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Here’s a mini tutorial on something that the Supernatural fan artist might find handy: how to whip up a nice plaid flannel pattern fast!

Drawing “Lazy Plaid” step by step:

1. Background color.

2. Make a NEW layer and pick your stripe color. Draw all lines going in one direction (vertical or horizontal.)

3. Change layer opacity to 50%.

4. Make another NEW layer, and draw all lines going the other way.

5. Change that layer’s opacity to 50%.

6. Repeat steps 2-5 with a second color, using the first stripes as a guide (always draw to the left of the other stripes on vertical layer, beneath other stripes on horizontal layer, for example. That’s what I did here.) 

And that’s it! Chibi Sam is modeling the color I drew in the steps. 

Tips and Suggestions:

Try to make the negative space between the lines near the criss-crossing parts turn out square.

You need to have the same size lines going each direction for it to look like plaid.

Play with colors! Flannel/plaid cannot be too bright and colorful, but it’s good to stick to 3-4 colors, tops. Remember that crossing colors will blend – Sam’s shirt has purple in it because I criss-crossed blue and red!

ALWAYS start a new layer for each stripe direction and color, or the reduced opacity will not make your cute lil plaid squares pattern where the lines criss-cross.

Tinker with opacity – I like somewhere between 50 and 75 percent.

Try making one color set of lines thick and the other thin.

Curving your plaid lines around shirt wrinkles and stuff sells it that the pattern is on the shirt and moving with it.

This can be used to make more of a basic checked pattern by drawing only one set of very thick lines.

I noticed the pockets of flannel shirts tend to have the pattern diagonal, which it’s not on the rest of the shirt. Good to know for realism!

Have fun, deck your hunter characters out in bright flannels, and by all means, link me if you use my tutorial. I wanna see your art! ♥ 

I’ll leave you with a few more plaid patterns to contemplate:

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NOVA THE FOX

Female, 14, Fox

An OC I recently made, with an itch to draw her digitally. I've tried to match her and the ither with her with the canon ages of Sonic & friends.

PROOF OF PROCESS

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me with VGT right now:

goretober left me drained 💀💀💀

also yes VGT is coming eventally

its just gonna take like

more months

cuz its like

only being worked on by yours truly

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making ref sheets will be the end of me

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i dont post much sooo here u go! arting! this oc’s name is yuosef and hes based on a song called “TERRIBLE THINGS” by axie, which lyrics from it are here in this artwork! im a HUGE fan of axie btw ive been listening to his music ever since he made 2.21.21

this image is him fullbody :P

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loud warning!!! this took a few days to make :P

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Munchausen and Charlotte!!

Silly doodle of @doggosomniac and my Veldigun OC! (I just made mines today..)

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The Bellflower Witch

"If you see a shadow slip by you and the sounds of a feline, beware, for Eastridge's resident witch is on the hunt. She'll show no mercy and will leave nothing behind."

Here's my Veldigun OC, Jinx, or The Bellflower Witch!

She goes by she/they pronouns. Her former partner was Barbara, with her current one being Mortimer. They aren't very fond of Clyde, indifferent to Winfrey (at least at first...), is friends with Simon and The Flock, wants to put Klaus in a meat grinder, and wants to get closer to Jack. Hates Lankmann (The Doctor)

History

When they were still in their ooze form, they pretty much exclusively consumed stray cats, mice, and deer if they were lucky enough. This resulted in her primarily feline form. She was quite timid during this period, mostly because she was alone, and her small stature didn't exactly help things for her fighting-wise. That is until they met a young girl by the name of Jennifer Perkins in the county of Eastridge, who, despite their odd appearance, grew fond of the Veldigun. Jinx also valued her companionship, and would monitor Jen's entire life. Unfortunately, Jennifer would be found by Jinx bleeding out in the middle of the forest after a mugging gone wrong. In a last ditch attempt to save her, Jinx consumed Jen, so that she would "live forever" in them. Jennifer Perkins, at 17 years-old, would be the first victim of The Bellflower Witch.

