#ratpunksdraw

[paroxsysdraw]

misc drawings from yesterday

[tangy-soup]

Little cat i drew to try out @ratpunksdraw 's comic tutorial >:)

Ref + alt vers. under cut

[original-character-championship]

Bracket H Second Half!!!

These ocs start competing on tuesday 25th at 5pm gmt!!!

481. Lassie Rigger (@the-strawberry-mushroom)

482. Kayden Festini (@banitheinabi)

483. Captain Asu Naji (@zombiesama)

484. Blitz Creed (@blurrymango)

485. Ember (@stars-and-embers)

486. SAPPHIRUS (@deroderbs)

487. 56 (@waddledoodledee)

488. Moon (@clownmoontoon)

489. Arioch (@gay-frog-search-history)

490. Samuel & Isabelle (@picatchu)

491. Irving Pasternak (@helldenizen)

492. Arumi & Tetsuo (@nassilove)

493. Fox (@tk-duveraun)

494. Day the Knight (@poicyss)

495. Skitt & Ena & Olive (@bootsieboots)

496. Apricity Nix (@decapod-appreciator)

497. Valentine (@teamiibo)

498. Kroma (@the-enby-bird)

499. Doronth god of death - Dory for short (@madphantom)

500. Vulfrix (@luckiestplant)

501. Chae-Yeong Vermeil (@eumenidaes)

502. Connie Andes (@sixofshadowandbone)

503. Flint Lock (@ratpunksdraw)

504. Project 03 or just Three (@whitewomansonicfan)

505. Paws (@zero-1234)

506. Oamar Wood & Laplaces Angel & Hands the bat (@pey-no-attention-to-me)

507. Guy & Pat (@blushingdread)

508. Chester (@animsay28)

509. Blair Vasquez (@micr0machine)

510. Greed (@prettykittylinn)

511. Spectrum (@skyereadsandcommitsartcrimes)

512. Greta Du Pont (@gucciguccigarbage)

[frascospecimen]

I used the @ratpunksdraw tutorial lol.. hi

[minmocat]

artfight attack for @ratpunksdraw ! >:)

[1nd1gnant]

Art fight attacks for @thedoodlingsnail,@mr-viwick,@peach-crem, @coulrology, @wormy, @ratpunksdraw , @liuliume, @glo0wx, @Devillefort

[sketchmre]

OH ALSO as a fun little side project. ive been making a big google doc full of different artistic techniques by tearing apart clip studio paint’s settings to find niche opportunities and going on an odyssey through Youtube Search “Art Tutorial/Coloring Tutorial/How to Draw People/How to Draw Hair/How t”

It’s a passion project of mine, to make a collection of different methods of drawing because I realize a big plateau for artists is when they keep thinking “what do I want to draw” instead of “how do i want to draw.” 

Honestly, it’s been pretty interesting so far! A couple tips that I’ve learned so far:

For watercolor (in clip studio paint), don’t rely on the brush’s watercolor edge. Seriously, you’ll get the edge every single time you make a brush stroke. INSTEAD go to layer settings -> border -> watercolor border so you can make a block of watercolor color and then adjust the border from there. You get much more control and can adjust blurriness, opacity, darkness, etc.

Holographic textures. I’m still looking into different ways of doing this, but gradient maps seem to be very popular. For those who dont know, gradient maps take a set greyscale tone and assign it a color (this color’s tone does not need to be equal to the grey tone).

Actually, on the topic of gradient maps. I only learned a few months ago that people color greyscale paintings using gradient maps, and that’s one of the methods used to make it not look god awfully muddy.

