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It’s about time I updated over here about my Starwars babies!

I have a few but clone armor keeps kicking my ass so the only one I have multiple rendered pieces of is my Jedi oc Tuk. Something about her just makes me want to draw her in pretty places with dramatic lighting. I’ve got their story mostly worked out but it’s nowhere on the internet yet. I should probably start working on that! XD

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Rendering materials is both relaxing and deeply confusing.

Will I do more? Yes.

Will I loose my mind? Who can say!

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Messin around with colors and color variations. When it was going good it was very fun, however, as soon as I got confused it all went to hell XD

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And have some more since it’s been a hot minute!

Anthro and animals this time!

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Oh wow, I’ve forgotten to post here for a bit…my bad!

Anyways!

Have a bunch of studies!

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Dude! I was just thinking about this the other day!

Hell yea! They are beautifully intertwined characters and I love that other people are seeing it too!!

Both were violently wronged by the system in place on Cybertron pre war (Whirl getting taken apart and put back together in such a way that he could no longer do what he loved, no more hands no more clocks, and Megs having Trepan digging around in his brain trying to quash the rebellious tendencies he had, thus making it harder for him to write for the rebellion) and both ended up dealing with it in pretty similar ways. Violent and unchecked outbursts.

Hell, Whirl got kicked out of the Wreckers for reckless behavior. Those fools were front line maniacs already how overboard must he have gone to get the boot???

And MTMTE Megs has some insane crimes on his wrap sheet! No matter how much we end up loving him by the end of Lost Light he’s not exactly wrong when he says he probably deserves a worse fate.

There’s also the similar timing of their characters starting to see the light. If I’m remembering right, both their turning points happened pretty closely within the issues (it’s been a little bit and I read it all really close together so this I could be misremembering on this but I doooon’t think I am soooo…) and made some really interesting symmetry. Whirl deciding that sacrificing Tailgate for Gettaway’s plan was a shit move, especially compounded by the fact that Cyclonus came to him for advice just before and basically giving him the, we’re both shit but out everyone here I know you won’t yank my chain speech, was awesome! Even tho he gets soft reset by the amnesia gun his last conscious action was to warn the slow burn idiots that something was going down, and I think that says quite a lot! Then there’s Megs who, upon seeing a quantifiable and very real representation of just how many people’s lives he negatively impacted, basically immediately turns around and decides No! There will be no more! I think it’s then that he also stops running the crew in circles to forestall his trial and mentally accepts any punishment the people of cybertron are going to give him.

To have their arcs so similarly timed seems to me to absolutely be on purpose and I love it to bits and peaces!

Also! I think Whirl’s bad ending (bad in comparison to the open and much more uplifting ending everyone actually likes) and Meg’s good ending are linked as well. Think about it, whether your version of Schrodinger‘s Megatron was imprisoned or put to death, he’s not coming back. But in the bad end, who’s also in jail?? Whirl! And how does Whirl’s bad end go? He’s offered a place to stay the two bots closest to him at the end of Lost Light. Now I might be reaching, I’m not year of the monkey for nothing, but I ask you, is what happens in Meg’s good ending not basically the exact same thing? He gets a place to stay with the people he cares about!

And that’s not even scraping what y’all discussed earlier! On several levels Megatron, as the IDW continuity knows him, would not exist without Whirl!

I love both of these idiots to pieces and I’m so glad others are seeing the things I saw while reading! Anyways, I think I’ve hit my yap allotment for the day, if you read this far, uhhh hi? Thanks for giving me a reason to verbally explode about these guys!

Bye!

Whirl and Megatron are actually sort of narrative foils for a moment in MTMTE. I think the scene where Whirl attacks Megatron is meant to highlight how similar yet different the two are.

Whirl was forced into violence, and chooses to continue being violent and awful because he thinks nothing can change the way people see him.

Megatron chose violence, did terrible things, yet chooses to atone, because nothing can change the way people see him, but he doesn’t want to continue being violent and awful and putting more pain into the universe.

Its 1AM so feel free to disagree or add something I missed cause my thoughts aren’t all together

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Here’s this week’s arts!

The stuff I want to show people rn anyways, I was messing around with the perspective tool a bunch but that stuff isn’t ready yet!

Someday soon but not yet!

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Good lord it’s been three months, oops…

Anyway, have this week’s work! All of it focused on getting me more confident with digital art. I’ve definitely improved even in just six days!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna take a nap, catch y’all latersssss

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This goes so unreasonably hard.

Dude…holy hell…

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

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What it I just…

30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants to do this with me!? Start now or whenever you can (now you procrastinators!). Challenge yourself and have fun at the same time!

Tag your posts with #Improvement Hell so everyone can follow along and see each other’s awesome artwork. I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D

What are you waiting for? START!

Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself

Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference

Draw a figure that’s in action, using a reference - link to reference

Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with. x20, with atleast 5 being skeletal/musculature studies.

Draw more figures. Quick gestures and silhouettes. x20, with atleast 10 different body shapes

Let’s have some fun. Design a character from either This or This character generator! Be creative and bring something to life!

Pick the weirdest object in your house/room. Draw it. Shadows and Highlights.

Find 2-3 objects, make a scene with them. Draw it. Bonus points for creativity. Double points for dramatic lighting.

Draw a landscape of a place you’ve never been or drawn.

Draw a BG with 1pt Perspective. Negative points if it’s a railroad or an empty street.

Draw a BG with 2pt Perspective.

Look out a window. Draw what you see. Bonus points for adding something interesting.

Draw an interior setting with the character you designed on Day #6 in it.

BG with either bird’s eye or worm’s eye view.

Halfway there! Draw three 'action’ scenes with different compositions in each. Quick sketches are fine, just make them interesting and understandable! Bonus points if it’s the same scene, but different composition.

Draw a single page comic with 5-7 panels (the story begins and ends on one page). 

Draw an animal you’ve never drawn before. x10  Link references.

Draw a car. Negative points for whining. Hint: Use a perspective grid.

Think of the thing you hate drawing the most. Guess what? Draw it! Negative points for lying to yourself.

Pick an object in your house/room. Now design a character from it, using the shapes, forms, textures, purpose and colors as inspiration. Also link/post the object you used. Negative points for using a humanoid action figure.

Draw a character/object/scene, and shade them using ONLY solid blacks and whites. Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows

Draw a different object/scene/character. Shade using hatching, crosshatcing, and/or pointillism. Bonus points for lights/shadows and textures.

Colors! Pick a color palette, and paint a scene/character/object using only those colors (some blending allowed). Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows.

Draw and color a scene/object/character - no lines allowed! (aka - lineless art). Don’t forget light and shadows!

Draw a scene/character in a style you’ve never drawn before. If emulating an artist, credit+link. Bonus for color style.

Draw a character. Draw 10 emotions/expressions. Bonus points for 'uncommon’ emotions. (i.e. anxiety, guilt, despair, loneliness etc.)

Draw three random shapes using your opposite hand (or your foot). Now design characters from those shapes.

Turn on the tv (or load your illegally downloaded movies). Pick an actor and draw them.

Almost done! Let’s have some fun. Draw some fanart. Bonus points if it’s super obscure and unknown. Make people guess what it’s from.

Last day! Find a drawing you did within the last year. Now draw it again using what you’ve learned! Link it for comparison!

 Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!

[Update] There is now a sequel challenge, Draw All The Things!

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May or may not be in the works with something silly, in the meantime have a recent render!

Also, I’m experimenting with rendering and line styles, I think this looks super cozy!

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Helooo! I am alive!

This is actually a piece I did a while ago, I just thought it wasn’t good enough to post lol. However! Upon looking back at it in the now I actually realy like it!

This is my Operator and my Drifter! I love them!!! I’ve been meaning to draw them forever and as I get better at drawing people I finally decided to put them down in digital ink. I love Warframe with everything I am and I’m closing in on a thousand hours…

Wow…

By the way, if you know or play warframe and you don’t know them yourself you didn’t see this post.

No seriously you didn’t see this!

Be gone you baby!

Flat colors under the gap

Jesus that hair is saturated…well a ginger’s gotta do what a ginger’s gotta do…

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Have a WIP as I return from the dead!

I liveeeee! More of less at least…

Anyways! Last I was on the bird app someone was passing around a screenshot from Perfect Blue, and while I haven’t watched it myself, the challenge to draw yourself and your sona was just too juicy to pass up! It’s a messy WIP right now, but it’s just making me so happy to look at!

I’ll drop the ref I’m drawing over down below, it’s super pretty!

Hopefully I finish this, and actually start drawing more just in general too! See ya later!

I am not the person who came up with this idea, nor am I trying to pretend to be, they go by borenii_ on twitter. Hope it. Helps!

Audios!

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Been loving these songs... remind me of them

Ghost

Soap

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what thinking about purge trooper commander night does to a mf….i like to believe that he and ahsoka actually encounter each other a little after order 66. she can tell his inhibitor chip has started to fail, and that the weight of having killed jedi and their padawans is beginning to settle in. instead of finishing the job like he nearly begs her to, she directs him to find rex. (also, by this time, the markings on his armor, even his jaig eyes, are painted over. eventually, his armor is discarded entirely and replaced with run-of-the-mill, standard purge trooper armor.)

(edit: ps. in case theres any confusion, the clone is an OC of mine!)

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Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

FT my cat. His name is Mischief

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