#tack design

[pansylair]

tinkering around with an abelisaur-esque fictional creature!

[lylahammar]

Zorella, the centaur pop queen ✨

Thank you to everyone who helped me by voting on her final design in the poll from last week! I'm so so so happy with how she turned out 🥰

[dromaeo-sauridae]

@saint-nevermore why would you do this

[lucid-bug]

THE most underrated princess imo- but her clothes needed an upgrade.

[lilacs-stash]

Coinpin I love Coinpin gotta be one of my favorite bfdi ships

Bonus doodle page. Also I like this one HC I saw on Pinterest of Tack OK being their kid. Ye 👍

[cleocatrablossy]

PIRATETIMEPIRATETIMEPIRATETIME

they are theatre kids your honor

[icedteaandoldlace]

I'm still losing my mind over this.

[kolaepup]

Hey I was just wondering if you could do a pony I really like your art and I was curious as to how you would do one.

WIP

i saw her in a dream last night.. had to draw her today

[elusianknight]

Some ppl gotta remember game mechanics exist and the lack of some poly routes in bg3 is undoubtedly due to the complexity of additional scenes, dialogue and programming flags/checks it would cause

[headfullof-ideas]

I’m halfway through writing the first film, and I’m taking a minor pause to do a deep organization of the shows that follow and their seasons, so I know what stuff to hint at earlier in the story, and not get stuck with the dreaded plot hole that I may have to go back and rewrite something in order to fix. This involves character arcs, season arcs, and all sorts of other fun stuff to think about, but not so much write.

HOWEVER.

I’ve only been focusing on the HTTYD stuff. As it takes up a majority of the first part of the story. Ant doesn’t meet his family until halfway through RTTE. I haven’t gotten that far yet in finer planning. I am now. I am now also being faced with the dawning realization of figuring out what parts of the story from The Deep to sew into this story, and how to translate what the characters do into this universe. Some (the Dark Orca pirates) are easier than others (Alpheus). I am also designing a number of other side-side (I guess background, technically) characters who might get involved later or in certain episodes, and still planning episode by episode how each season will go.

…this is fine🥲

[spockvarietyhour]

Consignee Grimes, there is no escape.

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start ID. A digital drawing of Minos Prime from Ultrakill, who's wearing a strapless slit dress and sandals of the same deep purple. He faces towards and slightly to the right of the camera, his head is tilted further right. With one hand he gestures in a vague pointing motion, his arm folded and held close to his body. There is nothing in the background, but bracing himself on one arm, Minos is implied to be leaning against something about the height of a countertop. The background is a blank purplish black, save for three diagonal stripes in the colors of the bisexual flag. End ID]

Shading study that quite literally came to me in a dream two weeks ago, after this post apparently beamed itself into my mind

(also a few edits below the cut! they're very slight but whatever :])

[Start ID. Three different versions of the previous drawing. The first changes the tone of the lighting from blue to pink, and similarly the shading from pink to blue. The second replaces the faint black border with pink, purple and blue, syncing with the stripes in the background. The third combines both these changes. End ID]

[puppytoast]

Redesigned my sona so maybe I'll actually like draw her lmao

[littleeyesofpallas]

[amphibiousdestroyer]

If you want a good Superman cartoon just watch Superman The Animated Series. It addresses heavier topics with much better tact than maws probably ever will. And the characters are actually well written and enjoyable.

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

Sorry to come to your inbox for this but I feel like you’d understand

As an Asian person living in the West, I’m aware of the different kinds of colorism in different cultures

I’m really tired of seeing people saying canon Wolfwoods are not dark enough for them. Yes there are variations in his coloring but in no iteration they made Wolfwood white (no, not even in BLR)

Not to mention other characters also have variations in their color design. Nightow’s Vash color pages are inconsistent too; sometimes he’s much darker

There’s a lot to unpack here that I don’t feel coherent enough to even begin

thank you for sending this, i really appreciate it. i'm not asian, so it really feels like not my lane to post about, but i notice all the time how reductive the conversation's become, and it really gets under my skin.

wolfwood is a japanese character, or at the very least designed that way. one of the big pieces of Trigun Trivia is that wolfwood was inspired by a japanese musician, tortoise matsumoto.

his skintone is inconsistent even within individual iterations but he's pretty much always drawn with monolid eyes. even in BLR and especially in stampede.

and that's just... not part of the conversation? somehow?

like. yes. colorism. but stampede wolfwood is immediately identifiable as an asian character, he still has a distinct nose bridge, the undertone of his skin is olive/yellow even when he looks pale. he's not white. he's asian.

and then in english-speaking fandom specifically, often explicitly with a dismissive sneer towards wolfwood's stampede design, wolfwood is very racialized in a way that distinctly does not depict him as asian, which i would bet money is because of western stereotypes about asian men. western wolfwoods are usually latino, or just... ambiguously brown.

(and of course there are asian wolfwoods among those, but his monolid eyes tend to be considered less important to preserve than his tits and his nose, along with stuff that was fully invented by fandom, like his body hair, and the exaggeration of his tits and nose, that rosary... weird how that happened.)

and... like.... there's nothing inherently wrong with character redesigns. or focusing on the parts of the character you find attractive when you draw or write them. i know a lot of specifically latino wolfwood came from latino fans. fanon wolfwood is a very handsome man. i see why so many people like him.

but it is. a bit fucking funny to have a whole host of people calling studio orange colorist and racist for wolfwood not being brown enough and then turning around and making wolfwood Fandom Papi Of The Year.

the vitriol towards stampede wolfwood feels just that much more disingenuous when the language is only surface-level about colorism, and the real complaint is that he's not attractive enough as a sex object.

thank you for the message <3 i'm very tired.