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Crazy to think it’s been less than a year since I started making life series art!

I slightly modified this template by @ink-ghoul because of my crippling addiction to wide canvasses

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They're so normal and nonthreatening

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They immediately trip and fall, causing several casualties and stubbing their toes.

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I have so many thoughts about DDVAU Scar

Double Hearted is by the amazing @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11

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I love dead plate. I am bad at lethal company.

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oh deer

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Feeling especially self indulgent lately so here’s some of my favorite hermits in my favorite outfits

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Do YOU like art fight? Do YOU like showing people your OCs? Come fight me in the artfight parking lot here!

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it's that time of the year again, isn't it?

Prepare your ocs, I'll be fighting on the side of Fossils! (probably)

> my artfight profile <

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Last chapter had me feeling like

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I’m in the @impandskizz-zine !!!

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Soulsmake Schedule

Soulsmake is an event centered on working with someone new and enjoying the process of creation!

Sign up as a writer, an artist, or either, and be assigned a random soulmate, ideally in pairs or writer+artist. Once pairs are rolled, you’ll have about a month to talk to your soulmate, find some common ground, and make an AU!

What that creation process looks like is up to the two of you—you two can draw or write as much or as little as you’d like. You can make full color art or a simple sketch, and you can write a full fic or a simple outline. You don’t even have to make anything at all! All you have to do to “complete” this event is have a single conversation.

Soulsmake is about making a friend and making a story. It’s about the journey, not the destination. Simply have fun with this low stakes, low pressure creativity event!

Below is the planned schedule, and a small explanation as to how each phase will work.

Monday, July 7 - Signups open

Saturday, July 19 - Signups close

Sunday, July 20 - Pool limiting review opens

Wednesday, July 23 - Pool limiting deadline

Sunday, July 27 - Soulmates assigned

Friday, August 1 - Soulmate reroll request deadline

Sunday, August 3 - Rerolled soulmates assigned

Monday, Sept 1 - Official completion deadline

Below the cut will be more information on each step of the event process. If you have any questions not answered in this post, check the #soulsmake qna tag on this blog to see if your question has been answered already, and if it hasn’t, our ask box is open!

Sign ups:

There will be a little over two weeks to sign up for Soulsmake. We’ll be asking you for your name, your socials, and your discord—this is the information that will be available to the other participants of the event during the limiting process.

Next, we’ll ask if you’re signing up as an artist, a writer, or either. We’ll be trying to make pairs of artist+writer, though we don’t imagine an even amount of artists and writers will be signing up, so that isn’t guaranteed. Signing up as either will help with balancing these, so if you can do both, consider signing up as either!

After that, we’ll be asking you your age bracket, specifically whether you’re an adult or a minor, and then ask if you’re comfortable working with someone in the opposite age bracket. Your exact age is not necessary, and this information will not be public.

Finally, we’ll be asking whether you’re comfortable with working in a team of three instead of as a pair. This is in case of an odd number of sign ups. We may also consider using teams of three so all teams have at least one writer and one artist.

Once you hit submit on the sign up sheet, the confirmation page will have a link to the event’s discord server. Joining that is required, as we’ll be hosting much of the rest of the event through discord!

(If you forget to grab the link before closing the confirmation page, please send an ask off anon for the discord invite!)

Pool limiting:

The next phase of the event is pool limiting. Once sign ups are closed, participants will gain access to a spreadsheet of the names, socials, and discords of all the other participants. You will then be asked to fill out a second form with everyone you want removed from your roster of possible soulmates.

This serves two purposes. The first: if you have any usual creation partner(s) you tend to work with, we would like you to write them down. We want you to work with someone you’ve never worked with before, so note down your usual accomplices to ensure you don’t get them by chance!

Second, if you see someone on the list you don’t get along with, we’d also like you to note down their names and remove them from your pool. We don’t want anyone to be randomly paired with someone they already know they won’t work well with, so this step should help minimize those conflicts by preventing them from happening.

Who you put on your limits list will be completely private, and once the event has ended, the list will be deleted.

If you do not submit a limit form, we will assume you are open to anyone who fits within the criteria from the original signup form.

Soulmate Assignment and rerolls:

[Note: Rolling soulmates may end up taking an extra day or two depending on how many sign ups we receive! If this happens, the other dates will also be pushed back accordingly.]

Finally, the soulmates will be rolled! When pairs are finalized, we’ll announce them in the discord server by pinging users. The creation period can start here for most pairs as they DM their partners, as the creation period will be done one-on-one in private DMs between soulmates rather than in the server itself.

