#mushspeaks

oh boy. the reason ive never really answered a question like this is because i just kinda do stuff and dont think much about it, but i'll try.

easy answer: hyperfixation

complicated answer: still hyperfixation, but lots of practice over 3 years. i like to think of most folks as a series of circles, ovals and tubes, because generally AT is a very round show. i sorta take my favorite aspects of F+C and regular adventure time, because there are certain details in each i like better than their counterpart, and F+C is a bit less fluid than AT. though, i think i draw more in the F+C style than AT. anyways, here's a general idea of how i usually break up shapes during my sketch process, except i never save my full files so i had to draw over an existing drawing:

tubular! for me, most of capturing the feel is all in the sketch process. here's a slinkier, less structured, more AT-style sketch of betty for my next part: letting the lines and shapes relax. nothing has to be perfect. think of limbs as noodles with a kinda-joint. your lines should be flowy and loose, and the more AT style you're looking for the more of those traits your lines should have.

look at your favorite scenes and screencaps and see what you like about it and try to emulate that in style.

sorry if this isn't super clear, but i've studied this show's style and drawn it so long i guess i dont really need guidelines or even think about it anymore, especially now that im taking design liberties. also i used to be in the homestuck fandom and drew lots of bean mode. well i still am in it but you know. another thing i'd note is the proportions of those circles and tubes, even if i personally deviate from the source material, like how many heads a torso is supposed to be etc... uhh. i use a thicker line weight with thickness-by-pressure but if you REALLY wanna make it look right i'd recommend using a thin line tool with no pressure at the ends.

using mpreg to deal with crippling tokophobia is so real

every au i have or piece of artwork is set in a world with swapped gender roles and biology altered just enough to mean men get pregnant instead, but not too far that they're no longer male

i have such a hard time explaining to people that its not a fetish/kink or something malicious and that im just terrified of pregnant women.

hiii hi hi!! YOU'RE THE FIRST PERSON I'VE MET TOO, HI!! omg my tokophobia is so bad. i have had panic attacks and breakdowns at work because of it, but i will admit for me it is to a degree any pregnant person, not just women. i get the strongest reaction irl from people i know, but if it's consumed fictional media i can handle m/nbpreg as long as the character doesn't present too feminine? it's weird. i will still get instantly triggered by fpreg/fpreg in media, so i gotta always check to make sure the stuff i read/watch doesn't have pregnancy in it (spider episode of adventure time didn't trigger me, but the one where jakes mom is pregnant did)

while me and my therapist have discussed it in length i have yet to find out what started the phobia. i always feel like such a weirdo freak posting lmaoo i wish i knew why i coped like i do. i have a suspicion part of it is related to my dysphoria and the perception society has on pregnancy? but idk.

dude im so glad someone else is coping w tokophobia the same way as me. oh my god i thought i was the only one out here. usually im not so fixated on mpreg or One Guy and i do other things but simons had a chokehold on me for like 3 years now.

ISNT IT SO FUCKING WEIRD THOUGH?? LIKE IM SO SCARED OF PREGNANCY IRL BUT I KEEP ROTATING MPREG AROUND IN MY BRAIN? oughh i love you tokophobia anon we are 🤝 rn

it is so wild to see yall still here from like 2 years ago. hello my beautiful nonnies and non-nonnies. i love you!!

hi hi! i use firealpaca (whatever the latest version is) and a very slightly edited marker brush with no anti-aliasing on. heres the settings.

theres some rewriting id like to do for both the main storyline and some aus.. (side note, theres almost 700 posts. what have i done) and i'd like to recategorize some aus, do more what-if oneshot images mostly at anon request.. and ive been thinking about adding writing snippets to my art rather than slogging away at comics and losing my drive to make them. this last thing is something i think i will do if nothing else- though i will additionally redraw some of my super old artworks, especially the ones detailing simons early pregnancy.