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A lot of people on twitter wanted me to explain how I draw expressions, so here you go

Unless you're drawing explicit realism, in my opinion, expressions should be exaggerated to some degree. If you aren't doing a 1:1 recreation, the point is to get the FEELING across. Try making the expression you want to draw and feeling how your face pinches and stretches.

Skin doesn't just "disappear" when your face moves it around --- that's where wrinkles come from! Pay attention to where your skin creases when you emote, and use it to your benefit. It's a fine line between overdoing it and underdoing it -- find your own balance.

Ultimately, every expression has a little bit of push and pull, unless your face is completely neutral (and even then, there are still some wrinkles...). Learning to think of expressions as actions and reactions is VERY helpful in learning to draw them without needing a reference, and in learning how to stylize and push expressions based on references as well!

I think a lot of people end up with stiff or unexpressive emotions in their art because they're just trying to recreate a picture instead of understanding WHY and HOW the face is moving --- and it's a tough thing that takes a while to really pick up and learn. Hopefully is helpful in showing a way of thinking about it that can influence your process and approach to emotions!!!

Also, bonus: even without the lines, the planes alone still show a LOT of emotion.

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I love you fat people I'm so sorry about the world

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Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

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It's still eidens birthday somewhere..in my heart so happy birthday to the one and only grand sorcerer and the ultimate light SWITCH

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Small preview for my contribution to the @zhongchilizine on twitter!!

Been wanting to join a zhongchili zine and was very happy to be able to participate! Thanks so much 🤩

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Bandwagoning with that barbie meme but ittorou

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Itto but I make him wear my casual itto cosplay with a few modifications hahaha. I actually finished him first before gorou but eh

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I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

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Casual gorou because I cannot be bothered with his og outfit. Will post itto next because ittorou haha

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Long time no art and since I'm sick until now. Have some plein air beach art I did before

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"If Superman took design cues from Wonder Woman" by Theobromic on Twitter

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❄️ babe

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Armor and dwarf!

Armor--Can you tell us the most important lesson you’ve learned by yourself?

Oohh that is a tough one. I would say the big one is, and one I have to keep reminding myself of, is "There's a lot of stuff in day to day life that is easy to take personally, but it's really not worth it to take personally." And also by extension, "If you take everything personally, eventually that turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy." The truth is people get tired, people make mistakes, most people are working with a limited frame of reference and limited resources. The universe is not conspiring to destroy you, but if you fixate on the idea that it is, then it just becomes all the more easy for it to really manifest in how you go through life. Like.. there was this lady who came into the library, clearly out of breath, demanding a book that she had put on hold yesterday. And I looked it up in our system and I was like, "Sorry, ma'am, it looks like our copy of that already got checked out." And this woman pretty much started having a meltdown--you could tell this was a book her daughter needed for school, she somehow got it in her head that we, the library, were personally screwing her and by extension her daughter, over.

But the truth of the matter is this: we run the holds list every morning, but books that are being checked out by patrons before they can be grabbed by librarians or aides, just get checked out to that patron. It's a first-come-first-serve thing. We had finished grabbing holds for the day before she made the hold at 4 PM, and another patron checked out our copy of that book at 6 PM. Both of these events occurred a full 14 and 16 hours before we would even run the next holds list, but this lady was having a breathless existential crisis at our desk over shit that... just happened. Shit that, sure, is inconvenient and unfortunate, but is just one of the things that happens when a book collection is shared with the whole community (and probably also happens when a book is assigned for school--like, sorry we prioritize patrons who are actually in the building. If your book was actually on the holds shelf, we would be having a different conversation, but it wasn't.) But yeah it was one of those situations where this lady was so convinced we were screwing her over on purpose I was internally like "Damn, lady, if I wasn't a librarian I'd hope your daughter never gets that book with the way you're acting." Like if you assume malice on another person's end enough, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, but that's not on them, that's on you. So that's a thing I try to keep in mind when things aren't going my way, and it also keeps me humble. Like, you aren't enough of the center of the universe for it to conspire against you. The universe doesn't give enough of a shit about you to screw you over. How you react to that shit, that defines who you are, so don't be an asshole.

Dwarf--What is word that you always seem to spell wrong?

Compatible/Incompatible and indefatigable--basically a lot of words that have the suffix that have to do with 'able' but aren't spelled 'able' or have more than one additional vowel sounds before it that are easily confused.

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Red dead of night diluc cause I love his skin so much hehe

#dilucragnvindr #DilucFanart #Genshinlmpact #artph #dilucgenshinimpact #dilucfanart

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Already did 2 ittorou romance cover style art now it's🔥❄️ turn

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Graphic design is my passion

Online store is live! https://shp.ee/f898k4y

Will be editing and debuting more stuff throughout the month of April!

#nucarnival #janussilang #onlinestore #genshinimpact #ittorou #zhongchi i #eeaao #nucarnivalart #nucarnivalolivine #olivinenucarnival #nucarnivalfandom #nucarnivalblade #yakumonucarnivalfanart #dantenucarnival #quincynucarnival #trese

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Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.