#Tiny knife

[azalea-art]

I can’t say I fully understand the ides of March celebration, but I sculpted a bunny with a little knife so he can join in ^_^ and that was fun

[vacueabissi]

It's tiny!

[strudeldoodlearts]

What makes a doodle? Going forward...

Doodles are quick, messy, casual, and experimental. Often without a clearly determined objective. They just kind of come out of nowhere.

Over the years, I've worried that I've fallen short of an artist who could be called 'strudel doodle.' Not from nit-picking at my art style's inconsistencies, even though that's it's own separate problem. I'm actually more worried about neglecting what it means to 'doodle' freely.

But this recent piece made me realize something. If I start drawing with a rigid idea only to realize I've drawn something else entirely, isn't that also doodling?

Isn't loosening my line art expectations (even though they're still carried by my use of references and also by the rough-painting phase) also doodling?

This was initially supposed to be a picture of a dragon-style sword since 2024 is a dragon year according to Chinese Zodiac.

But then somewhere in the rough painting phase, the idea morphed into a feisty bearded dragon wielding one of those small mall-ninja pocket knives. Whoop.

The power of doodling is a chaotic, unpredictable one to wield. But wielding it often and with just the right amount of boundaries creates results that are worth it.

For the background, I used the radial symmetry tool to create the light lines. This layer was then duplicated, rotated, and recolored to create a two-colored flash effect. This simple decision breathed so much character into the bearded dragon, heh!

[galaxyforge100]

[pareidoleia-echolaleia]

Chin up, darling.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 207

Danny does not come out of the portal. 

In fact, he’s lost. Very lost. He just wants to go home and is getting scared of everything around him because he doesn’t know what’s going on. But! But he’s found an (admittedly also terrifying) castle or keep or whatever they’re called that all the ghosts avoid!

It never exactly enters his mind that they might have been avoiding such a place for a reason. 

In unrelated news, the first thing Fright Knight sees after his sword was (accidentally) knocked free from its prison is not a blob ghost- they’ve done it a few times over the eternities- but a ghostling. A newborn ghostling, who promptly bursts into tears to his genuine horror. What did he do?!

[so-very-small]

“ah, i’m finally alone,” i said to myself as i sat in my bedroom at midnight

“no you’re not,” said Knife Borrower

[dailydonatella]

Dona based on how she looks in that itty bitty tiny aquatos poster in meat circus

[empquipress]

realized i never posted some little doodles i made of @narcissistcookbook and @bughuntermusic / @jammechanics. both based off tour and podcast art by the lovely DeepBlueInk.

if anybody got charms of the latter that I was giving out at the show, absolutely feel free to show me cause I would love to see where they all ended up!

[the-knife-consumer]

Spending time with Sybil's incredibly angry baby (and Sybil feeling somewhat bad)

[canisalbus]

So i remember an ask mentioning your mortal enemy, Felis Atra and their cats, and i thought it'd be fun to draw what Felis Atra's version of your italian dogs would be.

I think they would be called Butter Knife and Flamengo! Butter Knife is not his real name, it's an nickname given by his peers because of how harmless he is. I choose Flamengo because that's the name of Vasco's rival football team here in Brazil, so i thought that was the perfect name :)

Cat Machete was slightly inspired by the Oriental Shorthair cat because of their long noses and thin head shape.

Cat Vasco was inspired by the Scottish Fold cat, because FLOPPY EARS. I gave Flamengo longer ears and orange fur to make him more like his look-alike.

The last doodle is a reference to this ask (https://canisalbus.tumblr.com/post/728923918314946560/me-i-am-machete-ear-fan-number-1-those-ears) and contains the tumblr ask stand-in dog, whose cat version was inspired by the American Curl cat! They have round ears that are slightly floppy outwards.

Final notes: I know cardinal clothes don't come in vibrant blue, but i was ADAMANT on switching Machete's and Vasco's clothing color patterns. I would draw the rest of Butter Knife's and Flamengo's clothes, but i suck at designing cool outfits.

Speaking of outfits, for Machete's iconic void outfit, i figured it would be fun to make it more baggy for Butter Knife, in contrast to Machete's, that looks very tight-fitted. I think it's cute, it kinda looks like a sweater. Also i can't imagine a Machete doppelganger without high heels boots, so those HAD to stay.

Oh, and just to be clear, i'm not like, claiming ownership of these guys or anything. I just thought it would be a fun exercise. Hope you like them!! I love your art and your characters.

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[marzipanandminutiae]

as someone who has sabred open one (1) bottle of champagne in her life, I am taking the firm stance that dedicated Champagne Sabres spoil the fun

either use a sword (looks really cool, the whole point of the exercise in my opinion) or use like a butter knife (economical, very impressive because most people don't realize that you use the dull side of the blade anyway so they'll think "whoa, this person can slash open champagne WITH A DULL KNIFE???")

there's nothing cool about doing it with a knife that's clearly not a sword, but also not a kitchen knife that you just happen to have lying around for other purposes and casually use to show off your sabrage prowess

[gertritude-art]

since it has been a week since I officially released it, I thought I would throw together a massive doodle dump from the past few months for stuff from "WHO WANTS TO BE THE EMPEROR?" ...featuring heavily two characters who make zero appearance in that incredibly short story. say hello to todd(icus) and unnamed visiting dignitary who is dressed in vague ahistorical robe (a.k.a. i had yet to do research on what she should wear)

[lemonboyjosten]

[so-very-small]

oh, to be threatened by a giant’s dagger, the blade itself taller than I am

[pareidolla]

on the topic of cheat-coded (heh) songs, i associate him and razor with "that unwanted animal" esp in the context of then as a ship

i'm the touch you crave, i'm the plans that you made / but fuck all your plans, i'm bored

we've done it, boys! we've broken chearazor down to it's bare fundamentals! banger song btw ♡♡

speaking of chearazor yippee i have an excuse to finish this

(he said no)