#the colours are pale and the shapes are angular instead of rounded

[aghostuponthemoor]

If the anime still had that old style like the one you drew, I would still be watching it ❤️ I love how genuine it feels

Personal redraw challenge - Aquarium case

I really wanted to redraw a scene from the aquarium case because some of the Shinran frames in that episode were just not it.

I actually finished this one months ago but ended up never posting it because I wasn’t satisfied with the colors. I had decided to go for more traditional colors, outfits, and the simplicity that came with hand drawn tv shows. And I do think it looks good, but I feel that overall, it clashes with the fish in the background :p

[not-that-debonair]

Caught up with wtnv, but I wanted to do an older scene. (Click for better image quality)

Huge thanks to @treehousepr1nce for giving me the quotes :D

[ID: Two images, both of the same piece of traditional fanart for Welcome to Night Vale, with different rotations. The drawing consists of a black rectangle drawn with scratchy black pen, and split horizontally with a diagonal, jagged line. On the two halves are Cecil Palmer and Kevin respectively, drawn with alcohol markers. They are both shown from the hips up and mirroring each other, similar to a playing card picture. Both characters have albinism. They both have pale skin and light curly hair. Cecil’s hair is more white while Kevin’s is slightly more blond. Cecil is wearing a multicoloured (mostly violet) cropped jacket, a yellow fishnet tank top over a long green shirt with a black tank top underneath. He is also wearing wearing purple rectangular biopic glasses, a hanging earring with the silhouette of a stylised cat’s face, and a Star of David necklace. He has a neutral/concerned expression. Kevin is wearing a multicoloured (mostly orange) cropped puffer jacket, a yellow and brown pinstripe waistcoat over a thin orange turtleneck, a pink tie and a striped orange skirt. He is also wearing large round pink glasses, a dangly earring with a gold disk, a thin yellow headband which is pushing his hair back. and a gold smiley face necklace. There are splatters of blood on Kevin’s clothing, and he is grinning widely. There is a microphone hanging from the ceiling in each half, to both of their left. On Cecil’s half, there are grey pipes and wires beside the microphone, on Kevin’s half, there is bloody viscera instead of pipes. Both characters are speaking, and they both have speech bubbles on the other side of them to the microphones. The speech bubbles cross and coverthe jagged line separating them. Cecil’s speech bubbles is a cool grey and is drawn with rough, angular lines. He is saying ‘So make peace with your double, Night Vale, … We can get along.’ Kevin’s speech bubble is a warm grey and is drawn with wavy lines, which form drips at the bottom. He is saying ‘So exciting! … Think of what we could accomplish if there were two of us!’ The background of the drawing is done with watercolour and colour pencil. Cecil’s background is comprised of rich purples and greens, with bright pink shapes resembling tentacles. There is a crescent moon in the corner. Kevin’s background is comprised of bright yellows and greens, with orange shapes resembling spider legs, and a sun in the opposite corner to the moon on the other half. In the first image, Cecil is in the upper half of the drawing and Kevin is upside down ‘mirroring’ him. In the second image, the drawing is rotated 180 degrees so Kevin is in the upper half and Cecil is upside down. /End ID]

[jashasedai]

The Taking- Character Notes

I worked up some character descriptions to use as reference for the characters that appear in the Taking.  Pictures of creatures are references for bodyshape/conformation, not for exact appearance.   The guys all have their own face, hair, eyes, except where noted.

Character Descriptions so far:

Linnea- Vampire.  White skin, short pink hair cut into the shapes of magpies, white cableknit tunic, black velvet looking pants, leather overcoat, battle axe

Saskia- Human specially trained to hunt otherbeings  Blonde hair, blue eyes, blue silk patterned shirt under a wool peacoat, black leather pants, over the knee leather riding boots

Alain- Dryad *winks at IA*

Valentino- Satyr.  Montechristo goat legs, black hoodie sweatshirt over a tank top with the VR46 logo, sneakers designed to fit hooves.

