friending meme, crossposting logistics and drawble offer

[ratcreature]

st_aurafina is a hosting friending meme, and if you found my journal through that: welcome!

I've recently stopped crossposting to IJ (I doubt anybody noticed), because I haven't actively used that site in ages, and I have decided to disable comments on my LJ crossposts. I'm sorry if you prefer LJ for interacting, but DW has been my main journal for a long time now and I don't have my full range of icons on LJ, which I really miss when commenting there, and I'm not likely to ever pay them for icon slots again, so the recent developments gave me the push to limit commenting in one place.

It's not so much that LJ moved their servers as such, as that they don't even care enough anymore to do any announcements for their users about the move or the glitches so many experienced in either the English or the Russian LJ news. It seems a bad idea to add non-duplicated content in an infrastructure that the owners care about so little.

Finally, as always with the beginning of a year, I have good intentions to draw things, and I've noticed that it has been about three years (!) since I last offered any drawbles, so I thought it would be fun to do the drawble meme again.

The original format is as follows:

1. Comment and I'll pick one or two of your DW interests and draw you a picture.
2. You have no say as to what I draw for you or as to how much it will suck.
3. Copy this and the pic that is drawn for you into your journal. (Optional)

You can also prompt me, for example if you don't list interests, but prompts tempt people to ask for fanart they'd really like to see (their favorite rare pairing or character or such), and that ends with disappointment for everybody. Them, because they get a doodle totally mangling their cherished idea, and me because I feel inadequate at fulfilling a real wish.

The reason I like these drawbles in the first place is because they allow me to do absurd little doodles that aren't demanding, so I don't experience that vicious-cycle that I get with "proper fanart": feeling I suck because (of course) drawing attempts never look like what you imagine with your idea, and then never draw anything and thus never get any better.

Anyway, you can offer prompts to me instead going with your interests, but keep in mind that these are quick doodles, so for a prompt that is a description of some epic scene you've always wanted to see realized in fanart the results aren't going to very satisfying for you (or much fun for me). Also, I don't draw porn, and I'm not good at portrait likeness.

If you want to see the quality (or lack thereof, especially considering how very rusty I am) you can expect, look at the drawble tag or my drawble series on AO3 that collects them.

I don't make any promises for results or a timely delivery, but in the past I've usually managed to draw something for everyone who prompted me for these non-demanding, open drawble offers.

Comments

[goss]

Drawble meme!! \o/

Maybe you can choose one of these words (or multiple) as a prompt:
- wish
- read
- work-in-progress
- recipe

(ha! I'm just thinking about visuals I need for icons)

[ratcreature]

I added Cookie Monster from your interest to your mix. Actually this would now fit all of your prompts since Cookie Monster is reading the recipe and certainly wishes for cookies...

[goss]

Hee hee, nice! I love it!!

[ratcreature]

Glad you like it!

[goss]

I'm tickled how all the different words work so well with the drawing! ^__^

[ratcreature]

Yeah, they came together really well. Cookie Monster just makes things work with cookies, lol.

Question...

[goss]

Hey, I'd love to post the drawing to my journal. Can I hotlink the image from your site or would you prefer I upload it myself?

Re: Question...

[ratcreature]

I've also just posted it to my Tumblr. AFAIK Tumblr also allows embedding. If that doesn't work, you can hotlink from my site. I don't have formal traffic restrictions after which I have to pay extra, but in practice with my cheap account the traffic they allow before it stops working is not much.

[quiara]

I like your inky doodle style! I'd like one, please. <3

[ratcreature]

I'm afraid they're all pencils, but I hope you still like it. *g*

I went with "Jeeves + sporks" from your interests. I'm not really familiar with Jeeves & Wooster, but I can't imagine Jeeves being fond of sporks...

[quiara]

Eeeeeee! I love it! OMG. You have no idea how happy this makes me. ^_^

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like it. I tend to be so neurotic (and blocked) about drawing regular fanart, so it's always nice to hear a quick doodle can make someone happy too.

[quiara]

I love it. A friend and I have a long-lived joke about sporks, and this is perfect. He'll love seeing it. (That's why sporks are in my interest list, honestly.)

[fignewton]

Aw, I always love your drawbles!

How about Ratcreature as a Furling from SG-1? Possibly meeting Teal'c? Or anyone, really.

[ratcreature]

I went with "Furling" as a small person in furry costume, because I don't think we ever see the "real" Furlings, just the Wormhole X-Treme! version, so my avatar is supposed to wear a bad furry suit. (kind of weird because it is already technically furry, but cosplaying a different furry, I guess, lol)

[fignewton]

Eeeeeee that is beyond adorable. :D :D :D And Teal'c's eyebrow! His (non)expression! Perfect.

Also, the little wave... :)

I'll hotlink it, if that's okay?

[ratcreature]

Could you first try hotlinking from the Tumblr image URL?
https://68.media.tumblr.com/ffd6bf69bce6c88b0d67f66e7fc03ac3/tumblr_oj9rvk5hu31qz5n3jo1_1280.jpg

If that doesn't work, it's okay from my webspace.

ETA: And I'm really glad you like it.

[fignewton]

I can't access Tumblr, I'm afraid, so I went ahead and hotlinked.

Let me know if it's a problem; I can always save it to my own DW and link from there.

And THANK YOU for putting a huge smile on my face! :) Here's the entry at my journal.

[dhw]

Oh my! These are AWESOME! =D

[ratcreature]

Glad you like the others. I picked Rivers of London from your interests:

[dhw]

OMG, this is amazing! Nightingale is my fave character too! =D

You are super awesome!

[ratcreature]

I'm glad to hear you like it.

[roeskva]

Wow! Your drawbles are awesome!

I'd like one, please?

[ratcreature]

Thank you! And sure, I went with "Tok'ra + writing fanfic" from your interests.

[roeskva]

Oh! I love it! That's really funny and cute! Thank you so much!

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like it.

[sixbeforelunch]

I think your drawbles are adorable and I would very much like one if you're still doing them.

(Here via several people on my reading list.)

[ratcreature]

Sure, I'm glad you enjoy them. I picked "Agent Carter + bouldering" from your interest list:

[sixbeforelunch]

Yay! Thank you so much. This is just lovely.

[ratcreature]

Glad you like it.

[forestgreen]

These are all fantastic! I love your style. Gorgeous!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

I picked "Farscape + travel" from your interests, i.e. snapshots from 1812's Grand European Tour...

[forestgreen]

OMG! Thank you so much! This is fantastic. Paris, and Pisa and Moscow! And you painted 1812 in all the pictures <3 <3 I love it beyond what ways can say.

Vielen Dank!

P.S. and now I'm nostalgic about Farscape. I might even go rewatch some of my favorite episodes.

[hyperfocused]

Here via Goss, and greatly amused/impressed by your wit. Might you have room for me?

[ratcreature]

Sure. I picked "cats + poetry" from your interests:

[hyperfocused]

Oh! This is utterly delightful🙀💟. Now I'm pondering what Cat slam poetry might be like. Thank you kindly🐈💗👍

[ratcreature]

Glad you like it.

To us it probably sounds like meow-meow-meooow-meow, but with great rhythm.

[alatefeline]

(random person wanders over via network) May I have a drawbie?

[ratcreature]

Sure. I picked "wildlife + used bookstores" from your interests:

[alatefeline]

OOOOOOOH!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!!

Thank you!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

[ratcreature]

You're welcome. Glad you like it.

[alatefeline]

May I post this (with attribution and a link here) on my blog?

[ratcreature]

Sure, though I'd prefer it if you didn't upload the file to your blog, but just embedded the image, or my tumblr upload of the image (http://68.media.tumblr.com/3015370a8a72154cc1af03ca19ab45d3/tumblr_ojskaziPF71qz5n3jo1_1280.jpg) in your post if possible-

[alatefeline]

Can do! Thanks.