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heyoooo opening art requests again!

I'm. just gonna leave it open for a while this time, then delete this and change the queue status once i have. enough, i guess?

so yeah! send me ur characters &. i'll do a quick sketch for u

(pls no excessive nudity nsfw but blood/gore is fine.)

lemme know if they're interacting or get really specific like. i am all for specific requests, that's okay!! also ko-fi will bump you to the top of the queue

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ordered an anatomy book for art things but while looking at the previews i was struck with this mental image

(thieme's atlas of anatomy, for anyone interested! i enjoyed that heart piece WAY too much and so even if just ends up being an art book i am HAPPY. life hack: old and used editions are WAY cheaper)

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Sleep Paralysis, Part 1

There was an IV in my right arm. I felt the anesthesia kick in. I couldn't move, but I was still conscious. I've woken up during surgeries before. "It's not generally recommended to start surgery before the patient is even out!" "I know what I'm doing! You think I don't know what I'm doing?" Initially, I had only come in for a x-ray of my ribs. The nurse had struggled to get a clear image. She had told me, "We're going to need to open you up to get a better view." She had sanitized and cut open my abdomen right there, and somehow that was normal. "Nope, not there," she said. I nodded. A different set of doctors were to take a closer look. I couldn't remember what we were looking for. "Give me the scalpel! You're not even wearing a mask--"

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update on this!

it turns out those were not even done, and i am ending up going into a LOT more detail than i initially thought. it will take a while, but this series is 100% still in progress.

i might be able to post the first (finished!) one a bit later today, actually. (there are four total. technically there would be a fifth, but i do not think i have the energy ^^; ) the other three are still in progress.

so please look forward to that, if it interests you!

had the WORST sleep paralysis of my life on the 31st of march and i am going to make a series of paintings out of it because there is fuck-all else to do with this!!!!

they'll be presented in no particular order and i might have to go slow with these because holy shit it was Bad(tm) but it's gonna be whatever this turns into now because [incomprehensible screaming]

content warnings for medical trauma/abuse/malpractice, hospitals, blood, death, and maybe unreality (???) as we go.

anyway here's part one! (i'll organize them at the end in the order it happened in the nightmare).

also i'm not Entirely Certain Yet but i may put a blorbo into the paintings because that is less painful to think about than myself in the paintings like. literally gonna let one of them soak up my trauma like a sponge maybe idk yet

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i've always wanted to visit japan, so much so i'm learning just in case i ever do get the chance to go. . . i'm so happy for you!! please tell more about your adventures, if you're comfortable with it!! enjoy your trip and i'm so happy you get to go!! ^^

Aw thank you! Japan is also my dream destination so I was really excited to visit it. I hope you can go one day too.

Unfortunately (for me) I am not financially stable and I had never been abroad before, so this time I went on a guided tours with my family, which means everything was taken care of and I didn't have much to do but enjoying the scenery and taking photos like a typical ignorant tourist, so I don't think I can help you much ;_; but here's some places I like the most and some of my experiences

If you plan to go on a cherry blossom viewing tour, choose the south if you go on late March - early April and north if you go on April. Since the northern region is cooler the blossoms bloom later

3-star hotel in central area in big cities are really small. The hotel that we stayed in Osaka barely has a pathway lmao

You should definitely try staying at a ryokan. It feels so authentic for me and the staffs are all so friendly (our tour guide said the staffs in countryside are more hospitable than in cities)

This is the ryokan where i stayed

I learned about the history of the place, ate the specialties of the place, and the scenery was beautiful. But my mom and some other people said they couldn't sleep the whole night because they feel something. I sleep like a rock btw.

If you like animal you should visit the nara park. The deers are tame unless it comes to food. This fucker ate the wrapper of my friend's gift.

I visited Todai-ji, Kiyomizu-dera and Senso-ji. They are all very impressive and beautiful but there are a lot of people it's hard to take a good photo

Among the cities I visited (Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Tokyo) I like Kyoto the most cause it's quiet and it still has many traditional houses. Also the rental kimono in this place look the most beautiful for me, you should rent one if you have the money and time (our tour guide didn't let us since it takes a while to wear a kimono properly)

The shampoo, body wash and conditioner in the hotel rooms come in big bottles so you don't have to bring your own

That's everything i guess. Sorry it's nothing much, I wish I can go on my own too 😔 wish you the best of luck!

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A man who gets so distracted with what he's reading he can NOT keep his current place on the bookshelf. Sir those are DICTIONARIES you are pointing to SIT DOWN???? /lighthearted

more tokyo ghoul

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wow, hi to my new followers! i guess i got featured on radar, huh?

fair warning, just in case you missed it, i do quite a lot of darker art/mental health-related/fandom things, so. if you're here for that, awesome! i'll keep trying to tag my original posts with heavier themes properly.

i have a reblogs blog, which features some lighter stuff (still quite a bit of fandom! and horror!), but also art tips/references, too. @whateverdays-reblogs (there's a link in my bio!)

thanks to the tokyo ghoul fandom and my from-day-0 followers, too. i. probably wouldn't still be posting without you all. 🥲

i hope something good happens for everyone today!

