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If this gets 100 notes by the end of June, I'll go through the photos I took this year so far and post some (flowers and clouds probably, mybe even a bird if we're lucky).

If this gets 1000 notes, I'll go through last years' photos to look for anything interesting, too.

#if this gets x notes #if this gets 100 notes #photography #help pls #I need motivation

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I'm a day late for wIP Wednesday, but the photo is from yesterday. Maybe I need to get something ready for posting on Tuesday to manage to post on Wednesday...

Anyway, I got some waterproof-when-dried "write & draw" ink, put it in two of my fountain pens (with different nibs), and doodled a bit on 10x15 cm/ 4x6 inch filecards.

#WIP Wednesday #traditional art #ink

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For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

#Tutorial Tuesday #writing #misunderstood advice clarified

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The sweater back is up to 160 rows. Next up is knitting two parts up to the future shoulder seam…

#WIP Wednesday #Knitting

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WIP Wednesday time! Still on the crafty more than arty side, I'm planning to make myself a bag that has exactly the compartments I want, for my pocket-sized bullet journal ringbook, my phone, my camera, and a pen or four. Also, the back of the sweater-in-progress is up to 139 rows.

#WIP Wednesday #crafts #sewing #planning #bags #knitting

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Okay so I remembered that for years I used to pronounce the u in "cushion" as an "a", similarly to how you say "cut". But then I found out a lot of people pronounce it as an "oo", similarly to how you say "coup". (I'm not a native English speaker so if the comparisons don't fit please don't come for my ass) But apparently people also say the first.

Native and non-native English speakers are welcome to vote, reblog for sample size etc etc

[anke-creates]

One way to speed it up is not drying the paper on the mold, but to transfer it to a piece of felt or cloth, so you can make more sheets at once. The way I did it was:

On a water-proof surface, put down something that can absorb a lot of water (I had an old flannell bedspread folded up)

Have a stack of old towels or similar ready. Put one of them on top of the water absorber.

Put the mold with the pulp in it on top, and remove excess moisture from the back, like you show in the video.

Lift the mold off the stack, leaving the pulp on the fabric/felt/fleece/whatever.

Put the next old towel/whatever on top.

Repeat 3-5 for until you run out of towels, or the pulp gets too thin, or you won't have room to dry more than that.

Apply pressure to the whole stack to press out water, e.g. by putting a cutting board on top and standing on it.

Carefully peel the stack of towels and damp paper apart, and put them somewhere to dry. The paper may stick to the towels, so you could line-dry them, even!

You will get imprints of the weave of whatever cloth you use on the paper, so that's another angle you can experiment with.

Here’s a quick and comprehensive video of how I made paper 📝

#paper making

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I had hoped to have something more interesting than a slowly growing rectangle to show off for today, but hey - getting closer to possibly actually making an item of clothing is pretty cool :D It's up to 109 rows now.

#WIP Wednesday #knitting

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cackles just a little I figured out a way to fit a month log in my pocket sized BuJo ringbook on just one page!

I'm not sure if I'll keep the last two bits for notes or cut them off, but I'll leave them for now, becaue cutting off is easier than gluing back together.

(I made the ringbook myself, as a first janky experiment with "leather paper". Will be improved on.)

#Crafts #Bullet Journal #Month Log

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For WIP Wednesday, have a pic of my sweater-in-the-making. I belatedly put a marker thread in, so now I know I'm at 77 lines. I nearly exclusively work on it on public transport. Not interesting pattern-wise, just a big stockinette rectangle with eventually a bit of a dip for the back of the neck. But it's my first big knitting project, and I never finished one of the handful of small ones I tried…

#WIP Wednesday #knitting #I know I'm late #but bleh

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like okay if we're talking about this anatomically the ear holes on a human skull and a cat are actually in the same spot it's a difference in the shape of the cranium. you can see what's happening if you look at hairless cats

ears is big. so you can put the cat ears wherever you want if you start them at the same point as where the human ears would go.

just like. pull the sideburns back a little and it's fine. it's fine.

it's the best way to catify your blorbos with visible human ears. but that's just my........ purrsonal opinion..............

