#will return with more fuckass drawings

[self-indulgentmanic]

Made more of these fuckass drawings

[ribcagebonemeal]

embarrassing doodle post because my motivation has been shattered by how anxious i am about school

[diino8081]

posting this unfinished wip of a ninjago x steven universe infection type comic i made back in around april

no idea if i'll finish it but i was scrolling through ibispaint and decided why not post

(ignore the fuckass car from page 2 lmao i have no idea how cars work anymore and to draw them is the bane of my existance)

the basic concept was that the diamonds were experimenting with a new technology to create gems; they created a species of gem that i called a gembug, but the name probably won't be official.

the gembugs were sent down through injectors and essentially what they do is they come in contact with something living, fusing with it and turning it into a gem

this happens to zane first and his gem replaces his power core. he is still titanium

for the others' gem types they are as follows:

nya is aquamarine

lloyd is malachite

pixal is moonstone

cole is a black sapphire but he also has some orange on him (the pattern is similar to the uncorrupted gems like jasper)

kai is unakite

jay is sodalite

wu is onyx

garmadon is black charoite

skylor is amber because of course

harumi is jade

dareth is boulder opal

(loosely written but becomes more structured near the end)

as for how the story plays out, this is set just before seabound. after zane gets hit by the bug, kai calls the team to warn them to stay away from the injectors. nya answers the call, asking if zane's alright. lloyd says to regroup at base. cole and jay don't pick up.

he and zane return to the monastery. kai has to keep away from physical contact as it's likely infectious (not sure for certain but something along those lines. maybe it's akin to a beacon, you touch an infected and it summons a horde of gembugs)

as for the reason why jay and cole didn't pick up, they were investigating an injector that was too far out for comms. cole ends up infected first and then makes contact with jay, infecting him too. they end up sending pixal closer to their location and in range of comms. she tells them to return to the monastery and look out for the injectors.

when everyone's returned, zane is not doing good. cole and jay seem slightly worse too. i think they put zane in a different room since he's further down the infection, just one of their villain holding cells. pixal is running scans on all of them. while she does this, jay accidentally bumps into nya. nya brushes it off, she'll be fiiiiine.

cole and jay get similarly put into holding cells, pixal investigates further. there isn't really anything obvious except she's detecting faint remnants of gemstones in each of them. as if their flesh is turning into rocks. she doesn't detect anything in zane as he's made out of the same element as his gem

while this happens, lloyd sends out a message to the commissioner to keep people away from the injectors and to isolate if infected, avoiding contact with others.

suddenly zane poofs and the gang freak out. the gem is bubbled and disappears. (the diamonds are about to infodump to patient 0 and the others will likely join them up there soon)

cole poofs now too and jay is panicking. there is a tic tic tic sound as they spot one of the gembugs just kinda standing there.

then all hell breaks loose. there's like a hundred of them that burst through one of the doors. jay stays behind to delay them, insisting he'll be ok as he's already infected anyways. he does hold them off but eventually ends up poofing too.

the 4 (pix, kai, nya and lloyd) run to their escape, using the land bounty to drive away from the monastery. they drive past the city but see people getting infected in droves. they pick up a few survivors along the way.

they drive off to the sea of sands to try to get to the junkyard. the bugs are quite far away. nya feels guilty and admits she may be what's luring the gembugs to them, due to making contact with jay before and not telling anybody.

they all say their goodbyes (contactless of course) and nya leaves the land bounty, the group driving away as she walks closer to the bugs scampering about in the far distance.

a walk. a jog. a sprint. nya summons water around her, forming into a giant tornado of spinjitzu. the gembugs being tossed around in a final blow from the elemental master of water. the tornado carries itself into a completely different direction than the junkyard or the city.

the team see it move over the horizon before it disappears.

they eventually arrive to the junkyard, setting up a camp. ed and edna are uninfected and happy to help. they are sure this spot is safe due to nobody else being infected and it being too far out for the bugs to find any time soon.

meanwhile at homeworld:

zane wakes up confused, looking around him to see 3 giant colour-coded women along with 3 smaller people too. they each have a gem somewhere on their body which is interesting. "oh look, it's a titanium! those are rare" says the blue one

the yellow one looks uninterested but watches anyways. the white one smiles before speaking.

she essentially just infodumps this whole operation they have going here and how the gems work. blue notices psychically that 2 more of them have turned into gems, teleporting them with a bubble. patients 0, 1 and 2. the first 3 to become infected.

they take a little while to form, cole coming out first, followed by jay. both are shocked by their new appearances and how they each only have 1 eye. cole having a large one in the middle of his face while jay has one of them replaced by his gem, similar to an eyepatch.

