This Took Me About All Month, Though It Was Sporadic Bursts Of Work And Then Radio Silence, But Still.

Confession: Most my files are unnamed- But, I’ll name them now to save from ‘Untitled39’ and ‘Untitled33’ cause what’s the fun in that?

-Ferret Avatar

-PlagueDoc Avatar

-PFP Ideas

-Ash Character Sheet

-Get to Know Meme

-Crush Meme

-Ash Outfits

-SpottedMoon

I’ll tag @realbouru, and only if you want to! And @ anyone else who wants to participate!

WIP title game!

Thank you for the tag @illarian-rambling !

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

This game should be fun, as I have many silly names in my folders, most of which relate to the fandoms I wrote them for:

No Time to Cry

Descending the stairs

Bucky and the time he lived in the mountains with his murder daughters

Cadre-Coparenting - what could go wrong?

Shadow-hunting my - uh - multiple mental illnesses

Fourth Wing more like fortieth-wip

Character meets death (goes wholesome?)

TVDeeznuts

The Hunger-bar Games

Of Godparents and Aunt-sassins

Vigilante fic

A Glitch in the System

Who the fuck is Sally Sparrow? (plot twist she's me)

Re-do of Sally Sparrow except there's no Sally Sparrow and a completely different plot

Harry Potter and the job he should have gotten

Making my OC's be adopted by a bunch of adoring vampires is unrelated to my parental issues I promise

Oh fuck I'm doing a space fic, wops

Twi-mental breakdown -light

These are only the ones that I've actually written words for, each oth these has at least 2k of actual story-line, (some have significantly more, cough cough 115k Nttc), and that's still more than I thought there were whoops

That's... 18 fics there, honestly not sure if I know 18 people on here, but I'll try. Open tag as always for anyone I miss!

@once-and-future-fandoms @hyperfixation-tangentopia @nightstar-of-summer @syrensaft @shepardsherd @rkmoon @moonandris @writingbaddie @the-grim-and-sanguine @agirlandherquill @squarebracket-trickster @caxycreations @thebejeweledwatercat @brotrustmeicanwrite @wintherlywords @k--havok @stesierra @mikathewriter

was this entire list found by desperately searching my following page to see who is actually a writeblr blog? You'll never know

SHE. Looks absolutely amazing! I adore seeing Ash in others styles- Thank you !

50 Followers! Part 2: Traditional Edition

Sketch

Y'all have really cool OCs fr🐐🐐🐐

Ernest Stanley - @kablamoo7

Lucille Carlton - @randomgirldraws

Marianne Villanueva - @ahhhh-118

Luc Rossi - @tohot4u

Åse "Ace" Olaug Årud - @acesandocs

Calliope "Calli" Cairns - @spiky-berry21

Cassie - @funfairsundaes

Aisling "Ash" Mayfield - @annlytical

i drew this like three months ago

flynn belongs to @libras-interactives

Happy Daredevil Day to all who celebrate!

Working on another friend commissioned piece:

Once finished I’ll probably also use this to say I’m on his stream playing Marvel Rivals

Music is very important to her. She grew up in a musically inclined family, so she was always surrounded by it. However, moving to the city and once separated from her family that kind of faded away. The moment she’s able to swing it, she’ll get herself a record for an old Victrola she bought second hand.

FINALLY! AFTER 40 HOURS AND THREE POSE CHANGES:

Aisling’s Bio Pic!

My silly little cat who has emotional issues and philophobia🥰

Mobile has made it a little blurry, so hopefully if you click on it it’ll become clearer-

The illustration was based off of this Saturday Evening Post by Coles Phillips.

I spent way more time than I’d like to admit simply going through an archive and looking at his art, even after I found the one I would reference.

And I did swap the mirror for a bouquet of flowers that I spent way too long looking into the meanings off and also back the back a record.

Her dress in the illustration is almost a 1:1 of this one from the Met Museum archive, called Robe de Style made by Jeanne Lanvin.

Of course, it’s fancier than what Aisling would be able to afford, and I added a few flap layers that you can’t see in the illustration. But I’m a sucker for black clothes and I felt it contrasted nicely against her mostly white fur.

There’s not much to say about the portrait outfit. You can’t see most of it, but I’ve decided on a simple beige button up, with a green country bow tie, and long pleated navy skirt. You can kind of see it fully in the small photograph at the bottom.

I also, of course, had to add a small UTDM Easter Egg in it as well. Marius and Jack are the two faceless cats within the photograph underneath the illustration. It’s based off of the Save/Load screen where in the report it mentions how your PC is circled.

How do you draw so well on paper without getting frustrated with your own art? Bless me with a tip pls

I often draw very messily on paper. I just clean it up afterwards, either by erasing stray marks and guidelines and relining the drawing, or by scanning and doing digital touchups. Or I just leave some of the messiness there because sometimes that has more personality and charm than a pristine, polished drawing does. I am also in a near perpetual state of frustration with my art. I think that's normal for anyone doing any sort of creative work. Having to erase and redraw something, having to reconfigure your approach after trying and failing the first few times, having to relent and seek out some reference material - it's a confluence of frustration and challenge. As maddening as it can be, it's also part of what keeps things interesting. If it was all completely effortless, what satisfaction would there be in doing it?

I guess if there's a tip in here somewhere, it's to embrace frustration. If you're feeling frustrated, it's a good indication you have a critical eye for your own work and that you're venturing beyond your comfort zones. Both of those things are essential to improving. (That's not to say you should torture yourself. If you're so frustrated that your blood pressure is spiking, well, take a break, cool off, return after a refresh.)

HEY! We were here first! Go find a spot somewhere else!

My Dungeons & Dragons group watching Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon because a party member called out and we have a tradition of watching D&D media on days someone calls out:

Me: I wonder what race I would realistically be in that universe…

Friend with absolutely no hesitation: Half-foot.

Me: Really? Why?

Him: Because despite you turning 20 soon you still look like a 13 y/o boy.

Another Oswald short I used to dream of times like this