self indulgent doodles should not be left until last minute at the end of the day when you’re tired and incompetent because then they become less self indulgent and more frustrating =__=
but everyone and their mum draws their OC’s as angels an I wanna play too (Mesi is a glam-rock lammergeier and Arthur is a navy admiral albatross but I fricked up every aspect of this so I will try again when I am not asleEP)
look at this jerk with a stretchy face and silly clothes
he’s from modmad’s animation??
C U T E
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Boredom struck and I decided to doodle arthur… which soon became a full out less cartoony drawing of him. something is bugging me about it and i cant pinpont it… GAH.
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I LOVE IT NOTHING BUGS ME ABOUT IT ‘CAUSE I LOVE IT
some people have been wanting a guide to drawing Arthur and Mesi so these are some general notes (although they ended up being more about movement and form rather than anything… helpful… oops)
I guess it’s kind of a breakdown of how their action matches their personality and design more than anything else but hey it was a good change of gear for me \o/
Alright so basically I’ve been meaning to draw TPoH and SKIP fanart for the longest time but I haven’t had time to, but since I was ill today I managed to free up some time, so yeah!
It’s still amazing thinking about how when I read the first page of TPOH god knows how many years ago I thought to myself “Wow this looks like it’s gonna be a really happy adventure!” OHHH BOY, was I in for a surprise.
Anyways, Mod, if you see this - I can’t wait to see you again at expo! It’s gonna be awesome. And also, thank you for all of the amazement and awesomeness your art has brought me and so many others. You’re incredible! I also still smile at your amazing Wall.E impression at expo. :’D You showed that Dalek who was boss! (Also I apologise about the awful scan, but my scanner sucks.)
TOO ADORABLE
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I may or may not have watched SKIP for the first time ever today and I may or may not have watched it over ten times already and I just gotta say I love this moment when Arthur looks over at Mesi after she inspects his hands and uh his teeth and just- It’s so cute. I just had to draw it. Although- I will admit- I am the worst artist in the world when it comes to drawing people- Especially hands. So I apologize in advance if the hands just look bad. ;~;
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HUSH YOU IT’S LOVELY AND I LOVE IT AND I LOVE YOU YOU LOVELY THING
someone pointed out that I’ve only drawn Mesi sleeping on Arthur and not the other way around and that just won’t do
Anonymous asked: okay so I feel dumb for asking but, I just watched SKIP (and loved it) but why does Mesi check Arthur's teeth?! It's hilarious but I don't know why!
you know what anon I am actually super happy you asked because that was a completely spur-of-the-moment thing I did during the animation stage- it wasn’t planned! I didn’t board it! I just had ‘Mesi inspects Arthur’s face’ as the motive and it just kind of happened when I was doing it! I mean heck there are reasons; you can take it as a gag with the expression ‘looking a gift horse in the mouth’, and being a space explorer one of the first things to find out about a new species is whether or not it’s carnivorous so she was probably mostly checking for canines.
but yeah this is what I mean about my characters being the boss of themselves, I just sort of discover them and have to go along with what they’re going to do! On a sidenote if I can get it into the feature I figured it’d be cute if she did that on first meeting him, and then later (when he’s smacked into a wall or something) she does it again but this time it’s to check if they’re all still there .u.
maybe she’s a dentist in another life or has a teeth fetish or something idk I’m not here for explanations \o/