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I'll be posting some of the pictures I posted on X here!

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Jane is Pride Month

Made this for pride month, then forgetting to post it all month. Better late than ever I guess.

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Been losing sleep looking up hue shifting, both to see if it's actually any good, fantasy of anyone else thinks it's overrated. Found some examples where it looks good, but most of the examples look bad, especially red. Hugh shifting does make the donut look more vibrant here, but I find the outline is way too bright, which makes it look like an eyesore, as it's kind of backwards from how outflies are normally supposed to look (that is: darker than the base color).

Hue Shifting - Pixel Art Tips

What is hue shifting?

-Hue shifting is a technique used in art when picking colors for shading.

-Basically, when you make a color darker, you’d make it bluer and more saturated. 

-When you make a lighter color, you’d make it yellower and less saturated.

-Here’s an example. This picture is exaggerated, you don’t shift the values a ton. Usually I do it just enough to notice.

Why do you hue shift?

-Shadows in real life tend to be a little blue. If you look at a picture of a shadow on a white surface, you may notice that the cast shadow isn’t completely grey, there’s a tiny bit of blue. 

-This can be exaggerated to make a  picture look more vibrant. 

-Here’s an example of this with some of my older pixel art. The donut on the left has no hue shifting. When I made a color darker, I just decreased the luminosity. The donut on the right has hue shifting. See how it looks more vibrant?

How do I do it?

-If I want to make the color darker, I’d do this.

-If I’m making it lighter, I’d do this.

-Play around with color mixing and see what suits you!

-If you want, here’s a website that will hue shift for you!                                         

Thank you for reading my guide! I hope you found it useful                                     Feel free to give feedback. :)

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What Does Chujin Need?

I take Ceroba's line about Chujin wanting a big family very seriously. Actually finished this last week, But PostyBirb Has been having issues for me lately, so I put off post in it for a little bit. Finally got back around to working on 3D modeling yesterday. But a bug with blender has caused my progress to holt. Here's hoping things turn out better later!

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Cornelius & Blanathan (Kelloggville)

So, it's been like, what, a month since my last image. Yeah, this took longer than expected, and that was mostly due to a lack of motivation. There was a point where I needed to write a really long Reddit Post for personal war reasons, but aside from that I don't really have any excuses. Especially since I was able to do Blanathan (left) in one day in less than an hour, so it really was just laziness. But actually describing the image before I say more bloggy nonsense: I've developed an AU in my head based around the various Kellogg cereal characters living in an excluded town ran largely by a church that has health beliefs based on John Harvey Kellogg's own beliefs. While it takes place in modern times, the insular nature of the town makes it so that it's largely stuck in the '50s, with random things from other decades leaking in (for instance: the most advanced game consoles most of the residents know about are Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, most are not even aware that there are Star Wars films outside of the OT, and they were only made aware of Mickey Mouse when Steamboat Willie entered the public domain). The few exceptions are outsiders visiting (Toucan Sam) or moving into town (Cinna-mon). Here it depicted are the identical twins Cornelius (official mascot, right) and Blanathan (OC, left). Cornelius is a timid well meaning guy, who hates being told by nicknames. Blanathan is an arrogant health nut who always calls Cornelius "Corny". Both are priests, but only Blanathan is head of church (I think that's how churches work?). They are based on Will Keith Kellogg and John Harvey Kellogg, respectively (those two weren't twins in real life, but I thought it would be neat). I'm too tired (I woke up at like 3~) to go into more detail, but everything is subject to change anyway, as I do more research and develop the concept further, so it's best to just get the broad strokes out. I have learned from both research and experience that being productive isn't about figuring out how to motivate oneself (though that is of course always preferable), but rather learning how to work despite a lack of motivation. Luckily: I'm not doing this as a job, so I can take all the time I need to relax! I'll probably focus on 3D modeling until further notice, since that seems to fall more in line with my skill set, but I'm not at the point where I can promise anything. I'll practice 3D modeling when I feel like it, and share stuff when I feel like it's worth sharing.

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This? This shit right here? Why Mob Psycho 100 is my favorite anime right now.