"a black sapphire and a sodalite! welcome welcome!"

"is that sapphire off colour?" yellow whispers

cole puts a hand on zane's shoulder. "zane! what the fuc-"

he covers his mouth with a hand. "excuse us for a minute"

zane turns them both around and pulls jay out of his space fanboying and into the conversation as well. "don't freak out, but i believe these three entities are equivalent to the first spinjitzu master. the species is some kind of sentient gemstone? these three are diamonds. they were the ones to send down the injectors. as an 'experiment'"

"experiment?" jay questions. "is that why i'm blue? why cole has one eye?"

"i believe so. they were trying to figure out how to create more of their species organically."

"well i'd say it sure worked." cole sighs. "i miss having depth perception already."

and then from that point i'm not really sure what happens

i guess gems and ninjago inhabitants coexist? i mean yes, the new gems will be kinda annoyed about losing their old forms but the gem forms are definitely stronger and more durable.

since the diamonds rule over all gems there would definitely be some independence battles since they were turned unwillingly. a trial maybe

those from ninjago would win the trial and be able to live regularly (albeit with new gem forms and gem tech)

i think earth and the crystal gems would help out too and then era 3 would begin

yeah that would work

ok thanks for reading feel free to add to this

[dyushas]

I return two months later with another people standing image but this time it's Younger Character Designs for the Wayfinder Trio, because I don't think they should look exactly the same for four years straight of their adolescence. So this is how I imagine them when Ven had only just arrived in the Land of Departure

Thought-process notes under the cut (mild spoilers ig):

Terra:

-I think Terra is a creature of habit and has been dressing mostly the same since at least puberty, especially since his style is the most like Eraqus' (in my opinion) and I think most people would copy their parents less as they get closer to adulthood instead of more, but what do I know? Idk what I'm even talking about half the time. It's ultimately vibes, I just think that's his brand of autism. But I had to do it at least a little differently to justify the drawing

-Obviously he is like four years younger or something here so he's not as good at things yet or he would've just taken the Mark of Mastery then, so he's got a wrist brace to show he has fucked up his wrist. To show he's still not good at things. I am very intelligent

-I didn't want to draw the full arm piece but I pretend it's because he hasn't worked his way up to handling that much extra weight on one side yet

-I think the red shirt and the patterns look nice so I also did that

-Aqua cut his hair and she isn't that good at it

-I think he's meant to have brown eyes

Aqua:

-She's got so many flowy bits in her canon outfit and I think it probably took her awhile to achieve the kind of control needed for those to not just be a hazard, so at this point she's a younger teen and she isn't there yet, but she can still afford to add a bit of flair

-I was looking at ballet warm-up clothes like those trash bag shorts cause she's got this dancer thing going on

-She and Terra have the same style of shirt because I thought it would be cute and emphasize their closeness as well as the fact that Ven is somewhat of an outsider here at this point

-She has a knee thing. She hurt her knee. She probably fell trying to figure out that fuckass twirl she does sometimes or something

-She cut her own hair but had Terra help with the back. Mistakes were made

-Terra's nails are painted, too, I just drew him with the wrong hand position to show it. The two of them have been the only other kids around for a good while so they hang out when they're supposed to be asleep sometimes to study their keyblade stuff and then get distracted with something silly and joke back and forth, and they paint each other's nails and share clothes sometimes, although this is getting harder cause they're less and less the same size. And then the next day, Eraqus has to tell them off because Aqua is mad Terra's hogging the bathroom and now they're at each other's throats. Just the way it is

Ventus:

-I can write off everyone looking the same in the flashbacks in BBS cause it was a PSP game and they'd already made a lot of new character models so like. I can think "it was just a practicality thing, they probably didn't actually look the same back then" but Ventus also has the same outfit in UX and I pretend I do not see it. There's no way. He needs something else, his skin is sticking to his clothes. It's just not right, it's not ethical, he's only a boy

