#this was honestly just be indulging in drawing fun side profiles

[cada4us]

car sketch i did on my lunch break

irl has been forcing me to play idv with her and i fear i’ve grown a little too fond to andrew’s lore

[shhoup]

Hi some self indulgent art for you!

I was feeling upset that I ruined a good piece permanently by lining a shoddy side profile instead of fixing it while it was still in pencil, and I kept seeing the Cadence and Shining Armour posts, so I decided to make like a half hour drawing and push through even if I mess up in the lining or colouring.

Honestly very fun and all the bright colours just remind me of when I was little and using a bunch of gel pens drawing mlp for fun!

[reinahwanggg]

𝒟𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒥𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑔𝑔𝓊𝓀

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               𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓

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⇸ i feel like he’s someone who wouldn’t wanna confess.

⇸ like, he’s so content with just watching you from afar.

⇸ how you love the little things, capturing the world with your camera.

⇸ he practically joined photography for you. came for y/n, stayed for the fun.

⇸ it was purely an accidental confession.

⇸ you know those stupid ones where the main character is staring at their crush and blurt out how ethereal they looked?

⇸ that was gguk but like, not in a whisper. 

⇸ poor boy yelled out your name and how much he loved you after he saw you laughing with your friends during photography.

⇸ he had the whole class staring at him, including you, and he wanted to D I E

⇸ dude basically screamed out that he wished he had the privilege to marry your laugh. that’s lit rally embarrassing luv. 

⇸ after class, you stayed behind and walked up to him. (lol, ᶦⁿᶦᵗᶦᵃᵗᵉ ᵐᵉⁿᵗᵃˡ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵏᵈᵒʷⁿ ʰᵉʳᵉ) 

⇸ dude felt like shitting his pants. you were much prettier up close. you smiled at him, a bit too wide and stuttered out that you wanted to marry his voice.

⇸ dude panicked and said “why don’t we just marry each other?” and he probably did shit his pants that day, who knows? 

⇸ you smiled, and jokingly you told him “bring me an engagement ring, and i’ll think about it.”

⇸ bright and early the next morning, he handed you a small box and ran out of the classroom. 

⇸ cutest confession ever.

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              𝓓𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰

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⇸ jeongguk was obviously so eager to do everything with you, hold your hand, hug you, take you out on dates, just, anything he can do with and for you.

⇸ hugest simp on the block.

⇸ would literally bend over backwards just to see you smile.

⇸ you, being the lover of little things that you are, would always fix his collar, file his nails, get him banana milk when he steps on campus after long hours of editing. make him breakfast. fiddle with his hair, take pictures of him from a distance to create that weird silhouette effect thing.

⇸ unintentionally, in terms of skinship, it went hella slow.

⇸ you guys didn’t hold hands until a month and a half in, when he wanted you to stay close to him during the annual club fair.

⇸ you didn’t hug until a week afterwards, when he was leaving to go back to Busan for the break.

⇸ and you didn’t even hug as much afterwards. you guys would just stare at each other, so content, yet a feeling, a yearning for the other’s touch was evident in your eyes.

⇸ you guys would go on weekly dates. study dates, picnics, amusement park dates, aquarium dates, park dates, movie dates, every week, there was always something different, and you loved the adventurous side of gguk.

⇸ three months into the relationship, and he took you to the rooftop of one of the buildings.

⇸ it was a stargazing date this week.

⇸ gguk sang songs and you took pictures, scribbling down lyrics, and doodling as you pleased, telescope here, waiting to be used by someone other than namjoon from the astronomy club.

⇸ you were so focused on your doodles, that you practically tuned out everything around you. you hummed a song gguk would always sing while he's around you as you doodled.

⇸ didn't even notice when he stopped singing and just started to stare at you.

⇸ ask this dude what his favorite hobby is, and he'll deadass say looking at you.

⇸ the moon, coincidentally, was shining brightly that day, and the moonlight made your face glow, the side profile in which he stared at looked so much more perfect to him.

