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dumpin some mettatenna doodles- playin dressup in the dark world, Reading about how Mettaton and Tenna both do puns for Show for しょうand ended up doodling on jpn notes/practice (please check alt for transcription w translation), + scenes from an RP with @friendlyfrankenstein

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TONIGHT! It ain't no thang to fight a king, but we're gonna have a lot to say about free will, the betrayal of a toy, and how damn rad Susie is. As we CONTINUE our Spoilers Yes deep dive on DELTARUNE 1-4!

8:30 PST, 10:30 CT, 11:30 EST!

catch us here

P.S. guest starring at least 10 solid minutes of yelling about a tv man who isn't in this yet. - Frankie @friendlyfrankenstein

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makeaterriblecomicday2025 i sat on my damn glasses last night

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Hi, I love seeing your art! Do you have a typical process when it comes to using your colors/shading?

Howdy! That's very kind of you to say! I'm pretty unsatisfied with my own color work, so I'd like to point you to someone I admire's work before I start talking here- please eyeball GGDG's work (largely posting as pallisia on here (please play SoulSov)). The way they paint mood, their grasp of texture is fuckin' unbeatable. I know this is cliche, but I also highly recommend looking at Mary Blair's work. It's the gold standard for color for a reason. When I color, I try to think about mood too. I usually use a brush with a flexible opacity for 'building up' color and shading. If (for fanart) a character has official colors, I like to eyeball those (though I think eyedropping is very viable and is a wonderful way to teach working with strong contrasting colors), then flex them towards whatever mood I'm aiming for. Warmer, cooler, sadder, happier... Sometimes a green metal looks more metallic than a grey metal (this is not universal advice just a hypothetical finding), you find strange things playing around like that.

After a while you draw a character so much you 'know' the colors, and they start to mutate a little. You find fun moods you like to play with. You learn that drawing this character with black hair with deep blue hair sells an approach you like when making art of this character. Not that you should lock in colors or nothin', but a lot of like, color stuff like that comes with time and fiddling around.

I'm a student of 2011 tumblr, so I shade with a hard light layer usually. The shadows hold strong vividity of color + it's a very flexible method for like. Cleanup on the fly. Plus you can do a lot of mood adjustment by playing with hue and saturation- I also like hitting lighting as a hard light layer, but please be advised this can end up looking a bit muddy if you're not careful (I run into this problem a lot)

If I run into contrast issues, I often find playing with gradient maps on a duplicate layer can help me figure out what my troubles are. Though be warned this CAN really muddy the colors, so try to be thoughtful using this.

Here's what I mean about colors tilted warm (this is not general advice but the mood I wanted to pursue in this drawing)- I then used a hard light overlay with a strongly saturated red, a purple on the cloak (it's fun to play around with this, sometimes you want all the same shadow color, sometimes you want to keep in mind each part's individual tone. It depends on the mood you're pursuing). The lighting here is a light green for contrast.

Hope this is what you were looking for! My advice is to play with every layer setting you possibly can. Try also to think about the material (I don't have this in my drawing at all but think about this- how does light pass over fur? How does light pass through clothing, based on different thicknesses? If light travels easier through a thin coat vs a thick scarf, how would this look different when you're painting color onto it?) and what mood you want your piece to carry.

Good luck out there !

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now that we've seen everything, here's dev + finals on the talksprites i did! (art direction by @friendlyfrankenstein for his talksprite alongside some sketches in here ironing out his color scheme) from initial pitches to really baking in, this was fun to work on (please see alts for detailed notes)

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misc + kiss your tv with a battering ram

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TONIGHT! Alright, listen Ralsei, sure Susie left the party, but I'm sure it's not like anything world-shatteringly important depends on it, right? Right? Haha right. Hey should this machine have more flamethrowers? It's SPOILERS YES DELTARUNE!

8:30 PST, 10:30 CT, 11:30 EST!

P.S. I solemnly vow not to rant about CRT displays and Pixels for more then 10 minutes.- Frankie @friendlyfrankenstein

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Trying to remember how to draw Mettaton for mettatenna purposes

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misc

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TONIGHT! We have played, digested. discussed, and rested, and now it's TIME to take you all with us to find our findings think our thoughts and discuss design as we begin our

SPOILERS YES. Deep Dive stream series of DELTARUNE, CHAPTERS 1-4!!!

8:30 PST, 10:30 CT, 11:30 EST

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-Frankie @friendlyfrankenstein

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playing with heavypaint + i think if asked to twerk he'd do that strange stomping thing jerma did + old pals

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i like him + @friendlyfrankenstein thinks he should laugh guhuhu style + and they lived happily ever after....!

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here's our talksprites for Promise Mascot Agency streamin- and a post of design notes for them! starting with @friendlyfrankenstein 's reference charts he put together (please see alt for descriptions + further explanation)

the bug design came first- we thought frankie was going to be a mascot design so i was aiming human, but as we knocked around designs it became clear that a human-ish frankie would be hot and who are we to resist that. originally we had been aiming for a scarecrow design, w chat as a little crow

Frankie laid out the coloring for me (see the chart in image 4) n the bug was simple enough. i sketched expressions for frankie to choose from, sent sketches, and he was kind enough to send me cane hand pose ref! he then drew the popoff flowers after we tried some variations

thanks for reading! :)

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TONIGHT!! Mistakes made, money missing, and a dead man who might find what he's missing in a dead end island town of smoldering dreams. And cults, ghosts, secrets, and Tanuki. But also?

Friendship.

IT'S Promise Mascot Agency!! 8:30 PST, 10:30 CT, 11:30 EST

P.S. And mountain spirits. And that one tunnel. But also Mama-San's here, so it can't possibly be all bad. -Frankie @friendlyfrankenstein

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TONIGHT!! You know what we could use? A nice gentle, non-taxing time. A gentle walk maybe. Around a nice house up in the mountains! With puzzles! And rougelikes! And treasure! And royalty. Some kind of. Blue Prince?

8:30 PST, 10:30 CT, 11:30 EST

P.S. Poster by me, Frankie! Who's been playing this game. Oh. A bit. A scosh. - @friendlyfrankenstein

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thinking about how i'd like to be a lot more deliberate with my color choices so doodling today (mostly) without lines to try to force myself to think carefully about it

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misc doodles form the past few days