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I figured that since it's already been 5 crazy years on DA, I'd do a bit of a progress report! Hope you enjoy~

2017

At this point, I had lots of zany ideas back then, with the first one being Vocaloid crossovers. There was this phase where I'd be raving about voice synthesizers, no matter how obscure they were.

My doodles were all in pencil because I feared that I'd ruin everything with color, and how I'd draw things ended up being super weird, not to mention that I had poor photography skills and drew everything on the backs of scratch paper. I'd always try to imitate other artists' ways of doodling, particularly those with an anime style. Not gonna lie, but I found myself swimming in that hole of artists wanting to make everything look like anime.

Catch It! (FNaF Mangle Generations)
Flight of the Valkyries
Just Gold

I really hate this era as of now. However, I tried going into colored pencils late in the year.

2018

Come the year after, I started using colored pencils to try and improve my art. I began to widen my range of acquainted fandoms, particularly in the world of indie games. However, my doodles still ended up being pencil-based, which wasn't nice to say the least because they'd end up grainy and messy.


This was also the year a periodic table humanization project came to mind, but I made the mistake of taking characters from another user even while crediting him. In hindsight though, that was quite a blessing because I was implicitly encouraged to create my own versions of the elements, which I was honestly stoked about.


Also, this was my first foray into digital art, in which I started playing around with Adobe Illustrator Draw…on my iPhone. With my fingers.

Achlys - Light Of Isolation
I, Undyne, Will Strike You Down!
New Heads 1-28

I still really hate this phase, but I began to make sense of where I was headed.

2019

With traditional art, I decided to snag a Copic set to test my skills, and with digital art, I took a whack at using Procreate. It was from there that my style found its footing and I was able to make my own content. I began revising my elements' designs that year, and found more fandoms to take part in. Funny enough, I also learned about Vindicaris starting that year, and I've been reading it ever since.


I tried to improve with hair, eyes, and all, but I realized my eyelid doodles were…too thin. My shading had noticeably improved (if you say so), but somehow, my limbs looked pretty off at times.

Hayden Hydrogen [Official Ref]
Try Guys X South Park
Paragon Phantasm Funko POP!s

2020

Then came the pandemic, in which I started to experiment with more backgrounds and all. This was the year that I found my place in learning musical theater, trying voice acting, and all. I did all I can to experiment with different blending modes, brushes, and environments to create something better than three years back. I found my way to participating in art challenges and daily doodles, which I've carried on to this day.

Stranger Sewers In A Nutshell Be Like
Going Out In 2020 Be Like
10/18/20: Trap

2021

A year later, I found the world of drag and then tried to create my own alter-ego (it was Anderson Picnix at first), and tried to do more daily doodles from Mosstober. I think I've been unafraid to venture into previously untapped things like variegated backgrounds, effects, and somehow creating full-on backgrounds because. I felt like the plane had took off at this point.

(Unaired) Pasteloquence Promo
Day 12: Hopeless Romantic
Time To Be Silly!

2022

And here we are folks! We're almost halfway through the year and I'm happy that I don't hate my art as much as I used to anymore. I try to continue experimenting with things—my clothes don't have as much folds, my proportions have improved (drastically?), and I'm still trying to continue improving today!

(Not) Scary Oops.
Cosi FUN Tutte!
I'M A PNGTUBER JUST KIDDING
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Yes! I do mean it!


Been kinda running out of ideas until I rediscovered my love for Wii, Wii Sports (+ Club and Resort), and Wii Party (+ U)! Just comment down any of the CPU/canon Miis you'd like me to doodle ala Ryu/Nix/Tyler I guess so I can sorta get out of art block~

(Note that these aren't requests! Thanks!)

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Hey guys! Thought I'd make this so I won't have to continuously make status updates. I love art trades and stuff so yeah. I'm usually very lenient towards style so go ahead!

Also I'm willing to be part of Art-Trade-Bulletin! Art trades keep me happy because I love drawing all sorts of characters and it motivates me to challenge myself with new designs.

1. WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT DOODLE

I CAN draw: - humanoids and humans (includes OCs, canon characters, real people, etc.)

- simple to moderately complex designs

- furries (I will try)

- canon characters

- OC x canon, OC x OC, canon x canon ships (platonic or romantic, just as long as there's no incest!)

- mild gore

- multiple characters


I CANNOT draw: - anything related to fetishes

- sex scenes (I am not a minor, but I have my limits, okay?) - overly complicated designs

- incestuous ships

- organs (I really can't because they're complicated)

2. WHO YOU CAN DOODLE

(Un)fortunately I have too many characters, but I've got folders just in case!

Series OCs:

  • Superiodyc (periodic table):

OLD: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/67293361/superiodyc-old-references

NEW: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/80391939/superiodyc-new-references

One-off characters (not in series):

CiFu: they're in my Starlight Express (Train Musical Mania) folder

Trog: they're in my Vindicaris Stash folder (they have a scarf and is in light blue)

Terra: she's in my Vindicaris Stash folder (she's emerald green)

Cad: he's in my Vindicaris Stash folder (he's got dark skin and yellow hair but there's only one doodle of him) Tyler A. Wreck (drag persona): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/78205473/anderson

Miuna the Planarian: they're in the Art Challenges folder

Mobius Dickrell: check the Mosstober folder

Other science-related characters (please rummage around here): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/66369227/other-science-stuff

Renditions (my interpretations of canon characters):

Humanized Mr. Men and Little Misses: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/79734118/mr-men-little-miss-nostalgia-corner

Shakespearean characters: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/68973062/big-willy-shakes-ruined

Personas:

Candle (dragon sona): https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/81383068/candleee

Other sonas: https://www.deviantart.com/thou-art-avillain/gallery/66247472/sonas

Oh, and also, feel free to doodle any character(s) from any opera (ex. Magic Flute, Barber of Seville, Carmen, etc.)! Doesn't matter who they are~

3. WHAT TO EXPECT

Keep in mind that I usually doodle/finish first although you can also get started at the same time I reply to your comment. I'll doodle a bust for a bust, half for a half, etc. and I doodle everything digitally BTW!

