#shout out to Pinterest for having good pose reference

[chibishortdeath]

Labeling this one mature cause it’s artistic nudity, which isn’t something I usually draw but yippie! Scar and anatomy reference! :3

I have explanations of where most of these scars come from, so I’ll go through them :)

The massive one covering his whole upper back is the one Dracula gave him and the one that bares the curse. I tried to make it kinda gnarly looking, but still distinctly claw marks. There’s a couple other scratches near it from other creatures.

The ones on his arms come from a couple things. I imagine he uses his arm bracers a lot to block things and sometimes hits are still enough to leave a mark under them. The scars also come from an effect of the curse: rotting. Rot usually starts at extremities and would leave some nastiness there, probably exacerbated by moving a lot. The first three images have the legs not visible but I usually put something similar there too.

Speaking of, the very large ones on his lower legs in the fourth image are burn scars from the scene of X68000 and Chronicles where the rooms before Dracula set on fire! I guess some of it might also be from walking in the cursed swamp too.

Most of the random smaller ones are just generally from fighting monsters. Tbh I’d be more surprised if he didn’t have any scars from having axes and bones and fire and fleamen thrown at him all the time lol.

In the third image there’s a couple bite marks and yeah those are from Drac too. I’ve seen some folklore about vampires being able to drain people long distance or while not being entirely corporal and yeah that sounds like something he’d do through the curse just to make Simon’s life worse. Idk, I have the novel Dracula and I should be reading it for other ideas for stuff tbh. This one might change entirely eh who knows. Either way, I think the curse’s ultimate goal was to make him suffer and then turn him after he dies from it so I wanted to add some more implications that he’d become a vampire if he failed to break the curse.

There’s some other things of note that aren’t scars. I try to make him look a little frailer and thinner in Simon’s Quest cause well yeah the curse. I don’t think it’s noticeable here since the fourth image isn’t the Simon’s Quest design and he doesn’t look much wider whoops. I’ll have to try to keep how ripped he is more consistent in later drawings 💀. Uhh I also try to make his eyes look significantly more tired, way larger eye creases and a bit of dark. If this was a colored drawing there’d be a little red under his eyes and he’d be paler than the last image. Just details to make him look sick ig.

Yeah, these are mostly doodles just for me to look back at and make sure I’m drawing him consistently d(^^ ).

[the-insomniac-emporium]

Always An Angel

(Comments + reblogs are highly appreciated! I recommend zooming in on the different parts of this and getting a good look at the little details) After at least 18~ hours of work, it's finally finished! As usual, check under the read-more for notes on details/concept stuff. Big shout-out to both @bean-sneeze (for your fic) and @neos-schlond-poofa (for the edit which inspired the fic) for making me have feelings about Dani to the point where I needed to make art about it.

Dani's pose ref was taken from Pinterest, but for the life of me I can't find the original source. Will edit if I can grab something

The hands reaching for Dani's wing are a reference to Alcina's sculpture of Dani (seen in Alcina's route).

The 4 topmost "glimpses" represent: Cassandra, with a piece of Orion the Hunter; Donna, with a mug of tea + an unsent letter by some flowers at her shop; Bela/Miranda, with Miri's office focusing on the heart jar; and Angie, with a glimpse of that picnic where the MC makes her a flower crown

The 5 glimpses on the left side are, of course, focusing on Alcina. We've got her lips, her face, her fancy date-night hat, a bottle of her family's wine next to some flowers, and her hand reaching out, positioned like she's going to reach out of the memory and grab Dani.

The 5 glimpses on the right side are, of course, focusing on Daniela herself. We've got the pizza date (featuring the purple pizza), the MC trying to offer comfort when Dani's curse is acting up, Dani confronting Mia (that one time Mia tried to shank us), a scene at the skate park, and a glimpse of when we were texting her at Christmas.

At the top we have the MC's arm reaching out for Dani (who is reaching in return), and past that is a rose. You might not that the top of the piece is curved, intended to be like the dome that covers the cursed rose in Dani's route.

[fallstaticexit]

how do you plan out your stories?

Hi there! :) Here's what a day in the life of Tahj looks like (long post w/ dets under the cut!)

First things first, I'm going over my notes. I use google docs mostly and I have a master doc per story (right now, I have 2 active stories- COTF and Missing Moments - not the The Quinns Gameplay because I just make it up as I go). I'm always reviewing my notes because I don't want to retcon anything or there be any continuity errors. My notes are not organized at all. I'm the kind of note taker that only takes notes that makes sense to me lol

In my notes, I have a ton of things to help me plan scenes/poses etc. It helps me stay on top of cc shopping too, like just recently I was looking for childbirth scenes and if I don't find the one I'm looking for then I use my doc to make note that I may need to look into creating a pose. I also use Pinterest like it's my religion. I spend a good hour sometimes on Pinterest find inspirations, aesthetics, references as well as creating mood boards and even doing quick general research too, it's a really helpful tool IMO.

Next is Canva time! After gathering 13947574 screenshots for one update (I'm not even kidding, I take ALOT of screenshots. Shout out to my 1TB external hard drive I got for my birthday) I go into Canva to arrange my scenes, add texts and what not. I like to keep things together, so all my Missing Moments scenes are under one project folder, same for COTF and that helps me a ton when I need to quickly reference something again.

And Canva is a pretty great tool for simple edits but what I can't do in Canva, I'm taking care of in Photoshop.

Overall, it takes me about 1-2 days to do 1 scene. That's because I'm pretty much working on it most of the day on and off. I have a pretty bad attention span so I'm always yeeting myself away from my computer a million times a minute lol but when I can focus (mostly at night when everyone's in bed) I can knock out multiple updates. Mostly 2.

And all this is able to happen because when I'm not checking notes, playing the game or scrolling through simblr, i'm like obsessively daydreaming about my stories where a good bit of the plot is happening; in my head lolol

[rad-roche]

Where did you learn how to draw poses and how anatomy do you use references and if so where do you get them?

it's a boring answer, but through study and practice. not every day, but enough days. as for references, absolutely, and a lot of them at a time. if you don't already have it, i recommend getting pureref and shotgun blasting a lot of pictures/poses you like into it, even if you're not doing digital art specifically. throw stuff in there you like. throw stuff in there you hate! whatever evokes a strong emotion.

for general reference gathering, google and pinterest are pretty good. as for anatomy, i'm going to take the chance to shout out some books that have really, really helped me in this regard.

i think a good way to go about it is to get some kind of dry, 1:1 anatomy textbook (it doesn't have to be anatomy for sculptors, it could be a medical textbook, anything you have to hand) and a resource on stylizing those forms in some way (can't recommend that tom fox book highly enough, but it could be through videos like proko).

i don't know how far along you are in this, so consider this general advice. when you first start out it's easy to think i'll do fundamentals, then the fun stuff. if you do that, you're liable to burn out, because this is a marathon, not a sprint. do the fun stuff, whatever it is you want to do, right now. and no judgements on it either, disregard what other people think. if you want to draw furries, draw furries. fanart, indulgent art, whatever clicks. i do a lot of art of a video game character kissing a small woman i have made up. if you do it in earnest, you're more liable to do it consistently. then, and this is crucial, look at the fun thing you did and think about what needs improving. don't tangle up your worth or sense of self in it, it's a picture, you can't do it so wrong somebody dies. if you're in a low mood and think 'all of it', pick one thing anyway. do a study on it. i copy the dull anatomical diagram 1:1, then draw from reference pictures, then do something for time moves slow, or a fun portrait. because then you aren't doing a boring grind you dread in the hope of enjoying yourself eventually. you're having fun now, and the growth is a side effect.

[happy-nah]

I made another miraculous oc for my partner! they knew nothing about the show so i decided to make them the peacock due to their favourite colour being blue. i really like the textures in this one, i think the rain was a really fun decision

shout out to that one lady whose stuff i always see on pinterest for having really good pose references.

[shereadsandwritesformelanin]

The Baker And Her Actor: part III [The Beach Date!]

Paring: Chris Evans x Black Fem! Reader

Summary: You meet Chris while making a house delivery for the Evans. He can’t get you off his mind and to be honest, neither can you.

Warnings: profanity, sexual content, angst, but overall fluff.

Notes: I hope you guys enjoy! If you have any requests feel free to share those!!

Previous Part(s) → (1) (2)

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“Baby it’s you!”

“You’re the one I love.”

“You’re the one I need!”

“You’re the only one I see!”

“Come in baby it’s you!”

You prance around your kitchen singing your heart out to Beyoncé’s love on top. The past few days you and Chris had been communicating frequently.

It made you feel some type of way and put you in a chipper mood.

Since you had a day off you decided to treat yourself to a nice warm stack of pancakes, fluffy scrambled eggs, and crispy (vegan) bacon.

A perfect way to start a weekend morning.

Flipping the last pancake and plating it you shuffled over to your living room, Haneli hot in persuit.

Today was a relaxation day, and you wanted to watch some quality movies.

Over the past few days of your texting spell with Chris he never much mentioned his work. I mean here and there he brought up but we barley discussed it as if he wasn’t proud.

So this morning you were gonna dedicate this to watching one of his many projects.

“Chris Evans.” You command into your remote.

Error.

“Chris Evans!” You shout

The screen showed many of his different films, all looked absolutely amazing but one stood out amoung them all.

The one where he held a little blonde girl on his shoulder and had a similar scruff on his face.

Gifted.

If the title didn’t grab you the plot definitely did.

“Play gifted.”

“Playing gifted.” Your smart television obeyed.

Just when you were going to trade it in.

-

You were just now finishing the movie and you were blown away.

You never thought about how much went into being an actor. Being able to convey those emotions onto the screen allowing the audience to feel them. Chris, he did just that.

Should you text him?

You decide to make the first move. Picking up your phone you click his contact, and begin typing.

Y/n: Goodmorning, I just saw one of your films. It was amazing :).

The Captain: Really, which one? Also goodmorning to you too!

Y/n: Gifted, and of course you’re amazing!

The Captain: Dont make me ink y/n. 💙

Another adorable Disney reference.

Before you could respond, your phone began to ring the contact image of Chris popping up on your screen.

Why was he calling you?!

I mean of course you all had text, but text can be motified unlike phone conversations.

Just answer dumb ass!

“Hello.” You sqeak

“Good morning.” Chris gumbles, it was obvious he’d just woken up by the rasp in his voice.

“H-how are you?” You stammer

“I’m okay just a bit tired.’ He yawns “better now that you’re on the phone.”

You were silence. Butting youre upper lip not sure what to say next.

His flirt game was strong and always caught you off gaurd.

“You there?” Chris questions

“Yes I’m here, sorry. I don’t want to keep you if your sleepy.”

“No it’s okay- I actually wanted to ask you something.” Chris reassures

“What is it?” You muse.

“Will you go on a date with me?’ Maybe tomorrow evening, if that works for you.” Chris queried.

You could have sworn your heart skipped a beat. This was the moment you’d been waiting for but was so terrified of its arrival.

When was the last time you even went on a date?

“Y/n, your making me nervous.”

“Sorry, i’d love to.” You trilled

“Great, pick your up at 7 tomorrow.!” Chris elated.

You could hear his pure excitement through the phone.

Youem were excited but nun the less nervous.

Shit what am I going to wear?

-

Saturday Evening - A.K.A “Date Night”

“Okay so you got this dress and I’m thinking we need to ensintuate your shoulders and colleebones as much as possible.” Kiara explains.

She rushes through Pinterest to find hair inspiration. Some your like some you aren’t quite fond of. You wanted to look your best for him.

“What about this one?” Kiara inquires showing you a beautiful and delicate up-do.

You take her phone to get a better look, zooming in on all the intricate details of the style. “I love it! It definitely screams first date vibes, should I even call it a date or a hang out.” You mumble.

“Girl gets some confidence.’ Kiara lectures. “He asked you on a date because you’re hot and his intrested take it with pride, he’ll love you, and if he doesn’t I do.” Planting a firm kiss on your temple.

“Thanks.” You coo.

Kiara begins to fumble in your hair, pinning it up and fluffing it’s often. “So where is he taking you?’ She quipped. “Somewhere nice I hope.”

“Well he hasn’t exactly told me.”

You feel her stop fiddling around in your hair. “So you don’t know?”

You nod your head.

“Hm, a man of mystery,That should be fun.” Kiara mused.

Shifting weight in your seat from the pressure of sitting for a while, your breath out. “I hope so.”

“Let’s find you something sexy to wear.” Kiara offered.

-

You both decide on a emerald green slip dress and a gold layered necklace, topping it off with a casual leather jacket.

“You look amazing girl, I need a picture.” Kiara praises.

You twirl around posing dramatically with various poses. Kiara snaps pictures hyping you up with each pose you perform.

“Come look at these.” Kiara hypes

Damn you do look good.

“Can you send these to me?”

Kiara nods her head.

Just when you were slipping on your shoes the doorbell rings. Your clock reads 7 o’clock.

Prompt.

You hurry toward the hallway mirror you had hanging on the wall, giving your hair one last fluff before opening the door.

The door swings open and there he was in all his glory.

He looked ravishing.

He wore a silver chain necklace, a black knitted sweater paired with heather grey saude pants and carmel shoes.

He held a bouquet of beautiful flower. Assortments of different pinks, red, and whites.

So he listens.

“Wow, you look stunning.” Chris praises

“You as well.’ I can take those, at least I hope they’re for me.” You giggle

“Oh yes, of course. Can I Uh set them up for you?” Chris ask rubbing the back of his neck.

“Yes.”

You open up the doorway even more allowing him in. Guiding him toward your kitchen. A short trip considering you live in a small loft.

“Vases are up top.” You instruct

Chris nods, reaching up to grab one of your many vases.

When he stretched up his shirt untucked revealing a lower back tattoo.

God this man has tattoos as well.

You couldn’t help but stare not only was it intresting but it was really hot as well.

Chris peaks his head over his shoulder catching your gaze in his peripheral.

Shit.

“See something you like?” Chris teases a cocky smirk painted on his face.

You drop your head biting your bottom lip. You’d been caught and the man sure knows how to make you nervous.

I was starting to believe he did that on purpose.

Suddenly you notice Kiara hiding behind the slight wall that separated the kitchen and the living space.

“What are you doing?!” You mouth.

She smirks. Then begins to suggestively dry hump the air and make satisfied faces. “Introduce me.” She mouths back

You roll you eyes giving in, motioning for her to come over.

She smiles in victory, brushing down her outfit quickly.

“So y/n before you leave- oh I’m sorry I didn’t know you were here.” Kiara lies

From anyone who didn’t know who the actors was in the room, they’d think it was Kiara how well she put on an act.

You stare at her hoping she didn’t go overboard.

“Oh erm, hello.” Chris greeted

“We were just living, Kiki I love you and I see you later!”

You hoped Chris got the message, luckily he did.

He quickly dried his hands, shooting a small smile and wave to Kiara then followed you out your home.

“Which one your?” You ponder.

Beep beep.“That one.”

You watched the interior light of a black mid size audi light up.

Sometime you forget he’s rich. He definitely didn’t like to show, one of the many things you like about him.

“Shall we?” Chris says his arm out for you to interlopp.

You smile up at him gripping his arm, feeling the heat rise up to your cheeks.

-

The car ride was anything but queit. The two of you laughed and told embarrassing stories of your childhoods.

“Wait so you actually peed on a guy in your class in sixth grade?”

“True story, I couldn’t hold it!” You retort giggling

“Wow you beat me.’Chris says. “we are almost there it’s just up this way, one of my favorite things to do.”

“So I get to go to a special place?”

“Must mean something, right.” Chris stated, giving you those damn eyes again.

The way he stared at you with so much sencerity made you crave him even more. He was passionate you could tell.

-

“Okay no peaking.” Chris instructs pilling you out of the car shutting the door after you.

“Okay.” You obeyed.

Chris walked you through a seemingly long and tangled path. His big hands covering your ears the whole time.

Eventually he stopped guiding you and removed his hands.

“Is it safe to open?” You asked softly

“Yes you can open now, even though definitely saw you peaking.” Chris teased

“I was not!” You bicker like a child

Finally you allow your eyes to flutter open. Immediately your jaw drops at what you saw before you.

It was the Boston harborwalk, but lit up. The place looked so alive.

There was everything. Fun games, food, and even a Ferris wheel.

“Chris this is amazing.’ You gasp in excitement. “It’s- it’s beautiful I - can we go now!”

“I figured you’d love it, and yes let’s get going.” Chris spoke holding his hand out for your reach.

You comply shyly intertwining you tiny fingers with his. The heat rising to your cheeks, and the butterflies bubbling in your pit again.

You finally reach the boardwalk. Enamored by all the lights and fun that surrounds you can’t help but bounce from booth to booth like a young child on Christmas Day.

“Slow down dont wanna have to put a lease on you.” Chris pesteres

You playfully slap his chest with the back of your hand.

God he was muscular and firm.

Nope not going there y/n stop.

“Oh hush, this is fun!’ You piped. “What should we do next?”

“I was thinking the Ferris wheel?” Chris suggested.

-

Chris’s Point Of View:

The night wasn’t even close together and it was already going so well.

Y/n was perfect, practically an angel.

I could tell she was breaking out shell, showing more of her personality she’d been so afraid to show me.

It was great. I loved how excited she got about the smallest things, how she was a good sport and didn’t fuss over loosing games.

Through all my relationships I’ve craved to have someone like y/n and here she was and she was so great.

Gosh get a grip meatball can’t be falling in love on date one.

Finally we get up to the top of the Ferris wheel, stopping so we could get a great view of Boston.

I watched as you leaned over on the side just enough not to tip over but to get a good view.

How your y/c eyes lit up just like the city below us, the curls that rested on your forehead dancing in the wind.

Perfect.

I pull out my phone opening the camera settings.

I snap a quick photo of you. You just looked so peaceful.

Shit my flash!

My eyes go wide, embarrassed that I’d just been acting like a certified creep ten seconds ago.

She turns to face me comfusion readable on her face.

“Um y/n I’m sorry I- I just thought you looked beautiful.” I stammered.

She slips her tiny hand into mine giving me a small smile.

“Can I at least see it.” She asks

-

We leave the carnvial to go to another beautiful location I wanted to show y/n.

This could quite literally brighten her night.

“It’s just this way.” I instruct holding her hand helping her down the pathway to the beach.

“Are you taking me somewhere to kill me.” She jokes

“Sweetheart if I wanted to kill you, it would have already been done.”

I hear her let out small chuckle underneath her breath.

She trusted me.

“We’re here.” I announce

Her eyebrows raise as she looks around observing nothing but a bland beach.“We’re where?” She ponders

I pick up a small rock tossing it in my hand. “Okay now you’re scaring me.” She says slowly backing away.

“Don’t be.”

With that I threw the rock down on the sand allowing the bioluminescent plankton to give off their blue hue.

I hear the fimaliar gasp escape y/n’s lips as she’d done all night in excitement.

“Chris! What is this?”she quipped

“Bioluminescent planktons, I discovered these a while back when I was having a not good day and needed a walk. Cheered me up immediately.” I explain

Walking toward my side her eyes never leave the ground. “Wow this is astonishing.” She states

“You wanna see something else?” I ask a devient smirk planted on my face.

“You’re just full of surprises.”

“You have no idea.” I returned.

I grab her hand leading her over to the shoreline. “Take off your shoes.” I instruct

She does just that waiting for further instruction.

“You see this.” I say pointing down to the water.

“See what?”

“This!” I smirk lightly splashing her with water

Please be into it.

I watched as she stood there for a moment, mouth agape wiping the salt water off her face.

My heartbeat sped up hoping she wouldn’t curse me out and storm off.

“Oh really that’s what you wanna do?” She said smirking peeling her leather jacket off.

“Yeah that’s what I wanna do.” I mock rolling my arm and pants legs up.

“Fine but I was I raised off avatar and have a strong belief I’m a waterbender.” She jokes

Finally she splashes me immediately damping my sweater.

I’m impressed that she was able to get the much water on my with her small hands.

I attempt to return the favor but she runs away giggling.

I chase after her effortlessly catching up, scooping her in my arms bridle style.

“Stop, stop I’m sorry put me down.” She stammers laughing loudly.

“Nope only soaking you will do for forgiveness.” I say carrying her to the spot with our belongings.

“But Chris I just had wash day.” She pouts

“Wash day?” I question.

“You’re too cute, and caucasian.” She replied

“Cute huh?” I tease.

There she goes again hanging her head low and avoiding eye contact, she was so adorable.

“You know what I want.” I stays breaking the silence

“What’s that?”

“Ice cream.” I say

-

Finally we pull up at an ice cream parlor that looks like it was plucked straight out of the fifties.

I notice you began to shiver. It was late at night and the cool Boston breeze was now turning into a chilling freeze.

Should I do it? Will she be comfortable?

Making sure not to startle her, I cautiously wrap my arm around her shoulders pulling her into me, hopping to add some type of warmth to her body.

She just smiles up at me leaning her head into my shoulder. She fit into my side like a puzzle. I let the tropical sent of her hair infuse my lungs.

God she smelt great.

We get up to the glass display of ice cream. It was so colorful with so many different assortments of flavors I didn’t know which one to pick.

You were bent over peaking through the glass. Squinting trying to decide which ice cream flavor to choose from.

“Decided yet?” I ask

“I think so, can I have the chunky monkey suprise.” She asks the waitress.

The waitress nods grabbing a warm scooper for dig out your flavor. “What about you. what’s your take?” She asks me retrieving her ice cream.

“I think I’ll have what your having.”

“Good choice.” She playfully sasses

I watch her walk over to grab us a a few napkins and extra spoons.

Thoughtful.

“Sir.” The cashier says holding my ice cream for me. “Sorry, how much?” I ask.

“It’ll be $5.78.” The cashier resports.

I dig into my wallet pulling out one of my many cards handing it over to the cashier.

I felt your brown eyes burning into me, watching me.

I wasn’t sure if it was a good thing that you were or a bad thing that you were.

“Let’s go, it late and im sure you work tomorrow.”

“Yes I do.” She mutters almost pouting.

We walk to my car. Reaching it I press the unlock butting watching the inside light up.

[CLICK FOR Part III CONTINUED HERE!]

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“I’m Spider-Man”

Y/n and Tom do yoga/cheer poses, and y/n gets scared.

A/n: I recently saw a (long ass) compilation of Tom saying “I’m Spider-Man” over and over and it made me laugh. I instantly wanted to write about him saying it.

I’m also adding pictures bc I sure as hell ain’t about to be describing what they look like with words😂😂

     You had were a pretty successful YouTuber with a decent following. You got requests for videos all the time- one in particular you wanted to do, but you never really trusted someone enough to do it with. The yoga challenge. Someone picks out a lot of hard yoga positions, and you and your partner try to replicate the picture. You wanted to do it, and after dating Tom for about two years, you felt he would be a good partner to do it with- specifically because you trusted he wouldn’t drop you.

      “Hey, guys! So I’ve gotten requests to do this video for years and I put it off because I’m terrified of falling and breaking bones, but I decided to go ahead and make it. Tom is going to be my partner, which will be an experience in and of itself.” You told the camera. You looked at Tom when you were finished with your spill.

     “I don’t know why you chose me, I’m the least flexible person,” he said looking back at you. You laughed at him and looked back at the camera.

     “That’s why it’s gonna be fun. Okay! So my brother and Harrison picked out the poses so let’s see what we have,” You trailed off waiting for one of them to show you the first photo.

     “You’re gonna bottom, right?” Tom asked you. You looked at him confused.

     “I never said that, but okay.” You said as you got into position. You maneuvered yourself to make your body as small as possible.

     “Hope you’re ready because I’m coming down,” Tom said warning you. You felt the pressure of his weight on your butt before he laid back against you.

     “Did we do it?” You asked y/b/n when you felt Tom had settled.

     “Oh, this is real comfortable actually,” Tom said as he stayed on top of you.

     “Tom!” You yelled at him.

     “Tessa, go fetch me a beer,” he said dragging it out.

     “Thomas!” You yelled again. He laughed and got off of you, turning around to help you up. “Okay, what’s next?”

     “Oh my gosh!” You yelled laughing.

     “Look at her face,” Tom pointed out.

    “She likes whatever she’s grabbing onto,” you joked at him. He made a face at you.

    “Yeah, well you aren’t allowed to grab whatever she’s grabbing onto,” he said as he began to think over the position. “So I’m going to get on my hands and knees and I guess you just hang on... spider monkey,” he told you. You laughed at the Twilight reference. He got down, and you held onto him. He used his upper body weight to lift his legs into the air. He got to a specific height before he couldn’t hold it anymore. But you still achieved it.

     “I’m shocked. I didn’t think you’d be able to do that,” you admitted. He looked at you and you saw a bit of sweat on his forehead.

     “I go to the gym to much to not be able to do something like that, darling,” he said sassily. You raised your hands in defense.

     You carried on doing multiple poses before you got to the last one.

     “So let me give some context before I show it,” y/b/n said. “It’s not a yoga pose, it’s a cheer pose. But I wanted to see if you two could do it.” He turned the screen around to reveal the pose.

     “Are you fucking kidding me?” You asked him. You had always been scared of heights and this would be no different.

     “No, I have every faith you can do it,” he told you.

     “I think so too,” Tom agreed with him. You looked at him in shock. “Come on, love. Let’s go outside and do it.” You picked up the camera and headed outside.

     “Ok, so how’s this gonna work?” You questioned. “What I know from watching (American) football, they literally just toss the girl up like she’s a pizza crust, and you are not doing that to me,” you told Tom completely serious.

     “No, I’m not throwing you up like that. I’ve never done it before, and I don’t want to drop you.” He replies thinking of what you could do. “What about you sit on my shoulders, and I’ll hold your feet as you stand up? Yeah?” You sighed realizing you really were about to do this. Looking at y/b/n and Harrison, you asked them to come spot you and hold your hands as you stood up.

     Tom walked over to the little picnic table you kept in the back yard. He sat on the bench level and you went to stand behind him. You maneuvered so you were sitting on his shoulders, and you grasped his hands while he stood up.

     “Here,” y/b/n said with his hands out, letting you know he was there and ready. You also heard Harrison alert you that he was behind you. You grasped y/b/n’s hands, intertwining your fingers as Tom moved his hands to your ankles.

     “Okay, I’m gonna hold onto your feet, and all you have to do is stand up,” Tom told you.

     “Oh my gosh,” you muttered as you started to do it but bailed almost immediately. “I’m so scared!!” You yelled dramatically.

     “Babe, I’m Spider-Man. I’m not gonna let you fall,” Tom said trying to ease your fear by making you laugh.

     “What are scared of? Y/n, I’m right here, Harrison is behind you, and Tom is right underneath you. Tom isn’t going to let you fall, but even if you do, we are right here to catch you,” y/b/n reassured you. He gave your hand a squeeze to let you know he has a hold on you.

      “You can do it, y/n. Just stop thinking about it so much,” Harrison chimes in. You rolled your eyes and took a deep breath.

     “Okay,” you said confidently.

     “Okay? Just stand up,” Tom told you again. You did what he said, this time making it into a standing position. It was wobbly for a second before Tom had a good grip on your feet and held you steady.

     “Thata girl, y/n!” You heard y/b/n say. “Now you have to straighten up and let go of my hands, whenever you’re ready.”

     You nodded your head letting him know you understood what he was telling you. You moved to stand up straight and eventually let go, keeping your hands close in case you became unstable.

     “There you go, y/n!” Harrison yelled encouraging you.

     “Remember to keep looking straight ahead, don’t look down, up, to the side, anywhere else. That helps your balance. Just keep looking forward,” y/b/n told you.

     “You good, babe?” Tom asked.

     “Yeah,” you told him.

     “I’m gonna straighten my arms now, okay? Just hang out up there.” You felt your body being lifted as Tom pushed his arms upward. Your own arms flew out sideways trying to keep your balance.

     “Now just put your feet together and arms outward,” Harrison told you. You did as he said moving slowly. You felt like you would fall and break every bone in your body if you moved any faster than you were. You eventually found yourself in the position of the picture. You felt Tom let one hand go of your ankle holding you up with one hand.

     “Oh my gosh!” You yelled as you realized you were doing it. You heard y/b/n move away for a second so the camera could get a clear shot of you.

     “That’s perfect!” He shouted feeling excited.

     “How do I get down though?” You asked anyone. You didn’t hear an answer, but you felt Tom move and you were falling toward the ground. Right when you thought you were a goner, you felt your body land perfectly in Tom’s arms. “What the hell is wrong with you?!” You yelled at him, grasping at his neck for dear life.

     “That was the easiest way down,” Tom told you with a little smile, laughing at how scared you got.

     “I hate you for that,” you told him and looked at your brother. “And I hate you for picking that in the first place. And I hate you for letting them do it,” you pointed at Harrison.

     “But you did it, and you didn’t even break any bones,” y/b/n tried to reason with you.

     “Don’t talk to me, you all owe me big time for that.” You headed back inside and got the camera set back up to do your outro, forcing yourself to smile. “So, that happened. Thank you guys for watching, I’ll see you beauts next week for another video. Bye,” you said blowing kisses into the camera before shutting it off.

     Tom walked up to you as you were walking into your room after putting all your equipment away. “Are you actually mad or was it just the adrenaline high?” He asked you.

     “I really was mad in the moment, but it’s fine now,” you told him. “I mean you know how scared I was, you know how scared I am of heights, and you literally dropped me with no warning at all.”

     “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before I dropped you like that. We thought it would be better to do it and get it over with than tell you and let you freak out all over again.” Tom told you. He was right. If he had told you what he was planning to do, you probably would’ve had a panick attack. Sure, you had a mini heart attack in the moment, but it was nothing too serious.

     “Yeah, that’s probably very true,” you told him.

     “We would have never done it like that if we knew you were going to end up hurt. You know that right? I was watching you the entire time, and y/b/n and Harrison were both there ready in case something didn’t go right. The last thing I would allow is you getting hurt on my watch.”

     “I know, it’s just difficult having to be the one in the air and not on the ground.”

     “I know, darling. Trust me, have you seen some of the things I do as Spider-Man?” He brought up again. You rolled your eyes at him.

     “If only I had a penny for each time you bring up that you’re Spider-Man,” you said with a laugh. Tom lifted his finger telling you to hold on a second. He dug in his pocket and pulled out a shiny new penny.

     “I’m Spider-Man,” he said placing the penny in your hand. You couldn’t help but laugh at how random and ridiculous the kid is. You watched him as he walked away from you and smiled to yourself. How’d you get so lucky to end up with him?

That was fun. I have full faith Tom could do that, hope I’m not the only one. 

The first pose/conversation is based off Jenna Marbles’s yoga challenge video. 

I own zero of these images. I found them on Pinterest and WeHeartIt

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“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.”

I’m a nostalgic person. I love looking through old memories and thinking back to the ‘good old days’. One of those sentimental memories which refer to would be old photos. They not only capture our youth but they capture our heart. Where did we went? Who were we with? And most importantly, who were we then? It’s no doubt that photos evoke strong feelings from us be it positive or negative. After all, as they say, a picture speaks a thousand words. However, if we were to ignore these moments and not capture them as they happen, the moments of the present would soon be memories of the past. Thus, it is important that we take more picture daily or at least hire someone to take a better photo of the moment. There’s where photography services company come in.

In this post and this video, I’m going to review a photography company in Singapore, Click Clique Studios.

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Click Clique Studios 

Click Clique Studios is a Singapore photography company that is started by 2 local photographers. Vowed to provide professional photography services in Singapore, Click Clique Studios specialised in amazing portraiture photography locally. That includes the coverage of solo photoshoot, couple photoshoot, graduation photoshoot, events photoshoot and more. You can view their photography portfolio on their website here. Besides capturing these unique moments in your life, they play a part in being a teacher too – giving tips and tricks on how one should pose whenever possible. After all, life is an everlasting journey of learning and experiencing new experiences, right?  

Before the shoot

Here’s a little background of me and photoshoots. As mentioned in the video, I don’t go to photoshoot in fact the most official photoshoot I have was me using a timer, taking a selfie in my room. Thus, when I got this amazing opportunity to have a couple photoshoot, I was over the moon.

With that we started with our plan. Before the shoot happen, we discussed the location, the date and the time. Eventually we decided on have the shoot at Botanic Gardens on a weekend evening. In addition to that, even our outfits were discussed way beforehand. Everything were so organised!

The Actual Shoot

Finally, the actual day came. We were both nervous and ecstatic. We met the photographer, Jia Qi, at the front of foliage garden and set off from there. Most of the shoots were “walk and take” kind of shoots. Thus, our backgrounds were always changing. Given that it’s a weekend and there was an event then, Botanic Gardens was filled with people. That got me concerned on the process of the photoshoot in such circumstances. However, Jia Qi assured me that everything will be handled in post-production such that, I wouldn’t see the nosy passer-by in my photos. That got my mind off those strangers and be more focused on the shoot.

“The idea behind the photo is to make it look like he is going to fly off with the umbrella and you’re trying to pull him back.” - Jia Qi

During the shoot, Jia Qi will shout out words of encouragement and say things that made us felt more comfortable on set. He would suggest a variety of poses for us and even lend us props which he brought – like this umbrella here – to enhance the story in the photo.

Alike many novice photoshoot subjects, we were very rigid and awkward at first. However, as time go by, we became less stiff and more natural with the encouragement and the familiarity of the camera’s presences. As seen in this shot, Jia Qi ran quite far ahead in front of us to take the shot while we were chatting. That is how the shots look so natural. Yes, poor boyfriend having to carry all the things.

The Orchidless Garden

This shot is totally giving me all the feels for it can be a potential cover of a Korean drama. What I like about how the photographer work was that he was willing to be in any environment or even position just to get a good shot of us. Most of the time, I see him crouching down behind the bushes, behind the rocks or in uncomfortable positions just get the perfect shot of us. #Dedication   

Another shot of the poor boyfriend carrying all the things I brought. This is us in our element - that’s why I have no muscles.

What I like about these photographs is the fact that although the photos were focused on us, I could spot the other natural elements which was ‘blocking’ the lens. That makes the photos look like it’s captured without the presence of the camera. To capture the photo without the participants knowing, that’s the magic of natural light photography.

This is one of my favourites. The pose Jia Qi suggested to us was just perfect. The boyfriend gently pushing back the hair while the girlfriend lovingly look at him. Or excitedly. Plus, the effect of the orchid roots in front was so cool. The whole photo look so romantic.

The photographer was in the bush for this one. 

At this point of time, I’m sure my 90 minutes’ couple photoshoot was up. However, Jia Qi just kept on going until the sky is dark. His persistence of capturing the perfect photographs for us is admirable 💪 . Thus, all of us kept pushing on.

Finally, the last photo of the day. This was the last pose we did for the day and one of the most beautiful ones. We love it.

I’m sure by now you would have realised that the photos in this post were all the best photos which they’ve taken of us during the photoshoot. Instead of the 5 high quality JPEG photos, they’ve decided to give us all the best photos which they’ve taken – that’s so generous of them!

Plus, he even helped position and record the clips in my youtube video! So nice!

In Summary

All in all, the boyfriend and I love the experience of our virgin photo shoot. The photoshoot was very lighthearted, fun and professional at the same time. We love the process of the photoshoot and the results thereafter. The photographer was easy to get along with and gave great posing tips. We would recommend this to people who are planning to have their photoshoot in Singapore. Now presenting what’s in the couple photoshoot package:

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Thank you to Click Clique Studios for this amazing photoshoot experience! A moment which we could now return to for years to come.

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I did a little bit of background practice yesterday. I usually forget that I could be drawing scenery and stuff so I’m kinda rough at it. It took like three tries to get the results of that first picture (second picture was one of those tries, and I’m not even showing the other one it was really bad 💀💀💀)

Also just throwing in some other doodles cause yeah :3. Simon. Some of these are from the same page and some of these are ones I think I forgot to post a bit ago so if there’s repeats then eh whatever lol. Explanations under a cut :)

This is pretty much just a study of a photo of a graveyard I ran into on Pinterest. Liminal spaces are very nice for finding background references because you can be sure no one is gonna be in them and they have the weird vibe that The Guy™️ should be in. But holy HELL trees are HARD. Like obviously I know what a tree looks like but the second I have to draw branches trees suddenly do not make sense anymore 💀

Another liminal space, this one was a path with the sky completely blacked out. I tried putting Simon into it but he kinda ended up a little muddled and too small augh. I’m also not very great at combining people and backgrounds so uh yeah. This one was also a much faster doodle just trying to warm up for the first one. But eh it’s cool idk. I need to put him in more liminal spaces or like try to draw the Simon’s Quest areas in 3D eventually.

Small practice comic! There’s no words, Simon just kinda walks a bit and passes out. I was gonna have more things happen but I didn’t have the room for it and decided to just leave it as a little practical piece. He’s probably gonna get up in a little bit and freak out about how much time he wasted.

Just a Simon head :3. His hair is fun to draw! I usually end up simplifying things as like a little uh polygonal… I think that’s the word… When drawing skulls, I usually go for octagons instead of circles because that’s much easier, but that ends up bleeding into how I draw hair making it kinda spikey and pointy in some spots on the top. I feel like I draw pretty inconsistently, but he’s very pretty and fun to draw regardless of how he ends up :3

This is some weird ass fan art of two things that aren’t related at all lmao. Sometimes you gotta crossover things that don’t make sense for the fun of it. This is Simon drawn based on a scene from the Fear Garden music video! Fear Garden is a banger, shout out to Chaa fr, it’s a vocaloid song about a girl who has a weird obsession with hands (Kira joke lol) and kills people to plant their hands in her secret garden where she treats them like flowers. Yeah, again it makes no sense, but the pose with the two mirrored characters was really cool and idk the vibes were there—

Simon sitting in between two graves, both say “BELMONT” in big letters, but one is for Christopher and Cyncia and the other is for Soleil and whoever his significant other was, we don’t have a name so it’s cut off. This has me thinking about the time in between all these characters hmm. Doing the math, Soliel would’ve been in his 90s when Simon was born, so there’s actually a good chance he wasn’t Simon’s grandfather, rather his great grandfather :O. Which means that there’s two generations we know nothing about between these two. And also that Simon would’ve never met either Soleil or Christopher or Cyncia :(. Then that has me thinking about fan comic stuff and how I’m gonna depict Simon hmmmmmmm. I imagine Simon spent a lot of time in the family graveyard tbh.

Simon is totally me when I dramatically collapse on a large marble monument of some sort in the graveyard— There’s also a couple attempts at drawing his paldrons at different angles but aaaa I can’t visualize these things properly. They’re just like kinda flared half ovals, why are they so hard to draw at any angle but like head on and top view 💀💀💀??? I’m trying to get out of the habit of drawing them bent in angles that don’t make sense but argggggg it’s hard lol.

Yeah, recent doodles tho yippie d(^^ )!