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be free!!

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on the nature of storytelling

road to hell (reprise) // the outsiders

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scrooge, remember marley, your old partner and friend?

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Charity stickers are up in our shop now!

Profits will be donated to eSims for Gaza and PCRF.

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Is anybody listening?

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happy hadestown uk cast recording day to all who celebrate

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my first webkinz ever was a pink pony named ponygirl, i miss her everyday 🩷

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VHS Christmas Carols in a nutshell:

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She’s done she’s finally done <3 (very inspired by crimson peak if ya can’t tell, I was in a ✨mood✨)

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Starkid's parody musical of Aladdin, Twisted: the Untold Story of a Royal Vizier turns 10 today! here's some fanart!!

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Hi I’m a big fan of your work (and your fairy tail art work is just yesss!!!) I was wondering do you have any tips on procreate? I’m struggling with the colouring like how you add the color as well shadows and light (do you have any tips or step by step guide XD )

Oh, hello!! 😯

You're my first ever ask! So...thanks for asking! 😅(And thank you for the compliment!)

Onto your ask, I'm not the best teacher, so bear with me. I’ll try to explain the basics.

I start coloring by first adding a neutral color base layer by using the free hand selection tool. It’s much quicker to fill in a selection with a color, rather than coloring by hand.

Once my base is done, I begin coloring each character one by one using clipping masks. Each color has its own layer.

Then, I merge all the layers together after the character is completely colored!

When I’m feeling lazy (which happens a lot 😆) I just shade using a multiply layer, and clipping masks. I usually pick a shade of red or blue. If I can’t decide on the shadow’s color, I’ll toggle with the hue, saturation, brightness bar until something feels right. Also, when shading, it’s important to pick a direction where the light is coming from. I tend to choose a top-down diagonal angle. Don’t get too focused on making it look “real”. Shade in chunks, without getting lost in the details. Especially when drawing cartoonish characters.

Highlights and line-art color changes are last!

I treat highlights like shadows. Don’t over complicate it. I mostly stick to adding them to hair in simple drawings.

I like to add color to my line art to add a bit of depth and softness. Just alpha lock the layer your line art is on, and you can change the color very easily! Just color over the line art after you alpha lock the layer.

And voila! A Nicolette style colored sketch! Hope this helped you out!! <3

(Please someone make Natsu shave…it’s bad)

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Happy Wicked release day! Hope to see it myself in theatres real soon. Very exciting times!!

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Happy is what happens, when all your dreams come true

Brittney Johnson as Glinda, Broadway 2023: @starcuffedjeans’s master

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Glinda: The stars look beautiful tonight

Fiyero: You know who else is beautiful?

Both: Elphaba

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it is once again that time of year

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somebody tell her it’s going to be okay ❤️‍🩹🫂