Latest Posts by honeydwellerbee - Page 2

Commander Wolffe, no introduction needed.

I had so much fun with his tattoos, if you couldn’t tell. After Fox’s depressing ones and Cody’s cute but simple one, I needed to go all out with Wolfy boy’s tat. Honestly, this man deserves a cool tattoo after having to deal with the torture of interacting with C-3PO. I could FEEL his annoyance through the screen (that sassy fucking eyeroll I swear you could feel it though his helmet)

"Congratulations on your new job on Coruscant, Commander"

Fox commission for @whiskygoldwings Thank you so much for letting me run wild with these, I've missed drawing flowers so much! ❤️

Black Dahlia - for betrayal, evil and dishonesty Orange Lilies - for deep hatred, doom, as well as enthusiasm and energy (good as congratulation for a new job or promotion) Poppies - for the dead and Foxgloves - for deceit

thought I'd share this. Thank you Captain!

Repurposing GAR armor towards the end of pulverizing wrinkly Sith

— A guide by CC-1010, ecstatically-ex-marshal commander of Coruscant

A what-if au featuring the Corries pulling all-nighters fueled on caf alone to study republic law, Fox providing his own dubious legal representation resulting in the wildest civil court case in Republic history, and, they can only pray, formidable and clandestine cooperation within GAR high command’s clone contingents via a small-scale GAR-approved candy brand

day 14

his ass is SLEEPING on the JOB!!!! unbelievably unprofessional

heatstroke trend with Rex 🫶

sometimes u just gotta be a lil silly edit: here he is tiny if you want to add him to your discord

fresh tattoo vibes

[Image ID: Digital illustration of ARC Trooper Fives from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He is in profile, his face tattoo freshly weeping down his face. End ID.]

clone commanders + emails

first batch | second batch

[Image ID: Digital illustration of ARC Trooper Echo post- Star Wars: The Bad Batch finale. He is casually standing while wearing ARC Trooper Fives' armor. Fives' helmet is tucked under his left arm. End ID.]

inspired by k8s_space's fic new armor, old memories because the concept of echo taking fives' armor had me sprawled out on the floor o|-<

concept: fives and echo decide to pull a prank on Rex not too long after they become 501st. They decide to go for the obvious: pink hair dye in his shampoo.

Everything works out the way they want, they get the dye in undetected, Rex uses it without realising and ends up with a bubblegum pink buzz cut.

So he comes out of the shower and Fives and Echo are giggling and pointing, except none of the other brothers around are even batting an eye and that includes Rex, who’s now standing in front of the mirror shaving.

The twins look around all confused as their Captain puts on his armour and gets ready as though it’s just another Tuesday.

When he walks out Fives whispers “What the fuck?” and finally one of the older troopers decides to explain:

“Pretty much every rookie we’ve ever gotten has pulled the hair dye prank on Rex. Personally, I went with green. He doesn’t really care because he shaves it once a week anyway. Also, pink isn’t the most original choice.”

Meanwhile at the mess, Rex is sitting down for breakfast and reports with Cody.

“Tano again?”

“No, the shinies from last week.”

“Hm. And they went with pink?”

“Yeah, I thought they were more creative than that. You still want ‘em?”

I was looking back on my old illustration of Fantasy Kilti-wan, and Cody and thought it would be fun to do Anakin, Ashoka, and rex in a fantasy setting. I think I'm going to do some ref sheets of everyone and maybe start workshopping more of a setting for all this.

Anakin's look was a mix of his clone wars armour and a mix of Italian armour, and Arabic wear (It doesn't really show since the robes already look very jedi like.) Ahsoka's was a mix of season 7 and Chihal'ta hazar armour which is a type of medieval armour from India ( It looked a lot more flexible with big plates, and that really felt like it both fit Ahsoka, and would be easier to mesh her season 7 look into.) Rex' look is pretty close to what I did with Cody, I might change up the helmate more since Cody's look was super built around the visor, and that's just not rex so ill figure that out.

My condolences to every artist who wanted their OC to have a really cool complicated-looking gun right up until the first time they attempted a pose that would require it to be drawn at a slight angle.

i want to be maul's little meow meow guys

dogma how did u even get into the 501st

I actually enjoy Kanan’s short hair look a lot. I think he’s very handsome with it.

Bonus Kanera!

knight kenobi

They're besties. They're besties and they make Kamino feel more alive. Honestly love these two and they need more love.

Also I noticed the canvas was flipped way too far into the process so lets just say alpha17 put his pauldron on backwards today, don't tell em he's embarrassed.

New WIP of Alpha17 and colt chatting in the cafeteria. They're besties.

Has been super fun to use so far, this is a very informative post about it.

Some thoughts on Cara

So some of you may have heard about Cara, the new platform that a lot of artists are trying out. It's been around for a while, but there's been a recent huge surge of new users, myself among them. Thought I'd type up a lil thing on my initial thoughts.

First, what is Cara?

From their About Cara page:

Cara is a social media and portfolio platform for artists. With the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily. Many platforms currently accept AI art when it’s not ethical, while others have promised “no AI forever” policies without consideration for the scenario where adoption of such technologies may happen at the workplace in the coming years. The future of creative industries requires nuanced understanding and support to help artists and companies connect and work together. We want to bridge the gap and build a platform that we would enjoy using as creatives ourselves. Our stance on AI: ・We do not agree with generative AI tools in their current unethical form, and we won’t host AI-generated portfolios unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation. ・In the event that legislation is passed to clearly protect artists, we believe that AI-generated content should always be clearly labeled, because the public should always be able to search for human-made art and media easily.

Should note that Cara is independently funded, and is made by a core group of artists and engineers and is even collaborating with the Glaze project. It's very much a platform by artists, for artists!

Should also mention that in being a platform for artists, it's more a gallery first, with social media functionalities on the side. The info below will hopefully explain how that works.

Next, my actual initial thoughts using it, and things that set it apart from other platforms I've used:

1) When you post, you can choose to check the portfolio option, or to NOT check it. This is fantastic because it means I can have just my art organized in my gallery, but I can still post random stuff like photos of my cats and it won't clutter things. You can also just ramble/text post and it won't affect the gallery view!

2) You can adjust your crop preview for your images. Such a simple thing, yet so darn nice.

3) When you check that "Add to portfolio," you get a bunch of additional optional fields: Title, Field/Medium, Project Type, Category Tags, and Software Used. It's nice that you can put all this info into organized fields that don't take up text space.

4) Speaking of text, 5000 character limit is niiiiice. If you want to talk, you can.

5) Two separate feeds, a "For You" algorithmic one, and "Following." The "Following" actually appears to be full chronological timeline of just folks you follow (like Tumblr). Amazing.

6) Now usually, "For You" being set to home/default kinda pisses me off because generally I like curating my own experience, but not here, for this handy reason: if you tap the gear symbol, you can ADJUST your algorithm feed!

So you can choose what you see still!!! AMAZING. And, again, you still have your Following timeline too.

7) To repeat the stuff at the top of this post, its creation and intent as a place by artists, for artists. Hopefully you can also see from the points above that it's been designed with artists in mind.

8) No GenAI images!!!! There's a pop up that says it's not allowed, and apparently there's some sort of detector thing too. Not sure how reliable the latter is, but so far, it's just been a breath of fresh air, being able to scroll and see human art art and art!

To be clear, Cara's not perfect and is currently pretty laggy, and you can get errors while posting (so far, I've had more success on desktop than the mobile app), but that's understandable, given the small team. They'll need time to scale. For me though, it's a fair tradeoff for a platform that actually cares about artists.

Currently it also doesn't allow NSFW, not sure if that'll change given app store rules.

As mentioned above, they're independently funded, which means the team is currently paying for Cara itself. They have a kofi set up for folks who want to chip in, but it's optional. Here's the link to the tweet from one of the founders:

And a reminder that no matter that the platform itself isn't selling our data to GenAI, it can still be scraped by third parties. Protect your work with Glaze and Nightshade!

Anyway, I'm still figuring stuff out and have only been on Cara a few days, but I feel hopeful, and I think they're off to a good start.

I hope this post has been informative!

Lastly, here's my own Cara if you want to come say hi! Not sure at all if I'll be active on there, but if you're an artist like me who is keeping an eye out for hopefully nice communities, check it out!

cara.app

YukiPri (@yukipri) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Illustrator. I just want a place to post my art in peace🥲

I am in love, I will be starring at this for hours. I am a sucker for dramatic rim lighting and this is scratching all those parts of my brain.

This was supposed to be an exercise in composing multiple separate sketches in one canvas, but Rex's turned out too nice and I had to follow through a bit

Yeah I enjoyed this movie a normal amount *opens ao3*

holds them gently

Rex giving every single misogynistic dudebro comment he hears a bewildered and openly confused look because the concept of gender discrimination is completely novel to him.

Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad

Gotta shove them in at the deep end

It's this man's day, go wild

From me it's a messy paintover of that sketch from last year. I have to say, gold and turquoise are his colours for real

Also kewpie Cody for good measure

Even when sick, Tech is the walking, talking encyclopedia and by the looks of it, he hit the nail on the head with his theory!

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This comics takes place in my Kix is the Clone Force 99′s medic AU -> [LINK] <- and was drawn in relation to this post -> [LINK] <- by @warsamongthestars

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STAR WARS: The Clone Wars © George Lucas/ Dave Filoni/ LucasFilm/ Disney

References:

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kex

www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/top-13-words-with-bizarre-meanings/kex

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kex

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae