admired how u did that n was hoping for some tips maybe?? Anyways, have a good day!!💛💖💟💜💝💞💖 HOOGA!! TYSM!!! and YEA you basically guessed it, i mainly just think about the character’s personality and translate that into a shape or Pheeling… 

especially for anime characters i look at the Very Subtle differences in the character’s original design..or possibly canon implications…for example kotori has slightly different eyes (it also says on her wiki page she has soft droopy eyes!) so i make sure to incorporate that Detãile

 anime wiki pages that have details like that is nice, for love live they have cute lil “charm points” which is really cool n helpful! listening to how a character is described in their world can give clues to what differentiates them which you can make more clear in your design

taking into account each characters context is good too, what they do/hobby/personality and how that could affect their appearance/posture/attitude

 YEAH its really fun to figure out certain characteristics and make it evident in their appearance! or. idk thats just what i do lol. hopefully this helps!

Have you ever seen the anime jojos bizarre adventure? alas i have not..i have some friends whom are into it so i’ll prob end up watching it sometime lol

sorry if this is obvious but!! are you the creator of Fork and Knife: Food Fighters?? your gif of fork is super cute btw!! yes i am!! wah tysm!!

Hey my little sister found your animation on an online art gallery and she really loved it! omg cool, thanks so much!!

Your style is so lovely!! OHG thanks!

your blog is so precious i love it a lot! your art is so cute too ^u^ waa thanks!!

Your art and animations art really cool! Keep up the good work! You are amazing!! aahg thank you!! :’333

 your art is fuckening amazing hh broe…tysm

 Oh my gee, I used to follow you on Deviant Art, and now here I am, finding you on accident. You’re still as talented as ever. =w= b hUIOpugh deviantart, my homeland..my origin.. thank you!!!

- O mg I love your art! 💕💕💕 thank you!! heart emojis!!! 💖💖💖

- your art and animations give me so much inspiration, thank you! everything about your style is so fun and it cheers me up omg this validates my top tier goal in life, im so glad!! thank you SO much!

Your style is so charming and adorable ;__; thank you!!

ur art is so gross in the best way possible this is the biggest compliment ive gotten thank u so much. i love making gross squishy awful drawings

IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOU!!!! IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU FOR AGES!!!!!!!!! I LIVE FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL ART!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! BHOLY CRAP THANK YOU!!!

 your art style is very cute ! 🌱 oohg thanks!! thanks for the little sprout emoji, i love her

GOOD ART!!!! good art good art good art EVERYWHERE I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! OHHGG THANK YUO

how do ya draw such cutely its driving me nuts Nuts NUTS !!! I LOVE SPARKLES AND BRIGHT COLORS AND FUNNY ANIMALS..its my lifeblood..thank u.. 

You’re a really rad artist! I’m Glad there’s some cool artists that are local! Have a good time at VCU! oh wow thanks!! 

Ur shapes r so good thanks i LOVE a nice wholesome shape!

I rlly like ur art style my dude thanks!! 

hi! just wanted to let u know that you’re wonderful and i wish u well in everything u do this is making me bVERY HAPPY THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

 Im love You!! IM L OVE YIOU

that meowth boy is so good. i love him as he is my son THANK YUO i too, love meowth a Lot

 I love how your art is basically lines and curves, it’s very cute oo thanks! 

i love your art style so much!! it’s so zesty? i cant think of a better word to describe but its like. zesty & refreshing & rly rly cool !!! THATS A BEAUTIFUL ADJECTIVE I LOVE IT thank u so much!!!

You seem like you would watch Osomatsu-san. I could see you drawin dem bois in you hella rad art style. osomatsu was the wildest ride of my life. tho i dont think i could physically be able to sit down and draw them seriously ever… 

 Pls make more angry cat comics theyr so halarious plllls 👀 more are on the way!!!!!!

Have you done a meet the artist i sketched one when the meme was still poppin..is it too late lol? maybe i’ll still do it