#psychicduo

[perish-song]

Bnnuy for @psychicduo uvu

[askdeoxys]

Sabotage.

[ @askvekpa ]

[ cameo from @occasional-weed and @psychicduo ]

[askadewott]

"They did try to teach me how to swim...but I was very stubborn.." "I think at one point they stopped teachin' me how to swim since I was being very stubborn about it."

"Can't help myself, water's scary!!" @psychicduo

[askbohemiancompany]

Quill @ Gwen: "Ohh, the little edgelord! I think I liked you better with the bucket. Oh well. Hello again. I've been thinking, so indulge me, won't you? Where did you develop your musical tastes? Songs your parents played or maybe something you heard on the radio? I am genuinely curious."

"Oh hey! It's the old head. I think I liked you better with...actually, I can't remember you in a single bit of clothing I have ever liked you in."

Gwen could not say she was surprised about his inquiry into her music tastes. He was a musician after all. Plus, it was actually a question she did not mind answering.

"I'm going to disappoint you with my answer. I developed my own taste of music by getting as far away from my folks as possible. I would often loiter outside this old record shop that was run by an old metal roadie. Yet he was never like...stuck in one genre. I always tried to make sure I was not seen but I have a distinct feeling he was always aware of me but chose to never confront me."

Recounting some of these memories from her past that was not a sore point for her felt nice. To the point where a gentle smile would creep on her face.

"I still remember how he, his buds and some of the usuals would talk about music and how even an old metal head like him could actually grow to like rap, R&B and even techno. But never power metal. You could never talk him into liking that." A light chuckle followed.

"I still remember when he and his former bandmate were arguing with a regular about power metal and one them said 'what is it power metal always trying to teach me something?'," Gwen broke out into full laughter. "And then he said; 'If I wanted to listen to the content of this damn album, I'll read a damn book!'" Clutching her stomach, the psychic continued to breakdown laughing regarding that story. Something about that was just so funny and true.

(@psychicduo)

[casteliacityramen]

can i have one miso ramen and as much pepper as you can legal give me?

You get a look that says: "Arceus has abandoned us because of your lust for punishment." Wax philosophical aside, you get what you pay for here in Unova.

It's the last spicy ramen of the night. He's dumping in all of the ingredients. All of them. Full peppercorns, whole peppers, hand fulls of pepper flakes, a bottle of chili oil, and some extra accoutrements. Let's add a couple of eggs and some greenery. Why not? Maybe the vegetables will it'll add some kick.

The bowl is placed unceremoniously on the counter. Pepper flakes and other spices are knocked into the air like hellish mushroom spores.

Is this even ramen? The noodles are getting pushed out of the bowl by a literal mound of black peppercorns. This looks like the world's first ramen broth you can chew.

... Wait.

Sure, you ordered this, but he was frustrated when he made it. He doesn't want to be known as Castelia City's "Spicy Ramen Frog Demon" that destroys people's stomachs (and make beaks fall off). He's always wanted people to come here to relax. This is his busiest night yet with the most generous customers to date. His nerves got to him before he knew it.

A bowl of ramen this late should be made with consideration to your comfort, not an attempt at your life.

He reaches for the bowl and pulls it back. This isn't what he wants to serve you. You deserve better than this, absurd request and all.

... Besides... Good cooks taste the food as they make it and he hasn't tasted it yet-

I understand now. Dig in.

( Feat. @psychicduo )

[askabbyandeva]

Better late than never, amirite? I sadly never got a sixth character from the original post, but I sat on this meme for way too long already. So without further ado:

@ask-mirage-mews's Zeus was nominated by @pokespacegang @psychicduo's Scarlett was nominated by @ask-guardian-gallade @asktrainerzoroark's Fuku was nominated by @ifbench @askkoraidon's Kasmut was nominated by @doctor-sophie-grayson @tales-from-kirkland's M was nominated by @mod-bubamon

[ask-meowscarada]

i would ABSOLUTELY love to hear more about how you use colours for this blog i love your art

