[Day 4]: Keralis

[Day 8]: XB Crafted

XB, EXCEPT HES THE GROCERY STORE™ CEO! (<-i dont rly watch xb, but i DO watch gem & Beef, thro their vids ive found out exactly two things about xb: he has a grocery store and he makes rly good interiors. So obviously i had to turn him into a girlbossing CEO/j)

Wanted to challenge myself and only use 5 colors, here's the selection! (<-excluding the background, which is see through versions of them)

What's up with hermitcraft season 10 and hermits competing for the best storage system??? Like, I'm used to effo doing this, but now Scar, Doc and Xisuma are joining in too?

(the only hermits who I've watched other seasons of are grian, doc and etho, so i genuinely have no clue whether this is normal or not wkdhwkje)

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

it's ethos dream update time!!!!!! this is all i have so far and turns out this idea has developed into a lot more including a whole fanfic idea hahahhaha (i will never write it😇😇😇)

my brain explodes about this guy usually😊

the sing is "ayxita, wake up" by yves tumor

check out boat boys part (which hasn't been added to this sequence yet😏😏😉)

FULL PIC OF THE MUMBO COSPLAY!!

(i made the box + pants )

[Day 17]: ETHO!!!!

Have a quick effo sketch for todays hermitaday prompt!

It's part of a bigger drawing for an art request, which BY THE WAY! hermit/traffic art rq are open! It might take a while bc of exams&hermitaday may, but I'll probably do it :D

EDIT: FINISHED PIECE HERE

100% agree dude

I feel like after a life on the streets and as a spy, hes gotten really really really good at hiding anxiety, mh issues, panic, etc.

Like. If someone held a gun to ur head, ud panic, but Cyphers prob been in situations where panicking could end deadly. I think more fics need to portray him as dissociated as fuck, bc hiding away has been natural for him for so long, he doesn't even do it consciously anymore.

Like, its gotten to a point where even in the quiet privacy of his own room, Cypher automatically hides all signs of panic, anxiety, grief, etc. Just bc its become natural atp. I feel like hed be a bit in denial/unaware of his emotions, or would simply try to ignore them yk

i like to think that he did it before Nora and she helped him unlearn it. But after she died, it got worse than ever before, both purposefully out of fear and partially on accident bc yk trauma of ur wife dying and shit

Also! Agree on the fics point. Yall write whatever ya want, ooc fics can be great and i love to read a "Cypher has a public mental breakdown" fic from time to time, bc its fun, idc if it feels ooc! Fics r for ur own self indulgence first and foremost!

My biggest fear is falling for the fanonised version of characters that I don’t see the in depth personalities they have anymore

Cypher’s mental state is such an easy thing to get wrong it’s hard to find fics that characterise it right, or at least in my opinion

That’s not to say I think all ooc fics are bad! No! What’s the point of fanfics if you don’t make your lil guys do shit they aren’t supposed to??

But back on topic, I think Cypher’s grief is another thing that’s handled so broadly from fic to fic

Sometimes he doesn’t seem to be weighed by it at all, sometimes it causes him to fear things and drown in self loathing because of it, sometimes he’s so mentally separated from his trauma that ‘Cypher’ and ‘Amir’ are two wholly different people. It’s interesting to see how sensitive or insensitive they make Cypher himself with this

Is there a right way to portray it? Honestly hard to say, but there are fics that I read that instead of feeling right they just don’t feel wrong— Y’know what I mean???

In my analysis of him, he’s clearly still not past Nora and his family (I have thoughts about the possible world they’re alive but that’s for a different post). I know grief doesn’t go away, not his type at least, but it does get easier with time. This leads me to believe that Cypher’s wife hasn’t been dead for too many years at this point— I’ve always imagined Cypher having been part of current day protocol for a couple of years after getting himself together, so I want to say she hasn’t been dead for over 10 years yet.

I think that Cypher, or rather, Amir was a lover. Like heart and soul he loved. It’s not that uncommon of a belief that when someone dies, the person their spouse was dies with them. Is this the case with Cypher? I think he believes that.

I think Cypher believes the man Amir was is long dead. But I also think he’s wrong. I think that for as much as he is a cruel man with all he has said and done, he is still a lover. Why else would seeing Bind make him so angry? It’s because he still loves it.

Amir may be dead to him, but ‘he’s’ still alive. Which person does that ‘he’ belong to? I don’t think that matters.

Whether Cypher is (still?) depressed, or only silently grieving, or maybe even healing, he’s alive. No matter his state I believe he knows his family wants him to continue living. He can’t break a final promise to them.

My only wish is for fanfic writers to not write him like some shaken up teenager because he is in fact a grown ass man that has lived through the streets and wouldn’t break down the same way normal people would. I’d imagine he’s much more gruff than that.

Related, there’s a single action that was portrayed in a fic I saw about him that feels very not wrong. In it he’s sitting at a bar with the other agents all celebrating a well done mission. In it he is being consumed by paranoia. Does his breathing spike? Does he sweat? Does he feel like throwing up? No. Instead, he simply drums his fingers and disguises the anxiety as boredom.

Because that’s what he does.

He hides.

HI HEY HELLO HEARD U WERE LOOKING FOR ART REQUESTS AND IF U DONT MIND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A LIL DOODLE OF SCAR HELPING ETHO TO SCAR-PROOF THE MAIL SYSTEM /nf

[Day 28]: Scar

You want a lil doodle of Scar and Etho? Of course, lemme just-

-oops i think my hand slipped... This was just supposed to be a doodle but while looking for references i saw a scene that i just HAD to draw.

I apologize for taking to long on this request LMFAO. i do hope u like it tho :D

If u recognize the Etho, it's because i posted the sketch for him on his day of hermitaday!

[Closeups below]

It's a lil rushed cause i didn't have much time, so i think it can hypothetically still count as a sketch? At least the shading?? Mayhaps???

(curse school for being from 6am-4pm on most days :(((( I JUST WANNA DRAW!!!! lets ignore the fact i go to an art school and i already have 9+ hours of art a week, not including the art projects in other classes.... I want to draw MORE!)

I didn't realize how BAD my hyperfixation/spin had gotten until i saw Etho had uploaded and imideatly fucking freaked out, dropped everything i was doing and SPRINTED towards my ipad to watch the new video.

ANYWAYS

HOLLY SHIT HE UPLOADED!!! THERE'S A NEW HERMITCRAFT VIDEO. HOLLY SHIT!!! LETS GOOOO!!! HES BACK FROM MCCI!!!

Please rb my art :3 (it gives me dopamine)

SECRET SANTA FOR @rottengoggles!!!!

I AM SO SORRY ABOUT IT BEING LATE!!! i didnt see the ask telling me who my secret santa was bc my ask box is full of old art rqs & spam, so i hadn't checked it in a month...

(alt / separated version below)

Dude these rocks took SO fucking long to make