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A worldbuilding tip for making your fictional nation interesting: choose a crime, taboo, etc. and make it legal, perhaps even engraved in the culture.

For example, cannibalism. It could be tradition to hold a feast in the honor of the recently deceased, devouring them as a way to signify their sacrifice will not be wasted. That could be not only the main way of holding a funeral, but it could be embedded in the culture. Perhaps it arose from the early days of the nation, when the founders resorted to cannibalism to survive.

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Friendly reminder to not give up your right to sue Discord by May 15th

If you're a minor like me, I recommend having a parent issue the opt-out email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com.

If you're unable to have a parent issue it, there are templates out there.

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God I love my OC playlists so much especially when it's like- that ONE song finally starts playing and it's just the best day ever

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Part of my neurodivergent experience is not remembering whether I've ACTUALLY almost always experienced the leg pain I've been complaining about or if it's just my final growth spurt. It goes the same way to like- everything I've realized about myself so it's giving me insane imposter syndrome that I can't remember what went on inside my head during the single digit ages anymore. I know I've always liked unusually dark stuff for my age; always had anxiety about new situations, mainly making friends; have a big imagination and had imaginary friends (until age 11 I think??) and paracosms

But that's- kind of it on what I remember 100% happening. The other things I always think my brain is making up for the sake of validation, including the leg pain. I DON'T REMEMBER WHETHER I ALWAYS EXPERIENCED IT OR NOT SO IT'S LEADING ME TO BELIEVE MY MOM IS RIGHT THAT IT'S GROWING PAINS (she could reasonably be right but if it doesn't pass soon then that's out of the question and it could actually be a chronic thing that I never mentioned due to masking)

Ugh I need to be better at this shit

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Jkqkwhjskwh thinking of adding more diversity in my OC cast because not only would it just- be more inclusive, it also could fit seamlessly into the story and god dammit I want someone to be a cane user

I am in pain today 👍

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Hey fellow neurodiverse peeps and writers, if you're a creative and you're bored, go make a fictional disease

But like seriously it's super fun because I had one of those hour long hyperfixations on lung diseases because I already had a fictional disease in the works I just really wanted to detail it.

You get so invested in looking up the medical terminology and root words and symptoms and- ALL OF IT! IT'S AMAZING!

Btw the disease I made is called chronic pneumobtosis, and it is in the cyberpunk AU of my OCs. It's a hereditary, non-transmissible, incurable condition caused by mass air pollution weakening the respiratory system, and causing the need for gas masks and special ventilation systems that can clear out the debris in the air. It affects a third of the urban and metropolitan population (less in rural areas), and when untreated; causes shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, chest pain, fainting spells, and in the worst cases, internal suffocation.

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IS THIS WHAT YOU ALL WANTED??? MORE SEAN CONTENT??? fine. take him n’ go.

PLEASE REBLOG I WANT MY ART TO BE SEEN!!

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(Bun's reblog is now officially part of this, thank you!)

Another tip that goes for every medium!

PHASES: Chunk up your process!

Now not everyone will agree on how someone should work their work, but once again: this is my personal advice. So something to again help you be more efficient is to chunk the process up into different phases.

THIS IS MY DIGITAL ART PROCESS, NOT EVERYONE DOES IT THE SAME WAY!!

Roughs: scribble out the basic idea with a large, low opacity brush (if you're on digital at least, trad. artists, just don't press your pen down too hard). Details are out of the question during roughs! You can also make a thumbnail, which is a smaller image you can use as reference. Thumbnails mainly help you focus on maintaining the composition (layout) of your piece.

Sketch: The sketch consists of basic expressions, fabric directions, furniture details, etc. You're basically making the average viewer able to tell what it is at the very least. Here you can get more creative and limit yourself less than in the roughs phase. Just remember that during the sketch, you are free to have straying lines and messy parts! Don't worry about them yet!

Lineart/Cleanup: Now how you do cleanup entirely depends on you, but there are two main ways to do it. Creating new layers, lowering the sketch opacity, and drawing completely clean lines. I personally don't do it this way, but there are plenty of situations where it is the appropriate thing to do like in industry animation or if your style is on the cleaner side! What I do is instead clean up and trim down the sketch. This helps me avoid the problem of the sketch looking better than the lineart, and saves a lot of time too!

