RANDOM ARTIST FROM FINLAND
Other important tags:
Lumi’s art scribbles (for all and any art, including fanart (Bleach & Bnha currently)
Lumi’s chaotic creations (All Oc-related art)
Hayden often dozes off like this when close proximity with Kuromoya, which does also lead to Hayden's Hex Spirit Yoruga plotting murder because he's protective over his human. (Okay not really, but he tends to keep an eye on Kuromoya 'just in case')
Kuro doesn't really mind that Yoruga does that, which often leads to a conversation of: "Wanna join?" "No, I'm watching you." "Alright, have fun."
Decided to show how Kuromoya's Hex tattoo appears when he's not using his powers. The eye-pattern is still on his shoulders, you just can't see them rn because his robe covers them. Also wasn't lazy this time around and did the BG city scene from scratch, instead of using the one I made earlier lol
Hayden often dozes off like this when close proximity with Kuromoya, which does also lead to Hayden's Hex Spirit Yoruga plotting murder because he's protective over his human. (Okay not really, but he tends to keep an eye on Kuromoya 'just in case')
Kuro doesn't really mind that Yoruga does that, which often leads to a conversation of: "Wanna join?" "No, I'm watching you." "Alright, have fun."
Decided to show how Kuromoya's Hex tattoo appears when he's not using his powers. The eye-pattern is still on his shoulders, you just can't see them rn because his robe covers them. Also wasn't lazy this time around and did the BG city scene from scratch, instead of using the one I made earlier lol
there will be 10 slots aviable this time. If you are interested pls send me a DM!
(keep in mind since there're more slots than usually, depending on the spot your commission takes on my list i may take over 2 months to finish it)
I meant to draw a second part to this, but I ran outta motivation for now. Maybe I do and add it tomorrow, or make that piece a separate post, IDK yet.
More Cyberpunk AU related stuff, this time its the protag Hayden musing about the recent discovery of secrets surrounding his mentoring doctor, including that he's an adoptive dad of a teenager. Angus WILL NOT escape his dad-responsibility with Clover, no matter what AU it is lolol
Weird little creature
I'd like to offer their old design for those who care
if you found out that your dad has 120k followers on tiktok what would it be for? what would your dad's tiktok niche be
I've made a bunch of wips for the past few days but always run out of motivation to finish them. Guess its one of those times huh.
It's my birthday! 33 feels like a big one - hope the year ahead holds all sorts of fun, cool things. ♥🎉
More stuff for the Cyberpunk AU. This time with Kuromoya and his right hand woman, Aimi (she belongs to my friend @mad-hatter-rici)
I decided to give his group a different name than just his surname, given his family DOES have a "legitimate" bathhouse business as well led by Kuro's sister Kouka (Who's the actual boss for Foxglove too, Kuro is just the "pretty faced representative" as he puts it lol)
Kuromoya's glowing tattoos are the symbol of his "Hex" power, which in this AU still consists of three giant shadow hands with eyes and a mouth he can summon and use. In the main story his power glows green, but for this one it just looked better red. I also kinda finished Kuromoya first, then drew Aimi into this, so the perspective and pose for her might be a bit off....
While making this I was once again reminded of just how much I hate designing shoes lmao
more oc stuff, now with a slightly extended cast :) Hrafn (the guy in the bottom drawings) was the first character i had in mind, a seidmann who travels the world and inspires Egir to do the same. Can't land on a design for him tho 🥲
no you know what I'm going to scream about the stuff I talked about in the tags of this post publicly
I'm tired of the well-meaning "don't feel bad if your work only gets 20 notes your genius is what counts and do it for you!" bullshit. I've had a good handful of friends who have straight up DEACTIVATED in recent months because their work was not getting reblogged AT ALL. No, it wasn't from lack of not being well-liked, no it wasn't from lack of trying to make sure it was getting out there to the people they knew would engage with it. It was because no matter how much they were praised privately for their work, when push came to shove, absolutely NOBODY reblogged it and gave it the audience that it was due, and I'm tired of people shoving the "unsung genius" narrative as an excuse for it. Nothing excuses that. And the boop event really proved that.
because I know given the opportunity, indiscriminately pressing a button (sometimes 10 thousand times, as I did) is not beyond this website's capability. y'all loved doing that. and look at what it wrought. nothing but love and affection and happiness. just from a couple of quick clicks of a little paw button. sure. nobody knew who you booped but the other person (which is how likes used to work on this website, btw). there was an element of anonymity to it. but that is kind of the core of this website that no other social media platform still has: the ability to be anonymous. and hyper-curating a blog on here like you might on twitter or instagram to project an image is simply not viable. and hey. you wanna know a secret: literally nobody cares what you post or whether it goes with the "theme" of your blog or not. yeah. I know. CRAZY concept in this day and age. but literally. I myself have reblogged things that have had nothing to do with whatever I am currently fixated by and you know what happened to my follower count? not a damn thing. in fact, I actively try to reblog things specifically BECAUSE it's my friends who made them (even though I'm not always good at KEEPING UP WITH HOW MUCH THEY POST @prismatica-the-strange will NEVER GO UNRECOGNIZED by me).
