#local businesses are so cool

[magurosnacks]

went to my city's creative reuse store for the first time today heres my haul :33333

the markers were $2 each which is like the cheapest ive ever seen for alcohol markers (3 for $6 is like actually insane. theres another local art supply store like a mile away from this place that has individual copics for $7 and their prismacolors are even MORE expensive. i really lucked out holy shit)

the scissors and the pencil and the felt (to make a kuro plush :3) were all 50 cents each i think

the thumbtacks were 25 cents !! what a fuckin steal!!!!!!

got a frame for 50 cents (which i cant show because it currently has a surprise bday gift for my friend in it)

and the stickers were a dollar each

quite a steal. if u have a local creative reuse store (or just like any small local art supply store tbh) make sure u support them bc they are rad little places !

the one in my city is a really cool nonprofit that keeps track of how much stuff they keep out of landfills and they have stuff for like pretty much all art hobbies not just drawing !! they had a lot of ceramic tools and sewing/knitting/other fiber arts stuff + some nifty photography doodads and even like. doll making stuff. it was a cool place

[adastra121]

“When working with dangerous elements, it is best to keep a safe distance.”

Template by @danger-bird. I included his full design below:

Other MCs' Character Lore:

Mourning Mist (Luneth the Reluctant Unnamed)

Thick as Thieves (Alon the Stray Hound)

[8cfc00]

looking at the undergraduate programmes available at my local universities and its just. degree i'm not interested in. degree i'm not interested in. degree i'm not interested in. degree i'm not interested in. degree i'm not interested in. degree that sounds interesting but probably not even useful in this country. degree i'm not interested in.

[luna-loveboop]

*shuffles into inbox* Um. So I saw you bemoaning the fact that people don't write detailed posts about what Dark World forms the rest of the boys would have, and I wanted to let you know that I kind of just wrote one? After a fashion? Thought you might want to check it out. (Insert the dots and get rid of the space, gomen for the formatting, tumblr wouldn't let me send this otherwise)

https:// www(DOT)tumblr(DOT)com/x-i-l-verify/762966857258041344/linked-universe-daemon-au-headcanons

Anywaysssss, have a good day, thanks for all your interesting analyses! *skitters*

HIIIII!!!!!

Thank you so much!!!! :DD

I actually love the amount of dark world form theories there are haha AND I LOVE YOURS TOO OMG

This is so cool!

Here's the Link >:) to the post

The first thing that stood out to me was you made Wars having a fox! I love that because normally I see Wild as a fox but Wars is a great fox. Introverted puppy.

Also Four as a bee is so perfect! I looked at the picture and was imagining the stripes of the bee beeing (hehehehe) the four colours and smiled so much.

I love Wind as a Macaw and the thought of the others trying to coddle a Macaw? Do not coddle a Macaw!! I love Macaws so much but they are not to be underestimated just like Wind hehe

Time's perfect and so are Twilight and Legend- I think the lore you've built handles somewhat knowing their forms already perfectly.

Raptor for Wild is gonna kill me it's perfect

Hyrule has a nocturnal glider? That's really cool I think :O

Sky's is obviously a bird which is great- I'm cracking up imagining him and the others freaking out about the cuccos and he's like but you don't freak out about my small bird! and they're all like but CUCCOS ARE DIFFERENT

This is so so cool I love the lore you've made with the daemons and you say you're writing a fic? Is it off this au and are you writing uhh oneshot or series?

ALSO YOU CITED YOUR SOURCES I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! I legit screamed when I saw you cited your sources is that normal?? Anyways I LOVE that you cited your sources lol

Thank you so much for sending me this!! I find it funny you ended your ask thanking me for my analysis and then I answered ranting about yours. Your thoughts are wonderful to hear and I love them thank you for sharing. It's very kind and selfless of you. And AGAIN I love all the forms you chose so much it's really genius :O

You are loved and you matter /gen

<33

[lucalicatteart]

-- Poorly Constructed Enchanted Tool --

A small tool carved from a fruit tree seed. Energy to power the enchantment has seemingly run-out long ago, and the method of recharging is unknown - but, based on the appearance, it's very likely that this was once used for detecting magic. Usually, looking through the glass center would highlight areas of higher magical energy concentration present in the viewer's environment, even if they were otherwise obscured to the naked eye. While this form of enchantment itself is highly advanced, the craftsmanship of the item is far less neat or complex than what might be typically seen in similar devices. It may have been made as part of training/practice, or as a hasty replacement for a previous tool that had broken.

