#totally didn't rush the rendering process what-

[scaredspoons]

drew one of my mutuals trolls ^u^ (character belongs to @mrthful )

[haeroniel-doliet]

Bonus content!! Please feel free to enjoy the process timelapse of the most recent thing I made for the Avantris Valentines gift exchange!

I am gonna have a little ramble about some thoughts on this one below the cut, mostly for my own future reference and anyone curious!

Hey there! fun fact I turned on recording a few art projects ago and I think its genuinely helping me a lot to keep a reference like it for how each process vs finished product was!

First of all, please do not pay mind to the janky final few seconds, I cut the canvas size down and clearly the recording did not enjoy that :')

As usual, had a bit of a hard time figuring out exactly what I wanted to do, and just threw shit at the wall literally doodling anything and everything, and literally just ended up thinking lol, thats kinda funny and building from there

Generally, I do a super rough thumbnail style idea, then one of very large shapes to block out what goes where before finally going onto do the first draft, that I try do real fast so I can get all ideas on paper and all mistakes visible before I dedicate in too hard

(I was feeling stuck honestly at this stage, so I decided to slap some colours on for fun to see if I even like the big picture at all, and funny enough a good few friends did suggest that thats totally good enough right? But it didn't feel like something I was proud of so I got a week or so of a break before breaking into the full clean drawing/lining process which does take ages but turned out quite lovely here I think

Praise be references again!! Granted, here I got off quite easy, I really only used the official character art + a few screenshots of Andy + a pretty crow I found online. No, wait actually, I remember I had a terrible horrible time trying to find the exact kind of pose or even hand reference online for some reason, so I did take my own photos to make it work!

Oh so the thing I learned, idk if you can spot it, in the colouring in stage, I was trudging through Jericho on the left as I normally do, dreading the lack of time I had left and how long just flat colours would take, right? Then by Marius I was exhausted, worried I would actually have nothing to gift my giftee, and decided hell at least I can make a highly stylised just filled in with a relevant colour thing, right? And if I do have the time to finish it, I can always use them as a sort of wash/colour unifying overlay! Here, I remembered the fill tool exists hahh, and I just had to make a few lil work arounds like not letting colours touch each other and boom, speed!

but thing is, I was still spending forever gently outlining my tiny 4 pixel wide lines to not make it sloppy, when I learned about this groovy lil contiguous selection tool (lil magic wand icon!) and boom I can select a coloured in region, invert selection and colour in with like a few broad strokes total! Absolutely a game changer

So I did manage to absolutely speed through the rest, deciding fuck it I am gonna do my best to do at least a lil rendering, even if doing a beautiful full perfect job wouldve taken at least an extra week probably, and I think it doesn't suffer much for it!

The background btw is from my lovely friends suggestions, something simple that suggests a vaguely transitional moment in time, and i thought some sunset like colours would also be a bit valentines appropriate!

And, this recording is 69,441 frames long (would've been so god damn funny if it was 69,420 though) and I crunched some numbers, where I wouldve spent at minimum like 20 hours of active constant drawing on this! Thats, a good chunk honestly and maybe hopefully now with this colouring trick I can get even more efficient!

Anyway, despite the rush at the end where I felt like my hand would fall off from drawing so much so quickly (felt about as stressed in a good way as for my thesis lol) I am beginning to be proud of the end result and i'm very glad my giftee liked it too!! Time to face the scary concept of sharing this in the big discord server hahaaaaahh

Heres to trying to draw a bit more and hopefully be more chill about it!! Although, I do love the satisfaction I get from making all the lil details too (fun fact, I hid a ton of tiny lil hearts super subtly all throughout them, i.e. in the rose centres)

I don't imagine anyone has made it here and read all this, but hi! if you did, please do leave a like or a comment or so, I'm very interested to know if this was at all interesting to anyone but me! Also I love chatting about art!!

[thedaveandkimmershow]

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

In an effort to experience a legitimately full day at the theme parks, I got up at 6.

Actually, I got up at 610 'cause I hit snooze on my alarm.

Because there was coffee and tea to make and we didn't wanna use tap water, I grabbed our water bottles and filled them up from the Everything machine downstairs.

