#the bg was a pain but i loved drawing it

[inkzix]

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another dnl post, im sorry it took a while! midterms hit me like a truck when i finally could draw again. but im back!! the comic today is short, and i also apologize for that too. すまん. but i hope this conveyed a warm feeling, if it was just a little bit. the original illustration was supposed to be another idea completely, but then i scrapped it and changed it to Des helping out Luke, so i hope you like it!

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ALT ver of the illustration

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[calo-wav]

because i’m still in love with you / i wanna see you dance again

something something post-canon exes who can't love anyone else because they're still in love with each other but one is rooted to the earth in terror and the other one only finds peace in the stars

fic im writing transparent ver (looks really cool against a dark bg!) + sketch ⮕ final process below

[sirmanmister]

Dtiys entry for @knightlyknight-art’s 200 follower giveaway!!!!!! Very swag and cool challenge I loved it a lot and had so much fun with this! Original photo below everyone go join this challenge it’s >>>>>>

[zrllosyn-art]

"The curtain call to your ordinary world."

Artfight attack of @worldsokayestmagicalgirl's Neri and Hikari.

HI BUDDY. THANK YOU FOR JOINIGN ME THIS FINE EVENING FOR. PAIn.

[juneiper-art]

I tried to hold you but my hands were cold; I meant to catch you but I moved too slow. And I've been looking for salvation, I've been searching low and high. I forgot that it was waiting In your smile and in your eyes.

POV a god kills the first person you've truly cared for right in front of your eyes

[eudikot]

Only the coolest plants for the bestest of birthdays

[meruz]

hi there!! i really admire how lived-in your environment lineworks feel and that despite being just lines, they dont feel static at all.. how long does it take to line out a detailed background for you? I feel like i am so slow when it comes to it.. but maybe it just comes with practice?

DETAILED bg? oh my god it takes so long. this is actually a major pain point for me because i love drawing bgs and I really want to do a lot of bgs for personal art, it's pretty within my skill level etc. but i don't have a lot of free time and drawing takes. SO long. and I'm normally a fast artist.

I think a lot of people get around this by painting which has a little more flexibility with your detail drop off than line does..? but i love line... I would say a truly complex "establishing shot" bg where you rly get a sense of the construction of the space + a bunch of items/props/etc easily can take me 5-10 hours. especially for animation work when something has to be production ready i think 10-16 hrs is not unheard of. for my personal work... I can sometimes eke something similar but maybe less particular out in 2-5 hours. i recognize 2-16 is a crazy range of hours but yk art is kind of just like that... lots of variables

drawing is supposed to get faster the more you do it and i think theres a lot of stuff that used to take me way longer that i can now do in less time... but watch out because sometimes you get faster and that makes you want to draw more complex things that take longer. thats kinda my issue... you could be me so be careful what you wish for.

[moons-of-dewclan]

Could we see a screenshot or something of the google doc of an old moon? I’d love to see how you set it up.

I HAD DO MAKE A QUICK MOCK CLAN bc i only formatted in a slightly less insane way for newer moons AHUOEHALKD. but like this! so it's like.. 'MOON, SEASON' bc seasons are a pain in the ass to forget. bc.. what bg do you draw AND THEN, screens of the major events. and i'll note things like names, and deaths, and apprenticeships or new cats joining. so you can ctrl+f rly quick

[paintingskyblutf2]

i love my wife

(cw suggestive?)

not going to finish it (yet) cuz i still have so much stuff to draw. very self indulgent sketch of me(the medic) and my beloved(the spy). made ref in sfm again but i forgot to move medic's coat so it just. kinda disappears. alongside spy's other leg. whoops!

overall the sketch is good enough for something done in one day. drawing the chains was pain, could be done better just like the perspective(for bg). but i am happy with it anyway :]

[yourfbiagen1]

Drew @secondary-colorentimy 's goober in the TWST official art style :3

I wanted to draw the other one but unfortunately it took way longer than I expected for just Amphai (I never shade my artwork and I forgor just how much of a pain it is 😿)

White BG vers

Love your artwork, & hope you like it! Let me know if you'd like me to send you the art or if you'd like a transparent background

[emerxshiu]

FORGOTTEN LAND'S SECOND ANNIVERSARY :3

I AM SOOOO BACK

I started this drawing yesterday around afternoon and finished it just a few minutes earlier.

