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@wizardlocation

|| Cascade || 27 || he/it || mostly robots and oc art ||

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wizardlocation 1 week ago

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can a motorcycle and a stealth bomber really fall in love ?
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wizardlocation 2 weeks ago

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a colored pencil drawing of a robot from the thighs up. his head is a large piece of metal with a tooth-like design across it. he has a large golden horn sticking out from his forehead and two wing-like flairs on the sides of his head. he has lots of long hair. his chest has a similar tooth pattern with spikes sticking outward from inbetween the teeth. his joints have more wing flair designs and he is wearing a large spiked collar. one of his arms is raised in fornt of him and he has three sharp talons on his hand with golden clawtips. his arms are very long in proportion to his body.

Scribble of Ambassador I liked a lot. I love playing with his hypothetical new body down the line’s design, especially cause he’d focus more on aesthetics than function and I think that’s fun

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wizardlocation 2 weeks ago

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a photograph of a colored pencil drawing of an anthro unicorn that is primarily purple with bright green flame patterns on his limbs and streaks in his hair, tail, and beard fluff. his horn is broken off and he has a large fang sticking out from his mouth.

I had a dream, and you were there, and we were very happy

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wizardlocation reblogged piconoodle 1 month ago

ranibwsprimklez-inactive

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wizardlocation 1 month ago

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cleaned up a little doodle diary from a while ago

Warden learning about the several week hotwheels acceleracers fixation….

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wizardlocation 1 month ago

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Sona in an mlp esque style my weird horse , cutie mark is the burning heart i always use for him. He’s always overflowing with hope and love !!!!

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wizardlocation 1 month ago

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brief return to form

#maccadam #transformers #fanart #beast wars #rampage #bw rampage #hand still hurts too much to do much AUGHHH #doodled this as a test and nopeeee still need to just sit and try to do nothing +1

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wizardlocation reblogged likeadog 1 month ago

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First slide of a series of drawings. It's titled "How to: Draw a Blind Character".
It reads further "But first: a quiz."
It then shows four portraits of four different characters that look very average and do not have any special characteristics. Under each one of them, there is text:
First character: Is this:
a) someone sighted,
b) someone with Leber's congenital amaurosis,
c) someone who could be either of the above?

Second character: Is this:
a) someone sighted,
b) someone with optic nerve hypoplasia,
c) someone who could be either of the above?

Third character: Is this:
a) someone sighted,
b) someone with neuromyelitis optica,
c) someone who could be either of the above?

Fourth character: Is this:
a) someone sighted,
b) someone with retinitis pigmentosa,
c) someone who could be either of the above?

Second slide. The text reads
"If you answered C: congrats! There is no magic way to tell if someone is sighted or blind just by looking at them from the outside. There are some conditions that have a specific look that might let you know they're blind, as well as some conditions that have a specific look that might make you think they're blind.
It's true! "Blindness" is not a single condition. It's a spectrum with thousands of conditions that could cause someone to be on it."

There are three portraits of different characters below that.
The first person has long silvery straight hair, very light skin, and blue eyes that point in the opposite directions. The text under her reads:
"This person has Chediak-Higashi Syndrome, which causes:
photosensitivity,
nystagmus,
immunodeficiency,
neurological abnormalities,
ataxia, etc.,
high mortality,
oculocutaneous albinism (OCA),
blindness/visual impairment [the last one is underlined]."

The second portrait is of a Black man with dark skin, black hair, and blue eyes that are shaking from side to side.
The text under him reads:
"This person has type 1 ocular albinism (OA), which causes:
photosensitivity,
nystagmus,
reduced eye pigment,
blindness."

The last portrait is of a South Asian woman in a purple hijab. She has black bangs sticking out of it. Her eyes are very small.
The text under her reads:
"This person has microphthalmia, which causes:
significantly smaller eyes,
blindness/visual impairment depending on severity,
other things if syndromic."

"As you can see, these are not the same. Even though they are all blind or have low vision, their symptoms are different."

Below is a chart. It reads "consider", and shows two options.
The first one is marked with a red X. It reads: "I want to make a blind OC → [gives them white/closed eyes and/or a blindfold and calls it a day]."
The second one is marked with a green checkmark.
"I want to make a blind OC → I will decide what medical condition they have →
[gives them symptoms and aids that make at least some amount of sense]."

Third slide. It's titled:
"Okay, but how do I signal that my OC is blind if they're not wearing a blindfold or at least have that blank stare??" "So glad you asked!"

Below is a diagram titled:
"Aids to Give Your Blind OC."
It shows multiple drawings of a stick figure with various aids. It reads:
"These are the main basic options:"
"Mobility white cane!
"Literally just a stick. White length with red on the bottom. Tip can have a billion different shapes (check description)."
Next to it is a scale comparing the size of the cane to a person. Three lengths are marked: nose, shoulder, and sternum. The text underneath reads "longer = better for fast walkers".

Next to that is a diagram of a striped cane. Text reads:
"A red-and-white striped cane symbolizes deafBlindness in many countries."

Below it is a diagram showing a shorter, thinner cane being held.
"Identification cane!
Shorter, thinner, lighter. Designed to inform others that the user is low vision/blind, not to aid mobility.
For other cane types: check the description. It's a stick either way."
There is a small warning sign next to a drawing of a mobility impairment cane. Text:
"Wrong cane:
This cane is used for mobility impairment."

The diagram on the right side of the slide reads:
"Guide dog!
Pros: Dog
Cons: Learning to draw a dog."
"In 95% of cases:
Labrador,
Golden Retriever,
German Shepherd,
Standard Poodle,
Bernese Mountain Dog,
Some mix of the above.
No, a Chihuahua wouldn't work."
The drawing is of a stick figure with a Labrador in a harness.

Below is the same thing, but the Labrador was replaced with a miniature horse. Text:
"Guide horse!
I promise it's real."

Text at the bottom of the page reads:
"Try to think about your character as a person.
Do they spend a lot of time indoors? A cane might be better.
Are they afraid of dogs? Consider a miniature horse."

Fourth slide, titled:
"But The Eyes!!!" "Fair, they do look different sometimes. But in what ways?".

There are multiple types of "different eyes" shown drawn step by step.

1) Strabismus
Basically: eyes pointing in different directions
Literally just move the irises: strabismus can be on one side or both, and can be in any direction.

2) Nystagmus (dancing eyes)
Basically: eyes moving very fast involuntarily
If you've ever drawn smear frames, then this is basically a mini version of that. Adding a few lines of the eye's color and of the pupils to mimic horizontal movement generally works for this.

3) Cataracts
Basically: white/gray pupil.
Draw eye → click bucket tool → color the pupil a lighter color.

4) No eyes
No explanation needed, I think.
Unless you're doing some mega-closeup, just color it red. If they're anemic, it can be light pink.
Despite what many, many, many people (artists especially) think, there is no blood, gore, or injury happening here. Unless you think that pulling on your lower eyelid also creates eww scary gore.

A conformer is essentially a big-ass contact that helps the eye hold shape without costing a billion dollars. It has holes in it, which looks cool.

Many people born without eye(s) will have them closed. Generally speaking, eyelid atrophy occurs when there's nothing (no eye/conformer/prosthesis) there, and then it can be hard to open your eyes.

5) The goddamn white eye everyone wants to draw for some reason
Basically: a real existing condition called corneal opacity, not something that happens to every blind person. Or ~95% of them...

Often discolored sclera.
Blood vessels can be much more visible.
White/grayish opacity over the pupil and iris.

Below it is a drawing of someone who has perfectly white (#FFFFF) eyes with no pupils, irises, or anything. The caption reads "Literally doesn't look like this."

Text at the bottom, in bold:
"If your character has gone blind due to an accident/injury, please read the links in the description."

Fifth slide, titled:
"Albinism Special because I know the Tumblr artist userbase."
Text below reads:
"OCA: oculocutaneous = hair/skin/eyes all affected
OA: ocular = eyes affected (skin/hair can be to a very mild degree)"

"Albinism has symptoms! It's not an aesthetic/quirk.
Less pigment = bigger vision problems.
Erasing symptoms of albinism is disability erasure, by the way."

There are screenshots of all the types of albinism (OA, OCA, all types of both of these, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-higashi, and Griscelli syndromes), captioned "There are a ton of types of albinism, by the way".

In the middle is a drawing of a person with albinism. There's arrows pointing to their features, labeled as:
Strabismus,
White cane (heart emoji),
Lighter hair color if OCA,
Lighter skin if OCA,
Using sunglasses for photophobia (photophobia is underlined).

The text next to them reads:
"Sunglasses are both a stereotype and a real disability aid. If your character has photophobia (light causes pain), then sunglasses will work great. But they're not something all blind people wear."

At the bottom of the page are multiple drawings of eyes of people with albinism. There's a light blue eye of someone very light skinned captioned "OCA1", a hazel eye of someone with a light brown skin tone captioned "OCA3", and a grayish blue eye of someone with very dark skin captioned "OA1". They all have a small green checkmark next to them.
Text next to them reads: "There are many colors, actually!"

On the right, are two eyes, both on people with very light skin. One eye is bright red, and the second one is purple. There is a red X next to them, and the caption reads:
"Literally just an illusion. Eyes can look red/violet in bright ass light because you're seeing blood vessels."

Sixth slide titled "Other things to think about:".
Text below:
"Blindness is a spectrum. Only about 15% of blind people have No Light Perception (NLP)."

Below that is a portrait of a Black woman in a hijab, smiling and looking to the side with slightly crossed eyes. There's text next to her that reads:
"1) Yes, blind people do smile even if they can't see anything (?).
2) Yes, most blind people can move their eyes.
3) Yes, most blind people turn towards the person they're talking to.
4) Yes, a lot of blind people can track things with their eyes, and they're not faking."

Below that is a blue text box that reads:
"If this is your idea of a blind person, then please know there is already a type of person who can see, and we call them sighted."
There is an arrow leading to a drawing of a person with long blue hair and a blindfold covering their eyes. They have no mobility aid. There's a speech bubble attached that reads:
"I can still see with Magic/Tech/Sci-Fi BS of the day, by the way. What's "disability erasure"."

On the right side of the image, text reads:
"Give your OC community (any kind). Disabled people aren't rare, and we stick together (smile emoji)." Under that is a drawing of a Black woman with cataracts, who has an ID cane in her left hand, holding hands with an Indian DeafBlind woman who has a white cane in her other hand. They're both smiling.

“Tutorial” on how to “draw” a blind OC.

My kofi

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory “drawing” “tutorial” and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general. Links below so that you can research and do a nuance. Ones that were directly mentioned are bolded.

Keep reading

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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haven’t been doing anything the past few days because my hand started to ache and i dont wanna push it to injury via drawing a bunch more or doing anything too precise ,,, BUT I WANNA DRAW SO BADDDDDD

#kass speaks #its not to the point of hurting hurting but theres a slight burn so m like #i need to not do anything.... but all the things i wanna do need fine motor skills.... #i wanna work on my mask or draw or write and m like... no... i must... do anything else... and... put my brace on

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Drawing Adelrik in a rare non shitpost while I mused about one of his shitty ex boyfriends that’s the funnest to draw.

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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my redraw for @poketcg-art ’s johto portion of the project!!! saw the wave of unclaimed unknown and was like ‘i can do that one lmao’

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Been working on these on and off !!! this cunty pose wouldn’t leave my head for over a month so I finally sat down and drew 13-c with all the emphasis on his way too many pairs of wings and his later lack of wings :3

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Doodling starscream with a design I call ‘mashing all my favourite details of like five different iterations into one cool red thing’

#transformers #character design #maccadam #starscream #fanart #the bust is from a while ago but i had been holding onto it specifically to compile with other star doodles #i wanna doodle transformers again .... i just kind of have been hating even the idea of drawing ANY sort of fanart for a while #i wanna draw my ocs and other peoples ocs LMAO +6

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Horse that looks at you with big wet eyes (his boobs too big to see his body at this angle)

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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playing around trying to make my horsie real

modifying a pattern by @paleopanthera a littol

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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[SECRET HOTWHEELS ACCELERACERS DIRECTORS CUT FOUND]

#kass speaks #video #i think all of my creations should just go on here actually #why not #hotwheels #loud #volume warning #hotwheels acceleracers

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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I like that he kind of looks like he was supposed to be someones evil advisor but was too beefy for the job so they had to give him to a shelter before he got put down

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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AUGHHH I WANNA POST THIS WIP OF 13-C BUT IT’S PART OF A SET OF IMAGES THAT I THINK NEED TO BE SEEN TOGETHER TO REALLY MEAN ANYTHING.

#kass speaks #ough maybe i will super crop a section or something.... #i have a lot of work ahead if i want it to be FULLY my vision #but i also kind of dont want to post the wip in case i find i really dont want to actually paint it and post the lines and rough lighting a #finished LMAO #OC TAG #OC 13-C

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Someone remind me to finish this from memory scribble some other time. M poking around an original continuity thing in my brain a lot recently with some encouragement from my partner LOL. uh some pre-beast mode pieces thrown in over my bits of redesign for these two but I didn’t wanna put a ton of effort into this just yet I just needed to get it out of my brain.

[Music for this here]

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scribbled on this old thang for a warmup today. wonky but fun. I gave these two some crazy back and forth tension then nver finished writing the long ass fic i was doing but… i still want to return to it… im just so bad about sitting down to write…

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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past three years all next to each other is really fun.

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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One of the worst years of my adult life but also one of the best. Literally had trouble w/ insecure housing and harassment on account of family for the past like 5 years at least and it just hit a peak of being the worst it’d ever been. and despite that I did continue to draw except for august LMAO and we now live away from family so we can avoid so so many people for as long as we want now :bigthumbsup:

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wizardlocation 2 months ago

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Ok I kept thinking abt it and did go back and make something of that cute sketch.

#oc tag #maccadam #character design #transformers #beast wars #weirdfur #hes a fursona tf sona combo so im counting him LMAO i need to draw more of his horsie look #oc unnamed +5

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wizardlocation reblogged hjeojeo 2 months ago

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art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it’s worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator’s survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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need to draw my lil beast wars oc more just cause he’s pretty

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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Maybe I do miss my weird daughter

#maccadam #transformers #fanart #beast wars #transmutate #sketching off a redesign of mine thats a redesign of a redesign of mine i made to be like #middle ground of trying to keep the fun quirks in its design and a like cartoon friendly easier to draw style #but i kinda... wanna make some other changes +4

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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I need to make my art recap for the year……

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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Sketching on the drafts I found again for a revamp of my like rampage redesign I was doing while finally drawing out the redesign I made for Depthcharge like last year? I don’t have the energy to fix it up all the way right now but it’s fun to play with .

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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MORE VEE NEEDED

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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find my way to you from miles apart
and take me back to where the feeling starts

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wizardlocation 3 months ago

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a digital drawing of a horse based fursona facing right.

horsie doodle for today