-I let him keep the waistcoat though cause it feels SO UX era, everyone in that damn game has a little waistcoat and then no one (?) in the console games does. So my thought process is that this one thing is for SURE from tha past and he just keeps wearing it. He's a little vintage

-He has shorts because ummm :P

-Sora had shorts both as a little baby in BBS and a larger baby in KH1, and then as he's been depicted as less kiddish and more teenaged they have him in those cropped pants now. So it's a Sora parallel. Shorts are just the little boys garment

-"But what if his legs get cold?" Well clearly I thought of that

-He has no armor bits because at this point in time he's just been through a lot of trauma and has only just woken up from a mild coma (for him), so he's all kinds of unwell and I don't think he's really doing any proper training yet. Eraqus already kind of babied him in the main story, so he was probably truly swaddled back then. He's dressed for COMFORT

-This meant he also needed different shoes so I drew some. They're not very remarkable

-I gave him a little jacket because I tried drawing him just without one and I didn't like it, he didn't look enough like he spends his days skulking around and looking sad and not getting to hit things with his keyblade, so I gave him something haori-adjacent like it's maybe something Eraqus had lying around and let him wear like how my mom starts putting her jackets on me when she thinks I'm acting sick. But it has black and white checks on the sleeves because I had to put them SOMEWHERE or else it wouldn't be right and every other option I could think of sounded ugly

-I CAN'T EXPLAIN THE LEGWARMERS, I just wanted him to have a unique silhouette that makes him look like he's been sitting the fuck around

-He just has the same hair as he had in UX, which is his original hair but shorter

That's it unless I forgot something in which case you can ask and I may or may not have an answer.

I might also draw Vanitas in this time period even though I'd just give him the same outfit he always has since it's a magic outfit or whatever, but like for the sake of imagining him Small. Vote now on your phones if I should or not so I can disregard it and do whatever I feel like anyway

[visageofeyes]

February 6th - “Knife”

   Or, more accurately, knives-

   Local bastard who hasn’t been seen since 2018 returns for FNaF February because he now stores his knives by stabbing them into a wall I guess both because he has nowhere else to put them but also, not only is he an asshole, he’s stupid asshole-

[vi-olentine]

Violet sits up on her bed, “I’m fine,” spilling from her lips a little too quickly, and she’s instantly sure her feelings are showing a bit more than she’d like. “I’m just...” She sighs, the chilly metal of the bed frame pressing against her spine as Clem and AJ sit down with her. “We have to get them back.”

She raises her eyes to Clementine’s, knowing she understands. Knows she means it. The dim light thrown from the candle is soft against Clem’s caramel skin and Violet lets herself relax a bit, wanting to be close to her but refraining since the kid is there. She lets her hand settle on the other girl’s shoulder, exhaling in relief when AJ doesn’t seem to think anything of it.

Violet refocuses, glances quickly at the paper Clementine offered, crinkling between her fingers, gathering what she can that she thinks might work to their advantage. Tries not to think about Minnie and Sophie... Omar and Aasim... Louis.

Fucking Louis, goddammit. God fucking dammit... after everything, Violet had retreated from the smoldering remains of the courtyard, Willy sobbing over Mitch’s already paling body, Clem cradling AJ to her chest to try to fruitlessly shield him against what he’d just seen, Ruby making the rounds, offering mostly useless help. All but silently making herself trudge her way up the stairs, not knowing where to go, what to do, finding herself...

In Louis’ room. For years the dorm directly across from hers. She’d let the door drift open, letting herself slide inside the space, taking a glance around.

That stupid chair leg leaning uselessly against a wall where she’d left it after entering, after that happened, numbly letting it fall from her palm to rest against the dingy paint. Wishing he had it now, for whatever use it’d be against these people. These fucking people. She’d gathered it from the smoky ruins of the schoolyard out of instinct, trying to convince herself he’d fight back harder next time, even with such a stupid weapon. He’d need it. He’ll have to fight, she had reminded herself, hoping he’d stay strong.

Violet remembers to herself how she took a breath, tried not to think of returning to the courtyard, to the distant crackling of fire, soft yet audible crying. Let herself settle amongst Louis’ things for a moment, for whatever comfort it could give her.

