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the-s1lly-corner · 6 months

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hello! Im one(1) of the anons that requested the jane doe reader and i thought of a funny scenario

So the character of jane doe was basically decapitaded so, imagine if reader's head isnt atached to their body, and can take their head off .

The tadc cast react to the reader taking off their head and then putting It back on like nothing. Tyy!!!

( remember to rest and drink wáter) :)

TADC cast x a reader with a detachable head!

oh hoho this one is going to be fun because my TADC oc can do the same thing, can take their limbs and head off at will and as needed; so i may or may not let my excitement show in this post and use my oc as a placeholder.. i definitely will.. which reminds me, i have a sketch of my ocs human design as well as a messy ref of their digital body... i have got to draw them more.. maybe ill finish the human sketch sometime today after this post... speaking of this post! this is the last request in my inbox ! after this im gonna take a break for a bit then reopen requests! do not send in requests at this time, please! (this goes for everyone regardless of fandom </3)

CAINE:

technically i think you could consider him with a detachable head... because i dont... think he has a neck... so technically.. not phased at all, he has seen things from various different circus members.. but lets say you came before zooble, and you were also the first circus member who could do that... i think he would be really into it and be amused. probably flies right up to you chattering about that little trick of yours

POMNI:

uncomfy by it, i think it would take her a while to get used to it... i think she would be the same with zooble thanks to the "these are people" thing, with the only reason she didnt freak out at zoobles dismemberment in the pilot being because she was preoccupied with her panic and confusion of this new setting

RAGATHA:

mildly uncomfortable anytime it happens but no where near as uncomfortable as pomni, since she has had her time to get used to a bunch of weird stuff in the circus; both from the circus itself as well as the people in it.. will guide your body to your head if theres ever a scenario where the two get separated.. hand holding... smiles

JAX:

probably tries to convince you to leave your head in someones room or in a box and have some poor unsuspecting person open it.. i think that would scare anyone, even if they were used to your headless activities... probably laughs at your body wandering aimlessly trying to find your head if theres an occasion where it was forcefully knocked off.. probably nudges your head away... this only really works if your body has to blindly fumble and you having to telepathically guide it towards you instead of it just going into autopilot and knowing where you are automatically and has zero struggle beelining for the head... but fumbling... funny

KINGER:

owoo!! jumpscare!/ref

honestly i think sometimes he just rolls with it and other times hes bothered by it; really depends on how hes feeling that day... but i think the majority is that hes used to it thanks to zooble... has probably run off with your head on accident when he meant to run off with you as a whole, usually in the face of danger during an IHA...

ZOOBLE:

completely unphased by it since they can pretty much do the same thing! there isnt really much to be said since zooble neither feels this way or that in regards to your little decapitation trick... if they couldnt mess with their own parts though i think they would find your thing cool, though

GANGLE:

depending on what your digital body is themed around i think this would determine how gangle would feel about it... like zooble is mismatched and is seen taking out their antennae as well as their limbs being snagged off by jax... with zooble, is makes sense, they look like a mismatched mess of different parts.. so if you were something that could reasonably do the same thing i think she can overlook it... now the first time would still be a shock, no doubt about it, regardless of theme.. very careful whenever theres a reason they need to get close to your head, she does not wanna knock it off and potentially upset you

#tadc x reader #the amazing digital circus x reader #digital circus x reader #caine x reader #pomni x reader #ragatha x reader #jax x reader #kinger x reader #zooble x reader #gangle x reader

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breannasfluff · 11 months

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Eldritch Echoes - 4

The zora prince, alone, isn’t who Twilight expects to enter the inn.

When Wild doesn’t immediately pop out from behind him, Twilight asks, ��Everythin alright?”

“Hmm? Oh yes, don’t worry.” Sidon is too big to look so flustered. “Link is, ah, swimming. Burning off steam, I think. I was hoping to talk to you and your companions before he got back?”

“I think that’d be a help. I know the others got some questions.” With a wave, he heads back into the main room where the group talks quietly.

Time takes over when he catches sight of the prince. “Thank you again for your hospitality.” He sketches a half-bow.

“My friend, we don’t stand on formality here! If we did, Link would never have gotten in.” He grins as he takes a chair. “Now, I’m sure you have some questions and I have a few of my own, if you don’t mind. Link is a very dear friend to me and I want to make sure he’s okay.”

His affection and protectiveness is clear. Twilight smiles as he settles on the edge of a bed to listen. It’s good to hear that the cub has people watching out for him.

It’s gentle, patient Sky, who bluntly asks, “What’s wrong with him?”

“Sky!” Even Time glares at him.

Sidon stiffens in his seat, drawing politeness around him like a shield. “There is nothing wrong with Wild. He’s a bit…different than you might be used to, but he doesn’t deserve your judgement.”

“Don’t you feel it when you’re around him? How can you let him sit on your shoulders?” Sky shudders. “I feel physically ill if I spend too much time around him, even if I wanted to.”

“Metal freezes around him; or feels like it does,” Warriors chimes in.

Hyrule whispers, “I taste blood.”

“After a while, I get a headache and my teeth hurt.”

The rest of the Chain mutters but doesn’t share. Sidon looks at each of them in turn.

“And you?” he asks Twilight.

The rancher shrugs. “Sure, he’s a mite odd, but he feels like ma home. Nature and loneliness, all wrapped inta one. I like the cub.” He waves a hand to the rest of the boys.

“They’re not lyin. He’s got an effect on people. First time we met im, we ran like Ganon himself was snapping at our heels. Felt like right fools, later, but in the moment, we couldn’t do anythin else.”

Wind pipes up. “Do you feel anything from Wild, er, Link?”

“Link doesn’t bother me near as much as it sounds like he does the rest of you. He told me once that some people seem to be more sensitive to his…energy than others. Perhaps you are all unlucky in that way.”

Sidon slumps slightly in the chair, crossing an ankle over his knee and rubbing it. “Link does have a feeling around him. I notice it most when we are swimming. Sometimes we chase each other; sort of an underwater tag. He goes deeper than he should and it doesn’t bother him.”

Rub, rub, rub on his ankle. Is it bothering him?

“As a shark zora there’s plenty of monsters to fear, but my heritage brings a certain innate sense of being at the top, as it were.” His face crinkles at the notion. “Crass, I know, but we cannot outrun our instincts. But when we swim, I know I am nothing in Wild’s attention.” Sidon’s lips tighten. “I am prey, and he will catch me. Sometimes it feels like being hunted.”

Wind stares at him, eyes huge. “Why would you do that, then?”

“Because he is my friend!” Laughing, the tension in Sidon’s frame melts away. “He has so much fun and few will play with him, even if his teeth are rather sharp. And I rarely get a chance to let loose, as well.”

Hyrule catches the absent rub to his ankle. “Are you injured?”

“Hmm?” The zora looks down like the movement was unconscious. “Oh, no, Link wouldn’t leave me injured. See?” He removes his hand and shows his ankle.

Twilight leans forward to see and, it’s true, there’s no wound. There are faint marks, almost like scars. Hyrule brushes his fingers a breath away. “I don’t feel an injury, but it is a little—odd. Almost a residue?”

“That would be Link. He leaves his mark.” Sidon doesn’t seem particularly worried. “If I can repay my dear friend in any way for what he’s done for Hyrule, I will.”

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#eldritch echoes #eldritch wild #feral wild #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu twilight #lu time #lu sky #botw sidon #lu hyrule #breannasfluff #my writing

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attyattlaw · 7 months

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heyyy I'm new to digital art, would you mind sharing some tips regarding programs and tutorials and etc? also on how to turn a real life piece into a beautiful and clean digital piece... really love your art

oh good luck with your art journey! my experience with digital art is pretty dated (as in a decade + levels dated) and i might be too out of touch to give beginner tips but regardless, allow me to attempt

Programs: it would help to know which hardware you have for digital but ill put down some i have experience in 1. Clip Studio Paint Pro - PC/Android/ipad/everywhere i think? unfortunately they betrayed humankind and its now a subscription everywhere but on PC. i bought a one-time license years years years ago on sale and its probably the best available on my end. I also got it on subscription on android so i can sync works between my PC and tablet. its very flexible in a way that you can draw with it in the most basic way single layer sketches or whatever but they have so many features and keep adding more.

2. procreate - ipad only never been an apple user but my friend is, and he's been a procreate user forever. he recently tried CSP on ipad though and he still claims he likes procreate better for ease of use and compatibility with tablet ergonomics and apple pen

3. medibang paint - pc/android/ipad

free forever. and out of all the free programs i recommended my other digital art newbie friend this is what he liked best.

4. adobe photoshop - dont even look at this the only reason i have one is im leeching off company license. its still unfortunately the industry standard tho but CSP is much cheaper and has the same controls and most of the basic functions 5. Paint Tool SAI - my first art program but i haven't tried it again. honestly still think this has the best brush flexibility and pen pressure control ----- As for tutorials, i find digital art has such a steep and high skill ceiling and its a challenge im still tackling and probably will forever tackle haha. I'm trying to osmosis painting techniques from splash art painters from League of Legends who most of them post complete timelapses (my favorite being Bo Chen) where you can study not just their techniques but like, art directions that make their pieces striking. Anyway, I also promised a friend I would make a simple coloring tutorial so maybe after inktober hustle, I would look for a piece there I'd use for the guide.

---- Traditional to digital is never a satisfactory process to me but if you can, invest on a scanner. I use an epson v39, had it for years.

scanned vs edited. the goal is to at least get the white of the paper as white as possible and the blacks the blackest, without whitewashing/burning the rest of the colors. Level correction function is your best friend here and most art programs have that.

Then i just clean dust and errors and slide the contrasts around until it looks as close to the original piece

If you have a decent phone camera, you can get away just posting instagram aesthetic pics with materials framing it or smth and just edit as usual. natural light tends to be a lot more forgiving than the harsh light of scanners anyway.

Anyway I hope this helps and have fun learning!

#granpa voice: back in my day we didnt have phones or tablets capable of drawing #we had to use dodge and burn on pirated photoshop apps using a mouse on the family computer #i think i also started digitals a bit late in life so unlike younger millenials and gen Zs its not easy as second nature to me #compared to traditional mediums at least

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rianafying · 4 months

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hello diary i’m back idk what is happening or why i ever feel what i feel, but here goes nothing

i’ve been feeling very creative today, had a terrible morning woke up insanely dehydrated, could barely move, my arthritis and psoriasis had flared up as well, i had to cancel my gig but they’re fine, they had other people on board. i don’t really feel like i missed out because i literally couldn’t have gone and needed to stay home and rehydrate, plus it’s like 37 degrees outside, i’ll stay home thanks. anyway, so i got some much needed rest and i ate and drank loads of water and i feel replenished now and i feel hopeful and creative and i wish i could’ve just started something, a project or whatever. but i have no many chores standing firmly between me and what i actually want to do. will is a terribly difficult thing to conjure. i had a telehealth appointment to get diagnosed w adhd in melbourne so i can access the necessary treatment, but they’re telling me it’ll be at least $800 and at least 4 sessions to just get diagnosed. and that to me is a huge undertaking. i told them ill think about it but what is there to think of, i know fully well i cant afford it. i wish i had an ipad to draw on. ive been wanting to draw something for ages and i could draw on my physical sketch book but i just haven’t? i just cant? its the guilt from all the chores i haven’t done. there’s a proper inspection due in 4 days and i just know it’s going to cripple me with anxiety as the date comes closer. there’s so much stuff that i want to do. and yet i do nothing. i’m not doing even 1% of everything i want to do, because im stuck doing 100% of the things i hate but have to do. when im older, i hope i get permanent residency in australia or any other first world country, i wish i have a safe and permanent place to live, regardless of size or quality. i wish i have someone who can help me with the tasks i struggle with and i can help them with tasks they struggle with and if we both struggle at the same things, we’ll understand each other, we can struggle and learn together. hopefully this will not be a romantic partner because i don’t think my brain is hardwired to deal with matters of the heart in a stable way. i hope that by the time i feel safe, the children of gaza feel safe too. i hope we win. i thought of them when i got dehydrated and worried that ill get a uti, i thought about how much worse they have it. i think of them all the time but especially when im suffering and im reminded that they have it many folds worse. i try to derive hope, strength, and gratitude from that instead of helplessness, and powerlessness.

i haven’t been able to take out the trash and get rid of my dead plants and they’re starting to attract bugs and i really need to do that today, i’ve been saying that everyday, it’ll just take seconds. i also am very close to having $0 in my account because i had to buy some meds and i found some vitamins for half price and decided to buy a whole buttload of them #forhealthiguess also its SO HOT. and im trying to avoid turning on my air conditioner because my electricity bill last month was $140??? like why? it’s a crazy world out here. crazy expensive. for the millionth time, i really should get a real job soon. or try to. i doubt i’ll ever have enough to be independent. i fear i’ll always be at the mercy of my parents. i fear i’ll heal too slow to keep up with the damage.

