Little adventures of my little mascot Azi! reminder that the ask box is open and you can always ask her anything!! (BTW I don't think it was visible before enough, I'm 16/17 years old!)
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Valentines are for our dearest friends too, but after a while... you don't have who to celebrate it with.
Hello!!~ I wonder, If you could like, redesign something about a character like Cell, what would ya do? How would you draw it??
I waited for this moment to show this...
Seriously he looks so huggable (I wish those crystal-like parts on his legs would also be on his arms, the one thing Semi-Perfect got right), the split pupil still reminds that he is a biological experiment (also the weird connection between his back and the back of his head... I like Mewtwo a bit too much), a bit of a more slim bodyshape (you would expect more from a fighter, gives more to that a bit weaker side I was going for (I have been obsessed with Arcane, shush))
The pose for this drawing is from this post:
I may have trouble finding good poses because I get fixated on some stuff a LOT, I will credit the artist whenever I can but when the drawing takes long I might forget where I found it and all. I hope you like this!! BTW You can always ask for this sort of stuff but it might take a while okay? I love drawing either way!
... well fuck, I adore the silly way too much. LOOK AT HIM!!
Perfect Cell shimeji mascot desktop pet (Dragon Ball shimeji)
Gartic Phone thingy, we were doing a secret variant so Leshy looks the way he is...
Okay I may make fun of Frieza a lot, I won't stop... But the little tail wag is absolutely adorable and we can for a second forget that this tiny racist lizard comitted several warcrimes!!
frieza chillaxin w a glass
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. ππ
^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 π€§ 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 π₯΄
^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 π’
AND HERE THEY ARE...fully baked and ready π₯Ή
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. π€
If you read all this, thank you for following my cookie cutter journey... πππ
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. ππ
OH MY GOD NIKO COOKIE!! IT'S SO CUTE!! THANK YOU!!
Cookie Niko for @elinorterror
Cookie style inspiration from @bonesandivy
Hey Ava!! What reminds you the most of that one person? You know... Before October 14th.
"What reminds me of... him? Pealrs... lilacs... silk and..."
"Fireworks"
GOTTEM!! WE HAVE THE FUNNY NUMBER, REJOICE PEOPLE!!
Could you make a plushie Vanilla or Picanha please? Here's some refs for both
(First 2 Vanilla, last 2 Picanha)
Why not both?
Okay I know that Saiyans are like monkeys (described by Frieza)... but Goku is simply like a Red Panda, I mean look at them:
Goku right there for me, fight me, I dare you!
MY FIRST HUNDRED!! Oh thank you very much!! This is absolutely amazing! I never expected to go this far, heck right before the end of the year too!! Thank you very much for the support guys!
Hiya! I wanna say thank again for the plushie drawing of Icee! It was the cutest thing!
I was wondering if you could draw my friendβs OC, Geliaden, as a plushie? I wanna surprise them, and I think heβd look cute as a plushie. I have a ref drawing made by them (anonymous-harpy)
I got you covered for the surprise plushie!! I was Ice-skating recently anyway and yeah it didn't go well, but tea makes stuff better! Tell harpy I said hi!!
first time drawing that stuff, @joytheskeleton I had to kinda improvise this but I hope you like it!!
There isn't much snow where I live (thanks Poland), no snow even in here, @the-real-jojo this one is for you!!
@monochrome-night iolote with cocoa here you go!! The best treat for cold nights especially with marshmallows!!
I have some refs for Limeen if you can draw a doll of her... only if you don't mind of course
I couldn't NOT put a small Frieza snowman, I mean look at it!! Look at this little plushie!! @ineedmydowntime you gotta agree with me here!!
I've... run out of people to make plushies for. Huh, didn't think that would happen, does anyone want to ask for extra plushies?? I mean I'm up for that!
@lolottes-pad I don't really know much about your character but I tried and I think it turned out adorable! Also the little guy from your banner is here too
@cokejunk welcome to the squad, here's your plushie for christmas!!
Yes I remember that Mandolin exists, @imperfectercell this is for you, Merry Christmas!! ((I know I only made two today but I started a bit too late, my bad))
@justme068 Didn't hear from ya for a while but here's Zero! The adorable guy is here with a snowflake!!
@icejinlov3r I didn't get to know ya much but I don't care, it's Christmas, a gift for you
@monochrome-night this one's for you, honestly my hand is starting to hurt but I can keep going! A little Santa hat for ya!!
@bliss-wily This one is for you!! Bliss looks silly as heck but I adore this, little gremlin!
Well... this time two, I have my own way of drawing Zarbon's species and this is one of them, the Beast design for Hani was going in my head and I can finally use it on this gift! @itsthenull This one's for you!
@littlemelonfrog this one is for you! Everyone gets a plushie!!
I got this drunken thing to finally work!! Yay, it was hell (It still behaves like drunk), @wafflepopbeerus here is one for you, I'll probably make more little drawing gifts for others while December is still going!!
So I... Sadly don't have a drawing for Christmas because the tablet broke, dunno when the new one will be usable... So have a picture of my dog instead
Merry Christmas!!