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ninelivesart · 1 year

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I’m having a bit of an artist dilemma and I’m hoping someone might be able to help.

Every year my work does a pumpkin decorating contest (painted, not carved). And the prompt is always “Favorite book character.”

This year I thought it would be fun to do all the main SJM girls. I also bought a pack of acrylic paint pens just for my pumpkin.

However, I usually work digitally and wanted to draw up my designs digitally just to play it safe. Since you can’t really sketch on a pumpkin.

Now I’m stuck trying to figure out how to get the designs onto the pumpkin. Nothing I’ve tried so far has worked. I tried to decoupage the images but they just peeled right off. I then downloaded a paid app that’s supposed to superimpose your images over the camera. Great in theory. Didn’t work out for this particular project.

And now I’m back at square one. I considered the old pencil tracing technique but the designs are just too detailed and I know it won’t come out visible enough to be worth the effort.

The only other thing I’ve thought of is a projector. But since I have no plans to use it for tv, I don’t know what to look for. I still want something relatively affordable. But I’m not looking for something to project big images. The pumpkin is fairly small even for a pumpkin. I know I’ll probably use it for canvases. But I still don’t want to shell out the money for something unless I’m sure it’ll do what I want it to do. And we don’t really have a store here that I can go browse and talk to people.

Also I did consider a home made projector but to get it to do what I need, I’d have to buy so many supplies that I may as well just buy a real one.

So that’s where I’m at. I had this issue last year too and i ended up giving up just because nothing worked out. I’m hoping I can get at least one of these ladies on my pumpkin this year.

If you have any ideas or know of a good projector I can buy, I’d be really grateful.

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cozylittleartblog · 2 months

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Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

#columbo #knight rider #art #michael knight #kitt #comic #highlight reel #crossover #telebeast #there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public #this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy #if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo #this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them #niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet #not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao #stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio #cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps #this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march #is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool #ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN #COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page #i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier #action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write #more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3 #there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty #i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes #the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔

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of-mutts-and-men · 10 months

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I’m not meant to work I’m meant to be part of a werewolf pack and be so very eepy and snuggly with all the other omegas in a big cozy nest all day >:((

#turning my failures into fantasy #im scared im never actually going to ever have a significant amount of income #i make like 20 something bucks a month if im lucky from side hustles #ive worked 2 fast food jobs for a collective 6 days and couldn’t handle it #only hired me in the first place because they said they were desperate for workers #only hurts a little bit #i just wanna move out so im not sensory overloaded 24/7 and my ocpd brain can give it a break with constantly day dreaming about moving out #i finish college this week!!! and have zero experience in anything #don’t go to college kids it’s a waste of time if you’re not doing a trade job #sighh

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the-holy-ghosted · 3 months

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And I want to go home,

but I am home.

very late birthday gift for @solittles

#the heron giveth #bridglar #briglar #john bridgens #henry peglar #the terror #aheem heem. long time no ART also no me. ive been sulking. like a loser #im still sulking a little but i finished this today and elliot encouraged me to post it #only took me about a week and a half to fucking draw this. its been hard to draw lately #and i redid this about four times before i settled on it and i STILL dont think i like how it looks but its FINE ill just have to draw #more bridglar. ohhhh what a shame i must make more gifts for my lovely partner. ohhhhhh the tragedy #ive got a bigger project in mind for these 2 but for right now take this im going back in my hole

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codename-adler · 3 months

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i’m thinking today is TSC read day

#what better day than the midsts of a heatwave to read about SUNHINE #two things i’m worried about tho #1) i cannot stay home to read bc of the heat therefore i have to put myself through TSC in Public and that #wildly un confident this will go well for anyone involved #2) wednesdays are my only break in the week meaning i’m back to work tomorrow but whether i finish it all today or not i’ll still be #unsuitable for work #i’m honestly so scared #for my meow meow mental health #first aftg read was…. *WEEKS of pain #also i’m afraid this’ll change everything about my wips and ocs and hcs

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andtheyreonfire · 8 months

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goro akechi has been dead for 7 slutty, slutty years

