#i don't know what personal stuff they were drawing on

[suzypfonne]

Today in "you should really be crying more about them, actually"

"And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't"

OUR EXISTENCE

Not the last few years, not the last century or so, their EXISTENCE.

They've been in love since the beginning 🥺

[lightbulb-warning]

so has anyone figured out WHY there is the Need To Share our Artworks™ or is it just the vibes and our Soul apparently

[buttercupshands]

I just managed to get off mha hyperfixation

And now it's happening again... Oh no

Helps with upcoming MHUI LoV event tho, it was a long time since last one happened I wonder what would happen in a new filler story part

Basically this and couple of pages of mid-final arc chapters + recent episode and next one being The Dabi episode was just too much not to get excited again

But! Important thing - I need to reread the last arc before I make anything new, if possible without finishing it to the 419 chapter and everything after, it took 2 months to really recover from the damage that chapter did

Anyway am I ready for the new event? Kinda! Do I have enough gems to get new Tomura? No! I'm not sure he'll even show up this time, because other ones were and still are really stubborn

Also Steampunk recruit took like 120 pulls in a step-up recruit and in the usual one combined

Not the best time to get LoV involved, it's cruel even

Also that one part of the page I added at the beginning was so interesting to look at and them I joked about 236 being similar. The only good thing with final arc being over is that I can say that Izuku didn't draw the parallel of seeing everyone hurt and seeing Tenko react on Mon's death

Understandable why, but it's funny to just look at them and be like, "wow Horikoshi traumatized them both"

[skitskatdacat63]

Looking at the Austrian crown: 🥰😁😊😚😍

Drawing the Austrian crown: 😟☹️😥😢😰

Please someone save me, why did I do this to myself, look at this thing

[skrunksthatwunk]

last minute pre-grandparent-visit room deep cleaning has revealed that within the drawer i tend to assume just has old, off generic birthday cards and theater/concert programs there are also many, many going away cards and letters and things from the last couple of times i moved away. i guess i always thought of it as such a lonely thing, and i talk a lot about how i don't think i made Real friends until recently, and not to get choked up on main or anything but i think maybe i was completely fucking wrong

[isfjmel-phleg]

🫥

[jerrythebug]

The League days are over in my read through :( JLA run ended and Extreme got cut off really randomly. Idk what's up with them. Sadly my beloved League is no more. I must detour into BOP now, chronologically. But I'm kinda beefing with Batman right now, I see too much of him and I don't want to read stuff with him. I kinda get this way with overexposed characters. Hopefully he won't appear there much, but I think he might. We'll see.

I'm actually really excited to meet Babs and her girls! Is she the leader? Idk, but I think she's very important. Also gotta see for myself what that Babs x Dinah talk is about 🧐 Time to branch out into more yuri.

Also also, it's time for me to read some Ted solos I think. I've only ever read Booster's one, still haven't finished that one actually. Idk, the more comic I read the more I want to read next. It's never ending. Probably gonna get tired of it soon. Maybe I'll rewatch Peacemaker and daydream about the Booster show that's apparently coming soon. That's one more reason to stay alive, huh? I'd sure love to see that one! It's totally happening, right? Idk, even if not, it's fun to pretend like it is so I have something to look up for.

Usually my hiperfixations switch up every few weeks and Ngl, I kinda feel like the DC/Boostle/JLI one is leaving me. Well, I'll always carry it in my heart and also will be coming back to it sporadically. I hardly abandon my special stuff forever. We'll see how it goes. For now I'm super tired from work & life, I need to get a day off (or two) and then maybe my mood will change. Maybe the Boostle is here to stay.

[thethingything]

we have an especially bad migraine where I noticed us getting aura (mostly being pissed off and upset in a specific way) for several hours before it started and we've taken pain meds but I'm not sure they've actually helped. they have definitely given us side effects though and I feel very spaced out and nauseous and generally shit.

we've also had way worse ADHD symptoms for the last few days to the point of being pretty much unable to focus on anything besides like 2 things we've hyperfixated on. we've had so much trouble starting tasks and keep struggling to hold a train of thought or focus long enough to even figure out what we need to do each day despite having all our Habitica dailies to tell us.

our brain is all over the place and I'm not really sure what to do with it or what would help but it's just occurred to me that sometimes our ADHD gets really bad in the buildup to some of our worst migraines and now I'm just hoping that both the migraine and other shit ease off soon because I'd like to be able to function

[dontwanderoff]

because im covering for this class for an indeterminate amount of time, i have planning time, and today that meant a Different crt was in the room while i was meant to be doing my thing and i TOTALLY get the stress of regular teachers letting a crt take control of their class now

[statementlou]

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[shipaholic]

I’m rewatching the GO2 trailer, this time focussing on the parts in the middle that I haven’t seen as much speculation about:

- Statue of an angelic figure, surrounded by gravestones, with some large... stadium lights? TV screens? big rectangles mounted on poles in the foreground. Two figures stand in front of it, the taller dressed in white, the shorter either in dark clothes or in shadow. Gabriel and Beelzebub? The shorter figure has something on their head like a frilly hat. Could conceivably be B’s fly hat, but I’m leaning not. Or, it could be Crowley and Muriel during their infiltration of Heaven, and the colouring is ironic? The whole set-up looks weird and artificial. I am leaning towards it being a space in Heaven. Edit! I forgot about Shax. That could be her hat, but in that case I’m not sure who the figure in white is. Edit 2: what the hell, I’m going to guess it’s Shax and Michael.

- A spotlight shines on the statue, and we see in close-up that it’s Gabriel! He is hugging a cross while gazing out. He has Raphaelite curls (not to be confused with the archangel Raphael. may they never show up in Good Omens).

- shot of real!Gabriel’s eyes glowing violet. He has grown in some stubble while at Aziraphale’s shop. He also appears to have borrowed some of Aziraphale’s clothes. Aw. Also, in an earlier shot he is looking out of an upstairs window, wearing Aziraphale’s(?) tartan dressing gown and some blue pyjamas, suggesting that the bookshop has a bedroom and Aziraphale is letting him use it. omg he’s so considerate and, I assume, so deeply confused this whole time. Also, does Gabriel need to sleep while he has amnesia? It seems as if he’s been turned human.

- Bunch of demons assembled in the bookshop. They look menacing. Aziraphale is repelling them(?) with a glowing portal on the floor.

- Weird clouds, lightning overhead (or something glowing above, anyway). Nina and Maggie looking fetching under the stormy sky.

- Muriel lying on the floor in Heaven to look at a matchbox that says “Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.” Job 41:19. Getting The Beast Below vibes.

- Another shot of the Gabriel statue, this time unlit. It looks sterner. I double checked, and I don’t think its expression has changed, it’s just the lighting.

- Aziraphale in Victorian dress, looking at the sky, then Crowley(?) screaming and flinging himself towards him. Aziraphale also seems to be at the edge of a graveyard - I think that’s a tombstone in the bottom left of the screen.

- Magician!Aziraphale (in a very snazzy blue coat, I love it), and a crowd of people behind him - an older woman in black, and several dancing girls with huge red feathers on their heads. Is this also a flashback? Could be back when he first learned stage magic!

- Crowley speeding - tartan hills - Beelzebub sitting on their horrid little chair/throne surrounded by manky piles of old newspapers. I’m inclined to say the papers are just old junk Hell keeps around, but who knows, maybe they’re needed to solve the mystery. The tartan hills are super weird. It’s possible it’s just a jokey visual to let us know Crowley is in Scotland. If it’s not, then why is the landscape stealing fashion tips from Aziraphale?? If we’re getting a second go at the Apocalypse, is it somehow being caused by Aziraphale and/or Crowley, to the extent that it’s stealing things from their heads, like with Adam in S1?

- B’s teeth - Shax grinning - demons smashing the bookshop windows. When their ‘SURREND THE ANGLE’ projectile lands on the carpet, there is a woman’s foot in a high heel visible next to it. A customer? A fancy one? (It’s a nice shoe)

Errr, I don’t have conclusions about any of this, but it felt helpful to document it XD

I really love that so much seems to be happening. My only real concern about extending the story in future seasons of TV was that the story might end up being rather thin. But it seems like there’s tons of it! And that’s just based on trailer snippets that were selected for being not-that-spoilery! And we haven’t even got to the sequel that Terry and Neil planned!! It’s so much and I’m so happy.

[clover-the-awesomest]

Major respect and gratitude to all these wonderful artists and logical people!! I'm an amateur artist myself who has never seen the appeal in AI art at all, or just AI in general, but I never really thought too much on how the situation affects people with disabilities. This thread though shows me and other regular people how free and creative art is. And how "Art" as a concept really doesn't have any limitations! You don't need a robot to do something that only a human can truly understand, and you shouldn't have to!

Thanks for sharing all your POV's on this situation and I'm glad we still have some sensible people in such a shitty world. <3

Plus, AI just sucks overall.

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[blueshykitsune-blog]

I want a giant brown bunny... but... but too much!

The only one I found was like $158 USD... it was just about 5 foot tall! It literally was like looking at what I wanted to make but realized I didn't have enough stuffing for!

And one that was like 3 feet tall was $100...

Like yes I know materials and time is money but I can still complain! Why fabric gotta be so much! And so messy! (The ones with faux fur or of the like. Like whyyyyyy!!!!) Also why is cotton and stuffing so much too! And you get enough for maybe only one 2 foot plushie!

(I ran out of tagging space... 30 the limit sadly. But I had more to say but maybe later I'll do a bigger post on that all.)

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

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[halfbit]

i am getting started on productivity for the night but haven't figured out yet if i want to write or art first and there's also the tiny part of my brain that just wants to stare at kabru until it is ok to stop staring at kabru

[vetyr]

hi, i ireally love your work and i don't know if you've answered this before but, what kinds of studies do you do or how did you learn color theory? i wanna get better at rendering and anatomy but im having trouble TT TT

Hi! Long answer alert. Once a chatterbox, always a chatterbox.

When I started actively learning how to draw about 10 1/2 years ago, I exclusively did graphite studies in sketchbooks. Here's a few examples—I mostly stuck to doing line drawings to drill basic shapes/contours and proportions into my brain. The more rendered sketches helped me practice edge control & basic values, and they were REALLY good for learning the actual 3D structure behind what I was drawing.

I'd use reference images that I grabbed from fitness forums, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and some NSFW places, but you could find adequate ref material from figure drawing sites like Line of Action. LoA has refs for people (you can filter by clothed/unclothed, age, & gender), animals, expressions, hands/feet, and a few other useful things as well. Love them.

Learning how to render digitally was a similar story; it helped a lot that I had a pretty strong foundation for value/anatomy going in. I basically didn't touch color at all for ~2 years (except for a few attempts at bad digital or acrylic paint studies), which may not have been the best idea. I learned color from a lot of trial and error, honestly, and I'm pretty sure this process involved a lot of imitation—there were a number of digital/traditional painters whose styles I really wanted to emulate (notably their edge control, color choices, value distributions, and shape design), so I kiiind of did a mixture of that + my own experimentation.

For example, I really found Benjamin Björklund's style appealing, especially his softened/lost edges & vibrant pops of saturated color, so here's a study I did from some photograph that I'm *pretty* sure was painted with him in mind.

Learning how to detail was definitely a slow process, and like all the aforementioned things (anatomy/color/edge control/values/etc.) I'm still figuring it out. Focusing on edge control first (that is, deciding on where to place hard/soft edges for emphasizing/de-emphasizing certain areas of the image) is super useful, because you can honestly fool a viewer into thinking there's more detail in a piece than there actually is if you're very economical about where you place your hard edges.

The most important part, to me, is probably just doing this stuff over and over again. You're likely not going to see improvement in a few weeks or even a few months, so don't fret about not getting the exact results you want and just keep studying + making art. I like to think about learning art as a process where you *need* to fail and make crappy art/studies—there's literally no way around it—so you might as well fail right now. See, by making bad art you're actually moving forward—isn't that a fun prospect!!

It's useful to have a folder with art you admire, especially if you can dissect the pieces and understand why you like them so much. You can study those aspects (like, you can redraw or repaint that person's work) and break down whether this is art that you just like to look at, or if it's the kind of art that you want to *make.* There's a LOT of art out there that I love looking at, probably tens of thousands of styles/mediums, but there's a very narrow range that I want to make myself.

I've mentioned it in some ask reply in the past, but I really do think looking at other artist's work is such a cheat code for improving your own skills—the other artist does the work to filter reality/ideas for you, and this sort of allows you to contact the subject matter more directly. I can think of so many examples where an artist I admired exaggerated, like, the way sunlight rested on a face and created that orange fringe around its edge, or the greys/dull blues in a wheat field, or the bright indigo in a cast shadow, or the red along the outside of a person's eye, and it just clicked for me that this was a very available & observable aspect of reality, which had up until that point gone completely unnoticed! If you're really perceptive about the art you look at, it's shocking how much it can teach you about how to see the world (in this particular case I mean this literally, in that the art I looked at fully changed the way I visually processed the world, but of course it has had a strong effect on my worldviews/relationships/beliefs).

Thanks so much for sending in a question (& for reading, if you got this far)! I read every single ask I receive, including the kind words & compliments, which I genuinely always appreciate. Best of luck with learning, my friend :)