#personalized brushes
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
This is the Buddy for May first. It's May Day, so Buddy's wearing his finest summer suit, and the blackwood trees are blooming with red, bloodlike flowers.
A couple of personalized brushes were used for the background - the red spots are classic Kirby dots, the ones I use a lot for drawing smoke, energy, hair sometimes... The trunks of the trees themselves were made with a roller-type brush I mde on FireAlpaca. I kind of wanted to make them look more organic with a few white notches, but they ended up looking rather same-y, so I don't think I'll keep using that brush.
Not that it matters since I lost that particular brush last time I wiped the computer. I can always make it again, but there's no point.
I like a story where the bad guy's wearing white, though. I don't really know why, it's just a fun design choice.
You know, even though Taxi Driver is the best movie of all time, it's created a blueprint for other, worse movies, where the main character is supposed to be a conflicted villain, or someone who becomes villainous due to the circunstances around them, but the audiences sees them as a realistic anti-establishment hero.
Sure, that's happened with movies before it, like The Third Man, but that's a more adult movie, it's a different context, and in many ways that was the implicit point of the movie. That's kind of what makes it the best movie of all time.
But it feels like Taxi Driver paved the way for a throng of movies that are just wish-fulfilment fantasies of reactionary violence, with the creators insisting that the idealized hero isn't supposed to be idolized and that the fans just "missed the point".
But, seriously, if the fans are missing the point like that, doesn't that mean the moviemaker is just incompetent? Or, you know, maybe they should stop making those movies, since it's obvious the fans will "miss the point" again? Considering how much money these movies bring in, that's not too likely.
The worst movie of all time is one of those, and despite the "misinterpretation" of the story by the fans, there was even talk of a sequel that would once again be "misinterpreted", not that it affects the director's profit margins.
On the opposite side of the spectrum is a movie like Midsommar. It's pretty cool, and some critics (morons, mostly) say that the movie's being misinterpreted as being about a radical feminist heroine. That hasn't really been happening, but it's an attempt of going "well your side's doing it too" when defending against criticism of the crap they love.
Although I'm not sure if Midsommar is a movie I should be discussing today. Does it take place during May Day? I know there's a may queen coronation ceremony, but I'm not sure the midnight sun thing happens during May.
Well, I'm far from an expert on the subject. Nevertheless, it's still the best movie of all time.
#ab4es#drawing#may day#summer#international workers day#trees#firealpaca#white suit#personalized brushes#Taxi Driver#Martin Scorsese#The Third Man#Carol Reed#Midsommar#Ari Aster
3 notes
·
View notes
Text

. moon kitty (2021)
#my art#older art#illustration#artists on tumblr#fantasy animals#digital illustration#digital painting#from memory I was experimenting with a brush technique to make everything FLOOFY 😆 af#cat art#this one is still a personal favorite
11K notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm just a toy to you my love...
I saw someone comparing ford and fiddleford's relationship to ford and bill's relationship and I haven't been the same since
#them being blinded by the goal to miss the person who's looking up to them#billford#fiddleauthor#also I haven't used random brushes to spice up the texture in a while!#I tried to keep the artstyle similar to the show so it helps it look less flat haha#gravity falls#ford gravity falls#ford pines#bill cipher#fiddleford mcgucket#weirdmageddon#gravityfalls fanart#gf fanart#my art
5K notes
·
View notes
Text
mombin pt 9!! it's been too long i'm sorry
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)
#stobin#stranger things#mombin#steve harrington#robin buckley#this is a panic attack i could see myself having no matter how badly i wanted kids#shit's terrifying#also i need to stop trying different brushes i hate it literally every time#also i'm in the 'fic writers stop demonising nancy' club#i Eat it when relationships end badly but let it be NOBODY'S fault#like think of the WORST breakup you had as a teenager. as a former 15 year old you're just so stupid and that's ok#sometimes 'i love you but we're absolutely not supposed to keep doing this' is MORE painful than one person being a raging bitch
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
He has arriiiived. I think i got almost everyones suggestions.... oh and wretched is there too
#i got these done in one sitting 💪#my 4 day headache eased off too so i got to listen to my favorite screamy music while drawing him#i also added my own personal hcs from how i usually draw canon jax too#top scarssss#and a tail#this new brush for the linework is a godsend i love it#tried my best to render using only black and white to stick with the whole old cartoon look. was a challenge but fun#his whole aesthetic is very batim /pos#wretched jax makes an appearance because i havent drawn him in a while and i think theyd (kinda) get along#more like cause mass destruction together but hey#thats fun right /j#my art#tadc#the amazing digital circus#carnival jax#the amazing digital carnival#the wretched digital circus au#jax#tadc jax#wretched!jax#tadc horror au#for you#fyp
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
realizing how much i like drawing him a million years too late :<
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#yuta okkotsu#okkotsu yuuta#yuuta#fanart#jjk fanart#i amn so sleepy today GJHKGJDS just felt like doing a bit of a return 2 form with red/white/grey colour palettes... smth easy#i will get back to being Actually productive now that i hav purged th yuuta brainworms fr the time being#rly tho it is criminal that i am only Now realizing how fun his design is given th state of canon.......#i want to draw him more! but ... the gojo suit.....#i think that whenever i draw yuuta it will b original flavour. i do not particularly want 2 draw limited edition gojo yuuta#also will i shut up abt these brushes yet the answer is no smile :)#the little Rake-y one is my LOVE when i was swatching them i honestly didnt think i would like it#but shes got so much personality!!!!!!#need to fill space? pastel rake. shadows not blending and look muddy? pastel rake#s tier brush in this Already stacked set
2K notes
·
View notes
Text