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still no sleep :( trying 2 soothe autism brain with kaneki. anatomy's all fucky but shhh actually it's 📢 style ‼‼‼

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does this mean the construction beam was gonna be part of the polycule or

shuu and rize’s relationship is fun conceptually because you can interpret it as either “they broke up and make it everyone’s problem” or “mlm/wlw hostility” and you can’t tell which is true

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Running a sale on my Ko-Fi for 4/13!

Everything $10 and under has been reduced to $4, and everything $20 and under has been reduced $13!

Price changes do not apply to add-ons, BUT Digital Paintings are half-off!

If you request a custom slot, I cannot guarantee your request will be something that will fit into the sale-applicable category, but I'll do my best to work something out, either way!

Edit 4/17/2024: The 4/13 sale is unfortunately over, and prices are back to normal.

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hi two more as promised!!

don't touch my aac device

don't touch me

please enjoy and don't forget you can support me on ko-fi, too!

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art... tutorial? backgrounds

but really i'll just be outlining my process, probably. if it works for you, take it! if not, we probably just work differently, and that's okay!

so! now we will get a glimpse into... whatever the fuck it is that i do. i'm going to be honest with you all, i'm not even entirely sure how i do this sometimes! i honestly surprised myself with this one, but i think i know myself well enough to piece apart what was going on in my head.

so.

let's dissect my art, shall we?

okay. i don't have any wip shots for this, BUT i can tell you when i started, it looked something like this (by the way, i do this gray background to reduce eye strain):

(anatomy video: Karina Teaches Anatomy from Drawfee Extra)

i started with the head. i only had a rough idea of what i wanted (kaneki sitting on something like a wall). so i had to then figure out:

what kind of wall?

what goes around the wall?

what shortcuts can i take, here?

that last question is my favorite, because i am a low-energy, constantly tired, disabled son of a bitch and even drawing things i love tires me the fuck out. SO. here's where it gets fun:

when you look at manga, and there are fences, sometimes whatever's behind the fences will be not drawn, because that'd get too visually cluttered. if i can find a reference, i'll put it here. if not, just keep an eye out for it. (this is part of what i love about manga. you have an entire book of art at your fingertips, even if you just have one volume. find a series whose style/story you love. art tips bayybeeee)

that's shortcut one. i drew in the wall, added a bevel to the edge to make it look more. wall-like. i also had part of the fence sketched in at this point BUT forgot to add it to the next THREE SCREENSHOTS and had to redo some of them. i'm using a layer mask and had to redo it so that's why it looks all wonky later on.

then bricks. now i honestly do NOT know why i chose this brick design? i think i was just tired and thought, "i need something. vaguely brick-like to indicate bricks. how would a more cute-style artist draw this?"

and when you look at manga/comics/even old cartoons, they don't draw in every single brick!!! not always!!!! PLEASE don't make yourself sit there and draw every single brick. draw an INDICATION of a FEW bricks, because here's the thing: the human brain fucking loves filling in what it wants to see. when's the last time you went apeshit about an optical illusion, if you like optical illusions? when's the last time you HEARD/SAW someone going apeshit over an optical illusion, if you don't like them? i rest my case.

*pounding fists on table* we!! love!!! shortcuts!!!!

but. a brick wall is BORING we don't want JUST a brick wall, fuck that. maybe this place is a bit overgrown? maybe it's a lil worn down or abandoned or gets less foot traffic and that's why there's a fence. so let's spice it up with some bushes, and make it look more fitting.

by the way, cracks are only something i've started to figure out recently. i'm in my late 20s. don't worry, you'll get there.

see the grass? again, indications. all i or you need to do as the artist is draw a few hints for what we want the brain to see, and the brain goes, "oh okay, there's grass there, and that's bricks. awesome. got it." we are not just artists, we are masters of illusion.

so. this is what we have so far.

and now... this. the background. this is where things get more... esoteric, in my head, maybe? we'll see.

artists talk about "flow" sometimes. a variety of professions do, actually. i'm a visual thinker, and with my particular brand of autism, my "flow" is like i'm wile e. coyote falling down a painted black circle that's actually an endless pit but also he's on acid, and i'm not actually paying all that much attention to what's going onto the paper? i'm more "in my head" than anything, and not in a bad way. even my own brain can break me out of it though :')

but yes, i know there's something wrong with me.

