#the layers :)))) woe

[peevishpants]

Heavens Arena... concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't dooooo

Drawn as a location spread for @hxhtravelzine! Aftersales are open if you'd like to grab something from the project ^v^

#gon #killua #killugon #hxh #hunter x hunter #hxh fanart #heavens arena #weiwei art #yeah caption wouldve made more sense for Yorknew City but I did not draw Concrete Jungle Yorknew so woe #shoulda hidden the lines layer in the building reflection but this was drawn a year ago #and the psd is in an external harddrive somewhere now #ALSO NOT ME USING LIQUIFY TO CURVE THE BUILDING ON THE RIGHT #SWEETIE! THERE ARE PERSPECTIVE RULERS FOR THAT...

[trailblazetrotter]

Aven wip and too many layers

#Aventurine #wip #woe layers be upon ye #hsr #honkai star rail

[joelletwo]

[IDs from alt, 1: natsuyuu fanart of nanase and yorishima passing on a street, yorishima looking back at her but not turning around, while nanase fully stops to say something to him with a smirk. 2: taki and matoba as young kids dangling their feet off a balcony overlooking a room full of exorcist artifacts, matoba clan motifs, and two obscured adults. taki, wide-eyed, says "hey, what are they looking at?" and matoba, bored, replies "you don't know?" 3: textless closeup of the kids]

BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR ME EXORCIST EXTRAVAGANZA <3 embarrassingly many months ago cal @coquelicoq asked me to draw nanase and yorishima hanging out or the kids hanging out. and both those ideas lit my brain so much on fire that i had to marinate and marinate and marinate on them and i still have ten thousand ideas im not sure what to do with but for NOW!!! fun compositional practice :3

nanase and yorishima are hard bc u cant put yorishima in a room. he refuses. their relationship is passing cryptic remarks every eight months when they cross paths in town and theyve kept it up for 40 years

and i have. preexisting thoughts about the matoba family being nosy about the taki family lol. i think maybe after taki granddad passes they express Polite Interest in some of their records which means meetings for baby taki to run around exorcist houses poking into everything she can find and pestering weird older kids there who are happy to give her Just enough info for her brain to go wild

#art tag #natsume yuujinchou #exe #yorishima #WOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ten thousand layer effects on me in the last two hours :p couldnt stop fucking around with it #till they both (HOPEFULLY) looked more readable #top one bkg messily reffed from a stock photo. bottom one compositionally stolen and expanded on from. OFC!!!! #nog and jake hanging out dangling off the promenade screenshots #checks my timeline. theyre like. 6 and 13 here? roughly

[jmeslovr]

Random jegulus snippet <3

He doesn’t know why he keeps ending up here, why James is always the one there to pick up the pieces, but he’s endlessly grateful for it. Regulus isn’t sure he’d be here if it wasn’t for James. It’s a scary role to play in someone’s life.

Regulus lifts his head from James’ shoulder but doesn’t pull back. Tears still spill down his cheeks, but they’re silent now, and James still wipes them away as they form.

He wants to say something, but he can’t, so he sits in the moment, breathing the same air as James, keeping eye contact. He looks down at his lips, and it hits him just how close they are; it’s possibly the closest they’ve ever been.

“I want to kiss you,” he murmurs quietly, the filter that’s usually present gone.

James freezes beside him, and he’s pretty sure he hears his breathing hitch. “Then kiss me.”

Regulus smiles sadly. “I can’t.”

Pain flickers across James’ face, and Regulus wants to kill himself for causing it. “Why not?”

Regulus can’t breathe. “You know why, James. I can't. Not yet.”

James shakes his head, pulls him in tighter; rests his forehead on Regulus’ like he’s afraid of him running away. James’ arms are tight around his back, holding him in. “You don’t have to keep denying yourself things that will make you happy, Regulus.”

He lets out a shaky breath and closes his eyes. It’s all too much. Not enough. He wants James to consume him. Regulus wants James to sink his nails into his chest and pry it open so he can take his beating heart for his own. Maybe then will Regulus have a meaningful purpose.

Regulus keeps his eyes closed when he responds. Seeing James is too much. “I will take from you, and take, and take, and take until there’s nothing left. Until you resent me for needing too much. For being greedy.”

One of James’ hands moves to cup his cheek, and that’s when Regulus opens his eyes. He wants James to pull him in and never let him go. “It’s all yours, Reg. Please just— let me love you.”

Regulus is crying again, and he’s afraid that he’ll start hyperventilating if he opens his mouth. There is something clawing at his throat, desperate to get out. It sinks its claws into his flesh, uncaring at the pain it causes, and climbs. It gets stuck somewhere along with the words he leaves unspoken. Regulus is sure that his guilt takes the form of it.

