#and ive wanted to redraw it for the longest time!!

[forecast0ctopus]

which characters do you want to draw more of?

yknow i feel like this is probably more pointed towards star trek. which there ARE a lot of trek characters id like to draw more of. but you just opened a whole can of worms man theres so much stuff i love that i havent really done much fanart for..... i want to do scooby-doo fanart soooo bad but i never get past the sketch phase....i havent drawn hardly any paranatural in ten years... woould love to draw more my babysitter's a vampire fanart its been so long since ive drawn those guys....... ive wanted to do jaane tu ya jaane na redraws for the longest time... okay i wont go on any longer ill stick anythin g else. in the tags lmao

[clutchpowers]

Sooooo... i wanted to stick this little rambly thing at the bottom of the redraw but it would have made it look UGLY so im doing this separately... just wanna talk about the whole thing and What Not.

TLDR: its been a slash positive ride thats been worth it to try "something new" every year and my favorite piece out of all of them is the 9th. also for the curious heres the comparison of the 5th anni piece to the recent one (2018 -> 2023)

anyway. personal post time.

oh where to begin *rocks on my rocking chair* i guess it would be with the 5th anniversary piece...at the time it had been a long while since i did lineless art and i thought it would be cool to try it again for that one so i did by redrawing an old piece from 2014... that was the first "finished piece" i made of Them. i think i even made it into a wallpaper for myself lmao. anyway after i posted it i was like "aw man i should draw something every year until the 10th" but i thought yeah right. im going to forget next year like the idiot i am. but i Some How managed to do one every year... th worms got me... i honestly didnt think id make it all the way to the 10th but i did!! AND WITHOUT MISSING A DAY EXCEPT FOR THE 7TH WHERE I WAS A WEEK LATE???? UNREAL especially when fun fact! every year i had no idea what i wanted to do! all i knew for sure is that i wanted each piece to be out of my comfot zone to push me to do something a little different. unfortunately the subjects tm where always the same so it feels a little. samey. but these are my celebratory posts I GET TO ONLY POST ABOUT THE OTP SUPER BLORBOS OF ALL TIME

the 6th anniversary was a redraw of that one scene. you know the one. the helicopter one. fucking hate that scene btw it actually causes me psychic damage i cant watch with the audio or ill scream. but it is my favorite scene of mine despite all the horrors it causes <3 and i wanted to redraw it as if it was a cartoon... like i had taken screencaps from the lcu cartoon in my head. i still remember the backgrounds being such a pain in the ass. honestly id like to go back and redo this one one day too or do something similar to the concept because its a fun one that i always saw done growing up and i wanted to try it myself.

for the 7th anniversary you can see the turn.. no more humans... return to lego... i was getting a little more confident in drawing them in the lego form so i did another redraw this time with the ending!! honestly i still like this one and how it looks even with how late it was but i wanted to test my confidence and do a real True and Finished piece with COLORED LINES and EVERYTHING!!!!! im glad i ended up taking the turn because for the LONGEST TIME i wanted to try and draw them as lego so bad because all i did was draw them as humans and its funny because now its the exact opposite. glad this piece was kinda the solidification in my head that yeah okay im a bit better at drawing the stylized lego toy now i can keep drawing them like this without feeling like im going to want to delete this in 2 weeks.

the 8th anniversary one is so weird. somewhere toward the beginning of the year it got into my head that i wanted to do a comic of them but time/school would have gotten in the way so i ended up opting for a page. another redraw of the ending scene which honestly out of all of them this is my least favorite one and its solely because its all so off. i def could have formated it better so the background shot doesnt take up the entire fucking page but then again im not a comic guy and this was my first time so the layout was bound to look HORRID but this is something id like to come back to ive had the idea of making like a genuine short comic about them since FOREVER and now that im a bit more experienced (lying) i would like to make one day!!!! just gotta stop getting caught up in my scripts!! and going in circles!! Because im obviously not a writer and i keep getting first-hand embarrassment from these!! but ill get over it one day lol.

OH THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY PIECE MY BELOVED. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PIECES ACTUALLY i love this stupid thing so much you have no idea.i know its re-using lineless but i just loved the idea of what it would look like lineless AND IT CAME OUT SO PERFECT I LOVE IT SO MUCH obv it needs a few touch-ups so the main issues dont stand out to me but god. i love this piece so much. idk what came out of me to make this but its so good ill never get over it. and the little lego them as a cake topper ITS JUST SO CUTE I DONT HAVE MUCH TO SAY OTHER THAN I LOVE THIS SO MUCH SORRY

finally. the 10th anniversary piece. oh my god. okay. i need everyone to understand this. i had woken up with this fucking Unbearable pounding headache that was trying to kill me. my body the entire day wanted me to stop and lie down, but last night i was already done with a good chunk of it and all i had to do that day was finish some lines and the coloring?? i literally don't remember all i remember is my body actively trying to shut down and force me to stop and sleep which i took a nap? didnt help. so i said fuck it im finishing this. i was. an entire goddamn corpse arched over my laptop. i was so delirious the entire time its a fucking miracle it even came out as good as it did but honestly. i still hate how it fucking looks. like you can TELL when i gave up (the shading) and it sticks out like a sore fucking thumb to me and it pisses me off because i knew i could have done so much better if i wasnt being stricken down by gods hand and his every attempt to get me to rest. idk like im generally proud ot it, with this one i wanted to go out with a bang tm so i tried to draw every important and relevant character instead of ALL of them like I was originally planning LMAO but ah well. maybe one day when im faster at drawing. this one i defiantly wanna go back and touch up but i everytime i open the file i can see 40 more things wrong with it and it drives me nuts. so ill just have to wait for when im ready. i guess.

can i just say though. the improvement is crazy. it always catches me off guard because tbh i uh. dont like my own art. im getting better at not fucking hating it because i can pinpoint everything wrong with it but whenever i see the side by sides it always surprises me. i always dont think im improving but then i see it and its like wow i really am getting better! i still suck at 3000 things but im getting better! and its overall just a nice thing to see after having drawn them for as long as i have... the power of the worms is strong and has ruined my brain...... speaking of i know ive said a few times that i fucking hate certain pieces, not just LCU related ones but almost anything i post, but if you love them and are able to look at them with a twinkle in your eye then thank you. genuinely. i honestly love looking over the tags of people exploding and saying nice things. it warms my cold little heart and im glad there are people out there that genuinely love some of the things what i do! even if its just fanart and its just their blorbo. thank you for sticking around even tho all i do is draw my otp super blorbos :'^) this game means the world to me and im glad like more than 2 people wanna spread it around.

to wrap back around to the anniversary stuff and speaking of big love to the people out there THE FREAKING EPIC ZINE i was just a small thing but it came out amazing even for how small it was thank you to the contributors and thank you to everyone whos downloaded it!! its still getting the occasional and i love getting the notif in my email about it. i love that there are still people out there who wanna see it and all the hard work everyone put into it to celebrate the games 10th just thank you again i really does mean alot to me ALSO IF YOU HAVENT CHECKED IT OUT PLEASE DO IT IS 100% WORK YOUR TIME AND ITS DIGITAL WITH PRINT AT HOME STICKERS AND YOU CAN KEEP IT AND LOOK AT IT FOREVER

uh to end this off....would I like to do this again..... I mean I kinda am? by that i mean ill do the big numbers (15, 20, 25, 30, 40, etc) till the day i freaking die!!!! but yeah no countdown stuff ever again!!!!! sorry :^( it was super fun to do though!!!! and im glad i did it that piece is the conclusion to the whole thing but that doesnt mean ill stop drawing them. duh. theyre my characters now! but heres to many more anniversaries and to hopefully another game! or to just see them again in any other lego media! or even better... a mischaracterized cameo in ninjago!

