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There’s way too many amazing supporting characters to fit on one line up ok? 😭😭😭 these would be my ‘top choices’ but I’ve got plenty more I’d wanna do in due time. I’ve wanted to make sure there’s at least one new guy in each line up save the Steam Team, so welcome Stanley. 🤍🩶

There’s only one line up left (for now anyway) so I’m not gonna do a poll, but I will offer a random Bill and Ben HC:

These twins are known to be little menaces and tweak their human appearances more often than any engines on the island, often copying each other’s appearances to fuck with people. They begrudgingly comply with wearing the name badges, but sometimes they get ‘lost’.

Steam Team (1-11)

Diesels

Ladies of Sodor

Narrow Gauge Gang

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Artfight has finally come to an end, so here's the rest of my attacks from the year! >:D

Candy Delight for JennieLights (on Artfight/Instagram)

Eclipse for @sinnabee

Billie "Bronzewing" Baker for SeaRogue / @daisywithnomakeup

Rosie for Zalabrat / @zalabratart

And last but not least-

Nellie for @rhi-spect

Aaaand that's all of them! I'm happy to report that I beat my goal of 10 pieces this year (I actually did 11 total! YIPPEEE) and I had an absolute blast doing it! >:D Thank you again to everyone for letting me draw their lovely characters, I genuinely had such a good time with Artfight this year. And many thanks as well to those who drew my blorbos!! I recieved a lot more attacks then I ever expected and I adored all of them so so much. ;; Genuinely made my day seeing them all!! Safe to say this year was a blast and I'm already looking forward to next year hehe

But for now I'm going to be giving my hand a much-deserved rest for prolly about a week or so, but don't worry, I'll be back on my drawing tablet soon with more silly art for y'all to see! x'3 So enjoy all the art! :D And I'll see y'all again soon!!

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💎🌟Crystals #39 - Flower Boy🌟💎

Flower Boy © @thunderxleafart

Speedpaint below!

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Hi!

I was browsing through your glorious art collection the other day, as one does, and I was suddenly struck by a thought: I've never seen a list of HCs for the Diesels.

If I may ask, why is that? I'd love to hear your thoughts on BoCo, Mavis, Diesel and the rest!

I’m a little pedantic sometimes which is what I’m trying to break out from considering my art, but I have a thing about posting certain things together and until I’ve completed everything I wanna group into a post, I won’t post it.

that’s why sometimes I have shit sitting in my drafts for literal years. Yeah procrastination is a deadly addition to that mix.

I have HCs for the diesels, but I wanna keep my Sodor516 AU Headcanons with the character’s refs, which is why I haven’t posted them yet. Good news is once I’ve gotten through these redesign line-ups, yall will be seeing more HCs. 🫶✨

Since you’ve complimented my art, I’ll share a few ✨

Diesel has a massive sweet tooth and loves sweets, chocolate and doughnuts. Of course, being a Diesel, stuff like that will make him super sick but the idiot will still shovel Cadbury in his mouth like it’s the fountain of youth.

‘Arry and Bert have a reputation among the other Engines for being nasty and scary. They’re actually sweethearts, but their twisted humour and rough attitude can be a bit too much for some.

D10 is a whole ass melting pot of trauma, questioning existence, anger and festering wounds. He’s gotta get unpacked later. All I’ll give is, including the claw, he used to have three arms. Pinchy wasn’t always on the left.

Splatter and Dodge are quiet out of the bunch, they tend to keep to themselves. They often finish each other’s sentences without meaning to and can sometimes literally talk as one person without even trying. D10 always says it freaks him out ‘in a cool way.’

Boco is an honorary Steamie. He’s also the one forced to baby sit Bill and Ben a lot of the time. It’s forged a wholesome bond between him and the little Tankers, to a point he’s pretty much the only engine they really worry about pissing off (other than Edward Bocos honorary husband)

Salty loves telling tales of the sea. Whether it’s stuff he’s heard from sailors and dock workers, or things he’s dreamt up, or maybe even seen himself is anyone’s guess. Regardless of what they believe, the Engines love gathering around and listening to Salty’s tales after a long day of work. Especially the little Tankers.

