#creative ad copy

[adscraft]

Ad Creation Made Easy: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Creating ads may seem overwhelming if you're just starting, but with the right approach and tools, ad creation can become an accessible and effective way to reach your audience, drive traffic, and boost conversions. Whether you're a business owner, content creator, or marketer, understanding the basics of ad creation is crucial to maximizing your digital marketing efforts. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the essentials of ad creation, making it easy for beginners to craft compelling, results-driven ads.

Step 1: Understand Your Audience

Before you create an ad, it’s crucial to understand who you’re targeting. Knowing your audience helps you design more relevant and compelling ads that will resonate with users. Consider the following factors:

Demographics: Age, gender, location, and income level can influence how your ad is perceived.

Interests: What are your audience's hobbies, preferences, and behaviors?

Step 2: Define Your Goal

What is the goal you want to achieve with your advertisement? Clearly defining your objective is vital for successful ad creation, including keyword-based ad campaigns. Your goal might fall into one of the following categories:

Brand Awareness: Let people know about your product, service, or content.

Lead Generation: Capture contact information from potential customers.

Step 3: Choose the Right Ad Format

Different platforms have different ad formats that may work better depending on your goal. Here are a few popular platforms and the ad formats you can use:

Facebook & Instagram Ads: These platforms allow a variety of ad types, including image ads, carousel ads (multiple images or videos), video ads, and story ads. They’re great for visual content and social engagement.

Step 4: Craft a Compelling Message

The content of your ad—its copy and visuals—plays a significant role in its success. Here are some suggestions for creating impactful ad copy:

Keep It Simple: People have limited attention spans, so make sure your ad is concise and to the point. Focus on delivering a message quickly and clearly.

Highlight the Benefits: Explain how your product or service solves a problem or meets a need. Use language that appeals to your audience's desires or pain points.

Step 5: Design Your Visual Elements

A visually appealing ad will draw attention and increase the likelihood that users will click or engage. Consider these design tips:

Keep It Simple:Avoid cluttering your ad with excessive text or images. Instead, concentrate on delivering a single, clear message or offer.

Brand Consistency: Use your brand’s colors, logo, and fonts to maintain consistency across all your ads.

Step 6: Optimize Your Ad for Performance

Once your ad is live, it’s important to track its performance and make necessary adjustments. Important metrics to track include:

Click-through Rate (CTR):The proportion of individuals who clicked on your ad after viewing it. A higher CTR signifies that the ad is performing well.

Conversion Rate: The percentage of users who took the desired action (e.g., made a purchase, signed up) after clicking your ad.

Step 7: Test and Iterate

Ongoing testing and optimization are essential for achieving success in ad creation. A/B testing (comparing two versions of an ad) can help you determine what resonates best with your audience. Test different elements like:

Headlines

Call-to-Action

Images and Video Thumbnails

You can also watch: Effortless & Smart Ad Creation Made Simple with AdsGPT!

Conclusion

Ad creation doesn’t have to be a complicated process. By following these simple steps—understanding your audience, setting clear objectives, selecting the right platform and format, crafting compelling ad copy, and optimizing based on performance—you can do ad creation that effectively engage your audience and meet your marketing goals. Remember, successful ads are the result of constant testing and refinement, so don’t be afraid to experiment and learn as you go.

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Fanart for the fanfiction “all was golden when the day met the night” by spinningincircles on ao3, @tripleaxeldiaz here on tumblr!

Oh my god I am such a sucker for Buddie and I am such a sucker for flower language and this is one of my favorite combinations of both those things I’ve ever read 100 stars a million awards highly recommend checking it out!!!

[allagashed]

writing a zine could have probably fixed the narrator. probably.

[hitachiincest]

"PICK UP THE PHONE, F*CKER." (-'Bury Me In Black')

an edit of the Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge album cover but with adashu! using pics from panels of the official p4 manga by shuji sogabe ^^ 🩸

[angelic-eros]

Sometimes I wonder how much of myself I have to bend and shape and work around before someone will say they’re proud of what I’ve become

[necromancer-mango]

[start image description: 5 digital black and white illustrations, as well as 4 photographs of a thin hardcover book. The first image is a drawing of a railroad grown over, with tree roots sprouting over them. There is text above the image reading: “Met some folks who like to travel along the tracks. They invited me to join them for a meal. Turns out, a couple of them have gone all over the place for the past few years. Selene mentioned that the growth is not as thick in certain places, in others it’s not as noticeable like how it is here. Considering how long it’s taken me to get here, the fact that it could have been possibly easier in other locations is kind of nice to know. This group is pretty nonplussed about how long their travels can take. They seem to be enjoying themselves, living in the moment. After talking some more, we parted ways. I hope we all travel safely.” The second image is a drawing of a fountain, with cattails growing from the water. Vines and flowers bloom around the stones. The third image is a drawing of a tree with no leaves in the branches. The fourth image is of a person sitting on a fence, looking at a sheep that has approached them on the other side. The fourth image is of a person pushing through foliage surrounding a stone wall with a lamp fixed onto it. A bird rests on the person’s shoulders. The photographs are all of the same hardcover book. The color of the cover is a dark green, with the backside of the covers a dark brown. the paper within the book is a cream color, bound to the covers with a coptic stitch. In two of the photos, the book is closed. The other two are opened to demonstrate how it is bound and what the pages look like. /end image description]

I forgot to mention here a few weeks back but I finished my thesis! I might put the whole pdf up on itchio in a bit if people want to look at it.

[compellingselling]

Nike's greatest line of copy was accompanied by its worst-ever art direction.

I mean, what happened?

Did the writer do this in Word to show the creative director and the CD said, "This is so... so... RAW. Let's just run THIS."

I get it. Not having a photo lets me mentally fill in any sport. Good call. And you don't want to make it all artsy and flourishy.

But #$%@& Helvetica? Why not the brand's Futura Extra Bold Condensed?

Just me?

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/dastar-dly-deeds/#roast-in-piss-sonny-bono

In 1976, Congress set fire to the country's libraries; in 1998, they did it again. Today, in 2024, the flames have died down, and out of the ashes a new public domain is growing. Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate!

For most of US history, copyright was something you had to ask for. To copyright a work, you'd send a copy to the Library of Congress and they'd issue you a copyright. Not only did that let you display a copyright mark on your work – so people would know they weren't allowed to copy it without your permission – but if anyone wanted to figure out who to ask in order to get permission to copy or adapt a work, they could just go look up the paperwork at the LoC.

In 1976, Congress amended the Copyright Act to eliminate the "formality" of copyright registration. Now, all creative works of human authorship were copyrighted "at the moment of fixation" – the instant you drew, typed, wrote, filmed, or recorded them. From a toddler's nursery-school finger-painting to a graffiti mural on a subway car, every creative act suddenly became an article of property.

But whose property? That was on you to figure out, before you could copy, publish, perform, or preserve the work, because without registration, permissions had to start with a scavenger hunt for the person who could grant it. Congress simultaneously enacted a massive expansion of property rights, while abolishing the title registry that spelled out who owned what. As though this wasn't enough, Congress reached back in time and plopped an extra 20 years' onto the copyrights of existing works, even ones whose authors were unknown and unlocatable.

For the next 20 years, creative workers, archivists, educators and fans struggled in the face of this regime of unknowable property rights. After decades of well-documented problems, Congress acted again: they made it worse.

In 1998, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, AKA the Mickey Mouse Preservation Act, AKA the Copyright Term Extension Act. The 1998 Act tacked another 20 years onto copyright terms, but not just for works that were still in copyright. At the insistence of Disney, Congress actually yanked works out of the public domain – works that had been anthologized, adapted and re-issued – and put them back into copyright for two more decades. Copyright stretched to the century-plus "life plus 70 years" term. Nothing entered the public domain for the next 20 years.

So many of my comrades in the fight for the public domain were certain that this would happen again in 2018. In 2010, e-book inventor and Project Gutenberg founder Michael S Hart and I got into a friendly email argument because he was positive that in 2018, Congress would set fire to the public domain again. When I insisted that there was no way this could happen given the public bitterness over the 1998 Act, he told me I was being naive, but said he hoped that I was right.

