#I am trying to get better at sketching ; w ;

[skitskatdacat63]

Orb...

+ process kinda

[macabrecabra]

Some for fun sketch art. Trying to get back at doing quick but clean sketches.... only think I got one to look right but going to go back and clean all of em up more as want to finish them for a neat color study!

Bringing back old OCs from a horrible other place into my own worldsetting at last, giving them the chance to thrive and grow properly c: The first one at the top though is just an ANCIENT OC coming back after gathering dust for a new shiny place. They are all from a different species of season-based people, so going to use the seasons to form a color study for each for fun c:

Just some art to try and destress from feeling really overwhelmed.

[mechanicalprincette]

I drew a dinosaur

[keeps-ache]

i may be be wanting in physical prowess. but with the weight of 50000 wips i can defeat anyone who dares challenge me!!

[vaaaaaiolet]

Alarm clocks are a little pointless in the Kennedy household, no thanks to your husband's perplexing sleep schedule. What's the rhyme to his reason? Or rather, who?

gn / m, just domestic fluff w/ older married leon of your choice (di leon is personally so husband), pretend i'm funny, animals?? for some reason LMFAO, leon hates sleep

word count: 474 // read on ao3

a/n: tiny drabble for @l1terallylaroxy w/ love <3 yes i was listening to snooze by sza what gave it away. the entire fic? oh okay.

find all my drabbles in my collection: sketches for my sweetheart the drunk!

The dip your mattress developed overnight makes for a better alarm clock than the one sitting on your nightstand. You still check to not hurt its tiny mechanical feelings.

5:30 AM. Leon’s come home.

A roll of your shoulder puts you face to face with your sleeping hill of a husband. You can’t help stifling a laugh at the haphazard way he’d fallen into bed, practically breathing in his pillow as he snoozes away with his stomach pressed to the sheets and an arm slung heavy over your waist. Leon is a staunch back sleeper – you catch earfuls about sleeping on your stomach from him all the time, but here he is, Mr. You-Need-to-Reduce-Pressure-on-Your-Spine, in all his morning glory. He’s lucky he happens to be married to the pinnacle of benevolence.

You simply file away the blackmail for later.

A groan eventually sounds from the mess of blankets Leon’s entangled himself in, something akin to, “Gmmff...mmff, bah.”

Definitely talking in his sleep. You’re half-asleep yourself. Anacondas wrap you closer – no, Leon wraps you closer when he finally blinks awake.

“What’d you say?” you chuckle.

“...said g’morning, baby,” your husband yawns.

Dawn blushes the ivory sheets pink, blooms roses in your cheeks when he presses a kiss to your shoulder mumbling something sweet: “G’back to sleep. Don’t wanna wake you up.”

And then he does something crazy. Leon starts rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and sitting up like he’s getting ready for the day, fully at five in the morning like he didn’t just crash into bed after a graveyard shift at the DSO.

It’s insanity. “You’re waking up already?” you squawk, sitting up with a full eight hours in contrast to his abysmal five. “The sun’s barely up, Leon, you just got home.”

“The alarm’s going to ring in a second anyway. Early bird gets the worm, right?”

Worms be damned, you grouch. You cling to his back, tucking your chin into the side of his neck while he ruffles your hair.

“C’mon, ya koala. I gotta shave,” Leon gripes, too sugary to have any effect.

You pout. “So eager to leave me already?”

“Baby. You’re breaking my heart.” He clutches his chest with a theatrical gasp. “What a thing to say!”

He huffs long and loud, and the anacondas return to snake over your back this time as you try and keep from laughing at the stupidity of it all. You’re in the air before you know it; carried piggyback style to the bathroom as Leon lifts the one burden in his life that isn’t really one in the slightest. You can kick your legs all you want, but he’s not letting go.

Every waking second with you is a blessing he’s not willing to give up. So why would Leon want to hit snooze and miss the moment?

click for my full drabble collection, and find more of my work here!

comments and reblogs are very much appreciated <3

[cosmerelists]

If Other Stormlight Characters Served as the King's Wit

As requested by anon. :)

"The King's Wit" is there to insult people in the king's stead. In this role, Hoid basically gets to stand at the entrance to feasts and make fun of people. It's a good gig for him. But what if other characters had this job?

1. The Stormfather

Stormfather (rumbling with displeasure): You have broken an oath today. Stormfather: You promised your son that you would play "Shattered Plains" with him this afternoon, but you did not. Stormfather: Though you feast for today, my storm winds shall one day scatter your dishonored bones. Elhokar (visibly sweating): Ha ha my new Wit sure is, ah, intense!

2. Kaladin

Kaladin: Ew. Another Lighteyes... Kaladin: Sniff, sniff! Smells like the exploitation of the powerless in here! Kaladin: I can name a dozen men better than you and guess what--they're ALL darkeyed. Kaladin: Nice outfit--did it come free with your ancestral privilege?  Elhokar (muttering to himself): I will not put him in jail again, I will not put him in jail again, I will not...

3. Shallan

Shallan: [sketching] Hapless Lighteyed guest: Is that...me? Shallan: It is! [shows Ideal Self portrait--it's the same person, only their sadness and distrust is gone and they shine with an earnest and honest light, looking out toward their future] Hapless Lighteyed Guest (visibly tearing up): I...It's beautiful. Shallan: Please, go ahead & take it! Elhokar: Shallan-Wit, why is everyone at my feast introspective and crying? Shallan: I'm really good at art.

4. Adolin

Adolin: Wow! You are so brave to put those colors together, and in a style from two years ago ago! Adolin: You are almost pulling it off. 

5. Dalinar

Dalinar: Hello. I could not help but overhear your heated argument, my friends. Dalinar: It reminds me of a tale from the Way of Kings, which I will now quote from memory... Dalinar: ... Dalinar: Aaaaand, they fled. Dalinar: That's the third time that's happened this evening.

6. Ialai

Ialai: [hands hapless lighteyed guest a folded-up sheet of paper] Hapless Lighteyed Guest: W-Where did you get this information about me? And my husband? And my...former boyfriend's sister's cousin? Ialai: [merely smiles] Hapless Lighteyed Guest: W-What do you want? Please! I'll do anything! Ialai: Why...nothing at all. Yet. Please enjoy the feast.

7. Lift

Lift: Mmmm....4. Lift: A solid 6! Lift: Perhaps a 5, but ONLY because of those pants. Lift: Wow! An 8! Wyndle: P-Please mistress, I don't think the job of the King's Wit is to rank the butts of all attendees! Lift: They need to know.

8. Jasnah

Hapless Lighteyed Guest: Ugh, I don't think it's right for the king to employ a heretic as his Wit! Jasnah: It's strange--one might think that your faith in the Almighty would inspire you to strive to be a good man, yet in reality your mother weeps each and every night to have produced a son who loves drinking and gambling more than he loves his children, his wife, or indeed the Almighty. Jasnah: Should you wish to inspire faith in others, perhaps you should try to demonstrate even the smallest reason why yours has produced an iota of good for anyone in this world aside from yourself. Elhokar (across the room, watching): I...am afraid.

9. Lopen

Lopen: Hey, I know you! I got a cousin in your army! Lopen: He always laughs 'bout how weird it is that your officers make the men pay for their own boots 'n' stuff 'cause it's an army not a charity, right? But then your officer son gets an allowance which is funny 'cause that kinda seems like the 'charity' thing that an army isn't! Lopen: We Herdazians tend to use a word to mean a thing, yeah? But you Alethi sure like to make a word mean whatever it is you want!

10. Szeth & Nightblood

Nightblood: Evil. Evil. Evil. Definitely evil. Big evil! Little evil, but still evil. Szeth: You've identified every guest so far as evil, sword-nimi. Nightbood: Yeah, I'm so good at detecting evil! So when does the slaying start? Szeth: I told you. I don't murder entire parties anymore. That is my past, but it does not have to be my future. Nightblood: But you're the King's Wit! You got wit-tle down the evil, right? Szeth: That is not what that means, sword-nimi. Nightblood: ... Szeth: ... Nightblood: People sure do speed up when they have to walk past us, huh? Szeth: I am pretty sure that means we're doing a good job.

[chubs-deuce]

Hi! First of all I wanted to say I love your art so much thank you for sharing your work with us!

If I may ask, how do you come up with the poses in your art? Do you use refs or just sketch them from imagination? Any tips you could share about it?

Figuring out poses is the hardest part of art for me and I am just in awe of how dynamic and great the poses are in your work!

Thank you again and I hope you have a great day!!

oh boy am I ever happy to talk about this!! :D

first of all thank you so much!! <3 I'm genuinely so happy to hear that aaaa-

So-

In regards to coming up with ideas? I oftentimes just kind of fuck around and find out - a lot of times I just get a momentary brain-spark that gives me a glimpse of an idea if that makes sense? It's mostly just the general vibe, a specific feeling, a facial expression, a rough silhouette and if it intrigues me enough I will try to pursue the idea in-depth!

I normally do try to do the poses by hand myself, but sometimes the image in my head isn't detailed enough and I get hung up on where to place the hands or legs or for some reason or another I just can't get the torso and head to sit right... so I get a little help!

More specifically I use a program to make pose references! :D

It's called DesignDoll and it's free on windows (tho you can't save without the pro service which is meh but it offers perfectly succinct functions as is already so I never bothered with the paid version)! It can be a bit finnicky to control sometimes (the elbows and knees love twisting into random angles whenever hands/feet are moved) but it's really really versatile once you know what you're doing! Ngl making raking references in it can take me up to an hour at times but it's really fun too so it's never been a bother for me haha

Some recent examples:

What actually helps me the most with this process tho is the fact that I can make these poses and choose the angles and everything myself! I find that the process of making the refs actually really helps me refine the concept in my head - a lot better than I would be able to in a drawing anyway! Plus I'm very lazy so I hate redrawing things overly often haha

You can probably see it the best in the first drawing and the karaoke one - I didn't use the references 1:1, I still do change things spontaneously if I find it works better for my drawing that way - so I don't really use it for the proportions so much as just visualizing my idea with more precision that I can then adapt properly into the artwork :D

I highly recommend doing something similar if you often find yourself with only fragments of a pose or no clear idea for one!!! DesignDoll isn't the only program of this kind either so it's worth looking into other alternatives too if you don't have a windows system to run this one on!

(just please do not use generative AI for art references! Always remember that there is no such thing as ethical generative AI! ;w;)

[pearlymel]

hiii can i request a love and deepspace fic for our sleepy baby xavier? >w< the prompt is this : reader gets a tattoo of xavier’s sword (like the design on his latest outfit’s cape) all the way down their spine/back ! reader shows it to him and the rest is up to your imagination! a mix of sfw and smut/suggestive would be nice here but it’s up to you and what you’re comfy with :3 thank uuuu 💗

Synopsis: Xavier is in awe of your new tattoo.

Warnings: contains extremely suggestive comments, not completely sfw. Also gn!reader. It's short.

Notes: nonnie the minute i saw this, i immediately imagined backsho—

But i wanted to keep it tame for now </3.

You had to wait a week. A whole week to show Xavier the tattoo. Mainly because you don't entirely trust yourself of what will happen the second his sees it.

"Art?" He repeats your words, currently trying to guess the surprise you prepared for him.

Xavier tilts his head, a curious hum leaving his lips. That was a pretty broad hint. It could mean a whole lot of things. Paintings? Sketches? Poetry? Photography? And then there was the question of whose art...

He sighs, "Can't you give me another hint?"

"Nah, keep guessing."

Xavier let out a frustrated huff, gently tugging on your hand, "Give me one more hint, or I'll... I'll..." He paused, trying to think of a threat that wouldn't come off as playful. "...I'll tickle you."

You try so hard not to laugh right now, your lips pursing together before you exhale from your nose. "You're cute."

Upon seeing his defeated form, you stand in front of him then you turn around so your back was facing him, then you pull your shirt above your head to take it off, and to reveal the tattoo of his sword from the top running down all the way down to your spine.

Xavier's throat instantly dried up, his mind going completely blank at the sight. He hadn't expected this... His eyes widened, drinking in the sight of the tattoo on your back. He had never seen something so beautiful.

"I—you—" he stuttered out, completely stunned. His face grew hotter as he moved forward, gently running his fingers down the sword etched into your skin, "When did you get this...?"

It tickles, how his fingertips ran smoothly down your back. "About a week ago." You try telling him while clearing your throat.

You glance at him over your shoulder, trying to see his expression. He looked almost possessed as took in the art before him, it did make him feel possessive.

"Do you—"

"I love it." He quickly cuts you off, both of his hands running down on your sides until they grabbed a hold of your hips, and you gasp when he suddenly pulls you down on his lap.

You feel soft lips begin to press on your skin, tracing the inky imprint while his hands wandered to your thighs and chest. Touching, rubbing, caressing, he can't get his hands off you.

"I'm in love with you," the sudden declaration fills you with warmth, "Am i allowed to bend you over?" The innocent tone of his next question makes it hard to detect that he suggested such a filthy thing.

You were at a lost for words, "hold on now—" his hand that toyed with your chest left it's place to push your back down to bend you down a bit while he leaned back on his seat, just so he can get a better view of how beautiful you were just for him.

He calls your name, almost impatiently this time, "can i cum on your back too?"

Just how much more will he have to torture you with his suggestions?

You gasp when he starts grinding his painfully hard erection against your ass, hands firmly on your hips while he kept pulling you as close as possible.

"please.." he whispers, panting softly even as he has his head thrown back, already drunk from his imaginations alone.

[p-oisn]

let's get positive ! (⁠ʃ⁠ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠）

(the content below the cut contains mentions of sensitive topics such as implied su*cide & sh so pls scroll if you're uncomfortable w those !)

this is a long rant about life basically .. 💩💩

i was going to make a post like this sometime later anyways bc i felt .. like a nice person ... but i made it a bit earlier than i expected bc i saw a post from oomf that really made me think .. so here u go

this comes from my own PERSONAL experiences and this is js my point of view yk !!! im no expert on any topic HSHSJ this is js the way i cope plz dont come for me in my asks ... i am aware that it isn't the same for everyone but , i hope this message can be helpful to some extent </3

if you feel like like life is leading nowhere n you feel like giving up I PROMISE it will get better bc i felt the same for two whole years n i will say that i have improved a LOT since . yes , it took me longer than i expected but i didn't give up and you shouldn't either ! it was hard n there were times i felt like i wasn't making any progress / improvement but in the end , it still got better

be kinder (to yourself, first) ☆

i think the first step to loving yourself is to forgive yourself .. its okay to try over n over again , you're still human n i think ppl tend to forget that often bc they're so tough on theirselves . let's not forget that your body is actively trying it's best to keep u alive , your WBCs for example ! (let's appreciate these little guys for trying their best 🎉🎉) your body too , deserves to be loved back , for fighting so hard just for YOU! so pls don't hurt yourself in any way </3

appreciate yourself for achieving even the smallest of tasks because even if it wasn't something big , YOU DID IT ANYWAYS ! every small achievement of yours deserves to be appreciated . even if it's momentary happiness , appreciate yourself while it lasts . i understand that sometimes even small things could be such a hassle but you can always reward yourself later ! i personally like to buy donuts everytime i finish something (this could come in handy when you're really craving something if you get what im saying ..)

It's okay if you're going at a slower pace than other people , what matters in the end is that you get it done ! everyone is not the same so it's unfair to put yourself down for such things .. also applies to comparing yourself to someone because in the end you'll still be you .. even if you don't like it .. that makes you unique ofcourse , there's only one of you in this world so embrace yourself for that !! you're one of a kind (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

oh, but, life's the same, it's boring ... ☆

yes , a lot of days could end up being the exact same because like , there are 365 days in a year so you can except most of them to be similar .. but as a new year starts , ofc many things change without you even noticing it , you grow older ofcourse , and you could be starting a new year in school , you meet new people and so on ! if you compare your life from a year ago or even a few months ago to now , you'll surely notice a few differences atleast so .. life is not reaaaaally the same right .... everyday is a new experience ! literally anything and i mean anything could happen the next day , you could even win the lottery who knows 🤫

when i felt like everyday was the same , i tried changing my patterns .. (my current favourite thing to do is go on a walk ! sometimes i take my dog w me , it's super fun) i would do small things that i dont usually do like sketch ! or i attempt cooking something new .. but obviously there were a LOT of days where i did nothing , sometimes even weeks , and that's okay ! we all deserve days where we do nothing ESPECIALLY if you're someone who is working or js in school / college everyday .. you deserve that break

i think a big factor is being unproductive ? don't get me wrong , i still am my same unproductive self at times unfortunately , n sometimes they do get so bad that they lead to a terrible burnout .. n i went through a rly bad burnout not long ago n trust me you do not want to get this far :( how do i deal with this ? (let's take studying as an example here) well i always start off with small portions , even if it's just a page or two . n then i slowly keep increasing the amount of pages i read .. n yes ofc , i understand how brutal burnouts can get sometimes n that's why it's important to not overwhelm yourself by attempting to finish a big portion of your studies in one go .. just take it easy , let the information marinate in your head for a bit before you move on to the next topic .. so basically what im trying to say here is don't overwhelm yourself with big tasks especially when you're already burntout

friends .. they're great ☆

the thing that honestly improved my life by a mile is getting good friends .. I've had my fair share of bad friend groups so trust me when I say this , it's better to be alone than with people who drain you mentally because . you deserve someone who treats you the way you actually want to be treated .

