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finished my Taako

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oh man this took Way longer than it probably should have 

I really love night in the woods though

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✨ Find What’s Lost ✨

You Need: 

✦ Apple

✦ Knife

✦ A bowl of water

Using the knife, peel the apple, placing the peel into the bowl of water. While doing this, repeat:

“Eye of water, go back in time.

Summon those which cannot hide.

I call to thee; 

Find what has been lost,

and send to me, through struggle and thought.”

It works almost immediately. Look everywhere, even if you’ved looked before. After you’ve found your item, toss out the peels (Outside if possible).

You may eat the apple.

[I got this spell from my partner, a long time ago]

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hi, a psa

if u are a fool like me and write in google docs (??? why. love your vision.), at some point you’ve probably shoved your face under a thick comforter into pitch darkness to allow your liquefied eyeballs to re-solidify since docs doesn’t provide any default tools to MURDER THAT HELLISH WHITE BACKGROUND with and f.lux only does so much. well if you’re younger you probably don’t give a shit but after you’ve set up your 401k and find yourself proud of matching your employer’s contributions, you’re probably at that age where u leo decaprio squint at your computer screen at all hours of the day whether it’s dark or not. anyway, this exists as an add-on:

BAM

and it has those diff options on the side to keep ur pastel aesthetic intact and it helps a little bit, enabling you to go blind slower wowe isn’t that wild

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I see this kinda advice passed around all the time here is the thing: shading with black will indeed look bad if you don’t know what you are doing. However, telling people not to do things without explaining why is terrible advice.

Shadows are the opposite of light, this includes in colour.

This means that if you have light in one colour, the shadow will be of the opposing hue, saturation, and value.

Unless the object is white, it has its own local colour -  the object’s true colour, how it would appear if the light were pure white.

The colour of the light influences the local colour of the object. so if you had yourself a brown cube and a blue light, the colours would get bluer and pinker.

now the reason shadows do not tend to be black is because pure white light is hard to find in nature.

the closest you will get to pure white light is during a really overcast day and the sun is filtering through the clouds, but even then it’ll lean towards yellow so the shadows will be slightly blue.

During a clear day, the shadows will pick up a lot of bounce light from the blue sky and have a blue tinge. You can learn more about this in this tutorial: [http://artbyriana.deviantart.com/art/Why-shadows-aren-t-gray-321656856]

But! None of this means you are never allowed to use black.

realistically shadows will have a hint of a colour to them, but stylistically you might be going for, say, a film noir look and deep black shadows are needed for impact for example.

The more you know about how light works, the more informed decisions you can make about shading and the more options you have.

If someone tells you that you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can do what you like!

yes, black is hard to use and if you just mix a colour with black it’ll get muddy, but thats easily resolved by choosing your colours manually - which ideally you want to do regardless bc the computer doesnt have your eyes & cant choose the colours you like

basically if someone gives you some art advice and says you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can, you just might need to study a little to figure out how to make things work.

I mean for example, people will say you must make your composition follow the rule of thirds and never align centrally, but while the rule of thirds makes it easy to create visual interest, Mad Max Fury Road is a testament to the fact that central composition can and will work if you experiment.

there are no rules in art! there are theories based on reality, this has been a post on colour theory & light theory, but they exist to inform you, not to restrict you.

Do what you like! Trust your eyes, if you think something looks good, then great! If you don’t, then research & experiment until you do.

Also if you wanna learn more abt colour theory, I go into it in a lot more depth over yonder: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131822744966/ http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131958395841/

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rip vine

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How do you do that little gradient coloring and line art thing?

for the lineart i use the maker always with use some pale purple and the mode i use is overlay

and for the gradient coloring well

lol i could do a speedpaint or something oneday 

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Trakoclock asked:

Hey, if you don’t mind sharing, I’ve always wondered how you got that soft celling look on your characters in your comic. Any tips? I’m currently working on my own comic and I kind of want to go for a less harsh form of cell shading. Thanks!

A couple people have asked about the way I color things and I’ve been meaning to post a tutorial on it :]. I’ve never been too good at describing my process, but I hope this helps!

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Drw the otp! plus an alt ending! PLEASE SEND ME THE POST if You USe theM

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For any other artists following me

I just found this website that has lots of free, transparent textures available to download. Useful for drawing clothes and things, or just to make a wallpaper or something ^-^

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16, and im 14

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act is super broke salestravaganza So we all know this is Not a thing I like to do. however.

-my car just needed a 350$ repair, -I had two vet visits, woo Old Dogger -school just started and I owe like 500$ in fees to the school, -and this doesn’t even count the 150$~ or so in access codes, etc, I actually need for my class, fucking top hat, fucking mastering whatever, oh my god -and due to not having a car, my mom (who is very physically disabled – i’m the closest to a caretaker that she has) has been left very high and dry and she is not, not doing well at all and I need to help HER with bills -Oh yeah I completely forgot I still need some medicine and I’m uninsured hahaha -And and and I’m going out of town next week!!! -oh yeah i forgot about needing to update my tag and reinstate my car insurance this is Hell my dudes -[shrieking] -my mental illness[es] have been (um, quite literally) trying to fucking murder my ass to boot so it’s been a fun time. it’s been fun.

buy art from me buy my adoptables buy my fursuits cardboard badges are 25$ shipped Fursuit auction links are HERE for the foam base  and over HERE for the raccoon I’m gonna try and stream in a bit here’s the relevant copypaste:

Only colored sketches tonight! 20$ for one character and 30$ for two. Floating hands/genitals/etc don’t count as an additional character! Yes: furries, ponies, pokemon, digimon, undertail, most media properties like that, weird ass “gross” kinks, ferals, etc; No: humans (anthros OK), robots, more than two characters, complicated props, complicated scenes, underage, spa//rity (as always). None of those are judgments or condemnations (except spa//rity), just what I’ll produce fastest and easiest!

Here’s a lil form to copy and paste to email me. please be prepared to pay tonight, but not until I’m done (please [please] let me finish before you pay it just works better for me brain). paypal only. knowing me I’ll probably get to 2 or 3 sketches tonight at the absolute most (but maybe more!). I’ll reply to your email if and when I’m ready to work on it. If you’re in stream you can give corrections/etc, but if you’re not present (and you don’t HAVE to be), you’ll have one revision on the final piece outside of errors that were my fault. um yeah! Thanks so much for understanding all :c

send this to mylittlehellticket ,,at,, gmail ,dot, com, which is also my paypal.

Name: Media handle by which you’d prefer me contact you (twitter, tumblr, email, etc): [e.g. contact me on my twitter @example, message my tumblr at example.tumblr.com] Character[s]: Refs (unnecessary if canon media characters but you can include if you want?): Scene, concept, idea (please give me at least a little something): Anything in particular you definitely want me to include, a kink or anatomy type or etc?: Anything you definitely don’t want [e.g. “i do not like crotchtits”]: Is it okay for me to post this comm? Y/N Do you want credit as the name you entered as the commissioner? Y/N

aight!! I’ll post/link whenever I’m actually streaming. namaste

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Hi! Your art is really good, you should be proud! Can a request a Vriska or Nepeta please?

thank you! also sorry this is like months late but here you go anon, a nepeta.

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REBLOG IF YOU'RE AN ARTIST!!!

Professional or not, no matter what art style, I wanna see how many artists are out there.

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Climbing Class Speedpaint: https://youtu.be/aapnGm3MY6I - I have to post this from mobile because it makes the image small enough to post, so sorry for lowered quality.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QtQ5-Texw)

watch my shitty speedart that i screwed the video order up on.  Also possibly subscribe if you wanna

thats the full drawing

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since ppl cant understand that reblog > likes

REBLOG > LIKE