Year Old Doodles

Hello! Your newest ink drawing are absolutely incredible and I'm trying to figure out how you did the fur texture (my favorite part!). Did you use a white pen, or is it just about leaving gaps (like it is for the separations between the limbs and body?) Also what pens did you buy those thin lines are so crisp without being too heavy and im intrigued

the texture is made with hatching in the (more-or-less) direction that the fur would grow. I'm not overly worried about keeping it realistic, as long as the texture and values are to my liking. here's a closeup of the chimera/kirin creature:

you can very clearly see the press and release of the pen, it's not always perfect! as for pens, I use 005 Microns.

for A5 pieces like the above it's 005 all the way through. when I work on a piece, I usually do it in one sitting, so the line of the pen becomes finer as it doesn't really have time to soak up the ink into the felt tip. I start with the dark areas like horns or muzzles or paws, and work into the main body which will usually appear more faded and thinner.

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I want my kids to have a scary movie night together

Are we just gonna ignore that it says hibernate

what if lawn mowers are so loud because they have to cover the screams of the grass being massacred. 

As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

Ceasefire In Gaza NOW!

Ceasefire In Gaza NOW!

Resources and action items to call for an end to the violence in Gaza.

I haven’t seen this linked on here so: this is an awesome resource for how you can help the people in Palestine. It has donation links, helps you figure out how to contact your representatives, and a regularly updated list of planned protests. It is USAmerican centric but the list of protests is international.

Heads Up!

So....

Well, it's no secret that this blog isn't very active. That is because, while I still love the Yogs, I just haven't had the time or inspiration to do much digital art. Until I can draw quickly (and by that I mean finish something in fewer than 10 hours), digital art is now shelved.

I've been drawing loads traditionally, but if I start scanning and uploading that, very little of that will be yogscast.

So, farewell to the souls that followed for yogscast content! I apologize, but this blog is now officially a general “”"""art blog””””.

For those who are sticking around, would traditional art (homework doodles) be something you wanna see?

Feb 4, 2025 - Thousands of Los Angeles high school students walked out of class and marched on the city capitol in third straight day of Anti-ICE protests. (Source)

PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING. THEY ARE JUST NOT BEING COVERED OUTSIDE OF LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS. DO NOT RELY ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

There was a huge Trans-rights demonstration last night in New York outside of NYU Langone hospital in protest of their decision to halt gender-affirming care under Trump's order. (Source)

ahem. i was going to say if u send in a request today or tomorrow (dec 24th and 25th) ill do my best to draw it. homestucks, lingering yogscast fans, something else, whatever. and it wont be fast but ill try to get them all done by the end of january!

also, because like the 3rd person just asked, if u wanna practice coloring w any of the uncolored art i put here, go nuts. all i ask is that you credit this blog if u post it!

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.