Latest Posts by squidvetica - Page 2

Decided to color it after all LMAO 😭

I saw this and I just had to draw it. So beautiful!! I used brushes for the flowers and bushes, I ain’t doing all that lmao

Evander Jourdain - The Gray Fox

Reblogging this because I fixed the hair LMAO (Thought I was so clever with having his hairline show but no it made him look like he was wearing a whole-ass hat)

I’m really proud of this one! And yes it is more of Phil lol

I put pheasants on his kimono because that is what he IS 😤💖🐦

Leaving TikTok

Well. I see right through them. Not falling for whatever flavor of digital fascism THIS mess is- but TikTok is no longer the platform I once held dear. It's sad, but that's just how Shou and Co. decided to turn things.

I will be exclusively on tumblr and bluesky until this whole thing burns down. But Miss tumblr stays stronger than any of these other platforms so I hold onto hope as I grit my teeth.

Anyways, guess I'll post my speedpaints here and on bluesky from now on! Thinking of joining Pixelfed as well. We'll see!

Love you guys, y'all are my pookies. 💖

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) ☹️

"One to the kidney, Two to the dome- That's left right Left, right Left, right GO!" ✨💪✨

My entry for the bbno$ art contest on tiktok. It's not the best but I did try very hard to make it look fun lol

It's supposed to look like stickers. He's a holographic one and the sound one is reflective. Didn't include his glasses cuz in the original artwork he didn't have glasses on either so i wanted to maintain the aesthetics.

Tried coming up with a no money symbol but idkkkk- it's fine but I would try again if I could.

I made a sideblog for my Animal Crossing content to keep it all in one place!

It’s @seacliff-shores for those of you who wanna follow me over there as well! I’ll be posting my fan story there as well as reblogging my AC art there. :)

I know some of you only follow me for that so yeah! Woooo!

Leaving Meta Platforms

Hey everyone. With Meta's new guidelines on fact checking and LGBT content, I will no longer be posting on any Meta owned platforms. I may even delete my accounts on there, or at the very least deactivate / private them.

I want to be a light in the darkness for queer youth and adults alike, but I also want to preserve my personal safety. I am an openly queer content creator, and during these next four years my main objective is to just survive.

If you are a queer teen or young adult in the United States, what I really want to say to you.. is that you are loved. You are special. You are strong. You are cherished. Your main objective right now is to survive. Please stay safe, these are very scary times; I normally would ALWAYS advocate for being yourself unbashedly. To be bold and brave and proud. I want that for everyone, but please do what you can to remain safe right now.

When I was a kid the internet was a more wild and free place, but it was still a safe haven for us when we stuck together. ..Things are not like that right now. Zuckerberg and Musk are doing whatever it takes to take any safe spaces away from us- and they are emboldening far right extremists under the guise of "free speech". It's not free speech. Because if it were REALLY about that, LGBT people wouldn't get posts flagged or repressed for talking about our lives and truths.

I don't know exactly when i will be deactivating and privating my instagram and facebook, but for now I will always be here until this ship burns too. (Let's hope it doesn't. I love this place 😭)

We are strong people. We will get through these next four years together.

My Year At Seacliff - Intro

(A fan story, based off of Animal Crossing New Leaf.)

"Have you ever travelled somewhere completely unfamiliar, But it still felt like home?"

"That was Seacliff, for me. It feels like I was there a lifetime ago, but looking back? It was the best year of my life."

I sat on the train, looking out the window as the trees and buildings rushed by; My city's skyline traveling further and further back into the horizon. It's sunset. Not many others are on the train, but I hear a voice approach me. A young man taps me on the shoulder. He's dressed in a sweater vest with a button down shirt underneath, wearing chinos and loafers. He has a fairly smug grin on his face- but not in a condescending way.

"Hey, mind if I sit next to ya? It can get pretty boring on the train if you're all by yourself."

I nod quietly, smiling back at him with a half smile as my stomach churns at the thought of moving somewhere new for the first time in my life.

The young man sits across from me and beams a smile. He extends his hand.

"Name's Rover."

I look at him, sort of reluctant to shake his hand. But I do it anyway.

"Logan. It's nice to meet ya."

We shake hands for a moment. Then a brief moment of thick silence passed. I was just so anxious about the move that my brain kept looping over and over about everything that could go wrong. What if I miss home? What if I can't make new friends? What if…

He breaks the silence.

"Y'know. I've been all over these parts. I know the rails like the back of my hand. You're coming from Skytop, right?"

"Mhm. It's where I grew up. Lived there my whole life."

He smiled softly and looked out the window, resting his elbow on the ledge as he holds his head up in his hand.

"It's a lovely city. Lot's of great places to eat- lots of places to meet people.."

I cut him off.

"It's lovely to visit."

He lifts his head from his palm and faces me again.

"Hmm, I suppose. What made you want to leave, though? ..If you don't mind me asking."

I grew mildly irritated with Rover. He's a complete stranger and he's bombarding me with questions. I try to remain calm but my teeth grit as my irritation slips through the cracks of my facade. I wear my heart on my sleeve, after all. At least that's what everyone tells me.

"I just want to know if there's more out there for me. Skytop is great if you love loud streets, strangers, and a fast paced life.. but I don't. I want to meet people and have them know my name- I want to watch the stars at night and I want to feel the crash of the waves at my feet on the shoreline-"

"Shoreline……shoreline…"

Rover becomes lost in thought as he closes his eyes and thinks for a moment.

"..Yeah. Shoreline. Where I'm headed.. I hear the cliffs look over an ocean that glows as the waves hit the sand. It's in their brochure."

"Ah! I got it- You're headed to Seacliff, aren't you?"

I was about to hand him the brochure but as he guessed it correctly In put it back into my pants pocket.

"Yeah..! How'd you know, though?"

He smiled and nodded to himself. He opened his eyes a moment later looking me in the face.

"Like I said.. I know these rails like the back of my hand. It's the only town this train stops at that's by the ocean. End of the line before it loops back around."

"I see.. have you been there? Is it nice..?"

He chuckles to himself, and looks at me with a reassuring gaze.

"I think you'll love it. Haven't been there myself but.. I've heard that town is special."

I looked at him, puzzled.

"What do you mean? Why is it special?"

"Well.. rumor has it that anyone who visits Seacliff finds something. It could be something little…. maybe a trinket or souvenir. Or it could be something bigger- who knows."

"Hah! Maybe I'll find the love of my life or something."

I said with a trace of sarcasm. ..But what if I did find the love of my life? I've always wanted to fall madly in love with someone.

"Heh, maybe you will! For your sake I hope you do- but.. maybe you'll find yourself, too."

"Find myself? What does that mean?"

"Well, you know- maybe you'll find out things about yourself you've never known before! I think we all find new pieces of ourselves when life takes us to new places."

We both look out the window. The silence is softer and lighter than before. The stars shined brightly through the orange and purple sky as the sun continued to set. I had never seen stars that bright- when you're in a city the lights from the skyscrapers blot out the stars in the sky, making them very hard to see. But these were so clear- it's like you could reach out and grab them. We sat quietly for the rest of the ride until my stop finally came.

"Looks like your new story starts here, Logan."

"I guess it does!"

I said, picking up my suitcase and bag.

"You look a lot less worried now- that's good! Everything will work out. I know it will!"

"Thanks, Rover. Maybe someday I'll see you again!"

He chuckled.

"Maybe! Now get going, or else you'll miss your stop!"

I nod and make my way off of the train. As the train departs, Rover waves at me with a smile.

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.)

I DO obsessively read peoples tags when they rb my art

And, yes, I DO kick my little feets and giggle when I get compliments

Trying to upload this a second time 🫡😭 Learning to add different phases to a PNGtuber thing. I'm having so much fun!

