#.... 🥺 but it.. its so fun to draw..... the shapes...

[dizzybizz]

an edyn design but i will most definitely futz with the outfit when i have brainjuice for it gill with pretzel babywrap inspired by my brother who listened to maybe half of ep1 and got it in his head that pretzel was tied to his stomach, not on his hip and i screamed when he told me no thoughts head empty sketch of gill pose

[all-eyes-no-dragon]

Learning shape theory was so great for my art

I was able to make body types for my characters, I found out why I hated Alan's glasses so damn much, I made a cool gargoyle today who is truly the gargoyle of all time someone said he looked like the minion from clash royale, which I suppose is better than old man?

Edit: the moment I doodled over the oval glasses and decided he needed a change of shape

[libelelle]

I love how you draw silver so so much do you have any tips

THANK YOUUUUU thats so nice of you 🥺

drawing silver was a lot of trial and error for me ill be honest, im still kind of figuring out how to do it. HOWEVER i do have tips : ) it will be under the cut because im allergic to being concise.

1.most important. dont skimp on the fluff. i know his 06 model looks a bit like he glued on yarn to his neck but its important that he is fluffy. to me

2. and more seriously, the toughest part to figure out is is stupid fan weed forehead quills. theyre stupid, they block half his head, theyre a defining characteristic and they make drawing his eyes a nightmare. for most other characters you can draw the eyes easy, but the way silvers quills work make fitting them and the eyes together really weird.

anyways my though process drawing them is. try not to think about them as separate things. its easy to think of it like being the eyes and then somewhere above there are the quills, but its eaier to get them to fit together if you imagine the eyes are following the shape of his quills

like this ^

they intersect. so the shape of the eye is influenced by the way his quills lay, but you can also use his eyes as guidelines for the quills too. they start where his eyeline ends, and they follow the shape of his brow on the top as well. you can start from the brow or the corner of his eyes, either way works, just pick the one that makes dinding the position and size easiest

from there you care use his eyebrow quills to reference the rest of them. i usually jump to the middle on next and use its position to judge where the last ones lay, cause those ones are kinda awkward

then of course you can add his little ears in. you dont HAVE to if the angle is awkward. his ears are itty bitty and easily hidden

all his quills slope back a bit, so they have a cute bend to them.

3. uhhh those 2 big fucking quills on the back of his head. they are weird to position because they are SO. LONG. luckily theres only 2 of them. theyre spaced out pretty evenly from each other, and there is a gap in between them. we've all seen his bald spot

anyways the quills have a gradual curve downward and outward. you can see it pretty well in that first picture, with all the silvers lined up. you can see it pretty well on the silver figure. from the front you can see them falling to either side of him

his quills kinda look like a starburst from the front : )

anyways i think thats the best advice i can give. dont ask me about drawing his cuffs or boots. they scare me

i am also figuring it out still but hopefully this helps a little : ) this also by no means a rule book, ive seen people draw him a million different ways and they all look awesome so experiment with this. have fun drawing him!!!

[factual-fantasy]

27 asks! :00 Thanks ya'll!! :} 💖💖💖

Nope! Sorry, I don't take direct drawing requests or suggestions. <:/

Now I hear a few people saying; "But you've taken requests before" Now I do draw things in response to asks sometimes. But its rarely a direct request that I'm responding to. Usually its someone complimenting me on "something" and I feel so flattered and inspired that I draw that "something" again for them..

Would you think less of me if I said I legitimately was? For what I think is a very valid reason? Hypothetically of course-

@wolfie-777

:DD Oh hey!! Thanks!! Happy early Easter!! :}}} 💖🥚🥚🐺🥚💖

Oh there's no need to worry Anon, my body is kind'a forcing me to take a break... 😅

@yourstrulylightstar283 (In response to this post)

Thank you! And no worries, I'm sure I wont have to deal with all of this forever <:}

Happy late reply Friday! <XDD

@midnight193

Aww! Sweet widdol baby!! :DD

And thank you, I'm doing my best to take it easy.. <:}

Woof. That is quite the sentence to say to someone who's grieving their late wife-

Its especially strange considering that my Bowser isn't in love with Peach at all and isn't interested in replacing his wife-

I've heavily considered Louis having a crush on Ellie... 👀👀

The biggest eater is probably Louis, followed by Seafoam. Now Seafoam is no glutton mind you, he just eats a ton because he's so big and tall. He's got a lot of muscle that needs to be fed and maintained. Louis however just loves food and loves to eat <XDD

The pickiest eaterr.... couuuld be Red. Kids am I right? <XD Or maybe Spidercrab. He's rather thin so I imagine there isn't much he likes to eat. <:/ Or maybe Spidercrab isn't picky, he just doesn't have much appetite--?? <:DD

Aww! What a fun idea! :D I wonder if the game has anything like that.. and I wonder how a land animal like that would fare out on the ocean :0

(In response to this post)

Y-You realy mean all dat?.. Thank you.. 🥺😭💖

@manybrokenquills

XDD I am everywhere

(Also if you ever feel like getting those photos those would be hilarious to see XDD)

@rubyplayz12

YA- AWWWW... :(( sorry about the lost progress! I hope you catch back up to where you were pretty quick :( But YAY YOU HAVE IT BACK! XDD

A marshmallow cookie and a S'mores cookie already exist in the game :( so I shan't make my own 😔

I'm still working out the order of their ages.. So far I have decided that Ludwig is the oldest. And I'm leaning on Iggy being right below him, the second to oldest.

I'm solid on Bowser JR being the youngest, and Lemmy being right above him, the second to youngest. As for everyone else though..? I'm still trying to figure it out.

Thinking that Roy and Morton are on the older side, and Wendy and Larry are on the younger side. I just don't quite know what the order will be-

Hmm... I want Larry to be very different looking from Lemmy, maybe a bigger age gap would help. And I made Roy rather mature.. he could be older.. hmm...

