#i haven't drawn in my sketchbook in a while

[r7inyz]

i have plans.

(I'll do plushtrap chaser later I NEED TO SLEEP hsjshsjs)

i was gonna post this WHEN it's done but I love how this looks ((so far))

[wormfunkie]

this was just gonna be a warm up sketch and then idk what happened

[adamcytryn]

Zuko :D

[fore-seer]

downed and drowned

[kowtownart]

Trying to use my sketchbook more when i get the chance (Plus i need to brush up on my traditional drawing skills lol)

No sketch! *Just pen!* hehe

[vdragon-creations]

Made a ton of chibi sketches of my Sasha's a while back, here they are incase your curious! And since then, I've made two more ladies! So it's only natural that I give them the same treatment!

So get in here Mutant Mayhem & Fortnite Sasha!

[frutavel]

These guys are starting to have a semblance of a story so I'm doodling them <3

[phoenixdaneko]

ok going to bed on time so I can get up early, get all my school done, and hopefully still have the energy to draw Phoenix with wings in a pretty outfit or two

[carter-is-a-disaster]

Decided to post some of the critical role sketches i did this year.

Fcg/ Nott, Caleb and Jester hug/ a pokemon meme from bell's hells fight with Lady Emoth from the beginning of campaign 3/ Beau/ Laudna and Imogen/ an Ashton drawing i'm never gonna finish/ a scene with Beau and Caleb from early campaign 2/ a greystorm kiss doodle i did for a friend

[tobysbadhorns]

Emotional comfort Walter White and me (I'm lying I hate him but pictures of him kinda merge with my crush for Brian Cranston and the memes where he's just jesse's younger brother and I have a weird fondness for them )

[devilsfoolcake]

Missed drawing these guys 😔

[dragonairice]

Some phone doodles I’ve accumulated in exam waiting rooms

[komoboko]

There's a new official art and this tweet changed the trajectory of my life so I NEED AN ARTIST MUI X READER

Maybe the reader would be admiring his way of drawign and nad nadua ndaud *explodes*

𝐒𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤

Artist!Muichiro x gn!reader

this character art changed my life cloudy i forever thank you for showing me this

Artist!Muichiro who first started having a crush on you after you complimented his art. It wasn’t something really big or important like slaying demons for example, just a passion he would do every now and then to pass the time.

While Muichiro was always aware that he's always had some skill when it came to art. He won't even realize how much people appreciated the craft until you complimented him one day.

"Muichiro you drew this yourself?" Your question snaps him out of the trans he was in previously. He stares at you a moment before nodding his head, noting the surprised but delighted expression that appears on your face. He never thought people actually admired his art, sure he's seen some lower ranks peer over to look at what he was drawing, but walking up to him? Complimenting him?? New territory for him.

He pulls his sketchbook in-between the two of you as he saw you take a seat next to him. He flips through the pages as he hears your comments and reactions to things he's drawn over the past couple months. "Who taught you how to draw?" You ask more eager to know where he learned his skills.

"I taught myself." He replies in a more relaxed manor with easily makes your jaw drop to the floor. Your reaction surprises him partially but he keeps his composure for good measures. "I could teach you if you wanted me to." He adds as your mouth continues to fall agape but your eyes shine with happiness. "Seriously? You wouldn't mind??" Muichiro nods his head as a goofy smile appears on your face. In response Muichiro can't help but let a small smile appears on his face.

He doesn't want to forget how beautiful you look when you smile, in-fact he doesn't really want to forget anything about this short conversation at all.

When the sun begins to set and you wave Muichiro goodbye, Muichiro immediately goes back to drawing. Instead of drawing the dragon like he showed you before or other animals he saw, he starts to sketch your face. He wants to make sure he remembers what you look like and who you are, and the next time he can see you for your first art lesson.

One sketch then turns into two, then two sketches turn into three. Then a sketch turns into a page, then two, then it turns into more pages then he can count. Different sketches of things you like or the food you told him you really hated. His favorite is the drawing of you two sitting next to each other while your sharing furofuki daikon, he was quite happy you remembered his favorite food for him.

"Love does crazy things to somebody, yes?" He hears Mr. Ubuyashiki states as Muichiro stares up at him, his face more confused than impressed. Kayaga only smiles before sitting next to the boy. "I'm surprised you haven't realized you've fallen in love yet." He. adds on as Muichiro can only look at him in surprise.

"Who have I fallen in love with..?" Muichiro asks the corps leader as he can only let out a laugh. He watches his finger glide until it lands on your face drawn delicately in his sketchbook. It only hits him then of what his master was saying.

So that's what he's been feeling when he's spending time with you. The warm feeling that bubbles in his chest. Love. You've struck him in the heart with your affection and now he can only wonder. Has he done the same to you?

[tendebill]

I love the idea of Ezio being unused to being flirted with. So he just, short-circuits whenever Leonardo flirts with him.

(Leonardo finds this endearing)

hi this ask is super fucking old but i have had this sketched out in my sketchbook and i have spontaneously decided to finish it up today instead of sleeping

made two versions cuz ik my handwriting can be hard to read. i wanted to draw this digitally initially (like 80 years ago) but womp womp i did this instead. sorry if they look funky, i haven't drawn them in a while :')

[teaableu]

do you have any more human designs for the turtles?

