#so this is at least a bit orange

[katabay]

sketchbook / the mabinay spring (2023)

I’ve been busy, so I haven’t had the time to finish up some comics I have in my WIP folder, so it’s time for some traditional art from my sketchbooks! lately I’ve been drawing foods and drinks and just recently got comfortable enough with it to start adding some color to them 🍓🍓🍓

[sawvhs]

AHHH!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[kindkindling]

The only thing on my mind for dayyyyssssss has been, in order:

Stampede Wolfwood saying "no matter how heavy the cross you carry, you still deserve to eat and laugh";

Stampede Vash taking it to heart and eating for the first time since Juneora Rock;

and TriMax Vash's first action, after burning off a huge chunk of his life out of grief and burying his best friend, being to make dinner for himself and Livio.

[cruelsister-moved2]

i feel with lesbians, and im allowed to say this because im a lesbian, but honestly the punishment of individual lesbians is almost incidental compared to the fact its literally about making an example out of us. its like theres a potential lesbian in every woman and thats really who is being punished. straight women’s fear of acquiring that status VASTLY outweighs my actual lived discomfort as a lesbian. so much of the homophobia i experience stems from the perceived impossibility of my existence and the need to present me as repulsive, not directly to punish ME but to make other women afraid of being like me. so arguing like who would specifically be perceived as a lesbian in what situation feels so shallow when literally every woman is on some level perceived as like. a threat of hypothetical lesbian possibility

[inksandpensblog]

A prevent theory thing I have that I get remined of whenever someone makes a parallel with a hollowhead and Alan is that every one of the hollowheads have a bit of Alan inside of them just from being made by him. They are all so much like him in so many different ways. Weather they like it or not.

As you do put something of yourself in any artwork you make

Their is something about that. I want to do *something* with that theme and idea but I have no idea what so I’m just gonna give it to you cus you seem like you would like it.

I’ve actually theorized for a while that Orange is sort of an unintended avatar/‘sona for c!Alan.

It’s why he came to life when Alan hadn’t intended him to live.

It’s why Orange seemed to know so much about the human world outside the computer despite only having just been born (why would he know that calling 911 when it wasn’t a real emergency would get Alan in trouble?? how would any stick know that? Why does his first attempt to fight back involve sabotaging Alan’s social life?) while understanding comparatively little about the computer he’s actually on (he’s instantaneously familiar with the art program in a way that he isn’t with anything else on the desktop, unlike Chosen and Dark before him who don’t need to take any time to understand how anything works).

It’s why they have similar strengths/flaws when it comes to solving/escalating conflict.

It’s why Orange is the only one of Alan’s sticks who’s communicated with text-speech.

tl;dr DJ commented in an AvG video that Orange is basically just Alan in miniature and I went “okay but what if actually though” XD

But that aside, I’m curious about the other three handdrawns now. What of their creator have you noticed in Alan’s other sticks?

[sysig]

Little guys (Patreon)

[mortellanarts]

I forgot to post my OC's on that experimental style! You will perceive them!!!

[spartalabouche]

YOU SEE NOW THERES WAY MORE OF A SPLIT... context matters. i can see how it can be seen as red but its so orange to me. whitefang and i got into an argument about it last night you guys are being our mediators

[happysummer2016]

I need to start eating disordering again

[sucktacular]

Hey y'all weed posting on main, hope u don't mind. So anyway, babies first weed plant is working away!!!

[thethingything]

okay so we still haven't fully caught up with the time we were meant to spend on the Big Drawing during that one week we missed but we have at least kept up with working on it for 2 hours a week since then and I imagine we'll probably be able to finish catching up this week but also I think we forgot to post what we actually did last week which was mostly more cloud trees:

I'm finding it harder to get the vibe I want with these ones and to get it to look right within the rest of the drawing but it is fun just drawing a bunch of little clouds at least.

we also haven't posted a screenshot showing the whole thing in a while so here's that

[redbean-nom]

redesign of the Vespa Kids from book of boba fett

thoughts & closeups under cut

so i tried to keep their general appearances/colors intact while adding some actual personality (because i think the main problem with the original designs is that they feel like extras, not side characters).

Red: Zabrak orphan who grew up on Tatooine. 18 years old, was a member of the local insurgent group around the end of the empire era. Has a combo blaster/interrogation droid arm. Speeder is a repurposed version of Maul's speeder from phantom menace.

Blue: Human raised in the non-Tatooine parts of the Outer Rim. 23 years old, known assassin who worked for Jabba. Uses a scavenged magnaguard-type electrostaff. Has basically a version of the mandalorian helmet visors built into his face. Speeder is an abandoned scout trooper speeder.

Yellow: Tusken orphan from the clans around the podrace area. 19 years old, became a bounty hunter after his tribe (and bantha) were killed by the Pikes to expand spice routes. Has a Vader-style chest panel and rocket feet. Speeder is a custom pod attached to one of Sebulba's engines, with attached rancor teeth and horns from his late bantha.

Green: Human who grew up on Coruscant, but family fled the Empire to Tatooine around A New Hope. 21 years old, originally worked as a local enforcer for various Hutts. Has super battle droid arm & leg attachments. Speeder is stolen from local nikto gang.

original designs for reference:

[sesamenom]

redesign of the Vespa Kids from book of boba fett

thoughts & closeups under cut

so i tried to keep their general appearances/colors intact while adding some actual personality (because i think the main problem with the original designs is that they feel like extras, not side characters).

Red: Zabrak orphan who grew up on Tatooine. 18 years old, was a member of the local insurgent group around the end of the empire era. Has a combo blaster/interrogation droid arm. Speeder is a repurposed version of Maul's speeder from phantom menace.

Blue: Human raised in the non-Tatooine parts of the Outer Rim. 23 years old, known assassin who worked for Jabba. Uses a scavenged magnaguard-type electrostaff. Has basically a version of the mandalorian helmet visors built into his face. Speeder is an abandoned scout trooper speeder.

Yellow: Tusken orphan from the clans around the podrace area. 19 years old, became a bounty hunter after his tribe (and bantha) were killed by the Pikes to expand spice routes. Has a Vader-style chest panel and rocket feet. Speeder is a custom pod attached to one of Sebulba's engines, with attached rancor teeth and horns from his late bantha.

Green: Human who grew up on Coruscant, but family fled the Empire to Tatooine around A New Hope. 21 years old, originally worked as a local enforcer for various Hutts. Has super battle droid arm & leg attachments. Speeder is stolen from local nikto gang.

original designs for reference:

[ofyorkshire]

turning the bizarre image of angry, vengeful 1983!bj feeding what i am almost certain is a hallucination of his child self a wedge of orange around in my head today.

[ndntighnari]

This is definitely just a petty pet peeve, I know, and I don't mean this in a condescending way when I say it, but as someone who has been a professional character designer and illustrator -- as in I've been paid for it and hired by people to design characters and do illustrations as a freelancer -- for the better part of the last... 7 years, given a rough estimate, it really frustrates me hearing 16 and 17 year olds claim that they've been character designers or illustrators for 10 years.

Like, I'm genuinely glad they see their designing as experience!! Because it is!! But when I'm talking from a professional POV, using knowledge I've learned on the job, with techniques and the like that I've trained and honed in a professional paid for sense, and I suddenly get a "yeah I mean I've got 10 years experience" from a 17 year old its like... Please take me seriously, kid. I've been making character designs since I was 6, that does not mean I have 16 years experience as a character designer. There's a difference between professional experience and having fun making characters as a kid, and unfortunately the latter does not get you credibility in the professional field. I wish it did, but there is in fact a vast difference between the two.

This also goes for when I hear people who are hobbyist go "you don't need to learn the basics of art! You don't need to study anatomy or lighting or x y z fundamental!" because on some level I do agree! You can get into art without studying those things. However do not bitch and whine when your art doesn't look how you wanted it to when you refuse to learn colour theory. You need to know the rules before you can break them, is a rule of thumb I have with art.

This is largely just a vent post about people not taking me or my advice even remotely seriously with art btw. I'm often asked for advice on art and then told im wrong or that they know better despite being younger and/or less professionally experienced. It's just really frustrating, because I try to give positive feedback, as well as constructive criticism, but whenever I ask people for art advice, I'll typically get incredibly subjective opinions on what they find looks better. And it's like I am asking for what techniques here work vs don't not if you think the character would look better with fangs or cat ears.

[sysig]

What’s Bun-Bun’s signature colour? (Patreon)