#it took like 3 mins to render

[bins13]

i just did my first ever sim render and i think it turned out p good :DDD

[coldturkeybabe]

WIP- i refuse to look at this for much longer JKFDSFJK ill finish it later today

[prostocupoftea]

Urge for evil

tw disturbing imagery (?)

transcript n russian version under the cut

But what if my urge for evil

Will become a little stronger?

If you loaded the gun

Than it's already too late

But what is mu urge for evil

Will become a little stronger?

those are changed a bit lyrics from - Electroforez - Zlo (Evil) gagshfh i love this song so much go listennnnn!!!! this is like the second chorus w/o one line and with a line from third ??? idk i was doing it from memory and it appears i have really bad memory

also there are fully translated lyrics on google so you can read it to understand but ye

guuuUUUUYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AGHFSHHA IM FINISHED it eas actually so fast it took like 2-3 hours ob drawing thw silly n rendering plus like 20 mins on posing and 2 days of rolling the idea around in my head

now in russian

[noteverystarisasun]

NESIAS DTIYS EVENT! 3 Years of NESIAS More Info Below if you just wanna see the art :]

So, how does this work? Draw Eden in your style! The deadline is July 31st, so everyone will have time to do so! I will pick through all of them at that time and announce those I loved the most [though I will love all of them, I assure you,,] 1st place, A fully rendered piece of art of a character of their choosing, full body and all! 2nd place, A pillow shading of art of a character of their choosing, bust up! 3rd place, A flat piece of art of a character of their choosing, headshot!

Honored Mentions, All will be included in the post with a shoutout to your blog! Event is,, only on here, but you can share your piece outside of here!

The tag is #NESIAS Eden DTIYS , incase you don't tag me,,

This is also a showcase for commissions! Here is my Vgen if you wanna take a look :] For Eden, this would be like,,, 50 USD due that it took me 6 hours and 30 mins to do

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[lunchtimebedamned1997]

Celebrating Velvette's First Fashion Show!

(Timelapse at the end of the post :3)

HOY BOY I FINISHED IT!!! This one took ages but it feels so worth it! Velvette dressed up her boys ofc ofc, they had to represent their girl!

Really though, I had too much fun with this one. I've been putting off background and fabric rendering practice forever, and this seemed like the perfect excuse for both! Fun fact, I actually almost went to university for fashion/costume design, so it was extra fun to try and come up with outfits that felt true-to-character for each of them, while making it feel like something Vel would make, and keeping the mid/late 2010's in mind.

I experimented a lot with this piece, and tried to make things look 'realisitcally textured' (Vox's screen being smooth, the sweatervest fuzzy, and Val's fluff furry, etc.). Just playing around a lot and seeing how I like to render things out! The style of this one ended up somewhere halfway between my kind of 'default' style and Hazbin's, and I really, really like the combination tbh.

Now a timelapse for you all! The is the one min version, but I'm thinking of posting my longer speedpaints on my YT, so if I do, i'll link it here later :3

Overall, besides Valentino's anatomy perspective confusing the fuck out of me, this was a super fun challenge for me and I'm really proud of how it came out!

[fullmoonandstar]

A Strange Duo

Gale x unnamed Tav x Astarion

Fandom: Baldur’s Gate 3 Rating: T Word Count: 1.4 k CW: polyamory Summary: Professor Dekarios lecture has guests today, and they are very strange indeed AN: this is a follow-up to "I can't let you go"

It was a few months into her studies at Blackstaff that Myssa saw the strangest pair yet. 

At 9 in the morning, the bells tolled over the campus, and she ran to the lecture hall for her first class of the day. She pulled the doors to the main building open and ran up the stairs to the biggest lecture they had. Several doors led inside, but she chose the one that led to the upper ranks, where Darren had sure set up already in their usual place. She slowed at the door where a blue fire spelled “introduction to the weave” and opened it as carefully as she could. Professor Dekarios had already started his lecture, and Myssa would be mortified if he had seen her sneak in so late.

Darren was sitting at the back as always and lazily took notes of the lecture. 

Myssa whispered a good morning, to which he replied with a grunt. 

“He is still recapping last time,” Darren said.