[arytha]

wip- i got inspired to doodle vita and im not sure how im finishing this 🤔 i kind of want to do a mix of proper linework for her vs sketchy details and overlay or something for the ivs and chain board

something's happening. frailest girl in the world targetted by the greatest existence

ALSO I FOUND OUT THAT THE THING I WAS WHINING ABOUT TO LOGAN FOR THE LONGEST TIME IS ACTUALLY!! A FEATURE IN IBISPAINT X IM JUST DUMB and dont check options ever. idiot me. surviving so long on hand stability and redrawing lines all the time

CURVE. THAT I DONT HAVE TO PERFECT BY HAND!!! im gonna be unstoppable now

the culprit hidden in the menus that i never touch bc i dont adjust stability (the main thing this tab is for)

[haloburns]

I posted 23,071 times in 2022

204 posts created (1%)

22,867 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@roundaboutnow

I tagged 1,885 of my posts in 2022

#danny phantom - 115 posts

#the world is having more fun than me tonight series - 94 posts

#ecto writes - 91 posts

#ecto fics - 88 posts

#my fics - 72 posts

#my au - 35 posts

#ml spoilers - 31 posts

#the batman 2022 - 26 posts

#strike back spoilers - 26 posts

#my writing - 23 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#nor did the fact that i could already read do me any favors bc i was like immediately singled out and elevated to the 1st grade reading cla

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag others. No skipping!

thanks for tagging me @roundaboutnow !!

i'm gonna use my invisobang playlist that i can't share the title of yet. it's my fav right now.

1. same direction - hoobastank (honestly hoobastank fucks)

2. getting away with murder - papa roach (a classic)

3. be my escape - relient k (my beloved)

4. make it stop (september's end) - rise against (this song makes me cry)

5. until the day i die - story of the year (a perfect ghost light song, ive had it on all my songs)

6. for you, and your denial - yellowcard (oh this song fucks too. the violin man. the violin.)

7. last night on earth - green day

8. saying sorry - hawthorne heights

9. devil in the mirror - black veil brides (this song is so good for this fic...)

10. give it all - rise against

@redead-red @jadenoryuu @omnicrafts (share those crossover playlists babe!!) @floralflowerpower @bibliophilea and anyone else that wants to join in!

31 notes - Posted June 10, 2022

#4

with every sin, i still wanna be holy

Dan wants to be better. But that means dealing with his past (future?) actions and starting to make amends and acknowledging how he's hurt these people in his life. It's hard than he'd like to admit. Part of the the world is having more fun than me (tonight) series.

Lancer,

I dunno why I’m writing this. It’s stupid. I’m not even gonna send it. You don’t even know who I am! Clockwork did his meddling with time bullshit so you don’t remember me.

No one remembers me

You were my favorite teacher, yknow. You were the only one who actually gave even a little fuck about me. All my other teachers wrote me off as just another dumb lazy kid. No one knew of course.

Oh I guess I should tell you. I’m… Danny Phantom. Sort of. It’s a big mess of things, but Fenton is Phantom. That little punk Weston kid was right. That's why I missed so many assignments and always fell asleep in class. I promise I wasn’t a bad kid, Mr Lancer.

I guess I just needed to tell you who I was. So you would be understanding or some shit. Maybe so I wouldn’t feel like I failed every adult in my life.

Whatever. It’s not like I’m sending this anyway.

Dan

Read more letters on AO3!

40 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

#3

hey look at that! another redraw!

i wanted to work on style and some other things, so i redrew my avatar (again). the first one is literally just the screenshot, and then the second one is Pissed Off Ghost King™ Danny. that one was more to fuck around with ectoblasts and some other stuff. also i designed a crown!

some more stuff below the cut!

here's a version without the blasts bc im vvv proud of how these hands turned out, considering the weird ass proportions of the cartoon. big thanks to @friendly-neighborhood-imbecille for those hand ref sheets 👉🏼👉🏼 u the realest

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44 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#2

GUYS

GUYS LOOK

my friend @i-think-in-metaphors did this amazing commission for me!!! i redid the phantom planet statue for my au, and wrote a scene for one of my upcoming works where mateo gets to see it in person. i finally got tired of imagining it and wanted to see it.

and the product. is. GORGEOUS. it's so perfect. i'm in love. i'm gonna cry about this for the next 30 years. LOOK AT HIM.

(click for quality.)

check out her commissions!!

the scene it's based on is below the cut!

Excerpt from quit telling everyone i'm (permanently) dead! (wip)

The black zirconium statue was larger than life. It towered above them on two separate, stepped obsidian pedestals, each about five-feet high. As Mateo moved closer, he could see something glittering in the bases. Danny mumbled something about ectoplasmic ice mixed into it, stronger than diamonds, but Mateo thought they looked like stars. He figured that was the intention. It was gorgeous.

He tilted his head back to take in the actual sculpture. That Danny was twice as large as the one standing next to Mateo. He felt his heart lurch a little at how serious Danny looked, the tight furrow over his brow, the determined set to his jaw. It all made him look so much older than even now, even though Mateo knew he was only sixteen when the statue was made.

The statue’s zirconium white accents were blinding in the late afternoon sunlight, and Mateo found himself shading his eyes as he looked up even higher. The hair on the statue was shorter than Mateo had seen Danny wear his, probably closer to the length it had been when he was in high school. It was swept back heroically, as if moved by an unseen wind, and the sun glinted off its sharp edges. It made the whole statue look as if it were glowing.

Crystalized ectoplasm made Phantom’s eerie green eyes, and they glowed too, though Mateo figured they probably glowed under their own power rather than a trick of the light. The statue’s eyes were trained on the thin, steel-wire Earth he cupped protectively close to his chest; it was a promise as well as a remembrance. The world remembered what Phantom did for them, and he promised them he would do it all over again if necessary.

65 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

this is the road to ruin (and we started at the end)

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!

(click for way better quality)

Sam did this amazing cover for me and I literally can't stop staring at it. I'm making it my phone background like immediately. Here's their post, go give it a reblog!

prologue: without you, there's no reason for my story and chapter one: fading in the afterglow are live right now!

i'll be posting every SATURDAY starting this saturday 9/3! we got seven more chapters to go, lads, so buckle up!

71 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

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[theonekierce]

I posted 10 times in 2022

That's 3 more posts than 2021!

7 posts created (70%)

3 posts reblogged (30%)

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I tagged 9 of my posts in 2022

Only 10% of my posts had no tags

#ryan bergara - 2 posts

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#witcher fanart - 2 posts

#twn - 2 posts

#sherlock holmes fanart - 1 post

#actually did this for a halloween art contest - 1 post

#but i made it to match the one i did a while back of shane in uhh one of the penitentiaries idr which - 1 post

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i had. so many variants for this one i was this close to making a rainbow cycling gif just bc i liked literally every color i made the light

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

i’m a bit late here since we’re onto puppet history season now but i wanted to do a redraw of my first unsolved art from 2018 but with ghost files this time! love those ghoul boys!

111 notes - Posted December 2, 2022

#4

Putting this shot in Andrej’s point of view as he pulls his gun was such a bold move ngl

I wanted to include the shot before this with the pocketwatch too but it wasnt working out unfortunately so just one screen redraw :(

146 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

#3

my friend gave me jazza’s brush set and iv been watching granada holmes so what better way to test some brushes with screencaps from the blue carbuncle when holmes is swishing around in a dressing gown with his hair loose and being bitchy

232 notes - Posted November 13, 2022

#2

so yall know that one photo of keanu where hes just holding a clump of dandelions??

330 notes - Posted February 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

hello ik its been a minute now but nEW MCR????? in 2022?????

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[guiltycharge]

baby with no ears

[puppyprotag]

KISS ME ONCE......KISS ME TWICE...............

[ashofalltime]

I posted 58 times in 2021

54 posts created (93%)

4 posts reblogged (7%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.1 posts.

