M Scott

Merry

happy happy holidays 🎄

if you celebrated them i hope that you got to eat good food thats my favorite part 

and as a big thank you patrons, im giving gifts too

id like to take requests for doodles (quick/small unless i get carried away) so if youve ever wanted to see me draw something now is the time 

just leave a comment on this post ideally with a description and image link of what you'd want and ill chip away at them over the next few days to christen th...

Eve

present for a very cool guy

and some phone mcs because im staying the night at ma n pas place 

also i got a new tablet!!!! bigger and higher resolution huion 13 pro 2.5k model i am stupid excited to boot it up tomorrow and retire ol reliable g bless her 

Trade

my half with ~peyote on FA 

another step in conquering my trade trauma 

Misc

very excited for dream bbq to release anemoia is a great song  

Colored

im almost back to full health and still bitter about how much productivity ive lost over the past five days

hoping that i feel good enough to stop complaining about it by tomorrow lmao 

WIP

horses are calling to me recently 

i remember the day when i realized that there was a variety of horses like clydsedale or friesian because for forever i just thought horse was horse

all horses were red dead redemption horse  

Misc

monkey ??? and Jamie slam WIP

someone asked me to do a trade today and when they asked for some writing on one of my characters so they could understand them better i sat there frozen for ten minutes 

so much of my understanding of things is visual and writing is so daunting, i managed to come up with two sentences and just had to accept that was all i had

im also still gimped from this fever so maybe that has something to do with not being able to come up with anything...

WIP

finished sketch on my big tablet vs the crude sketch on my small tablet 

felt marginally better today and am excited to get things fired back up

Sick

im horrifically sick and couldnt make it to the tablet today

sorry for small post, hopefully tomorrow isnt as rough  

Colored

i liked the flats so much that i wanted to keep them 

Jamie

whole thing ended up being 9 frames running at 15 fps

exported each frame individually so you can see the small tweaks that happen between each of them 

ive been understanding the fundamental of timing better with each piece just from a lot of fiddling around with frames, having them hold longer or adding in extra frames to some movements 

in this case there's an extra frame when hes completely off the ground where the body is still and only the limbs move, keeps h...

WIP

i dont fear the initial wonk in sketches because im confident enough in my ability to fix it later on down the line

there are some people who insist that you have to have a very solid foundation in the start of a drawing but i think whatever comes most naturally to you is the most helpful

a drawing is a collection of lines placed at your discretion that is finished at whatever point you decide for it to be finished, so even one line on a page is a drawing 

the complimen...

Bones

good excuse to do some skeleton practice

jamie (and all of the jamie-likes) have some level of regeneration, and his bones have an increased iron content that causes the speckling and boosts toughness

marceline's shotgun blast to his face stripped the bone and some tissue completely, and because of embedded shrapnel, it wasnt able to heal properly, which makes the blast the worst damage he's received

they all have a lot of hairline fractures after general movement/impacts an...

Colored

very happy with how this one came out 

didnt feel like i was on borrowed time so the colors got more attention

Misc

one more day 

then im free from hell

for one month  

Misc

doodles and wips

guess whos getting a run cycle

managed to make it without using any refs and the muscle memory of erts cycle both helped and messed with me

i wasnt happy with the first rendition of it, felt too floaty and bouncy, like ert's, and i wanted the run to capture some sort of predator laser focus on a distant target

steadying the head was huge and i reworked the back leg area to make the front more weighty and imposing 

8 frames at 12fps   2023-12-11 05:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP

seahorsey 

this shows some more of the spontaneous shapes spawning out of other shapes

i did have a pose in mind for this piece but it wasn't 100% clear to me so i followed impulses wherever they felt right

what im usually going for is some sort of tension created in the torso that is rerouted in the arms or viceversa, and im very open to myself to allow things to change around for better cohesion even if it goes against what i was initially picturing  

Organs

reworking his internal anatomy and made a quick rough draft 

re: enlarged lungs and heart and missing other major organs

we'll see how elaborate it gets im in finals week now and after thats over ill have more brain space to do big things 

also more monkey 

Sharp

went for more geometric stylization could definitely push it further

these kinds of exercises are great for creative stimulation and can expose your mental blindspots 

the more ways that you can represent an object (realistically, abstractly, contour line, shadow shapes, organic, geometric, etc etc) the more thoroughly you understand it and its essence and the more easily/quickly you'll be able to depict it in ways that you find interesting 

muscle memory will take...

Colored

🎵 black and yellow black and yellow  

Better

i like this one more i think it shows his personality better 

not as weighty as i want it to be but definitely sturdy he is very sturdy

some wips of my absolutely manic animation process too  

Colored

had a lot of fun with this one

have been in a crazy slump from exhaustion but im slowly crawling out of it  

Nert

made a jog cycle today with a silly chicken head bob  

not 100% sold on it so will likely do another walk/run cycle

Red

snarl with and without eyebleed

and a new jamie-like adversary more adept than he is at maneuvering through trees

also very tall

Born

thus a ref is born

still a wip but 80% of the work is there

again showing the process and how different body parts spawn off of each other, always trying to add in some sort of counterbalance or twist/tension to a pose

there's flow, which is great for making airy and light figures, then theres tension, which is great for making heavy or hulky figures

if you can mesh the two you can make certain parts of the body appear as if they're still in motion while others are rig...

Indulgent

thats been the name of the game lately

nert development  

Dental

here we go these are the teeth ive been trying to draw jamie with for so long 

he's got this grimace he pulls pretty regularly that can mean a variety of things: an acknowledgment, a warning, a muscle reset 

teeth grow constantly so he gnaws at trees like a rodent would, is also why the teeth in the shotgun wound aren't missing (anymore) 

~6000 psi crushing strength  

Designing

remembered to separate out the different parts of my sketching phase

all my designs start with a body as the foundation, and the way that the body ends up looking will determine the features i place on top of it

very rarely do i start with any picture in mind, usually i start smacking lines down and ill follow impulses as they come to me

the reason i can do this is because i deliberately built up (and continue to add to) my own visual library, which is a type of memory recal...

WIP

shaving kink?  

Glint

how many licks does it take