And you know what fucking sucks? I have to deal with this too. surprise right? you ever wonder why I reblog fics or art I post like 20 times the day that I post them? do you ever wonder why I ask about tag lists and beg for asks all the time? IT'S BECAUSE EVEN I GET LIKE. 5 LIKES ON THE THINGS I POST. AND THE REST OF THE REBLOGS ARE MINE SO I CAN MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT I MAKE GET TO SEE IT. and I say that knowing that I'm certainly not an unpopular blog, or an unpopular writer. I know that people love the stories that I create. Hell, half of the people that I've talked to about lady terror have told me that they consider her to be canon (AND EVEN SOME!! THOUGHT SHE WAS!!! WITHOUT EVEN HAVING WATCHED THE SHOW! WHICH IS STILL SO SO WILD TO ME!!!) But especially in the last 4 years (which really dates this phenomenon), my posts, no matter how well received they've been amongst people I've talked to about them directly, I still go into the notes and at least half (often more than half) are MY reblogs to make sure people saw what I posted. and it happens every single time, and I can't tell you how much it crushes me considering that it used to be that I would be able to post it only once, and people would reblog it sometimes even HUNDREDS of times.
It's not about popularity. it never has been. it's not about anxiety. or shifting website cultures. even if you lurk, the simple fact is, that if you want people to keep making what you love. you have to reblog. your theme won't suffer because you reblogged a fanfiction that you really admire. your posting won't be ruined because you reblogged some fanart from someone in a different fandom. really. I promise. and if people do unfollow you for that? who needs em. followers come and go but you should NEVER have to cater to them. on this website it has ALWAYS been the other way around. lean into it. make it yours. put stuff you ACTUALLY WANT to be seen and that you love and appreciate on your blog. no matter how old it is, how new it is, no matter how niche or off-theme it is.
so please. if you really want to show your appreciation for someone's work? you reblog. it's really as easy as that. check the tags. add some when you reblog if you like. but please for the love of god reblog. it's as easy as booping and even more rewarding for the people who you reblog from. if you want to let someone know that their work is genius and appreciate it? show it. reblog. then DM them if you're too nervous to say what you want to say but not in a public forum. but for christ's sake. REBLOG.
From an artist/writer/creator’s perspective, sharing your work requires a fair amount of bravery. And sharing it with a silent audience who won’t interact at all is the fastest way to shut down an artists desire to share anything or maybe even to create in the first place. It’s like getting a glance and a grunt from someone you showed a piece of art you poured your heart and creativity into.
“Hey I made a thing”
“Yeah that’s nice I guess”
“Do you think anyone else might like to see it?”
“No.”
The boop event hammered this home because people came out of the woodwork to interact on this site. Everyone was pushing buttons and gleefully participating in the social activity of it and it was glorious.
If the same people who love endlessly pushing buttons and interacting literally tens of thousands of times in one day are uninterested in sharing a piece of art or writing or what have you, I have to assume no one cares about that art or thinks it’s worth a second of their time to press a button. (The reblog button if that wasn’t clear. If people don’t understand the value of reblogs vs likes by now I must assume it’s willful ignorance) If no one wants to be associated with my art, what does that say about it?
Either that or people don’t actually want to share cool things and bond over interests and art and writing and fun discoveries anymore in which case, I don’t know what to say other than that sucks.
This feels like wasted breath at this point but: If you like the art, SAY SO. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the resistance to this is. Artists are already sharing less because of AI scraping and theft. If they get no appreciation, they may just stop sharing all together.
THIS REBLOG. I LIKE IT. AND SO I REBLOG IT. it's THAT EASY.
A continuation of the previous Cyberpunk themed piece. Basically What happens sometime after Hayden (The MC, I'll post his design eventually too) speaks with Kousai, this guy's subordinate. I decided to make Kuromoya even more like his dad for this AU, including him smoking a kiseru pipe.
Kuromoya is supposed to be Hayden's love interest in this AU, which makes their first meeting here kinda funny; he was just trying to sneak in to find info he was told these guys know, and of course stumbles into the boss' quarters, who notices him before he can run away lol
Kind of a BG practice thing too. I kinda thought this would maybe work better as like a fake visual novel screenshot, but since the previous one was a comic page-look, I stuck with it.
Here's Hayden and Yoruga, the protagonists for this AU and my ultimate mischief besties. I realized that I could just use Yoruga's old design for this AU; I only changed his wings to match Hayden's Hex tattoo, and Yoruga is probably gonna be barefoot. Also shortened Hayden's surname from "Faylune" to "Faye" for this au as I felt his "main" surname is too fantasy-ish.
In general, I think I'll try to focus on my less-used characters for this AU, to make them more central here so that I'd also be motivated to draw them more. Currently, I often have characters I make but then almost never draw, given how they aren't very central for their story.
More info on this AU below:
