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metrixnos · 2 months

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Winter sunsets make the prettiest skies

#technoblade #technoblade fanart #dsmp #trying to draw more regularly again #remdered this to try and take my mind off things

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marimbles · 7 months

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my guys:)

#marichat #ml #miraculous ladybug #experimenting slightly bc it’s been so long since I’ve drawn them regularly and I think my style changed a bit (?)#so I’m like figuring out how I want to draw them again lol #decided to try ears out adrien this time what do we think #I think it’s cute:) altho in my mind adrien covers his normal ears on purpose at chat noir to be more Catboy #anyway. them etc #mine #my art

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whipped-cheese · 2 months

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Soory I sorta disappeared- I've been distracted-

Have a couple wips of my eclipse as make up 👉👈

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Some extra wip

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#I'll try posting stuff more regularly again-#*also keeps starting new drawings instead of finishing old ones*#aughhh #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf security breach #animatronic #daycare attendant sun #sundrop #daycare attendant moon #moondrop #fnaf moodrop #fnaf sun #security breach daycare attendant #Bows and Ribbons eclipse #BaR! eclipse #BaR!sun #BaR!moon #Bows and Ribbons au #in the process of working on a story for this au but in the meantime I'll try and post more of my other 2 aus- i really like drawing these-

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skitskatdacat63 · 6 months

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I should've been sleeping before my flight but instead I drew Seb as Antinous :D

Reference + Commentary:

SEB IS MY MODERN DAY ANTINOUS, OKAY!? I WOULD DEIFY HIM IF I COULD!!!

But seriously I spent like an hour obsessing over statues of Antinous just thinking; "holy fuck, he reminds me so much of Seb???"

Big, pretty eyes? Check. Magnificent curls? Check. Beautiful side profile? Check. Etc etc.

I read this description of a statue and was instantly struck with "this is so Seb.":

"The body and face of this sculpture are in idealized youth, with plump cheeks and round face, and his hair is usually unkempt. Antinous's hair has also been described as artificial looking, even wig-like, because of how similar the placement of his hair is across statues. His youthful appearance, large eyes, pouting lips, and layered locks of hair over his forehead are some of the iconography that can be used to identify him"(x)

Also which AU of mine is this hmmm. It can be either the Renaissance Muse AU(x) or the random Roman Caesar Fernando AU(x) I drew it with the latter in mind(bcs its basis is literally just Hadrian and Antinous), but it's fun to imagine the Martian version as well!! Maybe an AU of an AU, where Mark is Pygmalion, and Seb is Galatea 🤭🤭

#I DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY BRAIN #cant draw all week when i have limitless free time #and then when i should really be sleeping: boom suddenly can draw something again #i am so tired rn its horrible. my flight got delayed so ill try and get a bit of sleep but yeah....#HAPPY WITH THIS THOUGH #tried to color it regularly and i didnt like it so then i made it more marbley ykow #but now i cant stop thinking of seb as antinous #THERES SO MANY GOOD STATUES AND BUSTS AND THEYRE BOTH SO PRETTY AAAAHHHH #this is just the boy king statue all over again okay.....(nothing can be as good as that tho hahaha)#well yes anyways antinous = seb. thats my new historical thesis #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #f1 fanart #formula 1 fanart #catie.art.#sv5 #renaissance muse au

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atticcreationz · 4 months

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[Ruth is talking to Brooke at her locker, then the bell rings, and Ruth runs over to join Richie and Pete on the way to class, blushing]

RICHIE: Ruth, is that a ~spark~ I detect between you and Brooke?

RUTH: maybe 😏 I get all warm and fuzzy when I talk to her...!

PETE: uh, that might just be the fires

[all three turn around to see Brooke setting her own locker ablaze]

#nerdy prudes must die #once again: i think ruth should get to have a very short flirtatious relationship with brooke as a treat #she deserves it #(and then call the fire brigade)#every time i have fanart i want to draw and get sad that i dont have time and/or am im in too much pain to sit down and draw it i say hey #write it down instead baby you dont have to draw it #write down the silly things so theyre not bouncing around in your head #on a related note some rambling thoughts #im trying to get comfy writing more than drawing - i always felt nervous writing since college and always thought i was bad at it #but a) fuck it and b) its been a nice compromise between my urge to draw and my sadness at how im too in pain to draw on my own time anymore #and some friends have been incredibly nice and encouraging about small things ive written recently and i cant even theyre so kind 😭✨#anyways back to the regularly scheduled tags sorry #starkid #team starkid #ruth fleming #brooke npmd #npmd #starkid npmd #richie lipschitz #peter spankoffski

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sysig · 6 months

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Gotta sweep up all this Dust (Patreon)

#Doodles #Mother 3 #Duster #I am still thinking of He and yet he still hasn't completely come back into my crosshairs #If you can believe it - it was actually the fic printing that was like halfway to the goal of going out of my mind about him again and well-#Lol ♪ I do still plan to! I just underestimated how much of a run-up to him it would be #I'll get there! Certainly keeping busy in the meanwhile lol #But he does get /some/ screentime in the meantime at least haha #I actually injured my own ankle a while ago :P Couldn't tell you exactly when or what but it's been kinda flaring up lately #Mostly when I got for walks - doesn't have to be super long walks either which I'm not super jazzed about #But I did get an ankle compress-brace which has been good for it :) Can walk a bit more regularly!#It was mostly giving my pain away that prompted him back lol sorry Duster #I did at least power up the game to try and see which side his limp is on - it's hard to tell!#It looks like his strides are more confident/longer with his left leg but with the way his sprite mirrors sometimes but not other times #I don't know if he actually says which leg it is somewhere in the game either so I'm just projecting for now lol #I imagine it's only easier to stress out the strong side by overextending - why not both!#It's also still really fun to draw him covered in scars haha #Probably could've gone for arm hair too but it might've muddled the scars and aren't those the important part lol #And a little singy Duster/Lucky to round out :)#I imagine he has a weak voice if he tried projecting but hmm I'm not sure! I really do want to get to know him better!#There's gotta be a reason he was put on the bass right haha #Probably a nice whispery singing voice ♪

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ppan-kyu · 10 months

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Commissions are OPEN!

All info in THIS LINK but the basics are:

Halfbody $40

Fullbody $60

Colored Sketch $25

Reblogs are appreciated 🙏

#somebody commission me to draw anime dasjdsa #Ive been looking for a reason to draw it more #also Im trying to cut down on hours at my day job so I don't have a mental breakdown again lol #so until I can relaunch my store I need to do commissions more regularly!#commission open #commission

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mbirnsings-71 · 6 months

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@cannimochi, a while ago: *Says the words god and Dick Grayson in the same sentence* me, who had a greek mythology hyperfixation in middle school, picking up my stylus: Well now I know what I have to doodle-

#I have decided I'm just tagging Ru in all my Dick Grayson posts because they're the biggest nightwing fan I know #so like you can thank him for this fanart #I never would draw this man this much if it was not for them soooooo #fanart #my art #fanartist #art #dc #dick grayson #dc comics #dc fanart #ang guys can you believe it? I completed a drawing every week for october omg now never expect consistency again-#I'll try to post more regularly but I can not promise I'll ever finish drawings that aren't related to Ru's AUs soooo-#richard grayson #Madi's Art :>

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igneouswyvern · 10 days

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i have a lot of stuff i want to draw still but first i decided to try and overhaul my artstyle to improve my proportions and anatomy, which Fucking Sucks. so you might not see art from me for a while

#disappointing the 3 people who regularly see and engage with my art posts #i decided to primarily focus on shrinking down the head in proportion to the body because the way i draw heads they look like fucking bobble #heads and it makes it hard to work with. but that opens up a new can of worms because i also draw eyes too big #and the eye size works great when the head is wide as fuck but not so great when i make the head more reasonable #also i am once again trying to teach myself torso anatomy so i can draw bodies properly from other angles and That Fucking Sucks Too #add on top of this problem that i am swamped with schoolwork #and i use most of my weekend free time for gaming because i hardly get to game these days #so yeah! stinky all around i guess. i miss me 1 month ago with all the drawing time and motivation in the world #wyvern rambles

