Jovian's Bulletins


arted fight?

Posted 9 months, 2 days ago by Jovian

I guess I'll do it this year after all! It will probably be a scaled back effort compared to last year, with a focus on getting attacks out quickly, but I still want to try!

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if you draw any of my cyberpunk characters I will kiss you

FINAL CALL FOR COMMISSIONS!

Posted 9 months, 26 days ago by Jovian

Per my previous announcement, today's the last day to get on my commission waitlist for my old-style stuff!

I still have one more slot open for testing the new style once that starts going--that will still be kept open till I get a taker.  But everything else, gone!

Thanks for understanding.


FIVE DAYS LEFT!

Posted 10 months, 1 day ago by Jovian

Per my previous announcement, my commission menu is being closed for complete revamping in just five days!  If you want any of the offerings here, this is your last chance!

As a side note, I probably won't be doing Art Fight this year, or will be doing it only with a reduced output, in order to prioritize the commission queue.

IMPORTANT COMMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT

Posted 10 months, 28 days ago by Jovian

Details can be found on my blog!  There is a TL;DR if you're intimidated by the external link.

An addition to the announcement that's TH-only: I will also make one of those fancy sales listings over here once I figure out my new commission menu!  That's a cool new feature.

Regarding recent Twitter events...

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago by Jovian

...if you're fleeing the site and looking for alternatives, a general reminder I am mostly active on my new Tumblr now!

I recently brought over a bunch of art from my old blog, and am now posting stuff that...well, here on Toyhouse, you've definitely seen it.  but you haven't seen me TALK about it

(which is a big thing for me...TH is very good for archiving OCs and art but I also like TALKING about them at LENGTH)

I'm not really anywhere else but here and there unfortunately.  But if you're also there............................hello

hhhhhhhhhh

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago by Jovian

I keep rotating the idea of “argent adoptables” around in my brain and I can’t stop thinking about this.  they’d work really well actually.  the “humanoid body plan + some extra features that have great variety”  setup.  the lore that consists mostly of Why They Are This Way.  the random mashing together of themes (celestial objects, fashion styles).   the separation of the race further into specific classifications (the  marking colors/styles).  the tenuous but visible connection to a fandom that may grab someone’s interest in passing.  help

At least, it's certainly over for me.  I did a 100 character mass attack, so, phew.  That's enough!!!

I would have liked to do more regular attacks, but uh, life circumstances kind of put an end to that.  Had to take a professional licensing exam and somehow buy a new car the same week....🥴 It's been a whirlwind over here lately, but it's looking like it's finally clearing up.

In August I'd like to focus on commissions again, which I had (mostly) closed due to AF.  If you're interested, please look at my menu here and DM me!  If what you want is closed, that's 100% fine; I'm building a waitlist and will get in touch when I'm ready to tackle that type of art again.

Here's to AF 2023!

Design Preferences

Posted 1 year, 8 months ago by Jovian

Technically this code is for adoptable wishlists, but I've also seen it used as character preferences, so I'm doing it more that way!  For me this would not only be "art/designs I would want to buy," but ALSO "characters I'd like to draw/design," as with the case of art trades, art games, Art Fight...etc.

There's also the RP comfort meme I already did for roleplay-specific stuff.  RP is a bit of a different beast, I feel.

GUIDE


  • ❤ Favorite of all time!

  • ☀ Strongly enjoy
  • ☁ Neutral or "depends"

  • ✖ General avoidance

STYLE/COLORS


  • ❤ Blue/gold/white; purple-to-yellow sunset gradient; black + any sort of "neon" colors; stark monochrome black/white
  • Relatively big eyes; general expressiveness; multiple body types/facial features
  • Both anime and western cartoon-esque styles; colored outlines; colorful highlights/shading

  • ☀ Single color monochrome (like all red, all blue, etc.); full grayscale or mostly gray + one saturated color
  • General contrasting colors and some saturation; stylistic experimentation with brushes, effects, or colors
  • '50s-'80s-era "nostalgic" art styles/designs

  • ☁ Brown + pastels; greens + reds/oranges; purple/pink
  • Art styles that are clearly copying an existing piece of media's art style--depends on what the media is.

  • This is gonna sound weird but anything particularly excessive leaning into one style too much.  TOO anime, TOO western comic book, TOO cartoony, etc.
  • Excessively "cutesy" to the point of looking infantalized
  • Obvious low-effort shortcuts such as drawing eyes over hair, arms behind back, legs cut off at bottom, etc.
  • Shading using transparent black only

SPECIES


  • ❤ Humans, ghosts/souls inhabiting objects, androids/artificial humans, cats, rabbits, ferrets/weasels, "were"-creatures, half-human half-(scary thing); sentient zombies; (non-horror) dolls; Irish myths

  • ☀ Humanoid or anthro-esque aliens. robots, cyborgs, AI, elves/fae folk, dinosaurs, dogs, horses, dragons, elementals/spirits, deities/demons, "colony" beings or parasites, vampires, golems, sentient locations, biblically accurate angels/eldritch beings; Greek myths

  • ☁ Other species kemonomimi & anthros, classic movie-era monsters, most other typical fantasy races, object heads; has two forms of some kind

  • ✖ ALIEN aliens, MONSTERY monsters, kaiju, mechas, ferals; slimes/worms/blobs/simple shapes
  • Anything that feels like it was made to be outrageous and complicated just for the sake of looking unique.

THEMES/AESTHETICS


  • ❤ Magic; science; the solar system; the 88 constellations; '90s/Y2K era; "mad scientist" (goofy); cyberpunk (both retrofuturistic and modern); sci-fantasy; twins/characters that come in "sets"; time/spacetime; outcasts of society; psychic powers/psychology; shadow vs light/chaos vs order; casino/magician/playing cards; glitches

  • ☀ Horror (cute/goofy); electronics/computers/Windows 9x; general "outer space" themes; trauma; morally conflicted characters; chemistry/chemical elements; minerals; romance; space opera/classic sci-fi; post-apocalyptic; high fantasy; steampunk/Victorian; superhero; hallucinations/dreams/psychedelia; symbiotic relationships
  • The romanticized pop culture versions of cowboys, pirates, samurai, etc.; creepypasta (goofy/ironic)

  • ☁ Light (actual) horror themes; chaos beings (depends on the level of "lolrandom"ness); "really 239486345 years old but looks 10" (HIGHLY depends on how sexualized such a character looks...☹️); flowers/nature/ocean
  • Characters inspired LOOSELY by existing media franchises (like in palette, patterns, or in their species concepts, entirely depends on the media we're talking about)

  •  Extreme horror themes; "mad scientist" (edgy) (aka using mental illness to make a character "lol so crazy"); creepypasta (unironic)
  • Characters inspired directly & aesthetically by existing media franchises (direct references in their outfits/accessories, being AUs/genderbends of a canon character, etc.  Nothing personal, just doesn't appeal to me)

ELEMENTS/CLOTHES


  • ❤ Long tails/ears; pointy features; markings/patterns of some kind; floating or separatable heads/limbs; facelessness/surreal absence of features; scars/stitches; glowing elements; weird eyes/heterochromia; fangs (cute); artificial limbs (cybernetic or magical); big hair/wavy hair; androgyny
  • Suits (fancy); ties; uniforms; kimonos; gloves; fancy jackets; the specific combination of hat/goggles/jacket; collar/scarf that blocks the mouth; polearms

  • ☀ Visible joints or internal electronics; made out of artificial material; horns; spots or freckles; big noses or snouts; extra eyes; fangs (scary); blood; fluffiness/fluffy tails; weird hair color (fairly desaturated colors); "hair" that isn't hair (fins, leaves, wires, etc.); artificial limbs (prosthetic); glasses/goggles; gap tooth/chipped teeth; bowlcuts
  • Suits (ill-fitting with stupid patterns); "magical girl"/"idol"-style outfits; ridiculous '90s/'80s outfits; emo/goth/punk/grunge styles; bowties; hats; bandannas; fantasy armor; laser guns; swords

  • ☁ Candy gore; weird hair color (saturated colors); fantastical limbs used as a species characteristic (like "this species has toolbox tools for fingers" etc. I'm not sure how to better describe this)
  • Food (aesthetically as part of an outfit); bathingsuits; belts n' zippers

  • ✖ Food (literally as part of a body); GORE gore; nudity or near-nudity
  • Something so overly complicated I can't tell where one accessory ends and another begins

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Argent Species Sheet + Art Fight Team!

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago by Jovian

Hey!

As you may or may not know, I'm prepping for the upcoming AF.  I've decided to add all my argent characters to the site, but felt weird just slapping them up there without any info...

So I made a species sheet, since you can link those.  A bit more elegant than having to copypaste paragraphs into every character profile, I think!!

(One day I'd like to do that for the Rixile races too, but there's 10 whole ones of those, so uhhhhhhhhhhhh later. LMAO)

I haven't updated my AF with them just yet (I just woke up after passing out making that thing), but they're going to be added today!  Here's my profile if you don't have it already!  My username is very guessable regardless.

I am going Team Bloom this year!  >:)

Art Fight is soon!!!

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago by Jovian

https://artfight.net/~Jovian

Going to participate again this year!  Trying to find a good balance of using AF attacks to experiment vs. not wanting to burn myself out immediately...I started strong last year but kinda faded as I got in over my head, lol.

A few new characters (well, new to AF anyway) have already been added, but I plan to get some more on there before it starts in July!

I feel like I take a while to add them because I end up being very detailed in the permissions section...lmao...I use it more like "design notes" gdfhsogfhdgkjdhfgdhg

ANYWAY

YES!!