Mayyybe.. in order from oldest to youngest, it goes,

Ludwig - Iggy - Roy - Morton - Larry - Wendy - Lemmy - JR..? I think I'll go with that for now <XDD

Now Bowser is complicated. Originally I wanted Bowser to be this ruthless monster. Both as a King and as a Dad.. But I made that Bowser around when the Movie trailers were all the hype. And boy, I hated how Bowser was shaping up to be. So my rotten Bowser was mostly just to make him more intimidating then the movie Bowser.

Since then I've settled down and thought that a purely evil Bowser is not that interesting.. or lore accurate. So I began to lean on him being a rather good dad, if not emotionally awkward.

....buuut then I saw the movie, and now I'm back on the Bowser hate train <XDD I guess right now its up in the air. He's not meant to be intentionally abusive or awful to his kids though. I'm thinking that maybe the gentle fatherly side of Bowser was usually brought out by his wife.. Since she's gone now.. well.. I guess he's a little emotionally absent at the least-

As strictly a King, I'm thinking that he's pretty rough. At least he's more ruthless than he may have been before. I guess a way to describe him as King would be.. The health and safety of his people are not his #1 concern. The strength of his kingdom and his position of power however, is. Though this Bowser is subject to change.. :/

XD He'd probably look like this 👇

@kaiserdarken

I'm not sure if the Pizzaplex would have decorated the place for Easter or not.. In present day or in the past.

But if they did in the past, I imagine it didn't feel much different compared to any other time of the year..

And if the present day Pizzaplex celebrates it..? I imagine its hard for the animatronics to see all the bunny imagery everywhere.. 💔

@beryl-shade

Google seems to suggest that there are no sirens in the games.. :( So Blue Beauty wouldn't be one, 😔

@hazardhazel20

Thank you!! I'm glad you do! :DD

You mean my Refinedtale Toriel.?

Man.. I'm sure she does.. (Though heck if I know what their names would be or any of that stuff-- but I'm sure Toriel would know <XDD)

Ooooo that's a good idea! :00 I haven't thought about it that way before..

@collisionofthestars-newblog

That sounds really fun actually! And normally I could see that happening.. though unfortunately, some of the structures I have set up in my AU make this scenario less likely..

For one, I intended for healing magic to be extremely complex and very difficult to master. And its intended to always leave a mark of some kind. A warning that Kamek gives to Lemmy and Iggy is something along the lines of "Whether you are healing, or destroying. Magic will always leave a scar." That's why Iggy's eyes look so strange and half of Lemmy's face and hair is discolored. The act of repairing their eyes left a mark on them..

What I mean by this, is that Kamek couldn't just turn around and heal them after every sparring session. Because it is very challenging to heal with magic and they would both be left with scars.. So they would both have to heal naturally over time after sparring. And considering that the Commander has a very important job, it would be wise to not tire him out or injure for the sake of some emotional relief.. :(

Although.. there could be a more mild version of this perhaps? Where the commander is involved in Bowser's training.? But not as his opponent. Perhaps he flies up high and chucks projectiles at Bowser for him to deflect. But not really getting involved on a way beyond that where he becomes overly exhausted or inured.

...Now for the Koopalings?? Dude, that's genius. Bowser is a hefty opponent and is sure to exhaust Commander and possibly even injure him.. But the Koopalings?? Commander would make a GREAT sparring partner for nearly all of them! :00

Specifically I can see him sparing with Morton, Roy, Ludwig and possibly Iggy. (The older Koopalings primarily) Whether its just muscle against muscle or being Iggy's target practice, I think he'd make a great sparring partner for the youngins :}}

It started with being inspired by my band-aid covered hands (due to dry hands and cat scratches) and adding them into my sona

Nowadays its maintained by me having reaaaaally dry hands 💀 (I wash them way to often/harshly and don't rehydrate with lotion often enough-)

You mean the factual fam? Aw, I'd like to think so. :}}}

Bold of you to assume Jangles doesn't have hair

@ghfhgkfngjvfnvfnvmfkf

<XD Yes, Bibi is around 2 years old-

[sopuu]

I was wondering if you have any tips for your perspectives? i dont really know how to do them that well but it seems you have a great handle on them! Btw I love your art! its soft and happy, I really love your stuff :D

thank you sm!! i love hearing that my art looks happy it's such a nice description 🥺

and for the tips! you've probably heard of vanishing points and horizon lines a bunch of times so i'll try to just give a quick run down of how i understand them + their uses

[2024 edit: just wanted to clarify that this third pic isn’t like a definite rule (none of these are tbf)- the horizon line can be placed at the top and still be close to the ground if you draw the grid right, same goes vice versa!]

tbh once you get the idea of how they work it gets easier to figure out where the points should be. it might help to think that the subject is what determines where the points are instead of the other way round if that makes sense? i learned a lot just by looking at storyboards for fun bc they're everywhere in them jhfkdg

also these grids aren't restricted to being only for the walls or the floor of a room- you can rotate it, put them anywhere you think you might need clarification on where the space around them is etc. just use as many as you need for whatever you need

having multiple grids (like ^ where its above and below the character) especially close together narrows the focus to what's in the middle of them as well!

another way to do this is to think of the subjects being in a box and looking at them from an angle-

and if you want you can break them down to simpler 3D or 2D shapes to see which parts have to get smaller

if you were looking for more perspectives on poses i talk about it a little at the end here

i hope this was clear enough! it's a bit hard to explain but once i learned not to be too hung up on accuracy (ofc to an appropriate degree) and freehanded the grids it makes it a lot more fun to play around with :)

also take everything i say with a grain of salt bc i too am still learning 👍

[marthammasters]

@revenge-of-the-assbutt @firstaidspray @sachermorte thank u for enabling me NEWAY since I’ve been too dead to do any of my own hobbies here’s some thoughts on House & Co’s physical hobbies/lil crafts & such they do in the comfort of their home<3:

