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And here's the finished drawing!! I didn't know if I'd ink it and color it when I first made it but I'm really glad I did! Second time's the charm I guess lol ✨ These are Xoinu's parents, Yvaren and Iliana. They've been best friends since they were kids and they love each other a lot. (OTP for reals.) 😊💖

Welcome to my twisted speedpaint where I struggle to fit everything clip studio has to offer on my small iPad screen. Also, you would hate to see how I sit while drawing nowadays. (Imagine there’s cool music on this) Anyway here’s a cool concept sketch I made tonight! Enjoyyyyy :)

So Phil from Animal Crossing has four other siblings according to the wiki. Back sometime in 2023 or 2024 I was trying to come up with designs for his siblings' human versions and I only got around to one of them. I was going to make a whole comic about Phil and my character / town; But in order to prioritize JFA (My original comic / magnum opus) I gave up on the project. Here's the pic of his bro and the logo I was making!

I named his brother Falco. He was gonna be sporty and stuff- and he was going to be Phil's only brother.

Very Little Mac coded lol. (We love a short king boxing boy.)

Happy MerMay everyone! 🌊🧜‍♀️

Here’s Mermaid Cosmia and Maia :))

And here’s a close up of them 😊💖

More Paint98 Speedpaint! (Windows 98 MS Paint clone)

Edited the final image in Clip Studio Paint to make him more symmetrical 😄✨

This may be a (big) spoiler but who cares, barely anyone follows me anyways so it’s not like it’s a big deal LOL

Drew this in MS Paint to prove to myself I don’t NEED 3D models to make art. They make life easier, and they help you learn, but yeah! Really proud of this. This is Avi. :)

Drew @rulerofthedistortionworld’s oc for art fight!! :) ✨

I don’t typically draw anthro characters but maybe I should more often!

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.

You could say I’m a little obsessed with this character of mine, and in saying that you would be correct 😅💖