Ever since I first hopped onto the internet at a young age I have seen one blue eye, one green eye characters and so many of them are all rehashed messes or overpowered mary sues or purple white animals with only the eyes to appeal to their looks. So throughout over ten years of one blue and one green eye I've come to associate the combo with mary sues because I've sadly seen none to curb or overcome the flood of bland characters with no depth but special eyes thus they're gud ocees.
It’s difficult making one that whose colors clash. I tried putting HC on my new OC and it just didn’t suit her. I’m sure it can be done tastefully. But I just can’t visualize a TLK OC with HC.
I can't remember the name for the life of me, but before Bunga, before the MLP badger thing with white hair I remember another show with a blue or grey animal with a white mohawk and now I'm just shrugging this off as sort of colour theory, as I recently found a plush that was grey with a white mohawk and I've seen blue grey animals with white tufts of fur. It's some kind of generic thing I guess? Not sure what you call something like that other than generic?
For characters based on animals that are black, the common color palette is blue or blue-grey since black fur or feathers shown in the right light looks blue(Or any other color actually provided it’s the light source but blue is the dominant color variant for black). So yeah it’s a common design trope.
On really hard poses I do like the last submitter does as well, I trace a pose(say dancing) then work on it and it ends up not coming out a traced image nor exactly like the referenced image because even if your base sketch is traced the rest of it shouldn't be exactly on par with the sketch but using it as a guideline for building shapes up and doing the basic pose instead.
Basically that’s how I learn something new and difficult. I’ll trace it then draw shapes over it. Those shapes I’ll use for future drawing references.
Posted a journal on my DA with the same text, but sharing here for all you guys who think you're so clever profitting off theft. From ages 5-7 I'd make bead bracelets and sell them to my mom for a quarter or a dime. Then I'd get them back without her knowing, cut the string, and make a new necklace or bracelet and sell it to her. This was what I did before reaching double digits in age. How old are half of these art thieves because you guys should be better than a 7-year-old.
See this is why I believe that Mafuma is 7 years old. Just purely by her terrible behavior and shit attitude towards people trying to help her.
I had a bambi fanfic-ish book growing up, in it there wasn't just Thumper as Bambi's best friend but another smaller deer and it was really confusing. I cannot find that book for the life of me -likely ruined by age and I was rough on books as a kid- but it sort of played out exactly like Bambi, just with a tiny deer friend alongside him and Thumper, like super tiny rat sized deer. I just remember the tiny deer saved Thumpers life or something and it only existed in one book.
Mind sharing the worst looking merch you've ever gotten? And then the worst "special" bootleg you've encountered? Mine would probably be my Barney toy which I got as a kid, he's off pinkpurple except for his face which is yellow. He's a very special Barney. Worst merch would be this Simba plush years ago, he came in a package where it just reformed his head in a way that caused his eyes to get screwed up and look like they were on one side of his head. A semi-common look for plushies back then.
Hmm. Can’t recall any from my childhood. Even the Transformers and Power Ranger toys I had as a kid growing up were fairly designed. The only ones that I consider a treasure of off model cheesiness would be the Lion King plushes I use to collect. They were always off color and Simba was either bald or had yellow long fur on the top of his head. I don’t think McDonald’s toys count in this case as they’re suppose to be cheaply made on purpose to accommodate the price of the happy meal. But I can remember that before the 90s they made great looking toys that lasted long with rough kids that our family use to collect.
I enjoy how TLG merch follows the show well. Growing up I got a lot of toys which might have been worthy of being called bootlegs even though they were sold by the companies and they would be very inconsistent with canon. Characters renowned to never smile, smiling creepily, the bad guy(take Scar for example) being cute when he has nothing 'cute' to him in canon, and my personal fave, the "special" toys where something when wrong colouring someone i.e white Pocahontas, grey Sonic.
That was the best part of growing up. It was like a cereal prize. You never knew what you would get.
Holy crap the original Zuka Zama is an amazing listen, thanks for sharing, gotta save that to add to my playlist.
If I had a dime for every person who I had to hop in and explain that someone can indeed sell lions in TLK style or characters in Pokemon form for prices above thirty dollars, I'd be rich, people think if you sell art or make an adopt that is expensive to someone it is cause for a cease and desist from a company, I've seen Sonic characters sell for 1000$+ and no legal action came from Sega down upon their ass. It's when you steal art or content and sell it, if it's entirely yours you're fine.
I always wondered why no one stepped in, especially when I saw people like mysweetqueen combine pokemon and MLP and sell them for upwards to 50$. Now when it came to the plush makers making scary on model designs for copyright characters like say Twilight Sparkle, then making over 1k$ on eBay with them then yes, Hasbro would of course step in and C&D them. However it’s different for original or fan characters to be made out of plush by these amazing artists.
I find it funny when people do away with Kion's roar, the bs in SP where Mufasa wind was talking to him and telling him shit so he went through all these motions(saying stuff like how dare you save the kings daughter so Simba would rethink his actions, Upendi, etc) was even more far-fetched and bizarre than a cub that can roar magically, likewise the fact Rafiki could SMELL Simba's scent in the first movie on the breeze but not Scar or any Hyenas would likely mean it was a magical breeze. 1/2
So magic has been there all along, like in the first movie the implications were subtler, but SP takes the cake as a weird mash of magical stuff and overdoing certain aspects. Kion’s roar makes more sense than Upendi or an old mandrill smelling a lion far far away by a single tuft of hair somehow. 2/2
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It was thought that Mufasa is the wind in the first movie, the sequel just clenched it. That’s the hypocrisy in the fandom for ya. Ignore all other subtle magic and whine about the larger sign of magic.
