#the picturebooks

[ireallydontcare5]

Lzzy Hale in "Rebel" by The Picturebooks ft. Lzzy Hale

[frankie-arts]

This was a digital painting challenge I did for myself back in 2020, I took an album that I was lost to at the time and tried to insert my sona into it.

I’m still really proud of it and it definitely helped me improve my painting skills, I definitely want to return to these album covers at some point in the future.

[gbhbl]

Single Slam: Future Static, somei, The Bedside Morale, Xorsist, Major Moment, END, The Voynich Code, A.N.J.A., Rile, Aviana, The Picturebooks, Unprocessed, GHØSTKID, Twin Temple, Detachment, and Suffocation!

This week’s single slam features Future Static, somei, The Bedside Morale, Xorsist, Major Moment, END, The Voynich Code, A.N.J.A., Rile, Aviana, The Picturebooks, Unprocessed, GHØSTKID, Twin Temple, Detachment, and Suffocation.

This week’s single slam features Future Static, somei, The Bedside Morale, Xorsist, Major Moment, END, The Voynich Code, A.N.J.A., Rile, Aviana, The Picturebooks, Unprocessed, GHØSTKID, Twin Temple, Detachment, and Suffocation. You can read our thoughts about the latest singles from these bands below. Future Static – Roach Queen One of Australia’s most talked about breakthrough heavy acts,…

[rookflower]

on one hand yeah this is the kitty cat book fandom where at least 95% of the people here are just here to draw funny cats or for nostalgia reasons and it's really not that deep, there is nothing wrong with taking a critical backseat on this one. but on the other, the amount of people in the fandom who seem to genuinely believe that children's literature and xenofiction are both somehow inherently unworthy of any form of criticism whatsoever, to the point where random tumblr posts casually identifying shit like.... themes.... and narrative trends... is looking into things way too deeply and makes you a bad or stupid person in some way because "they're just cats", gives the literature student in me such a headache

[vonzent]

Breakfast Commission piece for Marty

[wikipediapictures]

Vaio

[pillow-14]

I LOVE COLOUR JITTER I LOVE COLOUR JITTER HHNNGHHHGGG

reblogs>likes! i want my art to be seen!

[discatte]

🟪 Tiny Aibo 3.1 for Sony VAIO Picturebook 🟪

[wyfy-meltdown]

I FINALLY DID IT!!! SHE IS DONE!!! Meet my first Madoka Magica OC: Komoe Mimura!!!

Below the cut is more info about her ♡✧⁠*⁠。

Bio / Base Information

Name: Komoe Mimura

Wish: "I wish I could grant wishes!"

Age: 16

Height: 5'2

Weapon: Magic Wand

Power: Grant Wishes*

Soul Gem: Purple, Rabbit Head Shaped

Witch Name: Velveteen

*Her ability to grant wishes is limited to things that can be created or destroyed.

Ex: she can grant the wish "I wish I had lots of money" but she cannot grant the wish "I wish I was rich" (one implies gaining something while the other implies altering the current reality).

Ex2: she can grant the wish "I wish [Name] would break up with his girlfriend" and/or "I wish [Name]'s girlfriend died" but she cannot grant the wish "I wish [Name] broke up with his girlfriend" and/or "I wish [Name]'s girlfriend didn't exist". (1&2 implies events that can occur in the future, 3 is past tense [meaning it would have already had to happen, thus altering the reality], and 4 would alter reality).

Personality

Design Breakdown

She has a very optimistic outlook and determined personality. She tries her best to get to know everyone, and her soft voice contradicts her upbeat personality. She absolutely loves magical girls to a stalkerish extent: she's willingly gone into witches labyrinths with hopes of meeting magical girls, and has a diary where she keeps all her information on the "magical girl secret world". She's very girly, and loves feminine things: dresses, long hair, and cuteness are all things she adores. Her favorite pastimes are watching tv, sketching, and hanging out with friends. Often times she can come off as pushy or intimidating (especially to girls she scouts to be magical girls) but she genuinely means no harm, and doesn't ever realise she's acting poorly. She takes great pride in being a magical girl, and her current goal is to thank the magical girl that saved her.

