Blog Intro!

could u draw. a mumbo. any mumbo u wish. i crave mumbo content like a dying plant craves water

Mumbo jumbo...

Water.......

Hmmmmmmm....

Drops octo!mumbo and runs

I hope you like it :D i actually started the sketch for this during the hermitaday challenge, but didn't rly have time to keep working on it during the challenge. As soon as i saw this request i knew i HAD to finally finish it :D

(close up + version w/o water effect thingy below!)

I decided to do a more painting like style for this, but for some fucking reason i also thought it would be a good idea not to use any blending tools or opacity stuff (excluding some final touches) and just... Do flat shading... While trying to pick everything from the colorwheel w/o like, mixing colors....

Did this exercise make me improve at using the digital color wheel? Yeah probably. But also this took wayyy too fucking long and i am never doing it this way again LMFAO

!! WILD LIFE SPOILERS !!

Lil sketch of mumbos death, hehe :3

I don't rly use Water color/Aquarell a lot, but I've been experimenting w/ it recently, and i think I've been improving a bit? Im still too impatient to make it look good but oh well wjrhqkej

...i know he wasn't holding a torch when he died, but i thought it'd look cool :3

[Day 13]: Cubfan!

Once again only a colored sketch BC I HAVE SO MUCH HOMEWORK GRRRRR

fun fact, I'm currently working on 5 different art projects for school. So uh yeah, now you know why I'm struggling to keep up w/ the art rqs LMFAO

For anyone curious, the projects are:

#hermithouse for art class (wooden miniature house + the environment surrounding it, currently trying to include as many hc refs as possible, suggestions r encouraged!)

a comic of Fahrenheit 451 for English class (it's supposed to be a timeline of events and had to include the main scenes, but i keep getting distracted and have alr added wayyyy too many unimportant scenes LMFAO)

a poster to encourage ppl to go vote for Religion class (<- im hiding pro protesting propaganda in it :3333)

a presentation of the book 1984 for German class(i couldn't find good pics for the power point so i decided to just draw them myself- WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF LMFAO)

A foto documentary for my photography/grafic design/pottery class

OKAY SO UNFORTUNATELY, my (unmedicated) adhd said ✨no✨to me finishing the first chapter of wolau on time, HOWEVER: I've instead worked on some future chapters AND started working on two artworks for the first chapter (instead of just one)

To give you guys at least SOME content while im working on the fic, here's the art refs for the first chapter!!! (Which i might post on my bday, the 25th :3)

Feel free to guess stuff in the comments, it's probably not what ur expecting tho LMFAO

For art request: Maybe either an Imp & Skizz, or a full Team ZITS moment? (Their After Dark Naked Nether Runs earlier in the season were WAAAAYYYYYY too much fun!)

HERE YOU GO!!! 4 Bros chilling in a hottub, ft. a very confused (and slightly disturbed) effo!!! I hope you like it :D

I've been wanting to draw this scene for AGES (aka ever since the video came out), so i hope u don't mind i drew this instead of sth from their after dark runs, since i haven't had time to watch those yet :')

> HERMITCRAFT / LIFE SERIES ART REQUESTS OPEN! <

(Close ups + ref pic below!)

LETS GO WE WON!!!!!

Rue:

Submitted for: Skyblock Kingdoms

Headcanons: Identity not specified, pronouns not specified

Propaganda: “Her whole character arc is a metaphor for being trans! She realized she wasn't who she was told she was and then chose her own name and made friends who saw her as HER! They're so special and wonderful and transgender!!”

“[The submitter] LITERALLY INCLUDED HER IN A PAPER [they] WROTE BECAUSE SHE IS SO TRANS.”

“Rue is not just textually trans, with she/they pronouns, she is ALSO a trans allegory! That's TWO trans aspects!”

“Rue is LITERALLY a trans allegory! They have a whole arc about realizing people are viewing them as the wrong person, creating a new identity, being hurt by that confusion, being lied to and told they need to act a certain way for people to like them.... THEYRE A CLONE OF A GUY WHO USES ALL PRONOUNS. THEY USE SHE/THEY PRONOUNS! THEY WERE TRAGICALLY KILLED BY THEIR ORIGINAL'S WIFE (possessed) AND DESERVE A WIN!!”

“Rue is not just played by a trans person and a trans allegory, but a canonical trans character, and she deserves all the love in this world. Rue means a lot to [the submitter] as a whole, and her discovery of how she could be her own person without having to be who people expected her to be made [them] want to sob loudly.”

BigBSt4tz2:

Submitted for: Evo SMP, Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, Limited Life, Secret Life, Wild Life

Headcanons: Trans man, he/they

Propaganda: “The vibe. They're so trans man coded. Like he would use a binder in the life series and, like, for example, Pearl would help him with it in Limited life, or Ren would help them cut their hair in Double life if he felt like being less gender ✨ He's just so trans man 😩 VOTE BIGB.”

“HE CAN BE ANY GENDER YOU'D WANT DUE TO CREATIVITY. I'VE SEEN MANY MAKE BIGB TRANSFEM OR NONBINARY!!!! YOU CAN EVEN MAKE HIM XENOGENDER OR USE NEOPRONOUNS FOR FUN.“

“C!Bigb being trans is so important. His character is very ambiguous (to [the submitter]. At least.) due to the hidden secretive nature of himself, he hides the lies, he masks his weirdness sometimes [which] can be a metaphor for a trans person not wanting to come out (also autism)((proof is [they’re] trans and autistic and [they] do this stuff)). You can color pick a makeshift trans flag from his mc skin also.”

“Every (Life) series, he changes up a lot of himself for whatever he's doing. This seems like he can't decide what exactly he is and is trying to rebrand himself as a different type of person every time, which tends to be something [the submitter has] noticed in a few trans people. The lack of clarity of who they are is definitely very genderfluid coded. It could also go for his character throughout the life series being a system, with each new series being someone else. [Their] main evidence for this is Terry (from Last Life). It can also go for being transmasc on some level because of how easy it was for him to be that character!”

“BigB's username literally has t4t in it. He's not cis [the submitter’s] sorry.”

“BigB deserves to go all the way to the end of this poll because the primary life series fandom's somewhat casual disregard of him makes [the submitter] so upset, and all the trans headcanons for him fill [them] with infinite joy <3 It's gotten a lot better over the years, but [they] feel he still deserves so much more recognition for all his good work.”

“No person who makes their base the backrooms deserves to be cis. That gas lighting with the hole could easily also be about gender.

Grian: What's your gender? 

BigB: Oh, like pretty masc.

(Five seconds later)

Scar: So, like, what's your gender, BigB? 

BigB: None. 

Grian: ??????”

Ethoslab:

Submitted for: Hermitcraft, Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, Limited Life, Secret Life, Wild Life

Headcanons: Agender, they/them; Transfem, she/her; Nonbinary, he/they/she; Nonbinary, they/he/it; Identity not specified, ladder/ladderself

Propaganda: “[The submitter] just think[s] she deserves boobies. [They] think they would be good for her. And also it's because [they] understand the way the universe flows and the nature of all things.”

“[Quote from Etho:]‘I’m ice man also, also the ice Queen […] yep, yep both in one.’ Etho has compared himself to a pretty girl before. ‘That’s me on the inside, beautiful, but on the outside it’s just this.’ (He’s talking about Falsesymmetry’s hermit head, a female head). Bigender, genderfluid, or genderqueer Etho trust trust trust.”

“T4T cletho. They’re both nonbinary and divorced (in an active relationship) and take turns on who's the ex wife and who's the ex husband.”

“When [the submitter] first joined hermitblr, [they were] genuinely confused about Etho’s gender for a bit because of the sheer amount of people on here that she/her him. [They] love it. Live your dreams.”

“Etho (ftm) but can be feminine. [The submitter] think[s] his vest is equal to the famous oversized trans hoodie (but with style).”

Evil Xisuma:

Submitted for: Hermitcraft

Headcanons: Transmasc Demi-boy, he/they

Propaganda: Canonically uses he/they

“Their voice is deepened by a voice changer, even though they wear the same helmet as Xisuma, which could hint at them purposefully adding a voice changer in order to have a deeper voice.”

“Evil Xisuma bites you if you misgender them (They also bite you if you properly gender them) (They bite).”

Halfway done w/ the vote!!! 12 more hrs left :D

Just wanted to add that this vote isn't like, gona decide EXACTLY what im gona do (unlike the last one), its just so ik what yall would prefer. What i actually end up doing depends on the story and how everything works out, but this poll will definitely play a big factor in the decision!

Little update on my hermitcraft Au "wolau"

My current plan is to finish the first chapter until the 18th and possibly post it :D

In the meantime, which one do you prefer?

FYI BEFORE YOU VOTE:

Since yall choose fics+comics in the last poll, imma try to do both. The thing im not sure about is whether i should just like, write the longfic and then have some chapters be comics (1), make the longfic but add artworks in each chapter to illustrate the scenes (2), or write the longfic and focus it on the main plot and then post like seperate small comics of other characters povs on tumblr (3)

I think option two is the one im probably gona do... But im curious about yalls opinion!!! Feel free to suggest other options too :D

Ik i posted the 'rendered' version of this Grian fanart on here a few days ago, but i lowkey like the flat color version more...

So i decided to post it too :D (reposts appreciated bc for some reason silly hermitcraft quotes get way more interactions than my art 🤨 maybe i should start doing both in comic form...)

[Image ID: Drawing of season 10 Grian, wearing a red hoodie and holding a fishing rod infront of alight blue background./ ID end]

MUMBO IS GONA DO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON HERMITCRAFT???? HE'S BUILDING A RESEARCH CENTER FOR IT BC HE WANTS TO "PROOVE SOME THEORIES"???!!!

I'm getting Zedaph season 8 deja vu

Sharing this bc I need to rant about the absolute chaos the process of making this was

1st pic: sketch of the face. 2nd: finished version

Basically, our teacher realized we had to make sth for a gallery she forgot about and decided we would quickly draw coal figures inspired by / copying Käthe Kollwitzes artworks*

Since I'm rlyyy behind on our current big/main project, I had to rush this coal drawing in like an hour. (other students had 1-6 hours) and well.. Rushing a life sized coal drawing is def not a good idea wkdhkwej

EXCEPT. That's not we're the chaos stopped. Not only did i forget my coal eraser at home, but i also realized after making the sketch that this WASNT coal, it was chalk, which u can barely erase... (It was 7am alr, i was too tired to notice i was using a different black stick than usually-)

Usually when i use coal, i apply a bit much at first & then use my eraser to create value, but now that obviously wouldn't work... Not only that, but by the time i realized you couldn't erase this properly, i was already done with most of the sketch...

(* is bellow)

*kind of like a collage, but instead of cutting them out we drew life sized version with coal. We also arranged them differently than in her artworks & used figures from multiple of her artworks.

Ik that online, "copying" other artists tends to be a bit controversial, but most art schools use it a LOT, since it's a great way to learn from more experienced artist! ("why reinvent the wheel if someone else already did it for u already?") It's just for studying tho and we don't pretend it's our original artwork/idea or sth... That would just be plagiarism LMFAO

Actually i wanna rant about this more at some point bc i do not like how the whole tracing drama influenced the online art communities view on learning from other artists...