House: canonically does a ton of shit like piano/guitar/cooking/so on but In the spirit of him resisting change (At Times!) I think he’s gotten very good if not makes a fun time out of mending clothes🥺…. Didn’t wanna throw away his favorite shirts so it started w small hems+resizings until he looked up more tips online and get decorative w it. Pretty contrasting colors/patterns now randomly laid on his shirts and pants w only the careful eye(Cuddy+Wilson) to notice. If anyone cares

Wilson: gardening. Well as much one can do within his apartments/pretty nonplant friendly homes. He’s not a super greenthumb expert but it always gives him a lil confidence boost when he’s able to grow out spices and herbs & such to use in his cooking ♥️

Cuddy: she seems like a collage-making kind of girlie💗💗 no specific theme in em or anything but she still holds onto the potential self-aid of making vision boards and it’s relaxing for her to go thru magazines/etc + cut out whatever interests her enough to use. Rachel tries and cutely fails to help 💓💓💓

Chase: ironically enough for the prodigal son lol but . He genuinely seems like someone who enjoys spending time in silence/music doing puzzles w 1000+ pieces & such #DWEEB❤️. House once got him a 5000 piece puzzle of a kangaroo or w/e as a joke and he is Determined to complete it. In due time chase…

Foreman: the thought of Foreman crocheting is so dear to me….. he doesn’t rly tell anyone ab it but there’s a lot of half-finished + worn projects as proof around his home. #angsting it sorry but I think he took it up after his mom started deteriorating bc she crocheted too and it was a fonder reminder + sumn they could do together. One yr he gave the fellow ducklings scarves he made as Xmas gift. Not that he told him he made it tho😅#repressed

Cameron: I think she has a moderately sized zen garden on a table somewhere in her home she takes SERIOUS. Changes the lines/circles in the sand periodically, sees what new arrangement of rocks she can do etc etc. Girl that thing is meant to be relaxing!! also colorcodes/sticker-covers/etc her planner like a CHAMP.

Amber: she has the most well-detailed prettiest most concerning-when-read journal/diary everrrr. Dedicates a specific time in every day to it w specific pens of various colors. Some of the recounting even have lil doodles or if she takes the journal out w her she draws her view wherever she is<3 they’re literal chickenscratch but its still fun and fulfilling. It’s a bibleesque piece to Wilson’s Amber shrine btw

Thirteen: she’s hard to analyze for me soz 13heads I do love her #trust… nonetheless I bet she goes to hella dance classes. Partially for the exercise partially for the fun partially for the need to experience Life partially for the women. Heh. She’s rly into zumba, jazz, contemporary classes to be specific.

Taub: ok ok so remember when he did/bought pottery or w/e to convince his wife he was being faithful. I think he’d do it for real as a joke/alibi then be like wait…. This is kinda fun…? There’s no constraints to what he can make + the sculpting reminds him vaguely of plastic surgery work so he keeps it up.

Kutner: I think he draws + writes his own lil comics/zines 🫶 they’re mostly scifi or superhero and more than a lil inspired by his fave preexisting medias . He likes using the crazy cases he’s experienced w House as story inspo. Also he 4 sure runs dnd campaigns so well and fun. Btw

Masters: she’s a suckerrrr for trivia nights my lil nerd wife<3 but um anyway when she wants to relax she Really doesn’t want sumn that can become info overload so in free time she’ll make friendship bracelets, lil shapes/figures out of string, etc. Will someone please give this woman a full on loom to go cray with!!!!

Park: I can see it so clearly . I can see her lil handpainted warhammer and other tabletop game figures so perfectly in my head. She paints more than she actually plays(but she does !). God save you if you touch or tumble them.

Adams: I kinda DGAF about her sorry women… hmm there’s sumn compelling ab her doing blackout poetry plus occasionally full-on written when the inspo hits! started as a boredom thing in her job in the prison w whatever book she brought in then she kept on doing it w more and more written pieces she comes across.

I put so much time into this. Perhaps too much.😭feel free to gimme y’all’s thoughts on this/ur own ideas :3

[snazzi-strawberri-artz]

Redesigns of @keyunto's god characters!!! I designed their characters around 2021, and i redrew them so i can see how far ive come with my character designing skills!! suffice to say im really proud of myself >:]]

Design notes and old design comparisons below!

I didnt change much with fox girl other than freckles ngl but i will say that i will always love drawing her spiky eyelashes <3 Shes my number one fav design to draw from everyone HAHA

Now THIS design i had fun doing again!! first of all, made her hair MORE floofy and took away the kinda unneceasry braid on her hair. Also made her face more chubby because i think it fits a bunny goddess well!!

now THIS was a big redesign. i practically. restructured her whole face HAHA but yeah i was just not feeling the og design, it was giving so much OOMPH and character so i tried to make her look more fierce and formidable, just how an actual lion is!

now here i ULTRA LEVELED UP HER HAIR TO LOOK MORE RACOON LIKE LMAOO it was actually super fun drawing it!! no more the days of bland unspiky hair >B]

i think her og design looks already super good!! BUT IM RLLY PROUD OF THIS REDESIGN SPECIFICALLY BCUS OF HOW THE HAIR FLOWS!!!! ITS GOIN SWOOPY SWOOPS!!!! and ofc had to use a feather earring because raven goddess etc gender etc <3

honestly did not change her design that much EXCEPT for her face structure, and i think the lil pearl necklaces and crowns and beads are such a regal touch I LOVE IT

Ohhh dog boy. ya i dont rlly like the og design that much DLKJSD so i had to rlly like. change almost everything abt him omg. but i rlly think this is a cute redesign!! i love the ruffly hiar 🥺

TIGER MAN WOOOO I LOVE YOUUUU BUT YES I GAVE HIM MORE FACIAL HAIR AND EYEBROWS AND SPUNK >>B]]] og design looks like him in his 20s HAHA and NGL facial hair is hard to draw like especially beards, i dont get how it wraps around the face, but im DOIN MY BEST TO DRAW IT MORE

his beard: pointy. his eyes: 🥺. the perfect redesign. Also i remmeber in that og design is that is when like the first time ive tried drawing hooked noses??

it felt so wrong seeing a god based off a bear and Not even being fat??? A CRIME!!!!!!! SO YES TWAS IMPERATIVE HE BE A BIG BOY!!!