Soft spot
#simon blackquill#sebastian debeste#miles edgeworth#ace attorney#my HC is that edgeworth got simon special dispensation to prosecute in Dual destinies so after his badge is in limbo#also i dont want to paint smokng w too broad a brush. but i think simon started assuming he wouldnt live to see long-term effects.#surviving means he actually has to live with the consequences of his actions and the person he's become#my art
3K notes
·
View notes
Text

Snack for the road
#the cheese was the best addition to totk#i realized i haven't drawn ANY totk fan art#so I had to do smth quick#ive been playing around with FULL OPACITY NO PEN PRSSURE HARD ROUND BRUSH#its pretty nice#but i haven't drawn anything this summe#GUH#no energy#tloz#the legend of zelda#loz#tears of the kingdom#totk#wilimia art#my personal favs
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
painting practice
#art#digital art#furry#anthro#artists on tumblr#digital painting#furry art#digital artist#ljesak#ljesakart#personal#ocs#laurie#repost i noticed a rogue brush stroke in the bg....
617 notes
·
View notes
Text

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...
the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin
this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.
you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.
also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.
⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!
⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app
#the economy and my bank account are in shambles and i ended up stress drawing this whole thing in one go#its so many lines. the next time i draw this. because i will be revisiting this composition. i want to use a different inking brush#i think. but the next time i draw this it will be with solid blacks on the stair case steps i think#hey here's a fun fact for those of you who aren't catholic. did you know that kissing the ring of the pope/a cardinal/etc#grants you an indulgence. cardinals also used to kiss the pope on the mouth. also foot and hand iirc. anyway#there are no cardinals in this drawing but im saying if you write medieval/renaissance smut about men of the cloth#you can really amp up the friction between holy and seductive with a lot of the (gestures vaguely) that.#actually another fun fact about cardinals. their fun sun hat (it's called a galero) has some fucking weird as hell fever dream (literally)#origin lore. so if seductive isn't your thing. the horror of a thing that you wear is also extremely fun#esp when you get into medieval gender performances of clothes and how they define a person etc#generic medieval tag#original tag
3K notes
·
View notes
Text



joy and whimsy
#llemon art#lies of p#lies of p fanart#lies of p pinocchio#truly they cannot take the hair swept ovdr the face away from me#if it wasnt obvious i like to . experiment with art. a lot#ive mostly been drawing lies of p x promare tho SO. um#been playing with colors and brushes a lot#first one is based on the puppet prince's outfits concept art#i love this game somuch#only persisted through this bc i has a person who loves romeo yelling in my ear that it was too peak to be cast to wip hell#minor(major) spelling mistakes
280 notes
·
View notes
Text
My Grammarly subscription finally ran out in December, and I'm not renewing it (see my various past rants about their introduction of AI), but I just got my final "insights" email, which tallies up how many words you've written for the past week but also since you started using it.
I almost want to frame it as a fuck you to my "I'm not doing enough" brain worms because, since September of 2019, when I reinstalled Grammarly for a pro-editing job (required by the company, as many of them now do 🙄), I've written over twelve million words.
I primarily used Grammarly for my emails.
That's 12,834,172 words of telling people they're gonna be okay. Sharing resources, doctor information, and just general words of comfort. That MCAS isn't a death sentence. That MCAS from long-covid isn't the end of their life; it's just going to be different from now on.
And here I was, feeling guilty about setting up auto-responders with links to resources because I got too burned out to do it one-to-one anymore...
...Yeah. No. I did enough.
I did enough.
#chronic health tag#personal#sorry if you feel brushed off by the auto-responder#I truly am#but this was driving me literally insane#I was so emotionally drained
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.
And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’
#solarpunk#anti pesticides#ani rambles#this is coming from personal opinion at 4am keep that in mind but like#I’m scared of roaches. i’m fine with them outside though#my parents dont like roaches and for good reason. they spray Ortho Home Defense along the veeery edge of the concrete by the doors to#keep roaches and shit from coming in because yknow. Florida.#if I tell them ‘hey actually we shouldn’t spray pesticides inside (ie raid spray) or outside (ie home defense)#theyre gonna ask wtf to do instead to prevent roaches#and if I tell them ‘nothing suck it up buttercup’ they’re gonna laugh and then double down on the sprays#we gotta have an alternative ready and honestly maybe I’m not looking in the right places but I genuinely don’t know of any#like one online friend told me leaving brush piles around the yard decreased the amount of bugs trying to come in but like#thats one person. anecdotal. and I haven’t seen anything online confirming that as a thing (yet)#idk man I’m going to bed.#might delete later#house pest saga
6K notes
·
View notes
Text




the MC is so proud of his dog
best game
#persona 3 reload#persona 3#p3 reload#persona#this game has its moments but like#this is really cute and wholesome#I(he) genuinely loves the dog so much and he just goes out of his way to pet him or brush him and he shows that off alot#that's an inevitable part of his personality there isn't any other option to feel otherwise#(I agree with him so he's so relatable on this regard btw
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
theyre soft your honour
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#okkotsu yuuta#inumaki toge#inuokko#inumaki#yuuta#fanart#jjk fanart#timelapse#long time no canon fits !!!#still having the time of my life playing with these brushes#i was just gna do a regular draws to slap on the ask i just got but i decided 2 record it last minute fgdgd#didnt know if an mp4 file would cooperate if i tried to put it under an ask so i played it safe#but know this is fr u anon <3#i ..... cannot believe i am continuing my streak from last night of Forgetting very key and very obvious design elements#last night it was yuuij's sukuna scars.... today it is inumaki's tattoos.......#smh im Slipping fr#breaking news tumblr user hinamie fake jjk fan And fake fanartist :C#its ok tho ! crisis averted!! me forgetting them may be caught in 4k but i Did catch myself before posting th video#that would have been tragic i would have been chased out of this fandom with pitchforks. i wld have been pelted with rocks#anyway i like this piece a lot i like them i like the black/white/blue#VERY happy i got yuuta's hair right without too much hassel#turns out i know how to draw and references r a godsend <3#oh also !!! @ the person who asked about my colouring process this is what i was talking abt re: painting with an underpaint layer#helps everything look cohesive :3
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
this small exchange manages to both convey the characters' personalities to a T and act as a microcosm of the crushing setting of the story
sometimes, writing is good
#the coffin of andy and leyley#tcoaal#tcoaal spoilers#ashley graves#renee graves#i can't wait to be done with this episode to look up analyses because whew i missed how densely packed this game is#there is a *lot* i could comment on (like that whole flashback of andy being parentified to a horrifying degree)#(jesus renee you really are willing to manipulate your young son into doing the job for you)#but this part made me choke lol#there is *so* much to say about the fact that leyley bragged to her mom about killing a girl as attention seeking behavior#and got legit sad when she got brushed off#she may be a hellion but she is also so profoundly desperate to be acknowledged as a person
275 notes
·
View notes