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s-aint-elmo · 14 hours

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hi!!! i just wanted to ask about the brushes you use & if you could provide them? if not that's completely fine ^^ i love ur art sm

hiiii tysm!! <333

i use a copy of sai 1 secondhand from my friend so i've got their custom brushes on there but the one i'm currently using is a reproduction of xamag's crayon brush. the settings look like this:

i also used to use a version of the pencil tool that i fiddled with to get a chisel-tip pen:

i switched over at the start of last year after a holiday exchange gift for a friend reminded me how much i love grit and texture and it has subsequently led to me getting looser and less finnicky abt my lines. i do miss the square edges tho so maybe more experimentation is in order

if you plan to use the crayon brush i absolutely recommend selecting large areas and going over them with as continuous of a stroke as you can get with the brush at a larger size for you to really get the texture/specks of negative space that makes it so visually delicious. unfortunately the smaller you go the more that same texture will work against you so be forewarned

otherwise thatse it and thank you once again for the compliment! it makes me so happy to get messages like this abt my art 💖💞💗mwah mwah

#asks #mine #im a one-brush kinda gal bc i so rarely get around to doing actual coloured/finished pieces. got that editorial cartoonist in me #but the crayon brush is so versatile it really does look good whether you use it for lineart or colours or other aspects #sometimes i fill the whole area (e.g. character) in with a biiig sweep of the brush then clip the actual colours on top so the texture's #all big and gritty and continuous. like a peeling poster or chalk on a sidewalk. try it out!

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s-aint-elmo · 1 day

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EXCUSE ME MA'AM. MA'AM. DROP THE MADOKA STEP MOM OF THE CLARA DOLLS MA'AM. I MAY DIE.

(also maybe some madoka magica fic rec 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 but who am I to say)

omg this was so long ago..... mea culpa anon

anyway step-momdoka fic is this: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37645735/chapters/94265512 (it's an anthology fic, so the ones following the storyline are those labelled "familiarity")

and madomagi top seven fics that make me lose control in no particular order:

The Witching Hour (70K words) - homura starts a podcast. her odds for success, shockingly, skyrocket

Colours Fading (25K words) - madomagi soulmate au oneshot + the sequel fic exploring timeline 28, where the holy quintet are all soulmates (bonus fic rec the soulmate timeline, inspired by timeline 28 and currently ongoing)

Five Times Sburb Almost Broke Sakura Kyouko (And One Time She Helped Break It) (21K words) - homestuck au if that's your jam. tbh just so good even if it isn't, madoka's classpect reveal was sick as hell

Garden of Earthly Delights (72K words) - canon-compliant daemon au

The Garden of My Heart (300K words) - post-rebellion duology ft. akemi homura's profound unkindness to herself and the consequences of giving a 14-yo lesbian the power to reshape the world

Impossible Colours (1K words) - homura is red/green colourblind

A Red Umbrella (8K words) - homura is really, really dense (the author has another fic called "but i don't want to be a chuunibyo" wherein post-rebellion madoka is constantly assailed by weird cosplayers who think she's god which is such a fun premise but has not updated in years so i didn't rec it in full)

#asks #mine #puella magi madoka magica #pmmm #anon.... i hope you're out there.... sending this ask to you in a bottle across the sea

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s-aint-elmo · 2 days

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#i hate this woman with every fiber of my being and each time her name is mentioned with an accompanying shitty fact abt her #my skin crawls but i cannot deny the magnitude 9 cunt she's constantly serving #otherside picnic

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s-aint-elmo · 3 days

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Riding home. hurts me each time to read Camilla get hurt... and OH MY GOD it's such a well written scene, I loved it so much.

#OH SUPER COOL #really dynamic and graphic (in the way of comic books) loooove this sm #love the wind pushing back the big sleeves of nona's silly shirt spec #the locked tomb

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s-aint-elmo · 4 days

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i’m addicted to her insane creep rizz

#the way she admits to it like it's such a normal and proportionate response to somebody she doesn't even remember half the time sold #me on harrow immediately. i just kept thinking of that everytime gideon thought she didn't care about her #the locked tomb

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s-aint-elmo · 4 days

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people on my "making AUs for OCs" post keep going like "oh you mean like a STORY? like a BOOK? OP that's just a STORY!!" like no you don't get it. you don't get how much my friends and i play with our ocs like dolls. we're talking swap AUs. homestuck classpecting. MLP AUs. evil AU. "so just making stories" you're like a little baby to me. leave my sight

#literally me and my friends. we've put these fuckers in so many situations #currently making a case for a funger au so i can make my primadonna queen bitch eldest daughter grit her teeth into the most unconvincing #smile as they trudge through muck and gore and unidentified bodily fluids #we put them in a figure skating au once and it was illuminating. i think everybody should make aus for their ocs it really helps you #understand them when you can explore how they react to different circumstances #what parts of them are essential and what parts of them are drawn out by their environment. what would have made them better or worse.#what connections could they have had with other characters that didn't even cross your mind in “canon.” etc etc #do i have a tag for oc things #fake bitches in my brain #<- i've called them that enough to count

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s-aint-elmo · 5 days

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concept art for the silence of the lambs by kristi zea

#gore #blood #silence of the lambs #the variations of his body hanging are so beautifully done

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s-aint-elmo · 5 days

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#those plants are rendered so lovingly. gorg #art

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s-aint-elmo · 6 days

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now every time my dash slings me a pale, sickly, stickbug blonde person engaging in occult activities i get to play a rousing game of IANTHE TRIDENTARIUS OR ENKI ANKARIAN ⁉️⁉️⁉️

#mine #the locked tomb #fear and hunger #caught myself nodding at fanart of ianthe lounging buttass naked reading a book. then they put the robe on him. it was enki ankarian #and that's not even getting into that ghostly blonde spectre on the title screen

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s-aint-elmo · 6 days

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dance with the gods

#oh this is gorgeous #fear and hunger

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s-aint-elmo · 6 days

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Hungry in a dungeon moment

#you're so real for this op #dungeon meshi #fear and hunger

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s-aint-elmo · 6 days

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#oh my god. yes #fashion

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s-aint-elmo · 6 days

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My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

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s-aint-elmo · 7 days

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heterosexual doomed yuri

#their missed connections bullshit haunts me #also prev tags i want them engraved in a stone tablet that's so fucking real #dungeon meshi

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s-aint-elmo · 7 days

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Yes， We have a daddy in the team.

#SO REAL #no hate to the marchillers you're all great but the fact that chilchuck is actively planning out his retirement while marcille just got out #of magic gradschool makes it so i cannot see them as anything but dadguy and his workdaughter (against his will)#dungeon meshi #girldad chilchuck content at an all-time high godbless

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s-aint-elmo · 7 days

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It is pretty crazy to me that Revue Starlight The Movie (2021) is one of the highest ranking movies of the 2020s so far on Letterboxd, by average user rating. There are only a handful of other animated films before it, namely a bunch of AoT movies, the Gintama movie, and Spiderverse 2, and most of the other movies before it are... movies by insanely big musicians like Tswift. Like it's so jarring to look at this

and see fucking. Revue Starlight on there among this pool of movies. This list, obviously, means nothing in the big picture, but it does make me smile a bit. Like, not many Letterboxd users have seen the movie, but those that have have rated it so highly that it's sitting on the spot before Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All At Once. This movie is so undeniably good that literally everyone who is into Revue Starlight (and even those who are not) think it goes so hard that it deserves this spot

#i keep the movie on my desktop so i can look at it everytime i boot my laptop up. like it's a framed picture of my wife and kids #revue starlight

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s-aint-elmo · 8 days

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this image brought to you by brainrot and uterine shedding

#immaculate. no notes #the locked tomb

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