#well. 4 if you say royal takes place in 2019 #persona 5 #2/2 #akechi goro #goro akechi #persona 5 royal #p5r spoilers #it's not 2/2 yet in my timezone. but it is spiritually i think #my brain hurts and i just wanna buy the zine but i gotta finish the assignment uuuuuuuuuu #i think i'm out of it but i can't tell if this source is just. not even addressing why these practices are argued to be abusive #or he's just doing it purposely #''oh it's not 40 hours a week!!! it's an Average of 40 hours a week!!! and it's more like 30-35'“#''ohh people have called out the past use of electro-shock therapy...don't they know we only used it for dangerous behaviors????''#''ohhh well if any one was actually abused in these practices they should contact the authorities'' we are talking about CHILDREN #book-licker. i am so tired. why do you mention studies and then not source them in your references.#anyways i should be having my autism times now that's what i mean yeah

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arvoze · 6 months

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what the ever

#wat ever. get tagged #pokemon #pokemon mystery dungeon #nuzleaf #my art #luwel #yoy can tell i did not finish these images bc i drew his coat wrong on the right half of the 1st image #the 1st ones are from like a week or so ago i just blow up #his nose is always so inconsistent. i think it should be like the 1stone though. it should point upwards more #i just forget all about that tbh. like i only do it if i feel like it #man. ishould really muse over these things more before i work on vv LOLLLL #i have a lot of owed art to get to + owed art to post. i'll probably post them when im done with the last 2 #one of them is a render though which i would Like to do like these but im struggling a wee bit

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lenievi · 1 year

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Stargate SG-1 is so good. I love it so much 🥺

#might spam you over the week. i think i'll use it to get a distance from snw for a while #i mean i'll watch the kirk-uhura episode on friday but maybe kirk will disappoint me and since the episode after is the xover #i might just... wait until the season is finished or something #(i mean i don't think kirk will disappoint me since the bits in the trailers sounded good... but you never know lol)#it's not that season 2 is bad but i want less spock and i don't think that's happening any time soon #hopefully he won't really have a big role in uhura's episode but then again they might finally introduce him and uhura and the lute who even #knows #which is obviously what i have wanted ever since the announcement but me and spock have a complicated relationship atm lol #i should forget about spock #i hope the transporter scene with kirk and la'an is happening #i hope that kirk's smile when he beams aboard is aimed at la'an #even if that was the only scene they'd share in that episode i'd be content #but the trailer could lie to me #even though so far the trailers actually delivered what was 'promised'#in s1 they felt more misleading but this time what i thought was happening in the trailers happened in the show so far #anyway #stargate is good :D #leni's nonsense

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figofswords · 8 months

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anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already

#the problem is. actually there are several problems #1) I’ve been out of the Batman/dc comics phase for almost a year so I don’t care that much about the topic #2) I am fifteen pages in and have not touched it in months so I’ve completely lost my train of thought #3) I can’t just reread it because I hate first five pages or so and I know I need to change it but I was trying to finish before editing #so now my only solution is I need to open up a new doc and completely restructure the whole thing by splicing together the existing writing #so that I can figure out where the hell im going with this and make sure things fit together better #unfortunately that sounds fucking exhausting #but I told my mentor I would have an update for him by the end of the week and. well. it’s the end of the week #I have to present it in April. I have to write and submit an abstract in March #the school gave me $1500 for this stupid essay and if I don’t have anything to show for myself.#well. I don’t know they can’t take the money BACK but it’s not a good look #and also I would feel bad #I did the research!!! i interviewed comic writers even!!! I just haven’t finished WRITING IT DOWN #and I KNOOOOWW once I get started it’ll be fine once I’m going I’m going #but STARTING is hard because I feel like I have to finish it in one go which makes it so huge and daunting #I’m like. slamming my head into a wall. just write a couple sentences Jess something is better than nothing #just start it you don’t have to finish just START just MAKE the new DOC #I know!!!!! that is what my therapist would say!!!! Jess you’re trying to oneshot it bc of your dumb adhd brain!!!!#stop looking at it like that and making it scarier!!!#but even tho I know that logically I’m still like oh I should put away the dishes o should make bread #I should work on my six different art pieces I should do laundry i should play with the puppy I should go for a walk I sh

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lethalhoopla · 2 years

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I am once again losing my mind.

This time: I went to look up references of Varric, and just typed "Varric Tethras" into the search bar. I was going to just tab over immediately to the images section, eyes barely glancing over the obvious top-result fandom wiki, then (more entertainingly, but still expected) Wikipedia link-

but. but the next one.

GOODREADS??

.... There's absolutely no tongue-in-cheek in the entry either.

(of course I immediately clicked on it who do you think I am)

There are 3 quotes from him relating to storytelling, both from 2 and Inquisition, as well as a book attribution:

The Dragon Age Novel Edition of Hard in Hightown.

ATTRIBUTED TO VARRIC TETHRAS.

with Mary Kirby*~

Absolutely unblinkingly written summary/bio.

I love this with my whole heart. Varric you beautiful bastard -- and DA writers/editors (Mary Kirby very much most importantly included) you even more beautiful, dorky, wonderful bastards.

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*if you're not in the know, Mary Kirby is a cornerstone of the DA writing team, including being the one who was in charge of Varric (and Merrill!). To say she's his "trusted human confidante" is certainly putting it one (delightful) way.

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #varric tethras #i love things like this idk its just so delightful to see the love for a character so clearly echoed from the writers to fans and back agai #like it makes sense HiH is on goodreads - its literally a published book! (you can read most of it in dai codex in fact)#very fun and cheeky novella - not originally planned to be written #but mary kirby did it during DAI's development during times the team would work on 'related projects' that #would flesh out/expand on the world but probably/likely wouldn't see the light of day (which is really cool and immersive)#she apparently banged out most of HiH in a WEEK as codex entries (which are only 500 words long MAX so she had a hard cap!)#woke up in a fugue state with it finished kinda vibes apparently XD #anyways a couple years after DAI she was contacted and asked if she wanted to make it into a publishable novella that'd be illustrated #she agreed and here we are lmao #but! it's By Varric *with Mary Kirby*#and idk #my lil storytelling loving heart just is so delighted about all aspects #and its lead to Varric having a true-blue goodreads profile #so much good shit in the world man #including weird lil website entries on behalf of fictional authors that have 'real' published novels thanks to Dedicated Writers #fucking impeccable shit man

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icewindandboringhorror · 3 months

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Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

#Definitely not going to be able to stick with it just due to like... being realistic about my energy levels and etc. ESPECIALLY as we #enter the Evil Summer and it becomes hot all the time. But... one can attempt.. at least...#I'm also a very slow writer since I tend to re-read and edit while I write. and only move onto the next section once what I'm writing #seems okay. Which is easy for visual novel type stuff. since ''sections'' of a conversation are more clearly marked (like if you #have a menu option with 5 different dialogue choices. finish the character's response for choice 1 before moving onto 2. etc.)#Especially since when I'm done with a whole quest I always follow it up by playing through it and picking every option and making sure it #actually all works okay and etc. So I am already going to see it all a second time. Then I can go back and reorder a few words or remove #certain sentences that don't sound natural when I read them out loud (I always read it all outloud to myself since it is... just peple #talking.. it should sound like natural dialogue in their voice. etc). But my ''first draft'' is kind of not as first drafty since I pause t #edit a lot as I go along. So it also takes longer probably than it would take other people who I think treat a first draft as more #of a loose guideline or something. AANYWAY...#80F in my bedroom right now again... huzzah... I did end up finishing and recording that sims build video before the heat wave (or is #it really a heat wave if it's just summer..?? lol) came in.. but now... augh.. the editing... plus the costume photos and all else... Much #to do as always.. Often such a long todo list.. a giant scroll hung upon the walls of the evil hermit wizard tower..#Anyhow.. I hope I can finish getting ready for bed early in time to reward myself with a game of tripeaks solitaire whilst I snack on #cheddar cheese and some of those preserved artichokes in a jar. hrgm... I actually have nasturtiums (ultimate best flower) on the #deck again this year but I had to move them all into a corner today because the leaves were getting burnt by the sun lol.. Also am now more #cautiously weaving through social media to ignore all dragon age news. NOT bc of spoilers (I actually love spoilers/literally never play #any game until there's full guides on it I can read to plan my entire playthrough based on knowing exactly what I want to happen lol + mods #and etc.) but just because I'm so busy with my ownprojects I simply do not have the brainspace to dedicate... Yes I love to think #about elves and fictional universe lore. but no.. I pretend I do not see it. Does not exist to me actually. ghgj.. OHH also took som #cool pictures of flowers in the garden section of a store and I wanted to do like.. character designs based on the colors of the flowers o #something. but that might just be another unnecessary project to add to the pile.. I want to commit to the daunting task of dyeing my #hair again some time.. hrm.. this is all of the updates I can think of. As if a bunch of random tags make up for never posting anything for #weeks on end lol.. alas.. too warm to think properly I suppose.. .. I neeeeeed a long lost relative to leave me some million dollar #estate in their will so I can have the resources to move to a colder climate or something ..augh #.. but for now.. I shall toil away in my little wizard tower trying to write 2000 something words a day whilst sweating and such ghbj

