aposterous
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My friend says she looks like the American flag. Is this ture
Vee?? Wtf???
Uh, so I don't like Vee's canon design, mostly her palette. A green palette could work, sure, but her specific palette is not good. Primarily because the two shades of green are almost exactly the same value (which makes them blend together), but also because it makes her look much more like a computer than a TV. Besides the colours, it kind of bothers me that she (and many other toons) are basically completely naked.
So I wanted to take a shot at redesigning her.
Here, we have a red/blue/grey colour scheme. This just makes the most sense to me; when I think "movie" or "TV" those are the colours I think of. The red and blue are also supposed to mimic 3D glasses.
She's fully clothed, in a suit because what else would she wear. Gave her white gloves bc the light value draws attention to her hands and makes her gestures easier to understand. Her face and tail glow for the same reason. I'd have Vee's tail always showing, by the way. I do not want to know where she puts it in canon. Uh. Anyway, she has a belt chain too bc they're cool.
Will make a good drawing of this design at some point, but I'm feeling lazy tonight, so yeah.
Ok that's it byeee (I will go back to my regular stuff eventually, I promise, but feast well in the meantime)
P.S. Reblog if you wanna see my other toon redesign ideas >:)
Personally I really like it :D but I'm curious about others' opinions.
Vee?? Wtf???
Uh, so I don't like Vee's canon design, mostly her palette. A green palette could work, sure, but her specific palette is not good. Primarily because the two shades of green are almost exactly the same value (which makes them blend together), but also because it makes her look much more like a computer than a TV. Besides the colours, it kind of bothers me that she (and many other toons) are basically completely naked.
So I wanted to take a shot at redesigning her.
Here, we have a red/blue/grey colour scheme. This just makes the most sense to me; when I think "movie" or "TV" those are the colours I think of. The red and blue are also supposed to mimic 3D glasses.
She's fully clothed, in a suit because what else would she wear. Gave her white gloves bc the light value draws attention to her hands and makes her gestures easier to understand. Her face and tail glow for the same reason. I'd have Vee's tail always showing, by the way. I do not want to know where she puts it in canon. Uh. Anyway, she has a belt chain too bc they're cool.
Will make a good drawing of this design at some point, but I'm feeling lazy tonight, so yeah.
Ok that's it byeee (I will go back to my regular stuff eventually, I promise, but feast well in the meantime)
P.S. Reblog if you wanna see my other toon redesign ideas >:)
Moon Mascot Needed!
Have you ever wanted to design something that could fly around the Moon? This is your opportunity. The Artemis II astronauts will use a zero gravity indicator during their mission to demonstrate when the Orion spacecraft has reached microgravity. This plushie needs to be soft, small, and importantly, remind us of home. The Moon Mascot contest challenges people of all ages from all over the world to submit a design to be made by NASA’s Thermal Blanket Lab and flown aboard Artemis II. To submit a design for the contest, visit: freelancer.com/moon-mascot
Restless.
I never post here so I have crafted some mysterious OC ship art for you. Congratulations
Urmmmm I don't remember whether I've posted stuff about these guys at all in the last few months, but these are the two OCs I brainrot about the most: Ice (lighter one) and Pip (darker one). I've been working on their story lately which is a huge W for me because I'm allergic to actually working on my stories
The context for this is that they are sort of in love but the relationship is toxic. I'd say more but I don't want to give away spoilers (also because the details tend to change since I'm very indecisive).
The HTTYD universe's ecosystem must've been so damaged when all the dragons dissappeared.
"but people wanted to hurt them!" people want to hurt wolves to, but we don't send them all to an isolated cave because it would destroy the ecosystem.
In fact, "dragon" is just a collective word for multiple species so they really fucked themselves with that one.
In conclusion, the third movie was stupid.
Do you have any underrated artists you would recommend?
HELLO. i forgot this was in my inbox, sorry for the late response. BUT YES I DO. i dont know what art you like but some mutuals whose art i like seeing around are @cattyfatty @aposterous @riskelk @lune-cider :D
✦ Sanctuary ✦
writing fanfiction is hell why do people do it. how are people writing over 2-3k words. on the regular. how.
Back at it again with my ClanGen game! You might remember me talking about ClanGen. You may naturally assume I've picked it up again recently and decided to draw my clan's ten founders, and that I spent a few days to a week making this. And you would, naturally, be wrong. I started this in February. I drew the first eight cats. All that was left was Morningpaw and Creekpaw. But I just. Stopped. And forgot about it. Until a month or so ago, when I FINALLY drew the last two cats. And then I forgot about it again until a week or two ago, when I finished it up, and I'm now posting it.
