#he really is a work of art wow

[once-ina-blue-moon]

something something ceaseless watcher

[swedenis-h]

Cowboy Lehnsherr ‼️

[pinarapier]

[marcmorrigan]

According to the artist, when it was suggested that a smile might benefit the look of the finished portrait, Attaché Nohell reportedly replied, "I thought the purpose of this was to be honest."

Super fun commission of @waterloggedsoliloquy's OC Sicely Nohell (they/them) and their terrible, horrible, no good, very bad lusus figure Commanding Officer.

[saturnniidae]

Astrid showing Hiccup a drawing she came up with for some weapon idea and he likes it but then proceeds to keep tweaking it (so it's physically possible) until it ends up looking nothing like Astrids initial draft so she gets mad and leaves (they both have autism)

[noomycatz]

DR Balmer ND HIS AWESOME PALS 🗣️🗣️🗣️ (bogleech if u see this.. can u pretty please put this on the fanart gallery.. :3)

[icewindandboringhorror]

Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol

[ottiliere]

oh my goodness your dios.. what a delight to see someone so fully invested in phantom blood dio wow. i am very happy. i love your 3D dios. really makes me want to sculpt him as well

Do it... clay is cheap bake it in the oven paint with 10 dollar set of acrylics your life will never be better. I adore phantom blood Dio so very much... years ago saw someone coin the term “phantom blood purist” and it's so funny I think about it literally every time I enter a Dio cycle. There are many aspects that go into this preference of course, and upon a great amount of time pondering i can say confidently that this is because mainly that:

1) I love history (especially the fin de siècle) and I love thinking about him in relation to Victorian values/etiquette/sociology in general... there's something so special about a society that enabled such a gross disparity of wealth&poverty while being so inherently pretentious that its asinine etiquette rules would completely elude you unless you were raised in an aristocratic family or had access to etiquette books. Dio absolutely read a great amount of these before going to the Joestar mansion btw, even before his father snuffed it I think. God help him he would not be doomed to look like a slovenly ill-bred gamin if and when he needed to manipulate the upper classes. I really can't think of a way for him to have developed these skills enough to outclass Jonathan otherwise. god and like thinking about him as a barrister too with his profligate fashion sense you just KNOW he gets drawn that way into all of the court sketches that go in all the newspapers since everyone loved to read about crime and there were a million papers for this in England alone... he'd get caricatured so bad sometimes and he is NOT happy about this.

2) You can probably tell from my indifference to the rest of the parts (except sbr; I call this the "diego rule") that I'm not the biggest fan of fantastical elements and I'm much more interested in interpersonal conflict/relationships in general... PB is extremely unique to the rest of the series because for five WHOLE chapters absolutely nothing abnormal happens and we just get to see Dio harassing Jonathan and his girlfriend until Jonathan snaps and humiliates him so bad in beating him up that he makes Dio cry. and then Dio kills his dog. Like it's literally just some impoverished child abuse victim bullying a spoiled rich kid who wanted to be his friend because lalala sunshine daisies only knows what "poverty" is from reading Oliver Twist and has no conceptual understanding of what the real-world implications of that are. That was the character development that needed multiple chapters to develop it's so fucking awesome. like yeah I'd read an entire novel of just this alone happening and how it impacts their relationship as adults no vampirism needed. I reread "dio the invader" so frequently I'm surprised the spine of my jojonium copy isn't cracked at the exact endpoint of it. I just adore him interacting with Jonathan so much it's hard to remove him from that… that's his FOIL... all the stories (some "AUs") I make with Dio involve the way he and Jonathan gravitate each other to some degree. we get the clearest view of who he is in the face of someone who is the polar opposite of himself. 🤯

2) This iteration of him is the closest degree of separation he has from his "humanity" (childhood), thus

3) I find him to be the most interesting, endearing, etc., version of him walking around, given that... well. behaviors stem from somewhere... the thematic & active severance of himself from a species he is fundamentally incapable of connecting with due to the way he adapted to help him tolerate his childhood... from his point of view I can't imagine that there is one convincing reason for him to continue being human after given the opportunity to deviate from it (despite likely still being inebriated when he vamped himself — very much an impulsive decision since he had, what, an hour or two to think that through? drunk?). If everyone's underneath him, yes, after the fact the choice seems extremely fitting. Maybe he'll cultivate a vast swathe of worshippers and disciples that obey his every command. Maybe he'll rule the world. And then, maybe, he will start to feel genuinely content for the first time in his life. But probably not. That's the drawback of having something fundamentally missing from within you.

4) He lacks a certain type of introspective awareness that 100 years alone in a box might enable him to develop... he's very animalistic to me and possesses a precarious/immature/nonexistent grasp on his emotions just given the fact that he exhibits enraged outbursts from perceived ego wounds (in both childhood and adulthood) + struggles with alcoholism due to an incapacity to self-soothe any sort of negative emotion that makes it past the self-aggrandizing filter he can't help but see life through; he really isn't in conscious control of anything happening inside of him despite needing control over everything and everyone so he can get exactly what he wants, and deserves, always. PB paints a very dim and pathetic view of his character by allowing us to see when he's most "vulnerable", which is the thing he likely hates being the most, so getting to see scenes where he's walking around publicly intoxicated and disparaging himself for acting like his father (implied: again), who he hates, and attacking men with a wine bottle for evoking the concept of his mother, who he also kind of hates but lacks the cognizant cogency to dissolve whatever cognitive dissonance is causing this mental incongruence, rules. he rules

tl;dr SDC dio is "iconic" but I feel like he misses a lot of the charm he had in part one, removed from the context of the society that had such rigid social boundaries and rules of decorum, in addition to his maladaptive approach to interpersonal relationships, his substance abuse issues, his humbling foil... he's too "cool" for me. In the end SDC dio is simply not my Dio... he is someone else's Dio. And that's okay.

[gaydexvocaloid]

i’m buying synthv pro and yuma soon. i’m so excited …. i have a cover with maki i’ve been working on for months but it’s been in mixing hell cuz i know nothing abt mixing lol…. it’s basically done now i just need to finish the art..

[shiraru]

Got really into drawing my ocs as anime bugs

[birbgalaxy]

i lost my stride lol 💪

[woundedheartwithin]

Bought myself a lil early birthday present 😮‍💨

God fucking bless the masterminds behind this shoot

[lunyunyuny]

SLIGHT BLOOD WARNING

i love gay people

[todayisafridaynight]

confession: sometimes I come to look at your art as references because you have noted details like moles + looking at what colors u put down in my quest to find what something looks like under neutral lighting I know the shit here has been thoroughly researched

i will be normal upon learning this news.

[mithrilbookofmystery]

Fine ok I'll post my mlp OCs. IDs under the cut

[Start ID: The first picture is of Solenopsis, a cyan changeling with an orange thorax, red chest, a dark magenta shell with orange and lighter purple highlights, and red eyes. He has orange spots (actually I'm not sure what they're called, they're not exactly spots as they poke out a bit from his chest, but I'm not sure what else to call them) on his chest, and his horn curves up and has two points. His pony form is a tall, skinny unicorn with a red body, orange hooves, and a dark magenta mane and tail with orange and lighter purple highlights (similar to his shell in changeling form). The orange spots on his chest from his changeling form are still there, but now they're flat orange spots on his fur. His eyes are cyan with orange and magenta highlights. His pony form's cutie mark is a cyan ant head, and there's a note underneath it that reads: "he designed it himself but refuses to admit how much thought went into it given how lackluster the final product is." Other notes on the page, listed through bullet points, read: "changeling, but prefers being in his pony form." "Evil little shit (affectionate)." "He/him." "Dating Petri Chord." "Did I mention that he's a little shit."

The second picture is of Petri Chord. In case screen readers read his name wrong, I need you to know that his name is pronounced like "petricord," not Petri as in Petri dish. He hates it when people call him Petri as in Petri dish; however, since he works in a lab, this happens almost daily. He is an average-sized pegasus with a gray body and navy blue hair, tail, and wing feathers. His hair and tail are both curly, and there's a streak of yellow that goes through his tail. His eyes are this same shade of yellow with reddish orange and cream highlights. He wears thick-framed glasses and has dark shadows under his eyes, as though he doesn't get a lot of sleep. His ears are notably small and round. His cutie mark is an erlenmyleyer flask (that's the triangle shaped one, however now that I'm looking at actual pictures of them to make sure I get the name right, I'm realizing that I drew it... kinda bad) filled with a bright green liquid, and there's a yellow lightning bolt behind it. The notes, arranged under bullet points, read: "He/him." "Mad Scientist." "A little evil, Mayhaps, For funsies." "So so tired." "Just, of everything, all the time." "Dating Solenopsis." End ID.]

[creatediana]

A two-minute gesture drawing on newsprint paper in vine charcoal, done 11/02/2022

Heart in the corner I smudged immediately with my hand because I thought the model was cute