#two of my special interests combined?!?!?

[starlingstalk]

can you do a breakdown on how you color? i find interesting how you mix many textures and colors in a piece

Ofc! Color is my favorite thing about drawing. :D

I made like a very brief rundown with the technique I use for a majority of my drawings but ofc it still varies a little.

Usually the only cases my process diverges is in the rendering. The color jitter (can be applied to most brushes in most Programms though the water color 6 brush is like my special angel child) makes a rlly big difference during the rendering due to there already being a lot of texture and Color variation and is something I always do.

After step 4 I usually only stick to either the textured ink for a lot of control, to the velvet for a lot of texture and depth or the classic soft for a more soft gradual end product where the color jitter only shines through.

With the first and third the key word really is color picking.

An example for the third brush. I here I made the overlay extremely faint and used the underpainting peeking through as a way to separate the parts of the coat rather than the lineart (at least from the first to the second picture). Using hue as contrast without making a clear dark-light contrast can be a bit difficult if it‘s done solitarily in a painting but due to color having different depth-perceptions (cool colors seem further away, appear darker even if they have the same value) it is fun to play with esp in combination!

Using the velvet brush is my favorite atm. You can use really vibrant colors and apply them similarly to how you would with ballpoint pens or coloured pencils. It‘s really easy to draw subtle changes in hue without having to be too particular about having the right color and building up the colors leaves you with both a direction that signals to the form of the subject and a rich multitude of different colors that appear completely different than a flat color can.

For this I recommend starting either darker or lighter in order to build up the color in one direction of the other!

Another tip is also to use blur to reduce the sheer amount of color variation of the color jitter if you‘re going to redefine most of the shapes anyways.

Here‘s a speedpaint where I use most of the things I‘m talking about. Flash warning for the sheer amount of color adjustment making the screen flicker at the beginning.

I also didn‘t mention gradient maps yet. Very useful for further color adjustment and in order to bring a very busy composition together color-wise!

Color still is a very individual thing I feel like. There isn‘t one way to color and the way my process is right now is very much fit to my understanding of it. I feel like the decisions you make when rendering; experimenting with colors you thought wouldn‘t go together, breaking the rules you have, figuring out how relative colors are simply because they cannot be isolated. It‘s trial and error but also learning practical lessons that make color make sense to you as you go along.

I hope this makes sense! Color is so fun and I‘m always excited when I get an ask about it. :‘D

Also the jittery water color 6 and Textured Ink brush is free I believe. The bottom two are from a paid brushpack from a creator on instagram. I‘d say only the water Color 6 brush really is something that I find uncommon. The other three can be easily swapped for any other brush that has similar properties. (Pressure sensitivity + texture for the first two and flat marker + texture for the last). I‘ll repost this with a link if anyone‘s interested!

[hatchet-handle]

to whoever wrote the NPMD x Final Destination crossover fic PLEASE I JUST WANNA TALK

[siiddestroya]

[dr-marbles]

demigod severus snape

demigod severus snape who is the son of aphrodite

demigod severus snape who is not beautiful or conventionally attractive because he is the son of her war form

demigod severus snape who uses charmspeak, who can manipulate and convince like no other

demigod severus snape, who represents everything that the greeks tried to erase about aphrodite. who represents her bloody and violent aspects, the living reminder that love is war and war is love, that love is sometimes something that mutilates your heart and carves your ribs into thorns

demigod severus snape, son of Aphrodite of War (Areia), or Aphrodite The Dark One (Melanis), or Aphrodite the Gravedigger (Tumborukhos)

demigod severus snape, who cries to his mother “why did you not make me beautiful” and she tells him “you are the child of love, and sometimes love is not beautiful”

demigod severus snape, researching his mother and realizing that if she can be both heavenly and bloody, if she can be worshiped and loved while mothering fear and panic, then so can he, he can both be sinful and loved, realizing his sins are what make him godly

demigod severus snape, accepting that his sins do not make him any less a child of love.

demigod severus snape, who grows to accept himself in his mothers name, because that is what Aphrodite is, and he is her child, made from her perfections and her sins, and that the sins are not only from his mortality

demigod severus snape, son of Aphrodite

[uh-ohspaghettio]

This clip feels relevant to this beautiful poll @rpftourney

[spidersinyourshoes]

it’s yeehaw time bros

I’m so. normal about this. So many sketches and ideas but these are the ones that are presentable rn👍

No, Feitan doesn’t actually consume his drink (he don’t feel like putting his collar down) he’s just holding it to look cool <3

Kortopi and Bonolenov are poncho bros fr fr I tried to incorporate parts of Bono’s design into his outfit as well but it was so hard to do lmaoo

But was this whole thing just an excuse to draw Uvo in assless chaps? maybe. The world may never know. Also he is literally so hard to draw for no reason like wth i struggled so much????

Also I have some very important (have no value other than that they made me giggle a bit) factoids (literally just made them up) about cowboy PT:

- Feitan has one of the tallest horses in the troupe but has to keep thinking of creative ways to get on bc he refuses to use a step stool like a normal person

- Shal used to be the one to drive the wagon but he got so diabolical with it that Franklin is now the designated driver

- Nobunaga carries this big ass rifle with him everywhere he goes and has been banned from multiple establishments because of it

- Phinks has been banned from the local saloon for starting one too many bar fights. Also he’s probably a bull rider in his free time? idk why it just makes sense somehow.

- Machi is a roper (obviously)

anyway i’ll probs do some more drawings when the art juices have returned to me and when i have time i’ll try to color some of these. I just know that this very niche thing is going to take over my mind for the foreseeable future so have fun with the yeehaw bullshit that i’ll be posting <3

[seventeenlovesthree]

So I've been discussing the idea of "having a hard time" diving back into old shows - particularly those I was obsessive about in the past.

One of those shows - was Bakuten Shoot Beyblade. I believe I've mentioned it a few times before, but from approximately 2003 to 2009, this was my absolute JAM. After Digimon Tamers, it was the very first anime I was "active" about in German forums, I wrote RPGs, I wrote fanfiction, I drew fanart... You name it. And while I thought I had the main cast down to a T, I am pretty sure that, after being out of the series for so long, I would analyze them a little bit differently today. Heck, I think even my preferred shipping choices have changed somewhat from how they were back then... (To be fair, I have always liked every single combination between the main four, but I would definitely say that some of those are more dear to me than others.)

I think I'd really like to write some character analysis for them at some point. I always enjoyed taking apart their respective tropes and see how their traumas unfolded. And, looking at how even modern depictions of them go, I seem to not have been that far off after all!

To keep it as shortly as possible:

Takao may, at first glance, strike you as your typical shounen protagonist who loves to eat a lot and believes in the power of friendship to succeed - and while these aspects about him are certainly true, it's interesting to watch how it all unfolds between the first and third season. There is a fine line between his genuinely good heart, a passion for what he loves and an ego he has to overcome sometimes. I would even argue that he is one of the most misunderstood characters out there; because due to his family background, he does have severe abandonment issues, fearing to be left behind and thus he doesn't react well to situations like that - either he turns into a wounded puppy or covers it up with a mask of cockiness. He can be brash and hotheaded - but he genuinely loves his friends and believes in the good in people (and thus he really gives me magical girl vibes). He knows how to pull others with him, has an incredibly charming and attractive energy and other people feel naturally drawn to him... It's beautiful.

The stereotype Max has always been dealing with was that of the "sugar high ray of sunshine" - and I am delighted to see how wide-spread the idea has become that, while he absolutely IS a positive, open and physical person, he is also masking a lot of his own insecurities and abandonment issues with cocky phrases and a never-ending smile. Because he feels like he has to - to keep the band together, to not lose the sense of togetherness and to not be abandoned and replaced again. Just like with Takao, family-related trauma is at play here. His defensively smart Blading style is oftentimes ridiculed and overlooked, thus kinda playing into him trying to overcome his own inferiority complexes. Both him and Takao adore their newly found family to the core and it's no surprise that they easily click with one another - and that Max seems to have an easy time getting through to almost everyone in the team as well.

Rei - oh my Lord, I will try to keep this one short as well, because he was definitely my fave back in the day. And what's not to love about human-cat-hybrid (good old Neko-Jin days, how I miss thee) with a yin/yang theme going on who has a hard time choosing between his mind and his heart, traditions and freedom, and continuously gets himself into trouble because of that? One may also argue that he's getting the shortest end of the stick because of his inner and outer conflicts A LOT... And despite that, he is just as prone to cockiness, probably also trying to mask his own attachment issues by doing that. The burden of expectations that are constantly thrown at him drives him to the need to find his own path - so he tends to run away and changes direction a lot. Like a true cat does... Man, I love that absolute disaster child, always torn between his values and needs, who, even though loyalty absolutely does play a role for his character, has an even harder time conveying how much his found family means to him. In that regard, he is only topped by one particular character (no pun intended...).

Kai, oh Kai. Edgelord of the century, or, like we used to call him, mister ice cube. Essays upon essays have been written about his character - the cold exterior that was formed by years and years of child abuse (at least in the anime, the manga is an entirely different beast to cover, but even there, the subject of abandonment issues is present again). A cold and cruel mask, a brilliant Blader with an aura of, dare I say it, sadistic fun when it comes to destroying his opponents... And yet, there is that other side of him. The side that is incredibly protective and, in his very own way, supportive. Giving advice through harsh words, claiming that he only has his own interests in mind... But is that really the case? Isn't he, deep down inside, just as smitten by these dorks he is "stuck with"? Obsessed with beating those he claims to be his rivals until his very last breath... A twisted sense of love he probably hasn't fully understood himself yet... Or has he?

Long story short - they are all cocky teenage boys with a passion for spinning tops that play off of each other incredibly well and actually love each other a lot and are probably all bisexual disasters to different degrees, but I will get deeper into sexuality headcanons later.

[bharv]

Still waiting for the draggy age hype to hit me like

[sunnyaliceart]

"This reminds me of a Korok Puzzle!"

Hylian Layton and Rito Luke

[rose-colored-hearts]

I think Carrie White would make an interesting build for a dnd character. Wild Magic Sorcerer with Acolyte background??? A tragic backstory??? MOMMY ISSUES???? She’s primed to have a dnd character based off of her.

[shiningstarr15]

Fated by the Cosmos ✨💫

Something about two stars being pulled into each other’s gravitational orbit and moving so fluid and in close proximity that they essentially become one, or whatever 😬🤷‍♀️

Doublestar Duo/Binarystar Duo fans rejoice ⭐️⭐️

Can you tell I’m obsessed with them?

Alt. Vers under cut

Original w/o text

Golden Princess and Little Knight 💛🗡️👑 (this one’s criminally underrated)

[duck-of-the-beanz]

Did some experimentation with the lighting as well as a new lineart pen :O

Pretty pleased with this for some parts and not so happy with others but I'm tryna perfect his design heheh

Artfight's nearly done so I'll be posting a video of my attacks to my channel soon - I'll probably post a link to that when its up. Alsooooo that also means more posts from me here soon too :)

Have a nice day!

[coffeefromvoid]

OK so here is a costume analysis? of Mark Seibert’s Tybalt, specifically his party costume.

Here are some pictures so its in your mind.

Right.

So the first thing that i notice is his bodice, it is mimicking stays.

Specifically Tudor/Elizabethan stays. Which make sense, Romeo and Juliet was written in that era.

But the reason these stays jump out at me is that it’s typically a garment worn by women underneath their dresses, it’s a support garment. The choice of

1. making the costume look like Elizabethan stays are very intentional because if they wanted to reference Tudor fashion (which is what they wanted as the skirts of the ensemble also resemble the fashion of the time, and some ensamble members even have feathers mimicking a tudor ruff) they could have gendered the costumes more by making the men wear doublets and not stays. But they didn’t

Because

2. It’s not just Tybalt that wears something like this, its almost all the male characters that wear some corset esque structured bodice in the party scene

Crunchy Merutio as reference, but the reason i noticed Tybalt’s costume the most as basically a wild mix of modern avant garde fashion and historical is because his costume during the capulet party seems the most bare.

It feels way way way less extra than Mercutio’s or Benvolio’s, and even the background ensamble is so fancy that Tybalt looks out of place when he starts to sing „Ich bin schuldlos“

The bare looking barely decorated pants make the costume look less full, and by extension force the viewer to look at the more detailed part of the costume, aka: the stays technically one is looking at the busy arms but, you soon notice it’s just a repeating pattern so you look at the stays

As i said he looks out of place, the stays make him look vulnerable, not because they are typically women’s clothing, but because they are traditionally undergarments and his being so plain make that very clear.

I can’t describe it well but when you watch the scene you’ll definitely know what i mean.

Here are some crisper images

This vulnerability that is seen in this costume is very unexpected from Tybalt, to paraphrase Mark himself (from the making of), “Tybalt is a very proud person […] And that jacket [his red jacket outside of the party] supports that. […] It’s like bullfighter’s jacket.”

This statement directly contradicts everything we learn in the party scene, we know this, but it’s just Aaa

I am sooooo normal about Tybalt you guys. So normal.

[theorahsart]

Hi!! So, firstly, I’m absolutely obsessed with your Robespierre comic, when I first learned about him I thought he was autistic, so I’m really glad to see I’m not the only one who has this theory!! Kinda leading on from that, Robespierre obviously had pretty bad health, and towards the end of his life especially, he took a lot of time off of work due to illness- do you think this was an actual physical illness, or a nervous breakdown, or burnout, or some kind of combination of all three?

Aaaah thank you 😭 That's so kind, and I love that I keep finding more and more people that agree with this theory. It's especially cool that some experienced historians also have considered this (such as Saintjustitude here on Tumblr!)

TLDR: I personally think it's a combination of all three- but when it comes to the physical illness thing, I personally think any physical symptoms were born from the other two factors. More detailed thoughts below :3

Autism affects you in such a physical way (or, it always has with me). I'm so over-sensitive to stimuli, that a normal amount of stress that most people get makes me feel physically sick (once when I had a stomach bug I didnt realise until everyone else caught it, cos the symptoms were the same as when I'm getting sensory overload 😅) When its really, really bad, I find it hard to regulate my adrenaline- I get ulcers in mouth, my tummy is out of whack for days. I definately have to isolate myself from others just to try and re-regulate my body, any conversation or noise just sets off my adrenaline again. I speculate on whether a similar impact may have been had with Robespierre.

We do know he had 'sores' on his legs during his last bout of illness. I've gone with the assumption that these sores were hives of some kind- since the only other kind of sores people get are either from an extremely rare immune disorder or from very poor circulation in the legs. I'll assume Robespierre at least didn't have poor leg circulation since he was supposedly walking Brount every afternoon and was known to stick very rigidly to his routines. Hives/welts also suggests extreme stress- or well, this is again the case in my personal experience.

Regards burnout- I think it's safe to say all CPS members present at the same time were probably dealing with burnout, its not normal in any time period to work for so long and only sleep 4 hours tops. They were human after all!! 😭

With Robespierre's inner-feelings, we have some accounts from ppl he knew and Robespierre himself saying he was deeply unhappy and stressed at the time. He became 'unwell' quite a few times after various emotional conflicts over the years in politics, and for situations much less stressful than what he dealt with in 1794. And Im pretty sure I could pull up numerous examples where he 'fixates' on something and will not let it go. So imagine being someone who obsesses over things to the point of acute anxiety, who is then dealing with all the impossible problems of 1794. This combination of factors suggests to me someone who could easily have been prone to a nervous breakdown during that time.

I'm thinking about all this from an autism perspective, but this is probably true of anyone under high stress, so I think you can easily consider this without speculating on Robespierre being autistic. Although he didn't seem to handle situations as well as the other CPS members. You could say this was due to health, I say it was due to autism. But as I said at the beginning, in my experience physical health and autism are connected closely.

I hope that's a satisfying answer!

[deadbeandrop]

camp lazlo and "The Machine"

i forgot i had written about this on the screenshot blogs' FAQ, so i think i'll make it a post with my updated conclusions as well... so, have you ever wondered what's up with the colors in the HD version of the show?

y'know...

