#robot replies

There’s not a lot I can do about Phil‘s hand holding the wither skull as I’m just editing these on my phone, but here’s a few that look kinda neat!

Also bonus! The complete opposite:

No matter who Tommy gets swapped with it’s a HOOT that’s for sure, no swap can save anyone from his thinly veiled confusion and displeasure

He keeps popping out of the water to holler about it until he runs out of bubbles (reverse breathing lol) and diving back down to take a breath just to pop back up, it sounds VERY weird to everyone to hear Tommy’s complaining in Nikki’s voice even to him when he accidentally hits a high note, he eventually switches gears when he fully processes that he’s never actually SEEN the terraforming Nikki’s done under the water and no ones really listening to him complain at this point anyways, being preoccupied with their own body swap situations

So he dives down to check it out and once Nikki realizes where he’s probably gone she just hopes he doesn’t fuck anything down there up too much. He DOESNT but he does set a few surprises (pranking traps) and scrambles around her chest organization for when they all swap back for her to find and also figures out a way to braid her much longer hair cause it keeps annoying him by getting in his face. He reappears like 2 hours later in Wilburs haunted house and manages to scare the crap out of Jack -who was leaning against the glass- and continues letting everyone know EXACTLY what he thinks about this whole situation, abeit slightly muffled

He’d totally think the feel of scales, fins, and sharp teeth is actually kinda cool but he would NEVER admit it outloud, claiming that feathers still rein supreme in the field of awesomeness. His usual floaty-ness actually means he gets a hang of Nikki’s swimming abilities super quickly and finds ways to stay with everyone else despite being waterbound

Oh! I was just throwing the ideas out there for anyone to use buuuuuut if I WERE to make my own au of it I’d totally have Tommy end up as Charlie, I was considering Jack Manifold till I remembered Tommy would definitely just cause arson as a Blazeborn and Slimecician is honestly funny enough as it is that I’d want him to end up as it. He would 100% spend the first ten minutes bouncing confusedly and end up hiding in the walls of Wilburs house the first time he gets hit (and shrunk), there is screaming involved.

Slime!Wil: bounces too much

Slime!Wil pokes fun at Mer!Tommy whole in smol forme a little too close to the waters edge and Mer!Tommy quickly decides its much easier (and safer) to just grab and and throw Charlie’s body than he ever could/would to Wilbur normally. Slime!Wil makes a shocked squeaky toy noise when Mer!Tommy grabs him out of surprise and just full blown fucking SKIPS him like a bouncing ball on steroids

JETLAG

I have a few that I use yeah! First rule of thumb, The first two or three things you draw while trying to get out of artblock are most likely not going to become finished pieces, this is OKAY and ENCOURAGED, Think of it as warm-ups to ease yourself back into it! Artblock tends to happen because we set too many expectations upon ourselves or find a way to subconsciously wall ourselves off from drawing from anxiety, which also tends to block out all the ideas

Number one way, do some little warm-up exercises!

The first thing I always recommend to anyone is to draw some blobs! No really hear me out, pick an animal —personally I usually go for snakes or cats— and, if you’re on traditional do some contour lines and make some blob shapes, if you’re on digital set your brush size really high and make some blobs that look VAGUELY like your animal, than without doing any erasing, add some little details or eyes to make it look more like it’s animal, you can add to the shape— other colors, tails, ears etc— but the main rule of thumb here is NO ERASING, Filling up a sheet with them and making it simple helps you ease back into it and warms up your drawing muscles

Another one I recommend is grabbing a reference and just vaguely sketching it out, you’ll see this one repeated no matter who you ask about art block, some will say do gesture drawing, some will say do contour practice, honestly it’s whatever fits your bill. Practice some hands, doodle some random faces, grab an object and draw it in a stylized way, this doesn’t only help you practice but it can also give you some ideas for future projects, or to just turn the sketch into your favorite character lol

This one includes a little bit of mental prep but honestly? Save. Every. Sketch. Even if you make/look at it during artblock and say ‘wow I hate this’ you SAVE IT, your concepts are still good, your brain is just telling you that you can’t make it work, and yeah some of the sketches aren’t gonna be anywhere near pretty but that’s the POINT! You don’t have to work on one picture the entire time you can bounce between multiple depending on where you feel you’re most comfortable each day, and you don’t have to use every sketch as your basis but your concepts are what make your art yours, getting rid of it and only having the things that you’ve finished will give you unrealistic expectations to keep OUTSHINING them every time and set up more of a wall for yourself in the long run

This one’s a bit more specific but, character design! This is the one I use the most besides the blobs, make a creature! Grab a generator and fuse some animals together, make a fake pokemon outta it or make a new hybrid altogether, don’t worry about how realistic it is the important part of this one is the thought process, you don’t have to use it in the future you just need to make it for now, it definitely helps get your gears turning while still keeping it generally non-stressful. Grab a random mood board and make a character design out of it, take a theme (steampunk, robot, alien, clockmaker, etc) and apply it to something mundane, like coins,or pens, or book covers! Or, of course, fashion! Purposefully make the most deviantart neon edgy OC possible! Turn your main brain off and just have as much fun with it as you can, you don’t have to post it you don’t even have to show it to anyone else

A lot of artblock is about shifting your gears or changing perspectives of what you create to feel good about it again, like I said before a huge part of artblock is feeling like your art isn’t ‘good enough’ or feeling like you’ve run dry on ideas, or just pure unfiltered stress. The biggest thing you can do is to start small again, draw like a kid, don’t let your thoughts about anatomy or critiques stop you, and you’ll find yourself starting to warm back up to your own creations. At the end of the day if it’s just causing you a lot of stress trying to break through art block the best thing for you might be to actually step back and give yourself a break, and come back later.

The best part of art is you can literally do whatever you want, draw something cursed, redraw a meme, draw Frosty the snowman saying ‘fuck’, play with colors, draw something cute as scary as you can or vice versa, draw a mushroom, make up a new kind of animal or plant, draw yourself as if you were in your favorite media’s, the best way to go is to let go of all the ‘cringe culture’ mentality and just go as apeshit as possible