I went with a messier type of drawing instead of more clean like the elfilin one from yesterday, i find it fun doing it like this, mostly cause i dont have to worry about making it perfectly so i dont get as frustrated as normal. Id place this one as my second best digital drawing. im pretty sure i havent posted what i consider my best digital drawing here, tho i do have it in instagram, i might post it here one day, tho these two are way too tied up, i love how this came out, its not exactly like how i imagined it but its really close to it, and also itd say that since i dont tend to play around lighting that much, this was such a joy to draw and i cant help but stare at it a lot, at least until i start hating it because i made quite a lot of errors. i also changed my elfilis gijinka just a tad bit from last time, but its not that big of a difference, mostly.

ofc i had to draw elfilis for forgotten land's anniversary, i tend to deny it in my head but yeah they're my fave of the kirby characters even tho i hate them a bit. I wanted to draw some more doodles, like, elfilis eating cake, kirby car, a bunch of other stuff (not elfilin cuz i already drew him yesterday) but when i tried i couldnt draw anything more, guess this drawing burned me out a lot, huh?

you can definitly tell i spent all the efforts on him cuz if you look a bit closer to the bottom part you'll see its almost barely detailed, but i mean, they're the focus so make sense i guess for me not add that much detail there. um also, maybe because i dunno i had OVER 130 LAYERS jeez no wonder firealpaca was slowing down so much, i need to manage my layers better next time, tho i did do something i keep forgetting, wich is naming them (most of them at least) that was a real life saver

Also, antares (fecto elfilis' spear/cadaceus), as always, was a pain to draw, but this time its probably been draw the most accurate out of every other drawing ive made with it in it, i didnt notice it was like, a little curved when it reached the blade

some close ups since his face is a bit hard to see

silly :3

fun fact! actually, this is technically a redraw, somewhere around between february and march i started a fecto elfilis drawing for the first anniversary, but i couldnt finish it in time, and i never finished it

thats...quite the improvement! (i remember being so proud of it)

also his wings are like that cuz i did not want to draw the pattern, its way too hard, i literally copy pasted it, wait, i was talking about the 2024 version but i looked at the 2023 one and i just noticed it also has the pattern copy pasted, i guess some stuff never changes since i still abuse the ctrl+c ctrl+v to this day

Also i ended up making a huge error there, i was planing to add the phantom spears from orbital pulsar (the attack he does first when you battle them at lab discovera) but theres an innacuracy, when they do the attack, they always close their eyes, i had actually sketched him (well i mean both these drawings are basically the first sketch (2023) or second sketch(2024) with some color, shadows and lighting. i didnt do lineart in the 2024 one cuz i wanted to be a bit like the og i made (too bad i sketched that one with black since the og was sketched with white due to me drawing the bg first)) with his eyes closed but them decided to make them open for a reason i cant remember, maybe i thought itd look nicer? idk

ive had the idea of redrawing this for quite some month now so it was kinda already planned

background cuz i think it came out really pretty

doesnt have the little stars since without elfilis and the structures it looks fucked up. the actual sky in game is more blue, but the clouds have some orange, in the 2023 ver. i made the sky orange, and in the 2024 ver i wanted it more accurate, but i didnt wanna loose the orange sky, so i did a gradient. pretty...

also here's a screenshot i took when i was like halfway trough it, its barely noticeable but i changed his mouth in the final drawing

I really love katfl, like a buncha whole lot, its basically almost my first mainline kirby game. 100% the demo, finished the game in almost one day, i literally play it monthly, like, every month i put the card in my switch, start it up, get morpho sword, and go shred elfilis in lab discovera. i would probably not even be here on tumblr and the kirby fandom if it werent for it. and i love it so much i genuinly cannot express how much i like it and treasure it with words or anything

Thank you for reading my unnecesarily long rambles lol

I hope i'll post tomorrow and dont forget like usual

Jambuhbye!

[knightowl-studios]

“This is a warning for Kray Foresight - free all captive Burnish immediately, or I’ll burn Promepolis to the ground!”

Many hours, layers, micromanaged bg assets, and egregious amounts of colorpicking later, it is finally done //passes out

As soon as I watched Promare I was legally obligated to draw the dragon.

Please do not reupload without permission!

(Very ramble-y) process notes and wips below the cut:

[[Shoutout to Tamberella’s wonderful city brushset, the bg would not have been possible otherwise!]]

I had to cross-reference so many stills and gifs from the movie in order to try and recreate the atmosphere and style XD This whole drawing was also the perfect excuse to whip out the polyline tool again, it’s one of my favorite things to draw with but I don’t actually use it much for...some reason lmao.  Habit?  Who knows...

As you can see, it was initially supposed to include his lil arms, but I couldn’t find a way to make them flow well with his line of action and had to exclude them (which was a bit painful as I was really happy with how the claw shapes turned out).  I figured since the film seems to cheat it the same way, it was fine for me to do it as well XD Though I don’t have a capture of it, originally his body was also in a more straightforward loop-de-loop kind of shape.

I wanted to put special focus into the pose and sense of action (two things Trigger really excels at), namely when it came to the head and jaws.  I noticed that in a couple of shots the dragon’s jaw is “broken” - opened at an unrealistically wide angle - to better emphasize the action, and while I didn’t take it as far as Trigger did I wanted to try and capture something similar in my own way.

The windows required SO much micromanaging.  I blocked out a “template” of windows using one of the brushes in the mentioned set, grid-warped it to align with the perspective, and then copy-pasted it onto each building and then manually went through each one to make sure every patterns of “lit” windows was unique and felt believable.  The process had to be repeated twice, for both visible sides of the buildings.  As far as individual parts of the pic go, that step probably took the longest.

I also really wanted to somehow incorporate triangles into the drawing since they’re so representative of the Burnish and the Promare, and adding some around the face seemed the most intuitive way to do it.

A lot of miscellaneous things were added at this point, such as the ground flares (polyline tool my beloved), the smoke, and smaller details like making sure the dragon felt more “sourced” in the scene by clipping the tail behind a tower.  The background was also blurred, to help sell the perspective as well as keep the focus on Lio.  The flares were one of the hardest things to manage in the latter regard, too, as due to some oversights in my initial color choices they were actually brighter than Lio and stole his thunder!  So it took several different tries to find a way to successfully de-emphasize them without inadvertently making them some weird sickly color XD

If you read through all of these notes, thank you so much, I love you!!  //hands you a cookie

Bonus layer screenshot:

[blackjackkent]

58 for that kissing meme with whatever BG pair of your choosing bc I'm interested to see where you go with it

(Kiss prompts)

58. Moving Around While Kissing, Stumbling Over Things, Pushing Each Other Back Against The Wall/Onto The Bed

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I am resplendent.

For a hundred years I have been caged. My skin bears the golden marks of a thousand shatterings; I have broken as pottery breaks, and felt my pieces dragged back together, again and again, inexorable as tide beneath moonlight.

And with each reforging, I forged also another link in the great chain of grief as I remembered, yet again, that you were lost to me, my darling, my Isobel…

Surely I dream, now, to see you standing before me in the ruins of your father’s bastion, to know the brute is dead and you, long lost, draw breath in his stead. Surely I dream to feel my own wings at my back, the glow of my mother’s moonlight in my soul. I crave a thousand reassurances, a touch stolen between each word as we speak to the others, to prove that you live. 

