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Hey there! I've come across your art ever since I got into Risk of Rain 2 (better late than never, I've been sleeping on this game for years, jesus), and I'm enamoured with it, to say the least. Is there any advice you could perhaps give for an aspiring artist?
you're getting an essay whether you like it or not.
tl;dr of it if you dont want to read
- learn how to take critique
- dont skip fundamentals
- tracing is okay*
- be mindful when drawing
- you wont see good results for a long time
ok firstly, glad you like my art! i try my best on pretty much everything i make so the compliment is greatly appreciated!!
secondly, you have NO clue how much i love yapping about how to draw. im not an expert on how-to-draw-ology but i like to think i know enough to help other people not swing in the dark when it comes to getting better.
learning how to take criticism is THE most important part. not getting butthurt or at least listening to peoples critiques when they mean well is critical to improvement because its specialized advice for you. you have no clue how many young and/or new artists have gotten mad at me for giving critique when they specifically asked me for it. if youre looking to improve you gotta bite that bullet. not all criticism is valid(dont listen to people who are just tryna make you upset), but good and valid criticism can come from anyone. dont unvalidate someone's critique just because theyre not an artist or "not as good" as you. try and get as much feedback as you can and move onto the next piece instead of fixing something to perfection. you will get obsessed in a very destructive way.
learning fundamentals is another step to getting better. that means actually learning perspective, hands, anatomy, and all of the other stuff people hate drawing. its like lifting weights. most people dont like it but if you want to get stronger you need to put in the time to do the painful stuff.
chris christodoulou(ror's composer) actually made a similar comment about the topic of improvement in his field that was along the lines of "if you want to write music, stop playing video games and read a book". he got a lot of shit for saying that but honestly its true.
you need to treat art as a discipline if you want to get better at it. draw as much as you can for as long as you can before it becomes a health hazard. when im not resting i tend to draw at least three hours a day, not counting the 3 to 6 hours additional hours a day i draw during college. obviously a beginner doesn't need to draw that much but drawing daily is a good start.
if you want resources on where to look for fundamentals, Sinixdesign and Ethan Becker were who I turned to for advice that is relevant to the industry. There's definitely others out there but I tend to do more self studying so i don't know the more recent stuff.
something that they'll bring up is that tracing isn't bad AS LONG AS YOU DONT POST IT AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN. it's a good way to see how other people deal with stylization, but its absolutely not okay to post that stuff online. treat it like how traditional painters do master studies. its for your own education, not clout. and you shouldn't be drawing for clout anyway.
last but not least, draw what you love and you'll always love drawing. dont be afraid to hyperfixate and lose interest in things. it will help you continue your art journey. a lot of people in my art school have little to no motivation to draw outside of college because they have no interest in drawing outside of assigned work, which is not a great relationship to have with art if you want to pursue it in the long run. draw what you want to draw when the motivation hits you. if that motivation is risk of rain? draw it. if it's leg muscles then fuck yeah draw that too.
you can stick fundamental practice into your casual art by being mindful of what you are drawing. that can be done by asking questions about what's going on to further the progress of your art. its kind of hard to explain in text, but its basically just keeping in mind how your lines influence the piece.
in the beginning youre going to have ideas and none of them are going to translate to paper. its going to take years before anything will ever compare to whats in your brain and thats just the sucky part. ive been drawing seriously for about 5 or 6 years and theres still a ton of shit i do NOT wanna touch but i have to if i want to improve.
we're all sisyphus pushing that goddamn stupidass boulder and the only thing we can do is acknowledge how far we've come while still knowing that there's more work to be done. but thats kind of the shit that i live for.
#askbox#the framed perspective series#framed drawing#and framed ink#is really good as well#if you have the money for the books#i highly recommend reading them. i attribute a lot of my own success when it comes to fundamentals to those books#ALSO study other artists and how they draw so you can steal what you like about it for yourself#thats a good way to develop your own style
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Got once again told that I was "good at making conversation" and had "people and communication skills"
and that is the biggest lie I ever heard
so a girl will end up writing some sort of "practical guide to making conversation, by a recovering agoraphobic".
But also. If you need a "how to people when no social skills" guide right now, my absolute no bullshit guide is The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (2018, 3rd ed), esp chap 8 and 10. Includes: how long is appropriate to look at someone in the eyes? What are good conversation topics for your neighbors, your colleagues, your boss, your date? How to safely practice social skills/conversation? How to handle shaking/blushing/sweating/nervous stuttering? How is talking to a group different from talking to one person? How to gracefully end a conversation? How to ask for a change at your work schedule? How to start getting better at it *progressively* without being overwhelmed?
