#that of which I’m proud of

[dkniade]

Me, a year ago or so: yeah I think I’ll just stick to translating Chinese prose like Mondstadt’s dialogue haha

Me, recently: I’ve written English translyrics to “The Divine Damsel of Devastation”

Me: ….and an alternative “tragic version” that explore Shenhe’s real backstory

[otaku553]

Luffy week day 7:

Free prompt: Sunrise

Happy birthday, Luffy :)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[chloesimaginationthings]

scooped michael afton gives me gender envy . i need his gender Now.

Michael Afton, the epitome of gender

[daeyumi]

Sleeping Hero 🌙🗡️

[2021]

[teleport-warning]

Inquiry

[starheirxero]

All gods have to start their fall from grace somewhere…

A few close-ups under the cut :3

[blaithnne]

Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6

Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.

The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!

She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.

These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!

This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos

[wisecrackingeric-2]

A little while ago I spent a few days doing studies of the sky as I was seeing it in-person and ended up painting something with Luis that I am unbelievably proud of :))

You really were a fine knight, Don Quixote

[lovingdabeessss]

SPOILERS FOR RWBY FINAL

“She lied- she left with Raven”

YALL THINK RUBY’S GONNA TELL YANG

THAT SUMMER L E F T THEM

DIDNT JUST LEAVE FOR A MISSION AND NEVER COME BACK SHE L E F T THEM KNOWINGLY AND SHE LEFT W I T H R A V E N

THAT SHE LIED

THATS GONNA F U C K YANG UP

[sweetest-honeybee]

Not me only just realizing I never posted my new Twitter header here so here’s some evil x art 😂

[driftingballoons]

in the pmd world it pays to have a sweet tooth

[apotelesmaa]

I find it incredibly funny that emu and rui are made out to be the most academically talented out of the wxs unit given that they both also need to be babysat anytime the group goes out in public. Their boundless intelligence and unending whimsy is matched only by their need to get sillay.

[kuulpenguin]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians <3

[sirazaroff]

Night Stalker

[dorotheaism]

guess which song i’m listening to