Hmm kind of? There's a (slight) difference between human Leo and Donnie and human One and Two, and while I don't have official designs for human Raph and Mikey I've doodled them in my sketchbook a couple of times.

I also just drew human Future One a couple times the other day but he's not too different from when he's a teenager aside from hair and clothes.

Right now i have unofficial designs for human Miyamoto Usagi, Yuichi Usagi/Exile usagi, Leo, EMD One, EMD Two, Aoki and Aika (who?)

I've drawn Raph, Mikey, Donnie, and Draxum as humans before but I haven't put too much effort into things like outfits or anything. I'm more interested in figuring out their facial features and, for the turtles, how much they look like their dad.

(ignore lou jitsu i haven't figured out how to draw him yet :[)

but i have a WHOLE COLLECTION of human leos and human usagis cause they're silly and fun to draw :]

[comicaurora]

Hello! I wanted to send my appreciation to you as a longtime fan of OSP and Auroura! I am an English Major with ADHD and your content always makes me inspired and my English Lit. Brain very happy with how good your storytelling is.

My question is what stories inspire you to write or make you want to sit down and tell a story? Your content makes me want to work on my projects, but my Adhd only last as long as I am not disturbed (i.e. need to eat or get up and move). You have always been upfront about your Adhd so my second question is how do you keep focused on your story and not burn out? (Talking as someone who is writing a novel as their thesis)

You have been a great inspiration over the years and someone I look up to as a storyteller! I wish you focus and luck! => 💝

Woo! Interesting questions!

When it comes to inspiration, I haven't really found a pattern for what works and what doesn't. The majority of the time, only new experiences/stories I haven't seen or read before work for me - rewatches and re-reads, while much more comfortable for my brain, don't tend to translate into creative inspiration for me - but it's not like a specific genre, or even a specific kind of relaxation, consistently work for me.

The way my brain works is a bit "no take only throw", as it were. I want to just sit down and make solid, steady progress in a predictable environment with a routine, but what I need is to try new things, go outside, take risks - because all those things give me new material to work with and refill the creative gas tank. When I'm stuck, I can't just hit the gas and punch through the block - I need to back up and try a new angle.

The good part of all this is that whatever engine that's running my subconscious is actually pretty good at signaling what it needs. The ADHD brain will be repelled by activities that aren't working for it and drawn to the things it needs at the time, whether that's creative energy or exercise or cleaning or doodling or listening to music or suddenly binge-watching a show that's not even all that great, and once it's got what it needs out of it - whatever that is - it'll be repelled again, either spitting out a sudden burst of creative energy or retreating to its den to chew on whatever it got out of the experience for a more slow-building reward. Little bursts of motivation and creativity pop up all throughout the day, and if you can pivot to the activity in question - or at least note down the idea you just had - you'll be able to harness that pretty nicely.

This "system" really only works for me because I have an extremely unstructured schedule and nobody relying on me to be consistent moment-to-moment. If I'm following the creative needs of my inscrutable Better Writer In The Back Of My Head, I can't be worrying about things like a consistent lunchtime or classes or a 9-to-5. All of my observations are caveat'd by the fact that I am ridiculously lucky to have the kind of freedom of movement and schedule that I can focus entirely on getting to know my brain better.

When it comes to staying focused on any one project, I've reluctantly concluded that the only way to win is not to play. Creativity needs time and diversity to recharge, and when you stall out in any given work session, it's usually because you're out of gas. This is why I maintain several projects in varying stages of "for my eyes only"-ness - a sketchbook, private writing projects, patreon doodles, music practice; even in the large-scale projects like the channel and the comic I have multiple angles of attack at any given time, where I can as needed switch between scripting, research, drawing frames, storyboarding more plot onto the end of the comic's current draft and lining/coloring/background-ing the finalized pages of the comic chapters earlier. This lets me maintain semi-steady progress on average, even if any one facet of the process is left by the wayside for potentially even weeks at a time.

If you're working on one writing project, one novel, I'd recommend giving yourself some time to do small-scale side-hobbies. It won't feel like they're helping, but they are.

I've started to think of inspiration rather similarly to the way I think about nutrition and digestion. It's a somewhat arcane process that, despite being a part of me, I don't exactly understand what's going on under the hood. If you eat only one thing, no matter what that one thing is, you're going to end up sick because you're lacking all sorts of niche micronutrients. If you parcel out a specific space of the only things you're allowed to eat, you might not get sick (as quickly) but you're likely going to become increasingly miserable as you think of the things you're not allowing yourself to try, or slowly build up highly specific forms of malnourishment by avoiding certain things entirely. But if you start listening to your body and try eating what it says it needs at any given time - oh, I could go for a rice bowl right now, oh I don't think I'm feeling something sugary today, man I could really go for some grapes - you're likely to hit a broadly good balance of health because you're hitting a broad range of things your body needs, even if you don't know all of their names or calorie counts, and your body is putting those resources to good use without your conscious input. Between my brain and my stomach, I only trust one of those to actually understand what a stomach needs to do its thing - and between me and my creative brain, most of the time it feels like I just work here.

I hope there was something helpful in all this!