I love this redesign so much HAHA like that hair is an UPGRADE and that FACIAL HAIOR MMMMMMMMM Like IM SO PROUD OF THIS OK LET ME HAVE THIS,,,,,,

def didnt change much, as i rlly think the curly kind of long hair is SUCH a good hair for a love god HAHA and ofc i gave them the slutty ruffly poet shirt okay,,,,,😁hes the token twink of the group!!

but yeah all in all, im so proud of this!! i very much detwinkified almost all of them LMAOO and i think ive def imporved in terms of face shape, especially in noses and also fat! I hope i imporve more in the future and perhaps redesign this in the future years 👀

BUT YES YAYYY IF YOUVE REACHED THIS FAR SAY BERRIS SO HANDSOME AND AWESOMEEEE!!!!😍😍😍

[lilywily143]

I saw you talk to one of my mutuals and I got curious about this.

What do you mean by ocean AU? I’m curious and wanna hear about it 🥺

(Sorry if this is weird since I’ve never spoken to you before-)

no no no keep the asks up, it gets me happy seeing people wanna talk to me

@absolute-solver read this when you feel okay to

And well so far me and @w3t-c4t are making a little world that right now.. is only original characters.

We are focusing on making animals into new kind of drones. Maybe we'll try to get the show story involved in a way, but i don't think it's likely currently

But we only accidently got this into a au because of sea slugs. We both think they are adorable so we drew different sea slug species as drones.

Then it esculated to sea cucumbers then jellyfish, and now we are really getting into it. We have basically were doing only designs for weeks but this week, we started thinking about world building.

The drones have the chest light thing in different shapes depending on which depth of water they live in. One is a water droplet.

We thought that the drones would be living in a frozen over ocean. The drones that are based on animals that can break ice get imports from drones like seals or penguins.

Their "campfires" are hydrolic vents. Seaweed is a popular snack. There are MANY sea slugs and i'm gonna make snails soon.

And brine pools ooooo those are fun. There are things of the saltiest wayer ever that it makes its own pond in water. It's cool.

It's so salty that is can kill animals and the coast of the ponds are literally covered with dead animals. Also if they are IN the pond, they don't decay. But macrofauna can live in it. So yeah I have been excited to draw those kind of drones.

I actually already drawn scallops. Because they are macrofauna, which i didn't know.

So yeah, we are doing our best on brainstorming!!

Also we don't have a name for the au yet so if you have ideas, I'd like to hear them

[amaiguri]

Fantasy Ecology (Worldbuilding of Yssaia)

Buckle in, folks -- I got fantasy creatures AND etymology for you <3

While I'm not the biggest ecology/spec evo person, my friend Jay is. She's figured out how the grasses evolved and why there aren't rodents in Yssaia and she's commissioned SO MUCH art on my behalf, I just 🥺🥺🥺

So, today, I'm going to showcase some of the plants and creatures she has made or influenced throughout Yssaia, since I def don't have time to do it all. But if you want to know more (and you don't mind that my website's images don't work) you can always visit tinyurl.com/Yssaia and read basically everything.

Plants — South vs. North

Euthalia's Flower Pamphlet gives you a pretty good idea of the humid, temperate environment of the Isle of Telethens and the North Coast of the Aftokratoria. The plants, overall, can spread out their leaves and blooms to absorb the sun without worry about freezing. Meanwhile, Vivinne's Pamphlet of Northern Plants paints a pretty stark contrast of gothy black plants whose pigment is designed to absorb light waves closer to infrared and ultraviolet because there is simply not a lot of that direct, white sunlight under the Upper Continent. Notice that the plants can't be as water-filled -- they'd just freeze in the eternal snows. Since Ysse magic is a thing, I'd like to think Northern plants have evolved shapes that increases the heat around them, making them ideal for shelter-creation too.

Rumateurs, the "Llamas"

Rumateurs are llama-like (and less alpaca-like) creatures with ossicones (like giraffes!) instead of horns! Think like 300+ lbs, thick muscle, smarter cuz they're pack animals (not herd animals) and need their toes clipped cuz they grow continuously. Their big noses evolved to heat the air with their body heat before it enters the rest of their system in their cold climate. They have split toes to make it easier to climb. Northerners rely on them for transportation in the craigy valleys and for their wool, meat, milk, hooves, and bones. FUN FACT: Only one of the rumateurs in my game will let you pet it, and other one will spit on you because it hates rich people.

Flavoneite, the Void Beasts

Flavoneite are six-legged, cat-sized, slug-like parasites who feed primarily on blood and Ysse crystals. Due to their jaw-shape and circulatory system, when they bite you, you lose the ability to perceive them -- as they manipulate your Ysse and thus, your central nervous system. Flavoneite hosts can last weeks or even months before disease and infection overtake, but will quickly become irritable or even hostile if you try to remove the Flavoneite. Talented mages can draw a Rune of Opening on the back of the Flavoneite to remove it but given the difficulty of getting close to the hostile hosts, sometimes it's simply easier to kill the Flavoneite before the host dies and its needs a new one. Entire villages have had to be burned to try to be rid of these things. Without a blood supply, however, Flavoneite can survive on Ysse crystals alone for up to six months -- they are extremely difficult to get rid of, once they are around.

Nonetheless, Senator Diacaius Praefori keeps a pet Flavoneite. He promises she doesn't bite. Much. And for some reason, he can still see it just fine...

Sandworms

The Sandworms of the desert, related to the Flavoneite, Eleftegos, Maret, and Shagbeasts also on this list, have evolved alongside the Sha Hir'za. The Sha Hir'za have bred them for companionship, protection, hunting, transportation, and terraforming. They all have ivory shells that guard their back and heads, though the exact size and shape varies by the specific breed. Note the purple hue on their bellies -- this is a special cell that helps sustain the Sandworm with photosynthesis when they don't have a lot of food. They primarily filter feed on microbes in the sand, but they can eat basically anything if it's small enough -- from insects to seeds to salt crystals.

Notably, Sandworms are not the local equivalent of Kosher.

Dageos, the Houndlets

The Dageos is a fast, pack predator with lop rabbit-like ears, fangs, and an extremely lithe body -- maybe weighing around 80 lbs at the biggest. They fill a similar niche to foxes and some Svanihk villages let them roam around openly. Dageos will sometimes hunt lone eleftegos but generally prefer to scavenge other meals or hunt smaller prey.

Eleftegos, the Ivory Beast

Eleftegos are omnivore filter-feeders with eat algae, plants, and small fish if they're able. Humans have never domesticated them, but they're so docile and intelligent that a well-meaning human can teach them to carry them around. While some Tsars might just traumatize their companions into subservience, most Tsars and Witches revere and love their livelong companions -- and while no one can talk to them, the assumption is that Eleftegos think humans are really really human and like to carry them around places (much like you would carry your own fluffy companion everywhere, if you could!)

Eleftegos actually means "Ivory Beast" because the Telethenians who named them traded Ivory before they had the creature, and then just named the creature after that. (You can harvest the Ivory without hurting the beast! They seem to be cool with this, once they realize it doesn't hurt.) The Svanhik folk have their own name for them that has nothing to do with their ability to produce Ivory.

Maret, the Slugbunny

Marets -- named so by the Svanihk folk for their six legs or six eyes (Ok, I just realized that makes no sense to you but roll with it lol) -- fill the ecological niche of ocelots. They hunt small animals, like voles and smaller lagomorphs, and fish, but end up as prey to larger predators. In the wild, their slimey pelts(?) are usually brown and gray with a couple of bright spots on their underbellies to impress their mates and to seem poisonous, but humans have bred them to be more different and bright colors.

Also, Arlasaire's seeing-maret, Fuafua, is purple for a very specific reason that I won't get into because it's spoilers. But, you gotta trust me. BUT ALSO, Fuafua is purple because my favorite color is purple and she's the mascot of Yssaia! Every franchise needs a cute animal mascot, right? Fuafua is perfect <3 <3 <3

Meuu and Meuu'otes, the Bunnygoats and Goat-bunnies

Okay, lemme tell you the story that Jay told me: On some island in the Mediterranean, there were a bajillion rabbits. Then, the ice age happened and goats came to the island. Well, after the ice age ended, the goats outcompeted the rabbits... but then, they started looking more and more like rabbits.

Thus, meet the Meuu (pronounced "Mew") -- the goats of Telethens. They're Bunnygoats. That being said, since Telethens haven't had rabbits for millennia probably, the word for "bunny" is "little goat", basically.

Telethenian Natural Philosophers note that, around the world, there is a tendency for everything to evolve back into a rabbit. (You know, like how carcinization says everything is evolving into a crab!) This may have something to do with how Ysse impacts the creatures of Yssaia.

Dandelion Fields on the Upper Continent

The Upper Continent is home to fields and fields of dandelions, as the grasses haven't arrived up here to outcompete them yet. These dandelions are frequently considered to be a symbol of human desire, hopes, and rebirth -- and they're a welcome backup food source wherever they grow.

Shagbeasts

Maybe TW: Arachnophobia but no spiders, Shagbeasts are fucking horrible.

Shagbeasts are the primary grazers inhabiting North Chrysig. They feed by raking their beak-like mouths across the ground to shovel the topsoil into enormous throat pouches before filtering the dirt out by shaking it through numerous pores in the throat.

They may seem docile and sweet from a distance. But, as they filter feed, their pores become clogged. They ooze a thick yellow mucus that coats the obstruction until it hardens and becomes smooth enough to be passed.

This mucus has an unbearable stench that shagbeasts are always coated in a pestilent aura that can sicken any unaccustomed to the smell. But these hardened pearls of shagbeast mucus have quickly become a valuable alchemical ingredient -- akin to whale ambergris.

But even more monstrous are their winged offspring: The Vampyrlings. The Vampyrlings are flighted, juvenile shagbeasts. They roost by hanging upside down from the shoulder-antlers of their parents. Unable to produce milk, shagbeasts feed their young by allowing the brood to parasitize their own flesh.

Without crucial hormones found in the blood of a host shagbeast, vampyrlings are unable to mature, and so, despite being able to fly, they are unable to venture from North Chrysig to colonize South Chrysig or the Lower Continent.

Vampyrlings will also violently swarm any creature that ventures too close to their host, and unless half or more of their number are killed, the swarm will not abate. But when it does, they will choose the easiest source of food yet: their fallen siblings.

The alleged "Land of the Gods" has done nothing to burn away the monstrousness from these beasts.

That's all for now folks!

Something that's important to remember, with the names of all my creatures (and yours) is that... language has power. If you have a conlang/fantasy name, which culture got to name the creature? I've tried to give all my creatures Englishy names so that you don't feel like one of my cultures' languages is more important than another (although there's many cases where I've just named them in only one language because I am LAZY lolol) but it's just something to consider.

