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starrysharks · 1 year

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OK heres zeno coloring tutorial 2.0 !!!! i'm gonna do it kind of in chapters i guess?

chapter 1: choosing base colors

when i'm choosing base colors i always pick everything based on a specific off-white! my 'default' off-white is this kind of very light cyan color but i change it regularly based on character designs/environment/lighting whatever,, examples here!

for callie in this piece, i based everything off of this pinkish color! her skin tone, tentacles, outfit etc are all chosen to harmonise/contrast with the pink color

and with this piece, i used a slightly darker blueish color as they're in space but there's still a lot of light... and the lighter colors in the background (the explosion) make a sense of depth i guess? i used that blue color and chose similar cool colors to harmonise with it!

so i more or less base the tone of the colors in the piece off the off-white! warm off-white = warmer colors (like the nova valentine's day art) and cold off white = cooler colors (like the explosion nova and paro art). but i switch up this formula often !!

chapter 2: coloring specific things

here i'll go over some specific textures and stuff like skin and hair ... skin first !!

for skin, i like to use a variety of tones! there are different ways to draw cooler and warmer skintones that other people have gone over way better than i have but basically for skin i use this part of the color wheel and pick the darker tones of oranges/reds/pinks etc. (for darker skintones, i go to the middle of the color square thingy, and for lighter tones, i usually slide down the upper-right side)

when it comes to shading skintones, it's pretty straightforward, just a darkish-purple and a pinkish color on 100% multiply, and i always add a little shadow on the nose and blush becuz i think it's cute

(also i like to add reflective spots on darker skin tones sometimes because 1. darker skin tones reflect in real life and 2. it's fun)

next up is hair... this is very specific to my artstyle but i like to add 3-6 long oval line thingies to the hair to mimic reflection ! it looks cool, it's a good way to show off different colors in the design and i like to switch it up sometimes based on a character's personality!! (like how the frye pic above has a lighting bolt shaped hair thing, or how my teto design has a wing shaped hair thing to mimic her wings in her chimera form!) (note: it doesn't always need to be lighter than the actually hair color and it usually isn't)

for other materials like metal, screens, etc etc... i just add random X marks lol... and reflections!!!

(also, just a general thing, but adding little saturated lines to shading really adds depth and color imo!!)

i would put more tips with refs but tumbles only allows 10 images per post ;w; so i will simply close off by saying don't be afraid to add overlays and filters to your art!! overlays can really help harmonise colors and filters like brightness and contrast can help colors pop... try not to completely rely on them for color choice tho!!

and that's basically it !!! this is not a definitive 'how to draw/color' post... i am not a color theorist... i just wanted to show people how i choose colors cuz a lot of people say they like my color choices! honestly i don't know much myself but i hope that this and the philosophy of 'do what looks good' will help you all o_ob thank you and goodbye

#long post #ah its so freeing to have zero character limit on this site #i did want to add more pics tho 😭#i would make a part two but i dont have much else to say #hope this helps people maybe #also idk how to add a cut/'continue reading' thingy on mobile so if someone could tell me how id appreciate it 😭😭😭

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seductive-snail · 4 months

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hi soulmate!! the wasted youth for the wip game pls?? hope ur day's been going well <33

soulmate my darling hiiii <3

Okay so I have written smth but I haven’t in a while so I’ll give u my main idea and a teeny snippet

Basically, it’s a heathers fix it fic. (Idk if yall forgot I was part theatre kid 😔🫶🏾) I mean even tho it’s the movie plot I’m going off of I still want some theatre refs here and there.

It’s Sawyerdean (JD x Veronica) and it’s also enemies to lovers. A lot of major parts of the plot are there ofc but cuz this is a fix it we are gonna fix it.

Not without breaking them immeasurably first ofc.

Angst, and like heavy topics like SA, self harm and suicide. Cuz it’s high school and if you’ve seen the heathers movie? Yeah….

Oh and there may or may not be some unrequited chansaw (Veronica x Heather Chandler ) angst.

People die. So uh, tw for that. 😋🫶🏾

Anyways heres a snippet 🤸🏾

He stood leaning on his dad’s car looking up at the sky. The sun was already deep in the horizon, bleeding deep red and orange onto the clouds, casting the entire parking lot into a dark shadow.

“You’re damn lucky they didn’t expel you, the self important fucks,” his dad grumbled while fiddling with the car lock. “That shit you pulled, what were you thinking, huh?”

JD turned to look at his dad again, his eyes now meeting him completely. He hated those eyes, eyes that went glazed and foggy whenever he was completely wasted. His eyes. The only difference was that his father’s were often bloodshot from all the booze and his were–

“Hey! Are you listening to me?”

