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View From A Cabin

Honestly one of the hardest pieces I’ve done, I was combining so many different landscape elements at once

It’s obviously not perfect there’s a couple of smudges I’m not thrilled over but I don’t really care about it being perfect anymore ^_^. It was really fun to make, and even in my small mistakes I can see how big a difference there is because I react quicker or better or I just don’t make mistakes as frequently. I had to very carefully do the window frame and I couldn’t lean close to steady my hand, as I was filming, so I’m actually really impressed with myself that I only made 2 minor smudges and still made a decent attempt to fix them as well so they aren’t really noticeable.

Overall I’m really happy with this piece, I’m just a little concerned it may not fit my friend’s style it definitely came out a lot brighter than I had envisioned. Insha’Allah she’ll like it.

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I’m almost done….

But I’m also seriously doubting myself, I could have done a better job on the trees on the left, it all blends a bit too much when they’re supposed to differentiate a bit better or at least have enough texture to differentiate

But I don’t want to overwork it that would be just as bad so I’m leaving it now

*sighs*

Now just to add the window frame in properly…

I’m so tired I’ve barely eaten today I was so fixated on this

I don’t even know if the footage I got from filming is any good I kept forgetting to turn the camera on 🤦🏻‍♀️

Okay finished pieces, what do we all think?

Now that I’ve coloured it I really cannot decide XD they’re both good contenders

I’m gonna step away for a couple of hours and then come back to it with fresh eyes (and a recharged phone because this took about an hour of filming, and that’s with pauses it was actually about 3-4 episodes of Gilmore Girls)

Anyway, leave your thoughts

Also reminder the frame itself is dark brown too and the window lines are supposed to be thicker, my concern with the right picture is that it may be (with the frame) overwhelming in brown tones.

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I sure hope she likes this piece I’m starting to doubt myself a little now…

But we’re going with it!

*laughs nervously*

Okay finished pieces, what do we all think?

Now that I’ve coloured it I really cannot decide XD they’re both good contenders

I’m gonna step away for a couple of hours and then come back to it with fresh eyes (and a recharged phone because this took about an hour of filming, and that’s with pauses it was actually about 3-4 episodes of Gilmore Girls)

Anyway, leave your thoughts

Also reminder the frame itself is dark brown too and the window lines are supposed to be thicker, my concern with the right picture is that it may be (with the frame) overwhelming in brown tones.

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you are my safest embrace

you light the darkest of places

in your arms i found peace i've never known

I really wanted to draw a calico this time adopt one in the future, they're so adorable 🙂‍↕️

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Okay wait wait I just added a bit more line detailing on the left, I forgot I was supposed to make it thicker by adding black gold gelato:

Okay finished pieces, what do we all think?

Now that I’ve coloured it I really cannot decide XD they’re both good contenders

I’m gonna step away for a couple of hours and then come back to it with fresh eyes (and a recharged phone because this took about an hour of filming, and that’s with pauses it was actually about 3-4 episodes of Gilmore Girls)

Anyway, leave your thoughts

Also reminder the frame itself is dark brown too and the window lines are supposed to be thicker, my concern with the right picture is that it may be (with the frame) overwhelming in brown tones.

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Okay finished pieces, what do we all think?

Now that I’ve coloured it I really cannot decide XD they’re both good contenders

I’m gonna step away for a couple of hours and then come back to it with fresh eyes (and a recharged phone because this took about an hour of filming, and that’s with pauses it was actually about 3-4 episodes of Gilmore Girls)

Anyway, leave your thoughts

Also reminder the frame itself is dark brown too and the window lines are supposed to be thicker, my concern with the right picture is that it may be (with the frame) overwhelming in brown tones.

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This took 2 hours to mix both palettes

The one I ended up using on the thumbnail is the blue palette.

Now… to do the left thumbnail… shouldn’t take so long since I’ve got the basic colour palette down already as I wanted both to have the same sky Insha’Allah

Okay so I’m going to be meeting up with my friend this Saturday Insha’Allah and I’m so excited to give her these (very late) Eid gifts.

The frame is an old one my mum gave me but I realised just now it matched the aesthetic of the gifts PERFECTLY so I’m also going to paint her something special today Insha’Allah, however I cannot decide what so I need ideas. It’s gotta fit the blue vintage-y aesthetic but it’s gotta be something great for her to display, definitely a galaxy involved somehow. I’m drawing a blank and I only have a few days so any suggestions would be much appreciated

@escapaldi @crystal-rebellion @buttercups-in-a-golden-frenzy any ideas?

*dashes off to IG to spam my other friends*

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excuse me, i'm borrowing a work laptop and there's a wall to stop me from going to gaming sites. do you or anyone else have any suggestions to bypass the wall?

I would strongly recommend not trying to get around blocking rules on your work laptop because your work is almost certainly logging what happens on the laptop; if they check those logs at the very least you will no longer be allowed to borrow the laptop, and possibly you won't continue to have a work to borrow a laptop from.

Also, depending on how huge a deal anyone wants to make of this, it may be actually illegal to do this on someone else's computer (and even if they lent it to you, that is their computer, and what you are discussing is sometimes described as "unauthorized access" and is a no-shit crime; people also don't think that logging into an ex's email that they had the password to is a crime - it is. Don't do this shit)

You can do whatever you want on your own computer and your own network. If you are on somebody else's computer you have to follow their rules. This is annoying, but unless you are certain that you are good enough to do this in a way that will be completely undetectable to your employer, you shouldn't do this.

If you work someplace that provides you a computer for work, you should ONLY use that computer for work. Assume that your boss can see everything that you do on that work computer and act accordingly.

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always entertained by your booktube posts as a bookstore guy because we comb through the frontlist for recent and brand new releases to see what our area will be interested in / what our staff can talk up and sell and it’s my Job to read up-and-coming stuff. every week. and like. this is not a problem in the real world. our sales simply do not reflect a world where all women are being easily and dangerously corrupted by tiktok porn. that’s made up. they’re making that up to sell more hating women. if tiktok readers have such an abysmal culture why do its critics spend enough time there to become convinced it’s all there is.

it's genuinely so so so so so so wild to me when people decide the best argument to make against erotica that's popular on tiktok is to act like it's fast becoming the only kind of literature that anyone has access to, because that's a notion that is INCREDIBLY easily dispelled by visiting literally any bookstore or library, or the websites thereof, and people who argue otherwise are, more than anything, showing their ass as not being particularly dialed into the literary industry they claim to be so worried about. sure, booktok has popularized erotic novels! but they're not killing publishing anymore than, say, the wave of Twilight-derivative paranormal YA romances did in the 2000s.

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A minor stress of yarncrafts which I don't see discussed much:

There is a small tangle in your yarn. Topologically you know it must be a slipknot; if you give it a good firm tug, it should come undone.

Just how much force are you willing to stake on that?

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Lilac Irises, by Claude Monet

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HIII I just finished SU for the first time and was scrolling the tags to find this zine!

I love the Diamonds so much I’m so sad I missed it, any chance of leftover sales and when will it be?

Hello and congrats on finishing this amazing show! <3

Not to worry as we will actually be opening leftovers very soon, in fact it's now only 3 days away on the 24th! 👀

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Okay so I loved everybody’s comments ^_^ they were all actually pretty synonymous but with little defining details that I’ve tried to bring together.

Let me just say one of my first ideas when looking at the frame was to do an indoor/window seat setting and it made me thrilled to see others thought of it too!

So I ended up going with that idea primarily but I sprinkled butterfly elements in as everyone suggested because it’s the motif that ties everything together, and I’ve ended up with two composition sketches (that took me far too long to complete because I kept getting distracted by Steven universe on tumblr XD)

I know it’s quite faint, I’m going to colour it but the left piece had me stuck for a while compositionally - it felt hard to know where the focal points of the piece would be with the window frame, mountains, trees and galaxy. I didn’t want to make it too busy but at the same time I wanted it to be evenly filled - I think the window frame sort of helped in the sense that it helped me see how balanced/unbalanced it was the way gridmarks help painters, but I did feel concerned about overworking it. It’s only a thumbnail though so I don’t know why I was being so precious XD I forgot I could make more than one

One idea that I really liked in the comments was almost a double exposure idea, with a butterfly/teacup motif and the galaxy in either one of them. But I realised that I didn’t want to do it for this piece because it would leave white space between the frame and the subject, and it felt…. Idk almost minimalist and too clean for the slightly cluttered aesthetic I’m going for.

That said, the piece on the right felt TOO cluttered for me. I do love a good window seat piece (*coughs guiltily in that dang Labyrinth piece I’ve just abandoned at this point*) but helpfully the other day my friend and I were talking about her decor style. She is much more minimalist than I am, not like completely but a cluttered slightly messy window seat doesn’t quite fit her I think? Or her room. But it might be that I add the colour and it works, I’m not sure so I’ll post the finished thumbnails here in a bit Insha’Allah. I included a book and a teacup as well as a blanket and cushions because she’s a reader and I felt like those things captured her vibe so perhaps it’ll suit her once I colour it.

The left piece is quite busy as well, but I feel like a landscape piece is still quite “clean”, and I included a couple of elements that are kind of related to her. When I was painting pieces for my students she commented on how she really liked the mountain piece I made, so I thought I’d include a mountain in the distance. The forest on the side is kind of because she reads/read a lot of YA and I feel like she probably likes that dark forest-y aesthetic. And of course I’ve marked out the galaxy, both windows will have a galaxy but while the right will only have the sky as the interior is part of the piece, the left will have the galaxy alongside all the other elements as it’s focused on the exterior, and it’ll be a galaxy sunset as suggested in the comments!

I know the window is the same in both pieces, I got this particular image in my mind of a window like those stained glass designs you see in churches and museums but instead of the glass being stained it’s just the metalwork design. I kept it quite simplistic for both because obviously I want the outside to be visible, especially for the left piece, and I made the butterfly detail slightly different in the two decorated frames to lend a little smidge of asymmetry.

Now… it’s quite late but my sister has to catch up on Business Proposal so I think I’ll try to colour one of them at least…. I must admit I am veering towards the left one but I do want thoughts and feedback!

Okay so I’m going to be meeting up with my friend this Saturday Insha’Allah and I’m so excited to give her these (very late) Eid gifts.

The frame is an old one my mum gave me but I realised just now it matched the aesthetic of the gifts PERFECTLY so I’m also going to paint her something special today Insha’Allah, however I cannot decide what so I need ideas. It’s gotta fit the blue vintage-y aesthetic but it’s gotta be something great for her to display, definitely a galaxy involved somehow. I’m drawing a blank and I only have a few days so any suggestions would be much appreciated

@escapaldi @crystal-rebellion @buttercups-in-a-golden-frenzy any ideas?

*dashes off to IG to spam my other friends*

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I misspelled pepsi ONE FUCKING TIME

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Hi *posts this and goes to the void again*