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Red Crowned Flight Switching it up from the more complicated paintings with something simple and relaxing. It's nice to let my mind go blank and let the thoughts flow like water~

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We need to bring back the athletics body type post

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Wonder Woman

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Your art is gorgeous! If you don't mind my asking, what brushes do you use?

ahh thank you so much!!

i really don't use anything special...i alternate between these two brushes (and one more, that's since been deleted) for the lines/sketches and for colors i just use the basic gpen lol.

i rarely render stuff anyway (if you look at even the colored pieces, only the skin and hair have anything to them, the rest is flat colors) so i don't think too hard about the brushes except for the sketching process (since i also dont really do lineart LOL i just clean up the sketch)

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how does being punched in the face feel like

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ARMS AKIMBO from my tutorials BOOKS, on KICKSTARTER in MARCH!

Lorenzo!

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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

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— The unknown book pages.

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Rotting Season

Follow the trail. Catch the Scent. Hear the air wheezing between buzzing of insect wings. Shake off the flies. Find the dawn.

Download - Prints and Apparel

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As promised — all freebies are now available as one big download, including backgrounds and assets!

Daggers, stars, blood, textures, and everything else. I counted everything while sorting, and there are 231 brushes for Clip Studio, and a few more for Photoshop, Procreate, and Krita. Yippee!

Thanks for your support! 🥰

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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I’ve never been great at drawing super realistic art, and I think it’s because it never really held my interest. I just love stylized characters which is why I’ve been drawing them obsessively for over 20 years! Because of that, I’ve got a lot of ideas about how you can approach stylized anatomy - here’s a snippet of a longer video I made on this topic ✨

You can watch the full video here!

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

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Made a twitter thread of the brushes and textures I use!! Wanted to share them here too

Links for everything can be found here

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GAME OVER!

We have been playing The Marble Game (you can block "the marble game" if you get tired of looking at asks) again! If you'd like context, the initiating post is here!

Those of you who swallowed the marble received the following text:

Upon swallowing the marble, you gain access to a unique well of Void magic. In a few weeks, you will encounter a second god who will stay her hand from killing you because she recognizes your new magic, and you will go on to save the rest of the world with her aid.

Good job! Thank you for playing!

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Those of you who did not swallow the marble received something similar to the following text:

In a few weeks, you will meet a second, different kind of god who will have no reason to stay her hand in killing you, and will do so.

My condolences, and thank you for playing!

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Where did this come from:

In my story The Final Pack, the main character has been led to believe that supernatural creatures are mindlessly feral and bloodthirsty. However, when his best friend is bitten, it is the humans who wish to kill him and the werewolves who agree to save him. This turns his perception of supernatural creatures on its ear, and in a bid to further protect his best friend from harm, he asks to set off into the apocalypse with the pack to find out what else he has been wrong about and what else is out there, and what to do about it.

Adventures ensue as they travel around the ruined world, including this particular one, where they happen upon Eden (the town in this game) and meet a trio of gods they help out of a bind. Afterwards, the main character is given the inert fragment, which he does in fact swallow and gains access to a well of Void magic which will aid him in later adventures (and do some horrific Void things as well, but he’ll get over that).

The reason I initially asked (a few years ago) about all of this was because I was concerned that people would not find it reasonable to swallow an unknowable object given to them by a likely-benevolent void god, but as it turns out, MOST people are perfectly willing to do so. Often without even asking questions. People just really want to put shiny things in their mouths I guess.

The god in this actually comes from the @void-lore tumblr (which is part of an original story), which is the setting for Georgia and Alex’s later story. Georgia and Alex actually have a story prior to interacting with The Final Pack characters. I am actually turning Final Pack into a novel! You can follow progress on the Final Pack discord!

Thank you again to everyone who participated, it was a pleasure playing with you all!