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hoomanexploded · 1 month ago
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Blaze my queennnnn!!! Love her ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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sable-skies · 4 months ago
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Fun lil' Anon here!! I have an actual question and a nice message!
Message: I love ur art its amazing and its so cool and cute and fun :3
Question: Can you do a step-by-step thingy of drawing a full body plus the side face you did with your Links Meet AU Art (If yk the pieces im referring to...) Im trying to get better at art and I love your style so I wanna try it out!!
If you're ok with all that I would love that, so thanks a lot!!
- Link to the Random (Aka Legends Legacy AU)
Hello hello!! First off, thank you so much!! <33 again, it always mean so much to me that people enjoy my work and my silly little ideas :'']
I can certainly try!! I've been asked to do similar stuff in the past and I'll admit, I'm not much of a teacher because I have a hard time explaining the thought processes in my head, but I will do my best!
Under the cut I will include the timelapse of the sketch and lineart I did in procreate, and then I'll have images going step by step and explaining what I did in each section! (Note: I don't have any color timelapse stuff due to forgetting to record stuff in Clip Studio Paint, that's my bad whoops).
additional note: I actually have sketch + lineart timelapses of all the designs i did, i can potentially post those if anyone is interested in seeing me dick around for 5 minutes as i try to figure out what I'm doing
First off, the timelapse! And I'm using Twilight here as my example because he's just personally my favorite.
It goes pretty quickly, so my apologies if anything is lost there. Thankfully, I save almost all of my works as multi-layered files too so I can go back and edit stuff if need be.
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The first two here are the sketches I landed on and liked the most. The first one is much looser and lacking definition, so I went over it in another layer to get more of an idea of what I wanted to do + started to design him more. But you'll see me start to change stuff even in the lineart itself.
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The first image here is the lineart as I finished it in procreate, lacking all the text and ideas for now. And the second image is the first pass I took at deciding his colors. I just eyeballed these from his canon design and the LinkedUniverse design because those were two obvious sources of inspiration.
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HERE'S THE FUN PART; so I'm very indecisive whenever I color stuff so I'll take forever to find what I'm looking for / what fits the not so clear vision in my head the most. (i have a form of aphantasia, hard to keep images in my head for long)
What i like to do is copy my layers and then edit them with gradient maps, overlays, mess with the saturation, brightness, etc. It's a bit of digital hoarding but comparing the edits I've made to the first version is always nice and helps me keep my options open if need be, I also like to share my progress with friends for opinions so its good for that too. If you have anyone willing to, sharing multiple options and getting as many opinions as you can I think is a good practice! Thankfully some of my friends are big into design as well so it's fun to bounce ideas between each other.
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Here are the final four. In the first image here I think I just edited the lines and added some color into some of them so they were all stark black. The next I added in some details on top of everything sorta-rendering style. Completely overhauled some bits in the third and fixed the profile head's proportions as best as I could, and the last one is simply the greyscale version of everything.
While deciding colors I keep a completely white layer on top of everything and set to the blend mode "color", and i switch this on and off just to check how the values are comparing to each other and if anything needs changed. looking at this now, i realize the belt across his chest and the tunic color are very similar, but thankfully the hues are so different that I think they don't blend all that much.
But generally this is how my process breaks down: sketch, second sketch (optional), lineart, color, color adjustment, merging it all together, final rendering adjustments, final product. my newer works have started to lean into this post lineart and color rendering thing more, I used to be really particular about making sure everything had a layer and was organized. nowadays, i just merge shit and start drawing on top of it (maybe i'm getting old, maybe i'm 23, who knows)
but yeah thats pretty much it! if you have any further questions and what not, feel free to ask! i'm a certified yapper myself so I don't mind typing out long shit like this.
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gardensnakie · 4 months ago
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lmao, anyways, since I’m here already, I may as well send you an ask actually for u. Your art’s real pretty! I love the texture and I enjoy da Loopdile content. I like that one post with Odile poking Loop’s stars and them getting all embarrassed. And I like dragons. Love your Loop dragon. How’d you find your particular artsyle? It’s painterly, yet simple, and I love the kinda textures you achieve, even if it’s usually like, a lil flat? So pretty <3
HI AGAIN AND THANK YOU SO MUCH :3
I think my artstyle started getting it's choppy/painterly look after a while of doing digital art, which happened over the years- i think i grew to find it easier to 'paint' over my rough sketches until i figure something that i like- in these drawings for example, i switched textures around by just painting over it until it looked right to me
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I usually leave pieces with the occasional streaks left over from the rough sketch and sometimes just blatantly leave parts of it unfinished AND/OR i focus on the form and shapes, making it simple, and not really putting texture (its way less pressuring for me, im not a fan of creating a final sketch after a rough one- its all final when i say so)
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Im not sure how it grew to be like this, all my previous drawings from when i got my first drawing app that could save canvases are all wiped (i assume, my mom took the device i had it all on) but i do know that i tried lineart and never really liked how it looked- and how filling colors into it was tedious before doing shading so i guess i decided to render everything in a back-and-forth kind of process
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Here's images taken of my art in 2022, i really liked to render (this is when i still had my ipad its the one of the few images i have left)
There was a time somewhere when i didnt have my ipad anymore and had started tumblr- i used sketch.io on my for digital art and it didnt have layers to use so i got attached to the fill tool, which might be where some of the flatness and shape-like look comes from
anyways thanks for asking :333 i really appriciate it
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kroovv · 2 years ago
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Hi, I love your art so much! You've inspired me to take up digital drawing again! I was wondering how you chose your poses and colors? Your art looks AMAZING, and I struggle to come up with those things. And, if it's not too much of a bother, any tips on messy sketches? I struggle so much with sketching because my silly brain wants everything to be perfect. Sorry if that was a lot of questions. Again, I love your art. You've been a huge inspiration to me!!!
Ahhh thats awesome!! So with poses i usually just imagine it jfjs sorry thats not helpful i have a really clear imagination so i can like very clearly pose characters BUT if im really having trouble with angles ill remake the pose in magic poser to try make sure i get the forshortening. If you are trying to get poses tho absoloutly get references and just work from them! Colours i will usually just play around until i feel it clicks together, understanding colour theroy defonaitly help.
Its good to just experiment with colours and poses, ill usually try to stay away from extreme saturation, so no going right into the corners i like to be a little off so like off whites, off blacks just makes it a little more realistic for example black hair is never true black it can be a blacky blue or blacky brown!
Dor doing messy sketches i used to be like SUPER perfectionist when it came to sketches till a games company absoloutly read me being like....that isnt a sketch...thats a fully rendered character it looks finalised i was like 8U having inperfect sketches is very good its about getting the idea down not the final product, you feel like your sketch has to be perfect final render but it doesnt its the sketch its suppsoed to be sketchy! It took me a while to undo that idea that it has to be perfect but just let yourself be messy, let yourself get down ideas its fun being messy 💕
Im so sorry if none of this is helpful i don't actually know what im doing jshs and im not the best teacher cause im bad at putting stuff into words, but im so glad youre getting into digital art again and i hope you have a lot of fun doing it 💕
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periminkle · 5 years ago
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After moving into your own place, it seems life is finally going your way; the path to independence leading you to a quaint suburban town where even the grass seems to grow a little greener. Although a shocking encounter leads you to believe that perhaps appearances can be quite deceiving.
pairing: hybrid!jk x reader (first person)
genre: hybrid au, angst, fluff
word count: 7.6k
rating: PG-15
warnings: swearing, descriptions of blood and cleaning wounds, mentions of cannibalism (o.o)
author’s note: mMMm setting deadlines is effective but exhausting, so the pacing of this might be a bit weird? also im def not late bc it’s still sunday in some timezones so ;))
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I stared intently at the grungy nick in the otherwise spotless wall, mind racing a mile a minute.
The better half of the last hour had been spent pacing back and forth, gaze unmoving from the unconscious man in fear of missing the twitch of a finger or the flutter of an eyelash. His complete stillness persuaded me to check on his pulse frequently, glad to feel the faint, yet steady, beat beneath layers of smooth skin.
When I received a second call from my cranky saviour to inform me that he was nearly here, I forcefully sat myself down and practiced that infamous square breathing that every zen yogi swore by. By the persistent bouncing of my knee, it was evident that the yogis had failed me.
Rain was pounding down in thick sheets onto the pavement outside and at this point I was convinced the world had it out for me, using every trick in the book to further complicate this surely doomed rescue mission. Nonetheless, I optimistically hoped that the incoming storm would soon subside.
My unfortunate lips dealt with the brunt of my merciless canines, rendering the skin raw by the time a distinctive series of raps against the sturdy door caught my attention. It was the very same pattern in which I’d regularly knock on the door to the cleaning storage, craving the company of someone other than the three musketeers I’d gotten to know better than my own blood.
Although I ordinarily would be enthusiastically welcomed and greeted with nothing less than a wide, heart-shaped grin, the circumstances now were undoubtedly exceptional. Thus, the crinkle between his brows and the disgruntled glare fixed on my sheepish smile were to be expected.
Needless to say, Hoseok was not impressed.
“What the hell?” the typically friendly janitor barked out, huffing out his frustration at having his slumber disturbed. “You do know that it’s almost two in the morning right? How did you even get in here? Why couldn’t this wait for tomorrow?”
His hair stuck up in a multitude of different directions, evidently having rolled out of bed, slipped on a jacket and came to my rescue. The wrinkled, blue horse character on his pajama set eased some of my nerves at the familiarity of its nose, in the shape of Hoseok’s smile that was, understandably, nowhere to be found with the current circumstances.
I gripped the distressed male by his lithe shoulders, imploring him to slow down. “I’m not coming in tomorrow. Listen, this is gonna sound absurd but—”
His eyes drifted past my smaller form and I firmly shook at his torso to prevent him from spotting the other man. “Hey! Eyes down here.” A hint of curiosity bled through his agitated exterior when he focused on my stern exterior once more. “You can’t freak out, okay?”
Hoseok shrugged his approval, murmuring, “Yeah, I get it, directly disobeying the head researchers is pretty satisfying and all, but did you really have to drag me into this? Especially when you know I start early on Saturdays?”
At the reminder of his strict schedule, I withered marginally as I originally hadn’t intended to involve him at all. A shameful appreciation began to eat away at my conscience, grateful for his presence in spite of my outrageous request. I wouldn’t know what to do if Hoseok hadn’t come through and in my eyes, he remained an angel who was too good to be true.
“I’m sorry, I promise this is really important.” I brought my arms back to my sides, glancing down at my feet in order to organize my swirling thoughts. “I wouldn’t call you if it wasn’t an emergency.”
What I didn’t notice while lost in my reverie was Hoseok’s rebellious stare, wandering over the injured man’s form. “What the fuck?” He gently shoved me aside, stumbling deeper into the laboratory. When he was planted by the stranger’s table, he repeated, “What the actual fuck?”
My head tipped back in exasperation, disappointed that not even my last minute backup strategy was going according to plan. “Hobi, please.”
I could practically envision the gears whirring in his head, a natural reaction considering the mutant in front of him. When he finally craned his neck back to me, he mumbled with wide eyes, “Say sike right now.”
“Stop talking for two seconds.” I groaned, marching up to position myself between the janitor and the table in an attempt to calm him down. Immediately upon noticing his trembling digits, I reached out to clasp them within my own quivering hands. “Listen, this experiment they’re conducting? From what I know, it’s all some screwed up excuse to inject animalistic characteristics of their choosing into humans. And their track records point to a lot of predator species.”
“Predators? Wha—why would they even want to create a predator-human hybrid?” Hoseok took a tiny step back and out of the fear that he would flee, I fiercely clamped down onto our conjoined limbs.
“I don’t know yet,” I faltered. “But, honestly, I couldn’t care less because of how unethical they are in their approach to this project.” At his puzzled expression I somberly gestured to the unmoving lump in the corner, willing myself to postpone any tears for a safer location.
Hoseok must have connected the dots at the midnight black shade of fur peeking out underneath the fabric matching the colour of the hybrid’s ears and tail, as his stare hardened and his breathing began to even out from the rapid pace it was at before. “I’ll need more details later on, but let’s get him out of here first.”
At his command, I retracted from Hoseok's hold, scoping out the rather barren area for something other than the masses of files and papers strewn about. “You think we can carry him together?”
Simply comparing the difference in size between the stranger and Hoseok, there was no doubt the copious, hulking mass of muscle outweighed my friend’s slimmer figure. Our combined strength would have to somehow prove formidable against his bulky body.
Hoseok’s grimace spoke volumes about his faith in that idea, although there wasn’t much of a choice considering the alarming time crunch and our limited accessibility to other parts of the laboratory. Due to my blind confidence in the ostensibly foolproof scheme I constructed, the only cameras shifted were directly located in the path from the front entrance to the changing room to the upstairs lab.  
Oh, how I was regretting that naivety now.
Using an abandoned stretch of fabric that had been stuffed into one of the drawers I rummaged through earlier, I covered his immobile body with the thin cover to provide some decency and act as a layer of defence against the torrents outside.
While Hoseok stood directly behind his head, leaning forward to loop his arms underneath the hybrid’s triceps and around his chest, I grabbed each of his ankles, cradling them to my abdomen. Even with our best efforts to avoid any of his wounds, there was no way to avert the countless scratches and bruises that littered every inch of visible skin. We counted on the sanguine belief that he wasn’t conscious enough to feel any of it, reluctant to use any tranquilizers when we weren't aware of how much juice they’d already injected him with.
“On the count of three?” Hoseok asked.
With a nod, I tightened my hold and widened my stance. “One, two,” after taking a generous inhale, I heaved, “three!”
The two of us managed to maneuver the stranger down the length of the dingy hall before we were forced to gently place him onto the ground, desperate to grant our aching muscles the break they demanded. Currently, construction was being done on the elevator, which meant that the flight of stairs was the next obstacle to be tackled.
I lost the brief, but fierce, battle of rock-paper-scissors and endured the frightening prospect of marching down the stairs backwards—in the dark. All because Hoseok was unwilling to sacrifice the slightest bit of his comfort for the both of us to step sideways.
It was safe to say the stairs themselves took ten minutes to clear.
On the first floor, we were able to cross over to the main entrance in a breeze thanks to the spacious nature of the lobby. After scurrying to Hoseok’s car and laying the hybrid in the back seat, I returned to the lab to dutifully lock up the front door and jogged back to the vehicle.
Hoseok sent me a befuddled brow lift from the front seat when instead of the passenger’s side, I hesitantly stood a stride away from the driver’s door. “He’s fine, hurry up already so we can get out of here.” He motioned to the space beside him with the flick of his chin, his bed head dancing along with the movement. “It wouldn’t look too great if anyone caught us right now, especially with the man-cat knocked out cold in the back. Plus, the lab just radiates spooky vibes at night, look at my goosebumps!”
“Okay, okay, give me a second,” I grunted, opening the door to the back seat as I bowed inside to avoid a painful meeting with the roof of the vehicle. While gripping the back of the stranger’s skull with one hand and his upper back with the other, I lifted his torso and slipped inside. Tenderly, I placed his head on my lap.
“What are you doing?” Hoseok stared at me through the mirror, evidently unnerved by my proximity to the man. “He could literally wake up at any minute and there goes your throat!”
“Or he could get juggled around from your shitty driving and open his injuries again,” I countered, “which I think is a lot more likely, no?”
He scoffed, taking full offence to my jest. “Never mind. I hope he throws you out the damn window for calling my driving anything less than spectacular.”
The rush of excess blood coursing through my veins as a result of my overactive heart pounded in my head, nearly loud enough to block out the boisterous revving of the engine echoing throughout the empty lot. Tires squeaked against the pavement, jolting the hunk of metal into action as we sped away.
“Where were you thinking of leaving him?” he asked, taking a breath before mumbling, “that is, if you thought about this at all.”
“Hobi!” My jaw dropped dramatically at his not so subtle jab, shaking my head as I commented, “You’ve been hanging around Yoongi too much lately. I mean, all this sass couldn’t have come from nowhere.”
He slowed down behind the only other car in sight, flicking on his signal to turn. “Don’t change the subject.”
“I’m not, I was just commenting on your drastic change in behaviour,” I rebutted, crossing my arms across my chest at his determination to aggravate me tonight. “For your information, I actually planned this out for weeks; who do you think got the key card to the upstairs lab, the keys to the building itself, moved all the cameras—
Despite the leather seat between us, I knew he was sporting a sly smirk, for his conceit was bleeding through his supercilious tone. “And who begged me for help halfway through this ingenious plan?”
My jaw clenched shut, astounded at his cheeky retorts. At first, I was unsure of how the relationship between the jovial custodian and the chilly facade that Yoongi donned among strangers would progress, but judging by the sheer number of occasions in which I’d walked into a room with the two chatting away—gummy smiles all around, it seemed to be advancing better than expected.
“Whatever, you came anyway.” I sank back into my seat, careful not to disturb the comatose man peacefully resting on my thighs. Hopefully he was narcotized enough to remain oblivious to the various disturbances around him and would only rouse when the sun made an appearance.
Hoseok blithely sneered, pressing harder on the pedal as he spun the steering wheel to the right. “Yeah, well it’s kind of hard not to when you claim that Hyunho’s going to sue your ass for thousands of dollars.”
“And was I wrong?” I recalled our earlier conversation, where I hadn’t yet mustered up the courage, much less the patience, to confess to the details of my crimes. In a panicked state, I simply presented the consequences which would follow Hoseok’s absence—Hyunho’s wrath.
“No, now you’re just gonna get your ass handed to you by Namjoon and Yoongi,” he countered. “But I guess you’ll save some money while you’re at it.”
Merely the thought of their reactions to my late night escapade made me want to shrivel up in a ball. “Who said I’m going to tell them?”
“You’re not telling them?” The car slowed as he gradually came to a graceful stop behind a red light, turning his torso to face me with the help of his hand on the central console. “You know better than to release the man-cat, he’ll just get caught again.”
Rolling my eyes like a petulant child being scolded, I muttered, “I’m not releasing him.”
“But you can’t deal with him on your own either!” he snapped, the lack of sleep shortening his tolerance. After a pause to regain his senses, Hoseok rapidly shook his head and twisted back to focus on the empty roads ahead.
"Listen," I gritted out between my teeth, my own temper flaring. “I think you’re forgetting that I was well aware of the fact that I would be housing some kind of animal for a while, just didn’t know he would be this big.”
“Or this dangerous? This costly?” His firm grip on the wheel tightened, knuckles turning white as his emotions boiled over. "You’re not prepared to deal with him, I'll just take him back to my place."
A puff of air escaped my throat at his ridiculous solution, stating, "You live with your sister. There's no way she won't find out."
"Like you're any better off," he quipped, staring me down through the rearview mirror. "You live alone. If he were to do anything to you, we’d be none the wiser about it."
"Well, we can't risk anyone discovering his existence. There's no other way.” By watching the stranger’s chest rise and fall with each elongated breath, I was able to simultaneously avoid Hoseok’s prying eyes and collect my own thoughts.
While impatiently waiting for his arrival back at the lab, my mind had trudged through copious possibilities, overwhelmed with the pressure to choose the right one. Eventually, I came to the disconcerting conclusion that, be that as it may, the most secure option remained to bring him back to my place.
I reassured, "Don’t worry, I cleared out my bedroom so that there’s nothing in there that could potentially be used as a weapon. We'll secure him down, lock the door, and I'll camp out in the living room."
"Y/N, we don't have any clue what this guy is capable of,” Hoseok stressed, worry colouring his voice as he sharply gesticulated with his free hand. “Hell, look at him! He has cat ears, Y/N, and do not get me started on his tail.”
I stole a glance at the accused appendage in bewilderment, unsure of why that aspect was at the forefront of Hoseok’s concerns regarding the mutant boy. “What���s wrong with his tail?”
“My point is,” he accentuates, “we have no idea what we’re dealing with here. What if he has some kind of monstrous super strength and his diet consists of human flesh? He could probably rip right through any restraints and bam! That'll be the end of you."
I held my tongue at ridiculing his absurd speculations when some sort of man-cat hybrid was currently strewn across the back seat of Hoseok’s run-down Corolla; a dim display exposing the current, ungodly hour of the early morning.
“Do you have any better ideas?" Although my question was met with radio silence, we steadily continued on the potholed path headed away from my house. I spoke up again, "Where are you taking us?"
"We're going to Namjoon's place, and we're gonna think of a better alternative all together."
"Hoseok," I seethed, fists clenching next to my thigh. "He'll make us take him back. We're already too far in to go back now."
The car jerked violently due to the bumpy road and being suddenly reminded of the wounded boy, I shot out to grab at his thin waist in order to nail him to the seat. Despite my best efforts, crimson liquid soaked through the thin blanket and I cursed under my breath.
"I can't leave you there alone with him!"
"Please, we'll be careful." A beat passed as I greedily inhaled the fresh air flowing in through my open window,  gathering ideas to negotiate. "I'll stay awake the whole time and I'll text you every hour."
Regardless of my pleas, the car kept at its incessant pace to Namjoon's apartment. Sweat began to accumulate at my temples at the unsure fate of what censure awaited me. To distract my nerves, I gripped the fabric that covered the man’s body, tugging it over his shoulders to rest just below his chin while pressing a bunch into his side in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
Past the low hum of the vehicle, a gentle utterance met my ears. I lifted my head to inquire whether the sound was merely a figment of my fatigued imagination when Hoseok repeated, "Every half hour."
My eyes widened, darting to examine his stoic expression from the rearview mirror. "Yes! Yes, yes of course. I can even do every ten minutes if that’s what you want." I shrugged my shoulders, pointing out, "I'll be up all night anyway."
"No, I'm good. Unlike some of us, I don't deserve to be punished for my crimes and would like to salvage the little sleep I can get," he declared as he performed a U-turn at a wide intersection.
My grin expanded exponentially at the change in direction. "Suit yourself."
I allowed my thoughts to clear, tracing a clear droplet on the window as it raced to engulf another, merging into one, larger globule that ran down the smooth expanse until it was out of sight. Unknowingly, I mindlessly carded my fingers through the stranger’s dampened strands; more so for my own comfort than for anyone else.
Before I knew it, we’d arrived at my quaint cottage and with the addition of another individual residing under its roof, the place seemed tinier than ever. Hoseok and I shuttled him over to my bedroom as gracefully as we possibly could, aiming to avoid whacking into any obstacles along the way.
Other than his lengthy legs knocking into two door frames, we were clear.
The second his back met the rigid mattress, we collectively released a weighty exhalation from the excessive exertion that strained both our physical and mental states. Although the chances of the stranger waking up now were low, seeing as he was out like a light throughout the whole journey, I hurried to collect the sturdy ropes that I purchased in advance.
“Ooh, you’re into some kinky shit, huh Y/N?” Hoseok quipped, taking the material from my hands.
My eyes rolled back at his stupid antics, glaring at the pleased crinkles forming next to his drooping eyes. “Ha ha, very funny. Now help me tie him up, so I can kick you out of my house.”
“And what’re you gonna do to him when I leave?”
Snatching the rope that he stole from me, I shoved Hoseok to the side by pressing against his firm bicep—which definitely carried more than his fair share of the hybrid on the way here—and grumbled, “Guess If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.”