I added 156 tags in 2021

#0 - 30 posts

#my art - 43 posts

#fanart - 17 posts

#fan art - 17 posts

#fullmetal alchemist - 10 posts

#lemkid - 8 posts

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Longest Tag: 105 characters

#hi ive been gone for three days because thats how long it took me to sketch line and tone these pages ;.;

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

patho classic day 11 got me actin unwise. 😔😔😔

908 notes • Posted 2021-08-13 01:09:20 GMT

#4

im just gonna start calling my panel redraws 'mastercopies'

1342 notes • Posted 2021-04-01 18:10:09 GMT

#3

someone said they wanted to kiss me on the mouth for the way i draw ed and i said promise? 🥺🥺🥺

2588 notes • Posted 2021-04-17 02:21:32 GMT

#2

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3018 notes • Posted 2021-11-18 20:05:38 GMT

#1

OSHA-compliant Winry screencap redraw. tie that hair up, girl.

3419 notes • Posted 2021-03-30 00:25:02 GMT

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[shiliria]

hey, sorry to be a bother, but where cani find the full comic of super sonic being a bartender? i really like it and ive only been able to find like 5 posts of it :(

First, you're not a bother at all, you don't need to apologize. And second, if you mean the little comics I made, there isn't a "full version", but there are not more than those 5 posts you mentioned.

Here they are in chronological order:

Part 1

Interlude

Part 2

Part 3

Extra

To be completely honest, I feel quite ashamed of most of these now (except the interlude and extra that are mostly fine)

They weren't meant to be as long as they turned out, and a lot was improvised on the way.

I've actually been thinking for the longest time about redrawing and fixing the things that bother me about them, but I also want to create some new content, before I redo some old stuff all of you have already seen.

[sillyman-inc]

I posted 111 times in 2021

88 posts created (79%)

23 posts reblogged (21%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.3 posts.

I added 276 tags in 2021

#octonauts - 51 posts

#the octonauts - 46 posts

#kwazii - 35 posts

#kwazii cat - 34 posts

#peso - 24 posts

#shellington - 22 posts

#peso penguin - 19 posts

#shellington otter - 17 posts

#octonauts fandom - 16 posts

#captain barnacles - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 45 characters

#please dear lord this took me so long to make

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Hello again octonauts fandom. It is me the women lover. Anyways I drew this a lil bit ago :0!

Cw: slight language and mention of drugs in post but nothing too bad.

87 notes • Posted 2021-10-01 19:03:21 GMT

#4

Sighs

Here’s two other formats with just one of them if y’all want them:

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92 notes • Posted 2021-11-11 21:20:27 GMT

#3

It is officially the first day of my octonauts week challenge! I kinda forgot to post this sooner. But anyways not the point- screenshot redraw from a favorite episode :]

I chose to redraw the gup picnic from the seahorse episode! Since one it’s a very cute scene, two I really like the episode! It was actually kinda hard for me to pick a definite favorite but I just chose one I knew I liked so here we are.

Pls drawing Kwazii was so unbelievably hard with the weird perspective.

99 notes • Posted 2021-10-11 08:15:17 GMT

#2

Not octonauts for once? Wow Finn.

Anyways there’s a weird little text error in the beginning that refuses to come out so I just suffer with this unless future Finn figures it out and reposts it lol.

Yes this is a ship edit.

111 notes • Posted 2021-11-13 23:22:51 GMT

#1

Hello hello Octonauts fandom of Tumblr!! I bring you a challenge :]

You can really draw anything you’d like to based on the themes and of course you don’t HAVE to do this or anything, but! I thought making my own little fandom challenge would be fun so it would be cool if you guys tagged along :0 also please tag your post with #octonautsweek so I can see ur swaggy art. Alrighty that’s all, have a good day/night :]]

other than all these posts it’s me- anyways I wanna say thank you guys!! tumblr makes me rlly happy to be on and I’m glad you guys also enjoy what I post, whether if it’s actual content or just a silly outtake of myself. Ive met a ton of cool people through this as well and I hope to meet more along the way :]

115 notes • Posted 2021-10-08 07:36:30 GMT

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[secretsivekept]

I posted 432 times in 2021

31 posts created (7%)

401 posts reblogged (93%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 12.9 posts.

I added 81 tags in 2021

#friend art - 19 posts

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#my stuff - 16 posts

#astro boy - 8 posts

#youtube - 4 posts

#commission - 3 posts

#lmao - 3 posts

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#inspo - 3 posts

#annapantsu - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#but then i started outgrowing myself and the gymnastics classes i took became very difficult cuz my growth spurt made me not very flexible

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

HHHHHH I FINISHED ANOTHER ONE!!

Ive been working on this one for a WHILE but heyyyy i finally finished ;w; I wanted to actually draw the whole Atom Family hehehe

109 notes • Posted 2021-10-30 18:21:25 GMT

#4

Ok y'all, so. I'm planning on making a video essay on Astro Boy, right, and I'm watching the movie over again, taking screenshots here and there to make my point on certain things, and I'm taking a screenshot of a part just for fun cuz I was thinking "Man the CGI doesn't hold up really, does it" for the background characters, when i noticed

These three people in the back, just.... staring. That one guy in the middle with his hand on his chin seemed particularly unsettling to me

and then the scene changed and the shadows got darker and y'all

I LOST

MY

SHIT

JUST HIM STARING LIKE THAT. IN THE DARK. YOU CAN BARELY SEE HIS EYES. BUT THEY JUST KEEP STARING AT YOU. ITS SO SO CURSED HELP

129 notes • Posted 2021-09-21 22:31:23 GMT

#3

part of the neverworld story ive been trying to work on in my spare time but in the likely case I'll never finish it, have this little unfinished scene >3>

136 notes • Posted 2021-10-15 19:46:04 GMT

#2

Apparently the first post I ever made on Tumblr was fanart for @kiome-yasha's old story, "Supid Cupid". I was in the mood for a redraw and it was nice revisiting these characters after a while.

Made some changes to the original, some creative liberties: kept the brown hair/blue eye combo for Jack like last time but for his sister I changed it to one brown eye, one blue eye ~~because of my favorite fan theory that she's baby tooth LOL~~

original under the cut

171 notes • Posted 2021-10-21 16:25:32 GMT

#1

Cassandra!! This was a commission I did for Annapantsu!! I'll link the video when it comes out. This was really fun to work on, I got the chance to experiment with backgrounds and I think it turned out pretty well!

255 notes • Posted 2021-09-03 15:32:48 GMT

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[mrfutureboy]

I would like to know when you started drawing and where your passion for fanart started 😊

Oh FUCK dude i did not see this i’m so fucking sorry this is so late 😭 damn you, tumblr, for not fucking notifying me!! Anyway buckle up this is gonna be much longer than you asked for <3

Honestly ive kinda been drawing all my life! I hope that doesnt sound dumb cuz obviously almost everyone drew pictures when they were kids, but i know that it’s been a consistent hobby for me since i was little. By the time i was in 3rd grade I was hoarding notebooks to draw in. Cuz that’s something fun about me: i had a real huge habit of drawing in things that werent sketchbooks. Through middle school and beyond I did buy/receive sketchbooks, but I started out with various kinds of notebooks. One I had from like 2nd grade was like a hardcover, stationary-type notebook that I drew cats in lol, and I have 2 velvet lisa frank notebooks from 3rd grade. In high school and college I had a really bad habit of drawing in the margins on my notes and on handouts the teacher/professor would give. Those classes where the prof just prints out all the notes beforehand and gives them to you to follow along? Oh man, I spent so many classes barely listening while I drew on them! I also used to draw on my physics homework and tests and sometimes I even got extra credit for them (thank you jeff :D). I actually have a folder of various drawings I’ve kept from that 8yr time period and a lot of them are on classwork 😂

Obviously, I’ve been doing a lot of digital art lately, which I’m sure is what u were more curious about rather than the shit about drawing on my homework. I got a surface pro as a graduation gift in 2016 bc prior to that i had a wacom tablet and a janky ass laptop, so the gift was kinda a 2-in-1: i can do schoolwork AND art easily! i like digital art a lot and honestly im still learning new things abt it every time i draw. I use Leonardo currently (i’ll skip that story) but I started out doing digital art on sketchfu WITHOUT the wacom tablet in maaaaybe 2012??? 2011??? does anyone on this site remember sketchfu? Honestly couldnt even tell u how i found that site hahah the internet was just full of wonders back in the day. RIP sketchfu. Once i got the tablet tho some time later i used sketchfu still (i think) but also gimp and krita i believe.

Oh i suppose I should mention that i took art all four years of highschool and also minored in it in college! So it’s something i did academically as well as for fun. I keep thinking about going to art school for realsies but idk. I’m already $$$ in debt from my first degree i dont feel like adding to that 😅😓

Ok now for the second part of your question: I’ve also pretty much always done fan art! Ive never really been one for OC’s, EXCEPT for the self-insert superhero double life “comics” i wrote about a poodle named Sassy when i was in third grade. And then the knock off “comics” i wrote at a later time which honestly it was weird that i did a knock off of my own thing rather than just adding them to the original or making it a spin off with at least one of the og characters. Cuz it wasnt a spin off!! But anyway there wasnt really much to any of these characters; i just needed vessels to get my weird ideas out.

So anyway yeah most of what ive ever drawn has been fan art or self portraits, because its just easier for me to take characters that already exist and bend them to my will (artistically). Well excluding art assignments in school i guess because i would usually have to draw something specific and therefore not something self indulgent. But yeah ive drawn for lots of fandoms like the earliest i remember is warrior cats. Then theres things like pokemon and warriors and random other books i read thru middle school (i used to read a LOT but now im practically illiterate); spn, sherlock, and marvel through high school; and then marvel and bttf thru the end of hs and beyond. Idk i also have always loved looking at other peoples fan art and so im like “shit i wanna do that too!”. Tho i will say marvel was my biggest fandom and the one i had the longest interest in, so that was probably where the passion REALLY came from cuz I was drawing marvel stuff for such a long time (tho not posting shdjsk u have to trust me), but ive been doing fan art forever :)

(Of course, a lot of the fan art i was making prior to recently was drawn in lined notebooks or on homework sheets or what have you, and I wasn’t posting really any of it, but i was still making it and a good chunk of it still exists. Oh i should also mention most of it was with pencils or ballpoint pens like i wasnt doing anything too fancy. There was some digital art in the highschool-college time frame but it also really wasnt��much. Honestly i barely posted any of it here but I know some of it’s on deviantart)

I cant pinpoint the exact time I started getting more “serious” about my art in general, but i know the first pandemic lockdown gave me more free time and i was less stressed about schoolwork so i just kinda had a good outlet. (Tho i will say that prior, I had been in a life drawing club for a short while, and i had also been working on a personal sketchbook project that had me pretty ~inspired~ to do art. Also i watched twin peaks around this time and it inspired a lot of Feelings and i was making funky collages and other art pieced that were sometimes related to that. Some of those are on deviantart)

Honestly I think the Big thing with my digital art was coincidentally getting back into BTTF the summer of the 35th anniversary bc the fandom here was THRIVING and i was like “oh shit wait i want to contribute!” But as i kept drawing i kept wanting to improve and that leads us to right now where im constantly trying new things (whether subtle or obvious) and challenging myself to do full body drawings with different poses, and doing screencap redraws and what have you for various reasons (backgrounds, proportions, pose, etc)

So yeah :) Basically I’ve been doing fan art forever (I didnt even get into all the mediums ive tried but that’s another conversation bc this is already so long and convoluted) and it’s kinda coincidental that ive suddenly really gotten back into it and have improved dramatically in such a short time. Thank you so much @rovermcfly for the ask and again im really sorry you had to wait so long for a response! Stupid tumblr

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i got hit with an urge to do screencap redraws. 

astro boy 2003: ochan is the best and i loved this flashback

atom the beginning: ive been wanting to do a redraw of this scene for the longest time. the scene that made me fall in love with atb (sounds cheesy but. Yeah)

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Artist’s Commentary 2

Today's artist commentary marks the 22nd week of work on RFO. It is the longest I have ever worked on any one thing.

RFO 11 This marks point in the story where the supernatural elements begin. I had difficulty deciding on how to frame it. In the end, I culled the background elements in favor of the action.

This didn't work very well, because I am still unskilled at creating dynamic poses or panels. I hope to improve over time. Also, part of the background isn’t shaded in, so that bothers me too. I am at least pleased with the flames. They come to me more easily than  figures do.

RFO 12 I am much more proud of this page. The bottom panel was originally going to be a rectangle as well. As I drew in the top panel, I felt that having the sword cut through Jude's reality, was a cooler visual. The sword is based on some of the earliest known, which were short and made of bronze. I chose this to lend a sense of age and uniqueness.

RFO 13 Boy, Jude's faces are a little stiff in this one. A major part of the problem is that I am drawing these pages on printer paper, which is the only medium available at this time. Whenever I make a mistake or change my mind about how Ive drawn something, I have to chose between erasing it -which will leave visible marks- or leaving it as is. More often than not, I will keep whatever I drew first, because erasing is a nightmare that leaves smudges or accidentally crumples the paper. My wrist hurts too much to draw the same page twice to correct it.        Especially this page. I would have to redraw all of those bricks.

RFO 14 It may not be clear, but Jude hurt his knee when he fell. It isn’t the most important thing, but I felt I should clarify. Also, in the bottom left panel, Jude wasn’t meant to be walking on the grass, he was meant to be on the sidewalk, but I was tired and didn't realize as I drew the scene that the angles didn’t match up.

RFO 15 I’m proud of this page too. The smoke effects are different in each panel. The smoke is heavier and more realistically rendered closer to the viewer, and more stylized when the view zooms out to show the rest of the room. Anyway, at this point in the story we see that Jude cannot escape whatever is happening, because even his neighbor's door leads back to his own house.

RFO 16 This panel reinforces the idea that Jude cannot escape, by having his neighbor's front door connect his ruined living room, to his back door. On another note, I still have trouble with Jude's proportions, as you can see in the last two panels, where Jude's arms get longer.

RFO 17 Jude's expression are a little weird here too, but I like them; I feel they express his combined fear, frustration and confusion pretty well. The refrigerator was not always in the corner. Originally I had intended for Jude not to even have a proper refrigerator, just shelves. Then, it was a mini-fridge in the basement. Then, as I was going over the script, I realized it had to be in the kitchen, in a spot Jude would overlook, so the devil could be in the scene as he is here. Luckily, the layout of Jude’s house had an empty spot in the kitchen that met my needs.

RFO 18 You have probably already noticed, but I cannot seem to keep the devil's overall look consistent. The exact shape of his head, shoulders, body, and clothing are ever shifting. Being that he is the devil, you might think this was on purpose, but no, I just am unable to keep track. Nowhere is this more clear than in his suit stripes. On an unrelated note, in the bottom panels, I experimented with how I fill the background, and I think I like it. I might try more in later panels.

RFO 19 I’m not very happy with this page. It was needed, but I know I could have done better. I felt that there had to be a pause as Jude sat with the devil, but I also wanted the conversation to be broken up in a certain way. These panels could have been condensed into one, but I couldn’t find a way to fit it in with the panels you see on page 20, so I spread that pause to fill a whole page. When RFO moves from draft to final, this page will almost certainly be divided into an extra panel for pages 18 and 20.

RFO 20 This page marks the story entering a more dialogue heavy section, and as such the dialogue will be taking up more real estate on the page.This means I have to draw less, but it also means mistakes will be more obvious. I hope I am up to the task.

                                                                           Jacob Birmingham

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@minusram i just really wanted to draw the scene that basically put a ring on my finger and made me totally committed yknow??? ive just,,,, really wanted to redraw this scene,,, for the longest time,,,,,,

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