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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! /|\^. .^/|\

Stayed up too late drawing this but I couldn’t hold my hype, REPENTANCE IS SICK !!! I’m having so much fun discovering my favorite game again, went from 90% of achievements unlocked to 50% and I’m finding new things every run. :D 

The art updates are fantastic, the new areas are seriously beautiful and I love my kiddo Azazel’s new haircut ;v; <3 <3 If you’re seeing this, Sag, you rock.

Got some stuff done today! This is Bella and she is the skrunkliest creature to ever exist. Top image is the simple ref I just made her and the bottom image is my original drawing of her

I really needed a simple fun-to-doodle Certified Shape and also I love the demons in Binding of Isaac so two birds one stone

Ten years. Holy wow. There are so many things I want to say that I don’t even know where to begin! But, first of all, I’m truly desolate that I wasn’t able to finish this piece properly in time; this was supposed to be a full work but unfortunately paired with my graduation, a nasty cold and just an overall busy year I just totally ran out of time. I intend on finishing this properly at some point, but for now all I can offer is the line work and the character flats. I hope you enjoy it anyway!

The really sappy stuff is beneath the cut. Happy double digits, Gravity Falls; I will always love you!

My brother and I have been close our whole lives. We first watched Gravity Falls together in November of 2015. These memories are some I hold so incredibly dear to my heart for so many reasons, but mainly because it was the summer of 2019 when my parents separated, and unfortunately also when my brother was hit very hard by puberty. He suddenly wanted nothing to do with me. We rarely even spoke because more often than not it’d end in a fight that brought me to tears. He hated me, and I could not stand it. I felt so lonely, so betrayed and, more than ever before, longed for the good ol’ days to come back to me.

Eventually, my brother’s destructive behaviour came back to bite him. One day I woke up to hear from some of our mutual friends that everybody had abandoned him; every single one had dubbed him a horrible monster and refused to talk to him ever again. He was completely alone, and, despite everything, I made the decision to ask him what was wrong. For the first time in years he opened up to me. We went on a long evening drive down the highway, just listening to his favorite music and seeing where the road would take us. After this, we finally began to talk again. He’d pop into my room every night just to say hello, watch YouTube and even asked me to teach him how to draw.

The reason I’m telling you all of this is because, during the endeavour, I was often reminded of Dipper and Mabel’s plight near the end of the series. It struck a cord deeper than I had expected it to when I rewatched it during this era, and it gave me hope. Gravity Falls was the last thing we had shared together and bonded over at the time. We created together, we imagined together, we loved together. The days we spent walking around the local track on sunny summer’s days musing over fun ideas for stories and fan-comics were some of the best ones of my life. So, you can imagine how difficult it was to feel like that had all been torn from me.

Nonetheless, just like the Pines twins (both sets! Happy birthday Stan and Ford <3 <3), we forgave each other. We’re best friends again, and I am so incredibly grateful for that. I can’t imagine my life without you, little bro, and I hope we continue to take on the world together for decades to come!

Thank you, Gravity Falls. Thank you for making me laugh, making me cry, making me think, making me feel and making me create. Thank you for the nights I spent curled up on the couch with my whole family, laughing and smiling together. Thank you for making me believe in the power of a sibling bond. Thank you for all of the inspiration, motivation and artistic growth (and being responsible for the first time I was drawing humans regularly!). Thank you for helping me bond and connect with my closest friends in the entire world. It is an absolute privilege to be able to be here to celebrate an entire decade of some of the best television to ever air. I know this show will never truly leave me; how could it after all of this? One day, I’m sure I will watch it again with my children, and then again with my children’s children, and create those memories all over again. And with each line, each frame, I’m sure I will look back to these memories. Moments forever frozen in time, where my family and I were as we should be: well and truly as one.

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Oh man now I’m crying lol, sorry if that was a bit incoherent I am beyond exhausted (been drawing for like eight hours straight) :’D But hey, it came from the heart!

Adios folks, I’ll hopefully see you soon with the proper iteration! And remember: “Gravity Falls is real and it will never die.” I, however, am going to die in approximately five seconds. snzzzzz

A couple bats to wrap up the year. There was gonna be more but, just my luck, my tablet's pen is malfunctioning real bad and I'm on the other side of the globe in New Zealand right now. Oh, well; expect more when that's taken care of!

Nerdy stuff under the cut. Happy holidays, everybody!

In terms of chiropteran diversity they may not be the most dramatic examples, but these species are in separate classifications entirely. The left is an eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis, though I did take some liberties with the colors) in the Vespertillionidae family and the right being some indiscriminate funnel-eared bat (specifically a Natalus sp.) from Natalidae. It is worth noting that both families are in the same superfamily, though, but pff, that's not even a real word.

It's no secret that I love my lasiurine bats (though I really broke the mould this time with a L. borealis instead of L. cinereus, woah gotta slow down there) so she was my first on the sheet. I'm already pretty adept in terms of lasiurine anatomy so she was more of a shading test which I'm rather happy with! They're so whiskery 🥺

At first the second bust was supposed to be of a generic Myotis species, but I thought that might be a bit boring (not that I don't love them too of course but my sketchbooks are full of them) so I went with a different pointy-faced little fella. Or, well, I think my thought process was more like "what's another species that when its mouth is open just looks like :V" but same deal. Funnel-eared bats are a very small family and you can tell they aren't very far-removed from vesper bats, but it's their subtler differences that interested me. They have these really funny moustaches, b-shaped skulls and almost woollen fur. They're also a more traditionally "ugly" species and that especially made me want to showcase how lovely they are.

I do wonder if the eyes are maybe a little uncanny, though. I intended for anthros of species without visible scleras to remain partially faithful to that and have enlarged irises/pupils but I dunno, looks kind of cartoony here, haha. Oh well, still plenty of room to experiment!

I'm very happy with these! The difference in fur texture especially was something I didn't think I'd be able to pull off, but I think I nailed it (without references, too! Booyah!). I hope to bring you guys some more underappreciated species as well as showcases of diversity soon; there are so, so many bats out there to love and they're all so different. Much love, hope you enjoy!

Here little fellas come and get it [throws memes from bucket like a farmer feeding their pigs]

@p-o-3 is responsible for the moist-eyed pink creature and several of my friends are responsible for Charlie’s red-eye. In short, my eyes have been influenced heavily. Enjoy the Humor Content

Posting here 'cause I like it and it's not AU-complacent. It's literally canon that they both like awful puns and that is so important to me; cringe 2gether <3

Bonus:

ANTHRO SILVERFISH WHO I LOVE SO SO MUCH 🥺🥺🥺

They're the only insect I see regularly while I'm stuck in the city and every time I do I squeal like a little girl they're SO frikin cute. yes lil creature you absolutely CAN live in my apartment and eat my hair

And as usual Art Fight is getting my ass moving, hooray! This year I'm trying "batification" attacks to hopefully kick-start my motivation and it's working great actually. I'm very proud of my anatomy right now, it feels nice to like my own art again. Now I just gotta find something to paint!

Characters belong to MaWzda and @p4rt1cle !

First post in a thing my buddy Minty and I are doing! Check out our sideblog if you're interested in more content about gay triangles. Much love!

Starting things off kinda reverse-chronologically here with triangle husbands on their way to work! This is post- marriage arc at the tail end of the timeline.

Y.V. owns the company Big Bizniz Inc. and Bill has gotten the full nepotism treatment with a job as head of sales (manipulating people is right up his alley!). Neither work super hard nor do they need to considering Venuz's near infinite wealth, but sometimes it's nice to play businessmen and show off a little. Well, okay, show off a lot. They're the worst lmao

~ 🦇 Mod Emily