Professor Dekarios lecture was very technical, but that didn’t dampen his enthusiasm one bit. 

Myssa did her best but fell behind on taking notes after about 10 mins. She focused on listening instead, and well looking. Professor Dekarios’ lecture was very technical, but that did not dampen his enthusiasm, and after some time Myssa had fallen behind in her note-taking. With Darren beside her, dutifully scratching away on his paper, she concentrated on listening and comprehending… well, maybe more looking at their lecturer. He was one of the younger Professors, where younger was relative in the context of different heritages at this university. A young Elf was an ancient Orc, after all. He was quite handsome for a human, but many despised his personality despite his outward attractiveness, to Myssa his demeanour reminded her of a childhood friend she had left back in her home town. 

A creak of the door caught her attention. She looked over her shoulder and saw the strangest duo yet. The elven woman shone bright with life, the eye on her chain and the red shirt clearly revealing her as a follower of Helm, the God of guardians and protectors. She came through the door and looked around with a benevolent smile on her scared face. Behind her entered another Elf, and Myssa had to look twice to confirm it wasn’t some sort of projection. The man was rendered as if in black and white, no colour at all could be found in his black robes and stark white skin. Even his hair was white, though it was streaked with sightly darker gray. Tainted Glasses hid his eyes and followed his companion with eerie stealth. The woman gestured to the last row, just a few meters down the line from Myssa and Darren. She tried not to stare as they both took of their coats and sat down. 

They didn’t look like students, and she had never seen them before, so what were they doing? She looked at them as discreetly as she could. 

The woman was probably stronger than she appeared, the muscles in her forearms were taut, and she had big thighs that seemed like they could crush a scull. One of her eyes was an unnatural blue and didn’t fit with her complexion. She sat straight backed and leaned sightly forward as if listening intently as Professor Dekarios explained the structure of the weave. 

The monochromatic man was most relaxed. He leaned back on his chair and ran his gloved hands deliberately through his curly hair. Under his coat was just as much colour as above, and something unsettled Myssa about him. 

She tried to concentrate on the lecture again, where three new paragraphs of text had appeared on the enchanted blackboard. 

A shadow swooped over her head and something landed on the floor next to the odd pair. It was a black and brown tressym. The woman saw it too, smiled and lean down to it. 

“Good morning, Lady Tara. How have you been?”

Tara meowed, and the woman nodded her head. 

“Happy to hear that. You wanna sit with us?”

The man regarded Tara over the brim of his tainted glasses, and it was the first time she saw any colour on his body. His irises were ruby red. Myssa turned away, afraid to meet his gaze should it flicker in her direction. 

Tara flapped her wings and landed on the woman's lap. Professor Dekarios had answered a question from one of the students in front and looked around for any further hands when his eyes fell on the last row. He paused for a moment. Something rather unusual for him. 

"Well, no more questions. We'll continue then."

"Did you see that?" Myssa said to Darren.

"See what?"

"The way the professor looked at them?"

Darren had not seen the elves and the tressym but looked over now. His face was not interested enough for her taste. 

"Maybe some old students of his?" Darren shrugged and continued to take notes. 

When the lecture ended, Myssa made sure to pack her things as slowly as she could and watched from the corner of her eye as the man stood up. The woman had left shortly before the end and was nowhere to be seen.

"You're here." Professor Dekarios said to the man. 

"Yes, it seems like the lecture took forever, I would know." The man spoke in a theatrical kind of way and she half expected the Professor to be upset, but his expression didn't change.

"Anyway, I got something for you." 

The man took off a shoe and offered it to Professor Dekarios who just stared at it for a heartbeat. 

"Sounds like you want me to open the blinds." 

It sounded like a threat but didn't make much sense to her. The blinds covered the huge windows of the room, and for better readability they were always closed in the morning and afternoon. The two men stared at each other. Myssa felt the tension and didn't dare to move or make a noise. From everything she had heard about him, Professor Dekarios was a powerful wizard but this man was more than he seemed to be, she just had a feeling about him. 