⇸ i swear, either this boy has no control over his mouth, or he's constantly shouting in his head, because he yelled out his thoughts, A G A I N

⇸ you immediately stopped your doodles, looking up at him, eyes wide, probably blushing, who knows? all you know, is that you're surprised. he wants to kiss you.

⇸ fucking F I N A L LY. like omg, you don't know how much more hints you had to throw at him, because he sure is dense sometimes.

⇸ a N Y W A Y S

⇸ you rest your book down, automatically getting up to walk towards him. and he's just staring at you man.

⇸ at this point, the both of you said fuck them stars, cause all the constellations in his honey irises looks like the perfect view, and you stuff that image in your mind to draw that because W H E T

⇸ as soon as you reach to him, bITCH you wasted no time at all. you grab him by the chin and softly place your lips on his, and like mAGIC it happened.

⇸ your lips molded together, with the satisfaction of finally finishing a a puzzle. the joy of watching the array of colors explode in the sky from the fireworks that held them captive. the relief of watching a flower fully bloom. the feeling of now entering a field on a farm, as you stare at the cloudless sky, and a gentle breeze waltz around with the trees.

⇸ you could practically taste the cherry lip balm you would often restock on whenever it did finish from his lips, and you immediately indulge in the warmth that engulfs you as he kisses you back.

⇸ in all honesty, you don't know how long it went on for. when he gripped you by the waist, or when he pulled you down on his lap. even when your fingers moved from his and wove together to the back of his neck, as you both deepened into the intoxication of each other.

⇸ sooner or later, though, you had to grasp onto the feeling of the air, and your lungs pleaded to be filled by its addiction.

⇸ your skinship after that, did change, not drastically, but it did.

⇸ life was fun now, and dating jeongguk was probably the best decision ever.

okay, am i blind or does it look like gguk has on braces ? aksnejsjansn lol

hope you guys enjoyed this. i had another version of this written, but it didn't FLIPPING SAVE.

glad it didn't though, because i honestly like this one better.

[studiobeebo]

u bet ur bottom dollar i made a smaller version of my SI’s profile sheet bc ur all very nice and ur like of her makes me happy :,)))))

General

Name: Sachiko “Sachi” Sasaki

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Birth Date: April 7

Nationality: Japanese

Ethnicity: Half Black/Half Mexican

Affiliation: Pro Hero

Hero Name: Cherry Bomb

Personality: Sachi is for the most part fairly extroverted, but she’s not one to enjoy being out and about 24/7. She loves going out and having fun with groups of friends, but at the same time totally enjoys kicking back by herself and just chilling and napping just as much. She’s usually the fun-loving, optimistic, and loud type of friend who could talk your ear off and she’s always pretty enthusiastic and wild. However she does have a tender side and shows it through her actions and words to those she cares for, always trying to be the one to put others before herself and showing empathy even for people she doesn’t know well. She’s full of creativity and is easy to get fired up, but she’s definitely got a sarcastic snarky streak. On the other end of the spectrum she can be lazy and sometimes a bit too snarky to a point where it may come off as rude or passive aggressive even if she doesn’t mean it to be and she’s surprisingly emotionally pretty weak under all that outer confidence, but she tries her best to be self aware of her faults and works on nipping her negatives in the butt when she can.

Quirk - Firework

Explanation of Quirk: Sachi can generate and control explosive energy that takes on the form of fireworks or similar pyrotechnics. Generally she can fight by concentrating energy in her hands or shooting it off in unspecific blasts or beams, but she does have a few more specific moves/styles as well.

Appearance

Notes: • She does have a few piercings, however she doesn’t wear them while working for safety reasons. She also has a handful of tattoos, but with her costume design none of them are visible.

• Her hair is naturally curly and a couple inches past her shoulders, but she’s been known to get it straightened somewhat often, especially if she has any sort of formal event.

also this probs isn’t a final design of her suit. i has a few support items in mind but ran out of energy to figure them out and then draw them so i left them out for now akejdh

Other

Style: It honestly depends on the season. In the spring/summer she likes to wear brighter fun colors and usually sticks to high waisted jean shorts paired with a crop top or regular graphic t-shirt or tank. In the fall/winter she definitely indulges in her more punkish heart and sticks to almost all black and dark colors, almost exclusively wearing black leggings/jeans, combat boots or vans, and graphic or plain long sleeve t’s with a decked out black denim jacket to boot (though sometimes she’ll throw in some patterned bottoms to shake things up a bit).

