#eekonis

[eekonis]

Let‘s now begin spinning the tale once again…

here in this golden afternoon

[basilangel]

Your lines are so gucci. 10/10 wanna crunch 💖

tysm 😻 i love ur art too it's epic

[n0phis]

Hello n0phis, your art is really beautiful and so warm!! Like a hug to my dsmp brainrotted soul 🧡

Sadly i don't ever have headcannons, but i would give you so many if i had. Anyways,, hope you have an awesome day today,

Ly~ Eekonis

MAN THAT IS SO KIND THANK U :(((( /POS

i had an absolutely cromulent day :D i wish the best for u as well!!!! handshake on the headcanons my brain is empty but my hand is full of Apple Pencil

[blocky-tides]

emerald duo; you should have never shined a rusted blade and you should have never let its edge cut you (this will be your downfall, emperor)

for @antimony-medusa

{200 follower celebration request a web weave!}

slavoj žižek / marina tsvetaeva / @dogstrikes / silas denver melvin / wendy cope / @fuckingwhateverdude / @moneyoniis / @call-me-apple / anaïs nin / caroline polachek / @eekonis / jack gilbert / nicole holmer / @wolfythewitch / unknown / warsan shire / @yuker / mean girls

ambiguous smp earth au? where philza see techno, scrawny piglin who just plowing though people, across the enemy battle line and picks him up to train him up to fight for philza's side ya da ya da

eventually philza becomes emperor and decides that he doesn't need techno and throws him to metaphorically wolves (like banishment or something)

techno is like what?? i thought we were besties and philza is like no you were just a good soldier for me to use which leads to techno anarchy arc where he tears the empire down

originally it was supposed to be about techno betraying philza like what-could-have-been-canon but then i could only find art for philza betraying techno so role swap

theres also like a super minor subplot of the blood god is talking to techno joan of arc style that really kicks into gear after the betrayal

this is the more lore i have done for a web weaving but hope this made you cry medusa :D

[antimony-medusa]

Nemesis #15: The Tunnels

Got permission to post one of the comics I worked on for @dsmpherozine! Script by me, beta work by @zrenia, art by @eekonis. Wonderful to work with them, and I'm so proud of what the end result was!

(God it looks so GOOD doesn't it, eekonis is a genius.)

[copepods]

my piece for @dreamoirezine , made in collaboration with @zrenia for her c!aimsey fic which you can read here or in the zine itself! pleaseeee check it and the zine out everyone’s work is so super cool!! ranboo’s design is also based on the work of @eekonis :D

[id: a drawing of c!aimsey and c!ranboo. aimsey is facing the right, staring forward with wide eyes. he’s holding his cane in his right hand and holding a daisy up in his left. behind him, ghostboo is floating and reaching down towards the daisy with a smile. ranboo is drawn in simple geometric shapes, with horns and bat like wings, and a large splotch of blood on their chest. aimsey is wearing brown pants and a jacket, a white shirt, and a large white bear’s skin for a hood. the palette of the piece is dark green. end id]

[evelmiina]

Hi Eva,

I have a fee questions regarding your wonderful work. I'm currently working on my visdev portfolio, but going a bit insane thinking about keeping my artstyle consistent if i'd ever be hired. I just looked through your background paintings and wondered how you keep your backgrounds in a consistent style. I love your nature studies too, and they look so different from your work pieces... More free and explorational. Is it difficult to keep up the habit of learning new techniques and exploring styles once you're on a job? I'm so full of ideas and feel like sometimes the idea would require a certain style/technique to be pulled off in the best way. Do you feel that too sometimes and is it restricting in a way to then keep the style of the paintings the same.

Would love to hear your thoughts on that!! :)

Hi Eekonis!

First off: don't worry! I don't think consistency is an issue... I feel like any artist no matter the level, feels like their work is all over the place. I think of consistency more like per project, rather than overall my work. 

If you're interested in vis dev, a good way to showcase your work in a portfolio and not feel overwhelmed and all over the place, is to create just one project. I saw in your portfolio the bat story exploration, that's great! Just pick one of the ideas you have. Truth is we never feel ready to do something and we postpone and ruminate, but you have to start somewhere. My friend always says, "vain tee se" (just do it) and that's really all there is. Imagine your story as a film/TV (or game, or comic, but you have to choose one), and make designs and paintings of how you imagine it. You can try searching for visual development portfolios and see what other professional artists have included in theirs, there's so many ways to go about it. From the top of my head I'm thinking Aurelien Predal, Marie Thorhauge, Scott Watanabe, Kevin Roualland, Sylvain Marc. Also art books of movies or shows you like are really useful. There's a lot of art of movies and artists, tutorials etc collected in character design references website, from all around the world.

