#'IT WAS DELIBERATE! IT WAS DELIBERATE!!'

[rinokami]

Ok, yes, true, and the comments are hilarious. BUT. Here's how you actually do it: Don't use a fucking gel pen to line with. Fucking. Don't. They never dry, ok? Just spend a few bucks on a couple Pigma Microns, you can thank me later. Get a real skinny one like a 01 (or a 005 if you want super tiny) and a fatter one like a 05. If yer feeling fancy, you can get a brush tip, but you don't have to. Do not spend $30 on the giant packet with all the sizes, you will not use them. While yer at the store getting your Micron pens, spend like 50 cents on a kneaded eraser. Yes I know you already have one at home but it's probably full of gunk because it's 12 years old and you've never replaced it. Get a fresh one, you goblins. Get either a decent plastic eraser (like Staedtler) or an ArtGum eraser if you don't have either of those too. Ok, now step one: Go over your sketch with your kneaded eraser and lighten everything. DO NOT RUB. Just press the eraser down and lift (knead it first so it's nice and soff.) You ever play with silly putty when you were a kid? Slap it on some newsprint to make the picture come off onto the putty? It's like that. Why do this? The less graphite you have on the page before you ink, the less you have to remove after. Step two: Ink away, fam. Enjoy the lovely, dark, almost-instantly-drying, never-bleed-through-your-paper-again lines of the Microns. Yes, you are welcome. Step three: WAIT A GODDAMN HOT SECOND. ffs. Go get a sandwich, take a potty break, freaking something. Step four: Take the kneaded eraser (knead the damn thing so it's not all covered in graphite from step 1) and do the Press and Lift thing again. DO NOT RUB. STOP IT. If some of the ink does come off, at least you will be lifting it straight up instead of smearing it all over the place, but this rarely happens with Microns. Remember to moosh that eraser around in-between dabs so you're not just transferring stuff. Step five: Once you've done this and you've gotten any stray ink lifted off, THEN AND ONLY THEN may you use your GOOD plastic eraser/artgum to remove the rest. Do not use the shitty pink eraser you found in the junk drawer, istg. "uuUuugh but Riiiiiiinnn you're telling us to spend money" Yes, yes I am. Either you can get some decent supplies or you can figure out a way to incorporate ink smudges into your art style, but I guarantee you can afford to skip a couple Monsters for the sake of buying a few pens and erasers, I'm not telling you to go buy a full set of Copics. Go forth and be smudgless, my fellow arteests.

how to erase pencil guidelines from under ink

1. wait until you’re absolutely sure the ink is dry

2. wrong

[hellspawnmotel]

the happy end

[breelandwalker]

Outlive the motherfucker. That's what you're going to do. Survive and thrive out of sheer spite if necessary. Live for the day that nature takes it's course and you wake up in a world that no longer has them in it.

Apply where applicable. Repeat as necessary.

[knightofleo]

[laikabu]

save me mother and child imagery save me thistle’s innate desire for a family save me (peep the mother and child painting on the first pic)

[memorycare]

half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring

[cliveguy]

i feel like i'm speaking a different language whenever i try to talk about jkr to anyone who isn't a trans person in the uk. americans imagine if every time someone tried to talk about donald trump a million home alone fans started talking about how they felt bad for macauley culkin but they were doing activism by drawing fanart of the burglars having gay sex. also they understand some of the problematic aspects of home alone and try to divorce their enjoyment of the films from trump's presence but they would appreciate permission from you to continue watching them. then every time you try to steer the conversation away from home alone to what he's currently doing in the present day they get confused and keep bringing it up.

[egophiliac]

o-oh my god

[kurgy]

miku expo 2024 is the dashcon of vocaloid concerts. the projectors were replaced with LEDs and organizers told no one, still charged ppl for the projectors. someone stole the Miku canada cut out. vocaloid producers are really mad that attendees are mad that they got scammed because nothing comes before Product. the event banned glowsticks and upcharged the sale of their own, under the excuse that average glowsticks would interfere with the projectors, that the organizers knew they did not have. someone pissed on the floor. car crash outside the venue in san jose

[corviiids]

my top bit of advice going into the new year: compliment people. especially strangers. literally everyone you interact with if you can. when you buy coffee in the morning compliment the barista's tattoos. when you're chatting with a coworker tell them that by the way you like their outfit. always find something they've chosen to do on purpose. nail polish, jewellery, tattoos, hair colour/style, statement accessory, outfit, etc are all good bets. things people hope will be noticed. things that aren't too personal so it doesn't make them uncomfortable (eg probably not their physical features). i've gotten into the habit of scanning everyone i talk to for something about them that i think is cool so i can tell them. it's a great habit because it makes me notice people and realise just how many neat little details there are in people's presentation of themselves that might pass me by if i wasn't paying attention. and it brings out so much joy. you'd be surprised how much it disarms people to receive an unexpected compliment from someone they don't know. it is the most sincere smile you will see all day long. it feels nice to make people happy but it also means you win the social interaction. establish dominance by complimenting a stranger's earrings and disappearing into the fog

[thedupshadove]

Inspired by some other polls that have been going around lately, I'm trying to see something:

[pidgydraws]

🤎 never let go 🤎

[cheddar-baby]

it is wild that the top post in #gay is a closeup shot of a hairy butt not marked sensitive but if a trans woman even says that shes a trans woman the post immediately gets blasted into the void by staff.

[dostoyevsky-official]

there was a huge wave of grassroots organizing in the spring of 2024, students, activists, professors—the democratic base. democratic mayors and governors set the police on them, democratic congressmen sold them out to the republicans, and the democratic media lied about antisemitism. now there's only token opposition, chuck schumer is cracking jokes about area 51 . the party is over, sorry

[saixria]

Into the Athenaverse (part 1 of 2, I hope)

This was actually super fun! Only having to draw waist-up was so 🤌🤌🤌 and this forced me to think of some different poses/ angles so they wouldn’t look boring, 10/10 experience

Athena design credits: @wolfythewitch, @duvetbox, @mircsy, @irunaki, @mumder, @neal-illustrator

[yubriamakesart]

so i was discussing Aerith last night