melioristicbeast

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Work in progress so heres a little video rendering of my process so far. I was inspired by these photos of Tyler and knew I had to draw it. (Sorry for the awful quality of the Video 😭)

Something something werewolf physiology something """advanced healing""" something increased reactions to perceived cellular damage something overactive melanocytes-

Anyway. Freckled Derek - what do we think, chat?

welcome back to 2012 with the PolyTimeMachine©

Legit no lie I've been meaning to ask if you'd be up for an art trade, bc i would love to see something from B99 or it's alive from you AND I WAKE UP ON A MONDAY MORNING TO THIS???

the excellent choice in episode (the camping series is ICONIC, huge agree with the 1:1 derek and stiles camping vibes), the timing of the shots, the expressions! the way you did a semi-opaque layer over the plaid in the screenshot?? huge brain

I was inspired to rewatch It’s Alive with Brad bc of @melioristicbeast and their wonderful redraws bc it’s been a while and omg every camping episode is EXACTLY how I envision how Stiles and Derek camping together would go lol

anyways

*lovingly leaves this on your doorstep and runs back into the wilderness from whence I came*

✨Original Video✨: Brad Makes Campfire Breakfast | It's Alive | Bon Appétit

My Name is Derek Hale page 02 - in which the song lyric text is too tiny but hopefully somewhat readable, and stiles is having A Morning.

Next page is once again queued up for next weekend! this and page 3 have too many panels crammed into them, it gets better i promise lol

[<<prev | P02] Original story on Ao3 by @isthatbloodonhisshirt

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What do you mean those aren't the lyrics to sexxx dreams?

I was so disappointed to find out they never confirmed Stiles as bi - we were robbed of an out and proud bi stiles fucking around, there's so much potential!

Other music headcanon posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / The playlist

Wanted a cover for my 'I could see Stiles listen to this' playlist and since it can't be a gif - in which case it would have been this one:

- second best was a redraw of the lofi girl although the playlist is probably as far from lofi as you can get LOL

Link to playlist under the cut for those curious:

I've listed the ones I've done art for at the beginning but from there on I've just been adding whenever I came across something from my own liked songs that I could see stiles jam out to. Best on shuffle!

It ended up with so many of my hype favorites hahaha. if you put this on, say 'actually, what would realistically happen in this scenario is...' in the mirror 3 times and open a can of coke, you'll summon a ghostly apparition of me that'll poorly but enthusiastically dance in your kitchen.

Finally, the first page of the comic project!

When @isthatbloodonhisshirt posted My Name is Derek Hale and I saw the tag 'time loop', I cannot tell you how excited I was - I love time loop stories - and as soon as I started reading chapter two i thought 'man this is a cool visual, I bet it'd work pretty well as a comic'. And hey. Who's got two hands and a can-do attitude towards comic projects? This fella.

So here we go! I haven't done a long-form comic in more than a decade and I'm still figuring out how to draw the boys but doing a comic is always an ongoing learning process (: (part of that learning process is doing covers which uhhhhhhh is going to be at the end of the chapter for Reasons)

(Also Stiles' alarm choice is totally on me, bless Ella for giving the go ahead lol)

Page 2 is scheduled for next weekend!

[P01 | next>>] Original story on Ao3 by @isthatbloodonhisshirt

WIP wednesdayyy

Been giving my hand a break the past week, so not much new under the sun compared to previously.

Almost finished with the cover for my stiles playlist (redraw of the 'lofi girl' image if it's not obvious), still working on the comic (ft a mirror shot that i painstakingly put together in my 3D program lol) and just for fun an example of how all my drawings start out: barely cohesive scribbles ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ (the only context you get is misheard lyrics lol)

Also thanks to everyone who voted in the poll i posted! More than half voted for 1 page at a time, so I think that's what I'm going to go for - maybe 2 if it's more coherent. Going to finish a few more before i start posting because i often need to go back and change/add things for consistency, but I'm hoping to start posting soon! ☆_☆

comic update preferences

Still slowly chugging away at a comic project between everything else I've been posting here (sterek ofc, i'm a one-track-kinda person) - curious what y'all's preferences are when it comes to updates though! I know some post a page whenever they finish, others do a couple and some do 4-5 at a time - what do you prefer?

(While it's subject to how busy i am on other fronts in life, right now I'd guesstimate i can do a page every 1.5-2 weeks. First couple of pages are really busy and are taking longer but the plan is to bring that down a notch lol)

I feel like this drawing possessed me, sat me down and painted itself

The irony in that the primary idea was to focus on the arms and give stiles a tattoo but i couldn't get it to work with the limited colorpalette - altered closeup with the tattoo included under the cut! [find my stuff on Redbubble!]

Used mare.blk's tattoo style because if hand tattoos weren't a no-go in my chosen profession, I would get one by them done in a heartbeat. So stiles gets one instead lol Also used a 3D program to figure out the pose and angles - the canon height difference is there but bc derek's leaning it looks like stiles is taller which i'm not mad about I'll get around to drawing more derek initiating things soon, apparently i have a lot of stiles taking action to get out of my system ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For the Artist Ask game! 6 & 24 😄

(i accidentally saved this to drafts and didn't notice for a couple days, sorry!! thanks a bunch for sending them in <3)

Artist ask game

6. favorite thing to draw?

Other than hands and dynamic full-body poses mentioned before, I really like drawing noses! It's fun to make them unique to each character if I'm drawing art for something that isn't live-action (aka giving characters a big ol' beak 9/10 times) I'm weirdly particular about getting noses and ears 'right'/consistent lol

24. whats a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

My sister says she can tell when I've really had fun drawing something! And someone online once said I have a knack for making bodies have volume and feel 'heavy' if they're lying down 🥺 Both meant a lot to hear and i regularly think about them!

he's just so babygirl

Saw the last gif in this set and thought 'that man needs a blanket and a hug' - for @renmackree, hope things ease up for you soon ♥

First time making an animated gif, sorry if it's a lil choppy (':

Also psst, i have a redbubble shop now! let me know if there's anything specific you'd like available on there ☆

Frames under the cut:

Soft Sterek to heal the soul

Hello~ I am late to the party but for the Artist's Asks, 3, 4 and 14 :D

Hi Ella! o/ <3 Never too late, thanks for sending them ♥︎ Artist ask game

3. your favorite piece(s)?

The piece I did for Actions Speak Louder than Words still holds such a special place in my heart, being the primary drive for starting to draw the boys - the rough sketch for this was the first teen wolf fanart I'd done in more than 10 years! Also my first time drawing Derek ever haha. It took a lot of practising especially Stiles before i was able to finish it, but for the better part of a month I'd keep going back and working on it bit by bit.

The Heart Boner drawing gets a special mention just because it went from idea to finished drawing in just over an hour (the song came on and i put it on repeat until i finished) and perfectly encapsulates the kind of intense focus I've been enjoying since mid-december haha. It's also just the right amount of silly and tooth-rotting cute for me!

4. piece you wish got more love?

Honestly, none - I'm still completely taken aback at the response to everything, I was expecting maybe 5 people to interact! If you've ever reblogged more than 1 of my drawings with a comment in the tags, you best bet I recognize your handle when it happens, I get so excited every time LOL

14. whats your favorite thing about drawing?

There's the fact that I get to create whatever silly little thought comes across my mind, however niche - sort of in extension of that I love that drawing is for me, with no outside expectations or deadlines. I get to have this one thing that is subject only to my own whims: whether completely redo a piece, leave it for a month and then return, even just abandon it - I am free to do so. I can choose only to draw things that make me happy and that is amazing! It's really nice to have a hobby that's completely separate from my professional life - although it did come in handy for some very over-the-top diagrams for a couple exams, especially neuroanatomy lol

Speaking of Sterek headcanon music, I think that Derek as millennial, he listened a lot of the classic punk and emo rock bands when he was a teen, and still listen to those band that are active. Linking park, Paramore, Evanescence , bring me the horizon, skillet and the Rasmus.

(I still do 🤣)

yeees i love this!! and i haven't listened to the rasmus in AGES how nostalgic!

now i'm imagining teen derek sitting in front of his computer, agonizing over which handful of songs to put on his little mp3 player for a field trip 🥺

inspired by the many long car rides where my siblings have had to suffer me doing option b (':

And since i drew characters with headphones on, you best bet it's time for more mel's music headcanons - foreign-language edition - under the cut.

Other music headcanon posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8

You get two-for one here - I can imagine Stiles jamming to songs with no comprehension of the lyrics but he has an ear for pronounciation so Derek sometimes guesses the language of whatever he's singing along to lol:

You also get two for Derek (: I pick these from my own likes and i don't really listen to a lot of country which is my main headcanon for his music choices, but when i look at derek i think 'now there's a yearning man' so have some yearning-type music:

More It's Alive crossover - this time with Scott and background Isaac and Ally [:

Struggled a bit with the timing but i think this exchange is gold in the original video lol

stiles - my muse, my little bastard

it's WIP wednesday my dudes!

the as-always inspired file names are 'car nap' ('2 kinds of backseat nappers - the arms-and-legs-crossed and the ragdoll corpse' with more music headcanons), 'pool baseball' (an excuse to draw the body types i imagine for the boys), 'lofi' (self-indulgent cover for my Stiles playlist on spotify lol), and 'iA2' (2nd it's alive sequence) - last is a shot of the comic I'm working on, blocking in colors for the current page [:

derek may be my favorite character on the show but stiles is clearly my favorite to draw LOL. he's just a funny little guy.

They are both terrible at this but somehow work it out

Happy (late) 3 months to my first ever sterek art (': insane how it's only been 3 months and fitting that it was babygirl coded derek that started it all ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

My 'the way Derek wears his sleeves long is giving babygirl vibes' friend kept showing me Ariana Grande pictures and saying 'this but Derek' and so of course I had to comply for purely selfless reasons :)

Continuing my Derek in soft sweaters crusade

Artist questions:

5, 6, 25

Artist ask game

5. how would you describe your art style?

Attempted to answer Ren here ♥︎ If anyone has a better suggestion for how to describe my style I'm all ears haha

6. favorite thing to draw?

It's a toss-up between hands and dynamic full-body poses! (:

25. what size canvas/paper do you use?

I usually start with the standard 'square' or A4 resolutions in procreate, so around 2000 pixels for the shortest width. Drew in paint tool sai for years and picked up a terrible habit of working on small canvases because the texture of the brushes didn't scale well. So until relatively recently i worked on like 400x600 pixel canvases LOL

For the art questions:

5, 21, 32!

Artist ask game

5. how would you describe your art style?

Hmm. Semi-realistic.. Solid? Soft and silly? (help)

21. what do you think your artstyle would taste like?

Banana.

32. have you done a lot of collabs?

I think I've done like...... 3 or 4 in all the years I've been drawing because I've been too shy to reach out ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ But I really loved the ones I've done - especially swapping lines/coloring is super fun! Been toying with the idea of uploading some lines for others to color, but any mutuals who'd be interested in some sort of collab are always welcome to send a message ♥︎

with how much this site loves its writer ask games, im astounded ive never seen one for artists, soooo

ARTIST ASK GAME!

1. what medium do you use most (if applicable, what software)?

2. most popular piece?

3. your favorite piece(s)?

4. piece you wish got more love?

5. how would you describe your art style?

6. favorite thing to draw?

7. easiest thing for you to draw?

8. thing you struggle to draw?

9. whats something you always come back to when drawing?

10. how do you deal with artblock?

11. do you listen to anything while drawing?

12. describe your process while drawing

13. talk about a wip you like!

14. whats your favorite thing about drawing?

15. least favorite thing about drawing?

16. how do you motivate yourself to draw?

17. what is something youre confident about in your art?

18. something you feel like you need to work on?

19. where do you find inspiration?

20. is your workspace, digital or not, organized (not neat, organized)?

21. what do you think your artstyle would taste like?

22. do you have a favorite color palette to work with?

23. how many artstyles can you work in confidently?

24. whats a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

25. what size canvas/paper do you use?

26. what do you physically draw with (pencil and paper, tablet, etc)?

27. do you ever have multiple wips going at once?

28. whats a piece you would like to redraw at some point?

29. do you use a lot of references while drawing?

30. whats something youre proud of about your artstyle?

31. which fandom have you drawn the most for?

32. have you done a lot of collabs?

33. have you taken a lot of classes for art?

34. whats something you still like from your old art?

35. if you had one piece of advice to give your younger artist self, what would it be?

(remember to give the person you reblog from an ask!!)

More naps for the boys (:

My headcanon is Derek has a beat-up old gameboy color (scratched up, the battery cover's missing, etc) that somehow survived the fire - maybe it was in a storage somewhere.

might line and render this later, but i liked the color combo so you also get this version <3

Dedicated to @renmackree who is the best hypeman, i appreciate you!