The corners of Professor Dekarios mouth twitched and they both broke into laughter so carefree it startled Myssa. The man with the red eyes put his shoe back on and opened his arms. Professor Dekarios hesitated, but when the other took a step toward him, he closed the distance. He melted into the hug, hands grabbing onto the fabric at the back of the jacket as if he held on to dear life, and he rested his head on the other's shoulder. They held each other longer than it would have been acceptable for "just friends" to hug and the moment was so tender, Myssa had to look away. A few heartbeats later, they separated and Professor Dekarios said in a painfully soft voice: "I missed you." 

If the other man said something, Myssa didn't hear over the woman's exclamation. "Gale!"

This hug was very different from the previous one. As the woman jogged toward Professor Dekarios a smile broke on his face so bright it could have lit the room on its own. She wrapped her arms around his middle and swapped him off his feet. They laughed and after a spin in her arms, Gale was back on his own feet, pressing a sweet kiss to her lips. 

"Gods, you're beautiful." he said. The woman smiled with such admiration it was almost too much, and Myssa wanted nothing more than to leave and tell Nislyn all about what she had seen.

Professor Dekarios took a step back and looked at both of them.

"Did you steal all his coloured clothing?"

The woman gasped in fake outrage.

"Me? Astarion is the one who wants to like that. If you ask me, he likes how people look at him. He has certainly drawn an audience here."

Myssa grabbed her bag, but Professor Dekarios caught her eye, and she instantly felt bad for prying. 

"Well, what can I say, I am magnificent." Astarion said and gave a pointed look in Myssa direction.

"Yes, I guess it's best we go home."

He moved his hand in the direction of the space between the doors that lead out of the lecture hall and blue magic flowed out of his arm. Where it hit the wall a portal opened.

"Let's go."

He gestured for Astarion and the woman to go through. 

"See you in the next lecture, Ms Twingift." 

"Yes, Professor Dekarios." she replied a little too fast. 

With a last cautioning look in her direction, Professor Dekarios picked up Tara and followed the other two through the portal. 

------

"Nis, you won't believe what happened during intro weave."

[piowasthere]

Hello!

I’m curious- how long does it take to draw a sketch versus a rendered drawing?

I really love your art! It always amazes me with how detailed it turns out to be.

I hope you have a great week!

it really, really depends

a doodle like the ones i often do for the asks can take up from literally 5 min to i'd say 30 min? depends if i want to shade it in any way tbh

as for full rendered pieces - hours, usually days i can do one in one day (hard to call it a day when i start at like 12pm end up 4am but ykwim) but it can also take like 3 or 5 depending on how many breaks i take

honestly comes down to how many characters and the environment cuz the thing that takes up the most time, i'd say is coloring and shading i can sketch up pretty quickly and i don't go for super clean, smooth line art anyway i like the messy, free style (also saves a lot of time) so filling in the colors takes a bit and i honestly don't enjoy it all that much (that's why most doodles r just shaded and not colored)

and then it just comes down to what the bg is and how it affects the char cuz then it's just shading both to fit in, to look natural and blend tgt nicely (or not at all cuz i like funky, neon and eyestrain lol)

2 pieces i can think of rn that took me the longest (that i still consider fresh enough to take up for consideration) r the SAMS anniversary art and first piece for my Calamari Lunar i did both took me like a week from what i can remember

the former bc of the amount of characters on it, each one had to be done fully and separately so it just took a bit the latter cuz it's a really detailed, lineless, heavily shaded (also cuz it was me designing a char, so it always takes a bit back and forth until it just feels right)

i'd love to give u actual numbers, but i don't keep track of it that much and my program doesn't say it either (at least idk abt it) so i'm just going off of my memory, how long i feel like it took and mayhaps looking at dates of when i send a friend a sketch, when i first started talking abt it, the file info vs the posting date but usually idc enough to do so, and often it just simply isn't possible

TL;DR a doodle can take like 5-30 min and rendered shit a few days most often cuz i'm slow af; it all comes down to what the piece is

also tysm! so glad u enjoy my little hellhole wonderland of mental instability and mostly just thirst traps! :D

yall have no idea how actually happy it makes me when ppl notice small details i put into my work there's just smth in my brain that says it needs to have so many lil details and things and be so well done even if it's gonna get blurred out, shaded til binary and covered by 8 diff layers of shit

das the talk.

