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What I mostly do here is make and draw OCs, usually in settings shared with friends :]! Some are original, some are fan characters for things. Occasionally I’ll draw actual fanart for things but much less often

main/general blog > @myosotis-myotis (formerly bramblemantle)

^ follows from here

Flight Rising sideblog > @scytheclaw-mantis

^ not in use much rn

>>> My tag system is:

general talk > #chatter

characters > #char: [oc name]

settings > #set: [setting name]

roleplay settings > #rp: [rp title]

gameplay > #game playin: [game name]

other used tags > #my art, #my characters, #stuff for me, #others’ art, #others’ ocs, #friend stuff

>>> I tag for general context warnings (#[word] cw), don’t be afraid to mention if something should be tagged. i don’t draw or post nsfw, though occasionally i might interact w art with nonsexual nudity

>>> if sent anything i’m not comfortable with i will delete and block. do note that i’m an adult, if you’re a minor please keep healthy boundaries!

circumstance recently knocked my internet out for the better part of a week, in the downtime i did manage to create One Whole Art, the first thing I’ve drawn for myself sinnnccee… november? Cat name of Worm. From my pixel cats #mypixelcats

I don’t have a good well written description for its character to copy paste rn (and it’s intentionally still maleable so there’s room to work in new lore or ideas as new cats shape the direction of my little cat village), but I put down some stream of consciousness vibes on its toyhouse page.

OOC I was always pretty sure it would be one of the first cats I Ascended, felt right for the character idea I was envisioning based on the songs that inspired me. I did not at the time realize that cats Ascending prematurely would be a whole Thing included in on-site mechanics and lore. Not-cats can reach their Ascended life state naturally when their in-game age is 7 years or more, but they can also ascend in a sudden burst at any age when they feel trapped in a dire situation that requires a miracle. So Worm did ascend young through irregular circumstances (and xe’s only 3 on site right now, I think xe was still 2 when I started working toward ascension)

Hi anon, sorry for the wait! Your ask happened to find me while my internet was broken, and I made a few attempts at answering via phone data that got eaten by the tumblr void. and then i forgorrrrr

But yeah by all means go ahead!!! I’m excited that my curator style is an inspiration to you. And it is itself very derived from the real anatomy of vampire bats!! being one of two extant bat families that re-evolved efficient terrestrial locomotion, vamps can walk and run and leap and bound and launch into flight from a standing position, while most bats can’t hold their body above their legs and are close crawlers when grounded and need to climb to higher elevation before they can fly. So I recommend pulling up some vampire bat photos as anatomical ref and posing inspiration for wing-walking curators :]! also because they are very cute and fun to look at

Oh i didn’t ever post this did i ? from around november. art for friend @thegeekynarwhal, their ttrpg character in the form of a pink pigeon (as in the species with binomial name Nesoenas mayeri)

oh i believe we are SO getting somewhere. at long last

eye placement is not final i just wanted to visualize how these beads would work and i think Yeah they are a good fit. they’re like a cornflower colour with chatoyant properties (that’s like the tiger’s eye sheen that warps as your perspective moves. cat’s eye effect). the chatoyancy is more visible on the sides and it’d be more easy to attach ‘em that way without further supplies needed, but they look more Right when facing outward like this so i’ll need to play around with some glue for that. I haven’t used glue anywhere else, it’s all just wrapping wire around wire

yesssss…. YESSSSSSSSSSSS

my energy over all is dead and killed rn and i’m spending any remnant brainpower on trying to solve the current project, but i’m really excited i Just got the goldyellow ones and they’re EXCELLENT. so hard to find a hue like this, i was a little worried they’d end up being basically regular neon yellow pipecleaners, since the red ones i got diverged so heavily from their product photos. but no these are perfect. if anyone else is looking for yellow golds these were from walmart’s shitty marketplace thing, labelled as being from ‘Blaxill’, it was alongside some other rare yellow hues. the pale grey comes from packs sold in store, from ‘Hello Hobby’, there’s also a good red in that pack that’s less saturated than the red you get in most, it’s a pretty decent colour set.

slowly progress . slowly progress. also new enclosure for Projects bc my other pipecleaner bin is entirely full of pipecleaners. got me some reds in prep for the next. but i think i’ve still got quite a while before i’m finished. still wracking my brain on how i’m gonna round out the body with a cylindrical shape while retaining flex

like??? chain ‘spine’ on top (temporary supports to hold it at the right height and position) and then like …. upside down ribcage ???? back and forth zigzag that folds over the spine ????

process on trying to build out some structure that retains flexibility? settled on something of a chain. my fingers huuuuuurt. also gonna be a third ‘chain’ as a single top ‘spine’ i think bc i need that upper support line but i still want maximum flex. not altogether sure how i’m gonna fill in the gaps. like theoretically it’s just wrapping pipe cleaner vertically to make a big hollow tube but i gotta figure out my attachment points and how much it might restrict movement. I conceptually know how wooden snake toys work and that’s the design philosophy i’m building upon but i also want up/down flex and not just side/side. so far i feel pretty good about this method and i have Committed to it but there’s still a lot of mental physics simulations i’m doing at each step

below: previous idea i had to try but didn’t work. i kinda realized it wouldn’t bc pipecleaners don’t Stretch & this would essentially be two concentric circles regardless of bending direction and that would necessitate the outer line being longer. which doesn’t work with fixed length pipecleaners but i was hoping maybe points of movement would be enough to make it work