Colin- Naga.  Rattle Snake from the waist down, blue leather motorcycle jacket, grey concert tshirt No Shoes, just a sexy tan coloured rattle the size of your fist and forearm. 6 Rattles, and one small one forming(one for every seven years.)

Credit: https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/The-Naga-by-Bammelsan/35613939.1G4ZT

Aron- golem, jasper green skin with kintsugi instead of all his tattoos.  

Wears a black cocktail dress and sneakers with his socks pulled up.

Skin is this type of green, tattoos are gold instead of black

Pippit- Mage who works with the Gatekeepers.  Short woman, young faced but with a grandmotherly attitude.

George- Paperwight, looks like he’s made of newspaper origami, with strips of paper for hair and big, glowing, tennis ball sized yellow eyes.  His newspaper skin reports on what he is doing.

Not Pictured

Robert- Emperor Eagle Harpy

This shape (but Robert has a noble eagle beak, and his own hair)

This bird

Credit: https://twitter.com/vvisti/status/1084682754095308800

Jorge Lorenzo- Sphinx, Anthro human face, dark furred wings, dark furred mane, goatee, red stripe in hair and red x on chest.

Credit: Pathfinder Games

Andre- A gargoyle.  During the day he is stone and sits on the roof of the Gatekeepers’ station, as the sun sets he becomes a flesh creature with clawed hands and feet and wings.

Buemi- The Gatekeepers’ weaponsmith/gunsmith.  Has a workshop in the basement of the station where he designs and manufactures weapons for the various creatures who guard the gates to the Hedge.  The same type of gargoyle as Andre.

Jev- A handsome human ghost, appears normal except for having been decapitated.  His body functions under the control of his head and often carries his head under its arm.  If set down his head leaks ectoplasmic blood.

Zephyr- The spirit of the mechanical age.  A huge green steam locomotive.  Currently sealed in stasis by a powerful spell.  Founder of the Gatekeepers.

Sebastian- Vampire, human passing.  Redbull beanie and a racing jacket.

Kimi- Ice Giant.  Has a size spell that fits him into human spaces.  Really 15 feet tall with white hair and eyes and glacier blue skin.  Wears biker boots, jeans, and a parka to keep the cold in.

Alex Albon- Stoneskin changeling, carved soapstone statue appearance, angular features.

Jenson- Tall, beautiful pale vampire.  Since he’s been taken by the Fae his eyes have turned from totally red to totally black.

Teddy Bear- Appears in Arcadia to be a knee high stuffed bear with round black eyes and lots of seams and stitches where his limbs have been sewn back on.

Dani Pedrosa- Dani shaped when human, scars and seams over his joints.

Shaped like this when bear

Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gweeb/35329294

Marc and Alex Marquez- Harvestman.  Appears in traditional grey robes with scythe or, in his more modern iteration, as a human man in a black on black three piece suit with his face covered in black greasepaint except a white painted skull

Credit: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQY5G6

Rinsy- Muskox-taur.  Rams horns on his head, his own long brown curly hair, and the same wooly kind of hair on his muskox lower body.  Wears a vest spun and knit from his own quivet(muskox wool).

Lando: Appears perfectly human, but with a malign air about him.  In his illusions he appears as a small boy with bright curly hair.  Without illusions, he appears as himself, though younger.

Joe Roberts: Appears human until his emotions are up, or he’s done his trick of stepping through one painted door and out another somewhere else, then he appears to be human, but leaves streaks of paint on anything he touches.  In his shed he has a painting that looks something like this, but the scene is of a farm family.

Credit: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/old-masters-evening-l17036/lot.48.html

Guanyu: Guanyu is a twelve year old faun.  He has water deer hind legs, a little darker and redder than they will be when he grows up, and spotted with white fawn spots.  When he grows up, instead of antlers, he will grow a handsome set of fangs.

Pedro: Pedro looks like any other fourteen year old human except, because he is a curupira, his feet face the opposite direction.

Andrea Iannone: A tall, broad shouldered vampire.

Antonio Giovinazzi: Formed similarly to a harpy, Antonio has bird wings instead of arms, bird legs that end in hunting talons, and a lustrous, flowing tail.  His feathers are scarlet and form a red mane and crest around his human face, but when he is ready to fly, his full bird form makes it’s appearance.

Checo: Another of the harpy style people, a Huitzilopochtli, with hummingbird feathers.  He travels with Esteban Gutierrez, who is his Xiuhcoatl, or Fire Serpent.  A feathered serpent, he has an elongated torso, though he does have legs, unlike a naga, and arms, which have flight feathers along them.

Esteban Ocon: 8 Feet tall in human spaces, though a great deal of that is his sinewy neck.  He walks upright on his hind legs and is smooth scaled, bottle green.  He doesn’t have this horn/whiskery arrangement, but it was hard to find a picture of a dragon where it doesn’t look like they’re half cheese grater.

Lance: The Trickster Raven, he can choose which parts of his body to manifest as a bird, but his most common is the traditional-

Credit: White Wolf, World of Darkness

Max Verstappen:  Max was always a frogman, but since he got back from Arcadia, he seems to have an extra tick in his step.  When he works at the multicultural center he wears a double breasted uniform jacket that reminds Saskia of the toy nutcrackers from the Nutcracker Suite.  

Helmut Marko: Most cyclops are giants, but this one is small, wizened, and runs a museum for people of all species to learn about one another’s cultures.

The Fauns:

In addition to Rinsey, the leader, there is another member of the gang who is not technically a faun.  Andrea Migno is a hind- similar to a centaur, but instead of a horse body, he has the delicate legs and hooves of a mountain chamois, a deerlike creature from his native Italy.  Unlike the rest of the Fauns, he wears his hair short, and the fur on his legs is short as well, and his legs are dyed with gold and blue stripes that make him look like he’s wearing socks.

Marco Bezzecchi, Enea Bastianini, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Pecco Bagnaia, and Matia Pasini are also members of the gang.  They are all true fauns, with wooly goat legs and long wooly hair to match.

If I was a better artist, you’d all have a better idea what everyone looks like.  Sorry.

[haleyylisse]

[face], [eyes], [skin]

[face]: what is the shape of their face, do they have pronounced cheekbones or a strong jaw, what's the size and shape of their nose, what's the size and shape of their ears, do they stick out, are they pointed, etc.

Haley’s face is fairly angular, with every ridge of her jawbone and cheek visible if you glance at it right. Compared to the rest of her family, perhaps ‘sharp’ is the right word to describe her. Her nose is fairly long and prominent, following the same general structure as the rest of her face. 

Her ears hug close to the side of her head, rounded and small. 

[eyes]: not just the colour, but the shape, the length of their eyelashes, whether they're alert or usually half-closed, large or small, sunken into the face, ringed by bags, etc.

Her eyes are large with green irises, surrounded by long eyelashes - inherited from her father’s Plegian side. Normally wide in alert, paying attention to whatever’s going on around her - brought around by living with her younger sister - it’s not uncommon to see her with bags under her eyes from not sleeping enough. 

[skin]: obviously colour, but also if they're inclined to run hot or cold, do they have any blemishes or unusual markings, are they inclined to blush, are they freckled, do they tan, what does their skin feel like, etc.

Haley is pale compared to her fellow Ylisseans - although not as pale as her father is. It’s smooth, with her Brand resting just below her sternum the only real mark on it. She doesn’t so much ‘tan’ as burn easily, instead hiding under long but cool fabrics and a parasol to avoid it. She also takes unusual pride in her skin and goes out of her way to avoid tanning - to the point where Morgan thinks that her ‘burns easily’ explanation is just an excuse.