If your own idea feels too vague or the story is not set and you get stuck on it, you could also choose an existing story like a fairytale or a novel. Try to be intentional with your pictures - you want to be clear and tell a story after all, you want people to feel like they get to know the characters and the world from just one picture, and they really want to know the full story. In your portfolio, I like your bat story explorations and it seems cool, but it's currently missing some characterization and story. It would be a good idea to illustrate story moments or character design that really shows the personality, gesture, acting. And when you create environments, make them feel lived and inhabited, give them just as strong mood and character as you would to characters. 

Consistency within a project is just about setting rules and limitations, some of them come from the ability and skill. Others are more like, what brushes to use, what are the visual goals, influences and references. You can go pretty far in breaking down how pictures are made and what makes a style. For example, why do Ghibli movies look like Ghibli? What kind of color palettes, compositions, camera angles, tools were used? How realistic/cartoony is it? There’s internal logic to everything designed, and with practise it becomes more visible.

I don't know if I intentionally try to learn new styles all the time. I'm generally just motivated by doing what I think is fun or what I want some piece to say about story, character or my own feelings and trying to do it best I can. It sounds simple but... if the goal is to do something really well, then I just do my best to learn it. There are some styles that I really love and think are amazing, but would probably take decades to pull off and I just accept that I don't really want to go that way, and I focus on things that I really want to keep at. It's always possible to switch directions, but to get good at something you have to commit to one thing at a time. 

So yes, I face my limitations all the time. I'm very familiar with feeling like, so and so would do better job, someone is always better than me for sure. Sometimes it is painful to not be able to draw or paint in a way I want. I think this probably never changes, it's just human nature. But I dunno, some people get satisfaction from making AI do their project in the style they want, but if I was able to do something in a snap of fingers, like just get the perfect style for my project, it wouldn't feel good to me. I guess I want the full experience of suffering and joy of figuring things out myself. Sometimes it will suck and hurt, but you learn more about yourself and it'll get easier to recognize what you really want to make. Then, you can always do a little bit better next time.

[feminetomboy]

Dude, I come back from France, hear that Anne Eekonis was also in France and two days later Hellen Hellenite is in France. Any more mutuals travelling there that I should know about? Anyone else planning to complete this circle of stupidity?

[soulbounded]

Isn't all that rage so ugly? And isn't it mine, still? Good god, isn't it mine? — of voices, god & rage.

blood (my chemical romance) // the cult of dionysus (the orion experience) // art by eekonis // art by nashijiruuwu // portrait of my father as a young black man ( sjohnna mccray )

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[eekonis]

OUUGHH!! love these little mermaids! I drew them like i used to as a kid and ohhhh, this is such a silly fun way of drawing!! 😭🤲🏻

[tea-with-veth]

Oh I have some numbers for fic ask game.

3, 5, 12, 21?

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

Oh damn, that's a hard one. I think I've gotta say it's from Starlit Dragons, with Techno and Phil.

“Phil,” he whispers, and for once he feels like a child, wistfully ridiculous. “Phil, fetch me a star.” I got this beautiful fanart from @eekonis of that scene, and it's still the background for my phone.

5. most popular fic this year

By both hits, kudos, and bookmarks it's don't hang up yet, i'm not done formerly known as "how I met my platonic husband" and more and more affectionately known by me as "the lab AU my beloved." Beeduo for the win.

6. most memorable comment/review

Oh, this is a hard one. I get so many lovely comments and I treasure them dearly. I've shared my writing with a few IRL friends this year, and the kind things they've said to me about it have meant a lot to me. I think the most impactful comment was by someone who pointed out a massive plot inconsistency in the touch-tone telephone series. They thought it was intentional, and complimented me for my clever worldbuilding. It was not intentional, but I was so determined to fix my plot hole that it was basically what prompted me to write i'll get it right (but maybe not tonight).

[lmanbergfanzine]

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[n0phis]

Your art looks fantastic! I don’t know if you’re aware of this but the titkoker “cqilbur_” used your art in an edit. They gave you credit, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware! Here’s the link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT88gPPR9/

AHAH thank you for showing me!!! :D idk about the intent behind this so im assuming its just letting me know since i usually state i love to see edits w my stuff, but if it was for the sake of checking if i allow it i absolutely do!

i think its stated in the disclaimer thing i post with my art but if not i may change that to specify that edits are encouraged!

(embedding it here for those who also wanna check it out!)

[eekonis]

hi guys, i don‘t think i‘ve ever showed you my mcr sketches from the 2022 reunion tour. i looked through my sketchbook again and these still rock, so have them :)

[eekonis]

„curly-locks“ a mother goose rhyme

Over the course of a week we were to interpret a mother goose rhyme in a way, that expands the written story through illustrations. It was clear to me that this rhyme had an element of chasing after a girl, telling her what she can and can not do, so my initial approach was to break that apart and show a moment of strenght and her regained freedom.

[eekonis]

translation: icy cold… are hand and feet… when late in the night… my bed i greet.