Marble Danish Cookie sketch ✨✍️

[I trip and dozens of pictures of them fall out of my pockets] oh no, oh NO [I trip again and more pictures fall out] NOOOO

sparring time

You come to my post and try to out-perform me.

Uzumaki, directed by Hiroshi Nagahama. ©Junji ITO, Shogakukan / Production I.G., LLC.

blondes’ night out

genshin impact and vtubers have done irreparable damage to the state of character design

Explain?

my personal feeling on the subject is that they prioritize overly complex accessorizing over clarity of concept, and are unwilling to stray from a hyperspecific and incredibly bland base. almost all genshin and vtuber designs have the same handful of body types - all skinny except for maybe a fat rack - and almost all of them are extremely pale. they all have identical 'anime' face shapes, and any and all variation in facial structure is eye shape.

the overly complex nature of the outfits/surface level aesthetics paired with the copy and paste nature of the underlying bodies and faces leads to this incredibly bizarre and somewhat paradoxical design phenomenon where every individual design has a ton happening in it but this makes them all feel more generic, not less. it all just ends up as visual noise especially when you get one or more of these designs next to each other. i also think a lot of them have really bad silhouettes and awkwardly proportioned outfits. I think the kids who grow up inspired to make art from these sort of artists are gonna end up preferring to put the cart before the horse in terms of character design.

With v-tubers its a bit different than genshin because a vtuber isnt really a character in a setting. but for genshin, especially when compared to the more mundanely and reasonably dressed npcs, the outfits are so overdesigned that they come across as actively immersion breaking to me. i havent played the game though i will say.

none of this is the end of the world, anyone who wants to draw a bunch of cluttered generic 'anime' stuff is free to do so. but i really do feel like it's a shame that art styles that have so little variation in body type, skin tone, and taste have such a large amount of cultural capital rn.

Spa day

images to show to a cookie run plebian to blow their fucking minds

hi cookie run fandom: stop being weird

i dont get whats with cookie run fans thinking drawing the characters more muscular/fat is such a weird fucking concept. yall act like shits cursed. like its not normal. or hell even fucking inherently sexualized.

and honestly im like. tired. im tired, boss. i get that some people dont like muscle or whatever. thats fine. but yall gotta accept that bigger people fucking exist in real life and that sometimes people have body headcanons for fictional characters. with the exception of two, ALL ovenbreak male characters to me are either fat, muscular, or both. literally only two exceptions. because i like drawing bigger bodies. thats it.

there is nothing inherently sexual about drawing bigger people*, there is nothing inherently weird about drawing bigger people, and yall gotta get it through your fucking heads that some people have headcanons. my art isnt a joke. i dont draw these to weird you out. i draw earl grey extremely jacked because i think it rules. i draw millenial tree very big because i think it rules! its not cursed or weird.

and yet i never see people make these same comments towards artists that draw primarily (or even fucking exclusively) skinny people. i wonder why?

anyway dont make these fucking comments

*i have genuinely seen someone i used to be mutuals with years ago compare someones art to muscle fetishism because they draw a lot of buff people. hey dont do that. dont fucking do that to artists you dont know

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these  silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.

It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.

i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.