BTW Idk if I've mentioned it elsewhere yet but all my work is available under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, meaning it's irrevokably okay to borrow and/or steal, as long as you credit us! I'm a big proponent of the free spread of ideas so if you want, you can use any of this in your own work -- even if it's commercial! Let me know if you do <3 <3 <3

[liquidstar]

you are like. the ultimate guy maker. you have so many distinct OCs. also imn kind of obsessed with how you draw eyes specifically

WAAA OMG I JUST SAW THIS BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH 🥺 THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO HEAR... BC I LOVE MAKING OCS SO MUCH AND I TRY REALLLLYYY HARD TO MAKE THEM ALL DISTINCT W A BIG CAST SO. IT MEANS A LOT TO HEAR THAT IM DOING A DECENT JOB AT IT 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

AND ALSO THANK YOU ABT THE EYES. faces and facial features are something i do my best to make distinct and avoid same face syndrome.. there are aspects of it i still struggle with but i think ive gotten better! i think its mainly that my style is pretty simple so it can be hard to make certain things different without seeming out of place, but i try different stuff.... most recently w the eyes (eyelids specifically) i got a lot of help and input from my awesome good friend on different things to do to depict different shapes and types of eyelids which, which was honestly such a nice thing to do (and the friend in question will probably see this so hiiii <3)

but i also like to have fun with the eyeball lol. like drawing cool+weird shapes inside of the iris and stuff. and using two totally different colors for the iris and the "light reflection" inside it is really fun to me. i think it makes the character seem different... since i have a lot of little guys so i do my best to make them each stand out even if theyre just background characters. figuring out how to design all of them is FUN its just really cool to me and i like it a lot. and i think it helps me improve the more i do it too!

i simply think ocs are a lot of fun for a lot of different reasons, and i know i can get SOOO rambly abt stuff like this so ill stop myself here BUT before that i wanna say thank you again <3 stuff like this really motivates me to keep going with them! bc it means so much that there are ppl out there who notice them and care 🥹 thanks you <3

[slappycat]

Thanks you SO MUCH for that Edelgard amv on Twitter. That's all I ever wished to see from the fandom, and your artstyle is soooo interesting ( the shape, the shading and the texture are seriously mesmerizing ). Also THANK YOU for drawing her with scars and in a way that really showcase her personality/role in the story.

Also please never shut up about Edelgard. It's a lot of fun reading your random thoughts on Twitter ( especially since you have very correct take on Edelgard ) and your comic are just straight-up amazing, definitely among my favorite piece of art in this fandom.

Special mention to the numerous comic about Hubert, Edelgard and her trauma... This aspect of their past need to be so much more important in the fandom, it's such key element to understand both characters yet I see so little art on it! But you succeeded completely to convey the tone of the setting as well as the feeling of the characters, and you even did multiple comic on it ( my god the one with Dorothea was so powerful emotionally )

If I remember correctly you're currently writing a Rheagard and I'm so hyped for that. I don't know if it's going to be fun, serious, or both but I'm sure it's going to be great either way.

( Sorry for the rant. I tried to find the artist behind the Edelgard and Hubert comic for the longest time and I've only recently found your Twitter. )

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS MAKING ME BLUSH A LIL 😭🥹

I'm so happy to hear you like all my edelgard content, she's my favorite character ever and I always want to do her justice 🥺 i love making comics and other content that explores her trauma (along with hubert's and how that influences their relationship with each other and other characters) im glad you like them 🥹🥺 I'm really excited to finish the amv!!!

and the rheagard fic will be a mix of both funny and serious and a little deranged because they give me serious lead poisoning! it's definitely a trauma study fic on edelgard disguised as a sexy fic, albeit a different but similar sort of trauma considering its a modern AU

(and do not apologize this really means a lot to me and it always touches me when people really like/resonate with my more serious fe3h comics and such!)

[cyberdragoninfinity]

what inspires your artwork? your style is so cool and fun and you draw literally the best atticus of all time

WAHH THANK YOU!! 🥺always means a lot to hear that....

I actually put together a little moodboard of my longtime artistic inspirations and influences a year or so ago for some twitter meme i think, and it's still pretty true to The Dana Art Experience

it's extremely funny to me that yugioh Duel Monsters is definitely like. one of the patient zeroes of my art and art style especially, and now im back making ygo fanart and it feels like coming home. im out here watching the spinoffs and seeing the way they build on the art style and make it more and more extravagant and expressive and im absorbing these powers with my mind. whatever zexal is doing with its character design i need to inject into my art immediately.

invader zim also Very Big... in the summer of 2009 i spent like every night copying characters from paused IZ screencaps and it just permanently altered my art style's dna HFDHGUDG those sharp edges and weird colors and head shapes..the inspiration still runs DEEP. between that, ygo, and Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes art (which I had been exposed to from a young age) that's the Dana Art Soup of all time.

I also get a lot of inspiration from my friends!! ;w; I'm always looking at how they approach things like color and composition and trying to learn from that... nowadays I also spend a lot of time looking at and getting inspiration from funky mixed media art (especially digital mixed media/wikipedia poetry/just anything doing interesting stuff with public domain and google searches and internet born material); when fanart Does Interesting Things with medium and composition that's My Jam, that's the type of art I love to make.

anyways THANK YOU AGAIN...hands you an Atticus

freckly surfboard shaped ass sea otter

[thebigfudanshi]

I just gotta say, Dook is so fun to draw because

a. He's not another skinny Twink, b. He's is THE puppy, c. He is canonically the THICCEST mf alive like wth?? Like alright, I'll abide by these terms. D. He is lovey, E. He is a chonky boi, F. He so sleeby looking, G. He's a bite sized little man H. He would punch you for his momma, I. His costume is so ridiculous but its HIS and he wants to wear it, J. He would fight Beach Bear and win by pure will, K. He has the waggiest tail, L. Dook sings like a god but he sounds so goofy when he talks, M. Have you seen his ears bounce. N. Nothing will stop this man's love of coleslaw, O. He's so dumb <3, P. Puppy lover, Q. He would be a great dad just look at him he's precious he would have a giant family to share all the love, R. R is for rrrrraow cause that man can PURR, S. He beats on his drums and my heart, T. Autistic like me???, U. He's very cuddle shaped, V. He's a cute fluffy puppy dog man BUT HES A MAN AND HE WILL FIGHT YOU but belly rubs? 🥺, W. He lives in my head rent free. X. Him and Beach Bear make the most chaotic ship ever, Y. He bark, z.

