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“anyone who knows what love is (will understand)” is just one of the most beautiful songs ever and Jacob putting this work of art in s1 Louis's playlist makes me so emotional like louis is so fucking in love with his husband 😭
Taking the big step into entrepreneurship is tough but happy to hear its a very rewarding and educational experience. From one entrepreneur to the up-and-coming, at least I know that the professional failures in life sometimes are followed with huge success.
Cool #lights down #exchangealleynola #nolaatnight #nola #neworleans #frenchquarter #walkaroundtown #walkaround #thingstodo #eveningstroll #traveler #travelusa #gonola #streetlight #vintage #vintagestyle #lights #citylights (at Exchange Alley)
Mikaelson sister and Werewolf pregnant with Klaus’ kid meet for the first time
THE ORIGINALS 1.02 House of the Rising Son
Day 12 - Nola
So I actually made this two days ago for Inktober but I was like agh this is terrible I can't submit this... eAe But just now I was looking at my sketchbook and went you know what, this is Inktober and I'm 8 days behind. I need something to beef up my drawing count anyway! XD So here it is. Feel like the day system is completely dishonest. I feel like I should call it like, drawing 12 instead of day 12 but that still wouldn't work since technically it came before the other two. >3> But whatever. Have a Nola. She's from the RP I'm doing with CC and Dia and Sword. She can manipulate plants and stuff so I was like OH WAIT putting wind in the picture is misleading, that's Echoe's power. XD So I put a random flower there last minute to kinda compensate. XDD Yeah... anyway bai.
Found this the other day and decided to scan it! Nola and Keaton from the collaborative project/RP, Guardians (formerly called Flower Power), with CC (not on tumblr), @diamonddragonempress, @swordofpower, and myself! I bet Nola’s standing on her tippy toes, because they’re about the same height. Doesn’t stop Nola from boasting about how tall she’s getting, though. XD
Nola © Me
Keaton © CC
A noodle I made two days ago. Was gonna submit it, but I was kinda on a social media fast, so I decided to wait until I’d finished that. I made this out of a color palette (at least originally before I started messing it) that I’d made accidentally when trying to paint bucket over a colourpod.com palette with a palette from one of those dA color scheme meme things (scheme meme... hehe that rhymes) because I thought I’d help me get inspiration better just to be looking at the colors by themselves instead of the whole rest of the meme and other colors around it. So I got halfway through that before I realized ... hey, this is a pretty nice color palette! Of course it’s all changed now since I messed with darkening/lightening it so there’s lighter yellows and more orange involved to give it more contrast, but the palette itself was pretty cool! Definitely wasn’t dark enough though. Left my original noodle looking kinda chalky. But anyways! Here it is. If anyone would like to try out the palette I (partially) used to make this, it’s:
And yeah, it’s kinda repetitive with both ends being close together in color... but if I were to title it, maybe I’d call it... hm... Well, the original title of the palette was Angelic, and it still kinda looks like that to me? I mean, the last three colors are from Angelic, the first two are from the dA color palette. But uh... I dunno. I don’t have a better title XD; And ‘Angelic’ doesn’t exactly fit Nola’s personality, just her blonde hair and how mono-yellow this painting is XD but uh... Yeah I dunno I can’t think of any other better title for it than that. Eh well. Anyways here it is, finally some art after a while right? XD I’m working on something else that was supposed to be a quick color key but it turned into a big thing... I might post it if I ever finish it! It’s currently in stasis on PS XD;
Something else I forgot to upload to tumblr that I made about a week ago. For some reason I thought it’d be really cute to draw Nola wearing a fruit hat on her head and carrying a fruit basket in her arm, so... I drew it. XD She looks kind of confused at me why I wanted to draw her doing this though... XD Well, anyways, here’s Nola from Guardians (also known affectionately as Flower Power), a collabative project with @diamondfusionempress, @swordofpower and CC (offsite). And no, I don’t usually have her running around carrying fruit everywhere, but when I do... XD
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Oh gosh where am I there’s so many questions what’s going on okay UMMM… *after actually reading the questions*
13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs?