"but it's hard to make friends" i completely get this because i am a very shy person myself </3 but i think you could start by trying to make friends online ! its easy to find someone with similar interests on the internet .. so when you feel down atleast you know that there's someone on the other side of the world who cares for you ..

but this doesn't change the fact that solitude is AMAZING too (tbh i could go on for a really long time on how i love being by myself but this is already getting super lengthy ...) you can be your own friend too ! (okay see now this seems insane but if it makes you happy WHO CARES AMIRITE) i personally enjoy my own company like omg .. she can get a good laugh out of me sometimes ... you can do whatever you want when you're alone ! you can dance to your favourite playlist or experiment with a bunch of stuff ! if you get bored you can watch your favourite movie or consume your favourite piece of media that no one gets like you 🤫 so , as much as making friends sounds great , let's appreciate solitude too !!

ah, life can be beautiful sometimes? ☆

one of the biggest reasons i go on walks almost regularly is to remind myself how beautiful the world can be sometimes .. (atp half of this is me convincing you all to go on walks) i live in a beautiful neighbourhood n there are a lot of different flowers and fruits that grow here and that makes me really happy . going on early morning walks especially is soo fun , the world is so quiet then and you can even watch the sunrise 🥹

another thing is buying myself things i like ... especially clothes ... if you think you would look good in something then js go ahead and buy it ! don't mind what other people think because like ... YOU are wearing it and if people around you have a problem with that then i think they should close their damn eyes and not look at you if it bothers them that much 🤦 you deserve to feel confident and comfortable in your own skin , you deserve to dress the way you want to ! so if you feel like dressing a particular way would make you feel better .. GO FOR IT !!! this applies to other things you like, maybe accessories, merch or stationary that look cute .. it's okay even if people judge you for your style because in the end they're the ones who are boring and miserable because they spend soo much time hating on others 😒

life is soo much more fun when you take care of yourself trust me ... you deserve to be taken care of !! so spoil yourself once in a while i promise it's okay as long as it makes you happy <3

to sum it all up .. yes , good times don't last forever but so don't bad times , and you and i both can get through a bad day because life is still going on (⁠*⁠˘⁠︶⁠˘⁠*⁠)⁠.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ bad times too , will pass . so please believe in yourself and hold on !! i love you

again, this is all how*I* like to cheer myself up so pls don't take anything here in a bad way 😖 all of this was made with good intentions and im so sorry if i still ended up hurting anyone in any way ..

[genericpuff]

Absolutely love the rendition to the panel of Hades holding Persephone. Lovely to see it rendered as a more mutual act with Perse holding onto Hades instead of just letting Hades hold her, and ofc seeing Persephone actually look like an adult woman. (Not to even mention the colors and rendering because whoaa those were lovely)

And I have a question about this new rendition if I’m allowed to make it! The original had very dramatic and sharp composition with the angles and being off centered which conveyed much of the emotions and style that made early LO very striking. In adapting it, was it a conscious choice to change the composition or what were the deciding factors that made you and banshriek decide centering Perse and Hades worked better in this situation? :0

Ahhh thank you ;w; It took a few rounds of sketching to get the pose just right, the flats thankfully weren't as difficult as I was worried they'd be, but the challenge was definitely in trying to get the pose right while maintaining the height difference that's there.

As for your question, a lot of the posing and sketch composition is something I do, and then Banshriek typically goes wild with the backgrounds while making adjustments to those compositions if necessary, often times I leave the backgrounds up to their discretion as they're 10x more skilled at that sort of thing than I am and they often bring new perspectives to the table. This means that it often ends up being a game of give and take between what we contribute, sometimes I'll have sketches that they feel need to be adjusted, other times I'll have to add little tweaks to their backgrounds if it's missing something. We're both working off a base rough sketch, but we both get to contribute to the final scene in our own ways; splitting it between background and character flats has been a happy middle that's worked well for us :)

Depending on the scene, sketches can range from minimal to more detailed. Here's the original base sketch for that scene:

So originally there was a larger tree working over the side but I didn't really know how detailed we wanted to be in the actual full background, much of it depended on how complex Banshriek wanted to get. You can also tell that Persephone's face was originally buried into Hades' chest in the original panel, which I originally flatted in, but then wound up changing because I wanted her eyes to be visible to reflect both of their expressions of relief at the same time.

That said, with the pose changing from what it was in the original (from Persephone almost laying on Hades vs. him holding her and lifting her up) the composition had to change with it so I decided to just make them a bit more centered, that way the focus would be fully on them and the balance of the scene wouldn't feel "off" due to the pose change. I tend to follow the Rule of 3 here !

So yeah! That's pretty much why centering it felt a little better in this case. Though part me of does wish I was able to keep the original pose, when breaking that scene down into its bones I found it had to take a lot of liberties with its anatomy and proportions, as many LO scenes do. You can't really tell just on a surface level but Persephone's head is huge and the rest of her body is tiny (her hips literally come up to Hades' sternum and her feet meet at his knees). With the character design changes made in Rekindled to make Persephone a little less tiny and more consistent in her body type (while still maintaining the size difference between them) and to reflect their character arcs at this point (as I'm not rushing them into intimacy quite like the original comic did) certain things have to change to balance it out and accommodate. If you're a math person, think of it like solving algebra equations - what you do to one side of the equation needs to be reflected and adjusted on the other side.

And of course Banshriek did a lot more to really exemplify the mood shift in the almost labrynth-like forest Persephone grew within Tower 4. There are still trees and plant life everywhere, but instead of feeling like an endless maze with its tones of deep red that we saw Hades navigate, it now feels like a soft and gentle meeting point for the two. Like the original scene, the color change is used to change the mood of the scene and reflect the calmness of Hades and Persephone as they've found one another.

At the end of the day we did what we ultimately thought would work best for the way Rekindled is drawn, giving both Banshriek and I the freedom to fully utilize our respective skillsets. That way we were able to pay tribute to that original scene while also creating something new out of it <3

That said, I'm sure @banshriek can also chime in with their own design notes on this episode, if they have a minute to spare! I'm sure they'll have lots to say about the fun they had working with those new brushesヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

[reganmian]

hello gay relatives gallavich nation!! i am finally making an intro post :)

thank you @callivich for creating such a comprehensive guide to the community here + encouragement for lurkers. i’ve been encouraged. 🫡🩷

Name: yi + my username means ‘hot dry noodles’ which is a popular chinese noodle dish. i picked it bc 1) it’s delicious 2) it has ian embedded

Age: 20

What made you fall in love with Gallavich? they’re complex characters who go through harrowing experiences, ups and downs, pain and suffering—situations where it seems impossible for any good to materialize. in spite of it all, they find each other over and over again. they scrape together every last sliver of hope. they try and try again, until they can finally match each others' pace, slow down, and just exist together. tl;dr - even with the deck stacked against them, they emerged from the angst victorious and in love. and i'm supposed to not eat it up?

How long have you been a fan? 67 days. i had seen a lot of shameless clips on youtube over the years - mostly of white boy carl, to which i was like wtf is this 💀 and ignored. eventually came across the clip of mickey chasing ian re: mandy in s1, checked the comments out, saw someone say “i can’t believe these 2 guys got married” and i was like What LMFAO? and fell into the All Gallavich Scenes | S01-S11 + Hall Of Shame | 1080p playlist and kinda got stuck there. started watching shameless a couple weeks later just for them

Favourite Gallavich moment/scene? when mickey’s on the brink of losing ian (many such cases) and in a split-second, decides to risk it all for him and comes out to everyone/his pos father at the alibi. then they get to beat him up. i giggle everytime at ian flipping terry off as the cop car pulls away, and sniffle when he kisses mickey’s head. mickey’s courage and fierce love for ian is so clear and it fills my heart with pride to see him finally out.

Favourite Shameless character apart from Ian and Mickey? fiona + mandy <3

Do you write or draw or make edits? i mostly write + i’m currently working on an AU fic—my very first for gallavich 🫡 i also draw once in a blue moon (limited to b&w sketches)

Favourite type of Gallavich fics? i'm drawn to AUs!! much of the canonverse is, for a lack of better words, ouchie. i will pretty much read anything tho; this fandom publishes some impeccable literature.

Favourite Gallavich quote? “ian, what you and i have makes me free. not what these assholes know.” instant classic.

Anything else you’d like to share about yourself? i’m taller than mickey/noel, speak en/fr/中文, and i’d love to make friends and pick writer brains and scream abt gallavich fics/ideas and gallavich themselves. i have so many thoughts abt them i will explode!!

i also wanted to say thank you so much for all the love received on the ian drawing i posted for his bday!! i hadn't drawn in a loooong time and i was met w/ so many kind words for which i am so grateful! 🫶🏻

that is it for me for now. i hope to hear from yall soon! 🩷

[idyllsoftheabyssalforest]

A very happy EO5 anniversary!

While we haven’t really released much information on our EO5 characters, we still wanted to celebrate the game’s release with a poster! The concept was supposed to be something along the lines of the Split Spirits skill and “seeing what I see.” In other words, ghosts.

pre-production (concept, sketch, rough colors) and caption by @martilyongabo

production and post (overpainting and polishing) by @anoldwishbone

I (Marty) am supposed to be posting this right now, lol, but in between tight deadlines, power outages, heavy rain, and slow asf internet, Wishbone will be taking over posting for now until the situation gets better!

Also wanted to include Marty's idea to switch places in the pipeline for this one. He wanted to try his hand at pre-production and conceptualization, and I got to practice painting landscapes, effects, and many different materials. Very happy with what we've made.

- W

[greetingsfromuranus]

I love your art! Do you jave any tips ondrawing in the EENE artstyle?

Thank you!! The best advice I have is to study, study, and then study some more lol. Look at something, try to replicate it, trace over the original to see the underlying shapes, draw the shapes on your own page and replicate it like that, freehand it w/o reference, just see what works! i know it sounds like general advice, but the EENE style, especially once you get to later seasons,is very stylistically and technically complex! You're gonna have to see which aspects of it are intuitive to you, and which ones you'll have to sit down and make yourself learn. I primarily use Raven Molisee's art (lots of stuff on Deviantart and Poshmark more recently) since with his sketches you can see a lot of the underlying shapes and processes! But it would be a good idea to also check out stuff from the rest of the art department, such as Scott Underwood, Jim Miller, and Cory Toomey (you can find a list of em here: https://ed.fandom.com/wiki/The_Creators). Instagram account dawn_of_the_eds has a lot of good references!

You can also study screenshots of the show, especially if you're trying to replicate the colors/linework/movement/etc… I would recommend @ededdneddy-artrefs, as they have a nice tagging system for finding anything specific, but its also a good idea to just look at your favorite EENE clips on YouTube and go thru them frame-by-frame! It helps with understanding how the characters move, talk, express, etc… and you can really nail down the stuff you'd only get a vague idea of from watching the show at a normal speed.

