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my two forbidden favorites

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Eurylochus and Telemachus sparring? (Not in a ship sort of way, in a sort of “favorite uncle and really annoying little shit of a nephew who won’t leave him alone” sort of way)

it’d be awesome if you did this, thank you!!

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Sparring!

Aftermath

Extra

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sorry i'm just a man and can only spare one set of clothes per drawing

me when someone experiences voilence and the lesson they learn is kindness

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Du past shadowpeach puisque j’y pensais.

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guys..... I'm re-entering my klance era...... and I redrew this old comic to start us off <3

more thoughts under the cut ⬇️

april fools

jesus christ can you imagine 🚬

I had fun redrawing this though! cool to see the improvement 🤭

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Hi! I live your art so much and I was wondering if you have any tips on shading?

Two of the biggest things you want to think about are 1. your light source and 2. form shadows vs cast shadows — which your light-source will dictate.

Form shadows are created by the light source directly hitting the object and are generally softer. Cast shadows are the shadows cast from one object onto another and generally have sharper edges. This contrast between sharp and soft shadows is what’s going to make your drawing really come to life and the shadows read like they’re supposed to

Then, to further define shading, two things to think about are core darks and reflected light. Core darks are the darkest part of the shadow within the form shadow, and reflected light is what it sounds like, light from other objects that has bounced back.

here's a visual representation of that from here

This is all pretty technical and art fundamentals-y but you can easily put it into practice in your own stuff even if what you're making is more cartoony than realistic

see I drew a lovely deku with this technique

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Not everything needs to be a full story, you know?

If you have just one or two scenes that you’re really excited about, you can just write those. You don’t have to create a full WIP to contain them if you don’t want.

You can create characters without putting them into a project, they can just exist.

You can worldbuild for a universe that you never write about.

If there’s a trope you really want to write, but you don’t have a project to put them in… You can just write the best parts of that trope on its own.

Even if you do have a story and there’s parts you don’t want to write, it’s okay to just write the parts that you’re excited about. You don’t need to write the other parts and make it a full story.

I feel like in writing, there’s a lot of emphasis put on completion and writing a full story.

Completion or a full story doesn’t always have to be the purpose or goal. It’s okay and wonderful to just let something exist on its own without anything else.

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Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"

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Something I'm really looking forward to in season 3 is seeing how they play Arin's relationship with everyone else. Because he's only using Ras as a means to an (as we now know futile) end, and he's not an evil kid, AND ON TOP OF THAT we know he's still around the other ninja and cooperating with them to a certain degree. Like that such a fucking bold thing to do with a character and I think it could be one of those insane things people write video essays about if it's done right.

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Don't talk to me, I'm in the zone right now

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canon monkey posting

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It's like the morning (evening) paper to me fuck off

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Stalking my blog, I see /silly /lh

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SHADOWPEACH fic doodles cus idk i wanna

trust I will actually write it guys I prommy

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The packaged deal got delivered, but at what cost?

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🍜 noodles getting cold kid

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The FUCK you mean this only took 2 hours. Was i locked in. Did that torchbearer picture actually work

Josh DuUuUuUn 💥💥

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"What made you follow your mutual" I don't know. I don't remember anything. In my mind we were mutuals at birth. Since the dawn of time. The start of the earth's spin