Tomorrowland Was All Of The Things I Love!!!!! Retrofuturism! Saving The World Thru SCIENCE! Athena's

Ohhh my gosh I love your art KEYBOARD MASH MASH MASH do you ever think you'll do commissions again?

I am IN FACT taking commissions at this current juncture in space-time! $33 icons, $66 portraits, $88 3/4 body pinups! 30 dolla up front for latter two, paypal only, email aysha.shehim at gmail dot com. Please provide a staggering wall of text description and ref images if possible.

Feel free to help me be a slightly-less-starving artist. It's slightly less cliche! D:

A commission of a glaaaamorous elf lady. If you can't tell I like adding neon colors around ears way too much!

The JUICEBOX is my ongoing struggle project to make a useful (and *safe*) powerbank for big powerhungry costumes. I'm not there yet at all lol! But I keep hacking at it occasionally. Holds 6 rechargeable NiMH D cells- for juice to last up to full day of running leds depending on the number of lights of course, as well as the animations and colors... And brightness.. etc... Uhhh battery life depends on a lot of factors... Why NiMH though? Lipoly batteries pack more power into a smaller package but thats also what adds to the risk. So thats why I decided to go with D cells instead. If you've seen the videos of phones and laptops combusting and then imagine the abuse a costume goes through, maybe you too can reconsider strapping one of those to your flammable human body! PLUS if they're drained and you want to repower your costume NOW its easy enough to go pick up fresh ones from a store. The Juicebox outputs about 6-7v, good for servos, fans, speakers, and small motors. 5v/15A UBEC to run mostly neopixels! Up to 200 at full power if you're crazy. 3v voltage buck for sensors and microcontrollers. I used a different style of connector for each output for foolproofing, its not attractive but hey at least you wont fry anything by plugging it into a higher voltage output xD this is still something i'll be redoing because I have some other ideas Id like to try. Each output also has a fuse so if you cant resist the tempation to plug in a million things or miscalculated somewhere you wont overheat the pack. The enclosure is the molded EVA kind for headphones or other various gadgets so its easy to cut holes into! Unfinished things- tiny cooling fan for the UBEC, an ammeter, tiny OLED display for detailed info on power usage, and a neopixel programmed to battery life color indicator on the end of a long cable so you can route it to an easy access part of the costume, to check the juice levels at a glance. All of the code I consistenly fail to get working runs on an arduino pro mini lol If you're still actually reading this and havent fallen asleep you might be interested in my and @maddycatcosplay 's new maker discord for crafty costumers! Invite in bio! https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Tx9-Jjcig/?igshid=91wqvlq99sjf

Today I joined the ranks of that illustrious class of people who've performed a smartphone baptism by toilet.

Stuff like this is pretty livejournal but whateverrr. This is an art tumblr and if I'm not gonna post art I might as well complain about it WOO

I thought about it a lot more and realized that I AM shy. Not in general, I don't really have any social anxiety IRL, though sometimes people think I am shy (or a huge snob) because I'm super quiet or whatever. I am TOTALLY freakin shy about my art tho omg. I remember telling my mom that if I ever had my own gallery show I wouldn't be able to actually be there, ohmygod, a room full of people looking at my art with me THERE? NOPE I'm one of those assholes who won't let people look in my sketchbook. Its not like its a diary or anything but nope. nope.

I wasn't like this at ALL when I was small but when you're a hypersensitive hyperemotional weird kid you either learn to grow a thick skin (which everyone in the damn world insists sensitive people do, guess what, it's not always possible, this is how I am MADE) or you just make a container for youself deep inside and you don't share it with anybody. I am made almost entirely out of secrets. A two dimensional holographic projection, only one side visible. I feel like there is pressure to share my creative self on one hand and then on the other hand I'm supposed to just let the downsides of getting attention just slide off my back? When that stuff hits me way harder than it has any right to? I've been doing this long enough to have figured out what I can and can't handle. And YEAH it's honestly not much! I don't WANT to be this way but I've spent over 10 years trying to change and it didn't work so why should I feel ashamed anymore. Maybe someday things will change and I'll be in a safer place for all this. I'd like that because I believe I have a LOT to offer, everyone wants to make their mark in the world I guess. I have some ideas and plans for my life but I dunno if that'll be what makes the difference. MAYBE SOMEDAY I'll just be this unstoppable fountain of awesome creative works.

I'll keep striving to make that happen. It just hasn't yet. SHRUG.

Would you take science into a lot of consideration when creating worlds and their inhabitants, or would that take some of the joy out of it?

Well, considering that my favorite genre is... science fiction... I'd say no XD I put a lot of thought of that sort into my fantasy worlds as well, to the point of asking whether or not a clockwork person winding themselves up in order to keep running indefinitely violates the laws of thermodynamics (it does). So I suppose in my case SCIENCE is where I actually derive a great deal of joy :D

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I decided to post some unfinished stuff that is floundering on my hard drive!

And to buck the trend of overambitious fanart that I lose interest in when 80% complete or so…. have one actually finished picture :D

the doctor is always worth it

BEHOLD.

My masterpiece 8D Well, defining masterpiece as a project that incorporates all the art skills one has learned up to that point. So considering how long ago I started this and how long I sat on it after finishing (sorry about that, the internet), this is no longer a masterpiece as defined as a showcase of current mad art skills. OHOHoo that's right, I have other projects in the works as we speak

Anyway, since Errikan is my bb I owed him a big sexy hero image, and the size is inspired by the time I went to the Mucha museum in Prague and realised HOW HUGE his art really was and ever since I knew that I just had to make really really big art. And I finally found a printer that does huge art at accessible prices :D

the paladin - 26x52"

And of course, there's also 8x16" and 15x30" for people who don't want a door-sized picture of an adorable elf guy embarassing their roomates :D

BUY MY ART if you want to!

Uploaded as many old pics of elfclothes as tumblr would let me. I suppose SOME kind of progression is visible here...

man i draw a lot of clothes

Where do you start when you begin to build a world? With the people, the landscape, the politics, the clothes? (heh) What seed of thought directs you?

Characters, nearly always! I'll have one or two and just build everything up around them. Though some of my favorite ideas have come from dreams which I am less comfortable taking credit for since they happen without my permission :p but it's still my brain I guess, right??