As a black women it’s beautiful to see the lesson you took from it. And that you’re sharing it on your platform 🥰🫶🏾

that was a sweet story about the trans character your niece made, my little sister frequently makes lbgt ocs just because she hears me and my sibling be open and talk about who we in our room that we share and its just nice how accepting she is of it especially since we have homophobic parents and it took us older kids a long time to even realize we were queer because we were so scared of being "wrong" or disappointing our parents. it gives me hope for the younger generation

@ayeoops

11 ай бұрын

yeah my family is very conservative so id gather she hears bad things about trans people from the adults, yet she still has a good opinion of them and im super proud of her

I love the video! Also love that you try to acknowledge certain thigs and take a moment to think deeper about stuff. Many people want to be ignorant and never try to understand how designs can send a message. The designs are nice and I like slow and steady sometimes.

The questions your classmate asked were valid to consider for sure, but at the end of the day, humans come in any combination of characteristics. A fat POC existing isn't inherently wrong/stereotypical, nor is a skinny white person. Basically I don't think "mashing all diversity into one character" is a thing. That's just a person and people like that exist in real life too.

@artareon

Жыл бұрын

That's true but it's important to consider as one may start to only portray certain features for a race. Like only ever making a plus size poc

@gianninamoreau2920

Жыл бұрын

A fat POC does exist but not every POC is fat so it shouldn’t be the default body you draw for any POC. There are many red heads with freckles but not every single red head you draw needs to have freckles. Yeah it isn’t necessarily wrong but there are so many other features to a person you can represent in your drawing.

@mangosday

Жыл бұрын

@@gianninamoreau2920 No one ever said there's a "default body" for anyone though? Ayeoops has drawn many skinny poc before but no one ever got upset about it. So why is this body type an issue? "there are so many other features to a person you can represent in your drawing." This is one drawing. That can happen in future drawings.

@ayeoops

11 ай бұрын

you raise a fair point and bring up the other side of the conversation that i hadn't thought of before. with mashing diversity into one character, i think it's mostly in the context of viewing characters as a group. like say for a show/game/collection of characters, the designers might make 9 characs who are all the same blueprint of a white character, and then have one poc who also has every other trait of marginalized groups jammed into them so that they can say "we're inclusive because we have this character" but i do agree that there isn't anything inherently wrong about a fat POC, and i realize that what i said in the vid can sound like i'm saying being fat is wrong

@rogueshappyplace

11 сағат бұрын

I have a question. So, I am a white transmasc. I am plus sized and gay as well(these are minorly important, most important is that I am a white guy) I have several ocs, and the main cast is all poc. I realized after I made them all is that it could be taken as forced representation, but that was not at all my intention. There’s a white side character, and two villains are white. I did not intend for any message to be sent about “grr white people evil poc good. I’m a white guy and I know how to represent things properly praise me” cause I know some people might take it as that. I don’t wanna change anything about my characters races, but I don’t want people to take the wrong message from my ocs. Sorry if this is in any way offensive or anything I’m bad with wording 😭also now that I think of it, all characters are lgbtq+ as well, except for two villains and a side character. I feel as though I accidentally made it seem forced but I also know that lgbtq+ people along with POC tend to make characters based off stuff about themselves, and tend to have more representation in a way then some cishet white people(not all ofc!! Just some) Also, my characters are all of several body types, mostly semi muscular because in my story it’s a bit required for their roles lol. Some are also plus sized. I hope I didn’t accidentally feed into any stereotypes without realizing it with any of them.

I’ll be honest, I get really lonely when I work on my comic because I work on it alone in my room for hours while my family sleeps, so having these videos to watch while I draw makes me a feel a little better because it makes me feel a little less alone while I work

Listening to your experience getting into DND while drawing is so relaxing! My friends and I have the most casual wacky DND one shots and they're so fun (even if I'm pretty bad at role-play lol). Love hearing your thoughts and omg yes mini cooking videos and mini dioramas are so interesting and something I want to pick up as a hobby one day.

glad to hear you're doing alright! Your drawings always inspire me ^^

I was smiling while drawing listening to you talk about playing with your family. It sounds like so much fun, I wanna learn to play!!

As a dnd player myself, I know how addicted it can be! Sksks My friends and I just finalize one campaign and now I’m anxious and willing to them do a new one.

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

literally while recording this all i wanted to do was start to write the next adventure in that pirate campaign T_T

@T44nuk1

Жыл бұрын

@@ayeoopsI still watching but it’s seem so fun!! I was not expecting your sister to just kill the poor dwarf and loot his body 😂😂😂

Chiming in with ayroops's topic on not really thinking about a decision you make when working on an artwork, I agree. Yesterday, I was working on a piece for a project called ego art week, and realized after placing the base colors, I made the character's eyes a nice shade of pink to compliment his green hair. It's not normally how people draw the character in fanarts, but I think it's really nice. :3 I also found out I like to put hearts instead of the normal dots for eye highlights. Artist development, lol. :D And I like tarot cards, sometimes catching myself writing stories inspired by the cards instead of drawing. So I understand that aspect of liking something so much, you don't draw, lol.

All your drawings are always beautiful❤❤

Your drawings are so beautiful❤

I love dnd and cant wait for baldurs gate! I used to play/dm a lot, I'm so happy to see people getting into it! hmm I should share a story so, a quick one! My party was on a voyage across the sea and we got ambushed by the flying beasts named "cliff racers". They started swarming us and once we managed to fight through a few waves, the big boss appeared, a wyvern. We had no resources left, but we did have a sorcerer and bag of holding. We instantly knew what to do, we lured the wyvern down and got our sorcerer close enough to cast polymorph. The wyvern fails and we turn it into a turtle, success. We rush with the bag of holding, shove the turtle into the bag and rip it, sending it to another plane. I got knocked out from the blast, so did our sorcerer. Once everyone was up we drank the night away! It was very fun and our dm was so mad lol

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

what!! if i was the dm i would be having a blast with how creative u got

I loved this video, your so realistic about your approach to everything, super respectful to the other artists who gave you the critique, also I am playing DND myself recently. I made a bard halfling called Giggles The Third and I totally understand how you could get sucked into it. I love the game and the group I'm playing with so much. You should try and find some local groups or expanding it later the fact that you are having so much fun and exploring it now will make you an even better DM if that is what you choose to do and also being a player is just as fun, this was a really nice video to sit and listen to, I enjoyed the longer form content and the art you made is beautiful aswell 😅

This was so calming after a very productive today so thank you 😊

I love your drawings! 💕

@l_qxs

Жыл бұрын

TORD

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

tysm

these designs are so beautiful ❤

DnD is amazing. I could listen to people ramble for hours about it- ALSO, YOUR NIECE MAKEING THE WIZARD TRANS. That was so sweet, my heart melted.

Oh man you HAVE to play with a group. It’s the most fun thing ever. Keeping up with the rules can be a lot but once you get that down it’s just muscle memory.

haha I'm exactly the same type of gamer as your sister! Mass effect and Skyim my favorite games 💜 also I really apprecate sharing your experiences and how you've learned from them, especially drawing different types of people 🙌 I'm also working on my illustrations and I'm concerned of misrepresenting someone because of my lack of knowledge or ignorance in certain areas

Love your process

Yeyyy! New vidooo ♡♡♡

This video actually made me wanna get into dnd😂❤️

@mofubunsart

Жыл бұрын

Samee 😂

Hearing you talk about D&D really makes me want to get back into it. My pirate campaign is calling my name lol. Would love to see you draw some fantasy characters and talk more about D&D!

Early and can’t wait to se e the video!

DnD is really the best lol and I'd love to see your characters and their stories at some point!

Nice video, I loved seing the designs; Also your DnD experience sounds really fun, I'm glad you're enjoying playing it! I've always loved imagining being in different scenes, worlds or characters shoes, I havent tried playing DnD yet though but as a child me and my friends would do this kind of roleplaying all the time :) ♡♡

33:56 IS TOO CUTE WUT

I've also been watching and listening to a bunch of dnd campaigns recently and really want to try playing it!! Even though I haven't even joined my school dnd club yet, I have this idea for a satyr cleric who's patron god is Dionysus from Greek mythology. I know you aren't really supposed to make characters before knowing what the campaign is going to be, but the idea hit me one night and i couldnt get it out of my head. I'm really hoping she can fit into whatever campaign the club plays through this year

beautiful art.

Ohhhhhhh I LOVE DND!!!! It's pfct!! I knew it watching ST haha!

I think its hilarious that the minute people start playing dnd they instantly want to throw stuff. My warlock threw her imp at a kraken and crit, the table lost their shit that she killed it with her imp.

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

that sounds WILD, i cant wait to throw a kraken into my pirate campaign

you should make a video on drawing dnd characters!! i for one, who loves your art, would really want to see you draw in that mythical fantasy style thing- idk what im saying anymore XD all in all, you should make a dnd character video cuz that would be super fun and cool to see👍 as always, love the art. im living for it. you inspire me so much omg like srsly dude, keep doing what you do best :)

you definitely were not stereotyping the black girls just for making them bigger, coming from a black person. theres plenty of black people who are bigger just how theres plenty of white people who are bigger. if you made the white girl bigger and the black girls skinny, would anyone would have said anything? no. why? because it doesnt matter..people DO look like that and just because you just drew them bigger unintentionally doesnt mean ANYTHING at all! art is art and how you wanna interpret your characters is up to you, as long as its not offensive. and theres nothing offensive with a certain body type on a certain race

@nevisnebis1207

Жыл бұрын

The way I see it, it’s fine to have bigger black girls and skinny white girls, but something I noticed is that it can be interpreted as stuffing all your diversity into some characters, and then having your other characters being skinny, white, etc. for the sake of just having some diverse characters. Not sure that was what Lauren meant by that, but it is certainly interesting to think about :0

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

i think i mentioned in the vid something about how i subconsciously mashed diversity into one charac instead of spreading it out, but you worded it way better than me! ;; op definitely has a point that people of all races has all sorts of body types, but yes what i was trying to say is that i want to be more aware so i don't- as you said- stuff all the diversity into one character again ^^

@squishyshoebox

Жыл бұрын

@@ayeoops​​⁠​⁠​⁠ahh that makes good sense, i understand!! 🩷🩷 just know that theres nothing wrong with that anyways but i appreciate that you want to spread out your diversity throughout your characters!! also i love your character designs so much🩷

I really hope you’re able to find a balance between art and DND! I’ve been wanting to play for a while I just need to actually make a character and find a time where me my best friend and my dad are free

Yay

I like to think about dnd when writing my stories. It helps make things more exciting and gets me out of writers block when I think of my characters as people in a campaign going on an unconventional story

I love playing DnD! i think my favorite moment as a player is when we created a cult and blew the minds of some dwarves with magic illusions. My favorite moment , and worst, as a Gm is when my dice decided to continuously crit roll my cousins and sister who were level twos. (they loved it anyway and want me to Gm again for them)

Nice video!

i hope u would share more art school experience of yours. as someone who can't go into one rn, i rly apreciate those kind of content. but no pressure ofc, just a suggestion

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

my first podcast ep is all about my experiences with art in school :D

while going thorugh barnes and nobles I would always linger around the b&b sets. i want to get into it, like really badly but I don't know how to start. I want to watch videos but I have to watch from the beginning. when I say have to I mean HAVE to. so getting into has been hard, so do you have any recommendations on starting d&d

i heard baldurs gate 3 from you and i bought it. Today i played 7 hours. I love the game thank you for talking about this game

@ayeoops

Жыл бұрын

its so good!

愛しています、あなたは私に 3 つの新しいキャラクターを作るきっかけを与えてくれました (奇妙に聞こえたらごめんなさい)

I have a question. So, I am a white transmasc. I am plus sized and gay as well(these are minorly important, most important is that I am a white guy) I have several ocs, and the main cast is all poc. I realized after I made them all is that it could be taken as forced representation, but that was not at all my intention. There’s a white side character, and two villains are white. I did not intend for any message to be sent about “grr white people evil poc good. I’m a white guy and I know how to represent things properly praise me” cause I know some people might take it as that. I don’t wanna change anything about my characters races, but I don’t want people to take the wrong message from my ocs. Sorry if this is in any way offensive or anything I’m bad with wording 😭also now that I think of it, all characters are lgbtq+ as well, except for two villains and a side character. I feel as though I accidentally made it seem forced but I also know that lgbtq+ people along with POC tend to make characters based off stuff about themselves, and tend to have more representation in a way then some cishet white people(not all ofc!! Just some) Also, my characters are all of several body types, mostly semi muscular because in my story it’s a bit required for their roles lol. Some are also plus sized. I hope I didn’t accidentally feed into any stereotypes without realizing it with any of them.

There is something about the way you narrate and speak with your tones that is just very adoring to hear! You actually inspired me to start a project , and I would love for you to check it out once it's done! You fill out a thingy online with multiple choice options for who you want to be as a character, what you want the world around you to look like, and your stats! I take all your new info, and write a 500 word start to a story, a story with dice rolls and interactions. That is free, for anyone to fill out, try and check out, and then if they really like the first 500 words, they can pay for more and continue their story! Does this sound like a fun idea? I hope you are having an amazing week, and im happy to comment here, as I've been a bit nervous to write you because I didn't know if complimenting your voice would be stupid or not 😂 Honestly out of all this, I love the most on the right side, the two rough sketches of the two poses next to the colors and brushes, i dont know why I enjoy them so much, I love creating little not exact detail things and then putting really nice colors in them, i enjoy high detail things too but just making really simple things cute and finished, underestimated little pieces that in their own way and style can do so much. 😅😅

OMG WHAT DO YOU DRAW ON!

@l_qxs

Жыл бұрын

it looks like clip studio but i could be wrong

@mariiie.3

Жыл бұрын

The info is in the description of the video!

I wouldn’t say the second one is even fat honestly she is more so just average. Not skinny but not fat just average

Girl what💀💀💀 you can draw any race any size you want

Honestly you didn't do anything wrong; you just made a character who happened to be African American & Bigger than the other(s). Nothing really ruined any diversity, perhaps that person was just picking at your choice of design.. Which is kinda weird tbh. I Hope they weren't actually offended since its just a character you made with no ill intent. I Don't mean to come off as rude, I just find it weird they asked such questions; a good response could be " It's Just a Design choice " or something similar. I Love your artwork; and style! The character is adorable just the way you made it, but its YOUR art and YOU don't have to really explain most bits of it.

@ayeoops

7 ай бұрын

the class encouraged us to really reflect on our art and choices (typical art class where everything has to have a hidden meaning 🙄) but i dont think they were offended, it was more like they needed participation points and had to ask a question and thats what came to mind for them

Did anyone ever tell you, you kinda sound like TinaKitten 😂