It's not a feel good self help/self improvement book, it is not a magic remedy with secret formula, it is more of a "let's learn a new language", with homework and notes to take. Give it a try, it is very easy to find it online
#social anxiety#you will not magically develop social skills!#but you can absolutely get better!#the book is also a good ref if you dont have social anxiety and just want to improve your people skills#a girl makes no money out of this book ok#it just was the best thing for me when I needed a āhow to peopleā that was not some feel good ājust be yourself hun!ā#social skills
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Throwing this at the svsss fandom before disappearing again, I just suddenly had several questions...
#svsss#scum villain#sqq#shen qingqiu#lbh#luo binghe#if possible it would probably be terrible but at this point everything has happened to sqq#I imagine it's like when you have pins and needles in your legs because you sat on them for too long and can't walk for a bit but worse...#Idk if anything like that happened in book 4 because I ordered it and it never came :}... and can't afford to spend money rn so yea..
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"Well I WASN'T gonna watch the show about the deeply discriminatory wizard world that thinks slavery is cool and good with writing that constantly employs racist and homophobic and bigoted metaphors and language written by a violent transphobe who pals around with nazis that has stated multiple times that she considers all engagement with her work, ESPECIALLY monetary engagement (money that she uses millions upon millions of to fund discriminatory organizations and legislation by the way), to be validation of her views but you were kinda mean about it on tumblr so you've really twisted my arm here"
#spitblaze says things#READ ANOTHER BOOK#LEARN TO CARE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE#STOP GIVING MONEY TO NAZIS I DONT KNOW HOE TO IMPRESS THIS UPON PEOPLE#WE HAVE BEEN EXPLAINING THIS AS NICELY AS POSSIBLE FOR YEARS BUT PWOPLE KEEP GOING#'yeah but i can separate the art from the artist right?'#NO. YOU CANT. YOU LITERALLY CANT BECAUSE SHE WILL NOT LET YOU
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the most life saving firefox extension for me (aside from ublock origin) is definitely library extension, if you're browsing goodreads the extension will show you this on the corner of the page:
showing you whether or not the book you want is available at your library, in either it's physical or electronic collection!
#luckily my library does have a wishlist function so a while ago i went through my entire goodreads tbr and added all the books at my library#to my wishlist so i can find them again easier#also renting audiobooks through overdrive with the libby app is super easy!#library extension also works with openlibrary and scribd/everand but i dont subscribe to that anymore#**also works on other websites like chapters indigo and amazon so can save you money too!
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People are so boring about classic literature sometimes. Like I know itās cool to be critical of men in books from the 19th century or whatever but it just leads to ripping out all of the nuance in favor of āUh all of the BrontĆ« men were evil and abusive and thatās all there is to those characters.ā Say something interesting. Iām begging you
#yes this is about a class Iām in. what of it#There is a scene in Jane Eyre where Jane approached Rochester to ask him for leave for a few weeks to see her sick aunt#and he protests and makes a fuss out of it and he gives her a bunch of money and then takes it back and gives her less than he owes her#and if you read it in the strictest and least charitable fashion then you could say that Mr Rochester is an evil piece of shit who wonāt#let Jane out of his sight and doesnāt give her what sheās due#but if you actually read it in the context of the book itās so obvious that heās joking around with her#and sheās ribbing him back in that same scene#because when you start out with the idea the Mr Rochester is an irredeemable monster and therefore everything he does is suspicious#you miss out on the very obvious fact that he and Jane are best friends! Their personalities gel perfectly#which is why they become so infatuated with each other#Saying āwell Rochester didnāt give her all her money so heās clearly manipulating and abusing Jane in this scene :(ā#is such an awful boring take that ignores what Charlotte spent hundreds of pages doing with these characters!#try having reading comprehension how about that#wuthering heights#jane eyre#the tenant of wildfell hall
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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophieās background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps theyāre all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#sheās dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#sheās dead too. like. astrid wasnāt the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. thatās#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogersā blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that sheās trans which iāve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. heās never asked.#she is here now and thatās all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc itās not Her anymoreā¦ she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. sheās so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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āthe little girl in me still craves the love my father could not giveā
god,, now THAT has a sting
#this quote is from the book āsave me an orangeā by hayley grace for anyone wondering#save me an orange#i saw the quote from the book on tiktok and i need it i think#if only i had the money rn#i really think it would benefit my mental health to read#sorry for rambling#thanks for reading this far if u have#hey psst i love you
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A Batfam AU where instead of going to get Dick to be Robin again Tim uses necromancy to bring Jason back from the dead. He just leaves Jason on the Wayne doorstep with a 'do better this time' sticky note. Batman can't find out who did it and Tim stays his little latchkey self with semi ok but distant parents (cus canonical they weren't really abusive just not there which isn't good but they could be worse). His parents bring him along on trips but again they love him but they just leave him to do as he pleases. so in Paris he ends up still getting trained by Lady Shiva. This keeps going and Tim just keeps reviving batfam members, if they fake their deaths and Tim tracks them down to check on them. They still have no idea who their shadow is, they can't find him, Tim likes it this way. Bruce goes MIA and Red Robin happens just minus Tim actually being Red Robin. The JLA doorstep gets a passed-out Batman with a 'I can't believe I have to keep doing this shit' sticky note on his head.
#now you're probably going Batcaves i see those fics all the time? and my retort is those are babyified Tim Drake fics. he then gets adoped#the batfam and has a coffee addiction. i want a Tim Drake that treats the batfam like how wildlife rehab centers treat animals. they make#themselves knowable of the subject. they're striving to improve their quality of care. establish safe working habits. share skills. put car#of the subject over personal gain. be professional and humane. protect welfare of the subject. release the subject as soon as appropriate.#it's just his subject is batvigilantes not a racoon that was on the side of the road.#tim drake#batman#robin#dc comics#dc universe#detective comics#batman comics#batman and robin#batman au#and i think Jack and Janet being abusive is getting boring. have them be ok parents. they give tim a long leash but fail to see hes using i#for his own fun. they never told him he CANT learn necromancy and revive bat vigilantes how was HE supposed to know it's a bad thing??#maybe they should have looked at what he was doing while they were off. (like Phineus and Ferb. He asked if he could learn self-defense.#he learned from Lady Shiva not at the YMCA. He asked if he could read a book on necromancy! you didn't tell him he's not aloud to use what#he learned! he asked if he could go to the cemetery to see Jason! you didn't say he couldn't revive him! and so on)#Tim: mom can I learn self-defense while in Paris?#Janet: that's a good idea there are so many pickpockets here a little training would be nice for you. do you know a place?#Tim: Yes! her name is Sandra#Janet: cool. if you think she's the best choice. here some money.#Tim: Thanks Mom!#janet drake#jack drake#fanfic idea#fic idea#fanfic ideas#batfam
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Appreciate the little things.
Not to ignorantly deny all of the big bad things in the world, but to survive them.
#magpie ramblings#there's so much shit going on that it gets overwhelming#and it's sad that we've made ourselves feel guilty for looking away when it's too painful to watch#but we literally CAN'T survive if we keep dwelling on the unfairness of the world#and the more you ask why can't this happen or why is that happening#the quicker it is to just ask 'why do anything at all?' ... the answer is simple#'just because'#so fuck it#i'm going to appreciate a short video of someone drawing a cat; just because#i'm going to read a book about a long lost culture and history; just because#i'm going to post personal book reviews of books hardly anyone has heard of; just because#i'm going to be thankful that my indoor plants have been doing well; just because#i'm going to let someone make a decision i don't agree with and not confront them; just because#i'm going to spend the little of my own money helping maybe just one other person in the world; just because#i'm going to be kind to those who haven't treated me kindly; just because#i'm going to smile regardless of the unjust in this world; just because
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You know, considering that Dale has a big interest in anything that can make him money
Would he use his newfound form to make a profit?
I feel as though, if it was Dev who got that bite, he'd totally use it for profit. Be it filming Dev like he's filming a odd dog, or caging him like he's some sort of attraction.
Oh, imagine all the promotions he could do! All the money he could make! All for the low low price of sacrificing his son
Too bad it wasn't Dev who got bit though
As addicted to money as Dale this is, quite literally, his worst nightmare come to life. He is horrified by his body and the idea of letting anybody see him like this is too mortifying to bare. not to mention he fully believes this is direct punishment for his actions.
As for using Dev a money making tool like that... horrifyingly, he probably would if he could get away with hiding that it was his child. That being said this never would have happened to Dev.
