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[Solifuge]

I quite like it too, when it's actually art and not just ironic eyesore for le donk marmite :^)

But apparently vaporwave is already dead, so oh well. At least they left the pictures behind.

Spoiler: Blah blah blah art art art (click to show/hide)

Vaporwave was always dead. It's basically the celebration of the death of the modern and the birth of the retro. It's the artistic manifestation of the retrospective glance at how culture progresses; the exhuming of cultural graves to celebrate old forms of Modernity for their naivety. It's Dadaism applied to advertisement and popular culture, regurgitating things into new things divorced from their source. It's really tacky, and it likes it that way.

I don't think it'll ever really die. It'll just have new forms and new old cultural trash to work with.

[itisnotlogical]

I thought it was more along the lines of happy cyberpunk, but without any story so you're just left with the style.

[Solifuge]

It's sorta gained a gestalten theme over time of being about separating an old thing from it's old meaning, and making it new; particularly so regarding popular culture or old mass media. PBS Idea Channel did a pretty cool thing on Vaporwave and things like Youtube Poop which I really appreciated. I'd apply the same phenomenon to the Flash Animutations of the early 2000's too.

Edit: So, with the advertisement thing, it aims to celebrate old commercial art and advertisement aesthetically, removed from the actual Advertisement Content. And so on.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah. Especially with the grids and statues, I get a very "90's-early 2000s software box" vibe from some of it.

It's definitely made it so that pink-green and pink-cyan are my new favorite color combinations.

[WillowLuman]

Started making some sprites for an SS13 race idea I had

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Mesa]

So lately I've kinda been working on my somewhat-old 'imaginary 2000s cartoon show' concept, and made myself a personal wiki for it. (it's not anywhere online so don't bother looking)
I did have a decently established cast of characters (that I drew and posted a while back as well), but since I don't feel like doing art lately, I've mostly been doing two things - episode titles for three full seasons, and missing episodes (because speculation is fun, and double speculation is even more fun).
Here's an example.

Spoiler: Pardon my legalese (click to show/hide)

   5. Unnamed season 1 episode
During an interview in 2005, Aron Lemore, one of the show's writers, mentioned that season one of Chrono Warriors "turned out significantly shorter than we originally envisioned", and mentioned an episode whose plot "revolved around the team going shopping to the galaxy's biggest shopping center, called the Hyperia Station [...] and accidentally uncovering one of its dark secrets". He also mentioned that "while the team found it cool, we already did a more light-hearted episode very recently at the time [...] and didn't want to have two of those in a row, and so the episode was canned and we just kind of forgot about it".
While no episode specifically revolves around the alleged Hyperia Station, a ruined space station with a name "Hyperia" briefly appears in the season three episode Sparts Parts (while Starship Two is flying through an asteroid field).

(just to give you an idea, season 1 is 15 episodes, even though it's effectively 11 due to a pilot two-parter, a mid-season two-parter and a finale three-parter, while the following two seasons are 20 and 25 episodes respectively, though they too have those multi-parter episodes)
(also one of the missing episodes is a He-Man crossover special that was believed to be the first season's finale)
(and no, Aron Lemore is not a real person. Neither is ASNC, the imaginary studio that made this cartoon, though I might go with a real one instead, like Cartoon Network Studios...It's still in flux.)

This is probably one of the nerdiest things here, but hey, I'm having fun with it so who cares?

[Tawa]

But apparently vaporwave is already dead, so oh well. At least they left the pictures behind.

Its fault for making Kenshiro its enemy.

[Darkmere]

No rush on my account, I am quite patient.

I started reading the Dark Tower books at Book 3...

[ShadowHammer]

He's also been joined by brown-furred four-armed snake kobold Yoda.

Sigged. (Looking great!!)

Ayy, thanks man!

[TD1]

No rush on my account, I am quite patient.

I started reading the Dark Tower books at Book 3...

Surely that was confusing? You must have wondered where all the people came from.

[Darkmere]

No rush on my account, I am quite patient.

I started reading the Dark Tower books at Book 3...

Surely that was confusing? You must have wondered where all the people came from.

I should have said I started when only 3 (of the... 8 now?) books were out. Took like 12 years for the rest of them. From what I hear A Song of Ice and Fire is worse, so I guess it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

[Mesa]

Remaking ~year-old characters, go go go.

Spoiler: This is an abomination and I couldn't be bothered to make any more, so whatever. (click to show/hide)

[Dorsidwarf]

I want an ISG of larry, he's perfect.




If only I could draw arm armor for shit

[Tiruin]

If only I could draw arm armor for shit

Study the anatomy of the arm :3 It's simple inasmuch as following the joints and the methods used to accommodate the flexion and contraction of the arm (ie If you'd like to be creative, remember the limitations of the arm, and that everything that doesn't move on a joint is protected by a straight plate).

Love that armor though o_o Do you start drawing them as-is, or by layers of color?

I've found out why I'm a bit-hard up. I draw purely from memory...and while it does personally help me given my own technique, it takes a ton of erasing and modifying than if I had used a template-method in the first place. >_>

[ShadowHammer]

Spoiler: Mission failed. (click to show/hide)