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vegaseatsass · 4 months

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I took a nap earlier tonight which was a luxurious and great choice on my part but now I'm fighting the impulse to fuck around online til 9am when My Stand-in 5 drops and just catch up on sleep on Saturday lol

#i won't do this! i promise i won't do this #but part of my brain very much thinks i will do this #we're so close... just 8 more hours #dear diary #i only have a few weeks left of this job and i have tried to not publicly shittalk so i don't get doxxed #so that i 1. sustain my professional relationships 2. don't have my ass eating mafia torturer blog associated with my worksona #but the closer i get to the end the closer i also get to the end of my rope #it is so hard not to vent or to fantasize about publicly venting as soon as i'm set in a new job #so that's the other reason my brain won't let me sleep #so many moral quandaries this year i could not post my way through #but either i will finish working here in 2wks or bluesky will let you have private accounts #whichever comes first. one way or another the end is nigh

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kirby-the-gorb · 2 years

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#kirby #christmas #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I guess it's not actually *that* christmasy but *I'm* thinking about christmas when I draw it :T #there's been wrapped presents under the tree for me since our partner visited way back on the first weekend of the month #and I am having a Bad Week #and I reeeeeally wanna open one :(#(my wife and I do little like. advent calendar stockings. so I'll start getting little presents on the 1st anyway)#(cuz I'm very cute and I deserve it :v )#(I bet if I asked they'd tell me to go ahead and open one. but I will be good and wait.)#(I still gotta finish my presents for family/friends/my wife anyway.)#(I'm making good progress tho! probably only 1-2 more weeks of knitting.)#favorites

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yeonban · 5 months

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Sometimes I think about posting the one meme which goes "I want to ____ you" and see what your muses fill it in with for my muses but knowing my muses, I can already foresee an army of "kick" "beat" and "kill" <- in that order

#tbd.#* ooc. / posts.#ADHUISADHASUHDSAHD to be fair I too would beat them all up! ^_^ maybe kiss their wounds afterwards idk but FIRST. kick!!!#Anw I've been legit fighting for my life irl for the past few days and am being tortured by my own traitorous body as we speak #but I hope against hope that I'll soon be free to write and reply to dms bc lord knows when I last was able to...#My profs are the personification of irritating bc the SECOND we think we finished all our assignments and can breathe for 2 seconds #we receive 30 new emails saying hi! forgot to tell you this but you have a 12 page long assignment by the (checks watch) end of this week #like??!??!?!!? did ~3 of them for last Thursday now I have another 5 for Tuesday; 1 for Wednesday; 2 more for this Thursday #and then a random RNG one I guess bc my prof told us about it but then never posted the deadline. only an eerie 'by next week'#(aka this upcoming week) so fuck me I suppose AHDIUASHDISAHD #I just want to talk w my beloved friends and write silly things on tumblr dot com is that so much to ask for............. gawd

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spacedlexi · 8 months

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oh nooo i really need to finish this fuckin fic already im getting ideas for a new one

#2 WEEK FIC!!!!!!! ive been thinking about you forever but i think its finally Time #hopefully this one doesnt take five fucking years to finish #i have to be fair to myself tho its gone through so many extensive edits and repurposes its like the ship of theseus of fics #so close to 15000 words...#i only write fics when my ideas are too big for comics/boards #i told myself i was only going to write the one and yet....#we'll see if it makes it past the bullet point stage #it speaks

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newtness532 · 14 days

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wrote 723 words today which brings us to a total of 7223

#would be pleased with that if we weren't so behind #tomorrow i need to study some more for my exam too cause ive only read about 2 vitamins 😬 i need to at least finish all the fatsoluble ones #cause i only have 1 week until the exam #i had made so many plans about starting to study months in advance #tststs 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️#jo says stuff #university update

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