#excellent illustration also!

[merrigel]

I want it back = I drag its dead weight forward

[rikustarlight]

Enjoy from a quick sketching session this morning on procreate

I’m just….UGH NEJI WOULD’VE BEEN THE IDEAL FATHER AND BORUTO WOULD’VE LOOKED UP TO NEJI AS A FATHER FIGURE WHILE NARUTO WAS BUSY…KISHI COPPED OUT WITH THIS ONE….there I said it with my whole chest.

As you can see, Meiten can be a bit stabby-hotheaded-pants like her mother sometimes… Their kids may mostly look like Neji but their personalities are definitely Tenten. They have their work cut out for them for sure!

Just some quick sketches of the kids. I’m missing ChouChou and Inojin but they would’ve made up the squad.

More sketches

Nejiten Kids head cannons | Nejiten Kids Designs | Nejiten head cannons

[lulu-draws-stuff]

Here's my piece for @themostexcellentzine ! it was really fun to work on and be a part of :]

Also a version without the lighting 👍

And Chloe before I put the screen on her helmet because I like how I drew her here, but all that basically got covered up.. and the true psychic tales magazine Raz has that pretty much all got covered too lol

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

[gothwizardmagic]

Cross-Cultural Media Analysis: Chapter Two

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Fandom: Homestuck Relationship: Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas

Dave panics about the reveal of the real meaning behind his work, and finds comfort in a shared movie night.

Chapter two of CCMA is up now! First narrative chapter of the fic wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

[fjordfolk]

We tend to explain the difference between American and British/FCI shelties by stating that the standards are different, and I do this too, but in truth the standards are very close and we just have very different ideas of a) whether the interpretation of the sheltie standard should follow the interpretation of the collie standard and b) what is "wedge" and "almond"

[michaeldrawrrett]

A VERY LATE GOBLIN WEEK THAT GOT AWAY FROM ME, SOMEWHAT: Aurikom the Orrery Goblin sits aboard her Cloudship spinning Shooting-Star-Stuff onto her Celestial Spindle, from where it will be expertly woven into one of her glimmering and TERRIBLY chic Sky-Cloaks

[onelongsound]

Akira x Eguchi

(Happy Berday @pompadorned! I'm so glad I got into Shobaku!)

*And HT to @shobaku-shots 🙏

Sources under the cut...

[bluejay-makes]

pov ur a city slicker who wanted to impress the village kids by riding ur aunt’s bike but ur 11 so u fall and hurt ur little knee. and the mayor of the village is the only adult around to help and she’s scary but surprisingly nice and u ask ur mom later if she’s a man or a woman and ur mom shrugs. U think about that answer a lot.

[fluffypotatey]

THUNDER B R I N G E R ⛈️ 🌊 🌪️

LIGHTNING WIELDER ⚡️ 🎶

when…when your name is Jorge and you break apart the verbs “bringer” and “wielder” into “bring her” and “wield her” because the speaker is Zeus who is the head of the Greek pantheon and holds the power of the sky but he’s also known to be a womanizer and so have his lyrics have the double meaning of Zeus not only patronizing Ody but all his metaphors about dominating and staking claim are very clearly a sign of how the god himself harmed the many mortal woman and goddess he fucked over (literally)

[goblinbeetle]

[mimimarilynart]

For BiZe ❤️ Happy Qixi 2024

[slightlycomicobsessed]

LAURA?????

Surge Commission

Commission Info

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

i need to start practicing taekwondo again...

[tossawary]

One piece of acting advice that has stayed with me for years in regards to both writing and drawing as well is: "Don't use the body to act what the character is saying. Act what the character is THINKING."

Like, as a very, very basic example: a character is apologizing by saying, "I'm sorry." But that line is going to look and sound different depending on what the character is thinking. Crossed arms and a sullen tone can mean that a character is actually thinking: "I don't mean it and also I hate you." A pleading tone and reaching out to take the other character's arm can mean: "Please don't leave me." A tired voice and slumped shoulders within context could mean: "I did what I had to do."

This is one way to begin to do "Show, Don't Tell" in storytelling. It is trusting your audience to see the depth and to catch on to the things you leave unsaid. It's fun to let the audience be observant and clever. It is also reflective of real life, where people are often scared of being vulnerable, or don't necessarily even understand their own emotions, or can't articulate their own thoughts, or have difficulty identifying the true feelings of the people around them, and so don't say very much.

There are exceptions to this advice, of course. In writing especially, rather than in a visual medium, some POV characters are very good at reading emotions from body language and others are not, and their observations in the narration may reflect this skill. Some characters will assume everyone around them is always angry with them or simply not pay attention to other people's moods at all, personalities which can also be subtly communicated to the audience and later used in the story in some interesting way.

Some characters have excellent control over their body language and tone of voice, because they are on-guard, highly trained in some fashion, or a very good liar. They will not easily communicate their true thoughts through their body language or their actions. Their lie can be so good that it can be slipped past the audience as nothing important to the plot until it comes back to bite. Their oddly perfect control over their body in a tense situation can instead maybe be used to indicate to the POV character and/or the audience: "Oh, there's something up with this person."

Body language will also change by culture and class and disability and so on. This clash can cause communication problems between characters, as a character's affectionate pat on the shoulder of another might be intended as casual comfort, but be received as overly intimate condescension. Different cultures / people can even have very different opinions on what level of eye contact and overlapping speech is rude.

This advice was originally given to me in the context of illustration and animation, in which it is very common for inexperienced artists to act out the words that the character is saying in mime-like gesture. In media for young children, we might choose to keep things very simple, as toddlers struggle to learn what it looks like and feels like to be angry or happy. But past that? People don't really behave this way. What we say and what we really mean are not always synchronized, and we can use the body to communicate this.

[cryptotheism]

I am curious why you aren't interested in shopping your manuscript to traditional publishers?

Basically what most publishers do is connect you with editors, typesetters, cover artists and illustrators, and handle fulfillment (shipping). They used to also handle marketing, but that doesn't really happen anymore. These days they expect the author to cultivate a social media following. On top of that, most publishers also assume a lot of the financial risk of publishing. The author pays less up front, but also makes less of the profits.

I have an excellent editor, I know several book artists, and I already have an excellent relationship with an indie press. I've shopped my manuscript around to a few more traditional publishers, and I've gotten responses along the lines of "why the hell are you talking to us? It sounds like you already have everything done yourself, and you'll make far more money doing it that way."