will u ever give a tutorial on how you render lighting like how you pull off the amazing purple shade at night or like how you make the lightings pop ๐ you shade literally so incredibly and i think a lot of us could learn from u ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐
head in my hands ok the thing is my process is just. really not consistent FJKSJFKWW IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE ENVIRONMENT OR LIGHTING SITUATION
I think I end up using the blending mode "hard light" pretty often (but sometimes it doesn't work and looks horrendous ๐ it works best in dark environments mostly) and I abuse the hue/saturation/lightness adjustment function a lot LMAO
And in terms of making the lighting pop, I like to paint over the entire canvas a lot!! So you can add a lot of bright colors to it in that stage and render things together. + Abuse other blending layers ofc can you tell I've never done srs traditional art in my life and will probably die if I do
Also tysm for the compliments :D I hope these help a little bit JSLAKQPQRJ
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Playing with my toys
Closeups and rambles and stuff under cut
Iโve been wanting to draw this as them for a while lmao. I imagine Kabru asks very politely and they get the meal remade with no pickles and they get a discount because of the mistake.
While Toshiro is studying the bug, Kabru is studying Toshiro like a bug.
I thought it would be funny if their moms who arenโt actually their moms aka the women who raised them met up. I imagine things would be awkward at first because of racial differences and stuff but then they both started gushing over their boys and they end up getting along really well. They start sharing a countless number of embarrassing stories. Kabru and Toshiro are horrified with this development.
I made this because Toshiro sits all neat and proper on his knees and stuff but Kabru sits so crazy ๐ญ like have you seen him sitting down? Heโs got his legs going in different directions and stuff and heโll be partly criss crossed and partly straight legs like heโs a mess ๐ญ
Marcille is so nosy about everybodyโs love lives. Also I thought it would be silly if Toshiro sent him corny romantic letters that are all like: โI miss you everyday. I cannot wait until weโre reunited again.โ
Toshiro always gets so flustered over like nothing so I tried to draw him like that. I tried to make his hair puff out like a startled cat but it didnโt work that well.
I didnโt feel like doodling anything else but I like having exactly ten images so hereโs three random images of the two of them from the manga:
Thinking about Toshiro โI hate conflictsโ Nakamoto confronting Kabru about being shady with his motivations regarding the Canaries. I canโt think of any analyzing words rn my brain is all gloopy but I am thinking about that. Iโm thinking about them.
Anyways thanks for looking at my stuff ๐
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Unhinged Instagram Lives Era Fic Notes:
Ok these are small because I TRIED to just put everything in the Authorโs notes because it wasnโt supposed to be a โrealโ project ๐ญ but Iโve got a few things to say about UILE.
Playlist is just The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn't album by XANA.
Chapter 1:
โฆ Catra was planning to end up with somebody at the end of the night and Adora was lowkey her top choice, so she texted her when she decided she was done with the party she was at and hadnโt found anything else she wanted to do.
โฆ Catra just straight up misheard Adora in chapter 1 and because she never asks she literally never finds out she didnโt say kitten
Chapter 2:
โฆ I swear Catra really isnโt an alcoholic, she just doesnโt mind alcohol, is around it constantly, and has people buying her drinks in addition to have plenty money on hand, so she found she was doing it a lot and realized she needed to be more intentional about it when discussing it with her therapist.
โฆ Not that it literally ever comes up or matters, but Faithโs sister played drums on the Grammy-winning album.
Chapter 3:
โฆ Catra was kinda wrong about how Adoraโs management would feel about their connection, so it really was an issue for them to come out, especially because Adora was transitioning her image to include moreโฆ well Catra vibes, if weโre honest, which she called maturity in almost the opposite way Catraโs music was becoming more mature. Adora was getting freer and more horny, while Catra was getting happier and more responsible, but overall Adoraโs image didnโt change nearly as much as Catraโs did, and even Catraโs was a gradual shift.
โฆ So it was supposed to be a one shot. Then I had the idea for chapter two and was like fuck ittt. Then I had the idea for chapters 3 and 4 and I was like cool good ending ๐ So thatโs lowkey where I consider the end of the fic, but my brain wouldnโt shut up, which is how chapter 5 happened even though I consider 4 a solid ending. And Chapter 6 oh my god I swear. I need to stop thinking about this fic at 1AM.