In the first week after soulmates are rolled, participants will be asked to chat with their soulmates and get to know each other. Find out what your soulmate is interested in and find common ground!

In this stage, we’ll ask you all to be flexible and respectful. It’s possible your soulmate doesn’t watch your favorite CC, or that you aren’t super interested in your soulmate’s top favorite type of AU. That’s okay! Try to be open-minded about what your soulmate is interested in, and be flexible with what you yourself are willing to create—you’ll likely have something to bond over!

Open, kind communication will be key, as will a willingness to branch out and explore new things! If you aren’t able to be respectful and flexible, this event may not be for you.

That said, if you find that you and your soulmate aren’t compatible for any reason (ie you can find no common ground, or you’re on opposite timezones, or you just don’t really click or get along), you can come to an amicable split. If you and your soulmate decide to split, one member should head to the discord and make a ticket with the mods and ask to reroll.

Fair warning: If you and your partner cannot be respectful of each other in your decision to split, one or both of you might be asked to bow out of the event.

How rerolls will be handled will depend on how many people need rerolls and how they want their rerolls handled. Options will include rerolling new random pairs, individuals joining existing pairs, or participants picking their own new soulmate.

Creation period:

Once the pairs are solidified, the creation period officially begins! Soulmates will have one month to make up an AU together, and once the month is up, you’ll be asked to share what you have.

Again, this is a low stakes, low pressure event. You can go all out and create full art or a completed fic, or you can do some simple sketches or a simple outline. The only thing you need to do to “complete” this event is have a conversation with your soulmate!

While this is a Life Series fandom event, if you and your soulmate feel inspired to make an AU for another fandom you both share, you can do so. You can also make an original story or work with your sonas/OCs. Shipping is allowed if both parties are comfortable with it, and while we do not care if adult pairs create NSFW, we will not be reblogging it to this blog. Absolutely no GenAI or C.AI will be allowed.

You can share your work by pinging this blog and using the #soulsmake tag! If you and your partner are inspired, you are more than welcome to continue creating for your AU after the event is over.

If you still have questions after this, please feel free to check the #soulsmake qna tag or send us an ask! Additionally, any other informational posts will go in the #soulsmake info tag.

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Soulsmake - An AU Creation Event

A low stakes event about making a new friend and appreciating the journey of creation!

Soulsmake is simple. Sign up and be randomly assigned a soulmate of another creative in the Life Series fandom who you don't usually work with, then spend a month making an AU or story together.

After sign-ups close, you'll be asked to review the list of other sign-ups and let us know who to remove from your pool. The goal is to find a new story partner you haven't worked with before, so you'll be asked to let us know any regular creative partners you have so they can be removed from your pool. Once the pool-limiting review period closes, the soulmate rolling begins. You'll have about a week to get to know your soulmate and ensure you and your soulmate are compatible, but if you have any issues such as sharing no common interests or incompatible timezones making it difficult to talk, you can enter a smaller reroll pool or join an existing pair.

Once soulmates are settled, the AU creation period officially begins! Your AU can be Life Series, or it can be for another fandom where you and your soulmate have common ground. You can even make something based on your sonas or OCs. Shipping is allowed, but NSFW will not be reblogged to this blog.

This event is meant to be low stakes and "low effort," focused more on the processes of collaboration and creation than it is on a polished final product. Your AU should have some sort of story line, though it can be as complicated or as simple as you and your soulmate would like. While you're more than welcome to make a full piece of art or fic for your AU, you do not have to. Your final product can be as simple as a sketch or a fic outline. Whatever you want to do!

At the end of the event, you and your soulmate are encouraged to share your AU in whatever form it's currently in. @ this blog and use the tag #soulsmake to showcase your AU, though the end date does not have to be the end. You can continue to work on your AU after the end of the event—in fact, if you and your soulmate want to keep working together, that would be the best success this event could have!

Exact schedule will follow in a few days, but sign-ups should open in July with the event itself running for the month of August. The ask box is also open for any questions!

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[guy who hasnt drawn in a few weeks voice] yeah the world is horrible and life is agony

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After watching a random celebrity “What’s in Your Bag?” video, I got curious (or maybe just nosy, lol) and started asking everyone the same question. So, what’s in your bag? Or, if you’re not the type to carry one, what’s in your pockets?

Oooh I love these types of questions! To answer: About three sets of dice, a magic the gathering deck, my iPad, and emergency snacks. I am ready to game or draw at all times.

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Welcome to Total Drama Life!

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So I’m planning to table at my first artists alley next year and I was wondering what the hermits/life series folks stances are on having stickers and the like sold of them? If anyone knows anything I’d greatly appreciate the info!