William Afton Calling!!

William afton calling!!

a drawing that took me soo looong to finish (mostly bc I was procrastinating)

but i think it was worth it :)

So anyway, Hazbin Hotel. I watched some of the new series, I have a lot of thoughts, but I'll TL;DR:

In my honest opinion, its biggest weakness is that it feels utterly directionless, scattershot, and inconsistent. It feels like the series hasn't evolved past "I put a bunch of disparate childhood OCs in the same place together" and hasn't figured out any coherent theme or thesis statement to make as a narrative. This applies to both the writing and the art direction. Characters feel like they come from vastly different settings/genres and so do the plot points explored from episode to episode. In general it's really hard to get a read on what the series has to say, overall.

other comments:

this has been the most ineffective use of swearing I have ever seen in writing

genocide as a plot point and handled like that in the show... yeah this was really poorly timed. obviously this wasn't done on purpose, but not a good look at the moment considering irl situations

Adam is highly underwhelming both design and writing wise

I like the TV head corporate magnate, but imo he's not really suited for this setting. He feels more like a sci-fi cartoon villain to me

Alastor supposedly being black and/or creole is not well portrayed. There's also cultural appropriation issues with his character but everyone has talked about that already

the characters supposedly being from different cultures and historical eras is poorly handled, e. g. I can't really believe Angel Dust is an Italian mobster from the 1940s because practically all of the characters strike me as modern and American

overall this show is so SO americentric and I'm kinda not vibing with that

Miss Midnight!

AHEMMMM totally didn't forget tumblr exists.. yep. working on trying out lineless art, i love it so far! very fun stuff!

this is Miss Midnight! She's a peacock-themed Goetia who loves the night sky. and red wine.

Miss midnight is Stella's good friend and like an aunt to Octavia, but doesn't visit all that much. She's an observer and likes to watch everyone fight at events.

(some say she even starts the fights between the others. she refuses to comment on this).

she's a design i recieved for free from Dazelvel -- i gave her a small redesign and the art above is my own, however

Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

The day of the party.. 🎈💥🌈

(I TURN 20 TODAY!!!)