4. EXAMPLES

Ship art/multiple characters:

Equals Purple
Harvest Hang-Out
Summer Love

FULL BODY:


Please Stop Me From Drawing Them...
The Queen
Another High Priest Doodle Just Because.

Half-body:

Oops I drew them again-
And The Stars Were Shining
Sailing The High Cs!

Bustshots:

Little Lavender Moment
6/15/21: Phos
6/27/21: Fiona Takaoka Fluorine

5. YOUR COMMENT

In your comment you must note:

  1. Which character of yours you'd like me to draw

  2. Which character of mine you'd like to draw

  3. Full, half, bust, or head-shot?

  4. Flat or shaded?

  5. How long will you take?

6. OH, AND ONE MORE THING…

Please, please, PLEASE DO NOT RUSH YOUR PART! I know y'all have a lot of stuff going on so don't. Also, do mention me or tell me if you're done so I can see your beautiful work!


Happy trading!

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Weenie 2K19?!

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Eh, just dressed up as a friend's original character and everyone thought I was someone else last year.


If you'd like to see me:

Art VS. Artist 2019

(No tags today, Satan. Not today.)

Journal:

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Horned Wild Boar

Brothers and sisters,


let me set the scene

for a nightmarish creature so foul & obscene

that penning this poem makes me want to scream,

but the timing is perfect - for it's Halloween.

So, if we must, let's just start at the top

of his oversized skull with his unruly mop

of so-called hair the no-color of dust

on a fissured scalp peeling & leaking out pus.

His locks wind 'round horns, they're

teeming with germs,

and look more like the husks of a million dead worms.

You've heard of bats in the belfry?

Well, it's not just a phrase;

small ones nest in his curls to hide from the sun's rays.

One more word on his noggin, for this must be said:

it's ten times the girth of a normal-sized head.

And if I haven't yet made the case for distaste,

let's move to the horror this thing calls a face.

Skin's the color of pumpkins dying a slow death

or a failing sun breathing its very last breath.

Brows like hairy slugs perched on orangey dough

crown flat yellow eyes peeking out just below.

Those beady orbs nestled in pouches and folds

of flesh home to all sorts of fungus and molds.

I suppose that's a nose next up on the list,

but it's rotting & roaches peer out through the slits.

Lips: scaly twin creatures all coated in muck,

like two lizards who crawled in some mud and got stuck.

Yes, his mouth is a marvel of nature's mistakes.

He has not one tongue - he has twelve made of snakes.

Oh, that slithering nest-hole just can't resist

striking at themselves as they writhe and they hiss.

And it's best if we speak even less of his teeth,

but they're green as the serpents who sleep underneath.

Now, we've seen enough here, so we shall begin

to speak of the mess under his bulbous chin.


(ART by Manzanedo: https://www.deviantart.com/manzanedo/art/Horned-Wild-Boar-828381992)

Slime Monster

And what appears next is not what you'd expect,

but two giant flaps like his neck... ate his neck.

His dermis is saggy, his guts are all stored

in a carcass that's shaped like some mutated gourd.

Yet he wears tailored suits, expensive and fine

that cling to limbs clunky and elephantine.

At the end of each arm is a claw like a crab.

The horrid appendages pinch and they grab.

He keeps them well sharpened and shined to a sheen,

but they are so small they can hardly be seen.

This would be almost a humorous twist,

if only this beast didn't really exist.

His mountainous legs suffer from the same flaws,

capped off in feet as tiny as his claws.

His whole frame reeks of sulfur.

He's covered in grime.

He leaves a lingering trail of malodorous slime.

This journey, I know's been an unpleasant one.

Dear reader, hang in there. We are almost done.


(ART by @penguin-jar: https://www.deviantart.compenguin-jar/art/Slime-Monster-162280033)

Bog Unicorn

He lives in the depths of an ill-smelling bog,

shrouded at all times in a venomous fog.

Lit by giant mushrooms

with an unearthly glow,

a sick, swampy kingdom where twisted things grow.

A pestilent monarch, he squats on his throne;

sips gallons of blood from a goblet of bone.

His subjects are legion, they flock to his side;

all manner of ghouls that the heart can't abide.

There's a pale hateful zombie,

who's bedecked in flies,

and humanoid shape that has fanged mouths for eyes.

There's a three-headed harpy who screams at the sun

and a man-eating frog that weighs nearly a ton.

One could spend forever

trying to describe

the monsters that make up his hideous tribe.

But our time draws to a close,

my stalwart friends.

Lock your doors, say your prayers -

for this is THE END.


(ART by: @ : https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/Bog-Unicorn-14403629)

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Journal:

I wanna see your take on this! Get a deviation for each stanza and link the works!

Stained-By-The-Sea

Probe100

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