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Colored my Inktober Piper

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wakes up: tired

mid day: tired

afternoon: could literally sleep for 20 hours straight

evening: normal

middle of the goddamn night: its time to Go!!!!!!!!!

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i’ve wanted to draw this for so long & now they are giving me new reason to do it

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joke: snake is a dumbass for thinking the box would protect him

woke: snake already escaped and the box was a decoy

bespoke: in mgs3 big boss said that the box gave him inner peace when he entered it. snake chose to die in the box so he could die peacefully.

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RWBY vs The World (Part 2)

Team JNPR

After the all the good feedback after the first team, i went on to make the next one. Will make every other character eventually over time but this was a lot of fun,

Previous teams

TEAM RWBY

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Bees at the bar ~

Thank you for the request and your continued support, @vitt-99. I hope you like this.

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i have some more tips but i have to get back to homework!!! i hope this was helpful anon

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★ YUJI | 😍 you ☆ ⊳ ruby and yang (rwby) ✔ republished w/permission

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blood warning!

Drew a bnha self-insert for #imtheprotag meme but didn’t think of a quirk and thanks to yall I drew this but of course I’m me so I gotta make this edgy af

bonus:

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@bexloko

I’m not sure if you remember me or this post but I made what you would call a makeover for the original fan edit I did. hope you like it @amei

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OVERWATCH ICONS!! IVE BEEN WORKING ON THESE FOR MY FRIENDS ON TWITTER ! feel free to use!! if you dont already follow me, please FOLLOW and retweet my art!!   ya girl could use the support !! SO WHO SHOULD I DRAW NEXT?! 

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there’s 12 moon balls in there. i strongly suggest you have a closer look if you want to find them.

43 hours and 27 minutes, over one month. i’m free

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he deserves it

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THE BEST MOVIE! I saw some really amazing cosplayers at Colorado Springs Comic Con do them and I was just VERY INSPIRED! XD

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My name is Peter Parker. I’m pretty sure you know the rest.

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How to Make Quick and Easy Tattoo Sleeves

Got a cosplay idea but the character has lots of arm (or leg) tattoos? Don’t feel like painting on yourself with body paints or hunting down that horrendously expensive temporary tattoo paper? Here’s a quick tutorial for making tattoo sleeves using nylons and sharpie markers! 

Upsides: 

- Supplies are cheap! You may even have many or all the supplies you need right at home.

- Quick and not very messy! No paint is involved, and sharpie marker dries instantly. 

- Easy! Great artistic skill not required.

- They move with your skin! People have legit thought these were real tattoos. From a distance, yes, but I had guys at cons with actual ink on their arms come over to compliment on my full (fake) sleeves. 

- You get to eat pringles! More on that later. 

Downsides:

- They are delicate. Nylons get holes in them super easy and forearms run into stuff, lean against things, and generally make it hard for the sleeves to survive. But if you only need them for a weekend, that’s ok.

- I haven’t experimented too much, but unfortunately this technique probably doesn’t work for wearers with darker skin tones. Sharpie ink is transparent, so any color it rests on just multiplies and the tattoo won’t show up very well. You’ll want to go the fabric paint or body paint route to get the best bold, bright tats. 

- Can’t do white sections, because sharpie ink is transparent and doesn’t come in white. I leave them blank and they read OK, but the white areas will always be pink, tan, brown, etc. unless you dab in a little fabric paint, which will not be covered in this tutorial.

- Sharpie is supposed to be permanent marker, but on skin…it’s not. The ink will most likely wear off onto adjacent clothes. Not that big of a deal for me, as I tend to wear my tats with white shirts that can be bleached, but other shirts may not survive as well.

OK, let’s go! Here are your supplies: 

You’ll need a pair of nylons, scissors, tape, a set of sharpies, your designs printed out on 8.5 x 11 paper, some bracelets, and a can of Pringles. You can use any design you want, of course, but Here is the link to these fine Newt Kaiju tattoo designs. 

If your nylons have an undies part, cut the legs off and wear the undies on your head for the rest of the tutorial, if desired. Put the legs on your arm like so, and cut the toes off so you can slip your hand through. You can cut some of the top of the sleeve off as well, but don’t cut too much because you can’t put it back on if your sleeves are too short. 

Here are my creepy sleeves. Now for the pringles.

Tape your design template to the Pringles can. It doesn’t reach all the way around but eh. The Pringles can gives you a nice stable surface to draw on that is roughly the shape and size of an arm. It’s a little short, so just roll up the rest of the nylon above the workspace and adjust both template and nylon down when you get to working on that part of the sleeve.

Color with the markers! I recommend doing the colored areas first and then doing the black outlines on top of it, to avoid the black ink contaminating the ink pads of the lighter markers. Remember how that always happens to the yellow ones? Eww. Nylons are thin and slide around a bit, so it’s best to use short strokes and dotting to get the ink on.

Take the template off the Pringles tube, flip the paper to the blank side and put it back on again. The paper collects the extra ink, so it’s hard to see any missed spots. Now you can see any bits you may have missed. Fill them in for completion. Also, the paper doesn’t manage to wrap all the way around the Pringles can, so now is the time to free-hand a bit of the design where the template doesn’t reach. For Newt tattoos, that’s the back of the arm. 

When you’re all done coloring, put them on!

There’s a rough end to the tattoo right at the wrist, of course. Disguise where the sleeve ends and your skin begins with some pretty bracelets:

There we are, much better!

Now…you’re done! Have some Pringles!