#the only sketch paper i have rn is very small bc i used up all my sketchbook and need a new one

[arsontime]

trying to figure out how to draw chilchuck (dungeon meshi) in my style

[nairanorica]

Ok so a friend asked about my acrylic process - and I thought it might be fun to kinda document this little painting here! Just as a disclaimer, my acrylic process is extremely chaotic and I have no idea what I'm doing, I just throw paint on there until it looks good.

So I hope I won't forget about taking photos down the line, first batch of photos and babbling under the cut!

So let's start with what I'm using, just bc I'm always interested in seeing what others use:

Some cheap (kinda beat up at this point) small brushes, very cheap shitty white (I like to use it to thin my paints a bit without lighting them too much), liquitex heavy body acrylics in quin red, quin magenta and cad yellow medium (only these three bc it's a three colour challenge thing) and threw in some white golden soflat to have a more opaque white (purely bc it was already sitting on my desk from something else and I'm too lazy to get up and grab a different tube)

And this is what we're working on:

Some sort of water lily dragon, which already has a coat of very watered down yellow on it. I do that for multiple reasons: for one I just like how it looks and it feels less intimidating than white paper lol. But it also helps to hide the coloured lines from the initial sketch and I feel it's easier to judge values when starting with a non-white background

I sketched this a couple of weeks ago at this point, and had kind of forgotten what my plan for colouring was. Whoops. So I mixed up some of the yellow and magenta and started blocking in some background shapes -

But wait!

That's when I remembered that I wanted the background to be light, like the light is coming from back there, behind vines and leaves and stuff. So I started building up lighter colours with more yellow and my shitty white

But I wasn't really getting anywhere, so I grabbed my other white and put down some really light areas. That's better - now I can start blocking in the general colours and shapes for the plants and water

These are all different mixes of magenta, yellow and the shitty white, with one of the frayed flat brushes. I'll add details and definition later

But this felt really dark now, so I decided I had to roughly block in all the other colours too to check if it was really that dark or just looked like it next to the bright yellow

That dark colour is a very pink magenta btw, not a dark red, my phone just hates that colour. The dragon is just red + shitty white for now and wow, you can really see how transparent that white is. I'll definitely have to use more of the good white for this if I don't want to lose my mind

And that's where we're at rn! I took a break to let everything dry properly while typing this up, so it should be ready to go now - I'll report back later :D

[oracleofsecrets]

Zelda EOW cosplay log: circlet

After giving up on the staff, which was already another means for me to take a break from sewing, I got started drafting the circlet

I had some Eva foam from another cosplay ish project that didn’t go very well due to inexperience, so that seemed the most logical choice. I forgot how annoying it is cutting Eva foam though… the “headband” part was easy since I could use my rotary cutter, except the length I needed was longer than my ruler, so there’s a wobbly bit from where I had to scoot my ruler. Didn’t feel like cutting out another piece, so it’ll have to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Studied some screenshots and Sketched out the gem and metalwork bits on paper to get an idea of relative sizing between all the pieces. That damn pvc conduit ended up coming in handy here—I pressed down onto the foam and traced the indent for the gem. Cutting the crescents was realllly fiddly bc I was using scissors. But idk if I could’ve gotten those curves otherwise with an xacto knife

Only on the smaller bits did I think to transfer my sketch onto the foam instead of eyeballing it. My “transfer” method was poking pins along the outline into the foam, kinda like for pumpkin carving. Nice and clear and easy to follow with the scissors without having to worry about painting over anything

I thought I read somewhere that Eva foam can be sandpapered ? So I tried doing that to fix the uneven edges. Idr what grit level sandpaper I used. I mostly used a nail file board actually lol

Somehow I lost my circle gem piece, so I had to cut another one out and sand that :/ I don’t have proper primer so i figured I’d just spray a little modpodge on it to give me a workable surface to paint on. It didn’t occur to me that the pieces were so small that they’d fly off bc of the aerosol blast, so I had to find those in the dark ground bc I keep forgetting to tell the landlady that the outdoor lightbulb is out

I ended up mostly kinda mopping up the modpodge that was left on the parchment paper to get it nice and covered. Then I remembered I should grab a scrap to prime for when I test out paints. Was smart enough to hold the foam with a clothespin so no more glue would get on my hand. A day later It does kinda look like a nice subtle topcoat on my nails though :3 let it dry overnight so I could play some hades 2 and bc I didn’t want to fiddle with mixing paints at like 10pm

The next evening I tested out the paints. At the store I’d been between one metallic red shade and another, and I’d gotten the one that hadn’t seemed Too bright red. This was a mistake. It’s indeed a lovely garnet color, but that’s not quite light or red enough for this. Mixed with a little red looked pretty good. The gold metallic was perfect straight out of the bottle

Also tested whether to use black or white as a base coat. Going with white to keep things brighter

✨The next day ✨

Got my base coat of white on

(Using some weird Catholic local newspaper that some lady who lived here before me still has delivered to catch the mess lol)

First coat of gold. Probably should’ve made sure my sponge was fully dry before painting on the gold… I’m using makeup sponges since they’re denser than the sponge brushes I got for cheap a while ago. Repeating to myself Trust the Process Trust the Process so I don’t get neurotic about how sloppy it looks rn….

Okay yeah second coat is looking a lil better. Added a Little more red to the mix for the gem. I like how the shade looked overall, and especially layered over the other. I dont need another coat on the gem but def will for the gold stuff

Third coat, now we’re talkin. That’s good enough for the crescent pieces, but I think I’ll give the band another coat tomorrow. Testing my gloss sealant on the back of one of the smaller crescents after putting the first coat on the gem to see how that looks

Im planning on using satin modpodge finish though bc it’s an aerosol spray and bc I think that’d contrast nicely and subtly with the glossy. But the glossy is a normal spray bottle, and I wasn’t careful the first time I used it so it got clogged…I usually borrow the spray top from something else, but it’s not the same diameter as the bottleneck so I have to hold it weird :/ I should just buy a replacement nozzle fjsjdhd. But since the pieces are so small I’m just unscrewing the nozzle, taking it out and letting a few drops of sealer fall onto a plastic lid from something or another, then dabbing it on with a sponge

Now that I’m more like Live blogging and not posting about stuff I’ve already done I think I’ll end the post here lol

[uniformbravo]

ok so. my day today

basically i spent a long fucking time today trying to Finally get off my ass and scan my traditional drawings so i can post them to my art blog, because like i have been drawing but these days the vast majority of my art is traditional sketches that im too lazy to scan so my art blog never gets updated and i rly want to work on that (i stg some of this shit is literally so old it’s from 2016 but whateverrrrr)

mostly the reason im finally doing this is that i don’t wanna wait too long to post my mp100 shit bc i’ve been drawing a Fucking Lot of that so i have enough to make a few posts now and i wanna get them uploaded while they’re still fresh, u know. the thing is since i was gonna scan those pages i decided it’d be a fun neat idea to scan the entire rest of the sketchbook bc Why Not

well i’ll tell u Why Not, there are several reasons Why Not:

it takes 12 yrs to scan everything because not only are there a shitload of pages but also the sketchbook is too big for the scanner so i have to do some pages 4 times to get all the edges and it’s horrible and bad, legitimately i was standing there for over an hour scanning this book, i put on an hr long video in the bg and got all the way through it and i Still wasn’t done

On Top Of That the scanner is kind of fucking garbage, as scanners are, so i have to take each image into photoshop to edit so they dont look entirely like trash (they still look kind of trashy anyway)

then for the multiple scan pages i have to patch them together so the images are complete / not blurry

then i have to collage all the drawings i want together because a lot of pages are either incomplete or only have like 1 thing i want to show on them so i spend like 100 years trying to arrange everything semi-nicely so that it’s, like, even slightly presentable, Maybe (idk i think the compilations tend to feel really cluttered tbh but Whatever it’s my STYLE), and also i have to take into account tumblr’s formatting so i usually have to make everything fit on a canvas either 540px or 1080px wide (this is even worse for pixel art bc it needs to be exactly 540px to look nice but i digress, we are talking about traditional art here)

so uh yeah that’s my process and Boy is it a Fucking Process

i think im complaining more rn because i have like a year’s worth of sketches im trying to deal with here, like. good god. i spent maybe two and a half hours working on this today (after the first hour of scanning things, just the scanning) and i did not get even halfway through the scans, and that’s just for the photo-editing stage, i haven’t even started putting together the compilations yet

god and like the Other Fucking Piece Of Shit Thing My Scanner Does is it tries to do this Smart Technology Bullshit and decide for itself where the paper ends instead of looking at, like, the actual paper’s boundaries, so even if i line everything up perfectly, a small part of the image fucking always gets cut off and if i were a stronger person i would engage in the full process of scanning the images, taking the flash drive back to my laptop, opening each image one by one to figure out which ones got cut off, going back to the scanner and re-scanning the pages and just repeating the process over and over until everything is in order but as it stands i do not have eighty-five thousand fucking years on my hands nor even a fraction of the mental capacity required to pull that off so we are just going 2 sit down & deal with some cropped images like mature adults

(tbh with all the cons of scanning the art, and there are a Lot of cons, i feel like it would probably make more sense to just take pictures using a camera instead, but on the other hand do not get me started on lighting, focus, unsteady hands, sifting through millions of copies of the same photo trying to determine which one came out the clearest, retaking photos that didn’t work out, back aching from being hunched over the paper for so long trying to get the perfect straight-down angle w/o casting any shadow, etc etc etc)

im just??? honestly, typing all of this out is making me sit back and think why?? why am i even doing this. this is so much goddamn effort for shit that probably won’t get very much attention, which is fine and all but god. jesus christ. im really putting myself through some shit for this

in any case i think i’ll probably be posting some of the more recent stuff first, like all the mp100 shit because like i said i want to post it while it’s still fresh and if i work on this whole project in chronological order u probably won’t see the things i drew this week until like next year hgkdslkdgn

[sunnybats]

Can u please tell me a little more about ur ha canons? :o it sounds v interesting 2 me!!

you best believe im gonna do this

this post is gonna be long and lame as fuck so

garbage abt tunglr user sunnybats: an illustrated guide

first off i have a notebook filled with memories n shit but its awful at the moment, i have sketches to go w the stuff in there so ill add some of those in but here are two pages that you probably wont be able to read

these are the only decent pages but anywaY

alright SO ill start w Ya Girl Terepy Pypes 

young torpezi was havin a good life when along came this Pal

tiny vasker lol

she was a bitch but i thought she was rad at the time bc she was like hey lets be buddies and she beat up anyone who was a dick to me so???? small rerez, really not thinking about the consequences or what would happen if she got on the vrisks bad side, was like “R4D” and pulled stupid shit with the spider troll 

pictured: mini rez gasping bc she has a friend for the worst reasons ever

and then ara died and i was blinded and tav lost his mcfucking mobility and it became painfully clear that vriska gave no shits about anyone other than herself

does this look like the face of a man who wants to have anything to do w you vriska lol

vriska aside me and nep rped a lot which was pretty frickin edgy of us, nep thankfully had nothing to do with vriska and had no intentions of ever having anything to do with her [equius wouldnt have let her even if she did god bless you sweaty horseman, doin the lords work]

now that i think about it my friends were definitely,, of a certain variety

coug,,h ,,,,,

anywAY

i dont remember much about being w gamzee but i know it happened???? i very much remember getting my vision back perfectly and i was ,,, shook,, and not in a good way

Lizard Bitch Cries (2017, Graphite on Paper)

also have this gamzee drawing im still tryin to figure out exactly what he looked like

uh, that probably sums up al i can think of for terep rn lol

dirk , a known homosexual,

aight so first off heres a fun fact: i did home piercings bc obviously there was no other way to get them done and i wanted my septum done. it took. a lot of time and tears and it hurt for weeks. roxy told me if i did it she’d block me. she didnt.

two hours post tragedy

and speaking of tragedies lets talk about caliborn while im not fucking dying about it

alright so imagine youre some sad as fuck gay dude whos desperate for any attention at all and you start getting harassed by some annoying dude who you hate. and youve got a crush on this guy but youre pretty sure hes only into girls [i was essentially right hes like hardly into guys], and then you have another guy who is saying awful shit about you but youre kinda into that, and hes saying that youre right, the dude youre totally weak for has zero interest in you, but guess who does in some fucked up way. if any of that makes sense.

its really fucking embarrassing. but yeah it was like? caliborn was my kismesis i guess? even though it was never really said. i would have rather died than let anyone i knew find out,,, but at the same time,, im fucking dying here squirtle please help.

during the game there was some sort of,, ????? i dont know? a physical encounter. which became a fight, which ended with him fucking off and not really contacting me ever again. my right eye got fucked up? he tried to gouge it out. a few scars across my face never really went away, but it was alright. jane had to help me pretty much not fucking die. she never found out why it happened or who did it. she didnt really press me for any details after, which was part of the reason i went to her - roxy and jake are too nosy, no offense meant.

fine art. anyway

may as well dump the remainder of the sketches i have here.

ded boy tries to find decent anime online [he doesnt succeed because there is no decent anime but no one told him that]

god tier fuckers

a jake???? i cant seem to draw him right. he usually straightened his hair and had product in, but if he didnt itd go curlyish?? kind of fluffy? it was cool.

dude mcfucking dies over the fact hes now technically cis

anyway uh???????????? idk what else to add i hope thi s wasnt completely boring,,,,,

also fun fact terezi and chiaki [from super danganronpa 2 who is Also Me] have the same hairstyle???????? what does this Mean

[pamuisash]

what i did.

Hey! So, I decided to do something different and just talk with yall bc it’s been awhile since I last posted. I want to talk about stuff I’ve been doing the past month that we have quarantine. I live in the Philippines and we currently have Quarantine here, General Community Quarantine in my city to be specific. So rules are a bit loose but it is still very strict and aware. The past month of March and April is has alot going on for me, but I don’t really like mind since I never really do anything whilst on vacation. And yes, our school usually ends in late March so this rlly is our vacation rn but know that it’s almost the end of May we have to settle with what to do for the next school year, which is concerning for me because I still haven’t decided on which school to go for the next school year. Anyways, with all that here is the stuff that I have been doing for the past couple of months that I am stuck at home! (Not necessarily in order)

March: 

Passing requirements

The usual stuff you know, it came abruptly and it’s almost the end of the school year. We were really just mostly preparing on an end of the year performance for the whole school, but it got cancelled due to the virus. And so, we got our exams cancelled and we just have to pass some final requirements in our school. And it’s kind of the hellish parts of this quarantine well for me cuz we were supposed to pass a major project back in February, but we missed the deadline and so we kept pushing and pushing it til March, I’m even thankful at this point because our professor still accepted that project of ours even if it’s already vacation...

Studio Ghibli Binge

When I found out around February I think that Netflix is going to release all of the Studio Ghibli movies, I immediately begged my mom to get back our netflix account just so I could watch them. And I’m glad I did because I was now able to watch some rlly good movies I’ve been wanting to watch for a long time, and I currently have watched 12 movies at this point. I remember watching my first studio ghibli movie at 8th grade, yes. and it was The Red Turtle which I highly recommend btw (I don’t think it’s in netflix tho) but yea, It made me hit the brakes on wanting to watch Studio Ghibli. I would tell you my current favorite, but I still haven’t watched all of them so I’m still not sure

April:

One Month Meditation

This thing was inspired by Matt D’Avella who was doing some one month challenges himself (I recommend you check those stuff out) and so back in February during classes I also thought of some 1 month stuff I could do during the vacation and listed them out. With vacation going on, I picked the Meditation one, because I miss meditating and it’s been awhile that I am able to wake up early in the morning and meditate. How did the challenge go you ask? Well, it not went well, because I wasn’t really able to get my own quiet time with so many people at home preventing them to do work and stuff. I would try to do this challenge again, with more discipline hopefully

Devotion: Book of Mark

I remember being able to join a group as part of our retreat, cuz I really like the place that we held our retreat in. We were in a call together with our group leader and talking about stuff and apparently we’re all doing devotion together. So our leader asked us if we could do a devotion of the whole chapter of Mark in the bible, one chapter a day. and we all agreed to it. Coincidentally, Holy week came around and it was like a little refresher for me during Holy week which was nice to think about every once in a while. 

Studying Photoshop

This is something that I’ve never really took the time to do, but I actually planned on doing, but didn’t end up being wholeheartedly passionate about it. So I ended up not doing it and slacking off anyway, I do want to focus on this type of thing when I get the hang of it, because graphic design is one the life skills that I really want to obtain. 

Studying Korean

This is the one thing I definitely focused on. The thing is I already knew how to read Korean from a young age, but never rlly took the time to actually understand what their saying. So I started studying, it is VERY SLOW.  I use the website howtostudykorean.com and it teaches in units and lessons and each lesson is about 5 topics. It was a very slow pace, because I am currently on Unit 1 Lesson 5 but I am getting the hang of learning Korean for an hour almost everyday. Is it because I miss learning in an actual school? probably.

A Commonplace Book

I actually started this thing around early January when I’m collecting little trinkets and paper stuff that I want to keep, so I decided to put them all in a book. Though it’s not an actual commonplace book, I just keep random quotes and stuff and I try to find stuff to fill that book everyday. I do read books, but not as much as I do back then. 

Sketching 

Just drawing in general. I guess I was bored at the time, and I’ve taken a liking to art, so why not make some myself? Well, just small sketches here and there. I really wanna learn drawing mostly about clothes and body anatomy so I tend to focus on that. I find sketching a really relaxing activity for me, so I do this to keep me calm or when I’m just plain bored.

Reading

As I’ve said before, I started reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and now I’m finished! I have stopped because most of the books I own at this point are mostly fiction books, and I would like to keep more self help books next time. I learned alot when I read this book and it made me want to step out and get creative. I highly recommend because not only does it teach you a thing or two about creativity, it talks about some stuff that isn’t being usually talked about when it comes to creativity, hard work and how it all ties together. 

Mystic Messenger

Yes. Don’t ask. Who am I kidding go ahead! I have known mystic messenger for a long time, but I haven’t really actually played this game til this April. I’d like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed each and every part of it and would love to play more, though I don’t have enough hourglasses to continue 

May: 

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp

OMAYGUDNESS DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED WITH THIS GAME. It all really started at the beginning of quarantine. Where everyone is getting hyped up because the new Animal Crossing game came out right after they implemented quarantine. So my broke self can't afford switch was kinda sad about it but then the days moved on. I ended up watching gaming videos of animal crossing and looking for some memes that I can share with my friends. One day, my best friend told me that Animal Crossing has a mobile game and I am floored. Of course I went on the internet to search and low and behold there is Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. But then I checked, and it wasn't available to download on my country, but I figured out a way to do so and have now been addicted ever since!

Catching Up on Anime 

Hun you have no idea how many series have I started but ended up not finishing because of school! I was rlly planning on catching up on both the Ghibli and the Anime but that didn't work (I ain't even finished with the Studio Ghibli stuff up to now) I would like to make a list but that would be too many...The one series that I have been aching to watch though is called Beastars and I was so happy that Netflix has put it back on it's list of series!