#robs ramblings

[robiinurheart33]

Don’t have any writing today, sorry!

To assure y’all I am working on a part 2 here’s a snippet:

If anyone wants to read part 1 first here’s the link

#hope y’all like it #busy day tmr so prob won’t get this done tmr sorry #I have a Drabble almost done tho so might post that #stay tuned guys #stay safe #robs ramblings #call of duty #john soap mactavish #ghoap #simon ghost riley #ghostsoap

[sncwbaz]

so, watched ep 1 of the atla live action and uhm, imagine not wanting one of your main characters to depict sexism because you believe it doesn’t read well in Current Times, so instead you double down on the character’s obsession towards leadership in order to give him that extra edge. but in order to make that work u have to make his sister quietly obedient instead of an outspoken leading presence that has the potential to overshadow him. because silencing a female character in order to write out a male character’s story arc of unlearning sexism is obviously a better and less sexist outcome.

#also the show made kyoshi say the opening of the show instead of katara cos apparently they’re obsessed with robbing katara of her voice #she’s literally just an entire different character and i cannot think of why except to make sokka look like a more prominent leader #which also goes entirely against sokka’s character trait of consistently feeling powerless #i don’t normally vent post about stuff like this but i’m just so baffled by this #atla #anna rambles #avatar the last airbender

[robanilla-writes]

Why is Nightmare doing paperwork all the time. what is he writing. who is he writing it for. why does he pay taxes.

#rob rambles #nightmare sans

[rosiethedragongeek]

These dragons shows REALLY knew what we needed, we got a HUGE variety of cool new dragons w all of these different diverse designs and abilities, and they develop the relationships between the gang to make them feel like a family and give them the most WONDERFUL bickery loving dynamic, and also gave them 9 pet chickens, and gave us scenes of the dragons playing together and ALL of the adorable hicctooth and hiccstrid moments, and they gave all of the gang developed personalities and traits and stuff and depth and expanded the archipelago and referenced HTTYD 1 AND 2 and ALSO GOTNF I'm p sure they just tie it all together and flesh it out so WELL

#can you tell i'm thinking about how much i love rtte rn? #it's so #good #this is kinda ramble-y but i just need to talkl about it lol #how to train your dragon #riders of berk #defenders of berk #race to the edge #httyd #rob #dob #rtte #rosie's httyd brainrot

[biboomerangboi]

The the real reason we never got a Zuko and Toph field trip is because they knew without a doubt these two would commit a crime so big Nickelodeon wouldn’t be able to pretend murder didn’t happen.

#atla #zuko #toph beifong #avatar the last airbender #zee rambles #like you know it would be a B&E and you know it was be insane of the charts insane #they’d probably try to rob azula #and then commit war crimes to escape

[nikibogwater]

WAIT.

You mean to tell me. That we could have had an original animated film. About a girl falling in love with a shape-shifting star-boy. With a beautiful, magical love duet where he would sweep her across the skies in a glittery, weightless dance as they swear to protect each other. All while an evil power couple with a demented-looking cat are hunting them down.

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WE COULD'VE HAD A BANGER EVIL LOVE DUET TO PARALELL THE GOOD ONE AND DISNEY JUST....DIDN'T DO THAT?!?!?!?!

#niki rambles #disney wish #if i was the head of Disney I would fire whoever was responsible for this decision #we were ROBBED

[plague-karm]

It turns out the big boi Mario Movie post I’m planning out is gonna take a LOT longer than I originally thought it would, so have a funnie in the meantime!

#karm rambles #mario movie #powser #bowuigi #we’ve been robbed #super mario bros movie

[charlieism]

ik all of sunnyblr has talked abt it but we actually dont talk enough abt the scene where mac has gay dreams about dennis. like. macs heart eyes??? the almost kisses??? PLURAL??? that was actually in the show. glenn said on the podcast mac was just thinking "finally." wtf

#rcg you bastards. this was years ago please #macdennis #macden #iasip #always sunny #mac mcdonald #dennis reynolds #its always sunny in philadelphia #glenn howerton #rob mcelhenney #rcg #jay rambles

[bubbles-for-all-of-us]

Have no happy news to share but I finally finished a project that has been in the making for a while and now I never want to let these babies go. If you haven't read this series let this be a motivation for that.

