Cat Memes Feat. Flug (pt1 Of ?)

what's your process for coloring and shading? I'm a beginner when it comes to those elements with art and I'm super inspired by your artstyle! <3

well I'd say there isn't really a process behind it!

I'm very simple. bc I quickly get overwhelmed by ADHD.

I line my sketch... and then I bucket-tool fill it with the canon eyedropper-picked colors... and then I throw some cell shading on there. on the exact same layer.

I got 2 layers; lines, and colors.

since it's a cartoon character you'll wanna keep it simple and limit the amount of colors you use to 1-2 shades for any surface max. even the shading color is actually just color picked off canon screenshots. I don't use layer modes.

the only tip I can give is to not put all the shading just on the edges of everything. use big shapes, be confident, don't blur or airbrush it if you don't know what you're doing with those tools. triangle shapes are especially nice for clothes.

think of where exactly the light source comes from before starting to shade/render, if necessary literally draw a small lamp into the corner.

the magic in my art comes from duplicating and Gaussian blurring my lineart and the particular settings I use to adjust the colors with Correction Layers (in CSP. if curious I could simply give out all of my exact settings here or you're freely allowed to color pick off my art, no credit since I don't own colors.) trust me you don't wanna see my art without those tweaks

here's a doodle of Flug with TJ_beastboy's tats

Thank you💜💛

comic for a friend that had surgery

ive been seeing your talk about this on my dash a lot and i really would like to (politely) clear up a misconception i think you're having. i think you're confusing "kink" with "bdsm". "kink" is ANYTHING that is considered "unconventional" with regards to sex. thinking feet are kinda sexy is kink. wanting to see pregnant bellies in otherwise normal sex is kink. men wearing lacy lingerie is kink. "bdsm" is "bondage, domination, and sadomasochism" which is a TYPE of kink that can involve inflicting and receiving pain (sadomasochism) as well as handcuffs and restraints. it's meant to be negotiated by everyone involved. kink isn't always "hardcore". sometimes kink is wanting to fuck a guy with a paper bag on his head

no I know that, trust me I do..... I've been hypersexual for the majority of my life, wanting to recover. I know too much, seen too much.

I'm just using it as an overall term that I'm more comfortable with than bdsm, which is probably wrong-

but since I think kink ≠ bdsm

but bdsm = kink

and many others seem to use it wrong colloquially too so... I'm just wanting to make myself understood

rest under the cut bc nsfw talk!

there's a difference between fetish and kink too as far as I know? there's like those that are pretty cool to you but not necessary to reach satisfaction, those that are preferred bc it's hard to reach satisfaction otherwise and those where it's necessary and nothing else will work. I forgot the english words but it was in a scientific article-

but the last option is definitely a fetish, right

yeah so apart from 1 thing I consider myself vanilla.

I'm into Flug bc he's fictional and I don't consider him masked, I think of him as an object head (and I don't wanna see his face, I wish the bag was his head) idk if being objectum is kink or a sexuality. I would have labeled myself as latter since this applies to romantic feelings for me too. the bag/mask itself isn't the object of my desire.

and for pregnancy; I think a better description of it would be impregnation then, huh. I don't fw that personally. (that's mostly what's being found under the "pregnancy kink" tag, a lot of nonconsensual impregnation fantasies or "hyper" stuff, and lots of pain related things. at least during the 1 time I checked it out, maybe I was unlucky!) but the way you describe it, yeah I can see it! that doesn't make me uncomfortable. even tho I don't get any kind of sexual feelings out of this thought. I just think it's aesthetically pretty, whether clothed or naked.

but I would draw that for example. bc I'm neutral to that.

I don't ever really feel sexual feelings.

so ig I am not into kink... nor bdsm... but more comfortable with all kinks outside of bdsm (the clothes are cool tho. like just in general, I'd wear that for fun outside if it wasn't socially inappropriate.) (and clearly I'm ace)

extremely interesting conversation tho, thank you!😭

About a week ago I stumbled upon the most gorgeous female Black Hat I've ever seen so I couldn't fight the urge to create fanart, a good 8 hours and a frozen computer later here we are!

The design is not mine. Credit goes to commay_v on Instagram, so please go check out the original artwork too!

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Liiiiiisten ik the Dr needs to be locked away in a mental hospital and never let out but I would die for him i ADORE HIM TO DEATH ( makes me think of the "but mother i love him!"

That is all 💕 thanks for coming to my ted talk

This has Dem vibes but towards Flug instead of BH x'D It'd be quite amusing to see, Flug would be so nervous, he's not used to the attention at all.

Also same, anon. I love all of them to death

Paperhatober Day 3: Asleep

Let's just try this yk, we're figuring out for now

This was ok on insta so here we go

Black Hat and Flug having a nice freaky time🤤

Should I put this under one of those, yk- what was it called, the "Show more" cut thing or y'all fine if I just throw this at ya?

Comfort after a hard day

If you had the opportunity to rewrite dementia any way you wanted, what would you do?

that is a really good question! since I am having a bit of a hiccup warming up to her.

it's bc I require emotional depth for me to be interested in a character.

which I'm absolutely sure there is a lot of in her... but we've just not seen enough to work with. I like mentally disturbed characters that are struggling more outwardly, like Flug or Miss Heed. I think it's less of a writing flaw and more CN/Warner holding them back from releasing the stuff as it was roughly planned probably. maybe if we had the rest of the 1st season we'd already be much further in her character development.

there's core emotions that I NEED to see in a character to get hooked, which is fear, regret and grief.

none of which we've seen in her yet. nothing genuine that's not caused by the brainwash she stands under.

the most conflicting thing we've seen her do is having tears well up in her eyes after Flug hit her which didn't come off as physical pain, but emotional. that's interesting, but too short of a moment.

I feel like anything I'd "change" about her are things that are canonically planned, we just have to wait.

I think what's missing in her rn is self-awareness.

without her artificial obsession with Black Hat, she is nobody. maybe she'll have a crisis later about exactly that; not knowing who she is as a person. she should. if and when she snaps out of that she's wasted a large chunk of her life under his influence.

let's say it like that, if they don't start to show clearer signs of character development in the remaining S1 episodes, that's what I'd change. pick up the pace a bit. there's more obvious foreshadowing about literally every other character than about her. they really keep her backstory a secret.

there's so much to work with. why is her name Demencia? what's her real name? why did she arrive there "barefoot"? why is she better at math than Flug? why did she react so silenced when confronted with her mortality? was it fear? what does she truly fear? what or who is important to her outside of the hypnosis? does she have a real goal, for herself? smth must have led her to Black Hat... did he lure her or did she have such a terrible life before all this that she saw no other use to her existence than to turn to him?

you already know this drawing but I think I never posted it here

however I'd like to change 1 thing about her visual design for sure.

Please give her muscles. like... all the time.

I've criticized often before that I find the female characters in the show slowly drift too much into one and the same mould, their silhouettes are all the same, since Miss Heed; every relevant female character looks like her body type (...and some newer ones even in the face.) they could start diverting from that by giving Demencia muscles (not just in promo illustrations or closeup shots of her flexing, I feel like they could easily always draw a visible biceps on her)

that's not too hard to animate either, I mean they animated Sunblast and Airlock and that whole 5th episode, and it can't be harder than all the striped and spiked elements in Dem's design.

that is a lot of commissions (Flight 611 comes closest to Flug's actual shirt design hehe)

but I'm entirely certain he has a shirt with each design in his closet somewhere, I agree. he infodumps you for 3 hours about the incident if you ask

i hate these videos but these chibi planes are sooo cute & expressive & gauche