#this is a rlly rough first sketch

[elytrafemme]

1am bedtime but for the thousandth time today i would like to say that today was a really good day. we're on the up i think! it is going to be okay ^_^ yayyy

[pleucas]

i got a few asks about my process :0 so yea i took some screenshots mid-process of my recent cliff-skk thing just for that

m gonna preface everything by saying that i did have a ref for the environment!! i avoid color dropping from the image and tracing cuz i do want to hone some digital skills. also saying i'm doing an "environment study" when i'm really just drawing skk makes me feel better abt myself

when i don't have a reference, i tend to do some thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. here's some random stuff of past work, where i rawdogged everything:

but whatever, back to the cliff-skk. i'll also post a timelapse of it for easy ref, but detailed stuff is under the cut :)

first i did some rough sketches on an orangeish background (underpainting etiquette, i find it helps things feel brighter and keep a stable tone when choosing colors to lay on top), and I quickly lined skk :)

then I laid down some flats for the background, again really eyeballing the reference for hues. afterwards i thought it was a bit bright, and i wanted a more sepia/nostalgia feel to it, so i hue adjusted everything to something more uniform

then i lay down flats for skk + the ocean, which i both had to color adjust a lot (you might see that in the timelapse), and then i jump straight into rendering the background. when i render, i always prefer to do it over something lineless, so i turn the sketch layer off. i rarely do lineart for backgrounds.

i also used to render the characters first, but i've found that it's just not a great approach—especially for art where characters and background are interacting, knowing the hues and shades of the environment is crucial to effective rendering on the character that doesn't make them look out of place.

when i'm rendering, i really try to keep in mind tenants of contrast, perspective, form, and light/shadow. ex, stuff "closer" to us has more detail; the hill in the back is minimalist (in comparison); the shadows lean cool-green while the light leans gray-yellow. rake brushes really carried me here idk... my fav brushstyle forever

eventually i reach a point where i'm satisfied (or bored) with the background. for the last stages i usually have the subjects hidden so i can really perfect the details—but then for super duper final details, like the little leaf specks and grass strands, i unhid skk so the poppy details could work around skk. then i get to rendering the characters :)

i forgot to take ss of all the stages when i rendered skk, but here's something from... about the middle of the process? i tend to render characters with the lineart hidden as well, sometimes bringing it back just to clarify things, but ultimately i prefer to define things by form than by line. that's just me tho idk, idt it makes or breaks anything, just a preference

again rlly just thinking about cool/warm, reflective tones (the greenish shadow on chuuya's left inner leg, sky-gray blue on dazai's vest), really just slotting the subject into the environment. after i finish rendering the characters, i usually return to the background and add some stuff—in this one i defined the waves a bit and put some grass around skk

and yeah then we're done idk LOL. sometimes i run the file through camera raw (photoshop) to do some color adjustments—i find that my iPad displays colors super differently, usually making things a lot lighter than they are (u can see how dark the timelapse is...), so i find myself lightening my work a lot. i also sharpen and add noise as needed :)

i think my process has changed a lotttt even in this past year. it's kinda crazy!! it's always fun to do these and just reflect a bit on how i work. mostly just mindless insanity until it kinda works.

thanks for sending in an ask. and if u read all that, thanks to u too lolol

[6sneet-snart9]

Uhh pitaya dragon cookie character design study???? Redesign??? I have no clue

I thought that instead of trying to force myself to draw my own characters to get out of artblock I thought to, I guess, study the cookie dragon since they have just been on my mind?? Idk why I guess they are just interesting to me design wise. The pic above is the first couple of sketches of me just looking at the shape language of both their cookie form and dragon form and really wanted to lean into more square shapes as it fits their personality in my opinion

These are some wing ideas, the second one is more close to the original but I like the idea of the first but but I’m not sure how they would function as wings

This is a rough idea of what I want but they are missing an arm and I think I wanna change up the legs. As you can see I made them be built like a tank and have the jawline of the century and have rlly big hair. I am really happy the spike, crown, thingy?? Helmet? Yea that.

Now for the face, I rlly struggled with trying to make their side burn things make sense with my shape language but ultimately the the one at the bottom is the best and that’s not a problem not everything on them has to be square, I highlighted the fact that they are square AND triangular. So making their body, hair and head shape square while having all the pointy bits mostly on their face and scattered around the design would balance it out hopefully, I haven’t done any full drawing with colour of this design yet I’ve only started it the night before lmao-

I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL. All of this information about shape language and balance and all that jazz is stuff I’ve learned while watching YouTube videos about character design. So everything I say might not be completely true to actual industry character design. At the end of the day, I’m just a dude overthinking a design for a literal cookie.

[romeavebrainrot]

FIRST POST FOR APHBLR !!

hiii here are some of my redesigns for my MCD rewrite!!! The designs are very rough and are NOT final btw i just felt like posting these sketches

+ one fun fact abt each design :

▪︎ Aph's markings can damage any cloth it touches; the only exception is her cloak. Materials such as leather and metal gain less damage, however she prefers to wear clothes that are lightweight as they complement her style of combat (lots of running, surprise attacks)

▪︎ Garroth's cape was a gift from Dale when he first became a guard of Phoenix Drop. That's why its a lot newer than the rest of his armor

▪︎ Laurance's home, Meteli, trades a lot with pirates, so their clothing and jewelry also follow a similar style. He also wears a lot of accessories such as beads and earrings but i forgot to draw them lmao

▪︎ Nana, like all other meif'wa, has eyes with cat-like properties; yellow sclera, clear night vision, colorblindness, the like

▪︎ Dante used to live in the Eastern Wolf Tribe before meeting Aph, so he wears white padded clothing for camouflage + warmth. Although i might change the design cuz i dont rlly like it

▪︎ Katelyn keeps her hair long despite it being a nuisance in battle because her siblings love to braid them when she's off-duty (also i forgot to draw her scars dammit)

[snowsonlylove]

hii!! i commented about making a fic of coryo w or about the song haunted by beyonce, i was thinking maybe something smut if ur comfortable! if not its okay but the fic could be academy!coriolanus x academy!reader and theyre school rivals both working hard to beat each other and theyre obsessed with each other but they hide it with the fact they wanna win but they j wanna fuck (or get together) maybe theyre both possessive and jealous or coryo is the one thats really extra with it,, the story could go rlly slow too and then theres just a part where the facade and tension goes away and theyre needing each other so badly at that moment rushing everything, just like how the song goes idk if i made any sense :o im so excited to see the result!! this song just gives me coriolanus vibes

You Must Be Haunting Me..

a/n note: hii!! yes, i loved your idea and i mostly stayed with your vision, only changing some minor things so the situation makes sense and dw i managed to deliver 🫡 hopefully you like it!! tysm for your idea and i look forward to seeing if there are some things you want to expand on (maybe with little blurbs on this dynamic bc i absolutely LOVE this trope!) & i'm totally comfortable with smut so dw about sending me kinky asks or requests. i totally accept them!!

Pairing: Academy!Coriolanus Snow x AcademyRival!Reader

Summary: Y/N Y/L/N and Coriolanus Snow have been academic rivals ever since the beginning of their journey in the Academy. It’s no secret that both Y/N and Coriolanus are the two top students of the Academy, both of them only being able to beat each other, the rest are just no competition for them. However, they genuinely have no idea why they're doing this constant battle against each other. Little did they know, both of them always think about each other behind closed doors and are obsessed with each other, each equally impressed at the other at how intelligent they are. One day, things just boil over with how Coriolanus constantly riles Y/N up and they explode in a huge fight which results in a turmoil of deep, rough and passionate sex. 

Fic Type: Smut (NSFW) 18+, Enemies to Lovers trope, dramatic behaviour from both of them, a wee bit of angst (mostly derived from the name-calling but in my head this is more funny than it is angsty 😭😭😭)

Warnings: unprotected sex (don’t do this guys, use a condom. reader is on birth control), rough pushing, harsh words used from both Y/N and Coriolanus, degradation (use of whore), cunnilingus (female receiving), squirting, lmk if i missed anything else

Word Count: 2k

I do not own Coriolanus Snow or Y/N Y/L/N (cuz it’s you, boo). All credits go to Suzanne Collins and her team. Song credits also go to Beyonce and her team. 

I do not allow my works to be republished or translated under any circumstances. Any instances of this happening and YOU WILL BE BLOCKEDDD. 

Also, ageless and empty blogs will be BLOCKED as this is a 18+ fic. Report my fics and you’re blocked cuz if u don’t like it, LEAVEEEE.

Y/N Y/L/N and Coriolanus Snow began this disastrous journey from the age of 11-12. Both students entered the Academy with an air of poise and elitism about them as they knew what it took to defeat the competition in the Academy, most students not even being a possible candidate to them. It was all fine and well, until one year, Y/N and Coriolanus were put in the same class for the year, and the rivalry then started..

The first assignment of that year was an individual project on what each student thought the Capitol looked like during its earliest times. Each student was tasked with coming up with a drawing with their thoughts on said topic. This was their chance to go up against each other. Both Y/N and Coriolanus would stay up in the library after school and collect piles of books and do their research and by the time the task was due, Y/N and Coriolanus obviously submitted the best sketches.

After acknowledging this, the professor asked the class to vote for who’s sketch was the best. Small pieces of paper were given out to write either Y/N’s and Coriolanus’s names and as the professor then collected the papers, making both students anxious. As the professor counted the votes, Y/N’s heart was beating out of her chest, Coriolanus’s as well. It was then announced that Y/N won, which made Coriolanus furious as he spewed a full speech on how much he hated her. “You’d never be as good as what they say you are. You’re just dirt under my feet. God! You’re such a bitch!” He screamed as the professor and the class started at him in astonishment as they’ve never seen him lash out before.

Y/N was heartbroken when she heard this as sometimes when Coriolanus wasn’t looking, Y/N would sneak glances towards him and she started to be enamoured by him. Their time together after hours in the library would usually end up in them having conversations about their day and this time together helped them bond better. With this in mind, Y/N truly thought Coriolanus was at least civil enough to be respectful towards her. Y/N felt tears well up in her eyes as she ran out of the classroom, the professor telling her to wait.