Trivia

I'm not sure if I fully like the design (mainly the waistcoat thing, and I should've given her gloves) but I'm happy I managed to actually draw her. This was a very self-indulgent design (not a sona though) and so I included ungodly amounts of ruffles and pastel pink!

Underneath her skirt is layers and layers of ruffles to the point her legs are not visible, and she has a double sleeve situation (also with ruffles underneath). The teacup & saucer hat is... rough, but I loved the concept and wanted to include it! Her rabbit ears are attached to a headband which has a ribbon on it. Her soul gem is located on her monocle chain; the alternate locations were the rabbit ear headband, one of the hairtie ribbons, and an anklet. I went with heterochromia because I could not decide whether I liked the pink or purple more (I also debated on mint, but I wanted to keep the colour palette analogous), I also struggled with very light purple vs very light pink for the hair; and went with very light pink (but I'm not sure how I feel about it). Those hair flicks near the top of her head aren't real rabbit ears, but are meant to resemble floppy rabbit ears. I wanted her overall design to invoke the feeling of "magical girl" strongly, and I hope I succeeded in that!

Her magic wand shots a magic beam(?) thing from the top (between the ears) and functions like a whip; the hand-guard is based off a rapier's, and the bottom has a sphere that looks like a rabbit tail. Her soul gem features a rabbit head on top, and a clock face (sorta) as the bottom symbol. ALSO! I promise her purple eye is the same colour as the soul gem, the glass shading from the monocle makes the eye look lighter!

Her original wish was "I wish to be a magical girl!" but Inkyuu (the resident incubator) told her to pick a different wish since she'd become a magical girl regardless

She was aware of magical girls before being approached by Inkyuu due to being saved from a witch by a magical girl; she has gained an obsession with magical girls as a result

She uses her power of granting wishes to scout potential magical girls for Inkyuu

Her white rabbit theming is because she leads girls down the rabbit hole of becoming magical girls (the day I stop using metaphors and symbolism for everything is the day I die)

[Adding onto above] She has no particular love of rabbits or Alice in Wonderland, but thinks her theming is cute and so plays into it

She'd either be a mentor figure or an antagonist or possibly both

She either knows the secret of witches or if she found out about the secret of witches she'd probably be supportive of incubators (maybe even intentionally becoming a witch[?])

She hasn't been a magical girl for very long, but is very enthusiastic about it so she's fought many witches

She's very close with Inkyuu and carries him(?) around with her

[sjwinklerart]

Nature is Strange Tho

Citrus Root Weevils

[lillianmelcher]

My hare occasion card. Available now in my shop!

[librarycomic]

101 Ways to Read a Book by Timothée de Fombelle, illustrations by Benjamin Chaud. Translated by Karin Snelson & Angus Yuen-Killick. Red Comet Press, 2023. 9781636550824. 128pp. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781636550824?partnerid=34778&p_bt

This book is just super fun. It's full of illustrations of people reading, and each of them has an amusing label. The Baggage is in the far back of the car during the trip. The Wiggle Worm is twisting and turning inside and under and on a blanket. The Barbarians are actually tearing up a book to share it, so four can read at once. (I do not endorse this.)

It's hard to say what age this book is for, but I'd have read it to my four-year-old, and she'd have improved her vocabulary, kept looking at the illustrations, and would never have given it away. (And if she had tried, I wouldn't have let her because I'd want it on my shelf somewhere between the art books and the picture books.)

I hope this is a runaway hit for Red Comet Press, which seems to be publishing many lovely books.

[itousa]

[neobase]

[omochi-freedom]

Itadakimasu🍽

These are the foods in the picture books I painted last year. It is fun to paint food, but it makes me hungry.