#and then the shades of that in between

[gouinisme]

uhm. jarchivist

#managed to sueeze this between studying for tests and doomscrolling #i might shade it one day but it's just a silly meme i shant spend too much time on a meme again #is there too much noise? is he even visible? we'll see #we love to put small details into something just to deep fry the shit out of it until it's unrecognizable #jonathan sims #jon sims #tma #the magnus archives #tma jon #jarchivist #krita #jon sims fanart #fada.art #my art #the admiral #how dare i forget the admiral #i should've made him even bigger #when alasdair stuart said the admiral is so big he looks like a fucked up dog

[lanaswansblog]

NEED this tattoo

#lana del rey #girlblogging #ultraviolence #suffering #girl interrupted #lost between realities #girly blog #cinnamon girl #female hysteria #female urge #just girly posts #hell is a teenage girl #need vodka rn #dollette #coquette girl #coquette #lana del rey aka lizzy grant #shades of cool

[bookiedoodles]

Amity, who has known Willow her whole life: I need to protect Willow! I don’t want her getting hurt!!

Hunter, who has known Willow for MAYBE a couple of weeks: That Willow is a fake because the REAL Willow could and gladly would kick my ass if given the chance.

#the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #amity blight #willow park #toh hunter #this isn’t shade @ amity!! #just find the difference between how the two saw her during this episode REALLY funny #‘hunter you’re scaring me!’ Willow would NEVER #huntlow

[dragonpropaganda]

The Architecture of Rain World: Layers of History

A major theme in Rain World's world design that often goes overlooked is the theme of, as James Primate, the level designer, composer and writer calls it, "Layers of History." This is about how the places in the game feel lived-in, and as though they have been built over each other. Here's what he said on the matter as far back as 2014!

The best example of this is Subterranean, the final area of the base game and a climax of the theme. Subterranean is pretty cleanly slpit vertically, there's the modern subway built over the ancient ruins, which are themselves built over the primordial ruins of the depths. Piercing through these layers is Filtration System, a high tech intrusion that cuts through the ground and visibly drills through the ceiling of the depths.

Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets, the friendly local ghost, tells the player of the "bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks," highlighting this theme of layering as one of the first impressions the player gets of Subterranean. Barely minutes later, the player enters the room SB_H02, where the modern train lines crumble away into a cavern filled with older ruins, which themselves are invaded by the head machines seen prior in outskirts and farm arrays, some of which appear to have been installed destructively into the ruins, some breaking through floors.

These layers flow into each other, highlighting each other's decrepit state.

The filtration system, most likely the latest "layer," is always set apart from the spaces around it. At its top, the train tunnels give way to a vast chasm, where filtration system stands as a tower over the trains, while at the bottom in depths, it penetrates the ceiling of the temple, a destructive presence. (it's also a parallel to the way the leg does something similar in memory crypts, subterranean is full of callbacks like that!)

Filtration system is an interesting kind of transition, in that it is much later and more advanced than both of the areas it cuts between. This is a really interesting choice from James! It would be more "natural" to transition smoothly from the caves of upper subterranean to the depths, but by putting filtration system in between, the two are clearly demarcated as separate. The difference in era becomes palpable, the player has truly found something different and strange.

Depths itself is, obviously, the oldest layer not only of subterranean but of the game itself. The architecture of Depths has little to do with the rest of the game around it, it's a clear sign of the forgotten civilisations that our friend Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets showed us, there's not actually that much to say about it itself, it's mostly about how it interacts with the other layers of subterranean.

That said, Subterranean is far from the only case of the theme of layers of history. It's present as soon as the player starts the game!

The very first room of the game, SU_C04, is seemingly a cave. It is below the surface, the shapes of it are distinctly amorphous rather than geometric. (well. kind of, it doesn't do a very good job of hiding the tile grid with its 45 degree angles.)

But let's take a closer look, shall we?

See that ground? it's made of bricks. The entire cave area of outskirts is characterised by this, the "chaotic stone" masonry asset is mixed with brickwork, unlike the surface ruins which are mostly stone. This, seemingly, is an inversion of common sense! The caves are bricks and the buildings are stone. This is not, however, a strange and unique aspect but a recurring motif.

This occurs enough in the game for it to be clearly intentional, but why would materials such as bricks be used in otherwise natural looking terrain?

The answer lies in the "Layers of History" theme. This is in fact, something that happens in real life, and it's called a tell

To be specific, a tell is a kind of mound formed by settlements building over the ruins of previous iterations of themselves. Centuries of rubble and detritus form until a hill grows from the city. Cities such as Troy and Jericho are famous examples. The connections to the layers of history theme are pretty clear here, I think. Cities growing, then dying, then becoming the bedrock of the next city. The ground, then, is made of bricks, because the ground is the rubble of past buildings. The bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks!

