#Im a nature nerd

[cryptidclaw]

on the Hawthorn blog why does it say that Spideweb’s brother is named Mothheart and not Swanheart?

I changed his name very recently!

I am changing several names just to fit the setting I am basing it off of! There are no swans in Yosemite/Mariposa County CA (which is my inspo) So I thought I should change his name!

Also Ive been thinking about changing it to Moth for a while bec I liked the symbolism of "Spider and Moth" like hes a moth caught in a spider's web hehe

ps he is named after the Vestal Tiger Moth now!

prettyyyyyyy (his fur fluffs can resemble the fluffs on moth legs now too!)

[dustykneed]

not a SINGLE day goes by where i don't think about that post with the photo of andrew's death grip on alex's waist. you know the one

(i have, regrettably, once again, lost the damn post. if anyone has any clue as to its whereabouts i would be much obliged if you could drop the link lol. but at the very least i had the presence of mind to download the photo so here yall go xDD:

[lurkinginnernarrator]

shen yuan pre-transmigration totally built a custom lego build of the holy mausoleum

[opalprincess]

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[jojotier]

man they gotta make a feeling of drifting apart from old friends that doesn't feel like an open wound with edges pre-cauterized

[ludinusdaleth]

im sure to some im really really annoying for combining crposting & fatposting and in general allowing myself to post about loving my weight gain, but ive gotten a lot of support about it, and had more fun with my followers than ive ever had before, and im really thankful for that. it's been nonstop fun for days on here and i hope it is for some of yall too

i dont think im good at the whole friends thing, but everyone jumping in on this and even saying i inspired or made them discover something, it makes me actually want to be a person and talk with folk, and i want to be friends with many of yall.... thank you. im always here to discuss this stuff with yall on anon or personally. it's hard to describe how infinitely cool bearishness & transitioning & kinks close to it & fandom meta & fandom mixed with it are. it's wild to have people care about my interests. thank you.

[natjennie]

the ghosts I think would watch d20:

kitty - gets extremely excited about everything, happy stims and squeals along with the players, "I don't understand a lot of what's happening, but it's so very thrilling! everyone gets terribly excited for the number twenty; their happiness makes me happy!"

cap - dragged along to watch with kitty, mostly doesn't pay attention to the game but definitely simps for lou wilson. and can you blame him? gets hooked on battles, his eyes light up at the prospect of strategizing.

thomas - fascinated by the storytelling of it and the emotional performances, especially fey and flowers. "these people have such a way with words" sort of energy. wants alison to contact cast members to ask questions about the lore and she has to explain that's not how that works.

pat - played d&d when he was alive, interested in the ways the game has changed since then, constantly interrupts with anecdotes about his games and characters, desperately wants to get a button house campaign going

[tubbytarchia]

Ok found out it's "The Fall" by Alan Stephens that I've now seen several traffic art pieces imitate without credit. A bit fucked up imo

I see now that it's an insanely popular base for lots of fanart. Do people just assume that others will be aware of this? PLEASE credit art. If it's something like the Starry Night, okay, fine, that one should be known to any onlooker over the age of 15. But I fully looked at a trafficshipping artwork based on this painting and just assumed that it was that traffic artist's completely original creation, until I saw another. And then had to fuck around with reverse image searching for awhile to eventually get the artist/painting name from Tik Tok of all places. As an artist, I don't know how you wouldn't feel shame to neglect to credit another artist, famous person or not

[raddest-laddest]

i love making quirrel annoy the fuck outta lemm, its one of my favorite hobbies

[molluskmustelid]

more people need to talk about the fact that pebbles is an art nerd

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I think I accidentally made Wriothesley AuDHD. fuck

[camelspit]

after seing some disturbing viewpoints, I have decided to finally post about them. /j

anyone who thinks keefe is short is severely and utterly wrong.

he is lanky. a stick. a cat of a boy. the only one taller than him is stina. he uses people as armrests. he makes fun of averge height people. he is a menace to society and has been kicked in the shin more than once.

[quirinah]

how do you get your colors to look so nice and your lineart so red and vibrant? i love it

omg anon thank you!! 😭 im going 2 be honest I am Not Great with color theory... but i like having my sketch pages look cohesive to me...

BUCKLE UP this is going to need a readmore bc i like talking.

I always sketch in neon colors it's a habit i picked up from an old teacher but I'll think of a color usually on a whim and draw with that. and then if i want to draw something else ill pick another color that i think goes well with the page. usually most of my color schemes r analogous (colors right next to each other on the wheel)

yanked this from recent dunmesh post; i kept most of my colors within the pink/red/orange range.

i wouldn't recommend doing everything in monochrome or analogous palettes though because it's sort of a guilty crutch of mine XD.

sometimes when im coloring ill change the layer mode of the sketch. color burn gets you either very very bright or very very deep colors depending on the color of the flats underneath. multiply and linear burn do the same thing but they're a lot tamer and generally always return darker colors. im sure there's some technical bits behind this though. ill either color my lineart afterward to compliment the color of the flats, leave it as is, or mess with layer modes if i feel like it. my favorite trick is color burn + linear burn + some combination of two lineart layers and just fiddling until i get a nice burn effect.

mithrun was done with crimson red on color burn.

coloring... like 999% of this is relative color which is like. kind of the idea that colors look different when placed next to each other. if you eyeball it a bit it's pretty noticeable.

what i used to do a bit ago was i would fill in the area i wanted to color with one big mask of color, make a new layer that has a clipping mask down to the flat layer of color, and then draw my actual flat colors. the color of the mask helped me pick my flat colors bc if I picked a color i think stood out too much next to the mask i could kind of just adjust it until it looked a little more cohesive.

old ish drawing next 2 a canon reference. i ignore local color a lot...mea culpa....but my overall color palette here was a light pink, so the shirt here is actually a desaturated pink? or violet i believe. if you shift sort of that purple color far enough into the gray area of your color wheel it can take on a blueish or even greenish hue. it being next to a lot of warm pinks/fuschias helps.

a neat thing that kind of helps is that if you desaturate or saturate certain colors they can kind of take on a certain hue? not sure if this makes sense. sort of how orange here turns tealish blue the grayer it gets. so if im drawing something that's predominantly orange and i have a blue color i can just take an orange color and desaturate it until i get a color that sort of looks like blue. and that way it kind of looks more harmonious? at least to me XD

shading. i don't apply serious lighting to a lot of my drawings, but a helpful bit is that the shadows tend to be the opposite of whatever color the lighting is? i try to think first about the "mood" or the main color i want to go for in the drawing and then i pick a shadow color opposite of that. so for here, i wanted the lighting to be a coolish magenta so the shadows r lime green. if there's anything off i fiddle around until i get something i like. the shadows on the skin here were too green initially so i shifted them a little more orange.

there's a "band" of color going on between the transition of the shadows to the light. generally this could be for a lot of reasons and i tend to use it differently (core shadow? overexposure? etc etc). but this is a color post so ill try not to go too off track.

but generally digital doesn't "mix" colors the same way traditional colors do if you use RGB (cmyk is a bit better with this but is kind of a pain to get used to), so to make blending a little less muddy, i sometimes add an intermediate color to smooth things out a little. for example, mixing digitally blue n yellow tends to get you gray, but generally, blue + yellow makes green, so if im making a blue->yellow transition ill slap some green color in the middle so it flows a little better.

I do a lot more cel shading nowadays. if you've been on here for a while earlier this year i have another style of coloring but it's not really accurate to how shadows really work so i wouldn't recommend looking at it. it's mostly to add zest and texture to the underlying flat colors.

coloring your lineart does a TON to helping your colors look vibrant, though its like the garnish on a dish to me (same with shadows). i think it's good to try and play with your flat colors and try to make sure those look in order first before adding flourishes. usually ill leave it a dark, saturated color that again matches my overall palette but sometimes i go in and color them by alpha locking my lineart layer and picking a color that matches the flat colors underneath? not sure how to explain it properly.

i used a darkish purple for shuro's ponytail to match the dull red of the flat colors (more relative color! trying to simulate a black/brown while keeping the pink palette there) but a lighter crimson for laios's blond. the light was this super intense like blush pink so i thought it might be cool to add this neon salmon red in the areas of that light to really give off that vibe of a very bright intense rim light.

sometimes you could also tweak with gradient maps or color balance, which adjusts hue based on how light or dark a color is. these r fun to mess with as a final touch but i need to watch using them because they can become crutches real fast XD but those are also just tools to help you. in the end just developing a good sense of how color works and how you want to use it is the best place to start.

LONGASS ramble but yeah. tldr just kind of train ur eye for color and look at what you like best. which is unhelpful and a little sucky but it really is just observation and practice and maybe some personal zest.

happy drawing!

[thinkingnot]

clawing at the walls thinking about sbi as a family and they like go on roadtrips and visit places and nerd out about those places

[bmpmp3]

speaking of which...... feel free to tell me if im overstepping as someone who is not black but like. man..... im so sorry about what the nonblack internet population is doing with "goofy ahh" right now......... its really rough my deepest condolences

[whales-are-gay]

still feels weird that david tennant is now the "fourteenth" doctor. doesn't even get a silly little name like the war doctor. like. why is he main series number fourteen.