Michael didn't live to see it, but in 2019, the public domain opened again. It was an incredible day:

https://archive.org/details/ClosingKeynoteForGrandReopeningOfThePublicDomainCoryDoctorowAtInternetArchive

No one has done a better job of chronicling the fortunes of our fragile, beautiful, bounteous public domain than Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle of Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Every year from 2010-2019, Boyle and Jenkins chronicled the works that weren't entering the public domain because of the 1998 Act, making sure we knew what had been stolen from our cultural commons. In so many cases, these works disappeared before their copyrights expired, for example, the majority of silent films are lost forever.

Then, in 2019, Jenkins and Boyle got to start cataloging the works that were entering the public domain, most of them from 1923 (copyright is complicated, so not everything that entered the public domain in 2019 was from that year):

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

Every year since, they've celebrated a new bumper crop. Last year, we got Mickey Mouse!

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey

In addition to numerous other works – by Woolf, Hemingway, Doyle, Christie, Proust, Hesse, Milne, DuBois, Frost, Chaplin, Escher, and more:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes

Now, 2024 was a fantastic year for the public domain, but – as you'll see in the 2025 edition of the Public Domain Day post – 2025 is even better:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

So what's entering the public domain this year? Well, for one thing, there's more of the stuff from last year, which makes sense: if Hemingway's first books entered the PD last year, then this year, we'll the books he wrote next (and this will continue every year until we catch up with Hemingway's tragic death).

There are some big hits from our returning champions, like Woolf's To the Lighthouse and A Farewell to Arms from Hemingway. Jenkins and Boyle call particular attention to one book: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, its title taken from a public domain work by Shakespeare. As they write, Faulkner spoke eloquently about the nature of posterity and culture:

[Humanity] is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance…The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

The main attraction on last year's Public Domain Day was the entry of Steamboat Willie – the first Mickey Mouse cartoon – into the public domain. This year, we're getting a dozen new Mickey cartoons, including the first Mickey talkie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_(film_series)#1929

Those 12 shorts represent a kind of creative explosion for the Disney Studios. Those early Mickey cartoons were, each and every one, a hybrid of new copyrighted works and the public domain. The backbone of each Mickey short was a beloved, public domain song, with Mickey's motion synched to the beat (animators came to call this "mickey mousing"). In 1929, there was a huge crop of public domain music that anyone could use this way:

Blue Danube, Pop Goes the Weasel, Yankee Doodle, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Ach Du Lieber Augustin, Listen to the Mocking Bird, A-Hunting We Will Go, Dixie, The Girl I Left Behind Me, a tune known as the snake charmer song, Coming Thru the Rye, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Auld Lang Syne, Aloha ‘Oe, Turkey in the Straw, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Habanera and Toreador Song from Carmen, Lizst’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and Goodnight, Ladies.

These were recent compositions, songs that were written and popularized in the lifetimes of the parents and grandparents who took their kids to the movies to see Mickey shorts like "The Barn Dance," "The Opry House" and "The Jazz Fool." The ability to plunder this music at will was key to the success of Mickey Mouse and Disney. Think of all the Mickeys and Disneys we've lost by locking up the public domain for the past half-century!

This year, we're getting some outstanding new old music for our public domain. The complexities of copyright terms mean that compositions from 1929 are entering the public domain, but we're only getting recordings from 1924. 1924's outstanding recordings include:

George Gershwin performing Rhapsody in Blue, Jelly Roll Morton playing Shreveport Stomp, and an early recording from contralto and civil rights icon Marian Anderson, who is famous for her 1939 performance to an integrated audience of over 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial. Anderson’s 1924 recording is of the spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.

While the compositions include Singin' in the Rain, Ain't Misbehavin', An American in Paris, Bolero, (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Happy Days Are Here Again, What Is This Thing Called, Love?, Am I Blue? and many, many more.

On the art front, we're getting Salvador Dali's earliest surrealist masterpieces, like Illumined Pleasures, The Accommodations of Desire, and The Great Masturbator. Dali's contemporaries are not so lucky: after a century, the early history of the works of Magritte are so muddy that it's impossible to say whether they are in or out of copyright.

But there's plenty of art with clearer provenance that we can welcome into the public domain this year, most notably, Popeye and Tintin. As the first Popeye and Tintin comics go PD, so too do those characters.

