#i really have no idea what I'm doing

[papermint-airplane]

Hey wanna see something insane?

Of course you do. This is what my photoshoot lot looks like.

The random items are there so I can adjust my Sims' head/eye positions by directing them to look at certain items while they're posing. Except The Pole™, which is there for convenience in case I need to use it. You know how much I love The Pole™.

I have the black box extended to the next level so I can shoot upwards and not accidentally get the seam of the wall or the outside. I don't remember if there's a way to build walls of varying heights in Sims 3 or if I'm thinking of Sims 4. Either way, I couldn't figure out how to do that so I just built a room upstairs and extended the wallpaper. I try to match the lighting upstairs as well as downstairs so if I have to shoot upwards at an extreme angle, I don't get any weird color banding or a seam where the two sections meet.

I'm not showing y'all this to say "this is the only way to do this" or even "this is the best way to do this" because neither are true at all. I just wanted to show you how I do things. If anything, it's a cry for help. There are so many easier ways to do all of this but this is how I find it easiest for me.

I'm still not the best at lighting and I'm a little scared to venture outside of a black box or a white box because it's just easiest for me to shoot against. Every time I use a patterned wall, it ends up looking pixelated or banded. I'm positive I'm doing something wrong but I don't know how to fix it. I'm still learning. Any and all tips will be greatly appreciated, in fact. Please. Please teach me. 🙏

This is from before I made everything but the black box area blue to help me frame things better. As you can see, I was playing around with the effects machine from Showtime to see if I could make my backgrounds more interesting that way.

I ended up not really liking the result. You have to place like a thousand of these to get much coverage for the background but then it ends up being too much.

I feel like it looks a lot better without all the nonsense going on back there.

Someone who knows what they're doing give me some tips on how to do...everything lmao.

[wraenata]

Happy Birthday Helli!

Happy birthday Helli!!! I am so glad to call you my friend. You are such a bright and friendly light in the fandom and your art is amazing. And we all love your boy Pico <3

I hope you have an amazing year! You deserve it!

@hellishgayliath

[dancerdiaries]

Teaching little kids is so dang hard. I tell them to go stand on a purple dot and for some reason the little gremlins think that means "go play with the bouncy balls."

[diavolo-is-babygirl]

*Gets down on one knee and looks up at you. Opens a small box with a slip of paper saying, “Can our MC’s be friends?”*

Uh sure here you go

(Me pouring out MCs)

Because in addition to my four Exalts/Diavolo's boy harem, I guess there's now an alternative DiaLuci universe in which Diavolo's shipped with Luci, so I'm coming up with two other male MCs to be shipped with two brothers? I guess?

NO WAIT DON'T LEAVE I SWEAR THIS WILL ALL MAKE SENSE

- Courtney

[hello-delicious-tea]

So, I really want to make a copy of this dress I love (https://poshmark.com/listing/Effies-Heart-Dolce-Vita-Bicycle-Dress-in-Ink-63f12dd491e053bf8c4baaac) in a fabric more suited to my interests (https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/12047493-kitchen-garden-beige-by-sally_mountain?size=YARD)

BUT

I am really frustrated by not really knowing anything about how to do what I want to do, and how much fabric I would need to do what I want to do. I think my first step needs to be taking a pattern from the dress, and the second step would be laying it out on the floor and measuring to see how much fabric I need.

Thoughts, oh sewing internet friends?

[art-is-kayos]

Checking up on his commission

[demaparbat-hp]

Thinking about @stygiovictoria's Roleswap AU.

[welcometogrouchland]

ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[hey-hey-j]

something that's partly an experiment but mostly just a reference

(★ my Kofi)

[repmet]

@rwrbsource & @rwrbmovie’s rwrb appreciation month bingo: alex

[insp] [Henry]

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[bacchuschucklefuck]

dreaming abt sophomore year class swap bard!riz

[kaiserouo]

Well someone has to give it its driver updates, Gabriel

[willowser]

when i say i have zero to little knowledge and understanding of omegaverse stuff, i mean it so truly and wholeheartedly, which is why i've never even attempted to write it, but i have had exactly one (1) thought about alpha bakugou and omega reader and it's so typical but ajfbsjakak i want to share it hehe

[nonasbirthday]

of course you can read necros and cavs as a parallel to the gender binary bc A) you can do whatever you want forever and B) yeah there's plenty of textual evidence comparing the necro-cav bond to a marriage. however one thing i think many of these discussions keep missing is the fact that most people in the nine houses are not necros or cavs and do in fact exist outside of this binary. which would make it. not really much of a binary