all day i did nothing. that’s not true, i went grocery shopping and i made meatballs, and spaghetti and it turned out great. the one thing i always cook successfully is any kind of pasta, never fails. i feel 50% guilty for not doing anything important today. such as taking out the trash, cleaning my room, etc. it’s the one thing i hate doing: house chores. makes me wanna scream, cry and throw up. i made a mistake, last night i accidentally left my earphones on the couch at reception downstairs and hadn’t even realised until earlier today when i was leaving the building and saw it on the couch. i feel so relieved that i live in a place where nobody stole it all day. part of me feels like i don’t deserve to live so well. because for nearly a year, i have been living wonderfully, everything’s going so well, and all my demons are inside of my own head. this is new for me. there’s no actual threat, i think. still feels like there is. i’m less overwhelmed than usual, but still pretty overwhelmed. there’s always too many ideas and not enough ability to implement them. how do i feel chaos and clarity simultaneously. i just need a break from this mental torment. i think getting my apartment clean will definitely help with that. but it’s such a big task, even thinking about it makes me fall to my bed and start to rot. suddenly i find that my body won’t move. adhd sounds like it’s so quirky and funny until you’re surrounded with piles of garbage and flying insects and there is a mysterious sticky brown patch underneath the fridge that just will not move. until there’s no space to walk from one end of the room to the other without stepping on and crushing things underneath my feet. it feels as if my brain has acquired an endless supply of shame and guilt. i will probably not feel focused until my room is actually clean. clean enough to be inspected. clean enough to maybe even have visitors. i get anxious just thinking about the prospect.

#personal #journal entry

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yogurthoopsart · 1 year

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Splatoon TOH Crossover Timeline/Concept

This is mainly for my own reference and ill be drawing art/designs for it later but I wanted to get everything outlined in one place. If you've been seeing my instagram you'll have seen some sketches already, but here's the IN DEPTH timeline and concept.

Philip's BS:

Humans are Octolings, and Witches are Inklings. The Boiling Isles is on the Surface, while the human realm is in the kettles.

Great Turf War ends. Octarians retreat underground and keep the militaristic lifestyle. They constantly fight against the Squidbeak Splatoon but fail.

Philip and Caleb are the only surviving members of their squad, and stuck together when reassigned. Their new squad was frontlines, and SUPER anti-inkling. Caleb played along to fit in, but Philip was heavily indoctrinated.

Caleb gets the chance to escape to the surface with the help of Evelyn the inkling, one of the members of the Squidbeak splatoon.

Philip goes after him under the impression that he was taken by force. Finds out otherwise. Kills him. You know the drill.

Ok this is getting long. Putting the rest under the cut

The Clawthornes are weapons specialists and bomb inventors. Evelyn hits Philip with a Fucked Up Bomb that has some sort of slime ooze, resulting in the "curse".

Philip lies low, steals his brother's corpse, and starts foraging for Octarian tech that makes its way up to the surface. He uses Octarian cloning tech (that exists in canon, thankfully) to clone Caleb. Grimwalkers are a go.

Philip finds the collector!!! (Idk how time travel is gonna work here so we're going to skim past that) But the collector is an advanced AI created by humans. It teaches Philip about technology, and Philip promises to connect it to the grid, "freeing" it.

The draining spell is a Giant Ink Canon (like in octo expansion). He's gonna use the blended Dna sludge ink (which he gets from "petrifications" of "wild witches") to wipe out all life on the surface.

Philip is now Belos. He cuts his round ears to blend in, and starts preaching about "Main Purity". Basically no one should have more than one main for the good of team balance. Each main has a color associated with it probably? Covens are called Clans, and each clan focuses on one weapon type.

He becomes Emperor. He edits inkling society into something more militaristic, resembling Octarian society. Think like... if everyone only cared about Ranked Mode. It sucks.

Clan Association Intermission (literally just went by vibes for this one):

Bard: Brushes

Construction: Rollers

Beast Keeping: Shooters

Potions: Blasters

Plants: Splatlings

Illusion: Dualies

Healing: Chargers

Oracle: Brellas

Abomination: Sloshers

Emperor's Clan: All

Idk about splatanas and trishots yet lmao

EDA TIME:

Eda is an inkling who is incredibly cracked at every weapon. She's SKILLED. She's a blaster main. She destroys. the only thing is that she goofs off too much. Squidpartying in ranked, painting amongus and hearts with the brushes, etc.

Lilith is good (squiffer main in my heart, Bella secondary), but not as good. She wants to join the Emperor's Clan with Eda, where inklings can use every weapon, but only one of them can make it. She finds a sample of Feathery ooze and infects Eda with it.

The "curse" turns Eda into a bird monster if she runs out of ink.

Eda finds a kettle to the surface. This is the portal.

Relationship with Raine is the same, not much changes. Raine is a brush main tho. Imagine Raine using a killer wail in place of the whistle during the Covens Vs Wilds game.

Eda finds King!!! King is a salmonid Chum, but is actually a King Salmonid Spawn. We'll get to that later.

Eda starts selling octarian tech she finds when she goes through the kettle! Her "potion" business is a bomb business. She also probably illegally mods her weapons a-la grizzco, making her the most powerful Inkling on the surface.

Season 1 - Luz time babyyyyy:

Luz is a young octoling obsessed with AZURA, and inkling idol group from the surface. Has only ever used an octoshot. She doesnt fit into the military-like society of the octarians, and is sent to boot camp by Camila.

Camila is an adult octoling, part of the Med Division. She also used to be obsessed with the surface too, along with Manny. Similar vibes to canon.

Luz is lured through the kettle by Owlbert, who im debating between him being a smallfry a-la lil' buddy situation or a sentient auto bomb. Haven't figured that out yet.

We're at the Owl House boys.

Hooty is a zapfish btw. If you care.

THE HEXSQUAD. Willow is originally in the "slosher" track (abominations) but moves to the Splatling track (plants) and She Will Kill You. Hydra Main in my heart.

on that note for the Teenage Abomination episode I can imagine Luz helping Willow mod tf out of a explosher for her project, or she hides inside some sort of weapon to sneak into class somehow.

Gus the dualie main. He kicks ass and does flips. Head of the Octarian Appreciation Society.

Amity mains sloshers in my heart, probably also dabbles in the really hardcore shooters like splattershot pro or 52. gal. The Blights are super expensive/professional weapons specialists/inventors.

Oh my god the Covention Amity vs Luz witches duel. 1v1 final destination. Luz doesn't have a weapon.

Stuff in season 1 pretty much goes by like canon. Luz wants to main all the weapons but with her own modifications (octarian tech stuff). Idk how the whole "Luz is a human and can't do magic" thing translates here, but im guessing it's kind of like... her ink doesn't calibrate easily with the inkling weapons, maybe?

King is obsessed with Salmonids instead of demons. The Intruder is him trying to teach Luz about "his kind", ie the salmonid bosses. This is also going into season 2 territory, but his section of Knock Knock Knocking on Hooty's door is them trying to figure out which boss salmonid he is (which he isn't one. He's a KING salmonid).

OH the petrification ceremony is Eda about to get Blended like in onto expansion.

And Luz's witch's wool cloak is modeled after agent 3's cloak in onto expansion. It's ink resistant.

The Belos vs Luz fight is just Luz w her octoshot trying to keep up with an X Ranker. She gets a lucky shot with an ink mine though.

Season 2

Belos has the damaged kettle. Lilith and Eda are both infected by the feathery ooze. Luz starts learning about More Weapon Types and Mods (glyph combos).

PHILIP'S DIARY. It's a video diary. I'm imagining its projected from a squee-G.

HUNTER is an octoling. His Golden Guard main is the octobrush (the golden guard staff).

Ok I JUST remembered purblethinkin did an octoling hunter design and also gave him an octobrush and this is EXACTLY what I was thinking. The kelp. The Golden octoling goggles. Yes.

Im starting to like the whole "Sentient Autobomb being Palismen" thing. Robot Flapjack. Either that or Lil Buddy flapjack.

VEE!!! There's two options for Vee. She's either a sanitized inkling or a fuzzy inkling.

The fuzzy inkling thing would fit better with her whole "technically im not supposed to exist" speech, since mammals are extinct, but Sanitization fits better with Belos's plan to wipe out all life with his sanitized ooze canon. Idk yet, could go either way.

The entirety of Yesterday's Lie is instead of Luz appearing in reflections, she appears in the loads of electronic screens underground. The beta portal they make is a communication device to connect underground.

Jacob Hopkins is an inkling conspiracy theorist lmao.

Stuff is p much the same as canon.

Oof. Hollow Mind. uhhh. It probably takes place in Belos's secret lab instead of his mind. the teleportation spell/walkie talkie is a super jump beacon.

The Titan Trappers are grizzco-like. King Trappers. They dress like salmonid chum/cohocks/smaller versions of cohozunas.

KING'S TIDE. King's salmonid powers are golden egg adjacent, which im going to say he has the ability to mess with technology. This allows him to "free" the collector and connect him to the grid.

Titan Blood is replaced with Golden Eggs in general btw.

Belos's curse turns him into a mud/ooze/sanitized ink creature.

OH the Sigils. idk about them. They're not really necessary since the canon is gonna kill Everything regardless of if they're in a clan or not. They're probably just licenses.

When the collector is free, he takes over all electronics on the surface and sets it up for THE MOST FUN SPLATFEST EVER.

Belos gets splatted (lol) like normal. Except it's probably by one of those octarian machines that the collector can take control of. You know the octobot king and the giant fists it has? Bam.

The Hexsquad ends up underground with Camila and Vee.

Season 3!!!!

Luz goes to school, which is just Octoling training. She's depressed like normal.

I kind of like to think that the underground isn't Intense Military like it used to be in Philip's time. It's generally pretty chill with some militaristic aspects bc they don't have a lot of electrical power.

The two new kids ("give me books about crusty old women") are octarians who LOVE Luz bc they heard about the mods she used to put on the basic-grade octoshots

The gang tries to get a working portal to the surface but it aint workin.

The gang finds the rebus to a hidden golden salmonid egg that can power a kettle to the surface.

Halloween is probably an octarian version of a splatfest/celebration. The Haunted Hayride is mild anti-inkling propaganda warning octolings about the dangers of the surface, using the Whittebane Squad as an example.

Hunter gets possessed like normal. I really want to include the brainwash glasses in this somehow but idk how to do it realistically so thats just on the back burner.

Aaaaand that's it so far! Feel free to suggest stuff. I think I got a general idea of everything though, except the palismen, sigils, and Vee's whole deal.

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #toh #the owl house #splatoon toh crossover #crossover #casually combining my two obsessions rn

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rogdona · 7 months

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Look man- just wanna say your art is literally gorgeous bro- It's very catchy and cool- but uh- that aside- I hope ya don't mind the question- but would ya mind giving some few tips on how to draw anatomy and how you color? because your art is so pleasing to look at- like bruh it's so pretty-

first of all THANK UUUUU!!!! im sososos happy u like my art!!!!!!!!!💕🌺🌷💕🌺🌷💕🌺🌷❤️♥️💕🌺🌷💕♥️❤️🌹🌹❤️♥️🌺💕!!!!!

i dont mind the question at all!! ill give u some tips on how i draw!!

BTW! these are just some tips ab what i do to draw the way i do, this is not an universal rule let alone mandatory!!

NOW ONTO THE STUFF U CAME FOR! under a read more so i dont clog ur dash bc i got kinda tecnical w some of it..! IT GOT WAY TOO LONG IM SORRY!!!

lets start with color then!! 🎨

i always see ppl saying that color theory is rlly hard and they never understand it, and tbh u dont need to learn it in depth at all!!

to make colors look good you need to think them as a group instead of choosing them individually...

though what i do is different, theres a post going around that says tinting all the colors w one brings the drawing together, and it does!! its a p good tip if u dont want to eyeball it like i do!!

but heres my process; lets say u have a sketch and an idea of what colors you want; your character is in a forest walking through the trees! what i do is choose background color and start from there

if you chose a cool color, when you start painting the rest of the picture drag the hue a little closer to blue or purple! if you chose a warm one, closer to yellow or red! if you want your drawing to have a greenish tint drag it closer to green or yellow! you get the gist of it, bring the colors closer! if theyre on opposite sides of the wheel it might be difficult, but usually bringing them closer to gray does a good job!!

also unless youre trying to get contrast on purpose, choosing colors w similar saturation(intensity!) helps unify the drawing!

say you want a drawing that is mostly grayish tones, make sure all your colors are desaturated (less intense, pigmented)

now say you have an existing character w a set color palette (we'll take my character elias as an example) and want to draw him in green and yellow or bright magenta and blue

i saw this explanation on a tiktok long ago but i literally cannot word it better and found it real useful

to translate the colors properly u need to think them on a scale, which ones are the darkest, lightest, and where does the rest sit?? Once you have that you can make ur own scale w the colors you want to use, and as long as the difference between the colors stay mostly the same u will be able to translate them p much to whatever!!

my drawing was done quickly so its not the best example but u get me

i think thats it for color now, but if i think of something else ill add it and tell u!!

now onto anatomy 🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️

and ill be honest w u here, i have no clue how i learned anatomy, let alone how to teach u but ill try my best here!!

and tbh, learning every bone, muscle, etc is smth rlly tedious to me so i cannot assist u there bc i dont know

ALSOO references are ur best buddy, use them!! even if its not the exact pose or angle ur wanting to draw it can help u visualize what u want and tell u what goes where!!