These cats are from HeronClan, a fanmade Warriors Clan that lives by the sea. They are the Clan's founders. You might have noticed the 2:3 adult to child ratio, which was an accident, and resulted in Rowanstar getting four apprentices: Wolfpaw, Webpaw, Morningpaw and Creekpaw. I can only imagine what that must have been like. Mouselarch was the only warrior at the beginning, too. I'm now in the 30-somethingth moon, and the Clan has wayyy more members now; I'm thinking of drawing another list of cats once I get to Moon 50, but we'll have to see.
Here are the traits/skills of each cat, so you can get a bit of a feel for their personalities:
Rowanstar: calm, unusually strong fighter
Toadheart: careful, great teacher
Skystripe: faithful, great hunter (pain)
Mouselarch: strange, good teacher
Wolfpaw: patient
Ganderpaw: ambitious
Hillpaw: ambitious
Webpaw: loyal
Morningpaw: compassionate
Creekpaw: cold
I started this game before the experience system changed, so that's why the apprentices don't have skills yet.
Anyway, I've been procrastinating on this thing for long enough, so here it is! Enjoy.
ive had this as an old sketch for ages, so the other day i finished it up a little
im not sure who originally it was meant to be but it is an alpenglow cat sooo.. art :]
omg wait
100 followers!!
um fair warning to any new followers, if you're not here for furry art you will be very disappointed
do people do follower milestone stuff on Tumblr? even if they don't i kind of want to do something.. ill think abt it
🌟 A Cry for Help: My Family’s Struggle to Survive in Gaza 🌟
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We are a family of 15—10 adults and 5 children. Every day is a battle for survival. Food is scarce, humanitarian aid is not reaching us, and my little nieces and nephews go to bed hungry. Among them is my sister, who is deaf, and another sister who has a newborn baby. They, too, are suffering in this crisis, and I’m doing everything I can to protect and provide for them.
💔 A Life in Ruins The war has robbed us of everything: safety, peace, and even the hope of a future here. My family’s needs are basic yet critical—food, clean water, diapers for the babies, gas for cooking, and other essentials to make it through each day.
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I have been informed that this counts as a stim
why cant it be socially acceptable to just start fucking screaming
really tired but i dont wanna sleep :( its 1 am ish
anyway cat art moment so that this post isn't nothing
just some stuff i've drawn over the last week or so. mostly kitty cat busts because I'm kinda lazy tbh (/j)
image one is a character i got from Upsilon on TH. i have inserted them into one of my warriors fics but i might move them somewhere else. currently their name is duneleap, like sand dune, like beach.
second and third are the same character. as img 3 says, their name is unicorn. they don't really have any lore yet but that may change! they have a bf who i haven't designed yet named mon, after v723 monoceros, the star that accompanies the black hole unicorn is based on. i really like space
and the fourth image is of an old oc who i sometimes think about. his name is claude. normally he is very chill and positive, but that's boring, so i drew like, edgy symbolic art about his trauma. yay!
here's the style analysis template from today's video!
Did a silly
I saw that Flix might be getting redesigned and decided to do my rendition of what I'd want in a redesign! More under the cut ✦
Traits list (some are on the ref but I'll expand on them here):
I changed the palette quite a bit. I like the original black and gold, but it didn't give me space vibes, so I wanted the highlights to vary more in hue. That might be a controversial move, but I like it.
Keeping with the colour change, the blood and fire breath would probably be pink here.
The eyes are on the side of the head. This is inspired by seagulls, and sort of by their herbivory, although I would make Flix an omnivore (if not a carnivore) if I could. There aren't enough omnivores in CoS and I think it would be a better fit for Flix than herbivory.
They walk on their wings and feet like a pterosaur, just because it looks cool. Plus it makes them look a bit less like a different font of bird.
Their wings look more bat-like here. Ideally, they wouldn't; I'm just not good at replicating the canon wings. I wanted to emulate comet moth wings (because comet, like space) but I don't think I pulled it off. I could settle for feathered wings in a Flix redesign, but I have beef with feathered wings in spec evo because they're so unlikely to occur since they're such a derived structure. But CoS is already so unbelievably unrealistic that it's not even spec evo anymore, so whatever lol
The hindlegs are syndactyl, so they can perch! Their toes are also webbed, so they can actually swim! And maybe paddle around on the surface like ducks (wait that's cute... I might animate that).
They have claws on their wings. These would help with perching and perhaps climbing (like if they needed to climb a cliff instead of flying or something; maybe for stealth.
The back wings are attached to the hindleg. That's the case in the canon design too, but I bring it up here for clarity and also to add that I (and I assume the original designer) based this on microraptor's hind-wings. Microraptor beloved <333
I couldn't add them here as they'd obscure stuff even more, but I think there would be a couple more comet-shaped shards down the back. They would be floating particles, like the orbs that they keep adding to new creatures.
I gave them little star spots to make the black areas look like a night sky!
You can't see it due to the hind wings covering it, but the tail has the same gradient as the little danglies on the wings.
I just realised this version makes them look a bit like the Flickaflie, which people seem to already mix up with this guy anyway, so uh, oops. I think they're different enough.
If you have any thoughts to add to this, leave a comment! I'd love to discuss and I'm fine with criticism of this design. I might make a second rendition if I become unsatisfied enough with this. :3
I'm a bit worried about the CoS redesign polls...
They're going to be redesigning two of my favourite creatures (Flixlit and Nymphasuchus), as well as some others, and at least one of the poll options for each would make me hate them
Like I would cry for ages if they made Nymphasuchus a tank because I love how it looks like a crocodile-ferret. Nymph is perfect, he doesn't need a redesign :( I hope that when they do redesign it, they keep its cute toes. I love Nymph
And Flixlit is my main (by far; it's my favourite creature in the whole game) so any redesign that changes it would be a loss in my book. Thankfully the poll currently looks like this
So I doubt it will change much in the redesign. I just don't want the other options because spiky Flixlit would look dumb tbh
Still, I'm slightly worried bc sometimes the redesigns suck. I despise the Pero redesign SO much. They made a fine creature so ugly. They made my sweetie look like a demon. And everyone was mad about Kendyll's bad initial redesign (tbh I didn't mind that one and I actually think the new redesign looks out of place compared to the other creatures) so yeah.
I know this isn't remotely what I normally post, but I need to ramble about this because I'm anxious now. Here's hoping they don't mess up with the Flix & Nymph redesigns.
WIP for a new Cosi ref!!!
I really need to post more... trying to get over my aversion to posting WIPs. A full description will come when the ref is done!
Some owed art for Upsilon on Toyhouse!!
My school year ended today, so I'm free over the holidays! Hopefully, I will remember to post here! But I'll have to see.
just found more #parallels between the only two tv shows i watch btw..both stories contain a beginning, middle, and end.
I return from the void with art!!
First is a temporary ref for a new OC! Say hi to Poultice! He is emo
And now a bunch of extra stuff because art dumps apparently do well on Tumblr. A halfbody of a new design I'm developing for Cosi (my sona), an icon thing for an OC I never use named Ono, a redesign of a character I first made in 2019, and a drawing of a new OC named Willow (I can't remember whether I posted their ref here lol)
Um yeah, that's it for now! Have a good day. Uh. Eat something and drink a lot of water. Like, drink one, maybe even two glasses (woah). Listen to a good song on loop. Just be cool today. Bye
does anyone else have a favorite tv character where whenever they’re on screen you just
Three raffle prizes I drew over the last couple of weeks for a raffle I hosted on Instagram!
1st: for c0mput3r_blu3_
2nd: for alpha.angrian
And 3rd: for amazonartdragon
Yesterday (maybe the day before) Hibiscus_Cove on TH just kind of. Gave me a character. And this is the character's new ref!
This one isn't quite as refined as my usual art because it wasn't supposed to be a full thing at first. By the time I decided to finish it up I was too far along to redo the lines lol. I still like it though.
One of the main design changes was adding more colours and patterns. I tried to stay true to the OG though, and I think it worked? I also gave them a bit of an outfit and I changed their species. They were originally just a dragon, but I've got a species I'm developing and I'm looking for more OCs to add to it, so yeah. This guy got hit by the species beam.
Likes and reblogs are greatly appreciated! But don't feel obligated of course :3
hmm...
Fun fact: I don't have a gallbladder! I had it removed at 14 after contracting gallstones :D The nurses told me that gallstones are supposed to only occur in middle-aged people with high cholesterol and/or drinking problems, but I fit none of those categories. Somehow, I wasn't the youngest person they'd seen with the condition. They'd had an 11-year-old with it once, which is just bonkers.
I spent a week in the hospital. With gallstones, they remove the gallbladder to prevent getting it again (they are indescribably painful), so I had surgery, and I now have four little scars on my stomach. Also, the hospital refused to organise the flight back home, so my mum and I had to race to catch the next Rex flight to my hometown. Oh, and they didn't actually transfer me so I had to go through triage again after returning home. That was fun /s
That was also the first time I'd been under anaesthetic. It was really weird.
Pings (no pressure btw. I just wanna keep this going): @qibsichan @hannyatiger
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore