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Character designs for my RPG ☕️

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Twin Peaks didn’t just mean the world to me, it got me through the toughest time in my life. There are things Lynch and his work taught me that have informed EVERYTHING I’ve done since. It’s incredible how people you’ve never said a word to could have such a profound impact on your life, but that’s the nature of consciousness and connectivity.

I hope other artists continue to look deep and catch that big fish, and I hope David’s family can find peace in knowing what he meant to the world.

RIP David Lynch.

Twin Peaks Day ‘24 - That Gum You Like Is Going To Come Back In Style!

Happy Twin Peaks Day! Sorry for the extended disappearance, but I’ve found great time and I’m ready to get back into the swing! In my time gone I’ve become obsessed with Twin Peaks, so expect to likely see a lot more of that.

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Thank you @loveallfandoms1952 and everyone who got me to 5000 reblogs!

Balance and Barbers

After the death of Jake, Finn makes routine trips to Prismo's Time Room, to try and spark up a bromance that never was.

[Commissions] [Carrd] [Soup of the Day]

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The fact this isn’t a landslide is the greatest testament to the ignorance of the American people and anyone voting Republican or Third Party should feel embarrassed.

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The content label on this was set to “mature”, I didn’t know Tumblr even had that option

I’m sorta back, here’s a sneak peak at my next big project!

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I’m sorta back, here’s a sneak peak at my next big project!

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Hiiii, so, uh, why did you stop posting art?

I just ended up getting super caught up in real life affairs. Work, car payments, the doctor, etc. I've hardly had any time to draw, and what I have done I just haven't felt is good enough to share here.

There's a lot of things I want to work on, like I wanted to do another Adventure Time comic, but it's hard to find the motivation when I have so much other stuff over my shoulder.

I might share some designs for a film I've wanted to do later, but that's a maybe because they're kinda messy

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Kermit

Saw The Muppets Movie (1979) last night and burst into tears at Going to Go Back There Someday. It’s been on my mind all day.

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To me? These days? A fiddler on the roof doesn’t sound so crazy…

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Twin Peaks Day ‘24 - That Gum You Like Is Going To Come Back In Style!

Happy Twin Peaks Day! Sorry for the extended disappearance, but I’ve found great time and I’m ready to get back into the swing! In my time gone I’ve become obsessed with Twin Peaks, so expect to likely see a lot more of that.

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Kermit

Saw The Muppets Movie (1979) last night and burst into tears at Going to Go Back There Someday. It’s been on my mind all day.

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Afterparty - Sex Bob-Omb

My favorite album

Soup of the Day - tiết canh/blood soup

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RAMONA - New Hair Style

I was on the brink of tears in the new show, I've waited decades to see Scott Pilgrim 2...

Background Alts.

Edit: I forgot to do the Soup of the Day

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Flavor Scouts - Set 1, 2, 3

Reuploads of a character design series I was doing of retro-style food gijinkas

[Commissions] [Carrd] [Soup of the Day]

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Flavor Scouts - Halloween '23 Meet Pumpkin Pie and her Candy Corn Ghouls!

It's been almost a year since I've worked on this series. "Flavor Scouts" is a series of food-based gijinka's I started doing early 2022. I don't believe they were uploaded here so I'll be sharing the rest later.

Phone Background Alt.

[Commissions] [Carrd] [Soup of the Day]

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A separate upload of the full page spread from Balance and Barbers, it's my absolute favorite part of the comic, and I want to do more like it

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Hello! It's only been a day but the reception to this has been awe inspiring to me as an artist. Its been absolutely lovely hearing everyone's thoughts and perspectives, how this has helped them through bouts of grief, all that good stuff.

I wanted to make a bigger post under this to point out some little fun details I worked in and some of my thought process behind decisions I've made in it, and a few things some people have picked up on elsewhere that I thought was super cool!

Before I start though, I wanna say: If you've seen this on Tiktok, 99% chance that was NOT me. A popular account has reposted my work and didn't properly ask if I was okay with that. My only Tiktok account is "GoodBuddyRuby", and beyond that I'm "RubyRKGK" practically everywhere. You can check my Carrd in the original post for more info on that.

The Balance Bucket

This isn't my favorite page but it has some of my favorite details

Obviously there's Martin, Jake, the Finn Sword, and Finn's arm. A loss of people he loves, a feeling of loss spiritually, and a feeling of loss physically. But I wanted to talk about the Snail and flame. Someone rightfully pointed out the Snail's relation to the Lich, but I was also thinking of it as a symbol of manipulation or malice in important figures in Finns life. This can range from the manipulative way Martin has treated him, to finding out Billy was the Lich, or any other greater act of manipulation toward him.

The flame is a lot more interesting to me personally because the likely response was "Flame Princess", which is partly true.

The flame was generally meant to represent romance, but more in the sense of something Finn can't express. Finn, to me, doesn't seem like the kind of person who can reasonably hold a healthy, steadfast romantic relationship. Beyond his brotherly love of Jake, Finn's love of others stems from heroism and friendship. In parallel to Martin, Finn seems to slip up when he lets romance get the best of him, and it does seem to be the far healthier for him to obscure it than to burst. You can see this in just how lowkey and unspoken his relationship with Huntress is at the end of the series. I figured this was an interesting part of his person, and something he'd find deep inner turmoil over.

The Haircut

This is one of the best pieces I've ever done, and words can't express how proud I was of it.

A few cool details: The colours in this page are very deliberate. The yellow of Finn's hair was meant to contrast a lot of the blue in a metaphorical way, with blue acting as a symbol of forgetting or miseries of the past, and the yellow as inevitability. The blue forget-me-nots line the path of his hair, yet the entire page is caked in a golden yellow light.

The catalyst comet in the top right follows this trend, being a bright golden yellow, and acting as the incoming symbol of what was destined to happen between Finn and Jake. Not a literal event, but metaphorical.

The three stars hidden in the skies near the end are meant to be Margaret, Joshua, and Jermaine. Finn mentions hearing their voices in the wind, meant to be a literal nod to the fact people can contact outside the dead worlds, yet Jake chooses not to. The stars line up with the way Billy contacts Finn in the ocean.

Quick bonus, here's a version of the page prior to a quick change made to stay in line with a change in the comic. Finn was originally gonna keep the hat on. Very glad that changed.

Composition

This one is far more subtle, but the layout of the comic itself was meant to mirror the inner feelings of Prismo and Finn

Originally, it starts out extremely closed off and bordered. They're trapped within these small boxes, mirroring the Time Room very literally. That obviously changes later in the comic.

In this panel the borders fall away as the tension loosens a bit. Prismo's body is stretched far more than normal, forming the border of the page. Literally stretching himself thin trying to entertain Finn's wants in the relationship.

Later on there's next to no panels at all. The relationship between them has become completely open and vulnerable, and there's almost no walls between what they can say or think.

Time

This is a little more obvious. Not only is time a major theme in the show alongside grief, but Finn finishes Prismo's "-Time" in reference to the way Jake does call in response to "What time is it" in the show. I meant to have an extra page establishing as well that Finn visits the Time Room specifically to sit OUTSIDE of time as well, a bad coping mechanism to escape the pains of the passage of time.

Finn's Outfit

This one is super short and fun. Finn's outfit in the comic is notably not really taken from any existing outfit adult Finn wears, rather loosely on this vision from Season 2.

Teal shirt, sports tape on the arm and leg, robotic arm, gem on the knee, belt. Obviously some things were cut out just for the sake of design, but I thought it was super fun! It also helped his overall pallet stand out in the context of the Time Room.

That's about all I have! Again, thank you so much to everyone who's taken their time to share their thoughts and feelings on what I've done here. I couldn't be more proud to have helped so many people, and that's definitely not the last you'll see of this style of writing, whether that's AT related or not. Peace!!

Balance and Barbers

After the death of Jake, Finn makes routine trips to Prismo's Time Room, to try and spark up a bromance that never was.

[Commissions] [Carrd] [Soup of the Day]