#Empowering Connections

[charmillington]

Beyond Boxes: The Greatest Gift - A Connection That Lasts

What is the greatest gift someone could give you? Hey there, fellow explorers! Let’s dive into something truly special today: gifts. Not just any gifts, but the ones that touch your heart and make your soul sing. You know, the ones that go beyond material things and tap into the essence of what truly matters. So, what’s the greatest gift someone could give me? Well, it’s not something that…

[inamindfarfaraway]

Me: Aw, Zeke the Fighting Nighthawk is so cute.

Me:

Me: *Dr Doofenschmirtz voice* EZEKIEL THE NIGHTHAWK?!

[deancasforcutie]

still chasing the high of that halcyon age where Supernatural was my healthy safe escape from the horrors of US politics, and then

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[foursaints]

if ev ever did get pregnant they’d have a romantic (kinky) night eating his placenta together

it's just that my evan would NEVERR be comfortable with being pregnant... however! pandora 100% ate her placenta!

the hc of the rosier twins both being trans is very important to me, and i think pandora's pregnancy is an empowering act that is incredibly meaningful. especially given the context of her role as magical inventor, pandora using her prodigious magical talent to carry a pregnancy to term (as a trans woman) is just something that i want to see. it is a triumph both as a mother and as a witch.

the fantasy genre is just so ripe with opportunity for stories centering trans joy... i want to decenter evan from the pregnancy headcanons (he would never bc he just. hates children. it's 100% a personality thing) and instead highlight a character who actually IS a mother. because that story could be so emotionally resonant!!

[heartofmuse]

In the end, all I want is to do is weave the threads of my life with those of others into a masterpiece of significance.

e.v.e.

[elisabethbabarci]

Our deepest connections come from those that challenge us, as they force us to evolve, change our directions or stubborn patterns. These individuals make us see that life is not linear and finite.

Elisabeth Babarci

[juliets-roller-derby-awesomeness]

you 👏 dont 👏 get 👏 a 👏 say 👏

leave. goodbye. kindly fuck off 🙃🙃

she has a step father that raised her more than you did, ask him shawn

ask her mom

don't ask anyone, it's 2012 ask her yourself, ask her close friends, ask her family she sees at christmas

i despise this man. he's literally still conning people why do we like him?

"the biggest con of all was on your own daughter"

"i was never embarrassed, just disappointed" no girlfriend you were embarrassed. 30 minutes ago you told shawn not to go looking for him bc he "isn't very presentable"

[offrozenmemoirs]

There's also a thing i'm working on in regards to Makoto and him cutting his hair as a symbolic act of moving forward with himself. He's a shapeshifter by his nature as both a dragon and a spirit, so he can grow his hair to whatever length he wants it to, but...to me, his hair being kept long was representative of his nature as a sorcerer, he was always distant, and even when he was involved in direct battles, his strategy was to stay in his dragon form and simply fry all of his enemies with his lightning breath.

Makoto becoming a dark knight and cutting his hair short is both for tactical reasons (preventing it from being grabbed) and his actual transition into a protector who will leap in front of others to keep them safe.

[k0pi0]

i realised hush and doc are super destiel coded and now im deeply obsessed with their dynamic

[charmillington]

Beyond Boxes: The Greatest Gift - A Connection That Lasts

What is the greatest gift someone could give you? Hey there, fellow explorers! Let’s dive into something truly special today: gifts. Not just any gifts, but the ones that touch your heart and make your soul sing. You know, the ones that go beyond material things and tap into the essence of what truly matters. So, what’s the greatest gift someone could give me? Well, it’s not something that…

[y010isaghost]

not me panicking because i was expecting more people to vote for the void & starbreak lineup but now i have to make a.c. & void sing mesmerizer and then have people blast me to death in the comments for it "not making sense" /hj

[faerun]

ive been wanting to do a full playthrough of all the dragon age games with my canon girls and get my canon set up all nice and neat before dreadwolf comes out but thats hard because. my canon has morphed so much from what the games ALLOW you to do. i have two wardens. hawke has two love interests simultaneously but her true love is someone you cant even romance. rosie is the closest to inquisition canon but i have extensive ideas about what her post-Inquisition life is like that i just know dreadwolf is gonna mess up. wahhhhh

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

I just really keep going back to the intimacy of songwriting (and performing). And how twisted that could get as a diaristic child songwriter who also was participating in the pop culture industry.

[wheelercore]

One thing that I can't square with the 'will recreated Hawkins in the UD' theory is that how would will have the incredibly detailed knowledge of Hawkins in order to do that? How would he have known what was in Nancy's diary or how the inside of the abandoned Creel house looked? There are things I could understand that will probably had a subconscious mental image of from having seen repeatedly but there are things he really could not have known about and it makes me go hmmmm

[kristingelatin]