Likes: She’s got a major sweet tooth so she loves most candies and desserts, comics/manga, movies, music

Dislikes: Not really a fan of ‘boring’ things like academics or history, hates any sort of bitter foods or drinks, super stoic/serious people

Skills/Hobbies: She’s a pretty awesome baker and enjoys boxing in her spair time!

[rachelgeorge]

Personal Projects and Why They're Necessary

Personal Projects & Why They’re Necessary

I remember the entire reason I started pursuing Illustration/Art/Design as a career. I spent countless hours in my own bubble either drawing, or gluing stuff together, or just ‘making’ something.

And I enjoyed it. It was fun. Now I’m actually making a career out of illustration, things are a bit more serious than sitting on my Nan’s living room floor gluing toilet paper tubes together to make a ‘castle’ and then painting them in whatever leftover decorating paint she had – when I got really good at gluing things, I got to paint them with the piles and piles of paints I was bought for Xmas, and my birthday, and practically every occasion.

Thanks, supportive family and friends!

Anyway, I have, in the past, fallen into the trap of doing nothing but client work, because money is important, you need it to do mundane things like, afford to live.

I’m side-eyeing you ‘Work for Exposure’ people.

Space Dude I’m currently chipping away at.

After 12 months of doing nothing but client work, back-to-back, not taking a single moment to work on something just for the sake of ‘making art’, it had quite a negative impact on me. Very little enthusiasm in my work, and my job didn’t feel fun anymore.

And I LOVE my job (it says so right on my twitter profile) but doing nothing but work, day in and day out and not taking any time for yourself is going to run even the most hardcore of work-a-holics into the ground.

I came across this article on Creative Bloq: Why You Must Make Time for Personal Projects It talks about the “20% time” policy, employed by Google, (Which you can read about here, if you’re interested)

 But the general rundown is;

1: It Helps With Motivation

Taking just 20% of your usual work time to work on a personal project – which honestly can be something as small as a few doodles a week – can help keep you motivated and helps with breaking up long periods of professional work. Nearly everyone thinks a ducky in wellington boots is adorable, but sometimes when you’ve drawn 50 of them, you really wanna draw a big ass dragon hoarding some gold, or a werewolf mauling some poor unfortunate soul to death.

Urban Werewolf, post mauling

Or maybe a bunch of Zelda fanart because you’ve picked up your old Gameboy Advance and you’re obsessed with The Minish Cap, again. And there is merit in drawing fanart, but that’s for another blog post.

2. It Helps Pad your Portfolio

I did a rundown of my own portfolio a few months back (blog post here) and found I was lacking in some areas, areas that my current client work weren’t covering at the time, scifi and space stuff mostly.

Personal Projects are a good opportunity to pad your portfolio/boost areas that are lacking. Want a gig drawing dragons? You should probably draw some dragons

3. It Helps with Your Mental Health

As I mentioned above, going 12 months without a break from client work ran me down, and eventually I found little enjoyment in my work. My mental health undoubtedly suffered and honestly I got a bit ill, I started feeling a sense of dread when I thought about going back to work, and I was tired all the time. Not good, to say the least.

 Illustration Friday also covered The Importance of Personal Projects citing Freedom of Expression and an Alternative source of income as some of the reasons to make time for them.

 4. It’s Fun!

That’s the main thing right? What got me into this in the first place, having fun ‘making’ things. My Personal Projects range from doodling random figure drawings to keep ontop of my anatomy practice – sometimes I have long bouts of not drawing many people for my professional work – to painting self indulgent stuff like Werewolves and Space-y things and big big Dragons! And also some video game fanart. Because I can and it’s fun, and that’s the important thing.

Zelda Bomb Bag Doodle for funzies

Personal Projects and Why They’re Necessary was originally published on Rachel George Illustration