#er... sort of!

[kyri45]

They are so proud of their boy (I’m crying from joy/eating the pillow the baby has his own Sunset Rod)

Shadowpeach Bio Parent AU (PREV / FIRST / NEXT )

if it wasn’t clear only the cuff remains when the weapon isn not summoned. Kind of a in-between from completely summon it like macaque and keeping it hidden like wukong does. Also as his shadow powers grows, he will able to extend/stretch/widen the staff more like the normal ruyi bang.

Extra concepts and sketches under the cut

[winterpower98]

*Dances into your dashboard*

Sprinkles some angst for Cursed AU's version of Season 5

*Dances away*

Masterpost

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.

[kurikorso]

finally managed to put the game down long enough to draw my Wilds crew! this adventure's fellas are hunter Enza, palico Jhalil, and seikret Noor

[darkflierazura]

Concept for older Peachbuds

Monkey brain rot help

The design for Liu’er is based on this render of him in like, some Qing attire (I think).

I’m still undecided if I’ll actually get around to fully watching 美猴王 but I have a lot of thoughts about after the show ends because of how abrupt it is.

Cleaned up the running sketch and a bonus pic, my first sketch of anything related to 美猴王

[kreachvera]

"new world" of steam...????????sounds like a transgender allegory ! more like new WOKE of liberal !

[mimocrocodilelol]

“Why should I not defy

Destinies strong and dear;

What can man do but try?

[wendigot33th]

If someone really pretty talked slutty to me here, I would probably be all like "haha *collapses into heap and explods from horny" or something else moronic

But bring in the

Italic Pink Text

And I, for some reason, get too flustered to speak. Like what the fuck does the text being pink and slanted have to do with how I can't form a thought without giggling to myself and covering my eyes from embarrassment of my own thoughts? Quite unfair. I won't stop you both equal part to being incapable and unwilling.

[boughclan-clangen]

hey! this blog seems like it’s been kind of abandoned since mid-may, but the concept seems really cool to me and i’m wondering if you’ll continue it steadily? its alright if not, or if you’re just taking a break. hope everything is well!!

hey there! thanks for the ask. i haven’t abandoned this comic—if you’re in the clangen comic community discord server you’ll see me around and i’ve been working, slowly and sporadically, on the next page. i’ve been dealing with some of the fallout from a family emergency that happened back in november on and off which has been taking an unfortunate toll on my mental health. i’m doing my best to get back to it! i just have been prioritizing my mental health and trying to avoid getting overwhelmed/burned out from unrelated circumstances.

if i ever decide to abandon this blog, i’ll make an announcement so folks aren’t left wondering. i’d hate to disappear without a word and never come back (which—i recognize is sort of what i’ve done. but i plan to come back! so clearly not the same /j), so if i ever do decide to leave it for good there won’t be any uncertainty about it.

here’s a wip of the next page as an olive branch. i apologize for not saying anything proactively!

[egophiliac]

Hello! Sorry to bother but do you have any digital art tips? I’m quite new to it and any tips, tricks or advice would be helpful! Your coloring style is very beautiful and I love it a lot!

thank you! 💚💚💚 sorry this is a bit late, hopefully there's still something helpful in it!

(also, it got pretty long, sorry!)

I think the biggest thing is to just take things slow -- digital art feels different than drawing traditionally, and it's SUPER easy to get overwhelmed by the billions of cool features that the digital world offers. (I say, as someone who spends a lot of time downloading cool brushes and textures...and then never using them ever.) there is a ton of really cool stuff you can do digitally, but because there's so much, I think it's really important to take time to figure out what is and isn't working for you. spend some time doodling without any intent to do a finished piece, figure out how you like to hold (or not hold) your tablet, what keyboard shortcuts you end up using a lot (and therefore might want to map to your pen/tablet buttons for quicker use)...that kind of thing!

everyone's workflow and preferred program and style are different, so it's hard to give hard-and-fast general advice. but the things that I think of as the essentials for learning digital art programs, and what I think of as a good order to focus on learning them in (although YMMV, especially depending on what kind of art you're doing):

brush customization (e.g. flow, opacity, softness)

layers and layer masks

selections and transformations (e.g. scale, rotate, flip horizontal/vertical, skew) (skew is underrated and I will die on that hill)

blending modes (e.g. multiply, screen)

adjustments/adjustment layers (e.g. hue/saturation, curves)

and I think most stuff after that is gravy! often very good gravy though! but yeah, as overall advice I recommend just taking things one little bit at a time, spending some time just drawing and messing around with each feature and what you can do with it. whether or not you end up incorporating any of it into your workflow, it's always good to try things out and just see how they feel! :D

and just so there is at least a little more concrete helpfulness in here, here's a few more specific things that I think are super important to keep in mind!

use! your! tablet/pen buttons! I mentioned this earlier, but they are extremely useful for keyboard shortcuts that you use often! most programs will also let you create new shortcuts for other things -- personally, I use the magic wand tool to fill in big color blocks a lot, so I made shortcuts for 'expand selection' and 'fill' and then mapped them to my tablet buttons.

flop your work horizontally often! when you're working on something, you get used to the way it looks, so seeing it mirrored is a quick way to see it with fresh eyes! in my experience, it often feels like this:

(a common thing is to find that everything is sort of 'leaning' too much one way, which is where skew really comes in handy!) (seriously, I love skew, it is my savior)

if you're working with color, keep a hue/saturation adjustment layer (or a layer filled with black or white and set to Color) on top and toggle it on occasionally to check your values! a lot of people who know a lot more about color than me (and are better at putting it into words) have written about why values are so important, so all I'll say is that the rule of thumb is that your image should still be readable in greyscale:

there are some exceptions and grey areas (do ho ho), but it's a good general rule to keep in mind! (some programs also have a colorblind mode, so you can check to see how your work will look to someone with colorblindness!)

and finally, here's some digital art programs I recommend, if you're still looking for a good one!

free: krita, FireAlpaca

paid: ClipStudio, Procreate (iOS/iPad only)

[ducktracy]

i don't think i ever fully shared my Potential Bob Clampett Encounter on here, did i... probably because i was too embarrassed to. it probably is just a series of coincidences, but it's still neat to think about. tldr Cool Profound Stuff happened when i visited his grave and in the days following

[toskarin]

"lambkin" is a really funny translation if you think about what the first obvious consideration must have been ("darling") and why they seem to have hard-swerved around using it

[myfriendthedictionary]

i really miss the WATT fandom…. definitely like the nicest group of people i ever met on here

[flameswallower]

Often I think there's a kind of instinctive ideological split between people who, because of personal experiences or knee-jerk instinct, are like "one of the worst things you could possibly do to me, ever, is take away my autonomy or freedom of choice, even if it was ostensibly for a good reason or the ultimate outcome didn't turn out to be all that terrible" and people who, conversely, are taken in or tempted by fantasies of benevolent and wholesome control

[carlyraejepsans]

Do you enjoy underfell? I thought you disliked aus /genq

i don't dislike the concept of AUs itself, I'm just not a fan of like... the subculture that spawned around them in the UT fandom specifically and how it eventually took over almost all canon content (especially when it limits itself to the bros)

i like aus visually! i am an artist at heart after all. it's just that, if I'm going to care about them as stories and not just fun design ideas, my bar is uhh almost impossibly high the further you move from canon lolol.

[doverstardoodles]

the live action trailer made me mad so here's Nuffink