Troublemakers… Well, there’s Sleepi’s sister Penelope/Obbie (in the middle of a name crisis so all of them kind of have two names. XD; ), who is infamous for her troublemaking, and her older sister Chiffie who is even more infamous for making trouble… Also Daniel from the same story, he’s an annoying knight who can be a bit of a troublemaker, more so when he was younger but still enough now to annoy his superior. XD; On a whole different story note Sh’zkai was a troublemaker when she was little. Advanced beyond mere troublemaking as she grew older, but. XD; And those are all I can think of that sometimes purposefully cause trouble. Anyone else I can think of more accidentally cause trouble… No, scratch that, Ron from Guardians can definitely cause trouble on purpose if he wants to XD; Again he kinda grew out of it later, but especially as a kid…
35. Any sibling characters?
Gosh. Any sibling characters you ask. My stories are filled with siblings. Where do I even begin?? XD; There’s all the sisters of TA, with Sleepi, Angri, and all her other sisters. Sh’zkai and Sz’nami from Aliens, a number of other siblings. Isura and Hiyura the mains of Twin Scars are sisters… In Myth, Illumi and Aqua are sisters… I’d be hard pressed to find a story of mine that doesn’t include siblings! They’re everywhere! Some alive and some not, but I digress. XD;
29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?
Probably Nola. She’s too curious for her own good. XD;
33. Your shyest OC?
That…. would be a particular OC I have yet to introduce publicly from Guardians. I might introduce her initial form when I finish those color asks (haven’t forgotten about you!! just really busy between work and school!!), but until then… that OC will remain the shyest OC I have and no one will know why until waaay later. XD;
22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how?
Hmmmm… I think at any given moment people have mischaracterized any number of my major characters, yes. XD; One being another non-publically introduced OC from Aliens, who is often misunderstood because of his development. Though even people who have seen him beyond that point can sometimes misunderstand his actions to be a lot crueler or harsher than this OC is trying to do. XD; Or see this OC as a lot nastier in personality than they actually are. Which… is understandable, but… Then there’s Kenith who is a fan char sorta type of thing for the asker of this post’s story Zenith (for the first time in my life I realize Kenith’s name rhymes with and is almost spelled identically to Zenith my life is a lie), who’s been mischaracterized at least once but then he was also fairly new at the time, so some misunderstandings are understandable. XD; Similar to the first one, his personality came off way worse than I intended, and though he is sort of an ex-antagonist, I guess I didn’t want him to look totally awful… or maybe I did, well, either way, he came off way nastier than intended. XD; Bardwyn from Torn Apart is also often misunderstood, but then I guess I’m the one who really knows him. XD; This one is a little harder to describe, since it was a misunderstanding with the co-writer of TA, CC (offsite). From what I remember, the mischaracterization had to do with how he handled a certain part of the story, but my explaining made it seem like he only had a lot of little flaws, which… maybe he does, but it wasn’t what I was trying to get across at the time I guess. XD; After multiple tries to characterize and re-explain him, that edit meeting did not end well. XDD; Sleepi can also be misunderstood at times. I find my co-writer getting confused sometimes why she acts one way, but then, I think Sleepi used to be a lot more bold and extroverted, so a transition to a slightly more introverted Sleepi as the story goes on can be understandably confusing and cause some issues with mischaracterization. XD; So, those three plus another who I also can’t mention yet are some of the ones that stand out to me as having been mischaracterized before.
11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?
Well… Tsuname sort of used to be a sunshine. He still is in my mind. But… now, I think his sunshine is often fake. I think it was genuine at one point, a long time ago, but… Megan from Twin Scars also has a very sunny disposition, though I don’t typically think of her as a sunshine, even though she might be. XD; Haruna is kind of sunny, but maybe not really full on sunshine, I don’t know. She might be perceived that way by others though. XD; Nola from Guardians is definitely a sunshine, though again, I feel like that part of her has been dimmed some from story events. All the same though, there’s a reason I strongly associate her with sunflowers. XD; Ron kinda almost has the exact same thing. He’s generally pretty sunny, in spite of being a snow Guardian, but lately he’s gotten angstier and hasn’t been as sunny… (is it the Washington winter that I now live in??? no XD; ) Oh! Crang is definitely an undefiled sunshine pretty much. From Aliens. XD; Pretty rare for that series. In TA there’s Sleepi’s sister Joy… the very definition of a sunshine. XD; But ummm… I think that’s it for sunshines. Crang and Joy I think are two of the only true sunshines. XD; All the others I can think of are close but don’t fit the bill, or are sunshines with deep shadows. XD; Or dim or whatever metaphor I’m using here haha.