The idea that a fictional character can have a copyright separate from the stories they appear in is relatively new, and it's weird and very stupid. Courts have found that the Batmobile is a copyrightable character (Batman won't enter the public domain until 2035).

Copyright for characters is such a muddy, gross, weird idea. The clearest example of how stupid this gets comes from Sherlock Holmes, whose canon spans many years. The Doyle estate – a rent-seeking copyright troll – claimed that Holmes wouldn't enter the public domain until every Holmes story was in the public domain (that's this year, incidentally!).

This didn't fly, so their next gambit was to claim copyright over those aspects of Holmes's character that were developed later in the stories. For example, they claimed that Holmes didn't show compassion until the later stories, and, on that basis, sued the creators of the Enola Holmes TV show for depicting a gender-swapped Sherlock who wasn't a total dick:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/22/lawsuit-copyright-warmer-sherlock-holmes-dismissed-enola-holmes

As the Enola lawyers pointed out in their briefs, this was tantamount to a copyright over emotions: "Copyright law does not allow the ownership of generic concepts like warmth, kindness, empathy, or respect, even as expressed by a public domain character – which, of course, belongs to the public, not plaintiff."

When Mickey entered the public domain last year, Jenkins did an excellent deep dive into which aspects of Mickey's character and design emerged when:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

Jenkins uses this year's entry of Tintin and Popeye into the public domain to further explore the subject of proprietary characters.

Even though copyright extends to characters, it only covers the "copyrightable" parts of those characters. As the Enola lawyers wrote, the generic character traits (their age, emotional vibe, etc) are not protected. Neither is anything "trivial" or "minuscule" – for example, if a cartoonist makes a minor alteration to the way a character's pupils or eyes are drawn, that's a minor detail, not a copyrightable element.

The biggest impediment to using public domain characters isn't copyright, it's trademark. Trademark is very different from copyright: foundationally, trademark is the right to protect your customers from being deceived by your competitors. Coke can use trademark to stop Pepsi from selling its sugary drinks in Coke cans – not because it owns the word "Coke" or the Coke logo, but because it has been deputized to protect Coke drinkers from being tricked into buying not-Coke, thinking that they're getting the true Black Waters of American Imperialism.

Companies claim trademarks over cartoon characters all the time, and license those trademarks on food, clothing, toys, and more (remember Popeye candy cigarettes?).

Indeed, Hearst Holdings claims a trademark over Popeye in many traditional categories, like cartoons, amusement parks, ads and clothes. They're also in the midst of applying for a Popeye NFT trademark (lol).

Does that mean you can't use Popeye in any of those ways? Nope! All you need to do is prominently mention that your use of Popeye is unofficial, not associated with Hearst, and dispel any chance of confusion. A unanimous Supreme Court decision (in Dastar) affirm your right to do so. You can also use Popeye in the title of your unauthorized Popeye comic, thanks to a case called Rogers v Grimaldi.

This all applies to Tintin, too – a big deal, given that Tintin is managed by a notorious copyright bully who delights in cruelly terrorizing fan artists. Tintin is joined in the public domain by Buck Rogers, another old-timey character whose owners are scumbag rent-seekers.

Congress buried the public domain alive in 1976, and dumped a load of gravel over its grave in 1998, but miraculously, we've managed to exhume the PD, and it has been revived and is showing signs of rude health.

2024 saw the blockbuster film adaptation of Wicked, based on the public domain Oz books. It also saw the publication of James, a celebrated retelling of Twain's Huck Finn from the perspective of Huck's enslaved sidekick.

This is completely normal. It's how art was made since time immemorial. The 40 year experiment in life without a public domain is at an end, and not a minute too soon.

You can piece together a complete-as-possible list of 2025's public domain (including the Marx Brothers' Cocoanuts, Disney's Skeleton Dance, and Del Ruth's Gold Diggers of Broadway) here:

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/

[paolalopezfeliu]

Six ways to beat creative blocks and brief blindness.

Tips for emerging creatives on jump starting the creative process.

[cubeevo]

Impact of new technology on advertising today

It is difficult to predict how technology will affect a company’s business and advertising strategy because there are so many variables that need to be taken into account. Prior to the rise of the digital era, marketing tactics were fairly simple. Capture your audience’s attention and make sure they return for seconds. Technology was not even considered a factor that could inject noticeable change into the company. Fast forward to the present day, and technology has greatly accelerated the expansion of advertising into endless possibilities. It has completely changed the landscape of advertising by giving businesses access to fresh, creative methods to interact with their target audiences.  Let’s dive into the impact of technology on advertising today.

Increased reach to audiences around the world

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, changes in the world of advertising is social media. It has allowed businesses to engage with customers all around the globe and reach an audience like never before. Applications such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have evolved into a new form of advertising. By personalising content using algorithms, technology has granted businesses the ability to target ads to specific audiences based on things like browser history, search queries, watch time, and much more. Social media advertising enables companies to establish a much more personal connection compared to traditional advertisements. This can raise brand awareness among their target audience, produce content that connects with them, and eventually boost sales. Technology has also improved the interactive nature of advertising with the use of ad buy. Advertisements that are displayed on digital panels, such as ones in Times Square, New York can be adjusted in real time according to the temperature, traffic, and time of day. Just by enhancing these advertisements with technology, it can boost conversion rates and brand awareness by a huge amount.

Automation in advertising

Advertising automation is software designed and created for advertisers to allow them to advertise and market simultaneously on multiple platforms and channels. Automation makes completing repetitive tasks quickly and efficiently achievable. With the help of AI, they are able to create images, videos, and ad copy depending on the message and goals of the advertisers. Doing this also significantly lowers the cost and time needed for the advertisers. AI can also help with automating the process of ad scheduling and ad delivery. With just a click of a button, your ads can be deployed to run at any time to a specific audience.

Find this interesting? Head on over to CUBEevo for the full story!

[heywriters]

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[prokopetz]

The ad copy: "An innovative, rules-light tabletop RPG system with a unique, post-apocalyptic science-fantasy setting and mechanics that put player creativity in charge!"

The game: Literally just Dungeons & Dragons with a couple of mildly unusual playable species and seven ability scores instead of six.

[shibaincubus]

How to change your life with Gamification

Disclaimer stat point and daily quest (points) are used interchangeably and are different from main/side quest (points)

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You may have already heard about Gamification. It’s a strategy in which you use game mechanics,elements and principles to apply them to your everyday life to enhance your performance, studying etc.

But how should I use this technique to get the most of my life?

This is a guide for implementing Gamification in your life and thoroughly explains the process.

In my guide I am inspired by manhwa systems like in the solo leveling manhwa. Normally a system gives you stats such as strength which one can upgrade and become stronger. Upgrading is archived by quests that give you exp which also can increase your Rank e.g from F Rank to E Rank all the way to S Rank or higher. Quests are differentiated between daily quests and non daily quests. There are more functions such as items and gold but for the basic setup they are not needed

First you need to create your stats. In the solo leveling manhwa there are six stats: Strength, Vitality, Agility, Intelligence and Sense. You should have six stats but you are not obligated to use the ones from solo leveling. Idk how you can implement Sense and Vitality.

I strongly recommend you to have a stat called Willpower which indicated if you did every quest that you set for yourself and how well you stick to the system as a motivation.

As you can see I copied the stats Strength, Intelligence and Agility from Solo Leveling and added Willpower, Discipline and Stamina.

Some other ideas for stats are:

Charm (Beauty stat: I would use this if you want to glow up)

Charisma (If you want to improve your social skills or want to speak ------------ more professionally etc. I would use this stat

Health: If you want to eat more healthily or want to diet or want to -------- get your sleep schedule right etc. I would use this stat

You can get creative and cater to your own needs

Now if you have your stats you have to create a daily quests with each of these stats

Here is my example:

My quests don't look like much but you have to gradually work yourself up to your goals. Someone who has never done e.g Pilates in their life can't do a 30 min Pilates workout from day one without loosing motivation in the long run. So if you want to e.g. get your sleep schedule right I would set your wake up time e.g. 5min earlier every cycle until you reach your goal and maintain it.

A cycle equals 21 days. If you finish a cycle you can reflect your performance and make the daily quests harder or change the stats if they don't fit into your goals. Especially your first cycle is more of a test and try period. But you should keep your stats as they were and should not change them except if they really don't serve you.

Main/Side Quest stats:

These quests are quests like ''learn … language for 15min''. They are more of a to-do lists task.

I would use this formula for categorizing these tasks:

ASSIGNMENT (S) LIST

The ASSIGNMENTS

:::

:::

:::

CATEGORY: main/side exp etc.

DIFFICULTY: e.g. SSS

CLEAR CONDITION: e.g. finish all assignment(s)

TIME LIMIT: e.g. 7 hours

REWARD UPON COMPLEATION

:::

+2 exp

Stats in crease: e.g. Mentality +1 Intelligence +2 Motivation +1 Skill +1

PENALTY UPON FAILIURE

:::

all stats -1 (e.g.)

emotional damage e.g. +3

DURATION: e.g. 24 hours

Items confiscation …

DURATION: ???

Emotional damage stat explained:

This stat affects your conversion rate to points in the daily quest stat points. Normally the conversion rate is 10 e.g 10 main quest stat willpower point = 1 daily quest willpower stat point. Per +5 emotional damage you have to collect 5 extra points to converse the stat point

Example 10 points are needed in the main quest stats to converse to one stat point with a rate of 5 emotional damage point you need 15 points. A 10 point emotional damage point equals a 20 point conversion rate and so on.

How to decrease the emotional damage stat:

If you complete main/side quests as a reward you get -1 emotional damage point which you can use to get your emotional damage point to a good level. Emotional damage can't get into the negative.

The difference between daily quest stats or stats and main/side quest stats and leveling up is explained below

Stats in/de- crease in the main/side quests doesn't affect the normal stats that we've established so you have to create a new stat page for the main/side quest stats to count the points.

Like this:

Ten points on e.g intelligence stat on this list equals one daily quest intelligence stat point.

The conversion rate is as such 10 to 1 which means if you have e.g ten agility points you get one agility stat point.

How to level up:

Every time you finish a daily quest you gain a point for the Stat (first pic) you can only gain one point per stat per day. If you gain 10 points at every stat in the daily quest stat you can level up. If you don't finish a quest you will loose 1 point from the stat that you would've gained one point from.

Ranking up:

First you have to choose a range from which you can level up e.g F to S Rank / F to SSS+ Rank etc. than you have to find a starting point which you gradually increase e.g 20 (start point) increases +20% per Rank up.

How to increase your Rank:

Completing all daily quests gives you 1 EXP while the EXP gain can value in main/side quest the rest is explained above.

Here's my example:

Zyklus is German for cycle which I just tracked here and is explained above.

Lastly you need something that motivates you and in Solo Leveling it was a Punishment Zone if sung jin woo doesn't complete his quests.

For myself if I don't complete 5/6 quests i have to do the punishment.

For the punishment you have to do something you detests (and strains your body)

My example are 150 burpees

A full page can look like this:

One last thing is that you can 100% customise this approach you can add coins items etc. which also exists in a system, change other things as you like but the foundation has to remain intact.

[ohdorothea]

The Eras Tour Askbox Friendship Bracelet Exchange: 6th - 8th of December

~~~🫶⭐️🅣🅗🅔⭐️🅔🅡🅐🅢⭐️🅣🅞🅤🅡⭐️🫶~~~

Hey! I was thinking of a fun way to celebrate the final shows of the Eras tour so the weekend of the final Eras shows (6th - 8th of December) on here so I am organising The Eras Tour Askbox Friendship Bracelet Exchange!

On the days of the final Eras shows I’m going to be sending friendship bracelets made of emojis and copy pasted ‘beads’ like to one above to the swifties on my dash and to people who have made this Era so special!

And if anyone wants to join me I have made a tutorial on how I’ve been making them under the read more below! I wasn’t able to go to any Eras shows and was sad to miss out on friendship bracelets this era so I’m hoping this is a way we can celebrate where everyone can be included!!!

Below are more bracelet examples and a tutorial on how I’m making them! I hope anyone who wants to will join in and my askbox is open for any questions!! 🫶🫶🫶

~~~♦️🖤♦️⚫️♦️🅣🅗🅘🅒🅚🖤♦️🅐🅢♦️🖤🅣🅗🅘🅔🅥🅔🅢♦️⚫️♦️🖤♦️~~~

~~~⭐️🔹🟡💚🔹🔵💖🅣🅗🅔❤️🅔🅡🅐🅢🧡🅣🅞🅤🅡💛🔹🟢🔹💜🔹⭐️~~~

~~~🔹🔷🔹💎🔷🅘🅜💎🅢🅣🅘🅛🅛💎🅑🅔🅙🅔🅦🅔🅛🅔🅓🔷💎🔹🔷🔹~~~

Tutorial for making askbox friendship bracelets <3

So first I use this website to make the ‘beads’.