Coriolanus, still blind with rage, kept on screaming and yelling obscenities about Y/N as he stormed off to his seat, his face red and his whole demeanour fueling with rage. Unfortunately, this fateful day was what started the vicious rivalry between Y/N and Coriolanus as the two would fight over who got the better grades, which teacher favoured which student more, the differences in their scores in each assignment every single day.

As of current, both Y/N and Coriolanus are 18 and in the midst of graduating. One of their last assignments was unfortunately a pair assignment. Dr Gaul once scoped out the Academy and witnessed one of the fights between Y/N and Coriolanus and she noticed how by getting them near each other, she could make them into the power couple of Panem and have them continue the Hunger Games, which inspired her to whisper in the ear of Dean Highbottom to get them to be in the same class and for them to share a table together until they graduated. Both Y/N and Coriolanus were very unhappy about this, both choosing to ignore each other while they were in their seats. 

With both of them getting older, both Y/N and Coriolanus started noticing certain things about them. Coriolanus noticed how Y/N’s facial features were more prominent, how her ass got bigger, her breasts more plump, making him unable to control a certain urge at times which led him to mastrubate thinking about her sometimes. Y/N also noticed a few things about Coriolanus. How he started to grow muscles, how they cling to his academy uniform whenever he took off his academy jacket, how his jaw was sharper, how his nose was becoming more emphasised, how he lost his baby fat. She can honestly go forever and forever about how attractive he is.

That being said, there was one particular day where everything just blew over the water. Y/N and Coriolanus were taking notes during Dean Highbottom’s lecture when Y/N felt Coriolanus’s elbow dig into her arms whenever they got to writing. This obviously made Y/N frustrated as she harshly whispered to Coriolanus to stop a few times, which led to a hushed debate between the two before it grew louder and louder until they were screaming at each other, making the whole class look at them and Dean Highbottom staring at them in shock before yelling for them to stop and stay after class for detention.

Both Y/N and Coriolanus felt embarrassed as they were lectured by Dean Highbottom after class before an assistant of Dean Highbottom requested him to join Dr Gaul for a meeting about the Hunger Games. Dean Highbottom sighed as he looked at the two young teenagers, “Look.. I feel that you two are now old enough to know what is acceptable behaviour in class. I’ll be back soon, do not kill each other while I’m gone.” As Highbottom left the classroom, the tense atmosphere began to build as the door closed behind him.

Almost immediately after he left, Y/N and Coriolanus stared at each other with the most hateful expression ever. Y/N menacingly glared at him while saying with gritted teeth, “See, Coriolanus! If you’re long ass elbow didn’t fucking dig in my arm every single time, that old fart wouldn’t lecture us for one fucking hour! My god, you’re truly dumb!” Coriolanus glared at her before stating, “It’s not my fucking fault that happened with you were taking over the whole goddamn table with your arms everywhere! Geez, Y/N! I thought you’d be more modest!”

Y/N looked at him, shocked, “ME?!! You’re blaming ME for something YOU did! That is so fucking misogynistic coming from you, a man! I swear to god, this is discrimination towards women at its core! Grow the fuck up, Coriolanus! We’re not children anymore! God! I’d be spending my time with Sejanus right now if it weren’t for your stubborn ass!” Y/N huffed while rolling her eyes. Coriolanus stared at her, his face full of jealousy before gritting out, “Sejanus? What the fuck are you doing with Sejanus?! You’re such a fucking whore! Ugh, you’re such a bitch!” Y/N looked at him, offended, “Bitch, weren’t you just fucking Clemensia a few weeks ago? Yeah, I heard about that! Everyone was practically talking about it! Don’t pretend to be so innocent, Coriolanus!”

Coriolanus looked at her, his expression turned dark as he stalked towards her, her taking a step back until her back had hit the wall. Coriolanus leaned towards her, lifting one of his arms to go above her, bringing the other hand towards her chin and lifting it. At this point, the height difference became very apparent as her head was tipped far back, her still glaring at him. “Are you baiting me, Y/N? You talk so much for someone who just fucked Felix Ravinstill of all people a few days ago..” Y/N continued to glare up at him, “At least I had the decency to keep it in my pants longer than you! God, I hate you!” Coriolanus looked taken aback as he muttered while leaning in to cup her cheeks, her face wiggling to be let out of his grip, “Well, I hate you too, sweetheart…” 

Coriolanus leaned in as he captured Y/N’s lips with his, their mouths fighting for dominance as they kissed each other as if they needed each other to breathe. The previous tension broke into a more sensual type of tension as Coriolanus wrapped his hands around her hair ravenously while Y/N’s hand made friends with the back of his neck. One of Coriolanus’s hands found its way to Y/N’s waist as he dragged her away from the wall, pushing her towards a nearby desk before propping her up on the desk and spreading her legs, allowing him to be closer to her, not once breaking their kiss. Y/N broke their kiss as she moved her lips to Coriolanus’s neck and trailed them down his Adam’s apple while taking off his blazer and unbuttoning his shirt, Coriolanus doing the same to her.

As they undressed each other, they continued to slide their tongues against each other, the sound echoing around the classroom. They managed to undress each other down to them both only wearing underwear before Coriolanus kneeled down so that he was face to face with the apex of her thighs. Coriolanus leaned in and captured his teeth to her underwear as he slowly pulled it down, revealing her aching, dripping pussy. Coriolanus licked his lips as he roughly shoved two fingers in her cavern as he curled his fingers in and out her folds, creating a beautiful sensation as he found her G-spot with no difficulty.

Y/N moaned as she threw her head back and slid her hands down to Coriolanus’s hair and tugged on it while pulling him closer to her heat. “Oh my gosh.. Coryo, it feels so good…” As he kept pumping his fingers in and out of her, he suddenly attached his lips onto her clit as he sucked on her clit and pumped his fingers harder, each movement feeling more and more intense for Y/N. He kept on going as he curled his fingers one final time, which made Y/N yell out as she squirted and covered his fingers with her wetness.

Y/N sighed in satisfaction as she helped Coriolanus up and gave him a deep, passionate kiss while tugging down his underwear and hooking her legs on the bottom of his back, Coriolanus leaned in closer as he aligned his erection with her heat, tapping his dick on her clit a few times before pushing his hardness in her heat. He only pushed in half of it when Y/N suddenly exclaimed, “Coryo, it’s too much! I can’t take all of it!” 

Coriolanus leaned down so his forehead was laying against hers before whispering in a comforting tone, “It will fit, Y/N. Trust me, trust me..” He closed his eyes as he leaned in to capture her lips with his as he pushed in slower this time, now being able to fill her pussy with his cock to the point where their hips were against each other. Coriolanus groaned as he slowly pulled out before thrusting in again, “Fuck, Y/N… You’re so good. Such a good girl..” 

Y/N moaned at hearing him praise her as he started to thrust his dick in faster, each time harder and rougher than the last. The room started to echo with the sound of her moaning, his groaning and the sound of skin slapping. Y/N closed her eyes as she moaned, her mouth forming an “O” shape as she threw her head back once more and arched her back, needing to feel closer to him. Coriolanus wrapped his arms around her waist as he pulled her in closer and kissed his way all around her neck, leaving furious red hickeys which would soon turn purple.

The pace in which he was fucking her got rougher each time he would thrust his aching hard dick into her dripping pussy, the slapping sound really turning them on and his balls slapped to her ass, their moans becoming louder and louder each time. The furious force in which he was fucking her started to reach a boiling point as Coriolanus moaned, “Ugh.. I’m fucking cumming, Y/N. Oh.. You’re such a good girl. Such a tight and wet pussy..” 

“Ohh.. Coriolanus… So good, so deep… I’m gonna come, gonna come.. OH MY GODD!!” Y/N screamed as she came. Coriolanus groaned as he came inside her, sighing as he tried to bask in the afterglow of his orgasm, holding Y/N tight against his chest in the process. Y/N left kisses and hickeys around his neck as she looked up at him with a dazed but satisfied expression and kissed his lips however, this time the kiss shared between them wasn’t one full of hate, it was one full of love.

As they pulled away from each other and started to get dressed, Coriolanus faced Y/N and said, “You know, if you wanted to fuck me, you could’ve said so.” He said with a smirk. Y/N turned to look at him, acting shocked as she huffed in feign frustration, “Oh shut up, Coriolanus!” She smacked his chest as both of them gave each other a silly grin before hurling in laughter.

[natotofu]

first of all thank you so much for coming to tumblr, i love seeing ur art on my dash‘‘‘ its such a treat!!!

secondly, I am curious about the process of creating your artwork? do you have a finished piece in your mind and work towards that

or does the piece just develop while you’re drawing?

(if u dont mind sharing ofc!)

Anyways, I just wanted to say that your art is rlly unique and hauntingly beautiful<333

Thank you for the compliment and thanks for asking!! I’m still exploring in terms of my processes, but I tend to decide almost everything in the rough draft/sketching!

I first do “rough-sketching party”, where I doodle as many ideas as possible:

Then, I pick an idea, and refine them. Often creating multiple versions, with different compositions and different color schemes(not for this one though.) These are WIPS of pieces I’m eventually going to work on:

I kinda often draw too much for my rough drafts, but rough drafts is where I can play around with the concepts/colors/compositions the most, so I don’t feel too regretful in spending a lot of time in this phase. For an illustrator perspective, I see that this is very inefficient, so eventually I hope I find a way to make it faster. But for now, this works best for me to create works that I am satisfied with. With that said, I sometimes make pieces on the go, with only deciding what the main subject is. I might talk about those in the future when I post them. Again, thanks for asking!:)

[fwitoley]

i drew my grick oc 👀

it’s a rlly rough sketch but she was wrecking havoc in my brain so i had to do something—

(The head’s too small but oh well)

Her name’s Cassandra, here’s some info on her (ghost trick spoilers ofc):

Alma’s older sister (her hair is dark purple)

raised alma through her teenage years when their mom died

she’s not that old she’s like 4 years older than alma

worked with Jowd and Cabanela when they first became detectives

she was their boss?? Something like that

there was some kind of triangle going on between the three of them but that's a whole other can of worms 💀

think hamilton marrying eliza except angelica got with laurens instead of the actual guy she married

it's like that

contributed to the yomiel mess by painting him as a villain in her report after the whole situation so jowd and cabanela could keep their jobs cuz there’s no way they got out of that shit unscathed (she also kinda contributed to mistreating him but again whole other can of worms)

kamila was put under her care after alma's death/jowd's arrest

found family? marriage of convenience??? something like that

it took three years for cabanela to convince cass that jowd was innocent during which he was hellbent on his "spotless" record while cass fell behind in her career grieving alma/taking care of kamila (and lynne too but she was practically an adult at this point)

that's why in the game cabanela ends up being her superior

reversed roles trope gahhhh--

ALSO i forgot to add this but since cabanela wears white and red i thought it would be interesting to make her outfit black and blue

as in bruising black and blue

cuz she does a lot of dirty work for him as his assistant (further attributing to his "spotless record" while she builds a shady reputation) and also because that's kind of the headspace she's in just not very great

she just has wounds that she never got to fully heal

especially since kamilla is the spitting image of alma

psychotic episode?? maybe. idk. she'll probably pull herself together before she gets THAT far--

also the fact that cass HATED jowd for killing alma (since that's what she thought until cabanela got enough evidence to suggest it was someone else) so you can imagine the awkwardness when they see each other again in-game

especially since they're like the hamilton-angelica of this whole thing but anyways--

ask me questions about her i'm begging you--

[blueskittlesart]

hi :] this isnt really a reqest cuz it'll prob be a longer answer but im rlly curious abt ur comic process

i love all ur comics and somehow they always manage to gutpunch me- and ur composition and the way they read is always so beautiful and adds so much to the message youre trying to get across

yeah lol let's get into it! Ive spent maybe 5 or so years refining this process to the point it's at now so it's pretty much my standard procedure now. I'm going to use Now that you're gone as my primary example here since i still have most of the planning stages associated with it (my laptop does not have a whole lot of storage left so i usually delete my planning once the comic is finished lol) but i'll try to throw in some other examples too!

I almost always start with a written script. (the exception for this is longform oc comics which i find easier to write in the moment, but for my shorter character studies I almost always write first.) I use discord to write because it's convenient, but before i had a dedicated discord server for my stuff i was using txt files on my laptop which i do NOT recommend. anyway, this is what the written script for ntyg looked like:

note that some small elements changed in production, like the amount of time that had passed since link's death. the lines "I look at her and i am only afraid. i remember all the ways in which i hurt you. She's almost as old now as you were then. I cannot stand the thought of outliving her, too" were also added during the rough stage because i felt like there wasn't quite enough emphasis on aryll in the initial script, and since this was a major change that necessitated a whole extra page in the comic I went back and edited those lines into the script so I wouldn't forget them. (both these changes were made during the rough stage. i'll almost never make major script adjustments after the roughs are finished.)

more examples of my scripts; specifically the original script for totk: failure and two versions of oot: adulthood (one before some major refining and one after.) with comics like these, where i have a very clear idea in my head of the imagery i want to go along with the words, i'll sometimes include it interspersed in the script, either spolier-marked or denoted with brackets.

with ntyg and some of my other more. canon divergent? i guess? comics, there's sort of a mini phase in between scripting and roughs where I do some minor character studies to get designs nailed down in the early stages. with ntyg I already had a clear image in my mind for aryll, but the central character was link's dad, whose design wasn't quite so solid in my head. I really wanted to make sure that his design was well thought-out and consistent throughout everything, so i did a few mini sketches and studies to ensure I had his design memorized and could execute it consistently:

these are sans hair and accessories because nailing down consistent facial features was my main focus with them, and both these sketches ended up getting used as references for certain panels later on. This isn't a step I ALWAYS take with my comics, but if there's a central character that i'm not super used to drawing i find it helpful to get some practice in before jumping into the real thing!

after the scripting and design phases i move on to roughs, which I consider to be the most important stage in my process. roughs are very very quick approximations of what I want the final pages to look like. they usually don't take me more than a few minutes per page to create, and their sole purpose is to help me visualize the flow of the page and the placement of major elements like panels, characters, and dialog. this is what the 1st page rough for ntyg looked like compared to the final page:

as you can see, all i have laid out is the major text and visual elements, but it really helps me to visualize how the finished comic is going to flow. i do the roughs for every page before i start on the finals so that i have an idea of what the entire comic is going to look like before I really start finalizing it. it's important that these roughs are FAST--i almost never draw fully-fledged characters unless the pose or expression is particularly important to the scene, and that's because the goal is to allow everything to flow quickly and easily from panel to panel and page to page, and getting too caught up on one panel or element often breaks that flow. Nowadays, i have a pretty good idea of how much room my writing takes up so i don't write out the entire script in my roughs, but back when i was a little less experienced i took the time to write everything out in this stage to ensure that my dialog would fit into the space it was given without getting cramped or cutting off other important elements. doing that really helped me build awareness of how much dialog and panel placement matters and how i could use it, so this rough stage is non-negotiable for me even now!