Chapter 4:
โฆ Adoraโs parents are dead, Mara took her in as a kid but sheโs just a few years older and it was hard on everybody involved. Also, her full name is Grayskull, management just thought that was too โhardcoreโ for her genre so they shortened it, and even though her last name does mean something to her unlike Catra, Adora ended up liking that distance between what the public owned of her and her private life.
โฆ Catraโs fans are used to and fond of her antics. She calls it living life to the fullest in interviews and sheโs not getting into a lot of controversies or breaking the law (at least not laws that matter) so it really isnโt going to affect her appeal either way if she shifts away from it, but itโll make some people feel old when she eventually gets asked about cutting back the partying an interview. Other people will say itโs about time.
โฆ When Catra does get into controversies itโs usually shit like blowing someone off, being unafraid to insult someone she feels deserves it, or taking over a party like she did the bar. Thatโs the modern day rockstar stuff, which is a marketing term she doesnโt use herself to the public but that definitely comes up in a lot of coverage of her.
โฆ Conversely, Adora tries to keep her life private and sheโs astonishingly successful given her numbers but stuff spills out, mostly in her dating life, because it was a little messy pre-Catra. She did earnestly attempt some relationships, but they were failed attempts and that left some messy exes.
โฆ Catra hasnโt like, actually had sex in public, but thereโs definitely been some extremely horny making out in front of people at clubs and exchanges that people with shame would keep behind closed doors. Despite all outward appearances, Catra needs a safe environment to feel comfortable having sex, so she has some standards, she just tries to seem like she doesnโt.
Chapter 5:
โฆ Normally I headcanon Catra as having a really sharp memory for Pain reasons but for both trauma and sobriety reasons she really doesnโt remember much of her burn-down year, which is when she and An dated, and she meets a lot of people literally every week, so at a certain part they get away from her.
"Chapter" 6:
โฆ โlake at the bottom or our riverโ is a XANA lyric and โunhappy in Manhattanโ is a Chappell referenced queen you SERVED at the VMAs.
โฆ I did the capitalizations purposefully here with CATRA used when talking about her music and Catra used when referring to her as a person.
โฆ When I first wrote An I was not intending this bonus scene to exist but it didnโt make sense to invent another ex for it, so I just gave An a really, really bad day. The meltdown was mostly about everything else happening in her life, honestly, but when she saw she was being filmed she assumed she was recognized because of that and she snapped. I support womenโs wrongs she was justified.
โฆ Catra and Adoraโs fans do, generally, support their relationship. Both of them have come up with ways to call the other toxic so those subsets always exist, but this post really was about an outlier situation that got blown out of proportion on stan twt and wouldnโt have been that big of a deal/worth a post if the 7/11 incident hadnโt happened. I just really like r/HobbyDrama (when itโs good).
โฆ I love how extremely obvious โHardcore CATRA stanโsโ bias is when describing Catra versus Adora lol.
โฆ The link goes to the photo on Tumblr, but if you actually searched for the Twitter image url listed it would take you toa video of Megan thee Stallion at the VMAs. And the linkโฆ well cโmon yall I was goofing :3c
โฆ Lonnie made the pie chart Catra ended up posting to make fun of her while they were working on her latest album. Catra hasnโt actually fact-checked it so itโs wrong in some regards but close enough. Itโs also a pie chart pulled directly from my writing tracking spreadsheet, though I manipulated some of the values first. Catra would Not have gone to the effort of making this, the only reason she replied at all is because Lonnie sent it to her literally last week and she thought it was funny, and also wanted the (small subset) who were bitter about her finding happiness to get ratioโs appropriately. It bothers her when people try to make Adora out to be toxic, thatโs HER girl, excuse you.
โฆ Thereโs always that one annoying comment at the bottom of the post that then totally unrelated discourse breaks out in the replies on and thatโs what happened with that last comment. Also jjaj10 is for Aly & AJโs recent 10 year album anniversary this summer.
โฆ Catra goes for the slightly subtler โGOD.DESSโ title for her next album (her albums are all stylized in all caps) which is mostly about how fucking amazing her or Adora are in various respects (include sex) with a few โbad bitches have bad days tooโ moments (Megan the Stallion you are iconic). The cover art is centered on Adora, actually, whoโs sitting on their sex bench dykespreading in pants and a tight tank top showing off her arm muscles and serving face to the camera while Catra drapes over her wearing black leather and posed with her leg slipping between Adoraโs. Itโs subtle but the kink people in their fandoms immediately identify this photo was taken in a Very Private room in their home and once they say it everybody knows thatโs not a workout bench even though tbh it looks like one in the shot. They knew that was going to happen or they wouldnโt have done it, Catra literally has an S&M-type song on the album. Theyโre really just living their best lives at this point.
โฆ It is notโฆ impossible that I add to this fic more in the future, and if so it would be tacked on the end but could conceivably by non-linear, i.e. scenes taking place during or before the main fic itself and not just following it.
โฆ I used a modified version of this public work skin for the reddit post.
And now, to humiliate me, here is a list of sentences that were supposed to be the last sentence of the fic when I wrote them (all of which are the final sentence of their respective final scene):
CH1: โMaybe she will release the song after all.โ [next to last scene] (then I started writing in the notes that they did do the jam session, etc, and I realized I should just put that in the fucking fic)
CH1: โIf Adora wants to put that song they wrote together on the radio, sheโll certainly see Catra in her bed a lot more frequently if only because Catra will get a constant reminder of what she sounds like when sheโs moaning for her.โ [last scene] (okay itโs a completed one-shot now, cool, whatโs that, itโs a party scene coming in with a steel chair-)
CH2: โMaybe her therapist will be proud enough to make up for the disappointment of the drink.โ [last scene] (ok two chapters for fun, if I get more ideas maybe- shit I already have more ideas)
CH3: โMaybe Catra wants to know what it would actually be like.โ [last scene] (hey thatโs a nice wrap-up point. Lol I bet Adoraโs introduction to Catraโs scene is- fuck here we go)
CH4: โItโs somebody elseโs loss if they donโt like what that does for her.โ [last scene]
CH5: โNot when sheโs coming home to her arms every night.โ [first scene] (ok this oneโs interesting because I very quickly had the idea for the Adora interview because I looooooove writing interview scenes after the catโs out of the bag so originally, I tacked that onto the end of the chapter, and then I had more ideas and separated the interview and the new scenes into their own thing)
CH5: โFaith can stay mad theyโre having amazing sex and putting out chart-toppers.โ [last scene] (again the fic was supposed to be DONE but I wrote this write before bed and as I was lying there not falling asleep I wrote the stupid hobbydrama post in my head and just. Sighed and picked up my phone to take notes)
And then, finally, the actual final sentence at the end of Chapter 6. Iโm exhausting even to myself.
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Steve acts like a pouty brat and a total bitch when heโs sexually frustrated.
Enter Eddie, love sick and clearly pining for Steve ever since they started being โkind ofโ friends after the whole ordeal with Vecna. He doesnโt think he has a chance with him, because, well, Steve Harrington is โstraight.โ
But Eddie is in for a surprise when Steve comes to him one day, eyes big and body buzzing with something as he leans close to himโฆ
โHave you ever fucked a guy before?โ
The question made Eddie choke.
He thought it was a joke, it had to be, but the way Steveโs eyes got all heavy with a glimpse of desire and pink lips wet by his tongue, Eddie knew this was very much real.
Steve was really asking him about fucking guys and that was definitely not something he wouldโve ever expected, which made him nervous, but with unusual confidence, Eddie slowly leaned closer.
โWhy?โ He dropped his voice โYou curious, darling?โ
It was supposed to come as a small comeback, making Steve get a little taste of his own medicine as he caught Eddie off guard just now, but Steve just bit his bottom lip while eyeing Eddieโs lips instead.
And then, he smirked.
โI might beโฆ but only if youโre up for it, Eddie.โ
The breathless sound of his name on Steveโs tongue made Eddieโs whole body feel hot as he dropped his hand to the younger boy's hip.
He didnโt know where he got the strength to ask, โAnd why me?โ
โYouโreโฆ handsome. Pretty too. You have really nice hands, I like the rings. And - not to sound creepy, dude, but a huge fucking dick too.โ
โDude?โ
โYes, dude.โ Steve whined as he rolled his eyes and all Eddie could think about was how much of a brat he was. Especially with that pout on his lips.
He loved it.
โSo, will you fuck me?โ
Eddie grinned, โAsk nicely.โ
โFuck me!โ Steve demanded with a frustrated groan and all Eddie could do was laugh while pulling Steve in, finally grabbing that beautiful ass as he leaned in to capture those hungry lips.
โWhat a bitch.โ
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