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independent shaq rp

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imagine

you wake up in a New York subway, and next to you is Clint Eastwood. both of you remember nada. but you find a gun.

You walk through the subway and find a phone that only speaks in "2kool4skool" slang from the 90s-2000s. Who says "find me these things" and then forces you to do gym class all over again. So you can escape and get a job at a local bodega. You then get a call from Megan Thee Stallion and the daughter of Dior, who decided to pursue rapping because the daughter of Dior is a nepo baby who can't face proper consequences. Those two decide to help you by stealing money from someone's (diors) credit card account.

A few gym classes later, you find these things. It turns to be an industrial meatgrinder. And before it turns on, a bodega worker who is sometimes Skrillex ends up saving you and Clint Eastwood.

After that, you work through the empire state building, only to learn that the phone is ALLIED MASTERCOMPUTER from I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM. WHO IS GOING TO WIPE AWAY ALL OF HUMANITY USING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

Thank god dior nepo baby and megan thee stallion have helicopters that can fire bombs filled with melted popsicle syrup. Which you will shoot up with your gun. Then you become a roommate to aperson who is always studying and doesn't know what kpop is.

that is Splatoon: Octo expansion for you!

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WHISPER STOP CALLING ME A BITCH >:((

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Quoll

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"YOU CAN'T BE THERIAN!!!!!!!?? YOU CAN'T BE ALTERHUMAN!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T BE OBJECTUM!!!!!$ THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME!!!!!!!!!"

Tthe mysterious olm :

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In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.

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cuz everytime we touch i get this feeling

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

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Life drawing

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how much does the aurora borealis weigh

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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Ziku, do you have any advice for the color technique? I really like how you apply shadows and lights.

My advice? start with grayscales.

using grayscales helps you distinguish the proper lighting without having to worry about the colors. It's also why I'm able to do the 1-hour pomnis: I could place the colors after I'm done with the lighting placement.

my process is this:

I first start off using airbrush, softly shading areas that don't get hit with light often.

I then proceed to roughly put of where should light hit with a light shade of gray, and how it affects the surrounding area with darker greys. The closer a solid object is to another, the harder the edges of the shadows are. I embrace the imperfection of my strokes, and do not perfect them at this stage since it would be a waste of time.

fun fact: you can make hard edges look more defined by placing a very light shade of gray. This is how I achieve the illusion of lighting hitting something on my art :)

once I'm done with the values, I move to coloring. I keep the strokes as loose as I did the lighting placements, because again. Imperfections HELPS. Glossy things like eyes, teeth and the apple are colored a bit darker, to make the shine pop later.

Apply a multiply layer above the colors between 15-30% depending (for this piece it's set to 26%), it's up to you if you want the multiply layer to be cooler colors, or warmer. I chose a saturated orange coloring for mine.

now this is my favorite part: glow dodge. Set to 100% and above every other layer except lineart, light dap it around using an airbrush where the light hits the most.

This part is mostly optional, since this is where I "clean up" the lineart by locking the layer, then color dropping the edges to "erase" most of the lines.

you don't have to do this, it's just easier for me for the rendering stage since it won't get in the way.

You can also go ahead and combine every layer (grayscales + colors + lineart and etc.) afterwards. This one is important.

all that's left to do now... is to render your painting.

and you render,

and you fucking trust the process even though Pomni looks like a stoned as fuck vampire with a receding hairline,

and you render. (and add more glow dodge for the glossy objects)

When I finish a painting, I actually apply a difference layer above it all to give it some flare,

to which after that I'll do a render noise, chromatic aberration, tone curve and posterization for final touches.

That is all :)

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"Not to worry, Pomni! I'll certainly hit it THIS time for sure!"

Happy (late) anniversary to this wonderful show lmao I literally stayed up to make sure to post it as soon as possible, y'all have no idea what hell I went through lol

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I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.

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I miss being able to breathe out of both nostrils

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I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead