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I wanted to pop in and say that your art style is genuinely so pleasing to look at. Everything from the panel layout to the soft lineart and the coloring + shading is just so good. It looks edible in the best way I could possibly express it

Omg thank youuuukhfkhd 😭💙

I'm so happy that people like it! I really love doing soft shades, quirky expressions and bold lineart because CARTOONY ARTSTYLES ARE AWESOME!!- They're a huge inspiration to me and I just stare at them hours long lmao

Thank you for the ask as well 🫂

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SAR!Earth / SARth (Comic)

I sure wonder what this IGNIS machine is. A headcanon/theory some people and I had is that it'll let SAR/ROTSAR control Earth's mind. Welp I guess only time can tell, ehehe...

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Earth Awakens (Comic)

I really loved this episode but specifically this moment, sooo I drew it!

It's true that there was a missed opportunity for Earth to crashout and for things to be settled, but I don't think it's time for that honestly. The premise of this arc was to find out what life is and what its purpose is. But I do hope to see Earth's take on everything after he gets himself to safety (if he's got the chance to, because there may be some complications still...).

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PlayerRound - play a round!

Who's ready to play a round? Very excited for PlayerRound coming this Saturday to YT. I hope we get to see PlayerDude and Astroson playing together for once because they're literally besties who'd love to miss out on dinner together 🙏🙏

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Luna's social life before the moon revolution.

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The Intermediary Trio (again)

I love drawing this trio from time to time, haha. I also updated their designs a small bit by adding earring and overall jewellery with their symbols. These guys gotta look fancy ✨👀

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There has been a lot of people talking about how they despise that the flashback versions of the characters are the same as they are at the start of the show; I think this idea of this being bad is mainly made due to a bigger fandom issue of fandom literacy and understanding shows at a whole. 

Solarballs has a number of themes they explore during the course of the show. The theme of Chaos vs Order (The theme that neither can exist without the other) is mostly explored during the flashbacks of the show with it showing up every now and again after in the timeline. The theme of morality (The theme that no one is purely good or evil) is constantly shown to us with every character who has more than two character traits. 

But the theme that I believe is causing the most problems with the fandom is Solarballs’ main theme, the idea of Change. Specifically, the show is asking the question, can people truly change for the better?

This theme is most prominent during the Moon Revolution Arc, where this theme is the reason why the war had started in the first place. It was a battle of if the planets, specifically Earth, can change to accept and respect the moons. Ganymede and Europa during the entire arc represented the idea that no one could truly change, that they will always stay the same. And that the only way any change could happen was if they were changed to be worse. For the planets to instead fear them. Luna, however, represented the idea that people can truly change. He believed that, no matter who you were, everyone has the chance to be better if they tried. And it is through that belief, that he was proven right. 

It is seen as a strange occurrence to the moons (especially Titan) when they learn that Earth had truly changed. So much that most of the moons believe Europa when she tells them that the Earth hadn’t changed at all. 

I’m surprised no one has ever talked about how quickly Europa was able to convince a good few hundred moons into believing the change in character in front of them wasn’t actually real and the Earth wasn’t actually sorry for his actions. She completely ignores the actions Earth does in front of them all and uses evidence in the past to prove how he ‘actually’ thinks of them. The famous quote “Moons should know their place” is constantly seen as the final proof of this claim.

And that’s not the only time this debate appears. It also appears during the Planet X arc with Planet X believing that no one, this time the argument is with Jupiter, can change and the only way to have true change is through violence, while characters like Jupiter and even Ganymede take on the side that people can change. This causes X’s arc to be about learning to let go of the past and accepting that people can actually change for the better.

But the question remains, why does almost everyone believe that change is impossible? We know why Luna knows it’s possible, he’s seen it with his brother. But for the others? Why would they believe that people cannot change?

That explanation is shown during the flashbacks. Every character we see during though episodes are very similar to how we see them in the normal episodes, minus some characters, where their personality is worse in the normal episodes (The Sun, Ceres and Triton to an extent). And the one time a character changes for the better, Proto, he quickly dies due to that change. If Proto hadn’t changed to being more accepting of Theia’s ideas around life and had stayed antagonising her for it, both of them would still be alive.

Their death is portrayed by the other characters as a punishment for trying to change the status quo. That their death was because the others tried to change for the better and make the solar system better through that change.

The flashback episodes are a central part of the main theme, as it provides backstory as to why so many of the celestial objects believe that change isn’t real, and I wish more people could understand this very important part of Solarballs' story.

But then again, no one ever gives Solarballs credit for any clever ideas it shows, which is an entirely different discussion that I believe we need to have as a fandom.

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Baby proto-Io with Proto Jupiter and Saturn... Io did his best y'all :')

(yall remember the hyperpigmentation meme? I gotchu the youtube link to it uvu")

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Hey, don't call your mother crazy, son!

Oh hey, I think I loved this episode lmao xD The sponsor part was hilarious as well

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Imagine crashing out over a thumbnail and making your own instead, haha, couldn't be me 🫢

The last one is the reference/original. I had another idea in mind, but I decided against it because I wanted to experiment with this specific pose and how I can change it.

Idk if this is any better, but ey, at least we're playing around with the styles which is fun c:

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"Space.. Stars.. Space.."

Isn't space so vast and beautiful? I always look up the night sky and wonder what it's like out there in the deep dark. A deep dark to be lost in. To be surrounded with for eternity.

For those unsure, this is AstroDude, and the phrase at the top is a quote from the secret video on the SolarBalls channel. Sure wonder what it was about..

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100% HUMAN IO!

THE METAMORPHOSIS HAS BEEN COMPLETE. I introduce thee:

THE TRUE SOLARHUMAN IO.

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Quantum World of Wonder

I was kinda struggling to think of a way to depict the world of particles in the AU/story simply because you wouldn't be able to see it with your eyes if you were to shrink. There's no light, no colour, but it's still beautiful. Particles experience the world differently than us and would see it differently which is always such an interesting thing to think about.

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Meeting of a Dwarf and Giant

This is a redraw of the scene where Neptune first introduces Pluto to Uranus. (that I did for the SolarBalls discord Art Clash)

I wanted to mess with scale and reflections, having Pluto be reflected in Uranus' eyes and beak, and light from the ice giant onto Pluto. For my designs, I made Uranus an osprey and Pluto a maned wolf.

I had a lot of fun working on this and Art Clash as a whole.

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A few silly expressions I decided to experiment on with the characters. I think Proto is definitely making the best faces here lmao

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Percy Asher (animation practice)

I guess I really like making super short animation practices, lmao. Here's one with my SolarBalls OC Percy whom I introduced here. This little guy works at ROTSAR as a researcher and some crazy stuff happens that let's him basically shrink himself, ig?? Lol, I'm still figuring out the lore but I did want to try a little FbF animation practice here, so viola ✨✨

I weirdly cannot upload the animation progress video which also has the background music and sound effects, so you can go watch it on my channel.

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Meet Alix Crow

I decided to give Percy (more on him here) a little friend just so he isn't so lonely. Meet Alix Crow, ROTSAR's chaotic site technician. Them and Percy are surely getting along so well 🥺