SO, where did my brain pull THESE things from, and what can we learn from them?

the two buildings in the background, slightly curved:

old cartoons (again!). tom & jerry is the one i can think of. looney toons. anywhere animators went, "wait! real physics doesn't matter, here! let's fuck around with THAT," and got really excited about it (i notice it most in the old stuff). keep an eye out for scenes with lots of buildings to catch this.

no windows on those buildings!

the video, How to use Foreground, Midground, and Background to Clarify Depth - Ian Roberts, is where i pulled what i was Possibly attempting from. i might've also just been Tired and saw an opportunity to test it, whether or not it was the best one. (i do this a lot ^^; )

building directly underneath/road:

shop of some sort. i started to draw fabric over the top as well, so possibly it was going to be a ramen shop? but also it's ambiguous because we're masters of illusion, remember? now if you're not sure, it's only because i told you! ha! (aaaand, this goes for your art too, dear reader! no one will know of your mistakes unless you... make a.... tutorial... post. shit. /lighthearted)

the roof towards the wall:

i both started the blue period anime and a la autism absorbed that into my personality but i also used to have dreams when i was very tiny about flying over japan and so it just kinda. happened? i. do not know what to tell you here besides use refs. and research i don't even know what period that roof would be from or if it's Accurate it's. i just went with what felt. right but also what i had the energy to draw, ehegh.... since i don't have much more than that i will add more things at the end about perspective.

the staircase:

night in the woods! my brain rembered the staircase from a scene in night in the woods and. staircases exist.

(i just read from "the unabridged journals of sylvia plath" something about [paraphrasing, here] how "it's funny. there's all this wonder and beauty in the world and it all just comes down to staircases.")

further notes just in general: do research about where you're drawing! don't just look with an artist's eye but with an analytical eye or a storyteller's eye. both relax and enjoy it and watch it passively but ALSO ask yourself questions about it sometimes. go see if you can find videos of the place! sometimes people just record their walks?? like in different countries????? one of my favorites is Nomadic Ambience

perspective? is a load of bullllllllSHIT. sometimes, you draw curved buildings because it's Fun and Dynamic and adds to the mood or just because it looks good. sometimes you draw a horizon line because it helps, sometimes you NEVER DO because it fucks you up more than you care to admit.

sometimes you learn the rules, and then break them, and sometimes you stick to them, and sometimes you have never learned them in rhe first place and all that matters is, does your art make you happy? at the very least, does it make you feel what you want to feel?

if not, don't worry. my first try on my "casual conversation" work? wooooohhh hoooo hoooooo wee it was NOT what i wanted to get down paper. tablet. screen, whatever. i HAD to go and find a ref and do something different and you know? i'm still not happy with it. i don't think i'll ever be at a point where i'll be able to get down exactly what i have pictured in my head. i think i'll be always lagging behind at least a little bit, BUT. i can try to close that gap, too.

instead of looking at the incredible artists on here and wishing i was one of them? i am! i'm here, posting with you all! and for now, i can be happy with that.

also BLENDER. if it's not too intimidating, i use it for general shading references for solid objects like tables purely out of spite because when i first tried to learn it my developmental eternally youthful disorder (autism) brain was. literally not developed enough for it, i think. i frustrated myself to the point of tears more than once with it YEARS ago but now 😎😎😎👉 i can make some things. which is WAY more than zero so small victories 😂

tl;dr think critically/analytically, look for shortcuts, if it sucks hit da bricks, if it ain't broke don't fix it, and fucking draw what you want to draw and what makes YOU happy

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i need me a ribcage-patterned binder like this gotdamb

more tokyo ghoul

my carrd

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reblogging with a fixed version under the cut! the neck was bothering me :y

someone said dragon kaneki is ethereal and u know what u are so right

ko-fi commissions

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sleep paralysis, part 2. i did put a blorbo in it. i have like. three other panels in progress at the moment this thing is haunting me.

keep in mind i'll be putting these in order at the end (probably in a separate post) because. everything is so fragmented i just. gotta get it Out Of My Head.

anyway in this part the doctors accidentally fucking killed me?? given the other panels i've got coming up kaneki was just. fitting to put in this.

had the WORST sleep paralysis of my life on the 31st of march and i am going to make a series of paintings out of it because there is fuck-all else to do with this!!!!

they'll be presented in no particular order and i might have to go slow with these because holy shit it was Bad(tm) but it's gonna be whatever this turns into now because [incomprehensible screaming]

content warnings for medical trauma/abuse/malpractice, hospitals, blood, death, and maybe unreality (???) as we go.

anyway here's part one! (i'll organize them at the end in the order it happened in the nightmare).

also i'm not Entirely Certain Yet but i may put a blorbo into the paintings because that is less painful to think about than myself in the paintings like. literally gonna let one of them soak up my trauma like a sponge maybe idk yet

[whateverdays-art]

had the WORST sleep paralysis of my life on the 31st of march and i am going to make a series of paintings out of it because there is fuck-all else to do with this!!!!

they'll be presented in no particular order and i might have to go slow with these because holy shit it was Bad(tm) but it's gonna be whatever this turns into now because [incomprehensible screaming]

content warnings for medical trauma/abuse/malpractice, hospitals, blood, death, and maybe unreality (???) as we go.

anyway here's part one! (i'll organize them at the end in the order it happened in the nightmare).

also i'm not Entirely Certain Yet but i may put a blorbo into the paintings because that is less painful to think about than myself in the paintings like. literally gonna let one of them soak up my trauma like a sponge maybe idk yet

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we don't know what he's going to do, though... thoughts?