Regulus wants nothing more to give in. To start this with James. To stop tiptoeing around each other, ignoring the feelings they have. But he knows he’ll ruin it if he does now.

He thinks he and James could be a perfect fit. James has a savior complex and Regulus craves too much. Regulus probably needs to be saved. James probably can’t go a day without trying to fix him.

The truth is, Regulus has a carnal need for James so deep inside of him it’s intrinsic, and he doesn’t know what to do with it. If he lets it out now it’ll kill them both.

So they’ll wait. Regulus will keep healing, and James will keep waiting. Just a little longer. Just until Regulus learns how to pick himself back up, until he doesn’t need James to do it for him.

Eventually Regulus speaks again, his voice raw. “You know I can’t now. Will you wait for me? Just— it won’t be long, but I need to get better. Please wait for me.”

James doesn’t say anything for a moment, but he finally nods his head yes as he wipes the remaining tears off of Regulus’ cheek, just like he knew he would. James always says yes to him, especially when he knows he needs him to, so why would this be any different?

#anyways #jegulus #jegulus snippet #regulus black #james potter #this is probably my favorite thing I’ve ever written #the layers :)))) woe #this is my sad trans reg wip #he’s sad #and trans #that’s the fic basically

[sketching-shark]

niuhou for ship opinions?

Aroace Sun Wukong truther though I am, in all honesty anon the niuhou ship is one of my favorites in the jttw fandom <3.

It's true that in Xiyouji itself we don't get a super in-depth amount of space dedicated to the details of their relationship when they were sworn brothers, but there is a real sense that they genuinely liked AND respected each other. And that's a feeling that's really increased when we see their reunion later on during the journey, when even with an absence of over 500 years and a lot of reasons for antagonism for the both of them (the Demon Bull King wants to eat Tang Sanzang & otherwise hinder Sun Wukong's journey, Sun Wukong played a major role in getting Red Boy captured by the Bodhisattva Guanyin & caused Princess Iron Fan a lot of physical pain), both spend quite a few pages dancing around whether they're going to attack the other because of their former strong bond until things irrevocably crumble. Wu Cheng'en even dedicates an entire poem to how tragic this break-up is (and how epic the resulting fight was lol).

But probably best of all for me is that this is one of those ships where both characters really get to shine through as their own individual people with rich stories. When you look at other ships involving the Monkey King (especially the tons of movies with a SWK romance) it tends to be the case where the romantic partner in question seems to revolve their entire life and personality around old Monkey in one way or another, usually with a heavy dose of "being eternally patient & forgiving no matter how much shit he gives them" and also ending with the fate of them dying so that he can be sad/having to Learn a Lesson. So yeah said "romantic partners" often feel more like hollow shells or desperate obsessives than full people.

Which to put it academically sucks major balls.

With Niuhou, however, that's not the case at all! Obviously a good chunk of Xiyouji is dedicated to Sun Wukong's character and his multitude of complexities and development, but even in the few chapters we see him the Demon Bull King really stands out as one of the yaoguai kings who had a very active life after the Mt. Huaguoshan war with heaven, doing everything from gathering wealth, allies, power, and friends to getting married and having a child that he very much loves to then having a falling out with Princess Iron Fan because he took on a concubine with Princess Jade Countenance. He's also described as being just as powerful as the Monkey King (while also being stockier), and his rage really is something that can shake the Heavens! It all makes for a very involved part of the journey, ranging from Sun Wukong and numerous gods having to go to battle against a colossal Niu Mowang to the Demon Bull King calling time-out on a preliminary fight because he wanted to go party with some of his dragon friends.

And as a final bonus this is also one of those rare ships involving the Monkey King where he's actually very obviously invested in maintaining it, from being his active and ambitious social self as a warlord to trying every which way to get what he needs from the Demon Bull King to continue the journey while still maintaining his bond with Niu Mowang. And while it does end in tragedy, you do have the delight of thee Monkey King approaching the situation like "PLEASE bestie my beautiful princess with a disorder PLEASE remember what we mean to each other!!!" And then the Demon Bull King being like "me remembering that is the only reason why I haven't killed you where you stand."

#xiyouji #jttw #journey to the west #sun wukong #monkey king #demon bull king #niu mowang #niuhou #for never was there a story of more woe #than that of this fuckin bull and monkey #anyway #main point being that it's nice to see a swk ship where both of them get to be assholes with layers lol #anon answered

[soldier-poet-king]

I literally just do not understand how full grown ass adults go thru life like this. 0 self reflection. 0 concern about the impact of their behaviours on others. Continuing said behaviours even when they're pointed out as hurtful. Like????

