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emuwarum · 1 year

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the other character I was unable to find for a while. Finally found it in the depths of my art folders within art folders (no clue why past me put it there)

#Emu does art #here we go the vague shape guys #this one is extremely sad and frustrated #Aka I had a meltdown at swimming class and drew this sometime afterwards #actually probably why I hid it #didn’t make me so happy after drawing it #it does now though #i also was this character in a dream and had to hide from people chasing me #wearing sunglasses and a scarf #there were friends too but we got separated and I got caught and the dream ended #these funky colour guys.. they mean a lot for me #my first representations of people but without faces #I was focusing on the character rather than them having a face #my first proper attempts to have a humanoid subject in my digital art in a whole piece #rather than individually drawing the face #there are roughly four humans I’ve drawn but I don’t like them a whole lot now #necromancer and deathbird boots will haunt me slightly #proud of trying to do that though #there is also two similar character to these guys I’ve drawn before #but I don’t like the concept very much and it was long ago #anyways I love you my characters. Goop characters. I will reblog on the others in tags what they are like

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months

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With the end of season two comes a second redraw!

[Nov 2022] [June 2023] [June 2024]

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #I was really looking forwards to this redraw - though the jump in skill isn't as dramatic as the last one I still am proud of my progress!#It's really incredible to look back on this last year and how much has happened since then.#Both in my personal life and this blog.#I started the second season while I was going through some pretty rough times and it truly kept my sanity afloat.#I challenged myself a lot more this year! And while it didn't always turn out the way I hoped-#-being messy and earnestly trying to do something different has been my favourite part of art.#There will always be a lot of room to grow - I don't think art and creativity has a ceiling.#I went from doubting that I was even an artist to joining a gamedev team as the lead artist! That's character growth!#Thank you all once again for joining me on this journey B*)#Thank you for all the messages and support you have sent my way these last 18 months.#I'm so happy to have been given the chance to create something for this community. You've given me so much and I am so grateful.#I'll take a little break to post some personal project stuff this week and resume season three after that!#Onwards to another season of silly (and sometimes serious) comics!

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blairaptor · 9 months

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Captain Baja Blast 🥤🌮

#the bad batch #captain howzer #clone captain howzer #my art #y'all i'm really proud of this. i do great work when i'm being silly #anyway i wish him the best in s3 even though things don't bode well for him #also i'm trying not to over-render my work so I left the sketch lines there in places

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gingermintpepper · 26 days

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One of my biggest pet peeves is the assumption that something has to be sad for it to be tragic.

I've always been a big believer of the 'Apollo has an awful love life'/'Apollo is plain unlucky with love' line of thinking but it does bother me that the general reasoning for that statement is given to the concept of 'Apollo is somehow undesireable and thus rejected' (Cassandra/Daphne/Marpessa) or 'his lovers die young and thus their love is unfulfilled' (Cyparissus/Hyacinthus/Coronis). I personally think that's a very unfortunate way of looking at things - not only because it neglects the many perfectly cordial entanglements and affairs Apollo has had, both mortal and divine - but because it presents a very shallow interpretation of the concepts of love and loss and how loss affects people.

Apollo can still grieve lovers that have a long, healthy life. The inherent tragedy of an immortal who knows his lovers and children will die and cannot stop it does not stop being tragic simply because those lovers and children live long, fulfilled lives. The inherent tragedy of loss does not stop being tragic simply because someone knows better than to mourn something that was always going to end.

What is tragic is not that Apollo loves and loses but that loss itself follows him. Apollo does not love with the distance of an immortal, he does not have affairs and then leaves never to listen to their prayers again. He does not have offspring and then abandon them to their trials only to appear when it is time to lead them to their destinies. He raises his young, he protects the mothers of his children, he blesses the households that have his favour and multiplies their flocks that they may never go hungry. He educates his sons, he adorns his daughters and even in wrath he is quick to come to his senses and regret the punishments he doles out.

Apollo loves. And like mortals, there will always be some part of him that wishes to protect the objects of his affections. Apollo, however, is also an emissary of Fate. He knows that the fate of all mortal things is death. He knows that to love a mortal is to accept that eventually he will have to bury them. There is no illusion of forever, there is no fantasy where he fights against the nature of living things and shields his beloveds from death. Apollo loves and because of that love, he also accepts.

And that, while beautiful, is also tragic.

#ginger rambles #ginger chats about greek myths #greek mythology #apollo #Listen man #I think there's something extremely beautiful about Apollo's affairs #Yes I know that Ares also loves and cares for his daughters but this isn't about him #There's just something about the way that Apollo put his all into it every single time #To the point that even when he does know better he still fights because of the strength of his love #The Iliad to me will always be a love story #Yes Achilles' wrath is said to come from his overwhelming feelings towards Patroclus #but what Achilles does has nothing to do with grief or love #By the end of everything Achilles forsook that love which ought to have defined his actions based on what he was saying #and warped it into a weapon meant to satisfy the void left by his loss #Apollo though - I am always taken aback by the sheer weight of his love #towards not only Hektor but towards all of Troy in the Iliad #And how he is very careful to balance that love and all the ways he wishes he could fight against their inevitably end #with his duties as one who is both aware of the impending end and whose position in the war #has put him in opposition with his elders #That delicate balance between a love so powerful that he is willing to take on the full weight of Athena and Hera's wrath #and an understanding that the battle he fights is not for victory but simply because for love's sake #How could you not think of that as beautiful and awesome and so achingly tragic #I feel the same about both Asclepius' and Actaeon's deaths #Apollo loved BOTH of his sons - Asclepius and Aristaeus - so so SO much #He was so incredibly proud of them both and delighted immensely in the both of their victories and talents #And so when Asclepius dies and it is by his own father's hand - I have always found his act of wrath so fascinating #Honestly this could be its own separate post - but the fact that Apollo does not beg Zeus to reconsider or to bring Asclepius back #when Apollo has made cases for lenience on things like that before speaks of a level of understanding from Apollo that Asclepius was always #going to die because of his pushing of the boundary between life and death #so he doesn't bother trying to reason with Zeus or plea his grief - instead going directly to destroying something important to Zeus

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icantdothistodaybruh · 1 year

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#I'm living my best “make your fav blorbo's life pathetic moment”#but also my “comfort no hurt moment” which I'm not all that proud of-#wanna draw smthg dark&edgy but it's like I'm not in control of what my hands do :(#also just for the record #I redrew Sebastian's hand four fucking times and I still don't like it but no way there's gonna be a fifth one or I'll cry #Ciel's face saves it all though yeah I love him #turned out great on the first try what a legend #kuroshitsuji #black butler #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #sebaciel #my art

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whereismyhat5678 · 10 months

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GETTING ONE DOODLE IN TODAY YESSSS!!!! 👏💥👏💥👏💥

Okay, not too long ago I was messing around with C.AI and I was talking to Anton as Gustavo (wanted to see what he thought of Gus-) and the ass-hole kept calling him The Monopoly Man from the way I described him. He also kept calling him short names which I thought was kinda funny but I think someone like Gustavo would get a bit upset after a while…don’t you think?

(Also bonus under. A little bit dark I think?)

He got fed up with it.

#Pizza Tower #ANTONBLAST #ANTONBALL #It’s been a while since I drew Anton on the tablet so *cracks knuckles* I’m pretty proud of how it turned out 😎#Last one I thought would be funnier but I didn’t like how it turned out. But it’s fine 🤷‍♀️#Also C.AI Anton is pretty funny- I can mess with his ass hell yeah 💪💪#ALSO- as much as I love Gustavo been this lovable guy I think he’d get mad if someone were to belittle him about his height #Of course Anton’s just trying to joke around but he sounds like a dick about it y’know?#(Don’t tell someone to do this please. This is meant to be a joke. If they’re in on it though I guess it’s fine I think?)

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the-valiant-valkyrie · 8 months

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hey.......... do you mind.........

#i picked up a pen (art)#lethal company #ghost girl #do we tag the monsters here or what #becoming a fan of tilting my canvas for no fucking reason honestly #im not very good at like. backgrounds and such. maybe this will be fixed some day. maybe not #didn't trace this one though. which does make me proud if not vaguely #anyways im trying to get braver. will update you on how it goes or whatever.

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timechange · 2 months

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MCFLY JULY ‘24 — local legend.

In which the youth of Hill Valley debate a thirty-year-old music industry conspiracy theory about their very own hometown hero.

#drabble tbt.#mcflyjuly #mcfly july ‘24.#oh i had SUCH FUN WITH THIS #such cursed cursed fun #it's always such a joy to get in touch with my tumblr teen / fangirl past and the gen z memelord stuff...#i'm so mad some of the usernames were cut off though i was so proud of cheesequake97 and kyleforniadream #and “the artist formerly known as kyle” as a display name rip </3 #i really do think that while marty does try to hide the time travel stuff... there is this “conspiracy theory” in the flyaways fandom #it's like avril lavigne all over again #and also like... he *does* leave clues / hints in his music. their first album is called 88.#they have songs on there called “1:15 am” “erasure” “continuum” and “in flux” (among others)#the second album (the one that really is the breakout hit / success) is called future boy. so the media calls him “future boy.”#it's very much an iykyk situation #elizabeth tbt.#twins tbt.#queue. this is heavy.

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torahtot · 2 months

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so sad when ashkenazim make their whole personality about how their food is so bland and spiceless when really it should be about how they're hot as fuck

#like bbgirl you do know your culture is more than bagel cream cheese and “campy yiddish” right #you dont need to be ironic self hating comedic about it all the time you can just be proud of it u can love it. grow up #sometimes i see these ppl & im like talk abt being ashkenazi without poking a joke at urself or using the words gefilte schmuck or shlep.#it will be good for you #its like they feel like they have to apologize for being ashki jewish by being really funny. theyre embarrassed of it & they try to distance #themselves from jews while still being like erm im a proud jew see. it's weird it's very sad though #wishing them the best..#nachi speaks

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shannonsketches · 3 months

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He said "Fuck this shit, I'm out" I'm crying. Toriyama's Vegeta was so top shelf 🤌

(From Neko Majin Z Chapter 5!)

#dbtag #Idk why Toei didn't lean into Vegeta being a version of Piccolo you could put in funnier situations like Toriyama wrote #He's reserved and professional and proud but JUST immature enough to bite down on a gag that Piccolo would readily swerve #But they take a lot of Goku's chaotic comedy away too in favor of Hero(tm) writing and that is why I keep pulling my hair out aklsjdlas #Toriyama was sO funny and it bums me out so much that the anime derailed how lighthearted and straight up silly the humor is #and replaced it with Misogyny Is Funny and humiliation kinks asjklfhadjk and it's not just my complaints about Vegeta and Bulma!!#“Goku is running away from his very reasonable wife because he is a goofy little guy who doesn't want to do his chores” becomes #“Chichi is Cruel to Goku who is Trying to be a good husband because she doesn't relate to his passions and vilifies him for having them"#which is not their dynamic at all but dudes in the writing room are like “being married is fucking awful amirite fellas hahaha”#but Toriyama was like “Being married is not for everybody but it can be really great if you and your partner are on the same page”#Chichi's reasonable! And Goku isn't romantically wired but Goku can enthusiastically consent to sex and still not enjoy kissing #those things can be and are true for a lot of people! And it makes even more sense if you hc Goku to be aspec (and audhd coded) like I do #Kissing can feel gross and can be a sensory overload for many folks. Doesn't mean they're stupid or innocent.#(although Goku CAN still ride nimbus so idk what Pure entails in this universe askljad)#Like I am the FIRST person to joke and drag Goku about his marriage as an aspec myself but like legit Goten is a Last Night On Earth baby #He knows what sex is. But also between how socially removed Goku is and how Shy and Conservative Chichi it's not out of line #to assume the actual words sex and kiss have never been spoken in that house skljdlajdf I FULLY believe Chichi uses code words #Chichi thinks her son being blonde makes him a delinquent and still uses honorifics with Goku like it is fully reasonable to assume #that the joke of Goku's naivetè centers around the fact that his wife is too embarrassed to talk about Certain Matters in a normal way #While Bulma and Vegeta are slutty hedonistic cityfolk who need jesus (according to chichi probably...and me but I support them)#anyway. point is. Toriyama was funny as hell and Nekomajin is absolutely ridiculous and goofy and has a fully amoral main character #which just reminded me that toei is allergic to letting goku be a gremlin and so vegeta's not allowed to be a gremlin wrangler #even though that's been his job since the day he met raditz alksdjaskljd

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paruecake · 2 months

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Kanto pokemon: 3/151

#my art #pokemon #venusaur #fanart #art #i'm actually kinda proud of this one! esp since i was dreading it because it thought it'd be too hard T_T #though i forgot to do an under painting so when i tried to change the background ..... lol #lesson learned!! i might try something similar with charmander but you know hopefully better #this took me longer than i wanted because i couldn't get the proportions right #my hope is that by the end of the kanto pokemon i'll be faster and idk hopefully have improved a lot?

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corrodedcoughin · 2 years

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Modern au where Steve notices eddie goes to sleep with earbuds even when Steve is staying over. He’s never been able to see what it is Eddie is listening to and Eddie’s never told him either. One night steve just gives up to his inner nosey bitch and leans over a sleeping eddie to unlock his phone and finds YouTube video playing called ‘SUBLIMINAL SLEEP TRACK “I AM A DRAGON” GUARANTEED RESULTS’

#from then on Steve noticed eddie muttering things under his breath like ‘he the dragon. find the hoard. I have beautoful shing scales’#‘mortals fear me and I am proud’#he notices that Eddie blows his cigarette smoke out of his nose and thrashes his head around when he thinks no one is looking #but does it when he thinks people are looking too. he really doesn’t care #Steve draws the line when Eddie files his nails into points he knows how much Eddie flings his hands around and that’s too much of a risk #idk is this anything?#what’s the best solution when you feel like shit? try to make somebody else happy #I mean that’s my solution so I can ignore my own issues you do you though #stranger things #steddie #eddie munson #steve harrington

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rabbit-harpist · 8 months

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rose’s sanctuary, materials watercolor, pen, sharpie.

reference

mid process

#qsmp fanart #qsmp structures #my art #watercolor #this has taken hours. it’s not perfect but i’m proud of finishing it.#landscapes are hard #i love rose’s sanctuary though wanted to try drawing it #maybe i’ll figure out something else to do with it in the future #did discover some new plant techniques!#the vines and roses look so much more fluid when i do them first with watercolor than go over with pen for detail #and watercolor really isn’t great for dark colors i should figure something else out when i do night skies #colored pencil perhaps? how does that interact with watercolor?#i have acrylics but don’t like them as much #finished this about the time of phil y missa kiss which was wild #anyway done with this and letting it go into the aethyr #(they just kissed for quacki again wow)

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witheredbouquet · 9 months

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drawn for the dragonyule gift exchange on twt, so glad that i could join this year! thank you for hosting, saint starfall ♥

i hope that everyone has a wonderful dragonyule & a happy new year!

#dragalia lost #dragalia lost fanart #fanart #dragonyule gift exchange #my art #if you saw this already no you didn't LOL #sorry i don't post/use tumblr much and i messed up orz #my recipient was ritte! i dunno their socials or anything so i can't tag/link em - but i hope they like it c:#food is based on stamina consumables in dragalia lost! chibi beast volk is based off his dragalia mini comic appearance!#anyway. been a while since i've taken the time to “finish” up a piece (and well. have the time to draw at all) so i'm glad i could do this!#i think i'm proud of the final result even though i still have lotsa room for improvement #(desperately trying not to nitpick things and ultimately regret posting this urghghghhhng)#one of the first times i've drawn food! i feel okay with the result hehe #learned that there's a more active DL community on tw*tter for fanart and stuff and i've never been more tempted to join shjdakfasa #plus so many zines are twitter only and i can't see most of the posts without an account #but yeah no thanks just tumblr is overwhelming enough LOL #anyway happy dragonyule/happy holidays to anyone reading this! we've made it through another year—i couldn't be more proud of us!

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maryholdenofthevalley · 5 months

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So I wanted to share to you that this Sunday there was a festival in my country, and I (the bad hair one) met other two Crowleys (the 2012 version and the Paganini version) unexpectedly and we had fun (there were tons of artists whom sell their Good Omens merchs, much to my surprise). I called us Post-breakup squad, I even prepared the plant mister filled with holy water (just a decent amount of handwash alcohol really).

Someone asked where is my Aziraphale, I should have answered "he's in Heaven now" if I was clever enough in time (sadly, no Aziraphale in this festival).

(Bonus: two of us near a No Smoking sign to show that Earth is somehow not very much different from Hell)

#I made some demon and angel from Hazbin Hotel and Chainsawman try the holy water too #they were safe Im promise #I was totally not tempted to drink the water during the fes #there was a fun accident when the three of us were talking away and one person approach us and ask for a photo #2012!Crowley: oh a picture of three of us?#them: sorry I mean the red hair one #the red one truly was gorgeous though ✨✨✨✨#i had so much fun I forgot to do a proper photoshoot of myself #when I was proud of the cosplay that day even #i hope neil found this its like small victory #which i dont have much in life #good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #i really want to do Furfur next #i love him so so much his addition in season 2 was a brilliant move i hope he come back in s3

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dawnthefluffyduck · 9 months

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hey that's not supposed to be out there (uploaded wrong version at first haha whoops)

#not supposed to be that color either #i wonder who that belongs to #i had a very vague meaning for this in mind but saying it would spoil the fun #christ this took me forever #i wanted to do a quick project to give myself a break from my final #but accidentally made an entirely new kind of nightmare #BUT i can proudly say that i am very proud of this despite how long it took me #alrighty this blog is all about tracking progress so my thought on this;#it's not really as energetic as i had hoped to make it so i think that's the biggest technical issue i have with this #i'll try to get back to doing more gestures soon as a way to help with that #i think my shadows are a bit confusing too #i'm looking at it now and his glasses kinda taper off into the void of his fur bc i didnt mark the shadow along the left of his ear #but the thought of digging back through layers to fix it and blending that mess in is giving me a headache so i'm content with leaving it #i think i learned a lot about light and reflections though #my shadows aren't the greatest but i had so much fun rendering the glasses #and the glow of the soul pushed me to think about bounce light a lot more #figuring out how to make the colors look like they were glowing was a whole separate issue #i did it in the last big ralsei drawing i did but not nearly to this extent #i won't be doing something this large for a while after this but i'll keep trying to work on the things i didn't like about this #i think i'm gonna start putting my self-crit in the tags from now on #it really does bulk up the posts and it's hard to scroll past #i like reflecting on my work like this though #i've been able to draw a lot more since i've started doing it because it helps me create specific goals for myself #lets me keep pushing myself while still having fun with my art #ralsei #deltarune #deltarune fanart

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