He blinked and tilted his head at his dad, “What?”

“I don’t care if those fucks deserved it, I get another call from this place, you’re gunna find another school to take you in yourself.”

JD rolled his eyes, “Why would that even matter? It’s just on to the next town after this right?”

“If only it were that easy. Turns out we’ll be staying longer than intended.”

I hate it but anywhooooo :)

#mars bar <33 #snail posts #snail writes #heathers #heathers fic #jason dean #veronica sawyer #jdronica #chansaw #(<- unrequited 😔💔)#Jason Dean x Veronica #I might update this yk I kinda forgot abt it #snail answers

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bbeelzemon · 5 years

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im leaning towards this for their first outfits.. i want them to go through multiple outfit changes throughout the comic

#i want their outfits (mostly gihr's..) to reflect their character growth more #so here at the start hes all covered up and in working clothes #hopefully implying just from his outfit that hes kind of a loner workaholic to start off #then as it goes on he'll get more fun clothes :)#nyt will get outfit changes but i dunno yet how they would reflect their growth.. considering theyre always covered LOL #well hoodies and baggy pants are usually also kinda outcast clothes (in american culture anyway)#(im not good at drawing baggy pants yet dont @ me i know they just look like normal pants im working on it)#i dunno yet #also in the comic itself everything will be rendered in black and white so the mask eyes and nyts face wont be nearly as jarring LOL #i wanted to not have shadows for this tho cuz this is basically a ref sheet for their first outfits LMAO #i hate when people put shadows on ref sheets. just flat colors is fine! i hate tryna figure out which is the ~real~ color #when im color picking from the ref #also damn whens the last time i posted these two assholes #i was brainstormin comic schtuff today so ive been thinkin about em #people who remember litcherally any other drawing with gihr will notice he has a LOT of changez.. especially for his mask #i dont fink i expect anyone to actually remember what he looked like tho. ive been very inconsistent posting either of them LMAOO #u can see his ears now!#also tip to myself i think overalls should go a little bit higher on the chest.. idk looks a bit empty there!

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vanaera · 4 years

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Aera!!!! HHA2 was awesome .. i just kept wishing it wouldn’t end fast while I was reading it .. there’re so much I wanna talk about. I’ve said that b4 but I’m gonna say it again. The characters are amazing! There’re specific and consistent which made them seem so real 2 me. Like i can guess their mbti if I think about it lol. And yeah don’t think I didn’t catch that daffodils rings ref. I smiled so big hehe. I totally like the development and how things are going. 1

You’re really taking ur time with progressing their relationship and I’m here for it. Cuz like in my humble opinion, in a story like e2l, reasons matters right? I know emotions are unpredictable and and fickle? If I can say it. But to me, there’s still should reasons at least even if it’s unexplainable at the moment, and to form even a deeper bond with someone there got to be somethings you know what I mean? I hope so lol TT. what I want to say is that you’re story is meeting what I think of 2

In this matter. Doesn’t mean I won’t like it if it ain’t that though. And your story got many great things going on. I love how you make your characters discuss issues and have these conversations with deep ideas. One of my favorites were when Yoongi told the oc about the shadow theory “I forgot its name lol maybe it’s the map of soul?” that basically when you hate someone, a lot of times it’s not got what they do but cuz your kinda projecting your own shadows into them.3

My sis studies literature so she studied this theory and she told me about it days b4 I read HHT2. We got to discuss it and see how bts took this theory as a concept in their latest album:). So When I read that conversation in ur story between Yoongi and oc I was so highly entertained you can’t imagine lol. It felt like I was talking with someone about something that i didn’t expect them to know about but turns out they completely know about it. I love oc’s wild imagination and I just love every thing. Sorry this was so long :p . The chapter was so good that I lost it. No complains tho. Srry that I’m all over the place too lol and thank you for real, HHA2 was a joyful ride. Its so entertaining and well written. - Aseel

Hi Aseel!!! I’m glad you enjoyed The Heart Holiday and thank you so much for this very, very sweet review 🥺 I’m happy you noticed that about my characterization for THH!Yoongi and OC. I really love making distinct characters. This is one of the reasons I enjoy writing romance. I love playing with characterizations. The small nuances and details that are solely unique to a person, which is also ironically wonderful can be related to by a lot of readers. I prefer this over cardboard cut-outs of protagonists bc more specific characterization gives us more depth of the character, their desires, their fears, and what should they learn to develop and become someone who they need to be. And I'm so so glad I succeeded in making them feel real when you told me you can guess their MBTIs (which also you should send me bc I’m very curious what you think of them!) And yeah! I have to do the Daffodil Rings reference! (There is actually an intention behind this but I cannot tell it yet bc THH is not yet done 😆).

You're right. Stories, especially with an e2l trope do really feed on progress because you're going to grow something from one end of a spectrum into another that's completely opposite of it. You're going to change a worldview and that takes a lot to change. Otherwise if rushed, it just feels there's not much character development in the characters if it would just take them, i.e. one, singular short statement/scene to resolve their issues with one another. This is the reason why I swore to myself to never rush writing these 2 characters even if THH was originally supposed to be a oneshot. After all, it feels more rewarding finishing reading/writing something knowing you've come a long way to get to the end of the character's journey, in the same way the character has grown a lot from their initial position in the story.

And oh yes, I HAVE to include THH!Yoongi and OC's deep discussions in the story bc otherwise, THH will have no thesis - it's very point : Can you really love someone you hate? Enemies-to-lovers tropes have dominated the conventional formula of every romcom film/book 2 characters can't stand each other. At some point they reconcile. Then conflict. Then they get together. However, I've never encountered something that really explains why do so many literary pieces/film/media, etc. associate hate with love? And this is where I decided I want to talk about it in an e2l story itself. It kinda was meta (especially at the scene where Yoongi asks OC what she thinks about this trope when their own story is living out this trope asjskfkd) but I'm glad it came out to be that way bc I don't know how to deliver my intended thesis statement otherwise. I'm so so SO happy you noticed this bc all of my writings have their own thesis and this is my first time to have someone recognize it EYE-😳🤯💓💖💞

Damn, I didn't know you studied about the persona! Psychology has long fascinated me! I love doing character analyses of different stories, novels, and films. I love picking apart each desire, need, and fear to further understand the whole picture of the character. So there's no other way for me to translate my love for this field far better than analyzing other's characters but to pick apart my own characters. So yeah, I really enjoyed learning and sharing what I've learned and thought of the persona through my own characters.

Sorry this got so long, too. I'm just blown away of how you managed to get all the beneath-the-surface workings of The Heart Holidays. You make me so happy knowing all the effort I put into subtexts are not for naught. I'm so proud I have a smart reader like you who appreciates them 🥺. Thank you so much for giving the time to leave a LOT of love to feed my writer soul. I am so so grateful to have you read my works 💕💓💗

#aera blushes #reviews #the heart holiday feedback #the heart holiday #Aseel #i love you 🥺#thank you so much for making my day #if you want to talk about anything in the future #just feel free to hit me up #i may not know everything #but I love and am so willing to listen #your feedback made me feel so nostalgic of what I used to feel 10 yrs ago when I read novels and form bonds with the writer and #their fictional characters bc it's difficult finding real life intimacy #behind the cut: thh

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intoxicatingswift · 4 years

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the 1:

God the line if my wishes came true it would've been you OK THAT HIT

this feels like a iftye but like folklore version

UGH THE BRIDGE ACTUALLY HIT why was this my exact mood yesterday I already called it I knew I needed this album

cardigan:

can i just say im here for taylors lower tone

A FRIEND TO ALL IS A FRIEND TO NONE ok facts

the Peter losing Wendy line really got me cuz that used to be a thing w me n some1 *cries*

chasing shadows in the grocery line nooo

this is like an other side of the door but folkmore IDK IT JUST REMINDS ME OF IT

the last great american dynasty:

god i had to restart it 3 times my fam r so noisy pls.

i really feel like the stripped back style of production really allows taylors lyrics and storytelling within songs to shine. like ive got the maddest mental images of screaming matches between Rebecca and bills family and small town style rumours passing from someone to another

mental music video basically and also u can see the strength of rebecca which is only paralleled by smth ive experienced from books/TV? imagine the skill it takes to tell such a story in a few minutes that people see in 358 pages or 12 1hr installations

EXILE YES BON IVER:

can u tell im excited for this one

ughhh his harmonies are always *chef's kiss*

side note this rly is pushing me and giving me a better sense of identity for the sort of music I want to make thank u Taylor 🥺

god taylor urs and bon ivers voices go together so beautifully u both know how to make a harmony so good

the metaphors are so.... UGH I LOVE

my tears ricochet:

im in love with the vocalising in the intro omg

if I'm on fire you'll be made of ashes too yes hunger games let's go (no for real I just re read it and loved it again so)

ok no the lyrics on this one just HIT me particularly even tho I'm gonna say that on every song OK

I feel like theres a lwymmd ref in here 😶

the line I didn't have it in myself to go with grace spoke to me like i feel like that was extracted directly from my brain

still can't believe we actually got a whole album wth

mirrorball:

MIRRORBALL U COUNTRY BEAUTY

this song just feels like calm vibes as a blanket, stolen kisses

bro.... i literally wrote half a song with the lyrics that have the same gist of the bridge the whole idea of the circus no longer existing and yet u still feel like u have to perform for that one person cause u need to prove that they made the wrong choice leaving i

seven:

God her voice is hauntingly beautiful here

and though I can't recall your face I still got love for you what a beautiful way to express that you're always loved by someone even if you're no longer close, you live in memories and that's 100% enough and you're enough

THE ENTIRE SECOND VERSE IS ME AND MY FRIENDS AS TEENAGERS? God that hurt especially bc the sentiment of my prev things applies to those same people

SHOUT OUT TO INDIA TAYLOR I FEEL SO SEEN RN LMAO

august:

ahhhhh we had cruel summer and now we have august

"lost in the memory" is one of my favourite lyrics anyway and now taylors used it i

did taylor find out like the story of my life 2016- present bc like this seriously hits the "you were never mine" and the emphasis on August i

OK THE BRIDGE WAS MEEEEEE OH MY GOD how do i write my shitty album when this *gestures to entire folklore aggressively* exists.

oh the outro :( whoever said this is taylors melodrama was onto smth fr

this is me trying:

just looking at the lyrics is this ootw; the next chapter 👁️👄👁️

this is so beautifully sad

you're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town okkkkkkkkkkk wow 🥺

illicit affairs:

why do i feel like this is joe and tays story post met gala👁️

YOU SHOWED ME COLOURS IS SUCH A METAPHORICALLY DEEP AND BEAUTIFUL LINE HI OOTW REFERENCE

invisible string omg OK I claimed this one pre listen:

oh crap the colour references already spoke to me bc long ago I had a concept to link songs to colours

also the idea of storybook romance as well with the "used to think I'd meet somebody there"

i love the invisible string theory also oh my god

BAD BLOOD OMG this is such a random detail abt how Joe heard bad blood the first time he was in LA and I love it

LMAO not taylor getting recognised on their anniversary trip 😭

also can i just say the plucking strings keeping the same rhythm/volume the way through somehow contributes to the invisible string theory i loooooveeeeee the lyric/music matching here (did i just somehow compare this to vq matching? think so ok maybe there's hope for me as a medic yet 💀)

taylor rly said fuck adam tom and whoever else Joe is it

OK THE REFERENCES TO GOLD HI DWOHT

ALSO PURPLE PINK SKIES HELLO INTHAF AKA MY STAN SONG WHICH EVERYONE SLEEPS ON

safe to say i made a correct choice stanning this song pre listen ahahaah

mad woman:

the chords on this i am in love, the chaos of the string instruments yessss

here for the strength lol

this is i did something bad but quiet scary angry version

CALLED IT HELLO IDSB REFERENCE

ugh the delicacy in how the words are pronounced in the second chorus shows how hurt and strong u can be simultaneously

mirrored ofc by the soft piano and percussion of hand claps ugh taylor im so happy u made this album

epiphany:

im getting let it all go vibes from this also bon iver

oh it's coronavirus :( yeah

side note wear a mask this seriously was unprecedented and ik at my work (icu) while I was FT we had a couple boxes of antiviral ppe and I did a shift just as things got bad here and it was all completely gone. at the time we'd only had a couple query covid cases so pls. WEAR A MASK ESP U LOT ON THE TUBE/TFL RAIL

i feel like this song reflects how slow the pain can be when ur losing someone like literally watching their breaths slow and also the emotional pain.

betty:

omg this is one of the teenager love story three aaahhhhh it's so cute BUT I SERIOUSLY REMEMBER THE TEENAGE ANGST oh man i Really do

also hello country tay

ugh all ur stupid friends it seriously sounds like 17 year old boy 😭

peace:

LOVE THAT GUITAR RIFF YES AM SO HERE FOR THAT

I made good choices in the songs I chose pre listen all of this is literal poetry and I'm so glad I can focus on the lyrics more because of the production yes i know I already said that

DREAMSCAPES I LOVE THAT WORD I WAS JUST THINKING I NEED TO INCORPORATE IT INTO A SONG

the i-i-id in I'd swing with you for the fences, the delicacy in "give you a child"

now I see your brother as my brother hello paper rings reference (it's not even but yall know)

the rain (paps/media) can well and truly fuck off

"would it be enough if I could never give you peace" actual poetry.

hoax:

i love the dainty piano ugh that HIGH night

the octave differences on the chorus

don't want no other shade of blue hello paper rings

OK this one has a lot to unpack tbh i probably will pore over this like the English poetry i missed out on by choosing stem

also fuck kimberly lmao

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