Boom, Ava Design. I Had No Idea What I Was Smoking At The Moment Of Drawing This. But I Like It!

So I wondered about this for a while and I thought it would be a good idea to try out Commissions!! Don't worry, you don't have to pay for it. I want to test the waters of it (plus I don't think my art is worth spending money on). You will get your requested art without my watermark if you wish so. Here's what I'm not gonna draw because of recent problem (literally a friend wanted to pay me to draw one of these, you'll probably guess):

- NSFW

- Gore

- romantic situations involving minors (listen I don't care it's a 2000 year old vampire, it still looks like a child and I won't draw it being all lovey dovey with an adult looking character)

- speaking of romantic. My characters being involved in a relationship with yours (some have a lover in canon I haven't spoken about yet, Ava has fucking trauma about relationships (small lore drop), etc.

- copy something! (Happens more than you think)

- and of course horror (listen I don't want anyone to have nightmares from my art. I try to keep it as ok as possible so please don't go straight for your terrifying OC and make me draw them)

Currently this is like I said, for testing waters and see if the commissions are worth it and how much I could charge for them IF one day I would. Your opinion is key and thank you for listening!

Small reminder, my ask box is open!! Ask me and my characters anything you want!

Artificer inspired drawing oh my hand. I ended up liking it a lot

What's ur thought on Glorio

Sadly I cannot watch Daima (Way to go Poland) But I think he's neat! Might draw him later.

We went to target practice today, I was given a shotgun.

I think my aim and handling of the gun is either very good or horrible because not only did the barrel of the gun kinda got stuck multiple times, but also if the target was of an entire person I would have shot it between the legs.

We do it a way of the Scavenger, you either die or are unable to pass on your bloodline

This turned from random doodle to an art I loved, I used there my three favorite medias: Sky children of the Light, Rain World, Dragon Ball and a bit of Hollow Knight with the King's Brand, I honestly love how it turned out so I gotta post it here!

DBFZ Yamcha and Ten cookies...done!!!

Soo I've been on a mission to recreate the Yamcha and Ten cookies from dragon ball fighterz because they're adorable...and they're finally real!! :'D process and info below! (kind of long lol)

I saw someone share these screencaps from the game a while ago and as someone who never played DBFZ I was so charmed at how cute these things are. I wondered if anyone had ever made cookie cutters for them, did a quick search and didn't really find anything, so just kind of moved on.

A few months later I remembered them again and was like, man, I really would love to see these brought to life lol. And I searched again and actually found someone who made them!!... But they weren't selling them anymore. 😭💔

^Reddit post from user ShadowLord898.

So in the next few days I went into the DBFZ game files, figured out how to navigate them and locate/open the proprietary file types (took...a lot of googling), and eventually found the cookie textures!!! Which I then painstakingly traced over to create vectors.

I thought once I had the vectors, it would be easy to drop them into a 3D program and extrude them to make the cookie cutters. BOY WAS I WRONG!!! It's probably just my inexperience working with vectors in 3D programs, but I tried Blender, Fusion 360, and Tinkercad and had problems in each one before finally figuring out the right approach. (I really almost gave up 🤧 but I hadn't realized that your geometry/topology don't need to be perfect when 3D modeling for print as opposed to, like, something you plan to create a texture for.)

Tinkercad and its extremely user friendly interface, plus SVG import functionality, saved me.

Oh then I realized I forgot to reverse the design, which you have to do for a cookie cutter because of how they work. I thought I would need to flip all the vectors and re-import them, recreate the models... but thankfully there's a "flip" button in Tinkercad. Fixed.

I sent the files over to my friend @.theprocrastinatingengineer on Instagram, who has a 3D printing service, and he was able to print them out for me!

While I was waiting for them to ship I downloaded Cura ("slicer" program for preparing 3D files for print) just for fun. (I was really eager...)

And here's when I finally got them!!!

Despite choosing all the dimensions carefully, I was still surprised how dainty they were when I actually held them in my hand. I wasn't sure if they would work...

So I made the dough and everything, used some 5mm thick chopsticks as guides to roll out the dough to the thickness I wanted. I put plastic wrap over the dough to prevent the cutters from directly touching the dough due to food safety concerns. Here is my first attempt to use them:

After this my mindset quickly shifted from caring about food safety to "what's a little more plastic in my system?" / "I'm here for a good time, not a long time!!" / "welll the dough gets baked anyway so that kills the germs it should be fiiine" **I Do Not recommend others to be so careless... also important note: I was the only one eating these so I didn't have to worry about others' safety 🥴

^The difference between using the cutters with and without the plastic wrap.

This first rolling out of the dough was actually a little too thick; in my design I hadn't accounted for the way the dough squishes up when you press the cutter into it. There wasn't enough vertical space at all, and the dough kept getting stuck in the cutter. It was a bad time!!! (didn't get a lot of photos of the failures here because my hands were covered in flour)

After lots of broken cookie cutouts, re-flouring the surface/cutters/rolling pin, and re-rolling the dough to be a bit thinner, I managed to get these out. I had to support Ten's head like a newborn when moving the dough onto the cookie sheet because the connection to the body was so delicate 😢

AND HERE THEY ARE...fully baked and ready 🥹

For the most part I was going to leave them undecorated like how they are in the game. But @.lamichicuenta made this really cute drawing of the cookies where Yamcha had chocolate decorations and Ten was a salty cracker, and I really wanted to try decorating some to resemble those!! Here are the photos of both versions of the cookies the next day once I was able to get some natural light for nicer pics.

(I meant to poke some holes in Ten's cookie to look more like a cracker but I forgot about it until they were already baking.)

They tasted fine...yamcha was better thanks to the chocolate. 🤭

If you read all this, thank you for following my cookie cutter journey... 😌🙏💖

Oh yeah and I made the vectors, 3D print files, and specs/info all available in a google drive folder here for anyone to use if they want! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hQ7uq3leYPK64pGgt3LhFw-70IZnkYzh?usp=drive_link

OH and one last thing, i ended up revising the 3D models to hopefully fix the issue of not enough vertical space. ...turns out I hit the maximum for photos and videos in this post, but you can see it on my twitter here! https://twitter.com/freezebobs/status/1875720926840680678

I didn't get to try these revised models, but they are the ones I put in the drive folder. 😊👍

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@ElinorTerror: wyślij mi anonimowe wiadomości!

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I need some drawing ideas, send me whatever you want and I may draw it!! I had this for a month and none asks yet XD.

what Gabriel sees before he gets his ass beat (I really like this, my friend kept changing languages)

Valentines are for our dearest friends too, but after a while... you don't have who to celebrate it with.