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[ranmagender]

Episode 7 No Spoilers

[portablechemist]

boom boom boom boom I want you in my tomb, spend myriads together from now until forever (or the eventual heat death of the universe)

[spriteinthedark]

I'm also in this picture 😁

Size-shifters are SO cool!!!!

[coconutgirl28]

Clipart from splatoongamefiles on Tumblr.

[expiredcheese]

[epic-dragon-hell-99]

look at my cats boy‼️

(fire text from cooltext dot com :D)

[secondbeatsongs]

I don't use spotify, but if you send me a number from 1-35, I'll tell you a song on the "2023" playlist on my iPod Classic

alternatively, send me a 🔀 and I'll shuffle you up a song, instead of you having to pick a number

[huntingsoundwaves]

[theywhoshantbenamed]

AotJ: fuck around

Teamsters: find out

[romanken]

[duck-accino]

[antvnger]

*activates the second iPod nano that I hid in your suit*

*has it play “Scotty Doesn’t Know” on repeat*

-Meme Lord

*sighs and drops head as the song starts to play*

If I had a dollar for every time someone has played this song for me, I could by out Pym Tech.

[middleschoolfursona]

i like your art style a lot–have you always drawn this way, or is it something u developed over time? do u have any tips for drawing in the general sparklecat/old internet art style or similar?

1. Thank uuuuu <3

2. Under cut ⬇️

It's a mix of both- my current sort of diary art/stress relief/ wholesome style is a replication of my elementary school art style! (Like 5th grade, not 2nd lol. I was still drawing stick guys blowing up zombies with tanks and crap back then)

Otherwise, my other styles are style emulations, essentally!

I'll break it down rq:

Mostly based off my own childhood art:

Natural progression of my art as I grew up:

Style "emulation" (le me making an amalgamation of liek 20000 old deviantart artists into one image)

Most of the sparklecat and scenedog art I draw like the above, is inspired by the works I stockpile from deviantart deep dives, and archive blogs. They're not emulations of one style, but multiple styles, taking parts I like or think are the most 'authentic'- essentially, I do what your young brain would have done without thinking, but I have to do it on purpose haha

My tip: while practicing, I'd say absolutely do studies of peoples entire DA galleries and figure out what works best for you.

Above all else I can't say anything else but like. Age regress lmao. If you can't do that, just do everything you can otherwise to put yourself in the headspace of the art you're emulating.

Put on old Amnesia playthroughs on YouTube, listen to Yaoi Nightcore playlists, edgy scourge AMVs, Naruto YTP, the whole Twilight movie- really whatever you listened to back in the day. Put that back on in the BG. Open current MsPaint or your preferred emulation of old MsPaint, or a free art software like medibang. (Don't download cool brushes. Work with Pen 1 and Airbrush or whatever.)

Use references of the era you want to emulate and use only those. Take all your current knowledge of art and BIN IT. The #1 problem in most emulation art even I have a really, really hard time with- is your stuff looking too modern because your art style is modern. Your tools are modern. Your mindset is modern. It will make your art look uncanny.

Don't try hard. It's really temping to draw the most rawrxd scenecore webcore hot topic revival 100 gecs whatever, I get that I guess- but it won't look like it's from the era. It's really hard to get x3randum ☆~ iTs rAinIng TACOOZZZZZZ ~☆ humor right, so don't try it for your first and submerge yourself in the era first. Tryhard sparkles are a real issue and you risk making your art look like it's snark.

Small canvases and or destroy your image quality. I don't do this as much as I should but it definitely adds to the look LULs

I will say, I have no idea otherwise because I come from a very privileged background when it comes to style emulation which is that I grew up planning to be an animator and thus, in my critical years, I was basically 100% drive on the ability to draw characters in many styles, on model. If you don't have this skill, it'll be a lot harder I'm sure.

Use your non dominant hand for especially young looking art. (If you have one. If not... uh... try your mouth?) (~that's what she said~)

(I mean. If you're *going for* the look of 'yes it's 2023 yes I'm bringing back this' go ahead, it just won't look genuine in the slightest and I am someone who's art journey is about doing all I can to emulate authenticity. Just adding this because I know a lot of people are! Go make that modern sparkledog eyeburner mary sue antisnark! It's just not my cup of tea. And I can't really give any pointers kthxbai)

[thoselethalarts]

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

Music rec us hehehehe

I'm gonna group both of these asks together since they're along the same vein, hehe

Lately I've gotten into the habit of making OC playlists on spotify that I listen to when I'm drawing that specific character. Sometimes I'll make that playlist into a radio on there for a bit more musical diversity, but it all depends on my mood. If anyone's curious to what those are like I'll drop them here too:

Matt (WIP) || Kaz (N/A) || Marcus || Nyx || Stahli (WIP) || Phobos || Vantablack

I have a lot more playlists than just those for specific genres I like (industrial, metal, trance, synthwave, electroswing, hardstyle, darkstep, drum & bass, etc) that I'll flip through depending on what my brain is craving at the time, but those are a handful of the ones I've been listening to on repeat lately 😊

As far as actual inspiration goes I don't really listen to something specific to get pumped up or inspired for drawing 😅 Simply because my artistic muse is extraordinarily fickle. I'll listen to a song while I'm driving to work and have an almost perfect image of what I want to draw associated with it appear in my head, then I'll listen to that song or songs by that artist/genre the entire time I'm drawing it until my work is complete. I do that a lot when I draw my works for art fight, which is why I'll usually post a song that inspired me alongside it!

[memes-from-the-past]

[captain-tabletops]

always wanted to do this, many MANY years late but ah better late than never