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do i also have serious drawings? Yes… im keeping them to myself tho 😆
Have a silly crossover instead
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Listen ik we’re not getting the m&m baby until maybe s4 or late s3, but i’m not immune to gay uncles baby sitting
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New otp just droped. Have a surprise Aeor double date (Blitzø is getting Stolas a new magic book, or smth. Caleb and Essek aren’t sure what to do with that).
Hey if you ever worry that your art is too self-indulgent and weird, consider the following:
You know Franciso de Goya? Yeah that Goya. The one who painted “saturn devouring his son” and the other 13 of what are called his “black paintings”, which are dark, creepy, and while you might not know all the other ones, if you only vaguely recognise the name Goya, the first image to pop into your head is probably this one:
Unless you’ve got an art history degree. This post isn’t aimed at people with an art history degree. Anyway, those of you who aren’t into art history probably only vaguely know the story, of how he was a painter and these 14 were his private paintings, only painted for himself, not commissioned by a customer and never intended to be publicly displayed. People were shocked when they were first discovered, due to how starkly different they were from his other, more traditional and conventional paintings.
This is the part I want you to meditate on: Goya also made plenty of normal art for normal people. A whole bunch of perfectly normal paintings.
i meant art-wise but if any dark sorcerers see this. you do you
this is oddly specific, but so far my Favourite design choice in m9a is that on wildemount, women don’t have their lips drawn by default.
It’s such a small pet pieve of mine in lvm that i feel bad bringing it up, but also, it’s truly just a remnant of 90s shows where we still had token girls and women were expected to wear makeup. In a group consisting of 50% women it becomes Very noticeable.
Which, at the end of the day i do Respect, bc lvm is so clearly a love letter to superhero shows from the 90s, and that’s the kinda show they wanted to make. More power to em.
Unfortunately i do have pronouns, and gender essentialism in any form drives me up the wall, but that’s just me.
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scanlan even Grows Lips when he shape shifts into a woman, it’s all very silly.
MEANWHILE ON WILDEMOUNT:
The only people so far with lips are.. *checks notes* Liam o'brien’s love interests.
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Good for him
once again, nein again is giving me a hard time bc as im catching up i realize theres smth i want to draw in every single episode and uhm… how will i ever have time 😅
I know I say that I’m kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.
Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:
Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it’s not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it’s not really giving any information about the owner.
Even if you want a basic sofa… What kind of basic.
comfy and cheap?
kinda rigid?
inherited? ——
who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?
guy living alone?
teenage girl?
Grandma?
Anyway I’ll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!
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Who needs Wait For November, when u’ve animator at home ?!! (That’s a lie i’m still waiting for november)
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