#disheveledapathy

[reallygoodguacamole]

Hi was the anon that asked abt trigun and if it had anime nonsense and 1) thank u for the response it really helped 2)I finished episode 10 and now I'm sad and have brain worms.

oh hi ! long time no same fandom. i say that but like i am still into the mechanisms just not actively writing for them

yeah i did get brain worms. they were lying in wait from when i watched the '98 anime way back in the day and now they've revived themselves well enough to hold ground against the pokemon brainworms.

If you want to know about ep12 I would say that like. it doesn't get worse than the one bit in ep 11 so you should be fine, i'd think? enjoy the brainworms and i do have a fic posted for trigun that has no real spoilers for ep 12 because it got completely jossed if you want to read it

[skeletonsloverockcandy]

I really like ur oracle of the moon card, what materials did you use? I haven't figured out yet what media I should use, the cards' matte texture isn't something I typically draw on

It was something I went back and forth on because the cards don’t have the absorbent quality that most drawing paper does, so I knew it would be tricky. I did a light sketch in pencil, and then I thought I would try doing the background at least in alcohol markers to test how well it worked. I was surprised to see that, unable to fully sink into the paper, it kind of defused like watercolor instead of streaking like marker, and gave it a fuzzy, blendable quality I kind of liked. One thing I quickly noticed though was that while the marker was still wet, you could blend colors very well, but if you put another color on top after it it dried, it would pull up the color underneath.

Funnily enough, I used this limitation to my advantage and used it to highlight and blend, and it actually looked great on the sense of depth and space in the beacon. The ironic part is, that I fully intended to use acrylic paint, but at each new step, I experimentally tried marker first to see how it worked, telling myself I could paint over it if I messed up. (Though I will admit I was slightly hesitant to commit to acrylics if it came to that because it would make the card heavier and the texture distinct unless it was very thin paint).

I ended up doing the whole thing in alcohol marker (I used prismacolor and copics) and blocking out the colors and sections as I went, and I was most nervous about the skin tones and the gilded edges of the beacon because those needed to pop right and might’ve been more fit for acrylic—if it weren’t for the fact that the details were so tiny that I might have lost my mind if I had to do that with a brush. After I let the marker fully dry, I used liner pens for the outside, I used a .005 mm if you’re interested, and white gel pen for the stars. I would let the gel pen get a bit dry so some of the dots were far smaller than others, with just a couple fully pressed in dots for a few of the bigger stars.

In general, I’d probably recommend an acrylic based paint pen, like posca, or else a thin acrylic paint if you’ve got a tiny brush and steady hands, because then it won’t risk smudging as much or stripping away the color underneath if you apply a new layer. But it will give you a more opaque look. If you like the kind of blendy-transparent look and feel of watercolors, I would use alcohol marker and then just be careful how much you sweat on the card lol. Do not use actual watercolor on it though, it will warp and ruin your card, and the pigment will not absorb into the paper properly. 

Also thanks! I’m glad you liked my card! Please tag me if you end up making one of your own, I’d love to see it :)

[infaethable]

ok so the problem with making a somewhat successful post about midwest specific things someone will inevitably guess a town that you have spent a significant amount of time in and you'll get paranoid

[wardensantoineandevka]

Well, ask (#someone edit the smoldering wreckage of cads house in the background —@disheveledapathy) and ye shall receive:

fjord: *conjures rain*

fjord:

[karmas-void]

@disheveledapathy how dare you keep this in tags this is beautiful

Listen not to push the shadowidomauk agenda BUT JUST IMAGINE HOW GOOD MOLLY WOULD BE FOR BOTH THEIR MENTAL HEALTHS LIKE COME ON

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

@disheveledapathy oh I absolutely think Jonah Magnus was addicted to opium in his youth as an angsty mortal human with no powers but it's been 200 years of doing taxes for Beholding and he hasn't tried anything since

Concept: OG Elias is stoned out of his mind when Jonah bodysnatches him. It makes it very easy for Jonah to stun and de-eyeball him, but he stops congratulating himself once he’s settled into the body and has to instantly adjust to being absolutely, off the shits, high as a kite

Jonah has never smoked weed before

This is Jonah’s first time being high

Jonah finds out, very suddenly, that he is a paranoid stoner