Z.

Z. Is for the goddamn ridiculous amount of art I've drawn of this mf and the reason why is because.

Z. Look at that man and tell me one bad thing about him. Tell me!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Do you do art tips?

your very good I want to know how you do expressions

🥺

i can sure as hell try! this is entirely in text sorry <3

half of the battle is knowing how faces move. whether you're drawing people, animals, what have you, having a solid foundation of anatomy will help a ton. make faces at yourself in the mirror, watch shows or documentaries or realistically animated movies - basically just know how skin/muscle squishes and stretches over the skull

im not saying you have to extensively study skulls and muscles. or really even study study. just having a basic grasp of dimensions and that squish/stretch helps a Ton

then you wanna know what style you're aiming for. cartoony? exaggerated? realistic? i usually use a scale of cartoony being shows like Adventure Time or Gravity Falls etc. exaggerated is Dragon Prince or Disney or Vox Machina or some animes. realistic is Arcane or Spiderverse etc. that way you know specifically what to look at the most when figuring out expressions

for practicing them, i think it's best to start small. granted, i started drawing in 5th grade & drew in a super simplified style for years. but it is usually a good idea to start gently and then break into a sprint from there - art tends to follow that trend.

make sure to practice facial features independently. draw eyes & mouths in different states of emotion & in different cartoon styles. USE REFERENCES!!! USE A LOT OF REFERENCES!!! DON'T BE AFRAID OF REFERENCES THEY ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND!

actually yknow what - its tangent time.

people will tell you that using references is cheating and taboo. thats stupid as hell. everyone uses references, from new artists to professionals. use real life, media, and yes you can use art from artists you really like.

tracing is similar! it helps a ton! it gets you familiar with how shapes flow and interact. pick s simple image to draw, like a deer, and draw it freestyle. then trace the deer with the same movements you use to draw normally - trace smart. then draw the deer freestyle again. you will probably see immediate improvement!

just make sure that if you trace from an artist, don't post it without the permission of the artist, don't post if they say no, and never try to pass it off as your own. same with if you heavily reference an existing piece of art.

people say all the time that the best thing to do is practice. practice practice practice. and thats true! but practicing isnt just drawing the same thing over and over again - that'll get you nowhere. real practice is studying, using references, draw consistently (bc your skills will weaken if you don't, trust me on this) all that good stuff.

tangent over <3

so focus on faces! know how they move! know what you're aiming for before you draw and don't be afraid of using references to get the vibe right!

once you can get the emotion in features down, it's fairly easy to translate to different monsters and creatures and people as long as you're aware of how their heads are shaped

and also be aware that improvement takes time. sometimes its a week, sometimes years. i know im still far from where i want to be lol, but we all get there eventually.

and last but MOST IMPORTANTLY! have fun with it! fuck around and find out, & i mean that in the most positive way possible! your art will thank you for it, i prommy

[xamaxenta]

waa its not that bad its actuallu really cute i love them...

maybe its my mas shaped glasses but like. honestly not that bad of course ur better now but like i can see the love

Aauwuh 🥺😭 i can’t tell what state my mind was in when I did that commission but I always did my very best whenever I got paid to do art

It’s not terrible, you’re right but its a faithful marker to show the leap in my skill level

Very fun that its the same characters I love today so its cool to see the difference in how I perceive them but its also very cool to see how I kept the core opinion I have of them

Bc in that commission you can tell I thought Sabo was more intense than Marco or Ace (to be fair the commissioner did send me crazy Sabos as reference HAHA good on them ❤️), Ace whilst my cute little scrunge now, me with my dumb yaoi-addled (at the time yeah sorry i was heavily influenced by fujoshi art style 😂😳😔😔😔) brain didnt know how to appreciate his scrungly alabasta look and he sorta became distorted but but! The babygirl vibes are definitely there

Marco… was mostly cut off bc i had NO CLUE how to draw someone that unique at the time but the smugness/quiet confidence is still something I know I keep in him now when I draw him so

Like haha its cute the leaps and bounds

[adoranoia]

bonus hcs? bonus hcs! nothing too important, hence why they aren’t gonna get their own posts, but. here, anyway!

1. okay, but a small worldbuild-y related hc i have is, the dark world titles for things such as their royalty, knights, etc etc, are different then what they were in the light world! i generally use the normal terms™ in hcs and ooc posts, just for sake of not confusing tf outta ppl, but i did wanna at least list some of the differences just bc i think it’s neat!

* duke/duchess = dusk! * princess/prince = twilight! * majesty/king/queen = midnight!

* knights = hypernova (or ‘novas‘)! * page = protostar (or ‘protos‘)! * royal advisor = aurora! * squire = pulsar!

* the knight’s guild is called a ‘constellation’ * the royal court is called a ‘solar system’, * instead of kingdom(s), it’s a ‘cosmos‘

* the dark world = the eventides, (also: ‘the dark world’ + ‘the underworld’, sometimes!) * the light world = the meridies,  (also: ‘the light world’ + ‘the overworld’, sometimes!)

for example, ralsei would be referred to as ‘your twilight‘ or the ‘twilight of hearts‘, or if you just wanted to be really extra, it’d be ‘the twilight of hearts and the cosmos of hope‘. (but, that last one def isn’t used in normal/casual conversation tho, so dw, asdfghjkl) or, post-game, going off my hc rals ends up becoming lancer’s royal adviser, he’d be referred 2 as ‘the royal aurora’, or ‘the spades aurora’.

for another more modern example tho, once lancer becomes king, he would generally be called, ‘the midnight of spades‘, or ‘the midnight of the spades cosmos‘! they lost the ‘the cosmos of hope‘ part, due to that part of their history being erased by the knight those many years ago. it’s instead been replaced with the title of their suit.

