I Wonder What Mae Got Up To This Harfest 🎃🍂

I want to have kids so I can tell them about tf2

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HEY FELLAS!

im @maxshortt and here's a bit of important bio & info about me, what you prolly will see when clicking on my profile for the first time:

About Me

· TF2 artist that just loves makin' "posters" and arts in Blender in a free time (notice, BLENDER, NOT SFM. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO SHIT IN SFM, pls stop saying my works are "soo good for sfm" :3)

· i also love drawing sm

· I have my little blog page here - shortt's strawpage

· i simply love and adore TF2 and maining engineer + scout

· im currently studying graphic design (however, I'm finding making art about some 18-years-old game more convincing for mah soul 💅)

· somewhat of omnisexual and enboy, so whatever you refer to me as "he" or "they", I don't mind for both! (Im thinking if I'm on aromantic spectrum currently or not...) 🤔

· Favorite games: TF2, Minecraft, Garry's Mod, GTA series, Half-Life, Ready or Not, DPR (nothing much else im playing tbf)

· Fav music artists: Tyler, the Creator, Mac Demarco, C418, SALES, Femtanyl, Lil Nas X, Gorillaz, bbn0$, Joji, Lil Darkie, Freddie Dredd, Freddie Gibbs, The Weeknd, just random dnb music and games OST's (bruh if that's not enough then just check out my spotify playlists to know me better)

· pacifistic & agnostic ☮

· Neurodivergent & having OCD (and prolly ADHD as well, and smth else...), so...

· dont wanna go in a typical dni message here, but just to assume: DNI xenophobic/ableistic/racist/sexist/pro-war and pretty much any other shit.

· i dont post here as often as I actually want, since Im cooking my art slow, so most of the time I'll usually reblog other people's stuff Im finding pretty

· even tho I have my kind of TF2 sona, my pfp is always my Engi OC named Dell, that's pretty much all :3

WHERE ELSE TO FIND ME??3?

Imma doin' crap on Bluesky and Steam the most of the time!! Here's the full list:

Bluesky Steam LambdaGeneration Scrap.tf ArtStation(if someone even need it) my half-alive Pinterest

how you get that paper-y texture/filter on your artworks???

It is prolly the effect of smoothly-applied grain on pictures and, with that, the tool that helps me to get that look is Glow Action by Studio 2am for Photoshop (i hate adobe, dont get me wrong!!)

I'm usually putting Lighten or Soft Light overlay mode for this "glow" layer to lay smooth and get that "Polaroid photo" effect, but always depends on context of the poster I'm editing! Plus, before the Glow action im fixing colors (especially midtones) with Camera Raw filter.

If needed - I'm adding another layer full of noise and setting it on Soft Light overlay mode, for 2%-8% opacity. However, it's not what I'm doin' often since it's gains image's size and I'm always going for <=5 MB (bc of Steam's restriction), but anyway.

"Limerence" was the first artwork where I've used this thingie, which was quite recently, but that got me to the point how my arts look like rn.

some people be really mad over seeing ANYTHING LGBTQ-related, no matter the context bruh (and the fact that it's a comment under 1-year-old art of mine) 💀💀

context: those are comments from this art of mine on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3179030463

POWER.

thumbnail for DEWILL for his next video. 2 version for him to choose from.

Out of the entire cast, Scout is, funnily enough, the one who reacts the least to anything scary or traumatizing.

A lot of people depict him as this guy who's the scaredy cat, asshole, angsty one of the team, when a lot of the time? He's... actually a really cool dude (if a bit energetic).

In "Jungle Inferno", it's Spy who runs when there's an odd noise, and it's Scout who continues forward. While it could've been because Spy's voice actor didn't make an appearance, it's oddly symbolic to their characters.

In "MvM - The Sound of Medicine", when Heavy, Soldier, Scout, and Pyro are surrounded by Demobots, as Heavy and everyone else are blown up and Heavy's head lands on Scout's stomach, he doesn't even react. He just... looks at Heavy's head and let's his own head fall back in defeat.

Even in the comics as he's being choked out by everyone on the team, he kinda just accepts it without being nervous or anxious, he doesn't even flinch when it happens, just a sort of, "aw man, this shit again? Sod off!" reaction.

He acts immaturely, sure, but he's never like, a kid about anything? He's acts like an immature adult, but it's never immature-immature, even when he moves on from Pauling, it's both out of respect for both her and himself.

He's really respectful about it, actually, and Pauling isn't disgruntled or even annoyed, even she knows he never meant any harm, only that he was a hopeless romantic. And even in the duration of his crush, he actually respects her a lot, even if he doesn't go through with his plans to hang out with her.

If we're assuming here, the guy grew up with his mom. He's been respecting women since day one, he knows just how much of a charmer he can be because he grew up under his mom's care. Scout's awkward as hell, but he knows not to push it with women.

A lot of people want Scout angst or try to make him out to be the asshole but like, he really just does not give a shit. In fact, he's likely the only one out of the entire cast who copes with his problems like any normal human being.

Conclusion: Scout isn't angsty, a scaredy-cat, or an asshole, he's just a really, really complicated and paradoxical character who is, unfortunately, extremely bastardized by everyone in the TF2 community. It's a shame too, he has such a unique personality.

puny WIPs