after the roughs i go straight into finalization. I never enjoyed lineart back when i was learning to draw digitally so i basically built my art style to be understandable and visually appealing after one sketch phase, meaning there's legitimately no in-between stage between that rough and that final page, i just sort of. go for it. this is what works for me, but i think most normal people would probably find a second sketch phase helpful LMAO i'm just crazy and i need everything done as fast as possible. the finalization stage usually doesn't contain any major adjustments of script, composition, etc; i make it a general rule to keep most of the major adjustments confined to the earlier stages, for my own sanity. One thing that DOES occasionally change in this stage is my plans for color--ntyg in particular was originally planned to be completely black-and-white with no grays added, but when looking at my completed pages i found them sort of empty and unengaging without the gray, so i added it. usually if my color plans DO change it's something small like that--I'll almost never switch between full-color and grayscale on a whim because the way that i sketch for those two versions differs significantly so it isn't an easy switch to make.

anyways i hope this is what you were looking for! I'm very passionate about making comics and this process is a result of years of experimentation & finding what works for me, but i hope it's of some use to you as well!

[eclipseberrycake]

Drops this and runs

ON A REAL NOTE

I have not drawn digitally in like… months (art block sucks…) so if these look rough that’s totally the reason why 😔

This is hopefully the first of many little like doodle dumps featuring fan art of yours as well as all the wonderful ocs shared on your blog :33

Decided to take this as a chance to experiment so that’s why there’s different labels on each character, it’s mainly just there for me so I can remeber which brush I used for line art. That’s also why each one kinda of looks different from the other </3 consistency fears me ig.

Some creative liberties were took, but also I am so so sorry if colors look off. I’m trying to get better at picking a color with my eyes and applying it on canvas rather than just relying solely on the color dropper tool.

HOWEVER if you are Sky’s and Sweeties creators are not happy with how the coloring (or really anything) turned out for this don’t be afraid to let me know and I’ll totally redo it :333

There wasn’t really any rhyme or reason to why I selected these three to be the first to draw, well Acura was a guaranteed pick considering she’s your oc, but I see Sweetie a bunch and just had to draw em, I love that funky critter bro. And sky is just so effortlessly gorg o h m y g o o d n e s s.

Anyways I rlly hope y’all like this, heres what the sketch’s looked like :>

Not related but like— I really hope you and your partner are faring well!!! I saw the one ask that related your life to the A03 curse and I was like nodding in agreement because goodness you’ve been put through the wringer 😭😭 so seriously I hope y’all are doing much better now 🫶

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OCRYA??? LOKS SO DEVIOUS OMFGNOGNF IM- THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE THIS SM I LOVE THEM ALL SM THANK YOU FOR FEEDING ME SO WELL YOUR STYLE IS SO EDIBLE THANK YOU

Sweetie is honestly so funky and we love them for it and SKY TOO is SO gorgeous fr

Me and my partner are doing much better now thank you! It really truly felt like the Ao3 curse but thank you for asking! We just celebrated our one year actually!

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In an Everyone Lives scenario, what majors/career paths do you think all the Hacketteers would end up in? Obviously we have animation for Ryan and physics for Dylan suggested in the game but so many people end up changing their majors anyway, I wonder if the experience would lead them on different paths than they’d originally intended.

thank you for making me think about this, it's one thing i've been putting off but i also think about all the time

so right off the top of my head, i think about Max's major a lot & i end up tossing two things around - law school or childcare/teaching. he seems like a level-headed guy, he breaks down situations in pieces until he understand them ("You remember when I said, 'whoa, look at the moon. it's so big and bright and- it's so cool to see a full moon' and you said "yeah no shit, Max, it happens once a month'?"), & also.... we've all seen his outfit in the 50s pack. but i still come back to childcare bc i grew up working in childcare & he just seems the type for it. maybe he got rejected from Landis for law & pursues childcare or teaching at a smaller school instead & ends up one of those teachers that everyone wants to get on their schedule

Laura, the love of my life, the breath in my lungs, is such a headstrong badass that she prolly still pursues her vet degree, altho i can see her minoring/taking a few psychology classes to coach her & Max thru the rough times

Abi definitely finds her way to art school, i just don't see her changing that. i do think she expands from just sketching & gets into different mediums - pottery, possibly sculpting, using charcoal and paint - bc i think she'd find it calming to work with her hands, cover her skin in anything but red, & she'd lean into it for stress relief

uhh Nick is so complicated sometimes that predicting what the absolute FOOL (affectionate) is going to do is impossible. i want to say culinary school but if i'm being honest, i think he would end up dropping out & just working at restaurant. i don't say this bc i hate him, i say this bc he's a clown. (also i may or may not have done the same thing, minus the culinary part) or maybe he becomes a forest ranger & spends time alone in his ranger tower listening to the forest

