#ive been drawing multiple things for fun for a bit

[jollyart]

"Hi there! What are you reading?"

When an angel visits the mortal realm.

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

GOD chapter 59 was SO GOOD n i have a lot to say so sending an ask instead of leaving it on the post.

i /love/ when you make things hyper detailed, because your shading techniques are so much fun to sit n stare at and soak in for a while. that being said, the coloring of the wine spilling is what does it for me this time. it still would have been really cool in bw, but not as cool as seeing all the shades of red over the dark blue bg. you did the glass really well too!! I don't think there's a noticeable difference between the wine color inside and outside the glass which is fine bc it's clear, so it RLY makes me appreciate the lighting you have around the glass rim to show the edge in contrast. that tiny little detail makes the image for me. stellar work. i love it

also i do wanna throw in appreciation for the handwritten serif. super well done at first glance it did look like you'd jus typed it out. idk what texture you have on the brush you use for words but it's rly nice to look at up close.

i think the color kinda tipped me off but i waffled bc i couldn't remember if either of his parents spoke in serif font and was a bit daunted to dig thru 50+ chapters to confirm who it was if it didn't turn out to be them. i'm glad i looked at your tags tho haha saved me the trouble. what a way to end the act too!! i read this one on my phone and was scrolling thru the images at full size and after four or so i kept expecting it to cut off. it was a very pleasant surprise to have it keep going, worth the wait to have a longer chapter :)

maybe it jus wasn't meant to be a la sabo getting the letter from sally. it might have to be stelly after all tho there are things that come before then. what a bad time to have one or both of his parents speak to him for the first time that night. oof can't wait for the next act lets goooo

Oh wowww what a beautifully long review!

Thanks so much im glad you like how it turned out, i’m really happy with it, too! Ive never drawn fluids like this before, but i really needed this page to have that extra kick because it was such a short one.

Because i couldnt figure out how to make this moment look slow mo with multiple different panels on one page, I really wanted to make a piece that is like,, frozen in time instead.

A page like this, you can keep on it as long as you’d like. You can make it as slow mo as you want it to be.

The serif lettering is that of outlook’s!

I dont know if you can see the difference between this and my usual handwriting, but it’s supposed to look taller. Higher up. Neater. Cleaner. (Still my handwriting though so like so actually neat or clean, but you know like,,, in comparison to the norm.)

His dad only talks in one scene, and his mother has never said anything yet, so i dont blame you if you couldnt find it. In my. Large repertoire of chapters ive accumulated.

I definitely felt the same about the pages when drawing them. But probably the opposite feeling lol. Mine was more like “ugh i forgot theres so many. How many more of these do I have to get through??? How did i do this the first act ending with 11 pages???”

Im so glad you guys are on the edge of your seats with the letter :)

Thanks for the ask!

[slightlyhopefulromantic]

aaand here's deadlands! it didnt take seven months this time, who cheered?

i'll probably do another post grouping all of my line-ups together, but that's gonna wait for when i do the wyrdwood PCs as well :] more thorough design thoughts/smaller details will be under the cut, but im putting this here so that everybody has to know: their eye shines are all different card suits, except for nate, who gets J for the joker card :]

oxventurers guild | the hobby horses

unlike my other designs where i let everyone have individual colors/palettes, i tried to keep colors more consistent across these designs! the oxventurers guild has the fantasy element and theyre all very different, so the wide mishmash of colors are fine, and the hobby horses all have a lot of dark colors so that keeps them looking consistent together. but for these guys, i wanted a more consistent feel, so i tried my best to reuse colors between each design (especially between delacy and nate ^-^)

silas - ough. my boy. i wanted him to be broad with a strong build, and i hope i pulled that off :D i had so much trouble with his hat that i almost just didnt give him one, but eventually i decided it was better to just. give up and rock with it, even if he looks a bit like a mountie hbjgfjhd and he is wearing cowboy boots, theyre just tucked into his pants because he doesnt feel the need to flash them (looking at delacy, lol). he has spurs on his boots, even though he doesnt ride horses, because he likes the way they jangle <3

garnet - people really liked it when i gave garnet dark roots, so i have decided to always give her dark roots. i like how it looks hehehe and i also like to give her freckles!!! i think theyre cute!!! for the vest, i struggled for a while trying to capture the vibe of jane's vest, because its so so strange and specific in a way that makes it impossible for me to picture garnet without it. i'm pretty happy with where i landed with it, especially the pattern, since i've never tried to make a pattern like that before :3 i dont know why ive been loving patterns so much lately LOL but i will keep riding this wave and regret it later when drawing the designs again

edie - definitely the furthest departure from canon outfits, though still in the right wheelhouse. i just don't like drawing multiple layers of ruffled skirt. i didn't like how my sketches kept looking. i wanted to give her a skirt slit, especially after my friend reminded me about her thigh rifle holster. so today, i stared at a bunch of victorian ballgowns and party city costumes, and then completely redesigned her skirt before i lined these XD and i think it was worth it!! i love the layers and the way her rifle peeks out, and it meant i could show off more of her boots and give them a pretty design :]

delacy - my main thought going into drawing delacy was just. "i need to malnourish this boy" LMAO i refuse to believe that he is eating properly, i just know that he is not. otherwise, i mostly just stuck to the campaign art but scuffed up his clothes a bit. as implied on silas's notes, i very purposefully had his boots be Big. he's overcompensating a little bit :] also sorry i did not want to draw rooster so he just gets a generic handgun. i didnt feel like drawing complicated guns, and i wanted it to be a smaller handgun so that he could be poorly copying edie :') he has no trigger discipline but neither does edie so its fine

nate - that's just nate, baby!!! i think, canonically, he's meant to be a bit. emaciated. but i cant help but just picture him being a bigger guy, i think it fits his vibe better and its more fun for me to draw that way. i like having variety in body shapes, and garnet and delacy already have the rail thin thing down for this line-up. let my old man be fat !!! also. he has a weird nipple because he is transgender. heart emoji

[triptrippy]

I love your art so much! If you don't mind me asking what's your process for designing characters/outfits?

i had to think about this for a while

when designing characters sometimes im just thinking of a concept ive been exposed to and want to expand in my mind, like with my dunmeshi ocs there were multiple Things in dungeon meshi i wanted to play around with.

