[Day 30]: TANUKI JOEL TANUKI JOEL TANUKI JOEL-

(Whenever i export animations, procreate sometimes messes up the colors a bit? It looks fine on my ipad, but the animation is desaturated on my phone, so here's what it should look like:)

Anyways, i thought it would be funny to draw Joel summoning Effo, inspired by Grian & Scar summoning mumbo during season 8. It turned out even sillier than i thought it would and i absolutely love it wkdhwjd

(explanation of the animation + sketch of the tail below!)

Also wanted to show off the sketch since it shows off the movement a lot better! I did end up changing a LOT (and even ended up adding some frames where i did lineart w/o a sketch inbetween... Oop-) but u can still kind of see the drag and offset?

So basically: since the tail isn't a stiff object like... A table or sth, it has multiple 'joints' (<-don't remember the proper term for it). Now, if u animated the tail just moving back and forth it would look v v stiff and wierd, since irl the tip of the tail would be "dragged along" with the bottom (<-aka the ACTUAL joint that the movement originates from). To create a more organic and realistic movement, you need to slightly delay the other parts of the tail. I usually use those lil circles to sketch this out at first, since its a lot easier to do without having to worry about shape and perspective and such.

(in theory i know wayyy too much about animation, but in practice im still struggling to do it bc i don't have much experience animating ekfhakdj- i do know the theory p well, which is why im hoping his lil explanation might help someone! Let me know if u guys want me to include some art theory lessons more often :D)

really, really bad. my schizophrenia has picked the worst time to have an episode, and my ability to function at all is nil. this was drawn in the middle of trying desperately to sketch anything at all and getting more and more frustrated at it.

did you know abyssal merfolk actually have bioluminescence? it's because i basically never draw it or mention it. they're the only species of merfolk to do so, and the capability seems to have come from the exceptionally low visibility of their environment making it impossible for them to communicate in what little body language merfolk already have. their scales have special dermal pockets in certain layers, where they store bioluminescent bacteria they obtain from their diet. most of the time these dermal pockets are entirely invisible, which is why they don't feature on miranda's ref, but when they are activated, they glow a dull blue light.

it is not very bright and very hard to see even in passive daylight (this was intended for the bottom of the ocean, after all), and really is only ever used as a form of emoting. this is mostly out of my frustration with how bioluminescence is often written and used for monsters and creatures in fiction, and wanted a "boring" version if i had to give my merfolk any. it's also only ever the same shade of blue, since its supposed to be used for visibility.

flashing the bioluminescent patterns on her face, fins pinned stiffly back, head turned away, and eyes clenched shut indicate miranda is having a pretty bad time here. realistically she can't frown to this degree, but she's picked up on a lot of human mannerisms, and so does tend to frown. to a merfolk, the only expression they make with their mouth is tensing their lips or opening their mouth, and it's a bit more serious than a frown.

jean moreau has endured more than the entirety of france collectively

on a lunch break

revelations your flesh

so i uhhhh. started PoE

chapter 2 rough draft wip (✿◡‿◡)

Dess from the Deltarune comic Looking Glasses by @ferronickel, I loved her design at first sight so here's the promised fanart; check out the original comic! It's very much worth the read :D

Gillion is fucking dead crabrave

hey, here's a couple zoom-ins because i'm pround of my damn work okay

A bit of community service work to repay his third chance leads to Hien witnessing Zenos' own special brand of weird.

The assistant bodyguard, the boy of destiny and the girl with magic that works on iron

aka more doodles for the wizards of once series. This time our main trio Bodkin, Xar and Wish.

Part 1

Yoooo if you're doing requests, can I ask for Rexsoka or Codykin?

when the senpai guy you’ve been trying to impress all this time finally notices you, and oh no

image description under the cut

[ID: Anakin and Cody are standing in front of a GAR ship, presumably waiting for Obi-Wan to finish talking to a Senator. 

Anakin: ...Instead of nat-born pilots we should ask the Senate to send us massiffs next time.

Cody: Hm?

Anakin: They’d do better in a dogfight. 

Cody laughs. Metaphorical sunflowers are blooming in the background. Still smiling, he says: You might be onto something, Commander Skywalker.

Anakin stares at Cody’s laughing face, transfixed. He’s blushing and holding onto his padawan braid, and shoujo style flowers are blooming in the background.]

Delta Doodle Dump!

Sketches below!!!

I KILLED THE LIGHTS

was watching a process video of an artist i really like trying a style he doesn't usually go for and he's usually got this very flowy, free style but for this one he was doing lineart and he was obviously struggling with it and said something like he really doesn't know how people can comfortably work with solid lineart and that genuinely shocked me into stopping the video and looking at nothing for a little while ngl

Otohan Thull. How does your hair work