yentroc

[lemongogo]

oo u want 2 draw soo bad..

[qquipart]

Start of covid vs now 2019 vs 2024 ive wanted to do a redraw for a while but needed to get over my own cringe.

little blurb about me under the cut

I didnt draw at all in 2022 and very little in 2020+21. I was burnt out after graduating in '17 and then learning to draw digitally (school didnt teach me shit) but didnt know it. I did a couple small storyboarding gigs in marketing after graduating through a friend who was in advertising. I thought I wanted to do comics but after those gigs I was like, no thats what i want to do. But I had already graduated, I didnt want to go back to school for animation.

I took a storyboarding class online with Chris Copeland mid '22, didnt know that was a thing! Online classes for storyboarding!

And admitted after that class that my drawing was not where I needed them to be. It still took me maybe 6 months to get back into drawing, early~mid '23

I went to school for fine arts and i was decent at life drawing, love doing movement. But I could never capture it digitally, i still struggle. Going from physical to digital, i couldnt translate it. It made me feel worse, like starting from square 1.

so in 2023 i did, i started from the ground up. I look at things i dont like, decide what i want to change and just look at people's art and study it. I had a lot of the fundamentals, so going back through anatomy in depth didnt really help, it was more figuring out how I wanted to draw, especially digitally, and learning how to actually apply what I already knew to what I was learning. Im still learning. Theres still things I want to get better at. But I'm finally at a place where im enjoying drawing again.

[spicyraeman]

lil guy and big ouppy form

[lotus-pear]

the dialogue choices in this game should be more diabolical

[finngualart]

daucus carota

[lilybug-02]

Bribed with Chocolate. The way it should be.

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More to come as this is a two-parter. But you know how I am with schedules.

Bonus:

I think this was an equally possible reaction from Chara.

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

heeyyy gaaanggg

the pose and the background of the album version (left) are based on oingo boingos only a lad album art. not cause i think he has anything to do with it but just cause ive been wantin to draw that pose for like. weeks and i didnt know who to put there. so why not my latest bug man.

[moonlume]

tumblr said draw something bad so I did but I'm mad I still didn't feel anything

[localgardenweed]

Also forgot to share this beauty i drew a few days ago

[stuffed-x-arts]

I think they like to play card games sometimes. Often they drag in others to supsrvise for cheating. (it won't stop them from cheating but it means they've gotta work harder to be sneaky about it and that just adds to the fun!) Cheated has a score-count for everybody. for every different game they play. him vs opportunist. him vs cold. the whole group playing. contrarian is often banned for bringing other card games to the table. he also never gets to supervise despite often asking to. Hero volunteers to supervise a lot but often doesn't catch the cheating so he's denied the role. Cheated, skeptic, opportunist and cold are the best. Broken is also surprisingly good sometimes. Even when he has the best hand he worries he'll screw it up somehow, and his downer attitude tends to convince the others he's gonna lose too. erm thats all i think

i just know these two have the potential to end up breaking into a fight over their silly card games. After cold left and the two eventually got tired of their games and went their separate ways opportunist stuck his leg out so cheated could trip over. they push each other down the stairs, maybe.

[coriander-candlesticks]

I'm sick so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, but I've been thinking about the nature of myths recently as I've been exploring hellenic polytheism.

For context: I'm ex-Mormon. I was raised in the church and, because of that, was taught biblical literalism but in, like, a more subtle way than most? I was raised believing that Adam & Eve and Noah's Ark, etc., were literally true, but that the story of Job specifically was not; I also always knew evolution and the Big Bang to be correct, despite there being a verse in the Doctrine & Covenants (a Mormon-specific religious book) where God apparently told Joseph Smith that the world is 6,000 years old- a passage I didn't know existed until my senior year of high school. I didn't realize I had believed in biblical literalism until I'd left the church, actually.

Now that I'm aware of it, it's a mindset I'm actively trying to combat while I explore Hellenic polytheism. It's definitely been a task to separate the nature of the Gods from their myths, as brutal as they often are. And it's something I've noticed within the community, too, which I think is interesting. It makes sense: Christianity, at least, has had a chokehold on much of the world for a long time, and so many of us have experienced literalism as our first interaction with any sort of holy text (though, of course, Greek myths as a whole aren't that) alongside our first experience with divinity as a wrathful God whose flaws are waved away, or ignored, or twisted into positive attributes. This also means that I'm trying to re-approach several deities with an open mind (Zeus, Hera, and Ares in particular, but many of them to some extent) while also trying to un-condition myself. I was already in the process of doing this, of course, but trying to figure out how to interact with a completely different pantheon has made that especially clear.

It extends to things like prayer and offerings, too. Prayers were very formulaic growing up, even though most of the time there wasn't a strict script to follow. There was always something you ask as part of the prayer, even if it's just 'please help me do better tomorrow' (alongside giving thanks, of course), so trying to craft a prayer without adding *everything* I'm used to including in makes it feel incomplete and, therefore, disrespectful. And daily prayer is something I'm resistant to because of prior experiences with it. I don't want to offend any of the gods by asking for something or asking for too much, especially so early on, and there's always a promised offering the few times I *have* asked. Add worries about exact obedience on top of that and it's proving to be a difficult thing to untangle. And I know that the gods are difficult to offend, figuring out how to do this takes trial & error and that's okay, it'll get better the more I do it, etc., etc.; this is more an issue with my own overthinking than anything else (hooray for ✨ mental health issues ✨). I'm not really asking for advice here, necessarily, just thinking out loud because I'm not comfortable talking to people in meat space about it yet.

[toytulini]

if you draw enough monster ocs, when you go back to drawing a human character, it feels like "sameface syndrome" everytime, by virtue of their face being. human.

[turtlespancake]

me when i write a character who is prone to dooming themself and then they run off and doom themself. core traits are stubbornness and a willingness to disregard their own humanity gET BACK HERE IM NOT DONE WITH YOU

[raindrvq]

god gives his strongest hyperfixatations to his most autistic of soldiers

[jadetheblade4]

I feel kinda bad at the fact that I don't take the time much to "glam up" and customize everything I touch like my Tumblr for example but istg i draw blanks every time I think of doing any personalization on the dot it takes me a while to do that kind of stuff but maybe that's normal

[skitskatdacat63]

Orb...

+ process kinda