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planetsandmagic · 5 months

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Okay, woah - listen if you ever want to ramble about how your composition works, I eould love to hear it! I think you‘re doing it masterfully

Haha well I'll give a bit of a ramble then, it won't be much on advice on how to do composition but more so just my thought process on how I draw it usually ^-^

For me, composition is the foundation to everything I draw, it's honestly the reason why I enjoy drawing even if it takes me hours (and I means hours) for me to finish something

Since I don't do sequential art often, it's really important that I convey everything I want in the single piece. Composition helps with that

Usually I often indicate a focal point in my art that's basically supposed to be where ppl's eyes end up to. Someone once said i'm the person that does the Circles which is true lol but i usually do that as a way to emphasize certain parts of a piece. It's a great way to guide the eye (and also makes for a nice dramatic halo)

See here examples of how the circles create a focal point

I also like to add elements that direct themselves to those focal points (e.g. the fish guts dropping down or the smoke going towards the circle). Its a way to make everything have good flow that doesn't feel too disruptive

Understanding the "space" you're working with is also important! When u can split elements into foreground and background or understand how low or high angles work, you can create nice composition that's more dynamic. I would share examples of what I mean but they're mostly zines pieces which I can't share yet!

However, I think you can see what I mean here as well

Both use center compositions but have a slight difference in angle and foreground elements which i personally think can convey different feelings. The first feels like its extending outwards with the rope and slight low angle to create a grand reveal tone, whereas the second has a blurred and dark foreground with a still and straight camera angle to convey a tight feeling.

(These are my thoughts tho, not sure if others feel the same!)

I'm not perfect at composition tho, there's lots of perspective angles I suck at and want to learn more of. I do recommend studying photos or looking at your surroundings to understand what could look good or not. Even though most of my art doesn't really have a realistic background since I like to put abstract elements, its important to observe and understand the dynamic of our environments so it can be intergrated into your own art

#asks #sevi007 #its a lot of rambling and i dont this im making a clear point #but thanks for letting me ramble anyway!#i really do love drawing and its nice to be able to share my silly thoughts on it #long post

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kopifurann · 10 days

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Idk how much you care about history but I just learned this

In 1806 Napoleon incorporated Liechtenstein in the Confederation of the Rhine and made it a sovereign state. At the Vienna Congress the sovereignty of Liechtenstein was approved. Liechtenstein became a member of the German Confederation in 1815. This membership confirmed Liechtenstein's sovereignty.

And now I can't help but imagine some noble school AU or something where Liechtenstein is getting kinda pushed around by other students as "not a real noble" or whatever, only to be swept off her feet by France as he tells everyone to back off and respect her as one, and she's just there thinking "oh god, why does my face so hot and heart so fast all of a sudden"

Also uh yeah any ideas on France and Liechtenstein's relationship?

SOBS THATS SO FUCKING ADORABLE also tagging @lunartexan since u have been asking for it lol

Honestly i was going to draw a small comic about that scenario but i don't have too much time as i start working so ill just add things about them!!! For me FraLiech is so cute in Cardverse but i want to add a bit of Shoujo spice in it so, ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

Francis is a crown Prince of Diamond, known for being this playboy lil shit who got himself to lots of problem because, well, considering he will become a King one day, he just though his freedom to fool around would end as soon as he's crowned (alas he would just say he found things boring because being melancholic seemingly would become out of character for the image he have in the public)

But despite this 'imperfect' behaviour of his, he's still adored by the peers and girls in this royal school since he's very good being this charming playful Prince that's kind.

Though it need to be known he's not really favoured by the nobility because of his 'image' since the motto of Diamond is like, "A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures" so he do got lots of whispers, gossips and the likes despite how hard he tried to be perfect. Basically this Prince always pushed to strive more than just enough because as he's going to be a King who represents the richest, flamboyant and vain Kingdom, he better be suited to carry the burden. (So ye you get why he can be a very mischievous and a huge playboy to cope)

Liech/Elise is a low born nobility who got pushed around by the high society in school. Though the school itself implemented how once students set their foot in the premise tittle should be shed, it's honestly can only be seen as suggestion often by the high rank nobility.

So one day she were bullied by her peers at the secret garden away from people to see , however, Francis just happen to be around to take a smoke (it's not allowed in the school premise, that's why he went there because nobody really go there) and helping Elise shoo'ing em away. Francis wasn't really care about Elise problem, though he do play around that he found those ladies who's bullying her were vulgar and foolish. Elise, being young and naive ofc fall for the Prince, albeit she also aware that there's no chance for them to be together because of their status. In the end though, i don't think something significant would happen between them when they were in school (at least not something to really progress their relationship romantically because at this age Francis don't really crave a serious relationship since he was aware how messy it is to pick a girl that one day would become a Queen so he pretty much just leave it his Father's vassal). Though Francis would help her around if things happen to her (Because it's would suit his 'kind and charming' image) but Francis graduate a year later and Elise stay as she's a first year. Years later Francis crowned and marrying Joan Who also used to be his personal Knight so she's also were in school. I would like to think she and Elise would have platonic friendship for a while and it's continue once Elise reach adulthood after graduating. They would have small tea parties from time to time, though Francis not often involved when the ladies have their own time. Years later, suddenly, Joan died. Struck with heavy grief, Francis mourn by himself while ignoring everything. His vassals beg for him to came out so he can quickly find a replacement for the Queen. Francis, out of spite, picking Elise, a woman with a very low status and have not much power in her family name to be his Queen.

So yeah, if im going to do RP about these two, i would probably have these as the premise lol.

#francis bonnefoy #aph france #aph liechtenstein #Elise Vogel #FraLiech #hetalia #kopifuran #i also thinking about drawing their school uniform but maybe next week when i got time #anyway i like these ship they're so cute imo #SIZE DIFFERENCE SIZE DIFFERENCE #Also charming playboy and a smoll cutie patotie #they have so much shoujo material lmao #hws #aph

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horrorknife · 4 days

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hi! its the bastard from earlier, you're plaguing me with visions

COMPARING THEM TO PREY ANIMALS !?!?!!! I LOVE PREY ANIMAL COMPARISONS YOU HAVE NO IDEA !!!!! I'm putting these 2 under a microscope and chewing on the slides

YOU R SO SO RIGHT !!! Hoffman's need for direction is something I will never shut up about,, even if Adam can't directly give instructions (personally I see him following along as much as the next guy) he would be such a good anchor. GOD !!!

old man cutting up apples imagery save me. I know you probably didn't mean it literally but that domesticity is nice 2 me and oh my god aughhhh

New dynamic to rot my brain I guess. need to draw about it... pawing uselessly at my drawing tablet....

I have this like, idea in my head that Adam offers his cigarettes to people whenever he has spares. he gets denied like 90% of the time and most of it is just habit from when he hung around more people who DID smoke (I can't see most of the Jigsaw crew smoking) but do you think Hoffman would join in??? or would he just let him exist like that?? would he start hating it but grow more favorable to, at the very least, the smell (association and all)

like whenever I think of Lawrence / Adam I always see Lawrence as not completely attempting to cut the habit out but definitely making an effort to lower it. Also very vividly see Lawrence smoking once in a blue moon when shit gets rough because he needs the edge off and something something associations. I'm just curious how you view Hoffman in Adam's relationship to that. Hoffman has his own issues with substance abuse (drinking relentlessly and all) so like. lots to think on!

going to you like you're the end all with these two (you are in my head sorry this can't be undone. you answered a single ask now I'm your problem)

HIIIII im so glad to see you back!! <33

I LOVE THE PREY ANIMAL THING...i think all jigsquad members are inherently prey animals (that trait never leaves u even after ur test) but adam and hoffman exhibit it the most i htink........i love the prey animal thing idk i just. thats always the wording ive used for it thats always the comparison ive made...i think it actually started w adam for me lol because he's SO prey animal in like the whole of saw 2004. scared fighting back biting thrashing doing all he can to live...

YES you get itttt! adam is VERY much a follower and not the orders guy. hes very wallflower/voyeur/watcher/etc. that doesnt mean he cant give hoffman direction tho! all hoffman needs is to feel like hes in control + be nudged into a lane. and i think adam is perfect for that bc he has that innate vengeful streak hoffman does i fully believe this. (adams characterization is VERY specific to me and im extremely picky with it bc i have done so much personal/rp writing building up of him and SO MUCH character analysis...............akjfngdkjfngjf character analysis is like. one of my special interests)

i would love to see your art and ideas oh my god. please . Please. also i am thinking about drawing the apple cutting metaphor cuz........i kind of got super attached to it as soon as i typed it LOL i have such a clear image in my mind.......

I LOVE THAT HC!! i have a similar one ahaha except i think he's a consistent Smoke Bummer. i think hoffman smokes also, and i think them taking smoke breaks together is so..............Yeah........i dont think hoffman minds it at all. actually i think he probably has a tendency to chainsmoke too. i agree about lawrence as well!! i actually just drew a pic of chainshipping smoking together :-) lawrence would def try to get adam to cut back but he's susceptible to it because i think it's also a way for them to bond and manage THEIR horrible mess of a relationship too. often times adam has to step up to lawrence's playing field but i hardly ever see people putting lawrence on adam's? and i think that's so much more impactful for their dynamic, bc lawrence Doesn't usually want to get on adam's level to understand him bc hes stubborn and Has To Be Right. for adam that would be huge because everyone in his life has treated him like shit forever and he doesn't think lawrence will do any differently, but if lawrence were to be the one extending the branch? Hoo Boy. yeah.

I REALLY HOPE YOU COME OFF ANON I WOULD LOVE TO DM ABOUT THIS STUFF!!! GENUINELY!!!! PLEASE TALK TO ME i love talkign about my special interests with people!!!!!!!!!!

#asks #anonymous #dont get me started on chainshipping btw. good lord .

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catsi · 2 years

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im dying to know more about miffy is there anything you can share??

WOW ABSOLUTELY YES THANK YOU FOR ASKING <3 there's def certain stuff i wanna talk about but can't yet, but i can give u A Nice Introduction!

btw for campaign context: a religious order called The Church of the Broken Wave holds power over the land, and they outlaw the use of magic by anyone but themselves. some people are fighting back against the church, but Miffy is part of the people who are content in not doing so. she lives in the mage city of Leyfall which is carved out of the inside of several mountains. in Leyfall, folks teach magic, learn magic, research magic, and generally use magic freely without immediate threat from the Church. Leyfall is broadly self-sustaining, but make no mistake: this is a city populated heavily by academics who almost never see natural fucking sunlight bc they are stuck in a mountain

^ (here's a fun little collage of Miffy sketches!) (can you tell i really love drawing her!!!)

Miffy is a 32 year-old research scientist/research mage from Leyfall! she wasn't born there - she was born and raised by the coast, and came to Leyfall when she was 18. she was mentored by the woman who brought her to Leyfall, and she eventually worked her way to her own lab, her own research projects, and her own accolades.

she's very sociable, tries very hard to get along with folks, and loves making new friends, but when it comes to work she prefers to do her research alone. nearly all of her papers are single-author, save for her earliest ones with her mentor, and ten or so from a chunk of time a few years ago.

her favourite type of research work is anything that lets her blow shit up. her second-favourite type of research work is examination of the exact models that underpin the physics of magic. how can we define entropy in magic? how can we calculate it? what does it tell us?

out of a stupid formality, researchers in Leyfall publish under a pseudonym they just call their 'publishing name'. it's the equivalent of putting 'Dr.' in front of someone's name. Miffy's publishing name is 'Mephistopheles'.

there are a couple of rumours floating around the physical aetherology labs as to how Miffy ended up losing an eye and getting all of those scars. none of them are even remotely consistent, but all of them are equally convinced they're right.

Miffy is a woman of simple pleasures: she likes white wine, smoking weed & hanging out with her cat, having a good long cry on her chaise lounge every now and then, and sleeping in the sunbeams of light that come in through the mountains

Miffy got swept up in the campaign's current events out of sheer convenience (wrong place, wrong time), relentless whimsy, and the desire to just be around other people for a bit. she can afford to take some time off from work - might as well go on a journey about it.

basically miffy is like a 32 year-old postdoc who feels like her life has completely fallen apart despite the fact that she's actually pretty much fine. who then gets swept up in the murder of a government official and is like 'well. in for a penny.'

(combat-wise she's a black mage and her spells focus a lot on fire and lightning, with a few movement spells, etc etc)

i'm sorry this is so fucking long LOL thank you again for this ask....

#oc asks #miffy #the tenth #miffy asks

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advisortotheadvisor · 3 years

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for @grimmtober day 9: monster/canis. ended up focusing a little more on the canis part than the monster part lol. also tw for suicidal thoughts/ideation. it takes place during the tail end of book 5, where canis is v obviously Not in a good place mental health wise. that part is under the read more, so tread carefully if thats a trigger for u

Time travel. Of course. Just when he thought this town was out of surprises, it pulls another one out of its sleeve.

Far too much has happened between his discovery of the time tears from the girls and now, to all of them standing on the rooftop of the radio station in the aftermath of Tom's foolish little experiment. However, considering that neither the Grimms nor the world is in immediate jeopardy, he'll take it as a success. The time tear hangs in the air, neither growing nor shrinking. The destruction of Tom's time machine seems to have put an end to that little venture, though its effects are still evident; notably in the presence of the adult Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck, as well as a more aged Relda.

It’s a bit of a relief to see Relda – or a version of her, at least – wheel herself out of Baba Yaga's house. Strange, yes. But relieving all the same. She's clearly not from this time, clearly not the Relda he knows, but he would trust any form of Relda Grimm with his life.

The girls' brief, hurried explanation means he still doesn't understand half of this “time tear" nonsense, but being thrown in a town of people who hate you with no memory as to why makes you good at operating with minimal information. And even if he was entirely oblivious to anything time tear-related, it's still fairly obvious that this Relda was from the future.

(A future that, according to Sabrina and Daphne, he doesn't exist in.)

And maybe she can…well, he isn't sure exactly but she's Relda Grimm, chances are she can do something.

He tells her he knows. She doesn't seem surprised; he doesn't know what else he expected, the Relda from his time is hardly phased by anything, always brave in the face of danger. And this alternate Relda seems even more world-weary, if such a thing is possible.

“What can I do to stop it?”

It's a desperate question, desperate and foolish. But he needs an answer to it, needs something to convince him to keep fighting. He can feel the walls he'd built to contain the Wolf cracking and crumbling more and more each day. He's not sure how longer he can hold them up. How longer he wants to hold them up.

She looks at him pityingly. It’s the first time she - or anyone - has ever looked at him like that. It's unnerving. “You can't. I'm sorry.”

You can't.

He's suddenly back under that crumbling school, back in those collapsing tunnels because he can't breathe, but instead of dirt and smoke choking him it's the very air he's breathing.

I'm sorry.

The four words feel damning, a death sentence handed to him with an apology on the side. He'd known that it was a ridiculous hope, that he'd never had a real chance at beating the Wolf, but he'd wanted to believe in it anyway because he wanted to pay penance for all the blood he'd shed, wanted to protect something instead of destroy it. But it was all in vain because the Wolf was going to be freed anyway-

No. He won't let that happen.

His hand- now thick with fur, now tipped with deadly claws, how had he deluded himself into thinking this was a battle he could win?- rests in hers. His claws serve as a sharp contrast to her fragile, wrinkled skin. He never thought that he would describe Relda Grimm as fragile, but it's the only word that seems apt. The smallest move could puncture the palm of her hand and the Wolf croons for him to do it, to draw blood, to bury his fangs into every single person on this rooftop. To let his hopelessness twist into anger at himself, at Relda, at everyone within his vicinity.

He ignores the Wolf's bloodstained word and focuses intently on his breathing.

One. Inhale. Two. Exhale.

He lets go of her hand.

The rest of the time-torn interlopers prepare to leave, climbing back into Baba Yaga's house as though it is their own in the future. Perhaps it is. It's odd, seeing the children so old, so war-torn and weary. But he supposes he should appreciate seeing them grown up; it's unlikely he'll ever see it again.

The tear closes after them as though it never existed in the first place.

“Oh, dear,” Relda says. He wonders who she's oh dear-ing in that particular tone of concern when the smell of blood hits him. He'd nearly forgotten about his injury from Nottingham's blade; in all the confusion, it had more or less faded into the background. It's hardly the worst injury he's ever received, but Jake still insists on driving them home.

“I don't know how well it will heal,” Relda admits as she packs up the first aid kit after fixing up his eye to the best of her abilities. “Oh, I do wish we could go to a doctor, but with all these taxes, I doubt there are any left in town.”

The fact that there likely aren't any humans left in town is left unspoken.

He almost considers telling her that she doesn't need to worry, that at the end of it all, it won't really matter if he's partially blind in his left eye, but ultimately ends up holding his tongue. No matter what he does, he's bound to hurt her. No need to prolong it while he's still alive.

The bandages are a bit of a hindrance, but no more than the claws sprouting from his fingertips or the fangs lining his jaws. The lack of the depth perception is frustrating, but not a problem he'll have to deal with for much longer.

Barely a day later, a knock pulls him from his slumber.

He stirs for a moment, wondering if the sound had simply been an echo from his dream. The memories from the Wolf and his own nightmares were hard to distinguish, but gunshots weren't an uncommon theme in either of them. Many had shot at him in an attempt to scare him off or protect themselves. It never worked.

There’s a second knock, confirming that the sound had indeed come from reality, followed by the tell-tale signs of Sabrina going to answer the door. It’s at that point he starts to move as well, hopefully to intercept the girl before she can open the door- if there's one thing he's learned over the years, it's that people rarely visit the Grimms at this hour with good intentions. And yet, despite himself, he pauses at the top of the stairs as the conversation downstairs carries on.

It's Heart and Nottingham. They're not here to collect more taxes (thank heavens – it was only by a miracle that Relda was able to pay the last one.) Instead, they're here to arrest him. It feels absurd; he won't deny the heinous things he'd done, but he hadn't expected his comeuppance to come from the judicial system. But…

You weren't in the future. The Wolf was.

There’s no version of the future where he's able to beat the Wolf; that much is clear. But the girls had said that they were changing the future, trying to put everyone on a better path. Perhaps he can do the same.

If he's going down, he might as well take the Wolf with him.

It's for the best, really. If he runs, the Hand will hunt him down, or attack the Grimms in retaliation. If he dies from some other cause, the Hand will likely believe the Grimms are just lying and hiding him. At least this way, it removes them from the crossfire.

At least this way, he can protect them from the monster he's bound to become just a little longer.

#sisters grimm #mine #my writing #grimmtober #also i skimmed through the 2nd half of the 5th book just to make sure all my facts were straight #and relda sure uh #she sure uses the 'well *I* trusted you when no one else did' argument against canis a lot doesnt she #which i get that she was just trying to prove that sometimes trusting ppl and giving them second chances can be good #but still. mayhaps not the best thing to use as leverage in an argument

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