ResettePlayer

Ooh, I've got a few weird headcannons and crackpot theories too. - WX-78 was the result of Wagstaff trying to cheat death with a robotic body. That experiment only half-worked. - Once, long ago, I headcannoned that Willow was Wilson's younger sister. To account for the age difference, they had about six other siblings (having large families was common back in the day). Wilfreda and William Higgsbury named their children (from oldest to youngest) William II, Wilson, Wilhelm, Wilda, Wilbur, Wilton, Willard, and Willow. - If Willow was related to Wilson (she's probably not), she ended up in the Constant by using the portal found in Wilson's cabin while trying to figure out where he vanished to. If we continue along with this blatantly false headcannon, we could conclude that Wilson and Willow were never very close, due to their age difference, but maybe they had some respect for one another as they are both black sheeps in their family. - Wilson's wanted to pursue science, but his parents gave him only two choices: become a lawyer or a doctor. He chose the medical field, but ultimately either dropped out or was kicked out once it was discovered that he was messing around with blood magic. - Wilson actually invented the Meat Effigy. He desperately WANTED it to be accepted by the scientific community, but they never let him demonstrate its abilities and brushed him off as an odd, desperate rookie. "There's no way your beard hair has special scientific properties." - Here's an idea that's a bit of a more of a stretch-- Woodie is a WWI veteran. When he returned home after the unimaginably traumatising experience, he came back to an empty home. His wife left him for another man. That with the horror of losing all of his friends to violent death made him try to smother his mental anguish with work-- primarily logging, of course. As time went on and as he continued to deny his trauma, he ended up attaching the name of his wife to his trusty axe who never let him. Things escalated from there. Maybe at one point he gets bitten by a radioactive beaver, or else cursed by some forest spirit for cutting down way too many trees in too short a time. - Willow is extremely effective at living on the run. Since she's, you know, a criminal. It's served her pretty well so far. - Abigail died from the Sleepy Sickness. - Wilson will occasionally whistle the Ragtime tune while working just to torment Maxwell. As revenge, Maxwell will use his Codex to give Wilson some pretty awful nightmares. - Maxwell, very briefly, had massive appreciation for Wilson's generous act of getting him off the Throne. That quickly turned to bitterness when he learned just how much life in the Constant sucked.

This is actually me trying to draw a mask that had room enough to accommodate Caraluthis' massive nose. Female character, actually. I understand the confusion, since I do struggle with drawing women a bit. She's probably thinking about how out-of-character it is for her to be a fashion model.

Inktober the Thirteenth.

Accidentally produced this kind of funny sketch.

I'd say so. Feel free to use lots and lots of colour and lines. Old stone is especially rough; there is not one square centimetre that isn't rough. If you look at some of the official art, they got the look by adding a paper texture digitally. If you can't do that, you kind of have to do the work yourself.

Whoops, sorry, I just realised that the reference link I gave you wasn't very helpful--so I'll just link to the wiki: http://dontstarve.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Gateway Adding texture can depend a lot on what software you're using. If your software has layers and a chalk brush, you could lightly cover your stones in a layer under the purple light and lineart and that would make the stone look grainy. If your software doesn't allow that, though, you'll most likely have to rely on line and splotches of flat colour. Having the colour splotches be very close to the base colour, but not quite matching should work well. Having the splotches uneven will ideally make the stone look older and rougher--if it's too clean and regular, it'll look polished. Using light, quick line strokes can help make something look textured as well. Be careful to make them thinner and/or less black than the outline, so that it looks more like the surface of the object that's facing you. Having the lines be less clean-looking than your outline may help as well. Even drawing little shapes that resemble chips or chunks taken out of the object can help too. Sorry if this is unclear--texture can be hard to explain sometimes.

Some Inktobers I never got around to putting up.

The image isn't loading here at the moment, but I can see it on the art stream thread. The thing with shading is that you need to know where your light source is. The Ancient Gateway is difficult because the light source is mostly from the floor and is also strongly coloured. I see that you have used gradients to give it a bit of a glowing effect, which is good--it would probably look more like a light source, however, if the flagstones were darker in comparison. The flagstones appear to be lighter than the purple, and they draw as much attention from my eyes. Looking at the glowy things you have up top, they certainly look more glowy than the purple stuff you have on the floor since they are surrounded by darker colours. My main point is that you shouldn't be afraid to go super dark with this piece. The Ancient Gateway is situated in an underground cavern, after all. Even going solid black for the background and using darker grey for the objects in the foreground may not be a bad idea. Take a look at this screenshot from the game: It's super dark! The flagstones are indeed lighter than most of what's in there, but still fairly dark compared to what you have now. The glowing effect is also accomplished by colouring the flagstones in various reddish-greys rather than using gradients. You can use either method. Drawing the Ancient Gateway is pretty hard! I might give it another pass myself.

Ahh, thank you very much! You've been sticking around this thread for a while now, so I got the impression that you were here for something, but it's still super nice to hear it explicitly. Thanks for taking the time to say so!

Gateways Galore. Question: is "mad scientist" a valid Halloween costume when you are one full time?

It's a two for one special this week-- the Ancient Gateway and the Future Gateway.

Aww, man, these are so good. The drooling one especially makes me want to get back into drawing dragons. These are just so appealing to look at!

A ghost army is comparable to a skeleton army. And we all love skeleton armies.

This creature has a needlessly extensive backstory. In a nutshell, they want to eat the souls of all living organisms in their quest to become God, and had to be restrained. Naw, I meant the photo. I usually try to use natural light for taking the pictures, but at this point it was too late in the evening. The quality looked a lot worse on my low-brightness laptop screen; it doesn't look that bad now that I'm viewing it on a better screen. Well, you're not entirely wrong. He's a ghost, actually, tied to his planet via the triangular nail driven into his skull. The gem is a magical Dragon Heart that grants him Magneto powers. I just put it there so he'd have something to do with his hands, though it is an object relevant to his character.