Type in whatever you want the ‘beads’ to say (you’ll have to spell out any numbers!).

Then scroll down to the option below called Circles (inverted).

There you can copy the ‘beads’! I usually paste them into my notes app to make the bracelets.

So then the fun part to me, adding the emojis to make the ‘beads’ look like a bracelet!!! This is the part where you can be as creative as you want! I will put a selection of my favourite emojis to look like beads below but have fun with it!!

So first I add emojis between the words so the words are easier to read. Then I start playing around with adding different emojis that I think look pretty/like a bracelet.

Once I’ve added the emojis I tend to add a couple of these ‘~’ to look like the string. Then it’s ready to send!

And I sent this one to myself!! It’s super simple and fun to do at least for me! Below are a selection of my favourite emojis that I’ve used to look like beads and jewels ect!

💠🔷🦋🌐🫶⭐️👑🌼🌸🌕💿💎🧿🎀❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍💖💘🔴🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠⚫️⚪️🔸🔹🔶♦️

There are also lots of different ways to make them! For the examples below I used a different site here to make square beads! You have to scroll down and go through the click for more then you can find this option that looks like square beads

I used these ones to make the example bracelets below!!!

~~~⭐️💜⭐️🟣💛🟣🆃🅷🅴💜🟡🅴🆁🅰🆂🟡💜🆃🅾🆄🆁🟣💛🟣⭐️💜⭐️~~~

~~🔸🔸🌼♦️💛🅲🅾🆆🅱🅾🆈🔸🅻🅸🅺🅴🔸🅼🅴💛♦️🌼🔸🔸~~

—💘🔷💘🆈🅾🆄💜🅲🅰🅽 🆆🅰🅽🆃💙🆆🅷🅾💜🆈🅾🆄 🆆🅰🅽🆃💘🔷💘—

You can be as creative as you want!!! I hope that’s all clear but if not please send me an ask and I will do my best to help!!!! 🫶🫶🫶

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How to depict blinking in a comic? Oh hello, by the way. Yes, I'm still alive. I'm fine and how are you and all that but—how to depict blinking in a comic strip? Carl Barks used this method—

The ducks' huge eyes are split in two, with one set of slightly faded pupils in the top half (see image 1), and another of solid black pupils in the lower half, both sets cut off in such a way that the “stacked” pupils don't appear like one large elongated pupil (a thin white horizontal line separates the two states as well); and that, with the added "Blink! Blink!" gets the job done perfectly. Here’s another slightly different blink:

(Now that I'm writing this stuff about top half, bottom half I'm suddenly reminded of a Barks gag I came across: a file cabinet in the background of a panel with one drawer saying TOP SECRET and the one below it saying BOTTOM SECRET.)

Really though, Barks's brilliant stories are en endless source of great ideas, gags, splash pages, twists, visual tricks, pacing, phrasing, suspense building, the whole proverbial "shebang", whatever a shebang is: I've said it before on this blog but any budding artist or writer—heck, even a professional one—could learn a lot from Barks's best work. Fireworks of creativity.

Re-reading some of Barks's stories, as I sometimes do by way of therapy, it struck me that many panels consist of three main elements: a foreground element, a middle section where the action takes place, and a background:

This foreground element can really be anything. It can be a bush, a tree, a rock, even a wave:

It can be a chair, a table, or any other piece of interior:

It can be a character, or just their silhouette:

And of course it's also a good way to hide snooping villains:

In the Gyro Gearloose stories the foreground element is often Little Helper having a kind of silent slapstick adventure of his own (in Dutch here as it’s from my own copy):

…Also, how is this for dark: