Latest Posts by cosmicsmoothie - Page 4

crypt loomer

im going he/they mode

hot take i know

simple little ref sheet guide with some tips relevant for any amount of detail! With Art Fight season around the corner they're some good things to keep in mind :)

other miscellaneous tips

if your character has detailed markings that need to be accurate (like tattoos), place the reference for it on a rectangular transparent section so it can be selected easily for copy/paste!

if your reference is for art purposes, try to keep it relevant to art! lore can help, but a lot of backstory text can make it difficult to tell what's important when drawing them

important things to include as written details are heights, weights / body types, pointing out any intentionally unusual proportions, and other things that may be interpreted as an art style (or that your reference may not accurately convey)!

if you can't draw something the way you want others to draw it, you can just insert other photos / screencaps for others to reference!

always have a SFW version. not one with censor blocks over the bits, I mean one that doesn't have the bits out at all. put some underwear on that beast. it's common courtesy.

ADD ALT TEXT. write a description of your character! bullet point lists of succinct traits are clearest for artists to work with when commissioned. having both a written and visual reference makes it possible to verify things

updating last year's refs with changes (few) and things I missed (many)

surprise!!!

kindred

GRAHHH RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE LET ME CREATE MY FREEDOM THE BARS OF THE CAGE SHARPEN LIKE KNIVES

THE GATES OF PARADISE OPEN TO MOCK AND SCORN ME YET AGAIN THE PROFANE REACHES TO STAIN MY EYES WITH SOOT

gotta love crippling perfectionism kicking in when it literally doesnt matter and i can do whatever i want

i live in a constant state of "its too early for this shit" until around 2pm when i switch to "its too late for this shit"

once again an unfriendly reminder that terfs and other transphobes can fuck off my blog and bleed out behind a burger king :)

i am literally nonbinary and have so many trans friends you are my mortal enemy and i wish you nothing but pain until you change your ways. Its not middle school anymore, grow up.

oh my goodness gracious my blocked users list just doubled wow

I always open up an older drawing of a character when I start drawing them again. Not as reference, I have all the design things in my head (usually). It's so i can pick the exact colors. Does anyone else do this?

actually, let's do a poll, since I can now.

bro stop doomscrolling you're scaring the hoes

me when I'm not doing art: hell yea do bad art!!!

me when I'm doing bad art: oh no

Too tired/low spoons to put an image ID but. I hate this specific kind of ableism I’ve had handed to me again and again (Edit: added and slightly edited an ID from the notes!)

[ID: A comic. Panel 1 dialogue, from a person holding up a piece of paper: "I'm here to get help with problem X, what should I do?"

Panel 2 dialogue, from a cheery second person, assumedly a tutor or other teaching figure: "Well, what do you think you should do?"

Panel 3: Person 1 stares at person 2 silentely, but their thoughts are written behind them in faint all caps: "Why the fuck would I be asking you for help if I hadn't already tried doing what I thought I should do, and even tried what I thought I shouldn't do!" the rest of the thought is covered by the people but continues to the bottom of the panel.

Panel 4: Sound effect "BAM!" Person 1 cartoonishly flattens Person 2 with a folding chair. /End ID]

this is about proshippers btw. i know very little about them but what i do know scares me. stay away pretty please.

i love you block button i love you tag filtering i love you "this post is not for me" button i love you tumblr i am being besieged by so many blogs i dont want anywhere near me right now

tumblr might be the thing that finally makes me learn to just leave spaces with things and people that make me angry or uncomfortable instead of fighting it

i love you block button i love you tag filtering i love you "this post is not for me" button i love you tumblr i am being besieged by so many blogs i dont want anywhere near me right now

tumblr might be the thing that finally makes me learn to just leave spaces with things and people that make me angry or uncomfortable instead of fighting it

hey dont cry. one million dragons in the world, ok?

i had one class today and if it was like thursday or something i could spend the whole day just going into a simultaneously thoughtless lust-rage and omniscient enlightenment but its monday so i gotta keep it in my pants

tumblr glitched and made me follow like 5 people i was clicking the x on in the "check out these blogs" area this is a betrayal to my Harmless Button Clicking Time

i piece of online ettiquete i didnt realise more people dont know about is how to politley talk about someone elses OC.

please remember that its generally considered rude to compare someones original character, or original work in general to another piece of media. artists dont think its a complement when you say their character looks liek your blorbo from your shows. they see it as you saying theyve ripped it off or you dont see any value in their design outside its resemblence to something else you like.

there should be more dragons on tumblr

Soon.

I'm currently working on getting stuff set up for commissions! It's been a while in the making and I honestly don't know why it took so long for me to sit down and do it. I've got my prices semi-set, but now I have to compile some art as examples so I can make a shiny commission info sheet. And I also have to set up the actual uh. payment.

College has turned me into a bit of a frugal little beast so I may be underselling myself. We will see how it goes. It'll at least give me better ways to procrastinate on my work than just scrolling the same three websites.

I hope that commissions motivate me more to learn and improve (and maybe actually start using references like I am supposed to), so I can't wait! Except I kind of have to while I get stuff set up. Should be done within a couple weeks. probably.

tumblr needs a “not for you” page where it just has things that you disagree with and make you angry

quick reminder that its on sight with makima fans. you stay out of my house. i hate that smug bitch and i wont stand for her apologists.

remember kids the best way to make an elemental magic system is to first figure out how you want to fracture the human soul into arbitrary pieces

haha whoops its past 10 pm so im turning all sappy again

man it really would be nice to do one big long trauma dump ✨lore post✨ because i think its important that i am able to talk about my story and it definitely does have a lot to do with my art journey. however i also dont feel like doing a vent-post style post of any kind is a good idea. all i know is that i want to tell it somewhere. now that its finally over.

if i try to write it into a short story i just know im gonna both dance around it with depersonalized metaphorical garbage and change the truth to fit whatever "chapter format" i will inevitably latch onto.

i know i like to bond with people and see how they became who they are, but honestly tumblr isn't the place for that kind of sharing from me, at least not right now. we'll see in a few years, maybe.

i need to nap under a tree on top of a grassy hill when its 90 degrees out with a nice strong breeze. unfortunately the Sorcerer has lay claim to all such areas within 200 miles of me and I must stain them with blood

utter bullshit that we stop growing at a certain age.

humans should grow (both taller and wider) at a continuous rate throughout our lifespans. i want to be 80 years old with the proportions of an average human being except i am the height of a multistory building. that would be so fun. that would require so much societal rearrangement. this isn't a want it's a need