#nice and thi

[sarahkira20]

I'm available for fun 🥰 ask for menu hit me up on zangi 1009107529 my telegram @Nancybaby222

[peachducy]

get to heaven

im sorry he looks so different ive been doing shit to him. my bad

[mistfallengw2]

You know what the funniest thing is about mfs having such beef with fictional characters that they have to always bring up their negative feelings for them in the most obnoxious way possible?

They often dislike those characters because: A. they see some part of themselves in them and oooh boy they don't like seeing it, especially when the character grows past that and they still haven't B. the character ruins their "absolute center of the world" fantasy and they can't accept that someone "lesser than them" (read into this as much as needed to explain magnitude) takes the spotlight off of them for even just a moment C. both

[beddybites]

Ooh! I have an idea!

Hear me out, you give yourself a much needed break and take time off without worrying about your fans because we're all so proud of you! 💞

i will start crying anon

[wardingshout]

Hi!! I just wanted to say that the way you draw characters/use colors in your art is an absolute dream, I've never seen anything prettier. Do you have a specific way you pick/use colors, or any advice for coloring? You inspire my art so much, and I'd love to learn how to color like you someday :)

@braventheninth gonna reply to both of you here hope that's cool!

aaaah thank you so much I'm really honoured to hear you both like it and that it inspires you anon !! ;v; I don't actually know much about art theory-wise, aside from very basic colour theory that I always forget so most of my choices are pretty instinctual and based on my own preferences!

i can do my best to explain my thought process though! uuh it is. lots of text though just as a warning.

one thing I tend to do with almost everything is pick what kind of colour mood I'm going for! usually, since I love orange and also warm feelings, I'll aim for some kind of warm tone and when doing that I try to slide every colour I pick towards the warm end of the colour wheel. Blacks and whites are especially good for this! As a general thing I almost fully avoid picking any colours along those edges of the colour picker

instead I'll move all my colour choices a nudge into the square for the colours towards the tone I want (in this case warm) (the white is there be warm too I just forgor to type it).

and since I wanted warm colours for this drawing I desaturated the blue of Brain's pants so it would fit in better. I once heard someone say you should always pick one main colour and saturate fully and the further away from it on the colour wheel you got, the more desaturated your colours should be. I don't really do that bc I like my colours to stay bright but I do keep it in mind to mess around with sometimes.

I'm not always great at keeping this consistent, but I think it usually makes for pretty decent results... Other things I keep in mind are that when I pick the colour for my shadows I always make a little slide on the colour wheel towards the opposite tone of what I based my main colours on. oh and picking the right base colours ?? no clue tbh I always put every colour on it's own layer and then I spend a couple minutes adjusting them all seperately until I feel like they go well enough together. I usually avoid the bottom to right section of the square fully, bc I find they often get oversaturated and muddy, but that's just a personal preference I guess.

also since I enjoy the way coloured lineart works for my stuff I tend to mess around with layer settings for my lineart! usually the end results will look something like this:

where the clipped layer is clipped on to my colours folder. lineart is the only place where I just use plain black since I'm gonna change it with these layer settings later. it often still shows up as black for darker colours (and especially blues?) but it keeps a slightly coloured edge that I enjoy. if the blacks of the end result don't look good, messing around with the layer opacity usually changes stuff up. sometimes I'll also erase part of the lineart from one of the layers as a way to adjust.

I think what might be more relevant though, is the way I've been picking my colours for most of my recent posts though, which is. very differently. and also quite dependant on the fact I've been drawing on Tegaki! Tegaki has a limited colour palette that looks like this

only the 6 colour slots next to the bottom greyscale can be replaced by your own colours. As shown here I only bothered to add something to half of them; mainly the beige-ish colour I like to use for whites, a brown that I never use bc it's ugly with everything else here and a purple? that I only Think I added. both the brown and purple suffer from being too desaturated for the rest of the palette, which makes them stand out in a pretty bad way when used tbh.

I have. absolutely no idea what I'm doing with colours on this site though ngl. I think it just automatically pushes you to be a little more chaotic with the choices? a simple example is the green I picked for Link's tunic here doesn't really have any good, easy choice for shading imo. most of the "darker" green tones just feel more saturated, and it sticks out pretty bad as a shading colour for the more muted green I picked for the tunic. Removing those, the choice was either a mossy green or a blue.

and while the mossy green is still green, it feels far too dark a shading colour compared to what I picked as shading for the rest of the drawing. The blue has the added bonus of being closer to the purple I used for the black-ish parts.

I think my point is that it's really easy to push yourself to make some fun new choices when the tools you're using limit you a bit in a way? Looking at it now, I'm also seeing that the hands were lined with very different colours. I remember just thinking that I couldn't be bothered to find the exact same purple I used for the first hand so I just went with the first thing I landed on, that being a pink. But now I think it works pretty well since the one hand is lifted a bit more into the light and that goes well for a bright colour like pink. happy accidents and all that right ?

I am fully just yapping at this point 🧍 but the point still goes for most things drawn on this site.

like there was no reason to add the blues or reds or pinks to the heather here but I only had so many purple shades to work with. it might be less realistic but I don't think it would've come out as well if I had stuck to only the purple shades from my reference photo.

This ended up way way too long and I have no idea if any of it made sense or was helpful at all, but it was surprisingly fun to reflect on my own choices a bit more! especially since I often just do whatever I feel like I think it's helpful to sit back and consider what instinct actually tells me it's the right thing to do.

in an attempt to do something actually helpful uuh I recommend messing around with 2 specific things and switching around with them a bit; namely limited colour palettes (like 1 or 2 main tones imo) and then just going absolutely ham and just using whatever colour for everything (make them orange! put some blue and purple on the bark! leaves can be blue if they want to! (go more ham than I did tbh))

I think just messing around does so much for making some kind of sense of colours even without Knowing how they work. it's easy to say we should all study, but personally I'm pretty bad at it and it's more fun to just trial and error it... errors do happen a lot though omg do they happen, but that's helpful for figuring stuff out too!

[just-venting-about-him]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!asjshdhsj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg you guys, its actually happening!!

Ok, first things first. I succesfully got through my finals - meaning I am actuctually master now. And finished with school. Many emotions about that.

Much more emotion about him. Not much happened on finals day, like we were texting but nothing that special.

Today he was supposed to get back from his field trip. So I decided to wait in university city for him. And than travel home together.

But the main thing. There was lot of detail and thing happening, but not really gonna talk about that now. But the thing is - we hold hands. And not for a moment. But for about two hours. And when we were saying goodbye he gave me a kiss. Really quick and kinda sidewas because we were sitting next to each other. But kiss!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I tell you my heart is beating and turning in the best way ever. I just. Its actually happening. Screaming here.

Like we didnt actually talk about what we are or if we are together or what is happening. But I guess its not that important right now. I am just so happy. I may see him again on sunday. Really really hope. Want to see him right now so badly.

Just sorry this is terrible ramble, but I just cant belive it. Not at all. But it happened.

[mo-ok]

would you like a red boy? hold out your hand i'll give you a red boy 🥰

[itrulyhavenothingtodo]

You're telling me underwear can be COMFY??? WTF WHY am i just finding this out in my 25th year alive

[adhdo5]

Xiyao at the store JGY doing his impressive best to compare prices without looking like he's comparing prices and LXC thinks this is the most attractive thing he's ever seen

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[hotdrinks]

Up late afflicted with Martin Blackwood thoughts..........

[pivsketch]

Salamander Salazar is an acrobatic high flyer "evil mastermind thief guy" and Bandit Bandit is his henchman/bodyguard/muscle. They were mischievous heels that would always be causing trouble, but just like any quality comical villain bad guy, Salazar's hubris would usually get him in over his head and be his downfall.

Here's them doing a tag team move™:

Anyway these are all several years before the events of the story. Salazar is Taggart's tag partner that had to leave midway through the tournament! He's also his childhood friend/mentor too.

under the cut is more lore/backstory stuff:

Salamander Salazar is the older neighborhood kid that got Taggart into wrestling when Taggart was just a lil kid. Salazar taught him how to (pro) wrestle over the years and after Taggart turned 18, Sal mysteriously started having a new sidekick/henchman he'd do tag team matches with.

Winning the TAGCEN tournament gets you qualified for the "big prestigious semi-invitational continental tag team tournament" where all the best tag teams compete to see who is The Absolute Best. Salazar's biggest claim to fame was the one time he stole the TAGCEN tournament first place medals from the true champions* and used them to enter into the invitational. The resulting shenanigans were fun enough that it led to the rules being changed to make the TAGCEN qualification entirely based on physically possessing those winning medals lol. (TAGCEN is partially ran by someone who loves chaos, after all.)

It made things pretty wild and chaotic for a few years after, but people stopped taking advantage of this over the years and nowadays its a mostly forgotten edge-case type rule. Also btw Sal (and Bandit²) got their asses absolutely trounced in the invitational tournament. If they couldn't win a qualifier, of course they wouldn't be able to survive in the big leagues!!

Bandit Bandit's tenure only lasted 3 short years for whatever reason (concidentally, this was around the same time regular good guy solo wrestler Taggart left wrestling to help out at his parents' bakery, hmm) and Salazar forged onwards on his own. Over the years his mischievous ambitions have mellowed out and he became one of those sarcastic good guy antihero types.

In modern times, Salazar reentered the TAGCEN tournament with a better tag team partner: Taggart, his childhood friend/protege that had recently returned to wrestling. His goal was to win the TAGCEN tourney outright and then go on to win the big invitational, redeeming himself for that failed run several years prior. They were absolutely killing it, but then Salazar got a really good offer from a major overseas promotion he couldn't turn down, and had to leave midway through the TAGCEN tournament. Alas! Salazar's tag team story is left unrealized!

Taggart still gets to wrestle in the remaining round robin matches at least. But, cmon, it's not like anything interesting is going to happen with that, right...? hee hee 🙂

* the winning tag team ended up with a injury right before the invitational and could not compete, and this was way more fun of an alternative than just having an empty slot!

[beneathsilverstars]

obviously siffrin needs to get into notebooking to help w their memory issues but also i think it should be one of those fluffy sparkly purple journals with the high tech locks that break immediately. if you ask what he's writing he starts explaining romantic and political subplots from plays as if they had happened to him at school the other day. recurring characters start to show up, there are references to the eternal school metaphor, the lore gets very complex even though none of it is set in stone.

(i just think that if they try to take notes discreetly, it'll turn out that the most discreet method is to not ever actually do it. but if they can genuinely turn it into a funny bit then it's easier to fold it into their preexisting sense of self, and everyone else can provide positive feedback to reinforce the habit by playing along with the bit. suddenly any attention the note-taking brings is purposeful and has nothing to do with the notes! and it kinda breaks the conversational ice for if they do want to talk abt smth more serious? eventually the song and dance won't be necessary, but at first it helps him feel normal while still taking care of himself and addressing his issues, and later it's still funny.)

[sarahkira20]

I'm available for facetime till you nuts $$$

[kathunim]

mighta made a post about this before but GOD nothing is quite like using good and high quality tools for your job, no matter what it is.

I do a lot of electronics repair, dis- and reassembly, and other kinds of precision maintenance so I hugely profit off of well built screwdrivers and stuff.

Got myself some really fancy precision tweezers for my birthday last year, originally listed for 35 but the seller offered me a discount to 25€ so I couldn't say no

Been loving them ever since, every day I have an excuse to use these is a good day and they haven't let me down.

Beautiful little things. I did admittedly break off about 2mm worth of point from one side, but I reshaped and sharpened them with a find grind stone to be the same length and so they close at the right point.

Better than the standard I think! I use these for a lot more "heavy" precision work, such as poking against small connectors or wiggling out screws still holding onto the last thread rotation meaning the tip being slightly beefier and not as slender as it was is an improvement for me.

I'd never use these to lever, wedge, or pry anything that requires force and they're so so lovely to work with.

Dumont No. 2, highly recommended

[hiswrlds]

DEAR FRUITBOWL BLUE BASTARD.

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOU COMING TO THIS WORKSHOP. EATING MY FOOD. LAZING YOUR RICKY MARTIN LITTLE NAS X ASS ON MY TABLES. STEALING MY FRONT STEPS. WHAT DO YOU EVEN NEED FRONT STEPS FOR, YOU DO NOT HAVE A HOUSE YOU HOMELESS SQUIRREL FISTING CUCK. YOU ARE ANNOYING, DO NOT PAY RENT, AND ARE VERY FRUITY. IF YOU DO NOT STOP COMING HERE I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO FIND AND ANNIHLATE YOU. YOU WILL BE NOT A FRUITBOWL, BUT A FRUIT SMOOTHIE. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING.

FROM NOT ROBOTNIK

“ Aw shucks, he asked so nicely I was almost feeling bad, but turns out this isn't the doctor, so there is really no need to change anything, right ? ”  he likes your front steps doc, wherever you are, they are pretty good material for various projects, or something .