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I'm midway through writing chapter 8 of the sequel to my mafia Rafael Barba AU. The name of the sequel is "The taste of revenge."
Frederick is a bit of a horny mess and Rafael is a schemer. I am so tempted to make this into a threesome fic.
This is the mood board that I've created for the fic.
#psa#my writing#my fics#update#coming soon#mafia au#mob au#rafael barba x reader#rafael barba#female reader#frederick chilton#ncis x svu crossover#leverage references#jim sterling#moodboard made by me#images found on google#credits to the original owners of the images#credits to the owner of the template that i used on canva
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I haven't seen any posts about this yet but l've seen some fan art that makes me feel this needs to be said:
Don't forget Leah Sava Jeffries has darker skin when making Annabeth Chase fan art!
She is much closer to Lupita Nyong'o than Zoe Kravitz when it comes to shading, reflection, and complementary color usage :).
Lighting for dark skin is different on light skin. Light skin gets changed by lighting, and dark skin reflects the lighting. Below is a lovely shot of Nyong'o's character from Wakanda Forever in mourning. The filmmakers emphasize the umber qualities of her skin in contrast to the funereal white and (arguably harsh) light across her shoulder below.
Try to pick spots that aren't directly in or near the light, and try mixing 3 or more! You can put it into a color mixer online, or even color pick, lower the opacity, and lay the shades over each other until you find one that fits. And of course, the more 'realistic' you want to go with shading and lighting, the more shades you're going to want to be able to explore vivaciously :D.
Let's take a look at the same 3 beautiful actresses I mentioned at the beginning, with a bad color picked area and a better-ish color picked area. (Please keep in mind, these are not perfect comparisons, as I was not able to find pictures of all 3 actresses under the same kind of lighting.)
Kravitz's has a clear difference between the two, but they aren't too far apart, in comparison to Nyong’o’s and Jeffries’s. Note the dullness in the poorly picked shades as opposed to the better ones. Also keep in mind that while Kravitz has a rosy undertone (at least in that picture - it’s from The Batman, which has stylized coloring) Nyong’o has a slight cool undertone (I can’t pin down quite what, but the picture is definitely not stylized like Kravitz’s).
Jeffries runs more ochre or russet, but neither of those are pink. They are more red than terracotta or umber, but to call Jeffries’s face rosy would be wrong. Err more towards the golden when drawing her.
^^saved an image from a writing tutorial long ago, but can’t seem to find it. If someone recognizes it, I’ll link it.
EDIT: it’s from this post. Thanks @autumnrowancollector ! <3
And also, the darker skin gets, the less likely warm undertones are going to appear. Don't be afraid to use blue or purple or even green on occasion!
Additionally, cool lighting on dark skin is always a win imo.
(I was going to use that picture of Jeffries as Annabeth by the lightning bolt, but then I realized the lighting on her face doesn’t quite match up with where it should hit from that angle, and I realized they kind of just turned everything bluer, so screenshot time!)
(Also if you want another really great live action example, check out anything Aldis Hodge is in, like Leverage and Black Adam)(and of course there’s Spiderverse <3 but I want to post pictures of Hodge)
Now, to here’s a list of more experienced people’s advice:
Black facial features & hair
Shading digitally for a (somewhat) monotone Black character
Stylistic choices and places to start looking for inspiration (besides a search engine).
Coloring Black people’s lips
A better coloration tutorial
Also a nice tutorial for Indigenous skin tones, just in case yall want to draw Piper or use this information for other dark skinned characters :).
EDIT: Some actresses who are closer in skintone to use for Annabeth, provided by the lovely @blackfemmecharacterdependency ! If you can’t find a reference for Jeffries in a specific lighting, maybe check out these ladies’ pictures! It’s a reblog, so scroll down.
TLDR: Don’t make Annabeth pink and pale, make her dark and golden.
#Annabeth chase#Percy Jackson#percabeth#leah sava jeffries#pjo#leah jeffries#art tutorial#percy jackon and the olympians#I love superheroes and so of course all of the actors I thought of were from superhero movies lmao#also for the record my advice is mostly from reading others’ tutorials and observation#and I don’t really use it a lot because I stick to lineart a lot lol#like down to mentioning Hodge (love himmmm) as a reference for good lighting on dark skin#there’s another post floating around here that specifically mentions him and Leverage for that#I’m tagging this as an art tutorial but really i want it to be more of a master post#master post so yall can see the tutorials I usually use#but then I ended up writing about Jeffries specifically because I’m dumb#I wanted to go to sleep four hours ago I’m dumb#I really want to draw her and ginger Percy but#irl it’s starting to get busy at school again :/
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underrated leverage moment is in the studio job when hardison's explaining his auto tuning device to parker and eliot and nate butts in to ask who he just called baby
#sami rambles#nate: who exactly did you just refer to as baby 🤨🤨🤨🤨#hardison: it's the-the 😳 universal term for 😦 uh#leverage#parker#parker x hardison x eliot#alec hardison#eliot spencer#nate ford
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sometimes a family is a drunken mentor and his two tributes who survived the war against all odds
#they are something that can be so personal#'but [snow] knew he had no leverage against me' 'until peeta and i came along'#'the only person i truly want to comfort me is haymitch because he loves peeta too'#what if that was my final straw#thg#thg art#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#haymitch abernathy#i figured out these poses without any reference and i actually like how it turned out
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These tidbits were very cute
#leverage redemption#leverage#eliot spencer#parker#alec hardison#ot3: hitter hacker thief#also love the continuation of dr.who references
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Eliot Spencer?? Is that you??
#if you get this reference i love you#and I’ll give you a virtual soft little kiss#but if you don’t get this reference know one important thing: eliot spencer is hot as hell#idk why i wanted to clarify that but it feels right#dimension 20#burrow's end#burrow’s end spoilers#Ava#erika ishii#leverage
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Dean Devlin just confirmed that Breanna is back in season three!
#leverage#leverage redemption#breanna casey#aleyse shannon#Lev red#I keep seeing it refered to as Lev Red these days and it makes me want Lev Yellow
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Just watched ep 13, and Noah Wyle as Harry Wilson pretending to be a DOCTOR made me laugh out loud. And the ER-theme-song-like music playing over the scene was sheer perfection.
Icing on the cake? Harry telling Sophie later that he learned all that medical jargon from TV.
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I need to know your thoughts on what was going through werewolf!Eliot's mind wen the team was filming Howl Force, the werewolves-attack-NATO movie in "The Stork Job"
Ohhh myy goodnessss I completely forgot about that!!!!!!
Eliot took one look at the script and rolled his eyes so hard that it hurt.
He definitely encountered some local werewolves on the set and they all shared commiserating looks of can you believe we're producing this crap??
His training and discipline were the only things stopping him from interrupting filming with corrections every time the 'werewolves' did something completely inaccurate.
The pre-recorded howls used on the film set are not from wolves local to the region where the movie is set. Eliots tries really, really hard to let it go ... he can't.
"Wha- No! We're not changing the wolf howls just because you think it's the wrong wolf dialect or something. That doesn't even make sense."
"It's a very distinctive howl, Nate!"
"We're not even really making this movie!"
(fun fact: wolves actually do have different 'dialects' depending on where they live in the world!)
The only good thing to come out of that movie experience (y'know, aside from the con they were pulling) was knowing that none of the werewolf lore in the movie was accurate. Eliot doesn't have to worry about his secret being exposed in that way.
Later, when the Big Reveal happens, Hardison remembers this movie plot and how annoying Eliot was on the set when he wasn't conning Irina.
"Wait, Eliot, hold up. Howl Force is real??"
"Are you kiddin' me?? Y'think werewolves would have any reason to kill NATO troops? That movie was a disgrace!"
"I liked the howls."
"Dammit, Parker!"
Sophie is instantly bitter about the reminder of her lost reel.
#eliot spencer#leverage#the stork job#werewolf!eliot spencer#leverage fantasy au#nate ford#sophie devereaux#alec hardison#parker leverage#parker#my posts#thank you so much for this ask you have opened a MASSIVE can of worms in my brain!!#i so have to include this in the fic i'm writing now#ohhhh myyy goshhh#what other references did they make in the show that would have a different meaning after eliot's werewolf reveal???#so. many. thoughts.
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I'm finally watching Psych after years of really loving Leverage and seeing that there's an overlapping fandom and I gotta say I FINALLY GET IT! THE VIBES ARE SOOOO SIMILAR ITS INSANE! Leverage is considered a gritty realistic documentary in the Psych universe.
#it puts the BUDDY in the buddy cop comedy#shawn annoys me often but him and gus have insane shared braincell dynamic its so funny#my post#leverage#leverage redemption#Psych#i refer to psych as Leverage's older sister to my friends and i stand by ut
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Got tired of looking at my computer screen filing my tax return so instead of working on my Leverage AU I redrew the incredibly Zoro and Sanji coded scene that inspired the fic
(sorry about the color/lighting situation idk how to get my phone to not fuck up the saturation when I take a pic of my notebook)
#an attempt was made to give Sanji Elliot's lovely locks#this is like my first time actually pulling up reference images to draw something and it really makes things quicker#one piece#sanji#zoro#leverage au
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Headcanons: The Leverage team as readers
Nate: Nate's not a big reader, but will occasionally read dense some dense new tome on white collar crime or US politics. Once a year or so, he'll crack open a dense sci-fi classic like Neuromancer.