[herrscherofmagic]

does anyone else get that weird feeling when you can look at a bajillion different art styles and go "yeah that's neat! love it! so cool!" and then as soon as you do absolutely any of your own drawing, there's just a constant alarm going off in your head saying "THIS IS INCORRECT AND IF YOU DON'T FIX IT, IT WILL LOOK TERRIBLE AND ANATOMICALLY INACCURATE" despite it being nothing different from all those other art styles you see and love??? like "uncanny valley" but w/ all your own artwork and almost all the time

like I was just thinking about this, because there's lots of awesome artists I follow on Instagram & Tumblr that have interesting styles that don't necessarily follow real-life human proportions. It's often different variants of anime art but that's not always the case, and across pretty much all these different styles you have different things like how the contours of the face are (i.e. chin, cheeks), or the size/spacing of eyes, or the way the mouth is drawn

but it's just occurred to me that whenever I draw, there's pretty much always a constant nagging feeling, that I have to fix every anatomical or rendering mistake and if I don't then it just won't look "right", and that's one of the biggest things that stops me from completing 99% of my art

like earlier today I posted a 10-minute sketch, and it was obviously not "good anatomy"- it was pure vibes, just drawing what felt right in the moment and immediately posting it without trying to correct anything at all. and as soon as I did it, it hit me- that was probably the first time I've ever just created a piece of art for fun with virtually zero concern about "accuracy". Everything else I ever work on is always constantly drawn-out and changed and modified endlessly because it never feels "correct" and I don't feel like I can proceed with it.

today I've spent more than 3 hours just practicing how to draw heads, and it was the same thing. I was doing okay, but it took ages to get through even the simple parts like drawing straight from an anatomy ref. and it drives me insane not just because of perfectionism or whatever... but the fact that there's not a single "correct" human figure.

There's a ton of natural variation in how people appear, that's why we're all unique ffs! Different people have differently-shaped faces, their noses look different, their cheeks are different, their foreheads can be different, the wrinkles or freckles or eyebrows or eye shape or X Y Z are all varied and unique among different people.

Of course there are certain basic proportions and principles, you don't put someone's eyes on the back of their head, but I know all the basic proportions at this point and I've made a ridiculous amount of figure drawings both live and from photo, quite literally hundreds of drawings ranging from 1-3 minute gestures all the way to 1-, 2-, 3-hour-long works.

So why is it that no matter who or what I draw there's always that piercing & uncanny feeling? that i'm never able to capture a likeness of someone whether real or fictional, whether I'm trying to draw realistically or stylized?? it feels like I'm still getting something fundamentally wrong all the time even when I've studied all the basics and so much more, and even when my own professors look at what I do and say it's correct.

it's probably the autism, since there's a ton of other things in life where I appreciate predictability and uniformity and certainty. math problems have correct answers, essays can have certain types of analysis, machines can be described in terms of mechanical principles. But art isn't like that, and I've had similar issues w/ my art classes before, I just never quite thought of it from this specific perspective. I knew I struggled with open-endedness in projects, but this feels like something even deeper and more infuriating than that >.>

going back to that sketch, I can look at it and see obvious simple mistakes that I didn't bother to fix because I kept it strictly to 10 minutes. the chin is an obvious one, for instance, and the eyes could be better too. but I don't want to go back to that artwork, partially because it's just a 10-min sketch and it's not really anything that profound, but also partially because even though I know I can make it better I'm scared that as soon as I start messing with it I'll never be able to look at it comfortably ever again because it'll always feel incorrect. Not incorrect because I didn't care but incorrect despite me caring so much. which feels so much worse than just making a silly mistake when you're drawing normally.