After consuming Jen, Jinx's form would become slightly bigger, and more alike to a "true" Veldigun, although she was still very lonely. Until she met Barbara, another Veldigun finding refuge in the woods. She would immediately become Jinx's mother figure, and would remain partners and best friends. Since she now had the stability to form her own personality, some of her snark comes through, and she starts to act more like an angsty teen lol. Things were relatively well now. Both Jinx and Barbara were hesitant to feed on humans, with Barbara only consuming those that think they don't have anything else to live for and Jinx only feeding on them when desperate. Both of their worlds would turn upside down when the Lankmann Foundation reared its ugly head. The foundation's best hunter, Clarisse von Arnham, was tasked to capture Veldigun, in which she was happy to oblige. The forest around Eastridge was becoming more and more dangerous for the Veldigun pair to reside in, as Clarisse had made it her mission to purge the species through traps and frequent hunting expeditions. Barbara and Jinx would be able to evade her, but their luck ran out when Clarisse caught them off guard and managed to subdue Barbara. In a moment of pure adrenaline, Jinx consumed Clarisse, along with eating and brutalizing her remains. This would lead up to Jinx's current form.

For a few years after, Barbara and Jinx managed to stay low, with the traps Lankmann setting up becoming more dangerous to make up for the loss of the foundation's most prestigious hunter. In one of these traps, Jinx's right (her right) horn would be broken off, but it would regrow. Eventually, the Lankmann Foundation was able to capture the pair by cutting off their food source until they were on the brink of starvation and taking them in then. Lankmann himself made the executive decision of sending in Barbara to communicate with a captured Winfrey. When things were going nowhere, some of the Caretakers went into the cell to retrieve Barbara, which prompted Winfrey to freak out and become uncontrollable. Unfortunately, Barbara would be caught in the crossfire. Although technically she was consumed by Winfrey, to the physical world, Barbara was dead, and Jinx had to witness it all. For months afterward, Jinx would be kept in that infernal asylum, feeling the loneliness of their early days, and the same mourning of Barbara as they had for Jennifer. Caretakers would sometimes come into their cell and take notes on their behavior, but they'd never give them the satisfaction of doing anything interesting for them. Even rarer still, regular employees of the asylum would come to take a look at the creature, none of them staying for long. Except for one...

why did the artist keep bothering her? it doesn't matter, she missed the company

The Doctor himself even paid her a visit once, but he didn't stay for long, and thank god he left so soon. Jinx lived in this cycle until hell came crashing down. Clyde infiltrated the asylum.

Trivia

Her voice claims for her felidae form was just a cat ig, her juvenile form was Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) from Heathers (1989), and her current voice is Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World/Takes Off

she is very mitski-penelope scott-jack stauber coded

they hate Clyde so much because they encountered it when they were still just a cat and it literally threw her 💀

she also kinda blames it for her capture because it "should've just left the stupid county alone"

when they're in the area, Jinx just sometimes... chills at Simon's barn; they both relate to not feeding on humans (ofc Jinx still does, but only when desperate)

Jinx's biggest fear is becoming like Clarisse, as some of her """"""interesting""""""" personality traits slipped into Jinx's demeanors, and she's worried that she'll just become a danger that will be abandoned

yeah she has issues save her please

im hinging a lot of her backstory on the headcannon that veldigun can control if their touch is dangerous (y'know, the melding bone and skin stuff)

urghhhh its 1 am what am I doing with my life

after consuming Clarisse, Jinx would start physically eating their victims after claiming their minds, just so they wouldn't leave anything behind

sometimes she purposefully goes into the town to freak out some humans for gits and shiggles

her arms can stretch longer than their normal length

Jinx is cunning, but not as smart as Clyde, but what she can beat him out with is actually just brute strength (she never skips arm day)

teeeechnically her name is Jennifer since that was her first human consumption, but, no offense to Jen, Jinx thinks the name is kinda lame and kept Jinx

illl add more later ig idk

MORE INFO IN REBLOG

ANOTHER THING, I'd like to thank @havoc-bloom for being so kind and letting me info dump to them about her around a year ago, you've helped me so much by talking to me, even if we haven't done it in a while :)

here she is ive been working on this ref ever since volume 1 came out im so glad its finished! ofc now I have to do all my other ocs and my other thing for jinx but eh. im going to go sleep

ill try to edit this in the morning, but I hope you like her!

