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What is defines as yellow?

Need to know so I can punch people without question.

🌼Artist Ask meme!🌼

There’s probably a lotta these out there but I wanted to make one of my own! Hopefully these are fun<3 

Send an emoji for each question!

 🖍️ When did you start drawing? Do you remember?  

 ✏️ Do you prefer traditional art or digital to relax?   

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

🙃 Which is easier: faces facing left, right, or front view?

📚 How many layers do you typically use?

🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

🎁 Do you prefer drawing fandom stuff or your own characters?

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

🙌 Draw a doodle with your non-dominant hand

📐 Whats your favorite kinds of lines to draw?

💐 Do your drawing suit your aesthetics?

🦋 Do your drawings resemble you?

✨ How often do you draw?

🌗 Is night or day better for drawing?

🍭 What’s your main art blog / what do you tag your art with?

🍀 You wish your art was more..(fill in the blank)

🌊 What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? 

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context

🐻 💐🌗 and 🌊 for the drawing asks?

🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

Either characters just being happy/silly or little drawings of my friends! They always cheer me up :D also doing an online whiteboard with friends is a really great way to feel happier 💕

💐 Do your drawings suit your aesthetics?

I would say partially! Probably because the way I draw is inspired by aesthetics I enjoy, like exaggerated shapes and cartoons, but it would probably have to be more dark/Gothic to really suit my tastes :>

🌗 Is night or day better for drawing?

I find the best times for drawing are either 2-4 in the afteroon or any point from 5pm-stupidly late 😳 so overall evening/night is when I do a lot of drawing!

🌊 What's the hardest thing for you to draw?

Ohhh the list could go on...the top most difficult is probably animals and any sort of complex prop or vehicle 😩 AND FULL BODIES...

[Thank you for the ask! 💞]

🎼🙌 <:D

🎼 Your favourite music to draw to right now?

If it's a long piece, I like playing a full musical soundtrack: like Waitress, Amélie (London Cast) or Les Mis! For more casual drawing, usually an ambient library sounds video (😂) or artists like The Oh Hellos, The Crane Wives or Beirut!

🙌 Draw a doodle with your non-dominant hand!

I actually have one from a couple of months back, conveniently! Behold left-handed Walton...(oh dear...):

[Thank you for the ask! 💚]

Psst ✨🍀 🙊

✨ How often do you draw?

I try to draw daily! If I'm art-blocked I occasionally skip a day, or only sketch one face: but normally I aim to do some sort of coloured sketch or full drawing each day, even if I don't share it :>

🍀 You wish your art was more...

...advanced! Or maybe versatile!

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context!

...😌 Jonathan has to get that cash somehow if he's trapped in a castle

[Thank you for the ask! 💜]

Soo I wanted to ask… when you make an oc do you just put it out there or what honestly I get really nervous most of the time cause I always worry that I won’t do it right or if the oc im making already exists and then it won’t matter lol so yeah.. what would you suggest? ..sorry if it’s a bother.. Also I love tear sans he looks great

The oc you make won't already exist. They are made exclusively out of your own preferences. Some characters are similar in personality, similar in design, share a same name, share little quirks etc.. none of these make them lesser, uninteresting or unoriginal. There will always be something that sets them apart. It's you as a creator that brings them to life with art and story combined. The more you know about a character, the easier it is to connect with them. Don't be afraid to put them out there.

Hey! I'm trying to make a few comics of my own but I'm geting stumped on the page space and boxes. (Idk what the actual term is) Is there any advice you could give me on that please?

I'm somewhat new at this myself, but hmmmm. Don't repeat the same box layout on each page. Diversity is more appealing. Put fewer boxes if it means your pictures are easier to see without zooming in. The space between boxes you just kinda have to feel as you go. Just sketch the whole page and resize l8r if it doesn't feel right. When I'm making my own pages, I like to zoom out just a bit to see if the text is still readable/not too small. If you can't read it clearly, it's probably good to make it slightly bigger. It can appear as too small on things like phones. Good luck soldier ;>

Will you be uploading Tear onto artfight this year? We have a feeling there's a lot of people who'd like to see him there~

I adore the idea behind artfight but won't be participating. My mind is too occupied with the comic, some side plans with Tear, commission I'm working on, as well as some irl things. I would feel bad too to not give artfight the focus it deserves. Regardless... I'm excited to see what the theme is and what people create. Good luck to everyone out there

What ratio / canvas size do you use to draw comics? & do you use IbisPaint?

It's an A4 paper. 2480 x 3507 pixels. I use PaintTool SAI

Hewo!! I rlly love your sans, Tear!! He's such a creative and inspirational character! Just curious, what were some of your inspirations, when designing him?

-vibrates in excitement- I will use this chance to yap A LOT about Tear's overall creation, story and visuals. I'm sorry for this essay…

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I returned to the Undertale fandom super recently. It’s 8-9 years after the game was released I think. I started to joke with a friend how I will make an OC only now. 3 days later it was not a joke anymore and Tear came to be.

I think what influenced the story I created is the fact that I adore isekai, reincarnation and reliving same life kind of stories. I love the feeling of being able to experience what being a specific character is like, be it through my own eyes or another character's. Because a lot of people enjoy superpowers, want to feel cool, want to become important in something/story, want to see characters deal with this type of confusion etc.... Yes, I read Sans variant reincarnation/isekai stories too. I thought, who wouldn't be interested into experiencing an exciting life (minus the stress and trauma that comes with it, but that makes it a fun read).

In the moment of me joking about creating an OC, I was trying to come up with funny scenarios that would make me laugh from how absolutely ridiculous it is. It was only to have a few laughs with a friend. Revisiting the utmv fandom, it is pretty clear it's legit ruled by Sanses and barely anything else. Somehow the idea of using my favorite character, Napstablook, just clicked with my reincarnation/isekai addiction. A character that, just like all the people consuming the same content I liked, wishes to experience what they consider exciting. That is, the life all these Sanses have. They only ever saw Sanses be 'special'. I hoped it would make Tear relatable. That Tear would be a character which is entertaining to follow, because we know what the multiverse is like as viewers, but they do not. Someone who could be cheered on because of it (just like in the game wow -cough cough- sorry). And then the idea with ripping Error's plushies hit me. I was so overly entertained by it, that it was basically the point where the whole thing stopped being a joke.

After I had the basis of the story to work with, I moved to designing their look. I pulled up a picture of every. single. popular. sans. variant. that I could remember from utmv early days. I wanted Tear to be able to legit fit in so well among them, because their wish was to be like them, blend with them in such a way. To be a Sans, a cool traveler to meet many others, be loved etc etc. For this plan, the design had to have not too much detail or too little. Most utmv designs aren't that complex. Napstablook only has a few visually distinctive features, so I tried to keep them in mind. Those being their line between the eyes and the sheet waves/frills at the end of their body. So the only initial plan was... sketch a normal sans, slap the usual shorts and shirt that all these OC variants barely change and figure it out from there. A lot of mainstream characters still wore a kind of a hoodie/jacket, so a hoodie was a must for me. I added the waves at the bottom of it, to resemble Napstablook's body, and that forehead line in the form of stitches. It still didn't feel enough. I wanted it to be extremely obvious who they are visually at first glance, with 0 prior knowledge (Napstablook Sans variant). Headphones were my biggest cherry on the top, because I don't think it gets more clear than that if I shape them to look like Blooky themselves. I later on decided I want some design references to Blooky crying too. So I added a scarf, made it drop it's ends approximately in the center of the character, as well as made the edges rounded slightly. All so it would resemble -drum rolls- a tear. Very, very subtly. The tear heart in the back was also a not so subtle tribute to it too. Because Blooky is fully paper white, Tear had to be mostly in the same colors. I admit I wanted to make their purples blue instead (to match their house colors) but I'm a sucker for the purple color and there is an inside joke with another friend how everything I ever design has some sort of purple tint to it. It's something I stopped fighting long ago and just embraced it as my little art quirk. At this point I adopt it on purpose if I catch myself doing it subconsciously. So my blue became purple instead. This was all inspired by OG Blooky and no one specific directly.

Once the design was already settled, I actually did end up taking inspiration from Dust Sans. This is the only character I directly took inspo from. I loved the idea of dramatic shadows being cast by his hood and it was perfect for what I have in store. So I expanded my ref sheet with such a drawing. I wanted the usual Tear to have a completely different vibe visually from the one that could be fought. I wanted to kill some of Tear's overall softness by making their gaze feel off. Wide eyed stare, with drastic shadows and glowing eyes. Tho they cannot and do not glow for the same reasons as Classic Sans. I recently mentioned it HERE. There is another inspiration I took from Dust, not connected to the design, but as of now I cannot mention it. It will be revealed soon if all works out.

After that, I just started writing the character info on the google doc and polishing it. The story just kept coming and consuming my brain. I never planned to make a comic out of this little idea. I was only gonna post Tear’s info sheet, maybe draw Tear 2-3 more times and move on. It was an impulse decision. All because I couldn’t stop chuckling about the Error bit and the consequences of it. Now Tear became somewhat of a comfort character and gave me a hyperfixation of a truck

is tear story over? or is the comic going to have another comic?

'Passing ghost' comic is over. It only serves as Tear's origin story.

It's very likely that I will make another comic in the future for Tear. But I need to figure out what kind of story I would wish to tell.

My plan right now is to make other things that the comic was blocking me from doing. Such as animatic, animations, drawn asks and general illustrations. Per usual, I will still be dropping new character info here and there

ERI!!♡

How's it feel to be the parent of a revolutionary Sans that everyone fell in love with immediately?

dgdgdhdhd feels like a fever dream tbh. The attention is a lil overwhelming at times, but brought a lot of positivity to me. I don't think I ever had so much fun drawing. Posting anything Tear related feels like showing ur stickman drawing to ur parents and waiting to see if they are proud of u. Idk how this all even happened in the first place

Are you going to tell us what happened to the UF!Sans one day? I'm wondering if he was one of those who left his AU and could still be out there as an outcode. ᵖˡˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵈᵉᵃᵈ lol

UF!Sans exists, alive, somewhere outside his AU. The question of 'where is he' will remain a mystery, unanswered. Maybe in the future we will know. Currently, despite avoiding directly confirming or promising anything, I'm writing more of the story