Jacob i whole-heartedly believe goes for coaching/athletics or something, but he joins the college sports team (prolly football or maybe hockey) & that's the path he ends up following. he definitely has to get a tutor

i think Emma maybe pursues marketing/advertising or something of the sort, but i also think she def starts loading up her schedule. volunteer work? no worries, she can run it. student council? sure, she'll apply. you know, lacrosse sounds rlly fun all of a sudden, she should join the team! & she kills, obvi. if she never thinks about it, it never happened. if she never has time to think, she can never think about it

Kaitlyn.... she's the one i've been thinking about the most. she's such an odd character bc we see so much of her & yet i still feel like we don't know anything about her. her entire character is kind of just "im mean, i know first aid & i can shoot" & then we love her bc she's a badass. which i don't mind but it makes it kind of hard to make theories on her future. i imagine she IS one who ends up switching her major. she prolly starts with what she had planned - maybe an english degree? - but then switches bc hackett's quarry changed her & she'll never stop thinking about it. i like to think maybe she ends up in enviromentalism, or possibly on the nursing track. something to occupy her mind

Ryan & Dylan honestly seem rlly well suited for their majors so i don't know of i can imagine them doing something else. i do think Ryan starts taking self-defense class & prolly makes Sarah go with him just to be sure she knows. just in case. Dylan takes a part-time job at either the school's radio station or a local one, & if he DID drop out, he would 100% start a podcast. all those fanfics are canon

this was rlly fun to think about even tho i'm not sure how accurate they are - i would love to hear other ideas! thank you for the ask :)

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Hi I rlly wanted to share smth cus I don’t have anyone to text it to sooo enjoy my moots and whoever sees this:

So my besties birthday was yesterday and he loves Palmeiras (Brasilian soccer team, we’re Brasilian lol) and one player names Raphael Veiga (my loveee)

So for his 18th birthday I came up w a card idea lol. It isn’t much but I think it’s kinda cute lol.

Im not done but here’s the process:

So the first pic is the original, then my rough sketch, then my outline and now I’m gonna watercolor it bc I can’t paint or color using pencils for my life :)

ARTISTS IF U HAVE ANY TIPS PLS SHARE

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I’ll be honest i didn’t register that this was a gender bend comic (for the YuGiOh Horror, fuck yeah thanks OP) and I only found out due to glancing at someone else’s tags. And I was like “wait what?” And went back to your WIP for the first page looking at it closer and I was like “oh wait! That’s a skirt!” I genuinely just didn’t realize at all this was genderbent 😂

Haha! 😂

Yeah the gender bend aspect isn’t super important, I just like the idea (without spoiling it too much) of the small alt/goth girl and her monster. (Low key inspired by a random Death Note twitter post I saw??) That, and I just want to see Yami as a small feral girl.

Anyway, here’s a sketch and some sloppy roughs out of order cuz this rlly be takin me foreverrrrrrr… 💀

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Hi im back

I rlly wanna say somethin abt ur isa drawings post bc i (personally) can rlly rlly see like the improvement and general “oh god oh fuck whats happening” energy going on w them & I. like that a lot 👍🏻

no yeah for sure. my first few isas were ROUGH compared to how easy he comes to me now. but thats how progression goes! i think one of the notes on the sketch page where i roughed out isa the first time is something like 'oh this face is NOT correct' dfkjghskdfg

but also THANK YOU!!!!! my style in general has certainly improved since january and i really do have isat to thank for that. the power of hyperfixation!

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Hey! I managed to make this quick sketch amongst the art block (this may or may not have taken me several days)

I may not be able to draw, but I can still lore dumb my OC’s >:D Sorry if I write weird I have a cold or smth and it’s past midnight rn. Also I have an edit cooking rn I’m probably post it tomorrow or the day after that. I think it’s looking good!

This is Riley! He’s my second oldest OC after Morgan. His design was definitely… interesting before.

(I made a collage of him in my early days of creating him)

I did a huge revamp of him and his character a while ago. For my first few OC’s their back stories were really similar. I’m trying to make my characters more diverse in their background but I haven’t gotten much for Riley yet.

Here is what I do have: He’s intersex but presents more like a dude present day. When he was younger he had a lot of trouble deciding. His parents didn’t do corrective surgery and decided to let him choose. He ended up sticking with being a guy. Riley’s parent’s died in an earthquake when he was younger, (around 7-11) so was taken in by his friend and their parents. He’s mixed as well. I’m realizing that, like, half of my OC’s are mixed. Eh, whatever. I also noticed I tend to give my OC’s freckles all over their bodies I just find it rlly cool and cute. Later on in like him, his adoptive brother, and another friend start a band probably in collage.

That’s pretty much it. I don’t have much else. I’m thinking of making him neurodivergent and having him learn to understand connection better or something? Idk whenever I make an OC I like to make a story and a goal for them. I know other ppl don’t always do that and like to have their adorable little cotton candy witches.