2. your random world-buildy hc of the day is once upon a time, before their connection was severed, lightners were capable of summoning darkners, often to trade goods, or strike some of deal. there was a more general summoning ritual, and. then there was a more personal one that varied from darkner to darkner, if you wanted 2 talk to s/b in particular, y'know?

along w/ that, you could ‘call’ a darkner so 2 speak through a mirror, by drawing a symbol specific to them on it’s surface. the symbol itself was usually given by the darkner after some sort of trust has formed– think of it as just. a really weird phone number, basically! lmao………..

but, like i said, post-knight’s attack, this isn’t practiced anymore, modern darkners having no real memories of the old kingdom in general, and modern lightners don’t even know the dark exists.

so, the only one who remembers it is ralsei (assumingly), the forgotten prince who can never forget and all that, and. listen, he’s so not above teaching kris + susie how 2 summon him/ call him, so they can hang out/talk even if they can’t visit!

is he gonna come to regret it? probs a little, but only in a lighthearted way, he just cares his friends, ok! 🥺 also, bonus, if you’re wondering:

[to full-on summon ralsei/his specific ritual involves–] >a summoning circle drawn in either pink chalk, or normal salt, tbh >candles of some kind, preferably red or darkly colored in general >a cake knife + a ‘sacrifice’ in form of a soft toy, sorry mr plushie </3 >extra things like flowers, or candy can be added as well, as extra insurance it will work/reach him, bc there is a chance of failure, rip

and, his call symbol is rune-esque, the main shape/design being a heart and skull jumbled together, along with some small flourishes.

3. this is 100% just 4 fun and not for anything important, but i wanted to talk abt ralsei’s garden a little bc its s/t hes v proud of, and gardening/floriography is something he’s v knowing of, so. in particular, i wanted 2 talk about the type of flora he actually grows/takes care of! because idk i thought it’d be inte -resting, so here we go, we going on an garden adventure today bois…

so, they’re generally on the spooky side, either poisonous, or are ‘dangerous’ in some way, or just looks/smells/acts kinda weird. y’kno, like venus fly traps,   pitchers, plants that naturally smell like death and rotten meat, that look like they’re seeping blood, with thorns and teeth, and moving eyes. such as, the!–

* white baneberry (doll’s eyes), venus flytrap/pitcher plant, sanguinaria (blood root), voodoo lily/corpse lily, deadly nightshade, water hemlock/poison hemlock, * hydnellum peckii (bleeding hydnellum), monotropa uniflora (ghost plant), solanum atropurpureum (purple devil), giant hogweeds (aconitum), * aconitum (wolfsbane), sarcodes (snowplant), etc etc!

but, he does grow some more ‘normal’ plants too, mostly herbs/ spices for cooking, potions/magic stuffs, sometimes both, etc etc (if baking magic isn’t a thing he’s officially making it a thing!) but, tl;dr, stuff like sage, rosemary, basil, etc etc, that sorta stuff!

along w/ that he does grow some things like red roses! which are a particular favorite of his. (but, well. he likes the thorns, not the flowers themselves, so he tends to snip the flowery bits off, using them for s/t else like tea or baking. so i guess really, rose thorns are his favorite.) other more ‘normal’ favorites of his are forget-me-nots, and lilacs.  

and ofc he does also? grow some fictional weird dark world plants. i don’t particularly have any names for any specific ones, but. you know, plants that glow and changes colors, plants that can sing and whistle, etc etc. it’s how u say… an aesthetic™!

4. ralsei’s native tongue was something spoken those thousand years ago, something that is now considered a dead language, and, is basically a darkner equivalent to the light world’s latin!

they called it ’umbatnra’, it sounded like a mix between a germanic language, and a romance language, an audible contradiction, if u will! hard k’s and ch’s, ‘harsher’ sounds from the back of the throat, but @ the same time, rolled r’s, softer vowels, an almost musical sound to its pronunciation, too. other then ralsei, there’s no longer any native speakers of the language, simply lost to time like a lot of early darkner history, which was, ofc, the knight’s doing.

while in canon, the language is it’s own fleshed out thing, with its own alphabet and grammar if/when ralsei speaks in umbatnra on this blog, the way i’ll write it is by using words and phrases from latin (and a few other languages), but anagram-ed, just for simplicity’s sake, ok, lmao

so, for example, the phrase ’i wish to one day go visit and see the vatican city!‘ in latin would be something like : ’mihi libet olim civitatem vaticanam visere!’ and, in umbatnra that would be: ’bil elohim timi camencirta stimaetive viva!’, etc etc.

5. a cute little hc: ralsei tends to call everyone general pet names,  ‘dear, darling, sweetheart’, etc etc. but there’s a few he only uses with his partners or crushes, the main one being ‘(my) dearest’. 

6. thinkin abt moony's titles/different names again, bc i remembered the other ones finally, changed a few, so uhhh. updated list + the reasons!

>'the twilight of hearts and the cosmos of hope' aka his full royal title >'the witness of dernow-elthds' being in reference to the attack, and him being the sole survivor of the royal family, etc etc, and all that stuff. >'the siren of the scarlet forest' bc pre-gang showing up, ppl thought the world behind the great doors laid empty, but sometimes: they'd hear s/b singing. >'elrallor' which is his "true name", basically, it's used for mostly summoning purposes, and basically means "prince of the under -world/protector of the dead" when translated from umbatnra. >'the mourning star' the legends sometimes refer to him as this, the knight commonly uses this name for him, it’s meant to sound like 'morning star'.

7. do yall want a silly funfact abt ralsei? -- he doesn’t full-on laugh a lot, because he’s actually embarrassed of his laugh, so he tends to stick to just giggles and stuff. what’s his legit laugh sound like, though? well. 

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