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How do you get your line art so nice? Do you use a specific pen/pencil?
Omg someone asked me for my process over a year ago and I never got around to it - so I might as well now!
I use 250gsm blending card paper (meant for alcohol based markers) cause it’s very sturdy, lets you erase the same spot over and over without damage, and get some really crisp and clean lines without really denting the paper much.
I do a rough af base sketch with an HB mechanical pencil, then start putting in more detail/tidying it up like I have in the first pic, and then once I’m happy with it I go in with a B mechanical pencil to make the lines dark and thick like the final version. (They’re also all the thinnest leads you can get)
Then I take a photo with my phone and use the mono iPhone filter to get rid of the yellow light in my house, and often tidy up any pencil mess in the background using airbrush etc in clip studio
This process honestly takes FOREVER but I really like how it turns out so I try to tell myself it’s worth it 😌
#that was an extremely long answer for a very basic question sorry#but yes I somehow came to this process and it just like#scratches my brain to do it this way#in a good way#also you can see how small my drawings are too like you see my fingers in the first pic lmao???#ask
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sorry sometimes i think about mako and my heart hurts so much. this kid raised himself and his brother on the streets in homelessness and utter poverty from eight through fifteen, promptly after seeing the violent death of his mother and father. he turned to the triple threats because they couldn't survive as a pair of wretched kids without any adult support, and the environment forced him to turn into the exact character that killed his parents in a terrible twist of irony. and after sheer-fucking-luck hits and they aren't homeless anymore, their livelihood wavers on the outcome of what's a literally game to everyone but them; and after things are finally starting to look up and their team is going places and things just might be okay, his gradually stabilizing world unceremoniously expands and everything goes to shit.
and the city that chewed him up and spat him back out, ruined him as a child and took away his ability to stay afloat in a true sense of normalcy as an adult — when it's on the verge of destruction and falling to pieces before his eyes, he gives himself to save it with the full expectation to die. he went from the kid who didn't and couldn't care about anything outside of himself and his brother, to finding redemption for his younger self in his police work despite its injustice against him, to willingly sacrificing himself to a world that had never loved him.
he's a desperate people pleaser, socially and emotionally stunted for the adult he had to be as a kid, unable to navigate interpersonal relationships easily yet still trying his damned hardest. he's intensely and entirely devoted to the things that matter to him and for so long it was only him, bolin, and ensuring their survival — yet by the end, that devotion has expanded to protecting the rest of the world. he starts out entirely self-reliant and ends in trusting the people he cares about to know their own needs, to be able to take care of themselves, to be okay without him despite having spent so much of his life defined by his role in others' well-being.
just. what the fuck i'm such a big fan of this fictional guy and i'm unashamed about it at this point. also let him cry please (if you won't i'll do it i'll let him cry)
#lychee's brain trash#mako lok#mako tlok#sorry for the shitpost i don't do a lot of those i realize#how tf did this guy not had a massive break down in canon at any point#nd like;; he never shows resentment for the unfairness of it all#he doesn't ever use his past to excuse any of his choices/actions that are influenced by it#which is pretty intrinsically linked to his relationship fumbles#he just quietly holds himself accountable and probably mildly despises himself haha#as much as i don't care for the love triangle it really does make complete sense in accordance to his backstory#anyway this is just a roundabout way of me expressing my salt at people writing him off as a malicious asshole lol#i literally cannot articulate the intense complex things his conjured up existence makes me feel#this does not even scratch the surface there is SO MUCH#i need to actually write the fifty fics that exist to my brain otherwise all these thoughts will never see the sun#trust that one day the avatar!mako au will emerge from my drafts;;;#and. you know. that one shot i've had in wip for the past 2.5 years#and the four other oneshots that will probably never be converted into actual words
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You know what, I can live without wwdits but I CANNOT live without new Laszloisms. Petition to get Matt Berry to record himself saying random words and post it online, please Matt I need it...
#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#matt berry#laszlo cravensworth#wwdits s6#wwdits last season#seriously i've become addicted#i need to know i'll be able to hear matt saying words the way only he can#it scratches an itch in my brain#mine
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I GOT THE MUPPET MOVIE VINYL FOR £20 AND IT ARRIVED TODAY!!!
#tapping my hands on my desk and knees#clawing at my walls#Actually going a little nuts rn over this cover art it's SO GOOD#Old school music scratches my brain in a way modern music never will#It's so good#I miss when music was scratchy and grainy sounding#It's why I love old school disney songs#Muppets#The Muppets#I swear I'm not being paid by Vinted to say this but ya'll please do your shopping on Vinted I've found some brilliant muppet stuff on ther#One being a box of vintage postcards which are on their way and should be here soon!#Sona
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i almost forgot i doodled a werewolf wearing the werewolf pride flag a few days ago
#sorry for being annoying about this flag it scratches my brain in such a specific way. also i do what i want#aceart#werewolf
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WIP Wednesday -- Gang Rejects Wild
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A mid-TotK Wild reappears before the Chain but the don't believe it's him because of how changed he is.
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“No! Don’t touch him!” Hyrule cried and jumped away, recoiling as if bitten. “That isn’t Wild!”
“How do you know?” Legend asked.
“He’s—it’s—full of malice, and poes and a strange magic that I don’t understand!” Hyrule said.
“Who are you and what do you want?” Time’s sword leveled at Wild’s throat.
“I’m Wild! Don’t you recognize me?” Wild answered with a betrayed look.
“You take the form of our brother but you aren’t him!” Hyrule accused.
“Guys! It’s me I swear! I’ve just… my adventure hasn’t been treating me well.”
“Show us your true form, Dark Link,” Time said coldly. “You aren’t fooling anyone hiding behind that face.”
“What are you talking about? This is my true form! I’m not Dark Link!” Wild replied vehemently.
“Put your sword down! That’s Wild!” Wind objected pushing Time’s blade away. “Can’t you see that he's hurt or sick or something?”
“Wind! Get back!” Legend dragged him away. “That’s not Wild. That’s only a trick!”
#I really really really want to get back into writing#but after doing school and studying all day everyday I haven't had enough words or brainpower to scratch out more than a few sentences#and of course my brain doesn't want to work on any of the other WIPs I have#it wants to write something completely new#fanfic#totk#tears of the kingdom#Wild's been spending too much time in the depths#he's pale and sick from lack of sunlight and too much gloom exposure#inspired by the fact that all I've been doing in totk recently is exploring the depths and looking for armor#still haven't finished the game by the way#linked universe
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WOAH ?????
#erin talks *✧･ﾟ:#im losing it#tiktok edits really do scratch my brain the right way#ellie williams#abby anderson#ellie williams edit#abby anderson edit#ellie and abby#threesome? 👀
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the chapter songs in Alan Wake 2,, flawless
#they deserve more love and discussion#saying this while also not knowing what to say other than they’re so fucking good#alan wake 2#i think it’s partially because poets of the fall’s tracks are iconic so of course they’re in the spotlight (as deserved)#but also the CHAPTER SONGS. them being made for a given chatacter(s) with the help of Sam lakes poetry#the changes with ‘this road’ by Poe with every Alan chapter. becoming more distorted and revealing lyrics and the spiral#the scratch song being 1) hilarious and 2) similar to Zane’s poetry in the aw1 arg#the emotion in superhero when saga feels lost at the story making it so Logan was gone#the lines of her feeling like a ghost in this story forming around her.. how she feels guilty and absent for both what the story’s doing#and being away from Logan because of her job. ashdhhhhjhh my heart#AND. follow you into the dark HAS to be alice. which kills me because at for at I thought of Alan#but no. Alice jumped in the dark place after him. it’s so !!!!!!!!!!!#the rabbit hole line. Alice spiraling deeper and deeper into a dream—into wonderland#the Lost at Sea one is also good. intrigues me. the Bowie and Lynch references are blatantly aw2 Zane#but it’s so similar to diver Zane and the ‘originals’ death. being lost in the dark place with illusions of escape#and losing any sense of identity. whether he’s real at all or the monster of this sea or just a lost soul.#the soft and calm vocals / instrumental really makes the whole thing#NEED to stop typing more tags because this is a Lot. however.#‘no one left to love’ is also a phenomenal song and one of my favorites from the album. GORGEOUS vocals and how it all flows together.#such a powerful and beautiful way to end a chapter#anyway that’s all I had to say :)#god. I’ve started to watch a few playthroughs of the game and 90% of people have skipped the chapter songs and every time im#that’s fair but my brain and soul might implode if I don’t see anyone else talking about how good these songs are
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Because I'm working on my hanged man rusts price I've been listening to hnoc on repeat.
And "the hermit". My god "The Hermit".