dwarves having high tech ruins with trolleys? telephones? there must be Some innovation going on with dwarven society, what if i made someone interested in that innovation but theyre not a dwarf. elves have magic but instead of casting, this character leans toward that tinkering mentality and they brew magic potions and make explosives. Then, i know the noble dwarves in the story are drawn like Rennaissance lords but they have telephones, so maybe there could be a little bit of a steampunk vibe. And then being an elf, around dwarves, they probably get their gender confused more often, maybe they actually dont mind that much and its fun. maybe they work for the dwarven noble in the party? i think that was basically my thought process for fry. and then for his physical appearence, i started drawing an elf and i was focusing on that "likes to have fun" part and i gave him sort of that elven shagginess/laid back look, and messed around with the color pallett until i picked something i liked. he almost had bleach white hair reminiscent of a mad scientist but brown felt more grounded. and its pink at the root because its cute!

i feel like i wing it with outfits but i think i use the same logic. hes an alchemist and lives around nobility, so he has kind of a suit as if hes in academia. but hes cute, so it has a skirt and no jacket. he has a magical prosthetic that he controls with a puppet spell like milsiril uses to control her puppets. it doesnt heal when hes healed because he was born without the arm, and it also doesnt count towards the 1/13th of body missing that would ruin a ressurection since it was never there to begin with. SORRY I GOT INTO THE LORE ON YOU umm yeah and then his head is very warm toned so his outfit i chose warm tones as well. i put goggles and gloves because safety first proper PPE. and thats it! i pick outfits that make sense for what i know of the character, their class(monetarily) how practical i imagine they are, what they would dress for on a daily basis. either before or during the design process im thinking of the silouette and color chemistry as well, but that can change with an outfit.

awesome question thank u!

[thedeafprophet]

D for the trio

D. Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?

oh fun! I've had the three of them since 2020, and theyve all changed a bit over the past few years.

So, when i first started playing back in like 2020, this was the first takes i did on the trio ( i was more into pixel art back then):

Josie has recieved the least amount of changes beyond adjustments to things here or there (cant fix whats already perfect), but Alex and Jamie have been pretty reworked (i swapped the hair colours almost immediatly)

This happened after i got bored in 2020, and stopped playing the game for a few months. when i came back in 2021 i rehashed Jamie and Alex, because they just didnt Feel Right

Which much more closely resemble their current appearance. I had finally captured The Vibes.

Everyone stayed pretty much the same in 2022, with some mild adornments here or there, and Josie getting her jacket.

and then 2023 is where everyone is the most like their current form.

The only real notable changes have been things like Alex loosing his hat (i dont want to draw it anymore), Alex's hair getting a bit more curly, and Jamie's becoming a bit more wavy. I've modified outfits here or there but honestly they all just own multiple clothes.

Phyiscally, body type wise, Alex has become a lot more built and buffer over time + the facial hair (he went on T, good for him).

I've also made Jamie chubbier over time, which is in part just what feels more fun for the character + wanting to work on body types and also well.... to be a little personal, i got real sick in the past couple years with my swallowing disorder, which caused me to loose a lot of weight. Drawing Jamie just well, makes me feel good!

so.... YEA. thats my visual summary over the past years ive had them UwU

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[superthatguy62]

Final Fantasy III Fun Facts of the Whenever: Command Deck Edition

While a lot of the unused text for Final Fantasy III is in the plot-based text strings, there are also some menu-related stuff that got axed. One such menu is the "eureka_battle" file which contains most of the non-item/magic in-battle text. There's some interesting things in there.

Grouped with the commands for the player's menu are a set of unused commands. Given that the strategy guide mentioned some skills that were intended for the online vs mode, they might be worth looking at. Some of these seem to have been ported from or influenced by XI while others... We'll get to that.

Line: Very likely would've switched rows. In-game, it was split to the more distinct "Front"/"Rear".

Chakra: Chakra is traditionally an ability that restores HP/MP to the user. It is also traditionally linked to the Monk-family of jobs including in Final Fantasy XI, which holds quite a bit of influence over the 3D remake of III. Thus, it almost certainly went to either Monk or Black Belt (possibly the former, given the nature of retaliate).

Chainspell: Introduced in Final Fantasy V, Chainspell has been eternally associated with Red Mages, giving them the ability to cast multiple spells at once as a means of making up for their comparatively lacking magic power. While the 3D remake brought in a number of abilities that jobs would have in later appearances, Red Mage wasn't one of those jobs and lacks Chainspell in the final game.

Hide: A signature ability of the Bard, courtesy of Edward from Final Fantasy IV: The Bard hides off-screen, preventing them from taking damage or doing anything.

Berserk: While the Berserk status (increased attack power, but your character automatically attacks enemies) does appear in various Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy III does not feature it. However, going by the influence of Final Fantasy XI, it is very possible that Berserk was simply an earlier name or different variant of the Warrior's Advance ability, as it seems to work identically there. Provoke, the Viking's ability is also bizarrely late in the command order, so it may have also been a possible Viking ability?

Bash: Unclear. The Bash line of abilities has always been enemy exclusive, yet is in with the rest of the commands. Was it an intended command? Something multiplayer related? A silent command for enemies? Who knows.

Cover: Knight actually has cover in-game, simply as a passive rather than an active command.

Sentinel: Sentinel is a recurring ability using associated with Knights/Paladins/Cecil, etc. It tends to increase defense while sometimes also having a Draw Aggro ability. This was almost certainly intended for Knight, although it also overlaps with Viking's Provoke (simply missing the defense debuff) so it's hard to say for sure.

Aim: Usually associated with Archers/Rangers and acted as Rosa's unique command in Final Fantasy IV. It allows an Archer to forgo a turn in exchange for making their next attack stronger. This was almost guarenteed a Ranger command.

Shadowbind: Shadowbind is an attack that paralyzes an enemy. It debuted in IV where it was part of Edge's Ninjitsu. Later appearances would go back and forth on whether it is a Ninja or Ranger ability. It being between Aim and Barrage would imply that it is considered a Ranger ability.

Gauge: This is an interesting one. In the original Final Fantasy III, the Scholar's Study and Peep were two different commands: One let you see enemies' weaknesses and the other, their health. Gauge is actually the original version of Scan while Analyze became the basis for Study in the 3D remake, which does both in one while packing in a free cast of Erase for good measure. Whether this is just a leftover from the original, a sign that the original dynamic between the abilities was kept originally, just an alternate name or if Gauge would have been overhauled to be unique (even if only for multiplayer) is unclear.

Alchemy: It's Item Lore. Interestingly, the Pixel Remaster would use this name for Item Lore, now a command instead of an passive ability. Whether this was the same case originally for the 3D remake is unclear.

Control: Usually a command to control monsters. It's not particularly clear which job would have gotten this as Final Fantasy III does not have a clear Beastmaster job. It's not located with the rest of the Ranger commands but instead between the Scholar and Dragoon commands. It's Japanese name is "つかい" which can mean Errand (Boy/Girl), Familiar (as in a spirit such as an imp) or a Trainer/Tamer/User/Charmer/etc. Indeed, 使い, it's equivalent, is used in a few different ways; both for animal taming and not (Elementalist and Archer from Tactics & T-Advance use the term in their job titles). XI influence would suggest that this is a Dragoon ability, but it's right before Banish which would make more sense as a Scholar ability. I just... gah.

Banish: Not to be confused with the Warp spell. Given the XI influence on the 3D remake it may be that version of the ability, a sort of "heir" to the Dia line from the first game: It deals Light damage with increased damage to undead. It's unclear if it would have gone to the White Mage (per XI), the Knight (Ditto, kinda) or the Black Mage (XIV 1.0 and 4 Heroes of Light both classify it as a Black Mage spell). It is (not counting Control)(?) right between the Scholar and the Dragoon command sets. Take that as you will.

Abduct: This was the command that made me take a closer look at the command list in general. We know from the interview that one of the Dragoon's scrapped abilities was the "Abduction Jump" ability.

Blood Weapon: Not to be confused with the Blood Sword or Blood Lance. This was apparently a Dark Knight ability in XI which applies the Blood Weapon effect to all of a Dark Knight's attacks.

Hexed Quarter: ...I actually have no idea what this one did. This ability does not seem to match with any FF abilities. It's Japanese name is "きもん" which does not help matters. The closest I can find is that it may be linked to the FFXI Geomancer's "Cardinal Chant" ability, which changes effect depending on the cardinal direction the enemy is located at relative to the player. How this would have been implemented, if this is indeed the ability, is unclear (maybe it would depend on what direction the party was facing when the encounter started)?

Ley Lines: Ditto. It's Japanese name is "りゅうみゃく" or "龍脈" which seems to translate to "Dragon Vein", which is a general Feng Shui concept. Thus, this seems to be connected to the Geomancer job. (While Black Mages would be associated with Ley Lines in FFXIV, this seems to have been after the reboot rather than the 1.0 version that Hiromichi worked on.)

Meditate: At the time of the remake's release, the only game to feature the meditate skill was XI, in which it was a Samurai ability. However, it is located next to the Black Belt's Boost and, interestingly, Retaliate. Given the presence of Chakra for the Monk, perhaps at one point, the Black Belt was intended to more closely mirror the Monk in terms of abilities?

Trance: At a glimpse, it's hard to tell. Most know of the Trance ability as an ability that transforms characters into stronger forms (Terra in VI, the cast of IX, etc.) but it's unclear what job would've had that ability in III. On the other hand, it is an ability associated with the Dancer job. If that is the case, it might be a Bard-related ability, but it isn't grouped with Sing and Hide.

Charm: This one is... weird. It's Japanese name is "あやつる", which is the name given to the line of abilities/spells known as "control"/"Manipulate"/etc (the spells you use to control a monster). This ability tends to be heavily associated with the Beastmaster. However, not only is it far from the Scholar's commands, it's between the Black Belt and Ninja abilities. I'm not sure if there's a potential job I'm overlooking, if it's a "grouped together but not really" situation, a similar case to Advance/Berserk or indeed intended for those two classes.

Dual Wield: A weird one: Final Fantasy III, even on the Famicom, allows everyone to dual-wield. To my knowledge, Dual-Wield has never been a command, although it has usually been heavily associated with Ninjas. It might also be a "silent" command like Cover, although

Utsusemi: A recurring Ninja ability introduced in XI, functioning similarly to the "Image"/"Mirage" command introduced in IV with Edge.

And there we have it. It's possible that not all of these were intended for the game or that some were remnants of different directions for certain jobs. It's all quite mysterious.

[ananke-xiii]

Jack and Eleven, the tropes of the evil and monstrous children.

I need an AU world where Jack from "Supernatural" and Eleven from "Stranger Things" meet and they are like that Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette meme. “Stranger Things” is not over yet so I can’t draw final conclusions but it’s still fun to see the similarities and differences between these two characters born out of the creative minds of American screenwriters circa 2015-2016.

Pre-birth

So far we only know a general outline of what happened before Eleven's birth. We know that her mother was literally used for experimental purposes in Hawkins National Laboratory but there's a rather unsettling blank as to how she got pregnant. Jack’s pre-birth story can be pretty much summarized as “Lucifer was throwing a tantrum and experiencing the ups and downs of having god-complex problems when your father is the literal God”. While we're not showed Jack's actual birth, we unfortunately see the moment before conception, a moment of deception and abuse to the detriment of his mother. Additionally, both Jack and his mother are referred as one famous pair: Rosemary complete with the baby. I hope this was a non-subtle way with which the writers wanted to signal us the underlying abuse but I have my doubts.

The mothers

Terry Ives and Kelly Kline have been violently abused, period. Terry’s story is perhaps even more tragic because of the sufferings she had to endure during her “participation” in the MKUltra Project. Kelly suffered severe trauma during her pregnancy and died after giving birth to Jack. Terry tried to get her daughter back (she was likely taken away from her after birth) only to be restrained and removed from the facility. She's still alive but in a catatonic state and we don't yet know if it was induced nor what happened after she got thrown out of the laboratory.

The fathers

Both Jack and Eleven have multiple father-figures. Jack’s biological father is the President of the United States possessed by Lucifer while his putative father is Castiel. Eleven’s biological father is unknown so far but who she considered as her “Papa” while she was a kid was Doctor Brenner. Her putative father is Jim Hopper. In this respect, Supernatural writers were bolder because Jack explicitly states that his father is Castiel, not Lucifer. Although they didn’t pick up on that in season 14, it still was something quite powerful that briefly broke from the never-ending “I am your father” reveals that perpetuate ancient-as-fuck theories about the predominance of the biological father in the formation of the subject. This doesn’t happen in “Stranger Things” and unfortunately I think we’ll have an “I am your father” reveal in season 5 which bleah ( I dream of a day where screenwriters will break from the "Star Wars" spell, guys you need to move on, there is a life to live, bikes to ride, roads to walk, sunsets to enjoy. LET.GO.).  Both Lucifer and Doctor Brenner are the bad and evil fathers, while Castiel and Hopper are both PTSD-suffering former soldiers who… let’s say they try to do their best to be the protective caring fathers.

The birth

We don’t yet know much about Eleven’s birth but we’ve partially seen it from her point of view (that was a ballsy, fantastic move, well done to “Stranger Things” doing proper homework on trauma). Jack’s birth, on the other hand, checks all the boxes of the birth of the “monster” as “prodigy”: massive power outage, a rift between worlds was opened, the usual.  Unlike Eleven, Jack is… a bit “different” because he is both angel and human so he gets to grow up super-fast after his birth.

The training

They both get some training to do because people want them to use their power to open a gate into a different dimension. In Eleven’s case things are way more awful, she didn’t get the Sam-Winchester-weak-ass training of moving pencils and talk about feelings, she was literally used as lab rat by Doctor Brenner stripped of her identity, branded with a 011 and even her name, Jane, was changed into said number. However, Jack did end up in the other dimension he had opened the rift to, got captured, maybe tortured (?) and eventually found himself to fight in a random war he had nothing to do with. So, you know. They eventually both grow up as...

The weapon

Both characters are compared to weapons multiple times in their respective shows.

The loss of powers

Both Eleven and Jack lose their powers at some point.  While Eleven has to re-start her traumatizing and abusive training sessions with Doctor Brenner, Jack does… whatever the hell they made him do it, i.e. the usual cannibalization of other angels’ grace etc. (which, to the writers' credit, is still thematic since the random war he was fighting was against the same angel he ended up cannibalizing, everything works in full circle etc etc).

The underground

Although in Jack’s case it wasn’t intentional (since the bunker already existed well before his birth), both characters are raised in an underground, hospital/military-like facility.

The performance

They both perform a “normal” persona for other people’s benefit. In Jack’s case, this persona is an infantilized, less-threatening version of himself. Eleven, on the other hand, performs femininity: in each season there are different people who put make-up on her face and who give her different styles of clothing and hairstyles. In season 4 she lies to Mike and pretends to be a popular girl in school who has a lot of friends while, in reality, she gets violently bullied by her peers. And this leads to…

The sacrifice

People rely on their power to solve problems or they’re too concerned with the way they decide to use their own power. It seems that everybody agrees that said power should be used for “good” but recoil when accidents happen or when both Jack and Eleven end up using their power for somethig less... “good”. This results in both characters having heart-breaking self-sacrificing tendencies, they seem themselves as monsters who need to prove themselves worthy of the human status. They sense when people who’re supposed to love them are scared of them and it makes them want to become "better" or more like "everybody else". I said heart-breaking because, while it may be a tiny bit less obvious in Jack’s case, it’s strikingly and visibly evident in Eleven’s story that theirs is the realest tragic story ever, the story of the children who get sacrificed for the" greater good" (I am, once again, begging storytellers to change this narrative, it can be done, the world will not end, I personally promise). She's got the weight of the world on her shoulders and people have these huge expectations of her ability to save them from evil and death while she's just this tiny, abused, traumatized and scared child. I don't know, man. My heart cries when I see certain scenes, I can't take them anymore.

The trauma

Eleven manages to “relive” her past and see it for what it is in all its horror. This allows her to break free from her evil father’s leash and see what he has really done to her (although more is to come for sure but she’s on an interesting journey of self-discovery). Jack, on the other hand, doesn’t get to break free from his trauma. He tries to find meaning by visiting his biological past in the shape of his maternal grandparents but there’s nothing for him there. Maybe his trauma is that he never was a child, he was forced to grow up too soon and, even though he’s the most powerful being on earth, he’s still also a human who has the right to go through all human experiences.

Friends

The second thing that set them aside the most is the presence/absence of friends. Eleven’s got quite a few of them and this is especially important to her growth. It’s not just about her family, it’s about an extended system of support who cares about her. Jack, on the other hand, sadly doesn’t have the same support.

I think I could go on forever but I’ll stop here to reflect on how Jack is mostly framed as “evil” while Eleven is almost always compared to a “monster”. Jack's story is very much tied up to morality while Eleven's to deviancy and craziness. They’re both presented as white, able-bodied, young humans who have “something” inside of them that makes them different. People around them are very quick to pick up that “different” vibe but very few people are willing to go beyond and look at the constant trauma that is their life. I think that Jack’s story doesn’t ultimately end well for him so I really, really hope the same won’t happen to Jane/Eleven.

[delulluart]

could you post some work in progress stages of you're drawings and paintings? i am trying to improve my art and i like you're style but i don't really know how to get there. and many tutorials are for digital art only or there very anime style so it dos not very help in what i want to draw :(

but only if it is not to much work of course!

have a good day :-)

thank you, anon!

starting is really tough, i get you, and yes, i finding the tutorial for a style that you want to work in is often a struggle, but often you can apply the general rules to any style!

the most important thing is to not stop drawing! just keep going, a little bit every day/every few days and you WILL see the improvement! its super frustrating when you dont get the results you want immediately, i know that - ive been doing this for so many years now and i still produce pics that i dont like, where im disappointed in myself. but you cant let this drag you down too much, because everytime you fuck something up you learn something, too! you know then that this thing doesnt work - in a way failures are actually way more helpful. (still sucks a lot...)

as for wips: i found a few photos i took of two recent paintings; i dont know if it will help you, though. generally i just do some outlines roughly, then clean them up and then just...fill it either with paints or pencil. i dont do the whole grid method or assisting lines thing or something like that. before i start the proper drawing i often make a small quick sketch to know where everything has to go (see: first pic; youll notice its mirrored - i decided to change the entire orientation last second; i kinda wish i kept it, but its too late now) and then i just...idk? put it on the paper in a way that would make every art teacher cringe in pain (i know that, because it happened multiple times).

as for water colours its the basic rules: start with the bright parts and then go darker; make sure to use good paper, let the stuff dry before going for a new layer etc. add fine details/highlights at the end,

(hello no-hair-papa-anons, have some food here)

if you have any specific questions dont hesitate to ask, ill try to help! if you can afford it i recommend going to a proper class of an artist in your area, that can be lots of fun and really helpful. in 1st grade i was for a few weeks in a free weekly thing of a local artist and she introduced me to oil paints and taught me to just let GO sometimes of the perfectionism and the control of paints (yes, even tiny 5-6 year old me was already a control freak). the things she taught me are still with me.

