#I have looked at tutorials and such

[boxbusiness]

So then I dusted off that Clip Studio Paint program collecting dust on my laptop and used it. I'm horribly not used to it...

[stunfiskz]

brain rotting about how fucked it is to be a darkner again lately. how do you care about being abandoned by your gods if they never seemed to care that much about you in the first place

[chalkrub]

more svanhildr - trying new things, like a brave boy

[dragonskulls]

i remade my old talon tutorial with a few extra tips! these are just things i have learned from references, other artists and experimenting myself, so i hope they can be helpful for you!

[dyradoodles]

A couple people in my ZS server mentioned referencing my drawings to figure out Seph's hair, so I figured I'd make a tutorial about how I do it! I hope it's helpful lmfao I think this is only the second tutorial I've ever made

[panharmonium]

Bookbinding: The New Deal by Closer

Moar bookbinding! This one is a Suits fanfic that I bound for @brambleberrycottage's birthday (pictures shared with the author's permission).

[Same disclaimer as always applies: I do this for fun; no money has been made from this project!]

Notes on the binding: This was my third leather book, but my first time sewing on cords (my previous leather books were both split boards). The actual sewing process was definitely...something. Sewing is usually my favorite step of a bind, but not this time. (Possibly because I was sitting on the floor at the base of the stairs sewing the book on a shelf under my desk, as that was the easiest sewing frame hack I could come up with - once I rig something that will allow me to sit up like a human being and not be scrunched up like a hermit crab, I am sure I will enjoy the process more.)

So the sewing itself was a bit painful, but I did really love how the board attachment played out in the end, with the cords laced into the boards. It is SO satisfying not to be doing case bindings anymore! It's the same feeling of relief I had when I first learned how to do split board bindings - you have so much more control over the placement of the cover boards, so much less opportunity for skew, so much more stability. No more casing-in anxiety necessary. (You do acquire all-new steps to be anxious about, but for me, it's worth it).

Notes on the design: I've never actually watched Suits, but the fic itself takes place in and around Harvard Law, so I used that as my inspiration for the book's design. The book is covered in crimson leather from Siegel. Endbands are handsewn with metallic red and gold threads. The blind tooling on the cover is a street map of Cambridge, MA, which I drew onto tracing film and then tooled through the film onto the leather. (So far I've only used a foil quill heat pen to do this, because brass tools are expensive. I'm taking a class on traditional tooling soon and I'm VERY excited for it, but for now, this is what I have access to.)

The gold outlines in the design highlight the buildings of Harvard Law. (These lines are also not actual gold tooling - paint pen for now.)

^ early design work, featuring unsightly eraser smudges.

I followed a similar theme/color scheme for the interior. For the endpapers, I used acrylic paints and a dry sponge to make a crimson and gold pattern:

For the title page, I modified an image of Harvard's Veritas shield to display the fic's title and author.

The chapter headers may not immediately ping an association for anyone who doesn't live here/spend a lot of time on the T, but they were the first thing I came up with - they're designed to look like the signage for the Red Line, which is the subway route that serves Harvard Square.

Notes for future me: The one thing that went "wrong" with this bind was that the endpapers ended up being short at the foreedge. I knew this was going to happen before I pasted them down, but I had to make a choice between two undesirable results - the boards were already VERY slightly curved inwards after doing the fill-in, and if I used paste on the endpapers (so they would stretch), I was worried it would pull too hard as it dried and make the boards curve too much. But if I used PVA, the endpapers wouldn't stretch enough and would end up being short. I decided I would rather have short endpapers than warped boards, so that's what I went with, but next time I might try doing one less lining inside the boards and hope that the pastedown will handle more of the counterpull.

Despite little things like that, I had a great time with this! Every time I make something I learn new things, and every time something goes "wrong" it's good to look back and be like "ten years ago I was duct taping the spines of loose pages that I covered in cardstock! i'm doing fine, actually." Lots of progress has happened and lots of fun has been had, which is ultimately the point.

Big thank yous are owed to @brambleberrycottage for letting me send her all my bookbinding experiments, and also to Closer for a) writing this fic in the first place and b) okay'ing the sharing of photos! Much appreciation goes out to both of you :)

[northstarscowboyhat]

Totally real and canon older Staroba sprites from the upcoming Undertale Yellow 2 game

[0m3n-0f-d3ath]

🧱 Ottto

In the 3-D 🧱

[tayatraer]

A child of war, a fallen leader of the nation and a mysterious check-taker. What they gonna do?

(Click for better quality!)

Also version without text cus i still liked it

[speakofshinee]

Our sunshine and light ~♡ [ONEW 1st Photo book: ONLYOU - x x ]

[dragkingsrule]

Do you have any good beginner drag king makeup refs?

Personally, I'm not the type of king who wears makeup outside of drag, so what I started out with was trying to figure out masc contouring based off of this reference:

Some of the kings on this blog also have makeup tutorials! Probably more than I list here, so if you really like someone's look, I recommend digging through their videos wherever they have them!

Makeup:

Drag King Make-up Tutorial from Adam All

Landon Cider's makeup YouTube account with multiple tutorials

Hugo Grrrl has a couple makeup tutorials here and here

Travis Fiero has a tutorial that I liked

Tenderoni's beard tutorial

King Perka$exxx's cartoon-style makeup tutorial

Practical effect facial hair:

How To Apply A Fake Beard (Drag King Tutorial) by Majic Dyke

Spikey Van Dykey’s curly glitter mustache tutorial

Again, this is a very non-exhaustive list--I recommend checking out the artists on this blog for more! Best of luck to you, and happy kinging!

[skeletalheartattack]

[carlyraejepsans]

ghost trick was amazing but how the fuck do you make a game where unburying people is one of its core mechanics and then don't unbury the dead wives. are you kidding me with this crap.

[narsh-poptarts]

Attempt on the mock fit for the vest!! This is the first time I'm doing a bigger clothes-related sewing project so I'm really hoping it goes well

Apollo Justice one day soon I shall be you <3

feat my really dirty mirror

[zarla-s]

So I spent the last couple days making a HeavyMedic fansite and it is the most ELABORATE SITE I'VE EVER MADE and I'm so unbearably proud of it, it looks SO COOL!! Especially the Fictracker page!! It's even responsive!! You have no idea how long it took to get everything looking right and spacing it and everything. I've never made a site that looks this fancy before! I'M SO PROUD OF IT LOOK AT IT!! LOOK AT IT!!! LOOK AT IIIITTTT plz

Also made some link buttons! Still don't really have an official name for the site as it is but WHATEVER maybe I'll decide on one later. YOU CAN USE THESE TO LINK TO IT FROM YOUR OWN SITE you have your own site right, you should make onneeee (here are some resources if you don't know how) and if it's a TF2 site TELL ME AND I WILL LINK BACK TO IT

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[peppermint-moss]

hihi! first off, I absolutely LOVE your artstyle lol

would you have any tips on how to draw rosettes? I’ve been practicing drawing markings for a while now but I still can’t get it to look round/circle-ish yet natural lmao

Thank you! and Rosettes are weird lil guys haha; here's how I do them!:

Rosettes come in a lot of varieties though! Some rosettes have more or less blobs, or sometimes they're just solid dots/blobs. 3 blobs just makes a good example for a tutorial because it shows how the blobs follow a circle shape

And by "cirular" i mean anything from a perfect circle, to a wide oval, to a rounded rectangle or triangle lol (leopard photo below from unsplash)

You could actually probably do step 4 first, and use that 'inner circle' as your circular guideline for your blobs! I prefer doing my blob lines first though so I can space each rosette out how I like (vs doing the inner circle first and later realizing that with the blob lines the rosettes are too close together)

I used my typical triangle brush because I use it for everything But a circular brush looks more realistic I think:

Hope that helps!

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