#that's more a mental note for myself

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Hey can I request you tag your thirsty anon boxtalks? I get so much joy out of them I want to follow the tag and scream in silence with them. 🤣🥵🔥 I want to read them all but I can't keep up with you (sorry! I do love you!) 💜

oh sure!

box talk: thirst edition

lets actually make it a goal to make that the primary tag.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

oh noooo or whatever

bonus aka The Real Motive Behind This:

SURPRISE double bonus. textless ver of the first pic under the cut

[deoidesign]

"I'm the dog they put with cheetahs to keep them from going crazy in captivity" x "I'm the cheetah that is threatening to go crazy" 4 ever

(I make a webcomic about them)

[sirfleetfoot]

RULES OF BEING OTHERKIN #1

Being authentic and true to yourself is the only way you are 'supposed to be/act like' (insert entity). If anyone else disagrees it only tells you about them.

[omnificent-orion]

Do you still dream of escape? So near at hand?

What is the point of dreaming when your body lies here, never moving?

[puppppppppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[dustykneed]

poll below!! for funsies:

[thedrotter]

not-yet-dead-person

silly comic of a conversation in-game i thought was too funny not to make something proper for instead of a doodle ww

(timelapse + wip images (thus silly process commentary in read more if you like artist commentary :3)

i think the sketch looks silly and goofy and funny so i find it important to share with you the mere presence of the faces i drew on it. i drew it on top of the boxes without staying inside its borders because i find my proportions can get wonky if i draw them cropped in a restricted space. and I feel trapped otherwise and i will draw BAD!!! give me spaceeeee to go wild!!!!

the head circles are there for emotional support

very low res speedpaint because truth is the canvas was much bigger than the space where my comic was placed. i didnt account when exporting my timelapse in 720px that that tiny space would look so pixelated ... but it's able to be percieved, so its okay.

(i will now comment on my process and it is not brief sorry)

usually i would try to clean up my sketches and figure out what goes on top before jumping into linework, but since there are multiple panels and drawings i chose to jump into inking right away for the sake of brevity. i just went in with a brush that uses pen pressure and drew what was needed. i added extra line thickness and contrast in areas around the face because it helps direct your eyes there more easily that way.

according to her equipment rei has a chain belt but i only remembered it existed once I was going to color, and i did not like that discovery... I chose to ignore it to maintain my peace. i already have the color palettes for these characters figured out, and i didnt really want to think about a new element at the moment www I tend to overthink those things a lot so i skipped it

the rest is rather straightforward! not that anything else wasn't, but in here i could turn my brain off and sing. linework and sketching require mumbling so i cannot turn my brain off. just block in the characters with a solid color so i can have a mask (something along those lines,) where the color can stay inside. then just color in !!!

Base colors just had slight cell shading on the skin, and for the hair i airbrush a bit of the skincolor in low opacity near the forehead... I'm not sure what it means, but i can look at the faces easier with it somehow. i like the gentle subtlety it adds even if you cant really tell. it makes things look nice.

background was just me blocking in the color of the wall and floor, shade the wall a bit, then slap a noise and free use wood texture on top. work smarter not harder ! yet it took a bit to make it look stylistically fitting with the characters, and even now i think bottom middle panel looks odd. whatever!!!

for the middle panel i thought itd be funny if the background was a solid silly and colorful one to contrast the next panel's sketchy black one. a contrast to how the word widow is seen. on that note my handwritting is not pointy. i gaslighted my hand into thinking that it was indeed pointy in that moment so i could write "not-yet dead person" in letters that didn't seem cute. my hand did not fall for it but it complied anyway

that's basically it! I'm not sure what else i could say that doesn't feel barebones because it really is that straightforward. if you're curious I used clip studio paint for this. only special brush used was for linework (a brush named Lemon Brush), the rest used were just the default. my computer gets the least credit. it was trying to convince me a 20mb file was going to nuke it all the time and hardly let me save multiple times so i do not appreciate it

[dagasinfilo]

why do i always just forget i clearly need to drink electrolytes often. i’ve been feeling like shit for a while and remembered it’s been a minute since i got a powerade or gatorade or whatever, and a week or two since i stopped eating grains of coarse salt here and there throughout the day. “it’s probably the pregabalin withdrawal” i say. “stopped eating as much salt and i’ve been fine” ???? dude what do you even mean fine? is barely able to think fine? not being able to lift your arms to tie your hair for more than like half a minute because your muscles start burning fine?? like yes sure the pregabalin withdrawal is certainly a factor but dude. this is not a new occurrence come on

like i will be in complete all-consuming despair, grieving that i can barely put two thoughts together, about to cry to the thought of having to make freaking instant ramen for dinner in like five hours because my body feels too heavy and my muscles don’t want to respond. drink a glass of gatorade and suddenly after a few minutes i believe in hope again.

i mean i still feel very much like shit and heavy and sore. but man. you can make everything so much lighter and easier with this one simple trick. if you would just [tightens fist] remember

[emometalhead]

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[xdeerlybelovedx]

Some ipad doodle practice for my inevitable downward spiral in becoming an exclusive Lies of P art blog--

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

should i sleep for a hundred million years or purposefully stop sleeping just to see what happens

[official-l]

Eating an expired quesadilla because I've lost all control of my life and am one minor inconvenience away from killing myself

I wouldn’t recommend eating expired food, but it is better than not eating at all, most likely.

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

Oopsies my hand slipped and I drew this

[kafus]

the other day i accidentally dropped one of my frozen french toast stick slices on the ground, so now i have an uneven amount of them. this is annoying because i usually eat two at a time. so i am currently eating three because i am starving and i don’t want to have one leftover. queenly feast

[seaweedstarshine]

This part was like half a year ago — but it's still cute that Forge and Ororo were both thinking of each other at almost exactly the same time—

—I love the fact that they agree on what the problem was in their relationship. I see fun things in the future for the reagent and the tinkerer—

—I have unreasonably high hopes they're gonna cross paths and do something interesting in the Black Panther arc in X-Force.