In the darkness it was hard to see but she could make out enough. The shitty poems scribbled on the flyleaves of textbooks, Louis’ journals heavy in her hands. Feeling a little creepy but leafing through them anyway, letting herself chuckle when he wrote about their conversations and arguments, pressing her fingers to the clotted ink. It was almost like Louis was still there with her in his room, all those nights they talked about if the whole world was fucked up or if it was just Virginia, just the U.S., about what landed them in this unique circle of hell called Ericson... about Clementine, when she first showed up.

“Thank you...” Violet glances down, breaking herself out of it, almost wanting to smile but thinking about Louis out there, with those people, she can’t manage it. “for helping me.” She draws her legs up against her chest and looks back to Clem, tries again for a soft smile. Fails.

“I know you had to make a choice,” she acknowledges, glad she wasn’t the one who had to make it. Not at all sure she would have saved herself over Louis, arguably her best friend in this entire damn place aside from Minnie, and now... Clem. “I’m glad to still be here... with you.”

“And you, goofball.” Violet finally manages to curl her lips upwards, knowing the kid hates that nickname. “I heard you guys gave that fuckass Abel what was coming to him. Good.”

Violet hadn’t thought about it considering the adrenaline of the night, but realizes now - she’s starving. “Yeah... I could do with some food. Let’s go see what we can scrounge up.”

Clementine and AJ spent the night interrogating Abel for information regarding the whereabouts of their captured friends. Despite their readiness, all the traps set, they could not prevent the death of their friend Mitch. 

The school remains in shambles, and the next day will consist of forming a plan to get their friends back, Louis, Omar, and Aasim, Lilly’s “new recruits” as she called them, and Clementine scoffs at the memory. 

Clementine saw the look on Lilly’s face when Clementine challenged her, I don’t think you want to kill me, just like you didn’t want to in the woods. Can’t fucking do it, can you? Clementine hopes this might give her some advantage over Lilly in the future but knowing who Lilly is, Clem won’t let her guard down for a second. 

“This should be easy,” Lilly had muttered.

“Then do it already. Shoot me,” Clementine challenged, body burning in pain after falling off the balcony with Abel onto the ground. 

Clementine tightens her jaw as the raiding swirls around in her head as she pulls the trigger and kills the walkers effortlessly, not even blinking, eyes glossed over, one body at a time falling to the ground. She and AJ offered to kill the remaining herd on the horizon after the commotion. 

Trading shifts with Ruby and Willy, Clementine updates them before setting her hand on AJ’s back and walking back towards the school, the dark sky wrapping around them. 

“You tired, little man?”

“Nah,” AJ says.

“Yeah, me neither.”

“Wake up, stupid shitting fuckhead,” the boy had screamed at Abel after kicking his bloody leg, a well deserved way to wake up, she thought, nonetheless wondering at the hardened boy she was raising. Clementine gave Abel the water and cigar and didn’t let him turn, shoving her knife into his skull. They had the answers they needed: where to find their friends.  

“Let’s just…try to catch our breath.” The adrenaline courses through their veins still as things begin to settle down. “It’s been a long night.”

Clementine and AJ wander the hall and Clem peeks into Violet’s room with AJ standing inquisitively behind her.

“Hey,” Clem says to Violet. 

“We got the shitbird to talk,” AJ tells her.

“Yes, he’s dead. We’ll go scope out the area tomorrow. They’re…on a boat.” She digs in her pocket and hands Violet the piece of paper that Abel gave them. 

You’re always welcome here, you and AJ.  

Clementine leans against the bed frame and AJ climbs on top of Violet’s bed and sits down. Her pulse hammers in her wrist, not entirely from the adrenaline, she notices, as her stomach flutters at just being near Violet. Clementine looks at the girl and smiles despite the situation, remembering their nights together. “How are you holding up?” A stupid question, maybe. 

Clem worries about Louis, worries because she knows Violet is stronger than him. A part of her wonders if Violet would have escaped if she hadn’t stepped in, and if they would have Louis and Violet with them now. She feels guilty, partially to blame. 

AJ sets his hand on his stomach and frowns a little. “I’m hungry.”

“I haven’t even thought of eating but…yeah, me too. There should be a little food left. If you want to go find some together?” Clementine turns to Violet.

