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[evercelle]

Hi!! I'm a big fan of your work and I was just wondering how you plan out compositions?

for me, the story/concept/feeling u wanna convey is the basis for all composition! technical components like line weight, posing, coloring, etc. are all in service to "what is the image supposed to say?"

example: wanted to draw valentines-themed saiou, so i drew them in a chocolate box! ...but it was kind of unsatisfying, so i re-drew ouma and moved some bg elements to try to make a more balanced and interesting composition.

posing reflects a lot of a personality, so "how does the pose express the character's own personality/feelings towards the other?" prompts ideas for how to arrange the composition. like in this case... western valentine's theme -> if ouma had cupid''s arrow? -> needs more distance to nock and draw -> ouma perching on/pinning saihara down. that's the flavor -> then, rearrange the ribbons and treats to follow the flow...

i'll also check layout and values throughout: for example, after finishing fontaine's aq, i wanted to draw smth about furina & focalor's partnership, and focalor controlling her from the shadows... so the concept was "a dance where you can't relax from your partner's lead."

the lineart's a hot mess, but the spotlight helps divide the image, direct the focal point and ties into the aq story.

tl;dr: pose, sightline and visibility are the key traits i focus on in a draw, but the bottom line is always "story" first. hope this helps... even a little bit (':

#ASK EVER #i feel like someone asked me about composition before but i can't find that ask. sorry... #the other aspect that drives all my poses and comps is just “how much can i twist these two characters into each others personal space” lol #or the third option “theres a lot of empty space in this canvas... (add wings) (add wings) (add wings)”

[forever--rain]

Hii💜

🌈 Share something soft/fluffy from your WIP.

Purple, my beloved! Wishing you sunny days and hoping the world is giving you back just as much love as you bring to it. Here is a little snippet from the first draft of my Dadko WIP that I hope you enjoy. 💜💜

Zuko left his car in the driveway again, knowing that there was no way Izumi had made it past nine o’clock and not wanting to disturb her. The keys shook in his hand as he unlocked the front door, and he had to dawdle in the foyer, steeling his nerves and taking a few deep breaths before he ventured in further to confront the Katara of it all.

The house was mostly dark, save for one lamp in the living room. Zuko paused next to the dining room table to drape his suit jacket over a chair and loosen his tie. Noise from the TV drifted over to where he stood, but Katara hadn’t said anything. As he walked down the pair of steps into the living room, he discovered why.

Katara waved to him from the sofa and then pressed a finger to her lips when he opened his mouth to say hello. Izumi was sound asleep, her head in Katara’s lap. And if that alone hadn’t been enough to make his heart skip a beat, the tender way in which she reached down to brush Izumi’s bangs out of her eyes definitely did. Zuko sat heavily down on the coffee table, transfixed.

“Sorry,” Katara said, and the word was barely a whisper. “I would’ve put her to bed, but she just sort of fell asleep on me. She was really hoping to see you when you got home.”

Zuko shook his head. Katara had pulled a throw over Izumi and he reached out to tug the blanket higher, running a thumb over his daughter’s cheek.

“I don’t care,” he said just as quietly, his voice hoarse. “It’s fine.”

Send me an emoji and I’ll share something from one of my current works in progress.

#ever writes #zutara #zuko #katara #dadko #izumi #current wip #zutara au #love-n-purple #ask ever #ever answers

[mmmcheetos]

GOD I HOPE MY TEACHER TAKES ALL MY MONEY BECAUSE HOLY SHIT, NOT EVEN THE DEVIL COULD CREATE SUCH A FOUL PAPER...

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oh no which subject was it? 😭 cursed exams should not exist,,,,

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[lastoneout]

Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.

Edit: If everyone could please take a minute and think about what it must feel like to be struggling and then have multiple strangers say to your face that they find the prospect of going through what you're going through so horrifying that they'd rather kill themselves and then stop leaving comments like that I would greatly appreciate it.

#hply fuck y'all I haven't felt like this?? ever??? #tryinf to be gentle with myself #but I truly feel like I'm made of glass #personal #negative #vent #cw suicide mention #ask to tag

[hansoeii]

look at you, you're gorgeous!

#and nothing bad ever happened #this might've been what aziraphale imagined when he asked crowley to come with him #I have returned to tend to your wounds good omens fandom #hope this helps you heal #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable husbands fanart #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #aziraphale #crowley #my art #digital art #fanart

[ruushes]

had some very specific things i wanted to work on this weekend and got possessed by the specter of undercut lae'zel instead 🤦

#lae'zel #bg3 #my art #if you have a message in my inbox. im sorry #in the future if i ever say im going to draw something in response to an ask please deploy the spray bottle

[moxley]

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3edit #good afternoon i exclusively hear this tweet in his voice #alright everybody. 20k notes time to turn off notifications. if neil ever says this send me an ask

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[greelin]

“the worst they could say is no” true but while they are saying it they very well could hit me with force lightning like palpatine. From star war

#and i would deserve it too. for asking the question #this is not about dating for the love of god. It’s about Asking Anyone Anything Ever

[unholyhymns]

still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like "do you know who jesus is?" and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn't actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn't have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you're locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.

very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill

#i will be doing this again if im ever asked the question like that again #i make a habit of talking to street preachers tho so im used to it. they tell me the most insane thing and i collect #their mark of the beast literature #*kicking my religious studies degree under the rug* come closer i don't bite

[evercelle]

You're very obviously into Genshin (and your art for it is absolutely gorgeous), but have you ever tried Mihoyo's Star Rail? One of the more recent main story characters is very Kokichicore, and feels like one you'd really like.

okay. so. here's the story. it is, that i played hsr on release at the pace of a lunatic, and i got to tb 65 in like a week and a half, BUT i swore a blood oath to be f2p in THIS hyv game so i tried REALLY REALLY hard to get blade on his first banner without opening wallet. naturally, i failed! so i quit bc i didnt have the energy to grind two hyv games at once

and now a year later my friends are trying to lure me back in with aventurine. unfortunately, it's working because i have a critical weakness for smiling knifecats with a death gambit. so. ive been scrabbling in the dirt for free jades with my wretchedly out dated builds. i just met firefly and the Thing That Calls Itself Sampo (i think). why are aventurine's eyes so beguiling? these soda dogs are kinda beating my ass. i have 50 pulls saved and a dream. i'll keep u posted on how it goes 😔

#ASK EVER #i beat SU 8-4 by the skin of my teeth... only clara and luocha survived... #and then i got my ass kicked in swarm disaster 2 lol #i have exactly (2) characters that have a full +15 set of relics #building units is so wretched. penacony better be as amazing as everyone keeps telling me to make it worth this agony #aventurines eyes are sooo pretty might be my favorite hyv eyes. LOVE me a neon pink and aqua. theyre so eerie... cute

[forever--rain]

Thoughts on Olivia Rodrigo?

1. brutal

2. vampire

3. hope ur ok

4. bad idea right?

5. the grudge

Send me an artist or album and I’ll tell you my top 5 favorite songs!

#anon #ask ever #ever answers

[mmmcheetos]

I've been writing a bingqiu oneshot and icl I do love them lol

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you've been doing so much for the mdzs fandom 💪💪💪

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[lastoneout]

Seein' too many Twitter refugees asking if they'll get in trouble for saying "kill yourself" to people and while no, you're not gonna get nuked from orbit, that is maybe something you just shouldn't be doing in general perhaps?? Maybe telling people to kill themselves is bad actually?? Some of y'all are wild, why is the first thing you can think to ask on a new platform if you can send one of the worst kinds of harassment to people?? Grow tf up and learn how to use the block button. It'll do wonders for your mood, trust me.

#this is the real cringe behavior #also you'll get reported if you do this it's actually against the rules #why do you want to do that?? #I've never felt the need to say that to anyone ever #is there a joke I'm missing out on like wtf is wrong with you #twitter #twitterpocalypse #suicide mention #ask to tag

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

Yall remember how Texas had that "report an abortion" form that they had to take down after a week?

Well, Missouri has one, only it's for reporting transgender concerns.

Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.

#queer politics #transgender #trans rights #trans legislation #trans genocide #missouri #fuck the AG man #PLEASE deal with this the same way we dealt with the texas one #i want this man to be SHAMED #I want my trans kids to know they are LOVED #i want this thing down by SUNDAY #please. if you do one thing for me ever im asking that this is it

[chloesimaginationthings]

Matpat will always be welcomed into the FNAF universe

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #matpat #ness fnaf #mike schmidt #abby schmidt #dj music man #music man #fnaf #fnaf movie #game theory #security breach #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Today is matpat’s last theory!! #I drew this in celebration for the occasion! #Matpat’s character Ness meeting his beloved Music man #people asked if I’d ever draw this and obviously today felt like the perfect time to #I hope he enjoys his retirement #Tysm to Matpat for everything!!