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The first art of John Beastars

To all two people who are actually following me: this is what I've been working on for like a month now. I have vastly underestimated how hard 3D modeling was, which is why I'm only showing the head model, and why decided to trace over it Instead of painting A texture. I honestly just need A break from it right now. Super happy with how the ears turned out though! I actually have a bit figured out about this character. Bio: John is the biological child of Haru and Louis in an AU where Haru got pregnant sometime before her kidnapping by the Shishigumi. Louis' aloof stoicism, combined with Haru's blunt honesty has resulted in A creature that is far more fierce and savage that anything A carnivore could spawn. Was a bit bratty as A kid (and will continue to be so as A teenager, lol). He was initially antagonistic towards his father in law, Legushi, even once culling him A cuck (to which Legushi had to look up the meaning of), but learn to appreciate him as he grew older. He was ashamed of his antlers when they first grew, trying his best to file them down, but encouragement from Haru, was quickly able to accept them. He doesn't have any extravagant goals or ambitions, simply wishing to live A quiet, peaceful life where he can spent quality time with his friends and family. While Louis can't let it slip that he has an illegitimate child due to the reputation destruction, he still tries his best to stay in his son's life, visiting Haru and Legushi at least once a month, and participates in events involving John and his legal family whenever there's an excuse. He is incredibly grateful Legushi for being A positive father figure in his son's life. (I, for one, cannot imagine Legushi as anything other than A doting father.) Louis wishes he could be more involved with his son, as to give him a better childhood than what he had. John is a member of the gardening club in Cherryton, not just because he has a great foulness for plants from his mother, but also because he knew from his mother's testimony that he would likely be the only member, would get the alone time he so desperately needs. And he was and he was correct: he was the only member of the somehow still existing club. Well... Except for A reserved but playful female reindeer in the same year as him, but she seems understanding of his needs for occasional isolation. (He also has a massive tsundare crush on her, FYI.) He has A close relationship with his two younger half siblings (who I'll we reveal more about whenever I get around to it): Kaguya (Haru X Legushi), and [currently unnamed] (Louis X Juno). (I'll probably name the Louis/Juno daughter after one of the daughters of Harris/Juno from Greek/Roman mythology.) I am currently anime only, and as of writing this: only the first half of "final season" is out, so a lot of this is based on assumptions as to where the plot is going that may turn out to be wrong in the future. But this is also technically an AU, so I can hand wave a lot of it as "butterfly effect from Haru geting knocked up", or whatever. Point is: please no spoilers for whatever's going to happen in the second half of final season. Thanks!

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alright everybody lets see those Pluey designs

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When I was a lil kid i used to think you could get pregnant from kissing so every time i kissed someone i would punch my stomach really hard

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hello everyone today im here to pitch to you an idea which could revolutionize the deltarune fanon industry: these 4 become friends

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Trope a Week - Week 2

Hello, took me forever because of sleep. So midway in making this, I decided to put this Trope a Week thing on pause, as I do not have time to do this and other things as I thought I would. I'll be focusing on 3D modeling, and a special project I was inspired to make recently. Didn't do a very good job drawing the heroin, but I actually like what I did with the prince. I made the prince sleeveless as A time saving measure, but I actually think it looks really good on him. The princess laugh is A reference to One Piece, But I did not look up how that particular laugh was spelled to make it more likely that my spelling was unique. I have no names for either the heroin or the prince as of yet (Though I did just now come up with the idea of making the heroin's name A feminine variation of "Arthur", or whoever overthrew him (I'm bad with the names)). The premise of the sending is that there are three swords of valor, intellect, and temperance (based on three out of the four cardinal virtues). Whoever is chosen by one of these swords becomes A king, thus leading to A maximum of three kings. In time, three kings were chosen by a blade each. But these kings became corrupt, and so are heroin mated her mission to overthrow them. I've always liked the idea of villains who possessed the four cardinal virtues (Plato defined justice as more or less having the other three anyway, so it can be ignored), I think it's an interesting way to highlight what's lacking in these virtues alone.