[miodiodavinci]

for the people having trouble getting salvador to work in openutau: aaaa i'm so sorry my lad is giving you trouble ; ; this seems to be a running theme with my libraries kjshljdhlfgjk

there's a couple suggestions in the notes of the original ask which might help, but for the time being i unfortunately do not have the willpower to do much in the way of troubleshooting

i swear once i get around to updating the website and releasing his quality of life update i'll put some actual work into testing him across different platforms ksjfghkdhfgj

until then

[conm1go]

can't wait to not work for a company... let me be free....

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I love you local small business owners and artisans

[mantisgodsart]

(via @cordycepsbian)

We can answer this actually we love talking about Cool Art Stuff.

Despite what one may assume, sharp edges in watercolor is actually quite easy! Come, sit, allow us to share our secrets. It's like 50% "materials" and 50% "we spent a long-ass time figuring out how to do sharp edges in watercolor and now we're really good at figuring out the exact combos of consistency and brush stroke required to make those really hard edges"

The first trick is, of course, to not try and do it at the beginning of the painting. When you're just starting to block shapes in to your watercolor, pursuing sharp edges is a fool's ordeal, and you can only really get those sharp edges in as finishing touches near the end of the work.

The second trick is to work wet-on-dry - this limits the spread of the watercolor and allows you to prevent bleeding, but you have to make sure your painting is COMPLETELY dry before painting, or you'll risk having some ill-defined lines and bleeding.

The third trick is to work with... cake watercolors? There's a tern for it, we just can't remember it - dry pan watercolors, where you have to wet the paint to "activate" it, offer you a LOT more control over the consistency of your paint, and using a relatively thick paint will allow you some REALLY sharp lines! Fair warning, your mileage may vary based on the specific paints you use just because pigment is Expensive and cheaper brands of watercolor will almost definitely be, like, cutting out as much pigment as they can manage in order to cut corners, and the sharp edges will be less obvious the more transparent they are.

As a general rule of thumb when you pay for Fancy watercolor you're paying for the insane amount of pigment that they put in their Fancy Stuff and that lends itself a lot more to Sharp Lines (plus one thing of it will last Fucking Forever). The black we use Specifically is an Artisanal Fancy Brand that we don't remember the name of and we've been using the same ~$10 thing for more than a year without even using up half of it, but honestly the actual paints you use are the Least important part of doing watercolor, you can do like the exact same thing with dollar store paints it'll just be a bit less pigmented.

The fourth trick is to just, like, practice a TON. You WILL have to spend time getting it right. It will take a Long-Ass Time. You will have So Much Trouble. Unfortunately this step cannot be avoided but we can still warn you that you'll be trying to make really sharp lines for like an hour and it still won't quite work.

The last trick is to uhh

[autisticlee]

how to make business plans: spend 2 weeks looking for a website to make a visual plan guide that you can collaborate with business partners, but you end up nowhere because all of them require paid subscriptions to do more than a few basic things. except you don't want to pay for these because you don't have a business yet and therefore no money!!!! but you need more than basic features (basically you can only put 50-100 items on your board with free account and i will definitely need more)

[milkweedman]

I've rapidly become obsessed with that belt, I Need to make a recreation...

[playing-with-dax]

The next two weeks are going to be extremely busy for me and I don't have time to make much 🥲 so here's a look at what my sketchbook looks like!

Plus a lil sneak peek of the new character that's rattling around in my brain 😊

Most of the time I'll make a messy sketch on paper to get the general poses down, and then refine it digitally. So my paper sketchbook is full of scribbles that only I can decipher lol

[vvitchynerd]

Was on a charity-craft fair today, bought neat earrings

[strxnged]

plans for valentine's day: social psyc midterm. interview for a job i don't plan to take. KISS BOYFRIEND. globalizations lecture. OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH BOYFRIEND. drink coffee too late at night. GIVE BOYFRIEND VALENTINE'S GIFT

[broniceprimordialpouch]

Secret in the tags 👀

[welcometogrouchland]

Gripped with the urge to do intense backyard DIY I've never done before (I have not done ANY backyard DIY before) at...checks watch....1 am