#for like the third day in a row

[kuromi-hoemie]

feel like I've genuinely spent at least a quarter of my day too horny to think. i was going to do some kind of art today but I've been thinking about the boy...

[live-tofu]

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[blaithnne]

Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6

Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.

The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!

She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.

These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!

This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos

[undrscrmadds]

*eye twitching*

[etirabys]

If I don't paint for over a month I intuitively believe that I can't paint – that learning how to paint was a weird hallucination, that if I try I'll find myself as clumsy as I was when I was 18, taking my first watercolor class.

I have a big, neither bad nor good, almost complete painting of an iceberg hanging in my room right now and I don't believe I made it. It looks obviously beyond me to have made, or to complete.

(And so of course I don't go into the garage to resume work – who, me? Why would I do that?)

Not true of pencil drawing, incidentally – that always seems intuitively accessible.

[daydreams-and-honeybees]

Florist! willow and kindergarten teacher! hunter send tweet

[hi-note]

rendering practice…. again!!! i think i’m starting to get the hang of this!!…… again!!! only time will tell if this will remain my favorite rendering style.

[accirax]

Exchange #7: Arturo's gift for Min!

[verycharismaticdragon]

white lotus Binghe living his best life :3c

[omppupiiras]

a part of me is low key jealous of everyone who has had the chance to be in the first row for käärijä's gigs, but a bigger part of me wonders how the heck are ppl able to queue for HOURS or basically for a whole day??? like wow the dedication gotta respect it, i wish that was me 😭 but im old and mukavuudenhaluinen

[future-crab]

boy that AD sure can HD

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Australian Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso(ft. Max Verstappen & Lewis Hamilton)(my personal post-race highlights)

[dandyshucks]

i am freeeeeeeee [collapses into a pile of dust]

[meownotgood]

also... everyone... I know I promised to return to the prince aki fic post haste but I think I need to take a small break first... my brain needs resting... thank you very much for being patient with me 🤲💗

[djsangos]

//sorry i've been offline the past couple days i've been sick as fuck and entertaining myself by mostly binge watching scott the woz videos, as one does when they are ill

[tiredeyes1975]

i love mitski and im seeing her again but. neil concert THE NEXT DAY i dont want to go to two concerts in a row and idk how i could get there :((