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Count Your Blessings - Completed

Well folks, it finally happened. I can't thank everyone enough for sticking with me through ups and downs. I hope you enjoy <3

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This timelapse is a bit messy but my goal was to record some of my rendering process to show the way I paint. It's not a tutorial but it might give an idea of how I push my pixels around.

The video starts after the rough sketch is already in place and then there's a BIG gap somewhere in the middle where I figure out all the trees and tentacles. I thought the face might be the most interesting bit to focus on anyway. The video is little over three minutes but the entire process probably took closer to six hours, not counting the looooong breaks.

There isn't a lot of color in this and I painted almost all of it with a gradient map adjustment layer on top of everything, colorpick set to "current and below". I start painting above that at the very end when working on the eye. Other tricks used in this is a tilt-shift blur filter to add some depth, a final color balance adjustment and a high pass layer for final sharpness.

He so sharp <3

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Something Unholy |18042024

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I’m having a rather bothersome flare up, so here’s

My top 10 favorite fics

In no particular order!

1) Count Your Blessings by MadMothMadame

Fandom: Naruto

Status: On-going, near complete

Summary: “All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation." -Louis de Bernières

The war is over. Tobirama ended it when he put his sword through Izuna's center mass. But where war had united the Senju behind their leader, peace threatened to tear them apart. And who better for the warmongers to look to as a leader than the greatest killer of Uchiha they had ever seen?

There were only two problems with that plan. One, Tobirama would never, ever, betray his elder brother.

Two, he may or may not have a surprisingly not dead Uchiha Izuna in a coma in his guest room, hiding the secret of resurrection that Tobirama needs with everything he is.

Now if only he would wake.

2) No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity

Fandom: MXTX - TGCF

Status: Complete

Summary: Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.

Faith.

His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.

"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.

I remember you.

I remember you.

I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.

(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)

3) A Dangerous Game by Cybrid

Fandom: Harry Potter

Status: On-going

Summary: Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets in Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts. After a botched attempt to extract the Horcrux in Harry’s scar leaves their souls tied together, Tom is forced to kidnap him when he makes his escape.

A story of Horcrux hunting, adventure and unwilling attraction.

4) Falling Leaves of Evergreen Trees by QuillQ

Fandom: Naruto/Harry Potter

Status: On-going

Summary: She is a nameless girl with no past and no future. A test subject at the mercy of Orochimaru. This place will kill her, but there is more to her than meets the eye. She was once someone else, and though no one here knows it, Harry Potter has never been able to stay dead for long.

“The only survivor.” Danzō tells his old friend with appropriate solemnity for the situation. After all, it was Hiruzen’s student who did this to the girl.

5) All’s Fair by Lovely_Elbow_Leech

Fandom: AtLA

Status: On-going (technically a series, but both books are phenomenal. Summary from book 1)

Summary: Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)

Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.

And they argue.

A lot.

6) Fire in the Mountains by EllaBesmirched (El_Bell)

Fandom: MHA

Status: On-going (technically a series, but the books are phenomenal. Summary from book 1)

Summary: “I’ll do it.”

Enji froze, fingers curling into a fist at his side, and didn’t turn around.

Shouto froze too, feeling his own eyes widen in shock at the words that had come out of his mouth, at the fact that he had actually stood up, followed his father out of the room, and dashed after him all just to say… he’d do it? He would do it? Him. Shouto Todoroki. He would--

Enji finally turned around and fixed Shouto with an expression so scathing, Shouto had to fight to keep his chin raised. “You’ll marry the Barbarian King.”

Shouto blinked. “Yes.”

7) Ear to Wall by Vodkassassin

Fandom: Naruto

Status: On-going

Summary: The Minato-sensei beams at him, and replies, “Kakashi! I’m glad you’re awake,” and, yup, that’s Minato-sensei’s voice.

Kakashi falls back down against the bed, closing his eyes. It’s too short of a way down, and he clenches hands that are too tiny and feeble and not his in dog-print sheets he hasn’t owned for decades.

8) Consuming Shadows by Child_OTKW

Fandom: Harry Potter

Status: On-going

Summary: His attention skipped passed the students and moved to the politicians’ pavilion. His gaze locked with crimson, and he nearly faltered under the sheer hunger in those eyes.

It unnerved him how fixated the man was on his dirtied, exhausted figure.

But what troubled him more was the slight smirk he could make out on the man’s lips. It was almost pleased.

On the night of the attack, Lily managed to escape with her infant son, but at the cost of her husband’s life. Distraught and distrusting of her friends, she fled to France with Harry, to raise him away from the corruption in Britain and the rising influence of the Dark Lord. She trains him to the best of her abilities, shaping him into a dangerous, intelligent and powerful wizard.

But when Britain re-establishes the Triwizard Tournament, and Harry, now known as Hadrian, is forced to return to his once-home, he finds himself questioning whether he really wants to kill the Dark Lord. Voldemort finds an unexpected challenge in the child, and as his intrigue and amusement grows, so too does the desire to possess the spark in those defiant green eyes.

9) New Recruit Universe by butter_peanut

Fandom: Naruto

Status: Complete (A series, but all books are phenomenal. Summary from book 1)

Summary: He looked like a particularly stupid civilian. He looked like a sharp burst of wind would blow him over. He looked like he’d answered their advertisement thinking the Akatsuki was a cat appreciation society.

“Are you kidding?” said Hidan, voicing what everyone was thinking. “This guy is supposed to replace Sasori and Deidara?”

“Sukea is qualified,” Pein said in a tone that brooked no arguments. “And will be paired with Tobi.”

10) On My Love by RikoJasmine

Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice

Status: Hiatus

Summary: For the second time, the Sochi Grand Prix Finals arrive, and with it a reborn Yuuri Katsuki. “Viktor,” Yuuri thinks over the pounding of his heart, the crowd going silent as the music begins. “I’ll show the world what you meant to me.”

Yuuri often thinks of his life as Before and After Viktor Nikiforov, the marking point being the day Viktor swept into his life and turned his world upside-down. After many years together, an accident leads to Yuuri suddenly waking up in the Before—back in Detroit, before the GPF, before he ever knew Viktor as anything other than his childhood idol.

As if it had all been just a dream.

And there’s 10! Honestly there’s so many absolutely fantastic fics out there, but those are the ones that jump to the front of my mind. I’ll definitely add more later. Please reboot and add some of your own favorites for me to check out!

#ao3 #writing #ao3fic #fic recs #reblog to save an author #give these fics some love #they deserve it #I love all of them so much #didn’t even make it halfway through my bookmarks #I’ve even done fan art for one of these! #it’s not good #but it exists #I’ll be back soon!

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“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

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Woke up this morning and remembered this unfinished Naruto fanart, that I don't hate!

I was going to participate in a fan show with this, but life happened and I never finished it beyond concept stage. Plus, it was an official licensed show and they didn't want a mesh of Naruto/Shippuden (might've been a brand or licensing reason) so I should've changed their looks to either be kids or young adults.

Might finish it for fun some day

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Buen día estrellitas. Bendiciones.

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Actually, the second drawing dealt me emotional damage now that I look at it

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it doesn't make sense but it'd be funny if it happened

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Sweet Xie Lian is resting on Hua Cheng's shoulder, and Hua Cheng kindly asks you not to disturb his sleepy gege ❤️

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I saw this post and…

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by @rty1007

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Can we take a moment to appreciate how utterly unnecessary and adorable it is that Kakashi dresses up his ninken?

Also that most of them are mutts and kind of ugly?

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quick zuko doodle