#while I work on art trades

[toothpaste-for-the-skin]

Omg I keep forgetting to post this

Doodle from a few days ago based on a convo with a friend lol

This is Toothpaste Princess of Toothpaste or something (and Hoover the baby dragon)

The design is just the alicorn version of this (she is a Pegasus normally)

[wzardjellies]

Art trade with @brookiidookiii ✌️✌️Julia would be the type to permanently get the title of prom king changed to prom queen² at her highschool (I actually have no idea if proms are a thing in Canada) (I’m gonna assume that part of Canadian lore for artistic purposes)

[laurzvahll]

they’re definitely seeing things…

[great-hon-equal-to-pot-pie]

Hon drew Mei?!?!?! AGAIN??? WOAHHH WHAT A SURPRISE NO ONE EXPECTED THIS!! /sarc

[leenoe]

Waiting for the Goose @saccharineheartx

[thesafireartist]

Art trade with @yourpalsalamander!

Asha I love you

Progress shots and process talk below the cut!

Sketchy sketch

Colour + hammer

Shading, but I thought she looked too much like Amy if she was in the movieverse so

Rendering! Made her pupils more like slits too to give Surge vibes, also increased the saturation on her shading so now it looks like she has a holographic hammer

Electrokinesis!

Lighting and direction for the piece!

Simba…

Colour edits, cleanup, and finished piece!

I really liked using the painterly rendering style again, and the background/lighting was so fun! Thanks for doing an art trade with me, salamander!

[mortemcatabasis]

Custom redesign for @krembearry of a normal bird that is not freaky at all

[bee-can-art]

Waterparks trading cards!!!

• Click for better quality (23/09/2024)

(Inspired by this tweet (amongst other things))

(full versions below vvv)

Cards 1 - 4 and the back designs

[frosty-tian]

“Between us is a red string, but what it represents is a mystery, much like our feelings towards each other.”

My end of the art-trade I did with the amazing @henry-old-hollywood!

Thank you so much for the opportunity, it was very fun to work on this and with you!

[haharuspex]

phew, okay, pathologic oc time!!

“I don’t gather. I don’t sing. I don’t dance. That’s for others, but for me - it's to hunt, to pretend, to scavenge. Cattle is content, it knows its purpose, herbs don’t resist when I pluck them, but the rest... Oh, odonghs hate me. Herb brides, too. They tore off my tail once and I haven’t bothered them since."

"Hunter", a steppe creature, is rumored to have crawled out of rivers so deep that their bottom originates in Suok's guts. He (it, she, they, whatever, it doesn't care) took on a more or less humanoid appearance when it first met people, because he hunts best when it imitates its favorite prey. That’s why Hunter resembles herb brides in some ways - he loves to feed on them, because he secretly envies their talent to communicate with Earth. He "steals" this talent after consumption, but it doesn't stay for long.

He does not enter the Town just yet because he's lowkey afraid lmao, but engages in barter on the outskirts. He can exchange twyre of any rarity and the organs of odonghs/herb brides for lemons. He fucking loves lemons. He doesn’t even eat them, he collects them as a kind of treasure, and in his underground lair they somehow, magically ig, don’t rot - they just chill there like a hoard of citrus gold.

His true form is a long black half-snake, and his poison, at worst, can paralyze and kill, and at best (when processed properly) can become an anesthetic or a medicine to boost immune system.

his hair is snakes and twyre and certain daredevils are eager to use it as an ingredient for a homemade snake wine lol

[cjgladback]

[ID: A photo of prepared wool fiber and wool yarn on a wooden tabletop. A multicolored spindle rests in an orange mug; orange and grey wool is in the process of being spun onto it, with a small amount wound onto the spindle's shaft as a fine single and the majority still wrapped loosely around the top as something like roving. Around the base of the mug lies a trail of more roving, wrapped into nests and threaded onto some yarn, all grey but with a gradient of colors mixed in. In order: lighter orange, pale peach, rose pink, purplish pink, light purple, and medium purple. On the table next to the garland is a small skein of sock yarn spun from the same gradient, somewhat overplied and tied with a length of bright mint green yarn. End ID]

One down, most of one to go! I executed my plot: carded up bonus thrift store lanolin wool, reclaimed the gradient fiber from my first support-spindle-spun skein and carded it into seven gradient steps, blended those two fibers together, and divided the whole progression into two equal sequences for socks or mitts or...something. I've heard of spinners working hard to avoid muddying up their fiber colors, meanwhile I'm over here splashing in the mud puddles! The above photo was taken in the overcast afternoon light from our kitchen windows, so it's even more grey, but as a reminder this is what the colorful half of this looked like in its previous form:

[ID: The same spindle in the same orange mug, this time on weathered wood in direct sunlight with a very chunky skein of safety-vest-orange yarn fading to pale orange and pink with white patches and finally a bright purple. End ID]

I'll be honest I did have some second thoughts about blending once I'd re-carded the yarn into a smoother gradient. But I know I don't use small amounts of yarn well, especially in bright colors, and the fiber did feel a bit frazzled by the time it had no strings remaining. It benefited a lot from combining with the too-much-lanolin of its grey friend. So on to join my trusty cone of dark grey wool in some more staid applications! I am really happy with the tweedy look of this first skein, not removing any neps that had spinnable fuzz still attached (and tbh probably leaving a few slubs that could've been teased out in drafting if I hadn't spun a section of this on the bus to and from IMTS in the pitch dark of pre-dawn and late night). Only concern now is that I did just pull out the cone and realize it's only about 22wpi and my first skein is closer to 30wpi. Maybe it'll fluff up in washing? But either way I think I'll be likely to sacrifice symmetry in favor of fewer frustrations with snapping yarn while chain plying and let my second single trend a little heavier than "as thin as possible." I think the lanolin has helped a bit with it sticking together longer but it's not magic.

[mickmundane]

Wolfgang, jack of all trades (experience in everything) vs. my fellow Target, human test dummy (he steals weapons from corpses. has no experience)

(maybe they could be friends?)

Oh I would LOVE for them to be friends!!

It seems like they've got a lot in common for the services they provide the team and their ability to pick up dropped weapons and items :] Although Wolfie has the benefit of being able to hold onto a lot of things in his backpack (and pass them off to others! He'd be happy to lend stuff to Target if he's having trouble picking anything up)

If Target ever wanted to learn about a new skill, Wolfgang would love the opportunity to take him under his wing and let him in on a very important secret—"Half the time, I hardly know what I'm doin', either! That's the fun part : )"

Thank you for the ask!

[skeletalheartattack]

trick or treat ! :o)

hey look what i've found for you in my wallet. it's my very own personal trading card. this is the only one in existence by the way. you could trade it for a shiny charizard or some other stupid shit.

[mortallychaotickingdom]

And here’s my part for the art trade with the amazing @evil-city , I’m so happy to be finally able to share these bois, they’re so precious I love them so much and you should too!  💕 💕 💕

also: GO FOLLOW! C: 

[cfrog]

And, cowboy #3: Ash! Why'd I leave the least cowboy-y for last?

Close-ups w/ no text :]

[birdsongvelvet]

Me watching those videos of the US anthem at hockey and Raptors games tbh