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A treat for myself cuz im exhausted bcs of work

A Douglas that has fallen quite hard for Oliver and doesnt know what to do when he flirst with him while drunk zogkzkdnzdn

I love them your honor (its been years i drew ship art, leave me alone)

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I LOVE THIS

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As we're heading into the homestretch of Artfight now, I thought I'd finally start sharing some of my pieces elsewhere! x'D (I actually meant to post these earlier but ah well, now's a good a time as any lol)

Jacqueline Debien for @90sdiablo

Cethe & Ferdinand for PotatoToast / @toastedpotatoes

Anxiety for @rainberryjel

Edward Pettigrew for @shrike-nest (featuring my Bill & Ben Bagnall getting into trouble, as a sort of sequel to the Gordon piece from last year x'D)

Donald & Douglas for @redhare-nothere

I've been having a great time drawing all these silly blorbos, and changing things up has definitely helped kickstart my art motivation again. Safe to say Artfight has been super fun for me thus far, and I'm not done yet! >:D Thanks to everybody above for letting me draw your adorable characters and I'll be back at the end of the month with more hopefully!! Enjoy the art everbody! <3

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they don’t know how they got here either

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another disappointment

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*throws art then runs screaming back into the ether*

THE 2025 SODOR516 AU, boys and squirrels. These are just roughs, I’m definitely gonna do proper refs for them when I’ve got more time on my hands, but people have been rightfully asking for some revamps. So here’s that, with a (not the most accurate so don’t come for me) height chart. Everyone loves a good height chart.

Headcanons are more or less the same, but they’ll get an update in due time too. ✨

Before anyone asks, yes some have changed sizes slightly and yes I’m doing the diesels and so forth.

Also for anyone who wants, for shits and gigs I’m gonna leave anon asks open for the next 24 hours or so, so if there’s anything you wanna confess or say to my engines feel free- just be civil. ✨🫶

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happy pride month from Oliver and Douglas (humanzied) with Sicilia Rhea Tempest Vargas (my oc)

Sorry this is quite a late response, I was meaning to respond but got sidetracked by artfight x'D (Which I'm enjoying quite thoroughly hehe) But happy (belated) pride month from my humanized Douggie n Ollie!! :D

Cute oc btw! Thanks for the ask ^^

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ARTFIGHT TIMEEE!!! WOOOO Just managed to finish two more OC refs (my humanized Duck and my succubi OC Laela) and add them, and I've got some free time again, so here's my official Artfight card for this year!! Gonna maybe start working on attacks tonight so feel free to drop artfight names below! >:) No one is safe from me hehehe /lh

Best of luck to everyone and here's to another good Artfight! <3 And gooooo Team Crystals!! :D

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Imma need something to do, y’all. I’m stuck with the google loading wheel on my head, and I have no idea why.

Plus, Bill and Ben ☝️

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My motivation to draw and post art has been so low this entire month (also how is it already the end of June, where did the time go??? x_x) BUT I really wanted to draw something for pride month, so here's some 8x9 content for the soul <33 They are definitely my favourite ship from TTTE so far, and honestly just have such a fun dynamic in general, whether platonic or romantic. They mesh so well together, they really bring out each others best qualities. (Donald brings out the playfulness in Duck, Duck helps ground Donald) Also they're just really cute together LKASGHAS and I like drawing them a lot xD Bonus doodle of their human versions from my in-progress AU snoggin bc Douggie and Oliver got to do it, so why not them too? <3 Happy pride y'all! I hope you all had a good pride month and enjoy these silly guys. <3 Now to go frantically try and prepare for Artfight LMAO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donald & Duck (c) TTTE

Art & Human designs (c) Me! <3

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How would duck feel if you had a new favorite

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Heya! So happy to see the asks are open again and I hope you’re feeling better💖💖💖

My question for Douglas (Cuz of course it is lol) How did you feel when it’s was just Donald who was going to be sent to Sodor and/or how did the plan for you to escape to Sodor come to be?

Context — Donnie and Dougie had less self identity at the start, and were both still getting used to their weird bodies when arriving to Sodor. This means they were in ‘proto form’ (this raw state with less cosmetics such as skin) and they struggled when working leading to Sir Hatt waffling back and forth between who he kept. The twins were both on their way to get scrapped. When Donald was ordered to Sodor, Douglas stowed away with him hoping they would both be kept. It wasn’t so much that they escaped to Sodor, rather that one of them did while the other was bought to work there.

Donald has a mishap which leads to him needing repairs, and has Sir Hatt considering Douglas as the engine he keeps. But when Douglas needs repairs after pushing himself too hard to help James and prove himself for the both of them, their future is uncertain and the two brothers have to contemplate being sent to scrap or separated.

Douglas, originally the one running away, becomes the one who has a better chance of staying, leading to him being the one who kept them both going.

Their turmoil is a lot harder to ignore when they’re no longer just locomotives, but beings with body language, expressions, and touch, and Sir Hatt caves, keeping both brothers on his railway. With less fear over being picked or separated, Donnie and Dougie begin to become individuals a little more, with their hair styles changing and their styles becoming more elegant.