Smoothie's Ramblings - Blog Posts

tumblr algorithm: recommends me posts based on tags i have used

me, shocked and appalled: you MARKET to Smoothie? you MARKET to them like the consumer? oh! oh! jail for tumblr! jail for tumblr for One Thousand Years!

tumblr's algorithm decided to freak out on me yesterday so i had to go on a spree of "this particular post is not for me" and blocking so now it doesnt know what to show me

i have scarred The Algorithm with the tools it gave me and it best be hesitant to go rogue again

if you hear yapping when you knock on my door thats the dogs. they're all little chihuahua mixes. now if you hear yipping thats the kobolds. important distinction

i know this is about media but i imagined like. a fucking skeleton buddhist monk. how hard would that go. wholesome 100

Really don't like this trend of people using "wholesome" as a synonym for "bloodless and celibate"

i love writers most of the time i really do but tumblr HAS to understand by the 45th time i click "this post is not for me" that i do not want to see Blue Lock smut. i dont even watch sports anime.

my natural punishment for using the for you page i suppose

changing my name to "Josh" and immediately seeing a leaderboard and annotated minimap appear in multiple corners of my vision

artists staying up to draw so they can draw more: oh heehee im going to be so productive

the sudden disappearance of 4 years of their skill the next time they awaken:

reminder to myself to never go into the comments of a post with any sizeable amount of notes about a Totally Normal and Innocuous Thing or Experience because i forgot that those are the cracks that let me peer directly into hell

I wrote nearly 4300 words today. In just one day I've gone from "yeah I still have a bit left before I can start doing the drawings for the book" to "oh hell yeah i can just do a little 3-page epilogue and then art it up" in one day. I'm crazy. the end of this project is in sight. i am so happy about this informa

screaming crying i finally finished that god forsaken chapter. its done. what do you mean i have 2 more to wr

its time to finally get a new brush and start working with that. a few drawings will be awkward until i get the settings and stuff right, but then i will finally be on my way to 1000 hmmm.

WOWZA i am going to be struggling for a long time to improve my art i realize. literally every artist i look up to and try to learn from has super thin lineart and lots of detail but i keep falling into thick lineart. i have to fix that but its so hard. maybe i need to get my eyes checked out.

WOWZA i am going to be struggling for a long time to improve my art i realize. literally every artist i look up to and try to learn from has super thin lineart and lots of detail but i keep falling into thick lineart. i have to fix that but its so hard. maybe i need to get my eyes checked out.

incidentally, are either of those strioboros characters of yours single? 👀👀👀

Technically, both of them are, however one is pretty much just me plus lore and the other one is 12. Little bit awkward.

Space is a big place, though, so there's plenty more out there. somewhere.

you ever see something and think "wow that community is so cool" and then you remember that you're literally part of it

one of these days i will make a post thats just like "HAHA YES! I'M FREE!!!!" and then you will know. i will be free.

i am drawing each of these on their respective day this week (already finished today's

dragon calendar:

monster monday

titanic teeth tuesday

wonderful wings wednesday

thick horns thursday

fat tail friday

seismic tail saturday

silly snoot sunday (we have fun with this one)

the creature urges are strong tonight and yet alas i cannot go sprinting around a college campus on all fours or else someones gonna get security on me

the next time i make any dragon character and a D&D nerd starts trying to correct MY lore about MY DRAGONS based on a tabletop roleplaying game's story i am going to shove a mythological compilation of dragons throughout history up their ass and then stab them with a big sword. same goes for people who tell me my dragons arent actually dragons because they have slightly different numbers of limbs. burn in dragon hell.

almost have to actually scream "trust the process" repeatedly at myself because i am once again trying to change up how i do lighting and it looks WRONG but its NOT DONE YET CHILL OUT

Art Side Blog

i did the thing guys i made a side blog where i reblog my art to so if you hate me and just want to see my art and not any of my other presence then go follow @smoothies-scrawlings

all future random thoughts will be tagged with "#smoothie's ramblings" and the art will now get "#smoothie's scrawlings" for more organization

i dont really make new years resolutions since everything i want to do i just do or it takes more than a year. years of being a student makes me feel like this is really the halfway point rather than the start of a new year. Oh well.

i think this year i want to transform my art style from the ground up. It's changed a whole lot from last year, but I didn't do much foundational stuff for it. It's just better anatomy and actually using lighting that isn't one layer of poorly thought out cell shading.

I'm not even an artist as my main thing. I just do it for fun. But I think it's better to make goals for fun things than weigh yourself down with big consequence-heavy resolutions.

Might make a side blog for just my art this year. also organize my stuff.

New profile picture coming either when i cant stand the sight of the current one or on my birthday, whichever comes first.