#it took like 3 mins to render

[simguin]

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

[kcalsforhim]

𓏲.ೃ࿔❀˙˖ ｡ monday 6 jan 2025

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i took 0 cool pictures so these again i guess ! but swapped so the thumbnail is different idfk

i woke up feeling alright at like 12 pm… got up and cleaned my room entirely.. clean desk, clean vanity thing, put clothes in laundry, put clean clothes away, clean bed, arrange cute decorations in my room… good cleaning !

then i went on my walking pad for maybe 30 mins

then mom got home and i don’t know we talked for a bit and i got ready to go outside. i put on sweatpants and my jacket and called it a day. which is likely what all of my outfits will be cause i wont have the energy for more eheh…

i first went to the big shopping centre where i bought protein bars and diet coca colaaa and 1 cucumber. when i went out of the store i got harassed by a salesman for like 5 mins before i ran away cause i got scared lollllll

then i went to the drugstore and .. took ;; some makeup. one eyeliner 3 concealers 2 mascaras and 1 eyeshadow compact <3

then i went to a different store to get coconut coca cola

then i walked homeeee zoned out and tired but oh well. walked to my friends house to pick up some money she owed me but girlie wasn’t home so i just went to my house. when i got home i was a bit cranky but its fine guys… i grabbed some cucumbers and mac and cheese my mom made and went upstairs

i didn’t eat the mac and cheese, because i don’t want to eat more food than i need and get super fat and obese

omad ;

pocket protein raspberry cheesecake flavour ; 55g — 200 cal — cucumbers ; 140g — 20 cal

total ; 220 cal

aren’t these pics so mealspo ? i love these LOLLLL here’s a look at the bar itself, it has a sort of white chocolatey outside ? maybe yogurty ? it had this thin unnoticeable layer of jam and the texture was quite nice and usual ! my cucumbers were nice and crispy

2 x coca cola light ; 250ml — 1 cal

1 x coca cola oreo ; 250ml — 1 cal

1 x jumbo cola coconut 250ml - 1 cal

total ; 3 cal

these soda cans were like, throughout the night, but i can’t remember in which order i had them guys LMAO u can tell by the difference in lighting

after eating it i felt pretty good. i didn’t necessarily want more and i didn’t feel super full which was nice. i watched like 2 entire youtube vids before i finished my food !! i was watching with eli and i love watching the faces she makes since we the past week have been listening to true crime or other stuff like that

then i went downstairs to get my hair dyed… its kinda blue now.. so cool ! my favourite shade… lowkey considering just dyeing my hair every month cause i always let it get grimy and brown… when dying my hair my mom said it looked awefully thin.. aha…

then i washed it all nice and intense and i got myself ready for bed. i drew till 10 pm exactly then took 5 sleeping pills, took a while for them to kick in, i was rendering water by hand. then around midnight i was out cold. a nice day !!!!

i like listening to slavic songs when it’s very cold out <3

𓏲.ೃ࿔❀˙˖ ｡ stats for today

total cals : 223

steps : 14.9 k

streak : 1 day binge free

today was a gooood day stats wise, and i know it’ll stay good like that for a while. physically i know it’ll hurt, but staying in this gross disgusting body is worse <3

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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!

[ayoharuko]

Genshin boy's Scenario's

(When you wear a wedding dress pt:4)

Hello and welcome to part 4! Took quite a while to complete this but I hope you all love it :3

REMINDER: The characters here doesn't belong to me, they belong to Mihoyo and the pictures here belongs to their respective owners as well, lastly. This is all fictional so please try not to take these too seriously :)

Also before we start, the reader here is female(She/Her) and if you guys don’t like the wedding dresses I've picked out. Your all free to decide/imagine what type of wedding you would want to wear! Enjoy!

~Zhongli~

‘’Love...are you sure that you would like to buy a...traditional Liyue wedding dress?’’ Your soon to be husband asked you as you were looking through a huge selection of traditional Liyue wedding dresses.

‘’Yes Li, I'm sure.’’ You said without hesitation.

Now this all started when Ningguang told you how Liyue weddings work, and you wanted to respect Liyue’s culture as you were gonna get married to its former archon.

However, when you told Zhongli about this. He reassured you that its okay for your wedding to not be like other Liyue weddings.

But you were stubborn and dragged him to an Liyue Bridal Shop. Thus, what brought you and Zhongli looking through what seems like a THOUSAND wedding dresses.

‘’Love, would you mind if I brew us some tea?’’ Zhongli asked you holding your hand to get your attention. You nod at him, not questioning where his gonna brew the tea.

Finally...you were able to pick out 2 dresses. A Qipao and Cheongsam, which had completely different designs.

You took them to the fitting rooms and started putting them on, with the shop owners help of course~

Meanwhile Zhongli was able to brew the tea using the shops min kitchen and went towards where he last left you with the cups in hand.

But you weren't there, and the shop owner as well wasn’t present, he looked towards the fitting rooms and saw that a sign was flipped that had written a ‘’Do not disturb’’ note so he got the hint that you had already picked out a dress to try on.

So being the good fiancé he is, he placed the tea cups at the coffee table and sat on a chair sipping his own tea, waiting for you peacefully.

Meanwhile, you were having a hard time choosing which dress you would like to wear on your wedding day...it was either the Qipao or Cheongsam...

''May I put in some advice?'' You hear the shop owner ask beside you, ''Sure! I really need it ahaha...'' You say with a chuckle.

