#this was supposed to be a sketch.. and i think it still kinda is but i enjoyed it too much

[nichiperi]

I've been using this sketchbook since 2018 when I started attending university. But I didn't really use it much until around 2020, shortly before I got back into Invader Zim. Flipping through it recently, I realized that there's a bunch of stuff in here I never shared with anybody (or at least, not a lot of people), so I thought I'd post some of it! :D

Open the Read More to peer into the sketchbook~ ✨📓✨

These were some of the first adult Dib sketches I did when I just barely tiptoed back into the fandom. I was still trying to relearn the style at this point lol, but I still like 'em!

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This is what the interdimensional transporter that Zim and Dib use in my fic looks like! I'd always intended to make a nice colorful reference sheet, but it never came to pass... I'm still working on my fic though, so maybe someday!! The design could use some tweaks first though...not enough wires or cables for my taste lol.

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This is the first overtly ZADR-y thing I'd ever drawn. Sounds silly to admit now, but I was actually really scared to draw it or even talk about it at first. (⁠;⁠;⁠;⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠) Things sure are different now lol. These past few years have been my first time doing this much ship art in general, and it's been really nice to have gotten to a point where I'm not so nervous about it all the time!

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A Space Trash Zim from the @izspacetrash AU! I once had a version of this I'd colored, but I must've accidentally deleted it at some point because the thing is just gone. It is lost to the void. Maybe I should redraw him one of these days... ✨👀✨

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A gaggle of assorted doodles!! I like doing these cluttered messes every now and again to practice with expressions or poses...or even just 'cause I wanna mindlessly put more space bug shapes on paper. 🪳🪳🪳

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A Dib expression that turned out really good. Can't remember what he was supposed to be for, but....he exists. :)

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This was supposed to be a thing with a whooooole lot of Zim's killing each other. I was....feeling A Way. (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠) Buuut quickly realized that I didn't like what I did with their proportions and scrapped it. When I first started out re-learning how to draw Zim, I tended to give him more lanky proportions. But now, I really tend to favor drawing a more canon-compliant tiny Zim. I think this piece in particular was kinda the last nail in the coffin for my taller Zims. Sorry, tall Zim.... XD

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These last two were going to be part of a comic... The last time I asked for sketch requests, someone sent me a prompt that really just sent my brain into overdrive and I was SUPER inspired.....and then life happened and I didn't end up finishing the idea I had. (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠) Sorry if you're reading this, whoever you were! Your ask is still sitting in my box and I STILL rotate this idea in my brain quite often!! I'd love to finish it someday!

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That's all for now! But I hope y'all enjoyed! I've been having a rough time irl and seeing all these older sketches really made me happy, so I felt like sharing. Currently crawling my way out of some weirdly selective art block, but I shall have more finished things to share soon~! 💚

[marigraphia]

I've had this pose ref saved for a while and the Superman set photos just gave off the same energy 👉🏻👈🏻

The reference is this photo of Katharine Hepburn as Antiope and Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in the 1932 play 'The Warrior's Husband' (and I'd love for people to turn into a draw your otp meme pls pls pls this pose is so good)

And also, of course, the Superman (2025) set photos

[ra-vio]

this blog is 11 years old now 🎉

I drew the siblings ever to celebrate as usual

[cobaltfluff]

a self-indulgent crossover :3c

(persona boyfriends x heartsteel league of legends)

[meii-jasmine]

♡♪!? aka Geno! 🌠✨

[moonchild-in-blue]

I haven't really done much art for tumblr (at all) lately, cus life, but! Here's a lil something I've been working on (it's a Xmas gift) 💙

(also peep that lil January calendar painting 👀 i did mini squares for each month for myself, because I need to have a physical one always, and they each have their own colour 🥺)

[kiwipineappleparasol]

A couple Preview Sketches of stuff I did for @paper-mario-zine ! Check it out tomorrow to see the Finished versions of these, alongside more neat stuff from other artists!

These are some more obscure TTYD NPCs from Rogueport — Swindell, Arfur and Lahla . As a kid, I was completely enamored with Lahla … Innocent me just loved cat themed things. And I always love implied dynamics between minor characters -- Goombella says that Arfur and Swindell are often seen whispering together about stuff -- and they're criminals with Standards. Arfur only believes in taking from the rich, and Swindell is never seen stealing in the first place. It's been awhile since I played, but apparently Arfur also asked Lahla out once, so I thought it was a fun way to tie them all together...

Here's some extra scribbles that I unfortunately didn't get the chance to finish... The first is of Peeka and Lahla (Ever since I was a little kid with access to the Mario Wiki, I liked to headcanon that Peeka had the bunny ears from the Original release, and Lahla had the cat ears from the Localization) And the second is just a Joke I had that has 0 basis in canon -- Swindell and Lahla are both blue So!

[princesjackpot]

It's not really related to the story of the Black Mask AU but I've decided that Mordred is actually a Tower Arcana persona as opposed to Captain. I think the Tower fits him better and tbh it fits Black Mask Riku well.

[helielune]

i learned i could just copy paste my stuff to tumblr directly from my sketchbook app. like without the middleman of actually saving an image. but now it's transparent and nigh invisible on my phone on dark mode.

well. anyway crazy diamond boy says hi :) whether you can see him or not

[julymarte]

apparently today's the 15th anniversary for magi and i wanted to reassure you about something since i've been asked in the past

i know i've been big-ish in the magi fandom back in the days with art, cosplay and roleplay but i've ever since been almost traumatized into recognize magi as absolute evil, while i don't deny the good moments of the past i also recognize the series being flawed and damaging to the involved communities what i come to say today is that my ocs don't take inspiration from there i have been asked multiple times if my ocs were originally magic ocs or if i thought them in that universe or i got inspired by it, the answer is no my ocs in fact predate my interaction with the fandom the manga came out in japan in 2009 but landed in my country in 2011 and i apparently started my teenage hobby of hoarding fanart in 2012

my kos ocs were first made in 2010 while many kom ones predate even that but i sadly don't have pictures of the originals we are talking around 2009 anyways

i'm making this post to make things clear once and for all, i still have very conflicting feelings about that series cause it gave me some of the best moments of my teens and early twenties and made me know a lot of people and grow as an artist but one also has to recognize the shadows lurking behind it and who hasn't naiively taken part of problematic fandoms in their teens? so uhm yeah they are not related i also know i still have many followers who are still in the fandom and i don't criticize your choices this is just how things turned out for me

[lopsidedtreetrunks]

Happy 10th birthday to The Song Ever

[francy-sketches]

do u guys think I can animate a 5 minute video in like 8 months

[citrine-elephant]

mmm... mini... mini au where leon and chris accidentally meet each other on grindr and leon fuckin pulls the "i'm straight but u wanna meet up?" thing (he doesn't have his face on his pfp and has a nickname but chris fuckin knows those pecs and that throttlable throat)

edit: leon doesn't know it's chris-

[orcelito]

about ready to jump off the walls for this purchase

i have bought. the full trimax set.

[theweirderofthetwo]

A collection of doodles - i don’t have them completely figured out yet

[radrobotz]

i have a million things to do for uay universe but how many of them am i going to do imagining everything in my head is enrichment enough for me so sometimes i forget