#the duality of fran #idk its like the every few months i realize i sort of forgive my parents #bc things could be much worse #and they didnt MEAN to be hurtful. theyre just immature and selfish #they're not deliberately being like that #like their behaviour comes from a place of hurt and insecurity #and Yet its been pointed out SOOOO many times how bad it has affected me #and theyre always so guilt trippy woe is me when it's brought up #and maybe theyre trying. but honestly folks???? I DONT SEE ANY PROGRESS #like I cant cut them off i need somewhere to live + need somewhere to fall back on #once i move out. in case yknow. financial disaster (sh we are not thinking about my fears of financial instability that they left me with) #but like. ffs. ffs yall. I AM SO ANGRY #AND HURT #and im tired of being angry and hurt about stuff that isnt ever going to CHANGE #its a wound you know is there but it vant ever heal it just. prods and prods and prods #like the tldr of u can have a severely traumatizing shitty upbringing without ur parents being actually abusive #and it just adds this extra layer of guilt and complicated feelings on top of it all #like #please. just get a fuckin divorce. oh my god. also maybe dont have four kids while barely above the poverty line. #and then harp on your kids for every single perceived flaw or financial burden they incur. just. yknow. a thought

[iknaenmal]

Green light

Yeah idk I think I went a bit too nuts on this one

#homestuck #kanaya maryam #my art #ikna draws #i was thinking. if we can color trolls' horns matching with their blood color's hue.. #then why not do the same with their eyes? #i think it looks good :] #also i started messing with the layers and found some cool stuff i can do so thats cool hehe #anyways woe green kan be upon ye #<i never said that meme before. did i get it right???

[laufire]

wip wednesday

@blairwaldcrf keeps doing me the kindness of tagging me in these and I thought I'd actually post something for once ^^U

[undisclosed WIP]

"Is that what you need? Someone to tell to stay alive until you actually want to be? I will do that." "Why?" Jason asked. "I'm not questioning you do care, I mean..." he waved his hand around, struggling to encompase just what it would've taken for him to reach out, in his situation. To believe it was an option. "At first I know it was- for him. And I was... defenseless. Innocent. Harmless. You could tell me anything. I couldn't judge, or betray your secrecy. It was easy to care. I know I didn't make it so easy later." "No," Talie replied, matter-of-fact. "But as you said, when you were... recovering, I talked to you. I shared some parts of myself with you, parts I might've never shared with anyone else. Tell me, am I someone who chases what's easy?" You're someone who grew up in a cult, Jason thought. All your life, you've been under the thumb of a man who couldn't stand it whenever you cared for someone or something other than himself. Then he died, and that threw you off so badly you slept with me. "No," he said out loud.

consider this an open tag game if you want to!

#talking to the void #tag meme #writing woes #my wips #wip wednesday #dc #dc thoughts #dc comics #jason todd #talia al ghul #jaytalia for ts #the fic is not jaytalia (it's gen/jason-centric) #but since this moment references The Pages i'll throw in the tag #anyway. do you see my vision. do you see the layers. #this was just spit balling i can't wait to see what this scene becomes once i've delved more into it

[lemongogo]

i need 2 get back into painting fish

#said in the ‘gary i need’ voice #or painting in general . i want 2 get into plein air #and go to like . arizona or smth and paint the landforms . soo red and orange and rocky and dusty and ❤️🫶 #the round brushstrokes on tht 1 would be so much fun~_~ #its such a tiresome medium though.like all the set up and cleanup and stuff #i refuse to learn abt oil precautions so i just stick to acrylic but even then it dries so fast and its like.mindgame trying to decide what #to focus on in the little time u have . and god forbid u paint on a layer too soon and u lift it off the canvas #HELLLLLLL. but the end result is always so worth it . like holding a physical piece.its 3d .its REALL #fish r so much fun to paint bc 1 u get to pay attn to their morphology but 2 they jave the best textures #im not averse to painting fur but i lovee . the interplay btwn light and fish skin. its so epic and awesome #the only other artist ik of in my family is my uncle & he METALWORKS!!! FISH !!! ITS SOOO FREAKIG COOL #i want to learn from him so bad . guh.GUAHHHHH. anyways i just think its funny that the two of us r fixated on recreating fish #crosses my arms . #okhh.. i also wnt to get into mosaics . god.GOAODDD #did i talk abt this 1 alr.. reread the b1p arc w the mosaic and fresco work and it makes me so sick why couldnt i go to art college and make #frescoes and mosaics .woe is me or whagever . no but its so tempting 2 just buy some tesserae and get 2 it .. #i saw a pigeon mesh mosaic n it like lit that fire under me . what we need js like one giant art collective #that magically provides all the supplies in the world for free and we hold hands and make art in 20 different disciplines 2000 different wys

[maranello]

would also just like to add that just because you get to reap the benefits of people posting photos they ripped off carefully excavated from [certain sources] does NOT mean that absolutely no work goes into it (coloring/fixing/editing the photos) as well. it CAN be, in itself, a creative/artistic process and should be recognized as such!!!

