cdlum

new bf (bearfriend)

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this was meant to be a valentines post but i spent way too long sussing out maples pose, sorry everyone! took a bit to cook on this one but im glad i waited it out, was one of those 11th hour kinda pieces.

pretty please

sorry everyone, i had a weird impulse to fill out the entire background with plushies in this despite being aware some of them would absolutely not be visible. no, i dont why i did that either.

this one also started out as an ipad thing from last year and i think it maaay be the last big thing to carryover. the original idea came from a re...

yo-yo

this page genuinely was not gonna go in this specific direction until i remembered bridget has one of these. well, had.

drop to your knees and worship.

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at one point i was gonna go with just "pay attention" for the name for this post, but being honest, theres not many better characters to use a title like this for lol

jan 24' poll

sorry for all the original-lady posting everyone, i was genuinely waiting until i established what happened after the jigsaw shit to draw with em again, so i had a bit of a backlog of ideas. i have a lot more than that, those were just the immediate ones i wouldve probably already done if id finished that xmas animation sooner lol.

2024-01-23 23:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post

back atcha

completely unrelated to this piece, confi made up some fantastic art inspired by the uhh "submissive" take i had on peach lol. check it out!

lookin' good

another 2023 relic that actually started life as an ipad sketch, which ive also included for you guys. got one or two more leftovers i really like that id also like to bring over into the new year >:D

ALSO! if you missed it, my colleagues zephyr and opalu went absolutely crazy 2024-01-19 19:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post

awkward

check out the audio version over HERE! 

i actually started this back pre the xmas animation, but the actual idea for this is at least a year+ old. we run on valve time over here. thanks to 2024-01-16 00:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post

for educational purposes only

no, really. this was something done up for an anatomy question i got on tumblr. made it a bit more of an "art" piece but i did try to work in a good bit of techniques i actually do use a good bit. yo...

clogged pipes

may have gone wild with that definitely non-canon extra new years maple panel

lucky guy

so a lot of the time when i draw something thats meant to be cropped i end up drawing a lot more of it just to make sure it all lines up proportions wise - this is one such case. i spent way too long on that kendrick lamar DAMN. cover profile pic for how tiny it is in the final render lol.

try your luck

wait for it...

you get one too

id say "starting this new year off with a bang", but im pretty sure ive used that already 😔

quick little appropriately messy sketch as we slide on into this year. originally there was some dialog, but i cut that out of the posted version because i wanted to hammer home the smooch part, just so the title actually makes sense. though as f...

sparks

happy new year!

edit: added files/timelapse

dec '23 poll

it's about time for the last poll of the year! and i figured why not have another rematch between pear and -wait a second-

this isn't what i ordered... (loop + extras)

WHOO BOY did this one get elaborate: sorry everyone. believe it or not this short was relatively scaled down - the initial plan was to have some more establishing shots with damsons' RV. this got subtracted down to more of a single frame image with just a window for damsons' POV, to then back up to a proper two-shot scene once 2023-12-26 00:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post

this isn't what i ordered...

well, tis the season...

pain

hey everyone - not been ill again or anything, just hunkered down working on some stuff including one xmas-related project that has slightly ballooned in proportion though should hopefully be done before said xmas (finger crossed). 

if you didn't know, james mccaffrey, the actor who portrayed max payne, passed away the other day. id j...

just a peek

fun fact: i genuinely thought bridget had rollerskates for about 50% of the sketchup for this one, you can spot them in the timelapse.

i wanted to do something with bridget that took advantage of the massive-ass coat she wears, and thusly kind of came up with this silhouette in my head that made up the piece. nothing too crazy but if i wan...

recommendation

health update: cdlum is live 

not entirely 100% back on my feet atm, but im doing well enough to actually sit down and get some work done which is the important part :D if i get this ill again around the same time next year im just gonna assume i must g...

quick update: cdlum is kill

hey everyone, i dont know what it is about this time of year but i am currently the illest ive been all of 2023, and not like in the cool late 90s early 2000s slang way. ive had to update some IRL friends about moving/cancelling upcoming plans so it definitely makes sense to me i loop you guys in also. id been a lil under the weather for a few d...

nov '23 poll

hey all, cracking away on some stuff on the background so you know what that means - its poll time.

another fightin' game roster this time - it's guilty gear (specifically strive). 2023-11-12 23:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post

spooky surprise (no jumpscare version)

now that's all the major art parts accounted for, phew! and yes, the title was part of the joke, i think this is more what the girls were originally going for.

this version has the jumpscare edited out, but it is in fact still in the file... waiting.... ooOOooo

SAW odds + ends

in case you missed it, i wrote a production breakdown of the halloween video(s) from start to end here. i included a number of the visual assets in that post, but here's (almost) all the used hand-drawn stuff in one place, timelapses + files and all.

the SAW postmortem

hope you all had a happy halloween! if nothing else, it's a month that really brings out the psycho weird ambitious artist in me - hence the big project i put together for this october/november. this was a bit more elaborate than usual, so here's a full breakdown of this thing from top to bottom for you guys. we'll be extensively covering the 2023-11-04 03:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post

under the table

don't tell jigsaw but i technically started this one slightly ahead of that 48hr time limit. it was going to be a whole day or two ahead, but it took me a little to settle on a idea that had enough cook behind it, alongside one or two minor hitches. i promise you i authentically felt the stress of working under a strict, very seriou...