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Last night a tree fell in a storm, taking out two smaller trees that were thick with vines. The whole tangled mess came down, completely blocking the way to get out back, which meant to feed Ryoga I had to scramble through a jungle of an overgrown area and go way, way around.
I spent hours and hours, cutting with clippers and a handsaw. This was made tricker with one of the trees not falling but hanging in the tangle. A wee bit dangerous and involving careful cutting. On the plus side I just ( by like five minutes) did manage to make a tunnel through it all in time to get the wood shavings in the animal houses before it was fully dark.
So I go in, eager to flop and maybe watch a movie (I really should work on Mom’s gift and that letter I have to add to one of the Christmas cards)
There had been a message about a problem with my debit card. Okay, not the card but my funds. So I needed to frantically needed to do something, mainly a scramble for $50 and a transfer…
Oh, my internet was out. Of course.
A half hour of work my internet was back, albeit half speed and no images loading. I just needed to go to the website and…
The ipad won’t work.
Ok, to the computer!
Which is now so out of memory it didn’t want to work. I’d need to delete MORE of my photos in a frenzy, completely unable to see what they are since it hadn’t the memory to show me.
OK, crisis averted, well, except for the $50 I now need to find for the place I moved it from….But that can be tomorrow. I can just eat my cold leftovers (microwave doesn’t work and I am too tired and sore to wait around for the oven) and watch a movie…
Recently I foolishly let my tv know about the internet, in an attempt to use it to stream Disney + when I got it to watch Doctor Who. This did NOT work (yeah, it’s pre D+, but you’d think it would be updatable) , nor did trying to get my ipad to “talk” to the tv. But now every time I turn it on I have to manually disable the internet stuff, because the system couldn’t be rebooted without a PIN that I assume came with the tv but has been lost). If I don’t writing appears across the screen demanding I either finish setting it up for a “service” that monitors your viewing to “help” you find stuff (HELL NO!) or disable it (but only until the next time). This should just take….
Oh, great. Turns out you can’t disable it without internet access, and my wonky internet isn’t good enough for it to consider me connected. I can’t even watch a DVD without researching how to get my tv to act like a good old fashioned tv attached to a player.
**sigh**
At least I had a pleasant 2hr break from aggravations in the middle of the day while I talked to/read** to Mom over the phone.
**Still on Going Postal. Mom, the Terry Pratchett fangirl (80+ years old is still a girl!), was also a post master (as was my grandmother, and grandfather, and Pop was a clerk for a while!) so we are having a little extra fun with this one. Seriously, I mean, it’s like every time we watched Miracle on 34th Street. Certain depictions of postal work, either reminding her of her old devotion to her work (we actually made Christmas morning deliveries a couple times, just in case they were gifts) or the reasons she was very glad to finally retire (you do not want to hear about all that, besides, the structure of the system might be different.) I dunno what book I will read to her next, but I know there will be one.
#my day#tired#busy#stressed#if only I could finish Mom’s gift#I made two attempts and both went wrong#but maybe painting will help#if I ever get this crumbly old sculpey to let me finish the legs!
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domain expansion
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#yuji itadori#itadori yuuji#fanart#jjk fanart#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jjk leaks#jjk 264#yuuji#help she entered a fugue state and finished a painting in 7 hours again#I still wish with all my heart that wed gotten megumi but HOLDS UP YUUJI THATS MY BOYYYYYYY#god his face is Messed Up i feel so bad#but i do think this is how ill go about drawing the injuries from now on :'>#just a Mess of flesh tones on that boy :((((( maybe shoko can kiss it better#anyway towards the end of drawing this my llsif pilled brain supplied 'domain expansion: happy party train' and i think its a keeper#yuuji if u havent picked a name yet pls consider thank u <3#a train station tho......as much of a vibe as it is i SUFFERED#the high ceilings full of pipework...the parallel lines....thank god i make the rules and dont actually have to detail it all#i love u vague lines that convey Essence Of Room#i think it works !!! i feel like im waiting fr a train n watching time slow around me as the lights stretch#btw the rake brush is SO good fr making lil bits of stretched light like u r squinting . i love it i have fun#anyway enjoy !!! him!!!! we r truly in yuuji kaisen i never Once doubted my boy
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I finished all my exams with a 9,1 ;-;🎉 anw back to my obsessions now 😌
#my art#sns#narusasu#sasunaru#im so tired lmao#I've started painting traditionally#which really helps to ease up that perfectionism in digital art#I kinda want to paint a manga panel and color it maybe
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captioners you are so valid
#dimension 20#d20#mentopolis#brennan lee mulligan#i curse d20 for making me realize idk how the fuck ppl edit without paying for editing software#the last time i did one of these i somehow used ms paint in the process and its a fucking miracle it became anything coherant#this was created via google photos on my phone so maybe we're getting somewhere idfk someone send help#this took so long I COULD HAVE FINISHED THE EP BY NOW. ashamed to be the age i am but so inept at technology#lowkey hate that my phone has more photo editing features than my laptop smh
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Small wip I'm working on of my favourite old victorian men, based on some photos I saw on Pinterest yesterday.
Big problem tho, I think there's something very wrong with the colours (it always is, with me, hard to pick them) so I thought I'd ask for y'all's help before I render It?
#it is supposed to be warm tho#I'll make a background too#maybe#if I have the courage#also the chair#it isnt supposed to be this colour#but I dont know what to make of it#😭😭😭#colour theory#art stuff#digital art#digital painting#art help#sherlock holmes fanart#sherlock and john#sherlock fanart#sherlock holmes#sh#acd sherlock#john watson#acd john watson#watson#dr john watson#artists on tumblr#acd canon#acd watson#acd holmes#acd johnlock#johnlock#once again being delusional about victorian men
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the first time I drew these two(when I was 12) they were functionally the Color Guardian's version of Jessie and James,,,
#green haired minor antagonist who happens to be from another world/dimension but is doomed by the narrative i'll always love you#literally my favorite magical girl character trope#colorless ashe#colorless pitch#pitch doesnt use her human disguise nearly as often as ashe does#but she does have one#color guardians#my art#my ocs#maybe I'll make a lil ref sheet for Pastel and Reed too! that could be fun#and the big bad as well as some of the colorless creatures#pitch always kinda looks like a homestuck troll and i can never escape that#i made her have grey skin and black hair and horns BEFORE i read homestuck#wish i had my old ms paint art of her cuz i remember sending it to my friend one time when i was 14 and he was like 'thats a troll'#literally deleted all of it then and there and refused to even think about Pitch for a bit cuz of it#did not help that she used to have yellow eyes
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My Kagura style study. (on the left) And manga chapter cover for 374 on the right. It's a study rendering a stylized design in a realistic way.
I got lost in some of the colors but it was a fun challenge.
#I got a little lost in her neck and in her hair..#it was hard for me to imagine there what shape it was supposed to be#inuyasha#kagura of the wind#some of painting becomes 3d but some of it remains 2d. she is still flat at parts#old retro anime would render hair as if it was a kinda plasticy shiny material.. maybe that would help me here#i wanted her hair to be matte for impact but i also wanted to show definition#the cheek bone line is probably also way too defined.. maybe rumiko was going for a 'soft curve' there and not a joint
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Found a cool color palette. Might finish it later. (Probably not.)
#star wars#star wars the clone wars#star wars rex#star wars the bad batch#Glitched half an hour on his face for no reason#just cause I couldn't figure a skin color#like I come from impressionism#you know this small art movement#where half of the Chinese artists I follow borrows their wonderful color palette#Color palettes who are perfect to draw noice anime boys#but (we can't lie) where everyone tend to draw only fair skinned characters#So I'm bugged trying to draw realistic people with that#would probably help if I forced myself to do studies ya know#instead of looking at gensh1n art#skill issue as people say#maybe is should draw on a bigger file too#like not draw face with realistic feature on a 300x300 px square XD#But again this drawing was me procrastinating on another one#I hate finishing illu#I just wanna plan/doodle and layout#for others#my jobs of heart are storyboard or color key artist#background paint or compositing hell no#clean animation? kill me#I had a burn out last time I touched a graph editor#too bad that's the most demanded and entry level jobs#v_v#tips for people who want to enter animation industry#don't be like me#finish stuff
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I WANT ENDLESS BLISS!!!
HALF-AWAKE, HALF-DEAD, HALF-LIFE CRISIS
ALL NATURAL POMEGRANATE PULP.
FERMENTED TO PERFECTION, SAVOUR YOUR SAVIOR.
Q: What's your favourite food? A: THE ALE THEY SERVE AT THE TAVERN!
other versions : )
#uhhhh happy pride month have a fucked up chilchuck that im really proud of#i took so long on that hair rendering just so i could cover it up with the stars...#this was a reaaaally experimental one#if i had another go at this id change a lot of things but sometimes you gotta know when to stop#ive learned my lesson from this one so ill do another one with my knowledge now ykyk#ive discovered i reaaaallly reaaaaaally like thin lines#still figuring out how rendering + painting works but hey it was a nice attempt!!#this is my first finished peice in a looongggg loooooongggg time and it makes me really happy how well it came out#i guess switching things up really helped with things.. i usually get stuck at flat colors because i get so bored#cw alcohol#cw alcoholism#eyestrain#<- maybe? its really saturated#chilchuck#chilchuck tims#dungeon meshi#by the way i always thought him saying “ale” as an answer to “favourite food” was odd#maybe its a translation thing where theres a japanese wprd that covers both food and drink and the translator just estimated it to “food”?#cause if its not... sir??? chilchuck thats not a food... my man... you have a problem...#this is#[ tragedy au ]#but honestly you could take it as set in canon#by the way do you like my little poem : ) im pspspsps-ing at the dungeon meshi fandom/fandom in general to write more poetry/short lit#maybe ill tweek it and post the poem on ao3.... shrug !
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[WIP] I'm back on that animatic grind/silly
"Ehhh Shadow Miiilk that's a bad idea mimimimi-Shut"
#I originally expected to animate a J&H broadway album song for the AU first but a certain demo song for a specific mermaid disney movie has#won me over so it has been chosen jejshfhv#no ibis paint just flipaclip (maybe)/silly#Also because the audio feature helps me out with timing a bunch#and it's simply more fun and a program I enjoy using for these things more bshfb#beetle's ramblings#crk au#intertwined opposites au#pure vanilla cookie#shadow milk cookie#cookie run kingdom#beetle's art
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Saying that the student communists commission Cindy for caricatures or mazovian yaoi is funny but it's even funnier when we consider that we mostly see Cindy do non-figurative art in the game (except that one stylized skull she drew). Like Ulixes asks her for mazov x nilsen and she hands him something like this
#thats a basquiat painting btw#if we headcanon that the Smoker paints maybe he can help them out#but it would be the complete opposite#hed do a realistic painting but he would also ask them to model for it#what am i even doing trying to tie a wild headcanon (mazovian yaoi) to canon facts#*ulixes voice* make sure its historicaly accurate otherwise i cant get off on it#steban the student communist#echo maker
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-- mourner.
#pigeon screens#odette hollows#ffxiv screenshot#this was/is for a prompt in my ask box but it's been a long time and............ maybe i'll do another one but anyway#tonight i am thinking about the fact that odette is the youngest sister of an aging convent#and that she has attended many funerals and will attend many more#and that technically it is her part of her job#in that everytime she helps a soul move on she is performing a funeral#she is giving last rites#she is laying to rest#also thinking about her convent and her works use of veilings and face paint and ahhhHHHHHH#anyway
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sidelong
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk art#yuji itadori#fushiguro megumi#itafushi#fushiita#itadori yuuji#megumi fushiguro#i havent drawn a dedicated itfs piece in so long im a fraud dont look at me......................#i offer u pining!yuuji content. as Penance.#i feel like its usually fushiguro emotionally repressed megumi who ppl draw/make content of looking Longingly @ yuuji#and like. for good reason i mean look at him#but i feel like hopelessly-in-love-w-his-best-friend yuuji is a comparatively slept on concept#or maybe im not looking in the right places idk man#fleeting glances and longing stares and I Should Tell Him I Can't Tell Him.....OUgh#anyway i like how the pendulum seems to have hard swung back in2 me using a bunch of red#i feel like my values r so much better now tho n like. god help me im having fun painting again what has happened#it never lasts long but for rn this is probably one of my favourite things ive drawn in a minute!!!#i love u contrast i love u random bits of red i love u harsh shadows and dramatic light sources#and it didnt even take me a week this time !!!!
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litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)
#at some point i wanted to make an illustration for each character but in retrospect maybe each is multiple song-coded..#drew the sketch for a quincy thing after a chat with a mutual reminded me this song existed dfsghjkl and then spent weeks rendering this#quincy cynthius martin#adamandi#i'm finally done with this! the saints especially were joys to paint and the halo a menace.... this has been the most ambitious one so far.#but it also took quite long because i only worked on it <engages with quincy> when mentally okay to deal with the themes. i'm not religious#but i do identify with the irrational(?ish) guilt + family legacy + academic achievement + disregard for self. also more complex thoughts#about love [but depsite quincent being a large part of quincy's character this piece deals with mostly the Rest of it. so another time..]#anyways! in the original sketch- the saints had heads bent towards quincy so the halo spikes pointed at him. but this worked better! halos#of the saints implying/creating one for quincy was a concept from the start though. in the show they don't touch him directly here but#differences in mediums i think- i don't have time in an image to craft a narrative so everything has to be happening. also artistic liberty#misc inspiration for this includes stained glass windows. i might have maybe misinterpreted the saint costume but i think i logic-ed it out#as the cloth part following a nun's habit w the hood. and then halo above. the material is also more transparent originally but i had. um.#too much fun painting fabric folds.. if you look closely you can see the basis of faces though behind the cloth; but only the vague shapes#because smth obscurity + inhumanness// cassian is the only one i gave a mouth though. that stems from melliot's post about the saints and#st cassian as spokesperson (<- did research teehee!) that's also how i found out which costume = which saint. speaking of which.#left to right: 'st lucy take my hand' // 'st lawrence give me strength' (presses quincy forward; but hand on shoulder connotates guidance)#/'st cassian help me smile' (quincy's mouth is btwn a grimace and a smile; tilts up at side. also no direct touch bc added insidiousness.)#//'st jude [...] i hope your causes burn' (jude's hand is in two places to show movement- nearing the flame and then snatching back; burnt)#other notes: at the midst of the flame the core is shaped like a human heart /the saints and their wax are all melting like the candle for#fun visual effect and also this way they are even less tangible <real>. perks of painting as a medium i guess. // also insp from icarus?#wax and burning imagery; looking at the halo and rays as parallel to sun that burns. too close to the sun; melting; hurting; hurtling //#candles at bottom are a nod to the frankly gorgeous set// also the entire composition kind of stems from the lyric <what use is a candle if#both ends aren't burning>; the two sides between the concepts of catholic guilt and academic perfection that spur quincy#the halo above (saints and guilt; litanyofthemartyrs) and the 'halo' below (academic papers; insp from choreo for perfect at school)#the papers were originally supposed to be more glowy. but i like the idea of it now being a reflection of how quincy's priorities shift#also of note is that <candle> in centre = quincy; w burning candle + aforementioned heart in flame -> most human; idea of love + passion#last thoughts: kneeling + hands close tgt = prayer //wax dripping onto the red As make an effect that looks like blood. because i like#hiding that within the adamandi pieces :OO continuity!! // i've run out of tags but yeah! had fun with this one! every so often i go a#little insane in making art and the final result astounds even me. ngl i'm quite proud of this one. pretty colours <3333
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Oh ya here's that pest i forgot to post the other day, im a big fan of this big bug
#my art#doodle#fanart#ms paint#regretavator#regretevator roblox#roblox#regretevator pest#shhh dont tell anyone but i love them#but thats a secret#maybe I'll just start making separate blogs for all my interests who knows#help keep things NEAT
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Utterly randomly, gonna paint my nails again soon. Help me pick a color?
Options (from left to right, poorly photographed so colors don't show well):
1. Fields of Elysium (Mooncat) - desaturated sage green with purple shimmer
2. Moonicorn (Mooncat) - lilac with green shimmer
3. Mermaid Bait (Mooncat) - aqua-green with super glittery gold~pink shimmer
4. Mercury's Tears (Mooncat) - cobalt blue with green~pink glittery shimmer
Thanks for the help~
#YukiPri rambles#nail polish#poll#mooncat#YukiPri polish#i paint my nails a lot more recently bc I've been upkeeping my hair dye more#and if i don't paint my nails before i re-dye my hair in the shower#i dye my nails and they look very ugly#weird streaky sickly purple that makes it look like i need immediate medical help or somethin#nail polish protects against that ^ ^; plus it's kinda soothing#i have too many polishes so it's a good excuse to use 'em too#this week in a cool tone mood but that's about it#if this is fun maybe i'll do this regularly? i tend to repaint once a week or so nowadays#i'll show u guys what the chosen color looks like too
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