[cherrypikkins]

2, 13, and 22 🤗

anything for moss!!!! :333

what's your favorite thing about your style

hmmm. people seem to really like the way I draw lines! I used to wish for the courage to draw with rough sketchy soft or translucent lines cuz I think they are gorgeous. but I've grown to like my precise sharp rendered lines

I also like my cel-shaded style, because it's easy to repeat over and over again yet still has room to experiment with different things like painting and filters. it is also very anime :3333

how long do you usually take on a piece

concept + composition: 30-60 min rough draft: 30-60 min underdrawing: 60-120 min inking 120-360 min coloring 30-60 min shading and highlighting: 60-120 min correction and details: 60 min

soooo roughly 6 to 15 hours? depending on how complex the piece, of course. comics will usually take 2-3 weeks with breaks.

based on file creation times, sleepy linhardt took 12 hours to make from start to finish + breaks.

what inspires you

usually existing media LOL - such as films, games, anime, music, other people's art. I just take ideas from other people's stuff and mash them together. That's why you see stuff from me like DnD+FE3H crossovers.

I'm also inspired by stuff that's missing from my favourite media! Like the supports that never existed from FE3H! Felix & Marianne, Sylvain & Petra, Dorothea & Leonie, etc. I love filling in the gaps left by the official writers :333

Thank you for playing!!

[cherryredstars]

so I seen your 1k prompt and I wanted to give you this Great idea for your artist Au ? I think but if I’m worng sorry 😞 and I wanted this to be COMPLETELY FLUFF 😭🙏 soooo I couldn’t decide between Miguel to ghost and so I had to chose Miguel (I’m sorry 😞 Miguel is just the black cat while ghost is a black panther) can this be fm or afab reader ? Idk this is just fluff so GN then ?

so like Miguel x artist!GNreader 🫶

and I feel in this one Miguel would come home to see it slightly a mess but to see you sleeping whit your art materials as the canvas is blank and which Miguel is confused usually you be half done with a pic while he out doing his spider man job.

Which can range to 3 week or a month. (But of course you guys called) But Miguel doesn’t worried about it as much as he carry you to your and his bed (after you guys took a shower obviously you didn’t because your were too tired ) and as you guys cuddle together as you ask Miguel if he can help you with something and miguel said yes.. and god how he wished he didn’t ( as a joke. 🥹) and since he’s here it help you ask him if he can pose for the canvas. For a next pic of your collection. And it been like passed 30 min of the first sketch and it going well despite Miguel obviously being tried and annoyed and confused of why he need to stay in this pose in such a long time (reader is just tease him because reader could take a pic of Miguel but doesn’t 😞💓) in which reader she softly laugh at his compliment and thought it was cute and told him that “art take time and it take a lot of time…and I’m almost done with the frist sketch ! Which IS THE ROUGH sketch!” which made Miguel grunted as he repositioned himself again as reader just giggle at how Miguel handled pose. It was sweet of him.

SO IT BEEN A WHILE and after a while 🤭 of tease and Miguel begging for you to show him the finished product of the art pic that took you like 3week of rendering and rendering tiny detail and some More. You show Miguel the art pic and it him staring at snow (since it almost Christmas 😌) while the lighting is hitting his head and his eyes pop and the way that Miguel did a stupid pose and it wasn’t even used (lol reader decided to use Pinterest ☠️) In the art pic kinda pissed him off but not so long obviously when he stare at a beautiful art i that reader made of himself! While snow is falling!

hope you love this AND IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THIS AS GHOST PLS DO 😌😊! but of course his way! (I had to use my artistic brain for this and because Ik art and if I wanted to I could hav e wrote how a true artist room loook like. IT MESSIng but the messing it is the creative the person get 🥹🫶🧐 I think) have a great day cherry!

[radigalde]

Okay, so, I started BG3. But this post is not about spoilers. It's about how it looks.

You see, I preordered it when it first became available, and participated in Early Access for most of its duration (except for two last patches). As you may know, during the development Larian abruptly changed the system requirements. And while my laptop with old GTX1050 was sitting comfortably enough in the middle of the old requirements, it's barely able to crawl under the minimum of the new version.

So, while the game was running smoothly with the medium graphic settings at the start of EA, by druids patch I couldn't even get to the first settlement because of the freezes, textures lagging in and out of their blurry existence, T-posing, etc. It was pretty bad.

Reportedly, the final game should have been optimized a bit better, so I decided to give it a shot and see how it looks like on the same laptop almost 3 years since the first download.