#fop nature au#He is also scared of being locked up in a lab to be experimented on#maybe one day he'll have a book written on this crazy supernatural experience he had#but right now hes much more concerned with trying to figure out if he can undo it#trying to think of a world where Dev has deer lycanthropy but Dale doesnt#If he's still recognizably Dev then like. tbh he'd proabably become the public face of werewolf acceptance#obviously it would be performative as hell#'give me money if you think my poor adorable son shouldn't be discriminated against for his lycanthropyš„ŗ'#but like if you cant hide it profit from it you know#if he's not recognizably Dev then it'd proabably be darker
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still love how the book starts out with stan beating up the statue and taking ford's discarded one dollar bills and then ends with stan completely destroying bill and ripping up money just to spite him
#gravity falls#stanley pines#book of bill#when bill directly taunted the reader before about how they wouldnt rip up a note......#im so curious if stan was hiding details about the version of the BoB that was shown to him....#like the ripped up note and the coded message to ford might just be stan being stan but im still going hmmmm#oh also bill flat out saying ominous stuff in the poem too lmao#especially when we know how much bill hates him like what would he say to stan with that direct connection of the book??#he knows that money isnt that important to him he literally made that offer when stan was about to kill him#also im still so fond of how the wheel of shame is a website thing#cos that level of interactivity vs just flipping pages on a book#where you don't even see the wheel immediately and need to keep spamming stan's name#to even see that page in the first place#that you have to discover that you can poke and prod and keep pushing bill's sore spot and keep doing it until he finally breaks down#and then gives us something that directly contrasts with the axolotl's poem#anyway thats it im making my bill+stan tag#two sides of the same dollar bill
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I only became involved into the Predator/Yautja approximately at the start of the current year of our lord 2024. And THIS is already the amount of merch managed to rack up through the months... Mind you, i have no regrets but yeah.... When a brainrot hits, it fucking HITS.
#this is why you don't autistic bitches like me a steady money income#because then THIS shit happens#don't get me started on the Spyro brainrot too#OR my extensive Lego collection#OR my books#AND the comics and graphic novels plus some mangas#.........Yeah i might have a problem#random thoughts#yautja#predator series#alien vs predator#predator franchise#the predator#predator#merch#predator merch
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I am typically a *kindle girlie* but occasionally I do get books from the library but I am struggling with the one right now because holding a book is annoying šššš kindle is soooooooo much easier and I am contemplating just buying the book on my kindle because I know Iāll finish it way quicker!!!! Itās $10.99 and Iām like should I do it????? Itās not on hoopla, and itās a several month wait on Libby.
#I mean#I rarely buy books#so the money isnāt the issue itās the principle of the thing šššš#like I have access to Libby and hoopla and a public library#and I also pay for kindle unlimited now#so why should I need to buy this book š#itās the love that split the word by Emily Henry if you are curious#I like it so far but Iām reading like 1 chapter a day bc I hate holding a book sometimes ššš
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me thinking about how elayne has a boyfriend who is her half-brother's half-brother and with whom her other brother (who is dating her boyfriend's ex) is in a one-sided homoerotic rivalry, and they all have daddy issues because their dad tried to kill their mom but was killed by their mom's ex-boyfriend who is now dating their aunt whose girlfriend is dating their mom's other ex-boyfriend, and also elayne and her boyfriend are in a polycule with their two other girlfriends (one of whose people have an ancestral feud with elayne's grandfather) and their other boyfriend who is married to the empress in charge of the people who once enslaved elayne's brother's girlfriend
#the amount of money i would pay to see this family dinner#tam al'thor sitting there like 'have you all tried the chicken? i thought the chicken was lovely'#and yes i'm just as shocked as you that i acknowledged the existence of mat/tuon min/rand siuan/bryne and moiraine/thom lmao#i will acknowledge their existence if and only if doing so would increase the comedy value of a post#wot#wot book spoilers#the wheel of time
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i just don't understand what milady has done that was so bad. sure she killed and she kidnapped, but who hasn't? sure she's a terrifying demon of vengeance, but she deserves it? good for her??? all these men treat her so reprehensibly and she's smart and talented and she should kill them all if she wants to. i support her.
#she did something to get the fleur de lys branded on her shoulder but i haven't been able to figure out what. she just. stole something?#and then her husband found out and tried to murder her???#get that asshole baby i got your flower#kill him and then kill d'artagnan i will be here rooting for you#her brother-in-law just imprisoned her in his castle because he got a letter from some guy saying she wants to inherit all his money#fuck youuuuuuu. you're on my shitlist#if she wants to kill you for your money she should be allowed! god! and that's not even why she's there anyway!!!#les trois mousquetaires#milady de winter#my posts#and like HAS she killed someone? i actually can't remember anyone she's killed. she kidnapped mme bonacieux#and she tried to kill d'artagnan a bunch of times but has not yet succeeded#and she tried to have d'artagnan kill this other guy but he didn't#and she was miffed when her brother-in-law failed to die in a duel#but so what! she should be allowed!!!#<-edit i wrote this when i hadn't finished the book yet but now that i have finished it and she has killed people: SO WHAT! SHE SHOULD BE#ALLOWED!!!!
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