I've Never Reblogged Something On This Site Ever Before, But This Is Worth It. Despite The Fact That

I've never reblogged something on this site ever before, but this is worth it. Despite the fact that I'm on a bit of a Batim obsession, and that this will only reach a few more people who may not really be into MLP, the point still counts. In fact this especially counts when dabbling in AUs which it seems I've accidentaly might have made. And nothing makes me scared and fearful I've putting art I've made on the internet other then being, not hated on for it, but rejected by said fandom for what I drew. This is an EXTREMELY excellent point, and it makes me rethink quite a few things I judge characters on, mine and others. Your character is whomst-ever the fuck you want them to be. And if it's an official canon character you can defunk their backstories and write their future in crayon as long as you give proper credit to the VERY original creator. MAKE EM FUHKIN GEY. Your not stealing it? Cool. Crossover the shit outta like 9 fandoms. Not makin money DIRECTLY of their face? Perfect. Some creators, as in like Fnaf and stuff, don't even care if you do. Fuckin AU, Mary Sue, Gary Stew, and whatever the fuck is genderfluid equivalent away, who gives a shit, if your well within the rules, you can do whatever you gotdamn dream of.

I Dunno If You Guessed It, But I Like Drawing Cute Little Ponies….fanart Of A Children’s Cartoon.

I dunno if you guessed it, but I like drawing cute little ponies….fanart of a children’s cartoon. And every so often, someone feels the need to tell me that my personal interest is stupid, childish, cancerous…..“cringe-y”. Boy howdy, do I hear that word tossed around a lot. Cringe, cringe, cringe. We’re all afraid of making something cringe-worthy. Something that could end up in those lovely “Bad OC” cringe compilations. I see other artists, especially young creators, getting policed and attacked for creating something that could-gasp!- be interpreted as the dreaded Mary Sue. So artists stifle themselves. Can’t make your OC too colorful. Don’t you dare make them related to a canon character! Better watch that backstory, lest somebody decry your character as an edgelord. You can have a nerdy interest, but you better not be too fucking passionate about it. Watch yourself. Don’t be too different. Don’t be cringe-y.

So here’s my question to ye gatekeepers of content, ye knowers of all things cringe-worthy, ye adamant enforcers of creative conformity………..Who cares? Really. Why. Why is “cringe” an issue? So what if someone makes an edgy black-and-red OC, or a sparkly mary sue alicorn princess? So what if somebody makes up an over-powered self-insert and ships them with a canon character? So what if somebody dares to be unironically passionate about a fandom or interest considered less-than-cool? Who cares if people have imperfect, cliche-riddled characters they love? Cringe culture is mean-spirited. It demands creators conform. It’s perpetuated by people who, quite oddly, get really bent out of shape at the sight of people unironically enjoying harmless things. I say forget it. Trample it. Let people have fun. Especially don’t be cruel to young creators- nobody learns to be a skilled artist or writer overnight. And this is by no means a statement against criticism…..but there’s a big, big difference between giving constructive criticism, vs choosing to crap on somebody for having a “cringe-y” interest. Idk. I’m a teacher with an Art Education degree, and I believe one of the most important things is to encourage people’s interest in the arts, not push them away (out of a mean-spirited attempt to seem cooler by proxy). My favorite Mister Rogers quote (applies to artists of all ages):

“Do you like to draw with crayons? I’m not very good at it. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the fun of doing it that’s important. Now, I wouldn’t have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is….It feels good to have made something.”

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7 years ago
Behold. My Latest Obsession.

Behold. My latest obsession.

His design couldn’t be more off-cannon, I know, I’m a disgrace. Just something about the idea of him being a CAT demon, with ear-like horns and a big ol’ tail with just a SMIDGE of floof seems so appealing. Also given my lackluster ability to draw human-like legs, shoes, and hands, giving him smol cat legs and paws and more claw-like hands is the easiest and most comfortable way of drawing him. I CAN draw him normally, I know I can. But how can I resist the lil’ Bendy beans?

Also if y’all thought I was just a warframe doodler, behold, am not. I told yall I’m obsessed with too many fandoms. Like all of them, save most animes. Just sayin’ bois and gorls.


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7 years ago
Bendy-Beans Needs Scrintches and Sleeps. Now Boris Can’t Fuckin’ Move Or He’ll Wake Him Up. He’s

Bendy-Beans needs scrintches and sleeps. Now Boris can’t fuckin’ move or he’ll wake him up. He’s got THINGS to do.

I’m gonna need to find out how to scan the sketches from my leather-bound book WITHOUT tearing the pages out, ‘cause I don’ wanna redraw all the bendy beans and I gotsa full body Boris I’m pretty proud of.


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6 years ago
1, First Of All, I Apologize For The Shitty Ass Quality Of The Bottom Image. I Was Way Too Zoomed In

1, First of all, I apologize for the shitty ass quality of the bottom image. I was way too zoomed in when I drew it and I wanted to make Andradite (the orange one) smaller than Garnet, and when I zoomed out I realized that I drew the image WAY TO SMALL but when I enlarged it all went to shit. So there’s my excuse but anyway.

2, I made a bell pepper. I seem to have gotten attached to Lil’ Leggy, considering Navy is a tiny backstabbing strawberry. Leggy, on the other hand, was just kinda being dragged around by a child leash, or a regular dog leash if Navy was on the other end presumably. She wasn’t aggressive, or angry, or mean, she was just a cautious confused little tomato doddling behind everyone else and immediately struck me as probably being very skittish and easily spooked.

And Padparadscha is just a clueless fuzzy little peach.

3, My demon immediately presented me with the idea that IF they were to fuse, not only would they be exactly too much adorable but what if their negatives canceled out? Two wrongs make a right? Not like they suddenly had Future Vision or perfect abilities but like.. they were hyperaware of their situation and everything around them at that exact present. They wouldn’t be able to foresee a rock about to belt them in the back of the head but they could sense it a second or two before it did and catch it right before impact. They’d have a ridiculously good and accurate understanding of everything happening around them, probably be able to multitask, answer questions, figure out puzzles, problems, and riddles quickly and accurately all the while being absolutely clueless as to how and why. If you asked them a question or presented them with a problem they’d just blurt out the answer without trying or hardly thinking about it. But they’d still have to learn everything first, so they’d kind of just be like a child, following Garnet around constantly, learning things and showing anything within an arms reach to her and asking about it.

4, I had this idea that Garnet would kind of adopt the entire pack of Rubies, almost like her children, and just become the Alpha Ruby inadvertently. And just slowly but surely, and not even intentionally, end up with a pack of Garnets or Garnet like gems, including Rhodonite and still be the Alpha Garnet herself, given she’d be the oldest one and probably the most mature. She’d end up like an accidental mother to a pack of wild and absurdly out of control child-like Garnets and be HAPPY with it because she’d be surrounded by concentual fusions, and It’d be a gotdamn dream.

And a fucking nightmare for everyone else ESPECIALLY enemies. Imagine being an asshole homeworld gem and just stumbling across a pack of 6 Garnets 4 of them borderline out of control children all ready for their cue to kick some ass.

COULD YOU IMAGINE A SUGALITE FORMED FROM THE FAMETHYST AND THAT? COULD YOU?

Anyway, have an Andradite Garnet. I have no fucking idea if I’ll ever draw her again or actually improve on her design, I’m just happy I managed to not only find an appropriate gem for her but to even be able to draw anything remotely human looking in the first place.


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