Hoseok burst into a short fit of contagious laughter, invoking a couple quiet giggles that I was unsuccessful in fighting down. As he raised the stranger’s arms to the bed frame, I looped the braided, nylon material snug around each of his wrists. Along the way I checked to ensure that the restraints weren’t too tight before moving onto his ankles to repeat the process. Luckily enough, his height stretched the entire length of my minuscule bed with his feet dangling off the ledge.
“Tell me you brought more tranquilizers in case?” Hoseok asked immediately upon securing the last knot. Throughout a tedious explanation on how foolishly lax I was behaving with the hybrid, he went back to inspect my handiwork, tugging the ends of the cords closer together into a grip that nearly cut off the hybrid’s blood flow.
Over his nagging, I sneaked a victorious grin as I displayed the syringes I’d nabbed from the lab. He spent a few more minutes fiddling with various safety measures consisting of the pepper spray he stealthily retrieved from my purse, the bedroom door’s lock and an air horn that he remarkably pulled out of his coat’s pocket. Although it was questionable if the blaring sound would awaken even my closest neighbours due to the sheer distance between our houses, I didn’t dare attempt after imagining old Sangmin marching over here on his rickety cane to bark my ears off.
Refusing to bother expending effort on pondering over the rationale behind Hoseok’s little magic trick, I blithely shooed him out before any more ridiculous objects could be plucked out of his jacket.
The last straw was his finger approaching the sensitive button on said air horn. Unwilling to face the consequences of his brash actions, I slammed the front door closed behind Hoseok, the space suddenly void of his rowdy antics. I wearily blinked the drowsiness out of my eyes, the stillness and tranquility of the early hours slowed my heart rate from the fast paced, action packed night.
My sock-clad feed padded their way back to the bedroom, snatching my phone out of my black hoodie to fiddle around with an app that I discovered upon moving out. In order to relay my continued existence to my family, I scheduled texts to be sent every week, which would prove useful at this time as well. Knowing my own forgetful nature, one update to Hoseok would slip my mind, and either four, furious men would burst through every available entrance or I would have the whole police force upon my front steps in minutes.
To prevent such a disastrous event from taking place, I tampered around with the settings and added the fretting male to the list.
I halted in my tracks when faced with the mundane sight of the four walls where I spent most of my sleeping hours, not a hair out of place other than the addition of the injured hybrid on my dirtied bed. The crimson stains jolted me into action, retrieving my brand new first-aid kit and finding it hilariously ironic that the dressings were going to be used on the very same criminal that broke in to steal such supplies.
In order to fight off any cold that could have possibly slithered its way past the weak barrier draped over his body, I peeled the flimsy, sodden cover off and replaced it with a puffy comforter. Traversing through the storm that continued to rage outside definitely put a strain on his already weakened state, and his pale countenance wasn't very reassuring.
I slid the blanket down to access the sullied wound at his rib cage and grabbed a couple pads of gauze to firmly press onto the area. Thankfully, some blood had already begun to coagulate around the edges, so I didn’t have to wait too long for the trickling stream to cease. With a clean towel, I wiped the surrounding skin to get a better look at what I was dealing with, grimacing at the bruises forming galaxies across the jagged edges of ripped skin.
He was in worse shape than either Hoseok or I could have predicted. At this realization, the fleeting worry that he might succumb to the severity of his wounds grew, festering a nasty doubt in my mind.
Deciding whether to clean the laceration commenced another strife within the whirlwind of emotions inside my head, but I poured a few drops of antiseptic onto a cotton ball anyway, fearful of infection. As I tried my best to carefully dab the soaked material across his wounds, I peered up at his face to search for signs of consciousness.
My eyes involuntarily softened at the small cuts littered across his neck, travelling past his jaw and over the slopes of his hollowed cheeks to his forehead, which was partially hidden under his dark locks. When the cotton was thoroughly besmirched with a blend of bright crimson and a muddy brown, I drenched another and advanced up to other regions after the more serious lesions were taken care of.
A closer look at his sinewy torso allowed me to examine the scars scattered all around, mostly clustered around his upper arms. Absentmindedly, I wondered whether their appearances were linked to the cruel methods of the laboratory. How had he gotten within their clutches in the first place? For how long was he suffering under the justification of being an experiment?
What were they trying to accomplish with him?
My mind raced with all the different possibilities of what could have brought the hybrid into this situation in the first place, and before I knew it, I was pushing back the disheveled strands on his forehead to clean the last of his cuts. There were definitely more on his dorsal side, but I wasn’t willing to undo his restraints and flip his hefty weight over on my own. I would either wait until he woke up or ask Hoseok to stop by again after his shift.
In my current position, I was close enough to feel his warm breath fanning across my skin, observe the tiny brown mole under his lip and how utterly breathtaking this man was underneath the cuts that marred his skin. He was undoubtedly attractive at first glance, although I wasn’t able to appreciate his masculine features while under the stress of saving him.
Once every laceration in my reach had been disinfected to the best of my limited abilities, I swiftly bandaged his side again and stuck Spider-man themed band aids onto the smaller cuts in memory of the Hello Kitty ones that decorated his body earlier. I settled back on the chair, admiring my handiwork and fighting back the looming threat of dormancy that approached with every elongated blink. My head leaned back as I crossed my arms, thinking that a little snooze never hurt anyone.
I was blind to the cocoa orbs drinking in the darkness.
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The bright light streaming in through the numerous cracks between my blinds prodded my eyelids apart, pupils struggling to adjust past the groggy haze of an unexpected slumber. Rather than revelling in the bountiful energy supplied by a restorative nap, an obnoxious cramp in my neck made its presence known alongside the bleak, obstinate tingle of dormancy that lingered within every tightened tendon, pulsating throughout my entire body.
Although the pain gradually ebbed away after I rolled my head around in wide semicircles, I knew from experience that the ache of sleeping in an uncomfortable position would linger.
Gold streaks were painted on the hardwood floor as a result of the sun’s harsh rays, a stark contrast to the dusk of a few hours ago. As I began to fuzzily recollect the memories from yesterday, I spotted the growing number of discrepancies between the room I’d seen before I closed my eyes and now, from the open door to the ruffled sheets, devoid of any sign of life.  
Fortunately, I seemed to be in the same position, seated on the tough chair that I snoozed off in a few hours ago. However, I found it odd that it was particularly difficult to do much else than squirm around, and that was when I realized the problem lied in the nylon material tied around my wrists and ankles, binding me to the furniture.
A cold dread washed over me, much like a freezing bucket of ice being poured over my head. The hybrid escaped.
Well, at least he didn’t exact his fallacious revenge on my sleeping form.
“Awake?”
I squeaked at the whiplash that followed the movement of my head twisting a second too quickly, intent on identifying the furtive speaker. My eyes widened exponentially at locating the muscular hybrid, black ears twitching at my cry and tail swishing in curiosity. Being clad in only boxers, I shifted my gaze away out of instinct, a fiery blush overtaking my features despite having ogled the man’s ripped physique before.
It felt completely different when he was unconscious and my only intent was to treat his multitudinous wounds though.
He slowly blinked, clearly finding my astonishment puzzling with the bewilderment laced in his orbs. Waving a large palm in front of my face to get my attention on him, he calmly said, “No hurt.”
The tight rope that currently hindered my motion was definitely the same one that had been previously occupied with restraining the hybrid to the bed. Yet the very same male stood in front of me, free as a bird. “H-how did you get out?”
Instead of answering verbally, he extended his defined arms out to the side, imitating the position he was tied up in, then robustly swinging both limbs towards one another. So he broke through those thick, durable ropes with sheer strength and willpower. Comforting.
The tranquilizers laid scattered across the floor, much too far to even consider reaching them.
“Where’s your blanket?” I questioned, suppressing the tremor in my voice as I found it outrageous that my throat was still intact at this point. There was no guarantee that he wasn’t harbouring any motives to rid the world of my presence, but the fact that he wasn’t actively making any moves to rip my heart out was a good sign.
The mop of dark chestnut swayed along in the same direction that he tilted his head over to; a habit revealing an emotion that I couldn’t place on the stranger. “Warm. No like.”
His broken English revived a flurry of trepidation. I recalled the night of the break-in, the terror and hysteria that I’d buried away under the incorrect pretense that a burglar never hits the same house twice.
I didn’t know if that sentiment applied to kidnapping the criminal and using your place as his hideout, as well.
As I noisily gulped, I felt his stare dart to my esophagus and in a wild panic, my wide eyes met the doe-like curve of his own. The hybrid edged closer to my trembling form before treading past me, out of sight. I closed my eyes in preparation.
This is it. Goodbye world, it was pretty shit while it lasted.
I heard the rustling of fabric behind me and silently applauded the man for thinking of a quick and easy suffocation to reduce the amount of clean up afterwards.
His bare feet slapped against the floor, trekking over to my front again. When a couple seconds passed and none of my airways were blocked nor was there any piercing pain to be felt, I cautiously cracked an eye open to see the stranger standing there, the puffy blanket from before wrapped around his broad shoulders.
“Good now?” he inquired with a bunny-like smile.
My jaw dropped slightly as I nodded, attempting to formulate a sentence but coming up empty. The stark contrast between the brawn enveloping his body and his innocent features threw me in for a loop. This must have been part of his grand scheme to ruthlessly murder me—lulling me into a false sense of security before executing me on the spot.
Outwardly, the hybrid appeared to possess more human features than his animal counterpart, leading me to wonder which instincts ruled over the other. Was he more level-headed and rational or was he unable to suppress his bestial instincts? Did he get sudden, violent mood swings or go on occasional, bloodthirsty rampages?
The lack of knowledge I had regarding the man, who had somehow gained the upper hand through his brute strength, was worrying. A tinge of regret for not skimming through a few files on said hybrid before Hoseok’s arrival made me softly curse under my breath.
As I shifted in place, I was reminded of my own predicament. “So, uh, any chance you’ll let me go?”
With his broad grin still on full display, he made his refusal clear by shaking his head back and forth. It was worth a try. “Not fair. I tied, now you tied.”
His childish logic caught me off guard and a bark of laughter shook my stiff shoulders, marginally relaxing at the prospect that he might postpone the bloodshed for a later time. The mystery laid in how he could distinguish my harmless intentions from the head researchers’ diabolical ones. Maybe it was the lab coat?
I made a mental note to never wear my own lab coat in front of him.
A grumble snapped me out of my reverie. I observed the stranger’s startled features as he glanced down at his abdomen, then, unabashedly, back up to my face. Recalling his screams of horror back at the lab, the barbaric treatment he received there was indisputable and based on his raging stomach, I guessed that it had been a while since he’d eaten anything of substance.
Of all times, Hoseok’s ridiculous words of the hybrid’s diet consisting of human grade meat played back through my brain and jitters erupted over my limbs, wanting to please the man before he was picking his teeth with my freshly cleaned bones.
“Hungry?” I prodded, pushing other priorities to the side in favour of feeding the rumbling beast.
His dark orbs immediately lit up with pure, unadulterated glee. The hybrid gracefully tied the ends of the fabric around his neck like a cape and rounded closer to me with mirth written across every crease on his countenance.
Unsure if his giddiness was attributed to the assumption that I was offering up the meat lining my organs, I squirmed in protest, attempting to cause a ruckus in order to spur his excitement towards another source of protein in the fridge.
Not having much choice in the matter with my limited range of motion, I watched in worry as he scurried out of sight again. “Hey, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here and—”
Despite being prepared for his unpredictable nature, a yelp flew past my lips when I was effortlessly lifted into the air, chair and all. His forearms caged my thighs as he gripped the bottom of the seat, hot pants of air blowing onto the back of my neck from his position.
His elation was practically tangible as he flew past the open doorway and sped off through the foyer. He must have ventured deeper into the house while I was blissfully unaware, since his strides towards the kitchen were filled with nothing but confidence in every step.
Hastily, I spat out, “I’m not that delicious, trust me! My budget’s been pretty strict this month, so I’ve just been eating junk, and I don’t imagine that’ll taste very go—”
The force holding me upright loosened when we reached the fridge, permitting my feet to find the floor. “Dee-lee-shiz?” He tried to imitate, turning to point straight at me.
“No! No, no, not delicious.” I corrected, violently shaking my head.
His outstretched arm retracted to his side, staring like a hawk at my chin tipping towards the metal cooling box behind him, and I repeated, “Delicious.”
As he flung the door to the refrigerator open, nearly ripping it right off its hinges, he yelled, “Dee-lee-shiz!”
Utter fascination at the chilled temperature and the rather meager array of food etched onto his features, sending relief through my veins. I encouraged him to ravage the tenuous stock of food while simultaneously rejoicing at successfully having deterred him from eating me alive.
Packs of eggs, blueberries, condiments, and essentially anything within his reach was hauled out, forming a growing heap on the countertop. When a zucchini found its way into his grasp, he took one puzzled look before chomping down on one end. I wasn’t too sure how raw zucchini would taste when eaten as though it were a cucumber, but he seemed pleased enough to take another bite that resounded throughout the space with a loud crunch.
I reclined back into the stiff chair, content on observing the ravenous hybrid empty my fridge and taking an occasional nibble on snacks that piqued his interest. Although, his grab at the bundle of raw chicken was when I decided to voice my concerns. “Ah, that has to be cooked!” At another tilt of his head, I explained, “You could get sick if you don’t cook it.”
By his furrowed brows, I deduced the concept flew over his head, but he threw the package onto my lap anyway and peered down expectantly. “Cook.”
“You tied me up, remember? I need some mobility to cook.” I tugged at my subdued arms to demonstrate my current inaptitude.
He hummed in thought, enveloping his lower lip between his lengthy canines as he weighed the pros and cons of being able to consume the meat by setting me loose. Finally, after clearly expressing how torn he was between his hunger and his teasing, it seemed that he’d come to a conclusion when he latched onto my left forearm.
Just as I was about to jib that I was no longer on the menu, a searing pain ripped across my wrist. I hissed through my teeth with my fists clenched as I teared my tender arm out of his grip, protectively cradling the limb to my chest.
He flinched away from the sound, taking a step away from my defensive form. At the sight of my disgruntled frown, he withered into himself, chin to his chest while I examined my sore wrist, whimpering at the edges of the flaming red, torn skin. I was a second away from viciously reprimanding him for the bruise that was more than likely to form by tomorrow, but one look into his guilty, fearful eyes made me pause.
With his strength, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that he possessed the ability to do much worse, which didn’t seem to be his intent from all the fretting—ears tucked into the crown of his head and tail hanging low. As he seemed to be repenting without a chiding needed on my end, I redirected to a softer approach. “It’s fine, just be more gentle next time, okay?”
“Mm,” he complied weakly, his prior enthusiasm having substantially deflated. Before I could dismiss the topic and entice him with more food, he knelt down to my ankles, gripping the rope with both hands this time as he effortlessly tore the material apart, careful not to graze my legs in the process.
A shiver crawled down my spine at the display of power, mentally noting that there was probably enough strength in his fingers to flick my stunned form across the room; yet the man proved his duality by proceeding to grab one loose end of his makeshift cape and gently tie it around my unscathed wrist. “No run.”
Surprisingly enough, I hadn’t made it a break for it as soon as I was liberated. Although I sustained minimal injuries, he expressed his remorse and made no moves to consume my flesh, which was another good sign. As more time passed, he was revealing to be more and more of a passionate bunny stuck in a wrestler’s body.
After all, I hadn’t gone through all the trouble of kidnapping him just to sprint at the slightest sign of trouble. I confirmed, “No run.”
Some of his original ardour reappeared at my acknowledgement, along with a faint giggle that evoked a tiny smile on my own face. I figured that with his minimal experience revolving around homemade dishes, simply slapping on some salt and pepper to flavour the meat with a side of boiled vegetables would suffice. Thus, I took the package from my lap and got to work.
Cooking with another, rather useless, individual essentially attached at the hip was difficult, to say the least. In the beginning, the man fired question after question, curious about every ingredient and spice going into the dish, but after realizing that he lacked the correct vocabulary to obtain the information he sought, he became a silent observer.
Basically, he followed me around like a lapdog while munching on another zucchini to occupy his restless hands.
After pulling him around left and right, occasionally giving a soft tug on the blanket when he would unintentionally zone out, I finally threw all the components into a single pan, deciding to serve a simple stir-fry. With only the expanse of the puffy fabric between us, I was constantly elbowing the hybrid while mixing the ingredients together, which I considered a redeeming form of payback for his carelessness with my arm.
While the mouth-watering scent of lunch wafted around, he extended the wrist connected to mine, sidestepping over to the island to fish for a bag of baby carrots before coming to stand next to me by the stove. Spotting my stare, he flashed another blinding grin and I couldn’t help but imagine long, bunny ears extending off the top of his head, his slender tail replaced with a fluffier ball of fur at the back. That seemed to better suit his ardent personality.
The chicken gradually changed colour as the exterior of the vegetables softened, and I brought the meal along with the chair by the fridge over to my tiny two-person table, prompting him to take a seat in front of the steaming plate. I expected him to ravenously dig in and devour every crumb, yet he refused to move a muscle, staring out the glass doors to the backyard and into the forest instead.
“I hurt.” He stumbled over his words, somberly bringing his gaze to my cocked brow. “No mean to hurt.”
Thinking back to the scuffle that seemed eons away at this point, I flashed a reassuring smile his way, explaining, “I get it, you were injured. Um, I was kind of mad at first because you broke my door and everything,” I offhandedly gestured towards the broken contraption, “but I forgive you.”
“No.” He clenched his jaw, analyzing the surface of the table as if the words he was searching for were etched on the surface. “Now. Sorry now, too.” To drive his point home, he delicately grabbed the arm not wrapped in the blanket, streaks of red decorating my wrist like a tight bracelet.
I hummed my understanding. “Ah, I told you it’s fine already,” I reassured, patting his hand.
Content at my acceptance of his makeshift apology, he began to dig into the chicken. His nose twitched at the unfamiliar taste, but he made no complaints. Anything was better than nothing, in the end.
I let him enjoy his food for a bit before asking, “Did you have a name? Something like J3?”
His eyes went back to scanning the outdoors, the sound of his chomping coming to an abrupt halt when he spotted a sad lump on the porch.
“Bud?” he inquired, the light glimmering in his irises.
The nickname stumped me, as I had difficulty imagining Hyunho or Minzy affectionately calling their experiment ‘bud’. “What are you talking about? Is that your name?”
His finger poked out to the cylindrical pile of tuna outside, then back to himself, “Bud.”
Befuddled now more than ever, I tried to laugh it off and nodded my head towards the plate again, silently advising him to continue eating.
Unfortunately, he didn’t seem too keen on evading the topic, whimpering in frustration at either my lack of understanding or his incapability of properly communicating due to the language barrier. His unending appetite was going to be put on hold for this. As he stood up, the chair behind him screeched, and he clutched on to the blanket, pulling me towards the back door.
Refusing to allow history to repeat itself, I rushed ahead to slide the hairband off and pushed the door open, allowing him to slip through. I figured that when the man drifted off to sleep tonight, I could replace the rapidly decaying tuna in hopes that my kitty would visit again.
While I was lost in thought, he undid the knot connecting the two of us and sprinted into the forest.
His back disappeared within the thickets fencing the towering maple trees and I froze in place, my jaw going slack in an ugly mixture of bafflement and betrayal, believing that he had simply taken advantage of my hospitality then ran off. Although, all attempts at making sense of the hybrid’s actions were cut short when familiar noises of horrifying, crackling sounds met my ears, causing the hairs on the back of my neck to stand on end.
When the underbrush twitched, leaves fluttering from the movement of an animal hidden within their cover, a sinking feeling entered my chest. And that was the moment I met the vibrant, emerald eyes that had dug their own space within my heart.
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ankhisms · 4 years ago
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the always wonderful shelley @shanheling tagged me to do this thank u so much!! i think that everyone i wanted to tag has already been tagged to do this but if you feel like doing this feel free to consider urself tagged by me!! im putting this under a readmore bc its long and i ramble a lot
the piece i was tagged to explain my process on is this oc piece! unfortunately i have a habit of deleting my original clip studio file once ive finished my art and saved it as a new png file, so i dont have the file to show the sketch and different stages of this piece. but I still can go through my general process and talk about how i did that piece!
1. planning
honestly i think about the art that i want to do a lot, and in this last year or so ive thought about the art i want to do more than ive been able to actually create and finish that art that i want to do. for my planning i tend to do a lot of different thumbnail sketches for the art im thinking of
these are some examples of thumbnails, a lot of times ill do thumbnails just on pencil and paper and with some of these theyre done quickly with my fingers on my phone note function on a day where i was feeling too bad to get up and draw on paper but still wanted to get the thumbnail ideas down. two of these are for the same songxiao piece that i still havent finished and i have more thumbnails digitally on clip studio for the same piece, i do a lot more thumbnails when a piece isnt working the way i want it to and theres times where ill completely scratch a thumbnail or a sketch and start over in order to do more thumbnails because i dont feel happy with some aspect of it.
two of these are small gouche painting thumbnails for two pieces i did maybe a month or so ago, i did the thumbnails and then tried to expand on them digitally and im wanting to do more thumbnail paintings like this in the future because it was fun
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for the piece of my oc trio it was based off a series of ask prompts i got for a few different outfit prompt memes i had reblogged, so i based their outfits on the ones in the meme. when im drawing figures i tend to try and get the movement down in the poses when im sketching, i do several rough sketches of the pose before beginning to start setting down lines (if im doing lineart at all because sometimes i dont like doing lineart and do a more lineless painting kind of style). i really try to get my art to convey some kind of emotion, in the oc piece i wanted it to feel fun and like youre seeing three best friends while theyre out on the town having a fun night
2. creating
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this is the only real example i have of a piece in the middle of being filled in and created, this piece is one that im really not very happy with & have had lying around for a while and ill probably scrap it and try to come at it from a different perspective at some point. but anyway it still shows what i do, i lay down a kind of neutral gray color underneath my final sketch/lineart if im doing lineart in that piece and then i start picking out the colors that i want for the piece and kind of setting out a pallette for myself. i dont do this color pallette thing 100% of the time but i do it really often, especially if im working on a commission or a larger piece where i know theres going to be a lot of colors or if its a piece where im not sure exactly what color scheme i want so laying out the colors together helps me kind of decide what kind of scheme i want. i am sooooo picky about my colors in my art i am genuinely obsessed with colors in art and there are times where i really have to stop myself from working on something forever just constantly adding more colors or putting little tiny changes and gradients in the colors.
after ive got the colors i want down i tend to try and block out parts of the piece with the base color for that section, and then i start to paint with the colors that i want to go on top of that base color from there.
once im satisfied with the colors/shading/rendering and everything ill go back and look over things and will fix things that look off or sometimes completely redo segments if they dont look right to me. when i was younger and mainly doing digital art using my phone and my fingers i would use a lot of filters and overlays on top of my art once i was done, and honestly im glad to not be doing that anymore because i dont think it made my art look any better. i do color adjustments and sometimes will put on a color overlay or a layer to emphasize the shadows and the light in the piece, but i try to keep those layers to a minimum and like i said before i have a tendency to obsess over the colors and ill spend a good amount of time in the color adjustment tool of clip studio and then ill just decide "actually it looks fine as it is" so yeah!
3. posting
i feel like i dont have a lot to say here gbfm i mean i honestly have a lot of thoughts about the relationship between artists and social media and how social media changes our views on art including our own art and how we can feel like we constantly need to be posting new art and just become content machines churning out new stuff. but ill save that rant for another time. i used to be really concerned about how many notes my art would get when i was younger, and i dont at all blame anyone who still is very concerned about that bc it sucks when u work hard on something youve created and then you dont get a lot of recognition for it, but honestly within the last two years or so i feel like ive begun to have a lot healthier relationship with posting my art. i really just post my art on my art blog, reblog it to my main blog, and then thats that yknow! i do really appreciate any and all support people give me, it means the world to me, but for me having the mentality where i dont need to post all the art i make and i dont need to be posting every day or every week or every month even has been a lot healthier for me because then im not constantly asking myself why didnt this get notes is my art awful??? and yeah i just kind of post it and my brain goes okay were done with that art we gotta make more
ive honestly been struggling a lot with art thru the pandemic and if youre reading this and have been struggling with creating in any way recently or even before the pandemic, please know theres no shame in having trouble creating and it doesnt make you bad at whatever it is u create!
thank you for reading this, feel free to consider urself tagged by me again if u want to do this!! love u all
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thotantics · 6 years ago
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⚤   pairing — reader + Kim Taehyung
✎ word count — 2,978
✦ genre — smut, pwp
✗ warnings  — graphic description of sex, dirty talk, LOTS of unnecessary talk about dick, WAY TOO MUCH talk ab tae’s massive dick i cannot stress this enough, fingering, oral sex, rough fucking, face fucking, cum eating idk i think thats it god help us all
[requested]  D1 “Rough sex” with taehyung please! ❤ + Can you make a taehyung smut that fulfill big dick tae fantasies, imagine taehyung fucking you slow ,sensual and hard,  to your belly to feel how he stuffs you full with his thicc dic ( ( ( (sorry not sorry)            
[A/N] id been talking some with @red-exo ab tae’s massive dick and totally forgot ab this request but i was so happy when i rediscovered it, and i figured it would pair well with the other request so, i hope this came out ok!! i very much enjoyed this myself but im…incredibly biased
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“Do you want me?” His voice is a low timber that rumbles from his chest straight into yours, his body pressed tightly on top of you as he murmurs, a quiet, husky whisper into the side of your throat.
You’re half way embarrassed by how badly you want him, so you just nod your head a little in response. Tae chuckles, nuzzling a kiss into your skin, inhaling deep through his nose.
“You have no idea how badly I want you.” He tells you, “Or, then again..” He shifts forward, parting your already spread legs wider, slotting his body between them and that’s when you feel him fully hard for the first time, “Maybe you can tell.”
He’s rock hard and jutting out from the suit pants he’d worn on your date this evening. You’ve brushed against his erection a time or two, but never felt it like this, fully hard and pressing warm and insistent between the juncture of your thighs. You gasp at the feel of him, hips rolling up to meet him instinctually, your fingers digging into his shoulders when his lips skim across the lobe of your ear. He feels so big. So thick and so hard, you’re dizzy at the thought of getting impaled by him.
Tae’s been vocal all night about his desires and you figure you owe him as much in return, but god, something about him makes you so nervous. You open your mouth to speak, to tell him that you want him so bad that you ache, but he grinds his dick forward against your core and you’re rendered utterly speechless, mouth hanging open soundlessly.
He inhales against your skin, his breath shaking as he fills his lungs with the scent of your hair, his arms nearly crushing you as he hugs your body, pulling you just an inch or so off the mattress to cling to you as he shifts up onto his knees, drawing his erection away from your middle. You glance down, eyes widening at the impressive tent he’s pitched in his pants.
You can’t help the nervous shiver that runs through you as his long, slender fingers reach for his belt. His lips are parted as he breathes heavy, eyes scanning your body unashamedly, tongue poking out to wet the corner of his lips before he speaks again, “I’m gonna make you feel so good.”
You gulp audibly. You wholeheartedly believe him. There’s been a lot of men in and out of your life that had talked a big game and were unable to follow through but Taehyung? He carried himself differently than anybody you’d ever met. The confidence was subtle but it was powerful, strong and mysterious and with every fiber of your being, you believed that he was absolutely capable of making you feel very, very good.
He starts to undress and you’re lost in watching him reveal more skin, hidden by clothes that are always much too large, hanging baggy off his broad shoulders and thin waist. After a moment drinking in the tan skin he reveals to you, admiring the shape of his collarbones for a bit longer than you intended, you sit up, rushing to get undressed along with him.
He laughs at you, but it’s a playful sound, a boyish giggle as you watches you rip off your top as if it offended you, accompanied with a deep, “Wow, jagiya…are you that eager for me?”
“Yes.” You tell him flat out, not wanting to shy away from how badly it was that you wanted him any longer. You needed him to know. So as your hands, trembling slightly, go to work shedding the rest of your clothes, you tell him under your breath, “I can’t wait to feel you inside of me.”
He groans at your words, not bothering with the final few buttons of his long, silky shirt, tugging it over his head and tossing it aside. He’s fully nude before you can unhook your bra, and your fingers are fumbling as your eyes focus on his bare cock for the first time.
Taehyung notices you staring and he grips himself, looking down as his own hand strokes firmly from the head to the base of his shaft, his long fingers curled around tightly. “You like it?” He asks, looking up at you from under his lashes, biting at his lip playfully as he stifles a smile.
You lick your lips, nodding your head. You definitely liked it. He’s impossibly long, easily the biggest you’ve ever been with and you have a daft moment of apprehension. How’s he going to fit all of that inside of you?!
“Mm, you make me so hard.” He tells you, squeezing on an upstroke and milking a drop of precum from the tip which he catches on his opposite hand’s index finger, bringing to his lips and sucking it off sinfully. “Lay back for me, baby. Let me get you ready for this big dick.”
Heart thundering in your chest, you lay your head back among the pillows once more, expecting him to follow you with his lips like he had when you first stumbled into your bedroom together earlier. Instead, he looks down at you with his fist still slowly dragging up and down the length of his dick and he stares down at where your knees are tightly knocked together, keeping your sex hidden from him.
He’s waiting for you to reveal yourself to him. Pulse racing, breathing uneven, you part your legs in invitation and have never felt more exposed and raw in front of a man in your life. He’s unashamed, staring openly and jerking himself off at the sight of your glistening lower lips. His tongue traces a sinful pattern, licking in mid air as if he was licking at you, bottom to top, and you shiver under his penetrating gaze.
“So wet for me already.” He groans softly, eyes lifting back up to meet your own, “Good girl.” With a fluid motion he lowers his upper body between your legs, starting on his knees but eventually sprawling out entirely on his stomach, his hands pressing warm against your inner thighs.
He kisses you first, on each side of your hips, his eyes warm and soft as he looks up at your face, attempting to soothe you. It works like a spell he’s cast on you, warmth spreading from where he kisses you and filling your veins, rushing through you with contentment and peace. Then his tongue comes out, a kitten lick at the very top of your slit and you jolt with surprise. He nuzzles into you, small back and forth motions of his head spreading your lower lips, coating your arousal across his plump lips and even his nose, and he pulls back with an awed sound, staring at your sex as he parts you with his fingers.
“You smell as pretty as you look, jagiya.” He praises, “Mm, and it’s all for me, right?”
“Yes.” You breathe, “All yours, Tae.”
He rewards your compliance with his tongue, licking flat up your soft, slick, throbbing center. Your head is absolutely spinning in seconds, eyes rolling back and hips jerking sporadically when it applies the softest pressure from the tip of his tongue to your clit. He slips his first digit inside easily, pulling back to watch as his finger disappears into your cunt, practically cooing in praise, “Your pretty pussy is so greedy to be filled.”
Taehyung latches onto your clit, forming a tight suction with his plump lips, his eyes on your expression but he slips a second finger inside and feels you clench around them and his eyes flutter shut blissfully. He teases your clit with flicks from his tongue for a while, because he likes the way your thighs jerk, giggling in that charming, boyish way of his, and he builds you up to taking three of his fingers.
“How’s that feel?” He asks.
“S-so good.” You moan.
“You’re a good girl.” He smiles at you, tonguing at your clit again as he pumps his fingers steadily into your dripping hole. “I love the pretty sounds you make, jagiya.” He spreads the fingers crammed into you, attempting to open you up further and you gasp and moan, hips lifting to meet his mouth again. You bury your fingers into his hair as he groans against your clit, tongue laving against you slow and hard.
“You’re gonna make me cum..” You warn him breathlessly.
“Ohh,” He pulls away, lips and chin glistening with your arousal, his mouth a plump O before he smirks at you, “Not yet, you won’t. I want you to cum on my cock.” He pauses for a moment, drinking in the sight of you panting and blushing all the way down your bare chest, before he asks, “Are you ready for it?”
“Yes! Yes, please, Tae..” You sound more desperate than you had intended but you don’t really care at this point. He’s got you on the very edge of bliss and you’re dying for him to just shove you over. Plus, you haven’t been unable to stop thinking about that big dick of his since he let you feel it between your legs, through the barrier of your clothes, and you’re dying to feel him buried balls deep in you.
You think that you won’t have to wait long, because he moves to sit up on his knees, pushing back on your knees to expose you to the monster between his legs, but when he grips it and brings it to your pussy, he doesn’t move to your entrance. Instead, he rubs the head of his impressive length up your slit, gathering your wetness and smoothing it down his shaft with deliberate stokes. The wet noises emitting from you as he slicks his cock along your folds is almost embarrassing, but Taehyung is staring down at the way your pussy lips hug his dick, mouth open, groaning appreciatively and it’s hard not to feel anything other than desire when he’s looking at you like that.
He persists, stimulating you to the brink of an orgasm for a second time but with the slick motions of his cock running through your folds. You dig your heels into his ass, pulling him tight against your middle, groaning, “Fuck me… please. I need it. I need you in me..”
“Fuck.” He pants, hair hiding his eyes as he slumps over you a little, a hand landing by the side of your head as he guides his cock down to where you want him. “I love hearing you beg.” He groans, pushing forward so he breeches your entrance with the first couple of inches that he has to offer and you steel yourself, preparing for the rest but it doesn’t come. He’s patient, far more patient than you, still as he lets your pussy adjust to his invasion before he gives you another inch or two.
“I bet you’ll sound so pretty cumming all over this big cock.” He grunts, giving you a little more. Your mouth falls open in shock. It feels like he should be bottoming out but he’s definitely not. He leans over you, his lips ghosting across your open mouth before he pulls back, forehead pressing to yours, and then he whispers, “You want all of it, jagiya? Can you take it all for me?”
“Yes, yes, please! Yes.” You throw your arms around his shoulders, heels digging into his ass again and he snaps his hips forward, teeth snarling as he sheaths himself into you fully.
He reaches so deep into you that you’re aching already. You can feel him at your cervix, long and thick and throbbing in you, unable to resist withdrawing just an inch or two and pushing back inside once, twice, and you let out a choked, strangled moan on the third time.
“So fucking tight,” He grunts, burying his face in your neck and peppering kisses along your heated skin. “It doesn’t hurt, does it, jagi?”
“N-no.” You groan, “Fuck, god, Tae, you’re in so deep…”
He hums, smoothing his lips from your jaw to your mouth. It’s a sweet kiss he gives you, tender and loving pecks with very little tongue, teasing you with the taste of his mouth if anything before he pulls back and settles on his knees again. He keeps himself buried in you, gripping your hips tight, and then he withdraws from you fully, watching as his cock reappears from your depths, coated with the essence of your arousal.
He pulls out until just the very tip of the head of his cock is pressed against your clenching hole like a very intimate sort of kiss, and then he leans back, angling his impressive length so when he presses it forward this time, you can practically watch as he fills your lower belly.
Taehyung grunts and withdraws in a hurry again, pressing hard on your lower stomach with the palm of his hand as he enters you slowly once more, and you can feel the pressure under his hand as his massive cock stretches you open from the inside.