So I found this tutorial on Youtube about someone who shades by progressively making the shading change to a contrasting color and I. Am fascinated by that. Will get back to yall when I experiment with that. (For credit’s sake, the tutorial was made by @bluebescuits and can be found here, set to the beginning of that part of the video https://youtu.be/zZEF7SEh2S4?t=428)

COLOR JITTER. there are so many possibilities with this one. One thing I was doing back around artfight was selecting areas of light and using a HEAVILY color jittered brush to color it in. Then, select the shaded areas and do the same. Afterwards, I’d turn off the color jitter and just start rendering using whatever color I wanted. Usually, indigo/blue/purple colors would be used moreso for the darkest spots because they have a darker tone by default, and yellow/pink would be used for the lightest colors.

Because I’ve talked about color tone a few times, I feel like I need to include this Youtube tutorial, “HOW TO HYPERPOP (draw with saturated colors)”: https://youtu.be/NKV2VWWleBk It’s what originally inspired me to make this google doc, and absolutely exploits the tone-color relationship do make some REAL interesting art. I’d tag the creator, but I don’t think they have tumblr, but they’re badjaune on ig/twitter

ill get back to yall when i figure out how to do those parallel scribble/hatching painting look. i will crack the code on that one i want it so badly

ALSO this was the one i meant to add first and then almost forgot to add it. It’s fairly popular on tumblr but i don’t care it’s a very rad tutorial by @ratpunksdraw (found here https://www.tumblr.com/ratpunksdraw/689762046030577664/tutorial-under-cut-paper-textures-brushes?source=share ) which details how they make a quick frankly very good looking paper texture on their artwork + has image resources and i’ve tried this before for an artfight attack and it was fun as hell and not hard at all i would recommend this

[currentlylostinpoliclinico]

Quickly tried out @ratpunksdraw’s tutorial! It’s very good pls try it, I can color outside the lines and it doesn’t matter :D

Feat. My new favorite squad dynamic and the chaotic duo.

Procreate doesn’t have a ripple option but turns out using noise is not that far as a result- or at least I like it! :D

Paper texture @/bashcorpo on deviantart

[queerstampy]

Heyhey I wanna let u know!! the post u reblogged (the comic made by Ratpunksdraw) was made by someone whos anti endo!! (atleast last I checked..! I remember seeing smth, but our own collective memory is awful and tumblr search is being a jerk, so we could be wrong.) So i wanna warn you jic! ;;'

noted!! i won't remove the post, since it is VERY helpful / made us feel nice, but i will not reblog from them anymore, ty!

[mechanical-magician]

Drew @ratpunksdraw 's Psychonaut Loboto AU because I love the design and think it's very neat!

So I drew Loboto teaching some campers Hydrokenesis :]

[presidentstalkeyes]

A commission I purchased from @ratpunksdraw not too long ago (reblog the original here!), starring Dealy Oleander and her Uncle Morry out on Advanced Braining. Look at that li’l landmine go!

I generally liked the combat in Psychonauts 2, but one thing I would have liked was some sort of charge attack. I like to imagine Dealy could teach Raz the MIIIIIGHTY RAM :V

[paroxsysdraw]

figure drawing class: hell.com

[paper--machete]

The gang’s all here! My group of Eeveelution OCs.... and yes, they’re all boyfriends.

(Awesome artwork commissioned from @ratpunksdraw​ !!! Lines done by them, coloring done by me <3 feel free to click any of the tags below to see any posts abt them!)

[original-character-championship]

Bracket H Round 1

Poll 28

Flint Lock (@ratpunksdraw) vs. Project 03 (@whitewomansonicfan)

503. Flint Lock (@ratpunksdraw)

he/him

absolutely not he's the wettest most pathetic thing on god's green earth. he specifically needs to lose

middle aged, whiteboy with 0 rizz, greasiest bitch under the sun

504. Project 03 or just Three (@whitewomansonicfan)

they/them

THEY’RE SILLYYY. they’re a lab experiment made by a very troubled 19 year old, they wear a single croc, they talk out of a voice box and i image them to sound like sundrop from fnaf. they like ice cream and action movies and collect actual garbage. like. things they find in dumpsters. they wear a little “hello! my name is:” badge all the time. also owns dinosaur slippers. they’re so goofy and silly please i am Begging. also they are involved in a found family plot what more could you want

just. just so fucked up. just. ridiculously messed up. they are held together by glue and bandages and medical tape and string and Nothing Else. they are made of various animal hides and maybe like 5 genuine human body parts. their skin is just varying shades of mottled grey and brown and green and it is just. deeply grotesque to look at.

[moffittarts]

Secret Santa done for @ratpunksdraw !

[lorablackmane]

A Moment to Calm

A gift for @ratpunksdraw for the @sfmsecretsanta I hope you enjoy and I apologize it was so late (I had some technical difficulties) ((timeline wise this is sorta in between endgame and prologue btw, when things were still settling)

The sharp sound of pottery against padded ground filled the air in the greenhouse.

Water slowly spread across the dirt, turning it dark and soggy. The flower that had been sitting within was laying a bit away, carried away by some of the small tides, and some of the petals were bent and slowly bruising. The shards of what had once been a pot One shard spun out from the rest of the group…

And hit the toe of a man’s shoe just a bit away.

For a moment nothing happened.

Then he bent down, just enough so he could grasp the piece that hit his shoe between his fingertips.

His hand shook as he looked down at the orange tinted fragment held between his fingers, slightly shaking just as his body now was.

Of course something like this would happen today, Kamal thought bitterly. The day had just been getting worse and worse and worse.

First, the office had changed his hours while he was asleep so he missed part of his work day because he hadn’t even been given a notice twelve hours before and got yelled at. He hadn’t even been able to eat anything because of all the paperwork he had gotten swamped with by the dentists because some of their assistants hadn’t come in and his boss offered him up to help, without telling him!

Then, just as he was about to clock out, some lady came in and shouted at him about a bill! And he understood her anger, bills sucked, but she didn’t have to yell curses and threats at him.

And it wasn’t even a bill for their office! It was an orthodontic bill. They didn’t deal with braces, that was two doors down! But, she wouldn’t listen. It wasn’t like he had been the one to decide the prices for braces - in fact he was certain those dudes were making her pay way more than she should have - but she wouldn’t listen until she ran out of breath. And the woman hadn’t even apologized for threatening him or making him clock out late!

Once he finally got out of the office he couldn’t get out of the parking lot because two of the doctors next door were arguing right at the exit and no matter what he said they ignored him. And when he reached his limit and honked to get their attention they both acted like he was the jerk! Kamal still didn’t get out of there for five minutes after he got them to notice his car - they moved sooooooo slowly, as if they thought they were punishing him for honking. …And in a way, they were! Because of them he didn’t even have time to grab food before coming back to the greenhouse, since the only place he could grab food during the holidays on the way there closed almost immediately after lunch.

And finally, their newest plant - a gorgeous water willow flower Boris had somehow gotten to grow in the pot now shattered around his feet - might not survive.

All because he had tripped on a bag of potting dirt Kamal knew he had asked Habit to put away.

…But he couldn’t let this stress him out.

He took a deep breath in, and started to count to ten.

He had to control himself, he had to.

He let it out, and started to count to ten again.

Losing control is how he lost his first job out of school. Losing control had led him to The Habitat, to that machine-.

“Kamal, Are you in here?”

The shard suddenly dug into his palm, causing him to start to curse before he cut himself off and dropped it.

But, even though he tried to muffle his voice and the noise he was making, he still alerted Boris to where he was. “Kamal! You’re hurt.”

Kamal pulled out their little medical bag and took out a Band-Aid. “It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.”

“Are, are you sure? Do you need any disinfectant spray, or a towel, or-.”

“No, really Boris, it’s ok. See? It’s not even bleeding too much." He held his hand up so Boris could see it, "I'll be fine, let's just... pick this up.” Kamal started to count again in his head as he bent down to start collecting the pottery pieces-.