but more references as a treat

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Asking for the DOAI Fandom’s help

Hey guys, do you know any horror monster gimmicks that would make for a good Veldigun? I’m still trying to come up with the sixth Veldigun for Oneiric Observation, and I can’t come up with a good gimmick for it. Here are all the movies my current Veldigun take inspiration from:

Unfriended (and The Ring) for Myke

The Menu for Julian (which I KNOW doesn’t have a horror monster but I just wanted a food-related horror monster that didn’t make me lose my appetite so SHUT UP)

M3GAN for Candice

(basically any infection horror movie but mainly) Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Victor

A Quiet Place for Beau

If you know any movies with monsters that make for great gimmicks that would make for great Veldigun, please tell me!

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The big Mr. Guy!! What started as a joke veldi oc and is now my favorite child.

Anyways, some more sketches of him

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Veldigun/Human oc!

Okay so- The oc won the vote thing but unfortunately she is saying No to being drawn out- and so instead I will type her out and hey, maybe the fellow artist of the fandom can help me. Putting this under a read more cause I am gonna ramble.

Okay okay okay- I should mention this oc thing happens many years after the main doai story- In this case, the sitcom story line where alex turns into a velgiun (I promise this is relevant)

Her name is Beatrice- but everyone has always called her Bee. She's 17, has black hair, brown eyes, small in size (4'11), and her fashion sense would likely be kinda cottage core but if cottage core and pastel goth mixed. Crop top jean jacket with flower patterns along the edges, honey pot dangling earrings, A novelty bee backpack, so on and so forth.

She's quite energetic and friendly, although she's not the most popular kid but she's alright with that. She's got her friends, she's got her brother, she's got her moms, she got her mysterious (Yet wealthy and loving) god father (Who she's never seen face to face, only ever phone calls and once they tried zoom but he couldn't figure out how to turn the cam on.) She's hoping to study to be either a botanist or a biology once she gets to college age, which her scientific family loves.

She also has a fasciation with the super natural, with ghosts and ghouls and cryptids. This is...less than popular with her parents, and her god father seems to hate it, always trying to suggest and recommend different interests to have or to focus more on her main interests. It's not like she wants to upset them, it's just that....learning about creepy ghost stories and haunting old legends just- feels right. She can only assume the distain is because of those old Smiling snatcher stories, but those happened like- 23 years ago? She didn't get why everyone was still so hyper focus on those old rumors...

Well- after her school bus, heading to a field trip out of town, got body slammed by something massive and blue, she'd wake up maybe a hand full of miles away, head pounding, heart feeling just about ready to breach from her chest....And patches of her skin turned black as night with pale yellow strips, a tail with a stinger on the end and a pair of stripped wings that had torn apart her jacket to escape.

And well- I do want to keep the rest quite but I hope this caught your attention. This is basically what happened when I saw alex turning into a velgigun and I went- Hm, I want to make something like this but with a twist. Guess you all will have to wait and see what that twist is :D

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...uhm...What are the requirements to join..? Im..asking as a....a human! I am a human asking this! Definitely! O_O

*Lankmann POV* *Lankmann is contemplating* Lankmann: . . .

Lankmann: You're in! You can have this~

Amari: :D!

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woah, I was redesigning one of my veldigun ocs just now and got curious, and so i looked around and found it; my notes document about my old veldigun ocs and their lore. I’m rewriting some of it and definitely have to redesign most of the older characters, but like. *touches ground of year old notes* someone cooked here. Would. Would anyone??? Be interested in hearing about my oc veldigun story???

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Hey I'm not really feeling all too well currently. Can someone watch over Bob for me for an bit? Oh and please don't forget to Feed him. :)

Simon: Don't worry! I'll take very good care of him! Hope you feel better soon!

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My Veldigun OCs :3

I like to call this pair "The House Pets"

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happy Father’s Day to the velidgun ever

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