#process commentary

[theflyingkipper]

AND NOW The process of making Henry.

The beginning of the journey was typical of how my traditional art gets made, although I decided to experiment with more colored pencil shading- like I did with this old drawing of James.

I also messed up his cab lining in marker, so I went back with an oil-based paint pen to fix it. I used masking tape to make sure I didn’t make it worse XD

And it seemed he was done...

I WAS WRONG.

HE WAS HORRIBLY CROOKED. LOOK AT HIM. TILTED. it bothered me so much that I cut him out of the page so I could straighten him

if that wasnt arduous enough. I noticed that i’d made his front disproportionate. So I cut him into even smaller pieces, removing his front running board + buffers, and his leading wheels

(look how they massacred my boy) and so I began putting my beloved back together.

I moved his front slightly higher up and closer to the pistons, fitting them more snugly than before. In retrospect, I think this could have been done better but I can always do this again (I’m always down to draw henry). I glued him to a piece of black construction paper and then cut him out once again.

sometime after I cut him out again I used my spare paper to do this. a mimir <3

I tried a few different ways to fully flatten the drawing (it had gotten bent a few times during the process) but to no avail. The final image was created by gently attaching henry to some watercolor paper with tiny strips of masking tape on the underside. I pray it doesnt get ripped when I want to move him again

I hope you guys like me talking about my artistic process behind some of my work, because I have chronic cant Shut Up disease + good practice for doing analyses and process book shit for school.

I really do love making fun crafty traditional art, and if I don’t burn out- there should be more :)

[wuntrum]

who up tearsing their kingdom

[masterfuldoodler]

wait guys actually! I have a great idea! Instead of feeling bad for reblogging our own art why don't we do a thing where we reblog older pieces/art that didn't get much attention/whatever you want and give commentary on it! Talk about what was fun to draw, what was hard, any interesting stories surrounding the making of it! Behind the scenes! pls guys that would be so fun to read I would LOVE to see that let's do it!

[devicecontact]

Hakita on making the differences between characters in text clear and the characterization of “the red text” (it’s hell he just means hell)

From this years charity interview!

[couch-house]

Fleebay Beepo playlist! [youtube link] [zip link]

it's been foreverrr since i finished a character playlist--i missed doing this! tracklist and director's commentary under the cut teehee :)

if you disagree with any of my choices, just remember: 1) this is my playlist for me to listen to made of songs I like for me 2) you just don't see my vision 3) you don't know him like i do 4) make your own so i can disagree with yours too.

WDKYWMYAK -- Rabbit junk

This is a Killing Game After All -- Gadgetor

chance bought this cd from the comic store. i think the album is Doom-inspired? pretty cool! check it out! anyway this first section is pretty obviously all violence killing and maiming etc

we're coming down out of the chaotic songs into some confusion for the amnesia arc, starting with ministry and boards of canada. 7 references an unwilling change of the self, and just fits the vibe right now. 8... should be obvious lol.

3. All Futures -- The Armed

4. Bears -- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

5. You Know What You Are -- Ministry

6. 1969 -- Boards of Canada

sorry i heard a psychedelic rock song that starts with a big cat meow and blacked out. EBONY MOMENT!!! this and the next couple songs are again more about contributing to the Feeling of the groovy train than a direct relation to the lyrics. though 10 can be justified by the fact he's british.

7. Long Road Home -- Oneohtrix Point Never

8. I Don't Remember -- Peter Gabriel

9. Come Back June -- Pussy

i didn't think i would end up keeping this song when i threw it on here but it just... works really well structurally. sigh... okay well it kind of works thematically. we're moving into some merger au territory at this point, which is my way as a fan to give fleet more of a self-actualization arc. establish his own identity, make friends, accept his existence a bit more. 13 is again more focused on the caring environment of groovy train (and the idea that this won't last forever) but we'll come back around to merger in a second.

10. Hey, Mister Sun -- Bobby Sherman

11. Baby All the Time -- Julien Love (NOTE: NOT IN YT PLAYLIST)

12. Handlebars -- Flobots

i'm so obsessed with this as a song from fleet to sonic. esp focused on the idea of fleet being the trauma dump that everyone wants dead and sonic being the one who gets to keep their friends. another lucky cd find--this time thrifted. this band still has their old website up--you can contact them if you'd like to get ahold of your own copy!

13. Cursis Melodías -- Natalia Lafourcade

14. Flagiolletes -- Billy Mahonie

15. Wake Up To Be You -- The Aesthetics

16. Every Home a Prison ft. Jello Biafra -- DJ Coldcut (Inevitable Alien Nation mix)

i'm in love with this song. we're back in merger au btw. fleet is now a goddamn hooligan in the street (teenager socializing outside with his friends).

17. Default -- Django Django

we're getting to the end of his life! canon, not au. once again on the idea of fleet (dying, cringe) being a comparative failure. the next two songs are our big explosive end! 18 is another band i found from a thrifted cd. lucky!

the end! thanks for listening! ^_^ as a treat, YOU get to see the special bonus track: The Adventures of Little White Baby -- No Soap, Radio.

18. Werewolf -- Progger

19. light speed drift ft Kasane Teto + Adachi Rei -- frog96

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

[bonus-links]

This series is amazing! I love the character depth you added to Slate and his ... death? But my question is, why is Era of the Wild Zelda (do you have a different name for her?) so jaded in the last bit? Was there something Loft did that I missed? It seemed like everything was done with good intentions, and Zelda would have noticed that.

here’s what I was thinking when I wrote the scene, and sorry for writing a bit of an essay lol: Loft did have good intentions, and both Zelda and Slate know that. But there’s also a whole tangled mess of reasons why they’re both pretty put out with him about it anyway, most of which he could have never known the context of, but kind of stumbled into trampling all over anyway by being so bullheaded. (To be fair, Loft has his own complicated reasons for acting the way he does here, but that’s not what this post is about)

For Zelda, she’s had a long time to come to terms with the struggle over her sealing power, the things her father said and did, the tragedy of Everything, etc— but the thing about being in limbo fighting tooth and nail for so long is that it makes all that trauma feel both like ancient history and as soon as yesterday. So for Loft to a) inadvertently (and he really didn’t mean it like this, but that’s what it sounded like) imply the sealing power she suffered so much over wasn’t even enough and b) pressure Slate about his inability to access his own divine power,,,,it rankles. Regardless of whether Loft meant it that way, that’s how it felt from her point of view. She’s also just, like, kind of protective of Slate about things like this.

[simikae]

i say your name all the time when you’re not around

[mania-sama]

okay i don’t have the means of explaining it right now, but i entirely, 100%, agree and am elated by the decisions gege has made in chapter 261 regarding gojo.

and i really do mean it. there is something so pitiful, so perversive, so human, yet so vulturous in the entire situation; to drain yourself of your blood and life to keep the needy satiated, yet when you are dead, they eat your liver and gnaw on your bones

[venjamyra]

happy ww wednesday!! he gets his own 5th moon crater moment bc I say so.

below the cut is a lil thing I wrote tangentially related to the drawing. only 150 words

"So what's it like traveling with that guy?" Their impromptu drinking buddy waved his hands enthusiastically from the other side of the table. He cut Meryl off before she could answer. "No, no. I'm asking him."

Wolfwood glanced up from his drink. The man's eyes were black, wide with strange innocence and excitement. The woman sitting with him was resting back in her chair, face pointed off to the side, but she nodded along to every sentence of the conversation.

Outside the splintering window, the last light of day illuminated the red sands. The fifth moon was a speck in the sky, a smudge on glass; yet, it took up his entire view. He bore some of the guilt for that scar.

"Eh." He threw back the last of his drink. A smile pulled at his lips as a red coat weaved through the crowd. "Less interesting than you'd think."

[stuckinapril]

😐 no one told me id burst out crying in front of my best friend watching past lives

[dol-dee]

You get some glimpses of the full versions I did for the pc's in this

This timelapse isn't quite as interesting as the rendering one but it's still funny to see the absolute chaos of the planning, the place holders, fonts, stickers and my million different effect brushes fgdsgdf

[jojo-schmo]

More Schmojo!! And I decided to name her dark matter friend living in her bubble rod, “Beauregard.” >:3

Plus some doodles I thought of during work, and a lighthearted poke at myself lol.

[klanced]

the virgin lance who has never run afoul of the law & is now spiraling into existential dread

the chad keith who does not respect the police, knows his rights, and is about to give the dead-father-missing-brother-absent-mother-sympathetic-orphan performance of a lifetime

[cowboyinternist]

exclusive interview 🎤

[jellobubblelol]

me after a long day out be like: