#bard-irl

[punkitt-is-here]

How did you learn to draw fat bodies but still keep it cartoony? I love how you draw different types of bodies and make them all seem normal instead of certain body types sticking out like a sore thumb next to others. I struggle to draw fat bodies without it looking weird with the rest of my art. Do you have a specific tutorial you followed or something?

This is a really good question! I'm glad you like my depictions of different body types, i worked really hard to get better at that so im happy folks enjoy em!! I didn't actually learn from a book or tutorial, it was mostly looking at fat bodies IRL and learning to incorporate those features onto what I already drew. As it turns out, we're all human, so if you understand the anatomy enough to draw a skinny person, you have the tools to understand the anatomy of a fat person.

So, like, here, this is my sketch of someone with a very average build. If I were to draw a fat body, I would still use all the basic principles I use here. One mistake I think folks run into is "isolating" parts, which can lead to things like this

which isn't necessarily bad, but if its not what you're going for, the issue is pretty apparent. Weight affects ALL of the body, not just the stomach or the face or the limbs. If you think about how that weight affects everything in tandem then you can start drawing fat bodies that work more in your style.

for this, this is the same quick sketch using the same pose and principles as the first one. but! I allowed the weight to be distributed across the body. Notice how the legs, belly, arms, etc all got thicker? The key to drawing fat bodies and making them look like they fit is allowing that weight to affect everything. without it, it just looks like you're adding on features to someone rather than considering everything at once.

my other tip is: don't be scared! things like fat arms or chins or bellies or stretch lines are not something that's bad to depict. if you want to draw fat bodies, you gotta not be scared to draw things the way they are. someone having a fat body is not bad, and you drawing that fat body is not bad either. Experiment! To me, art is about representing ideas, and the only way to get better is to experiment with how you represent those ideas. I'm by no means an expert, and I think you can also get a ton done by looking for resources aside from me, but I hope this helps, and have fun!!

[nonenosome2]

Hey saw your response to a post about how Minecraft isn't allowing mods, do you happen to have a source for that? I couldn't find one after a quick Google search but I could've missed something

It's not disallowing ALL mods. Just some of them, such as for guns.

[borrelia]

I'm on mobile so I can't view your about page, what's the story behind your URL?

borrelia burgdorferi is the causitive agent of lyme disease :) annnnd thats my job! i research lyme!

[despite-everything]

I know you probably mean some sports team named the Cardinals but like I was just imagining your family raising you to be a big fan of the birds

not going to lie... both are true. my dad has multiple pieces of artwork with cardinal birds in them in his house (including a piece i made for him), and we always liked that cardinals are his state bird. we just also happen to be fans of the st louis cardinals - they're our team for baseball (though neither of us are from/have ever lived in st louis or missouri. his older brother was a cubs fan so to be contrarian as a kid he decided to follow the cardinals and never stopped. he played in a fantasy cardinals league a while back too). so it's just always been cardinals all around my whole life

[princessunicorn13]

Your library books due

i did in fact remember to go and recheck my book <3 youre the best, tysm 😉

[humunanunga]

Origin: Spirits of the Past (Gin'iro no Kami no Agito in the Japanese releases): moon is broken by angry tree dragons while Kokia sings. an orphaned survivor from the distant past wakes up in overgrown ruins after humanity learned to make do without pre-apocalypse technology.

Time Machine: moon is broken by real estate while a widowed man escapes into the distant future. he wakes up in overgrown ruins after humanity learned to make do without pre-apocalypse technology.

the Adventure Zone (Balance): second moon's just a facade for an airborne secret base.

List Of Media Where Something Fucked Up Happens To The Moon

despicable me (moon theft)

miraculous ladybug (moon split in half)

hermitcraft (moon big)

feel free to add

[cedarspiced]

Do you take requests or commissions at all?

i do indeed take commissions! unfortunately, i'm not open for them right now, but i'm hoping to open up for a couple slots once i'm settled at my new job and not exhausted from work, so keep an eye out ^^

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

You know I’m in an interesting position regarding the Bard Lament change

On one hand, I’m straight up not as attached to Bard’s Lament as everyone else in the fandom seems to be

Sure it was a dramatic moment with some great acting from Sam… but it was also very nasty and visceral in a way that the rest of the show isn’t and it really never gets addressed properly

Also I feel like the whole fandom always simplifies it as “poor little guiltless Scanlan finally standing up to everyone else who are evil bullies to him all the time for no reason”

All this to say, if you had told me months ago that they were removing Bard’s Lament, I would have been surprised but not upset

However after seeing the whole season… damn I really do feel they squandered some AMAZING set up for it

They show Scanlan constantly leaving Vox Machina behind and when he does horrible things happen to them, things that could’ve objectively been avoided by his presence AND HE NEVER EXPLAINS HIMSELF

They are about to execute Percy while Scanlan has a literal magical key to stop it and they find him passed out drunk, vomiting on the street… and nobody said anything to him about it???

Percy then literally DIES in a battle he left them for, like… it would’ve been 100% understandable if in her grief Vex would’ve cursed Scanlan off and blamed him for Percy’s death.

Then also Keyleth is mad at everyone about Raishan, Vax is self isolating because of his raven bull shit and only cares about Vex, and then Pike rejects his love AGAIN

That is literally the perfect storm of circumstances for Scanlan not feeling part of a family, resentment and animosity and a blow out… and they just didn’t??

They could’ve use the fact that only Pike and Grog cared enough to stay by his side during his comma, and nobody else seemed even a little worried about him? No?

Okay

Not as upset as I’m sure a lot of others are going to be, but definitely underwhelmed… which is not a feeling you want to be left with in a season finale

[gummi-stims]

A Bard's Lookbook

[blackbird-brewster]

See, you get it! (Also yeah I'm so mad there's so much xmas shit out -- ITS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET!!!!)

Hey tumblr, do you think it's cool if I just celebrate suck her sloppy saturday Wednesday on Thursday because I'm a day ahead of the northern hemisphere?

[gayestcowboy]

gay couple who gossips about you from across the bar

[computer-gummy-worm]

MALEVOLENT ARTIST I GOT A CONCEPT FOR YALL!!....kiy fragment sonas. draw what youd look like if u were a king in yellow fragment >:-) heres my guy!! some more info about him below

bard

he / they / it

specializes in driving people insane via music, can play pretty much any instrument

pretty good buds with kayne

has been evading the king for a while, using a lot of trickery

design things:

the mask is broken in such a way that it resembles like a carnival mask :-]

the 3 tentacle tails are suppost to allude to the yellow sign

if he had a theme song itd be this

[lords-of-mayhem]

Some Lords Of Chaos characters and the people they were based on

[slowpokegamer]

Ladies and gentlemen I think I am mentally ill .

[harveydentures]

I can certainly picture Bard giving Thranduil a bauble like this to remember him by, in appeal to his taste for gaudy symbolic jewelry, which Thranduil will hold onto for centuries

[vampire-lord-garfield]

While we are on a topic of problematic ships in Kuro: Shout out to my friend who legitimately tried to prove to me that Sebard ship was problematic. Her argument was, and I quote: "Sebastian is at least several hundred years old and that automatically makes it inappropriate to Bard. The age gap is too big."