#making a rough draft sketch

[alexthen3rd]

Working on an mini art project.

Can't wait to show you guys.

[starryeyedamphibian]

First time drawing Danny phantom, I’m working on an GhostKing!Danny AU right now blegh

[seepingfrommyskin]

rip your heart out.

[numberfiveisback]

Pfft y'all what if...

what if.

[springsketches]

In one of the routes I noticed the long quiet has about 14 arms. So I decided to try to sketch that madness.

[droppingartintotheinfinite]

saint bernard is kind of a dirk song i think.

might polish this at some point

[ummbassically]

I keep being plagued with TSBS comic ideas and then I have no willpower to finish even the damn roughs

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

social survey time. in 2000s there was a german videogame called zanzarah about a girl who lives in london and travels to the fairy land to save the humanity. i played it when i was five. it was my first encounter with art. if you could disassemble my persona this game would lie at its fundament. it has the most beautiful ost ever called come with me by karina gretere, and when i watched tamb it popped in my head for the first time in many years. i wrote a comment about it under the song hoping that maybe one day one person will understand me..... and got 7 likes????? maybe i live under a rock but in my 24 years of life i have not met a single person who knew zanzarah, and now i meet SEVEN who know zanzarah AND tamb??????? is..... is there some sort of link....... did the eight of us end up in tamb because of zanzarah.........

[interstella-eyes]

Trying to come up with a new outfit design for Nathan since I’ve been unhappy with his default outfit for a while now (I don’t think I even posted a drawing with that outfit on here b4 💀)

I wanted his outfit to actually reference his lore and look more mystical and stuff in general!! ^^ this is just a first draft but I actually really like it so far :)

His old reference for comparison ▿

I traced the draft sketch on top of the old ref so I didn’t have to draw a full body (and for easier comparison) lmao

In this old ref, his (purple) skin and hair color was the same, which I have changed by now as well to make his face more readable (as you can see from my recent art of him)

He desperately needs a new ref 😭

[proxy-pages]

I love my ocs actually <3

[medi-bee]

draw your character in your current outfit challenge or whatever

[lotus-pear]

wishing you luck and courage for writing– even more if it's a fic and you're not used to often write stuff like that–

hope you don't have any writing block (and if that's the case it's okay to step out for a moment) so yeh again good luck and take care :)

much obliged anon i'll need it fs hopefully i do not experience writer's block otw bc that would actually kill me🫡

[bookshelfpassageway]

Finally signed up for @alhilton’s patreon for early access novel draft chapters and am having a pretty grand old time. I love a fussy foppish man with mysteriously vicious magical powers/issues.

I have taken some creative liberties in blasting the scene with my usual “but what if it was a Don Bluth movie” art beam, which is to say, adding a lot of glowy magic and Noise filter.

[moshieee]

Ew, essays :[

I miss the old days of kindergarten when we attempted to color butterflies and ate erasers and glue

-🎁

I hated kindergarten

Essays may suck but at least now I'm not the weird kid in the corner wishing I had friends

However yes I absolutely despise essays with all my being... in fact!

Achievement unlocked: you somehow found a topic moshie hates enough and on a bad day to start them ranting in the tags...

Warning there are curse words, poor spelling, and caps locks

Sorry in advance

[yellow-artz]

Messily editing my ocs onto figures

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

🕳️ What to Write When You Have No Idea What Happens Next

aka: you’re staring into the creative abyss and the abyss is not only staring back, it’s asking for a rough draft

hi writer. welcome to that fun little liminal space in your project where ✨absolutely nothing✨ makes sense. you wrote the last scene. you know you’re not at the end. but suddenly your characters are just standing there like NPCs waiting for a quest marker and your brain is doing the spinning beachball of death.

so. what now?

let’s break down some actually useful strategies for when you hit That Point™️. not vibes. not ✨manifest your way out✨ energy. not the “just keep writing” slog. here’s what to do when your story is refusing to tell you what happens next:

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zoom out: do a “scene audit” ———————————————

you don’t need a full outline to do this. take five minutes and sketch a bullet list of every scene that’s happened so far. not just what happened, but why it mattered.

like this:

MC lied to their boss (sets up stakes re: trust/power)

antagonist shows up at cafe (establishes tension + location crossover)

best friend gets suspicious (emotional complication, adds pressure)

this gives you a birds-eye view of what you’ve set in motion. often you’re stuck because you’ve lost sight of the threads you were pulling, your own story has momentum, you just need to feel it again.

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try “ghost drafting” (aka fake writing) —————————————————————

open a doc. start typing what would happen, if you were writing. super casual. something like:

“okay i think the next scene is maybe them at the train station?? or wait--maybe we need to see the fallout of the argument. i don’t really know what x character wants rn but i think y might be planning something…”

this trick works bc it removes pressure. no fancy prose, no perfect structure. it’s literally you telling yourself what might happen. and weirdly? your brain will often finish the scene for you without asking. (the number of times I’ve ghost drafted myself into 800 usable words… witchcraft.)

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pin your characters to a corkboard and interrogate them ——————————————————————————

not literally. (unless you're into that. i don’t judge.)

but seriously: when you’re stuck, it’s often because your character has no immediate goal or emotion. pause and ask:

what does this character want right now? like, in this moment?

what are they trying to avoid?

what’s keeping them from getting either?

character-driven scenes are rarely static. even if it’s just an awkward dinner or walking to the store, someone’s always trying to do or hide something. if everyone in the scene is just reacting or waiting, you’ve got fog. bring in the fire.

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don’t skip the “boring” stuff--weaponize it —————————————————

sometimes we’re stuck because we think the next scene is dull. like “ugh i guess they just… travel to the manor” or “they regroup at the safe house.” but these slow beats are GOLD if you embed purpose.

try giving the “boring” scene:

a time limit or interruption (they’re hiding but someone knocks)

a secret (someone is lying about something small but important)

a reversal (what they expected is the opposite of what happens)

even if it’s a quiet scene, layer it. conflict isn’t just yelling or action. it’s discomfort. it’s misalignment. tension between what’s said and unsaid.

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when all else fails: write the next emotional beat —————————————————————

strip it back. forget plot. forget pacing. ask yourself:

then write that. a monologue. a journal entry. an outburst. a line of whispered dialogue.

sometimes it’s not that you don’t know what happens next. it’s that your character hasn’t processed what just happened, and until they do, the story can’t move forward.

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the void is normal. getting stuck doesn’t mean you failed or picked the wrong idea or that the muse packed up and left for a better writer’s house. it just means your brain needs space to regroup.

writing isn’t linear. stories aren’t built in perfect lines. they loop. they stall. they circle back. and that’s okay.

if you’re in the middle of nowhere, here’s your sign to sit on the side of the metaphorical road, open your weird little notebook, and write anyway. write wrong. write messy. write ghost drafts. the path shows up when you start walking.

🕳️ you got this, writer.

tag me if you end up crawling out of your stuck scene with a little victory paragraph. i’ll bring snacks for the next one 🧃✨

P.S. I made a free mini eBook about the 5 biggest mistakes writers make in the first 10 pages 👀 you can grab it here for FREE: