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Latest Posts by just-kinda-here567 - Page 4
Ah yes, at long last... It is finished! The full illustration featuring the whole main cast for the AU - while there's more characters in the story, these will be the ones carrying the bulk of the plot!
So, my fellas and folks... Stay tuned for more illustrations in the near future~
"Odysseus" showed us how much Ody has truly changed.
He's compared to almost all monsters in the musical during that one song.
His name's chanting is the same as Polyphemus', and he acts a little like him when he decides to kill everyone.
Po - ly - phe - mus ("Enough")
O - dy - sse - us ("I. Have had. Enough")
He aims for the torches just like Scylla.
"Eurylochus, light up six torches"
"Keep your head down he's aiming for the torches"
He rejected forgivness just like Poseidon did.
"Maybe you could learn to forgive..."
"No"
"Old king our leader's dead. You've destroyed the serpent's head. Now the rest of us are no longer a threat. Old king forgive us instead, so that no more blood is shed. Let's have open arms instead!"
"No."
Also, there's an electric guitar in the song. It represents Odysseus' cunning and ruthless nature.
He IS a monster. But that's what got him home. And he'll embrace this side of him.
As promised, bolas art, for @isa-ghost
COTL - Crowns
Bonding with the ex-Bishops! Probably got lots of stories to tell.
Cult of the Lamb - Head Trauma
Been influenced quite a bit with how comics here on tumblr are formatted, so I've been experimenting lately with how I possibly want to upload sketches and stuff in the future--these little comics were mostly experiments on how high or low effort I would like to go.
In other news, I've finished this game twice now. I'm officially a follower and I've got ideas spinning in my head. This bodes poorly for me.
Scarecrow: Year One
Random Jon Headcanon: He loves squash and usually eats it in savory dishes, but can only eat pumpkin if it’s made into a pie. (not counting the seeds, which he roasts himself)
Day 5: Death | Rebirth
Me when I've died two times and was embraced by the same girl
Gay people amirite (im eepy)
random jonathan crane headcanon. i believe he should say "terrific" a lot more, to the point it's annoying. double-meaning jonathan crane — its original meaning describes something terrifying, whereas today, it describes something splendid. i believe he may appreciate the ease of using one word to describe two conflicting ones.
a little comic for jasons birthday. on being robin & batman and being brave & scared
Tim is typing furiously at his laptop when Damian walks in, holding a katana.
Damian: Drake, do you know what time it is?
Tim: not looking up Uh, noon?
Damian: Wrong. It’s time for you to perish.
Tim: still typing Can it wait until I finish this report for Bruce?
Damian: pauses …Very well. But know that your doom is imminent.
Five minutes later, Damian returns with snacks and silently places them next to Tim.
Tim: smirks Thanks for the snacks, future executioner.
Damian: huffs I refuse to let you die of starvation before I defeat you.
Daily Reminder
You are capable of great things
Everyone learns differently and at a varied rate, do not compare yourself to others progress.
Even starting small is still starting
You -do- make a difference
You are more than you know. More amazing. More kind. More skilled.
DON'T DO IT CRANE! 🐊🎃🦇☠️
I don't know what possessed me, but I saw that wrestler meme, and if that doesn't perfectly sum up arkham asylum IDK what does. So naturally I had to draw it LMAO
I legit had so much fun with this NJOVJDFBDSJBS from coloring to lineart I really enjoyed making this one! and its my first time drawing Killer Croc AND Asylum Scarecrow. (I love this man, but can we agree his mask is really badly designed in asylum-)
You are capable of great things, do not let this negative world discourage you to do what only you can accomplish. Only you see the world as you do, perspective is everything. Whenever trying something new, whether that be drawing, writing or anything creative, you start in the same place as everyone else. Nobody is a master at first brushstroke. You too, can be an artist or musician. You could be a v-tuber or streamer. Don't quit on your dreams, even the masters started late in life and you are never going to be too old to, at least, try.
You can do it.
whenever a physical fight scene shows up in rekindled and i get to let my OG action-drawing skills come out of the depths
I really do think Beelzebub had the potential to be the most sinister of the Sins. She's the Sin of Gluttony and she encourages people to overindulge and act upon their vices (unless they're Mammon apparently) because she revels in excess, but what if there was a darker side to her?
Amongst the dregs of Hell, Bee is considered a blessing. A kind woman who will help those in need to find happiness and is always willing to lend a helping hand to the hapless nobodies. However, things are not always what they seem with her. In reality, she's a master manipulator and the biggest enabler in Hell. How she 'helps' people is by encouraging them to act upon their vices, not so subtly goading them into developing addictions. She always has a bountiful supply of products to feed into these addictions. Addictions they cannot financially support.
And who does she mainly target? Hellhounds and Imps! The lowest of the low, basically slaves! She builds a false sense of security and friendship with these poor Demons, pretending to understand what they're going through and making the friendless think they have someone who cares in this scary violent world. She preys upon the weak and vulnerable.
Due to her position and status, Bee has never had to worry about money issues. Her customer base however, they tend to reach the point where they can't support their addictions. Almost instantly, Bee will turn upon them, throwing herself a big pity parade about how betrayed she feels, threatening to cut off her customer. Unable to turn away from their addictions, they will beg for another form of payment, which is exactly what Bee has been waiting for. Her 'friends' will sell their souls if it means being able to feed their addictions, which Bee happily accepts.
At that point, Bee has won. She's earned another sucker's soul, where they will join her army of slaves to produce more of her delightful products, which will inevitably be used to lure in more unsuspecting victims.
Her influence is so strong that she has customers in practically every corner of Hell, all on her payroll. All suckered in by her kind facade and promises of numbing the pain.
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Thoughts?
Stolas being homeless lives rent free in my head. I’ve been lowkey thinking about an old anon ask I got about Satan transforming Stolas into an imp.
It could’ve been a full circle moment where Stolas finally recognizes his faults but it is just too late. He is stripped of his power and status, transformed into the very thing he has lusted over, fetishized, and belittled.
Stolas loses his daughter in the process as she wants nothing to do with him, giving him several chances in previous episodes. Andrealphus and Stella are thriving.
Stolas, desperately goes to the only person he knows: Blitzø. He begs and pleads to Blitzø, wanting shelter and that he has no where left but Blitzø not only denies him but pretends he doesn’t know who Stolas is. In the end, Stolas is homeless and no one (including his father, higher rank goetias, and the deadly sins) wants to associate with a deadbeat degenerate.
Stolas is forced to survive the wrath of Hell alone.
what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
Hi there! 😄 Tysfm for compiling the LO brushes, being able to use them (non-commercially of course lol) makes me so friggin happy. 🙇♀️ I have a few questions to ask about them though:
Which brush did RS use for laying down color before shading/effects? In the Rekindled tutorial, you use the Lineart Brush for laying down flats, but I'm not sure if what I said in the previous sentence is the same thing as flats (I've been drawing my whole life, but I didn't start taking digital seriously until very recently lol 🤦♀️).
When the Splatter Versa brush was used in S1, there are varying oval shapes as well as several other non-ovular shapes that I don't see when I use the brush. Were there other similar brushes used with different shapes? Or am I just doing something wrong with the brush settings? The other shapes look more wilted than the other petal shapes.
Which brush was used for the usual thick, varying lineart? (It's most noticeable with the lines in hair in mid-S1 esp.) This brush isn't really textured, so I'm a bit confused which one in particular it is.
Sorry for being annoying, I'm just not tech-savvy and very intimidated by all the technical aspects of digital drawing lol ("Wtf are 'blending modes'?" /hj). 🙇♀️
Hey there, no problem!! I'm glad people are getting use out of them!
Though I'm not entirely sure as it clearly changed often throughout the course of the first season, the Gouache a Go Go brush and Hard Pastel both have those "crunchier" textures that you can see in some panels. There are also watercolor brushes that she used to blend the edges in some bigger panels.
Could you send me an example of a panel? Just so then I can actually see it and mess around with some things and give you a better answer haha That said, if I had to take a guess, either she messed with the brush control / tilt settings in Photoshop, or she may have used the Warp / Liquify tools to warp them intentionally to achieve that "petal" look. But again, send me a pic of the panels in question if you can and I can take a closer look :>
As mentioned previously, an example would help a lot here, but I do know what you're saying that some panels had very thick, varied lineart. Rachel has gone on record on two separate occasions that she used the Gouache Wet Pencil / Wet Round brush from the Kyle Webster Pack. Though the Hard Square Pastel brush can also achieve similar effects. Note that the Wet Round brush is a dual-sizing brush - if you adjust the brush size, you have to also adjust the particle size in tandem, otherwise you'll get a bigger brush size with more scattered/diluted particles. Though this effect IS very helpful for shading!
As mentioned, Rachel has mentioned some of the brushes she's used, and though it's not necessarily relevant to what you're looking for specifically, she's also mentioned these brushes in old FAQ's, specifically the Wet Round brush for lineart.
Here are some examples I whipped up real quick based on some of the panels that specifically depict thick lineart and textured coloring:
Mind you, these are all my best guesses, based on what Rachel has provided and what I've both dug up and been provided by other contributors who have pointed me in the right direction.
Unfortunately, while LO's art style is unique, it also makes it very difficult to reverse-engineer because throughout the comic (esp in S1 when she was still experimenting) while she did clearly have some "favorites" out of the bunch, she also just kind of went off "vibes" a lot of the time, treating every panel as an individual painting. And while that did lend to some of LO's most beautiful panels throughout S1, it also created a lot of whiplash between stylization because after doing one panel with thick lineart and bold texturing, she'd do another with watercolors and softer edges.
That's also not taking into account the software she was using - many of these brushes were designed exclusively with the Photoshop brush engine in mind, not Clip Studio, so they may not work entirely as intended if you use them in Clip Studio or some other non-Photoshop software. We also have to consider other factors like canvas resolution, texture effects added afterwards (such as that canvas overlay), and other adjustable settings within the brushes themselves that Rachel may have tweaked, including the pressure sensitivity, particle size/density, thickness, etc. All of which we can't really truly know, so we can only settle for our closest guess.
This is half the challenge - and fun - of trying to emulate her art style, because even she clearly didn't follow any strict rules 😅 Unfortunately it leaned more towards worse as time went on as it was clear the assistants themselves were given very little guidance or consistency (or at least, didn't have the time to settle on a happy medium) resulting in panels that are even more distinctly out of place as they were being swapped between different artists with different backgrounds and styles.
All that aside, I hope that helps! I do admittedly have to update that brush pack again, I feel like there are a handful of brushes I've found since then that could also be added, but I'd also like to update the included instructions to better reflect what I've learned since then regarding each brush and how they could be used. Ultimately though, they're yours to experiment with! Mess around, adjust the sizes and density and pressure settings, all of these things can contribute to the overall look.
Good luck! <3
nothing will change your perspective on a character like someone who is batshit obsessed with them
it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
A thought just came to me, so if we think about the eggs as kid-shaped for the purpose of fan stuff, hand-me-downs would absolutely be a common thing, especially with the younger kids,
the older kids hit a growth spurt and suddenly all the smaller ones are wearing their old things as new stuff has to be made or even borrowed from the smallest parents.
old coats being passed through multiple kids, it being clear who made each thing based on the quality and style, and who it was made for
parents of the deceased kids tearfully handing over a box of old clothes to the new parents so their clothes will get some use
if some kids have grown bigger dragon features than others or just some at all, such as wings, there being wing holes having to be patched or cut depending on which kid has it now
shoes being the most shared because theyre hard to make
clothes not quite fitting right on the kids but they have to make do with what they have
just, community and sharing and the kids bringing everyone together