44. Something you like about your OCs in general
Uh…. gosh, you mean everyone? That’s way too much ground to cover. XD; Ummm. Gosh um… I might have to do this by story group or char group at least… XD; There’s way too much ground to cover. Ummm… I was thinking about something earlier today. I think over all a lot of my chars tend to have a certain patience that I’ve noticed other people don’t have irl and I’m just like ‘huh I guess that’s a good trait I passed down to some of them.’ Not all of them had it, but it kinda fascinates me to see what kind of things I take for granted as traits that people have that are really actually specific to me, and then I realize almost all my chars have it because I took that trait for granted as something people have. XD; I think almost every char has something about them that I can look at them and go ‘huh that’s like me.’ Whether it’s a physical trait, or preferences that I like, a personality trait, nose shape, build, character’s own preference or likes/dislikes. I also like finding differences that feel quirky or silly to me in some way? Like sometimes a character feels too different and I can’t relate. But sometimes chars go out of their way to be my opposite in some cases and for some reason I find this funny. XD; Like oh wow, I really like this thing but this char HATES it! Wow! XD; Things like that. I guess I like that I have an ability to create a pretty diverse cast across the board. Maybe some are less in some cases but I guess I like looking at my OCs and thinking about the range I have. From weird aliens to Pillsbury doughboy children to humans and among humans there being slice of life, sci-fi, fantasy, all these different genres of chars and stories that come together and I guess I like how they interact sometimes? IT’s just… interesting to me XD; I guess…
47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child?
*stares directly into camera* Um… yes… *looks pointedly at asker of this ask* Many times… Not to say that I haven’t rapid spammed calling MY friends’ OCs my children. XD; Probably where I get it from, but y’know. I think a lot of people I’ve RPed with have claimed my OCs as their children so… yes. XD; It’s become kind of a habit honestly sometimes I have to make a conscious effort not to say child all the time but XD;
Painting test I made for my character Nola around New Year’s Eve. Been a while since I’ve drawn her. I thought about changing her color scheme, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought primary colors still suit her best.
My last attack for the year! A 17-page comic of when Nola and Bryden met. :)
Bryden is @a-random-cc's char! Nola is mine. They're from a story called Guardians that's sort of been in limbo for a while now, but when she drew Nola for me it sparked this comic. Originally I'd planned to finish it, but I had way too many other attacks I also wanted to get done, and I knew this would take up a lot of time. Oh well!
Edit: I forgot the translation XD Most of it is in English but I started it out in Japanese because that's just what I do when I'm thinking I guess.
Page 1: That's weird. I'm sure I've passed that stump before...
Page 2: Geez, where is this?
Page 5: Ow ow ow ow...
Thanks to @authoroflight for the original template! (Though I might have customized it beyond recognizability ksdjgnsd)
2023... I got a lot of art done this year compared to past years! Though the year started out slow, between trades and commissions, the first quarter of the year somehow managed to have at least one good drawing a month, even if March's old-sketch-paintover looks a little strange next to all the creatures. XD; May and June continued the theme of painting over old, though June's original was considerably newer than May's. It also took me forever to find it!! Several of the ones I'd been going to put for June turned out to be from different months (no date on them so was going by modified date at first, oops!). And in July of course there was the Clysmia comic, August with the Choco 'comic'. September was another low but I managed to churn out another paintover. October of course had my annual flower-drawing saga with the last one featured here, and in November I got bored and drew Comet, and December held a delightful surprise in the form of a book-illustrating commission. :3 Gonna keep that one to just a preview since it's part of something that'll be published.
But! Let's go through all the rest. Keep reading for more on the rest of the pieces.
January - This was a secret santa for my good friend @toothpaste-dragon of her OC Baz! Love this grumpy crust of an alien. :D You can view the full pic here.
February - This was a commission from @dreagonarchives of her guy Guido! Full pic: x
March - Paintover I did of my character Sleepi from Torn Apart! Since it was done over an older pic the style looks a little incongruent from my current style 😅 But this was also almost a year a go now, so, y'know.
April - My half of a design trade with @chrystallink! Doggos are a bit of a challenge for me, but it was a fun one! Full pic: x
May - A fittingly sunny pic of my character Nola. This was another one that I think had started from a paintover and just went places from there. Still a little strange-looking, but oh well. Plus a photo of some sunflowers in the background. XD
June: Progress pic of an absolute freak. An attempt was made to sketch out a hand to keep it from hiding, but I never did get back to this pic... 😂
July: As mentioned above, a comic for my good friend Dia featuring her gal Clysmia!
August: The tail end of a final ArtFight attack against Chocobir! I had so much fun putting in on the Easter eggs, and Choco is so cute!
September: The suave business lizard himself, it's Nell! Another one that's painted over an older sketch. Overall I think I improved the face shape a bit since the sketch? Maybe?
October: The final flower from Floratober 2023! I had a lot of fun and it was so great getting so much feedback this year. The wonders of posting on places other than Tumblr! lol.
November: Comet from Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san! Whenever I need to get away and draw, Comet is there as my comfort anime. :) It's been a while since I've drawn the girl and watched the last bundle of episodes!
December: And of course, December's art! From a very fittingly snowy-themed project. :) I don't know yet how much I'll be able to talk about it, but it's certainly going to keep me busy for a while!