#I want texture but also blending

[cats-and-dr-pepper]

Today’s work in progress!

It’s going great.

[anakindoodles]

You trade your friends like guns for hire

(Please click for better quality, i spent so much time on the detail and tumblr is crunchinnggg it *tear*)

[redhotarsenic]

@nowfallc PICTURE!! FOR YOU!! PLEASE TAKE IT!! <3

[lightprkdraws]

AU where Reo is short

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: EARTH (PART 1 - REVAMPED)

Ft. Staff Cmdr. Sophie Oliveira-Shepard Alenko-Oliveira, Cpt. Arno Delacroix, and Zaeed Massani-Shepard MIRA'S MORE CANON ME3 "Shadow Broker resources? Yeah, they might be good for a lot of shit, Dove. Convincing the brass to get off their asses and do something about the Reapers? Not one of them. Think that one might be up to you, this time. Entertaining diction and goddamn fucking all." Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[astarionposting]

Sylvan | Son of Elaria & Sylus | Oath of the Ancients Paladin

I am so happy with this sculpt and the textures!! my boyfriend said this is his favourite character he has played in his 700+ hours of baldurs gate lol. I am happy with the different similarities of Sylus and Elaria in Sylvan. Since we have to start a new playthrough, I am going to make Sylvan's twin and play as her!

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Small doodle from yesterday that turned into me learning new things about a brush I already adored

[wall-eye]

Arlaen and the Raven Queen, making a choice

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

just a little bit of experimenting with Scarlet to shake the rust off 👍

[asclepias-lavendula-nyctanthes]

painted my nails

[thethingything]

also though this dentist is genuinely the best dentist we've ever had.

she was really understanding about us having issues with toothpaste and we asked if she had any recommendations for alternatives we could try to see if those help and she gave us some options to look into so that's cool.

she also took our medical trauma into account and kept checking if we were okay throughout the appointment and asking if we needed to take breaks and we've never had a dentist do that before.

she warned us about what each tool would feel like too and actually warned us if something was going to be painful which like, I would in fact rather be warned that "this is going to be uncomfortable in this way" and "yeah this is gonna feel really bad for a few days but that's normal" than have someone try to reassure us that it won't be that bad only for it to get really painful.

our next appointment is to have a tooth removed and she explained the procedure to us and how that normally goes, and then we asked if we can take the tooth home afterwards and I can only assume from the look on her face that she's never been asked that before, but she was like "yeah I don't see why not, it is yours after all" so that's cool

[ktarsims]

Just a look at what I've been up to the last few days. I know, I know... I just had to start ANOTHER hair project. But really, it's about time I took out some of the overly shiny original hairs (or shiny retextures), and replaced them with stuff I like better (assuming there is anything better to be had).

In some cases I have so many retextures of a hair, I have to take them into game to see what they look like to make up my mind. In this case, I kept two of the above options. The top left was kept for the braid textures, and the one at the bottom for the color streaks.

[kirnet]

FINALLT figured out a rendering style that I have admired in many artists for years >:3c

[theweavingofcattails]

After looking through all the canonical Warrior Cats characters I've concluded that

1- There are a lot more Torties/Calicos than I thought there were

2- There are not nearly as many as there probably should be

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

wuaghghg i know the only way ill improve my lineart is if i actually draw lineart (and probably do nothing But lineart, except for one or two base colours underneath) but :c what about painting. what about big messy sketch lines. what about impatience

[gallusrostromegalus]

Are you the "I have strong feelings about parchment" Tumblr user? If not, I feel like I saw you might know who they are. I was going to put parchment in a fic, but then I was like "no, I can't do that without asking the Parchment Person first because I don't want to get it Wrong."

...no, but I know the post you're talking about, and I too have strong feelings about parchment, esp because I've worked on it before.

I took an illumination course while getting my illustration degree and did an "H.M." in the style of a medieval manuscript on a small piece of the stuff.

Parchment is not paper. It's cured calf or pig skin.

It's thick, and HARD like non-corrugated cardboard. If it's been stored in a roll, it does not want to unroll. If it's been stored flat, it does not want to roll. It's got the same texture as skin, because it IS skin, and you have to account for that while working on it. It smells like rawhide. It actually takes ink in a really interesting way- there's a half-second to blend of fix something before it actually sinks into the parchment, but it doesn't bleed once it's in there. It also never comes back out. It's not bright white like paper, almost a buff color, and white stands out on it.

Fascinating stuff. Actually pretty fun to work on, but it's definitely a medium for highly polished and important pieces (like illuminated manuscripts), not for casual note-taking (because it's MAD EXPENSIVE to make)

I should go hit up the local art stores and get different paper-and-other-art-media samples to demo for everyone for fanfic purposes because they are VERY different things that have different purposes, prices, origins, and societal connotations, all of which can be used in your writing.