#i feel like i was robbed by people who said that the series is only good for Rhys and Rhys alone #twisted series #ana huang #twisted love #twisted games #twisted hate #twisted lies #rambling bubbles 🫧

[theangrycomet]

If I had a nickel for everytime Kevin Michael Richardson and Rob Paulson worked together voicing a duo of unlikely allies in an early 2000’s tv show, with Richardson’s character getting regularly beat up and his stuff ruined and Paulson’s character’s having an R name, a far more famous blue relative, and a penchant for annoying Richardson’s character by making sandwiches, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot of nickels but it’s strange that it happened TWICE.

#Lilo and Stitch #Lilo & Stitch #Captain Gantu #Gantu #Experiment 625 #Reuben #Loonatics Unleashed #Tech E Coyote #Rev Runner #Kevin Michael Richardson #Rob Paulson #This realization hit me like a sack of bricks #Like- Reuben was my favorite experiment aside from Stitch and I loved his dynamic with Gantu #So imagine my surprise when I’m looking up Voice actors and find out Rev and Tech’s voiced by the same guys #Like I knew about Rev- he’s got Paulson’s ‘nerd’ voice #But I did not realize Richardson’s range bc holy shit #AngryComet Rambles

[robanilla-arts]

I wanna get better at hands and feet and shoes. shame that the only way to do that is to draw more hands and feet and shoes

#robanilla-arts #rob rambles #rob vocifricates #rob beseeches

[robiinurheart33]

Soap knows Ghost is beautiful. He doesn’t need to see his real face to know. It’s in the way he carries himself, his thick British accent, the arrogant quirk of his eyebrow that shifted under his mask. He never had any urge to take a peek at his face under that mask, always respected his boundaries, always stayed fairly within line.

But during the mission in Las Almas, where Ghost had so unwaveringly pulled off his mask, Johnny felt like his whole world had been shaken. Maybe it was because Ghost was his whole world Soap had been obsessed ever since. The crooked curve of his nose, his clipped and messy dirty blonde hair, the slight curve of his Cupid’s bow on his upper lip, the jagged scar that had been carved into pale, almost sickly skin. It was all so utterly Simon. Soap felt unhealthily obsessed. Genuinely, he thought that he could not be any more head over heels, and he goes and does this.

It was stupid how eager Soap was to draw his face. It was like he was a puppet on a string, pulled by his untethered compulsiveness. He had to be cautious. He yearned rip off the mask Ghost has just put on again to kiss him stupid in front of everyone. 141, maybe. But not the Los Vaqueros. He does have that sliver of sanity to hold himself back. But god, if that doesn’t just open up a door of opportunities for him behind closed doors. The extra areas of skin that were now not so unreachable was like dangling a candy in front of a child and expecting them to not take it.

Simon is beautiful. Simon is so pretty. Simon is stunning. Pure Bonnie.

Soap wills himself to shut the fuck up and focus on the mission. He wants to see Simon again. Preferably, in a setting with more light. Soap feels like he’s rediscovering ghost all over again, he wants to see his smile, his annoyed expression, his huffs and grunts, everything on his face. Good lord, does he have dimples? Soap thinks he might just die.

The act of seeing ghost’s skin lights something in soap. He doesn’t know what it is, but he feels the impatience and desperation to find out what it is. He grapples and tries to identify it, but like his callsign, it slips away and he’s left with a frustratingly empty feeling he knows only ghost can fill. I’ll find out. I swear, I’ll find it out.

Soap has never been a patient man.

#ok so this is the last of the writing I’ve saved up #it may take more time to churn up more pieces #the stress and anxiety is #getting to me #I’m struggling guys I rlly am HAHHA #just when things were about to get better #stay safe guys love the attention I’ve been receiving about the other pieces #y’all are amazing 💞💞 #robs ramblings #call of duty #john soap mactavish #ghoap #simon ghost riley #ghostsoap

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

GOOD AFTERNOON FELLOW ROB ENJOYERS!!