#you get to just hit reblog and call him a meow meow #I have to deal with 20+ adjustment layers and sometimes even layer masks #We Are Not The Same #creator woes #tdl #maranello.txt #DO NOT REBLOG UNLESS UR A FRIEND OR ONE OF THE DYING CREATORS HERE

[vyrion]

hey anyone heard of this thing called pdsekai?

originals here and here

#from the deep dark #pdsekaicards #woe. ashe and william upon ye #i never know how noticeable the changes i make even are. these were pretty low effort. ah well i'm explaining here because i feel like it #i always turn kanade's hair a little purpler which was uber annoying for this particular card :( #was originally gonna change the color of the heart but i like the red #i slightly changed the color of her eyelashes + made sure to keep some of the closer to white highlights in the hair sigh #added some scars that i have explanations for but not now. eh #for william's it's hair mostly. i couldnt be bothered to fix it fully because the lighting made it a little tedious #and i didnt feel like messing with layer modes for long enough to make it look black and Good #added eyebags. and some darker tinting on his arms #thats kinda it. like i said these ones werent too bad #tags ramble over. goodbye

[0wllight]

worked on this one in stream in a server hehehe but i just wanted to practice and draw more of them :) i like. howthis one came out a lot!!

(ok to rb, both are guys he/him please!)

#fucking around with like... tone curve layers is so difficult but it came out nice i think!! wahoo #im so uncreative with file names at this point every time i draw them whoops. but yeah look #gay people. woe is you #mdskmgkmskmgksd #minho shut up #my post #ship: i'll bet on you #my art

[quirkle2]

miscellaneous stuff i didn't manage to finish before the year ends. maybe next year !

#qktalks #qkdraws #these r ok to put in the art tag methinks . i don't hate any of the them so GVEAYVI #drew those wolf ones right after i watched the bad guys. wolf was my favorite ofc <3 #was Aiming to do another series of lu panel redraws when i made that four one . as u can see i did not go thru w that <3 GVYEGAIV #the sketch layer of that tails one was drawn with a mouse in ms paint but i decided to try and finish it in procreate #mayhaps sonic prime has rekindled my love for tails.... finishing that one is very tempting rn #im genuinely so sad i haven't finished the wars one #but that style of shading requires a lot of energy and that is smth i haven't had lately GVIYEAGVU #oh well . it's always there when i feel like workin on it #tw blood #blood tw #blood #<- for the wars pic just in case #feels a bit unfair to tag these characters #cuz people going through the tails tag don't necessarily want bad guys and loz stuff </3 #they're just sketches anyway. woe misc art be upon ye (my followers)

[mycotoxin]

“There’s no issue of womens’ clothing being way more revealing than mens’ clothing” my brothers underwear is more modest than the average pair of women’s shorts

#the woes of being forced to shop in the women’s section 😭 #whenever I occasionally wear shorts I would like it to NOT show 99% of my entire leg thanks #and I got meaty thighs too so the shorts just gradually get consumed #im eventuslly gonna crochet a pair of shorts that I’ll prolly wear a pair of bikerish shorts under #since they’re made from granny squares #I’m some people say the holes get covered by shadows so you can’t really see the skin through them #but I would like the extra layer of security #especially since I wouldn’t want to risk someone deciding to stick their finger into one of the holes

[currentlyonstandbi]

i am experiencing severe psychological distress .

#woe . baking be upon ye #promised someone I'd make carrot cake for their birthday. i have been up since 5am . and i am still not done #its in the fridge chilling and then i gotta put the final layer of frosting and crushed walnuts 😭👍 #anyway . i would make such a great loser husband who makes a carrot cake that absolutely fucks #baking

[mejomonster]

Why did I wait a decade to cut my hair short again

I MISSED THIS SO MUCH

#rant #my haircut woes #ok i know why. cause ppl kept messing up and giving me the wrong haircut #but now that i have a CORRECTLY DONE CUT again? im so happy #so happy #even if i dont look good in a mirror for whatwver reason just Feeljng my hair makes me happy #i love short layers i can poof and spike up #i know im baby face so i look feminine to anyone no mattwr how i dress or cut my hair #but to me???? in my heart???? this is me mentally #mentally mejo has a short cut or short bob at all times just like i did from ages 2-8