Drew Phil And My New Horizon’s OC Jamming Out At A Concert ;)

Siri, play “Big Dawgs”

Here’s the old concept art for reference:

This is my friend’s Sun Haven character holding my character’s kid! He’s her uncle basically lol

My friend drew the sketch and i inked it and colored it in! Impromptu collab 😤💖

Go follow my friendddd! @tehteddae :3

If you wanna follow him on instagram follow him here!

Here's the old one for reference lol. I like certain things about the older one more but overall I'd say I like the new one a lot more since I like the lineart and overall vibrancy!

Redraw of something very old since I’m playing New Leaf again! ✨🕺

Posting this here instead of my art blog since i’m trying to build a following for my animal crossing stuff 😎

Will probably reblog to my main account tho! ☺️ I’d link the old one but i never posted it (or deleted it idr) ☹️

Also, if you're on desktop... 👀

You should definitely check out my revamped blog theme 😎 I designed it to fit my fave OC's aesthetic and I put a slideshow embed on the top of my blog! I'm really proud of it lmao

(I typically don’t post stuff like this but here we go!)

So guess who just unlocked their all time FAVORITE villager after spending 200k bells to find his stupid map??? Me.

Anyways you should add me!! It would be fun 👉👈

Welp.

There are caveats to being a digital artist. When you create traditional artwork, you have a tangible copy of your work unless you give it away or discard it. However, with digital art it is not that simple. What happens when cloud service fails? What happens when something goes wrong, you lose your device, your device dies, or your files get corrupted? You are left with nothing. That's what's so frustrating about this wonderful medium.

I love digital art. I could not go back to traditional because I simply do not enjoy it as much as digital. Digital, once you get used to it, is infinitely more convenient than traditional in terms of workflow (unless you really hate using tech.). But man.. when shit hits the fan it HITS the fan. I almost lost all of this year's work and my comic, and the only thing that saved it was transferring files by airdrop between my devices. If I were not invested in the apple ecosystem the way I am (except for my windows laptop) I would have lost it all today.

Anyways. That sucked. I typically don't make updates on this account since its supposed to be my art showcase, but I felt a need to talk about this. 😅

On the bright side, I didn't lose any brushes or any work, and the only thing I have to do is restore my character models/ remake some of them. But man that was close.

My friend (who i won’t name because idk if he wants me to or not) asked me to draw Xoinu as a LEGO character so I did 😎✨

He’s so cute haha 😭💖

Some Yvaren and Iliana from when they were younger :)) ⭐✨🌟🌠

I typically don’t post stuff like this on my art blog but this is something I feel somewhat passionate about considering I am a fiction/fantasy writer. Sometimes (not all times) people ask these questions in bad faith. If it’s a stranger, I’m more likely to be inclined to believe it is in bad faith than if a mutual or friend asked me about my world building.

World building is absolutely important, but some people love to ask these questions in an effort to shut down your idea entirely; They want to make you feel stupid for even having the idea in the first place.

My rule of thumb is:

If someone asks a question about your worldbuilding, it may be important to ponder the question to flesh things out more, but at the same time you don’t owe people immediate explanations and you have time to think about things! It’s okay if you can’t figure out what a megafauna in your story eats until you’re deeper into development. It’s okay to not know yet!

And I’m gonna be honest here:

It’s ABSOLUTELY okay for some things to “just be” because they’re cool. I have this weird elk creature in my comic that comes up in a flashback event, and someone asked me in bad faith

“How does it even run around in the forest as a predator, its antlers would hit the trees”

And you know what? That may be true if it were real! But it’s not real. I like my design of the creature and that’s good enough for me. Not everything has to be analyzed and dissected under a microscope.

You do not owe your audience perfection. Grow your worldbuilding at your own pace, it’ll come in time.

When you are a queer author, or an author of any minority group, people love to pull “Gotcha” scenarios all the time to shoot you down. It’s important to keep this reality in mind when speaking on this because there are a lot of bullies out there looking for blood when writing is supposed to be liberating and fun at the end of the day.

The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.

So I’ve been playing ACNH and my character is an alternative universe version of my New Leaf character. ALSO- Phil is here of course lol.