“Your pretty pussy is creaming all over me.” He tells you in a quiet, husky whisper. “You need to cum so bad, hm?” He moves his hand from your belly, licks the pad of his thumb and presses it to your clit, “You take my cock so well, jagiya. I wanna feel you cum on me.”
“Fuck!” You buck under him, his pelvis still as he rubs insistently over your clit, cock buried deep but unmoving. You jerk and twitch, grinding against him to get him to move but he doesn’t budge. “Fuck me, Tae!” You beg, “It’s so big, you’re so deep! Please fuck me!”
He doesn’t have to do much. A simple shift of his hips and his cock rams you with such force that you’re rocketing up the mattress, your hand flying up to plant on the wall behind your head to prevent you from shimmying too far away from him. You cling to his thigh with your opposite hand, eyes locked on where that impossibly long dick of his keeps disappearing into your cunt. He doesn’t pull out but only a few inches at a time before he rams it back in, a ring of thick white coating just above his pubic hair that makes a dizzying wet slap each time he snaps his hips forward.
Taehyung has worked up a sweat from holding back. You can see it in his eyes, flashing with pent up passion and the way his muscles tense with each withdraw and you rake your nails down his chest, “Give it to me,” You tell him with a gasp, “I want all of you. Don’t hold back.”
He bares his teeth and then, every ounce of resistance in his snaps. His fingers bruise your thighs, shoving your legs up so your feet rest on his shoulders, and he fucks into you hard and fast, pounding your poor, swollen, sopping pussy so deep that you feel the ache from your hips into your cervix and your lower back. You arch, trying to give him more room to fit inside of you but all you manage to do was direct him to your g spot and he pummels it ruthlessly.
“Cum on my cock,” He tells you through gritted teeth, fingers digging even harder into your hips as he fucks your clenching hole roughly, “Do it!”
Tears fill your eyes and you squeeze them shut, the line between pleasure and pain blurring as your orgasm erupts from you so fiercely that you find yourself sobbing. You cling onto his arms, nails biting into his skin, sobbing, moaning, drooling, begging. Tae is delicate when he laces your fingers with his own, holding your hands and stroking at your wrists with his thumb, feeling you clench tightly and spam around his dick. He fucks you slower and slower until he finally stops, slipping himself out of you and bowing over your quivering form to press a kiss to your lips, wiping your tears with his fingers delicately.
“You did so good, jagiya.” He praises you, “Are you ok?”
You nod, sniffling, laughing as a fresh wave of tears spill down your cheeks. You feel entirely overwhelmed and used, completely fucked and you’ve never been more sated.
Tae moves to stand at the side of the bed and he runs his hand through your hair, “My turn.” He grins down at you, coaxing your to open your mouth by pressing his fingers between your lips. He presses the head of his cock onto your tongue and you latch your lips around him, sucking the taste of your orgasm from him. It’s impossible to get him all the way down your throat, but you aren’t a quitter in any sense of the word, so you keep trying, keep gagging around his length. He moans every time you gag, hips resisting to buck down your throat but the moment you reach up and massage his balls, Taehyung loses his composure entirely.
Hands in your hair, he fucks your mouth shallowly, trying not to make you gag too much, and when he cums, he pulls back and spills over your mouth and your extended tongue, your eyes shut tight to avoid a mess in your lashes.
“Good girl,” He groans as the last of his cum spills across your tongue and he watches you swallow it down for him. “Such a good girl for me.” Tae moves to lay down with you, pushing you on your back and hovering over you on his side, and he kisses you messily, tongue sweeping along your own until he kisses the taste of his cum right out of your mouth.
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setsailslash · 5 years ago
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Hi! I don't know if you are still taking prompts, but if you are, i would love to see straight macho red hood getting stuck in a wall (or fence) and being used by some thugs and naughty street-rats. Love your work!
so this prompt had me stuck (hah) for the longest fucking time that i almost gave up on it because im not a noncon kinda gal and also because i never could quite figure out a concept that made stuck in a wall trope make sense. but here it is!! classed up because nothing but the best for my boy 💖
warning: this is consensual mob/jay with a bonus scene of (slight dubcon) father/son incest, if that doesn’t float your boat, stop at “daddy dearest” and you will still have all the mob/jay content my gutter trash brain can provide.
Side A.
The tiny bulb over the doorway was nearly inconspicuous. 
It was a simple system really. When it was green, it meant the room was available. And when it was red, it meant the room was occupied.
A hand on the door knob, a twist, and an easy push inwards: Four unfurnished walls in one solid colour and a hole in one. 
Impossible to miss really with the room set up just for this, and Jason got to say, he was impressed.
When he took over the Iceberg Lounge, he didn’t know about the kind of entertainment hidden in the back rooms of the club. He knew Penguin for all of his shady dealings, knew the man’s schedule down to his very last shipment of umbrella machine guns but he never did quite guess the level of depravity within the man’s prized villainous lair. 
He probably should have though.
It was effectively a hole in the wall. The hidden trap door blended nearly seamlessly into the rest of the room. It was evenly padded around the hole in the same nude shade, just enough to make sure there wouldn’t be any bruises or scrapes at the waist even when it got a bit rough. And Jason could only imagine how rough it got.
There was a dimming light switch by the door and even at its brightest setting, the warm lighting of the room was kept low enough for things to be seen but not nearly enough to catch the truly unsavoury details to be examined for long.
Jason didn’t know his masochistic streak ran this deeply but. 
It wasn’t like anyone had to know.
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Side B.
Jason’s cheeks burned. 
Both his ass and across his face, even if no one could see the latter.
He lost count after the eleventh round, losing time with it too as the way one man fucked him would blend into the next.
At times, it felt as though there weren’t a single pause in between, and he’d imagine one faceless man lining up after another just outside of the door with their cocks already hard and straining inside of their pants. The bulb would turn red to green and right back to red just as quickly when they got their cocks sinking balls deep inside of him in one easy plunge with the way the hole in the wall kept his ass right at fucking level.
A taller man might even have to drag him up by the hips until he was standing on his tip toes to push into him.
At other times, he’d be left alone just long enough for him to clench down on empty, left aching and be given nothing at all. This felt especially punishing when he could feel the cooling trail of semen trickling down the inside of his thighs as he struggled to keep from rubbing his legs together in any sort of attempt to keep from feeling like he’s gaping.
At those times, Jason tried to recall the details, focusing on how he could feel the way the different men would fuck him instead.
Some came easily, a few short erratic thrusts and they were done. Jason barely felt the way they would sheath all the way inside, filling him in girth and depth before they were already coming.
A few liked their foreplay, using what felt like three or four fingers to prod and pull and dig into the rim of his hole, pushing in deep to their last knuckle and aiming right for his prostate. And they would be particularly merciless about it too as they rubbed the rough pads of their fingers over that single spot where he was oversensitized already until they could finally feel the way he tried to squeeze weakly down around their digits as he shuddered through an orgasm before they ever even pulled their own cocks out of their pants. 
There were even men that didn’t just ignore Jason’s erection between his legs. One jerked him off in pace with his thrusts while another reached around and kept a near bruising grip around the base of his cock long after he was rendered to sobbing for relief. This one man in particular had pressed his thumb against Jason’s slit, smeared the tacky drool of precum all over the crown of his cock and kept him on edge until it hurt.
It left him babbling even though he knew the man wouldn’t be able to hear a single word out of him.
On his side of the wall, the room was much smaller where Jason was laying down on his front on a padded board. His skin was slick with sweat and each time they thrusted into him hard enough to rattle the wall a little, he could feel the rub of his hard nipples over the fabric of the thin tee he never considered to take off.
The friction burning raw and hot, pulling whimper after whimper out of him if the man on the other side decided he wanted to be especially brutal with him. 
Slapping a hand down on his ass and squeezing hard, gripping him by the hip to pull him onto his cock even if the hole in the wall provided very little give for that, less than an inch of space if Jason kept the narrowest part of his waist right at the circumference of the hole itself. But it was that tiny bit of drag that forced the free falling moans into a near wail when the man would fuck into him, full force still, pressing his balls right against his backside like he could force that inside of him too.
The sound proofing was good enough that Jason couldn’t make out the sound of the door opening and closing on the other side at all. Sometimes he could hear snatches of the things the men that were taking him would yell as they came inside of him. 
Most of it obscenities and more of it some variation of what a disgusting filthy whore of a public toilet his hole made. 
The dehumanization at being referred to just a hole to be fucked over and over again like a mantra was just enough push him over that edge once more, this time screaming into his fist to stifle the noise. Drool trailing down over the bitten swell of his bottom lip to smear all over his chin as he saw white.
Jason could feel the distinctively warm splash of the man’s cum as he pulled out at the last minute and came all over the small of his back, rubbing the length of his softening cock over the crack of his ass to leave thick sticky streaks of release everywhere before he pulled away completely.
There was a pat against the side of his hip that he faintly registered in the aftermath, like a wordless little good job that made Jason curl his fucking toes into the wet tiles beneath his bare feet.
There was no more room inside of him. 
An unmistakable heaviness inside of his abdomen. He was stretched and stuffed full and dripping wet. He was also pretty sure there was a puddle of cum and who the fuck knew what else at his feet if the feeling between his legs was any indication at all.
Because he was soaked.
His vision was warped by the wetness gathered over his lashes, leaving them clumping against his cheeks. He was still catching the last of his breath when he felt the curl of another man’s hands around the swell of his ass. Felt the dig of the man’s thumbs against his wrecked hole, pulling his rim apart, exposing how ruined he was for anything else.
And Jason could only begin to imagine what he looked like after having been fucked this many times while he was kept pinned in one place.
There was the press of the man’s cock against him, searing hot and thick and going slow as he pushed inside. There was an obscene sensation of the semen already in him seeping out around where he couldn’t quite clench down tight enough with how used and abused he had been all night.
The remaining thought inside of his head as his eyes went dark was this: What was one more time really in a string of many?
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Daddy Dearest. 
When the light goes dark and stays dark for the night, Jason has already passed out. 
Even though his arms were always kept free and the latches to get himself out of this very literal hole in the wall were all entirely within reach for him, Jason never even came close to thinking about that.
Wingman is the one to come in through the employee side of the room, unlocks the door to the sight of his boss fucked to oblivion. Jason’s hair is a mess and his face is worse off when there’s drying sweat and snot and spit, eyes all red and puffy and still wet with tears.
As he unlatches the hidden trap door that allows the occupant of the hole to come out, Jason barely even stirs. Wingman is gentle as he maneuvers Jason out from it.
A faint groan from a mouth that’s been bitten hard enough to draw out the taste of blood, and Wingman swipes the pad of his thumb over the small split. Feels how lax Jason’s mouth goes as his jaw falls open for him, how easily it is for the man to press his thumb all the way inside of that mouth to run it against the edge of teeth and the soft cloying touch of tongue. 
Jason draws it into his mouth and sucks at it like it’s reflex.
It’s only logical that Wingman shows his boss to another one of Penguin’s back rooms when the time is right. A night much like this one where Jason needs this kind of love but a room where Jason gets to stay on his knees all night as men use him for his lips and mouth and throat until there’s nothing else he knows but the sweet sore ache in his jaw kept wide and the taste of semen filling up his stomach with every cock he takes.
His boy’s gorgeous really when he’s been given the thorough attention and adoration he craves. 
Love not said in any kind of superficial lies but told in actions, in the strict repetition of acts performed until all the evidence amounts to zero deniability. In providing Jason with everything he needs.
Wingman picks him up, brushes the sweat soaked bangs from Jason’s forehead and presses a faint kiss to it with all the affection he can give.
“I’m proud of you, son.”
For all of his misgivings as a father in the early years of this boy’s childhood, Willis Todd likes to think he can start to make up for some of it if he tries his hardest now.
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disruptioncamouflage · 3 years ago
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More poster progression:
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Thinking/Notes:
Using the whole eye works much better, its provides expression, and creates the 'Mona Lisa' effect that I've been trying to create.
Same with the bottom layer, I think especially using darker colours helps to accentuate the eyes a lot more.
I'm a fan of playing around with the rotation and symmetry created by adjusting the layout. For the top layer having one eye simulating each eye creates a face when they are all folded. Building on that, having some eyes on the bottom of the cut layer is quite interesting too. I'm not sure how well it works with the final outcome, and I feel like the bottom layer gets hidden a lot with the folding process, but its something that I want to tweak and play around with.
I think the simplicity of this version is quite nice, but there is some tweaking needed:
The shapes of the cut area on the top layer needs to be adjusted, its having a similar problem as my first version had. The eyes end up over lapping each other, this effects both the folding process, and how the eyes sit against each other. It means I cant have the eyes sitting fully horizontal. Interestingly though is it creates quite a interesting effect, so I'm glad that I got to test this, regardless of how effective it is.
I think possibly I need some more outside perspective, but the words created on the bottom of the cut layer isn't as effective as I thought it would be. Again this could be due to the shape of the cut outs, stopping the words from being more legible or seeable.
I think the words Ive created on the bottom layers could be more thought provoking, I was trying to use some 'eye' word play. '(eye) see u', and replacing the O's in look with eyes. Possibly it should be more a symbolism thing, question marks maybe, or even using abbreviated quotes that people have said when looking at my outfits.
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This was my first time hanging the moch ups on the wall, I think there were some interesting lessons I learned from doing this. To start I decided to use a background I used on my previous moch up, I figured that swaping the backgrounds were much stronger and cohesive with there apposing version. Something that I hadn't thought about I also learned was the shadows that are created by the light, I wonder If there is a more effective way of approaching this. Possibly using the shadows with some form of internal cut out within the eyes to create a extra layer of depth. I think the best example of how I want the eyes on the poster too sit would be the row on the far left, that gave me a idea of how a more polished outcome may look, and the letter was much more easy to read.
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I added this because the cohesion between the background and the top layer was really strong. I think the yellow eyes plus the gradient, with a extra level of shadow effect created by the black works really well. I makes me question weather I should moving back to trying a gradient or some more colour on the top layer. My only concern is that it may effect how well the 'Mona Lisa' effect work.
Wall moch-up:
I'm at the point were creating a digital moch up of the intention of the work is imperative for my process, once I'd rendered the video it was a really revaluating moment, I could actually visualize my outcome a lot better. I do have a couple changes I would have in future moch ups:
I intend to have two mannequins in the space, and this is something I've been tossing up to make it most effective. I think the main thing that I got mannequins in the April seminar was making them more life like. Looking at the work 'vocabulary of solitude' by Ugo Rondinone, the mannequins are so lifelike that it seems like that could just get up and walk away. Unfortunately the mannequins that I have at the moment are very rigid and lack the mailability to make them look realistic, so possibly following Ugo's approach and creating the mannequins out of polystyrene could be the way to go.
Im also playing around with how the eyes actually sit, rather than just looking both ways, I think It would be more effective to have the eyes looking at a single location. For example putting the mannequins in a corner of the work and have all the eyes folded so they look at them. I also think in terms of a conceptual level that seems a lot stronger to me, as then the eyes are focused on the garments and the wearer.
In terms of the projection, this was something I moched up with not a lot intention or thought, I over layed a video I made during my walk around the museum, with a slow mo video of a river by my house. I didn't think nor expected it to look so interesting, the flowing river morphs into mouths and strange imaginary. I'm really glad that I've started documenting the moments the garments create, but much more is needed. I think playing around with what the over all image creates will be imperative for the final outcome. It could be a eye build of videos, or maybe its just displayed as a raw over layer, all I know is that using the 'difference' opacity on the documentation with a consistent background works really well.
Extra thoughts:
If I'm going to use eyes of people I know, the lighting is going to be really important that is cohesive, and I think It may look a bit strange if the lighting is different. Again thought that's something that needs testing as I could actually be really interesting, and make the eyes seem more unique.
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retoucherdark-blog · 7 years ago
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Photoshop Tutorial
Plenty of people have inquired how exactly I really do lots of my characterizations and peculiar aliens, and so I thought I would finally sit back and write a new tutorial.
I presumed a pleasure image to concentrate on is my face-off image for the Alien Nation 3 competition.
To begin with, I thought I d explain a bit about my strategy. I do a lot of modification layers, curing brush combined with a little liquefy, and cloning. My theory with characters is I try to leave as a number of the pixels. What I attempt to accomplish is create them a color that is different. I scarcely hotel to doing some other paint pops that are destructive.
First things first, I did not have the full concept in your mind once I started this image, and sometimes what the alien had been about to appear to be. In reality, I even plan for this to function as Tom Cruise for almost just about any reason other than that I enjoy the high end photo retoucher intense look in his head and it turned out to be a resolution record to govern without needing to work around .jpeg artifacts.
That said it evolved to some ridiculous goof on Mr. Cruise that wound up having a fantastic reaction from the Republicans thus, go figure!
Let us start...
Mr. Storm has too much hair to generate a persuasive alien, therefore, enables take it off!
Start by cloning out of the middle of the eyebrow outside developing a digital bald-cap.
Remember it doesn't fundamentally matter how far how to wash that your cloning is. It we'll fix it.
(Hint ) I sporadically un-check the aligned button towards the very top once I find an excellent subject of eyebrow which pits to function as a standard skin feel.
After roughing into a new mind contour from the eyebrow outside, then replicate in the gray backdrop from the surface, in creating a new border for the form of the mind.
Following Tom's new eyebrow is glistening and it could still look somewhat like a demanding patchwork of both skin-tones and feel.
Establish the magnitude of the healing brush into something moderate like 20 pixels or so and get started targeting the obvious of one's lousy trademark marks. Clone from the middle of the forehead. (preferably from the unaffected parts ) Magically up on letting upward out of each brush stroke, it's going to set the feel you've set merely there, and then auto color-correct it into to coincide with the nearby pixels! (obtained Id love that curing brush! ) )
Time and energy to eradicate a few of the pesky facial features...
To begin with, let's keep on with the rubber stamp tool and demanding from the removals of Tom's eyebrows in addition to his nose. Once those are all gone, I want to get rid of the piece of stubble and feel on his brow to acquire a complete smoother face.
Measure 4: Much like measure two we are likely to go straight back during these areas with the healing brush and find yourself a beautiful mixture of skin-tone and feel. (for all those wondering why that can be really just a two-step procedure involving the rubber stamp and also the healing brush, then the reply is relatively straightforward. I've gotten a better result from regions of the facial skin having a closest to my result color. Like that once the healing brush does its magical color-correction into the nearby pixels that you don't have any lingering color from the initial pixels inhabiting that place )
Time and energy to get started making his face a little more alien...
I decided I needed to bisect his head having a slit which travels the course of his head in addition to alter the functionality of the mouth.
To accomplish so I generated a new modification layer setting it into degrees.
At the degrees dialog box that I took in the low right white triangle to the middle of the histogram. This left the high lights of how the image rip-off.
Today every time a flat's modification coating is inserted into an image it creates a new clean white coating mask. Target this mask from the layers dialogue box and then invert it shifting. (Command/or Control Id )
Your image should look as if you inserted the degrees adjustment layer. You are all set to begin painting. Then I placed two vertical lines, then one on both sides of the lip of the mouth area.
(that is precisely what the coating mask appears like if you've completed painting )
Today I wish to provide these lines somewhat of thickness. Therefore, I will bring a layer style to the alteration coating.
Either tap into a negative subject of the coating in the coating's pouch or click onto the layer and select Blending Options from the menu that arises to match a coating style.
Here are the configurations that I've selected:
Fundamentally I only noodled up until the light also matched it gave the illusion of thickness into the traces of the facial skin.
I want to provide the traces some modeling to signify there are arteries at the borders of the trails. Therefore went to bring another alteration layer with levels. Now my guideline to be able not to adjust their color. The means to get this done would be to take away the difference of the color I am attempting to incorporate. Therefore that I can take away blue and green, in cases like this, I need a wash.
From the RGB slider that I shoot out high lights together with the underside white arrow taken towards the middle. And that I take out mid tones by slipping the gray shaft to the best. I am the green histogram and choose out green from the high lights, (underside white arrow, then go on into the left) I then do the same with all the gloomy. Even though I take more blue out to compel at the color into more of the opposed to your red. Reach fine from the dialogue box and then aim the mask at the modification layer and invert it.
Today, we're prepared to paint with all the reddish color correction. Make use of a soft border brush 20 30 pixels in size and gently color in approximately every one the traces of the facial skin. Im by applying this particular color correction to begin a number of the bone workaround the eyes together with to generate several shadow locations.
That is a measure that's going to become replicated again and again! I tend to possess heaps of modification layers every serving a color-correction which advertisements or remove from the coating before it. If things get somewhat tricky. .Sorry!
I initially thought I would desire this alien to become aquatic, and so I started down the trail of bright coloring to produce him fish just such as (apparently at any time after I decided to change directions somewhat ).
We are going to accomplish a little shading with a turquoise green tone.
I need this alien to possess a wrinkled feel to his head, rather than glue within a feeling will use my same procedure just like the former modification layers and go to town along with my Wacom tablet computer and stick to the contours of his head and begin to introduce some intriguing shapes and lines that'll start to shape the personality.
With this modification layer Im color adjusting to your rusty orange tone.
Continuing the simulating of the facial skin, I make a dark reddish color correction and get started painting squiggles all around the face area. You'd be amazed how effective that is when warmed on while inside the quantities that are ideal. I discovered this method called figure eights with the way of a make. (They do that kind of item to find skin blotchiness for good special effects makeups, and so I figured why not check it out for virtual blushes, huh?)
Fundamentally what I do will work in tight nit spots with varying amounts of pressure in my pill computer.
Eliminate a couple of other pesky body parts.
Only at that point, I started getting an adequate idea of the way I needed the final piece to check and that I chose people ears to go!
A great deal more color!
I inserted red into the slits of the head to produce them stand out more.
A little cardiovascular work. I included a few darkish veins.
Produce a glowing whitish, yellowish adjustment coating and then sew the mask to paint having a huge feathered brush. Do the shadow areas using a dark brownish color correction focusing into the shadow and light regions of the face being careful not to place shadows where they don't belong.
Another highlight color-correction that time around stained with a 10-pixel brush to essentially make textured lines around the base of the eyes and also at the borders of the lips.
Another dark color-correction to create a few colored stripes and wrinkles to the lips and forehead, creating shining lines into the face area.
Another accent color-correction to put twist specular hi-lights on the newly generated wrinkles.
Full color to a light green. I made the decision now I wasn't going to help keep him. Therefore, a muted coloration was generated by me and then also did a coating mask to sweep it.
I followed up this with a dark reddish color to generate darkly shaded sections of the head and put in comparison to the bone restructuring.
His face appeared too high now, and I am a sucker for older StarTrek type extraterrestrial beings, therefore that I thought I'd opt for a beautiful seen Trill-like pattern (if you watched STNG or even DS9 the mention is eloquent.)
I wanted to possess stains which were trimmed having a darker color and also maintain a lighter color at the middle. I Command/Control-clicked onto the layer mask for the stains color-correction loading its coating mask. I then produced a new adjustment layer which brightened the last one building an outside stroke to my stains and a green tone.
My idea once I began directing this alien to get a peculiar form of species was I would displace Tom's eyes. It looked interesting nonetheless it rendered him unrecognizable. And that I picked the intense look in his eyes which steered me to the image since the origin from the first location. I merely shifted to reddish to the color of the eyes.
Now I had been happy with the cryptic face, and I chose to proceed and produce a scene outside of it.