The Everything machine?

Yeah. It's got all the drinks in it. You just hafta choose the one and it's what comes out of the nozzle when you push the big white button.

After that, I'm back up in the room making coffee, rustling up a sleeping Kimmer, then a breakfast of that yogurt we got from Publix plus the cheese and red grapes left over from our dinner at Bar 17 Bistro last night.

We actually make it to Islands of Adventure at 8 which is perfect because that's when the park opens.

From the front gates, we walk straight to Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure that was an epic adrenaline rush on top of a 50 minute line experience.

After that, 25 minutes through the base of Hogwarts for Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, an experience that in the past has rendered me ill from motion sickness in mild and nearly incapacitating ways.

Why did you ride it again, then?

It's such a cool ride, I'm in love with the idea of it even when the reality of it is perfectly tailored to overwhelm my poor senses.

After that, we slowed the pace with a stroll to the Three Broomsticks restaurant to peruse their breakfast menu. Unfortunately, nothing actually appealed so we hopped on the Hogwarts Express from Hogsmeade Station. Basically walked on, there really was no line. Just a long walk, is all.

At the other end of the line, with King's Cross Station at Universal Studios right next to Diagon Alley, we checked on the Gringotts ride that was also basically a walk on. After the ride, we walked over to the Today Show Restaurant where they always take good care of Kimmer. Usually, one of the cooks comes out to our table to get the lowdown on allergen sensitivities. This time, the chef's name was Yusr.

Our breakfast this morning wound up being breakfast croissants and fruit. We were on our own time, of course, so we took our time. Afterward we decided to head back to our hotel because it was getting very hot outside. Arriving at 1, Kimmer took the nap option while I processed and posted my photos from the morning.

And we did, by the way. We wiled away our afternoon in sleep and photographs.

Coming up on 430, we get on the bus to Volcano Bay for a round of floating around a lazy river. We're the only people on the bus, by the way, which gives us front row seats to a conversation with the bus driver. Another man named David.

Go figure.

Now, David's got a lot of life under his belt. He lived in Chicago for many years, working as a fireman who also happened to be the driver of his station's hook and ladder.

Did I say "many years"? Well, it was so many years that he eventually retired from that job. Unfortunately, retirement was boring for him so he tried out a job at Amazon...

Which lasted two days.

Total non-starter for him. Then he got his commercial driver's license and worked a school district bus driving job for a year until the district's bus service was privatize. It was changed. And although he enjoyed the kids, he didn't wanna navigate the whims of administration anymore so he quit. Not long after, he met someone who said you should do this gesturing at these massive busses, the kind that big-time music performers use on tours that criss-cross the country. The very moment he was shown one of these busses he was all-in. He knew now what he wanted to do. So he applied and got the job which actually includes driving variations on bus sizes from shuttle all the way to touring.

Which.

He.

Loves.

Easier than the hook and ladders, he says.

I was telling him about the breathtaking lightning shows that impressed in Florida, a remark sparked a conversation about how he grew up in the bottom left corner of the state of Michigan where he remembers lightning just as I described. After that, he moved to Chicago. Then at some point he made friends with someone for whom he ran an ultra light airplane business for six years. He was eventually given one to use personally.

He has a grown son, thirty five, living in LA where I think David lived just before coming out here.

I asked him if Orlando is a better idea than LA. He totally loves it here. The weather moves through quickly and the rain and the lightning reminds him of growing up. In fact, nowadays when lightning's doing its thing on a massive scale, he'll open the doors to the patio out back of his home and watch the light show in peace.

He's lived a good life. And he's living an even better retirement.

We arrived at Volcano Bay at ten minutes to five and did our floaty thing until six, round and around that lazy river on inner tubes.

After that, Kimmer guides us over to a snack place by our locker for a vanilla chocolate soft serve ice cream that we split.

By the time we're back in our room, it's coming up on 7 at which point we're relaxed and having a lazy evening. We take turns speaking to Linzy on our phones. Whilst Linzy 'n Kimmer are talking, I spot the fireworks extravaganzas that are occuring simultaneously at Epcot Center and Magic Kingdom.

