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Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

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Helpful and Preventative Stretches for Writers, Artists, and Gamers 💪🎨✍🎮

If you type, write, draw, game, or generally use your hands a lot (especially if you’re prone to RSI or Carpal Tunnel!) try these stretches as both a preventative measure, and on the spot relief. Take care of yourself and your body, friends!

Start with hands up, fingers stretched out.  Stretch your thumb as far as you can over your palm. Hold and repeat 4 times.

Touch each finger to your thumb. Hold each for 30 seconds. Repeat on each hand 4 times.

Start with a fist. Open half way, hold for 2 seconds. Stretch fingers out, hold for 2 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

Start with one arm out, palm up. Pull your fingers back with your other hand. Hold for 10 seconds. Do the same with your other hand. Repeat 4 times

Start with arms up, palms out. Bend wrists down until you feel the stretch, but keep your fingers loose. Hold 10 seconds. Bend wrist upwards, until you feel it in your wrist and arm. Hold 10 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

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Made a casual guide for how to design your own horse and horse gear! ✨ 🐴

I can’t speak to every style of tack, so take this guidance loosely! it’s mostly for fun and based on the very important guiding principle of Horse Gear Cool >>> Horse Needs This Gear

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That feeling when you post new fic, and then you recieved emails with kudos notifs. And then you see users who read through all your old fics and leave traces of kudos

Thank you.... thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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how to wave magic wand by 街头尬术师【魔法披风】

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No one owes artists anything.

But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

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Who/what are some of your biggest inspirations for your art because I think that your art style and the way you color your art is super cool!! 😁

Thank you! Glad you appreciate my work! The list of artists I feel inspired by is long, and quite frankly I don't think a lot of it ends up actually showing in my work (as in, I don't think I capture those strengths quite well  😅 ). But a chance to talk about some of my favorite artists is always a good one, so... Let's start with Ayami Kojima, the illustrator of the Castlevania series from the PS1 to the Nintendo DS era.

When I came across her work I didn't really have a grasp of anything resembling color theory, but her pieces are one of the various reasons I'm still an avid fan of the series to this day; I found them mesmerizing. How could I not, really: the blending between elements of barroque art like the elaborate patterns and the chiaroscuro, the elegant (if incredibly anachronistic) sense of fashion, the dramatic colors: intense blood reds, royal blues and golden yellows mixed with the pale marble tones of the skin of the figures. And that splice of body horror juxtaposed with the pretty boys being depicted... it's just electrifying. An absolutely perfect fit that elevates a campy game series about fighting Dracula over and over again into something much more magnificent.

Next on the list is Yoshitaka Amano. If you don't know the name, he's an anime character designer and the illustrator responsible for the Vampire Hunter D novels, as well as concept art and logo design for the Final Fantasy series.

Not unlike Kojima, Amano's work excels due to its elegance. Unlike Kojima, however, Amano comes across as a skilled caligrapher rather than a painter: his lines and brushwork are loose and flowing in the most delightfully controlled way. The color choices are reminiscent of traditional ukyo-e, but with a watercolor touch that almost resembles french budoir cartels. One of the artists that I respect the most yet outside of some character design quirks I wouldn't be surprised if his influence is sensed the least in my work, go figure.

Moving on... of course, as an animator, it should be no surprise I greatly admire the work of Hayao Miyazaki. However, when it comes to color more than the films themselves what truly hit a spot in my heart was his watercolor work. Be it concept art, manga covers or movie posters, the color choices are somehow soft while still exuding passionate vibrancy. The soft blue and purple shading against the light yellows and oranges with the occassional red accent of his sunsets are a sight to behold. It feels loose yet every brushtrike is exactly where it needs to go to create the intended effect

Still on the realm of more ethereal colors, Jean Giraud, ak.a Moebius. No offense intended to legends like Akira Toriyama, Kentaro Miura or Jack Kirby, but Giraud was arguably the best comic book illustrator to ever grace the Earth. His linework was so exquisite he didn't even need color to bring you into another world, but when he added it... well...

It was a lot of things. It was expresionistic, vibrant, dream like and bold. Psychedelic even (which is no coincidence given his exploration of substances). But it was never overwhelming. I didn't know how on Earth someone could ever do something like that when I first looked at it, not having a good grasp at color theory at that point in time yet. And quite frankly, now that I have more knowledge under my belt... I still don't think I could manage such a rich balance.

Speaking of Kentaro Miura... I don't think he has influenced my coloring that much. He IS one of my biggest art inspirations (he was the king of black and white, some of those pages would only look worse with color) but his biggest influence in my art is about lighting and the way he handled hatching(aka, inking), as well as the intensity of how more dramatic and agressive moments are portrayed. His color illustrations are gritty and oppresive (and occassionaly have intense accents), which fits the theme of his work but isn't the most experimental approach. Seriously, tell me which one makes your imagination fly more between these...

...and THIS.

I rest my case. Anyway. Having mentioned all these great artists and their excellent color choices, if there's one artist that REALLY made me think about color and the theory behind it, that's gotta be Hirohiko Araki, the author of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Mostly because he does whatever the hell he wants with it.

It's easy to forget when some people can be brutally critical, but foregoing traditional color design and color theory principles for the sake of trying something different isn't a bad thing and Araki embraces this with gusto. Seeing an artist take his own character designs and being so carefree about the color choices he uses for them was liberating, while also telling me an awful lot about the emotional effects of color. The palettes Araki uses are unusual, but they're all aimed to create a diverse set of emotional responses on the reader. That forced my mind into thinking so much more about the intent of each color choice. I was following my intuition up to that point and largely still do, but even an ounce of awareness can make the world of difference.

Lastly, but not less importantly, a film director among all these illustrators: Dario Argento. Who also showed me how a single color enveloping the frame can kick like a mule.

I briefly mentioned Suspiria (1977) during the Spy X Family 30 day challenge, namely to compare it to Endo using reds without being overwhelming. That was NOT a dig against this film(which is in fact one of my favorite movies ever), because the colors being so intense is the point. The extremes the primary colors reach while enveloping the cast, contrasted against the intense shadows of the rest of the set, give the film a fairly surreal atmosphere which enhances the dream like logic of the events. The way the dangers in Freigburg's Tanz Akademie don't always make physical sense, and that just makes them all the more nightmarish. It's effectively using oldschool Disney's Technicolor for the opposite effect the house of the mouse did: you don't feel safe, a lot of it looks unreal but that's precisely why it FEELS so viscerally violent.

Seriously, how in the nine levels of hell can someone make YELLOW feel threatening?

But I'm gonna leave it here for now. These are some of the artists that have inspired my work. Some more evidently, others less so Having done so much Spy X Family fanart it's impossible to say Endo isn't part of this conversation too, with its comparatively desaturated look to other Shonen series, but it was worth covering the other influences too. Is there any artist whose work you got similar vibes from my art that I didn't mention? It would be fun to hear what that is(heard some really fun responses in the past).

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day... 💔 

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me at 6:99 am when work starts at 7 🐱

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Dog doodle

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video is mildly funny but this comment killed me

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