Basic colors and lighting: Don't even think about shading those folds yet. Just get the basic colors down, some of the more essential lightings if there are any (like sun rays or a spotlight) and you will be done. Also, color in bulk! You have your color layer under the lineart layer, you can easily have the whole thing filled with a large brush and then just trim it down to fit inside the lines after.

Rendering: NOW you can do more complex shading. Clothing folds, background shadows, glowing objects of any kind, whatever! You're almost finished!

Post production: This is just stuff like filters, finishing touches on VFX, and your signature. Once you sign, you're officially done! Hooray!!!

Rendering: continued

A tip for rendering is to remember hard and soft edges, and mix them together. One of my inspirations, Samdoesart, utilizes this to the max in his rendering process.

(Sam Yang, "Makeup", April 18 2024, samdoesarts on Twitter)

Notice in the skin, you can see use of the airbrush tool but also a hard edge on more contrasting areas. This is what I'm talking about with hard edges and soft edges! It can make your art look 10x better!

MY PERSONAL ART TIPS! A big thread I'll be adding to

I too, was once a 10 year old gacha kid whose only drawings were a way too detailed catgirl persona and friends. I didn't have much in-person or online inspiration and help for a long time! So I'll help others earlier in their art journey (and perhaps the masters too, never not a good idea to try some advice!)

So let me spare some of you a few of the unnecessary mishaps during everyone's art life.

If you've never seen my blog before, hello! My name is Clara. I'm a neurodivergent teen artist, aspiring animator, and resident cat person. It's nice to meet you! If you'd like to know who you're taking advice from, here is some of my latest work!

Now without further ado, LET THE HELP COMMENCE!

STROKES: Fix stiffness in your poses!

To start off, a BIG thing I recommend for newish artists, is don't be afraid to draw loosely! The looser the lines, the less stiff the pose. And stiff poses are a very common issue within the community. Sure, your anatomy may look bad for the first while of drawing looser lines, but it will help you be more confident in strokes. The more confident the stroke, the more efficient an artist. The more efficient an artist, the faster you learn.

To practice loose lines, simply draw a long line as fast as you can. Over and over again. I know, that may seem boring, but it helps train your hand and arm to be faster. But if it's so much a hassle to do in your free time, then do it on the side of a worksheet if you're in school, or a sticky note if you're at work.

Speaking of practicing...

PRACTICE MAKES BETTER: Get over it!

I said the phrase wrong, didn't I? Oh wait, no I didn't. NO ONE IS PERFECT. And don't forget that! There will always be issues, problems, and mistakes in your art that you don't realize until the day after you've shared it with everyone you know. The artist is always their worst critic. So the best thing you can do is to keep at it. Practice your weak points to support the composition more, hone in your strong points to better make a focal point. Practice will always help, even if you don't see it. A slow pace is better than no pace!

"But Clara, what are my weak points? How do I know what I always mess up on!?" you may ask...

ANALYZING YOUR ART: Pros and cons!

Well, pick your latest finished piece and tear it apart (NO NOT LITERALLY OH GOD NO PLEASE-) I mean analyze it. Grab your pen and a separate paper, or just your notes app, and make a list of pros and cons in it. Doing this with multiple pieces is especially important, as with multiple examples, it's easier to find a pattern.

How about this, I'll give you an example!

Here we have a piece I made a few weeks ago. It's of my Western AU of my main cast of OCs. TIME TO NITPICK!

WEAK POINTS

- The clouds are too detailed compared to the rest of the composition

- The right horse seems very stiff (I already am aware I struggle with drawing animals nowadays)

- The funky hatching I did with the plateaus in the background just isn't working out as well as I thought it would anymore

- the god damn horse on the right

- The sky in the middle just seems far too empty. I could have added more indication of the sun at the top to add more noise

STRONG POINTS

- The color palette I chose blends well while having the colors still be sharp and clear against each other

- The entirety of the woman and her horse on the left

- The glitchy effect adds some zestiness to it that I love

- The whole thing looks quite cinematic, with a successful wide shot and the black bars imitating that of a movie's

- The inlines of the otherwise completely flat-colored silhouettes help define the overlapping shapes quite well

And there you have it, 5 pros and cons each I found in something you probably only noticed were little to none. No, I'm not bragging, it's an actual psychological phenomena where the artist notices so many more intricacies than the average outside viewer. Your mom isn't hanging up your art out of pity, GET THAT OUT OF YOUR HEAD! People love your art so much more than you do.

That's it for the first post. Don't worry, there'll still be more helpful tips coming! I just won't be able to fit everything in here with Tumblr's picture limit and all. Happy drawing!

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MY PERSONAL ART TIPS! A big thread I'll be adding to

I too, was once a 10 year old gacha kid whose only drawings were a way too detailed catgirl persona and friends. I didn't have much in-person or online inspiration and help for a long time! So I'll help others earlier in their art journey (and perhaps the masters too, never not a good idea to try some advice!)

So let me spare some of you a few of the unnecessary mishaps during everyone's art life.

If you've never seen my blog before, hello! My name is Clara. I'm a neurodivergent teen artist, aspiring animator, and resident cat person. It's nice to meet you! If you'd like to know who you're taking advice from, here is some of my latest work!

Now without further ado, LET THE HELP COMMENCE!

STROKES: Fix stiffness in your poses!

To start off, a BIG thing I recommend for newish artists, is don't be afraid to draw loosely! The looser the lines, the less stiff the pose. And stiff poses are a very common issue within the community. Sure, your anatomy may look bad for the first while of drawing looser lines, but it will help you be more confident in strokes. The more confident the stroke, the more efficient an artist. The more efficient an artist, the faster you learn.

To practice loose lines, simply draw a long line as fast as you can. Over and over again. I know, that may seem boring, but it helps train your hand and arm to be faster. But if it's so much a hassle to do in your free time, then do it on the side of a worksheet if you're in school, or a sticky note if you're at work.

Speaking of practicing...

PRACTICE MAKES BETTER: Get over it!

I said the phrase wrong, didn't I? Oh wait, no I didn't. NO ONE IS PERFECT. And don't forget that! There will always be issues, problems, and mistakes in your art that you don't realize until the day after you've shared it with everyone you know. The artist is always their worst critic. So the best thing you can do is to keep at it. Practice your weak points to support the composition more, hone in your strong points to better make a focal point. Practice will always help, even if you don't see it. A slow pace is better than no pace!

"But Clara, what are my weak points? How do I know what I always mess up on!?" you may ask...

ANALYZING YOUR ART: Pros and cons!

Well, pick your latest finished piece and tear it apart (NO NOT LITERALLY OH GOD NO PLEASE-) I mean analyze it. Grab your pen and a separate paper, or just your notes app, and make a list of pros and cons in it. Doing this with multiple pieces is especially important, as with multiple examples, it's easier to find a pattern.

How about this, I'll give you an example!

Here we have a piece I made a few weeks ago. It's of my Western AU of my main cast of OCs. TIME TO NITPICK!

WEAK POINTS

- The clouds are too detailed compared to the rest of the composition

- The right horse seems very stiff (I already am aware I struggle with drawing animals nowadays)

- The funky hatching I did with the plateaus in the background just isn't working out as well as I thought it would anymore

- the god damn horse on the right

- The sky in the middle just seems far too empty. I could have added more indication of the sun at the top to add more noise

STRONG POINTS

- The color palette I chose blends well while having the colors still be sharp and clear against each other

- The entirety of the woman and her horse on the left

- The glitchy effect adds some zestiness to it that I love

- The whole thing looks quite cinematic, with a successful wide shot and the black bars imitating that of a movie's

- The inlines of the otherwise completely flat-colored silhouettes help define the overlapping shapes quite well

And there you have it, 5 pros and cons each I found in something you probably only noticed were little to none. No, I'm not bragging, it's an actual psychological phenomena where the artist notices so many more intricacies than the average outside viewer. Your mom isn't hanging up your art out of pity, GET THAT OUT OF YOUR HEAD! People love your art so much more than you do.

That's it for the first post. Don't worry, there'll still be more helpful tips coming! I just won't be able to fit everything in here with Tumblr's picture limit and all. Happy drawing!

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Roll out the red carpet, for here the newlyweds arrive.

Estimated time: 1.5 hours

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Me when I realize the comp idea includes a room with actual items

A LOT of items

I'll just put one of the drawings in a comp idea I have since I have krita open rn

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I'll just put one of the drawings in a comp idea I have since I have krita open rn

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Mmmmm ik it was a shitty choice in having the bangs be the same as Mal's, but it is not :>

Finally, in history/civics, a successful starter design of this totally unimportant lady ugh

W̷̳̼̉̊̈́͘ͅh̶̯̘͙͖͐ã̴̠͖͇͔͓̮͂̃̀͝t̶̬͔̭͕͇̄͌́͛͠͝ ̵̦̀̆̚d̶̞͐͂̒o̶̞̭̺̭̓̀e̶̪͊́̐s̸̝̘͖̺͛͐̓̈́ ̵͎̞̺̼͚͙̓͒̒̔̕͝ȃ̶̡̯̣̬̞͉ṉ̷͋̓̇̓̐ỳ̷͔̪͙͔̈́ţ̵̰̹̺̺͓̐h̶̨̯͓̫͈̀i̸͙̍́̓̚̚͜ņ̷̛̂̀g̴̖͍̮̻̒̈́ ̵̡͌͆̄y̸̧͈̳̗̪͛̎͂ŏ̸̤͍͉̽̾͂͘u̴̧͇̭̠̳͂́̆̊́͘͜ ̸̤̖̩̗̙̾̎̏́̈́͊c̵̰̮͉̳̯̽̉́ả̵͎̖̞̪͂̃̀͘n̸͙̓ ̶̥̫̣͑͘s̶̛̘̹̾̌̽̕͠a̸̜͗͐ŷ̶̺̤͍̽̅̉ ̶̘̱̩͝m̶̫͖͔̝̠̑̓̈́a̶͕̭̤̔͑͌́́͘t̶̛͉̮͎͘͝t̸̢͖̺̉ẻ̷̬̭͓̔r̵̡̩̺͆̐?̵͔̤͔͎̞̊ͅ

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There's a few more drawings I really want to post here but it's lore spoilers within the server and Bun, the big theorist of the group, follows my tumblr.

So Bun, when you read this, just know I'm intelligent

...

But I'll give you one more drawing.

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Finally, in history/civics, a successful starter design of this totally unimportant lady ugh

W̷̳̼̉̊̈́͘ͅh̶̯̘͙͖͐ã̴̠͖͇͔͓̮͂̃̀͝t̶̬͔̭͕͇̄͌́͛͠͝ ̵̦̀̆̚d̶̞͐͂̒o̶̞̭̺̭̓̀e̶̪͊́̐s̸̝̘͖̺͛͐̓̈́ ̵͎̞̺̼͚͙̓͒̒̔̕͝ȃ̶̡̯̣̬̞͉ṉ̷͋̓̇̓̐ỳ̷͔̪͙͔̈́ţ̵̰̹̺̺͓̐h̶̨̯͓̫͈̀i̸͙̍́̓̚̚͜ņ̷̛̂̀g̴̖͍̮̻̒̈́ ̵̡͌͆̄y̸̧͈̳̗̪͛̎͂ŏ̸̤͍͉̽̾͂͘u̴̧͇̭̠̳͂́̆̊́͘͜ ̸̤̖̩̗̙̾̎̏́̈́͊c̵̰̮͉̳̯̽̉́ả̵͎̖̞̪͂̃̀͘n̸͙̓ ̶̥̫̣͑͘s̶̛̘̹̾̌̽̕͠a̸̜͗͐ŷ̶̺̤͍̽̅̉ ̶̘̱̩͝m̶̫͖͔̝̠̑̓̈́a̶͕̭̤̔͑͌́́͘t̶̛͉̮͎͘͝t̸̢͖̺̉ẻ̷̬̭͓̔r̵̡̩̺͆̐?̵͔̤͔͎̞̊ͅ

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Lol sorry for not posting in awhile but here's my bullshit art foundations project, I hate linoleum carving sm but that doesn't mean I won't use the theme of unconventional as an opportunity to make cryptid horror of Evelyn

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Petition to call people w ADHD, autism, and anxiety "triple AAA batteries"