Here’s his OLD lore: Everything in the new lore is pretty much the same except Riley is more feminine in this version and the friend he became half brothers with had a pretty bad home life that affected both of them. His friend eventually became abusive and Riley became a rlly anxious and timid person. Their third friend was trans and didn’t realize anything was off until they all moved in together in collage. The abusive friend trapped both of them financially and emotionally. The friend who was unaware felt he couldn’t do anything once he found out since his parents kicked him out and his sister was sick in the hospital. Without the abusive friend there was a good chance his sister would die. Their band is a lot bigger in this version. The third trans friend is the phantom band leader while the real leader is the abuser. Riley at one point meets this guy and they liked each other. When the love interest found out what was happening, he helped Riley escape and the trans friend ended up sticking up against the abusive friend to help them in the end.

It’s basically the new story but the angst is on steroids. It sounds ok on paper, but the problem was all my stories were like this. They went: Character is abusive situation they’re trapped in, friend/lover comes and saves the day. I was having a pretty rough time at the time, still am, and it just fed on my want to have someone swoop in and fix all my problems. I don’t actually have problems as serious as in the stories I made, I kinda took my issues and dialled them up a notch or two for more interest or something. I also know that wanting someone else to fix my problems, while it’s enticing, isn’t really a good solution.

Anyways, here’s the character sheet I made for him during the redesign. Again, his design may change. I kinda got a bit lazy when I made this a while ago so didn’t do a full body shot or make a head for one of the expressions but here:

Here’s some other references and character sheets and drawings for older versions of him as well:

Yaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy pictures galore

anyways bye hope you have a good day or night or week :) Wooo baby made it to 1:24am

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hello :33 🧙‍♂️👽 for the anon ask game (＞Д＜)

all of this is /pos btw!!!

you give me INSANE pastel green hair w a party-poison-kinda-undercut vibes. idk why

I can very clearly see u wearing midwestern emo kinda fashion,,, like flannels,, band tees and ripped jeans n all that and absolutely SLAYING it may I add

people mistake u for a vampire at least twice a day 🫶

you either have the most icy blue eyes known to man or beautiful /p brown orbs.

you def carry around a sketchbook w the cutest lil doodles in it ever . but one page could be that and the next would be the most well crafted piece of fic writing, literature masterpiece anyone has ever read and you'd just shrug it off because ur so chill like that

for some reason I feel like u would smell like vanilla/jasmine flavoured perfume

AND FINALLY. rough guess but your fave doki is either Monika or Sayori

OOOHHHHH I LOVE THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!

i actually have a hairstyle kind of similar to Party's (I say kind of cuz its grown out and it was meant to be a wolfcut), although i js have red hair </3 nothing special, though !!! I may have a go at a similar-ish color of bright teal, kinda like gerard's roots, or vaya from the killjoys comics

i need to ask though, HOW DID YOU GUESS MY CLOTHING STYLE. HOW. TELL ME. only thing i can say is different is that my jeans ARENT ripped, but outside of that I do have a few band ts I basically wear weekly (1 mcr t shirt, 2 misfits t shirt, and although not a shirt, 1 ramones sweater). i may draw yesterday and 2 days ago's fits to kinda show you what I tend to wear when the sun isn't strangling me, and some other fits. i rlly like them and they kinda remind me of like . those mcr college AUs, idk why. i may just take a picture of my fits on the floor though because I DONT feel like drawing the t shirts i have <//3

YOU WERE SPOT ON WITH THE SKETCHBOOK THING !!!!! Not even kidding, the journal I have holds a lot of lil shitposts n sketches, but the literal first page of said sketchbook is a love story to an angel-like being that's a metaphor for being trans and what people deem a monster. Aint even the first time either, I also wrote poems that literally made people cry in my notebooks and I'm like ??? its not THAT good guys :'[

you were just dead on w the vanilla scent and the monika being my fave <//3 assigned monika by god itself really /j

can't believe you exactly guessed my eyes though . they are ICY blue, like bert mccracken blue kinda shit. i've been told i look like a gerbert lovechild cuz of that, which . i can never confirm nor deny.

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any tips on how to make a map? it looks rlly cool and I wanna learn how to draw maps too ^_^

do a rough sketch of landmass first so you understand the general idea

box yourself in; if you look at any of the maps i've made, the map itself is contained in a square/rectangle; do that. it'll prevent it from becoming too big

SCRIBBLE. if you're map isn't super zoomed in, a lot of the land-mass edges will have tons of jutt-outs and jutt-ins. usually i left my hand waver a bit while doing this.

but don't make them round! i find it's very rare of something on a map to be rounded. try to add angles wherever you see fit.

before you define things like types of land, landmarks, or character territories; defines where your WATER is on a seperate layer. (if there is any)

again when it comes to defining borders, make it wavy. a lot of borders in real life are defined by the land they live on; twisting around landmarks and mountains and rivers and whatnot. so don't make those lines straight!

make sure when defining borders, if you're colouring them, the colours are OBVIOUSLY different from eachother. it'll get too messy if you only go for like, greens or browns or whatever. even yellow green/green/blue green in a bunch of varied shades will work.

if you're still struggling; trace off of a real life map! i've done it before! three different times! because of your linework (and also not making the trace EXACTLY one to one) it's usually hard to tell. you can also change whatever you want about the landmass while doing this