i have decided this is just as far as i'm gonna take these protoframe concept sketches

just skin tone and touches of energy color and that's it. i need at least a six month intensive course on how to render the greeblies that are endemic to #warframe and especially prime warframes. i am absolutely tilting at windmills, god bless my silly self, when it comes to keeping up with the style

but fuck it! have a protoframe Octavia! DJ Infiniti would really like to go back home now, Hollvania is cold and there are absolutely no carnivale celebrations?! and most importantly, if she did this all over again... she would not have worn one of her stage costumes to go get that "techrot vaccine" that the good Dr. Entrati promised #warframe1999 #oopsiarted

so have you ever, fuelled by pure hubris, made the artistic decision to punch so far above your weight you may as well be a gnat trying to punch out superman?

ladles and gentenno, i have made a terrible mistake. my terrible mistake is going, "wow i have some cool protoframe ideas! what if some of my favs show up with prime-informed protoframe designs, and the excuse of why they're so fancy is they're rockstars who were all doing the same abba-tax-writeoff trick! yeah i can draw this! it will be so cool!". like a fool. like a fucking knave

anyway three hours later i have the start of DJ Infiniti, aka Acephie Dorsainvil, aka Octavia aka the one who's on keytar and does a fantastic job of making that look cool as shit while Garuda is thrashing on lead guitar

send sympathy/pity/gentle derision lmao #warframe #oopsiarted

i have done..... a draws

anyway i need to write up who he is but here's an old SWTOR character i have dusted off and may end up trying to rp somewhere

mostly because i think that him going "welp universe sucks for me rn, i'll just have my cult freeze me for a lil bit and come back in a century or so" in the old republic only for some fucks to find him around original trilogy period would be extremely, EXTREMELY funny. especially when he goes "well i'm sure it'll be okay... i mean i did still put that cache in alderaan, and - ....WHAT HAPPENED TO ALDERAAN????"

(smash cut to somewhere in space, the sad rubble of alderaan, rocks drifting in the midnight of space. and there is also a single perfectly preserved silver tea set)

i still don't know what the fuck to dress him in

the vibe is "beau brummel goes to coruscant" lmao

he spends a lot of time and effort presenting himself as Lord Akates, the fop, the frivolous, the ever-so-easy to look over, the harmless Bertie Wooster type who just happens to have a lightsaber, the guy who's technically a sith but everyone can just ignore and write off as a nobody who will do nothing. ...it is all the better so he can columbo through the place acting incompetent right up until his enemies realize that

oh right

he's also Darth Oleandrus the Heretic, the Poisonous, the Ravenous.

but until he gets to the point where he feels pressed enough to do that, he'd much rather flounce around the place acting catty, delivering lectures about how the worst thing a sith can be is boring, and letting everyone assume that his success is all because he was able to poach talent for his personal army due to running a very quality mess hall. (it's only mostly because he gave the sith empire something to truly inspire them and that thing is taco tuesday)

anyway

he is also

1. a tiny ass short king, 5 feet flat on a good day with his hair teased up a little bit

2. fucking tiny skinny little fella that you can knock over with a stiff breeze. just a little guy!! he's just a little guy!!! you wouldn't hurt a little guy, wouldja, jedi????

3. has some really obvious scarring on his face due to being a former scullery slave who the head chef got tired of him humming. head chef, being in a sith household, solved this by heating up a metal chain bridle to red-hot and making akates wear it repeatedly. it's not like he's the first nor last former slave to end up a sith lord, so he's stopped bothering to hide it because it lends a bit of street cred (and also nobody will notice too hard about how he is conspicuously absent any of the physical signs of using the dark side... ....on account of he doesn't...) (listen one of the epithets is the heretic what do you expect)

imagine also some blond hair that tends towards stringy, and green-grey eyes that could charitably called "chartreuse" and noncharitably be called "pondscum with a hint of dishwater".

#oopsiarted

is.... is this a fursona ref???

i mean kinda, i am shamelessly exploiting my bff's enthusiasm for vrchat and customizing avatars, so i have handed them this Document Of Vibes so they can like. do the equivalent of shopping on my behalf LOL

so... it IS a fursona ref, kinda :blobthonkang:​ though i went with an outfit that i wouldn't really wear irl but is way easier to make happen in virtual space without Oh God Skirt Physics #oopsiarted

oh boy! drew me some characters from the silly lil fangame i'm working on. including player character who is A Good Roman Girl About To Have Fate Happen To Her #oopsiarted

would you believe that last night i forgot to actually post the actual art i made whoops

anyway

here is the circus weirdo from horse girl mmorpg, aka the character where the updated model made me know instantly that the people working there have tumblr accounts and were there for that moment when everyone got into the onceler, except i was trying to find a good actor to help make sense of his face

it turns out that when you reference jeremy brett, you create ( strongbad voice ) a SEVERE HOTTIE ( / strongbad )

#oopsiarted

i was sitting here thinking that maybe i should start an instagram for #pixelhorsetime fanart, but what to post first? like as an avatar or introduction???

then mspaint called to me and whispered

do something fucken stupiiiiiid

and how can i resist such siren song #oopsiarted

good news, can draw pretty ok without having to race against pain!

bad news, it takes me like four times as long.

however please enjoy my horse girl mmorpg character trying to just get ready for a nice night out at a metal concert, but being menaced by her freisian horse #oopsiarted #pixelhorsetime

also the shaded in green kinda means two different things, since honse is black honse it's white grease paint on top. ...whereas harper is in the traditional white base with green marking out where the black would be. .......yes this is confusing but maybe i'll like, actually ink and color it sometime.

i don't think i'm good enough at drawing honse yet to make the freisian bit be obvious thorough anything other than the egregious fantastic barbie-my-dream-horsie level mane and tail but w/e close enough close enough lol

anyway more importantly, i was able to get to that intensely satisfying moment when you're trying to figure out what a character looks like, especially in your style, with all the details the game they come from don't have, so you shift things around and try things and then pause, look at your canvas and go

oh hey! there you are!

so whilst writing silly fanfiction of horse girl mmorpg, i now finally have a decent portrait of main character Harper Deerstar! #oopsiarted

also no i don't know how to draw those stretchy tattoo chokers lmao i tried

the true purpose of being able to draw and write fanfic both at once is simple: to make silly comics that are only amusing to you about what happens when your innocent horse girl mmorpg protagonist character meets your pet flaming garbage fire au darth vader

#oopsiarted

#reintroductions HI! i'm Harp!

i migrated to the fediverse from tumblr, and have stuck around ever since!

i'm 34, use she/her pronouns, and am one of the few token cishets around here lol. i'm white to the point where i think green fluff and ham salad are valid foodstuffs to put in your mouth and eat. despite these things, i try my best to not be shitty, and am thankful to many people on mastodon trusting in me enough to help me learn! i'm christian so expect some occasional christianposting; i'm also southern and am a bit defensive about the good parts of this culture (aka: the parts we stole from the slaves. sorry folks y'all know i'm right, let's go burn some confederate flags)

i'm a disabled spoonie who deals with chronic illnesses, especially chronic pain. i did become a cyborg though about half of it, which is pretty fuckin rad if i do say so and i highly recommend that! i am also not neurotypical, which interacts with all of this, especially with things like the pain-induced ADHD.

because of the aforementioned disabilities and brainweirds, my brain is usually in some type of scramble. i try to tw/cw for stuff as i can, but i also admit that sometimes i miss stuff. similarly, i usually don't caption my images because of pure conflicting needs.

i have a puppy named Holly who is EXTREMELY GOOD, and pictures of her go in the #hollypls tag! i also sometimes try to do an art and only remember to tag it half the time with #oopsiarted , but it is far more rare whoops.

one of my main hobbies is also #lolitafashion , which i do not wear often due to health reasons but i am in love with anyway! (NO, NOT THE FETISH. please don't darken my door with that evil, leave me to my rufflepile in peace) i'm a big advocate for plus-sized and disabled lolitas, and my tastes lean more towards classic though really it's "whatever i can get" LOL! i plan to continue chronicling my journey - slowly - at sweetdisabled.com .

i am also, nominally, a furry. my fursonas include a black bear with purple-lightning claws, and an opal carbuncle (ffxiv style!).

other than that, i play a lot of computer games and games on my switch!

my switch code is SW-4830-7360-8912 ! feel free to add me if we're mutuals (though perhaps poke me so i know who you are if you feel inclined - i'm very bad at connecting people from one online space to the next, lol!)

if i have tricked you into thinking i am a good poster who says interesting and good things: you poor unfortunate soul.

also i am one of the main reasons why ellie made the new character limit so big. some people are wordsmiths. i am a word mason constructing walls of text. sorry about blocking you in here fortunado, i gotta montressor sometimes

please see unlisted replies for a few more FAQs, delving into details for things listed above!

despite chattering about an AU i nonetheless have some Regular Batman Writing??? i wish to do. the questionmarks are because apparently my shtick is aping the style and format of lore entries for The Secret World. except longer. because that's, y'know, a format that other people will totally understand and be interested in. i figure that at this point i just need to accept this is part of my brand because i keep doing it oh well.

anyway

the Buzzing goes to Gotham

the Buzzing is going to come with the thesis that the essence of Batman is not defined by all of these comics and movies and tv shows. the Buzzing would like to declare that Batman has always truly been written, at heart, by Poe.

and ofc that's the terrible lens i'm looking at characterization of Batman thru, so uhhhhhhhhh here's the out-of-order-in-respect-to-other-bits longest chunk wherein a cask of fine wine is promised and never really delivered on, with the preview image being the first few paragraphs to get people interested lmao

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myfuPcfQnHO3IH-QOAD7iqp3t9RLyW1pzuEAl17xtGw/edit?usp=sharing #oopsiarted #batman yeah that's getting a proper tag if you disagree with my characterization, one you are wrong two get ready to meet me in the thunderdome

i have DONE a DRAWS

in honor of the most recent prime because THAT'S MY GIIIIRRRRLLLL

also i kinda just did a shit job coloring but i wanted to slap some colors in there (partially to make the clothing just.. be able to be visually read lmao) but Oh Well. it's not my fault that the design is deliciously baroque yknow

please do not ask me to draw hands or knives it will be fine.

#oopsiarted #warframe #fastestwaytospotyourartmistakesistopostyourart