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I have to admit most of them make me go "Ugh, did I inflict things this bad on my mom?" or just "Why?" but there's still some good ones. Admittedly most of the cartoons I watch now are of the foreign variety, but it's interesting to see how anime's influenced western cartoons in something of a feedback loop.
I've heard a bit about Steven Universe here and there for a few years now and got around to checking it out. It's kind of interesting to see the diversity in body types including the burly gems. Hopefully it speaks to the idea that women with muscles and strength are accepted enough to be unoffensive to the mainstream. - I remember when I first started drawing and I wanted to do a range of types and people would freak the hell out at even subtle musculature... I find it kind of funny that people would accept my old shitty drawings of muscled women as women but whenever I tried to add any level of body fat they'd insist I hadn't drawn a girl... I kind of ended up letting myself getting pushed into 'cartoon women only have one body type' until I made this account to stick pervier and muscular drawings up.
Overall the episodes about the Gem's story line are better than the other kinds - the whole 'artificially created aliens fight a civil war over earth' reminds me just a bit of Transformers in a weird way.
Anyway, I don't think I'd do anything with the Gem characters that's appropriate for here as that's a kid's show and I do believe in letting kids have their space. Though, if I were to - going on how much I like their looks/design - it'd probably either be Lapis Lazuli or Rainbow Quartz (Yeah, she's onscreen for all of five seconds, but she made an impression)
Some stuff's just adorable too, I like season 3's evil squad of Rubies "They're so tiny and so angry, and so dumb!"
Hulu only has three seasons of it though, and I hear there's five... I'm not sure if I'll look for them elsewhere or not though.
I've heard a bit about Steven Universe here and there for a few years now and got around to checking it out. It's kind of interesting to see the diversity in body types including the burly gems. Hopefully it speaks to the idea that women with muscles and strength are accepted enough to be unoffensive to the mainstream. - I remember when I first started drawing and I wanted to do a range of types and people would freak the hell out at even subtle musculature... I find it kind of funny that people would accept my old shitty drawings of muscled women as women but whenever I tried to add any level of body fat they'd insist I hadn't drawn a girl... I kind of ended up letting myself getting pushed into 'cartoon women only have one body type' until I made this account to stick pervier and muscular drawings up.
Overall the episodes about the Gem's story line are better than the other kinds - the whole 'artificially created aliens fight a civil war over earth' reminds me just a bit of Transformers in a weird way.
Anyway, I don't think I'd do anything with the Gem characters that's appropriate for here as that's a kid's show and I do believe in letting kids have their space. Though, if I were to - going on how much I like their looks/design - it'd probably either be Lapis Lazuli or Rainbow Quartz (Yeah, she's onscreen for all of five seconds, but she made an impression)
Some stuff's just adorable too, I like season 3's evil squad of Rubies "They're so tiny and so angry, and so dumb!"
Hulu only has three seasons of it though, and I hear there's five... I'm not sure if I'll look for them elsewhere or not though.
Final Month
If you like take this next month, for however long it's 2023 somewhere, to make any last requests or commissions from me. If no one wants anything I'll finish one more Helena picture and finish some abandoned WIPs, but if people do I'll leave it open until the New Year rolls over and spend whatever time it takes to get through it. I do reserve the right to turn it down if it bothers me too much. I will keep the gallery up, though I can't promise anything about dA itself. I figure I'll be back someday, but I'll be doing something else. Either this will shift to a fanart account or else I'll be doing something that's not drawing. (not prompting, not that.)
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Very early into the first art class I ever had the teacher took what I was working on and made a point of showing it to the class while telling everyone that it was an example of "what not to do." I don't really think that was exactly incorrect, but it seems fucked up to do that to a young high school student - not entirely sure if that was freshman or sophomore year. Took around a decade for me to try taking another art class and the main things I got out of that one were that pastels and charcoals are not exceptions to the fact I hate having grubby hands and physical paint stumps me worse than digital. Honestly still surprises me when anyone wants something from me, be it request or commission. I think for the time and effort put in I'm surprisingly awful, I constantly have to erase entire errant lines on the computer. Hell, when I see an indie video game with art that I feel I could probably match I tend to react "No, if you want people to pay for your product get an artist better
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Ever feel like you've kind of given yourself too much to do? I feel like I'm always forgetting just how long everything takes. I want to get those Estella pictures colored and finished and move on to the next character, but I also have some fanart I want to do - the unfinished/not-detailed picture I asked for feedback on and got Starfire, like Biker Babe Zelda based on Age of Calamity DLC, Fire Force's obvious pick, maybe a Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy from the Hulu show, and some more. I also want to get some sequences done for my SFW account. I've been writing more or less everyday and I might share a site for it soon, but I'm a fairly slow typist and revising is a long process in its own write so I don't know if that would be truly soon by most standards. I would also like to go back to commission work too, but I'm honestly not sure how to find the oldest conversations and figure out who still might want anything to do with me after I had a long bout of burnout followed by 10 months
'Suggestion Box' results
So this was a little odd to tabulate, and then I got a couple late responses - thankfully they were simple dedicated comments and I didn't have to go tabulating splits at the end. If I go by how often topics were mentioned I get this: lift – 4 workout – 1 speed – 4 breaking – 9 balance - 2 contortion - 0 domination - 6 lethal – 5 Ehh... nonsequiturs - 5 However, some people brought up two or more things and it seems kind of unfair to just count everything as a full vote, so once weighted there's something like this: Lifting: 2.5 Work out: 0.25 (Biggest surprise, that Lisa pic did well and I was into the idea of drawing Lana doing 1-handed push-ups with a bus on her back. Oh well.) Speed: 2.75 Breaking: 8.5 Balance: 0.75 Contortion: 0 Domination: 4.5 Lethal: 5 Off topic: 5.75 - one of which was just generic praise. On either metric breaking things just ran away with it, and I'm making myself take a stab at a car for it, but it might be a little bit before I'm
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Although i can't to follow all the episodes,
SU is a nice show for my taste.
Also i agree with some of your opinions.
SU is a nice show for my taste.
Also i agree with some of your opinions.