She smiled and said, ''Choose the one that calls to your heart more'' She finished with a smile.

Choose the one that calls your heart huh?

''Okay...I choose...'' You look to the 2 dresses and pointing to the one your heart wants, and it was the Qipao!

The owner smiled and asked you if you wanted to try on the dress again to show it to your lover, which you agreed to.

Zhongli heard the door to the fitting rooms open and the shop owner was exiting it with a smile on her face moving to the side as you walk through with the beautiful red and gold Qipao on you....

Zhongli was rendered speechless at the view.....

He felt like that the tea he drank was stuck in his throat that he couldn't form words.

You were absolutely a breathtaking sight to behold....

''My love....your heavenly....more than any other goddess I've seen'' He said walking to you holding your hands onto his while you were just too stunned and flustered to speak.

''Oh my~, excuse me I'll leave you lovebirds be ohohoh~'' The shop owner giggled and left you both behind, ''D-Do you...like it?'' You ask still flustered, ''Its beautiful'' Your lover answers while kissing your forehead.

''Then its settled...we're getting this one!'' You say overjoyed, Zhongli smiles as you go change back to your old outfit.

Oh how Zhongli thanks Celestia for sending you to him....

His beautiful mate~

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~Alhaitham~

''Look, Alhaitham will love what dress you pick. Regardless it being accustomed to Sumeru culture'' Your best friend and man of honor. Kaveh said, ''I know...but...I still have my doubts...'' You say looking through a rack of wedding dresses.

You and Kaveh were in a Bridal Shop looking for a suitable traditional Sumeru wedding dress, Alhaitham wasn't able to go with you as he was busy being the acting grand sage.

''You know...I really don't know what you saw in Alhaitham...heck! I don't even know how you lasted with such an insufferable person like him!'' The blond said moving a rack full of dresses aside.

You giggle and side-eyed him with mischief, ''Thats how love works I guess...and also, your just jelly that he'll get married first when your at that age to get married~'' You said with a smirk.

Kaveh gasps offended and smacked your arm and pouted, ''Alhaitham's affecting you...'' He said with a pout while you just laugh at him.

''Ya know....I don't even know what we're looking for...'' Kaveh saids looking at yo, ''Look for an pretty white Lehenga'' You told him.

''How specific'' He saids going to another rack of dresses to look while you roll your eyes and continued looking.

A couple of hours passed, you and Kaveh were staring to get tired until Kaveh found 3 Lehenga dresses that were white and pretty!

''Try them on, I wanna see!'' The blond saids eagerly as you chuckled and did a min fashion show for him.

After showcasing them to Kaveh you popped an question, ''Which one do you think suits me more?'' You ask and Kaveh pounders for a bit until he points to the second Lehenga dress grinning.

''That one!'' He saids confidently, you smiled but soon frowned...

''Do....do you think Alhaitham will love it tho?'' You say with sadness in your eyes. Kaveh frowns but suddenly got an idea.

''Y/n wear the dress'' He told you with a smile, ''Wait why?'' You question but he just shouted for you to wear it while leaving you...

What the hell is he planning?

''Finally....'' Alhaitham signed off the last of his paperwork and sighed as he got up from his desk and prepared to go to that Bridal Shop you and Kaveh were at when suddenly the doors to his office slammed open revealing a panting Kaveh.

Alhaitham had an unamused expression on as Kaveh fixes himself and walked towards Alhaitham, ''I need you to come back with me to the Bridal Shop'' He saids putting his hands on his hips.

''Did Y/n ask you to fetch me?'' The acting grand sage asks his roommate, ''Just come with me'' Kaveh saids impatiently.

Alhaitham sighs and gets his things and left with Kaveh to go to you.

Meanwhile, you were sitting on a chair waiting for Kaveh and wore the dress as he instructed.

You hear the shops doors open and you looked and your jaw had hit the floor and your skin went pale....

''Al...haitham?'' You whisper your fiancé's name as he...shocked as well stared at you...

Kaveh giggles as he left the shop quietly leaving you both alone, ''I...this.....this was the dress...I-I picked...i...I hope you like it'' You said looking away, a bright shade of red present on your face.

You hear footsteps coming towards you and felt 2 strong pair of arms wrap around you, your eyes widen in shock as you hug him back.

''Your beautiful.....'' You hear Alhaitham whisper, your eyes water at this and you hugged him tighter than before.

How did you get so lucky with this man?

Why were you even worried that he won't like how you look in a wedding dress?

Cause clearly.....

He was head over heels for you

Done!~

I hope you all enjoyed this! I wanted to try something different this part 4, especially when it came to the dresses, I hope you guys love the little change hehehehe~

Also changed the style a little, idk it just fits it more better. Maybe because I was listening to Enchanted by Taylor Swift-

Also! Requests are still open for Luxiem and Xsoleil boys btw~

Love you all! <3

Reblogs are appreciated and Feedback/Comments are always appreciated! :3

(Note: please don't copy and paste my works anywhere, and if you do see them on other platform please inform me.)

[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. 

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"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 :/

[ectopuppy]

fun fact: i fully rendered danny but not dani in that drawing because i thought it was funnier if i drew them in different art styles to hammer in the joke

i think the colouring/shading on danny took about 3 hours whereas elle took like 20 mins so my brain tricked me into doing way more work entirely for The Bit

[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.

[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