Everytime without fail I need to stop what I'm doing as Jonny describes Galahad's sacrifice. It just. It paints such a vivid picture in my mind. A clear shot of Galahad, faith in hand, walking up while the turrets rain hell upon him.
Every time.
#Anywayyyyyyy#I've made a bit of progress on the price#Watercolors still suck but Brian's skin the colored (mostly)#So progress!!#hnoc#high noon over camelot#galahad hnoc#the mechs#the mechanisms#I think this is kinda funny because when I first listened I didn't feel anything#But every relisten I do now#I just Have to stop#Also the turrets noises scratch my brain#(in a good way)
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i need to start reading franco-belgian comics mostly for the incredible line work some of them have... look at those hands man. this is awesome stuff. just one example (guust flater). i'm only vaguely aware of these comics... as a kid i watched marsupilami, the smurfs and asterix & obelix cartoons, a little bit of spirou and tintin (and a few others as well i'm sure). unfortunately i was never a comic book kid 💔 (unless you count those spongebob magazines that included short comics, coloring pages and puzzles lol)
#but I don't wanna read them digitally if i do decide to... for some reason it's hard to get into reading something that way#quacks#I LOVE looking at these illustrations. scratches my brain just right
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the last time reigen let dimple possess him, it was, well, — it felt fucking great, despite everything. standing in the eye of the storm, indestructible, fast, strong, agile, powerful, together; having entrusted him with reigen's useless old little body and gotten a 200% return on the investment! so what if he wanted to feel something at least a little bit like that again, if he missed the crowdedness under his skin? so what if he's been feeling kind of lonely lately, especially when off work, what with mob being busy, and himself not being all too close to tome-chan yet, and not letting himself get all too close to serizawa? so maybe reigen starts letting dimple possess him from time to time, just, casually. most of the time the possessions aren't even justified, but it's not weird if they don't talk about it. dimple enjoys being able to breathe, and says exactly that; reigen enjoys being together, and says nothing of it.
reigen never admits any of his reasons, obviously; neither does dimple admit that he deeply appreciates what reigen does for him. it's just a weird little thing that happens between them, largely unacknowledged, mentioned either not at all or through crude lighthearted jokes, with emotions welling in the whitespace between words.
over time, reigen gets his head out of his ass, and him and serizawa become good friends, best friends, boyfriends, even, and later move in together. the thing with dimple continues to happen because there's no real reason for it to stop, and frankly it's not like they ever discuss that; it just carries on. katsuya's been noticing for quite a while that Something has been happening, but he never felt like it's his place to ask, especially when it seemed so silent — nearly non-existent, despite being very real. well, whatever arataka chooses to do with his free time, right?
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one night katsuya stays out drinking with his school friends a little later than he was expecting, and comes home a little drunker than he was going to. he finds arataka in the kitchen, chopping some vegetables, main lights off and over-the-counter lights dim and amber around his frame; he's so, so pretty, and katsuya hugs him from the back, reaching to try and place a kiss. arataka turns around, his face flashing a wide grin and very bright red cheeks. "oh hi," dimple says. katsuya backs off clumsily, and stammers, "ah, i'm so sorry! i was expecting arataka to be here, but it's you, ah-h-h, this is awkward, again i'm so sorry!"
"no big deal," dimple waves off, and turns back to chopping. "fyi, usually when i'm here, it doesn't mean reigen's not — i don't displace him, yanno? just hanging around in his head, it's like buddy time." he grins again. "right now he isn't, though: i'm just puppeteering the thing. he passed out on the couch waiting for you, and i thought y'all wouldn't appreciate not having shit to eat for breakfast. i'll whip up some stir-fry for tomorrow and dump this back where i found it for a good night's sleep, dw about it"
"ah," katsuya says eloquently, "thank you."
he doesn't leave the kitchen, still — changes positions, getting comfortable, leans on the counter, and watches dimple work. his quick movements, his(?) elegant hands, his concentrated expression, his(?) golden hair, his red cheeks. he looks so handsome like that.
"you look so handsome like this," katsuya says before his brain-to-mouth filter catches up to the rest of him.
dimple puts the knife down and stretches his(? arataka's?) hands out before him, admiring. "it's a beautiful body," he admits. it's not a grin, but smile, softer this time; private, even. "don't tell reigen i said that, but — i really enjoy this; being like this. not just the whole getting to be alive, running around and breathing and eating thing, though of course that too, but also — you know what i mean," he shifts a shoulder up. "possessing anyone is fun, but possessing reigen..." he runs one of his(?) hands down another of his(?) arms, lightly — almost reverently. "it's nice."
katsuya's breath hitches.
he's standing closer than he remembers being. arataka is so pretty like that, in this soft lighting; dimple is so pretty like that, in this soft body.
"i still want to kiss you," katsuya whispers.
dimple's breath, just for a flashing moment, hitches too; he wouldn't admit it. "go ahead," he says, louder than a whisper, but way quieter than his voice.
katsuya does.
it's not chaste and not desperate; gentle-slow and quick-curious, soft, warm, almost exactly the same as every kiss he'd had before, just like this, but so unlike them, and almost tangibly new.
it feels great.
"it feels great," dimple breathes. "it's been a long time, and i've kind of... forgotten what it's like. so i've always wondered how it would feel if i did it."
"you mean, kissing in general, or?..." katsuya makes a terrible, embarrassed pause. "...kissing me?"
dimple shrugs, and turns back to the cutting board again. chop-chop-chop! katsuya stares, maybe a bit dumbly.
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katsuya wakes up in the middle of the night, slightly less drunk but significantly more disoriented, and stumbles towards bathroom, and gets arataka's phone flashlight shone right into his fucking face (and then quickly towards his feet with a bit-louder-than-necessary apology).
" 'm going to the bathroom", katsuya explains.
"ah, i'm just heading back. samesies moment!" arataka jokes.
katsuya buffers.
"i kissed your boyfriend last night and i'm so sorry!"
"...you are my boyfriend, tsuya," he raises an incredulous brow, and then a hand to brush at katsuya's forehead. "you alright, buddy?.. uh, do you mean you gave me a kiss while i was asleep? if so, it's fine, you shouldn't worry about little things like that-"
"no! i mean kinda yes? agh, i mean dimple-was-posessing-you-while-you-were-asleep-and-i-kissed-him-and-he-kissed-me-back-i'm-so-sorry!"
"ah yea he does that someti- you What? dimple WHAT? wait, did you just call dimple my BOYFRIEND?"
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the conversation that ensues is horrible. not because anyone's fighting — no one is even angry, unless you count violent bafflement as a subtype of anger — but because a honest, serious, 3-way conversation regarding dimple, gayness, feelings, and gay feelings for dimple, by definition can not be not horrible. arataka takes a smoke break in the middle. (he quit 5 years ago, but a guy needs exceptions). katsuya feels the closest he's ever felt to a heart attack, and that's including all his previous life experiences. dimple grows out a weird little perfunctory foot to tap it in the air.
but they try their best, and they figure things out.
in the end, not much changes; they still don’t talk about too often, but now it feels more like comfortable lack of necessity rather than avoidance; they all just get it. and occasionally, dimple possesses arataka while he kisses katsuya, and oftentimes vice versa.
it's nice.
#mob psycho 100#vikarambles#reigen arataka#dimple mp100#serizawa katsuya#ekurei#serirei#ekuserirei#got no interest whatsoever towards ekurei where dimple posseses the guard guy — no hard feelings just doesnt scratch my brain any good way#ekurei where dimple posseses REIGEN though??? ohhh SIGN ME UP for that shit i LOVE ghost romance i LOVE posessions#i LOVE supernatural/mind-bending displays of affection!!! that's the good shit!!!#and EKUSERIREI where dimple posseses either of them?? you mean i can take HAPPY GHOST ROMANCE and add POLYAMORY to it??????#it's like a lethal doze injection of adhd right to the frontal lobe. it makes me feel SO#either way i got half an hour of sleep last night because i was busy writing this. *bows down and keels over* bone apple teeth or w/e#real talk tho if you dont like this Pls do not let me know im a poor sensitive little flower and i'd like to live in peace#also uh#writing#i guess#word count 1.1k rating pg13 jsyk#aint much but honest work
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ALBERT WESKER in the DEAD BY DAYLIGHT x RESIDENT EVIL: PROJECT W Trailer
You will not live to see the dawn.
#please credit if you use those last ones as headers ty 🤍#sorry but also not sorry for the obnoxious leah colouring <3 i was just playing around and distracting myself from what's going on right now#and i kinda like the way they turned out idk was originally doing these to make a header. but i like the last two a lot though. somehow got#decent quality for those plus another one i didn't use in this of right before his eyes glow. also the kinda complementary colours are#scratching my brain. anyway i'm ready for him to throw me around like a ragdoll but for now i'm disappearing into the void cause horrid day#also don't take these as serious edits or anything i was just playing around and also love gradient text formatting so yeah that's it#game: dead by daylight#game: resident evil#character: albert wesker#tw: scopophobia#mine.
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talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"
like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like
imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.
i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.
#i know and love so many people who have intense anxiety about their ability to create art and who are so hard on themselves about the result#and i think that's a REALLY easy thing to feel because creating is also vulnerable & physically difficult and there is SOOOO much to master#but i think for me the people who churn out 300 colored pencil front facing hands behind their backs oc doodles on lined notebook paper-#are the ones with the right idea. they're the ones i aspire to be like#i'm not saying i never struggle either bc tbh#as someone with depression and adhd there are times where the Act of Having Fun is simply not possible#sometimes i CAN'T enjoy things because my ability to feel joy is locked behind a barrier of my mental illness#so i don't think it's an Easy thing to do by far and I don't think you can just Magically Make Yourself Happy And Having Fun#but i DO think that experimenting in a low-stakes low-pressure manner until you find something that clicks in your brain helps#doing things for the sake of doing them is the only way to figure out which ones WILL be fun to you#not all of them will. some things will feel like a slog#but i think you have to look for the passion before you're able to face the slog#if you jump right into the parts that are Hard and Challenge Your Limits it's easy to spin your wheels and get stuck#but if you focus on the super small stakes and the things that are thoughtless and focused more on Sensation-#the sensory experience of mixing paint or the scratch of pencil on paper or the smooth way a specific pen makes lines-#then you can lose yourself in the physical aspect of it FIRST#and then once you've started really ENJOYING those sensations you can start learning new ways to use them#because now you have the drive to want to do more#now you have the desire to find new ways to apply this thing you like doing#long post#even longer tags#art#drawing#artists#art advice
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When I started listening to Dungeons and Daddies I realised pretty early on that this show was going to have a very significant, permanent impact on my life, and I was right about that. I was in a huge depressive/creative slump but the podcast has made me wanna draw and write again, and it's helped me cope with a lot of shit.
What I wasn't expecting though was an introduction and consequent addiction to the 1992 hit Microsoft Windows video game, Jezzball
#dndads#dungeons and daddies#dndaddies#i literally only decided to play it because I wanted to understand how hard it was/how bad will was at it#instead it scratched an itch in my adhd-riddled brain and I'm playing it way more than anyone with shit to do should be#thank you will campos for having a huge impact on my life#jezzball#i wish this was a shitpost but i unironically love that stupid game now
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Idk shit about your music taste but I need some new songs to listen to so can you recommend me your top five?
top five all time? or at the moment? mambo no. 5? Here are ten songs that rewired my brain and also are probably red flags:
He Went To Jared by Hardy
Charleston Girl by Tyler Childers
A Memory Away by Matt Maeson
GODDAMNITALL by The Wonder Years
Wolfman by The Front Bottoms
Hey Driver by Zach Bryan
The Boy Considers His Haircut by Spanish Love Songs
Doing the Right Thing by Daughter
The Con by Tegan and Sara
A Death In the Ocean Would Be So Beautiful by Suicideboys
#bad music taste? ME? it's more likely than u think....#it's all country and male manipulator music but what can u do it all scratches my brain in the best ways
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everyone in my school loves to scream as louyd as they can on purpose to hurt me just because they can
#I'm lying if it isn't clear#but god fuck does it feel like this sometimes#my heart is beating so fast and I feel so sick some girl decided to just start screaming as loud as possible for some reason#it was. excited screams but it was so loud it was so so loud and I immediately flinched and grabbed my head and started breathing hard#its so Painful its like someone is scratching me or scaring me withreally frightening stuff#I fucking hate being autistic sometimes man#OKAY TO REBLOG BY THE WAY. if you have felt like this#listen to my gibberish boy#they all turned to look at me too I saw out of the corner of my eye#its so upsetting here they changed the rules so that the only quiet classroom is now the designated eating spot#for 25+ people#its a small classroom#its really really bad and the school isn't fixing it or doing anything about it and every day is hell because#lunch and break are the only times I can recover from class#and now I Don't Have That#I am on the edge of breaking the fuck down I hate this#my brain is WEVIL#<- meant to say evil but wevil is funnier. my brain is WEEVIL you guys. bug
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