Yeah, I know that the cloud gaming exist. It costs money and needs a speedy internet connection.

And the game greeted me with this.

(Changed everything from medium to low except for the texture quality - it's still on medium. Had to say goodbye to the distance blur as well)

Compare it to this from 2020 (screen from another person with approximately same old settings, my screenshots of the old character creation room didn't survive):

Or this (mine 2020 screenshot outside of the character creation):

Same laptop, same graphic card, 3 years of development in-between.

Which is especially gutting, because the hair quality was really good during the first EA patches even on the lower graphic settings and older machines. But at some point the developers decided to change it, turning it into greasy looking pixelated something.

Larian, why :(

Some hairstyles managed to lag through into something decent.

Others did not.

The hair's reaction to lightning in this room/location is atrocious btw.

Even when the textures are fully uploaded.

It's a LED wig, I got it.

Comparison of the first model appearance vs after the textures loaded in is quite funny, though.

It jumped to the left version each time I moved the camera in/out even a tiny bit, loading the textures from the right anew. Each. Time. The same happened during the last patches of EA, except that back then the loading could take a few minutes. Now it's either ~15 sec or not loading at all here.

Tbh, after seeing all of that in the dressing room, I dreaded of what would I see during the main game.

But it's surprisingly better. Almost no jarring rounded pixelation, and no jumping between abyssmal low and normal version of textures.

The reaction to light still sucks sometimes. The hair pick too much from the light sources that are barely visible otherwise and don't light up anything else to the same degree.

As for the optimization: yes, it indeed became better. Still not the first EA release quality for me, sadly, but by far better than the latest EA patches. Textures are way more steady now: they still take a few seconds to load in during the big cutscenes, but it's like nothing compared to the previous mess. During the regular exploration gameplay character (and most of environmental) textures are always steady. I even managed to watch the full crashing cutscene as a, well, cutscene instead of three half-loaded frames that took 20 min to render. And I was running freely on the beach despite the falling ash and everything that almost killed my frames back then.

Also, it still doesn't heat up my laptop all that much, which is a pleasant surprise.

Well, stay tuned for more cursed images, I guess.

Isekai-d into a mobile game.

Oh, and Lae'zel is a fiery redhead on her character portrait for some reason, and other characters' hair is displayed like brighness/contrast +100. I think, something is deeply wrong with the dressing room specifically after all.

[naya1770]

HI IM IN LOVE WITH UR ART I WOULD DEFINITELY GET ON ONE KNEE WITH AN ENGAGEMENT RING AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK HOW LONG YOUR AVERAGE PIECE TAKES THANK YOU BYE NO PRESSURE

HELLOKFSAAFA{KGV I'm really flattered. Thank you for your kind comment anon!!! 😭😭😭😭

Usually, i'm actually quite a quick drawer. i would finish some sketch less than hour abt 30-40 min, i think? and sometimes rendering my piece roughly only took me like 4-6 hours to finish. And if the piece is full rendering with background i would finish it abt 3 days or a week. but yeah, it also up to my mood and how motivated i am to finish the piece lol

(I never set the timer for myself when i'm drawing. so idk... but i feel like that :/

[w21009869-mi6015]

The Glowing effect.

I tried to figure my lighting again. As put all my lamps in and every single one being a mesh light for each bulb. It was taking way too long to render.

I just cant have so many light sources, like what i had before. Especially mesh one because of the length it was taking.

Here i am attempting a Glow method.

I thought by having one single bulb in the middle emitting the light, of the lamp, then have the surrounding bulb glow, should ring down my render time by a lot.

So i went to a separate project file, and imported my lamp in there to test it out. I took off the mesh light for the surrounding bulbs and went to Ai standard surface and added this to them instead.

Through Emission, i increased the weight and set my desired colour.

With the strength increased with the radius, it looks pretty cool.

Testing Ai Atmosphere Volume

So along with the lens effects for the strength and radius of the shine, the atmosphere has helped increase this.

The separate bulbs now look as if the the in between is the one alight, which gives off a good light effect with the contrast surrounding the bulbs themselves.

Now in the scene, with 12 seconds render time.