even if its not for the pose or angle, a skeleton can help u see how the body part works!! i look at animal skeleton legs all the time to help me draw my ocs!!!

but yeah!! i think anatomy is smth that u shouldnt take very seriously bc most of what gives personality to characters is exageration!! or made up parts!!

but like, if u want to know my way of drawing smth specific u can tell me!! i have no problem showing u how i do things!!

but since i wasnt very helpful when it comes to anatomy, im taking the liberty of adding an extra bullet point to the post

composition!! 🌇🌃🌆🏙️

composition is the way you show the image, how you place things in your drawing!!

in school they make us take audio-visual production classes, which truly isnt as interesting as it sounds but they taught us some p cool photography tips that also apply to drawings!!

one of them is the rule of thirds! basically, you divide the canvas in 9 equal parts, and the places where the lines join are the places where the eyes are most drawn to!! heres an example i found on the internet

so if you place something on those spots it will get the attention, bc the brain is used to the focus being on the center so taking it out of there makes u want to look why (or at least thats the explanation they gave me!)

also, to draw even more attention to those spots u can make a visual path that leads there!! here some crude examples by yours truly

the first one traces a path up to his head, the second one all start from there outwards

they also gave us tips for cropping images though these dont rlly matter that much, but like for example it looks better if u dont crop it at the joints, and if a character is looking somewhere you should leave some space in the direction they are looking to! heres some doodles to show u what i mean

i used to have a document full of things like that for photography but i cant find it rn, if i do ill tell u!!

moving onto the final thing, this is not quite a composition thing but rather something to give characters more personality: make them interact w their enviroment!

rather than standing looking at the camera make them use, touch, see whats around them, even if u draw them in a blank space the way they take it up shows u a lot ab them

for ex, if theres a wall they can lean on it, if theres a window they can be looking through it(maybe u can see them from the outside! framing inside framing was also smth that they taught us in that class!) if theyre standing they can be fixing their sleeves, holding their hands behind their back, tucking a strand of hair behind their ear, scratching their neck, etc!

AND YEAH!! thats what i keep in thought when i draw!! i hope u find it at least a little useful or interesting ahdhjska ill admit i got a little carried away but i love drawing and these are topics that interest me

ty for the ask!!! 💕 👋

#TYYY FOR THE COMPLIMENT SORRY FOR THE LONG READ #ask

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maybe-drawing · 1 year

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Inktober 2022: A reflection

This year I did Luna ‘s (who is an amazing artist!! Check them out on Twitter!!) Inktober. Spoiler, I did not do all the days as I got sick halfway through and then just stopped lol. However, it was remarkable good practice and I learned a lot! One might say you can see me improving 👀 It gets better, promise!

Here the full prompt list:

by https://twitter.com/LunaIsAnArtist

1. Sprout

yes this is bdubs fanart, (I’ll do a separate post with the fandom one and tag them there) Also learned about gradient maps!

2. Ladder

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to render stone, and it really shows

3. Glory

I do not dislike this one, however Clip Studio Paint's weird artistic render line feature really stole the show here lol

4. Investigation

Played with gradient maps again. The color is sure something!

5. Rosemary

At this point, I was wondering if a completely lineless painting style was something I even like? And honestly it has its appeals, and I think ill keep playing with it, but I missed having lines.

6. Home

Them <3 @liebesamateur

7. Boots

I love this little buddy!! Look at them!! Lovely!! Also this was when I decided to return to a more painterly lined look for my art again :D

8. Voice

This is one of my absolute favorites!!! The light hello???? also the tiny pumpkin on the hat :D

9. Fragment

Did a study of a lemon and went you know what would be fucked up

10. Ranunculus

this looks so much better than it has any right to!! Indie game vibes hello?!?

11. Moss

Bdubs fanart again, but look at him, he's just a little guy! Very much based on countless designs I’ve seen all over. (if you know the OG lemme know) Certified creature.

12. Worth

I don't like this one... The concept is there, but the execution is sloppy and kinda off-putting. The only thing I kinda like it the blood at the very top opening.

13. Float

I love this very much not anatomically correct baby!!!

14. Poppies

I mean long arms!

15. Zodiac

I’m torn bc on one hand the background is stunning, I love the colors. On the other hand, this would have looked too much better lineless, and the lens sky reflection is just lazy and doesn't fit with the rest of the style.

16. Evolution

GHOST CRAB!! I downloaded some new brushes, and it was just sooo much fun.

17. Meadow

I really like everything except the “flowers”. The clouds and background/foundation is solid, but the weird flower brush is too sharp and it just doesn't work. Also, the colors of the flowers are supposed to be in shade and idk man

18. Examination

Now this one could make more sense, like perspective wise and the highlights are a bit wack. However, it's really cool and I like it a lot. The bluish tint for the glass, the goldish bronze, the background yes!!

19. Reflection

The poses for this kept just not working out. I couldn't get the angles, nothing made sense, so I made them silhouettes! And it works nicely. I like this one. I am kinda starting to overuse that background contrast thingy, but it's fiiiiiinnnne. Also, the curtain??? The red pops so well hello, its just bam, and it deserves to do that.

20. Bullet

It's a bullet train! Get it? Anyway, I really like the burn effect for this one and I wanted to make it a spooky train. One thing I'd improve is how the likes are fading into the smoke, it doesn't look quite right.

22. Bones

This is kinda my burnout point and it shows. The line thickness is all over the place, I didn't work on this very much and just slapped some things on there and put it up. I'd love to draw a proper pile of bones someday, but this wasn't it.

23. Mutation

I do kinda like this one, and I don't have any major complaints. I just remember not really feeling doing Art™ at that time.

29. Wyvern

I sketched this the next day and was so normal about it. Idk if this is really a Wyvern, but it looks cool! I really like the frame and breaking it. It gives a nice break and depth!

#Freddy draws #inktober #inktober 2022 #lunatober 2022 #overall i really had fun #even with the stress of getting very sick and traveling for 2 days straight after recovery #and then walking through a river for 4 hours for class #absolute insane experience I tell you #crossed 3 states in under 24 hours #beware long post #tw blood #tw organs #tw body horror #tw eye horror #tw bones #tw skeleton #my art #original art

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tiilting-at-wiindmills · 2 years

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muse in white sheets with blue eyes and bloodstained cheeks

the weather is temperate at the noontide. it’s neither freezing out, nor does the sun beat down and engulf the world in a sweltering heat. i sit on an old oaken chair in a quiet bedroom. the thin curtains are partly drawn and a little sunlight peeks in through the space between them.

on the nightstand sits a half finished china cup of lukewarm peppermint tea, along with a glass of water, a couple of books, some wilting oxeye daisies, and a small vial of potent lavender oil.

from my chair i sit and sketch in my book. it is so quiet, all that can be heard is the scratching of my pencil as it glides across the page. when i draw i seem to fall into a trance. my eyes grow heavy and i hardly look up from my paper, apart from the occasional glance through thick wire framed glasses to get a quick look at my subject.

now he sits pretty against a mound of pillows with his head tilted slightly back, blue eyes glazed over and pale lips parted delicately. there’s something quite ethereal about the way that the sun’s rays seem to make his honey colored hair glow as they fall upon it, almost creating a halo around his head. he had dimples on each side of his mouth that were always prominent, but even more-so when he smiled, as they would hollow out as his mouth turned up and his eyes creased in the corners. and even in such a state of illness, with sweat slick across his brow and his cheeks stained red with the flush of fever, he was still, so perfect to me.

he is beautiful in a way analogous to a painting, and loving him felt like an art in and of itself. many a suitor had once cradled my soft heart, but none i have loved so deep and so tender as i love him. my heart seems to boil over with this overwhelming compassion for him and him alone. no other has brought me this sort of inspiration. with him, the words flow from the tip of my pen, and the songs seem to write themselves into existence. when i paint his portrait, the brush strokes feel a little smoother than usual. it’s almost as if the universe has blessed me with the ideal muse, given me a reason to make art, if for no other reason than to make it, for it is the only way my poor heart knows how to love.

why, i don’t think i could ever make enough art for him! i could write a thousand symphonies, i could fill libraries full of books with the things i love about him. i could talk for hours, and cry my feelings into the night sky snd even then, so much would be left unsaid. i am nothing short of infatuated with this man. he is simply too wonderful to be without; for every second i spent without his presence, it seems a year goes by.

“love” he begins, before his sentence is cut short by a string of coughs that tumble form his lips and shake his dainty form. i flinch, the sudden noise having broken the silence of the bedroom, and pulled me from my trancelike state.

once he recovers enough, he leans back against his pillows with a sniffle and a yawn.

“are you okay, my darling?” my eyebrows are high with concern.

“i just wanted to ask if you could get me my blanket.” answered my muse through chattering teeth. the poor dear!

i reached down to the floor near the foot of the bed; there was the thick, soft blanket, lying in a crumbled heap. he’d kicked it off not much earlier, when he’d felt as if the world was burning around him; like he’d been thrown into the firey pits of hell below. though now, as he lay there freezing beneath the covers, he almost wished for the heat to return.

i place the blanket on his lap and tousle his sweat-damp hair before i sit back down. he yawns.

“darling, don’t let me keep you awake with my sketching, get your rest.”

“i will be fine.” retorts the lover. i nod my head and resume my work.

i watch him lean back down and pull the blanket up to his chest. as soon as his head touches the pillows, his eyes begin to flutter like those of a blinking doll. he seems to be fighting the urge to fall back asleep, doing his very best to try to focus on my sketching. i can only imagine it a difficult task; when i’d arrived earlier, he’d been trying to read a book. he’d given up only a few pages in, for his fever made the words seem to swim before him on the page, and trying to focus on the tiny letters that seemed to rearrange themselves over and over strained his eyes, making his head pound even worse than it already was.

i catch a glance for reference before i being the pencil back to my page, smiling a closed lipped smile as my eyes took in his face, such a face that i could look at all day.

once the sketch is finished, i switch to my colors, dipping the fine hairs of my brush into a glass of water to wet the paint. when i look up again, he seems to have finally succumbed to his body’s desperate cries for sleep. his eyelids were shut and the tips of thick brown lashes barely brushed against the rouged tops of his cheeks. goodness, he looked peaceful.

i paint the highlights and the hollows of the pallid face, and the golden hues of his hair. add in the shadows and folds of the sheet that covers his sleeping form, watching the painting come alive. i add the color to his warm cheeks with a dash of deep red, blending it into the peachy hues of the area, to the lips.

by the time i felt the painting was finished, i took a final glance at it, admiring my work; though he was the true artwork in my eyes. only the greatest craftsmen could create such a splendid work of art. like the birds that sing from the trees and fauns that stand on shaking legs on the forest floor, he must’ve fallen from the stars or been sculpted by the delicate hand of the universe herself. now i’m not a believer, if there ever was a god, this was the man he’d made in his image; sitting right before me, sleeping peacefully, undisturbed.

i rise from my seat and place my painting on the foot of the bed. gently i bend down and plant a kiss atop a burning temple, tuck a lock of wheat-grain hair behind an ear, and left the room, making sure to make not a sound but the muffled click of the door as i shut it behind me.

#words #dark academia #love language #lover #romanticism #romantic academia #spilled words #artsy #romance #writing #short story #based on a true story #writing practice #classic literature #except written in the 2020s

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ruvigapo · 2 years

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Another personal post today bc i feel like i just.. am better able to think when i know someone's listening.

Remember blog culture?? I'm channeling That right now 😂😂

It's occured to me lately all the ways on which my adhd really has inhibited my ability to draw, and i just wanted to write it all out in a bulletpoint format and go through them to see if i can't find a solution to some of them.

Boredom - i get bored doing the same thing for too long and will rarely finish something if it takes me more than a week to finish.

Computer runs on 4GB - My computer is, sadly, shit. Which means a lot if waiting and hassling to save files on external hard drives.

External validation - not unique to adhd but i've been told we react much more strongly to other people's opinions of us, which sounds about right. So if i don't feel other people enjoy what i make, or even one person doesn't, whose opinion i value, i lose motivation.

Going outside - drawing from life is something i enjoy but it's very hard for me to do, which has led to me feeling very stuck in a single mindset for a very long time even though i would like to get inspiration from other sources. The insp bank is just very empty.

Starting and stopping - it's just such a hassle to navigate hyperfocus. To an extent i know how to trigger it, work with it, make the most of it, etc. But it still just takes a Lot of energy to manage.

Back pain - having a hard time exercising and stretching regularly has made it so my back pain is stopping me from drawing even if i want to.

Too tired all the time - everything is much more exausting when u have adhd so even if i wanted to work on åersonal projects or whatever, the physical and emotional toll is just too high.

Probably not an exaustice list lbr but at leadt i have it.

So a few things are more existential in nature like: "what do i want to spend my limited time on this earth making?" "Why do i feel like what i am doing is not enough?" Etc. Etc. And probably can't be solved in one sitting.

A couple things can rly be aided by a better settup though so once i move in i'm going to need to start thinking about a better settup:

A better computer with a RAM that doesn't actively want me dead.

(And good screen placement to go w that, so im not actively murdering my neck).

(And a new tablet that's not 10yrs old and a safety hazard).

Established places for all my tools so i can work with minimal effort.

Smaller usb sticks labeled by year would be nice. Computer folders drive me mad.

An inspiration board (and planning board) would be nice. Being able to visually see all my projects in action at all times. Worth a try honestly.

Moving in and settling down will aid on a few fronts:

Generally not being constantly worried about moving in to a new appartment will be swell. Love that for future me.

Exercise will happen more regularly once i move in and am not constantly stressed. Also i'll live rly close to a gym so.. fingers crossed that solves That problem.

Going back to work will help with that.

Fingers crossed ill have energy for parkour again soon🤞🤞🤞

Genuinely no solution for the Too Tired problem. I'll likely just have to let myself rest once in a while even if it means giving up on exercise and drawing for a week or more at a time. Which is probably healthy lbr.

Which.. that leaves the three biggest issues (shocker).

Going outside would help with boredom but going outside is hard.

I think i'll have to invest in some better outdoorsy bags. Like those rly cool leather hip pouches. Those would be great. Just.. a way to easily carry equipment qith me so i can just draw when i feel like it and don't have to dig around a bag just find a pencil.

Like this lol. Big enough to fit an a5 sketch book bc that's my preffered size snd like.. one water colour set and a pen. Imagine that. I think that would be Swell. I don't need a bunch. Just enough that i can carry the essentials anywhere i go.

The dream.

Another reason to marry a leather worker.

And honestly like.. i think taking a break from fanart and social media and just going outside to draw and see the world.

I think that's what i need rn.

Then there's the issue of external validation, which isn't anyone's fault, it just kinda Is.

I figure quitting social media can help with that too. Sorry to say.

The rest is probably just processing what i want to do and stuff. Ya kno. The existential bits.

#muffin rambles #personal #im feeling anxioys and in s #i must fix everythng #mood #like #ik when i get like this best i can do is notice it #look it in the eye #and say smth like #thats okay #just breathe #itll be all right #long post

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monsterqueenmia · 5 months

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Some small story I made (its chapter one only, the rest might be revealed in the future). I wrote it a long time ago so please don’t make fun of it

During my whole life I've been a younger brother, my older brother would take care of me, and my parents would love me, everything I did was to make my brother accept me and respect me. We had a good relationship, but it was clear to both of us that there was a clear hierarchy between us and there was a natural process of interaction. Then he went to university in another country, and I spent my last two years before university mourning the fact that now he was gone, and I could only see him three times a year.

This summer it was time for me to choose where to go to university and, even if I miss my brother, I wouldn’t be able to study the same thing as he is, I'm just smarter and want to go to a higher education. I decided to go to a small town with a not too prestigious university but good enough for what I need.

Today is the day I start university and I've never been more nervous, my next four years are going to be spent here and I don’t know if I'll like it, if Ill like the teachers or the other students, “what if they make fun of me?” “What if they don’t like me?” “What if I'm not good enough?”

—Shut up- whisper trying to not get noticed which didn’t work since immediately someone looked at me like if I was crazy

—Great, now they think I'm crazy

The bell rings and I start following the crowd going forwards, I get pushed on one side and shoved in the other but eventually I find myself in room “Homeroom VII” which I think is mine, I check the paper and see written on it “Homeroom VII” and decide to walk in

The room is a boring room with maybe 20 seats, it has a stage in the front and the desks are ordered in a square kind of way with the back row missing (4 times 5) with three extra seats in the first row right in the three central columns. I swiftly pace to the back of the class and decide to sit down in one of the corners, I take out a notebook and prepare to take notes. Then I look up to notice that I'm the first one in class, except for a teacher

—Good morning Mr. …

—Mr. Ivan sir

—Interesting name, Ivan, I like how it sounds

—Thanks sir

There’s a long pause before he tries to start some small talk noticing how awfully quiet, I am

—They are always late; you must be the only student who got here on time

—Ummmmm yeah— I say while taking a look around

—And it's not even in the middle of the year, this is the first day, this is the day you should be early

I decided to ignore him and started sketching some random drawing, it was a picture of a girl, a really attractive girl

Shortly after the other students started walking into the class and taking over the desks front to back, which relieved me a lot. If there’s one thing, I hate is having people near me, I just can’t stand anyone, I don’t know why but the people I know are already used to it, unlike these strangers.

There’s only one person in front of me and a backpack at my side from the person at the other side of it, I'm glad he did that, didn’t really want to sit next to him

—Hello class, I'm going to introduce myself and, even if I did this every year for the last fifteen years, I can’t get any better at it- A small giggle comes out of the others -My name is Mr. Nikola and I'm your homeroom teacher for this year. I'll be setting your grades and taking care of the complains the teachers make of you so make sure to have me on your side- another giggle emerges but quickly dies out -There’s a couple of things we have to take care of before we can talk about your lives—

He checks his notes on the teacher's desk and at that time, people start talking to each other and I continue with my small drawing, it looks pretty good to be honest but it's not my best drawing yet after all, it's not made with that intention.

The guy in front of me pulls out his phone and I notice a weird tricolor flag as his background image, don’t think it's of any country. Maybe I should ask him what flag it is, nope, bad idea, no unnecessary social interaction.

He turns around to catch me looking at his phone over his shoulder and looks at me with a different face, I don’t think I've ever seen it before

—What country is that flag from— I say shily and instantly regret it, it sounded terrible —Oh, this? This is no nation, it’s the…- The teacher asks for silence and my classmate turns around to look forward abruptly ending our conversation —The first order of business is to discuss the dorms, each one of you have to choose one person from this room to be your roommate, the person can change if you discover you don’t like each other but it’s a long and complicated process so please be careful choosing The whole class gets up and starts looking for a roommate, except me, I just stare down and keep drawing. I see people walk up to the person I have in front and ask him to be their roommate (mostly girls, God knows why) but he says no to all of them for some reason. He continues to sit down and look at his phone, five minutes later he pulls out his headphones and starts listening to some music through one of his ears. A minute passes before he looks at me and asks if I want the other headphones. I notice time stops and I can’t believe this, why did he want ME to do it? He probably has all the friends he needs, probably everyone is his friend, he doesn’t need me. What do I do? Do I say yes? No? What the fuck am I supposed to do? I didn’t see this coming. “Ok” I manage to say, even if I didn’t want to actually say it. He pulls out the other headphone and I put it on my ear, it's some nice music but I never heard it before, I might ask for the name later but I'm not sure if that’s the best idea right now. I decide to look at him and I notice why everyone wanted to be with him, or at least part of the reason, he’s wearing a white sweater with some scribbles written on it, too messy to actually read but they still add a nice effect to the overall look, he’s also wearing glasses with an interesting design and he has probably the best hair to ever exist. —Ivan and the other kid, I'm marking you two as roommates— says Mr. Nikola We stare at each other for five seconds before he shouts, “No problem, sir” and then he continues to look at me —Ok everyone, back to your seats, I'm going to hand out the keys to your dorms and you organize yourselves, ok? He starts walking down the rows handing out the keys to everyone and then he reaches our table and looks at the headphones —I can’t let you have those in class —sorry sir, won't happen again— Says my roommate taking his out of his ear and stretching his hand out asking for the other one, I pull it out of my ear and hand it to him and then Nikola hands us our keys and tells us we can start going to our room We got up and started walking down the hallway towards a map nearby, our room is on the third floor not far from here, maybe three minutes away. The rest of the way is silent with the occasional looking at something we find interesting. Once we get to our room, he pulls out his keys and starts to open the door. The room is around 32 square meters and it's organized with the two beds at the sides and two desks in between the beds, there’s also a closet on the wall next to the bed. The walls are white and there’s a window right in the middle of the wall opposite the entrance that brings in a nice light, the floor is a nice dark brown made out of some sort of artificial wood there’s also a bathroom at the end of the room (in a separate room) and a small kitchen at the other side. It seems the rooms were made to be parallel and simple, maybe it's to be able to build many of them quickly. —I haven't introduced myself right— my roommate asks as he takes his jacket off —Nope —My name is Erik and I guess yours is Ivan? —Yup —Can you give more than one syllable answers? - he jokingly says —Nah man, not going to happen A second passes but it feels like eternity, why did I say that? It sounds so terrible. I get distracted as he pulls out a map of Europe right before WW1 with an incredible amount of detail, both with the borders and the railways and a really cool vintage style

—World War one, right? —Yup- he responds joyfully -I really like maps from this time period, they really show some interesting borders, right? I catch myself staring at him while he hangs up his map, it's weird. I immediately say yes and continue looking at him, I can't seem to take my eyes of him, he’s just… too perfect. We stand in silence for a minute while he hangs up his map and then he turns around to look at me —Wanna watch a movie? - He asks with a shiny smile that covers up his face —Um yeah, should I pull out my laptop? - I answer nervously —No need, I brought a projector I stare at him for a moment as he bends over to pick something up from his bag and then pulls out a small box, he opens it and pulls out a small projector —There’s no school today and even if we should make sure we know where everything is I'm too tired to do it, it's been a long day today. So, what movie do you want to watch? I think for a second and then decisebly say Star Wars, movie four His face lights up when he hears the last four words come out of my mouth, just like if I had just told him he won the lottery —No way, you like that too? —Of course I do, who doesn’t like Star Wars? —I love it, but my family didn’t like it at all, they found the movies boring and unrelatable so I couldn’t really watch it with them, and I didn’t get enough time straight to watch a whole movie, so I never really had a chance to watch the movies honestly He pulled out his laptop and I logged into my Disney+ account for him since he didn’t have one (and now that were roommates, I guess we share those stuff) while he connected the projector, after that we both sat on my bed and pressed play. Thirty minutes in I looked at him casually just to catch him looking back, we both smiled and then he moved his hand a bit more towards me, I looked down, then back up, he smiled at me, then I put my hand on his, it was soft and warm and nice to touch. I looked back at him, and we smiled at each other for a solid minute with the movie playing in the background. At that moment we heard a knock on the door that shattered our moment. He quickly jumped up while I stopped the movie, he ran to the door and asked who was there and a feminine voice answered: it's me, Matilda, weren’t we going out today? He turns to me and asks if I want to come —What? Me? Um nah, I'll stay here- I answer nervously —Ok, no problem- he says as he walks towards me -you can continue the movie if you want

Then, out of nowhere, he leans over towards me and puts his head against mine, he stays like that for a second and then gives me a kiss on my forehead

#I don’t know what to tag this but i hope anyone who reads it enjoys it #i also hope you’re doing well <3

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your-local-uwu-artist · 1 year

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Okay I think I have the basic idea for the animatic and just need to storyboard

Idk how to do that

alright so get your audio imported and than theres a few ways to approach

ummmm ill use my kirby storyboard and charlotte animatic for examples ( i can find more examples if youd like too :3)

scattered tips and rambles under the cut nfsdkja

so i tend to only include the base poses for movement in my animatics and i also keep my sketches like, quick and simple, one thing thats visible in my kirby one is that i didnt keep the backgrounds consistent in the storyboard because once i had what i wanted for that sketched out i would switch to focusing on the character animaiton sense i could figure the background out later

i would recomend using minimal layers: it can be helpful to have 2 animation layers though so you can sketch the character movements independant from eachother: however for storyboarding just keep it to one layer

if you need to sketch out character anatomy id suggest doing that after your storyboard: on a second sketch layer, simmilar to how later examples of my kirby animatic had circles to keep track of the size and placement of characters, if you struggle with anatomy than try to sketch em more like stick figures or with less lines to keep the process simple

if your having trouble conveying a particular movement than it could be helpful to flesh it out further in you base storyboard so that you have it more figured out later on, but for the most part dont worry about the actual animation just the base poses

sense you havnt animated before id focus more on just getting your ideas down, if you animate more in the future than its important to study more about character movement and flow and directing the viewers eyes and all of that but for now try not to wory about making anything particualry amazing, i find for me putting to much expectations on an animations result makes the task feel even more daunting ^o^*

however if you want to be more ambitious and start learning some more storyboarding skills i can try to sketch out some guides~

a great thing to focus on now thats simple is just to keep in sync with the music, particularly for actual cuts

theres lot of editing you can do to make an animatic look more animated post production, any camera movemtns (like a slight movement from right to left or a zoom in out, or shakey little effect) dont worry about any of those rn, example of this is in my kirby animatic theres that one clip where theres drawings being shown and you can see how the shot isnt drawn to fit the full page: thats cause i plan to do camera movement to pan across the drawing

ummm i would suggest cheking out Jamie De Jonge - YouTube, and •[ Silliest_Light ]• - YouTube, cause there great examples where like, its generally more simple/less ambitous animations but look fantastic, and do a great job of storytelling

my charlotte animatic was done super quick, i did have a sketch layer if i remember correctly but like, it was pretty fast~

for that i just focused for keeping in sync with music and the actual like, framing to convey more emotion, theres only 12 frames in the whole thing actually

another small thing i did there is in the first frame charlotte's arms are like, down resting on the ledge where as in the next clip with her , her pose changed so her hands are on te ledge but her arms are strectched out, given that the action of her goign from the ledge to pushing herself ore upwards is a simple movement and also like, a very diagonal one? if that makes sense i think this pose change helped convey more motion in general despite the motion itself never being shown, i could try to phrase that better if that didnt make sense djnfajsd

all of this is really scattered so im not sure how much help it is but i hope it is at least somewhat neat idk dafkndjf

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