#technically art

[lotussart]

is there, like... a reason you keep ignoring the fact the lamb is gender neutral/has bo gender and putting tits on it. is something wrong with you 🤡

ah yes gender the thing that's infamously stored in the secondary sex characteristics, let me just grab my gender neutral body parts

[thedemonscrawler]

HEY guess what you can do with wool? That's right!

DYE IT

With food coloring and kool-aid!! And also acid dyes, which are designed for this, but acid dyes can't be used with cookware you put food in, and Kool-Aid packets are 50 cents.

.. did they go up in price? Didn't they used to be 20 cents? Anyway

Tbh a big part of the allure of spinning my own yarn is dying either the fibers or the final product. I just like the sense of independence that comes from going "ah, I need a color, and I have a lot of white and a handful of dyes!". I did this a lot with my posable critters too, though acrylic and polyester are a lot more strict about what dyes will actually work.

(Though tbh? Soaking acrylic faux fur in watered down acrylic paint, waiting for it to dry, and then taking a slicker brush and brushing out the clumps will get you pretty far!)

The evidence of crimes past with that paint permanently on there. I think this fucker is almost old enough to make its own Tumblr account (but not in Australia 8()

I digress! Because I haven't been dyeing acrylic, but KERATIN!

I did actually try dyeing a chunk with the same semi-permanant magenta dye I use on my own hair, cos like. Hair is also keratin.

Actually, it was supposed to be a bisexual gradient from pink to blue, but when it came time to heat set the color, the manic panic blue just fucking vanished.

Lesson learned: Ion Color Brilliance is a good brand, Manic Panic is not.

My bestie has inquired about me spinning the yarn and knitting them a scarf, so I wanted to make what was basically a mockup of the different ways you can spin the fibers to get different colors effects. And also I got Kool-Aid this past grocery visit and have been chomping at the bit to use it.

@sivilityy enables me <3

BEHOLD, MY CHILDREN!

Dyeing wool with kool-aid or food coloring is very easy!

Step 1: Soak wool in warm to hot water with about a 1/3rd of a cup of white vinegar for 15 to 45min. The vinegar is a mordant, something that helps the fibers take up the dye.

Step 2: Mix your dye of choice into a pot of warm to hot water, close in temperature to the soaking bath. The more kool-aid or food coloring, the stronger the color. I was going for pastels, so I used half a pack for the blue and pink, and a single drop of yellow food coloring for the yellow. The purple... 8') We won't talk about the purple.

Step 3: Fish your wool out of its soak, give it a gentle squeeze, then plop it into the pot. I like to scoop out some of the vinegar water and pour it into the pot as well. For insurance!

Step 4: Heat your pot to just below boiling. You want steam, but little to no bubbles. Agitation + heat or sudden temperature changes = felt. You can't spin felt. If you want to to make felt, though, now you know.

Step 5: leave your wool at simmering for around 30 min. How do you know when its done?

it fucking sucks all the color out of the water. How sick is that?! In the few batches I've done, I haven't always gotten it to be clear like that but don't stress it. About 30 min seems to be good even if there's still some color in the water.

Turn off the burner and let your creations cool down in their soup. Or, if you're impatient like me, run your hottest tap water into a different pot, then pour your wool into the slightly cooler but still hot water, so it doesn't get a HUGE temperature shock. Don't use cold water, or you're gonna get felt! Give em a rinse in the hot water to get any extra color out.

Let 'em hang and dry, and you're done!

So far all of mine have felted a little bit? Which hasn't been so bad, I've just needed to fluff them up a little once they're dry. I want to try indirect heat with a steamer basket and see if that helps, but I only got the one basket and 4 colors this time, so I used the pots.

SCIENCE

[dunedragon]

I FINALLY FINISHED MY SHELF

Its not perfect and there are a little mistakes here and there BUT I DID IT AND I LOVE IT <3

[lemonzst]

MOAR COZY BASE SCREENSHOTS (ft. Snow)

[windwenn]

Fending off the evil spirits one pumpkin at a time

[fangedbats]

lil batblob doodle lmao

[kayak-lmao]

I just wanted to apologize for the lack of art lately-

I have been drawing, I just really really hate most of the stuff that I end up making also artblock

I just don't like the artstyle I've had in the past 2 weeks and it's really frustrating to look at it compared to my artstyle from over a year ago and see barely any difference

(2 different ocs I've made‐ they already look similar, but they were drawn about 2 years apart)

Anyways thats all I wanted to say- I haven't given up art, I just wanted to take a break from posting it to give myself a chance to develop something that I actually like and that I'm happy with :)

I might post little doodles now again but probably never anything colored or serious-

Thanks for reading this far if you did, and thank you for all the support I've still been getting :D

[s-t-a-c-y-y-y]

If you put on a pair of red/cyan glasses while viewing this image, Millie should spring out of your device and into the real world.

(3d model by cmankarTheCat on Deviantart)

[nina-the-ninth]

Hey guys remind me to never draw anything with more than three characters ever again

[liquidisedfrogs]

Drawing my interpretations of TV shows on MS Paint:

Queen Charlotte

it's beautiful isn't it

[lotussart]

I love how your NariLamb art can shift from “haha Lamb and Nari are flirting autistically” to “oh my, Nari actively wants to eat them. Nari wants to swallow their body whole. Nari wants to mark up their body butcher style, eat their guts right out of their stomach, and lick the blood off his fingers. This is super gross, but also weirdly romantic.”

this is just what being in a relationship is like

[scapegods]

what if this scene was worse

[emryste]

redrew some older 2020 art. we remain hedgehog

[lemonzst]

Couldn't draw, so I built a neat lookin base in Minecraft

[scurvyboy]

they would get along i think

[carrotchipper]

You won! The enemy Red Dragon dropped something! (Gained 20,000 EXP and Falin's Body)