Been Kinda Fixated On Rock-Afire Explosion For A Few Days,, It's An Interest That Keeps Coming And Going

been kinda fixated on Rock-Afire Explosion for a few days,, it's an interest that keeps coming and going every now and then, and this time it's come back swingin' so i drew a little sketch of Beach Bear for the first time :)

may i interest you in this very funny out of context Garfield panel in these trying times

holy shit

nneed help finding an out of context discord screenshot......

HELLO DOES ANYONE HAVE THAT OUT OF CONTEXT DISCORD SCREENSHOT WHERE ONE PERSON GOES "i dont think you understand how much i love you." AND THE OTHER JUST SAYS "hamber" PLEASE,,,, I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN ITS SO FUNNY

the whole screenshot goes like this:

p1: "i don't think you understand how much i love you." p2: "hamber" p1: "it is like" p1: "indescribable" p2: "🔨"

if someone ends up finding it please post the link in the reply section or reblog with the image itself thank you :)

Finding An Old, Weird, Forgotten Raskulls Website

this post is dedicated to those in the Raskulls fandom... do you believe in the teapot?

this was a sort of inside joke going around Halfbrick's emails, specifically an email to a Destructoid writer in 2009. it started as a simple image attachment (the one above), before another, slightly more threatening email was sent saying you WILL believe in the teapot, as well as containing a URL to the now defunct "believeintheteapot" website. you can find the articles about this here and here. under the cut is me exploring an archive of this website and the many wack ass oddities on it.

i found out about this a little while ago, around the same time i was messing around with the Wayback Machine on Halfbrick's old blog from 2010, but i never knew there was a website related to it. seeing that the URL no longer worked, i popped it into the Wayback Machine and this is what i got:

.... a bit threatening of a question. even weirder, if you click "I believe", this is what you get:

if you're wondering what that countdown is counting down to, it's... well, Duck isn't the best counter as the website says, so it just continuously boosts up to random numbers in the thousands. guess we'll never know what godly endeavors the Holy Teapot has waiting for us... let's explore more of the site! what if i say "no" this time?

... cool! i just got sent straight to Hell! awesome! i guess the Teapot has more power than i first thought... just how many poor damned heathens are trapped within that cave? what the hell is that thing in the back? could it be the byproduct of the combined sins of those who denied lour lord and savior the Teapot? i never knew Raskulls had this much hidden lore.

according to the second article, the website feature only this image on it...

... which i didn't find when searching the website on the Wayback Machine. the article is dated on the 5th of October 2009, and the earliest capture on the Wayback Machine is on the 9th. at least there are plenty more captures of the website's more updated incarnation up to 2016 and that i get to show this anomaly to you :)

praise be the all-knowing Teapot, for it is our lord and savior. tell me... do you believe?

i've been updating the Barry vtuber model a lot since yesterday's post and so far i think he looks really nice! i accidentally hyperfixated on drawing him and stayed up until like 11 PM drawing the rest of his head, so uhh,,, audhd win??? i think???? i dunno, here's the updates i've made to Barry:

this was one of the additions i did last night after the post. i drew up the rest of his chin and went ahead and coloured him in :) i added his beard and made a start on shading it, using colours from that one JJ2 promo artwork of Barry with his thumb up, you know the one,, he's already starting to look a lot more complete than yesterday!!

here i've drawn his mouth and added more shading to the side of his face, as well as little wrinkles near his eyebrows. if you squint hard enough, you can see some little discoloured pixels near the shading of his beard and the shading of his skin. that's cause i used the magic wand tool when shading his skin and didn't realise it until after i shaded it,, i'll fix it later if i don't forget :)

he has an ear now!! that's,,, that's kinda it really. those numbers at the top are there to tell me which brush thickness i used for certain sections of his hair. speaking of hair...

Barry now has a hairline :) not a complete hairline at this point, as i needed to fix up the sizing to make sure it doesn't skew oddly and make him look like he got a fucked up haircut. you can see that the left (Barry's left) part of the hairline goes out too far because i just pasted it on there to see how it'd look. also he has two ears now :P

... and here's how he looks as of right now! Barry now has a full hairline, proper line colouring, improved spacing in between his facial features and he now has the brand new feature of staring directly into the very culmination of your being :) now that i've repositioned his eyes, i realise just how weirdly cross-eyed he was before,, drawing them like that might have been a side effect of being inspired by the way eyes in MLP are kinda positioned close to the middle when they're looking ahead,,,

if you're wondering what all those tiny rectangles everywhere are, they're there as a sort of rough measurement tool to make sure everything is relatively lined up. it's basically a way to count how many pixels high or across something is from another asset so i can realign it. for example, Barry's eyes are 52 pixels across from where the whites of his eyes start in the middle of his face. if that sounds confusing, take a peek at the little lines in the whites of his eyes and you'll see that's where i was measuring. if you look closely you can see a tiny little '52' in the middle of his face from when i was counting :)

that's it for my progress on Barry's vtuber model stuff. again, this is mainly a personal project, so i may not finish it until much later if i lose interest, but i'll try to get him done in a reasonable amount of time. he's already looking good so far :)