I just HAD to do the Barbie & Ken mugshot meme with these two Gaster'ed Bastards! X333

(Source below)

Click the "Read More" for a link to a creepy outtake.

Whoops, the player wouldn't have the Justice gear in Hotland in the G-Route, so I've changed the background (earlier featured in THIS little image collection) to The Core. Thank goodness there's plenty of areas there that let me keep the backlighting. (I also fixed a few details on The Kid.)

(Image Description included natively. And if you can't see the linked collection, but are ok with mature content, remember to change your settings to allow Mature community-labeled content, & set your filters for each sub-type.)

It figures... I suddenly feel SO inspired to draw, when I'm sick with C0v1d & need to be laying down, what the heck?! 😵 Anyways, here, have a REALLY world-worn Spamton, who has no time for anyone else's shenanigans. 😼

(A bit of process & request for opinions concerning my multiple WIPs under the Read More)

So on Twitter, I tried to give tips on how to draw long-nosed Addisons kissing, but realized I'd need a visual aid, so after SUCH a long time not drawing, I started scribbling in MS Paint. Then realized I'd need layers, so I moved to my other computer to use Clip Studio Paint (I'm still kind of migrating slowly between my old Windows 8.1 laptop & my new Windows 10 tower PC).

But well, the hardcore aro-ace I am, I've never drawn lip-kissing humanoids, EVER! Soooo talk about starting on Hard Mode, LOL! 😅 (But these random Addison OCs smooching turned out kinda cute. :3 I think I'll call them Lily I. Pad & Ivy N. Droid [both they/she]. Yeah, cross-platform mobile device romance. 😚)

Advice on using these as references under the Read More.

Spamton's [Anger Management Service]

If you beat Spamton (normal form) with violence instead of taking the deal, he implies that he lets people pay to beat him up... 😰

This Werewerewire takes out his anger on Spamton monthly to avoid lashing out at his family. He overdid it a bit this time, so he added extra pay to cover Spamton's medical bills (plus a bit more, out of guilt).

Not a healthy dynamic, but going by his canon nature, Spamton would rather take advantage of a harmful situation than try to fix it, if he can benefit from it. He desperately needs the money, & having regular "customers" would give him at least SOME bit of stability in his stressful, uncertain life.

He's already suffering, so hey, a little more that he can actually get paid for is no [Big Deal], right? 😢

(I just GOTTA finish my WIPs, so I'm gonna try to content myself with rough sketches rather than only clean crisp lines. No more unattainable perfectionism! Phew!)

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((Theory reference: Video clip of violently defeating Spamton. He lists very specific violent acts that Kris didn't do, which seems like his usual traumatic projection. Included is "yanking their noses," likely having been done to him since he has such a long nose. Yet he's mostly upset from not getting PAID for this particular beating. 😞))

Video clip description under the cut. Also, my image has Alt Text.

Recently, Toby Fox has graced us with Spamton (and other Deltarune characters) sketches on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474745191777337347 & https://twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1474747245597982721 Notably, in one sketch, he's wearing a tie. :D The thing is... I couldn't tell if it was a bow tie or an apron tie. So, I figured... What if he wears BOTH?! XD (......I have SO MANY serious & high-quality Spamton WIP sketches lying around for months, yet the first two I ever finish & release are joke posts? XD) #2ties

EDIT: aadfajsdhfsja, NOW INCLUDES HIS CHEEK SPOTS!!!! I KNEW I was forgetting SOMETHING!!! Fixed now!  (Along with shading the text on his coffee cup, & fixing the capitalization on the last bracketed text to fit the more usual pattern.)

I have... NO IDEA why I started drawing this... I guess it dawned on me that Spamton's upper outfit is very similar to Gaster's, so I wanted to see what a mix would look like. And it's kind of funny that fusing their names comes up with GASTON. 😅 I spent... DAYS trying to do a background that would work well enough with it, agonized over gray levels due to everyone having such different monitors & I wanted to make sure his body & hair would be visible... Ended up just going with a plain black background and (hopefully) safe shade of gray. The code strings took a lot of work because I couldn't find a custom paintbrush to do the effect for me, had to improvise. This looks so simple, but ended up with so much invisible effort... Oh well, I STILL finished it, so yay! Oh well... Enjoy this strange, sad abomination. (Included both glasses versions: Black, & Code)

I'm making a Deltarune comic & realized I need to figure out how to draw Swatchlings. So, I experimented a bit. I'm opting for simpler-is-better, still a bit different than these ones, but I kinda liked a few of them.

And for some reason stayed up way late coloring the orange one all fancy. ^^;;

Wow uh HI I'm ALIVE (sort of, sometimes). Lots of hard times... but also, lots of progress in my life. I've recently been struck down again by misfortune, but even then, I'm suddenly finding myself with creative drive again! :O

I had to work like crazy to get my Wacom pen to work properly, and invested a long time into getting it to feel more natural than its regular settings allow. And it paid off. It feels much better to use. So I milked that for all it's worth in one evening!

Sooooo, have these sketchy scribbles of some bone bros! Except mostly Papyrus. Sans turned out kinda bad, lol, but that was my first attempt and a pen test. Plus I'm experimenting with some different styles. I like a few of these. Think I'll try these back and forth, see how that goes.

Despite not practicing all this time, I analyzed the heck out of my art, so I apparently can still improve in that manner, huh... And my, like... artistic vision came back for the first time in decades. To where I have an exact idea of what I'm going for, instead of flying blind and going "ok good enough I guess". Now I know what I want, AND apparently can get pretty darn close to it, without a zillion do-overs! I'm relieved that I'm still capable of that after all. Thought it was gone forever. ^^;;

And at the same time, I'm learning NOT to be held back by attempting unachievable perfection. From now on, I'll be OK WITH MISTAKES, as long as I can get the piece finished, and it evokes the emotions I'm going for! And boy does that mindset help! AND still turn out good! :D

So yay! I don't know how much I'll be able to do, but I'll certainly do what I can, whenever I can, and we'll wait and see.

(And by the way, DELTARUNE OMG!!!! I'm gonna double this blog to also include Deltarune art, don't mind me, they're cousins. ;D I have SO MANY Spamton sketches and concepts, hope I can finish them soon! ...........In fact I wrecked my hard-earned sleep schedule last night due to drawing one of them so much GAH!!!! I can't keep doing that though, lol...)

99.9% of the time... *too pained/sick/tired/busy trying to pull my life together to feel like drawing. Plus emotions not working = no inspiration or chemical reward for putting in the effort.*

0.01% of the time... *FINALLY feels JUST decent enough to want to draw, has enough energy, AND enough spare time!!!! ........Then THIS happens........*

(At least editing this went ok. Lemons, lemonade, etc. ^^;;)

When listening to a great cover of "Decision" by Ayumi Hamasaki (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjZMq3D_ioI ), I felt inspired enough to want to supply lyric translations, paired with an image of Edge (Underfell Papyrus), due to how well they fit with mine and @kaptinkate ‘s RP story (still being converted to fanfic format... I'm actually making good progress on that!). But oh jeez, technology hated me, making what should've been a super quick project into 4 days of hellish frustration. But without getting way into that, it's finally completed. This is the image I used for the background of the video, with some nifty scarf-waving animation thrown in, located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1S40zdaxLs

(Also, here's three alternate versions: https://sta.sh/21rcupbf3jfa ). Far from perfect, but I'm trying very hard NOT to be a perfectionist; it's one of many things that have held me back from creating art all this time. I'm learning to be ok with flaws. It'll likely still be a long time before I finish more art though; this put me through the wringer due to the art programs and video editor all effing things up, making me fix things over and over and over. It was downright traumatizing to my delicate inspiration for daring try to create again. It's gun-shy yet again. I hope it can overcome that and let me continue stories I've left untold.

Note: I don’t take credit for the translation; I know a little Japanese, but not enough to do it myself. I instead combined four I found online, and tried to adapt them, since two were done by people who also weren’t fully fluent in Japanese... and the other two were by Japanese people who weren’t fully fluent in English. ^^;; So I wanted to just grammatically fix it so it’d flow decently, without changing the meaning. Hopefully I did ok with that.