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Trope a Week - Week 1

Try it some slightly more complicated angles for this one, could have done better with them. But that's not what took this so long. No, I took so long to make this because my sleep schedule was so screwed up I sensibly became nocturnal. Definitely have to fix that. Also try giving them necks. Not very good at necks, or heads, or hands, or torsos, or anything, really. But I guess that's why I'm doing this in the first place. Writing A character bar real quick: Sydney "Siniy" Goluboy is a Russian blue hailing from Russia. Her father was A high raking official in the USSR, but decided to leave due to disagreeing with the Holodomer, making him question the efficacy of the regime as A whole. Sydney was very young when this happened, so while she doesn't have many memories of this time, she remembered enough to resent her father for the move. But after learning of the reason, she now bears,,, mixed feelings, about her homeland... And that's obtainable tsundere type, she gets angry very quickly at minor things. However, she cares most about compassion and justice at heart, which is why she became a comp in the first place (though she often seems more interested in punishing the guilty then protecting the innocent..). Her favorite game is Tetris, it is also the only video game she has any interest in playing. Her friends and coworkers have introduced her to other video games, and she liked some of them just fine, but Tetris is the only game she can really get into deeply. She brings a gameboy A Tetris cartridge that has never left said gameboy to work. It's kind of her comfort food. And yes: she has A crush on her male coworker pictured in this image. But as stated earlier: she's A tsundere, so it's a slow burn.

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Dina Says Happy Birthday

If you read the last Trope a Day description: this is the thing I was talking about, technically. You see I wanted to make this for a friend for their birthday, but on Sunday of last week I got really sick, which continued the next day but less bad. Last week was also A week of general lack of motivation, for reasons I do not know (but I speculate it's because the weather was cold). I was also going to do A thing where I took a model I already made in block bench use blender or mine-imator to take A screenshot which I would then trace over, but I realized far too late that learning entire new programs in order to make one screenshot to trace over might actually take a little bit of time, so I didn't end up doing this. The hard part about Diana is Definitely the plates that form her midriff area. They're all very thin and few in number, while also interacting with the hips in a way that makes it look like A sort of ball joint, which makes it surprisingly complicated to plan out. I thought I would make her stock here, but I don't think I did as good of a job as I thought I would have. Better than my initial attempts at least. I also have to say that I love her hair. It's very pretty. Regardless, will start Trope a Week soon.

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Trope a Day - Day 23

I like building up characters. It's really fun, and it gives me more motivation to make these. So my pink dog OC is going to be named Clara, because she feels like a Clara. This new gray rabbit OC is going to be named Theophania, because I've been wanting to name a character that for a while now. And I don't have a name for the cat cop yet, but she definitely has A Russian accent! Reading the massive block of text for Theophania is not necessary, but I think it's funny so I would appreciate it. And don't think too hard about it. Only like 60% at most of that text box is self insertion, and that's counting gender-bending alterations, and I really just did the whole "what would I say" thing because that's easier than making a whole new character with a whole lot of details from scratch. Some update stuff that I wrote frist: So I started this by spending one or two hours writing the dialog (since I'm kind of doing A joke where more is more), before Spending the rest of the day on the drawing. Some of that time was spent on minor breaks, procrastination, and one half an hour (maybe) break, but still, something like this has happened before. I used to make fan fictions using A Undertale textbox generator for Undertale Yellow. A pair of series in particular we're split up into multiple episodes. Episodes of the former used to take A day to write, and it was really just for an hour or two. But by the final episode of the first series, and pretty early in the second one, they took an entire day or two to write. I think this is just the natural process of improving in any craft: you start out being able to pop them out in a day, but as your craft improves you become more confident in what you can and can't do, and your standards begin to rise, and so you end up taking more time than you expected. What I'm trying to say is: I'm going to have to downgrade this from Trope a Day to Trope a Week so I can focus more on 3D modeling and other interests. I'm still going to try to do some very basic practice drawings on most non trope days, to work on my dexterity more and maintain my progress, since I stopped doing that with how long these take now, but I'm only going to start the trope stuff on Mondays if not Sundays, take as many days as it takes on it (probably 1~3), and then not make anymore trope stuff for the rest of the week. This way I have time to do other things I've been meaning to do. And on that: Trope a week will not start until the week after next, since there's another drawing I want to work on that kind of has a deadline. Luckily: There really isn't anyone following this project, so no harm no foul./j But at least you'll still probably have an art piece next week. In A way, You can consider this piece a series finale! But it's to make room for a new series that's exactly the same but will take longer to come out, so whatever. If you want to read the text box fan fictions I wrote that I mentioned earlier, You can find them on Reddit and Tumblr.

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Trope a Day - Day 22

Started this yesterday, but I overslept so I wasn't able to finish it until today. I'm more productive when I get to bed early and wake up early"?" Who could have guessed"!?" Anyways, I knew I wanted her to have paws and cat ears, because that's what I felt like doing, but I really like the deer furries, so I decided to make her one of those. So I decided to make her a deer-cat hybrid. Not entirely sure it reads, especially since it's only these newt that has the deer element. Her forearms are a little long, but I think I did an alright job on the boob tent. And if you're wondering why she's holding her sword weirdly, I recommend you look up the word I used for the title of this non poster. It'll all make sense.

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"Shooters are still A thing. Therefore: no one shouldn't complain when someone kills A CEO. Because making rich people unrelated to the suffering of 6-year-olds is totally good because."

What was the point of killing that CEO? How will it improve the health care system? Doesn't it just make it harder to attack the corporation he was in charge of, which role likely just continue honest though nothing happened anyway? Even if the CEO was completely evil, what was the point? Was it just to make someone you don't like suffer? Did you even know the CEO before this incident?

Gosh, I hate the Luigi apology! Especially when they try to pull the "so we should just sit down and politely ask for rides?". My dude, what will violence accomplish? How will killing anyone illegally make anything better in any way shape or form? What is the process here? How does this work? What is the step 2? Because unless your goal is to literally overthrow the government, I'm not really seeing how killing people can help you accomplish your goals.

You want to know how peace can actually solve the issue? By voting! Your elected officials rely on votes in order to keep power. You're elected officials have to care about their voters, because if they don't: they lose power. And if you do not vote: you do not have power over your elected officials. Doing research and voting sound like work? Fine then, don't vote, I don't either for that very reason. But at least I'm not saying "ViOlEnCe Is ThE oNlY aNsWeR" when I can't even be bother to vote!

And everyone sympathizing for the CEO because they don't want to live in a society that normalizes violence. And trust me: you don't either. You don't want the average person to think it's justified to resort to violence for political reasons. Because long beliefs don't magically have A different effect on one's psychology than true beliefs, and the vast majority of people think they are good, and that people they don't like are guilty.

If you normalize good people killing the guilty, then you also normalize bad people killing the innocent. That's not a slippery slope fallacy, that's A logical consequence of most bad people think their good people.

I generally do not like or trust the cops. If there's no other reason to hate them: let it be for how they conduct interrogations. And I have many problems with the US legal system. But I recognize the benefit of the law is that it forces people to abide by a standard that maximizes the punishment of the guilty and minimizes the punishment of the innocent. We can definitely do way better, but the easiest way to do that is to improving the system we currently have, and trying to ignore it or circumvent it is way more likely to make things incredibly worse than they are to make it better.

And trust me, I could go on, I have at least one extra point I could make right now that's alluded to in a previous point. I actually have A Reddit post draft that I barely started a while ago that I should probably finish at some point. But right now I'm really just venting because this gets me angry every time I see it, and I'm kind of annoyed that someone I followed unironically unironically reposted this, I still they thought it was so obviously correct that they didn't need to worry about backlash. And honestly, the Luigi-simping is just an example of a greater problem where people unironically think political violence is justified without ever putting A single iota of thought into how that would actually work. They come to conclusions based entirely off of what feels right, and then they call others naive when they point out how absurd their conclusions are.

I just want people to critically examine the own beliefs more, or at least honestly listen to what others critiques of theirs more.