I think I have it figured out, by the way, which park is which from my vantage point and the orientation of the hotel. I think The Magic Kingdom's on the right from where I'm looking with its fireworks bursting high above Sleeping Beauty's Cattle while smaller ones paint the sky in front of it, a little to the left. Or behind it, maybe? I'm not sure how the park's oriented from my viewpoint.

Much, much further left of that scene, I think it's Epcot with generally lower fireworks but spread out horizontally as if maybe around the lake.

When the phone conversation ended, we settled in to Deathly Hallows Part 1 from the part where Harry, Hermione, and Ron are hiding out in Sirius Black's childhood home... and watch all the way to credits.

Then we watched all of Part 2.

Yeah.

It was a very Harry Potter day.

And thus endeth day 4.

😊

[missetbilu]

DOM NEIL PERRY HC’S*

neil perry x fem!reader, smut headcanons

requested by: @wtlusi

warnings: nsfw, dom/sub dynamics

- Neil is big on quality time so he's always around you

- Since you have your room all to yourself, that makes it a little easier to have some alone time with your boyfriend

- At the beginning you were quite shy in those moments, getting nervous about what you would be doing, about what his expectations would be

- However that sentiment soon faded once you realised how Neil would never push you to do anything you didn't feel comfortable with

- You guys started off slowly, both being inexperienced discovering what you liked together was like a fun little game

- For quite some time everything was kept pretty vanilla

- Neil was totally okay with that, just having you in any way meant the world to him, but deep down he did think of some things he would like to incorporate in the bedroom

- But again, he loved what you two had and didn't want to mess it up

- Specially knowing that, even though you guys already had an active sex life, doing so much as to hold your waist in public would make you blush

- It was definitely a big surprise for the boy when you hit him with a request one night

- "Neil, I want to ask you something." You said in between his gentle kisses, which usually initiated a series of events that lead you to sweet and loving sex

- "Yes, darling, what is it?" He stopped, sensing the nervousness in your voice

- "I think... I think I want you to be a little rough on me." Your words almost got stuck in your throat, the last thing you wanted to do was make Neil think you were not satisfied with him

- While the boy sat there, processing your request, eyes shining from excitement

- His lack of response made you feel unsure if he understood and you further explained

- "I want you to, you know, dominate me."

- He didn't need nothing else to be said, all he needed at that moment was to get you out of your clothes

- And that he did

- After making sure you were okay with this and that he really could do as he pleased with you, Neil didn't hold back

- Because he doesn't have much control over a bunch of parts of his life, being completely in control in the bedroom was almost euphoric to him

- You gladly obeyed his every command that night, you moaned loudly at every dirty word he sent your way, you let him flip you around and fuck you in new positions, you screamed his name just like he told you to

- He made you cum harder than you ever had

- Laying next to him on your stomach, still trying to catch your breath, you couldn’t even bring yourself to speak

- Neil drew circles on your back, soothing you

- That became a must every time the two of you had sex

- The more you incorporated this new dynamic to your life, the further he pushed you

- And you loved it

- He did get a little worried that you could get into a subspace, so he was extra loving afterwards

- Again, you loved it; the contrast between that and the possessive, rough way he was treating you minutes before never failed to amaze you

- This twist also made the couple more adventurous

- Neil always has something in mind and you are always down to his suggestions

- Or should you say, his orders

- He wants to be 100% sure you’re on board and everything is completely consensual

- But he knows how to play the part

- Making you feel like there is no other option but to render yourself his after nothing but a mischievous glance from your boyfriend

- With that demanding expression, cause sometimes words aren’t even necessary, you two explored many things you had never even considered

- One of your favorite discoveries was semi-public sex, the risk was thrilling, it offered an adrenaline rush the both of you grew fond of

- You may or may not almost have been caught when Neil talked you into a quickie behind the stage when you went to watch his rehearsal

- He may or may not have taken your neck into his hand and squeezed just enough to make your legs tremble, as he whispered how you would be very quiet or else

- But that’s a story for another day

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A/N: This is my very fist time writing headcanons 🤭 I’m sorry if it’s a little off, I’m not used to it. Btw, I’m thinking of writing a fic with this concept/prompt. Would anybody be interested in that? Please let me know 😊

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