DO YOU WANNA DRAW YOUR FAVORITE GUY? ARE YOU TIRED OF USING THE SAME THREE STOCK IMAGES FOR THAT PESKY STATIC BODY? WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO ACHIEVE THE SAME EFFECT USING ONLY YOUR PEN AND LAYER EFFECTS?

WELL THEN BOY DO I HAVE A TUTORIAL FOR YOU!!!

IF YOU FOLLOW THE SIMPLE STEPS LAID OUT DOWN BELOW, YOU TOO CAN BECOME CLINICALLY INSANE LEVEL UP YOUR ART SKILLS BY LEARNING HOW TO MAKE REALISTIC STATIC IN THE DIGITAL MEDIUM!!

okay i'll stop yelling at you now. on with the tutorial!

Step One: Blocking!

this is usually part of the coloring process for me, so you'll need a mostly complete drawing to start out with.

now, draw out where you want the static to be with white. the average hard round brush will be good for this step, but you can use whatever you like! i for example prefer to use the polygon lasso tool to get more crisp edges (however this effect can also be achieved with the eraser tool).

for his arms and legs, just outline them in white and color them in.

depending on the pose/perspective you might have to separate certain pieces into different layers. for example, here his left arm and lower torso are clipping through the line art

so we move them to be below the line art layer and boom! problem solved.

important note: you can not use another color for the blocking. the white base color is critical in achieving the most convincing static look!

Step Two: Brushes and Blues

now for this step, we will be using these four shades of blue-grey, as well as plain black and white. for your convenience, the hex codes are also included!

HEX: 1d2427 HEX: 4d5c65 HEX: 899eac HEX: cce6f6

now go to the different brush presets for whatever program you're using. chances are, they'll have some variety of a paint-splatter brush (and if they don't, there's probably a way for you to download one or make your own).

the best kind to use is one where all of the particles are fully solid and not varying too much in opacity.

Step Three: Jackson Pollock That Shit!

now's the fun part! make a new layer and start layering the blues with your splatter brush in any order you like. just color vomit all over your canvas and don't worry about getting any of the particles outside of the base!

go back and re-layer any particular color as many times as you like until you're satisfied.

sometimes, all of this layering can result in loss of the original base color, like you can see here.

but don't worry! this can be fixed by tossing some white back into the mix.

once you're happy with that, go through and lightly sprinkle in some black. remember: a little is a lot! keep it subtle.

Step Four: Layer Effects!

this is where the magic happens! turn your blue splatter layer(s) into a clipping mask!

ka-boom! looks great, right? well, its about to get even better! go into your layer effects panel and select "Hard Light"

Step Five: Motion Blur

now, this step is optional depending on whether or not your program has more than one kind of blurring effect, but for the sake of the tutorial we'll pretend that it does.

find the motion blur panel and open it. set the angle to zero.

(ignore that i had my distance set to 2 here i just needed to have an example screenshot lol)

now crank that shit up!!

if your static layers had to be separated like in our example, make sure to do the same amount of blurring there as well. depending on your preferences, you can change the level of distance to highlight some kind of feeling. having it at 2 allows the viewer's eyes to rest on the darker colors, but having it at 7 brings out the brighter colors, calling attention to how annoyed he is with me right now.

depending on how you mix the different colors and level of blurring, you can get a lot of different variations in the static's look. feel free to experiment with it!

Step Six: Glow (optional)

unless you're drawing a dark/low-light setting, you can skip this part entirely. again, for the sake of the tutorial, lets pretend its dark!

now, since its supposed to be super dark here, i've selected the base layer for the static and deleted the black from it.

now for the fun part! make a new layer above the one we just made, then take the lightest blue color and cover the static with it! in the next step, this will become your glow!

i like to use a typical hard round brush and then apply a gaussian blur until i think it looks appropriately blurry, but you can also use your average pressure-opacity airbrush! both have their strengths, which you'll see in the next step!

for this step it helps to already have some knowledge of how light interacts with objects, but its not required! if you don't have a lot of prior experience, take this as an opportunity to practice! take it from me, making fan art of specific things is a great way to get good at drawing in general.

once we have an appropriate amount of glow and blur, we set the layer mode to Linear Light! your program might not have this layer mode, so try to find a mode that does something similar or is close enough

here you can see the strengths i mentioned before!

in the areas where i used the solid round brush + gaussian blur, i had a bit more control over how concentrated the light was at the center and how far it could spread, making it look more artificial/computerized.

meanwhile in the airbrushed areas, there's a very different vibe! on the right side where i applied the airbrush harshly in one stroke, it has a sort of cloudy look, but on the left where i applied it in multiple strokes, the varying opacities create a more painted aesthetic, which adds a lot of visual interest!

now we have arrived at the final step of this process! go to the current layer's opacity box and lower that sucker!

you should raise/lower this meter depending on how dark it is. Keep messing with it until it feels right. for our specific example(and more specifically the gaussian blur areas), a good opacity level is 73% !

and with that, we're done!

thank you for reading this! i had a fun time putting it together :)

before you go, please know that you don't have to follow every step of this to the letter!! feel free to break away from my methods and do your own experiments! mess with the hue of the static colors, use different brushes for the glow lighting, add variation in your particle sizes - go crazy with it!! half of art is experimentation and i wouldn't even have this process without it! :3

if you end up using this tutorial for Rob art on tumblr, please tag me in it!!! i would be absolutely overjoyed to see whatever you make :D (not a requirement though! either way, i'm very proud to have put this out into the world)

if you need help with any of these steps or the process in general, feel free to reach out in the replies of this post or in my ask box! i'd be happy to help out with whatever you need :3 thank you for reading this and i hope you have a wonderful day!

#at first i was just gonna use a normal box for this tutorial and then i got silly and self indulgent with it so its a lil comic thing now lo #art tutorial #static tutorial #my art #long post #tawog #tawog rob #rob tawog #the amazing world of gumball #tomothy rambles

[robanilla-writes]

Either Nightmare is filthy rich and just never pays for anything (because he's evil,) or Nightmare deals in trades, favors, and promises because he doesn't have any actual money.

#robanilla-writes #rob rambles #nightmare sans #this isn't about anything im just having nightmare thoughts

[cerealboxlore]

Billy Batson at a convention

Hear me out on this-

Yes I know I have a billion fic ideas on my list waiting to be written, but shush!

Imagine the Justice League deciding to attend a huge superhero convention as guests of honor for their fans and meet everyone, and to also help raise their public image. They don't all appear on the same day, showing up on separate days bc of security reasons, and Captain Marvel, being a long standing member of the JL, is invited, too. He is completely ecstatic about it, but decides to decline. He says he has important Champion of Magic duties to attend to and before anyone can ask, he Flys off. JL is a bit disappointed he won't be there, but understanding.

On the days of the convention, the JL are met with endless happy fans overjoyed to meet them. They all sign autographs, shake hands, etc. They all even remember one cute fan by the name of Billy Batson who handed them all adorable hand drawn pictures of them as a little gift. He was so sweet and even got to take a picture with all of the members.

The reason CM couldn't attend the convention as CM was bc he wanted to express his love, respect and admiration to his coworkers fully. He also was too nervous to ask for their autographs before, so this was a golden opportunity to have some fun as just Billy.

#billy batson #dc captain marvel #Shazam #justice league #I'm just rambling #Billy is too cute #Billy gets all their autographs and pretends to be disappointed he couldn't get CM's autograph #The JL hounds at Cap the next day for missing the convention and disappointing little Billy #Some thugs try to rob Billy at the convention and gets saved by GL #Maybe a future one shot

[devilish-parrot]

i dont have a screenshot but on tallyall.club theres a photo of joe, rob, rob, joe, joe and rob called weezer.png

#devilish rambles #tally hall #joe hawley #rob cantor #weezer