I’m sure most people who have a holiday don’t immediately make a warm up project that is A Lot but I did!
You’ll have likely seen the colour wheel meme going around on social media where people ask for characters to match the character on the wheel but I didn’t want that pressure so just did my own characters… And then I wanted to animate it in a little GIF form so you can easily see the upside down characters…
Before realising that’s 8 characters you have to draw DO you silly thing. Because I was aiming to go with the animation that did mean that I was therefore deliberately going to limit myself to make this easier to do… And THEN I decided to make them approximately the correct height relatively. I am a fool.
tl;dr: It was a fantastic time and I loved it (though not without a little minor feedback) but I should’ve tried to actually get in touch with more peeps, but c’est la vie.
After THE EVENT and missing last year’s WE’RE BACK IN BIRMINGHAM (well, were back in Birmingham, I’m in Greater Manchester again now). God I’ve missed this con and while I got little sleep (‘cus my body every night was just “???????SLEEP????????”) I genuinely somehow had the social energy to actually stick around people and aaaaaa
There’s a lot of these! I’m gonna put ’em here and there won’t be any general links for them (because I did around 20 of them), but you and find them in my various galleries haha
Hi my name is DarkOverord, I felt like I was struggling drawing something else and did a warm-up doodle and the warm-up doodle turned in to this
Nicking this line from Unconnected Marketeers – “What is a screen edge, anyway?” is a great topic for getting people’s interest.
You can tell it turned in to more than just “warm-up” ‘cus I’m posting it to galleries :B
SOME LORE as I’ve not got to an TRotO;SotR article for Feoh, I’ll stick the old one from 2014 here for lore reasons.2023-10-20 Editors note: No I will now ‘cus I redid it! Check out the revised Feoh Sigel article here!
This was actually a sketch originally I doodled for fun of me just wanting to try and draw my frog without its tongue out. But I kind of really liked how it looked so I wanted to do more with it.
Yearly post time! Will have some thoughts in here again whoops. Click through the read more to get a closer look at each piece as well as my thoughts for the year, otherwise here’s the summary image:
I want to thank you so much for all your support this year and I hope we all collectively kick 2023’s butt to endure it isn’t 2022 again.
Also this is the first pic with the 23 mark! I only started putting a year on my art midway this year so that’s nice of me 18 years later to keep track of years :B
I’m a tad late for Halloween but that’s okay ‘cus I only got this idea on the 28th of October
I’d have liked to get this out sooner but as it was a personal project I was prioritising commissions/having to scream at new sites ‘cus Twitter might suddenly fuck itself completely at any moment
So here’s Ferris, hanging off an unusually sturdy tree-branch in the night, and you’ve managed to spot them with a torch, lucky you!
But the thing about that is well. Thoughts change but also a lot of self doubt, especially as I started feeling that I was faking it etc.
I’m pretty masculine, I won’t lie. Quite “man” like and I never really thought to, do anything about it, but I never felt attached to it as “my identity”. I never “felt” transgender and neither did “woman” or “non-binary” ring out to me. Eventually I got talking to someone who basically phrased it as “male by default” and I was like “holy shit yes?”
So with some reinforcement behind me I kind of stumbled randomly on to agender, it felt right, it makes my brain happy.
“But… what if I was faking it for brain chemicals???” I kept thinking, especially as when I came out in June I effectively went “∅ he/they” is good :)”, the easiest “out” for all of this, even though I really never felt like that was correct but it’s easy for a masculine person and go like that. Constantly doubting that the genuine euphoria I felt back in February when I stumbled my way in to understanding.
So in safe places I did add in “it” to “∅ he/they”, eventually “∅ he/they/it” I swapped it round “∅ it/they/he”, and privately or in new places I put what made me happy…
Seeing my friends explore their identity over the past few months, and especially today made me realise “no wait I can do this”. I’ve been pushing off “he” for a while, so much so that I dropped it entirely in places I was “safe”. So I finally did it, I told everyone “it/they” on twitter and holy hell that felt good. I’d change it entirely but on Twitter I figure for the best I might have to leave “they” but almost everywhere else? No.
I’m DarkOverord, I’m an agender furry and my pronouns are it/its. They is acceptable, he is okay, but I’m an it, and that makes me happy.
Also know that I’m still getting used to that and if you call me “it” I will just melt in to a puddle for you.
I rambled here but I needed to make it in to words lol