SHE TALKS NOW RAHHHHHHH 👹✨💖 Was gonna post this on a reblog but you can't post videos

Guess who made a lil PNGtuber of The Lady(TM) 👉👈✨

For those of you who are not artists or heck- even traditional artists who aren’t familiar with the difference between AI slop and digital art I will say this. (Long rant incoming)

Digital art is real art; And before AI you saw it every day with everything you interact with and enjoy. 3D rendering, digital painting, digital illustration, fonts on a webpage and how printed brochures or magazines look-

ALL of that is created digitally. We do it by hand- the very same as traditional artists. We don’t just type prompts into a generator. We actually make these things with our hands and practice for years to get good at it.

I’ve still got a lot to learn to become the artist I want to be- but I dislike having my work viewed as less than all because of the medium I choose to work in.

I would even go as far as to say that traditional art and digital art require entirely different skillsets. You can’t take an oil painter who has never drawn digitally and ask them to paint something in Photoshop without a steep learning curve. The mechanism in which you hold the stylus or brush and move it across a canvas or screen is the same; And you need to know the same core fundementsls but that’s where it ends. The rest of the skills needed are totally different and cannot be compared 1:1.

AI image generation models are based off of mainly digital works created by REAL people. Millions of images get dumped into these datasets and the program cobbles an image together based off of previously established data- that data being stolen artwork obtained without our permission or consent.

Please do not conflate digital art and AI art and do not compare digital art to traditional art. Digital art takes mastery, skill, knowledge, and a human touch- and AI stuff is just straight up theft. Traditional art may not be as forgiving as digital once you know the ins and outs of a program- but you still need to know what you’re doing to make a halfway decent digital work of any kind.

Siri, play “Big Dawgs”

Here’s the old concept art for reference:

I hope you know that with every nice comment I get from you guys on a WebToon upload I gain +9999 happiness.

First 19 Pages of my comic, “Journey From Ashes”.

I know people typically don’t check my tumblr but I thought I’d show you anyways! 💖✨

Thank you for reading- if you want to see more recent stuff as well as an author’s note update, check out the comic here!

Love you guys! ✨⭐️

Thought I would make some sillies of the sillies! lol

Credit goes to the original artists who made the other art! I just turned it into oc stuff but they deserve more credit than I do. I’m just here to make y’all laugh! 🫡

Lunos Vorath - Ruler of Planet Xarion

So here's the first ever image of them alongside my brainstorming journal entry when I was trying to find a name for them! Very fun stuff we love to see it! 💖✨

Y’raxos City - Capital city of planet Xarion

Had so much fun making this! I did not make the vehicles, though. Those are 3D models! lol

Credits are as follows:

Hoverbus by blenderman_cc on toonsquid

Hovercar by Uzi on sketchfab

And Graffiti Hover Bike by Vetech82 on sketchfab

Did you know? These aren't just random scribbles I've made. It's part of the language I'm developing for my story.

Since it's a more brushed calligraphy style it's less clar than writing it normally- but it's what we sacrifice for artistic stuff lol!

Top says Gorro and Nobu (two characters that live there)

And bottom says Mevérenzi and Kavirenzi respectively with a dividing in the middle.

Mevé meand metal, and Kavi means clothes. Renzi means "smith" or "creator as a suffix to a word. You can use this for anyone who makes stuff! 😊💖

Just a post to celebrate Xoinu’s progression from 2012 to now.

I love you, lil dude! ✨

Art vs. Artist 😊✨

New. vs Old! First page of my comic edition! 😊💖✨

I think the new one looks awesome! What do you think??? 😄

Yvaren Okisarynn - Commander of The East

I don’t like this one AS much as the drawing of Xoinu but i think they match up super well consistency wise 😎✨

Wan’t gonna color him in, but did it anyways! ✨🫶

Rendering progress :)

NEBULUX - Leader of The Xarix Rebellion