For me, it took me months (minus some breaks) to get to where i am now with drawing the Eds. Someone more studious and hardworking could easily do it faster, but the point is, it takes practice! Practice combined with active, intentional learning! My progress with drawing the Eds has several phases marked by a sudden jump in skill (usually caused by me finally going out and studying some more art, and internalizing what i learned), followed by healthy stagnation, where i get comfortable with the new knowledge and just do the same stuff for a while. If you really wanna get good at drawing them, you can study much more than i do, or have shorter stagnation periods! It's ok to calm down and get comfortable with the characters, have some nice, easy, art making time, its important to not get too stressed or burnt out! But when you're feeling motivated, absolutely take advantage of that!

Some things to remember:

While the characters do have consistent design elements and basic underlying shapes, these are NOT hard rules. REMEMBER AND INTERNALIZE SQUASH N STRETCH! I've tried assigning hard rules to how I draw the eds, and it's VERY difficult. It's definitely important to write down/point out as many design quirks and reoccurring themes/shapes as possible, but just remember that the Ed Edd n Eddy style is extremely fluid and dynamic - and the guidelines you may have thought were 100% true can be shattered at any point. Basically: all rules are optional! Don't draw something because the "rules" say so, draw something because it looks good! Sometimes one rule looks good, sometimes something else looks better! I'll use the teeth as a visual example:

(art in 1st image by Raven Molisee)

Sort of a continuation of the last point - Before EENE, I had a tendency (and still kinda do) to use more symbolic drawing process, the kind of design language you'd use for logos or graffiti, or the kind of style you see in shows like Dexter's lab or Total Drama Island or something - where you get good at drawing the same shapes/lines over and over. The EENE style, especially in later seasons, does not follow the same process as these sorts of styles. For example, I used to look at Edd and say "ok, His head is THESE TWO SHAPES!" And then there would be another, I'd say "okay, 3" and then another, and another and this will keep going on and on and on. Sometimes his ears are at the corners of whatever quadrilateral his head is (like in Molisse's art), sometimes theyre on an edge (like ive seen in Underwood's art), and sometimes you just can't see em! You have to accept that the characters are a lot of things at once, and different things at different times! Like Eddys head is usually a sort of bent pentagon - but is his mouth is enough he's more like a tin-can - but from a more top view he's almost a triangle - you can do this cycle forever.

you can think about it like this: the eds designs (especially their faces) are sort of a collection of features, and the shapes holding them together than be molded and distorted as you please!

Remember that the eds often exist with 3D underlying shapes, not just flat ones! I would highly recommend studying 3d shapes in extreme perspectives specifically. Draw bent cylinders, twisted stretched out cubes, any sort of shape at the most extreme fish-eye perspective you can manage, just absolutely take advantage of them. Bend and distort and break those shapes, dig your foot into their backs and and pull at their corners like you're ripping the arms out of their sockets. Extreme visualization, I know, but Ed Edd n Eddy is a slapstick comedy - there is immense force and stretching and distortion present, you really have to get that energy into your art to replicate the style (even if I'm not great at it yet, it's something I know I must learn).

Specific tidbit that's important & I sometimes forget: The characters limbs can be as long as the pose calls for! They will be fine! If they're holding something above their head, their arms are going to stretch out much longer than normal and it's ok! You can always sacrifice the "accuracy" to the model to get a strong pose/silhouette. Though one thing I've noticed is that their clothes often don't stretch the same way their bodies do! If you stretch double D's arms out 3 yards, his sleeves are gonna be about the same length as always! Except for when it looks better to break this rule, of course :3 basically imagine their bodies are like stretchy rubber, while their clothes are not

(note how his arms are stretched reeeal long in the gif, the look of the action holds higher priority than "correct" body proportions)

Apologies on my lack of notes on Ed specifically, I've drawn him good a total of One time and haven't been able to do it again lol.... Sometimes his head is an upside down triangle, but its bent in a way that i cant find a good pattern to remember it by... though sometimes his head is a square but the bottom stretches downward to become his neck. He's weird as hell, one day ill figure it out!

That's all my advice for now :3 If i think of any more i will add it!

[silverstonesainz-archive]

I will give you three dabloons to write this req w Daniel🫡🫡🫡:

 “i’m over in the other room if you need me, okay?” 

hope u swallow your pillow after reading this 😈🫶🏼💜

coffee and kisses (dr3) ─── daniel does what he does best

[ cw: brief descriptions of a mild panic attack ]

panic. it’s what has you seated on the floor of the living room, papers scattered all around you and your laptop at full brightness. panic is what makes your eyes sting with tears, mocking your  forgetfulness. panic is what makes you cry at one in the morning, over an exam you forgot to study for.

you cursed yourself between your soft sobs, pushing yourself off the floor as you pace in attempts to calm yourself down. you try to slow breathing, fingers interlocked behind your head. smell the flowers… blow out the candle. your eyes flicker to the clock. 1:28 am. your eyes sting again and you’re crying all over again. after traveling all day, a much needed trip behind you, you wanted nothing more to go to bed. but the second you slip under the covers, your classmate is texting you if you had notes from last week. and then it hit you.

you hear the door open behind you, and you turn you see daniel walking out of your bedroom. his eyes are half open, curly hair standing in different directions. “hey, what are you doing- what’s wrong?”

he walks over to you, brows furrowed at the sight of your bloodshot eyes and the disarray of the living room. this was the part you let him hold you. he’ll kiss your forehead, tell you all the things you need to hear, and help you fix the problem. this is when you let daniel do what he does best: kissing it all better.

but he can’t, you know there isn’t anything he can say to make you feel any better. so you step back, shaking your head in a panic. he stops in his tracks when you hold your palm out to him, telling him to stop. his frown deepens. “baby-“

“no, daniel. i have the biggest exam in— in seven hours, that i haven’t studied for at all. i don’t need you to coddle me, i don’t have time for you to talk me down. i need to study— so please, leave me alone.” 

your words are harsh, and you regret them as you say it. you watch the sullen nod, the way his honey eyes look every except you. you felt bad, but you were getting choked up again and didn’t think you had it in you to apologize without breaking down. so you stand there, waiting for his next move. 

“okay. i’ll leave you alone bug. i’m over in the other room if you need me, okay?” 

you nod, and watch as daniel trudges into the kitchen. when he disappears, you fall to your knees and beginning reading over messy notes and sketches, hoping and praying that some of what you were looking at will stick. you read and read, over and over, for god only knows how long. all you know is that now you have three piles of papers, your laptop screen has dimmed, and your eyes were on fire. 

you look over, the kitchen light still on. curiosity takes you into the next room, where daniel is sitting at the table with his laptop out in front of him, and a mug to his left. he doesn’t look up, fingers on the mouse pad as he reads whatever it is on his screen. but he lifts one arm out to you, hand waving you over to him. you take slow steps over, and soon he is pulling you into his lap. his arms wrap around your waist, your around his neck. 

“how you feeling bug?” he asks softly, pushing the hair from your face. 

you shake your head, eyes falling shut. “i’m sorry.” you mumble.

“no need to be sorry baby.” you feel his lips against your cheek, then your jaw. “i made some coffee. it’s in the pot, do you want me to pour you a cup? 

you shake your head, “in a bit. just wanna sit here for little longer.”

he nods, tightening his grip around you. you sit there, letting the smell of coffee and him bring all your thoughts in order. when you open your eyes, daniel is leaning in to press another kiss to your cheek. 

“coffee?”

you nod and move off of him. you watch as he goes to make you coffee the way you like it. pour the sugar and the milk, mix it all together. you watch as daniel does what he does best: loving you. 

you smile as he walks back over with the mug in hand, and another kiss— this time on your lips.

“i love you,” you hum. 

“i love you too bug.” 

[alymccart]

Hello! Could you possibly give a humble peasant like me some anatomy advice? The way you draw bodies and hands is just *chef's kiss* ;w;

I wish I had an easy answer for this... but for me what helped a ton was drawing A LOT. I've been working on this skill seriously for probably 25 years at this point. I am my own worst critic and know I have so much I can improve upon. VERY IMPORTANT, drawing from life (or photographs/video stills/screenshots/etc, *not tracing, photography distorts shapes*) has got to be my number 1 suggestion for how to get better with anatomy and drawing in general. Since it's hard to get out and do that a lot, my back up is photos. I particularly like finding photos and videos of athletes mid-motion because they are far more dynamic than staged photography). The studio classes I attended in college where we spent 6 hours just drawing models over and over again were a slog to get through, but the skills honed in them were invaluable.

I've gotten to the point where I can sorta fake it and come up with anatomy from my head, but I always try to find some kind of reference to back up my mental creation. REFERENCE is KEY. It is so so so important. There is no shame in using it, and I don't see the point in making a huge deal about *not* using it. That was a pervasive thing floating around back when I was active on deviantART a long time ago and it was not good.

Another thing to consider paying close attention to with regards to reference is drawing what you see, not what you THINK you see. Brains form biases that will interfere with what you're trying to draw. I've flipped references upside down to force my brain to recalculate as I go for this reason.

Any step, no matter how tiny, is a step toward improvement. Even just going out to a park or something and sketching whatever crosses your path is great. Or you could do the same thing on the computer while you watch videos or look at photos. Animals, people, trees, plants, whatever. It'll all help you improve. And don't worry about accuracy at first! Just draw whatever gestures come to mind. Like 99% of it will look like scribbly garbage (it did for me and a lot of my peers) but it does help. Hands, in particular, are really hard. Very early on in my artistic path I realized this and kind of became obsessive about drawing them properly, so I drew a *lot* of hands. Whole sketch pages of just hands. The great thing about hands is that you've got your own! You can just draw the hand in front of you, or take a picture of the gesture you need and use that as reference. Many places will have studios open to the public where you can do model/life drawings (some nude, so if that's a concern, be sure to check first). Some will be free, or you'll have to pay some kind of fee (they need to pay the models). One free online resource that's good is Posemaniacs.com. I highly recommend the 30 second drawing tool, wherein you only have 30 seconds to sketch out the reference before it cycles to a new, random one. The extreme time limit forces your brain into overdrive and it is shocking how quickly you can improve as a result. We did this in school, as well, with live models. They'd just switch up poses every time a timer rang. I could probably go on for hours about this, there's a lot of jumbled thoughts coming to mind, but I think this is a good starting point. Persevere, don't seek perfection, and treat yourself kindly because this is a skill that requires a lot (mentally and physically) to hone and it isn't easy. Every artist has their ups and downs, but I think it's worth the struggle to be able to create. I really hope this helps! Thanks for the ask! A little bonus snippet: Back in high school I was *terrified* of drawing people because I sucked ass at it. I was garbage. Absolutely refused to do it. I drew animals and dragons and gryphons and stuff and when I started angling toward my career I had assumed I would continue in that direction. Nope! Now I'm drawing pretty much nothing but people/humanoids and I love it.

[reigningqueenofwords]

Tony's Zombie Phase

Pairing: Steve x Reader, Bucky x daughter!Reader Word count: 1,250

Read on AO3

Part 14 of Looking for the Captain

Hearing a knock on your door, you sat up. “Come in.” You called out, wondering who it was. Seeing Steve step in, you relaxed. “Hey. I guess Tony is mad at me?” 

“I don’t know. He didn’t say anything to me. I went straight to get patched up and then to shower so I could come check on you.” He explained, sitting next to you. “He went to fill in the others.” 