Sophie: Has a whole shelf of acting books like Blumenfeld's Accents for Actors and that collection on Stella Adler. She reads memoirs of various famous people for work - it's a great way to pick up tidbits of flavor she can bring to cons. When not reading for work, Sophie's partial to untranslated foreign-language literature, especially Russian. We know how she feels about wellness scams specifically, so I think she's read books like The Gospel of Wellness. She has a battered copy of the Nagoski sisters Burnout next to a small library of workout DVDs. When she's really down in the dumps, she'll pick up a romance with half-dressed men and women in bodices on the cover. She sometimes picks up books like The Body Keeps the Score and Unmasking Autism, which she reads mainly to leave sitting around the office in the hopes that some specific other person will read them.
Hardison: Hardison loves modern science fiction, although he generally avoids anything that's too technical because he can't keep himself from picking it apart. (The exception is Andy Weir. He loves Andy Weir.) He likes Star Trek tie-in novels (only the good ones), Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie, and The Expanse. He'll also occasionally dip his toes into scientist or astronaut memoir or non-fiction about crime (he likes Mike Massimino's memoir and tell-alls on Theranos and Scientology, specifically). He loves Murderbot and has somehow managed to convince both Parker and Eliot to read it.
Eliot: Eliot wouldn't deny reading, but you certainly won't catch him doing it. He's partial to food-related microhistories - he's read every Mark Kurlansky book. He's read Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are and is not ashamed about it. He has a sticky-noted, dog-eared copies of The Professional Chef and Mastering the Art of French Cooking in his kitchen, but nothing else - beyond the basics, he mostly cooks on vibes. Every language he knows he's either learned through whatever the US government recommends or through an ex. He read the first Murderbot book because he lost a bet to Hardison. He'll never confess to also having read all of the rest of them, and enjoying them.
Parker: Parker is either reading nothing or spending all her free time reading - there's nothing in between. She's read a few books on crypto because she wants to understand it, but she just doesn't get the appeal. (It's not cash, you see.) Parker has also read all of the Murderbot books, because Hardison got her into them. Parker loves Murderbot.
#leverage#finally getting this out of my brain. you're welcome. also read Murderbot.#forgive any canon references to reading I've forgotten
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Into the West 1x3 - "Dreams and Schemes" (2005)
#christian kane#into the west#abe wheeler#this makes the silly pony express reference in leverage twice as good
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Eliot: Sophie, I can't take this guy out.
Sophie: You can't take out one guy?!
Eliot: No. I'm not taking this guy out, okay? He's a gold-star, life-sized teddy bear who lost his son in the Gulf War.
#leverage redemption spoilers#Eliot once again making immediate friends with the innocent employees tangential to the con#the fact that Sophie refers to Floyd as Eliot's 'personal kryptonite' later in the episode#I'm obsessed with this man and his loyalty to the working class#eliot spencer#the work study job#leverage
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the roller rink job
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(or, i read this fic by @nerdsandthelike and was inspired)
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taglist: @blueskiesandstarrynights @joshkiszkashusband @depressedtransguy @thedrowningpoetofdionysus @thedragonemperess @someguyiguess @genuine-possum (lemme know if you want to be added or removed)
#val draws#leverage#leverage fanart#leverage ot3 fanart#leverage ot3#alec hardison#alec hardison fanart#parker leverage#parker leverage fanart#eliot spencer#eliot spencer fanart#parker x hardison x eliot#me to myself: how many references that only i get can i fit in here#elpardison#fanart#my art#comissions open
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I need someone to ask Leigh Bardugo about this bit in Rule of Wolves at the next con because the implications it has for Kaz and Inej's post-CK relationship....
#Inej being delightfully chaotic and Kaz knowing every single detail about her work (and helping her get info on Verent)#the way Nikolai says 'given her association with the Dregs' as if Inej is still publicly associating herself with them#Inej clearly being in and out of Ketterdam with some regularity#Nikolai waltzing into the city knowing that Inej's safety is the best leverage he could possibly get over Kaz#even though he's literally never seen them in the same room together#THE CROW FEATHERS#(also the knowledge he had about the Suli camp and references to Suli culture he made when talking to Zoya....)#*wide grin* 'on the seas and in the city' indeed#kanej#kaz brekker#inej ghafa#six of crows#crooked kingdom#rule of wolves#otp: on the seas and in the city#queue
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