With added ai atmosphere, now going to adjust settings, and screenshot as i go along.

14 seconds so far

With a darker colour bulb

I think it fits with the room colour better, as it's not so bright/white.

Mesh light and colour settings. H: 261.02 S:0.897

current colour for bulb. H: 256.15 S:0.949

Row filled in. Current render time 51 seconds.

2 mins for 2 rows

3 mins 28 secs for 3 rows

with a bed in the room.

Current Ai Lens Effects settings for Large lamps

I need to adjust or switch effects for different lamps. These settings don't work for all.

[ren-cerati]

Tweaks out ahsydurgjwkf thwnk you so much

Anyway my art process is uh... questionable. Apparently???

So I draw on my outdated Samsung tablet from approx. 57130 years ago. I have styluses but I prefer finger. Yes, I use ibispaint, free version (I've tried other apps but I'm most used to ibis)

My lineart is my sketch, and I usually work with one to maybe 3 or 4 (kinda pushing it tbh) layers. (For some reason this scares people?? I have a buddy who's reached 100 layers which like. THATS scary.)

Sometimes I just dart in with colors on the same layer as my lineart (which is what i did in this drawing)

I usually have my sketch turned lineart on one layer, then flat colors and shading on another. Those are usually merged and I draw additional details on another layer. I also merge all my layers once I'm done, so maybe it's more accurate to say i work through about 8-10 layers all made in different time frames, but i never work with more than three all at once.

This probably isn't too relevant but I usually take about 2-3 hours on a piece? The one above took 3 hours 47 mins (surprisingly, I thought it would take longer)

The longest things I've worked on push like. 6-8 hours.

I also have no idea how to render! I'd recommend using the same colors with offset tones and also textured brushes. Textured brushes are so yummy.

Also, focus on the big picture before getting to all the details. Get the base product, and then add from there.

If you'd like, I could try and post my speed paints on here to give you a better idea :3 I'll also figure out what brushes I generally use later and post them <3

Alright we are finished and rendered!!!

@astro-nomaly

Eyeliner on fleek competition and this is my opponent...chat am i cooked???

2 versions since i couldn't decide which colors I liked more lol (This piece has been eating me inside and it looks bad to me but hopefully I've just been staring at it for way too long)

Anyway Conduit Lloyd!! Hope he gets crunched in the trash compactor I love him <3

[foulserpent]

it may seem like i am pumping out content nonstop (and i AM drawing a ton these days bc i guess its how i deal with the stress of school work and job? by spending most of my free time at home drawing?) but i actually am just incredibly fast at drawing and also deeply un self conscious about the quality of sketches (usually) so i am just out here posting

[mypimpademia]

OOH okay okay can u write a drabble or headcanon set (whichever u like!!) of gojo being just. DISGUSTINGLY affectionate, like so fluffy and dramatic and sweet i could get cavities? thank you!! <3

— Infinity & Beyond

Gojo x gn!reader

TW: a singular swear word

Notes: kinda hcs? Technically just a bunch of little soft blurbs on things the gojo does. Admittedly, I haven't watched jjk or written for it in a FAT min and I kinda tried something new w this? but I hope you enjoy boo😭🤞🏾💖

Gojos really just a lovesick dork in this whole thing

⇶ Gojo Satoru was an absolute anomaly.

⇶ Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer in the world, who constantly found himself brought to his knees by you

⇶ Gojo Satoru who's heart nearly stopped when he met you

⇶ Gojo Satoru, the flirt, who never even thought to look in another person's direction after meeting you

⇶ Gojo Satoru, who was always blabbering about something, but was rendered speechless in your presence

⇶ Gojo Satoru who stammered and blushed, when he finally brought himself to ask you on a date

⇶ Gojo Satoru who brought you a bouquet of your favorite flowers (he asked around), and presented them to you in a stupid French accent

⇶ Gojo Satoru who took you to a fancy restaurant, and managed keep a poker face the entire night, despite his racing heart

⇶ Gojo Satoru, who had the waiter bring out a random heart shaped dessert as a surprise, and gave himself a silent pat on the back when you asked how he knew it was your favorite

⇶ Gojo Satoru who practically melted when you took that first bite and smiled and hummed in satisfaction

⇶ Gojo Satoru, who's poker face absolutely shattered, when you offered a piece of the dessert on your fork/spoon to him, already holding it out to him

⇶ Gojo Satoru, who happily took the bite, only to think:

"Ya know... We basically just kissed."

⇶ Gojo Satoru, who turned beet red when you laughed and playfully called him a dork, because he didn't just say it in his head

⇶ Gojo Satoru who finally got that kiss he felt like he'd been dreaming of forever, and was floating all the way into the next day

⇶ Gojo Satoru who's heart nearly leapt from his chest after he eventually worked up the courage to ask you to be his s/o. And you said yes.

⇶ Gojo Satoru who would literally not let go of you once he had you

⇶ Gojo Satoru who comes up to you at any given moment, wrapping around you, and hands settling just under your bellybutton before locking together

⇶ Gojo Satoru who, despite being over 6 ft tall, is often the little spoon. Often being found wrapped in your arms in a sweethearts cradle, snoring softly

⇶ Gojo Satoru who will not let go of you in the mornings, and swears he'll die if you leave him

"Satoru..." You groaned.

"Hmm?" The man who had his arms firmly locked around you hummed.

"Can you please let me go? I have to pee so badly." You fake pleaded.

Satoru has had you in his grip for nearly an hour now, and scrawny as the man may seem, damn was he strong.

"Noooo." He whined, burying his face into your neck.

"Toru, baby, 'm gonna be late for work." You told him, once again trying to break free of his grasp. To no avail, of course, especially not when his pale arms wrapped around you even tighter.

"Nooo, please don't leave me, Y/n. I'm not even working today, so why should you? Who's gonna cuddle with me? Who am I gonna bother?" Satoru wailed, in an almost childlike manner before peppering kisses all over your face.

At this point? You both knew he wasn't going to give up, especially not now. And as irritating as he could be at (most) times, you just couldn't say no to him.

"Okay, fine. I'll call in sick." You relented.

Satoru whispered a victorious 'yes' to himself, then pressed his lips to yours, making a dramatic smooching affect.

You both chuckled as he pulled back, and you swiped a thumb over his now reddening lips.

"But really, can I go pee? I actually kinda have to go." You told him.

Watching his face morph into the expression of that of a sad puppy, you knew exactly what was coming next.

"... Can I come?"

⇶ Gojo Satoru who absolutely insists on kissing every inch of you, everyday

⇶ Gojo Satoru who kisses you till both your lips are sensitive and near bruised

⇶ Gojo Satoru who suggested doing movies nights with you every Friday

⇶ Gojo Satoru who spends his Friday nights, laying between your thighs, his head on your chest and both of you wrapped in a soft blanket

⇶ Gojo Satoru who let's the first 'I love you' of your relationship slip over a dumb joke he laughed at harder than he should have

Your boyfriend was currently doubled over laughing on the ground, back hunched and holding his stomach as he wheezed.

Just moments before, the two of you were cuddled up watching Toy Story. You were about half way through the movie, making jokes as always. Until you made a stupid joke about Buzz that Satoru found all too funny.

Admittedly, you were laughing right with him. But not because it was that funny, but because his laugh was so ugly.

It was somewhere between a wheeze and and the sound a zipper makes when you run a pencil across it, mixed with gasps of air in between.

You both had tears in your eyes as you began to finally calm down, catching your breath in gulps.

"Ahh, God that was too funny. This is exactly why I love you." Satoru sighed.

You both sat in silence, taking in what he had just said before you both glanced at each other, eyes blown wide.

Satoru's face was flushed pink. He didn't regret saying it, because it was true. But confident as he normally was, he wasn't sure if that was something you were ready for yet.

"Wait- I'm sorry– I didn't mean to say th—"

Before he could get another word out, you bent over and sealed his lips with yours.

"I love you too." You told him.

Satoru's face relaxed, before shaping itself into a dorky smile.

"To infinity and beyond?" He asked you, conveniently uttering it at the same time Buzz did in the movie.

You both laughed at, before giving each other one more kiss.

"To infinity and beyond, Gojo Satoru."

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