#Simply Smooth

[zorionbbq]

sujimon, subzero sonata, redraws, etc!

[chloesimaginationthings]

SMOOTH OPERATOR

[katabay]

Ang ganda yung art mo GGHHHOORLLLL!

I was looking at the line work you do and was wondering: do you ink it physically and then scan it, or is it fully digital? It's really good and gives a solid grit to it and adds texture to your works. How do you do that?

shdhfh maraming salamatttt 💞💕

99% of what I post here is all digital because I don’t really have access to a scanner very often! my inking style looks the way it does because I draw traditionally in my sketchbooks a LOT and the way I ink digitally is Exactly The Same as I do traditionally (which is why you see a lot of double lines in my inking, stray lines, or scribbling when I fill in solid blacks without the fill tool, I also always turn off any stabilization features a brush might have bc I don’t like the way it feels) and I often go looking for brushes that are gritty or crunchy so that it looks similar to the pens I use on paper!

You can see a bunch of the stray lines and general scribbling I did here, which is exactly what my irl sketchbooks look like, and the circled brushes (I edited these after I downloaded them all to have 0 stabilization) are the ones I used for it!

[itspileofgoodthings]

actually my favorite thing is when Taylor low-key speaks on the apocalypse

[mrsoharaa]

Suguru purposely lets his flawless raven hair pool down over his broad shoulders and wide back just to have you close, pulls you towards him by your curvy hips and flusters you entirely with such an intense, sensual glint in those round, mesmerizing irises of his. Gets off the way you desperately try to shy away from his coyish stare, chuckles lowly as he brushes some of your own hair from one side of your shoulder onto the other. Hot lips lean into the shell of your ear as he mutters how absolutely adorable you are reacting to his simple touches.

[elizabethrobertajones]

jump scared by the 4th Doctor saying "well" with an uncanny intonation to how 10 says it, except I thought that was just a David Tennant-ism considering he does it in everything eventually, like, that CAN'T have started with him copying this cadence and absorbing it into his being? Right?

[giddlygoat]

idk man where’s all the fat wrinkly short narrators. please just show me the old man narrators. im not talking middle aged. he must look at the very least 62. crusty dusty old with joint problems and a hairline on its last gasps. please god im begging i just need to see some more fat old guy narrator designs

[smoothoperatorasks]

Ingo, who is explicitly banned from bringing home more steel types and upsetting the team balance further: "They're not mine"

Emmet, watching Chandelure and Aegislash dance around the living room gleefully, Chargabug tucked in the shield: "Somehow, someway, this is still your fault."

(Maybe sometimes they pose as decor in the hotel?And float ominously off the wall behind Nancy if someone starts making a fuss)

Charjabug often overestimates his own resilience.

[waddingham]

was looking at some very old posts of mine and i just. when i finished s2 of ted lasso i was certain that a) ted would be going back to kansas and that b) ted and rebecca would not end up together on our screens. and i didn't have a problem with either of those things bc i was certain they'd be done with the same thoughtfulness that was present in s1 and most of s2. and i ended up being right about both things but so totally wrong about the execution of both??? yeah okay i hear you there was a three season arc, there was a plan, but wrt s3 you cannot convince me that plan consisted of anything that happened outside of "ted goes home". and even that decision felt shoved to the wayside.

i was dead certain that teds decision to go back was going to be informed by a deep exploration of ted and his past and his trauma and how the loss of his dad affects his own sense of fatherhood, that it was going to be ted's season entirely and would be as heart wrenching and uplifting as the rest of his story — so much so that by the time he decided he needed to go back, that we'd all be so on board. we'd all feel "oh of course he has to go back, look how much henry needs him and how much ted needs henry, how deep his fear of not being there for his son goes". why didn't we get that why did ted feel like a supporting character in his own show in his own SEASON why didn't the deeply traumatic event that informs almost all of ted as a character ever come up when it's so relevant to all of this why!!!! i need a 30 page essay from each of the ted lasso writers and a week long conference with js to explain it to me like im 5!!!!! am I stupid!!!

right anyway

when it comes to ted and rebecca i have less gripes but still am so baffled at the number of parallels drawn and connections made and support given to say "yes they're kind of intrinsically tied" for ZERO acknowledgement of it? which brings me back to the first point because that journey for ted could've leant itself so nicely to rebecca returning the kind of support to ted that he gave her? which in turn could've added a lovely extra layer to rebecca's story by seeing her find additional comfort and confidence in her own ability to support someone else and give love? it all could've woven together so neatly?? like??? am i stupid????? whether they ever hit the romance threshold or not (setting aside the fact of just how many and how often they tried to invoke rom coms but went "oh ew romance? no" when given a perfect opportunity to say something timeless but refreshing about second chance loves) continuing to see them grow together the way they had already accentuated through the whole rest of the show would've been more than enough for me personally. even if there was a heartbreaking parting it would've felt......earned? it would've felt right? just as fair to the viewer after absorbing all these things as it was to the story?

anyway......i feel like I'm missing something every time I think about it

[tooquirkytolose]

When u get around to eating them i need the review of each if the vegan chocolate flavors & shape!!!

These are the flavors in the box

And I can tell you from experience the peanut butter ones fuck severely, the caramel is creamy and the speculoos fucking HITS!!!! Genuinely good enough chocolate you wouldn't even know it's vegan, very smooth mouth feel 👌

[mister13eyond]

talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"

like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like

imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.

i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

There is a writer whose books I sometimes read for sheer brain candy - are they good? Doesn't matter! Not important whatsoever to my enjoyment of them.

One of the books has a character who is a werewolf raised by werewolf hunters, who was given a silver collar so he would never be able to shift, wasn't allowed to use the furniture, and his "bed" was a selfmade nest of blankets to curl up in. He was treated with violence his whole childhood by the only family he knew and as an adult helps them hunt werewolves because he believes that is his only use and value. He ends up being saved more or less and is thrown in with a werewolf pack and has to figure out from scratch he is and decide whether he still hates them, and himself.

The book only ever touches the very edges of this - the author loves to hint at traumas without ever fully committing to them in all of their books, frankly - but man does it make my whump brain just spark and crackle like crazy at all the possibilities there.

There are so many layers to this character's personality and troubled past that the author never seems comfortable really exploring but I just, I want moooooooooore

[bearer-of-anguish]

Oshi no Ko(u) doodle!!!! I don't watch the anime but the op is such a banger I've been obsessed with it 😭 it also fits kou so well imo!!

(also yes. I am Aware of the hands. Might fix it in the future if I ever decided to render it, or give him justice and draw more than a doodle, but for now, simply ~~look away~~~)

[citricjoy]

only real twink-on-his-deathbed enjoyers can fully comprehend the siren-like allure of kyle gallner as matt campbell in the haunting in connecticut

[sergle]

no offense but i legitimately cannot believe someone as beautiful as you struggling with romantic failures. then what hope is there for anyone else

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hey, I think I missed a bit of lore or something, what’s the pit? And what’s the goop™️?

oh yeah no i haven't really talked about those Important Things yet! mostly because i'm still solidifying how they work in my mind... i try my best to adhere to canon, since to me aus are an exploration of the source / characters, so... its still tenuous. i have to think and consider and run parallel - there's a balance i'm still trying to find

like The Pit™️ (the spiral/eye void under Home) in Lights Out is gonna be different from the canon one since i started thinking about the au before the update. and the update changed my perception / theories on what the void is! but the au Pit™️ needs to remain mostly the way it originally was, or a lot of "plot" points fall apart