#anyways if you see this somewhere tagged to his profile. no you don't. lol

[scarefox]

Now after months of finishing this but being reluctant to upload it, here's my version of James' stained Daisy.

Since I can not buy his shirts I had to draw something myself at least.

One of my fav designs of his. It has some melancholic vibe but imo still an uplifting meaning. At least for me. I have my own meaning added to it too, especially now with the glitter in the black goo. (I am in my artistic glitter era, it's the third glitter painting and I am planning more if the artblock looks away for a moment)

[johaerys-writes]

this is a very random question but i saw that you followed me a while back after i followed you (despite me not posting for any of the same fandoms you do) and i was wondering if you follow people back automatically? not a criticism in any shape or form! just curiosity 🥰

Hi there! I try to keep my dash somewhat manageable so I don't really follow people back automatically, like if someone follows me and they have an empty blog or something I wouldn't generally follow back, but if I check out their profile and there's stuff on their dash that I like, I'll hit follow. Sometimes I'll recognise someone's username from Ao3, through kudos or comments, and again I'll hit follow. But honestly I'm really bad when it comes to following people back; I don't always get the follow notif, or I don't see them at all because of time zones (I usually wake up to a ton of notifs bc everyone was active during the night, and I'll completely miss some follows, tags or replies), and I might only notice months later because said person liked a post or left a reply..... or I've had friends following me for MONTHS and I thought I was totally following them back only to realise I simply never hit that follow button haha...... I swear it's not personal I'm just really goofy I'm sorry 🥲

Anyway lol to answer your question I probably recognised your name from somewhere or simply found the stuff you post cool!

[jengarie]

#showyourprocess !

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag up to 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

Thank you, @rinielle for tagging me! She chose the piece above (original post), and oh boy this one was a whole ass rollercoaster ride! Unfortunately, I hadn't turned on the timelapse feature for this but I'll try to go through each part of the process as best as I can!

The photos I'm gonna upload are gonna be a mix of screenshots and literal photos of my screen, because I'm taking some of them from my updates to friends, since a lot of the steps got lost in my painting process.

But before that, let me tag some other amazing creators!

@dragonji: this gif art!

@candicewright: this yibo painting!

@wendashanren: this gifset!

@mylastbraincql: this gif!

I haven't been able to keep track of who's been tagged so apologies if you've already done this! Also, no pressure to do it at all if you would rather not! <3

Planning

Sometimes, I get an idea first and find reference photos to go with that idea. But for this one, I sought out a reference photo first, and built an idea on top of it!

After that, I roughly sketch out the base pose. Usually, this looks very messy, but it doesn't really matter as long as I understand which part goes where!

The idea for the background didn't really come until the creation process because I don't think I really planned this to be a full piece.

Creation

Sketching

Honestly, from this point on, it's more of trial and error.

So, I redid the the initial base pose—made it cleaner and a little bit more detailed. See: the added definition in their arm muscles, the rearrangement of Wei Wuxian's legs, and Lan Wangji's hand on Wei Wuxian's back. If you look at the second photo, I also changed the pose a bit midway—I tend to edit as I go sometimes when I change my mind. (For this, I thought, given the Lan arm strength, it would be better to make Lan Wangji look more at ease carrying Wei Wuxian. This gets covered by the robes anyway though, so it didn't matter much in the end.)

I also started adding details to the base! I usually start with the face and then the hair! I usually go for the clothes next, but I dreaded the robes in this piece so I guess that's why I ended up with a basic idea of what I wanted for the background instead LOL I also figured out how I want the final crop to look like, so I blocked out all the other areas with an extra layer!

Okay, onto the part that killed me like ten times: the robes. There are a lot of interactions between their robes here given their pose, and not to mention they also have layers upon layers on each of them! So, to maintain my sanity and to keep track of which part is which, I color coded them into the most colorful sketch I've ever made.

Another reason why I filled in each layer of robe with a solid block of color, is so that all the lines underneath gets covered. Without all of the colors, the actual outline actually looks like the one on the right. What a nightmare!

I also ignored the crop again for this part, because it's always better to draw past your borders, in case you decide to rotate or tilt or whatever your piece later on. I didn't do the feet anymore though, because that I was sure wouldn't show in the final piece anymore.

After that, I did the sketch one more time and then started adding the base colors. (I didn't have a screenshot of just the base colors, and the final CSP file is a nightmare so I copy pasted the layers into a new canvas to show you guys :') )

By the way, I drew their robes flowing this way, because I wanted it to frame the lower arch of the moon behind them for the composition. It was a little frustrating that I couldn't get Lan Wangji's robes a little higher because of Wei Wuxian's legs but I later filled in the empty space with his forehead ribbon anyway, so it all worked out in the end!

Painting

Because apparently, I was a masochist back then, I merged the base colors all into one layer and started adding shadows to the robes. (These days, I add shadows first and then, merge. It's much easier this way.)

And then, I started painting! Again, I did the face first and then the hair, before finally the robes. This was my first time painting side profiles and honestly it was quite a pain to figure out LOL but !!! I think I did a good job and I'm proud of how it turned out. I again used reference photos for this one but I can't link any because they were just several random Pinterest photos that I didn't save.

Another thing to note is that I use the mesh transform tool a lot, especially on faces. That's largely why Lan Wangji's face looks so different in the latter two!

And then I went with the robes. Somewhere along the way, I realized I didn't like how I planned to do Lan Wangji's sleeves and the flowy part of Wei Wuxian's robes and I... decided, with much dread, to do them over. So I sketched on top of the painted layers and redid the robes, again.

It was at this point that I decided to take a break from this piece because it was honestly very draining! I think it took about three weeks before I decided to open the file again and continue it.

When I did, I just finished painting the rest of the robes and their hands. The blue details on Lan Wangji's outer robes were painted on a separate layer that I put on Multiply. I probably did more adjustments to the face and hair and stuff, because my painting process is honestly a mess :')

Final Adjustments

I added some correction layers on certain areas to fix some of the colors. See: Lan Wangji's sleeve becoming much brighter and paler; Wei Wuxian's legs having less contrast. And then I merged all of the layers (excluding the background) and added a bit of blur. See: Wei Wuxian's ponytail; the entire lower part; the flowing forehead ribbon. My reasoning for this is so that most of the detail (and therefore the flow of the eye) goes to their faces and expressions!

And then, I put a blue Overlay layer on low opacity to make Wangxian blend better with the background, added a bit of shadow on the inside and the lower sections and added the glowing details for the added flair. I initially wanted sparkles and/or stars but they didn't turn out as well as this did. I also upped the contrast by a little for the entire piece!

Aaaand, that's it! In truth, I did a bit more color adjustments to the whole piece, but I was a dummy who forgot to turn them back on before posting so ... oh well.

Posting

Before posting, I upload it either on my spare private Twitter account or on a drafted Tumblr post so I can check the colors on my phone. This is because the colors on different devices can look very different, and I would at the very least want all my pieces to look nice on both of my devices!

And then, once I deem it satisfactory, I just try to think of a caption and post! Some artists wait for a certain time where most of their followers are active, but I didn't have a lot of MDZS followers at this point so it didn't really matter to me.

It still doesn't really; I haven't actually been able to figure out when my MDZS followers are awake even now.

[azazelsconfessional]

What are your thoughts on the seraphim? The highest rank of angels? Those that guard and protect Yahweh's very throne? I heard they are the only angel that can with stand his Light and so are used as guards for his throne. I also heard they're called "the burning ones" too. Theyre my favorite class of angels, my second favorite are the "thrones". They are.. Horrifying to say the lease. They seem more like they come from the old one's world more so than Eden. An Eldrich horror just like nyarl.

Anyways yeah, seraphim are cool.

(Also for Mun, I kinda have a seraphim angel oc. Would you care if I roleplayed her any?)

((You can rp whatever you like! o/ Of course I'll warn you in advance that Azazel may not like her much depending on her character, as he tends to dislike/be somewhat hostile towards anyone who sides with Eden lol but you're welcome to interact with him either way. I'd appreciate if you had a profile somewhere I could go over, and I'll also warn that I'm a bit slow with tags with OCs, just because I'm less familiar with them and their alignment with the source material and there's some idk resolving with that? But I'm cool with it, you don't need my permission!))

Azazel seems amused by your fondness.

He doesn't particularly agree with it in any capacity, but that's his business.

"Seraphim are a type of angel, certainly. They seem to have little to no mind outside of professing their faith and following orders--though, I suppose one could say that about most angels." A scathing review, although perhaps it's to be expected. "As you say, they are fiery angels who are closest to the Almighty. Michael and Shaytan were Seraphim--you'll find that 12-winged angels generally are.

"Seraphim without other responsibilities whom are Seraphim alone have six wings. Thus why Michael and Shaytan have twelve.” That’s how he always understood it anyway.

"If they could stand God's light, they probably wouldn't cover their faces all the time, however they claim it's simply out of respect. Nonetheless, most Seraphim are more like the cooing lapdogs of the Almighty. I doubt most have actual combat experience, as they very scarcely engage areas of existence below God and themselves, so I question their worth as actual guards." He's fought more battles than your average Seraphim at God's throne. And he's a lover, not a fighter.

"Thrones do have a tendency to disturb and horrify those who encounter them, even among angels." Says the goat therian who's a giant snake with two faces per his seven heads. "However, even moreso than Seraphim, one rarely finds them outside of Yahweh's office throne room. Seraphim are enlightened compared to Thrones, which are peaceful, mindless beings who enjoy being sat on by God in particular, and carting the Almighty around in the unlikely event there's somewhere to go. If we're comparing them to Old Ones, perhaps they'd be more like large D-Evils?"

He can't really be mad at Thrones. He's almost certain that they, unlike most everything else in Eden, never ate from the Tree Of Knowledge. They don't have much going on in their heads. Even comparing them to D-Evils is generous--D-Evils, at least, have minds like young children. Thrones. . .he’s not even certain that could be said of them.

In fact, seeing them is what made him worry over the first humans' being denied fruit from it in the first place. He didn’t want such mindlessness to overcome something so beautiful.