#looking for advice ig

[hwsforeignrelations]

As a hobby sketchbooker, its a favorite pasttime to go chronologically through old sketchbooks and note improvement. Im gonna supplement the rant below with old art, cuz its relevant and i think they're neat

I accidentally deleted my old tumblr like five months ago which held a similar sentiment (*SOB* but no use crying over split milk)

I see a lot of fan artists getting burnt out. I see a lot of Hetalia artists stay for a bit, then leave for other fandoms (higher pastures, if u will). I use to not understand. How did people become bored so fast?!?!

Ive never been one to switch interests quickly. I was solidly leg deep in my superhero phase 5-8th grade. I started reading exclusively usuk fanfics in 8th grade, and have hardly ventured beyond usuk.

I'm trying to branch out more.

Hetalia is unique in its ability to teach crash course history and have enemy soldiers devouring each others cocks in the same paragraph. Double win!! The concept of international relations translated to human ones, of a nations pain having physical embodiment, of fantastically diverse headcanons dissecting the intrigues of Nation biology... Its all very yummy thinking food

Ive never read the manga, ive hardly watched the show. Im fandom built thru and thru!

Like the pic above, I use usuk as experiments to run all my ideas thru. Mix media,

World building, swatching, expressions and unfamiliar subjects. Theyre my go-to! since I started taking art seriously in 2021 and those events were mainly usuk themed

my styles always changing, and I'm usually using America and England to do it

Combined with writing and a poor conceptual understanding of base material (aka CANON) i have trouble knowing WHO alfred and england are, in my style. They're constantly changing designs make it hard for my writing to capture their characters consistently.

I get so fixated on solving my own inconsistent characterization writing. Its stupid! Im going to college across the country in ten days, for Christ's sake!

Its no use getting worked up over an inconsistent style- this IS the period of constant change, of constant growth and its great fun processing new interests through art, through two characters i am familiar with (even if i somehow don't know them at all)

Ive been reading stories about the royal navy: so i practice some made up naval uniform on england! That's just an example - i really do process new information through them, finding fun in research

Once i couldn't stop thinking about the scene below, about the intrigue of gore (a genre id never taken an interest to). And i was cringing about doing it to myself (about how ouchi it would be), but like all my creative ideas j filter them through characters - it feels safer that way. Then drawing myself in there. Yuck.

So i practice the idea in Alfred. "Oh ouch yup- looks just as gross and painful and I'd imagined. Perfect!!" Now ive got an Alfred doing this gross thing, now i have a headcanon about nations cleaning their tongues witn razors.

Now i wanna write about it. Haha its all a very self-feeding pattern.

Not sure if this rant makes much sense, but basically i STRUGGLE to establish characters. Partially because i play so much with them in my doodles with anything and everything i find interesting - perhaps it makes too many factors for one character.

#.txt #this literally... makes no sense im sk sorry if u read it TT #just a bunch of thoughts ive had #looking for advice ig #idk if this is a common issue but i can't imagine its THAT unusual??? ? TT plz?

[bowenoke]

i'm sure i am not the only one who is very concerned about the ~4 hours between when the midjourney change was made, and I knew to go opt out of it, so; glaze does not need to be on all your works to be effective. in the same way that one artist glazing all their works will ruin a broad, multi-artist dataset, glazing your works moving forward will ruin any dataset trained on you. if out of 100 comics I've posted, 10 are glazed, a dataset trained on all of my comics will not be able to make anything similar to my style. anyways. go download glaze.

#ofc a manual review of the data set could pick out anything glazed. ig the point for me is to force that manual review #though wider adoption of glaze is not a perfect or even workable solution for many. my computer is 10 years old and runs glaze but #thats pretty lucky on my part. and the '100 comics' thing isnt perfect bc. im not using glaze on my comics. it looks really bad. #and there's not a real risk of someone using my art to train a data set bc. like. cartoons exist. #like you probably SHOULD glaze everything especially from now on #but if like me the idea of trawling your entire internet presence seems so daunting youd almost sooner delete it all #posting Some poison is better than posting No poison #but most important is not being paralyzed into inaction by how daunting the task is. even if that does mean no poison #im trying out what works and what does not right now for me. and i guess my advice is that you do too even if that means making a pillowfor #lol

[bandtrees]

my opinion on the manga-to-anime mogami arc adaptation changes depending on who im talking to. when it’s people who lament them getting rid of the more brutal parts i have my whole speech about how mogami shouldn’t be this cartoonishly violent strawman who just wants to play dirty and an important part of his character is that, while he’s wrong, he has genuine points that mob needs to hear that help further his development through the season and that’s better expressed when mogamiland is more down to earth and realistic and not just senselessly brutal and knife twisting

however when it’s people who discredit the arc just because of its darker tone and because bad things happen to mob i just go like “YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY SHOULDV KILLED TWO CATS”

#babbles #mp100 #mp100 meta #ig #mob psycho 100 #mogami arc #keiji mogami #picked this from stuff sammi says cuz we go on this bit a lot lol bless em #also it does bug me when people just treat mogami like he’s pulling shit out of his ass #cuz his presence is more than just’bad guy mob needs to Prove Wrong’ #they learn from eachother!!! mogami tells mob advice he needs to hear and mob makes him become a better person next time we see him #obviously not great by any means nor do i even think mogami’s RIGHT but. idk i don’t like ppl just making him #Look At This Wrong Evil Bad Guy Doing Wrong Evil Things n making him like generic angst torture machine #he has a personality and strong morals and that’s a very important thing about him #he’s not just a Bad Guy(tm) you can slot anywhere for Le Angst #sorry i love mogami I have demons.

[hayaku14]

kaishin au where kaito unwillingly received immortality from pandora. kaito is torn and broken upon the burden of eternal life. shinichi promises to stay with him forever. to do so, he drinks aptx 4869 every 10 years.

years go by and soon everyone in their life passes. kaito and shinichi learned how to create the poison from haibara before she left the world as well. but though it works in consistently turning back time for shinichi, it is still a deadly poison. accumulated, it slowly weakens him.

as shinichi's body slowly deteriorates, the poison chipping away at his life, kaito spirals. once again, torn and broken, kaito is desperate. feeling this to be their last years together, he decides to find a way to stay with shinichi forever.

a way to reverse his immortality.

a way to die together.

#kaishin #dcmk #detective conan #kudou shinichi #kuroba kaito #dc prattles #dont look at me idk why but this angst came out of fucking nowhere too #this came into my brain and i had to vomit it all here or else it'll plague my mind and die there #i actually wrote that they have half a century left but ig it's better to leave it vague #i think at one point they would have to fake their deaths #but shinichi's body couldnt possibly handle changing back and forth if he's past his 50s right? #what im trying to say is that make this au extra angsty by making them fake their deaths in their late 20s or early 30s #this is haibara's advice as someone who knows shinichi's biology the most and how the poison works #they could probably tell their close friends and family though (making it less angsty cause i remembered i am GODS WEAKEST SOLDIER) #lowkey shinichi at the point where kaito decides to look for a way to immortality is already either bed ridden #on a wheelchair #or at least cant run anymore and is easily tired #(THIS AU IS JUST AN ELABORATE SICK FIC AND MY ADDICTION TO TIRED SHINICHI SHOWING) #changed aptx 4689 to 4869! im sorry i wrote this at 2 am lmao

[gifti3]

also! i hate how ppl will be like you cant tell if you'll have chemistry through texting you have to meet up right away!!! do yall have no online friends?? or at least attempt to know ppl past a surface level who arent in your immediate vicinity??

#this is @reddit guys trying to give dating advice #you obviously have an online presence since ur on reddit #but ig thats as far as it goes?? #i really dont get it #like maybe they just mean them and theyre projecting onto every single person in the whole world #cause ive been making long term friends through the internet since i was 13 #it works so well for me too since it helps taper social interactions so i dont get overwhelmed #or so i can have a moment to get more thoughts out clearly #i literally ended up in my middle through high school friend group cause i started talking to one of my classmates on facebook #and started playing maplestory with her #so opinions like this really irk me #cause it just feels too black and white #im just ranting a bit #i like looking at random stuff online and seeing everyones opinions #so ill end up on here and start going off about random stuff with little context haha

[leatherbookmark]

dear god that would be turbo cringe or whatever, but seeing all those annoying little things in fics over and over again really makes me want to write one in which they're not obligatory funnymoments but rather like, words that have meaning and weight and so on

#shrimp thoughts #like. 1. characters acting all cryptic and condescending when their friend who isn't aware they're queer and in love comes to them for #advice like 'oh figure it out yourself baby :)' that's so obnoxious. this is a romcom not a hero's journey you're TWENTY not a Wise Mentor #2. characters acting condescending and rolling their eyes soooo hard about how their friend hasn't figured/took them so long to figure out #they're queer because it was so obvious! how can you be so dense! or: how can you be IGNORANT of kink matters (that we never told you about #3. characters making retching noises and complaining how disgusting/gross their friends are once they get together. the friends aren't #like frenching or fucking on the dining table but just smiling at each other. free pass at homophobia nonetheless ig #4. characters reacting to any sort of doubts/internal conflict their friend has with 'omg who cares just do the thing! stop overthinking!' #ETC ETC #so many times i've started reading a good fic with an otherwise engaging characterization only for the writer to pull an Easy Fan Favourite #like one of the above and like ggggghhhhhhhhhh #if it was one (1) character in one (1) fandom or even just a type of characters i wouldn't mind AS MUCH but it's everyone whether it makes #sense for them or not. is this guy calm and sensitive? doesn't matter! he's going to do and say the same things a silly chatterbox type #of a character because telling your friends they're gross for being a couple is universal now #OH i almost forgot. everyone's having kinky sex of many different kinds but react like twitter teenagers to any mention of sex in general #'ew! TMI! i don't want to hear about all the insane shit you do in your bedroom! not in front of the children! not while i'm eating!' #'just read better fanfiction' look i'm TRYING i'm TRYING OKAY

[undefeatablesin]

girl has never been the same since she discovered ✨fangs✨ it's all she can think about now

(mind if i use aloysha's teeth as a reference for my own arts when trying to draw sharp teeth in humanoid mouths? just drawing piranha-like teeth doesn't sounds right😭😭)

Fangs have altered my brain chemistry and drawing them is all I think about 💙

But as for using my art for your own study, I am flattered you think my art is even usable for reference material frankly 🫢 However, if you haven't already, I would advise studying from photo references of both human and canid dental models first; especially if Aloysha's teeth are the sort of aesthetic you're going for! You really need to know what your subject matter actually looks like before you can translate it into artwork with confidence.

Studying from another artist is useful to a degree, as they have already gone through the work of simplifying and stylising the subject matter, and that can help a lot with figuring out your own style! But ultimately, nothing really compares to studying from the real thing. I mostly study wolf skulls and teeth as reference for Aloysha!

Making sharp teeth look belieavable in a human mouth relies on knowing what both animal teeth and human teeth look like, the different types and shapes of teeth, how they are spaced out in the jaw-what those teeth are actually for, even! Little details like that can influence and inform how you draw teeth and make them seem a lot more "correct" than they would otherwise ✨️

I am nowhere near a professional or an authority of course, but I feel imparting the advice and tips that have helped me might help you too! And I think that will help a lot more than looking at my art, as you will likely pick up mistakes I myself make by doing so 😂 but if you are still struggling after doing some photo study, then some light referencing won't hurt ✨️ obviously as long as my art isn't being directly copied or traced (for works that will be published especially), I don't have too many qualms.

#sinbox #(welcome to art advice hour with sin ig 😂) #(tldr study photos of animals with teeth that look like the sort u want to draw and u will be a lot better off) #(i am still a learning artist myself as is so i obviously dont have everything figured out yet either!!!) #(i hope this doesnt seem pretentious or anything omg!!!) #(i always encourage people to learn from real life. nobody likes to hear it 😂 including sin circa 2020.) #(but it does make a SUBSTANTIAL difference. i learned the hard way 😂😂😂) #(good luck in ur own fang drawing escapades!! i am always here to help with what knowledge i do have should you require it ✨️)