“Bucky is going to be so pissed.” You groaned, flopping back. “I think any tiny bit of progress we ma-”

“What the hell were you thinking?!” Bucky snapped, storming in. “You could have gotten seriously hurt. Or killed!” He yelled. 

Your eyes were wide as you stared at him. “I was trying to help!” You got up, defending yourself. “I figured I’d be safe in one of his suits!” Didn’t that count for anything? “I’ve seen that man take one hell of a beating on the news and he’s clearly fine. A bit weird, but fine.” 

He glared at you. “That doesn’t make it any better.” He was livid. “If anything, you put other people at risk because you’re so damn reckless!” 

“Well, sorry for giving a shit about the people I care about!” Sarcasm dripped from every word. “What the hell is the point of being trained to fight if I can’t help when people come after my family?” 

That didn’t help one ounce. He had his hands on his hips. “You’re being trained to defend yourself. Not to throw yourself at the very people that are after you.” He was frustrated that you weren’t listening. 

“I was defending my home.” You weren’t backing down. 

Bucky wasn’t, either. Steve could tell the two of you would yell at each other all night if you could. “Guys, how about we take a breat-” 

“No!” You both snapped at him, making him hold up his hands. 

Tony had you called down to talk to him after a bit, and hoped that you understood what he was about to talk to you about. You stormed in, making him raise an eyebrow. “Did I interrupt ‘alone’ time with the Captain?” 

“No, I was fighting with Bucky.” You crossed your arms over your chest. “Steve was just kinda…stuck watching.” 

“Ah.” He nodded. “We’d all been hoping he went to the training room.” 

“Nope. Too busy coming to yell at me.” You sighed. “So, what did you need? Are you going to yell at me, too?” 

Tony snorted. “No, you highjacking one of my suits is way more innocent than anything I’ve gotten up to in my years.” He saw you relax. “I’m sending you and Cap on a little vacation.” 

You looked confused. “There are killers after me and you want me to go on vacation with Steve?” That made absolutely no sense to you. “Wouldn’t that be more dangerous?” At least you thought it would be. 

“I have a cabin in upstate New York.” He explained. “Shockingly little tech, means less means of tracking you. And I may have gone through a zombie phase a few years back. Hit one button and no one is getting in that cabin.” He had a proud look on his face. 

“Is there a bunker below that cabin, too? Full of anything someone would need?” You asked teasingly. 

He looked away. “Maybe.” Hearing you chuckle, he smiled. “So, go pack a bag. I’ll talk to Cap and the pair of you will leave right away.” He was glad he thought of this even more now. This way you and Bucky wouldn’t keep fighting.

An hour later, you, Goliath (who was asleep in the backseat) and Steve were driving away from the tower. “Looking forward to the cabin?” You asked, glancing at him. “Relaxing and all that?”

He smiled softly and nodded. “I am. I grabbed my sketchbook and pencils. Thought I could get some sketching in while we’re there.” Sometimes it could be weeks between chances to sketch. “What about you?” 

You thought about it for a moment. “A bit. It will be weird without all the tech, and not seeing everyone every day.” You mused. “But at least at the cabin there will be no chance of Bucky yelling at me again.” That was a huge plus. 

“You do have stubborn personalities.” He chuckled. “It’s no wonder you two butt heads.” He felt it wouldn’t be the last time the pair of you clashed. “God, can you imagine how bad it would have been when you were a teenager?” He playfully shuddered. 

Laughing, you nodded. “I’m not saying I was that much of a rebel as a teen, but I can say he probably would have made me one.” You grinned. 

Steve laughed along with you. “I can picture it. Would you have dated bad boys just to piss Buck off?” He teased. 

“Maybe. It is an amusing thought. And if I dated someone with a motorcycle he wouldn’t have been able to say a damn thing. He has one.” You smirked. 

“He’d still try.” He pointed out. “I’m sure you can tell that by now. I doubt anyone would have been good enough for you.” 

“That is true. I mean, he’s got his panty in a twist because I like you. And you’re like the poster boy of good boys. You’re a human golden retriever.” You poked him. “If he doesn’t like the thought of us , what chance would anyone else have?” There would be no chance. 

Steve blushed lightly at your words. “Just because you see me as the poster boy of the good boys means nothing.” He countered. 

You smirked. “Are you trying to tell me this whole thing is an act? Because I haven’t seen anything to contradict it.” What was he hiding? Or was he teasing you? You were intrigued. 

“Guess you’ll have to just keep wondering.” He shrugged a shoulder, amused. 

“So mean. Now my mind will be making up all sorts of scenarios.” You playfully huffed. And of course many of them were x-rated. Which really reminded you how long it had been since you’d had sex. 

Standing in the doorway to the bedroom, you sighed. “Either Tony forgot to tell us there was only one bedroom, or he did this on purpose.” You muttered. 

Steve was right behind you, a touch to the side, hands on his hips. “I’ll crash on the couch if you’re more comfortable.” He offered, although he really wanted to be able to hold you at night. Memories of the morning he woke up with you came to mind. 

You shook your head. “No, it’s okay.” You assured him, stepping in to drop your bags on the bed. “It’ll be cozy.” You smiled at him. “Unless you’d be more comfortable on the couch.” Would he be? Were you misreading things between the two of you? 

The words were barely out of your mouth before he shook his head, joining you in the room. “Nope. I’d rather be in bed with you.” He blurted out. Noting your blush, he chuckled lightly. “How about we unpack, and then I’ll make us lunch?” He offered. “I’ve tasted your cooking, but I haven’t been able to cook for you.” 

“I’d like that.” You grinned. “But first, there’s something I want to do before I lose my courage.” You breathed. 

“What’s that?” He asked, raising an eyebrow. Steve’s eyes watched you as you got closer, putting your hands on his hips. And then you were kissing him.