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silent-shanin · 1 year

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I finished Medabots for the GBA

#Medabots #Metabee #Ikki #GBA #Medabots game #video game #fanart #gameboy advance #my art #okay this is the last game I've finished in the last month #maybe now I'll go back to my regularly roseali posting #I'm trying to draw these to get more in the mood to draw again in general #because i've been stuck in a gaming mood #but now im sick with covid lol #and I have a hard time focusing #so it's probably back to gaming #🙃🙃🙃

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matchandelure · 1 year

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fhjmsdfhjglks feeling kind of frustrated at a lot of things

#sometiems i feel that maybe i set goals that are too ambitious #good grades in classes. internship prep. learning how to be independant and do adult stuff in general #working out regularly eating balanced meals getting enough sleep every night taking care of skin. overlall physical wellbeing #while also trying to make time for hobbies especially art...#ive been sucked into a rather strong loop of comparison.. bc i recentl ylooked through my old art when i went back home #and im so sad at how little ive improved. and i know that everyone learns and imrpoves at different rates #and i have more important things to focus on such as completeing this degree completely unrelated to art #but i dont want to go through the nexxt five years just.not improving at all at something i love so much :((#but everyday this past almost two terms of school. i never finish the work i need to before i go to sleep #everytime i do finish everything its time to repeat the whole cycle all over again #and whne i do get time to draw im so tired that all i can amnage are some scribbles..which means my technical skills arent improving atall #bc i dont have the energy to study even ifi its something i love #which iguess ispart terrible self discipline which i need to work on but sometimes i just wnat to shut my brain off and doodle mindlessly #bc i dislike my program :((( eww math ewwwww compsci #and i want a distraction from it whenever possible because if i have to calculate the eigenspace corresponding to an eigenvalue of a matrix #one more time i am going to cry #im tired gnight #willows rambling branch

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pigeon-mermaid · 1 year

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I wanted to compile some marimbas doodles I drew recently zshjghbv

#pimer babbles #It's mostly drawing practise & memes hehe #like ugh the tattoo? Ugly. But it's my first time trying it and I just wanted to have a feel for it #I'm definitely gonna try again #I really like the cropped center one zhjsbg I drew it hastily but it turned out kinda charming i think #Nyehehe energy #screenshot redraws are fun~#really like the poor little meow meow more 'realistic' face sdhjbgn he is so miserable...#he is so fun! I'm glad I'm trying to draw more regularly #hope i can stick to it

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numbuh424 · 1 year

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#I try to always remind myself that if me from 3 or 5 or 8 years ago saw my art she'd be so stoked abt it #bc the algorithm is almost never in my favor and it's hard not to sometimes feel :/ when I work on something for so long #and literally right after posting it I alr see it gathering dust lol #the algorithm is especially gonna be a huge asshole towards me now that I'm busy with school and can't post regularly #but it's not like it was any different anyways even when I was posting literally every week #I have my excuses now for not posting regularly but if posting like once or twice a month has no difference from posting like twice a week #then I may permanently just slow my posting bc it is genuinely hitting how hard I was trying to get a fully rendered new thing out weekly #idk idk drawing is so fun and I could do it forever but posting it online sometimes does not bode well for how I perceive my work #yes likes n follows don't matter in the grand scheme of things blah blah blah but a steady following can't hurt #especially since that sometimes translates to getting more commissions #or hell just hearing something abt my work in return #I spend way too much time wondering what it is I'm doing wrong and cope with it by starting a new piece everytime #hence why I draw as much as I did/do lol #this turned out to be longer than I expected I hope no one read thru all this go look at my art instead #elle is talking again #dumps this all on tumblr so I can continue to seem mysterious and nonchalant on other social media 🚶‍♀️

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waterbearable · 2 months

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both in an attempt to be more deliberate about the work I'm doing w Personal Project and to stop myself from the pattern I have which is Do No Creative Work/Spend Hours At A Time On One Aspect of Creative Work, I have set a very loose timeline/goals for progress on Personal Project, part of which is to do my best to commit myself to spending at least an hour each on writing, drawing, and reading weekly (with the idea that I could literally just do 15 minute bursts multiple times a week and still meet the goal, since I normally have trouble scheduling things out bc I feel like there's not enough time in my day For A Task)

#ari speaks #im. going to try VERY HARD to balance accountability with not trying to punish myself for not making progress on things #but like. i do want to create and i get frustrated by the feast or famine dynamic i have #its also bad for my brain i think to only be used to writing for hours at a time or drawing for hours at a time #since it means i have to force myself to stop.#suffice to say my Out There goal is that in summer chapter 0 will be done nd code-able #and that ill have made a lot of progress into writing chapter 1 and detailed outlining other chapters by the end of the yr.#when i feel more comfortable progress-wise i miiight start sharing w folks for critique purposes #bc. NO MATTER WHAT im committed to making my world. but i think this is the yr i decide if i make it public or keep it for me.#also im trying to make this a low pressure high reward for me to start reading regularly again. im saving snippets i like as i read

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baddmintonsart · 3 months

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Starting to realize I rarely talk about ocs here

#or talk here in general #i gotta start brain dumping again #I've withdrawn a lil bit into my discord server and bc of that kinda neglected this blog oops #tho hopefully now that im at least drawing again ill try to be here more #and maybe talk about all my new duderinos ehe #if any mutuals want my discord invite feel free to dm me ehe #i am there all the time and regularly show off wips n stuff

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emeryleewho · 1 year

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I've noticed that people take writing advice way too literally and then get really mad about it, so here's a quick guide of what the typical "bad' writing advice is actually trying to tell you.

[Note: you don't have to take literally any piece of advice. It's just there for your consideration. If you hate it, leave it and do things the way you want. But the reason all of this advice is regurgitated so often is because it has helped a lot of people, so it's okay if it's not for you, but it may still be life changing for someone else.]

Write Every Day

"Write every day" is NOT supposed to be a prescriptivist, unbreakable rule that dictates anyone who doesn't write literally every day isn't a real writer. It's supposed to be a shorthand way of saying "establish a writing routine. Get used to writing at certain times or in certain places or in certain patterns, both so that you can trick yourself into writing even when you don't feel like it by recreating certain conditions, but also because if you only write "when you're in the mood", you may never get around to finishing a project and you likely won't be able to meet publishing deadlines if you decide to pursue publication."

The point of this advice is basically just to get used to seeing writing as part of your daily routine, something that you do regularly. But if you decide you can't write on Tuesdays or weekdays or any day when you have certain other activities, that's literally fine. Just try to make it a habit if you can.

2. Show Don't Tell

"Show don't tell" DOES NOT AND HAS NEVER meant "never state anything plainly and explicitly in the text". Again, "show don't tell" is a shorthand, and its intended message is "things tend to feel a lot more satisfying when your reader is able to come to that conclusion on their own rather than having the information given to them and being told they just have to accept it." It's about giving your reader the pieces to put the puzzle of your book together on their own rather than handing them a finished puzzle and saying "there. take it."

So if you have a character who's very short-tempered, it's typically more satisfying that you "show" them losing their cool a few times so that the reader can draw the conclusion on their own that this character is short-tempered rather than just saying "He was short-tempered". Oftentimes, readers don't want to take what you tell them at face value, so if you just state these sorts of details, readers will push back against that information. People are significantly more likely to believe literally any information they are able to draw conclusions on without being told what to believe, so that's where this advice comes in.

3. In Medias Res

This one is so often misunderstood. "In medias res" or "start in the middle", DOES NOT MEAN to literally start halfway through your plot. It also DOES NOT MEAN that you should start in the middle of an action packed scene. It just means that when you start your story, it should feel like the world and the characters already existed before we started following them. It shouldn't feel like everything was on pause and the world and characters only started acting the moment the story begins.

This is why starting with a character waking up or something similar can feel jarring and slow. We want to feel instantly compelled by your character, and the most efficient way to do that is [typically] to have them already doing something, but that something can be anything from taking a shower to commuting to school to chopping off a dragon head. We just want to feel like the story is already moving by the time we enter.

4. Shitty First Drafts

The idea that you should let your first draft suck and not revise it as you go is a tip presented to combat the struggle a lot of people have with not being able to finish a draft. If you find you've been working on the same first draft for five years and barely gotten anywhere, you might want to try this advice. The point is to just focus on getting to the ending because finishing a draft can give you renewed energy to work on the book and also makes it easier to get feedback from readers and friends.

That said, if your story is flowing fine even as you go back and make edits, then don't worry about this. This is advice specifically designed to target a problem. Likewise, this doesn't mean that you can't clean up typoes when you see them or even make minor edits if you want to. It just means not to let yourself get completely bogged down by making changes that you never move forward.

A "shitty first draft" also doesn't mean that your story has to be completely illegible. It just means that you shouldn't let perfectionism stop you yet. I see a lot of people say "well, I can't keep going until this first part makes sense", and that's totally reasonable! Again, the point of this advice is just to get you out of that rut that keeps you from making progress, but if you spend a couple weeks editing and then move on or you find the book is still making forward strides while you edit, then you're fine. You don't need this.

5. Adverbs

The idea that you "shouldn't use adverbs" DOES NOT MEAN that any time you use an adverb, you're ruining your story. It just means that you shouldn't *rely* on adverbs to carry your story, namely in places where stronger verbs or nouns would do a lot more heavy lifting.

For instance, you can write "she spoke quietly", but generally speaking, that "quietly" there is a lot weaker than just subbing out this clause for "she whispered". You probably have the word "spoke" all over your draft, so subbing out one instance of it here for a stronger verb in place of the same verb + an adverb makes for stronger prose. This doesn't mean that you'll never want to use the phrase "spoke quietly" over the word "whispered". For instance, if I write, "When she finally spoke, she spoke quietly, like that was all the volume her weakened lungs could muster." In this case, I'm using "spoke quietly" specifically *because* it echoes the previous spoke earlier in the sentence, and it evokes a certain level of emotion to have that repetition there. I also used it because she's not actually "whispering", but trying to speak at full volume only to come off sounding quiet.

So when people tell you to cut adverbs, they're saying this because people often use adverbs as a crutch to avoid having to seek out stronger verbs. If you're using your adverbs intentionally, having considered stronger verbs but ultimately deciding that this adverb is what does the job properly, then there's nothing wrong with using them. This is just a trick to help you spot one common weakness in prose that a lot of authors don't even realize they have.

6. Write What You Know

This is potentially the single worst-underestood piece of writing advice. "Write what you know" DOES NOT MEAN to write only what you know or that you have to put all of your life's knowledge on the page. It just means that drawing from your own experiences and already there knowledge will help you craft a better story.

So, for instance, being an eye doctor doesn't mean you have to write a story about an eye doctor. It doesn't even mean you need to write a story that directly deals with any eye knowledge. It just means that there are likely things you've experience as an eye doctor that can help inspire or inform your story. Maybe you remember a patient who always wore the same yellow shoes, and so you include a character who does exactly that. Maybe you spent a lot of hours dealing with insurance so you decide to write about insurance agents. Maybe your practice was located next to a grocery store so you decide to write a zombie apocalypse story that takes place in a location inspired by that shopping center.

The point is that, as people, our lived experiences allow us to relate to other people and craft more believable worlds. So don't limit yourself to your lived or experience or feel obligated to only write the things you've done, but when you find yourself wondering what to write about next or how to give a character more depth or how to describe this random location, pull things from your life and let what you already know bring a certain level of unique you-ness to your writing.

And the MOST important advice I can give you is to stop looking at writing advice as some holy, unbreakable rules passed down by the gods that you cannot ever deviate from. And if a piece of advice sounds totally bonkers, do some research on it. There's a good chance that whoever's passing it to you has no idea what they're talking about. But even if every other writer swears by a certain piece of advice, you absolutely do not need to take it. Try it on if you want, and throw it away if you don't, but stop making yourselves miserable by letting random internet people dictate your life. Most people giving advice on the internet aren't where you want to be anyway, so don't expect them to be able to guide you somewhere they've never been.

Everything's made up, and nothing matters. Write what you want.

#writing advice #long post #writing #author

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