That I live, and am free.

The one who pulled me from the darkness is a gentle one - like you. A monk of my mother’s faith, careful with each word he speaks. He understands, I think, when I can no longer turn my mind to any conversation.

Now, I tell him, you will leave us. We must take succor in one another’s bodies and words.

You laugh. It is like music, like bells. Aylin! you say - a chastisement that is a melody of silver and gossamer. Think me uncourteous if you will; I would brave even your displeasure, that you might again call my name…

The monk withdraws. The room is empty. Voices drift from beyond the door, but I have no care of them. You look up at me, and your lips part - not to speak, this time, but in a silent supplication. And I take you for my own.

You taste sweet, like the milk and honey of the rituals you have performed in my mother’s name. My lips capture yours and you mold yourself like water against me. It is easy as it ever was to find the places where you fit into me. I lift you into my arms and feel you lighter than you were, wasted with the grief and torment of resurrection, but this too matters not. For Dame Aylin holds you again, and she will see no further harm comes to you so long as she lives. And she will live forever. 

The room is still scattered with the detritus of battle. In my haste, I strike my boot on a fallen helmet, a broken sword. An overturned chair blocks my path; I let the moonlight rise around me and shatter it apart rather than slow my pace. Let it all burn, in truth; what good to leave any of this place intact? It has been the house of evil, and we will cleanse it with divine fire, with the purity of my love for you.

Your back strikes a pillar and you cry out - not with pain but with joy. My mouth swallows the sound and answers it back again in echo. Your legs wrap about my waist, that I might stand closer, and closer yet; there is a chill in you, my darling, my mate most high, and I will warm you though the cold be in your very heart.

Do not fear, my Isobel. We have bought the joy of the future out of our own bodies; the price is paid, and I will not be kept from the bliss we have purchased with such torment. Kiss me. Kiss me forever, and forever I shall be at your side.

[cooliedoodley]

Jeht my love! 🫶

I actually first drew this last year because I wanted to experiment with a more painting style but..I DidN’t AcTUallY DiD ReSeArCH How tO Do ThAt PainTiNg StyLe bEFoRe I StaRTed AnD jUsT GaVe uP- but I came back and find I actually really like this drawing so I did some finishing touches and slapped in a simple bg because I am too lazy for that aNd HerE We ARe! I did do a little painting style in this and while it was fun, it was also tiring so it’ll probably not be a normal thing I do but I do like the outcome of it.

Who is Jeht and why did I draw her?

She is my favourite genshin NPC iN THe WoRlDeSt LoNGesT QuESt Oh mY GoD. It was so painful doing her quest but we went on such a adventure together. Her story made me cry and the way she cared for Paimon 🥺 GiRL KnOWs hoW tO GeT iN mY HeARt. Her above shoulders design was alao relatively simple for experimenting with painting so that’s why I picked her.

Been so long since I posted on Tumblr. I need to doodle more

[daily-smallishbeans]

Day 61- Book club

coming back with a bang, notes of the piece under the cut

so firstly they meet up in their free time to read because theyre fucking nerds

joel doesnt read he like sketches out his terracotta sculptures and shtuff, he is also wearing lizzie's sweatshirt (waay too big what a simp /j) and he has a mullet plus colourful pjs

jimmys pjs are my fav i love the fish on it he is a little fishy guy fucking blrobo and then theres the cod plush which just yes

pix is reading a book directly corelated to day 26 of the daily. he wears two crowns one as like those decorative headbands and another one as his kingly one. also his shirt was fun to make the gradient on lmao

abt the bg and setting- they are literally sitting on bean bags throw pillows and what not, was just waay too lazy to draw them and theyve got impeccable taste in room designing (banners of their empire yes) and theres libraries too i just too much effor t to draw yk

also the banners were such a pain minecraft sucks (/j) but took inspo from sabira langevin and grinded to make these which look quite nice actually

i tried to keep a colour scheme but joel's mezalean ass was like:

colour