...this?

the first time i had watched the show, it was in pretty bad quality, and i had chalked any color differences up to that. even when i did have access to a few HD episodes, i never really noticed it outside of slinkman being a bit... lighter, mostly due to the fact that everything else was so submerged in Gunk in the first place. as you can see, the "issue" affects almost exclusively the yellows, most notably seen in the sky, or in characters like slinkman or clam, or even in lumpus’s glasses, and characters' eyes in general losing their off-white tint due to this. a quick look at any streaming service that has the show will tell you that almost all "official" distributions have this issue, and often (in)consistently so, at that. it may very well be the only version these services have access to (considering how they often the resources they have access to aren't always the best, which leads to things like episodes out of order or incorrect subtitles). to say the least, it bothers me a lot, especially for someone like me who's very particular about this sort of thing...! (it's sort of the reason i put the screenshot blogs on hold for a while, aside from the fact that it's a bit of a time sink — the issue just stressed me out too much!)

so, what's going on, then? my friends and i had ended up speculating about it for a while, and we had a lot of theories — was it the result of an upscaling process done for streaming services? was it something technical, like issues with the video encoding? did someone in charge of the process simply fuck up? all of the above?! and... most of all, why???

now, i know very little about all the technical stuff, but i've come to believe the most likely explanation is also the most simple one, with a little bit of obscure knowledge on the side... in that, i think it makes the most sense if the colors are fucked up due to The Machine at cartoon network. see, this isn't just an issue with camp lazlo, and there are other CN shows that have been a victim of this too, such as billy and mandy.

and here's what mr. atoms has to say on the topic:

the shows had also both aired their "later" seasons around the same time, circa ~2007-2008, and it explains away a lot of those inconsistencies, too �� "It’s also the reason that Mandy’s hair changes from pure yellow to light yellow and back again all the time." in most other shows, the effect this would have is likely a lot more negligible. as one of the main characters, mandy is pointed out a lot as it'd be something you'd notice the most. camp lazlo, on the other hand... is a show where the whole sky is colored a bright yellow.

...definitely one of the worst shows that could've been hit with it.

even so, "The Machine" application is not actually the only state these episodes are stuck in... or rather, i don't think so, at least...?

so as far as i know... (which certainly isn't everything,)

- in order to to accommodate for the transition period from box TVs to flat screen TVs, i believe that camp lazlo, was, in fact, a show that was produced in a widescreen format, so it could be aired in full on new TVs and crop to fit the 4:3 aspect ratio of older ones.

- i am not sure if this inherently means it was also produced in Full HD (1080p).

- as can be confirmed by old recordings (one of the only additional benefits of sites like WCO keeping the old versions around is stuff like this, as annoying as it is trying to find anything else...), both color corrected and un-corrected versions of at least part of the show have aired at some point.

- as far as i'm aware, there is NO version of this show in Full HD with un-corrected colors.

- however, what i do know is that there is a widescreen, non-HD (480p or 720p, i can't remember off the top of my head) version of the show with the un-corrected colors. if you have a bit of a keen eye, you might have noticed it used on foreign variations of the official cartoon network youtube channel for clips. (it had fooled me at first into thinking it was a secret, all correct colors, and Full HD version of the show, but unfortunately this isn't the case.) see, my friends and i went on a little hunt for it for a while, with that detail as our basis, and it is out there... just not on the standard american versions of those services. instead, we had to look at a whole variation of HBO's streaming service itself, HBO GO, of which's entire existence is still currently on the line due to the HBO rebrand. (we have rescued it from there, in case of it becoming lost media of sorts, but due to technical limitations were only able to get it by recording, and thus also still has the HBO logo.) the mere existance of this version is very interesting to me and raises a lot of questions that may also contradict some of my earlier statements.

- and finally, i haven't looked at every set of files there is (as from all the different streaming services) so i actually am not 100% certain if there's actually variation between THOSE as well, and if there is... the situation is even more confusing to me.

i don't know if there will ever be justice for this, or if any victims of The Machine have ever recovered from its Wrath. it's a topic i've gone over dozens of times trying to sort it out, because, i'll be honest... it sort of haunts me.

but there's your little information dump and speculation for the day

[rattfreakk]

Should I make historical fits for the mh girls?