[paleode-ology]

spent the last solid couple of hours going through my old tumblr likes in order to have things better archived... unfortunately didn't make a note of how many I started at but it was probably in the mid 2000s and I've only cut it down to 2000 now. this is gonna take so long

#ode by ode #spring cleaning ig #there are so many things I should be doing instead!!!!!! #but I've been trying to just get more into my computer and browser setup #we started off making sure calibre was set up the way i wanted since i'm 100% gonna be an anna's archive bitch now that i've heard about it #and then I've been making reading lists #and organizing my bookmarks and bookmarking all of the sites i had saved in liked tumblr posts that i wanted to actually look at #set up my rss reader but haven't put anything in it yet #idk the onset of me realizing how much i do love archival management #and then the fact that my gf is sharing her vpn acct with me #sort of added together into this internet weirdo vibe i'm actively cultivating #and i mean i already lowkey had it going on #like i've been a firefox girlie since high school #and i def do a lot w privacy and the firefox qol extensions #plus i've been... how shall I say... well versed in the usage of shadow libraries for a couple years now as well #but fringe web things haven't been on my radar NEARLY enough #and i've been meaning to make actual lists and compilations of advice and book and game recs for eons #so just. continuing with that #even if i don't do anything else for a couple months i'm glad i made a decent dent in the tumblr likes bc they've been eating at my soul

[lux-scriptum]

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#I don’t think I’m looking for advice really #I’m just #venting ig #but it sort of hit me today that my friend might be right #and i might have more support needs than I was willing to admit #and that is so fucking crushing to me #ive worked so so hard to be independent #because past experiences have taught me that relying on people is risky #i just wanna feel safe u know? #but I’m just getting more worn down #I’m so tired

[alloalouette]

https://instagram.com/another.dept?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#another department #not looking for any advice today #instagram #IG #art #do not plagiarize

[brw]

my most controversial avengers take is that i think hank pym is more of a dad than steve rogers is, as far as blonde haired blue eyed avengers go.

#brieuc.txt #hank pym #steve rogers #he literally dad'd steve and he has u know. actual kids. who btw seem to like him? william seems 2 like him n nadia ig hasnt acc met him #but its the principle of it. #steve is like too iconic kids arent going to be forthcoming to captain fuckin america abt their problems most team members wont #but hank? fuckin ant-man? yeah. n hes fucked up so many times he has some actual solid advice. #and he has more experience working with kids from avengers academy & avengers arena n such! #and he made a good impression on at least SOME of thise kids reptil looks up to him a lot. #anyway tldr; hank pym is the most dad shaped of the blond marvel characters.

[oatbugs]

i feel rly irredeemably horrible rn...longing for emotional support....anyway vent in tags

#physically i feel so ill etc . and i have to catch up on so much #and i just got a grade back for an assignment and it wasnt a 1st and literally almost . cried bc #it rly was supposed 2 be. i dont have my housing sorted out for next yr and i am rly worried #i look hideous rn bc my face is rly swollen and it was a fat transfer so u dont get to see results for like #6 months but mostly the swelling should settle in like a month but that means i will just look #kind of monsterous for a while. i cant do archery anymore bc it involves heavy weights ig which im supposed to not do #and its like as soon as i find smth i like it is taken away...i feel . like shit. etc. and according to the clinic it is Not Normal to be #so weak. have to get lasik in a few days while still recovering from transfer + nose surgery so i literally #feel like my body is going to give out but also idk if i will find time to catch up on stuff etc i feel likr my brain is rotting #i basically have no support system rn except my gf bc my friends are all so busy w their own stuff #which is also v bad. like i cannot rely on her as my sole source of emotional support #feels like academics etc have taken a backseat this yr so far and that is Horrible like i need that to not be the case #but im too nauseous and weak etc to sit up for prolonged periods of time taking notes #taking 7 antibiotics a day etc..idk . i have to travel 6hrs #tmrw then have lasik on monday then travel back 6hrs the same afternoon or tuesday morning #like i legit already feel like my body is giving out idk how i will do this. and i feel so incredibly alone throughout #all of this . idk. #genuinely i am turning into a black hole and if things get bad again i will lose it . i hate this feeling i hate the #marked loneliness that comes b4 things spiral downwards and this feels like it #that was a lot ✌️ anyway if any1 has any advice or words to share or anytjing to say ever pls do #i need human interaction soooo badly #personal

[truthundressing]

ex-step sibling relationships are defo the weirdest to navigate :/

#like our parents divorced so u moved out and we couldnt see each other regularly or even really talk abt each other in our seperate #households #but u were an integral part of my childhood for 10 years and i looked at u as an older brother bc u used to help me with my homework and #play out with me and let me write lego sets i wanted on ur christmas list bc i wasnt allowed them on mine (gender roles🙄) and made up #stupid games to distract me from feeling sick whenever we went on holiday by plane #and created so many inside jokes and genuinely made me a better person #and yet hes just gone🧍 #and i had to find out u graduated uni by a mutual friends ig story😐 this fucking suuuucks #but also like what else could we have done they dont teach u abt this in pd lessons in secondary school :/ #man it makes me so sad to think abt how i lost a friend just like that :( and how much i wouldve valued his advice and company over the #last 3 yrs :(( #to delete

[hella1975]

being a fearer of intimacy i have of course spent the past week compiling a mental 'pros and cons' list of dating my coworker, and of course one of the natural cons is the age gap. ill be 20 and he'll be 27 and it's just.... iffy, even if he's really nice. HOWEVER the immediate pro my brain met me with??? 'taylor swift was 20 when she dated jake gyllanhall and if he breaks your heart you'll be in your all too well era'

#catch me heartbroken SCREAMING the lyrics to this song like it already hits too hard and now this? okay #help this is so unhealthy i get asked on one date and immediately im preparing not only for a relationship but also the break up #ALSO hiiii guys so i know you might think you know me super well and we're all besties here and WE ARE but please just dont try #and give me advice about the age gap #like talk to me about ANYTHING else #but last time i posted about this i got a lot of 'SOMEONE THAT OLD SHOULDNT EVEN BE LOOKING AT YOU GRRRR' asks #and it's kinda annoying #like im 19 now but im 20 in literally 3 months (AKA WHEN I SEE HIM NEXT) #and dating around this age is very different to dating when you're a younger teenager #im AWARE and CAUTIOUS of the age gap but it's not inherently off limits the way it would be if i was 17 and he was 24 #so just like. dont try parent me bc i have a mother for that and she's much better at it than you #god bless <3 #hella slaves to capitalism #???????? ruining my grind tag with gross emotions ig

[daz4i]

more interested in killing myself than in recovery, but also I'm really fucking bored 🤨

kinda feeling like i owe it to the people in my life who love me for some unknown reason to get better but i also. still can't really think of any future i could have. or even one i want, for that matter. ig the only thing i do want is pretty much unachievable (like yeah some people do get it. but. never anyone like me. definitely no one in a state like mine. and it's still very rare anyway) so I'm mostly thinking what's the point. and anyone who ever tried to help me told me to give it up and settle but i really truly would just rather die than do that and i don't think they get that (like they think I'm being dramatic but no i genuinely do not see a point wasting my time being alive if I'm just settling for an existence i can't even enjoy. that sounds p understandable to me. i don't get how or why other people do it as well. it's not even my depression speaking here, i had these thoughts ever since i was a kid) so. what even is there to hope for. what is there to move forward to. what direction do you even go in, in that state

#vent #bc i gotta sort out my thoughts #back to my regular existential despair tho 👍 #suicide mention // #ask to tag #ig I'd say I'm looking for advice but i also know it tends to make me angry more than actually help so. idk. #give me advice at your own risk if you want to lol

[yourbrainwillrot]

guys..

I tried water colors..

PLEASE GIVE ME SOME SWAG ART ADVICE THANK YOU

#its not amazing but I sorta like it #pls I haven't used water colors for 3 years smh #I shud probably practice more but yeah #art #iG #water color #painting #wooooo #someone give me advice pls #pls dont bully me #I TRIED SJKHDHA #ok bye ily all #<3 #oh idk if you all noticed but I also tried to scribble up some cool signature and nope it still doesnt look swag sm #smh*