#rain world #rainworld #rain world lore #rainworld lore #rw lore #rw #subterranean my beloved #thank you to videocult for making the first survival game themed around stratigraphy and new york city rats #i would've gone on for another paragraph about how OE relates to this but like. #that's dlc stuff #and i still think of the dlc stuff as modded content lol #better to keep it separate #also this analysis is not comprehensive! the layers of history stuff is common throughout #there's farm arrays there's the relationship between shaded citadel and five pebbles there's the stuff buried under garbage wastes #so much more #unfortunately i do not have much energy lol

[haaam-guuuurl]

#jane austen #the good place #pride and prejudice #emma #persuasion #sense and sensibility #northanger abbey #mansfield park #anne elliot #elizabeth bennet #marianne dashwood #fanny price #catherine morland #emma woodhouse #tgp #my posts #i feel like i need to explain this 😂 #this just came to me when i realized the numbers matched up #and no shade to any of the girls!! i love them all!! #but anne is definitely the best person among them in the tgp sense #(don't) notice i switched elinor for marianne bc otherwise i couldn't choose between elinor and anne 😗 #also check the notes for the fanny explanation #1k #!! #wow this got so many notes all of a sudden

[coldarena]

uniform studies + kit lists

#theres literally no cohesion between anyones uniform like. they all have diff bits at any moment. anyway! studies #hbo war #band of brothers #the pacific #masters of the air #joe toye #eugene sledge #rosie rosenthal #ww2 #ww2 uniforms #also wanna do service/dress uniforms and the other airmen flying kits becoz theres so much variation in each + its fun researching #this comes from my oc stuff but i like giving their uniforms slight colour variations to tell them apart like rosies is more pink toned #bubbles is more blue/dark grey. sledge is cool tones. snaf is warm etc. the bob guys are all the same shade tho

[sysig]

I think the world is so wonderful... (Patreon)

#My art #Handplates #UT #Papyrus #I have not been able to get this idea out of my head for like - days now lol #It's only solidified the more I read! Heck!! #I dunno if I was necessarily hoping that reading further would point me in another direction but no now this is one of his songs lol #I really like Rugrats Theory actually :) The song of course it's lovely but I even have some nostalgia for the creepypasta haha #Been a while since I read it tho so that's probably just the soft haze of memory talking lol #But the song is still great! I'm partial to the English cover but I like the original as well :) #There are just so many fun lyrics! Especially for Papyrus specifically #''Everything I've been told I believe and yet people that I love just leave'' Gasterrr #''I think I'm old enough to understand so there's no reason to hide from me'' Sanssssssss #Once I returned to the scene of Sans trying to lie to him I just fjdslahfd these lyrics would Not leave me alone lol #I'm also Extremely partial to the second verse surrounding blindness and willful ignorance - his vision problems literal and metaphorical! #I wasn't planning to start a Handplates playlist but I guess by this point it's kinda too late haha #I also tried a different style of shading for this one ♪ Trying to style match a bit hehe #It's fun! Scratchy - tho some of that is from still using my usual brushes lol #I was Very inspired by watching the comic creation playlist - so cool! Very fun to watch and pick up ideas hehe #I knew I forgot something lol dang it - forgot the dash between WDG-2 #S'what I get for using pre-plates references :P #For just a quick little thing I'm fairly pleased overall tho :)

[fortheloveofexy]

headcanon that Neil's hair is brownish auburn in the winter but in the warmer months when he's outside a lot, it lightens to a more coppery reddish color

#yeah im reconciling the hair color debate once and for all what about it #why pick between auburn and ginger when we can have both :) #also covering my ass bc i am constantly changing the shade of his hair in my art lmao #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #neil josten #loosely inspired by my own hair btw which goes from medium brown in the winter to coppery blonde in the summer months

[puppyeared]

I just skimmed through the art part of your blog and holy bajeebus your LMK art is so beautiful and the headcanon ideas you come up with are so good I wanna steal em-

Kinda wanna see like a part 2 of the little angst you did between MK and Macaque a while ago. It's so interesting and I wanna see Macaque's reaction in your art style. (You don't have to of course, it's just a suggestion [idk if i spelled that right])

Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day/night!

Hope this is to your liking ^^

Part one here

#I’m sure there are some character nuances im forgetting but well 🤷🏽 #I want their misunderstanding or whatever they have going on between then come to a head. literally just going ‘wait what’ #for me I think it’s entirely possible that there was an actual fight and maybe tension leading up to that point #cause I feel like macaque is not just bitter about thinking he died to wukong but maybe some stuff that built up to that #maybe the fight was just the breaking point. maybe they’re idiots who don’t talk about it because they think they’re on the same page idk #chipper-smol wrote a cool theory abt them using macaques ‘you’re nothing’ line in s4ep1. from what I understand it could be a direct parall #parallel to when he said that to MK right before MK regained his nerve and hit macaque in the eye.. since flying bark foreshadowed monkey mk #waaaay back in season 1 (where his shadow is his monkey form in the opening) i think that could be deliberate #and they could have gotten billy to voice an entirely different line for that scene. but they reused his line from s3 #in a very specific scene with wukongs narrative foil. hm #that aside I would have liked to hear billy voice the ‘you abandoned me’ line that would have killed me. but that’s just me lol #also looking at this I should have shaded the last frame to make it look more dramatic and serious but I ran out of time :( #if anything I want to see MK try and help them get back together. poor kid tries so hard to understand people so I think it would be cool to #see that happen. that’s what I like about him.. he asked macaque why he was working for LBD instead of accusing him of dooming everyone bc #he wants to and he tried to comfort spider queen by admitting he was scared of LBD too 😭😭 #my art #myart #Lego Monkie kid #lmk #Monkie kid #lmk spoilers #Lego Monkie kid spoilers #lmk macaque #six eared macaque #lmk sun wukong #lmk swk #lmk MK #lmk xiaotian #lmk season 4 #Lego Monkie kid s4

[amanitacurses]

#ravioli #raviolink #link x ravio #legend of zelda ravio #legend of zelda link #legend of zelda #a link between worlds ravio #a link between worlds link #a link between worlds #albw ravio #albw link #albw #tried a new style of shading hopefully it looks good #also sneak-peak into that 'big project' I was talkin' about with these two uwu #AmaCurses AU #AmaFushi AU #Designs subject to /some/ change #not linked universe #Lost Woods AU

[benevolenterrancy]

Jin Guangyao Is In Desperate Need Of Human Contact And Is Constantly Trying To Find Ways To Make Himself Feel Safe: Therefore He Would Definitely Be A Little Spoon, In This Essay I Will

#it is the ideal situation #mdzs #nieyao #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #jgy #nmj #meng yao #i joked about it early but this is one pointless headcanon that i am committed to #he gets to be tucked away and have an entire human body (strong powerful cultivator body) between him and any potential danger #don't care which ship just committed to the sleeping arrangements #my art #i don't know why i keep trying to shade night scenes i hate night scenes my colours and shadows never work out in night scenes... #but here we are

[antrunner]

Uh oh! Did someone set off the alarms?

#my art #dc #the riddler #batman #bruce wayne #edward nygma #dc comics #riddler fanart #batman fanart #one thing about me is i love to color stuff with shades of red #and i love harsh shadows #✌️🤩 #there is something happening between these two.

[zytes]

4/8/2024

#obligatory ‘clipse pic #took so many but THIS is the One #I’m not entirely sure what caused the rainbow bits. I was holding flimsy little sunshades up to my lens #and also trying not to cook my eye like an egg #anyways. the light went all prismatic somewhere between the shades and my aperture #rlly fucking cool. the top bit of color is shaped like the eclipse #38.87325° N 104.80074° W #12:40~ #eclipse #solar eclipse #photography #aesthetic #my art #art #artwork #artists on tumblr

[mossymandibles]

This started as a panel thumbnail but I ended up making it a whole thing..

Ellie and her family are anthropomorphic giant river otters who own a corner store that Kraw frequents whenever he’s staying inland on Marrowtide. She sees him as family, although her own is big enough as it is.

They’ll be in yet another wip mini comic I have.

#kraw #monster art #chimera #river otter #anthro #hallowed carrion #tbh if I were to make some form of sona/fursona I feel like a giant rive otter would be fun #I’ve considered it 🤔 #I’ve felt kind of eh about my rendering process with color and everything #I’m torn between vibrancy and the muted sketchy shaded look #either way #just gotta experiment more ig

[canisalbus]

Hi hello, I was struggling with my Spooktober challenge, but wanted to draw something today, so I ended up with this:

He is Very Shape, so I had to lmao (I don't draw animals much, so it was a bit tricky, but hope it came out okay!)

Also, terkkuja toiselta suomalaiselta, meikäläisiin törmää niin harvoin :D

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#oh no the boy #he looks like his soul is about to leave his body #what goes on behind those saucer eyes I wonder #the horrors it's gotta be the horrors #the shading and lighting are absolutely delicious! #so many good hues and shades #the orange purple and magenta #I use cool colors so rarely (practically never) so it's straight up ~weird~ seeing Machete with a blue color palette #but it works it makes him look even more out of sorts than average #I'm liking all the sharp angles on his ears #oh and the lone strand of fur between them! I draw that too! #I find it terribly flattering when I get gift art from people who say they don't draw furries/animals very often #because if they're willing to venture outside their comfort zone like that it must mean they really truly like the character #I only draw human characters under extreme and unusual circumstances I know how daunting it can be #to switch from a familiar subject to a more foreign one like that #so I see the effort you put into the piece and I appreciate it! #gift art #lumilasi #own characters #Machete #kanssasuomalainen! virtuaalinen yläfemma o/

[loopseedaysee]

shot through the heart, and you’re to blame

secret lupin gift for @lupinsansei00 on twit!

#lupin iii #lupin the third #fanart #lupin the 3rd #jigen daisuke #jiglup #secret lupin #secret lupin 2022 #lupin iii part 2 #the rose and the pistol #was wavering big time between shaded or flats #starting off the new year right