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The Black Box

@adobe-outdesign / adobe-outdesign.tumblr.com

Adobe/Black Box | She/They | Ace
I review stuff, make fanart, write fanfiction, and shitpost. It's what I do.
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adobe-outdesign asked:

Can you review the Neela?

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I wasn't expecting to get a new Neopet so soon after the Varwolf dropped, but here we are. I will say that the Neela feels a bit "off" for Neopet's traditional style, and kind of follows the hyper-detailed full body pet outfits we've been getting recently. I don't dislike the way it looks, but the detail and the unique pose will make customization difficult.

That said, I do like the design a lot! It feels a bit like the Ogrin, and I guess you could argue they're too similar to justify the Neela as a pet, but I think the markings, long tail, hooves, four horns, and slender face make it different enough. It has this really nice ethereal kind of vibe to it, and is really beautiful overall.

Speaking of markings, my only other issue with this design is that I'm not sure what base color it's supposed to be. Blue, I guess? I love the palette in isolation, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't quite fit in with other basic-coloured Neopets, and it's weird that they only released one out of three basic colours for it so far. Not a huge issue, but one I hope they correct soon.

Neelas have obviously been released post-customization, so there's no UC/styled art to discuss (for the basic colour, at least).

Favorite Colours:

Arid: Not only did TNT release a new pet, but they also released some new colors along with it! Arid is arguably very basic, just black and white with dark pinkish-red accents, but I'm an absolute sucker for black/white/red combos, and I really think this palette makes the Neela's unique markings pop compared to the basic color.

Blacklight: Oh, this one's beautiful! We only have a pet style for it right now so we don't know what the converted version will look like, but I love the pose and the joyful expression. I also think that this is a solid new colour—we have shadow and rainbow, but black with neon rainbow highlights is unique enough when combined that I think it's more than justified, especially with the rainbow spectrum trails coming off of it. Can't wait to see what more pets look like in this colour!

Graveyard: Okay, this one looses some points for originality, given that we already have zombie as a colour and it's not clear what the difference is. Graveyard is gorier, I suppose? Regardless, this design is very cool. I love the details with the stitching along the sides, and the exposed skull and broken horn look super cool and creepy.

#happy april fools everyone!#subeta#subeta reviews#neopets#neopet reviews#neela#ask
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Anonymous asked:

Where do we draw the line between a berry for Pokémon and a berry for people? Like, why is a strawberry different from any of the other berries that don’t affect your Pokémon’s stats? Humans can eat plenty of Pokémon berries, like, I had some lovely candied rawst berries at a festival once.

Is there a difference? Pretty sure Pokemon can eat "normal" berries and humans can eat "Pokemon" berries.

#pokemon#ask#Anonymous
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pewycert asked:

I can't believe Lord Darigan/King Roo is canon

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Like I said in the tags on that one post, April Fool's day content isn't canon by nature of Being April Fool's Day Content. That said, I'm really glad they referenced the ship and I hope we get some more (canon) tidbits of them being an item in the future.

#neopets#king roo#lord darigan#ask#pewycert
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Anonymous asked:

Nintendo if you bring wind waker and twilight princess as online only games to the switch 2 i swear to god

I feel like if they did this they'd just make it backwards compatible as well given that the system is similar. No way Nintendo would want to miss out on that sweet sweet Switch 1 money.

#nintendo#ask#Anonymous
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Reblogged unova-daycare
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dragons-age asked:

i would really like to see a happy houndoom in your style, you always manage to make the "Scary" pokemon look so friendly still!

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pinecone-jam answered:

First my half-asleep brain mixed up “happy” and “scary” so I ended up doodling this poor houndoom facing a mighty and horrifying enemy

Then for reasons unknown even for myself I decided that adding some borzoi into this madness would somehow fix my mistake. It didn’t but at that point I just gave up.

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#borzoi houndoom my beloved#pokemon#pokemon art#houndoom
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Reblogged monobrobe
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ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

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Pulling this out of my tags but for real one of the best webcomics(and also best story in general) I have ever read started out looking like this:

You do not have to be Michaelangelo to make art, just make it. Also, obligatory quote from my good man Bob Ross:

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Sorry to pull this out of the tags also but I absolutely agree and wanted to elaborate further, bcs like another reason I genuinely think anyone who is interested in art but feels like they suck too much to make it should really just stay away from AI and actually just give drawing a chance is because AI cannot create new art styles. It can only make copies of what you put into it, so much so that if you want something in a specific style you have to tell it the name of the artist you want it to mimic because it cannot make something that doesn't already exist. If all you ever fed it were drawings of stick figures that's all it would ever know how to do.

But humans can make new art styles, every person's art is unique. And when it comes to ONE(author/artist behind Mob Psycho 100 and One Punch Man) and Rich Berlew(author and artist of Order of the Stick), if these guys never just started making their comics we wouldn't have ever been able to see these expressive, funny, strange, and just all around captivating pieces of art!

The image I used of Order of the Stick isn't actually exactly what it looked like at this start, this is:

And THIS is what Order of the Stick looks like now:

And while it does still look similar, it's clear how much Burlew has improved and grown comfortable in his unique artstyle, how far he's come in the last 21 years. The lighting, the line art, the panel layout, all of it has improved while still essentially just being stick figures. And I cannot even begin to describe how much I fucking LOVE the way this comic looks.

Switching to ONE, his art started out super rough

And while One Punch Man did get a new artist...I genuinely think the "better" art has lost a lot of the charm the original had. I'm so glad that ONE did Mob Psycho 100 himself and that the anime mimicked his style rather than trying to make it look more standard like OPM did, because my god, this guy's stuff conveys humor in a way that is as brilliant as it is unique. It's rough, but the roughness doesn't take away from the impact or emotions, it honestly adds to them, and overall it's incredible to see how much ONE has improved, but also how much it still looks like his art:

I do not want to live in a world where ONE and Rich Burlew didn't make their comics because they were too scared of their art looking bad. I don't want to live in a world without these stories and these dynamic and original art styles. Burlew's art legit has given me confidence, I always felt bad that when I finished and colored my art all my lines were so thick and smooth and coloring-book-esque, it's why most of what I post is like, sketches, colored or not. But after reading Order of the Stick I legit cried a little because for the first time I didn't feel bad about just doing the kind of line art that feels right to me, which looks like this:

So fr, please if you want to make art just make art. Everyone's art is unique in one way or another and if you just rely on AI all the time we'll never get to see styles like ONE and Rich Burlew's and again, I don't want to live in a world where we don't get to see all of these amazing, imperfect works of art. I want to see YOUR art, because it's yours, and the world is a better place with your art in it.

#this is a particularly silly argument because people are complaining about not being good at art#and then using AI to avoid drawing a lot. which is how you get Good At Art. ouroboros type situation#also can't emphasize how much more important personal style and good writing are over “good” art for webcomics#art#webcomics#AI
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