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Passel 2017 ref
After this commission cycle’s over I’m going to be going through my entourage of OC’s and updating them all. Changing a few colors here and there, focusing on accentuating their personalities and body types to be less generic and more varied.
To start it off have a freshly touched up passel ref!
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Unf my gas wife~
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I wanted to come today and talk a bit about another artist here on Tumblr and the issues he and I both face, and possibly the reasoning behind it. If you’re not a fan of drama, or don’t know what I’m talking about, there might be something to take away from this from a moral or even scientific perspective even if you don’t particularly care about the specifics. It’s quite a marvel of social interactions to behold.
Replica is not perfect. But neither am I. In fact, we actually both agree that we’re quite far from perfect and make plenty of mistakes and have issues that we both want to fix. And while we’re far from perfect, I’d be willing to say neither of us are evil or live to try and make other’s lives harder. Maybe at times, but who doesn’t get mad?
For those who don’t know, Replica and I got in a fight in winter of 2015 over the now quite obviously silly subject of videogames and opinions about them. At the time, neither of us were in a good place and we took it out on the other creating a rather large shitstorm. We agreed to stay away from each other, but it got way more complicated than that, and way more violent on both sides. But not between us surprisingly, but between our friends.
Replica and I recently had a rather long conversation about how these last two years have been and what we’ve seen from our friends. Needless to say we’re both rather tired about the entire argument, which has now blown so far out of proportion we’ve come together to bring forward this issue we both see.What started out as a simple argument created what I can only describe as factions. On one side was Replica’s friend group and on mine was mine. And while these groups had the absolute best intentions for us as artists, and were great friends, it quickly turned into a battle. Small at first, but as the years went on both sides recruited more and more, either people who agreed with our philosophies and searched for like-minded friends, or new friends who had no idea about the other artist and got spoon fed propoganda until they hated the other ‘team’ like everyone else. These groups essentially created an idol of the other artist which they hated to the point of rabid malice.
These idols were far from accurate, in my group Replica was constructed as an evil troll who hated everyone and everything- and who’s only purpose was to try and make everyone else suffer for his amusement. In Replica’s group I was formed to be a narcissistic egotist who wanted everyone to bend over backwards for me and praise me as some god.
It was a war of philosphies, of such large proportions that the groups spent less time arguing with each other and more time circlejerking in our private chats about how angry the other person made us.
Needless to say this sort of behavior was endearing at first to have people back us but quickly became terrifying, we had unintentionally created monsters who believed they were doing good. People were saying things and causing drama we had no say in, fighting in our name with good intentions in mind but with the worst consequences. We don’t blame anyone for this, we’ve both lost friends and we both agree we probably should have stopped it before it got this bad.It needs to stop. These images of the other we’ve formed in our niche circles are not accurate, neither of us are perfect yes and we’ve both made mistakes but neither of us should be crucified for them. If anything, we need to use these mistakes to remind us that we’re human. People will always disagree. But disagreements are no reason to hate someone. It’s entirely possible to be friends with someone you disagree with.
The amount of gossip I’ve seen about us, both about me from his group and about him from my group, is so inane that sometimes I wonder if our groups even see the other as a person anymore.
In the end, Replica and I want it to end, for our sake, for the sake of all of our close friends who’ve stuck by us, and for the sake of the NSFW ‘fandom’ as a whole. This isn’t healthy for anyone, and we’re determined to make it better after all of this, on both sides.
As a bonus, have a snippet of a video talking about exactly what’s been going down from a philosophical perspective
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Atmospheric sketch commission for Ziom5000! Thanks for commissioning me!
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Colored it for him too.
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YCH featuring Silver, Icy Breeze, and one other I’m not familiar with, art by @hioshirunsfw
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I made a weird Passel baby for @ralek-arts
Teeth and fluff!… and oddly coloured lines.Lil’ Passel babuuu~ thanks Dr! I knew she’d fit in just fine with your style :P
Woot, looks great, doc
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A kinda-sorta commission for @silverliningpony!
Seems Penny’s worked through some of her own hangups and decided to give Silver a shot.
I’m really particular about the kind of anatomy I want to portray my ponies as having. Took me a while before I found some good references for teats and vaginas that I was really happy with and adapted. I like my crotchboobs (teats) to be present but subtle.
I don’t draw clop all that often- I draw a lot of lewd and explicit stuff, but not clop, surprisingly. I want to draw more- get better at this!