#Tutorial Tuesday #anthros #cat ears #fantasy anatomy #great breakdown #thank you!

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Glaze and Nightshade

Regarding the use of Glaze and Nightshade to protect your art from AI/poison AI datasets I saw contradictory information in posts here which to use first. I couldn't find a mention on the official websites*, so I sent an email asking.

Ben Y. Zhao kindly answered:

Nightshade and Glaze interfere a bit with each other right now. You can run both, but you should run Nightshade then Glaze. That way Glaze will have the strongest effect. Protection is more important than poison.

* official websites: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu and glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

#AI #Glaze #Nightshade #protect your art #fuck ai art #anti ai art #ai art theft #PSA

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Hey. I lost most of February to a very persistent cold, and haven't managed to get back into drawing yet. And right now I'm prioritising getting my home in order again, but I'll try. I have continued work on my first knitted sweater on the commute to work...

The second sleeve needs another 10 rows, then the next piece would be either back or front. (I started with the sleeves because it's my first big knitting project, so I thought if I had to unravel the first piece because the tension was too uneven, I'd start with the small pieces. And I did unravel the first, mostly done sleeve because, no.)

#knitting #sweaters #WIP Wednesday

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FUNGUARY IS HAPPENING AGAIN!!! February is right around the corner, which means it’s soon time for Funguary 2024! the drawing event where we draw a bunch of mushroom based characters during the month of feb. This will be our third year of Funguary, and this time it’s a leap year!

Here’s how it works: Each week of the month will have a theme with seven different prompts, draw a mushroom character within that theme in order to join. The themes are Celestial, Demonic, Edible and Cryptic. Each week of February is a new theme. You don’t have to complete all the prompts, just one mushroom per theme/week is plenty!

If you’re hardcore you can definitely try and finish all the prompts though ;). The challenge intensity is adjustable to what suits you. This is a chill event where the goal is to just have fun and vibe, and honor the fungi kingdom with some really cool art🍄

I invite you all to come draw mushrooms with me! Use the hashtag #Funguary and #funguary2024 when posting your creations. I’ll be posting some of the creations here, and I’ll also be hanging out in the hashtag and comment sections! Really hope y’all join and draw fungi with me🥰🍄🌿 See you all on the first of February, LETS GOOOO!!

#art challenges

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Depends on how big a mistake and how much progress I'd have to undo to fix it...

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Crochet WIPs

Have 2 of my 3 current-going fibre craft WIPs (ignoring little experiments)

The first three images show parts of a pillow I'm working on. I used 3 skeins of my favourite kind of yarn (cotton, 125m/50g, for 2.5-2.5 mm crochet hook suggested) at once, and a 5mm crochet hook and just went at it. The centres are made with one line of rainbow yarn and 2 of black, and the other parts with three lines of black.

The 4th image is actually something I finished last month, a basket made amigurumi-style in a spiral of single crochet, from cloth yarn I made from worn-out T-shirts. It's dedicated to holding yarncraft projects/supplies.

The last one shows the WIP that was in the basket: one front panel of a simple vest I'm working on. That is super bulky yarn in double crochet. The other 3 parts need the top rown re-done, and then the pockets need sewing and ends weaving in and all of it sewn together.

#WIP Wednesday #crochet

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My Actual WIP is a sweater, but I got tired of all stockinette all the time (I've never actually finished a knitting project, except one snake in primary school) and did a bit of pattern swatching. The finished one is garter stitch along the edges, and stockinette in the middle, but alternating every 5 stitches/6 rows which was the "good" side of the stockinette, for the checkerboard pattern. Similar frame at the just-started one, and the one pattern visible is seed stitch.

#WIP Wednesday #knitting