[caladblog]

i think i’m done saying “i hate to be that guy” wrt fire emblems because it’s pretty obvious that i fucking love to be that guy. let’s just embrace it. tellius games are superior. i am that guy.

so, to expand on the thing i just reblogged, and to continue my series of posts about how fe 9&10 have some of the best fantasy character design i’ve ever seen (previous installments: 1 2 3), i’m going to write about something that’s a little less obvious: composition.

if you’re not familiar with Art(TM), composition refers to the way that the elements of an image are laid out--characters and what they’re wearing, yes, but also the position they’re in, the way the image is angled, lines and colors of the characters and also the background. there’s all sorts of technical rules (and when to break them) in order to evoke certain moods, but all you really need to know at this point is that: when a paid artist sits down to draw something such as the official character portrait for a video game, every single aspect of the drawing is deliberate. and therefore composition matters when judging whether or not a female character is given sexist treatment, regardless of how much tits and ass is showing. she could be covered head to toe and still be composited in a way that is Sexy (For Men).

if you’re not familiar with fire emblems, official character portraits are mainly supposed to show each character in their entirety because you don’t really get a good look at them during the game itself. ideally they’re not just reference sheets, though--they give a little bit of insight into the character’s personality as well.

okay now that we’re all caught up, let’s take a look at this lovely lady Whoever The Fuck She Is from the recently-released portraits for Fire Emblem 2: Yes We’re Remaking The ONE Game That The Fandom Is United In Disliking, What, Is There A Problem With That:

in and of herself, she’s not so bad. just going off this image, knowing jack shit nothing about Fire Emblem 2: The Lost Episode, i’d wager she’s a noblewoman of some sort since her clothes are fancy but not super practical for battle. i can’t tell if she’s wearing a light breastplate or just like a weird Boob Frame but i’m feeling generous, so i’ll say it’s a breastplate without any other armor, meaning she’ll have lower defense stats but higher speed. she’s probably a pegasus knight or a swordsmaster. so far so good.

the problems begin to arise when you compare her to the rest of the characters in the set. for the sake of brevity, i’ll just post one (also unarmored) character for comparison, but here’s the post with the others.

there is something obviously different about the composition of this mage’s portrait. you’re looking at them directly, straightforward, head-on. they’re just standing there, showing off some fire.

scroll back up to the lady. you’re looking down at her.

look at that photoset with only one lady in it. she’s the only one you’re looking down on.

in neutral images like these, the angle of the “camera” implies the division of power between the viewer and the character. a flat angle, like the mage and everyone else in the photoset, implies that you’re on equal footing. a low angle, where you’re looking up at the character, implies that the character has (or tries to have, or believes they have) power over you--it’s often used for dramatic shots of supervillains and egomaniacs. a high angle, like the lady, implies that you have power over the character, that the character is somehow beneath you.

again: it isn’t a problem by itself that she’s drawn with a high angle. it becomes a problem when she’s the only female character and she’s the only one with a high angle. by making the composition of these shots five flat/equal and one high/unequal, the artist is subtly implying that the sole female character is less powerful and mostly there for decoration.

and that makes me wary about how this game is going to treat its female characters, especially given the way the series has treated all their recent female characters.

because i couldn’t fucking shut up about it if my life depended on it, let’s take a look at some Traditionally Sexy character portraits from fe10:

fancy. clearly not a soldier by trade. spends most of her time running a tavern, is currently trying to decide whether you could be a paying customer or you should be set on fire. flat angle.

flirtatious. will pick your pockets and/or stab you while you’re distracted. flat angle.

not paying a lot of attention. has more important things to think about. fights while transformed into a fuckass huge bird so it doesn’t matter what clothes she wears. flat angle.

and if you go through the whole gallery, there are at least seven more female characters in hardcore action poses in which they are ready to attack at a moment’s notice, and nineteen more female characters in neutral or playful or commanding poses. all of them at a flat angle, same as the male characters. even when they’re Traditionally Sexy or not actively showing their power, you’re not forced to look down on any of them.

i’m not casting my final judgement on Fire Emblem 2: Does Anyone Give A Shit? just yet, because i haven’t seen any other character portraits, or anything else about the gameplay or storyline. and it definitely gets points for returning to the land of character design that actually makes a little bit of sense. but i’m not holding my breath that the series is back on track, and i’m certainly not about to preorder anything.