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july ‘19 vs september ‘19 

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You need a big god Big enough to hold your love

anyways play the passenger (sexie template by @plushchimera)

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"art styles" like, arent real

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and in his eyes I see the revolution

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here’s a kind of old fenris drawing i did because i was bored and in love

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Ezra was a bit of a Wild Thing before they earned their stripes 😏 later on it’s more contained tm

High-res + detail shots will be up on patreon tomorrow!

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THEME: SPACE

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► FEATURES:

Menu:  optional main icons, optional search box

Heaeder:  starry sky, blog title, optional description, optional up to five links

Sidebar: optional image, optional avatar, optional up to five links

Posts: 400px or 500px (1 column), post info, buttons (comment, permalink, reblog, like), optional captions, optional tags, disqus comments

Else: responsive design. google fonts, font awesome icons, custom scrollbar, custom tumblr controls, custom tooltips, infinite scrolling (plus load more option), pagination, custom colors (not on all elements), monochrome or faded images

► NOTE:

Do not redistribute this theme or remove the credits.

Edit as long as you keep the credits intact

Contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

If you want a custom theme you can commission me.

If you want to support my work you can buy me a coffee.

Thanks for using my theme, I hope that you enjoy it.

► CREDITS:

Starry sky by Blixt

Jquery | Disqus | Google fonts | Font Awesome icons | Infinite scroll by Paul Irish | PXU Photosets | Load more buttons tutorial by @shythemes | Hide stuff tutorial @lmthemes

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Alex Perry Pre-Fall 2018 Collection

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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

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I have a mute character in the story I’m writing and one of my beta readers suggested I use italics when they sign so that I don’t have to keep peppering “they signed” or “their hands flashed” throughout the piece.

But like…I always read italics in a different tone like they’re thoughts. It seems quieter than using normal quotations which makes what they say look less significant on the page than other character’s dialogue.

I really don’t think my audience needs me to use completely different punctuation around a mute character. There’s no need to act like they’re speaking a different language since their muteness isn’t a focal point in the story.

So really this reader’s comment has done the complete opposite of what they intended. Now I’m actively taking out as many of my “hands flashed” notations as possible and just writing in normal body language because, clearly, the other characters understand them and my audience doesn’t need to be coddled.

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Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

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Preparing for Inktober 2017? #Hashtags now included

**The prompts are now updated WITH HASHTAGS!

I am too! And to get inspired, I have put together 8x Inktober prompt lists, to help us create something really cohesive and cool this October

Prompt lists:

- Post Apocalyptic Wanderers

- Anthropomorphic People

- A Steampunk Adventure

- Space Travellers

- Super People

- Characters for a fairytale

- Characters for an urban fantasy

- Characters of the Forest

Enjoy and share!

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damn florence, back at it again with a majestic pagan witch bop

florence + the machine - big god

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Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???

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Cellshading

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rip dabi, he isnt dead, he just looks like it

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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this