#crooked fingers

[doctorslippery]

[looks at my hands] This assumes that the hands in question have never had broken fingers that are crooked AF now. [Sits on my hands to hide them]

“Drawing techniques for the structure and appearance of the fingers when the hand is extended”

Source: Twitter

[toffeethief]

Crooked Fingers - Sleep All Summer [Feat. Emma Pollock & Lara Meyerratken]

[big-low-t]

Crooked Fingers - Doctors of Deliverance

[goose-does-art]

Lil’ Wylan wanted to see the alpacas :3

[aliettali]

skilltober day 19: hand-eye coordination

(HOW ON EARTH DO YOU DESIGN THIS BASTARD)

[captainkirkk]

I wish there was a tag for "character who was traumatised/ forced to grow up and take on too much responsibility at a young age finally gets the chance to feel safe and act their age/ reclaim their childhood"

Every tag I think might come close ends up being full of ddlg/ age regression kink and I can't handle it :((

[plor-bindery]

Bound: Under Giant Mountains by wolfpants

The delightful, evocative, and thoughtful Under Giant Mountains by @wolfpants is up next in my tour of wolf’s fic I bound. This landscape of this fic is soaring: mountains and dragons and wilderness. But at the same time, its subject matter is as small and carefully contained as Harry's postwar pain. This is a Harry who is struggling, and struggling to even admit he's struggling. At the risk of spoiling anything, the way wolf writes Harry's breakdown and surrender is so, so soft and sweet and real. I love a Harry who confronts any danger head-on except the danger of what's going on inside him.

(Fun fact: this fic was posted while I was in the midst of writing Polar Night/Midnight Sun and I was like OH GOOD WOLF HAS DONE THE DRACO IN NORWAY THING AND DONE IT BETTER THAN I COULD, I CAN STOP WRITING NOW but of course, I didn't stop; I let wolf's words inspire me onwards, and this is another reason why I love fandom: the overlapping of writerly worlds, the echoes and resonances we experience as creators and fans.)

For this bind, I chose a relatively simple aesthetic, but couldn't resist inserting little tiny dragons as scene breaks.

More process and materials talk under the cut.

Materials: This was my first go at making bookcloth! I had purchased a little remainder scrap of forest green cotton at the fabric store and only noticed after ironing it out and laminating it to the tissue that there were stripes of sun damage on the creases of the cloth, sigh. I had to start over. I used mulberry tissue but some of the fibres are palpable through the cloth, which I am not wild about. Still -- homemade bookcloth! Fun!

Text block is printed on 24 lb cream letter cut down to a quarto bind, and is actually the first bind I did where my grain direction was correct. (I know, I know...) Sewn on two linen tapes with waxed linen thread.

Endbands (which I neglected to photograph, apparently) are machine made.

End papers are just scrapbook paper, nothing special.

The decoration is gold HTV. Hoo boy. More on that shortly.

Process: My first quarto bind! First bookcloth making! First bind with the grain direction correct! So many firsts!

That being said, there was nothing particularly special about this bind's process. My biggest struggle (which is visible) was the gold HTV. I think I've since cracked the code more on how to apply larger bits of HTV without making marks in it (short version: higher heat, less pressure, more patience) but I was still struggling here, as you can see. That being said, I do love the sort of hobbity vibe of the rune-ish font and the dragon/mountain.

I made myself a copy of this as a test first, and the HTV is even more messed up on that. :| Also, I realized when reading it afterwards, I fucked up the page order in one signature. This is fixed (god, I hope it's fixed) in wolf's copy.

Signature length is a tricky thing with case binding/sewn binding in general. I wound up needing a bunch of blank pages at the back of the typeset so I did something I have since done in other binds: added a "selected praise for" section where I copy/pasted AO3 comments into the text block like literary reviews. I love this so much: the juxtaposition of the formal literary trope with the squee and all-caps and hype of fandom commenters. I am not the first to do this, of course, but you'll see it appear again in future binds from me for sure. (And of course I put my own comment first. OF COURSE I did. Binder's privilege!)

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Angel of Death.

In the medical field. Some people with a pathological interest in the power of life and death can be attracted to medical or related professions.

Killers who occupy the role of a professional carer are sometimes referred to as "angels of death" or "angels of mercy".

Really proud of this one :)

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Alternate versions:

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Close-ups:

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And a bonus version with all the layers on, because of course I didn't do this on a new canvas:

[starleska]

oh? you thought i wouldn't do it? i would do anything in the name of fictional character simpage 😉 here is a colour gradient of 50 of my most beloved fictional blorbos!!! they are in no particular order, with the criteria being that they have had to cause a hyperfixation bad enough that i've forgotten to eat, sleep, or drink 😂 all the characters are under the cut!!! i'm so sorry 😭

Mr. Sparkles (Big Hero 6: The Series)

Jack Frost (The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause)

Baldi (Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning)

Augustus St. Cloud (The Venture Bros)

The Toymaker (Doctor Who)

‘Big’ Jack Horner (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

Mad Mod (Teen Titans)

Maxime Le Mal (Despicable Me 4)

Rolando (Helluva Boss)

Jervis Tetch | The Mad Hatter (Batman: The Animated Series)

Swan (The Phantom of the Paradise)

Ramón Salazar (Resident Evil 4)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Professor Zündapp (Cars 2)

Dave the Octopus | Dr Octavius Brine (The Penguins of Madagascar)

Warren the Eagle (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

Wally Darling (Welcome Home)

Dr Rowan North (Ghostbusters 2016)

Spamton (Deltarune Chapter 2)

Jeremiah Valeska (Gotham)

The Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Sans (Undertale)

Larry Laffer (Leisure Suit Larry)

Syndrome (The Incredibles)

Chester V (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2)

HABIT (EverymanHYBRID)

Gargamel (The Smurfs)

Fingers (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

Siegfried von Schroeder (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Adam (Hazbin Hotel)

Myc Cellium (Inside Job)

The Spot (Marvel)

M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel)

Dwight Schrute (The Office)

Kinito (KinitoPET)

Colin Robinson (What We Do In The Shadows)

Mr. Puzzles (SMG4)

King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph)

Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

Comfortable Doug (Centaurworld)

The Love Glove (Doom Patrol)

Chef Saltbaker (Cuphead)

Ben Chang (Community)

Pennywise (IT)

Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Cagney Carnation (Cuphead)

Klaus Kickenklober (Sing 2)

Austin Powers (Austin Powers)

Calvin Fischoeder (Bob's Burgers)

Rouxls Kaard (Deltarune)

[tanejineri]

i think this drawing gave me arthritis

[xulips]

thoughts on matching vbs nails (this is my art btw smile) . it works like self on pinky and thumb , #1 aibou on pointer , other vivids/rad dogs on middle and ring . have a nice day :)

THIS IS SOOO CUTE??? WHAT THE HELLL I'M LIVING FOR THIS !!!!! THIS IS ADORABLEE i'm adapting this . very soon . into my stuff

[dietmimo]

🥛

[jude-jespernumber1glazer]

Kaz looks stupid here :p

[honey-bee111]

Got poscas for Christmas 🙌