[lord-shitbox]

part 2 of this ask

📝Process for hurt mezu drawing 

here are the steps i dug out of an art server's wips channel lol

1. initial sketch

2. refine sketch. thats lines now babey. (omitted "the sleeves are KILLING ME WAHHH" stage that led to this)

3. grayscale, to use with gradient map (this is a more polished grayscale than I started with, i dug the working file out to get better images)

4. find nice gradient map (ended up being the same one I'd used for the piece i made right before. the goal is to make what's essentially an underpainting, not to color the whole thing with one map)

5. tweak and add colors that arent in the map with hard light layers & also sneak in a layer for special effect and atmospheric/ scenic perspective while you're at it

6. shading & more finishing effects. pretty much all of the shading was done with hard light layers! the only non-hard light layers I used for the shading were the particle effect layers & like one faint glow layer to fix some values. blood was done with linear burn

✨Inspiration for hurt mezu drawing 

the coloring method (grayscale -> saturated gradient map underpainting -> additive color adjustments) is something I tried out with the piece i'd made right before (the one where gozu is holding mezu from behind) & turned out really well, so I wanted to keep going with it

I also wanted to draw them angstily again because it'd been a very long time. like half a year at least. angsting them is very enriching for my soul so I try to do it regularly, this one was overdue

subconsciously referenced the poses in the initial sketch from this old thing (feb 2021). i love doing this. all my for-fun works recycle old elements in some way. my favorite game is "what old art reminds me of what im doing rn" im so good at digging stuff out of my archives for it. everyone loves when i do this

the gangi-kozou panel also

i went through a "shade in bold red-orange & dark blue with hard light layers" phase in like..april/may of 2021. i still like that stuff a lot so I wanted to revisit it

💚Things you like about hurt mezu drawing

repasting the link there but the sixth image in the process is essentially the final so you can just look at that

the colors are nice!! I'm real happy with using more saturated colors n I think the warm vs cool balance works really well

the sleeves (man being dramatic on the sand meme)

no like fr look at the 2021 piece's kimono sleeves vs the one I just did 2.5 years later. so satisfying

Gozu's expression came out nice

i think the claws and flash lines successfully added Emphasis to Gozu's expression & the piece overall

the poses … the drama …. the brush textures are also good

⏳Things you’d do differently with hurt mezu drawing

add in a liiitle more contrast...aka use a wider range of values. Some lighter lights and darker darks. I miss my 2021 hard neon lighting

a bit more distinction between the characters and the background also

the composition isn't bad but it could be better. Should've thought more about the way the eye would flow around the image in the drafting stage (solid b&w color block thumbnails are good for this)

Moar Sparkles. (I put a solid amount of large & low opacity light bubbles in there & some finer brighter dots especially around the claw stems, but I think more clusters of tiny bright lights on the characters themselves would've gone hard)

💌Some favourite feedback on art

as the wise man Austin Kleon once said: keep a "praise file" of all the positive feedback you get (if you've never read "Steal Like an Artist," you must). so. i am prepared for this question hold on

tastes like sugar glass

multiple people have told me my art is soft & dreamlike

jayce you reblogged my touchstarved art with nice tags on april 10th ive got that saved love uou

umm theres a lot...anytime someone keysmashes or feels emotional because of my art i get happy ,,, lys messaged me about the hurt mezu piece that made me happy also,,,,,there is so much joy in the world

[keefiswhoiam]

August 12 - 2024 Monday

11:15pm

6.5/10

Pretty typical Monday. I did my usual morning stuff. I keep having to push through my tiny workout which is a good thing I guess. Also probably because I do it so early in the morning, its hard for my body to be ready so early. I had leftovers for breakfast which helped me start streaming earlier than usual lately.

I joined BR and JG in their server call while I streamed and that was lots of fun as usual. Today I had no commissions lined up so I sketched 3 which sucked, its a lot of work to be doing the sketch phase for so long and switching gears multiple times. I ended a little early after working on something of my own for a bit too. I think in the discussion today, BR thought she was turning me on to vore but aside from some conceptual interest, I doubt it's my kind of thing on a deeper level.

For lunch I wasn't too hungry so I made a can of soup and some cheese and crackers. I watched a couple episodes of Summer Camp Island since it's been my chill show the past couple days. I thought about what it must look like to be an evolved ape sitting in my room watching a screen and it weirds me out every time I imagine it. Its so unnatural but it also makes a lot of sense. Ive also been practicing with my bb gun when I take the dogs out and I'm getting a good feel for how much power I should give it at different ranges and how to aim differently. Im having fun.

In the afternoon I did the request and personal drawing in DV's server. It was chill at first but then the more annoying people started joining. I worked on a really good idea of mine that I was afraid to start because of how daunting the pose and stuff might be but I knew I had to try and it's coming out good. I need to learn to have more faith in myself because I almost always get the job done. After that I finished up the book club world and posted it publicly but I wanna make some small changes before using it.

This evening I tuned into Twitch and hopped on the Minecraft server out of call so I could do some digging. DS was free so we chilled while I did Minecraft and then watched Sailor Moon while I ate dinner. We also watched the new Wild Manes and an episode of Summer Camp Island. I wanted to put more time into the Monster High game tonight because I do wanna get around to finishing it.

While she transitioned to bed, I hopped quickly into Minecraft with BR and them and goofed around until puzzle time. I'm actually getting excited about playing with them.

Puzzles tonight were hard for some reason. They were kinda bad. It ended up making me late for bed and my routines. But not by too much. Im saving dishes for tomorrow morning.

[minmocat]

alright! here's a more detailed post. you're going to need any digital art program that has two things: 1. layers, and 2. layer effects. being able to apply drop shadows to layers helps a lot, but when i started, i didn't use that and just faked the shadows using multiply layers.

my friend skitty is going to be helping me out. i use the same ol copy of paint tool sai ive been using since 2012, and i do some post-processing stuff in photoshop.

using this sketch, i start off with lineless art with each individual piece of it on a different layer. lineless art's not as scary as it seems! i use my sketch as the lineart & just delete it later. keep depth in mind when you're arranging your layers. things further in the back are going to be towards the bottom, while things closer to the viewer are going to be towards the top. you can draw on details with any traditional brush you'd like.

version with & without sketch for reference. here's what my layers look like. i tried to name them to make them easier to parse!

(that last one is supposed to read "inside of ears + line that connects dots to tail.) the locked layers are from where i drew on details that wouldn't need separate layers - mostly adding the yellow to the head + body.

next, you're going to need pictures of paper. you can find some online, or you can take photos yourself. i switch between stock photos of paper textures and pictures i took of crumpled up paper with my phone camera. you don't need anything too fancy.

here's the stock photo i'm going to use for my example. i use a different picture for every layer to give it more depth & intrigue - if you reuse the same picture over and over, your brain starts to connect that there's a repeating pattern and it can look a little "off".

i'll copy and paste this on top of a layer and apply a layer clip/layer mask. this is called different things in different programs, but if you see it, i'm sure you know what i mean.

i set the layer mode to "overlay", which gives me this:

it changed the color a little bit, so i'll adjust the colors to make it grayscale + a little darker.

(comparing adjusted colors with & without the overlay setting)

then repeat this process for every layer.

ta-da! we have textures! i recommend anyone trying this to have fun with this step. try out layering multiple textures over one part. try out different types of paper. you dont even need to use just paper! what about cardboard? plastic? go nuts!

at this point, i save the file as a .psd and migrate over to photoshop. transparency!

in photoshop, i start applying drop shadows to each layer's layer style. double-clicking each layer, i get to select:

repeat for every layer. you can adjust the settings of every drop shadow to get different depths. i mostly change two settings, distance & size:

a large distance with a large size will make a layer look like it's coming forward more, while a small distance with a small size will look like it's closer to the layers underneath it. compare the head (distance 10, size 9) with the details on the face (distance 3, size 2):

repeat for every layer, and we get:

yay! yippee!

at this point, i start doing post-processing stuff. adjusting colors, contrast, etc. once that's over, i'm all done! ta-daaaa!

hi your paper cutout art style has fundamentally changed my brain chemistry ever since i saw it(like 5 seconds ago) and now the wizards in my brain are melting everything rapidly. can i ask you how you achieve such an edible and fantastic effect

thank you so much! the tl;dr is that it's a basic lineless art style with texture overlays + drop shadows but i can make a more in depth post to explain it more ^_^

[dreamingclassical]

The 🦄 Herself and some background on her.

I got Blaze July 31st of 2020. Before I even laid eyes on her, the assistant trainer of the facility told me “the mare is wild.” Telling me about how she had taken another mare from the pasture for a lesson and into the main barn. Within 10 minutes Blaze had taken down the gate and climbed up a set of stairs into the hayloft. No clue how she got down the stairs again unharmed. She was very buddy sour obviously. She was born in Canada, she is a Mr. Greeley baby. Raced lightly, retired to breeding, and then had 8-9 foals. At 16, almost 17 she came to the facility I met her at. Sat again for another year. I was looking for a 3-5 year old, not an 18 year old never restarted skinny broodmare.

After seeing her move, and seeing how sweet and anxious she was along with her condition, I was positive I wanted her. Bought for 1k, she was quickly learning to be a riding horse. I made many, many mistakes. I let a trainer ride her in such a manner I could barely watch, multiple times before I put my foot down. Draw reins, strong bits, bungees, terrible saddle fit, etc etc.

It was ugly. I will be repaying Blaze for her kindness for the rest of her life. She jumped everything, up to 4’ on a few occasions. Safe, point and shoot, and fun. She had one bad habit, rearing when put under pressure. The only time she did it, was because I or someone else put her in a position where she felt she had no choice.

She eventually became my liberty and trick horse after I realized how unhappy she really was as a sport horse. Despite looking fantastic, post Lyme treatment #1 but really she wasn’t happy. She wouldn’t stand to be a show horse, and she was impossible to fit a saddle to. I rode her bareback exclusively for almost 2 years of having her due to saddle issues. She was just better off, and eventually I removed the bridle too. She was great in a halter, terrible in a bridle, so why bother? Perfect almost every time. This opened the door for liberty work, where she really shines.

Eventually in May of 2022 she slipped on a grass hill with me, not falling but close. No heat, not lame, we stopped immediately She came up bilaterally lame 2 hours later. I took her to the vet, he told me it was likely L stifle and LF combined but nothing can be done without scans of the joints. I was beyond broke from the (failed) Lyme treatment over 6 months.

My first vet told me that my best option was to turn her out for a year and see what happens. She was managed well on equioxx, but noticeably lame in the trot and canter. So I did that. Finally listening to her, a chronic weaver, stalling just wasn’t for Blaze. Moved her into a literal back yard of a friends. With a run in / walk in stall, goat, and mini horse. Pulled all 4 shoes (hind first and later fronts)

Removed grain from her diet, added good hay and a forage balancer, and waited. It’s been almost 2 years. She’s not 100% sound, I was very much losing hope earlier this year and very much considering euthanizing her. However, I found an amazing vet well versed in Lyme disease and so in January we’ll be pulling a titer to check levels and moving forward with IV tetra from there. Lyme flares tends to make her lameness vary a bit. She is hopeful that we will be able to get her sound and remove her Lyme symptoms. She’s really renewed some hope in me. In the spring when things aren’t muck, I’ll be getting another (this’ll be the 14th lameness exam in 2 years) exam done and likely radiographing her fetlocks and hocks.

That’s it for now though, I’ve ranted long enough. She’s perfect, my best friend, and recently we were told on her good days that we can work on tricks & groundwork again.

Good movement > no movement 💖

We’ll see where we are in a year. 12/24/23 🎄

[dreamsy990]

(art requests guidelines)

introduction stuff under the cut

hey! im ash (or razor) (i mean you can call me dreamsy i wont get mad or anything my mutuals do that sometimes but like really im only not razorkinder on here because a) thats taken and b) people already know this username) my pronouns are he/they and my gender is not applicable so dont ask me <3 also im chronically aroace. i guess you guys know this though

this is my public apology for being bad at communicating! one fact about me is that i am so terrible at talking because i have. checks notes. autism. man that sounds like some gay shit. anyways i am so bad at interpreting peoples tones and also conveying my own im so sorry i just suck at talking. if i ever interact with you and think youre cooler than me i am likely to sound like im on the verge of a panic attack. that is because i am. i swear i do not bite unless im nervous. like a small dog.

anyways the list of things wrong with me includes: autism. adhd. anxiety. basically any label that starts with an a.

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE TALK TO ME BY THE WAY PLEASE TALK TO ME I AM A NORMAL FUCKING PERSON TRUST ME I SWEAR I WOULD NEVER LIE TO YOU. SEND ME ASKS. AND ART REQUESTS. I NEVER MIND. IF I DONT RESPOND I EITHER FORGOT OR AM CURRENTLY FEELING CRUSHING GUILT ABOUT NOT HAVING RESPONDED YET.

^^^^ please do not send me dms unless were mutuals though. ive been getting a lot of dms lately and theyre mentally exhausting for me. if you have something to say to me, please send me an ask instead. thank youuuuu <3

my tone i realize sort of ranges from very deadpan and unenthusiastic to fucking insane. see i contain multitudes. i also contain autism. you also might notice i phrase things in weird ways. this is because i type how i talk but with the fun little quirk of little to no proper grammar. if you dislike that. uh. have you considered you might have a skill issue? perhaps?

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OKAY !!!! TIME FOR TAGGING INFO. #doodles for my art #stale pepsi water as a non-fandom rambling tag. usually for just me liveblogging being a person. i have this tag mostly so you can block it if you want. #random thoughts for media analysis and things i noticed #ash draws cats for warriors designs

for fandoms i tag by series name unabbreviated! i dont tag by individual works and i dont include colons. so i tag epic as #epic the musical instead of something like #epic or #epic: the musical. i almost never tag individual works and when i do it's almost never for art

i also tag characters with their first and last name. if they go by multiple names in that media ill tag both. i dont however use shortened names. so for example, the character of ART from tmbd would be tagged as #asshole research transport and #perihelion. if a character has no last name i just tag them by their first. i havent had any problems with fandoms with character name overlap yet, but if i do, im likely to just use the same name tag and you can suffer through sorting through it yourself.

if youd like to send me an ask about a fandom i may be in, heres a list of fandoms i have posted about but may or may not actively be a member of. in no particular order and with no garuntee that ive finished it

-persona 5 -epic the musical -danganronpa (mostly sdr2) -ace attorney -the adventure zone (mostly balance but a bit of amnesty) -kingdom hearts -final fantasy 7 -professor layton -deltarune -wings of fire -zelda (mostly twilight princess and a bit of botw) -gravity falls -the hunger games (just the og trilogy) -yugioh -the murderbot diaries -warrior cats -pokemon (UNFORTUNATELY) -detroit become human

[thepinkhaired-rayofsunshine]

DP x DC Fanfic Idea?

im not interested in writing my own dpxdc fic, i just dont think id write it so well and i wont be able to type for a bit soon, probably, BUT i do have an AU that might b fun? so like different universes, danny's from a universe that doesnt have soulmate marks, batfam member (or whoever else, i just like batfam best!) is from a universe w soul marks. this much ive seen before, ofc, and its not new!! but like, for some reason, the arm that has danny's soul mark (bc im imagining the soulmark as like, either the persons name or they can write on it or smth), doesnt work, like hes never been able to use it, and always has it up in a sling. but anyway, he also notices the soulmark markings like name or writing or w/e, all the time, but doesnt know what to make of it. his parents (A+) assume its haunted but cant do anything to fix it despite putting danny through multiple, traumatizing, ghost procedures to try n draw it out. As he gets older it becomes less frequent, and he wears long sleeves to hide it anyway, to avoid the attention of the bullies who still go after him. bc of all the procedures from his parents, dannys super used to being in the lab, and when he goes in the portal, it was almost out of spite. like, wow look, yet another thing my parents couldnt make work! and during that, he bumps the switch and goes through the accident. and then yknow, smth happens and he leaves his own dimension, either by accident, force, or smth else (maybe dan succeeds, maybe pariah shoves him through a portal to get him outta the way, etc) and he ends up floating around gotham either injured or just grieving or dazed, trying to figure out where he is. and he eventually realizes his arm works here too for some reason, but in human form its still extremely weak bc ofc, hes never used it as a human, so he still doesnt use it much. the muscles are all but atrophied, bc it likely only moves passively, when someone else manipulates it, or danny uses his other arm to do exercises on the limb.

on the other hand, the batfam member doesnt understand y their soulmate never responds and when they do write on their arm, it feels somewhat distant. When they pick up the mantle, they decide its for the best and only occassionally put something down just to check in, after hard battles or big events n stuff until on day, something happens and they feel as though their connection is not so distant. in fact, suddenly, marking on their skin feels almost like static. they find danny and recognize a mark on his arm EXACTLY like what theyd drawn, or their own name or w/e, on this weirdly disoriented kid

and maybe, maybe the reason danny can use his arm in ghost form, is because when he accidentally activated the portal, he bumped his bad arm into the switch. and when he got his scars, the batfam member got a matching set of ecto plasmic green lichtenburg marks all over their matching arm.

[starrazors]

hmmm 1, 12, 18, 25?

i was gonna do multiple fandoms but i could only think of splatoon loll. but thanks for the ask :)

the character everyone gets wrong

neo 3's little buddy, and salmonid's in general tbh. they're sentient beings with their own (admittedly a bit problematic in execution) culture! the devs are like going back on this little so, not sure if it still counts but, little buddy isnt neo 3's dog. as funny as that interpretation can be sometimes, he's their friend, and canonically an agent, too. also, salmonids arent wild animals. tired of people assuming that. if youre offended by how the culture is presented because of its basis on a real one (i dont remember the exact one ATM, curse my bad memory, but theres a lot of posts out there going over how salmonid culture was inspired by it, for better and for worse) then i understand, but pretending that the salmonids are wild beasts is so so dumb. they canonically have a trade deal with octarians iirc. i beg people to look up salmonid lore so much but, alas.. inkfish dominate

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

SHELDON!!!! this is a recent development for me but i actually really like sheldon. he has fun dialogue. he gives out good info on weapons. he's a nerd (very good!! love nerds) and honestly? he is very autism/pos. projecting my autism onto him rn.

also his inclusion in the splatoon 2 storymode is cool. getting weapon info for him is lovely. i cant lie about sheldon hate anymore

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

i can say a looot for this one but ill just say.. big man. people kind of ignore his existence soo much but he has so much to his character. ive seen like no discussion on the fact that he's a loz nerd, but that has a lot of potential. id be the change i want to see on the world if i wasnt so tired loll. also people need to include him more in deep cut drawings.. he's left out a lot despite being just as close to shiver and frye as they are to each other. maybe im just not looking in the right places but he's always treated like a third wheel, but he isnt.

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

this might be outside of tumblr fandom, BUT twitter fandom is just, quite the place. maybe this isnt fandom lmao but its the only thing i can think of really. but, the constant complaints about the weapon meta. like. what happened to just having fun? competitive is a Beast i dont even want to touch with a 10ft pole, but im tired of people just saying the exact same things over and over. makes me question if some people even have fun with this game.

[flingza-roller]

Sorry if this is bad timing, but I just saw your post about lorikeet and I love them! Could you tell me a bit more about them and your other splatoon OCs?

OHO YES! there is no such thing as bad timing to ask about ocs, im just incredibly happy that somebody is interested!! heheh time to Ramble (this is long sorry)

ok so im gonna stick to the bird kids cuz theyre a lot easier to explain GSJFD (maybe someday ill give my other ocs refs and backstory stuff....)

all four of em are very much based off how i play the game as each character, so i pretty much just grab my in-game behaviour and give it to em as a personality.

so, lorikeet! splat3 is still very new but i think ive somehow already solidified their personality lmao. theyre super reckless, pretty much always falling off stages and getting themself splatted by doing stupid things like running headfirst to a tacticooler or trying to challenge the eliter that wont leave them alone (i think mahi-mahi is the absolute worst for this). they like to go a little bit cazy and get as many kills as possible, which is silly when the only mode u play is turf war... (on that, there is not a single splatoon game that has gotten me to like ranked/league. i played it a few times and then swore off it, so now all four of the kids hate ranked lol)

lori fucking ADORES deep cut so theyve got the three earrings in their right ear bc they wanna be like shiver and frye. on deep cut, they love splatfests and all the music n fun stuff that comes with it. theyre weirdly not too competitive when it comes to defending their team, BUT they will go extra feral during splatfest turf wars and go complete beast mode. they still dont have a main weapon? favours brushes but thats pippins thing so they should probably pick something else GDKGS

oh they have the worst adhd brain. if they see something cool happening in the bg of a stage they will just straight up stop in their tracks and watch for a while, completely oblivious to whatever is happening in the match. and of course the moment they hear the tacticooler they will run for it even if theyre literally in the opposite end of the stage.... stupid. favourite stage is yet to be decided, gotta let the game marinate for a while longer

as the new agent 3 lori is pretty good at following orders, they just kinda... die in the dumbest possible ways. trying to jump through walls, walking straight off ledges, accidentally attracting attention to themself by throwing lil buddy right next to them. but theyre pretty good at fighting! also they like annoying the captain, because of course (this doesnt bode well for kiwi)

id like to build more on their character eventually but that requires me playing more splat3 and ive been rly unmotivated to do so >:/ ive barely played any salmon run and still havent touched table turf. augh. lori u will grow as a person i promise

now PIPPIN! (she/they) theyre my kid from octo expansion! shes very silly but surprisingly strong and skilled. never asked for help from OTH and went through every single test multiple times to get every weapon ticked (hell). also enjoys fighting inner agent 3 because ??? clearly a lot more competent than theyre letting on.

so once pip came to the surface they were very much like "id rather NOT do the whole fighting thing again" and jumped into turf wars with the intention of just having fun and messing with people. her gear set is 100% QSJ cuz she likes annoying the enemy team and then jumping away like a coward when theyre cornered (it jumpscares people bc they dont expect an octo to jump THAT fast).

she uses brush so that they can draw love hearts in enemy base :] they think its very cute and gets sad when ppl ink over it. also if an enemy tries to initiate a party they will always join bc make love not war etc. always goes for the highest inkage (highest score excluding win points was over 2000) favourite stage is inkblot art academy!

zero sense of fashion btw they either wear the QSJ gear or whatever they think will make her look hot (big fan of the octoling armour and marinas crop top). sometimes changes gender to Boy bc why the hell not, gender is arbitrary.

when grouped up with the others, they like teaming up with pigeon to cause chaos and havoc. shes very excited to see lori joining the team cuz theyre equally as insane as the other two! kiwi is the only one carrying a braincell here rip

PIGEON time!! (also she/they) technically my first oc because splatoon 2 was my first game! so she definitely has the most going for them. foil flingza main (my beloved), absolutely a frontliner and goes for the kill as much as possible. very good at sneak attacks! main gear is almost entirely special charge up (sorry. im the og missile spammer) except for ninja squid which they use to scare the shit outta ppl.

pigeon adores the birds u see hanging out on various stages, especially the pigeons (naturally). favourite stage is moray towers! i never said we had good taste. moray is excellent for roller users and allows for fast clean base inking >:]

like the others they love a good squid party but isnt always in the mood, HOWEVER she will never splat an innocent partier bc thats a dick move. if theyre not a threat, theres no need to splat.

outside of turf, pigeon is actually not a very violent person. very sweet to their friends and oh so very lesbian. she sees a pretty girl in the square and goes 😳 (btw this DOES work in battle, be a cute girl and they will be distracted). fucking absolutely obsessed with squid beatz like you have no idea, aims to get gold on every hard mode song. favourite songs to play are frantic aspic, shark bytes, and entropical. she and pippin love playing games like this together, i bet theyd be great dance duo.

in hero mode, pigeon is naturally a completionist and obtained every weapon. fucking loves harassing marie and annoying her as much as possible. adores callie so much <3 their best speedrun time is 40 sec on octo samurai (sadly cant reach the world record of 39)

unlike pippin they actually have a pretty good fashion sense, always coordinating their outfits and ink colour to match. a very stylish squid!

now kiwi is an interesting one. i first played splatoon 1 in beginning of 2018, so sadly i missed out on the splatfests. still got plenty of turf in and played hero mode repeatedly bc i have brainrot!

so kiwi (again. she/they) is really into amiibo challenges, especially the kraken challenge. being a kraken for that long makes em feel powerful, and its lotsa fun. they actually spend far more time on hero missions than anything else, they enjoy turf on the occasion but find it weirdly intimidating (favourite stage is flounder heights!). she feels most at home in the valley, with craig and the squid sisters. theyre far too sympathetic toward octolings (unlike pigeon who just goes fucking ham) and tries her best to just avoid fighting them entirely. because of this, shes pretty good at stealth missions, especially since she rarely makes much noise anyway. theyre definitely the most low-key out of the four agents.

SO!! why do i name them all after birds? because.... i like birds :D yes im a wannabe ornithologist and birds are my main special interest. i also mainly name them after aus/nz birds cuz im just Like That. we have cool birds in australia, and lorikeet was just far too fitting to pass up. (btw pippin is short for peregrine falcon)

despite being so skilled in hero mode missions they do actually get hurt a lot and almost always has some kind of bandaid or gauze on her body from various injuries. is it a lack of skill, or just recklessness? hmmm (its definitely just because she doesnt take enough care of their body lol).

if kiwi were to be captain in splatoon 3, theyd definitely be just constantly scruffing new 3 by the collar to stop them from doing something stupid. is very afraid of a new idiot joining the gang, as if pip n pidge werent bad enough. all 4 as a splatfest team would definitely be the most chaotic thing possible.

also theyre this way because when i draw squirds (tagged on my blog as "wings au") i think its fun to see how different they all look! kiwi would certainly be more fitting as a bird of prey but i think they look so silly with the stubby wings so im not changing my mind. this does mean shes real fast at running! pip and lori are the fastest flyers, pigeon is just kinda in between rip

final note, theyre all at LEAST 18 just so that its not weird. they all use she/they except lori, whos exclusively they/them. they all fucking hate ranked but love hero missions. also all of them have 1 braincell bouncing between them (mainly held by kiwi)

if u managed to read this far, thanks for ur time!! ill eventually draw all these silly bird kids together as squirds, i think itd be fun.