(( omg i missed this one when i was answering all those munday posts, so i'm sorry about that--but, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! <3

it's kind of hard to describe i think without going into full tutorial mode, but i can try and walk through my process!! i WILL say i got a lot of my methodology from other artists and guides throughout the years, which is the most important part of any art process! (i wish i had links to specific tutorials, but alas, social media sucks for archiving)

now, before i go any further, i'm in no way a professional. this isn't the "right" way to do things, and i certainly don't think i'm better than anyone else at this!! this is just how i do it, and my method makes me happy, so! that's what matters most!

i'm putting the rest beneath a cut, but i've documented my process for designing the palette for a new group of pokemon characters i'm working on! ))

with regards to colour palettes, the two most important things to me are contrast and unity. i'll explain both as i go!

when working on palettes i'll do a fairly quick doodle of the characters together, and then fill in their colours and markings on separate layers. i try not to put much thought into the actual swatches right now--they just need to be distinguishable!

Pesky and Baron already had their colours tweaked to match each other, but Lily and Frog (not their actual name i just haven't come up with one yet LOL) have not been. as a group, their colours look fine together, but we can bring them even closer.

i'll start with Frog (who i got as an adopt from @psychicduo <3)--i LOVE their palette, but it's darker than i normally work with, so i'm gonna brighten them up a bit.

in order to bring some colours closer together (unity!), i changed the hue value on the dark teal so it matched the hue on Baron's light blue. i don't want to change Frog's colours too much, but i applied similar changes to every other colour except the beige and the off-white (which are the same).

here's where contrast comes into play. i will say, i'm extremely anal about this in my own work, but having low contrast is not necessarily a bad thing! it's easy to visualize contrast in hue, but it's important to consider how your values and saturation may look to other people, especially for accessibility reasons. an easy way to do this is to view the colours in greyscale.

as you can see, the values of these two colours are too close, and therefore difficult to distinguish. i can fix this by making one of the colours a little lighter or darker. for now, though, i'm going to move on to the other characters.

this one's straightforward! instead of having multiple, very similar shades of yellow, i'm going to change Lily's body colour to be the same swatch as the yellow on Pesky (which is also the same one on Baron).

now, i feel as though Pesky's blue, being closer to purple, doesn't really look right next to Frog's blue-greens. i'm going to employ a trick i frequently use--the hue/saturation/luminosity sliders.

a bit more tweaking, and i have a colour that looks MUCH nicer next to the others!

at this stage, i'll admit that i'm not sure if i'm totally happy with that colour for Pesky; there are times i'll spend hours tweaking colours for one character. but, for the sake of this post i'll move along.

so here i have a choice to make: the darkest colours on all four characters can be unified better, and i have many options for how i can do that (and i should try all of them, to see what looks best to me). i can make Pesky's navy the same colour as Frog's, or vice versa; i can make Lily's purple the same colour as Baron's (in order to make the contrast between Pesky and Lily's purple better); but there's one more trick i like to do that i haven't shown yet.

do you have two similar colours, but you don't want to make one lighter or darker? blend them together!

so, using the techniques above--bringing the colours closer together, and checking the contrast between them--i'll keep tweaking all four characters, until i have a result i'm happy with. (note: most of the time, i'll make exceptions for the insides of their mouths and their eye colours--those can be whatever!)

one more thing! i love having an art program that lets me compare my current colour with my new one, especially if i have a particular swatch i do not want to change! photoshop does this, clip does this, procreate does this... not sure what others, but i'm using clip.

some additional tweaking, and here's the newest draft!

it's very likely i'll go back and make more changes, but for now, it's good to take a break so i can come back to this with fresh eyes later. :D

unfortunately i can't go back and show the exact process for picking the palettes for ask-meowscarada, but i can show you how some of these techniques were applied!

here's an example of a set of characters from my WIP project, without any notes (the designs are outdated but the colours are basically the same):

these rules don't just apply to character palettes, either--here's a commission i did last year, complete with the palette i used for both the character and the background!

WHEW... if you read through this entire post, thank you for sticking with me!! there are MILLIONS of ways to apply colour and i don't think any way is necessarily correct, but these techniques have helped me stay satisfied with the colour in my artwork for a very long time! thanks for the asking, anon, because i can go on about this for a REALLY long time... if this wasn't evidence enough LOL

[askchimeknight]

Happy Fanart Friday!!!

I'd like to do more of these I think :)

@lavender-tea-dragon nominated @shaymincafe !

@psychicduo nominated @perish-song !

@ifbench nominated @breed-station !

@therantingsage nominated @flake-n-rudy !

@theholytoaster nominated @ask-team-searchlights !

@ask-anxious-sylveon nominated @darling-zorua !

Thank you to those who submitted! I'll do this again next week too! :D

[perish-song]

@psychicduo DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!!

Good job! uvu hit me up with a ref of a character of your choice to doodle my friend!

[askwornhearts]

Kira: “See, apparently my grandfather was a Dragonite! Both my parents were Hydreigon, but I was the only one in the family to have regular hands. Mixing with other dragons does funky stuff like that. Also, no, I didn’t have an extra head as Zweillous. Some other Hydreigon I’ve seen who also had hands did also say they didn’t have a second head either! It’s kinda weird.”

[ @psychicduo ]

[askbohemiancompany]

I know people were doing bad ends but this an isolated one for Grohl.

This one is what happens if Grohl never had his mind unscrambled by Oscar. Eventually he makes contact with Wo-Chien and it posses him.

While Grohl is in the driver’s seat mentally, Wo-Chien forced his creativity with his natural abilities to be his main priority. If he feels no sentiment towards you as a person, you are a resource to test his powers on.

Said powers are enhanced to not only have his already lethal abilities against rock, ground and water to extend towards psychic and ghost types.

As opposed to just withering rock and ground types to dust like he can do normally, his powers expanded to have far more control. He can now use his enthralled water types to break down their bodies into concrete and warp them to inhuman proportions.

This ability to twist a Pokémon’s form can be done to psychic and ghost types. Ghosts in particular get the rawest deal having their mass redistributed, usually to hollow them out and attach them to his body to allow him to use ghost type moves to a limited degree or smashing them into another mon to make a hybrid.

The worse part is Grohl cannot kill Pokémon enthralled by his powers. Everyone is alive and conscious the whole time.

Despite this horrific turn of event, natural weaknesses and limits were discovered and the Bohemian Company was forced to put him down before he can expand further. Grohl’s final words being “Tired…so tired.”

This piece was drawn by the talented @superkryptiskvarulv who, as always crushed it with their shading and style of coloring.

Cameos include characters from: @ask-the-shiny-pokemons , @askleaderscrest , @psychicduo , @gregnas-the-grouch , @thestaticsquirrel , @ask-the-lost-prince , @askoinari

[casteliacityramen]

(Continuation of this post)

They're a bit busy having a great time. You have a feeling that this Raw Men isn't going anywhere

(feat. @askawishingstar @mimikyufan000 and @psychicduo. Things will calm down from here! Aka: not on fire)

"What the..."

[ask-a-bunch-of-mons]

what fully inspired you to make this blog and story?

Originally, back when I started this blog in 2015, it was a pmd team blog with Kleo and Jasper, so I had lots of pmd inspiration from DA mostly! But I quickly changed it to an anthro blog after seeing a few here. My biggest inspirations at the time (and still are) were Nori ( @askharmoniauniversity ) his blogs and a few others that were active at the time, ask-wjv-pokenews was a big one, and Coco’s ( @ask-virbank-university-blog ) blogs were another! Oh and Russ’ ( @psychicduo ) blogs at the time were also big inspirations!!

In terms of the reboot this year, it was a mix of missing my pokemon ocs and also Nori again inspiring me to jump back into askblogging :]

Also, a lot of my characters themselves are inspired by my favorite cartoons, video games, tv shows, characters, etc. I’d be happy to answer more specific questions about characters if anyone’s interested :o

[occasionalpokeboys]

some recent art trades

@moddy-art / @gendercryptiid

@psychicduo / @infectois