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has to be the greatest idea anyone ever came up with

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Do you happen to have any tips on drawing water/waves? You do such a lovely job with it!!! You really manage to capture the beauty of light sparkling on the water's surface/passing through the water and it's gorgeous.

The most important thing about being able to draw something is understanding what you're drawing and why it looks like that. How does it function? Draw with intention.

Water doesn't have a fixed shape, but it has weight and moves accordingly. Water moves in a jerky motion and splashes in a violent manner. Water is fluid, but when it hits anything, it literally creates waves, it has a lot of momentum.

The look of water varies on how much you can see through it, how clear it is, where it is as in what is it reflecting (ocean floor, the sky, swimming pool tiles etc.), how deep is it and so on.

Swimming pools are very clear, you can see far into the water and it's almost like looking at glass

In the sea / lakes deeper water is darker and harder to see into -> the shore is shallow and you can see more into the water

Lighting and the sky affect the look of water a lot, the water is always reflecting the sky in some way.

Time of day and weather -> how dark the water is in relation to the sky

Low sun -> creates highlights on the water (early morning, sunset, sunrise..)

Underwater lighting is always darker and in shadow. Even on a bright day there are heavy shadows. The light is mostly at the top, close to the surface and the rest of the light scatters towards the bottom as pillars of light.

Variety in color is important to bring the water to life!!! A wave or water is never just blue, it's a collection of hues..!

Phew, so there's some thoughts, we'll be here all week if I keep going, there's such an infinite amount of things to point out, but I hope this helps a bit!

And remember references!! Stay curious and really look at a lot of pictures, videos, there's always something new to learn and discover!

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Fired off a response to a message as soon as I recieved it instead of sitting back and letting some time pass first (my masculine mystique is irreversably damaged)

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You are NOT my GOD.

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i'm trying to flirt with this noblewoman but she keeps asking me to demonstrate my flawless sword technique and i don't think she realizes how much effort i'm putting in to make my tits bounce while doing so

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convincing this wandering swordmaster (loser, woman) to keep demonstrating her flawless technique to cleave a man from his life for me because her tits bounce really lewdly whenever she does it and she hasn't noticed yet

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Trump-Musk divorce has prompted a frankly historic day of tweeting

Bonus:

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Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?

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“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”

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ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*

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I can either eat an actual lunch or I can eat popcorn and drink a mug of hot chocolate... I want to believe that my stomach knows the difference between these two things but I'm starting to suspect otherwise

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Average British Fantasy Author of the 20th Century: Born in Hong Kong, raised in Singapore, Kingston and Oxford, he kissed his first girl at the tender age of 38. He spent 23 years obsessively writing notes for his epic masterwork, the Sword of Gormenlia series, with elements drawn from Indian mysticism, Arthurian mythos, Surrealist poetry, Victorian racism and Radical beliefs[?]. He died in Cyprus where he owned the world's most beautiful houseboat.

Average American Fantasy Author of the 20th Century: Born on the border between Ohio and Montana, Wizjeremiah VanderMcDercken, better known by his pseudonym John "Wizard" Whiteman, was raised in a ghost town and was the only citizen of his county who could read. At the age of 14, he stole a car and drove 30 hours straight to New York City to send his first story "The Alien was Really a Man" to Astounding Stories, for which he was paid a whopping 12$. A string of successes followed, including "The Man was Really a Robot" "The Alien was Really a Wizard" and "The Wizard is Really a Man When You Think About It". He harassed Samuel R. Delany for twelve years over a mild criticism of one of his now out-of-print novels. Died in Yonkers where he had a condo.

Average Canadian Fantasy Author of the 20th Century: Born just outside of Toronto

Average French Fantasy Author of the 20th Century: Despite publishing over 170 novels over a period of fifty years, no one outside of France, or indeed within France, knows who Jean Messac is. Left on the steps of a convent in the south of France, he soon learned to hate the nuns, the books in the local library, Parisians, Americans, specifically the citizens of Syria, the Dominican Republic and Bulgaria, the French literary establishment, Regionalist writers, Sartre, De Gaulle, Casimir, anyone who appeared on TV, Radio, Newspapers and Photographs. He lived in a shoebox gifted to him as a joke from André Breton. He was a high school teacher and wrote for a variety of magazines and publishers, was institutionalized three times and was a Majdanek survivor. His books have all been translated in Russia and Japan following a popular JRPG adapting his saga "Pox-Children of the Kamchadals". He died in the same city where he spent his entire life at the age of 64.

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shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

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Huntik doodle since I'm rewatching it This was such a banger back then.