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The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
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The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
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nutrifami · 4 years ago
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The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
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The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
0 notes
camerasieunhovn · 4 years ago
Text
The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
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The MozCon Virtual 2021 Final Agenda
This year's MozCon Virtual is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited! If you've never considered it before, it's high time you became acquainted with the idea of a "couchference" — a full-fledged conference held from the comfort of your home office space, real office space, or even your sofa.
On July 12th, 13th, and 14th, join Ringmaster Roger under the MozCon big top for insights and tactical presentations from industry leaders, plus the opportunity to connect and network with fellow attendees!
Tickets are just $129 for Moz subscribers until May 31, including access to the professionally produced video bundle (a $350 value!), providing incredible marketing thought leadership at an unheard-of price:
Save my spot at MozCon Virtual!
And remember, this is a great opportunity for our friends around the world and those who aren't able to travel to experience the MozCon magic live! If this will be your first time attending, we'd love to hear what talk you're most excited for in the comments.
Read on to see what your favorite industry leaders are speaking on this year!
All talk times are in Pacific, so keep that in mind when planning your day!
Monday, July 12th
8:30am – Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am – Welcome to MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
The fearless leader of Moz will be welcoming each and every one of us to this year's virtual event, laying out exactly what you can expect over the next three days.
9:35am – Doing the Perfectly (Im)Possible: Debunking Digital PR & Link Building Myths in 2021
Shannon McGuirk, Client Services and Delivery Director | Aira
"You better be pitching that campaign into the press before 9am and definitely not on a Friday or Monday!”
“Link relevancy is important if you’re a link builder, but if you're a digital PR, it doesn't really matter.”
“You're asking the impossible to get links to category and product pages.”
Tired of hearing bold claims and questions like these? We are too. Shannon is going to challenge many of the digital PR and link building myths you're seeing debated on Twitter. From the old classic myths that stand the test of time and are always asked, through to new beliefs that are hot topics, she's going to use data, insights and case studies to show you how to cover some of these beliefs and improve your link building and digital PR efforts in 2021."
10:15am — The Science of Purchasing Behavior: How to Use it Effectively to Attract & Convert More Prospects Into Customers
Flavilla Fongang, Founder & Creative Brand Strategist | 3 Colours Rule
Some brands have achieved the dream: a large audience who believes in them, buying from them time and time again without questioning the value or authenticity of the products and services. And they've done it by developing an emotional connection with that audience. These days, it's more about building a community around your brand, rather than simply having clients. We'll explore the power of brand psychology that's been used by huge, successful brands such as Apple or Starbucks to earn customers that are loyal long-term.
10:50am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
11:15am — The Content Refresh: How to Do More With Less
Kameron Jenkins, Content Lead | Shopify
No matter where you work, there's something we all seem to have a shortage of... time. Combine that with ambitious traffic KPIs and you'll quickly realize that a 100% new content strategy isn't sustainable. Enter the content refresh. Learn how to identify and execute the best refresh opportunities so you can rank faster and increase your existing content ROI.
11:40am — Rule Your Rivals: From Data to Action
Dr. Pete Meyers, Marketing Scientist | Moz
Most competitive analysis ends in an avalanche of potential keywords to target, leaving you buried in indecision. Real case studies will show you how to forge your data into an actionable plan that drives strategic, targeted content. Escape from under the keyword pile and conquer your content rivals.
12:20pm — Build for Search: Modern Web Dev That Puts SEO First
Dana DiTomaso, President & Partner | Kick Point
With the debut of Core Web Vitals, modern SEO is more relevant to website development than ever before. Sure, we’ve always been thinking about title tags and making sure our pages convert — but the actual underpinnings of a website might have been left to your web development team and maybe that one technical SEO. They're likely very skilled people, but the chances of them thinking about how development decisions impact SEO are typically slim to none. Let's modernize the relationship between the web development process and SEO.
12:55pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
1:20pm — Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic
Jackie Chu, SEO Lead, Intelligence | Uber
Internationalization is one of the leading causes of technical SEO debt for multinational companies. We’ll talk through common internationalization mistakes and how to avoid them so you can win visibility and grow anywhere.
2:00pm — Mastering 3 Click + Engagement Signals for Higher Rankings/Traffic
Cyrus Shepard, SEO Consultant | Moz
Successful websites are all different, yet nearly all Google-ranked websites succeed in the exact same fundamental ways. In our quest to optimize for Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and JavaScript rendering, have we lost sight of the content and user experiences that dominate the very top of Google search results? In this presentation, Cyrus explores the three Google click and engagement signals that top-ranking web pages master: clicks, long clicks, and last clicks. Using examples and experiment results, he demonstrates how any website — and SEOs of all skill levels — can leverage these signals for improved Google traffic.
2:40pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:15pm — That’s a wrap on Day 1!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Tuesday, July 13th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 2 Opens!
9:10am — Why Marketers Should Think More Like Investors To Drive Content Results
Ross Simmonds, Founder, CEO | Foundation Marketing
Every single piece of content your brand creates is an asset. So why do we view them as an expense? In this session, Ross will talk about the parallels between content marketing/SEO and the world of investing. From the techniques that take blog posts and landing pages to the moon, to the fundamentals of content investing to create a competitive advantage, learn how an investment mindset can drive results.
9:50am — Taking Charge of Your Indexability: How to Optimize and Prioritize Your Technical Work
Areej AbuAli, SEO Consultant
Take charge over the indexability of your website! With a focus on aggregators and classifieds, Areej will share advice on how to best reduce index bloat for large websites. Diving into parameter handling, sitemap logic, robots directives, and more, we'll also assess how to analyze the most impactful changes, how to get sign-off from senior stakeholders, and how to prioritize work with product teams.
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Reporting for Duty: Why You Need to Start Using GA4 TODAY
Brie E Anderson, Owner, Founder | BEAST Analytics
Much like with any other change, the change to Google Analytics 4 may seem daunting and a bit useless. But it's better to get started now before you have to. Plus, in this presentation we will uncover secrets Google hands out in GA4. Then, stick around to see what is new and may be even better in the future.
11:15pm — Counterintuitive Content: How New Trends Have Disrupted Years of Bad Advice
Casie Gillette, Senior Director, Digital Marketing | KoMarketing
Along with the always-shifting landscape, one of the biggest things we as marketers struggle with is the sheer volume of information. For years we were told we had to produce as much content as possible. Then we were told to focus on quality but we still had to have a consistent schedule. What about YouTube or voice search or TikTok? The fact of the matter is, there's no one way to do content marketing. In this session, we’ll look at content from an entirely different perspective and talk about how you can start creating content on your own terms.
11:55 — To Post or Not to Post: What We Learned From Analyzing Over 1,000 Google Posts
Joy Hawkins, Owner | Sterling Sky Inc
What value do Google Posts have, and how should the average SMB prioritize them? Dive into the data from two studies conducted by Sterling Sky to answer these questions.
The first study analyzes over 1,000 Google Posts to see what types perform better based on clicks and conversions, and measures the impact of various features such as stock photos, emojis, titles, and more. The second looks at whether posting on Google has any influence on where your business ranks in the local pack. Findings from both will have you reevaluating your clients' Google posting strategy!
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Maximize Your Conversions: Harnessing Full-Funnel Optimization for B2B Success
Joyce Collarde, SEO Supervisor | Obility
The long sales cycles presented in B2B pose a unique set of challenges for converting visitors into coveted users. Success requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the landing page to include your entire site. In this session, we'll look at three tried-and-true methods for increasing your conversion rate and winning more business.
1:20pm — Beyond the Basics: 5 SEO Tricks for Uncovering Advanced Insights from Your SEO Data
Rob Ousbey, VP Strategy | Moz
Modern SEOs have no shortage of data, but you could learn even MORE about your site, content, links, and competitors by working smarter, not harder. Rob will show you how to breathe new life into your standard SEO data, and walk away with more advanced insights that are sure to impress your team (and your boss!)
2:00pm — The Cold Hard Truth about CTR and Other Common Metrics
Britney Muller, Serial Entrepreneur + Data Science Student | Data Sci 101
Reporting on website performance is an integral part of SEO, but not all metrics are created equal. If you think your metrics are telling the full story, think again. Start building more insightful reporting methods with data science. In this session, Britney will show you how to quash your reporting woes and make easy work of identifying exactly why your website’s performance changed.
2:35pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
3:00pm — That’s a wrap on Day 2!
Networking remains open until 3:30.
Wednesday, July 14th
8:30am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
9:00am — Day 3 Opens!
9:10am — The Fast & The Spurious: Core Web Vitals & SEO
Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist | Moz
Core Web Vitals are all the rage, but do they live up to the hype? Tom explores the real SEO impact of Google’s shiny new metrics, which ones you actually need to worry about, and how to prioritize fixes.
9:50am — The Ultimate How-To for Faceted Navigation SEO in E-commerce
Luke Carthy, eCommerce Consultant
One of the biggest FAQs in e-commerce: "How do you handle faceted navigation when it comes to SEO?"
We’ll ask the tough questions and answer them head-on! Join Luke as he walks through case studies, real-world examples, and how to leverage faceted navigation to really capitalize on high-converting long-tail keywords. If you're in e-commerce, you won’t want to miss this!
10:25am — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
10:50am — Let the API Do the Work: Harnessing Natural Language for More Productive SEO
Miracle Inameti-Archibong, Head of SEO | Erudite Agency
Keyword research is a vital process in getting insights into your consumer behaviour. However, it is often a very manual and labor-intensive process. How can we speed up the process so we can get to working on our implementations and getting results? Miracle walks through practical ways marketers can use APIs to do the heavy lifting and save time.
11:15am — A Live Guide to Finding & Filling the Gaps in Your Link Strategy
Amanda Milligan, Marketing Director | Fractl
Is your link portfolio strong enough to withstand everything Google and your competitors throw at you? If you’re hyper-focused on acquisition and you ignore strategy, you can end up with a pile of weak backlinks that aren't relevant — and won't move the needle. Competitive analysis is your key to finding and filling the gaps in your link building strategy. I'll walk you through the process start-to-finish.
11:55am — From the Medic Update to Now: How the E-A-T Ecosystem Has Transformed Organic Search
Lily Ray, Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research | Amsive Digital
Learn why E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) has taken a front seat in SEO discussions in recent years, the numerous places where Google focuses on E-A-T, and how the growing emphasis on surfacing authoritative content has drastically changed the organic search landscape across search, News, Discover, YouTube, and more.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:30pm — Networking
Open time for attendees to connect with other attendees and MozCon partners.
12:55pm — Game-Changing Ways to Use the Google Search Console API
Noah Learner, Product Director | Two Octobers
Let’s face it, you aren’t getting what you want from your keyword data. Unlock your newest SEO secret weapon with this deep dive into the power of the Google Search Console API. This game-changing tool will help you crush the competition, sell SEO to your team, and win prospects with deep SEO insights you had no idea were available.
1:20pm — The 3 Most Important Search Marketing Tools…Your Heart, Your Brain, & Your [Small] Ego
Wil Reynolds, Founder & Vice President of Innovation | Seer Interactive
Search is a game of rankings. Only one can win the #1 spot and small tweaks can mean the difference between ranking #1 and #5. If you’re using the same tools as everyone else, what competitive advantage are you bringing to the table? Wil shows you how to transform your data into winning insights with 3 tools everyone has at their fingertips: your heart, your head, and a willingness to question everything you thought was true about SEO.
1:55pm — Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Join fellow attendees in one of our Birds of a Feather Discussion groups to share ideas, and network with peers around a common topic. Birds of a Feather groups are informal, peer-to-peer conversations.
2:30pm – Farewell and Goodbye from MozCon 2021
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz
That’s a wrap on MozCon Virtual 2021! Stick around for networking until 3:30, and hope to see you again next year!
See you there?
Chatting with speakers via Q&A, connecting with peers and potential partners in Birds of a Feather groups, absorbing all the knowledge for another fruitful year of marketing... we can't wait to share it with you!
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