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From Gem's stream today, at around 1hour30minute mark

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my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

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Hi!! I love your art, and I was wondering if you have any advice for drawing things in perspective/foreshortening? I love how you draw your characters at different angles espec when they're doing an action, it just makes your art look so dynamic 😊

hopefully this helps!! ^^

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

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Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Standard Wing Shapes

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]

I have expanded the traditional 4 types; Highspeed, Elliptical, Low Aspect and High Aspect ratio, because they were very narrow and vague categories for the most part, adding High Energy, Thermal Soaring, Night Glider, and Passerine wings. I feel that these extra types make it easier to understand and visualize the differences and similarities between wing shapes.

I’ve renamed Low Aspect to Powered Soaring, and High Aspect to Dynamic Soaring for the purposes of the fact that names made it hard to understand purpose and were easily confusable. 

A lot of these wing types are also affected by tailfeather shape and size, and that will change their agility and energy expenditure as the tail also generates lift.

Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to be an academic dissertation or proposal, do not treat it as such. It is purely for art and writing references for others, to aid description and inspiration.

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It’s my last day at the library and I’m resting this weekend, so I’m dropping these into the world early!

Five new mid-month brushes. Two thank-you-for-keeping-me-afloat brushes. These are Clip Studio brushes. Use them with the ellipse ruler or free-draw em. See you again at the end of the month. Links to past brushes are below:

Textured Ink Brushes (Photoshop) |  Easy Stylized Hair Brush | Miscellaneous Mix Set | Spilled Ink Brush Set | Super 90s Carpet Brushes | Even More Decoration Brushes | Some More Repeating Patterns | Ornate Decoration Brush Drop | Netting and Lines | Lip & Hair Gloss | Glitter & Sparkles | Destiny Brush Pack | Valentine’s Frame Set | Candy Coated Brush Drop | Bloody Throne Pack | Magic & Daggers Set | Tarot Pack Brushes (October Update) | Elfy Card Set | Big Ol’ Card Asset Drop | All Those Brushes

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i made a tutorial on how to draw beach water or somthing idk

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I’ve been wanting to do a thing like this for a while. Behold my amazing animu mongah skills there wow swoons

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How to absolutely wreck your audience with a character death:

Let the character have plenty of screen time before the death. Show us their motivations, dreams, and inner world, so we really connect with them.

Kill them towards the latter half of the middle of your story, instead of the end, so we get to see the proper grief and how the death has affected the other characters.

Kill them off while their at their highest, or when things are just starting to look up for them.

Alternatively, kill them in the middle of their character arc, as they’re about to change for better.

For the actual death themselves, killing via betrayal from something they trusted- be it equipment failure, or a person, or killing them of something that could’ve been easily preventable, often hit the hardest.

Show other characters grief over them. Show how they’ve been absolutely wrecked over the loss of this character.

Continue to show sides of the character even after death. Have other characters find out information about them that makes the audience wish they could explore the dead character further.

Let the dead character have an ambition/goal/dream they were super passionate about that they never got to complete.

Cause an argument/conflict between the dead character and another character right before the character dies.

Have the remaining cast face challenges that could’ve been easily resolved if the dead character was there.

Kill main cast characters sparingly. A few meaningful character deaths are a lot more tear jerking than a blood bath.

If you want to be really, really cruel, and your writing in a point of view that would allow you to do this, reveal important information about the death to the audience, but not to the characters.

If your writing in a genre were it would be possible, consider having the dead character know that they’re going to die, but not revealing it to the others.

Have their death be in vain to the main goal. Instead of a heroic sacrifice, it was a cruel casualty.

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Hey, help me please. How do you write description in your novels? Not a character one, surrounding ones. How do you describe from 3 POV , the background of the novel?

5 Tips for Writing Great Descriptions

Hi there! Thanks for writing. I talk at length about this in my book The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (See Chapter 4 / “Building Your Story World,” Chapter 16 / Setting the Scene, and Chapter 21 / “Choosing the Right Details” for the majority of the discussion about description, but it’s peppered throughout), so I’ll just give a brief rundown here. :)

Tip #1: Use concrete, sensory details

That means describing, with precision, a detail you can see/hear/touch/taste/smell. Avoid using vague words that are hard to visualize or sense, like “the house was ugly” or “the weather was bad.” Instead, choose a sensory detail (or two) for your descriptions, for example “the house was a wretched shade of salmon pink” or “the wind was blowing I could taste dust in my mouth.”

Tip #2: Try not to over- or under-use descriptions

It’s common for beginning writers to either use no description, or go completely overboard. I give examples of both in my book. While there’s no hard rule about how much description is too little or too much (it depends a lot on the particular story, genre, and the writer’s style), I personally like to include around 4-5 sensory details per page.

The idea is to give the reader a solid sense of where they are without going on and on, making them want to skim over as you carry on for paragraphs about the smell and texture of a doily.

Tip #3: Use more description during important parts of the story

Description draws your readers attention to what you’re describing. Use that to your advantage. If that doily contains a blood stain that’s a pivotal clue in your murder mystery, by all means spend three sentences describing the particular color red of the blood or the weird smell it emits. Where you linger, the reader will linger.

Tip #4: Use description to set the scene

Use more description at the beginning of a new scene, or anytime the location of your story changes. I talk about this in the section on transitions in my book. Summary gets a bad reputation in fiction, but these transitional paragraphs are the perfect time to paint the scene with sensory details about your character’s surroundings.

Tip #5: Pay attention to “camera movement”

One common thing I see in writer’s manuscripts is what I call “jerky camera movement.” Here’s an example:

Jesse pulled into the driveway of the suspect’s mansion around noon. A white, floppy dog barked ferociously in the window. It was a warm, sweltering day. Jesse looked down and realized her shoe was untied. The house had three large columns in front, each wrapped with a gawdy red bow. 

In this example, the “camera” moves from the driveway, to the dog in the window, to the “day,” to Jesse’s shoe, to the outside of the house. If that was your head, looking around the scene, you’d get dizzy pretty fast. Here’s a smoother movement, starting wide and focusing in on Jesse’s untied shoe.

It was a warm, sweltering day. Jesse pulled into the driveway of the suspect’s mansion around noon. The house had three large columns in front, each wrapped with a gawdy red bow. In the window, a white, floppy dog barked ferociously. As Jesse approached the door, she looked down and realized her shoe was untied.

These aren’t perfect examples because I’ve dashed them off just now, but you get the idea :) Try not to make your reader seasick by making them look all over the scene (unless you’re trying to achieve that effect, for example, in a scene where your protagonist is drunk or discombobulated).

Hope this helps!

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Hey everyone, give me eyes

I’m doing eye makeup for pride (I’m drawing makeup onto eyes on a canvas) and I want to do diverse eyes. Send me eye colors, shapes, and lids!

Eyelid types aren’t shown because the only images I could find had like 10 different types of eyelids you find in white people and one lid titled “asian” and i know there more than one type of “asian eyelid” so 

Rules

Send me 

- eye color (or combo colors if the one you want to see isn’t listed), - eye shape, - eyelid shape/type, - skin color, - eyebrow shape, - eyebrow color, and/or - pride flag/day

I’ve already done day one (gay) but feel free to send eyes for other flags. I’m happy to incorporate eye color into the flag too if it’s realistic

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Commissions!

  Hello, I am opening up commissions! Feel free to contact me for a quote or an example of my work.

Feel free to contact me for a specific quote

I am listing the prices in the following order: sketch, lineart, color, and color + shade

Portraits - $7, $12, $25, $40

Busts - $12, $25, $40, $55

Full body - $25, $40, $55, $75

Redraws* - $20, $35, $50, $70

*Redraw prices are for full bodies. Reference photo for redraws must be provided.

- Prices shown are for my style

- +$30 for realistic drawings

- +$10 for dynamic poses

- +75% initial price for extra character

- +25% initial price for animal (or droid, if the situation calls for it)

- +$10 for detailed background

- +$5 for simple backgrounds

- Prices are negotiable

- I reserve the right to say no

On the top right, there is a drawing of Cal Kestis and BD-1 from Jedi: Fallen Order in the vault on Bogano. They are drawn realistically. The price is listed as $130, the breakdown being: full body redraw ($70), realistic ($30), droid (+0.25% -> $25), simple background ($5). 

Below that is a shaded pencil sketch of an adult Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels. The price is listed as $10, the breakdown being $7 for the sketch and $3 for the shading. No price is added on for a digital sketch.

The next drawing is of Ahsoka Tano falling with her lightsabers held in her hands. The price listed is $85 - $10 for the dynamic pose and $75 for the full body, shaded and colored. 

The last drawing is of an OC in a spotlight. The price is $40 for being a shaded and colored portrait.

Contact me DMing me here on tumblr (@no-human-has-legs-that-skinny or @eli-371), Discord (@eli-371#7299) or emailing me at eli.collegedestination@gmail.com. I’ll accept payment through paypal (@eli371173).

I will not draw - NSFW - Incest - Furry - Pedophilia

I will draw - OCs - Fanart (see tags for fandoms) - Portraits you or someone IRL (reference must be provided)

Thanks for reading and please consider commissioning me or reblogging this post!

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nother Cal! this scene is from the trailer and I’m very happy with it. it was, i think, the second or third drawing i did of him, and first featuring only Cal.

reblog welcome, do not repost

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Cal Kestis!!

So it's been a while since I posted anything on tumblr in the SW tag but I can assure you I haven't been avoiding SW. I've been painting! A lot! I'll be uploading some of my drawings in the coming weeks, starting with this one.

Reference photo here, by @lopsidedspecs. Reblogs welcome, please do not repost! Click for better quality.

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The four seasons: hot girl summer, scary woman winter, weird lady spring and goth bitch autumn

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Outlaw Energy

Page 2/? 

Cover, One

yeah. click for better quality, reblogs appreciated