And I turned at night.
Time to get cracking!!
… OTL
I’m so bad with this…but I’m finally about done with my 2nd job so… yaars
It will take a little a longer for people who asked for tutorials however.. as I can’t possibly let myself to publish a tutorial/tips if i’m not 100% about the content even if I don’t draw anything for it…
@howlingvoid said:
Picture postgame!Josh. Like he’s more or less himself but he has those teeth on the side of his cheek exposed. Now picture him trying to put on a sweater and getting his teeth snagged in it. The more he fights the sweater the more tangled he gets.
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You were probably looking for something cute huh?…
…Oopsy daisy
Related comic posts: [ #ExorJosh Master Post ]
Again… I found things that I want to change on the post that’s already been reblogged out of control…
I just discovered that I can do a search for @danji-doodle… Didn’t even see some of these posts that was addressed to me till now D:
[ExorJosh/Climbing Class] Fic, ‘Dislocated’ by Leaveitbrii (tumblr: @flowerkingofangmar )
I finally had a chance to catch up with Leaveitbeii’s exorJosh fic ‘Dislocated’ xD
I’m amazed at how fast she wrote this lovely fic with all the attention to details. Of course, after reading that, I couldn’t help myself…lol
I might be fully converted…I blame Leaveitbrii -w-
I really hope that.. my drawings make you guys smile as much as your loving messages do for me.
I’ve been getting quite a lot of questions..and there were several of them that got overlapped so I’ll do my best to cover most of theme but I might have to expand them into another posting.
…Do you take commissions at all?
I might.. sometime in the future but it’s not really a thing that I can afford to do very often due to my work schedule.
… do u have an art blog?
If you are talking about my professional works, I have more of a web portfolio for them. If you would like to know what it is, you can ask for it through e-mail. (ssaldanji@gmail.com)
… what program do you use? and brush settings?
When it comes to digital drawings, I almost always use Photoshop.
Things that I tend to do most of the time with my brush is, flattening the basic circular brush to about 50% roundness, then maximizing the touch sensitivity by setting the minimum-diameter to 1%. I sometimes add texture to my brush by using dual brush settings or just with the texture setting but this is not a constant thing that I do. Oh and I always turn off smoothing just for the lagging problem.
…Can I use your pictures as references? (not for tracing, but pose reference?)
I’m completely fine with people practising off of my stuff to get better or to roughly reference my stuff for their work since that is a big part of learning how to draw and professional artists use references all the time as well.
However, I do advice to watch out for that fine-line where it becomes a plagiarism. Applied art industry is a very tightly knitted community where everybody some how know each other. Even as a student, it is possible for you to develop a bad reputation for your career and people will notice if someone is referencing another’s work much too closely. I’ve seen people getting black-listed from companies and getting in trouble during school due to their reputations and plagiarism. Practising through tracing and heavily referencing on your personal space is completely fine, but if you publish that as your own, it can become a problem. Be a honest artist for yourself as that will take you farther in becoming a better artist all together.
… how long does it take for you to complete a drawing?
It depends on what kind of drawing you’re talking about.
- For my work as a story artist, when it comes to animation production, I have to produce each panel(short-handed fast drawings) within about 10~20 minutes including the bg.
- For a single comic page, it takes 1~2 hours just on line works depending on complexity.
- For more of the full illustrations, each piece including all the colouring/toning can some times take up to a whole day if it’s complex.
but of course there are always exceptions so at times, I draw a lot faster or slower depending on my conditions.
…I was wondering if you’d like to collab?…
I’d be interested in collab only if it’s one-time thing with people who has solid ideas and means to divide the workload because I don’t want my tumblr to turn into something of an occupation with heavy obligations since that will exhaust me out like when I have multiple jobs..
… excuse me senpai, are you lost???
When I saw this at first, I was like … wuuuut?
lol..but then I realized that they’re probably talking about me starting to follow them. Regarding that, I have these rules where, If I notice myself lingering on a blog for more than 15 minutes or if three to four of their consecutive postings make me laugh, I follow them. And sometimes, I stalk on my followers that pop up on the activity feeds too.. yes I do lol
… Which historical figure if you could would you fight?
This is just so random lol
well.. call me a boring person but I don’t care to fight so.. no one really.
Below are some of the questions that I’m gonna have to make a separate posting for each.. as I can’t answer them simply and some of them need to be in a form of a tutorial.
… how did you learn to draw?
…how long did it take you to get where you are today, art wise?
…some drawing tips, please? …the eyes are very lifelike
…. Do you have any tips for staying motivated?
… you’re a storyboard/comic artist…what kinds of things do you do/how did you get started?
… Hair tutorial?
… should I learn how to draw on paper first then go digital? or doesn’t matter?
… how did you learn human anatomy… some artists get anatomy books for artists and some just kind go for it. any tips? ideas? rituals i have to complete?
There were more specific questions regarding my Fandoms, and I’ll cover them in another posting.
I participated in the
@daficswap
round three, Thanks to @phantomhive3108 who recommended it to me. It was much fun :)
My swap buddy was @faejilly and so this is of her inquisitor
Erana Lavellan and Blackwall.
In terms of appearance, Faejilly’s inquisitor is unique in a sense that she is badly scarred on her face especially on her right ear so I wanted to show case that even though she usually hides it under her bangs.
As for Blackwall… I say he was totally half-naked when he was chained up. Yes that’s right.
So I just finished the season 1 of Mr.Robot…
and… gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it’s SOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!
I’m gonna re-watch this entire season over and over till the next season première. This show is so cool in a sense that, i’ll probably be able to catch a completely different perspective the 2nd time around… you guys should check it out too.
…in case you don’t know, Rami Malek is the actor for both Elliot[Mr.Robot] and Josh[Until Dawn]
Comics:
[1 “Inconclusive”] [2 “Masked”] [3
“What Happened”] [4 “Sam”]
[5
“Change Room”]
[6 “What’s that sound”] [7 “unknown symptom”]
Other UD Comics:
[siblings] [bromancy]
Illustrations: *some nsfw*
[At the Mall] [In the Morning] [Walk the line] [on the steering wheel][Josh’s Scar] [nostalgia] [kiss] [Warm Tea] [Chillin on sofa]
Other UD illustrations:
[Josh][some legends say] [Peck] [Ashely]
List of Fics (coming soon)
***This post will be updated every time I make a new ExorJosh posting.
ExorJosh is an Until Dawn head canon/AU that I came up with that is more of a possible post-game scenario .
It is continued after one of the canon ending where, Josh turns Wendigo.
In this scenario, Josh gets captured by a team of private investigators that was put together by Josh’s rich parents who are desperate to save their last surviving child.
Once he is captured, his parents put him through every possible medical treatments to ‘stabilize’ him thinking that he is suffering from some sort of a neurological illness in combination with an unknown viral infection that’s causing his physical deformity. This is because he already has a history of severe mental illness. However, when they run out of options with all the negative results, they resort to an exorcism. Not by a christian method but through a Native American method. They are able to come to this decision due to their high interest in, and past dealings with, Aboriginal culture(<-this is a canon) in combination with the word-by-word police report of Josh’s friends and from reading the dead-wendigo-hunter’s diary that was retrieved from the remains of the lodge basement.(by one of the investigators)
While it’s not for sure whether the exorcism fully rid Josh of wendigo spirit, it appears to be a success and Josh regains his consciousness. However, he is extremely weak from the months of deterioration/treatments and the physical deformity is clearly evident around his mouth and right eyelid. He gets the basic treatments (skin-graft, etc) to re-construct his right eyelid and to close the wide gap on his left cheek but he refuses to get any more cosmetic surgeries out of the guilt of causing so much medical expenses to his parents. (Evident from his in-game dialogue that Josh is not just a spoiled rich boy but financially conscious enough)
Even after the exorcism, it takes a long time for Josh to recuperate physically and mentally and he has to stick to a specific diet and slew of medications. Eventually, Josh’s mother contacts Chris and Chris is the first friend for Josh to re-unite with. Then, despite of Josh’s newly developed anxiety, Josh is able to re-unite with Sam as well with the support of Chris.
This is the base idea of ExorJosh. There are more related Ideas and awesome fics written by other lovely people that expand this scenario. So if you’re planing to write on #ExorJosh, You should check these out :)
[related idea/facts posting #1] [Josh’s Mental health#1] [Josh’s Mental health#2]
In this section, I’ll expand on the logic behind this AU.
If there are any more questions, please ask me and I’ll add explanation to this part of the posting.
*** If you’re very invested and protective of any other 'Josh-survives’ scenarios, I DO NOT recommend you to read beyond this point. My intention is not to destroy someone else’s fandom branch but to explain why I came up with #ExorJosh the way I did to people who are interested.
click below to continue reading.
When I came up with this Headcanon, I was having a hard time with completely investing myself in other 'josh-survives’ scenarios due to the way I over-analyze the believability of all the story points in regards to the already established universe.. and so I had to build this AU of #exorJosh in the same way as I would for my professional works as a story artist…It’s almost like an occupational illness.. -..-
Anyway, for myself to be convinced in a josh’s potential survival scenario, I had to consider the following:
All that considered, I had to come up with something that’s more of a possible scenario that continues post-game instead of a complete alternate universe that undo some of the unavoidable official events.
It was also important for me to relate the cure of Josh’s curse to something of Native American culture since that’s an important element to the Until Dawn universe. Thus after a research, I came to a conclusion that exorcism of wendigo through a combination of Native rituals is a very lightly touched and unexplored but possible topic and I could easily incorporate that into this AU.
As for why Josh is a special exception who gets to survive after being possessed by wendigo, my theory is that, it was possible because he is the only person in the record that was ever to be captured before fully transforming. On top of that, as several people suggested, I imagine that taking the wendigo spirit away from its home mountain would weaken its connection to the host. Some writings suggest that wendigo is believed to be a spirit of starvation and/or the spirit of the mountain that punishes the wicked who commits cannibalism. So along with that idea, the fact that Josh would be taken away from the mountain and then be forced to stop practising cannibalism would take away the purpose of wendio spirit to posses Josh which would then make it easier for the exorcism to work on him.
In regards to Josh’s parents resorting to exorcism, some people questioned how did they find out about wendigo and what convinced them to believe it.
The canon of Josh’s parents is that, at least Bob, Josh’s father is very interested in aboriginal culture and even has past dealing with an aboriginal organization. This is shown through the excessive amount of aboriginal art and decorations apparent in the lodge, plus the book, “Native American Myth and Legends” and the letter that shows Bob’s decision to build the lodge that’s close to an aboriginal land even after receiving anonymous threats against it. I actually believe that Bob might have some amount of native american ancestry due to his heavy interest and his dark hair which would also explain how he was able to find people that could execute the exorcism on Josh. Going back to the topic, I imagine that Josh’s parents would also get their hands on the full recordings of the other kids’ police interrogations and I think it’s even possible for the parents to retrieve the wendigo hunter’s diary from the burnt remains of their lodge since the diary was left alone in the basement. Even if none these were the case however, I think the sheer amount of desperation Josh’s parents would have to save their last remaining child can easily push them to extreme measures if it has any sliver of hope. Not to mention, Josh’s father is a well renowned movie producer who is know for his horror movies. I’d think that he would have some great imagination.
As for the possibility of remaining spirit possession within Josh, I left it vague for people to explore .
I’ve been staring at the randomized list for about 20 minutes now.
…and I just feel so horrible to only pick 2 people out of that entire list.
so.. here is what I’m going to do.
I’ll pick 4 people instead… OTL
but I’m gonna have to make the 2 additional commissions black and white with illustration only option (so no simple comic option). Also, the additional 2 will have to wait a little longer to receive their commissions; =w=
I’ll be sending out the messages now and If I don’t hear back for the next 3 days, I’ll move on to the next in line.
Thanks guys.
Please. Don’t fight discrimination with discrimination.
@lust-for-revenge said: … I was wondering… Who do you ship the most in until dawn?
I swear, when I just fell into the Until Dawn fandom, I didn’t have any preferred ships. I was just pretty much in love with Josh as a character…
but then, once I came up with #exorJosh, many lovely writers wrote fics and ficlets on it that are of ClimbingClass(JoshxChris) and it’s pretty hard
for me
to resist now…( = w=)
@atuallyismael said: I remember reading one of your posts that stated that you needed to be fully convinced that a ship has potential in order for you to draw romantic fanart of it …may I ask, what changed your mind?
Well, for one thing I needed to be fully convinced in ‘Josh survives’ scenario which is why I cam up with the AU of #ExorJosh and I explained why this AU works for me in the ExorJosh master posting ‘logic behind ExorJosh’ section.
Then, I was presented with the climbingclass/exorjosh fic, ‘Dislocated’ that convinced me through touching on the official subjects that were in the way of believability towards this shipping.(for myself personally)
One was the fact that Josh tries *very* hard to set Chris and Ashely up and the other is fact that Sam obviously has a special place in Josh’s heart during the game play. *not to forget that Chris has a pretty huge crush on Ashely*
In ‘Dislocated’, Leaveitbeii thoroughly expands on these subjects as she involves the other characters to talk about how Chris and Josh has always been like prior to the game and she does this by keeping all the characters very close to their canon personality which makes it very convincing for me.
Introducing Character Drawcember!
This is a series of drawing prompts I designed for myself to get into a better rhythm of art production and also to think in depth about my characters. I’m posting this in case anyone else would like to work through the list too! :) I purposefully designed the workload to be relatively relaxed, since December is a busy month for a lot of people, myself included.
RULES: Use whatever of your own characters you want to use. You can stick to the same couple of characters or use all different ones. Any medium, and they don’t have to be consistent in style or technique. Basically there are no rules, just use this as a fun opportunity to work on your cast of characters. If you do decide to do this challenge, use the tag Character Drawcember!
WEEK ONE (Dec 1-7)
Sketch…
…a protagonist
…an antagonist
…an old character you don’t use anymore, and then redesign them.
Finish one of these into a full-color piece.
WEEK TWO (Dec 8-14)
Sketch…
…the inside of your character’s room.
…your character as a child, adult, and senior.
…an alternate universe version of one of your characters.
Finish one of these into a full-color piece.
WEEK THREE (Dec 15-21)
Sketch…
…a big group shot of your characters.
…a fake screenshot, as if your characters had their own movie
…your character’s favorite place
Finish one of these into a full-color piece.
WEEK FOUR (Dec 22-28)
Sketch…
…your character in someone else’s style (credit who you were inspired by!)
…three different outfits for your character
…free day- you choose what to draw with your character
CATCHUP (Dec 29-31)
If you’re not done yet (it’s okay!!), use this extra time to finish!
@aviselan @ursuladecay @phenergan @niklisson @dorian-trash @danji-doodle
and all artist who might be interested. 8]
Oooo Thank you for the invite! This seems like fun :D
I’ll have to work around the tight schedule but I’ll give it a go.
If anyone else is interested, the OP’s inviting everyone \( o v o )/
Some quick cafe sketch I did today at lunch.
sole medium: sign pen
So I’m gonna slowly post the commissions I’m doing for the next few days and I’m starting with a personal commission I did for my loved-one’s birthday.
This character’s name is Stir-fried and she is a copyrighted OC of theirs
oops… I thought I was on my reblog account… wut
*edited*
Just finished moving all the reblogs and several people asked for the other account while I was doing that so here is the link.
Some costume design for a commission work in progress……………..
@knight-of-eire said:Your comics got me into Until Dawn and reblogging them got my friend into Until Dawn and we both hatelove you for it, excuse me I need to SOB MY HEART OUT BECAUSE JOSH DIDN’T DESERVE THIS AGONY!
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@mysunandwolfie said:…your comic came on my dash and I was in love at first sight because the premise was so cool and the art was so cool and God it sounded amazing. But then I played it and I swear to god I kept your blog open because your comic gave me hope okay (and spoilers) and I swear it was the only thing that got me through the game. Except now what am I supposed to do with my life??? (Apart from stalking your blog and your tag that is shhhh)
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“I’m a healer.”
“I made you believe in the world I created!!!”
No really tho, I’m sorry… OTL
I didn’t mean to make you guys go through that entire game with a predisposed belief for Josh’s well being…
you poor souls..ha..ha
So.. I was about to take a small break from working on a longer comic for one of the commissions.. then I saw this msg:
@insaneficitonbr said:I really wanna see a picture of josh sleeping under the bed and chris finding him purring and dying of adorableness from Leaveitbrii’s Dislocated Fan fiction :3 [<- link]
…and because it was something that I’ve been actually wanting to draw for a while…I couldn’t resist the urge….hahaha… So yup, I decided to take a break from drawing a comic by drawing another small comic.. OTL………….. I’m a freakin workaholic.
A little more about Washington siblings.
So I was reading the tagged comments for my [Josh and his sisters] comic.. and I just about drowned in my own tears reading this one from @bishamon-malfoy:
# It’s canon that all three siblings had friendship bracelets that they always wore # so josh was such a loving bro in canon # look how much shit he made and bought for his sisters in their rooms # He loved them so much and they were so close # give me all the happy things # give me them alive # until dawn # the washingtons
I did not know about the friendship bracelets….. OTL *cries endlessly*
The credit for that discovery goes to @inkmaze who found the matching bracelets and put two-and-two together ~ but god does it make me as sad as it made you …
*cries harder*
please.
That is the exact spot my parents found a stray kitten. Nice little addition to the family, but would have been a terrible addition to the pavement had she not been very vocal OTL
No joke, the place where that cat is resting in this picture is called a “dead cat hole” it’s an automotive term. Don’t believe me, look it up.
This is also where I found a stray cat, she was up in there during a thunderstorm and I begged my dad to let me being her inside and that’s the story of how I got my first cat.
Please don’t skip over this without reading it and making a mental note. Even if you don’t have a car, tell your parents or whoever, and make sure to do this. You think that’ll never happen but that’s what everyone thought who had this happen and didn’t check, and that poor cold cat met with a terribly sad end.
