One Of My Favorite Pieces From February! Art Payment For KitsuGalaxy Of Rox, A Character I Designed!

Some painting practice with one of my characters ‘cause it’s been a while. Not finished and probably never will be, but I like it anyway! Hope you do too. :D

How did you do the background for 'The Mabel Treatment'? I love it and I wanna know how you did it!

Heya, anon, sorry for the late reply! Thank you for the ask!

I wish I could tell you that it was some sort of laborious act of love for my craft but it's actually just a built-in filter in Photoshop called "Crystallize"! There was a period of time where I was trying to use filters as quick-fix backgrounds and crystallize was one of my favorites. Plop down a gradient, stick the filter on and bam, cool and artsy!

If you're looking to crystallize something of your own but you don't wanna sacrifice a goat to the Adobe tyrants check out Photopea, its got all of Photoshop's features right in your web browser. Directory is "Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize..."

Hope you had an awesome Halloween! /|\^. .^/|\

Chiroptera Visual Database

Hi there! A couple years back I compiled a massive folder of all the bat species in the world* in photographs for quick visual reference. I feel I should share it in hopes that it can help someone like it has me and save them a lot of time looking up ambiguous search terms such as "bat species" or trying to find photographs of obscure ones.

CLICK HERE!

This database contains:

Sub-folders labelled after families (vesper bats, megabats, etc.) for easier sorting

A-Z sorted photographs of all the documented species in the world*

A little text document telling of the best places to find more photographs and/or info about the species

Photographs include professional-grade shots, scientific illustrations, fieldwork photographs, headshots, wingspans, skeletons, skulls, foot details, and comparison shots between species

All files are downloadable, including the folder itself which you can get as a .zip

Some of these photographs are very obscure and needed to be dug out of the farthest corners of the ‘net. This was a passion project of mine in order to give myself an easy-to-access art resource to better understand these animals and their incredible diversity. I hope you can find some use of this, as well!

Enjoy, bat nerds! If there's anything wrong, please don't hesitate to contact me. I've worked like crazy to put this together and I want only the best for it!

Quick disclaimer:

Nothing here belongs to me, all of these images were found using Google Images and this is meant to be nothing more than a database/directory for anatomical reference. If you plan on reusing them, please reverse image search the original image and ask for permission from the rightful owner(s) as necessary. Photography is an art just like anything else, and it ain't cool to steal! Thank you. <3

*Some species have only been documented in writing and therefore do not have readily-available photographs of them on the internet. This database was compiled by going through the list of documented species and finding photographs of them when I could; there are even more species than those listed in this folder!

Pine Tree | Speedpaint

Quick piece from November 2019! Posting now because I’m planning on continuing this format; Mabel is next and will be way more refined. :D

Variants and some extra insight under the cut!

“Been really inspired lately by those huge Waldo-esque pieces where you could spend hours looking at all the tiny details, and while this isn't totally on the level of those it was still a lot of work! Been trying some new rendering techniques and having a lot of fun with them, though they clearly still need some polish, lol. Not my best technique-wise but I think it's a lot of fun and I enjoy it a lot! I hope you like it, too. If you do, lemme know -- who's your favorite Dip? Will definitely be working on ones for the rest of the Pines! Perhaps all the symbols, even? Who knows?” ~ Original description

Blue variant

Blue w/ background (originally so I could use it as a phone wallpaper lol)

Edit: thanks for all the notes, guys! I made some edits so that this is easier to read. If you like Bill and spec bio vibes, here's another one I made of some possible psychological instincts a Euclidean might possess. Lots of love :Dc

A study into 90% of Bill's organs

I went so overboard omg but I wanted to try underpainting :Dc See if you can guess what color was the base for each of em! Reasoning for design choices beneath the cut.

Teeth are retractable so as to not puncture the eye when not in use

Lashes are retractable because I couldn't figure out what else to do with them LOL they're pretty thick whiskers and so he'd have some trouble if they stayed in the way, but having them fully retracted would, I imagine, risk them getting stuck or the pores plugging with oil/dirt

Whether or not his tongue is forked varies in canon, just as his blood color does, so I just chose the ones I prefer! I do really like it when people give him blue blood but I think in subtler hues it can make him look a lil nauseous so it's easier for me to work with red

He cleans himself with his tongue because he's a gross little beast and can't just take a shower or something. Ok but really I just thought it was cute what are you a cop leave me alone

Every villain needs to be able to have claws it's like a rule somewhere I think

The second set of eyelids serve to protect the optic nerve but are mainly something I added partially for emoting purposes and partially because of how many times the animators do this thing where his lashes don't follow his lids and it drives me less insane to have a hc about it

Trying to get back into the swing of things using shitposts again. My tablet pen was broken for like two weeks omg. I'll get something done someday, I'm sure!

(Original under the cut bc it's just such a good image)

Found this weird little comic thing in my files lol, pretty sure it was photographed from an iPad so apologies for the quality (or lack thereof). He's a questionable role model but he means well

Transcription under the cut in case you can't read my horrible awful handwriting (and translation from YVese)

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Venuz: holy shit.

Venuz: AY!

Venuz: NO drugs, drugs are bad, ok?

Cuz: but i wanna be as cool as you, V :)

Venuz: FUCK that's so cute

Venuz: when you grown you can be a G, ok Cuz? i got an idea

Cuz: ok

Venuz: man did he just turn himself into a pickle? lmao

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Man I think that's the second time that the punchline to one of my drawings was a character watching Pickle Rick. Idk what that says about me as a person (besides the fact that I wanna go back to 2017 [if that ain't a red flag idk what is])

Fantober day 2: vampire

Just a tiny crobat for today! Shout out to my shiny crobat, Mr. Crocker, who is named such because he loves to murder fairies

Reuploading trying to beat Tumblr’s awful horrible tagging system but I guess this little dude is just doomed to never appear in the tags. I am fighting a losing battle

How did Kaput and Zösky confessed their feelings for each other and who confessed first?

Always figured that if they got together it'd just be like. day 293 of space road-trip:

One of two pieces I did for Art Fight this year xDc Better than nothing, and I had fun! Focused on going with the flow and exploring.

This is my dear friend @mintytrashcannot's character Albert (and his alien dog Spluty)! I felt he seemed like a rather traditionalist guy who would stand by his country's greyscale palette even after color was legalized, so this is kinda meant to highlight that contrast between his natural color and his conservative values

(Hope that makes some kinda sense...the lore is a bit complex)