#quo's traditional

[collectors-tablet]

He silly

Video version here lol

[homocidal-invader]

Drew them with some markers :3

[friskxsansship]

Frans traditional art drawing I did in early March, but my SCANNER BROKE and I had to wait till I got a new chord to fix it. here it is though! Very cool.

See if u can find all the details urself :D

Work in progress shots under cut:

Sketchbook idea testing:

Paper sketch progress:

Then the blending card for when I actually started the final drawing:

Digital sketch of what I wanted to do with the colors:

Then I did it WOAH

Then the final image again:

[quonitz-legends-of-zelda]

yk because Navi would know

[the-kk-crow]

Out of context Dream and Mare fight

[keepyourpantsongohan]

Meaningful Highlights from Kakashi Retsuden:

Minato catching Kakashi before he falls, the same way Kakashi always does for his students. And Kakashi, even at eight or nine years old, straight out of his father's funeral and before being his student, immediately relaxing when he runs into Minato: His feet tangled beneath him and he pitched forward. Into someone’s back. “You were really strong back there,” a voice told him, and he suddenly saw bright golden hair. He felt his breathing become a little easier. The Yellow Flash of Konoha. Namikaze Minato.

Kakashi describing his current feelings about his father: Now he felt proud from the bottom of his heart to have been born the child of the White Fang of Konoha.

Kakashi wanting to help the people of Redaku in a way that they can sustain themselves, even as he actually is providing a great deal of support through the process: The people of this country had to learn how to stand up and walk under their own strength. Give a starving person bread or teach them how to grow wheat. As Hokage, Kakashi had always chosen the latter.

Kakashi reflecting on his time as Sixth Hokage he eschewed tradition to build something that developed beyond shinobi: A never-ending peace. That was what Kakashi had sought as the Sixth Hokage. An orderly society that would go on and on even when he was not the Hokage, even when the day came when the role of Hokage disappeared. To create a framework so that they would never again fall into the quagmire of war.

The way Kakashi shows that he still views all of the former students taught by him and his friends in a parental and protective way: They had long since reached adulthood, and some were now parents while others were active on the front lines as shinobi. Even so, no matter how many years passed, to Kakashi, they were his precious students and the next generation who needed to be protected. Seeing them having so much fun was enough to ease his heart.

[pratchettquotes]

Ponder rolled his eyes. These things always sounded fine when he worked them out in his head. He'd read some of the old books, and sit and think for ages, and a little theory would put itself together in his head in a row of little shiny blocks, and then when he let it out it'd run straight into the Faculty and one of them, one of them, would always ask some bloody stupid question which he couldn't quite answer at the moment. How could you ever make any progress against minds like that? If some god somewhere had said, "Let there be light," they'd be the ones to say things like, "Why? The darkness has always been good enough for us."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[invested-in-your-future]

You are just mad they have shown Atlas for hellhole it was

Yes, totally. I am totally angry at them doing that, that's what it all is about.

glances at the notes for my AU

Wouldn't want Kingdoms to be seen as incompetent, messy or bad...totally not...

I would never do that

[collectors-tablet]

Did a screenshot redraw of that moment Belos knew he fucked up. With markers!

WIPs/links to higher quality under the cut 😌

So what I did to create this image was hold my paper up to my screen and trace over the screenshot's lineart, then worked out the rest of the details on paper. The straight lines on the top and bottom are where the original screenshot cuts off.

Once I decided the sketch was finished I put my blending card (special paper for the markers) over the sketch on a lightboard and traced over it with my pens.

If I made mistakes I would sometimes use my white paint pen to draw over them.

Then, on a piece of scrap paper, I would test out my markers to see what blending combinations looked good.

Tangent: I use alcohol markers, specifically COPICs, though I also have some Prismacolors too. Alcohol markers are built for blending and I recommend looking them up if you are interested. I use copics because they have a brush nib and while they're expensive, you can easily get refills and replacement parts so you'll never throw them away. You can buy 30 year old markers that are still good.

First I colored (most of) the characters (that took a lot of time, especially since I was cautious about how to color in things like the eye and would test on scrap paper first)

Then I tried making a background but I really didn't like it

So in digital art I cut out the characters from the background to see how to fix it and came up with the idea of darkening it significantly.

Digital experiment on the left, experiment onto paper on the right.

A lot of these WIPs look very different because of me taking pictures of the photo with a phone camera and doing different filters every time. I have a scanner but I've never liked how it comes out.

If you want to see a higher quality version of the final image, here's links to where I uploaded it on Deviantart and Newgrounds.

Also a Youtube upload of that video I made!

Note: There's an animation error in the original ToH clip I used where the Collector's clothes are miscolored, and the reason they're not here is because I fixed it.

[homocidal-invader]

Woah another lovebug sketchdump??

Warnings: Discussion of mental illness and destructive behavior.

So my goal with Dib (as I may have stated before) is to make him that friend that you want to be there for, but can't for your own mental health. So far my pictures have only really had him being Really Depressed, which while can be uncomfortable isn't intolerable.

What makes him hard to be around is violent episodes. He doesn't want to hurt people, it's just something that happens to him sometimes and he has little control over it.

Zim however is COMPLETELY unaffected by his negativity. He is completely immune to abuse and has zero boundaries.

He'll write in his pink fluffy diary with his fushia feather pen "Dib was sad today!!! Poor thing :( He kept mentioning something interesting though, I wonder if it has something to do with his mysterious past?" meanwhile in the real world what happened was a lot of yelling and crying and incomprehensible sobbing.

Then another day he'll write "He said he didn't want me there, but I knew he didn't actually want that. He's so lonely and really appreciates a friend, so I stayed with him and he really appreciated it :)" while in reality Dib was yelling that he hates Zim and just wants to be alone for once and Zim should've never come into his life.

Zim is, of course, correct. Dib only said that because of a deep rooted self hatred. It's very impressive how not affected by this he is!

Anyways since this was a heavy post here's some pallet cleansers!

[friskxsansship]

Sketchbook sketch about my AU

[quonitz-legends-of-zelda]

Comic I made in my sketchbook about when Sheik came out as a boy!

This is actually a redraw of some COMPLETELY UNDECIPHERABLE 2020 drawings I made, so I redrew it bc I liked the idea still :3

(Also I'm posting to this blog for the first time in, like, 3 years, so if u wanna follow or say hi I am excited to talk to ppl here :0)

[the-kk-crow]

SOME OLD VENUS DRAWINGS I FOUND how dare I never post this!

Also some idea I had about if she was in Undertale:

[hehicular-hanslaughter-lecter]

It just occurred to me that the tribe with the least distance between monarch and subject, the only tribe with semi-communal power, the only tribe with no noble class vs peasant class, is the tribe with “no proper leadership” and is “backwards” and “useless” and the literal solution is to have foreign-raised glory seize leadership and start running the tribe the way the other tribes are run

Yikes

[viscericorde]

why are vtuber fans actually unhinged. just an unbelievably rancid combo of idol culture and lowest common denominator weebery. and all over some of the most unwatchable content i have ever seen in my life.

[macrocosmus]

i dont know how to say “there are some people for whom dnd and TTRPGs are a hobby, which they wrap multiple different skills into, such as artistic or interpersonal skills, as well as the enjoyment of the literary tradition that birthed this hobby, while other people treat it like a fandom and have to buy everything wotc ever published and then put it in a list and wiki and youtube videos i wont watch“ without feeling like a total grognard. Like people fall between those two camps obviously, but I really want more dnd as hobby rather than dnd as capitalistic content machine, unlike what youtube tries to feed me.