“Oh no…” He flinched out of his thoughts as he heard Boris’ voice again, near the spot the water willow floated away.

Kamal had honestly forgotten about it in the stress of the day. “Sorry, for hurting it I mean. Is it still salvageable?”

“I think so. I might be able to, but it’s been out of the water for awhile. It might be tough, I wish at least some of the water was standing, or it was put in new water as soon as it fell.”

Kamal knew, he knew Boris didn’t mean anything cruel with his comment. He probably hadn’t even thought about how that could’ve been read.

But, sometimes, a person’s voice works before their brain decides what to say, especially on rough or terrible days.

And today was a rough day. “Well, I’m sorry I got distracted by the pot shattering to think about that.”

“O-oh, I wasn’t blaming you Kamal.”

“How could you not?! I broke it!”

“You didn’t mean to, right? And besides we can fix it-.”

“Fix it? You have an idea about how to fix it!? Like your plan to fix everything with Martha-!”

His teeth clicked together with how quickly he closed his mouth, but in his mind he hadn’t closed it quick enough.

He hadn’t meant to yell, especially not something like that.

Really, he hadn’t. They had pushed that and everything from that time far, far behind them - somewhere even someone searching for it if they delved deep into his mind wouldn’t be able to find it. They had both agreed to do so.

And then he used it against Boris.

It was just…

The entire day leading up to now had been terrible.

That wasn’t an excuse though.

“I…” What could he say?

What could he say to fix something like this?

“I didn’t…” His voice left him again.

The air within his lungs left as well - he couldn’t breathe.

Before he fell completely, he felt a hand grab his own and gently started rubbing the back of it with their thumb.

“It’s o kay, Kamal.”

“N-no it’s not, I… I shouldn’t have said that.”

“...Maybe. But, maybe you should have. Perhaps… it’s something we should talk about with or without someone else to listen too. I didn’t know you were still hurt by that.”

“I… I-I’m not-.”

You wouldn’t have brought it up if it wasn't. I believe you didn’t mean to… but, maybe after the day you’ve had, it dug that hurt up too.”

Kamal looked up to Boris, “How…?”

He couldn’t finish his question, but luckily Boris knew what he wanted to ask. “Your office called me a bit ago. You left this behind,” Boris pulled out Kamal’s gardening bag from his own and handed it to the shorter man as he continued, “While I was grabbing it, one of the girls mentioned the woman who held you there by screaming. I’m sorry you had to go through that."

“It’s ok..”

“Are you sure? I just want to remind you, we can always find someone for you to talk to as well, you know. If it’s still hurting you, then wouldn’t it be good to figure out how to make it hurt less?”

Air finally returned to his lungs as Boris continued to speak, but his voice hadn’t recovered as much. Weakly, his words came out. “How… how are you so calm about this?”

“Well… thanks to Gloria, I think about stuff like this like flowers.” As he said this Boris picked up one of the pots next to them, one holding a yellow rose. “Roses are pretty, they smell nice, they brighten up the lives of the people who grow them or place them in their homes… but they have sharp thorns, no? I think a lot of things - like relationships, whether they’re platonic or romantic - are the same. …And besides,” Boris gave Kamal a big grin, “I think as long as you don’t make a big machine to do something like, turn people into flowers, we can work it out.”

Kamal let out a rough laugh as the man spoke the last sentence, brushing away some stray tears. “...I don’t know, we did somehow work out you making a giant smile machine. Don’t I get to make an evil machine too, for fairness?”

Boris smiled back at him and softly laughed, “I guess so! You’ll have to show me the blueprints for that one though, I would love to know how it’d metamorphosize people. But for now…” He picked up the water willow Kamal had dropped earlier, setting it into a new pot before holding it towards him. “How about we check on the rest of the garden? Then, we can make some soup!”

He reached out to the pot, his hands hesitating for just a second before taking it out of the taller man’s giant hands. “That sounds nice.”