JU5T is trying to draw

rubber suit men who are Actually Aliens™

talking robots that are Actually Aliens™

talking robots that work in the police

a Hot Topic hedgehog who is an Actual Alien ™

buff men who spend 40000 years really hating on Actual Aliens ™

the Manliest Highschool Anime

I'll add more hyperlinks once I post more stuff ;O

First found your tf art and ive been following ever since!!!

Iunno if i asked ghis before but!!! Do u have any tips with drawing/shading with ballpoint. Thank you :3

Waa thank you!! I have been getting my TF fix at TFCons but I always miss my robots! Lost Light still has my heart as hostage 🥹

I must set a disclaimer that I am still self-teaching and am not qualified to teach art, but I am always happy to share tips and how I like to do things (might be wrong…!)

As requested, I will focus just on ballpoint-pen shading — FYI general inking and shading basics will still apply! My art terminology is not great, so Tailgate will help me demonstrate.

Tip 1: Paper matters!! If you think your ink stuff isn’t looking as you want it to be — chances are that you are using a different paper. Ballpoint pen behaves differently on smoother paper than textured paper. Here, I compare office A4 paper to an unbranded sketchbook.

Tip 2: Vary your pressure! Ballpoint pen is affected by pen pressure, just like pencil. You can easily capture a range of shadows, textures and values on your drawings.

Tip 3: Layering is your friend. Ballpoint pen is really good for this. This can be hatching, cross-hatching, stippling/dotting, scribbling. Like pencil, layering will let you make really light/shadow transitions. (It’s also better on your wrist…!)

Tip 4: Patience is needed. Compared to most other ink tools, it takes longer for ballpoint pen to make those clean lines and solid blacks. Some cheaper brands are also not as smooth as most ink brands, so ink consistency may vary. If you only do lineart and hard shadows for your sketches, ballpoint pen might not be the best tool — but it’s great for adding soft textures and values to your drawings.

Hope this helps! It takes the same amount of time to figure out ballpoint pen like any other tool, but it is very compatible with certain art styles!

Never apologise for Seven. Only Seven himself must apologise. Until then he is condemned to spin

Big old cat with bed hair

DOOM ETERNAL

Thank you for checking out my work!! I draw a lot of aliens and mecha and recently figured out how to draw my childhood scifi horrors, so you’ll definitely see more of the Xenomorphs and Yautjas in the future (or just a lot of sci fi grittiness). I’m currently working on a few projects that use this kind of gritty style, so please look forward to it once I get the OK to post!

but like now that im preparing to enter the art industry myself, I've noticed you've mentioned work in your previous posts, and was just curious on what kind of work you do outside posting art? :D

thank u so much for ur time!

Thank you for liking my stuff!! Ahh I miss drawing Ultraman lots, so I’m glad to hear people still like it :)

I’m also preparing myself to go into art professionally, same boat same boat!! 🙌 I work in law as my day job, partly because I was heavily invested in the copyright battles that almost bankrupted the Ultraman studios for good, but mostly because I was SUPER into Ace Attorney as a kid. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ (Also my family was extremely against me doing anything art-related, but we lived apart for a while now, so we cool). (ALSO! It means I get free pens tehe)

Unfortunately that meant little time for art and learning, so I feel like I have lots to catch up on. I’ve decided to focus my free time on drawing comics for now to feed myself self-indulgent fanfiction maintain my skills until I have more time to learn. I’m very fortunate that there are people happy to work with me to make their stories come to life, and I’m always on the lookout for more collabs! I can’t post those until their launch/release though, so doodles will have to do.

Totally unrelated, thoughts and feelings on Ultraman Joneus?

Re TCG: I’d be happy to do any Ultra/Kaiju that has high meme energy. Here’s a fake parody I did for an example:

(Ngl making this made me realise I would get fired in 3 minutes as an illustrator because I cannot stick to canon compliant designs to save my life. Glad TsuPro don’t know who the hell I am)

Re Joneus: He’s cool! He exudes proper dad energy that rivals Ken IMO. I like to imagine that during the Absolutian spiel, Joneus can lead an exchange training/drilling programme between M78 and U40, and force Seven to run is dumb marathon

Sadly no OC requests at the moment! I usually open requests for milestones for a short period of time, though I’ve never done one here 🤔 (I believe I did one for OCs in 2022 on X)

I do plan on opening pen sketch commissions later this year, so if that is something you’re happy with, do let me know then!