#synthaphone

[synthaphone]

can call all you want but there's no one home and you're not gonna reach my telephone

[sweetchimera-art]

VARN

for @synthaphone

[mondaybear21]

A delicious Artfight attack for @synthaphone!

[cybergoth-damsel]

14, 17, and 19!

14. How has your art changed over the years?

I'm resisting the urge to make like a big complicated timeline of how my art has evolved - the short version is that its all been relatively recent. Like I've drawn my whole life but I've always felt behind my peers until around 2019/2020. Here's a drawing of link I made when I was 16.

[mutantkacheek]

idk when i’ll get to this but i want to get a couple cute little cloud shaped shelves to set up my neopets toys on, and a star shaped corkboard for the pins

[pikestotallyawesomeblog]

@baysee

reblog this post to give your followers an ancient cypriot boar figurine

[kirawrart]

The comfiest little plushie Bori there ever was!! Giftart for @synthaphone of their Neopets OC, Zotyre 💤

[dandysphinx]

Def don't think I'll ever get around to making ALL the colors for them but I was inspired by @synthaphone's Centibytes and wanted to try my hand at my own neopet design + Try my hand at emulating the old neopets artstyle

I called them Pyrocyons (Combo pyro+Procyon lotor, latin name for raccoons) but the name doesnt exactly roll off the tongue. They're just dragon raccoons.

[pikestotallyawesomeblog]

4th guy: savannah/constellation/stained

i know you’re not usually a constellation fan, but i thought it looked nice with the caramel stained here

1st guy: spool/spinner/stinger

who wanna help me scry my anni hatches... got the good the bad and the ugly gang over here

shale/cerulean/caribbean, driftwood/sapphire/peridot, thistle/spruce/swamp

navy/nightshade/caramel and bubblegum/nightshade/saffron

[efverse]

first small batch of revenges! for @synthaphone @dryingpanzer and vessels on artfight ^.^

[synthaphone]

little marker doodle of synthaphone the first

[catseyemarble]

Art Fight 2024

Window Planter (Mint, for @shaymoo)

Picnic Time With Rainbowpaw (Rainbowpaw, for @demensa)

Opossum Oparty (Gwen, for @hoodiedeer)

Tummy Tangle (Ozzy, for Lycanthromance)

Midnight Prince (Emoku, for ⁠lizziedraws/@newpals)

Sea Breezie (Breezie, for starrymoons/@starryxm00ns)

Kitty Corner (Thalia, for @renkindle)

Teeny Gamer (Chip, for Chiptuni/@chiptini)

Rainy Day Delays (Spælsau, for Mot)

Stand at a Tension (Daffodil, for @diddgery)

Hardly Working (Alxxa, for @synthaphone)

Two Minutes Left (Lucerase, for @basalith)

July is always my worst brain month so I'm happy with how many of these I managed to get out hahah

[guardsbian]

wanted to try out (mostly) emulating FR's designs for this dragon design by @synthaphone! plus how I thought the primary/secondary/underbelly would sit on it

I probably would have tweaked a few design choices/interpretations of mine (the wings, the feet/hands) if I was better versed in this style, but overall I kind of just wanted to explore design by looking at two different art styles. I think a lot of people underestimate the flexibility and freedom contained within a "style," especially one like FR's— which faces a combination of universal guidelines for its breeds and can, occasionally, underutilize the diversity it's displayed in the past.

I ended up headcanon-ing this version as some sort of non-flight-aligned... gnome dragon? Biggest of the small breeds, secretly fixes your squeaky doors and sweeps up, and likes to kick their feet up on a toadstool after a night of hard work.

And I would love to put a little suit on these guys, both versions.

[adobe-outdesign]

what do you think of the new pteri day stuff? personally i'm not a fan of the cardinal outfit mainly because something about the face just looks wrong to me, but i like the museum outfit and am glad we got a new one of those. and i think the candy pteri is so funny. i think it's cool to have a choice between a more typical-looking, but still cute, candy pet, and between using PB clothes to turn it into a peep. i've already seen people make hilarious customs with the peep pteri.

Candy: Yeah I'll admit, I'm not the biggest fan of this one, sorry. I do like the concept of it being based off a Peep (though admittedly most people outside of the US don't know what that is—note for non-US readers: a Peep is a vaguely bird-shaped marshmallow covered in sugar crystals sold around the holidays), and I do appreciate them doing two designs, one "outfit" that's super literal and then one that's more pet-specific, which shows a good deal of effort. Also, the outfit is pretty funny purely from a meme perspective in the same vein as the Maraquan Nimmo.

However, my problem is that we're on two ends of the extreme with both designs: one is literally straight up a Peep(TM) with nothing Pteri-like about it whatsoever, and one is a vaguely glittery Pteri with nothing particularly candy-like about it. Why not blend the two? Give us a Pteri with the same texture, but round out the claws, feathers, etc. Make the eye markings all blobby, give the head feathers and tail that signature Peep flip, make the pupils the little candy dots, and maybe even have a little bite taken out of the wing to show off the marshmallow interior. You could even still keep the same outfit for the meme if you want, but then you'd at least have a high-effort Peep-inspired Pteri instead of a Peep(TM) and a low-effort Pteri colour, which I think is an import distinction.

As a side note, I'm linking this post by @synthaphone out of obligation because it says most of the same things I just did but was published earlier:

Forest (Outfit): Once again, not a huge fan. I've never really liked these hyper-realistic animal outfits; I'm playing Neopets for the neat fantasy creatures, so for me, having an outfit that's just like, a straight-up cardinal feels pretty boring.

Putting aside personal preferences though, I also just find this really uncanny? It's a bad combo of way, way too much texturing and detailing on a very cartoonish body with eyes that really don't belong on that face. The rendering itself is at least objectively well-done with lots of nice shading, but I would've much preferred just a regular non-textured Pteri with the same colors and markings. Once again, the difference between making a Neopet inspired by something IRL and just making something that already exists IRL.

Museum (Outfit): Okay, now this one I do like a lot. I already made a review covering museum outfits and in it I mentioned wanting more that aren't just mammals. The Pteri is a welcome addition, following the same format as the other museum outfits but having the skeleton hang from suspension wires instead of it sitting on a platform like all the others. That's really nice attention to detail and works perfectly with the concept. While the rendering here is still more detailed than Neopets' art tends to be, it's not bothersome as it's not uncanny (being a skeleton) and you can still very easily tell it's a Pteri.

My only minor gripe is that the placard shows just a straight-up pterosaur, which is weird. I get that the Pteri is supposed to look a bit like a pterosaur with the head crest and everything, but just having a real-life dinosaur on there is kind of distracting. That's a very minor point though; otherwise, I'm a big fan of this one.

[squidknees]

artfight attack for @synthaphone ! really charmed by these guys and their decorating disagreements

[evegwood]

[artfight] Synthaphone for @synthaphone!