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[xitsensunmoon]

HOW TO GLAZE YOUR WORK WITHOUT A GOOD PC(or on mobile)/TIPS TO MAKE IT LESS VISIBLE

Glaze your work online on:

Cara app. It requires you to sign up but it is actually a good place for your portfolio. Glazing takes 3 minutes per image and doesn't require anything but an internet connection compared to 20-30 minutes if your pc doesn't have a good graphic card. There IS a daily limit of 9 pictures tho. Glazed art will be sent to you after it's done, by email. It took me 30 minutes to glaze 9 images on a default setting. Cara app is also a space SPECIFICALLY for human artists and the team does everything in their power to ensure it stays that way.

WebGlaze. This one is a little bit more complicated, as you will need to get approval from the Glaze team themselves, to ensure you're not another AI tech bro(which, go fuck yourself if you are). You can do it through their twitter, through the same Cara app(the easiest way) or send them an email(takes the longest). For more details read on their website.

Unfortunately there are no ways that I know of to use Nightshade YET, as it's quite new. Cara.app definitely works on implementing it into their posting system tho!

Now for the tips to make it less visible(the examples contain only nightshade's rendering, sorry for that!):

Heavy textures. My biggest tip by far. Noise, textured brushes or just an overlay layer, everything works well. Preferably, choose the ones that are "crispy" and aren't blurred. It won't really help to hide rough edges of glaze/nightshade if you blur it. You can use more traditional textures too, like watercolor, canvas, paper etc. Play with it.

Colour variety. Some brushes and settings allow you to change the colour you use just slightly with every stroke you make(colour jitter I believe?). If you dislike the process of it while drawing, you can clip a new layer to your colour art and just add it on top. Saves from the "rainbow-y" texture that glaze/nightshade overlays.

Gradients(in combination with textures work very well). Glaze/nightshade is more visible on low contrast/very light/very dark artworks. Try implementing a simple routine of adding more contrast to your art, even to the doodles. Just adding a neutral-coloured bg with a darker textured gradient already is going to look better than just plain, sterile digital colour.

And finally, if you dislike how glaze did the job, just try to glaze/shade it again. Sometimes it's more visible, sometimes it's more subtle, it's just luck. Try again, compare, and choose the one you like the most. REMEMBER TO GLAZE/SHADE AFTER YOU MADE ALL THE CHANGES, NOT BEFORE!!

If you have any more info feel free to add to this post!!

[xitsen]

Just letting people here know that I won't post any Hazbin content ever again, if you follow me for it you're free to leave because I'm not dealing with that fandom ever fucking again

[xitsensunmoon]

If you're a trump supporter unfollow me rn and forever pls I loathe you with my whole being

[xitsensunmoon]

Sobbing... Thank you kando....

[xitsensunmoon]

YESSSS ABSJHAHAB!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSS THEY FUCKING CAME IN

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️IM SO HAPPY YESSS

[xitsensunmoon]

I'm sobbing y'all look at these lil guys they are so teeny weeny. So teeny tiny. So weeny teeny. So litol. So shmol...

[xitsensunmoon]

[xitsensunmoon]

The thing that kills me about dca and robots in general, is that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to relate to an experience of having a childhood.

An experience of having a caregiver. Experience of growing. An experience of gaining experience.

They were brought into this world for a reason, for a specific purpose and their only function is to follow it. They have a motherboard without really knowing what the "mother" part of it means.

You were born knowing nothing? You were a blank canvas? You grew your knowledge and vocabulary and experience slowly with age? They wonder how that must've felt.

Are they even allowed to wonder, how could it be, to be able to choose your purpose? To be able to pursue the horizon if you want to do so. To be a canvas, and if you don't like the painting, to cover it up and start over.

No, no. They are no canvas. Circuit boards don't work that way. You erase, you rewrite. No layers, no wait time. You exist as you are or you don't exist at all.

Their future is determined by whoever knits the very strict lines of code into their system.

Your future is determined by you. Unlimited. You hold the brush.

Are you scared?

They know they would be.

No rules to follow? No, no. They wouldn't be able to choose what to do with their life either. It's probably a good thing they were made for this life! To tend to children, to soothe the parents. It's a life they fit into, it's a life they know and easily glide through.

It's a life that will never ever change.

Right?

[xitsensunmoon]

Hands appreciation post<3 there will be more :)

[xitsensunmoon]

People often talk how inaccurate self diagnoses can be for things like autism and while I personally disagree, I found it to be true to some degree. But in a completely opposite direction.

When I just found out about a possibility of me being neurodivergent, maybe, like, a year ago? (Thanks to a peer review by my friends💀) I took an online test for a self diagnosis - RAADS-R. And there's a reason they say "it can be inaccurate".

I think my first "score" was something close to 80 out of 240 possible. It meant I had some of the traits, but a lot of neurotypical people could score that high too.

But I got curious. And so for the next year I was doing my research. Finding out about spoon theory, about energy levels, about light and sound sensitivity, struggles with social cues and such.

I took the test again, a year later. I scored 167.

If your conclusion is "well, obviously you were influenced and the results are biased" you won't be entirely wrong. But the reason for it is not that I faked it. It's that I paid more attention to myself.

If you're living your whole life masking, you're taught to ignore absolutely every symptom of what may be autism or ADHD. My whole life I was thinking that I'm "weird" or "broken" or "different" or or or. I knew that I'm living my life somehow different than people around me. It felt like everyone got a tutorial how to live this life and I skipped it. But I could never understand why.

So, why did I score higher the second time I took the test? Because the first time all of the "weird" situations were never linked to autism in my brain. I had two dots, the connection between them being autism. But I never recognised the said connection, due to the high-masking nature that helped me to cope with everyday struggles.

But the second I made the connection, suddenly everything made sense. Suddenly, it's not "I'm too sensitive", it's not "something is wrong with me", it's not "why am I not enjoying this while others do?". It's fucking autism(and ADHD too, lol.)

That's the reason your diagnosis may be not as accurate as you think. Your brain can try and protect you from making the connection between your experiences and the diagnosis. Or, of course, there's a possibility to make a wrong connection, too.

But you're the only one who can find out. There's no one out there who knows you better than yourself.

[xitsensunmoon]

I know this post is more for cricut users but if you're in a spot where you're able to afford to switch from cricut to something else I highly recommend Silhouette. They're in the same price range (I got mine Silhouette Portrait 3 even cheaper than any cricut would be), the brand is less famous (which is a good thing when it comes to capitalism), they're much smaller(well, Silhouette Portrait 3 is), lightweight, faster, and more precise even with glossy materials(the sensor does NOT care what material you use as long as you follow instructions) ↓

(This was a failed first test of the Silhouette's software as I forgot to add borders all around the stickers but I was so amazed by how precise it is I didn't care that I fucked up. This is glossy paper by the way)

If you know how to use YouTube tutorials Silhouette studio is nothing to be afraid of, it definitely looks quite old but it does it's job very well and it took me just a few hours to get familiar with it fully. Be ready that 95% of fuck ups will be user mistakes, aka, your fault lol. Unlike Cricut, Silhouette obeys you fully at all times and sometimes that fucking sucks if you're stupid lol.

One downside I've found to it, is that it's quite noisy, so no night time sticker making is allowed :( but that's a very tiny con imo.

Cricut is very famous so they can afford such bullshit but I don't think silhouette can, so they might just be a bit more careful with their customers. (They tried to switch to subscription based program once and after immediate backlash from their audience they switched back. So? I guess that's good...?)

Anyway fuck capitalism

did yall know cricut put a metal strip in the back of their newer Maker 3 that doesn't do anything except pop out after like six months of regular use and force you to call customer service so they can tell you to replace the machine

well they did and instead of calling them and replacing an entire functional fucking machine you can just cut the bar out and put tape over what's left

fuck offfff,

[xitsensunmoon]

Whattt do you DO when you just have FEELINGS about the characters in your head but no actual story or words that can be put on paper like.... Yes I cry about them every night. no I don't know why I can't explain it. they just make my heart ache and I have no actual vocabulary to write why thank you goodbye

[xitsensunmoon]

God what if

What if spider moon + coraline

hm.

[xitsensunmoon]

Sometimes I think about how we as a fandom just replay Sun and Moon's voice lines over and over again.

How they would probably do the same, when pizzaplex feels especially cold and empty.

Playing your voice inside their head over and over again. Laughing at your jokes softly like they've never heard those before, but actually laughing just because the sound of your laughter is that contagious to them. Replaying their favourite moments with you before their eyes like a movie that they watch every time something goes wrong. You are their comfort character of that movie.

Oh how they would miss your actual voice. All of the recordings are glitchy now, as their speakers are shards of plastic, reminding them how actually fake they are. The recordings and themselves. How you're actually not here. How they're alone. Will you ever visit them again?

They miss your voice. They wish you could give them just one more opportunity to record it.

[xitsensunmoon]

....*eats the nugget* 👁️👄👁️

Jk jk! I have more! You all are cool af<33!!!

@starrspice @just-a-drawing-bean @kandidandi @skizabaa @bbonkie @juicyyyboxxx @nebuladreamz @darkxsoulzyx @silvermizuki @nefariouslydinkle

This is the Nugget of Friendship.

It is not given lightly. Yet I give it to you.

Yes. I mean YOU.

Now shoo.

Pass on the Nugget of Friendship.

[xitsensunmoon]

I know Valentine's Day has passed and I'm not even a fan but hear me out

We all know that in Help Wanted 2 Sun quite literally states that everything made in Pizzaplex is a property of Fazco, right? So he can do whatever he wants with it.

...You clean up with Sun after hours, like you always do, but today is a little bit different.

Today the daycare is covered in red and pink paper scraps, the leftovers of a few hours of Sun lecturing the kids on how to properly make Valentine cards. You could tell he wasn't in the mood because of something, but you couldn't catch why exactly without talking to him first and truly, your own mind wasn't at ease either so you left him be.

You still help him out of course, as you always do, handing him all of the kid's drawings in a pack and watching him go through them all, sorting, but then shred some. Not all of them, but quite a big chunk doesn't make it.

Probably because of how badly some of the kids tested his nerves today, part of you thinks.

But your mind leaves that thought abandoned very quickly, as you notice that he's almost done with his little routine. You wait patiently, holding one last card behind your back and when he turns back to you, clapping his hands in excitement at being done, you offer him another heart-shaped card. He snatches it with an overstretched smile plastered across his face and your heart sinks when it ends with the same fate as the ones which Sun deemed unworthy of keeping.

"No extras, told them — no extras! Faz.co is already generous enough to give those brats free paper to do their little silly confessions, I can't believe some child made two. Like they have so many loved ones?! Ha! Unacceptable, unacceptable."

He shakes his head in disapproval and dusts his hands, and it almost feels like the last card in his mind was filthy, as it was created by breaking his rules.

You look down at the brightly coloured pile of paper strips on the cushioned floor, feeling your chest tightening, but deciding against saying a thing.

A glitter pen writing in blue and yellow traces one single word, on the strip that has fallen the last.

Your name.